Traitor in 142

  Li Yutong arrived at the cell where Ruan Yukun was being held, and saw that Ruan Yukun was lying on the ground in a big character shape, with his eyes wide open.

  This sight scared Li Yutong, he hastily pushed the door and rushed in, squatted on the ground, nervously helped Ruan Yugeng up, and only after finding that he still had a breath did he put down his hanging heart. At this time, Ruan Yugeng's originally motionless eyeballs also turned slightly, seeing Li Yutong, and said lightly: "Yutong is you, it's rare that someone still remembers to come see me."

  The desolation and bleakness that cannot be expressed in words are like the yellow earth after an autumn breeze, a ground full of withered fallen leaves.

  Li Yutong knew that Ruan Yuqing must have thought of Tang Chuxue, and mentioning Tang Chuxue also made Li Yutong furious. A dark cloud flashed in her eyes, and she secretly plotted in her heart.

  "Yu Qing, you get up first and have something to eat."

  Li Yutong's face was extremely gentle at this moment, with a soft and calm expression.

  "That Lin Jiuniang still has a family to rely on, but as for me and my mother, we can only quietly wait for exile now."

  Ruan Yuqing lowered his eyes, and a hint of regret emerged in his heart. On the first night he was caught, amidst his daze, he recalled many things from the past. He remembered his childhood friendship with Tang Jinxiu. Now, looking back, all he felt was endless regret. But since it was already too late, there was no use in regretting. His heart calmed down after the turmoil. Tang Jinxiu, whether it was pain or happiness, he had completely lost her. Now his wife was Tang Chuxue, and he hoped that at least his choice would have some meaning. However, during those brief yet endless two days, he didn't see her figure even once. For a moment, he didn't know what he was holding on to, or what the point of persisting was.

  Li Yutong suddenly raised his head, looking at Ruan Yukun in disbelief, and couldn't help but reach out to shake him, saying urgently: "This doesn't seem like you, you should be elegant and refined, with a carefree spirit. You've been mired for long enough, it's time to wake up now."

  Li Yutong couldn't help but be a bit hysterical, and Ruan Yugeng was frightened by Li Yutong's frantic appearance. His gaze fell on Li Yutong's body, looking at his reddened eyes and the unmistakable expression, and a warm current flowed through his heart.

  "It's okay, I still have you as a friend."

  Ruan Yuqing suddenly smiled, because at least someone came to see him, leaving a bit of color in his dull and desolate life.

  But Li Yutong, upon hearing this, felt a pang in his heart, and an unspeakable sorrow instantly swept over him, the grief almost suffocating. His feelings for Ruan Yuqing were not allowed in this world. He longed to tell him, but he knew that expressing these emotions would be meaningless. Silently, he swallowed the urge, letting this forbidden love deeply bury itself at the bottom of his heart, withering away in the depths of his soul.

  "Yes, we are good friends and brothers, so it's only natural that we should share the difficulties together. Don't worry, I will definitely try my best to think of a way to rescue you."

  Ruan Yuqing was now somewhat sober, and the rare warmth had dissipated some of the desolation in his heart. His eyes brightened slightly as he nodded at Li Yutong.

  Li Yutong watched Ruan Yugeng nod, feeling slightly relieved, then took out the food and watched Ruan Yugeng eat it, saying some comforting words before leaving.

  Standing at the prison gate, Li Yutong turned around and looked back, with a hint of desolation in his eyes. He clenched his fists secretly and said, "Mother, I have something to do, you all go back first."

  Li Yutong finished speaking and turned to run away. Mrs. Li didn't even have time to say a word before Li Yutong disappeared from sight. She sighed, turned around, and pulled Ruan Aihua's hand, saying anxiously: "Aihua, why don't you go back with your aunt for a few days? Now that your mother and brother are in such a situation, it's hard to think of a solution for the time being. Let's wait for now, the message has already been sent to the Yin family. For now, we just need to wait here, and when someone from the Yin family arrives, there will be a way."

