Chapter 300: Luo'er greets her maternal grandmother with her fists?
"Yes, none of the people from Lancang Academy have come out today. Liu Qingzhu is having a hard time these days."
"retribution!"
What happened to Liu Qingzhu?
Li Qingluo has been too busy lately and hasn't paid any attention to what happened after Liu Qingzhu stayed at the General's Mansion.
Before they could finish speaking, the gatekeeper rushed over to report, "The old lady has arrived."
This old lady refers to Ms. You, the biological mother of Ms. Qu.
Madam You stormed in, and upon seeing Madam Qu pinned to the ground, she immediately began slapping her leg and yelling, "What's going on here?!"
"My goodness, Madam Pei, you are truly magnificent!"
"You treat your daughter-in-law so cruelly as soon as she comes back. She's still my Qu family's daughter, not someone you're here to be treated so rudely and abusively!"
"Why isn't anyone coming? Quickly, rescue the lady!"
Madam You pointed at the servants from the General's Mansion, as well as the few she had brought with her. Granny Chang rolled up her sleeves and was about to rush forward.
Li Qingluo took a quick step and rushed out herself—
Li Qingluo stepped forward, grabbed Granny Chang's hand, and twisted it forcefully.
With a snap, Granny Chang's arm was broken.
Granny Chang let out a miserable scream.
The matter wasn't over yet. Li Qingluo grabbed Granny Chang and kicked her hard again!
Moments later, screams erupted from the ground.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Madam Pei nodded in satisfaction.
The people from the second and third houses all looked horrified.
The Qu family, still pinned to the ground and motionless, were stunned...
This...this is Luo'er?
Li Qingya looked at Li Qingluo excitedly, never expecting her elder sister to be so amazing!
Did she really grow up in the mountains?
It's true that only by staying by the old lady's side can one become the person they truly want to be.
Li Qingyu looked disgusted; how rude!
However, no one dared to provoke Li Qingluo anymore.
Li Qinglu clapped his hands and walked towards Madam You.
Madam You screamed in fright, "What are you doing?! You beast, I am your own maternal grandmother!"
Li Qing slammed his fist against the wall.
"Grandma, be careful if you have a dirty mouth! Someone might seal your mouth shut with a needle while you sleep at night!"
Li Qinglu smiled slightly, but Madam You shivered violently.
This is outrageous! Is this the kind of granddaughter Pei Xiuzhen raised?!
How could someone like her be worthy of being a noble lady of Jinling?!
This is truly going against the natural order; they're about to rebel!
Madam You was so angry she jumped up and down, but she dared not utter another word of curse.
Li Qingluo didn't bother to look at her again and turned back to Old Madam Pei's side: "Today my grandmother is going to deal with the Li family's affairs. If any outsiders dare to interfere, don't blame us for being impolite and rude and we'll treat them with our fists."
"Oh, right, I didn't mean you, Grandmother."
Madam You's face turned both red and white.
With a sob in her voice, Madam Qu cried out, "Mother, save me—Mother!"
Madam You scolded, "You stupid fool, I told you not to do this, but you insisted on bringing them back!"
"Now you're in for it. Do you think they'll let you off the hook?"
Sobbing, Madam Qu cried, "But Mother, I really can't afford it..."
"Luo'er won't listen to me; she won't marry into the Qu family!"
"These past few days you've come to the manor and taken all the good things from my daughter's room. How is she supposed to live?"
"Your daughter must also plan for the future of the General's Mansion. I cannot watch you, Mother, be so greedy that you devour my entire mansion!"
Otherwise, why would Madam Qu want to invite the old lady back to take charge?
It's because the master has gone mad, and the old lady and Luo'er have both passed away, so the mansion is becoming more and more desolate every day.
Mr. Qu was indeed anxious.
The Li family cannot be ruined in her hands.
So she made this decision after careful consideration, but little did she know that the old lady she invited back would take her down first!
Faced with her daughter's accusations, Ms. You was so angry that she wanted to slap her twice more.
"You, you idiot! What did I do to you? What I took wasn't your dowry, it was all stuff I gave you back then, not anything else from the General's Mansion!"
"Besides, I'm just keeping it for you. If you ask me for it back, am I not going to give it to you?"
"I did this because I was afraid you'd squander the family fortune. Now you're turning around and accusing me. Do you really think I'd take your things?"
"Fine, if that's how it is, I'm not going to bother with you anymore!"
As soon as Madam You finished speaking, she tried to run away, but Old Madam Pei waved her hand and said, "Stop her! Don't let her run away!"
Then they ordered the arrest of everyone brought by Granny Chang and Madam You.
Madam You was so anxious that she jumped up and down cursing, but Zhang Mama personally stuffed a stinky rag into her mouth to shut her up.
Seeing that her mother-in-law even dared to lay a hand on her own mother, Madam Qu was terrified. She immediately turned to Li Qingluo and sobbed, "I know I was wrong... Luo'er, your mother really knows she was wrong."
"Regardless of the past, everything I do now is for the General's government!"
"Actually, I knew I had made a mistake... but I was bewitched by Liu Qingzhu. Now that I've completely given up on her, I realize how badly I treated you..."
"Your mother already knows she regrets it, so are you really unwilling to forgive your mother?"
“What Mother said is true. Otherwise, how could I have watched your brother torment Zhu’er without ever doing anything about it?”
