Chapter 64 He was raised by a concubine!
Granny Deng looked at her strangely and dared not answer.
"Young lady, you're still a virgin, why are you worrying about these things in the master's courtyard..."
Li Qingluo: "What's wrong with that? We'll talk about it ourselves in our own courtyard. Do you expect the nanny to go around telling everyone?"
Granny Deng: "..." You're being a bit too high-sounding.
She silently withdrew.
As a result, Luoxia Garden actually called for water twice that night!
Li Qingluo gave a cold laugh after hearing this.
"Indeed, all men in the world are no different."
She overestimated her own father.
Even if her own son has just broken his leg and is lying in bed, his life is ruined.
Even though his hair had turned half white from grief and sorrow, it didn't stop him from continuing to seek pleasure with women.
This news naturally reached Chunzaitang as well.
Enraged, Ms. Qu smashed two more sets of teacups.
"Now that he's with me, it's like touching my own left hand with my right. But when he's with that slut Lou, it's not as boring as touching myself!"
Am I getting old? Or have I really developed wrinkles on my face?
"It's only been a few days since Chuan'er's accident? And he already has so much free time to find pleasure with women?"
"He's only been behaving himself for a few days, and this is how he treats me?! Waaaaah..."
Madam Qu covered her face and cried incessantly, while Granny Chang and Qingyi took turns comforting her.
"Madam, please don't let the eldest young master hear this. If you look at him with red eyes later, and he notices something is wrong and asks you about it, how will you answer him?"
Madam Qu covered her eyes and cried uncontrollably: "To be honest, his father went to see that little slut last night, not caring about his feelings or his health at all. What more can I do? Cover for him in front of our son?"
Granny Chang slapped her thigh and cried out, "My goodness, my lady! You mustn't be so willful! It's only natural for men to seek pleasure and release their pent-up emotions with women. How can you, as their wife, speak ill of your father to your son?"
"Besides, the master has been suffering lately. You should be more understanding of him."
"It's better than him going out and finding other women, right? And it's cleaner than going to a brothel."
"Furthermore, if you were to say these things about the master to the eldest son, wouldn't that be sowing discord and hurting the relationship between father and son? If the eldest son harbors resentment towards the master, wouldn't the master notice it after so long?"
"Now that the eldest son is in such a state, if the master doesn't pay more attention to him, how will we live in the future?"
Ms. Qu then calmed down.
She bit her lip hard, gazing outside with a mournful expression: "Then what am I supposed to do? Just let the master spoil that wretched woman? Granny, back then I went to great lengths to clean up this inner quarters, to get rid of those Lou and Zheng women..."
Granny Chang quickly covered Madam Qu's mouth: "Shh—! Madam, we mustn't bring up the past..."
Two days later, Li Qingluo heard the sound of a child crying.
After asking around, Granny Deng said that it was the little girl that Aunt Lou had brought back. She was crying her heart out because she was going to be taken to Chunzaitang.
"Aunt Lou even got slapped a few times, because she was told she hadn't taught the Third Miss well."
Li Qinglu sneered: "They never cared whether the child grew up with their own parents."
Granny Deng sighed: "That's how it is in wealthy families. Children aren't allowed to call their concubines 'mothers,' and even illegitimate children can only call their legal mother 'mother.' The fact that the Third Miss is to be taken to the Madam for upbringing is probably due to various considerations by the Master."
Li Qingluo: "Then why did he insist on following Deng back then, refusing to acknowledge his own mother, his own flesh and blood?"
Granny Deng: "So, the master suffered a lot after growing up, which is why he is so concerned about the issue of his concubine's daughter being raised in front of her stepmother?"
Li Qingluo couldn't understand.
Then Granny Deng explained, "I heard that when Master was arranging the marriage... given the Li family's status, they shouldn't have been considering a woman of such low social standing as Madam..."
Qu's father was only a minor official of the fourth rank.
Back when they were arranging the marriage, the official rank wasn't even fourth grade.
In his youth, Li Chaojing was a young general who had fought on the battlefield and made outstanding military achievements, and his future was very promising.
Now holding the rank of second-grade official, besides being born into the Li family, he himself is also extremely capable.
But that's because he was raised by a concubine.
Moreover, with the birth mother still alive, they treat a concubine as the mistress of the house. With such a family tradition, which family with a clean background would dare to marry their daughter into the family?
After all, no true heiress would willingly serve a concubine as her mother-in-law.
Later, it was Deng's own wrongdoing that led Li Chaojing to drive her to the manor, at which point he arranged the marriage with Qu.
He clearly deserves a brighter future.
"Miss, Aunt Lou is kneeling outside, begging to see you."
Sparrow came in, her expression strange.
Li Qingluo looked at Granny Deng, who was puzzled: "She wouldn't be here to beg you, Miss, would she? Even if she were to ask, she should be asking the old lady instead."
Li Qingluo had no idea what Aunt Lou was thinking.
Moreover, it is not appropriate for me to see Aunt Lou today and cause any further trouble.
However, she still let her in.
Right there in the courtyard, Aunt Lou's hair was disheveled, and her face was swollen and red like a small mountain.
As soon as she entered, she knelt down beside Li Qingluo, pleading with tears streaming down her face, "Second Miss, please, save me, save Third Miss, save your own sister!"
"The Third Miss has half of your blood in her veins. She is a true daughter of the Li family, just like you."
"Second Miss, please save her!"
"From now on, even if she's a little dog, I'll make her obey you obediently. From now on, whatever you need me to do, I'll go through fire and water for you!"
"Just bring her back to my side. Without her, I truly cannot live; she is my very lifeblood..."
Aunt Lou had long regretted it.
If she had known that she and Huan'er would be separated forever after returning, she would have preferred to stay in the countryside with Huan'er as a village woman and a village girl for the rest of her life, at least then the mother and daughter would not be separated.
Although her daughter has a bright future now, she feels like she's living a life worse than death!
Seeing her so grief-stricken, Li Qingluo asked curiously, "You don't want to separate from her. Is it because you can't bear to part with her, or... are you afraid of something?"
Lou's meal.
She finally raised her head and looked at the rumored true bloodline of the Li family, the second daughter, Li Qingluo.
She was very beautiful.
Moreover, it is the beauty that combines all the virtues of the master and the Qu family.
And now, she seems to be still in the bud stage, as if she has not fully grown up yet.
Given time, she will surely become even more beautiful, perhaps even stunning the entire city of Jinling.
Huan'er and she do have somewhat similar features...
Lou sat on the ground, as if she had let out a sigh of relief.
As if remembering something, her face turned ashen: "Second Miss, to be honest, I'm afraid... Over the years, it's not just one young master and one young lady who have died in this manor!"
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