  At this moment, Mrs. Li also secretly resented An Yan in her heart. If it weren't for her, there wouldn't be so many things afterwards. This matter has now been made such a big deal, and it's unknown when it can be resolved. Even if it is resolved, the various families will have suffered greatly.

  Ruan Aihe didn't want to go back to Ruan's house either, so she nodded and followed Soft Madame back to Li's house.

  Mrs. Li took Ruan Aihua into the Li's house, but coincidentally bumped into Li Yuzhu who was about to go out.

  At that time, Mrs. Li was lowering her head and talking to Ruan Aihua, neither of them noticed someone in front of them. Li Yuzhu was also walking quickly with her head down, as if thinking about something. Suddenly and unexpectedly, Ruan Aihua rushed into a bosom with a faint scent of green bamboo.

  Li Yuzhu suddenly felt a warm and soft body rushing into her arms, and subconsciously reached out to support the other's slender waist.

  Ruan Aihuo let out a low cry, lifted her head, and saw Li Yuzhu's gentle face. In an instant, all thoughts had disappeared, leaving only a heart beating rapidly. Ruan Aihuo's face suddenly turned red with an abnormal temperature. Li Yuzhu looked at the person in his arms, his eyes changing from surprise to indifference. He slowly released Ruan Aihuo's body, took a step back, and said gently: "Sorry."

  A gentleman is like jade, warm and elegant in manner.

  Ruan Aihuo didn't dare to look at Li Yuzhu now, but instead lowered her head and spoke in a voice as thin as a mosquito.

  Li Yuzhu didn't have any more thoughts on the matter, after paying his respects to Mrs. Li, he turned around and quickly left.

  Ruan Aihe still lowered her head, but the faintly visible profile was tinged with a subtle pink hue, extremely enticing.

  Mrs. Li saw this scene and naturally guessed Ruan Aihua's thoughts, her eyes suddenly dimmed. Although she quite liked this young girl, if she let this young girl become her daughter-in-law, it was still far from enough. Her eldest son was her greatest pride, and in the future, he would enter the imperial court with boundless prospects. Ruan Aihua had nothing but arrogance. Compared to Yin Zifeng, she was really much worse off. However, at the same time, Mrs. Li quickly thought of another layer in her heart, thinking that if Zhao Shi and Ruan Yujing couldn't come out this time, where would the vast wealth of the Ruan family go? If Ruan Aihua was willing to be a concubine of Li Yuzhu, then the vast wealth of the Ruan family would become Ruan Aihua's dowry, which seemed like a good thing.

  Mrs. Li's eyes sparkled with calculation, her mind racing with thoughts. Looking at Ruan Aihua, her gaze became even warmer, "Aihua, let's go in."

  "Ah?" Ruan Aihua was startled and hastily lifted her head, only to see Li's smiling eyes. She immediately felt embarrassed and lowered her head again. With her head down, she clenched her fists in her clothes and whispered: "Brother Yuzhu, why are you in such a hurry?"

  Upon hearing this question, Mrs. Li slightly raised her eyebrows and smiled: "He must have gone out to find someone to think of a solution. With something like this happening, everyone is anxious in their hearts and trying hard to come up with a plan."

  Actually, Mrs. Li didn't know what Li Yuzhu was doing outside either, but when faced with Ruan Aihua's questioning, she readily replied.

  "Brother Jade Bamboo is really thoughtful."

  Yuè ài Hé's body has a special potential, that is, being sold and still smiling while counting money for the other party.

  But she didn't say that Ruan Aihua's face was shy and asked Mrs. Li about various things about Li Yuzhu, and had long forgotten the sorrow of the family's misfortune.

  On the other hand, Li Yutong, who left from the prison gate, went straight to the Tang Mansion. At this time, he was standing at the entrance of the Tang Mansion, looking at the two words "Tang Fu" hanging high above the main gate with an inscrutable gaze.

