At this moment, a figure appeared in front of Shang Ruoyi, and Ah Cheng grabbed Li Jia's hair and bent it backwards with force.
He could no longer hold the bolt in his hand and it fell to the ground.
“It hurts, it hurts.”
"How dare you say that to Miss Li's family? I see you are tired of living." As Ah Cheng finished speaking, he exerted force on his body. With a "crack", Li's arm was broken.
"Ah Cheng." Shang Ruoyi put away the silver needle and saw that the old man's face gradually returned to normal. She turned around and said, "This is the Li family's family affair. We are outsiders, so it's better not to interfere too much."
Li Xia Xia came to the bedside: "Sister Shang, my grandfather..."
"It's okay now." Just as she finished speaking, she heard the old man sighing from the bed.
"Grandpa, grandpa!"
The old man slowly opened his eyes and said to Li Xia Xia, "Grandfather is fine." He sat up and said to Shang Ruoyi, "Thank you, Miss Shang. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would be killed today..." He cast his eyes on the father and son of the Li family not far away: "I'm afraid I would be killed by these two bastards!"
"Grandpa, please don't be angry." Shang Ruoyi said softly, "Your heart disease should not be affected by excessive mood swings and excessive worry." She was glad to come to the Li family. She had someone pass the message to the old man, which indirectly led to his heart disease. If something happened to him today, she would really feel guilty.
"Oh, grandfather, please don't be angry. You almost scared me to death just now." Li Xia Xia's eyes were red: "If I hadn't saved Sister Shang, I don't know what would have happened." She looked at her father and half-brother not far away, her tone full of uncontrollable anger: "Why is it worth it to be angry with them?"
Seeing this, Li Jia and Li Quan knew that the situation was hopeless, so they all knelt on the ground and begged, "Dad! I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, I will never do it again, I was blinded by greed just now and did something worse than an animal, please forgive me this time."
"Oh, Grandfather, please forgive Dad this time!" Li Quan knelt on the ground with his head broken, fearing that the old man would vent his anger on him.
Shang Ruoyi glanced at the old man and seeing that there was no emotion in his eyes, she foresaw the ending of this father and son.
"Crows know to repay their parents, and lambs know to kneel down to suckle. But you are different. The Li family has supported you until now, and now you want to kill me." His tone was calm, with coldness in his eyes: "In this case, you don't have to stay with the Li family."
Upon hearing this, the Li family father and son wanted to argue, but then they saw several servants come forward and drag them away.
During this time, someone pulled his arm that was broken by Ah Cheng, and he wailed in pain.
"It's a misfortune for our family, it's a misfortune for our family!" The old man sighed, looked at Shang Ruoyi and said, "I'm sorry to make you laugh, Miss Shang."
Shang Ruoyi smiled and said nothing, then she heard the old man continue, "I didn't expect you to be proficient in medicine."
"I understand a little bit."
The old man smiled when he heard this and said, "Be neither arrogant nor impatient, and you will show your integrity. Since your last name is Shang and you are from Tianshun, you are the daughter of Prime Minister Shang?"
Shang Ruoyi nodded: "Yes."
"The daughter of the prime minister?" It's no wonder that the old man asked this. Shang Ruoyi's temperament in every move she made was incomparable to that of the legitimate daughters of royal relatives and nobles.
"Otherwise, I am a concubine's daughter, the second daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion."
"Oh?" The old man sat up straight suddenly: "But you want to marry the second daughter of Prince Ding?"
"The old man is well-informed." Her words confirmed her identity.
The old man of the Li family looked her up and down, with great waves in his eyes.
That’s right, absolutely not wrong!
No wonder I felt she looked so familiar the first time I saw her.
"Child, where is your mother?" he asked anxiously.
"My mother." Shang Ruoyi's lips moved and she whispered, "She's dead."
For some reason, she felt a little sad when she said these two words.
The light in the old man's eyes dimmed, and he leaned against the head of the bed in a somewhat decadent manner, sighing deeply.
Li Xia Xia rarely saw this expression on her grandfather's face, and couldn't help but ask worriedly, "Grandfather, what's wrong?"
The old man did not answer. He looked up at Shang Ruoyi and closed his eyes slightly: "Child, when did your mother leave?"
"Many years."
Shang Ruoyi was doubtful, how did he know her mother?
"senior."
Before she could ask her doubts, the old man grabbed her hand, his eyes red: "Child, I'm sorry, you have suffered all these years."
"What's wrong with you?"
"You should call her grandpa." The old man said with tears in his eyes, "Back then, your mother was abducted by your family. She was only a few years old when she was abducted. We searched for many years, but there was no news at all. Later, Beiling and Tianshun started trading, and we learned that your mother was taken to Tianshun. When we learned about her, she had already married into the Shang family and became Shangnian's concubine. We asked people to find out, but that was the Prime Minister's Mansion after all, and the information we got was very limited. We learned that Shangnian married the daughter of a wealthy businessman, who was very favored and had a daughter, the second lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion. We knew that she was living a good life and the family that adopted her was also wealthy, so we were relieved."
Shang Ruoyi couldn't help but frown when she heard him say this: "Since you know she is your biological daughter, why don't you recognize her?"
"How can we recognize each other? She was so young when she was taken away that she would not remember anything about her childhood. Besides, she is from Beiling, and your father is the prime minister. She is so favored. If your father knew her life experience, he might feel resentful. Now that I know that she has a good life and has not suffered any hardship since she was a child, I will feel relieved." The old man looked at her and said, "I felt familiar with you from the first time I saw you. I didn't expect that you are my granddaughter."
Li Xia Xia looked at Shang Ruoyi, then at her grandfather, and murmured, "Then tell me, are you and Sister Shang really sisters?"
Shang Ruoyi smiled and said, "You said your grandfather, do you have any evidence?"
"Haha, little girl, you are really cautious." The old man took out a box from the bedside, which contained half a jade disk: "Have you ever seen this thing in your mother's body?"
Shang Ruoyi shook her head: "I have never seen it."
A trace of desolation flashed across the old man's eyes. "I guess it was lost on the way! This jade disk was originally a gift from your mother on her first birthday."
At this moment, some vague fragments flashed through Shang Ruoyi's mind, and she asked in a low voice: "Do you know what birthmark my mother has?"
"Birthmark?" He shook his head. "Your mother has no birthmark, but there is an inch-long scar in the crook of her right arm. It's the mark left by her falling from the rockery when she was a child. I wonder if the scar has faded after she grew up."
놆!
Her mother did have a scar on her arm, and Shangnian had said more than once that his mother was very unlucky.
"As long as she is doing well, it doesn't matter if we don't recognize each other."
"She's doing well?" Shang Ruoyi sneered, "How can she be doing well?"
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