Mrs. Pei seemed to have heard wrongly.
"What did you say--?"
She couldn't help but laugh at Li Qingluo's fantastic idea.
"You want me to go back to the Li family with you? Girl, do you know that I've been living in seclusion in Qingsong Temple for thirty years? I haven't even set foot in the troubles of this world for a long time!"
Li Qingluo looked up at her. "Grandmother, are you truly resigned to this? Back then, because of a simple trick played by Mrs. Deng, you were rejected by your son, treated coldly by your husband, and betrayed by the entire Li family."
"You fought on the battlefield, saved your husband and killed the enemy, and all the fame, honor, glory, gold, silver and treasure you gained were given to others to enjoy."
"And you, because of a momentary temper, because you disdain and are tired of fighting, because you see through the secular world and the blood ties of family, and even the love between husband and wife, you are willing to leave, confining yourself to this small world of grievance, and thus live out your life in a bleak and cold way. But why?"
"It should have been yours, why did you let someone else take it?"
"Even if you don't want it, it's still yours. The glory of the Li family, the power of the Li family, everything in the Li family, the power of life and death, should all be controlled by you."
"Even if Grandma doesn't want it, you can't let someone you don't like take it and enjoy it. Will Grandma really feel happy if she does that?"
Li Qingluo looked at Madam Pei sincerely.
Madam Pei did not say anything, but just looked back at Li Qingluo quietly.
Li Qingluo knew that he had crossed the line. Perhaps his grandmother was extremely regretful at this moment for bringing him back from the valley to find someone who could interfere in her life.
But this is my only chance!
If she fails to impress her grandmother, she will still be in a passive situation. When she returns to the Li family, she will still have no backing, no power and no money, and will be abused no matter what she does.
Mrs. Pei didn't say anything, so Li Qingluo continued.
"Grandma, I know I've overstepped the bounds. But I have nowhere else to turn, so I came to disturb you. I have no one to rely on, and if I return to the Li family, I will definitely not be welcomed."
Madam Pei frowned slightly, then asked, "You and your brother have some misunderstandings, but how dare you say such things before you've even met your biological parents?"
Li Qingluo smiled bitterly and said, "Grandma, although I grew up in the mountains and have never seen the world, I understand everything in my heart. I heard that my father and mother adopted the Liu family's biological daughter."
"Although the Li family claimed that they gave birth to twin girls, and that I was raised in Jiangnan due to my frail health, and only returned to Beijing now that I'm feeling better, this shows that my father and mother didn't vent their anger on the Liu family or even Li Qingzhu. They were even afraid that she would be harmed by rumors, so they gave her a respectable background and made her the true eldest daughter of the Li family."
"My own brother is just like that too. He treats me like a fugitive slave even before he's even met me. What else can I expect?"
"They love Li Qingzhu so dearly, how can I not feel alienated from them when I return?"
"When faced with injustice, Grandma, do you think they will favor the daughter they raised and loved for sixteen years, or me, a daughter who came back halfway and has no feelings for them at all?"
"Grandma, they don't seem to value blood ties that much. Otherwise, they wouldn't have treated you like this back then."
"For them, only those who gain their sincerity can perhaps gain a foothold in the Li family. And how rare is their sincerity? It is not something that can be achieved day in and day out."
Mrs. Pei's expression relaxed.
yes.
She had never received her son's true love back then, and perhaps she had received her husband's true love, but wasn't it thrown away in the end?
This made her think of her own situation back then.
But she didn't say anything in the end. She just asked Li Qingluo to go down first while she thought about the matter.
After Li Qingluo left, Mrs. Pei called over Nanny Zhang.
"She has such a clear understanding of the situation in the General's Mansion. Did you tell her?"
Aunt Zhang: "I did mention this to the young lady... Madam, what's wrong? The young lady is completely frightened, right? What the young master did is indeed outrageous..."
Madam Pei stared at the old slave who had followed her for decades, sighed and shook her head.
"You are such a fool! You have wasted all these years. What have you become of being deceived by that girl?"
What honest and simple, innocent, she thought the girl was very smart!
However, she didn't pretend in front of him anymore, and the words she confessed to him were more like surrender.
"Mammy, tell me...what would happen if I went back to the Jinling General's Mansion now?"
Aunt Zhang opened her mouth in astonishment.
Mrs. Pei grinned when she saw this.
Haha, that’s interesting.
The second day.
Li Qingluo didn't know what decision Mrs. Pei would make, so she felt a little anxious.
After patiently writing for an hour, she went to wander around the vegetable garden again.
The Taoists are digging sweet potatoes today.
Li Qingluo went over to help, and his hands were covered with mud.
The Taoists laughed at her, but they also liked the fact that she was so casual and didn't mind doing dirty work.
After a while, Li Qingluo opened up and naturally turned the conversation to the nobleman in the mountain behind Cangsong.
Ling Fengzi glared at her: "Hush! I advise you not to ask about this noble man's kindness anymore. Otherwise, your life will be in danger."
Ling Fengzi made a gesture of wiping his neck.
Li Qingluo quickly raised his arms to protect himself.
Be it Aunt Zhang or these Taoists, they all seemed to be very secretive about the person in the mountain behind the pines.
It seems that it is not something I can find out by myself.
Li Qingluo is a sensible person and knows her own weight. She is just a small ant now, so she knows the danger and doesn't want to touch it again.
She didn't mention it anymore, and picked up a bunch of sweet potatoes in her hand and said with a smile: "Masters, do you want to have a sweet potato feast?"
When Li Qingluo was seven years old, she was sold to a wealthy family in a village at the foot of the mountain and worked as a kitchen helper for two years.
Those were the two most relaxing years she had ever spent in the countryside.
Later, the family of the nobleman got into trouble, and the kind-hearted old lady released all the servants before the government officials came to the door. Only then was Li Qingluo dragged back by the "father" of the Liu family.
She has always had some talent in cooking and has seen many cooking methods in the kitchen, so she also knows how to make sweet potatoes delicious.
After a while, she made several sweet potato dishes in the kitchen.
Fried sweet potatoes, baked sweet potatoes, boiled sweet potatoes in syrup, steamed sweet potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes fried with bacon, sweet potato soup...
Each dish left Ling Fengzi and the others stunned.
Li Qingluo took a little from each of them and delivered it to Cuizhuyuan personally, and left the rest to the Taoists.
That night, the small courtyard behind the Cangsong Mountain also received several plates of fresh dishes.
The Taoist priest who delivered the food handed the basket into the courtyard. He shouldn't have looked around, but he accidentally glanced at the red pools and cold corpses on the ground.
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