  The large gate of the Tang mansion opened a small gap, and a person walked out from inside. It was Tang Shan. Upon seeing Tang Shan's figure, Li Yutong subconsciously hid behind the stone lion on the side. He carefully watched Tang Shan, who hastily rushed outside. Li Yutong left a mind's eye, secretly taking note of it. After a while, he went forward to knock on the door and report his intention. Before the gatekeeper could react, he quickly walked in. The gatekeeper was caught off guard and hurriedly chased after him, trying to stop him. However, the gatekeeper was just a small person and didn't dare to lay hands on Li Yutong, so he could only persuade from the side. But Li Yutong completely ignored him and strode towards Tang Chusnow's courtyard.

  After passing through an archway, I entered Tang Chuxue's courtyard and saw her standing by the pond feeding fish, looking carefree.

  Li Yutong strode directly in front of Tang Chuxue and sneered: "How interesting."

  Tang Chu Xue slowly raised her head, saw it was him, and wasn't surprised at all. Her gaze lightly shifted around before nodding slightly towards the young servant who followed behind, indicating everything was fine, letting him go attend to his own matters.

  "Let's talk in my room."

  Tang Chu Xue said lightly and turned to head towards her own room. But Li Yu Tong was still fuming, how could he listen to her words? He stood still on the spot, coldly saying: "Why do we need to go into the room to talk? I think it's fine here, I just want to know how you can be so heartless, your husband is locked up in prison and yet you're still so unaffected?"

  Tang Chu Xue's footsteps paused, quietly stopping there, but she didn't turn her head back. She just calmly said one sentence, immediately making Li Yu Tong's face change greatly, no longer daring to speak, and hastily followed up.

  "Hurt your heart's desire, now you're here to take revenge on me?"

  Just this one sentence was enough to shock Li Yutong to the extreme. Li Yutong's heart was racing, how did she know?

  Li Yutong followed quietly behind Tang Chuxue and entered her room in silence.

  As soon as the door closed, Li Yutong immediately came to Tang Chuxue's side excitedly and asked urgently: "What did you just say? What do you know?"

  Tang Chu Xue didn't pay attention to him

  He sat down at the table, naturally poured himself a cup of tea, slowly drank it all, and then slowly said: "Brother, what's wrong with you? Why are you so agitated?"

  The two words "brother" seemed to have touched Li Yutong's sore spot. He suddenly sat down beside Tang Chuxue and said in an angry tone: "Since you know I'm your brother, then you should also know that we're birds of a feather. If I don't live well, neither will you. So some things, since you already know about them, just keep them to yourself. Otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless as a brother."

  Li Yutong was no longer worried at this moment, and slowly poured himself a cup of tea, drinking it all in one gulp. The cold tea went down his throat, slowly extinguishing the anxiety in his heart. He turned to look at Tang Chuxue, but happened to meet her smiling eyes. Li Yutong was about to speak, but saw that she had slowly lifted the veil from her face. In an instant, her terrifying appearance fell into Li Yutong's eyes, scaring him badly. He almost lost control on his chair, and his pupils couldn't help but shrink.

  "Your face, what's wrong with your face......" Li Yutong heard herself ask in terror, her body trembling slightly. When a woman with a terrifying face smiled warmly at you, the scene alone made her feel creepy just thinking about it.

  "What's wrong? Can't you see, brother? My face is ruined, my whole life is ruined."

  Li Yutong also fell silent, originally came to accuse her of being ruthless and unrighteous towards Ruan Yugeng. At this moment, seeing such a situation, she couldn't say any words of accusation anymore.

  "How was it destroyed?"

  "Su San and Tang Jin Xiu's masterpiece."

  "It's those two again." Now mentioning those two people, Li Yutong is also gritting her teeth with hatred.

