"Go, hurry to the Qu family and bring her back to me!"
The butler hurriedly retreated: "Yes, it's Master..."
The housekeeper and the servants retreated, and Li Kechuan came over from the corridor in his wheelchair.
"Father."
Li Chaojing rubbed his brows. Seeing Li Kechuan coming, he couldn't calm down his anger at this moment: "Chuan'er, your sister is too unreasonable!"
"Her personality is just like your grandmother's – strong-willed and stubborn. Once she makes up her mind, she won't give in easily. She's truly difficult to deal with!"
"Look, a little girl like her actually took your grandmother, whose life or death is unknown, and ran away like that, disappearing without a trace! This is absolutely lawless!"
"Once I catch her, I will give her a good beating! Let her know what the rules are!"
Li Kechuan: "Then tell me...will Grandmother give her the thing you want?"
Li Chaojing: "What did you say?"
His expression changed, and he denied it vehemently: "Absolutely impossible! I am your grandmother's biological son! She is a girl after all. Is your grandmother crazy to give her to her?"
"What are you going to do with her? Are you going to give it to her so she can give it to someone of the opposite sex? Your grandmother would only do such a thing if she's completely senile!"
Li Kechuan stared at Li Chaojing grimly and asked, "But father, you want to use this to force grandma to death. Don't you think grandma knows it?"
Li Chaojing shouted angrily, "Chuan'er! What nonsense are you talking about?"
Li Kechuan: "Although Father and Grandmother have always been at odds, I can see that you still have some affection for her in your heart."
"Why do you have to allow my mother to act like this just this time?"
Li Chaojing was surprised: "You...you know?"
Li Kechuan: "Ever since you discovered A'niang's plan, you've been acquiescing to it. So, do you really want Grandmother to die? Why? Because you want the money from Tianfeng Trading Company?"
"Father, what happened? Why don't you tell me?"
Li Chaojing's eyes gradually turned red.
He held onto the chair dejectedly and sat down.
"If your grandmother hadn't been so reluctant to give me those things, why would I have done such a cruel thing?"
"I do all this for the General's Mansion and for you!"
"Do you still remember that time when your father returned from the battlefield wounded? Your father actually...actually, he falsely claimed military merit!"
"The person who truly achieved military merit was a deputy general named Jiang. He unexpectedly achieved success, using his strategy to turn the tide and help Daliang win."
"But he won, and he had to gloat over it in front of me! He even said some... some boastful, sarcastic, provocative words that he deserved to be cut into pieces."
"He said that I owed my position as the General of the Cavalry to the protection and glory of my ancestors, especially your grandmother and grandfather. Otherwise, I would be nothing!"
"My father was young and impulsive at the time. In a fit of rage, he...accidentally killed him."
"Afterwards, in order to cover up the truth, I fabricated a scene where he accidentally knocked over a candlestick and a wine jar while drunk, and then set his body on fire..."
"I thought no one would know about this. So after returning to the capital, I took all the credit for the military achievement and from then on, I firmly established my position as the Great General."
"And that was also the time I used this merit to ask for a position in the military camp for you!"
Upon hearing this, the color on Li Kechuan's face gradually faded.
I never expected that the position of Major General, which I was once so proud of, was obtained in this way!
"Could it be that this matter was suddenly discovered by others, and someone threatened my father with something?"
Li Chaojing's face was filled with sorrow: "It's the Jiang family."
"I don't know why they suddenly produced that letter from Lieutenant General Jiang. It contains the details of the battle and strategy in which he falsely claimed military merit on behalf of my father. It's definitely in his handwriting!"
"If this letter were to be delivered to the Emperor, I, your father... would be finished, not only would our entire general's mansion be facing the scourge of confiscation and extermination of our entire clan!"
Li Kechuan's breathing could not help but tighten: "Father, what do the Jiang family want?"
Li Chaojing: "They asked for 500,000 taels of silver right away!"
"I'll pay them, and they'll hand over Vice General Jiang's handwritten letter to me. From then on, the money and goods will be paid, and this matter will be completely buried in the dust. Both families will no longer want to do anything about it! Our General's Mansion will be completely worry-free!"
Li Kechuan broke the armrest of the wheelchair with one hand: "How much? Five hundred thousand taels!? Our entire Li family... can't afford it..."
Li Chaojing closed his eyes and sighed, "Yes, even if we were the entire Li family, we wouldn't be able to come up with 100,000 taels of silver. How are we going to find the 500,000 taels of silver?"
"If I hadn't been forced into a desperate situation, I wouldn't have lost all conscience and humanity to plot against your grandmother!"
"After all, she is my biological mother!!"
Li Chaojing shed a few tears in grief.
"It shouldn't be difficult for your grandmother's Tianfeng Trading Company to come up with 500,000 taels."
"So...when I discovered that your mother had colluded with the Qu family to poison your grandmother, I..."
Li Kechuan: "But if I tell this to Grandmother, won't she take out the 500,000 taels of silver to save the entire Li family?"
Li Chaojing sneered, "Your grandmother? She'll definitely put justice above her own family and report my father to the emperor first."
Just as he finished speaking, there was a faint sound outside the door.
Li Chaojing grabbed his sword and lunged out: "Who—?"
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