Chapter 154: Family Gathering
"Do you need me to clear your mind?"
Qin Lie and Xu Huanyan were like bystanders on the outside, coldly watching the quarrels and discussions in the front hall one after another. and Luan Yiyi's exaggerated acting skills not far away.
Luan Yiyi's crying gradually rose, and finally succeeded in attracting the attention of several middle-aged people.
"Who's that woman?"
"I heard that it was the second young man who made people's stomachs bigger and didn't want to be responsible. No, Li Lao picked up the girl. ”
As soon as the person in front of him finished speaking, another man with a fat head and big ears and a shiny face disagreed, "I heard that it's not the case." The eldest brother is looking forward to Sun Xin, and he wants to straighten this woman and let the second child marry her. ”
The person who spoke at this time was Li Lao's sixth brother, Li Yin. is also an illegitimate child, and he understands the importance of men to the Li family better than anyone else.
Although Li Yin is an illegitimate child, he has no chance to sit on the throne of the head of the Li family. However, when he looked at Li Lao, who had stepped into the coffin with one foot, he was now at this age, but he didn't even have a grandson, and he seized the possibility of being able to pull him off the altar.
As long as the second child does not get married, and no next generation of heirs is born, his position as the head of the family is still unstable.
Finding that everyone was staring at Luan Yiyi and the second uncle, with a vicious light flashing in their eyes, Xu Huanyan couldn't help but be a little worried, "Qin Lie, do the people who split up have a grudge against the people of their own family?" I think they can't wait to kill the second uncle now! It's all the same surname, it's really sad! ”
In other words, since the surname Li is all a family, what's the point of them killing each other?
Qin Lie shook his head and was noncommittal, "The wealth of the Li family is comparable to that of the country, which makes outsiders red-eyed, and the people within the family have their own ghosts, and they all want to compete for the position of the next head of the family. Your second uncle is the rightful heir, and it makes sense for them to want to kill him. ”
"Reasonable?" Qin Lieyun's light tone made her suddenly gasp, "They're relatives, right?" Is it reasonable for relatives to kill each other? ”
"The Li family looks beautiful on the surface, but in fact, it has long been corrupt inside. This is also a disadvantage of the family business. There are too many borers that are difficult to clean up and can't be cleaned up. So in a way, Li Shaojing is not as omnipotent as you think. ”
At least Li Shaojing lost to a few old guys in the front hall at the beginning, and he also lost the most important person in his heart.
Xu Huanyan didn't know what to do, thinking that Qin Lie was just expressing her inner feelings, she looked at Qin Lie suspiciously, she had this question at the table yesterday, but she never found a good opportunity to ask him.
"Qin Lie, why are you also called Grandpa Li? And you can still dine at the same table as us? Didn't you say that the dining etiquette of the Li family is very strict, and it is a supreme honor to be able to dine together? ”
He's just the son of an old butler, and he can have this honor?
Qin Lie was asked this, his relaxed expression stiffened for a moment, and then quickly returned to normal, "Want to know?" ”
"Yes!" Xu Huanyan couldn't wait, she felt that this might be a secret of the Li family.
"Then kiss me."
Lowering his head, Qin Lie pointed at Xu Huanyan and pointed at his face, "Just kiss here." ”
Xu Huanyan snorted coldly, his eyes aggressive, "Qin Lie, do you have amnesia?!" Do you want me to remind you who is the master in these seven days? ”
She didn't make any excessive demands to let Qin Lie be a cow and a horse for herself, who knew that this guy would dare to take advantage of her?
"How dare I?"
Rejected by righteous words, Qin Lie lowered the cynical look in his eyes, "Let's go outside, the air here is not very good, I am not in the mood to talk about it." ”
Xu Huanyan hesitated for a while, and saw that the second uncle's side was still wonderfully staging the scene of two women robbing a husband, so he agreed with confidence, "Okay." But you can't go back on your way out. ”
Qin Lie acquiesced and took Xu Huanyan to leave this place of right and wrong first.
It is conceivable that when Elder Li arrives, what will happen to those family members who have been eyeing Elder Li's position.
In the final analysis, it was the child of unknown origin in Luan Yiyi's belly that made them unable to hold their breath, so they came to the Li family to determine the situation.
The successive heads of the Li family must start a family before taking over the Li family's business, and they also have their own eldest son.
Obviously, Li Shaojing, who is nearly thirty years old and has not yet stepped into married life, is always one step away from accepting the Li family's family business, which is why Li Shaojing left the Li family and worked hard for himself At the same time, no one in the Li family stood up to oppose it.
Li Shaojing left, and they took a step closer to the power they wanted.
Xu Huanyan tensed his nerves, and listened to Qin Lie tell him about him and his profound past with the Li family for a moment.
"You mean, Elder Li is taking advantage of you, rather than really appreciating you?"
According to what Qin Lie said, Elder Li asked him to recognize him as his grandfather, just to attract the attention of the second uncle to the family.