  "Yes, nowadays the conviction that supports me to live on is that I want to live, and laugh at the suffering of those two people."

  In Tang's eyes, there was a deep-seated resentment and venom, in his words, an unending hatred.

  Li Yutong also hated it, but the reality was helpless. "What's the use of hating? Those two people are now living well and have strong powers, we can't shake them at all."

  After hearing this, Tang Chu Xue smiled strangely, "Who says they can't be shaken? You only see their strengths, but you can't see their weaknesses."

  "Vulnerability?"

  Li Yutong's eyes flashed with a bright light, and her face was full of inquiring expressions.

  "That's Bai Shi and Tangshan."

  "Tangshan? You're not mistaken, are you? The way Tangshan treated that mother and daughter, Tang Jinxiu's hatred wouldn't have had time to form, how could it still be a weakness?"

  For Bai, Li Yutong admitted that it was a weakness of Tang Jinxiu. But as for Tang Shan's words, he really despised them. From this matter, it can be seen that Tang Jinxiu is a person who cannot tolerate even a speck of dust in her eyes. Otherwise, if his own mother went to plead for mercy, she would not have returned empty-handed. It can be seen that the person is not a soft-hearted master.

  As for Li Yutong's words, An Yan was not annoyed, but instead continued to say softly: "You know what? The things in Tangshan are long-winded."

  Li Yutong originally made a listening expression, but now hearing this, she frowned and showed an unhappy look.

  "You should know about the incident where the three Bai brothers were removed from the family tree and expelled by the Ben family back then?"

  Li Yutong was puzzled, wondering why this was suddenly brought up, but still honestly replied: "I did hear my father mention this matter. He said that at that time, the White family's branch had brewed a new batch of bamboo leaf green tea, and originally the White family could have relied on this new formula to once again make a name for themselves in Nangun. But somehow the Silver family secretly manipulated things, and actually got the head of the White family to completely expel that branch from the White family."

  Tang Chu Xue took over Li Yu Tong's words and continued: "That branch was driven out of the White family and left Nanjun. The person who led them at that time was named Bai Xian. Not only did Bai Xian lead the entire branch away, but he also took away the secret formula for Zhu Ye Qing. And that Bai Xian is Tang Jin Xiu's maternal grandfather, which makes him Tang Jin Xiu's maternal great-uncle."

  Li Yutong was shocked, he initially just listened to it as a matter of course, and for the time being, he didn't associate it with that place. But unexpectedly, it turned out to be Tang Jinsui's maternal family.

  "The Bai family branch, also known as the Tang Jinxiu's maternal family, moved to Qingcheng and became a prominent family in just a few years with the help of Zhang Yeqing's secret recipe. It can be imagined that within a few more years, the Bai family would become the richest family in Qingcheng. However, the Bai family had an internal traitor who secretly escaped with a large amount of the family's wealth, causing the Bai family to become impoverished overnight. The Bai family branch also fell apart because of this, and the three brothers went their separate ways. Brother, do you know who that internal traitor was?"

  Tang Chu Xue stopped here and turned her head to gaze at Li Yu Tong with piercing eyes.

  Li Yutong was shocked by this sight

  Guang was shocked and became curious about the traitor, "Is it someone we know?"

  "Nature."

  Tang Chu Xue's smile at the corner of her mouth was somewhat chilly, and her eyes held a hint of frost that couldn't be dispelled.

  Li Yutong racked her brains, but for a while, she couldn't think of anything.

  Seeing Li Yutong like this, Tang Chuxue was not surprised at all, this was completely within reason.

  "That man is our father, the current master of the Li family, and a prominent figure in Qingcheng, Li Hui."

  This answer was truly earth-shattering, and Li Yutong was shocked into standing up.

  "This is impossible, how can this be?"

  Li Yutong, however, was incredulous and visibly agitated. How could this be? His father had risen from humble beginnings to build the Li family's vast fortune with his own two hands. How could he have been such a despicable person? Li Yutong found it hard to accept this truth for the time being.