Li Qingluo didn't want to listen to her hypocritical sobs.
She gave Zhang Mama a look, and Zhang Mama immediately stuffed a wad of smelly cloth into Qu Shi's hand as well.
Such methods completely terrified the people in the second and third houses.
Everyone fell silent, too terrified to even look at Li Qingluo and Madam Pei.
Li Qingluo coldly said, "All entrances and exits of the General's Mansion are closed to visitors today. No one is allowed to step out without my or my grandmother's personal permission."
"Otherwise, they will all be treated like the mistress, tied up and dealt with."
This is to prevent anyone from going out and tipping off Li Qingluo, which would then ruin things.
Today, she is determined to thoroughly eliminate the Qu family.
Then, she told the people from the second and third households to return to their respective courtyards.
Both the Qu family and the You family were thrown into the haunted room next to the Red Maple Pavilion.
He then accompanied Madam Pei back to Jingci Hall.
The entire general's mansion was quickly brought under control by the nannies led by Zhang Mama.
"Luo'er, what are you waiting for?"
Now that she's back, Old Madam Pei doesn't know what Li Qingluo plans to do.
Clearly, by using his own methods and subjecting her to severe torture, she would have confessed everything even if she hadn't said anything.
Why bother with all this?
Madam Pei was an extremely averse to trouble and disliked anything roundabout.
Li Qingluo: "Grandmother, Luo'er is waiting for nightfall. Also, what was revealed under severe torture is not all true."
"Luo'er wants them to confess, in their own words, all the sins they have committed, thoroughly and completely!"
Madam Pei immediately understood.
This girl has probably been planning this for a long time, hasn't she?
When did it start?
After being poisoned?
Or was she already considering these things before she was poisoned?
It's really hard on her to think about these things all day long.
Madam Pei immediately felt a pang of heartache again.
"Alright, then Grandmother will entrust this matter to you this time?"
Li Qingluo happily accepted the task: "Then Luo'er thanks Grandmother."
Li Qingluo was so sleepy that she couldn't stay awake any longer.
He fell asleep in the small house in the courtyard where Madam Pei had lived.
Then I was woken up by my rumbling stomach.
When she woke up, Madam Pei had instructed Zhang Mama and the others to cook something for her personally, which was still warm in the small kitchen.
Li Qingluo went to eat in Madam Pei's room.
"You! Your sleep schedule is completely reversed, you're becoming more and more like a night owl. Be careful you don't turn into an ugly girl, then you really won't be able to get married!"
Li Qinglu laughed and leaned on Madam Pei's shoulder: "Grandmother, I won't get married! I've made up my mind to find you a son-in-law who will live with you, and I'll be the head of the household!"
Madam Pei chuckled: "Naive. I'm afraid some people won't agree."
Li Qingluo: "Me? Why wouldn't I be willing? Luo'er is more than willing!"
Madam Pei scolded her, "Fool. I can't be bothered to talk to you. Go and eat something."
Li Qinglu ate the steaming hot soup dumplings and drank the thick meat porridge, a look of satisfaction on her face.
Suddenly, a question occurred to her, so she quickly finished the plate of steamed buns and asked, "Grandmother, is there a problem with the Qu family's finances?"
Madam Pei: "Your mind works pretty fast."
"The Qu family is indeed very short of money right now because Grandmother has dealt a series of blows to their businesses everywhere, to the point that they can't even get back on their feet!"
Li Qingluo's eyes lit up: "Really? So it was you who made it, Grandmother? Grandmother, please tell me what happened!"
It turns out that after recovering from the poisoning, Madam Pei also discovered that the Qu family was behind it all.
It was that kind of domineering old lady, Madam He, who wanted Li Qingluo to marry her short-statured grandson, Qu Daoxun. But Madam Pei would never agree to that, so she summoned Qu home and forcefully and threateningly gave Qu this order...
Qu didn't actually do much.
It was all arranged by the composer behind the scenes.
Including the young widow's family in the village, those problematic vegetables, that poison...
"They probably guessed that I might inherit Tianfeng Trading Company from you in the future, so they took this opportunity."
"That He family member has the face of a bodhisattva, but she has the most vicious heart in the world!"
"The highest-ranking official in the Qu family is He's husband, Minister Qu. With their vicious and greedy nature, how could they possibly be clean?"
"So, my grandmother used a little trick to make the Qu family lose at least 100,000 taels of silver recently."
"They're in a rush to patch up their problems, so naturally they're short of money."
One hundred thousand taels of silver!?
Li Qingluo swallowed hard.
Her restaurant, which specializes in delicacies, now only makes a net profit of about five hundred taels a day.
One hundred thousand taels of silver—that's almost a year's worth of earnings for her!
Grandmother was gone in the blink of an eye...
Li Qingluo looked at Madam Pei with admiration: "Grandmother, you are amazing!"
"In just a short time, they managed to throw the Qu family into disarray. If they hadn't been so greedy and come to the General's Mansion to interfere and plunder, my mother wouldn't have been so desperate as to ask you to come back and stabilize the General's Mansion, which was on the verge of collapse."
Madam Pei was extremely pleased with her granddaughter's admiring gaze.
Just as she burst into a few laughs, Granny Zhang hurriedly came in and said, "Madam, the Li family patriarch and the others have arrived. They would like to see you there now."
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