What?
Cancel the engagement?
How can that be?
If the engagement is really cancelled, should the money be returned?
"Dad, now the whole capital knows that Xia Xia is engaged to the Zhang family. If we cancel the marriage, it will be difficult for her to get married in the future!" Li Xiaoshan said anxiously, "Don't cancel the engagement! Even if the Zhang family boy takes a concubine, what's the harm? As long as Xia Xia is the mistress of the house, it's fine! Is everything in the Zhang family still in her hands?"
Li Shan's words made everyone present fall into deep thought. Li Xia Xia was anxious when she saw that her grandfather did not express his opinion. Shang Ruoyi frowned slightly, could it be that her grandfather still wanted to marry her?
At this moment, the old man picked up the tea on the table and threw it at Li Shan. The tea was added by Li Yinxin who was standing by, so it was still rolling.
Even though he was wearing thick clothes, the scorching temperature still made Li Shan grimace.
"Asshole, now that you have been kicked out of the Li family, don't bother my dad. We are not familiar with each other. You don't have to ask about Xia Xia's marriage. This is my Li family's business."
Li Wanshan's face turned pale. He never expected that coming here today would make his father and himself break off even more completely.
"I'm determined to withdraw from this marriage!" Li Huaian helped Li Xia Xia up: "Our Li family's child is going to get married anyway, why should she marry into a family like the Zhang family that has no rules? He has just become a scholar, and he already has so many concubines. If he really becomes the top scholar in the future, I don't know what he will become. Such a person, even if he really becomes a dragon and phoenix among men in the future, is definitely not a good person."
Shang Ruoyi nodded secretly, thinking that her grandfather was really innocent.
The old men sat there and didn't dare to say anything more, for fear that what they said would annoy him again.
After a while, they all resigned and left.
Li Huaian did not go to see him off in person, but sent his butler to escort him out of the house.
In the past, if they came to his house, Li Shan would definitely send someone to take them home with gifts. This time, he just sent them to the door, and the housekeeper watched them leave with a smile on his face.
When they came, they rode in a carriage together to save some money, and thought that they would go back in a sedan chair like before. Unexpectedly, they still rode in the same carriage.
Several people felt extremely happy.
"This Li Huaian is really getting more and more stingy. Not only did he not bring anything back, but he didn't even prepare a sedan chair."
"That's right. If we go back like this, we don't know what the neighbors will say about us."
Hearing this, the old man in white sighed and said, "It's Huai'an's fault. We are the ones who are a little anxious today."
"Anxious? Why should I be anxious? Big brother, that's pure silver!" An old man said, "If Wang Shan becomes the head of the family, each of our families will get a gold shop and a cloth shop, which is worth tens of thousands of taels of silver."
So what if it’s a few tens of thousands of taels?
The old man in white had a solemn look in his eyes. If Li Wanshan was really kicked out of the Li family because of patricide, he would definitely fulfill his promise to them.
The other people also thought of this and were silent for a while.
The image of Shang Ruoyi appeared in front of the old man in white, with a dark look in his eyes.
This boy is definitely not an ordinary person.
At this time, Li Huaian sat in the main seat, looking at Li Shan and his son who had not left yet, and said in a deep voice: "What are you still doing here?"
"Grandfather, do you really recognize us?" Li Quan said with tears in his eyes, "Grandfather, I was deceived by you before, so I did that. I will never dare to do that again, never dare to do that again!"
There was no expression on Li Huaian's face. He just looked at the father and son coldly, as if he was looking at a stranger.
"father······"
Li Huaian looked at the housekeeper and said sternly, "What are you doing? And you want someone to kick them out of the house? What are they doing here? It's disgusting to look at them."
When the housekeeper heard this, he quickly ordered the servants to drag the two of them out of the house. Li Shan said nothing, standing in front of the house gate with a gloomy face, looking at the huge "Li Mansion" on the plaque of the gate, and whispered: "Sooner or later, I will take all this back."
Li Quan cried and said to Li Shan, "Dad, what should we do? We are really going back to the mansion now."
"Why are you crying?" Li Xiaoshan said in a deep voice, "It's useless." After saying that, he turned and left. The whistling cold wind blew on his wet body, and he couldn't help but shiver.
At this time, there were many pedestrians on the road. Few people on this street knew him, but now seeing him like this, they pointed and talked about him.
"Did you see him? I heard he was kicked out by the old man of the Li family."
"Kick them out? Why?"
"Why? It is said that his son lost tens of thousands of taels of silver in gambling, and the old man drove them all out in a rage."
"That's what you said." A short man said, "It is said that because he saved someone from death, the old man got anxious and wanted to find a doctor."
"What? You actually did that?"
"But it's true. It just so happened that I was delivering food to the Li family's residence that day. I heard it literally."
This man often delivered vegetables to the Li family. Everyone on this street knew about it. Nine out of ten things he said were true. For a while, people looked at the poor father and son of the Li family with contempt on their faces. They even didn't save their own father, and treated them worse than animals.
The man delivering the dishes looked at the figure leaving at the corner, his lips curved. It seemed that he would be the one delivering the dishes to the Li family in the future.
The housekeeper returned to the main hall and told the old man what happened on the street: "Thanks to that food delivery man, everyone in Qi was able to gossip about our family."
The old man nodded: "Yes! Since he is delivering the food, the food in our house in the future..."
"He was the one who delivered the food." Shang Ruoyi put down the tea in her hand and said calmly, "I remember that he was the only one who delivered the food that day! Is the other person on the street today?"
"Yes, young lady." The housekeeper knew her identity and said respectfully, "That person is really something. He didn't say a word for our family and let others speculate."
"It's him." Shang Ruoyi whispered, "From now on, let him deliver all the food in the mansion."
"Miss, why is this happening?"
"A servant actually openly discussed the master's right and wrong on the street, and eavesdropped on the master's family affairs when delivering food to the mansion. Such a taboo shows that this person has ulterior motives. He even did the duty of a servant. What is the use of him? The other person really listened less, watched less, and asked less."
When Shang Ruoyi finished speaking, everyone present was shocked.
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