Chapter 45 What are you doing, talking so mysteriously?
Zhao Xiyue's eyes lit up: "Brother! Why are you here? I told you, I can handle this by myself."
The boy glared at her, his gaze sweeping over the group before finally settling on Li Rong.
"General Li, my younger sister is naughty. Xiu Yuan apologizes and hopes you won't take it to heart."
After saying that, he waved to the people behind him.
Two doctors carrying medicine boxes immediately came forward and took Li Rong's pulse.
After examining them one by one, an old doctor stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Young master, it seems General Zhenbei's injury has affected his leg. He may have to stay in bed for the rest of his life and won't be able to stand up again."
Zhao Xiyue frowned upon hearing this: "What General Zhenbei? My Great Jing has not had a General Zhenbei for a long time."
The doctor immediately wiped the sweat from his forehead: "What you say is true, Miss. His injuries this time are severe, and he has also been poisoned. I'm afraid his body will have a hard time recovering."
The other nodded in agreement: "Exactly, exactly."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Xiuyuan's tense expression relaxed.
Zhao Xiyue, standing beside her, looked on incredulously: "Could he really be a cripple?"
"You, you speak without thinking."
As Zhao Xiuyuan spoke, he smiled slightly, pointed at Zhao Xiyue, and then looked at Li Rong, saying, "General Li, although my sister's words were somewhat rash, they were the truth."
It's really not good that our two families haven't discussed the marriage arrangements openly and clearly.
Now that you have married a virtuous wife, it is only natural that my younger sister should also marry someone else.
When we searched your general's mansion back then, we already found the exchanged birth certificates. I disposed of them along with mine.”
As he spoke, he took out a token from his pocket and slapped it on the heated kang: "This is the Zhao family's token. From now on, General Li can take this token to the Zhao family's shop and receive a thousand taels of silver. Consider it a token of our goodwill."
This amount of silver should be enough for General Li to find a place to settle down and live a peaceful life.
At this point, his expression suddenly darkened: "From now on, I don't want anyone to mention your affair with my little sister. If anyone damages my little sister's reputation, my Zhao family will make them pay the price."
As he continued, his expression softened slightly, and he gave a gentle smile: "However, I believe General Li knows his place, and perhaps I, as a junior, have said too much."
"Get out! Who wants your worthless sign! Take your disgusting stuff and get out of here!"
With red-rimmed eyes, Li Junping stood in front of his father, picked up the sign, and threw it away violently.
The iron token, naturally, wouldn't break when dropped; it rolled several times on the ground.
Li Xiaoer and Xiao Baozhu had also arrived at Li Rong's side.
Baozhu didn't understand what was happening, and just hugged her father and cried.
The second son, with red eyes, stood in front of his father.
"You little bastard! How dare you be disrespectful to my brother!" Zhao Xiyue immediately glared at him coldly.
Zhao Xiuyuan frowned slightly, glanced at Li Junping, and looked surprised: "He is..."
Zhao Xiyue nodded with a disdainful expression: "That's right, he is that child."
After saying that, Zhao Xiuyuan turned his gaze back to Li Rong: "General Li is in such a predicament now, yet he still keeps this child by his side. I must say, he is truly admirable."
“You little bastard, how dare you disrespect your brother! Slap him!” Zhao Xiyue said.
Jiang Nuanzhi narrowed her eyes and stood in front of Li Junping, on guard.
She didn't know the reason for Li Rong's entanglements with other women and didn't want to get involved, but she couldn't allow anyone to harm her son.
"Moon".
Zhao Xiuyuan stopped Zhao Xiyue, glanced at Li Junping with a hint of disgust in his eyes, and said, "Don't dirty your hands. We don't need to get involved."
At this moment, Li Rong, filled with an inexplicable ferocity, actually propped himself up and almost sat up, squeezing out a hoarse sound from his throat: "Get out!"
Zhao Xiuyuan twitched the corner of his mouth: "General Li's temper remains the same as always. However, now that you have such integrity, have you ever thought about Xin Bo, who is still a military slave?"
