Li Yong didn't understand why he said that, and his face was full of doubt. Lu Baichuan said, "General Li is usually busy with important military affairs, so he probably doesn't have time to manage the trivial matters of the household, right?"
"Huh? The inner quarters?"
Li Yong belatedly realized that perhaps his family members had offended someone outside, and hurriedly apologized to Lu Baichuan: "Sir, has my family member offended you? I will go back and bring them to you immediately, and you may punish them as you see fit!"
Having spent time together, Li Yong knew that Lu Baichuan was never one to use his position for personal gain. For him to say such things to him personally today, he must be extremely angry. If his family had offended Lu Baichuan, he was worried that he might be punished at any time.
"General Li, you should go back and ask your wife about this matter."
Li Yong: !!! It really was that fat bastard who caused me trouble!
He had long known that his fat wife liked to cause trouble outside, but fortunately she knew her limits and never messed with people she couldn't afford to offend. She only bullied the families of people whose official positions were not as high as his. Even if those people were unhappy, they didn't dare to say anything, so they generally wouldn't cause him any trouble. Therefore, he turned a blind eye to it.
But what happened this time? How did that fat woman offend her boss?
No wonder when I went back for dinner, the mother and daughter looked at me hesitantly, unable to say a word for a long time.
At the time, he thought the mother and daughter wanted to buy something again, but he didn't expect them to have caused trouble!
The more I think about it, the angrier I get. Such a big thing was kept from him, leaving him completely confused and being called in for a lecture!
"Yes, Your Excellency, I will go back and find out the truth immediately, and I will certainly give you an explanation!"
After saying that, he hurried home, and Lu Baichuan also got up and left to deal with important matters.
Qin Jian followed along, which was a good opportunity to investigate the cases of those Taoist priests.
At this moment, in the Li family, Mrs. Li and her daughter sat nervously, still struggling with whether or not to tell Li Yong about this.
Lu Baichuan is Li Yong's superior. Now that he has offended Lu Baichuan, what will happen to Li Yong if he is targeted in the army?
"Mother, what should we do now? We can't keep this a secret forever. Father will find out sooner or later. If we don't tell him now, he'll be even angrier if he hears about it from somewhere else."
Li Yuan looked at her mother nervously, twisting her handkerchief anxiously. She dared not even think about what her father would do if he found out about this.
When she was little, she was terrified to see her brothers being beaten.
Just then, Li Yong returned, his face full of anger, and Li Yuan instinctively hid behind her mother.
"You still have the nerve to hide! Tell me what you and your daughter have been doing today?"
He initially thought only his wife was at fault, but when he returned and saw his daughter's terrible state, he knew things were not so simple.
"No... I didn't do anything..."
Li Yuan looked at her mother with extreme guilt, stammering as she spoke, her face clearly showing her unease.
Li Yong was too lazy to talk to her, and directly said to the maid next to him, "Tell me, if you dare to hide anything, I'll sell you to a brothel!"
The maid was so frightened that she knelt down and stammered out the whole story.
Upon hearing that it was his two idiots who had provoked the family from the beginning, he felt an itch to teach them a lesson.
"Are you two out of your minds? You want to bully everyone you see? Do you think this is a cricket fight or a cockfight? Huh? Have you been living too comfortably in Jingzhou City? Don't you know how much blood I shed to get to this position?"
"Do you know who Lu Baichuan is? He made great contributions in Nantai before. If they hadn't handled things well in Nantai, do you think you would still be able to be fighting cocks in Jingzhou? If I had died on the battlefield, what good life would you two have?"
"He's a third-rank commander right now. If our prince didn't lack the authority to promote him, he might be a first-rank general. I'm just a fifth-rank minor general. I'm nothing in front of him. Who do you think you are, daring to provoke his wife like this?"
He was an insider and knew Lu Baichuan's identity better. He admired Lu Baichuan and Qin Jian from the bottom of his heart and was genuinely worshipful. He was too busy trying to curry favor with them, but these two stupid women had offended them. Wasn't this ruining his future?
Thinking about it this way, he became even angrier and shouted to the servants, "Guards, bring out the family law! Today I will teach this unfilial daughter a lesson for her arrogance!"
Finally, what Li Yuan feared came to pass.
Li Yong thought to himself that he couldn't lay a hand on the fat old woman, but disciplining his daughter would be fine. If his daughter wasn't disciplined, she would become completely lawless.
When Li Yuan heard that she would be punished according to family rules, images of her brothers being beaten flashed through her mind. Her blood rushed to her head, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.
"Yuan'er! Yuan'er! Don't scare your mother!"
Madam Li was already quite worried, and now seeing her daughter like this, she frantically shouted for a doctor, then yelled at Li Yong, "Why are you scaring the child like this? It was indeed my fault, and I was just thinking about how to explain it to you. Besides, I'm not the only one who offended Madam Lu; Madam Qian is there to back me up! I'll arrange to go to the Lu family with Madam Qian tomorrow to apologize, isn't that enough?"
"What did you say? Mrs. Qian is making a fool of herself along with you?"
Li Yong could hardly believe his ears. He had always thought that Madam Qin was smarter than his own fat wife, but he never expected that the two of them would run into each other.
It's true what they say, you become like the company you keep!
"What do you mean by following me in making a fool of myself? She's never been a good person to begin with! Today she wanted to use me to make things difficult for Madam Lu, but she ended up being the one who suffered the most. Yuan'er and I are the ones who fared the best..."
As she spoke, she became noticeably less confident, but seeing her daughter slowly waking up, she regained her courage.
"Mother, please tell Father not to hit his daughter. I know I was wrong, I will never do it again..."
After waking up, Li Yuan still dared not look Li Yong in the eye. She leaned against Madam Li's chest, tears streaming down her face, looking aggrieved.
When Li Yong saw his daughter faint from fright, he felt a pang of sympathy. Now, seeing her so aggrieved, he immediately abandoned any thought of disciplining her. He waved his hand and said, "Tomorrow, go with your mother to apologize to Madam Lu. If Madam Lu is willing to forgive you, I won't hold it against you. Otherwise, I'll send you both to the countryside! You're always causing me trouble. When I have some free time, I'll definitely teach you a lesson!"
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