Chapter 51 You killed my child, so I will take your life!
How could Qin Tao really go back to bed and leave Li Shigui to face all of this alone?
Qin Tao, pale-faced and with bloodless lips, was helped over by Li Chunli. She looked at Li's father's swollen face and remained silent for a moment or two before speaking.
"We were husband and wife for a time, and now you've hurt me like this and even killed our child. What more do you want?"
By the end, Qin Tao had burst into tears, and the sorrow in her words was truly genuine.
At this moment, Li Shiyue exchanged a subtle glance with Li Shiyang. Li Shiyue didn't know what Li Shiyang was thinking, but Li Shiyue was thinking: "Incredible, if there were an Oscar here, Qin Tao would definitely be awarded a little golden statuette."
With a performance that's seven parts genuine emotion and three parts feigned sincerity, who wouldn't be drawn in?
After exchanging a glance with Li Shiyang, Li Shiyue looked behind him, but didn't see Li Wangren, Qin Tao's lover, the man who cuckolded Li's father.
Tears streaming down her face, Qin Tao reached out and touched her lower abdomen. There had once been a child there, the child she had always prayed for with her beloved!
However, amidst her sadness, a sliver of relief also lingered in a corner of Qin Tao's heart.
"Yes, this is an illegitimate child. What if it is discovered later that this is not Li Wangguang's child?"
How will this child face the world?
"It's good that you're dead, it's good that you're dead. Don't blame your mother, child. It's just that your mother couldn't protect you..."
Thinking of this, Qin Tao cried even more movingly, which caused many of the women in the surrounding Lijia Village to shed tears as well.
"Yes, it's still a life!"
Erdan's mother held Erdan in one arm and wiped away tears from the corner of her eyes with the other. Qin Tao's actions were truly a blow to her heart.
Erdan's mother had a miscarriage before giving birth to Erdan, and it took her several years to conceive Erdan again. Otherwise, Erdan wouldn't be called Erdan.
"...A child is a piece of a mother's flesh; how can she not feel pain if a piece of her flesh is missing?"
Seeing Erdan's mother crying like this because of Qin Tao's words, Zhou Lanhua lowered her head and pouted, feeling quite disdainful of Erdan's mother's behavior. However, when she thought of the child Erdan's mother had lost, she began to understand Erdan's mother's tears.
Li's father also saw Qin Tao touching her lower abdomen. In fact, Li's father regretted it for a moment, but when he thought of what his grandmother had said about "illegitimate childbirth," he didn't feel so sorry for her anymore.
Besides, if he didn't pin the blame for killing Grandmother Li on Qin Tao, wouldn't he become an unfilial son?
How can that be allowed?
"Better to die than to die myself." Since someone has to take the blame, why can't it be Qin Tao?
However, before speaking, Li's father glanced at Li Shiyue, who was standing to the side.
Li Shiyue naturally felt her father's gaze, but she couldn't be bothered to pay him any attention. She had already said everything she could when Li Shiyang asked her.
Shi Tou was completely devoted to his sister. When Li Shiyue told him not to look in that direction, he wouldn't look and stood there obediently staring at the ground.
Actually, Li's father had a little hope in his heart. He hoped that Li Shiyue, the daughter he used to look down on, would take a look at him, and preferably stand up for him and show some pity for him, his old father.
Although he was afraid of Li Shiyue's knife, he also knew that Li Shiyue, who could kill with a knife, was more useful than his healthy son at this moment, and this matter could be to his advantage.
However, Li Shiyue was never someone controlled by filial piety.
Having witnessed Li Shiyue kill someone, Li's father was genuinely terrified. He knew that if he dared to harass or cling to Li's mother and the others, Li Shiyue would truly kill him!
Therefore, Mr. Li had no choice but to give up his idea of turning back to manipulate Mrs. Li and the others. He looked up at Qin Tao and stared at her for a few moments before finally speaking.
"If you want to get rid of me, then give me back everything you've taken from me. Once you have the money, I'll leave immediately."
"If you don't come up, I can't leave. We'll talk again when you've paid it all off."
Upon hearing his father's words, Li Shigui's expression changed. His father's words were shameless; he was sure he had the whole family of three under his thumb.
"Mother, give it to him, give it all to him, we don't want it anymore, we don't want it anymore!" Li Shigui urged anxiously, grabbing Qin Tao's arm.
However, Qin Tao did not respond to Li Shigui's words. Instead, she reached out and patted Li Shigui's arm to comfort him.
"Mother!"
Li Shigui knew that his mother wouldn't have much money to repay his father, not to mention that grain prices were high now, more than doubled, so there wouldn't be much money left to buy grain.
But Li Shigui really didn't want to live with that old beast, Li's father, anymore. His own children had abandoned him, so why should he lower himself for a few bites of food?
Moreover, Li's father had killed that unborn child whose gender was unknown!
How can one associate with such a ruthless person?
However, Qin Tao did not listen to Li Shigui. She held up her tear-streaked face and looked at Li's father: "Fine!"
I agree to what you said!
While Uncle Fu and the elders are all here, name a number!
"When we get to Andong, our whole family will earn money and pay you back!"
Fifty taels!
Give me fifty taels, and I'll stay far away from you from now on!
Of course, Li's father knew that Qin Tao couldn't come up with fifty taels right now, and he didn't expect her to be able to. He was planning to live with Qin Tao's family before arriving at the Andong Protectorate.
After all, he is covered in wounds and needs a lot of care.
Li's father had already started thinking, "With these fifty taels, I can buy a maid and she will naturally be able to give birth to a son."
Thus, the two sides reached an agreement, and at Qin Tao's request, Li Youfu and the clan elders also served as witnesses.
However, Li Shigui also said, "We will definitely repay the money!"
But Grandpa Fu's promise of thirty lashes must still be fulfilled!
The thirty lashes in the Li family village clan rules are whips made with willow branches and struck on the back; the severity of the injury varies depending on the force applied.
Even if the hand is light, thirty lashes will keep someone in bed for at least ten days to half a month. If the hand is used with more force, it could be more than a month.
"Don't worry, I am the clan chief, and I will definitely keep the promises your grandfather Fu made."
Despite Qin Tao's sorrowful and fearful appearance, she had already planned out how Li's father would die.
Or rather, she had already conceived the idea beforehand that the packet of medicine for conceiving a son that she had Li's father buy in the prefectural city was actually a scam.
If there really were a medicine that could guarantee having a son, wouldn't all the rich people in the world have already had more than a dozen sons? Would anyone still be praying to gods and Buddhas for a son?
"Even with so much dodder added, he didn't die from the disease!"
It seems we'll have to increase the quantity in the future.
"You killed my child, so I'll take your life!"
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