The old man saw that Li Qingling and the others had walked over. He walked over with large strides and asked, "How are they?"He had previously followed Li Qingning to the fish pond to play and found out about this from the villagers, so he rushed over in a hurry. The courtyard door was locked, and even if he wanted to go in, he could not, so he could only wait outside.
Li Qingling smiled and said to him.
The villagers, who had raised their ears to listen to the gossip, all felt regret in their hearts when they heard Li Qingling"s words.
They also wanted to hear what was going on. How could Li Qingling carry away the betrothal gift?
The old man thought about this too, and after making a sound, he followed Li Qingling and the others back home.
When they returned home, Li Qingling saw the villagers following behind, and she laughed helplessly, "All of you uncles and aunts have matters to attend to today, it is inconvenient for me to entertain you all, I will properly entertain you all again when I have time!" With that, she closed the courtyard door.
Looking at the courtyard door, the villagers began to discuss among themselves.
"What"s going on here? Why did Xiao Ling bring the betrothal gift back? "
"Maybe Old Li"s family did something that angered Xiao Ling, so Xiao Ling did not want to marry in his house."
"Let me tell you guys, today I saw Li Bao Zhu wearing a beautiful hairpin as she ran over with the step shake to play with Xiao Ling. Not long later, she ran home crying, and Xiao Ling followed along with her Mo." An aunt mysteriously said this.
The moment she said this, everyone in the village cast their gazes on her and asked her what was going on.
That aunt"s expression became complacent and continued with her nonsense, "My guess is that Mrs. Liu and the others coveted Xiao Ling"s betrothal gift. Xiao Ling was too angry, so he brought it back."
"That Mrs. Liu guy must be able to do such a thing."
"I think so too..."
The wild guesses of the villagers had made most of the guess. If it was Li Qingling"s, he would definitely give them a Like, thinking that their guesses were really accurate.
At this time, Li Qingling was seated in the living room, being interrogated by the old man, what exactly had happened?
Li Qingling said helplessly, "My grandparents coveted half of my betrothal gift, I couldn"t stand it, so I brought the betrothal gift back." If it wasn"t for Old Li, she would never have done this.
It was all their fault for being too greedy, coveting so many of her betrothal gifts.
Hearing this, the old man couldn"t help but stand up and shout, "How preposterous! To think that there would be such a thing!" It was simply like a heart of darkness. He even coveted his granddaughter"s betrothal gifts. "Have you brought back those gifts that you coveted?"
"I brought some back, but I haven"t brought some back. Maybe it was given to someone by my Uncle Uncle? My grandfather said that after those things are brought back, they will be directly sent to me. " After pausing for a moment, Li Qingling continued, "If he doesn"t bring those betrothal gifts back, I"ll make him discount them." At this point, she would not be at a disadvantage.
It was still that old saying, those betrothal presents were bought over and over again by Liu Zhimo for her. She would not let them off so easily, he must give them a deep lesson, and let them remember that she was not that easily bullied.
Hearing this, the old man nodded his head in satisfaction. That"s right.
Fortunately, this girl did not have the heart of Buddha and would not let Old Li"s family go so easily.
In his heart, he felt that those who did wrong should be punished, not let them go easily.
In short, this girl was deeply in his heart.
… ….
After a few days, Old Li personally came to find Li Qingling. He looked at Li Qingling, and said in a cold voice: "I did bring some things back, and some of them are gone. Take a look at how much those things are worth. I"ll discount it for you. " He pushed the things that he brought over directly in front of Li Qingling.
Li Qingling glanced at Old Li. Presumably, he hated her granddaughter to the core.
She smiled and opened the package right in front of Old Li. She took a look at the things inside: hairpins, step shake s, and bracelet …
Her Uncle Uncle was really willing to give such a precious thing to someone.
No wonder Mrs. Liu pointed at his nose and scolded him as the prodigal son.
These items added up together didn"t amount to less than 50 taels of silver. To a family, 50 taels of silver was a huge sum of money.
"Please wait a moment, I"ll go get the list." With that said, Li Qingling did not care about Old Li"s expression, he immediately went back to his room to retrieve the betrothal gift list.
When Old Li heard Li Qingling call him grandpa, he could not help but frown, and his expression was filled with dissatisfaction.
But he himself had directly said that he wanted to cut off all relations with Li Qingling and the others, so he could not scold Li Qingling and the others.
He really regretted it in his heart. He shouldn"t have been so impulsive to say those words!
Now that he wanted him to take back what he had said, he had lost a lot of face.
