Chapter 768 Hey! You little brat, get out of here at once!
After hearing Li Dasao's detailed explanation, Li Sanniang's face darkened.
This is Chang'an. Everyone is standing in the main hall of the Li family. How dare Guo Silang, a mere young boy, be so disrespectful to Brother Li?
So, what kind of attitude does Sun Hongniang actually have towards Li Daxiong, her half-brother whom she has never met?
The words Li Dalang sent home earlier, saying that Sun Hongniang and Commander Guo treated him well, should be true. But that was all on the surface. In reality, did Sun Hongniang and the Guo family really think highly of Li Dalang or even the Li family?
However, they must really think highly of Li Dalang.
There were no fools present. Just by looking at Guo Silang's attitude, one could tell how Sun Hongniang and the Guo family treated people. Therefore, not to mention Li Sanniang, whose face had darkened, Li Dalang was so angry that his fists were clenched so tightly that his bones were cracking.
After thinking it over and over, just as Li San Niang was about to say a few more words to ease the tension, she heard a sudden chuckle from her left side behind her.
"Haha, haha," Li Erlang, who had been like an invisible man, didn't care at all about the awkward and tense atmosphere in the main hall and laughed freely.
Li San Niang turned around to look at Li Er Lang, and seeing his sly look, she felt that he was preparing a big move.
"You! What are you laughing at!"
Guo Silang was young and easily provoked. Li Erlang only gave a mocking expression and laughed twice, which made Guo Silang stand up and point at someone again.
However, this time it wasn't pointing at Brother Li's nose, but rather at Second Brother Li's nose.
Li Erlang didn't even glance at Guo Silang, but casually looked at Guo Sanlang, who had been sitting silently with an ugly expression: "Oh."
Can't I even laugh a couple of times in my own home?
Is the Guo family really that powerful?
"They've even got their hands on things happening in Chang'an?"
Li Erlang didn't give Guo Sanlang a chance to speak at all. As soon as he finished speaking, he looked directly at Guo Silang, who was still standing. Li Erlang's expression immediately turned solemn.
He stared at Guo Silang and said coldly, "Does the Guo family have no manners just because they are far from Chang'an?"
"Leaving aside the fact that my father is a member of the Imperial Guard stationed in Chang'an to protect the Emperor, the fact that he is your uncle, Guo Silang, is not something an ill-mannered child like you can instruct!"
Li Erlang's words were like flying arrows aimed straight at Guo Sanlang and Guo Silang's faces. Guo Sanlang quickly scolded Guo Silang, "Silang! Don't be rude!"
After saying this, Guo Sanlang was about to get up. Li Sanniang, who was standing to the side, seemed to want to apologize to Brother Li for Guo Silang's rudeness.
However, Li Erlang hadn't finished speaking yet.
"snort!
Although I am not only your cousin Guo Silang, I am also a ninth-rank official in the Ministry of War!
No matter how low one's official rank, it's not for someone like you, without any official position, to point fingers and be disrespectful!
As he spoke, Li Erlang stood up from his chair. He had inherited his good physique from his elder brother and sister-in-law, and even though he had chosen the path of a civil official, he was still far superior to young men like Guo Silang.
Guo Silang was somewhat afraid of being looked down at by Li Erlang. He had only dared to point and gesticulate angrily earlier because he was a member of the Guo family.
Hearing Li Erlang describe him in just a few words as an ill-mannered, disrespectful, and disrespectful dissolute to the Tang Dynasty officials, he became frightened.
Guo Silang, being the son of an official, was naturally aware of the difference between officials and commoners. After all, back in the border town, he had often acted arrogantly because he was the youngest son of the Guo family.
Li San Niang sat to the side and watched the whole scene closely. She thought Li Erlang was just too adorable, and he had made up for all the grievances that the Li family had just suffered.
Li Dalang's expression relaxed considerably.
Finally, the scene naturally ended with Guo Sanlang forcing the unwilling Guo Silang to bow and apologize to Li Daxiong and Li Erlang.
The dinner at the Li family's house tonight was truly hard to swallow. Only the children, like Lu Zhu'er, seemed to enjoy it. Li San Niang noticed that everyone from Li's parents to Li's eldest brother and eldest son had sour faces and ate with a disdainful attitude, barely filling their stomachs.
After finishing their meal without tasting anything, each of them held a bowl of tea in the dim candlelight in the main hall. Li Da Xiong swallowed hard, looked at his parents at the head of the table, then at Li Er Xiong and Li San Niang, and then said, "This decision was made by me."
My father treated me like his own child, and I will definitely take care of him in his old age and see him off when he dies!
I know that what Third Aunt said, separating households but not families, is the best choice, but I am unwilling in my heart.
I don't want to leave Father, not even if it's just to live separately, I refuse!
Looking at his eldest brother, Li's father felt a lump in his throat. If the children hadn't been there, he probably would have burst into tears.
"Is Third Sister still at home tomorrow?"
Li San Niang was a little surprised that she had been called on again, but she still immediately replied, "Yes, elder brother, tomorrow is my last day at home. I have to go back to work the day after tomorrow."
Brother Li nodded, then looked at Brother Li Er sitting opposite him. Seeing Brother Li Er nod, he looked around at everyone and said, "Tomorrow morning, let's go to Xuandu Temple together. I've invited a Taoist priest to perform a ritual for my father."
At that time, I will tell him everything I did today and everything I thought.
And so, the matter is resolved.
"Whether it's the Guo family or the Sun family..." Brother Li paused before continuing, "It's no use for the Guo family or Hongniang to do anything else."
That's all I'll do; I don't need to pay them any more attention.
I am a member of the Imperial Guard in Chang'an. Erlang (Li Erlang) is from the Ministry of War. He has no connection with Guo's family, who is a militia commander under the Shi family army in the border city. He has no influence over us.
Although Dalang was a soldier under the Shi family army, he also said that his position was special and had nothing to do with Commander Guo.
"From now on," Brother Li looked at his mother sitting to his left, "we'll just treat her as a distant relative."
With the Li family having set the tone for their future actions, the Guo brothers, who were still living in the Li family home, were now filled with worry.
"Brother, what should we do?"
"We can't do any of the things Mother asked us to do!"
In a fit of anger, Guo Silang slammed the teacup in his hand onto the table. The small teacup could not withstand such force and fell directly to the ground with a "crash" as it shattered into several pieces.
Hearing the commotion of the broken cups, Wang Dadan and Gao Haiping, who lived next door to the Guo brothers, exchanged glances. Wang Dadan pointed his finger at the next room in the air, and Gao Haiping nodded. The two exchanged knowing glances for a while, but they didn't say anything, afraid that the Guo brothers next door would hear them.
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