  Seeing Li Yutong's appearance, Tang Chuxue coldly laughed and said: "What's unacceptable about this? Our father was originally like this. It's just that in recent years, he has become respected and prestigious in Qingcheng, making it hard to see the despicable thoughts inside him. Who would have known that the Li family's wealth originated from the wealth stolen from the White family back then? Our father is indeed a master of his craft."

  Li Yutong was shocked, his heart beating extremely fast. Emotionally, he didn't want to believe it, but intuitively, he felt that those things were probably true.

  "What about your mother?"

  "My mother is the spy left by Li Hui to stay beside Tangshan. He has always suspected that Tangshan left some evidence, and he is afraid of losing his wealth and status, so he left this trick. At the same time, he also had the idea of stealing another fortune. Our father is really clever and cunning, using all available resources to snatch things from others with such ease."

  Tang Chu Xue said with a hint of resentment, her eyes barely concealing a scornful expression.

  She hated Tangshan even more than she hated Li Hui.

  If Tangshan was her biological father, she would only feel unfair and disappointed. However, in her heart, she still respected that father figure, thinking that the image of a father should be as tall and majestic as a mountain. But after her father became Li Hui, everything changed. She could only see the filthy and shameless side of him, the despicable scene of Li Hui and Cui's affair. She saw the gentle and magnanimous Li Hui in front of outsiders, but the sinister and overbearing Li Hui in front of Cui. Such a huge change was incomprehensible to her as a child at that time. All she knew was that from then on, she transformed from a child yearning for love but neglected by her father into an even more despicable and illegitimate child. She was the product of Cui and Li Hui's affair, not exactly an affair, but rather a calculated move. According to inference, it seemed that Cui got pregnant with her and then framed Tangshan, turning herself from Li Chuxue into Tang Chuxue.

  In fact, deep down in her heart, she still had a dependence on Tangshan, that kind of dependence on her father.

  Although Tangshan was not good to her, she still thought that Tangshan was a good husband and father. For Tang Jinxiu, Tangshan had always been loving, making wooden horses for Tang Jinxiu, flying kites for Tang Jinxiu, and carrying Tang Jinxiu on his back to watch the flower lanterns. All of these things made her both envious and jealous. For Bai Shi, Tangshan also gave his whole heart.

  She thought that even if Tangshan had shown her a little bit of affection back then, she wouldn't be like this now. In fact, she wouldn't be the current herself, dark and ruthless. But can you blame her? She felt that her life was a thorough tragedy, never having seen what sunlight looked like. Probably, she would never understand if sunlight was warm or not in this lifetime.

  Li Yutong suddenly felt a very complicated feeling in her heart, and suddenly felt some sympathy for the woman in front of her. In fact, the most pitiful one was Tang Chunxue. She was the product of Li Hui's conspiracy and scheme, and the most innocent one was Tang Chunxue who knew nothing at that time and was just a child.

  "I remember when I was young, if I got sick, Tanshan would always come to see me. At that time, I felt especially happy. During that period, I kept getting sick and injured in various ways. And Tanshan would take out a lot of time to accompany me, making me feel the warmth of a father's love. At that time, I thought that just this little bit of love was enough. After all, at that time, I already knew I wasn't Tanshan's child. But, this small wish ultimately became an extravagant hope. The Cui family and Li Hui scolded me severely, telling me to be more obedient and not always attract Tanshan's attention. Because, that would interfere with their secret affair. You say, aren't the two of them ridiculous?"

  Tang Chu Xue's words were laced with a few sharp edges, her face almost ferocious, her eyes full of resentment towards Cui Shi and Li Hui.

  Li Yutong looked at Tang Chusnow like this, and inexplicably felt heartache. He had never thought that his sister had gone through so much. These things were cruel to the extreme for anyone, let alone a child like Tang Chusnow back then?