I traveled through those days when I was the Dragon King

Chapter 16 Family
"They boiled poison."

The old man said calmly, Wang Long broke out in a cold sweat.

He never expected that things would develop like this. His most trusted father-in-law, who seemed upright and kind, actually knew that others were poisoning his mother and did not stop him.

Maybe he was involved in this matter.

The more Wang Long thought about it, the more frightened he became. The father-in-law looked very strange at his restless appearance: "What's wrong with you?"

The moment he asked the question, the father-in-law figured it out, he laughed and said, "You won't..."

He looked around and his voice was a little louder: "You don't think we really poisoned my mother, do you?" He lowered his voice.

Wang Long couldn't figure it out, things were different from what he thought?
But the father-in-law himself said that what was boiled was poison.

The father-in-law knew that he had confused Wang Long, so he quickly explained: "My mother's disease is quite special. The doctor said that she has a heart disease. The heart belongs to fire. Her body is too angry and has formed fire poison."

"Ordinary treatment doesn't work for fire poison, so the doctor decided to fight poison with poison. The medicines he prescribed were all cold poisons. Only in this way can we suppress my mother's poison."

"That's why I said it was poison."

Wang Long breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, he was terrified just now.

"No!" He suddenly thought of a detail, and his relaxed mood became tense again: "When I watched them make the medicine, I kept whispering and laughing, it didn't look like a good deed."

"Is that right?"

Wang Long nodded.

The old man thought for a while: "Why don't I ask them."

"it's here?"

"Ah."

"Is this not good?" Wang Long was a little worried.

"It's okay, just leave it to me."

The old man saw Li Qiang and Huang Tingting, the couple were chatting with others after dinner.

"Aqiang, Tingting, come here." The old man waved to them.

"Second Uncle, Wang Long, what's the matter?" The couple came over.

"sit."

After the two of them sat down, the father-in-law spoke up: "You guys made medicine for grandma just now, did you hide something from me?"

Wang Long sat aside and pretended to be calm, but his heart was actually turbulent.

"No?" Li Qiang didn't understand why he asked him that.

"I saw it just now. When you were making medicine for grandma, you whispered and kept smiling. There must be something wrong."

The father-in-law was drinking tea by himself, with a relaxed expression and great movements.

He was putting pressure on the two of them. The more relaxed and calm he was, the more pressure he put on them.

Li Qiang and Huang Tingting's expressions changed slightly, a little uneasy.

Seeing that they didn't speak for a long time, Wang Long wondered whether they were really poisoning the old lady?
Seeing that the time was almost up, the old man put the teacup on the table again: "Tell me, what are you planning?"

The two of them couldn't bear it anymore, and Li Qiang spoke: "Yes...it's Tingting, she's pregnant!"

The father-in-law and Wang Long were stunned at the same time and looked at each other.

Then the old man turned his head and looked at Li Qiang and his wife: "You child, why didn't you say something so important earlier!"

"Didn't you just know this this morning?" Li Qiang said, Huang Tingting blushed and buried her head in Li Qiang's arms in embarrassment.

Li Qiang patted her lightly, the smile on his face was the same as what Wang Long saw outside the kitchen.

"Do your parents know?" the old man asked again.

"They don't know, we haven't told others yet." Li Qiang said, looking at his wife in his arms, his eyes were full of happiness.

Wang Long relaxed and leaned on the sofa. It turned out that this was the case, and the two of them really did. The pregnancy was like a thief.

Fortunately, I told my father-in-law first, otherwise he would expose them in front of everyone like in the novel, then he is probably looking for tofu to kill himself now.

"The two of you are going to be parents, and you are still like ignorant children. When will such an important matter be kept secret?"

"We're going to wait until grandma's birthday is over."

Seeing that the matter was cleared up, the old man asked the two of them to leave. He still had something to say to Wang Long.

"Actually, in a family like ours, the murder of clansmen basically doesn't happen." The old man said to Wang Long: "It's like in TV dramas where relatives intrigue each other and use all kinds of tricks for power. rare."

"Do you know why?"

Wang Long shook his head. The novels and TV dramas he read were about his second brother murdering his elder brother in order to seize power, and his nephew killing his uncle in order to gain power... Various intrigues in the family were fierce.

"The reason is actually very simple. Let me tell you a little bit and you will understand."

"Our Li family is like a country, and other families are countries all over the world. Compare our punishment of you to rebellion."

"In the case of war and rebellion within the country, do you think other countries will not take the opportunity to destroy us?"

"Or we are a pack of wolves, and there are no other weak prey on the grassland, only stronger predators than us."

"If we want to survive on the grassland, we have to be united. If there is a division, we will be easily eaten by those predators."

"It's like this in real life. Every family looks around. Under such circumstances, they fight with each other and weaken the overall strength of the family. Do you think our Li family can survive?"

Wang Long nodded clearly, he understood what the old man meant.

He thought it was true. Nowadays, social competition is extremely fierce. In order to compete for customers, some small supermarkets and small shops will resort to membership cards, buy one get one free, customer festivals, and other means.

What's more, a powerful force like their Li family will only suffer more conspiracies and tricks.

If their Li family does not unite as one, they will soon be divided and devoured by other family forces.

The whole family is gone, what's the point of you still fighting for power?
"Do you think that after murdering grandma and getting the head of the family, you can enjoy the glory and wealth?"

"It's not so easy to be the head of the family. If you won the position of the head of the family, if you are unable to maintain the power of the family, you will soon be defeated by other families."

"So the cohesion and unity of those of us in the family are stronger than that of ordinary families!"

"We are like rowing a boat in a vortex. Only by working together and rowing in one direction can the boat not fall into the vortex to ensure everyone's safety."

"If one person paddles in another direction, the whole boat will be sucked into the vortex and shattered, and no one can escape."

"So you should understand now that we really won't blame you for your gift-giving. We all know that you didn't mean it."

Wang Long nodded heavily, and the burden in his heart was relieved. He learned a lot from the old man's words. He suddenly felt that he was still too young, with too little experience and knowledge.

He didn't understand many simple and obvious things.

"We won't blame you for this, but you still have to do what you should do."

"Come with me, let's apologize to grandma."

Wang Longteng got up and followed behind the old man.

They walked through the hall and came to the private room at the back.

In one of the private rooms, the old lady was chatting with her old friends and girlfriends about the past after dinner. When she saw the two of them walking in, she asked them to go out first.

"Grandma, I'm sorry."

Wang Long apologized sincerely.

"Grandma knows you didn't mean it, it's for grandma's good."

"You are a good boy, grandma has forgiven you long ago, and this matter is over."

"Actually, that's what happened..."

Wang Long told his grandma the ins and outs of the incident. During this period, the elder brother Li Wenhao and the third son Li Wenying came with his children, and they also knew everything.

"So that's the case, you were deceived." Li Wenhao said.

(End of this chapter)