"Grandpa Xin?"
A moment of stunned silence flashed across Li Junping's angry eyes, which instantly reddened: "Isn't Grandpa Xin dead?"
Li Rong's eyes were bloodshot, and blood seeped again from the tips of her already broken and scabbed fingernails as she strained. Her gaze was filled with a murderous rage as she stared at Zhao Xiuyuan.
"Oh, right, I almost forgot, he was seriously injured because he took an arrow for a child. However, my father saved him out of old friendship."
“This kind of scoundrel is not like your Li family members who received the Emperor’s pardon and were only exiled without serving time. He was truly exiled to the army as a slave. Now, if the general wants to redeem his slave, it is not impossible, but it will cost at least a hundred taels of silver.”
As he spoke, a mocking glint flashed in his eyes: "It's good that General Li accepted the money from my Zhao family. If he hadn't, I don't know if I would have been able to see Uncle Xin before he died."
“Xinbo is also in the Great Wilderness, right? He’s so close, yet Brother Rong doesn’t even think about him.” Zhao Xiyue said lightly, “He’s a good person. He used to give me sweet cakes. It’s a pity he didn’t meet a good master.”
Mentioning Xinbo, Li Rong's eyes reddened, and she clenched her fists tightly.
Upon hearing this, Li Junping almost immediately squatted down to pick up the token he had just received, without any hesitation.
The token had barely been obtained when it was snatched away by the guards beside Zhao Xiuyuan.
The guard presented the token to Zhao Xiuyuan: "Young Master, the token."
"General Li must be too proud to need our help." Zhao Xiuyuan casually picked up the token and tossed it to the guard: "Here you go."
Having said that, he gave a slight nod and said, "In that case, Xiuyuan will take his leave."
"Brother, why did you say so much? We should have left long ago! This room smells awful." Zhao Xiyue said coquettishly, clutching her handkerchief and frowning deeply.
"Wait, don't go. Please, give me the token."
Li Junping chased after him almost numbly and knelt down on the ground.
"Heh, look at this little bastard, he's like a little lapdog." Zhao Xiyue covered her mouth and laughed, her voice almost coquettish: "You, wouldn't it have been better if you had just been like this earlier?"
Having said that, he took the token from the guard's hand and waved it in front of Li Junping.
"Is this what you want?"
Li Junping pursed his lips, nodded, and reached out to take it.
The next second, Zhao Xinyue took it back.
"Oh no, what do we do? It's too late!"
She spoke with a smile, but her eyes were icy cold.
The initial surprise on Li Junping's face vanished in an instant, replaced by a slumped posture as he murmured, "Grandpa Xin."
"It's my fault, it's my fault."
He almost self-harmed, slapping himself hard across the face.
Jiang Nuanzhi frowned and stopped him from hitting her a second time.
"You ugly thing, how dare you meddle in my affairs?"
Zhao Xiyue's eyes flashed with a cold light as she glared at Jiang Nuanzhi.
Jiang Nuan took two steps forward to face her directly, her eyes narrowed slightly. The next second, she suddenly slapped her thigh and exclaimed in surprise, "Oh! Miss, don't move!"
Zhao Xiyue was startled and clutched her chest, saying, "What are you doing, talking so mysteriously?"
Jiang Nuanzhi pointed at Zhao Xiyue's feet with a look of surprise: "Miss, you, you, you... please don't move!"
Zhao Xiyue sneered: "I'm going to do it, so what!"
"you…"
"What do you mean, 'you'?!"
"You...you just stepped on my mouse's tail." Jiang Nuanzhi said vividly, "Luckily you lifted your foot, otherwise it would have been stomped to death. This mouse often visits our house. It's furry and it likes to lie near pretty girls' feet."
Jiang Nuanzhi said with a smile.
Zhao Xinyue seemed to take a long time to realize what was happening.
Did you step on a mouse?
Jiang Nuanzhi smiled and said, "Yes, that's right."
The next second, Zhao Xiyue, who had always maintained the demeanor of a noble lady, suddenly let out a shriek like a horn.
(End of this chapter)
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