Transmigrated Leftover Woman in Rural Style

Chapter 291 Innocent bystander Disaster

Xiao Gang was struck dumb, and stood there for a long time without reacting.

Although he was still young and didn't understand many things, he knew all too well about the issue of a woman's reputation.

Back then, Li Xiaonuan was almost beaten to death by her grandmother and two aunts because her reputation was tarnished for various reasons.

Also, Li Xiaonuan was wrongly accused at the time.

Therefore, Xiaogang was extremely angry and hated the old woman who was talking nonsense.

But now, even if he wanted to settle scores with someone, they were all dead.

This left Xiaogang with nowhere to vent his anger, which eventually turned into tears that soaked his clothes.

Su watched from the side, her heart aching, and she secretly shed tears.

Seeing this, Li Xiaonuan quickly sent the dumbfounded little girl away to find out the news before comforting the mother and daughter who were feeling extremely wronged.

"Xiao Nuan, let's go, let's go home quickly. Mother finally understands that there's never a moment of peace in the inner courtyard of a wealthy family. Xiao Gang, don't cry. After we get back, we'll find you another master. Although your uncle is a good person, this family is just too troublesome." Madam Su gritted her teeth and was about to get up from the bed.

Li Xiaonuan had actually had this idea for a while. However, she was still very curious to know how Qi Ji would handle this matter, and how the Qi family viewed it.

"Mom, I'll listen to you, let's go home. I miss my brother, and I miss Xiong Erwa and Zhou Dandan too. I won't study medicine anymore, and you can send me to school after we get home. Sister, will you promise me?" Xiao Gang pouted, wiped his tears with his sleeve, and looked at Li Xiaonuan expectantly.

Li Xiaonuan sighed, touched Xiaogang's shiny black hair, and replied, "Yes, I will definitely persuade our parents to let you go to school with Xiaoyang."

Xiao Gang finally lowered his head in satisfaction. However, Li Xiaonuan could still tell from his twisted fingers that the boy was still very sad.

He must be very reluctant to part with Qi Ji. In Li Xiaonuan's view, Qi Ji was like a father to Xiao Gang, and also a very good mentor.

"I believe that Doctor Qi and Old Master Qi will give us an explanation. Let's wait and see. We can't let those bad guys hide on the sidelines and laugh at us for running away in defeat." Li Xiaonuan comforted Su Shi and Xiao Gang before calming down to think about the future relationship with the Qi family.

To be honest, she had absolutely no desire to have any further contact with the Qi clan in the capital. Of course, those Qi clan members also disdained to associate with the Li family.

However, if all the things Li Xiaonuan gave to Prince Jing are figured out, then the Qi clan might give the Li family a chance to climb the social ladder.

However, Li Xiaonuan had no desire to associate with such a snobbish member of the Qi clan.

In Li Xiaonuan's heart, only the people of Old Master Qi's branch of the family could earn her the respect and admiration she was willing to show.

However, Qi Ji's second uncle's family still had quite a few troublemakers. This was truly frustrating.

Fortunately, the Li family never intended to curry favor with the Qi family from the very beginning. Therefore, no matter how much those people made things difficult for them, the Li family remained completely unconcerned.

However, now that this hurtful incident has occurred, Li Xiaonuan has to reconsider the normal relationship between the two families.

Or perhaps we should just part ways amicably.

From now on, Xiao Gang can treat Qi Ji and his two grandsons with respect, but the two families will never get too close.

All Xiaogang needs to do is send New Year's gifts to Qi Ji's residence every year.

Thinking of this, the drawings and explanations about the stone shrimp in Li Xiaonuan's sleeve became incredibly hot to handle.

Should we give that thing to Qi Ji or not?

Although she had already instructed Prince Jing to begin researching penicillin and streptomycin.

However, these days, the discovery and extraction of microorganisms is quite difficult.

Penicillin is relatively easy to extract. Streptomycin, however, requires separation from other microorganisms before it can be extracted.

Therefore, before the advent of streptomycin, tuberculosis patients could only rely on traditional Chinese medicine for treatment.

In traditional Chinese medicine treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, stone shrimp is an indispensable ingredient.

Li Xiaonuan had previously investigated and found that doctors these days did not use stone shrimp in medicine.

That's why Li Xiaonuan wanted to give the stone shrimp to Qi Ji as a favor, to repay Qi Ji for his willingness to go against the majority and take Xiao Gang, a person from another family, as his apprentice.

Just as Li Xiaonuan was lost in thought, the maid who had been sent away returned.

She was chattering away to Xiao Gang and Madam Su, saying, "Our young lady is so clever. She hid outside the storeroom. Just now, she saw our third young mistress go into that storeroom and overheard Granny Fan talking to our third young mistress."

It turned out that while the sixth young lady was feeling bored outside the storeroom, the aunt's daughter-in-law took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, bribed the two servants guarding outside, and went into the storeroom.

The conversation between the daughter-in-law and Granny Fan was intermittent, and the Sixth Miss only caught a glimpse of it.

However, Miss Six still managed to grasp the key point.

Granny Fan first demanded that her two daughters become concubines of Master Qi the Second and Master Qi the Third, and that they be respectable concubines. Otherwise, she would reveal the truth.

But the woman refused. She said she would remove Granny Fan's family from their slave status and give them thirty acres of fertile land on the outskirts of the city, along with a sum of money.

Granny Fan complained that it wasn't enough and started arguing with the daughter-in-law. She insisted on adding a small estate before she would take on all the responsibilities.

After some haggling, the woman had no choice but to agree to give a small estate from her dowry to Granny Fan's family.

Before leaving, the woman gave Granny Fan a bottle of medicine and told her to quickly apply it to her injured hand.

The Sixth Miss revealed these things to the public without missing a single detail, and everyone then understood the truth of the matter.

So the daughter-in-law was pushed out by her aunt and subjected to family discipline.

But before she was tortured, the woman said that the bottle of medicine was given to her by her aunt.

The Sixth Miss had previously examined Granny Fan's injured hand and informed everyone that the medicine used to treat the wound was a deadly poison.

However, the medicine also has a unique characteristic: the hands of anyone who comes into contact with it will turn a faint bluish-purple color after being soaked in hot water.

To prove the innocence of those present, Qi Ji had everyone soak their hands.

As a result, both the aunt and her daughter-in-law experienced the situation described by Miss Six.

The saying goes, "Don't wash your dirty linen in public." But since this matter involved the Li family, Old Master Qi had no choice but to handle it impartially.

He ordered the court judge to be summoned and questioned him about who had sold the medicine to.

Finally, the matter was clarified.

It turned out that the medicine in the little aunt's hand was indeed given by the madam of the magistrate.

However, the judge's wife kindly gave it to her aunt so that she could properly discipline those disobedient vixens around Master Qi.

Later, of course, the wife was divorced by the Qi family on the grounds of jealousy and infertility.

As for Madam Qi's second wife and aunt, she was confined to the small family temple in the backyard of the Qi family mansion and was never allowed to leave again for the rest of her life.

Because Master Qi the Second was not strict in managing his household, he was punished by Master Qi the Old Master.

No matter how you look at it, the Su family was indeed an innocent victim this time.

The two ladies, Madam Qi and Madam Qi, are vying for power in the backyard.

Madam Qi the Second had long wanted to take over the general affairs of the Qi family's inner courtyard, so she came up with this plan to annoy Madam Qi.

Unexpectedly, things ended in this way.

When Madam Qi was kneeling in the family temple, she must have deeply regretted choosing Madam Su as her target.

She should regret misjudging him; she never expected that the Li family members were so important in Qi Ji's eyes.