Chapter 248 Breakup

When Li San Niang returned home after her shift today, she coincidentally ran into Tuva and Shen Qiu Niang walking out of the Li Family Clinic.

Standing beside the two were Li's father, mother, and second brother, as well as the burly man they had met before, who was nearly eight feet tall, had a full beard, and a booming voice. Next to this man stood a Han Chinese-looking man in a white shirt.

Li San Niang took a second look and thought for a moment. Wasn't this the person who came to welcome the bride when Tuva got married?

"Third Sister! It's a good thing I ran into you!"

"Qiu Niang, what's wrong? Are you leaving already? Why don't you stay a little longer?"

Seeing Chen Qiuniang go to Tuva, Li Sanniang also went to look at Tuva: "Tuva, are you being distant? Come in quickly, stay for dinner tonight."

Li San Niang turned back to greet the burly man and the man in white.

Just as Li San Niang was about to pull Chen Qiu Niang inside, she heard someone calling her from behind.

"Mrs. Li, I thank you for your righteous help! Please accept my bow."

As soon as Li San Niang turned her head, she saw the man in white, Bai Ziyi, along with the eight-foot-tall burly man Ke Song beside him, Shen Qiu Niang who slightly loosened her grip on Li San Niang's hand, and Tuva. The four of them bowed to Li San Niang.

"Thank you for your kind assistance, Third Sister. Please accept my bow." x3

Li San Niang was stunned, completely bewildered as to how things had turned out this way.

It was Brother Li who reacted quickly. Seeing that the four had finished their greetings, he quickly grabbed Tuva and pulled him home.

"That's good, we don't have to make a wasted trip. We've caught up with Third Aunt's home. Let's go in quickly and have dinner at home tonight. Don't be shy, we're all family."

Once everyone had entered the courtyard and sat down in the main hall, Li San Niang held Lu Zhu'er, who in turn held the little yellow dog. They watched as the white-clad Han Chinese man named Bai Ziyi explained his purpose for coming to the Li family.

It turns out that the troupe that burned down in the fire at the West Market on the day of the Emperor's birthday was the troupe that Tuva belonged to.

At that time, Li San Niang, along with Qiu Xiang, Shi Jiu, and Xu Jing Zhen, helped rescue five people that night.

These five people were all from this troupe of actors. Among them was a younger man who was Bai Ziyi's half-brother, named Qi Mude.

“We had just been released by the Jingzhao Prefecture. When the fire broke out that night, Tuva and I were on our way to pick up people who were going to perform in the surrounding villages outside the city. Luckily, we escaped the fire.”

Seeing that Li Sanniang nodded in understanding, Bai Ziyi continued, "This troupe was taken over from my stepfather, and Qi Mude and I manage it together."

That evening, I left Qimude in the West Market while I, Tuva, Kesong, Qiuniang, and I went outside the city to fetch someone.

Tuva continued, "Unexpectedly, when we returned from fetching people, we found the houses burned down to just a few beams. Only after the soldiers came did we learn what had happened."

Then he was taken to the Jingzhao Prefecture and was only released yesterday.

Li San Niang and Li Er Xiong exchanged a glance, and some guesses formed in their minds.

Judging from what Bai Ziyi and the others said, there must be people from the Temple Gate infiltrated into this troupe, or at least bribed.

Otherwise, how could the man in black who forcibly abducted Princess Aymu of the Eastern Turks that night have known to hide her in the prop box that makes people appear out of thin air?

There must be a mole inside.

However, the Li family could not interfere in the details of this affair.

"I must also thank Madam Li for using her magic to save Qi Mude that night. Qi Mude is still unable to get up. According to the doctor, his heart and lungs are injured, but his life has been saved."

Once he's fully recovered, I'll have him come and kowtow to Third Sister.

Li San Niang quickly replied, "It's not that serious, it's just a doctor's duty."

Aside from the kowtow, which Li San Niang couldn't accept, she felt she could accept all other forms of gratitude.

