Before Li Qingluo could react, Sui'er pulled Wang away.
"Mother, didn't we agree on this? My sister is now the eldest daughter of the general's family. You can't look at her and call her by that name anymore!"
Aunt Deng stepped forward with an angry look on her face and shouted, "How dare you!"
"What grass!?"
“That should have been the name of your biological daughter, Liu Qingzhu. Now that everything has been put into place, who are you calling her by that name!?”
Wang was panicked and looked at Li Qingluo with a face full of grievance.
Li Qingluo only looked at Sui'er: "You betrayed me?"
Sui'er quickly explained, "Sister, I didn't! It was my mother. She kept talking about you at home and missed you more and more, so I... I just felt sorry for her and brought her here."
"But don't get me wrong. Except for my mother, no one in the family knows that I came to see you today."
Wang also explained in a low voice: "Luo'er, ah... I, I really don't mean any harm, I just want to take a look at you..."
Li Qingluo: "Why are you playing the role of a loving mother now? Tell me, what do you want?"
Wang was ridiculed and her face turned red instantly.
"Grass... Luo, Luo'er, is this how you miss me? I was at least somewhat sincere towards you before..."
Li Qingluo: "Your sincerity? Your sincerity means allowing that family to bully me, from only secretly caring about me to completely ignoring them?"
"Before I knew my own life story, I regarded you as the only concern and true love of that family."
"I thought I was a piece of flesh that fell off your body, and that you would feel a little sorry for me no matter what. I thought you were just a little weak and couldn't help yourself, but what about you?"
"They clearly knew my background a long time ago, but like them, they just treated me as livestock and a bargaining chip."
"You and the entire Liu family are birds of a feather. Do you miss me? Do you miss how much money I can give you now?"
Wang suffered these humiliations and could only shed tears silently.
"Cao'er, I regret it..."
Li Qingluo walked over to the table and sat down. He ignored Wang's pretense and simply asked, "What do you regret? Regret not putting on a show to manipulate me the moment you arrived in Nanjing?"
"How much silver do you want? Fifty taels? One hundred taels?"
"When I was a baby, you nursed me. When I was a child, you fed me rice porridge. When I grew up, you secretly gave me wheat bran cakes a few times."
"Every grain of rice and every drop of water is a favor. How much more do I owe you than what your Liu family has done to me?"
"One hundred taels is more than enough. It's my best way to repay your kindness, right?"
"However, how do you, the Liu family, plan to settle Liu Qingzhu's account with me?"
"All her food, clothing, and other necessities over the years, including the gold and silver jewelry and silks she wore, have taken away what should have been mine. Shouldn't your Liu family compensate me with tens of thousands of taels of silver to make up for it?"
As soon as Li Qingluo finished speaking, a shout came from outside: "Cao'er! Cao'er, I know you are in there——"
"I am your father. Cao'er, how can you only see your mother and not your father? Your father misses you too—"
Li Qingluo looked at Sui'er with a smile.
Sui'er's face turned completely pale.
"I, I really don't know... Sister, I really don't know... Mother! I trusted you so much, and you betrayed me?"
Li Qingluo stood up and didn't want to say anything anymore.
She looked at Aunt Deng. Aunt Deng went out and the noise outside soon died down.
Li Qingluo groped inside her clothes and took out a silver note worth one hundred taels, then threw it lightly to Wang.
"From now on, we are done with each other. If you appear before me again, don't worry about my ruthlessness!"
After saying that, Li Qingluo didn't give Liu Suier any more chances and left quickly.
Wang quickly picked up the hundred-liang silver note on the ground, and a look of joy appeared on her face.
"That's great. At least I got a hundred taels. Your father and grandfather won't blame me when I go back."
"Sui'er, look at how generous your sister Cao'er is now. She spends a hundred taels at once, a hundred taels!!"
"If we go back to the countryside, won't we have enough food and drink for the rest of our lives?"
Liu Suier was so angry that she stamped her feet and yelled, "Mother! Have you been blinded by greed? You obviously miss my sister so much, why are you doing this?!"
"Do you know that my sister is the one who can't tolerate any sand in her eyes? Now that you've betrayed her with me, what should I do?!"
"You are so selfish, no wonder you gave birth to a bad seed like Liu Qingzhu!"
Despite being scolded so harshly by her own daughter, Wang raised her head as if she hadn't heard anything, her face full of tears.
"Sui'er, if your father and the others can listen to me, we can go back to the countryside... Cao'er will not be disturbed anymore, right?"
Sui'er froze instantly.
"Mother?"
Wang cried and smiled bitterly: "Mother knows, it's our Liu family who has wronged her... Mother has known it for a long time and regretted it a long time ago. But I... But what can I do?"
"If Mom doesn't do this or say this, your dad and grandpa will beat me!"
Wang got up and said, "Sui'er, let's go back? Let's go back to our mountain and live a simple life."
"We can definitely start over. Our family will have a chance to live in harmony and as human beings..."
"Don't bother the grass anymore, and don't bother the pearls anymore!"
Sui'er was dazed: "Mother, it's too late... My life has been completely ruined by our Liu family..."
As soon as Li Qingluo left the Zhenxiu Restaurant through the back door, the servants of the General's Mansion came looking for him.
"Search! The general said that the thief in this mansion must be found today!"
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