The daughter of the first wife is a black lotus, reborn and remarried to kill

Li Qingqian glanced at Li Zhengkang standing beside her, feeling somewhat dissatisfied, and said, "Father, are you just going to let the mistress of the mansion scold your daughter?"

Unexpectedly, Li Zhengkang stood up, pointed at her nose and shouted, "You still want to clear yourself! Let me ask you, was it you who did what happened between Jiang Lin and that woman?"

Li Qingqian glanced at Li Shuyue with a sneer and shook his head, "What woman? I don't know."

As soon as she finished speaking, Li Shuyue turned around angrily and glared at her fiercely.

"How could you not know? When Changming Tower caught fire yesterday, how come there was suddenly a brave woman trying to put out the fire? I've already asked someone to check it out, and the fire wasn't that big at all. It's obvious that you deliberately sent that woman here to cause trouble for me!"

Li Qingqian found it even more amusing. "Since she was a woman who put out the fire, why would she cause trouble for Fourth Sister? Could it be that Fourth Sister is so dissatisfied with me that she is so angry that someone put out the fire in Changminglou?"

"Don't make such nonsense!" Liu yelled, "Shu Yue told me that you were jealous that she was going to marry into a good family, and you were jealous that you didn't marry as well as her, so you deliberately arranged this to give her future husband a concubine. Your behavior is really disgusting!"

Li Qingqian was slightly surprised at first, then she smiled softly, "What did Madam do wrong today? Why should I be jealous of Shu Yue? Why don't you ask your daughter again, did she really tell you everything about what happened yesterday?"

Naturally, Liu believed in her daughter very much. Just as she was about to encourage her not to be afraid and to stand up and confront Li Qingqian, Li Shuyue lowered her head.

Of course she knew that what happened last night was not what she had told her mother.

Recalling the sweet and affectionate scene between Jiang Lin and Ling Ling last night, and their shameless words that they would support them themselves, Li Shuyue was so angry that she couldn't react at all.

Liu was a little surprised when she saw this. Why did Shu Yue look... so guilty?

Li Zhengkang has been feeling upset recently because of the Beiyuan incident, but he didn't want his two daughters to have conflicts again. At this moment, his tolerance for Li Qingqian has disappeared.

"You are so shameless that you put a concubine in your brother-in-law's room before you even get married. You are so shameless! Come, drag the third girl away and give her twenty strokes of the cane!"

When Liu heard this, she no longer cared about her daughter's feelings.

She pursed her lips and smiled at Li Qingqian like a villain who had succeeded in his mission, secretly thinking that she had paid back all the suffering she had endured at the hands of the other party during this period of time.

Humph, Li Qingqian is still too young. She actually dared to talk back to her father. She will be in trouble soon!

Just before the maid in the courtyard came up to hold Li Qingqian down, she said, "It's not my daughter who is shameless, it's my fourth sister."

Li Zhengkang and Liu were both confused: "Huh?"

Li Shuyue was afraid that she would tell the truth about last night, so she looked at her again, with a threatening look in her eyes.

"Third sister, I don't know how I have offended you. Not only did you want to ruin my marriage, but you also turned the tables and tried to put a bad name on me."

Li Qingqian smiled contemptuously, "Alright, stop acting."

Then he turned around and took the bills handed over by Yun Yi and handed them to Li Zhengkang. "Some time ago, the girl Yu Luo disappeared in the mansion. Fourth sister insisted that it was caused by my poor management. Although Liu's mother was kind and helped me out at that time, Ah Qian feels guilty. How can I not investigate this matter?"

She glanced at Liu and Li Shuyue with a dim gaze, and then said, "If we don't check, we won't know. We'll be shocked. When my people caught up with Yu Luo, she was so scared that she told me everything she knew..."

When he said this, Li Qingqian deliberately dragged out the last syllable and did not continue speaking for the time being.

She carefully observed Liu's expression out of the corner of her eye: fear, panic, and evasive eyes.

Liu swallowed her saliva and kept wondering: Has everything been revealed? Then what about that matter...

No, Yu Luo was still young at that time, and she was only responsible for delivering meals to that woman, so there was no way to get anything out of her.

Thinking of this, Liu tried to calm down.

Li Qingqian took everything in, and had a rough idea in his mind.

Li Zhengkang looked at the lists she handed over, which clearly recorded that after Li Shuyue and Jiang Lin got engaged, they sent him money every half month.

