Chapter 21: Drowning Her Former Fiancé?
He heard that when he was still in Qu's womb, the old lady of the Marquis of Zhongyi's mansion, because she was on good terms with Qu's mother and valued the future of the Li family, personally pointed to Qu's belly and said that if the baby was a girl, she would arrange a marriage between the unborn child and her third grandson.
The marriage was naturally arranged.
In her previous life, Li Qingluo only learned of Li Qingzhu's death a month after returning to the manor, and the marriage fell to her again.
She had only heard that Zhuang Wei was suicidal at home and refused to marry her no matter what.
Perhaps his courageous struggle to break through the encirclement during the scientific expedition was also so that he could have control over the matter on his own.
He was truly deeply in love with Li Qingzhu.
Today, he's still acting drunk and disorderly here.
She stared coldly at Zhuang Wei, knowing he wouldn't be beaten to death.
Sure enough, the dealer's men arrived shortly afterward.
"Third Master—Third Master, what are you still doing here? You madmen, how dare you attack our Third Master of the Marquis's Mansion! Guards, arrest them all!"
Zhuang Wei was helped up, naturally covered in injuries.
Before leaving, he actually took off the money pouch from his waist, and without even glancing at Li Qingluo, he threw the entire pouch to her.
All eyes immediately fell on her.
Li Qingluo held the money bag: ...
Is there really such a good thing?
The servant glanced at Li Qingluo but paid no attention to him. He simply supported Zhuang Wei and cried out in anguish, "Third Master, Third Master, are you alright? My lord..."
Seeing the dealers leave, Li Qingluo quickly and carefully avoided their gaze and left the area as well.
Li Qingluo circled around several times before crawling back into the Li family home through the dog hole.
Fortunately, it was already dark, and no one noticed her.
When she returned to her room, nothing unusual happened at Cui'er's place.
Apart from the two times that Granny Zhang and the others came to ask, Cui'er pretended to be asleep both times.
Li Qinglu breathed a sigh of relief, dismissed Cui'er, and only then had time to check the money pouch Zhuang Wei had given her.
The third master of the Marquis of Zhongyi's mansion is indeed very wealthy.
He carried more than twenty taels of loose silver with him when he went out.
Li Qingluo accepted the money without any qualms, then pried open a brick in the corner of the room, cleared out some of the soil inside, and stuffed the money bag inside.
The next day, Li Qingluo crawled out through the dog hole again.
After exchanging the pearls for four taels of silver, she asked for directions and prepared to go to the West Market, hoping to find a blacksmith shop.
Before she even reached the mansion, she unexpectedly encountered Zhuang Wei again as she passed by the courtyard wall outside the mansion.
He still looked completely drunk.
With one hand supporting himself against the wall and the other carrying a wine jar, he staggered and blocked Li Qingluo's path.
"Pearl...Pearl, why did you leave me alone in this world..."
Zhuang Wei slid down the wall and sat down, looking at the gloomy sky, then picked up the wine jar and poured it into his mouth.
Unfortunately, the wine jar is empty again.
He angrily threw the wine jar aside, shouting, "Bring the wine! Bring the wine!"
The wine jar exploded near Li Qing's feet, and he looked up and saw her.
It's you again!
Clearly, even when he was drunk and out of his mind, he still remembered Li Qingluo, a passerby who was not particularly striking in appearance and whom he had only met once.
This person's memory is indeed terrifyingly good.
Li Qingluo originally didn't intend to pay attention to him and was about to take a detour to leave when she saw Zhuang Wei take the money bag off his waist and throw it over.
"You, go buy me some wine! All this money is yours!"
Who would turn down money?
Not to mention this God of Wealth who descended from the heavens!
Li Qingluo quickly picked up the silver pouch and said with a forced smile, "Alright, sir, please wait a moment."
Li Qingluo hurriedly went and bought two jars of strong liquor.
This wine burns the throat intensely and is extremely potent; it will definitely leave him dizzy and unable to get out of bed the next day.
Li Qingluo returned carrying two jars of wine, while Zhuang Wei was slumped over a water vat, vomiting violently.
She walked over, placed the wine jar on the ground, and was about to leave quietly when Zhuang Wei grabbed her.
"Tell me—why is she so cruel?"
Zhuang Wei looked up, his expression sorrowful, his eyes red as he gazed at Li Qingluo.
Li Qinglu thought to himself: He really is the future third-ranked scholar. With such a face, who wouldn't be confused by him?
However, she recalled her previous life, where Zhuang Wei had saved her life, but only to humiliate her.
"Even if I never marry, I will never marry a vicious woman like you who drives people to their deaths!"
"I will slowly avenge the blood debt of Zhu'er. Wouldn't it be too easy for you to die like this?!"
Li Qing lowered her gaze, looking at the person in front of her, and gently freed her arm from being held.
"Whom are you referring to, young master?"
Zhuang Wei smiled bitterly, "It was my heartless, betrothed wife... She's dead. They say it was her own sister who drove her to her death..."
Li Qingluo: "How did you drive him to his death?"
Zhuang Wei raised his voice: "It's because she suddenly returned home that my Zhu'er was uneasy, which is why she did such a foolish thing!"
Li Qingluo: "So, it's that younger sister's fault? But she was originally a member of this family; she was just returning home. What fault could she have committed?"
A look of surprise and confusion flashed across Zhuang Wei's face. "What did you say?"
Li Qingluo continued, "Young master, I believe this was simply a foolish thing your betrothed did due to her own lack of willpower. Don't blame her death on innocent people."
Zhuang Wei finally snapped, "How dare you! What are you talking about?! My Zhu'er is not the kind of person you're describing!!"
He reached out to grab her again, but Li Qingluo was prepared. She ran around the water vat and easily got behind Zhuang Wei.
However, dealing with a drunken madman who was completely unprepared and powerless was no problem. This woman from the mountains, who often worked in the fields, was not without strength!
Li Qingluo tiptoed and pressed down on Zhuang Wei's head, who was already half-lying down, forcefully pushing his entire head into the water vat.
"Gurgle—gurgle—"
She really wished she could just drown him to prevent future trouble!
However, considering that she couldn't afford to offend the Marquis of Zhongyi's mansion at the moment, and that she didn't want to get involved in a murder case, she let go of his hand again.
Zhuang Wei coughed until he lost his color, staring at the man in front of him who was much shorter than him, dark-skinned and thin, with horror in his eyes.
When he's drunk, he really loses some of his senses.
Li Qingluo couldn't help but sneer, "Useless. You're being played like a fool without even realizing it. Instead of wasting your time getting drunk here, you should go and investigate what your beloved fiancée has been up to."
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