After all, Qin Lie is still young, and he has not lost his desire for marriage like his second uncle.
Moreover, in the past few years, Elder Li's care and cultivation for Qin Lie far exceeded that of his own son, and all the attention of those who divided the family was put on Qin Lie.
So much so that unconsciously, the Li empire created by the second uncle outside seems to have a tendency to replace the Li family's own family business.
"I'm just a man with a foreign surname, the son of an old butler. There's something about me that deserves to be appreciated by Elder Li. And put it around to cultivate? Even, he wants to give me all the Li family's family business? Woman, there is no free lunch in the world, even if pie falls from the sky, it will not hit me. ”
If it weren't for his father's vow to stay by Elder Li's side for the rest of his life and serve him, he would have successfully escaped from the Li family and lived a free life of his own.
"Elder Li is really powerful, he doesn't hesitate to use people, but you are his right-hand man's own son, so you are not afraid of affecting your father's loyalty to him?"
His own son was used, and even involved in the battle for the power of the Li family, how innocent was Qin Lie?
As a father, how could he watch his son sink deeper and deeper. Let Elder Li control?
Qin Lie looked up at the sky helplessly, "He's a father, but he's just a father." Li Lao is his master, for the sake of his master, he can give his life, if necessary, naturally including mine. ”
His life was given by his father, and Qin Lie always suspected that if one day Elder Li was in danger at the same time as him, the first person his father rescued would definitely not be him.
"Qin Lie ......"
Looking at Qin Lie sympathetically, Xu Huan was speechless.
What should she say?
Let him not think too much and relax? Or comfort him with the tragic past of having no father and mother, and even his younger brother died in the arms of his second uncle?
Forget it, no one wants to recall this kind of heart-wrenching memory.
Even if Qin Lie was just living as a chess piece, he didn't feel so pitiful as he was, and he didn't need her fake comfort.
Because at this time all the words of comfort will seem extraordinarily pale.
"How do you want to comfort me so that it doesn't offend me?"
Xu Huanyan's contemplative appearance was particularly dazzling in Qin Lie's eyes, the corners of her lips rose slightly, her eyes were closed, and her eyebrows were furrowed. Obviously something that has nothing to do with her, but she can be distressed like this for herself.
"Who...... Who thought! ”
was caught, Xu Huanyan glared at him, scolded angrily, raised his feet and walked back.
said as if she cared about him, she had just experienced a painful parting, and although Qin Lie had a father, he was an irresponsible father who didn't care about his feelings at all.
was used by his father as a pawn to protect his master, Xu Huanyan thought, if it were her, she would definitely be in pain, right?
Looking at Qin Lie again, the big grin look was even worse than her. He chose to remain silent about all his father's unfair decisions against him.
Before Xu Huanyan stepped into the ancient castle, the bodyguard at the door raised his hand to stop them.
"Miss Xu, you can't go in."
"I can't go in? And what about him? Xu Huanyan was stunned for a moment, and his keen five senses noticed the difference in the atmosphere inside.
The bodyguards glanced at Qin Lie, and then respectfully let him go, "Young Master Qin, please come in." ”
Qin Lie didn't go in, but instead led Xu Huanyan away from the castle.
"Why don't you go in? Maybe today Old Man Li will decide who the next head of the family will be. Are you sure you don't want to hear it? ”
If what Qin Lie said was right, Li Lao would not have a few years to survive.
The world's most fearful beauty is in the twilight, and the twilight of the hero, this is the time that no matter how rich a person is, he can't buy it back.
The second uncle is almost thirty years old, although the old man is well maintained, she guesses that his old man is almost more than seventy. Even if you can survive for ten years, I am afraid that you will not be able to deal with the family business problem at that time.
It's better to take advantage of the fact that your body is still strong and deal with the things behind you, so that you can leave without worry.
"The answer is conceivable, why bother going in?"
He Qin Lie has always been too lazy to do such things.
For Luan Yiyi to appear in this kind of family gathering occasion, he has already guessed seven or eight points in Li Lao's mind.
Xu Huanyan sighed, "I never asked the second uncle about his family affairs, and I didn't know that the Li family was such a prominent existence. ”
suddenly regretted it, why didn't she have any curiosity about Li Shaojing's family background in the past?
A strange thought suddenly popped into my mind, "I remembered, you are an orphan adopted by Li Shaojing." ”
Before going to the imperial capital to arrest people, Elder Li gave him Xu Huanyan's simple personal information.
He thought that Xu Huanyan was Li Shaojing's lover by his side, and he was not interested in her, so he just glanced at it and threw it into the corner.
It wasn't until he found out that Xu Huanyan and him hadn't met for the first time that he became interested in her.
"Yes, what's the matter, Little Master Qin also has something unclear?"
She thought that he knew everything about her life when he came to the imperial capital to kidnap her, because Qin Lie seemed to be a well-prepared man, and there would be no omission.