Chapter 241 Grandmother kills son, has the scumbag father gone mad?

General Xiuli's Mansion.

When Li Chaojing saw Madam Pei sitting upright in the hall, his knees buckled and he immediately knelt on the ground.

"Mother! Mother!"

"Seeing that you are still healthy, your son is relieved..."

Li Chaojing tugged at the corners of his mouth, forcing himself to smile.

However, the hypocrisy and forced nature of that smile made Old Madam Pei disdain it.

"Aren't you disappointed to see I'm still alive?"

Madam Pei tucked her sleeves in. There were only the two of them, mother and son, in the room now. Even Zhang Mama had been sent away by Madam Pei today.

She stared coldly at her son, her heart completely unmoved.

Li Chaojing, feeling guilty, dared not look up. "Mother, you've misunderstood me. I don't know what Luo'er said to you that day?"

"But my son was also deceived by that quack doctor, Dr. Jiang. He was so anxious that he made a mistake. Besides, you are my only mother. How could I not want you to live?"

"After you fell into a coma that day, I rushed out to try and find a royal physician in the palace. I just didn't expect Luo'er to be so impulsive and take you away from the General's Mansion, which is why things have become so tense today..."

"And Mother, how could your son not know that this house actually belongs to you?"

"The name 'General Xiuli's Mansion' is very good. I heard that the female army you led back then was entirely composed of women, which is why His Majesty bestowed upon you the name 'General Xiuli'."

"But the son has never known the glory of this house."

"But it's alright, my son is incredibly proud now that he knows..."

Madam Pei could no longer bear to listen.

She grabbed the teacup beside her and threw it at him: "Shut up!"

The teacup slammed heavily into Li Chaojing's forehead, causing blood to flow freely.

Li Chaojing covered his mouth in disbelief and looked up at Madam Pei: "Mother, are you still angry with your son? Your son really knows he was wrong—"

His face was filled with sorrow and tears, and at this moment he seemed extremely aggrieved after being hit by his mother's teacup.

Madam Pei was disgusted by his pretentious act.

"You're still trying to lie to me."

"Li Chaojing, I may be old, but I'm not senile!"

"Do you really think that because you're my only son in this world, I'll tolerate you again and again without having the heart to punish you?!"

"Li Chaojing, have you forgotten that when you were young you told me that you were annoyed and ashamed to have a mother like me who fights and kills all day long and doesn't know how to be gentle and considerate? Now you're pretending to be a filial son?"

“When you were young, you treated Aunt Deng like your own mother, but you treated me like a bad person, pushing me away from you time and time again.”

“Your father is heartless. I risked my life for him and am covered in scars. I had to leave you to be cared for by a concubine because of him. I lost my family because of him.

"But how did he betray me?"

"You bunch of Lis, except for Luo'er, are all ingrates, no good at all!"

"I truly regret my youthful impetuosity in making the decision to leave, thus letting your father and Aunt Deng off the hook, and letting you go!"

"Otherwise, would this entire General's Mansion have been ruined like this by you?"

Li Chaojing's face gradually turned pale.

"Mother, what you're saying is really too much!"

“My father always missed you. His deepest regret before he passed away was that he never saw you again.”

"After you left home in a fit of rage, how many times did your father try to see you? You were always heartless and refused to see him again."

"My son also...my son also went to see you several times."

"But you keep clinging to the past, refusing to let go of us or yourself. Otherwise, our family wouldn't be like this now, neither family nor enemies. Haha, hahahahaha..."

"Mother, isn't it all your fault as the mistress of the house back then that the General's Mansion has become like this? Abandoning your husband and children, you recklessly left home, just for your own carefree and happy life, but how many years of suffering did Father and I endure?!"

When Madam Pei heard him say that, she slammed her hand on the table and shouted, "You're talking nonsense!"

"Your father cares about me? What a joke!"

"She worries about me, and she even had four illegitimate sons and daughters with Aunt Deng! I really worry about her!"

“Back when I was at Qingsong Temple, he came looking for me a few times. When I refused to see him, he turned and left. But when I traveled the martial world, if he really wanted to find me, wouldn’t he have found me?”

"What a hypocrite, pretending to be so affectionate!?"

"And what makes you any better?"

"If Aunt Deng hadn't gradually revealed her true colors, if she hadn't tried to poison you for her own son, would you have thought of me? If you hadn't been unable to find a good wife, would you have thought of me?"

"Li Chaojing, stop putting on an act for me!"

"You're trying to wear me down this time, isn't it all for the sake of Tianfeng Trading Company, which I own?"

"Don't think I don't know what you've done. If I didn't want Luo'er to be implicated by you as her father, I could have gone to the Emperor to sue you, you beast who tried to kill your own mother!"

If she, as the mother, were to file a complaint, Li Chaojing's career would be completely over.