Not only did he pay ten taels of silver every half month, but on the night the engagement was confirmed, he also sent someone to deliver a hundred taels of silver and a deed to a house.

He threw the list in Li Shuyue's face and said, "Look for yourself!"

Li Shuyue took it hurriedly, only then did she see clearly that it was the receipt for the money she gave to Jiang Lin.

No wonder Cui'er said she couldn't find it, it turned out that Yu Luo, that lowly slave, took it away!

I have already told my mother that Yu Luo has betrayed her master, and she kept these things just to surrender to Li Qingqian.

But the mother didn't believe it at that time and even spoke for Li Qingqian, saying that she was the one who released Yu Luo's indenture and it had nothing to do with Li Qingqian.

Look, doesn’t this let the other party succeed?

At this moment, Liu had no intention of noticing her daughter's displeasure. Instead, she snatched the bills and examined them with wide eyes.

Not only the ten taels of silver every half month, Jiang Lin would also ask her for money from time to time.

Today she said she had a headache, tomorrow she said her legs hurt, and later she said her aunt was not feeling well. In short, all the money of Li Shuyue was delivered to her by the Liu family like water, and she then flowed the money into Jiang Lin's house like water.

The house that Jiang Lin owned was bought by Li Shuyue!

Liu grabbed Li Shuyue's shoulders excitedly, "You gave all this money to Jiang Lin? Didn't you?"

She had already told Li Shuyue that the Liu family was now living in poverty and was on the verge of decline.

But Li Shuyue actually took the money that could save the Liu family's life at any time and used it to feed a man who didn't care about her at all!

Liu was so angry that she almost fainted with her eyes rolled back, but fortunately she held it back.

"It seems that my sister is not going to tell the truth," Li Qingqian said softly, "Although I don't know why Changming Tower caught fire last night, I went there immediately. The fire was not big and was quickly put out. I heard that the first person to put out the fire was a woman who was injured, so I went to see her. Second sister Song was also there at the time and found that her injury was not serious and she had already been treated for her."

"My daughter was still thinking about how to compensate the other party. But when Master Jiang arrived with my sister, he wanted to take the woman as a concubine in return. Master Shen and I repeatedly emphasized to him that taking a concubine without a wife is a serious crime in Dawei, but the woman insisted that Dawei did not have such a rule. After careful questioning, we found out that she was not from Dawei."

Li Zhengkang frowned as he listened to her words.

Not from Dawei? Could he be a spy from Beiyuan?

Then he can't have anything to do with the Li family!

Li Qingqian knew what he was thinking, and continued, "How can someone with unknown origins be the concubine of my future brother-in-law? I had someone send that girl to the government last night. If you still want to deny it, why don't we go to the government office now and confront that girl?"

Li Shuyue felt guilty and shrank to the side, not daring to look up or speak.

Li Qingqian snorted coldly and said with a smile, "It's ridiculous to say that Master Jiang has been living such a comfortable life in the capital with the help of his sister. Last night he even shouted that even if he couldn't take that woman as a concubine before marriage, he would welcome her into the mansion after marriage. It sounds like he thinks that our Li Mansion has been completely taken advantage of."

When Li Zhengkang heard this, he flew into a rage, "How can this be possible!"

He has been an official for many years and has always considered himself to be upright. How could he allow his daughter to have a relationship with such a shameless and perverse person?

Liu, who was already furious, was now shaking with anger.

At this time, Li Zhengkang's long-servant Qiang Huo entered the main hall, bowed to Li Zhengkang and said, "Master, Master Jiang is here, and he said he came to apologize to the fourth young lady."

"He still has the nerve to come? Get him out, get him out right now!" Li Zhengkang flicked his sleeves angrily.

Liu also grabbed Yu Lian beside her with trembling hands, "Go, bring the engagement letter. Now that he's here, cancel the engagement!"

Li Shuyue was horrified, "No, mother, mother doesn't want it! Have you forgotten..."

"Shut up!" Liu didn't want to hear anything she said now.

Seeing this, Li Qingqian continued to throw out bait: "Well, not only do you have to cancel the engagement, you also have to take back the silver and the compensation for taking a concubine before the marriage."

Taking them all back, even if it is just a drop in the bucket, can still ease the current situation of the Liu family. Liu of course agreed: "Cancel the engagement today!"

Jiang Lin, who had barged in despite being stopped, immediately lost his balance upon hearing this, and quickly knelt in front of Li Zhengkang and Liu: "Father-in-law and mother-in-law, please take back your decision!"