Chapter 349 If soft tactics don’t work, use hard tactics!
Seeing Shen Xinrou and her group disappearing into the distance, Li Xiangru, who was stopped by the secret guards, hurriedly put the hard-earned silver ingot and the few copper coins in the broken bowl into her arms, for fear that they would be robbed!
She vaguely felt that someone was following her secretly. She looked around vigilantly as she walked, and then hurriedly turned into a quiet and deserted alley.
Bang!
Unexpectedly, a dark shadow suddenly jumped out from a dilapidated shack not far away, rushed to her, and kicked her hard in the waist!
"Ah!" Li Xiangru screamed in pain and fell heavily to the ground.
She was in so much pain that she couldn't get up for a long time, but she didn't seem surprised by the sudden violence, and she seemed to have become accustomed to it!
"You came back so late, did you have an affair outside?!" Li Heng's eyes were red, and he stared at the woman struggling on the ground with a ferocious look, as if he had a deep hatred for her.
Without waiting for Li Xiangru to get up, he gritted his teeth and stepped on her chilblained hand.
"You've pissed off my parents to death! You've even killed my son! All the money in the family, including our ancestral property, has been lost..."
"It's all your fault for not being careful enough!"
He became more and more angry as he spoke, and stepped on Li Xiangru's hand and foot, crushing it again and again.
“Ah~”
“It hurts! It hurts!!”
"You still feel the pain? You still have the nerve to cry out in pain??"
"You are a jinx! A jinx!"
Li Heng cursed more and more hatefully, his spit almost splashing on Li Xiangru's face, "Don't think you don't have to atone for your sins just because you were kicked out of the house! You owe me, Li Heng, your whole life! As long as you're not dead, you have to support me!"
In the dark, Shen Xinrou couldn't bear to watch any longer. She frowned and was about to step forward when she saw Li Xiangru gently patting Li Heng's leg...
She... isn't she angry or aggrieved?
Shen Xinrou slowly retracted the foot she had just taken.
Li Heng lifted his foot and let go of Li Xiangru. He did not even help her up. He just put his hands on his waist and looked down at her condescendingly.
Li Xiangru was not angry with him. She glanced at her injured hand, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and the cold sweat from her forehead with her other hand, and struggled to stand up.
Then he took out the silver ingot in his arms and all the copper coins in his pocket and stuffed them into Li Heng's hands, "I saw Shen Xinrou today..."
Li Heng was busy weighing the silver in his hand and was a little slow to react.
However, a woman with tattered clothes and messy hair suddenly bent down and came out from the shack that was emitting a dim light.
Shen Xinrou looked closely and found that it was Li Heng’s first wife Zhu!
So after the Li family fell on hard times, no one came to their aid, and they have been hiding here trying to survive! ?
Zhu walked quickly towards Li Xiangru, came forward and helped her sit down on the broken wooden block at the entrance of the shack.
"Aunt, are those rumors outside true?"
“Is Shen Xinrou really the grandmother of Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess?”
"Did the Shen family really go to the palace to attend Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess' birthday banquet a few days ago?"
She held Li Xiangru's arm intimately, with a gleam in her eyes.
Li Heng put the silver in his pocket and hurried over.
The three of them sat together, chatting with each other, as if the unpleasantness that had just happened had never happened.
Little Tang Bao in the dark was stunned...
"So this money came from her?" Li Heng reacted and glanced at Li Xiangru. "Chen Xinrou has always been soft-hearted... Didn't you take the opportunity to beg her?"
"Why didn't you beg me? I've said everything I could, good or bad, but now her heart is as hard as iron, and she won't show me any mercy!"
"She was surrounded by a ton of secret guards, and I couldn't even get close to her! I had no other choice but to come back quickly..."
"Hey," Zhu's eyes darkened as she interrupted sinisterly, "Since soft tactics don't work... let's use force!"
"What's the hard way?"
"Catch her in adultery!"
Seeing the brother and sister looking at her at the same time, Zhu lowered her voice slightly and said, "The royal family values reputation the most. As long as we can get something that can prove Shen Xinrou's wrong..."
"Unless she doesn't want her daughter and Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess to recognize her, otherwise, she will have to obediently worship us as her ancestors!"
Li Heng nodded repeatedly upon hearing this: "This is a great idea! This way, not only will we not have to suffer here anymore, but we will also enjoy endless wealth and glory in the future!"
Li Xiangru narrowed her eyes slightly and remained silent...
In the dark, Shen Xinrou swallowed nervously and subconsciously stretched her neck forward, trying to hear more clearly.
As long as... after all, she gave birth to her, and as long as Li Xiangru doesn't help others to harm her, she will let her spend her old age in peace and take care of her until the end of her life.
Shen Xinrou clenched her fists nervously, she still had a last glimmer of hope and fantasy about maternal love.
But Li Xiangru said firmly: "Don't spend this money today carelessly. Save it for booking a room at the inn later."
"Ah Heng, start looking for a potential mistress from now on. Once everything is ready, I will be responsible for tricking that ungrateful person into joining the scheme."
Bang!
The broken baskets piled up at the entrance of the alley were suddenly kicked over by someone and rolled all over the place.
The torch suddenly lit up, instantly illuminating the entire dark alley as if it were daytime.
Li Xiangru and the other two were shocked by the sudden situation. They screamed "Ah" and hugged each other in panic.
In the flickering firelight, they immediately saw Shen Xinrou standing at the front of the crowd.
The traces of tears on her face were still there, but her eyes were cold enough to freeze ice, as if she wanted to eat them all alive!
Li Xiangru's face turned pale, and her lips trembled: "I...Xinrou, listen to my explanation...I was forced..."
“That’s enough!”
It was the first time that Li Heng saw Shen Xinrou get angry.
He had never been close to his niece. Looking at the sea of guards before him, he knew the situation was hopeless. He suddenly pushed Li Xiangru forward and said, "It's all her fault! It was all her idea!"
Li Xiangru was pushed unexpectedly, and she staggered and tripped over her left foot as she rushed out. Her head hit the protruding bricks in the corner of the wall, and she fell to the ground immediately.
Little Tangbao took two steps forward and stood in front of the crowd. His eyes swept across Li Xiangru's soul which had just left her body, but his young face was filled with a solemn and murderous look.
Her cold gaze swept over Li Heng and Zhu, and she immediately shouted, "Murder must be punished by death, justice is clear... Escort the murderer Li Heng to Shengtian Mansion and punish him severely!"
boom!
Li Heng collapsed to the ground, his face ashen.
Zhu was crying and wailing, terrified. "It's unfair, it's unfair! Please spare me! We were bewitched... We were wrong... Xinrou! Please spare your uncle, okay?!"
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