But Madam Pei did not do that, which gave Li Chaojing a glimmer of hope, thinking that she was still thinking of him and couldn't bear to do it.

Hearing his mother say this, Li Chaojing's body went limp, and he sat down on the ground, his face deathly pale.

"You...you can't do this to me...you can't!"

"Mother, you don't know what happened to your son. I was forced to do those things. You can't ruin your son!"

Please help me.

"You're right. When I was little, I was just being ignorant. I was wrong. I really know I was wrong... But Mother, you should help your son too, Mother—Waaah."

Li Chaojing crawled to Madam Pei's legs while crying, hugged her legs, and sobbed bitterly.

"You only have one son, Mother..."

"Even for Luo'er's sake, you can't just watch our family be wiped out! You have to help your son for Luo'er's sake too..."

Madam Pei watched Li Chaojing continue singing without expression.

Just as he suddenly raised his arm, Madam Pei had already taken the initiative and pressed a dagger against his neck.

Li Chaojing froze completely.

"A-Mother!?"

This time, the disbelief in his eyes was completely genuine.

Only then did Madam Pei notice that Li Chaojing had raised his hand, actually just wanting to wipe away his tears.

However, she thought that his act of hugging her just now was just an attempt to take her life.

She thought he was hiding some kind of weapon...

But it turns out that today, the only one wielding a weapon is himself.

Madam Pei suddenly burst into laughter.

The endless coldness in her eyes already spoke volumes about her attitude today.

She didn't lower the dagger, but instead pushed it forward even harder: "Li Chaojing, I told you, I should have killed you with my own hands long ago."

"Mother..."

Li Chaojing stood there, tears streaming down his face.

"It's your son's fault..."

He suddenly tilted his head back and closed his eyes.

At this moment, he seemed to have accepted his fate. If he were to die at his mother's hands, then so be it.

Seeing his suddenly composed expression, Madam Pei hesitated to make a move.

She knew she had to be ruthless and cut it off.

With just one cut, it will all be over.

She had already prepared herself mentally.

I must kill this wicked son today, lest he continue to harm Luo'er in the future!

Luo'er will definitely seek revenge and fight her father to the death.

It's better for me to kill my own son than for him to kill his father in the future. I'll bear all the punishment myself!

But suddenly, some images that were too distant yet suddenly became clear flashed through her mind.

The child she carried for ten months, the little baby crying and laughing in her arms, the tiny person who had just grown teeth and was clapping her little hands while nestled in her arms...

With tears streaming down her face, Madam Pei raised the dagger, but before it could fall, Granny Zhang suddenly rushed in, shouting, "Madam, something terrible has happened!"

"They say that near the dilapidated temple in the west of the city, the eldest young master was found with a group of beggars and the young master of the Qu family... doing that kind of thing!"

"Right now, things haven't gotten out yet, but I'm afraid this can't be kept secret any longer..."

Li Chaojing suddenly opened his eyes.

He thought he had misheard the words.

Why can't he understand?

What do you mean by "Chuan'er"? What did he do with a group of beggars and that young master from the Qu family? What exactly was that "thing"?

Li Chaojing shoved away Old Madam Pei's hand, turned around, and yelled at Zhang Mama with a twisted expression, "What nonsense are you spouting?!"

Granny Zhang: "This is what happened. The eldest young master had originally made an appointment with the young master of the Qu family, and said that he would also have the two brothers from the Liu family trick the eldest young lady into going out."

"The eldest son plotted to ruin the young lady's reputation in a dilapidated temple in the west of the city."

"But somehow it ended up with the eldest son, himself, and a group of men having sex in a dilapidated temple..."

Li Chaojing got up like a madman, ran out, grabbed a sword from the courtyard, and charged back.

"You old bastard, I won't allow you to talk nonsense!! If you utter another word of nonsense, I'll kill you—"

Li Chaojing's eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like he was going crazy.

Madam Pei immediately shouted, "Take him down!"

Li Chaojing, however, brandished his sword and began slashing wildly throughout the house to vent his anger.

"Ah!! This isn't real—it's not!!"

"Mother, are you making up lies to deceive me? You're deliberately trying to trick me, to make me suffer a fate worse than death—"

Madam Pei: "Why aren't you arresting him right now!"

Zhang Mama and the other nannies rushed forward without regard for anything else.

It took a lot of effort to pin Li Chaojing to the ground.

Li Chaojing began to laugh wildly: "Hahaha...hahaha...hahahaha..."

"Brother kills sister—sister harms brother—"

"The son kills the mother—the mother kills the son—"

"We really are a family, we really are a family!!"

"We're all madmen, we're not human—we're beasts, we're beasts!!"

"Hahaha...hahahaha..."

Granny Zhang looked at Old Madam Pei, "Old Madam, has he... has he gone mad?"