The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 748: Chapter 746: Unfavorable
Chapter 748: Disadvantage
Hearing his father’s answer, Li Mingrui finally breathed a sigh of relief. He slowly loosened the housekeeper’s collar and fainted from the pain.
“Quick! Carry the young master in! Quick!” Li Mao’s face changed drastically.
Seeing his son being carried by servants hurriedly into the yard, Li Mao’s face was extremely gloomy. He tightened his hands behind his back and whispered in the housekeeper’s ear: “Go to Jiuchuan Hutong to find the old man and send him to the Princess Zhenguo’s mansion immediately. If the Princess Zhenguo really doesn’t want to kill the old man…”
Li Mao paused, then spoke in a very low voice: “Wait until the old man returns to Jiuchuan Hutong, and put something in the medicine to end it.”
The housekeeper was quite surprised: “But…will the young master be angry when he wakes up?”
Li Mao narrowed his eyes, and a chill in his eyes could be seen: “Mingrui is the eldest son of my Li family, he cannot have any weaknesses!”
Originally, Li Mao only thought that the old man had saved the lives of his wife and son, and had forgotten his past and could not even find his own home, so it was not impossible for the Li family to provide for the old man in his old age.
But now, the old man asked his decisive son to protect him so much!
Li Mao was not stupid and he understood his son. Li Mingrui probably injured himself with a dagger in front of Princess Zhenguo in order to protect the old man.
Li Mao could never tolerate the existence of someone who could influence Li Mingrui in this way!
Li Mingrui is the future of the Li family.
“But, Prime Minister, if I do this… I’m afraid that the young master will vent his anger on me when he wakes up!” The housekeeper was still very afraid of Li Mingrui in his heart. Although this young master of his looked gentle as jade, he was a cruel and ruthless person at heart.
“Just put the blame on Princess Zhenguo!” Li Mao turned to look at the housekeeper, “In this way… Mingrui will naturally hate Princess Zhenguo, and after this incident, Mingrui will definitely understand that Princess Zhenguo’s methods are nothing short of supernatural. He will no longer look down on Princess Zhenguo just because she is a woman. He will use his true abilities to deal with it carefully. This may not be a bad thing for our Li Mansion!”
When the housekeeper heard what Li Mao said, he nodded in agreement and then took people to Du’s house in Jiuchuan Hutong to find the old man.
Just as Li Mingrui expected, the old man was indeed at Du’s house, but he was not injured. He was just trembling all over and covering his head, his face pale, and some strange or familiar images kept flooding into his mind.
A cold-faced little girl was practicing sword and short knife in the snow. She was so cold that her face turned blue, but she didn’t give up. A tall and smiling young man handed the hot soup to the little girl, raised his hand to brush the snow off the little girl’s head, and said, “Don’t practice after drinking the soup! Go back to the house to rest and warm yourself by the fire!”
The little girl wiped the soup from the corner of her mouth with her sleeve, her eyes firm, “Master said you are not allowed to rest if you don’t practice for two hours.”
“Master always speaks tough but is soft-hearted. Master asked me to bring this broth.”
Hearing this, the little girl looked in his direction with her clear eyes.
The old man pressed his head tightly, thinking of the little girl who saw his face today and called him master… and who almost had her arm cut off by him. The look in her eyes was exactly the same as the little girl in his memory.
Then… who is that young man?
The more the old man thought about it, the more his head hurt. The more it hurt, the more he wanted to think about it, and it felt like his head was about to explode.
Suddenly, the old man’s ears moved. He heard a large group of people coming towards Jiuchuan Hutong. The old man stood up and put his hands on his waist, only to find that his dagger was missing.
The old man did not hide. He moved his ears, closed his eyes and listened carefully to the footsteps. One of the footsteps he had heard before. It seemed to be the housekeeper of the Li Mansion who came to the Du residence to ask him to protect Li Mingrui.
The old man then let down his guard, walked to the door, opened it, and waited outside for the steward of the Left Prime Minister’s Mansion.
Soon, the Li family’s men stopped at the gate of the Du residence. The old man endured the headache and looked at the Li family’s housekeeper who was walking towards him quickly.
Seeing the housekeeper of the Li Mansion bowing to him, the old man nodded slightly: “What’s the matter?”
“The eldest son has returned home and has ordered… to take me to the Princess Zhenguo’s residence to meet the Princess Zhenguo. Don’t worry… The eldest son injured himself with a dagger and begged the Princess Zhenguo not to hurt me at all. Don’t worry, just follow me.”
The housekeeper of the Li Mansion deliberately emphasized that Li Mingrui hurt himself for pleading for the old man. As expected, he saw the old man’s eyes trembling. The housekeeper of the Li Mansion then stepped aside and asked the old man to get on the carriage: “Please, old man!”
“Young Master…how badly are you injured?” the old man asked.
The housekeeper of the Li Mansion did not raise his head, but lowered his eyes and said, “The injury is serious. If this matter is resolved as soon as possible… the eldest master can rest assured to recover from his injury! The old man should not delay, please…”
The old man frowned, and after thinking for a while, he got on the carriage brought by the housekeeper of the Li Mansion and went to the Princess Zhenguo’s Mansion.
When Shen Qingzhu heard that the Li family had sent the old man here, he was so shocked that he could not sit still and ran straight to Qinghui Courtyard.
Zhenming saw Shen Qingzhu trotting into Qinghui Courtyard, and smiled as he opened the curtain for Shen Qingzhu: “The young lady is changing her clothes…”
Shen Qingzhu nodded. When she entered the room, she saw Bai Qingyan had already put on a fox fur coat. She took the silver hollow bamboo gentleman’s hand warmer from Zhenguang’s hand. Shen Qingzhu clasped his fists and saluted: “Young lady!”
“I know you are anxious, let’s go!” Bai Qingyan gathered his cloak and stepped out of the upper room of Qinghui Courtyard. His steps were steady and he didn’t look like a weak person at all.
Watching Bai Qingyan sitting on the sedan chair, Shen Qingzhu followed beside Bai Qingyan and reminded himself not to show any inappropriate expression while the people in Li’s mansion were still there.
However, when the master whom he had not seen for so many years came back to life, Shen Qingzhu’s emotions were surging like a raging sea.
Seeing that the servants carrying the sedan chair were not going to the front hall, but in the opposite direction, Shen Qingzhu was quite surprised: “Isn’t this the way to the front hall?”
“I have asked someone to invite your master to my father’s study.” Bai Qingyan lowered his eyes and looked at Shen Qingzhu who was following the sedan chair, “to prevent you from getting emotionally unstable in the front hall and revealing your flaws in front of the people in Li Mansion! If your master doesn’t want to stay in Bai Mansion and wants to go back, it will be disadvantageous to your master.”
Furthermore, although Bai Qingyan had only met Shen Qingzhu’s master Shen Baizhong once, and even… Shen Baizhong had never lived in the capital city, but since he was someone his father trusted, he might have been to his father’s study. If Shen Baizhong went there… perhaps he could remember something.
“Miss, you are very considerate.” Shen Qingzhu was full of gratitude.
Shen Baizhong followed the Bai family’s entourage all the way to Baiqishan’s study, walked through the winding corridor with red pillars and carved rafters, and looked at the pavilions and terraces on both sides of the bluestone floor road.
In the southeast corner on the right, there is an octagonal pavilion in the middle of the slightly frozen dark green lake, with eaves and rafters flying, and a copper bell swaying gently in the wind, outlined by the setting sun…
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