If you don't accept it, they can't count it as yours.

When Li San Niang came in earlier, she saw a stack of gift boxes that was quite high in the courtyard. Moreover, she could smell a strong muttony odor coming from the kitchen, which meant that the four people's thank-you gifts probably included mutton.

"It's good that he's alive. We can take good care of him as he grows up. Young men have strong vitality, so he should be fine."

Then, the four of them stayed for dinner at the Li family's house. The strong man named Kesong went to the kitchen with Tuva to cook the whole sheep they had brought, but tonight they only used a small half of it to roast and eat.

I must say, the taste is definitely different!

tasty!

Seeing that Li Sanniang had no restraint at all and started eating with her hands, Bai Ziyi felt that this was true nature and that she didn't look down on them.

It should be noted that although there are many people from the Western Regions in Chang'an, especially in the West Market, many locals look down on these people from the Western Regions who look slightly different from them.

Not to mention the locals, even people from the Western Regions are divided into different places and tribes, and that hierarchy of contempt is really strange.

Some Han Chinese would even refer to them as barbarians from beyond the Great Wall, as savages who eat raw meat and drink blood.

Especially someone like Bai Ziyi, who, although of Han blood, had his mother remarry a man from the grasslands when he was young, and also had a half-brother.

Even if he looks like a Han Chinese, he will still face some discrimination.

In fact, he was even less popular on the northwestern grasslands.

But looking at the Li family, Bai Ziyi felt that the Li family was truly an extraordinary family.

Leaving aside the matter of Tuva and Shen Qiuniang, let's just talk about eating roasted lamb at the table. Apart from Li's father and mother, who were still a bit reserved, and Li's eldest sister-in-law, second brother, and second sister-in-law, who could pick up the meat with chopsticks, only Li Sanniang herself, the four little ones, and Luzhu'er ate it directly with their hands.

They didn't care at all that their hands were covered in oil, and they were still happily munching on it.

After finishing their dinner, they drank two cups of hawthorn syrup that Sister-in-law Li had cooked, and then the Li family took the four of them to the next house.

The Zhou family next door is now under Li San Niang's name, so they have plenty of rooms to live in.

...

Outside Chang'an City, there was a small village.

Wearing a cloak, Fang Chengxian picked up his brush and wrote a letter to the Li family, using ink that Duoshou had just ground.

After talking with Dr. Liang, Fang Chengxian had a change of heart. He no longer wanted to drag his ailing body to support the Fang family.

Since Fang's father is still alive and well and is even an official in the Ministry of Personnel, why should I, with my frail body, who will pass away in six or seven years, bother to manage so many of the Fang family's properties?

Yes, because Fang Chengxian has already figured out exactly what caused the poison in his body.

That is, it was his father's concubine who, after giving birth to a healthy child, began to have thoughts of directly replacing Fang Chengxian and securing her seat as the next heir of the Fang family.

Fang Chengxian didn't understand. He himself was not going to live long, and he had no use for his family property and money. Why couldn't they tolerate him and had to make him die a day earlier?

The concubine, with her gentle and cunning nature and ulterior motives, actually managed to coax some management power in the inner quarters from Fang's father. She then used money to get in touch with the second steward in charge of purchasing in the Fang household, and from him, she learned the prescription for the medicine Fang Chengxian was taking.

Then, through her family connections, she found a traveling doctor who knew the non-toxic substance that countered the prescription. She then bribed the cook in the kitchen to add the medicine to Fang Chengxian's food every ten days.

Over time, Fang Chengxian was poisoned, which is why, even with good doctors and medicine, his body remained so weak. He couldn't be cold or hot, and his frail body showed no signs of longevity.

Having discovered the truth behind his poisoning, Fang Chengxian made an excuse to move from the Fang residence to the small estate left by his mother outside the city.

He doesn't want to go back to the Fang family.

That place is no longer home.