After a while, Li Qingling took the betrothal gift list and laid it out in front of Old Li, and pointed it out to him like before.
Old Li looked at it once, and said straightforwardly: "What exactly is missing from there? "Just tell me how much you want to compensate!" He really did not want to have any further contact with this granddaughter of his.
When he saw her, his emotions were complicated.
Since that was the case, it would be better if he didn"t meet him!
Li Qingling raised his eyes and looked at Old Li who had an extremely serious expression. He knew that Old Li did not want to stay any longer with her and did not force him, so she directly spoke out: "Five hairpins are missing here, eight step shake s, six bracelets …" After she finished refining, the corner of Old Li"s mouth kept twitching. There were so many things, how much would it cost?
"This... "How much is that exactly?" He could not help but ask again!
"It would at least cost 150 silver."
"What?" 150 silver? " Hearing this number, Old Li almost jumped up. With this much silver, where would he go to find it?
Li Qingling calmly nodded his head, "Great sir, if you don"t believe me, you can ask around. How much is all of this worth?" She really didn"t hold him up at all, he just told him at his original price.
Old Li"s face became even uglier, he rubbed his hands together, then looked at Li Qingling, as though he wanted to say something, but when the words reached his mouth, he did not.
He really wanted to ask Li Qingling if he could calculate a bit less, but he felt that he had lost face.
Li Qingling pretended not to see Old Li"s deep emotion. She picked up his teacup and slowly drank two sips of tea, allowing Old Li to slowly consider.
Old Li sat there for a while. Since Li Qingling didn"t have anything to say, he sulked in his heart, thinking that she didn"t know how to conduct herself.
"I don"t have that much silver right now, so I need to lend it to you." Old Li"s words were very skillful, he bit on the word "borrow" hard, wanting to let Li Qingling know that his family was in a difficult situation, and that he could not take out that much silver, so he went to borrow.
If his other biological granddaughter had heard this, she would have told him not to return it, but what about Li Qingling? She smiled lightly and put down the teacup in her hand, then looked at Old Li and said, "Un, as long as you pay the silver before I get married." Was she tolerant enough? He didn"t hurry him to return the money.
Old Li was so angry that he rolled his eyes, he was not in the mood to continue talking to Li Qingling, he suddenly stood up and left without saying a word.
He walked home quickly and angrily, ignoring those who greeted him on the way home.
The moment he returned home, he saw Li Laifu sitting in the courtyard eating. With a dark expression, he shouted at him, "Eat, eat, eat! You will eat! He really was a prodigal who had lost so much silver to a woman who still hadn"t pa.s.sed.
Li Laifu almost choked on his words when he heard Old Li. He stretched out his neck and swallowed the saliva in his throat, then looked up at Old Li and asked him, "What happened?"
Weren"t they happy when they went there just now? Why did he come back so dark?
Old Li pointed at Li Laifu with one hand and continued to yell, "What"s wrong? You still have the nerve to ask me what"s wrong? I"m telling you, go and ask that woman to get it back, do you hear me? "
"Dad, you really want me to be a virgin, right?" It wasn"t easy for him to coax Mei Niang and take back those things from her hands. If he went to get more from her, he really wouldn"t be able to marry Huang Meiniang in his entire life.
Thinking about Huang Meiniang"s figure, he was extremely reluctant.
Old Li gasped heavily from Li Laifu"s anger, before roaring loudly back, "With that 150 silver, what kind of wife do you want to marry? Forget about marrying one, even if you marry two, there will still be people who will marry you. " You really don"t know what"s good for you. That"s 150 taels of silver!
What did 150 taels of silver mean? Did he know? He was truly angered to death by this foolish son of his.
Hearing that, Li Laifu jumped up abruptly, "What? 150 silver, why doesn"t she, Li Qingling, want it? " He looked at Old Li and asked loudly, "Father, did she not consider you to be her grandfather, and not try to make you cheaper?"
Li Laifu was lucky that he did not mention this, but when he said that, the fire in Old Li"s heart flared up again.
"My family has already broken off all relations with them, why would she still give me this face?" Old Li replied in a weird tone, "Don"t talk nonsense for me, hurry up and find that woman and get her things back. Otherwise, don"t even think about coming back."
With such a stupid son, this entire family would be ruined by him sooner or later.
Li Laifu looked at Old Li in disbelief. Seeing that his expression did not seem to be lying, his frown tightened even more. "Father, is your son not even worth 150 silver coins? "Huh?" Father was hurting him too much.
Old Li snorted, he said that it was not worth it and walked into the house.