Chapter 69: Put your mother in a deadly situation!

This servant thanks the young lady for her great kindness!

Lou Shi pulled Li Qinghuan to kowtow together, and Li Qingluo hurried forward to stop them.

Auntie, you don't need to do this! Moreover, Huan Jieer is my younger sister; how could I accept her kowtow? Auntie, I really don't want to shorten my life—please spare me!

Only then did Lou Shi push Li Qinghuan up first.

But she herself still gave Li Qingluo a sincere, solid kowtow.

Miss, if you are the one teaching Huan'er, this servant would naturally be willing ten thousand times over! Moreover, this way I can often see Huan'er—why would I not do it?

Lou Shi showed a smile; it was clear she was genuinely happy.

Looking again at Li Qinghuan, she blinked her eyes, timidly gazing at Li Qingluo.

These past few days, she has been frightened out of her wits.

Her eyes lost some innocence and naivety, gaining much fear and timidity.

Li Qingluo suddenly seemed to see her past self……

She shook her head and pulled Li Qinghuan over.

Is this really her blood-related younger sister?

In this world, she now has one more relative.

She is such a pretty little girl, quite interesting.

Li Qingluo tapped her little head, 'Don't be afraid. You'll still go back and live with your aunt, but you just need to come here each day at the set time to report to Elder Sister; Elder Sister will teach you a few things—are you willing?'

Upon hearing this, Lou Shi's eyes, already tinged with joy, brightened even more.

Miss, you… you really don't want Huan'er to come here to keep you company?

Li Qingluo waved her hand, 'Never mind. I really dislike trouble, so you just bring her yourself; I'll see her each day, and Father likely won't say anything for now.'

Lou Shi lowered her head with red eyes, 'I, your servant, truly cannot repay your kindness… Miss, since it's so, let this servant tell you another secret!'

Saying this, Lou Shi straightened her body, looking around with a face full of tension.

Li Qingluo understood the meaning, gave Que'er a glance, and soon the room was cleared, leaving only the two of them.

Lou Shi leaned in and whispered, 'Miss, actually the Li family originally had more than just these few children born.'

Li Qingluo didn't understand Lou Shi's words.

Lou Shi then continued, 'Aunt Zheng actually gave birth to twins! Besides the daughter raised to age four, there was also a son who, upon birth, was secretly thrown by the mistress into the lake in our garden!'

Poor child hadn't even cried out before drowning to death!

Coincidentally, I passed by the fake mountain that night, so I truly saw it—this is absolutely true!

Moreover, the midwife who delivered Aunt Zheng back then was exactly the Liu family midwife who delivered you, Miss.

Li Qingluo gripped the armrest with one hand, nearly bending it out of shape.

Is it really true that my own mother did all this?

To call her stupid, she actually came up with a poisonous plot to kill the concubine's son!

Lou Shi: 'Actually, given the mistress's nature, it really doesn't seem like her… but with the Qu family behind her, nothing is impossible.'

Li Qingluo asked again: 'And my father—does he know about this?'

Lou Shi hurriedly shook her head and waved her hands, her face as white as snow: 'Sir naturally doesn't know. Otherwise, how could he easily let this matter drop? In fact, perhaps Aunt Zheng herself didn't even know she had given birth to twins back then!'

After that child drowned, I that night was so frightened my soul almost flew away. At midnight, I really felt uneasy, wanting to go look again, but I actually saw them fish the corpse out again and then bury it in the garden……

Too vicious!

Li Qingluo hearing this almost wanted to vomit!

This family, these people, are all too disgusting!

She made Lou Shi swear not to tell anyone, but she herself went to Jingci Tang and told Pei Lao Furen every detail of this matter.

Pei Lao Furen naturally flew into a great rage.

These are all her descendants' bloodline, whether legitimate or concubine-born, all living lives—how could she not feel heartbroken?

This Qu Shi, and the Qu family—I will not spare them!

Zhang Mama investigated and found that Qu Shi's contacts with her natal family were indeed close, and she often ran back to the Qu family every few days to pass messages for Qu Shi.

The people behind Qu Shi might indeed be the Qu family.

However, Pei Lao Furen still had some doubts: what benefit would the Qu family gain from doing this?

After all, no matter how far their reach, the Jiangjun Fu could never change its surname to Qu!

Li Qingluo advised Pei Lao Furen: 'Grandmother, don't be angry. This matter must certainly be exposed, but the granddaughter wants to pick a good opportunity; this time the granddaughter will first seek your permission, and please give Luo'er a chance.'

Pei Lao Furen sighed: 'Luo'er, this is family shame; once it gets out, not only will the entire Jiangjun Fu lose face, but it might even put your mother in a deadly situation—have you thought it through?'

Li Qingluo: 'Grandmother, Luo'er will control this matter, so it won't become public knowledge. However, whatever consequences arise from Mother's actions, she deserves them.'

Pei Lao Furen looked at Li Qingluo with pity: 'That Liu midwife back then swapped your and Li Qingzhu's identities; I said your mother clearly knew the truth, yet she didn't pursue responsibility, instead she pardoned them, letting them live well—turns out she had this leverage in their hands.'

Your father is also foolish, being played by a poisonous woman like Qu Shi all these years, not knowing how many children she has killed.

Ah, the Li family—marrying the wrong mistress, destroying its own foundation like a self-destructed Great Wall!

Li Qingluo also shook her head, comforted Pei Lao Furen for a while, then returned to Hongfenguan.

After a few more days, Li Qingluo arranged for Liu Sui'er to enter the mansion.

She said as an excuse that her Hongfenguan needed to buy a few more maidservants.

Originally, the Spring Presence Hall said they would send a few over.

But Li Qingluo refused them all.

She naturally didn't want to get involved with the Spring Presence Hall; although there were plenty of choices at Grandmother's place, Li Qingluo's main goal was to let Liu Sui'er enter the mansion as a maid.

Sure enough, the broker brought a group of Liu Sui'er's servants into the mansion.

Just on the way to Hongfenguan, Liu Sui'er was seen by many people.

She didn't deliberately dress up today, so she only resembled Li Qingzhu by about fifty to sixty percent.

But just that fifty to sixty percent was already enough to throw the entire Jiangjun Fu into astonished chaos!

This news naturally also quickly reached Spring Residence Hall and Lancang Courtyard.

Li Kechuan was carried out of his room today, lying under the banyan tree in the courtyard, basking in the sun and watching falling leaves, when he heard someone say that today Hongfenguan was selecting maidservants, and a maid who looked extremely like the eldest daughter had arrived; his eyes flickered.

Looks like Zhu'er?

How much alike could they be?

He didn't want to care, but thinking about it, if she truly resembled Zhu'er yet ended up in Li Qingluo's lowly maid's hands and would be ordered around… a fire welled up in his heart.

"Someone! Go intercept those slaves!"

Li Qingluo had long known she would definitely not wait for Liu Sui'er today.

Sure enough, Que'er quickly came to tell her: "Miss, they really intercepted you to Lancang Courtyard! You truly have foresight!"