Old Madam Pei smiled coldly. She stared at Qu as if she were staring at a dead person, without any emotion.
"You are not worthy of being Luo'er's mother!"
Mrs. Pei didn't care and had to give her face.
In front of a room full of servants, every word he said touched Qu's heart.
"After she was born, she never drank your milk for a single day! She was never held in your arms once! And she was never loved by you once!"
"You helped the family of the vicious woman who tore you apart from your own flesh and blood raise their child for over a decade, and in the end, you even thanked God for blessing you with such a lovely daughter. But you never considered that even without that vicious woman's original switch, you would still have a lovely and beautiful child like Luo'er!"
"Luo'er could have grown up in the general's mansion, loved by her parents and protected by her brothers, but her identity was swapped. What kind of life would she have had as a bastard in the mountains?"
"At the age of four, I was standing at the stove, cooking for the whole family!"
"In the dead of winter, a little girl dragged a basket bigger than herself to the river to wash clothes. Her hands were covered in frostbite scars. The medicine I had spent so much effort to get still left marks on them!"
"I have to go to collect grass for the pigs and feed the poultry before daybreak, and even after everyone in the family is asleep, I still have to chop wood and fetch water."
"He works in the fields more than any of the men in the Liu family, and is more capable than even animals!"
"What kind of life does she lead? You can't even imagine!"
"She's your and Li Chaojing's biological daughter, your own flesh and blood! Are your hearts really made of iron? Don't you feel any pain at all?"
"This is the life that little bastard Li Qingzhu was meant to live. She's enjoying nothing but luxury in the General's Mansion, not to mention the best food, clothing, and daily necessities. She's replacing Luo'er's life, Luo'er's!"
"You help others raise children, but your children suffer in other people's homes. In the end, you still resent her and hate that she shouldn't have come back!"
"Today, I'm putting this on notice! Li Qingzhu is not dead at all!"
"To tell you the truth, two days after returning home, I discovered the strange fact that she had set herself on fire and faked her death!"
"As for why she did this, go investigate it yourself!"
"If Luo'er can't be found, if she's even slightly injured, I think this entire General's Mansion will no longer exist!"
After saying this, Madam Pei turned around and strode away.
When she turned around and saw Li Kechuan, who had been sitting in a wheelchair for an unknown amount of time, her sharp eyes were instantly filled with sarcasm.
"It is truly unfortunate for the Li family to have a eldest son as arrogant and foolish as you!"
Shaking her head, Madam Pei didn't even look at anyone else and led everyone back to Jingci Hall.
When Lou, Huan Jie'er and Cui'er saw this scene, they hurriedly followed.
Li Kechuan's face turned paler and paler.
He clenched his fists, which were trembling slightly.
But the only question he asked was, "Mother, is what Grandma said true?"
Qu's expression was numb and dazed, and she didn't even know what he was asking.
"Luo'er was kidnapped... Zhu'er is not dead?"
Li Kechuan's chest heaved violently. "If Li Qingluo really died out there, what's the big deal? What grandma said, is it really heartbreaking for mother?"
"Could it be that what grandma said is true?"
"You forgot that the Liu family sent a message to us saying they had never treated Li Qingluo unfairly for a single day!"
Mrs. Qu seemed to have found a straw that allowed her to breathe: "Yes! Didn't their family say that they had never treated her unfairly? So, those things may not be true..."
"She's been kidnapped. We'll just redeem her... It's alright!"
"Someone, go and ask the master to come back! Go quickly!"
Li Kechuan slowly loosened his clenched hands.
He stared at Qu and asked again, "Mother, Grandmother said that Zhu'er's self-immolation was a fake death... This must be true!"
He always believed that he saw Li Qingzhu that day.
Qu also came back to her senses, and a light suddenly lit up in her eyes: "Chuan'er! Mother seems to have really seen Zhu'er today!"
Liu Suier, who was watching this scene quietly from behind, had an endless sneer in her heart.
This mother and son are so heartless.
So what kind of drug did Li Qingzhu give them?
They were so blindly convinced that what the old lady said was true that they didn't believe a single word of what she said about their elder sister's suffering.
But the news that Li Qingzhu was not dead was firmly kept secret.
Then Li Qingzhu is their life, right?
But how could they know that the sufferings that my elder sister endured in their Liu family were only a fraction of what the old lady had said...
Liu Suier couldn't help but shed tears silently on her face.
Sister, I hope you are okay...
After Li Chaojing was called back to his house, he was very angry.
"What on earth is it that requires you to call me back? First it's Mother, and now it's you! Do you know that the person I'm hosting for dinner today is the Second Son of the Cui Family?"
"Minister Cui is going to be promoted again soon. If I don't get closer to them, what if Chuan'er's marriage..."
Mrs. Qu rubbed her forehead tiredly, "It's Luo'er. This girl, somehow she was kidnapped by the Lotus Sect!"
Li Chaojing was stunned.
"What did you say?"
His anger suddenly dissipated, and he immediately came to Qu and glared at her, asking her to explain herself.
Qu took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her eyes: "Husband, this is what happened..."
After Qu finished her sobbing, she naturally cleared herself of all innocence, "I went looking for Zhu'er all day, how could I have known that Luo'er would come to the teahouse to wait for me!"
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