When Qing Yu saw Li Ping Sheng again, his face was still pale, but there was more than a hint of blood.
“It seems that the injury has stabilised. How was your rest? Li Clan Master.” Qing Yu said as he sat down at the tea table and made himself some tea.
Li Ping Sheng had injured his spine and was completely unable to sit or stand, so he could only lie on the bed. He didn’t say a word and simply ignored Qing Yu. It was right, who told Qing Yu to break up his family?
Qing Yu didn’t care either and said to himself, “You don’t have to throw any faces at me either. I think you’ve been awake for a while now. With your current physical condition, you can still bite your tongue and kill yourself, even though you’ve lost control of your body. What, still want to wait for an opportunity to kill me and avenge your wife and son?”
“Or ——” Qing Yu stretched his voice, “You are afraid of death!”
Li Ping-sheng’s eyes, which had been indifferent, suddenly dilated, apparently because Qing Yu had poked him in the heart. He was indeed afraid of death. Who is not afraid of death, especially a selfish man like Li Ping Sheng. Even if his wife dies, he can marry again, and his son dies, he can have a second son who is still out there.
Still not receiving a response, Qing Yu laughed as if he had gotten the answer he wanted: “It seems that you are indeed afraid of death. If that’s the case, then go on living. Recover your body quickly and I hope that you will still be able to live on.”
The meaningful words reached Li Ping-sheng’s ears, but he still did not say a word.
Qing Yu was so bored that he got up and ordered, “Someone, feed Master Li the medicine, so that he can get well quickly.”
Outside the house came in a houseboy, the one who had surrendered from the Li house. The Iron Daggers were rough and couldn’t serve people, and as Li Ping-sheng was seriously injured, Qing Yu didn’t want them to make a mistake and kill him.
There was nothing to see in the medicine feeding situation, so Qingyu shrugged it off and left.
Li Ping-sheng was helped up by the houseboy, and as he drank the medicine, he looked meaningfully at Qing Yu’s distant back.
As soon as Qing Yu left the house, the sanguine look on his face was gone and he returned to his expressionless face.
“My lord.” Li Xin, who was waiting outside the house, greeted.
“Send someone to follow closely the houseboy who is feeding the medicine.” Qing Yu was in front and Li Xin was behind, the two of them walking towards the courtyard one after the other.
“Does Your Excellency think there is something wrong with this houseboy?” Li Xin asked, puzzled.
“It is not necessarily this houseboy who has a problem, but there is definitely someone among the houseboys who remains loyal to the Li family. The Li family has been rooted in Yangcheng for three hundred years, if they don’t even have a loyal servant, Li Ping Sheng might as well just run headlong into death.”
When he came to the courtyard, Qing Yu walked into the small pavilion in the garden, where someone had already prepared tea. Qing Yu did not want anyone else to overhear his conversation with Li Xin, so he asked the servant girl who was standing in the pavilion to leave.
Qing Yu looked at the graceful figure of the distant servant girl and said, “Life in the Li family is really corrupt, even a servant girl is something else. And now, these are all yours. Keep F**king with me and you may have nothing, or even be ruined. Are you, willing to give up?”
Li Xin said expressionlessly, “A coarse man cannot bear the beauty of this rich and noble house.”
Qing Yu laughed, “Such level-headed words would not come from a vulgar person.”
Sitting first on a stone bench at one side, Qing Yu reached out his hand and gestured, “Come, sit.”
“I know that you have been used to seeing the bullying of the family in Yangcheng since you were young, and are used to being angry with the Li family. Perhaps you have some misconceptions about this wealthy family. Not every son of a rich family is as beastly as Li Quyin, and not every family is as odd as the four families of Yangcheng, with all the robberies and dealings in green houses. You will also become a powerful member in the eyes of the common people in the future, and you will have to get used to all this.”
Li Xin looked puzzled and opened his mouth to speak ——
“Hear me out first,” Qing Yu raised his hand to stop Li Xin’s words, “what Li Ping Sheng said yesterday is not detailed enough, but it is enough for me to understand my current precarious situation. I have already thought of a way to get out, but unfortunately, it is not the best time for me to leave. If I am to escape, it is a risk, and I cannot take you with me. Before I leave, I will prepare a way out for you. You are not me, and you are not watched by so many people. It would be better for you to stay in Yangcheng than to leave with me.”
“No need to say more, my mind is made up.” His voice was firm and resolute.
Seeing Qing Yu’s firm attitude, Li Xin did not say more on the matter. Although he did not know the details of the dangerous situation Qing Yu was talking about, he could feel the danger in Qing Yu’s words. If it was really so dangerous, there was nothing he could do to help, and if he were to help blindly, he might become a burden.
If not, he could return this life to the Duke. Li Xin thought to himself. If Qing Yu’s plan succeeded, all would be happy, but if not, Li Xin would have to die to help him get out.
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At night.
It was time for Li Ping-sheng to drink his medicine again.
This time, it wasn’t the houseboy who fed him the medicine at noon.
Li Ping-sheng swallowed the bitter medicine soup in big gulps. The temperature was slightly hot, but Li Ping Sheng did not care if his mouth was hot, he just started drinking.
When he saw that no one was outside the door, he stopped drinking the medicine and raised his eyes to meet the servant who was feeding him. When he saw this, the corners of Li Ping Sheng’s mouth curved slightly, and the little bit of medicinal soup that remained spilled out with the corners of his mouth, splashing all over Li Ping Sheng’s chest.
Seeing this, the servant who was feeding the medicine hurriedly took a cloth to wipe it away. Li Ping-sheng did not bother to take care of the servant’s busy work and lay down on the bed, his eyes gazing at the curtain above the bed, smiling silently.
Far away from the darkness of the house, two figures looked at what was going on inside.
“My lord, after that houseboy fed Li Ping-sheng his medicine at noon, he went to see Li Qi, the housekeeper of the Li residence. After that, someone ran to the Zhang family to report the news. The person who reported the news was still a member of the Iron Dagger Club’s gang, and the Li family’s houseboy could not leave the Li family. The houseboy who fed the medicine this night was Li Qi’s son. Of course, the person who reported the news has been captured and is now being interrogated.” Li Xin reported the situation generally to Qing Yu.
“A hundred-footed worm does not die, the Li family is deeply rooted in Yangcheng, and there will be no shortage of people loyal to the Li family. We took control of the Iron Daggers and the Li family only because we cut off a large number of the Li family’s tentacles in the Iron Daggers beforehand, and also because of the surprise attack that restrained the head of the Li family. Now the surface is calm and quiet, but if the Zhang family strikes, this secret hand is not less.”
Since they could find someone to report the news, how could they not stop the person who reported the news?
“A snake without a head will not work. The reason these people held back from surrendering was because we had captured Li Ping-sheng and made them fearful. If we lose Li Ping Sheng, I don’t know if they will wait for the second young master of the Li family, Li Qiu Ran, to return, or just jump out to take revenge. Whichever it is, it is better than them hiding in the shadows all the time.
We didn’t take Li Ping-sheng’s life before, just for the information from his mouth. Now, it’s time to let Li Ping Sheng go down and reunite with his family.”
With that, the two men stepped out of the darkness and made their way to the brightly lit house.
