Chapter 46—he didn't even leave a last word...
Qin Tao reacted so quickly; she only hesitated for a moment before kneeling down without any hesitation.
Before she could even speak, tears were already streaming down her face. Qin Tao looked as if she had suffered a tremendous injustice. This is what a delicate and pitiful white lotus flower looks like.
"Goodness, really, putting everything else aside, this ability to cry on cue is something I could never learn."
While Li Shiyue was internally complaining, she was also looking forward to the system sending her a task.
When Li's father, who was still being half-held by his grandmother, saw Qin Tao crying, he didn't react much.
In fact, Qin Tao's act of separating the food from him had already made Li's father very dissatisfied.
However, he was ill and still needed Qin Tao to take care of him, so Li's father did not show anything.
Moreover, and most importantly, Li's father believed that the child in Qin Tao's womb was the one he wanted most.
Therefore, when Li's father saw Qin Tao carefully stroking her belly, he turned to his grandmother with a sorrowful expression and said, "Mother, Tao Niang is carrying my child, your grandson. How can I bear to leave her?"
Mother, Tao Niang is a good girl, and she will definitely take good care of you in the future!
Mother…
Before Li's father could finish speaking, Li's grandmother's face had already fallen, and she lowered her arm that was half-holding Li's father.
Li Wangming stepped forward and carefully helped Grandma Li to her feet. Grandma Li looked at the two on the ground, her beloved eldest son and his lover, and a deep sadness welled up in her heart.
However, no matter how much grief she felt, Grandma Li's face remained impassive.
On the contrary, Grandma Li's face showed a look of disdain mixed with hope.
"Wangguang, your mother will ask you one more time, can you abandon this filthy, lowly woman?"
Grandmother Li asked Li's father sternly. She saw the reluctance in his eyes, so she raised her voice: "With her vixen-like appearance, how do you know that the child in her womb is yours?"
After saying that, Grandmother Li changed her tone again, looking like she was saying, "Wangguang, you are my son. How could I harm you?"
You already have Shi Tou, and Shi Tou is already quite grown up. You can find him a filial and dutiful wife later. Why do you insist on having that bastard child in Qin Tao's belly, whose gender is unknown and whose father is still a nobody?"
Mr. Li was genuinely hesitant.
Seeing this, Qin Tao knew that crying wouldn't help, so she suddenly cried out, "Wang Guang, it's all my fault! If I could save more money, I could get you medical treatment and give birth to our son properly!"
"It's my fault, I can't help you, I can only take care of you along the way. Wangguang, Wangguang, I... Waaah, it's my fault... Waaah..."
Qin Tao has finally touched on the crux of the problem—money. All Li's father wanted from beginning to end was money.
Father Li knelt down on the ground again and looked up at his grandmother: "Mother, Shitou is a fool!"
Even if we manage to find him a wife, what if their child is still mentally challenged?
Mother, the child in Qin Tao's belly is definitely mine!
Mother, I can't abandon Tao Niang!
But Grandma Li's expression made it clear: if you want Qin Tao, then there's no money to treat your illness; if you want treatment, then you can't have Qin Tao.
Grandma Li stopped talking and even turned her head away from Li's father.
The conversation between the two women touched on Shi Tou's part. Li Shiyue walked over to Shi Tou, who was standing behind her mother, and patted his arm.
Stone was oblivious to the fact that although he heard Li's father and grandmother mention his name while they were talking, he did not understand why they were talking about him.
Mr. Li was truly caught in a dilemma.
Li's father was a selfish person. In his mind, everyone should revolve around him. He had already harbored resentment towards Li's grandmother for pressuring him like this.
"Mother, do you really want to watch your son die without an heir?"
Mother, I am sick and I am afraid I don't have many days left to live. Are you unwilling to take out the gold that Father left me to save me?
Mother, do you intend to leave all that gold and silver to Wangming?
Mother, do you really want to do this?
Li's father practically roared out those last words.
Li Shiyue took two steps forward. Of course, she couldn't actually draw her knife or do anything. So, she saw the carrying pole next to the donkey cart and decided that if her father did anything rash, she would use the carrying pole to drive him away.
The last time Li's father came to cause trouble at night, she kicked him in the lower back.
If it's not appropriate to actually attack Li's father in broad daylight, then the only option is to scare him with a carrying pole.
Grandma Li was startled by her husband's shout. She reached up and touched her chest, as if she couldn't breathe.
This frightened Li Wangming, and he quickly patted his grandmother's back gently, saying, "Mother, Mother, don't be angry, don't be angry."
Just as Li Wangming was about to say something to his father, his father got up from the ground and approached his grandmother step by step, his face full of fierceness, hostility and hatred.
Why does Mother insist on doing this?
Mother is already this old, what's the point of keeping all that gold and silver?
That was left to me by my father!
So Mother intends to keep it all to herself?
Today, Mother, take out that money. We are still mother and son. If Mother doesn't take it, then I will have to ask the clan elders to come. You, a woman of the Li family, dare to embezzle my Li family's wealth!
"Then I'll divorce you, you wicked woman, on behalf of my father!"
Not to mention Li Shiyue, even Li's mother was shocked. She rubbed her ears in disbelief, unable to believe that Li's father had said those words.
“In October, your father went mad. Quick, quick, pull him away!”
Li Shiyue was a fraction too slow. As soon as Li's father finished speaking, Li's grandmother slapped him hard across the face. Then, Li's father suddenly stepped forward and shoved Li's grandmother hard.
The push from Li's father was so sudden that Li Wangming, who was standing to the side, didn't even have time to react before Li's grandmother was already leaning backward.
All of this happened too fast, in the blink of an eye.
Li Wangming didn't have time to catch his grandmother when she fell, so she stumbled and fell backward without support.
Unfortunately, Grandma Li's head hit a sharp stone on the ground!
Unfortunately, Grandma Li fell backward, and the part of her body that hit the stone was her brainstem.
When Li Shiyue ran over, the blood flowing from the back of Li's grandmother's head seemed endless, and in just a few breaths, it had already stained the entire patch of grass.
"Mother!"
Li Wangming knelt down and supported his grandmother's head. He touched the warm blood in his hand and was so frightened that he could only keep shouting at his grandmother who had already fainted.
Mr. Li was stunned.
Qin Tao was also stunned.
Even Li's mother was stunned at this moment.
Li Shiyue rushed over, squatted down and looked at her grandmother who had her eyes closed, and reached out with trembling hands to feel her grandmother's neck.
The skin was still warm, but there was no pulse!
Grandmother Li is dead.
Li Shiyue shook her head at her mother. Her mother couldn't believe it. She knelt down beside her grandmother's body and reached out to check her breath.
There was no exhalation, no inhalation. Grandmother Li, she was truly dead, killed by Li's father.
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