Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 553 - 551

Chapter 553: Chapter 551

Mrs. Li rushed forward to pull on his remaining hand to stop Li Mingjun from smashing things, but he flung her away. Her head hit the sharp corner of a chair, and blood gushed out immediately!

Seeing this, Li Mingfang yelled, "Enough, if you want to die, don’t smash things, just hit the wall directly!"

Seeing that he had accidentally injured his own mother, Li Mingjun stopped, squatted on the ground, and couldn’t help but burst into tears.

"Mother, I am now a useless person. My hand is gone, I am now a useless person!"

"My son, don’t do this, you are scaring me to death! As long as we are alive, it’s fine! Don’t you know, your sister had been begging for medicine everywhere for you, and that’s how she saved your life?" Mrs. Li couldn’t help but go up and hug Li Mingjun and began to cry. She didn’t even care about the wound on her head.

Li Mingfang looked at the two people crying together, feeling a headache. She took out some Jinchuang ointment from a cabinet nearby, sprinkled a little on the wound on Mrs. Li’s head, and bandaged it for her.

Mrs. Li looked at Li Mingjun, who now had no hand, and cried, grieving for her poor son.

After a while, the two finally calmed down.

At this time, Li Mingfang asked, "Ming Jun, why did you go to the workshop that day? What were you planning with those giant firecrackers?"

Upon hearing this, Li Mingjun began to evade, "I didn’t plan anything, just, just wanted to play with them."

Play with them? Was he still a child? Li Mingfang didn’t believe it at all.

Perhaps it was because she herself had just evaded Mrs. Li’s questions in this way, Li Mingfang could immediately tell that Li Mingjun was guilty of doing something wrong from his expression.

"What are you playing with? Don’t you know how dangerous it is?"

"I just thought about taking it home, that would be loud enough!" Li Mingjun was still unwilling to tell the truth.

"Ming Jun, there is something wrong, you better not hide it from me, or if something happens in the future, like if you get injured again, I won’t care about it! Don’t count on me begging people for medicine again!" Li Mingfang, angry that her own brother would lie to her, began feeling irritated. For him, she was even willing to go to the extent of stealing things!

That matter could not be talked about, Li Mingjun would absolutely not say it: "Sister, I really didn’t lie to you, I truly wanted to take it home. Ah, I’m feeling dizzy, I need to lie down."

Seeing this, Mrs. Li quickly said, "Alright, don’t ask anymore. How can you not trust your own brother, Mingjun quickly lay down on your bed and rest."

Li Mingfang was dubious, but seeing that Li Mingjun’s complexion wasn’t good, she didn’t pursue the matter further.

The next day, Di Shaowei and Xiao’er found out that Li Mingjun had recovered.

It turns out that Li Mingfang actually stole the medicine. It seemed that Xiao’er would have to reevaluate Li Mingfang’s character, she thought to herself.

In the evening, Shangguan Xuanyi and Shen Chengyao entered Marquis Shengping Mansion together.

The two of them, bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun, sat by a stone table in the garden and chatted. Xiao’er, while making tea for Shangguan Xuanyi, asked, "Brother Shangguan, was Li Mingjun’s incident planned by you?"

Shangguan Xuanyi nodded, took a sip of the tea that Xiao’er had brewed, and felt that the tiredness of the day disappeared with that sip of tea.

"How did you come up with this idea? How did you make Li Mingjun go to the workshop on the Dragon Boat Festival?"

"I just reversed his plan. Li Mingjun had the people at the firecracker workshop make several giant firecrackers. He originally wanted to take those giant firecrackers to the resort villa at the hot springs during the Dragon Boat Festival and blast the half-built villas." After Xiao’er had burned her hand, Shangguan Xuanyi had assigned people to secretly keep an eye on Li Mingjun’s whereabouts. His people heard about Li Mingjun’s plan, and so he decided to reverse it.

Upon hearing this, Xiao’er’s face turned dark; on the Dragon Boat Festival, because of the dragon boat race, the workers at the hot springs resort were on holiday. If Li Mingjun had succeeded in destroying her villas, she would have suffered a great loss! Li Mingjun was simply inhuman! His desire for revenge was too strong!

"Not only that, Li Mingjun had also arranged for people to throw firecrackers at your carriage on the Dragon Boat Festival. It would scare your horses, and even if you didn’t fall from the carriage, it would make your carriage crash into the imperial carriage." Shangguan Xuanyi sneered at this point. Since Li Mingjun was so merciless, he shouldn’t blame him for not sparing him.

No wonder that day the Emperor issued a ban on setting off firecrackers during his outing.

Xiao’er felt it was a pity that such a big explosion didn’t kill Li Mingjun; good people don’t live long, but bad people live for a thousand years.

"Brother Shangguan, did I unknowingly dig up Li Family’s ancestral grave when I was sleepwalking? Why does Li Mingjun want to harm me? Is it because of the words I said in the Imperial Garden that day that he harbored a grudge against me? That’s too petty!"

"He just can’t stand being contradicted or wronged." Xiao’er was the first one to come forward and accuse him that time, how could he not harbor a grudge!

"Brother Shangguan, Li Mingfang stole Brother Di’s medicine and saved Li Mingjun’s life with it!" When Xiao’er mentioned this, she was extremely upset. The medicine in her storage space had saved an enemy’s life; could she not feel aggrieved? She felt like hitting her head against a block of tofu every time she thought about it.

"I didn’t expect Li Mingfang to grow an extra hand. She’s really capable!" Shangguan Xuanyi paused before speaking after hearing these words. He thought that Li Mingjun wouldn’t make it this time, but he is indeed lucky. What a waste of the precious medicine from his sister’s storage space. And that Di Shaowei could even allow such an important thing to get stolen!

"Don’t give it to him again next time!"

"I won’t, it’s a waste of my medicine! That one can only be made once every ten years. If it’s consumed within ten years, there is one less pill!" said Xiao’er, heartbroken.

Upon hearing this, and recalling how he had stabbed Xiao’er, Shangguan Xuanyi reached out, took Xiao’er’s hand and said, "Next time, don’t use the medicine casually. Do not use it unless it is absolutely necessary, because ten years is a long time!"

Many illnesses can be treated by the imperial doctor, albeit slower, but they aren’t fatal. It’s better than having no medicine to use in a life-threatening situation.

"Brother Shangguan, does the Li family still have another firecracker workshop? Can you set up another explosion?" Xiao’er, with her frustration unresolved, childishly said.

Hearing her childish words, Shangguan Xuanyi laughed, "There’s no hurry. Recently, the remnants of Xiyue Country are rampant and have launched several riots. General Li has already sent troops to quell them twice. The emperor is preparing to reward the Li family. If something happens to Li Mingjun again, the emperor will have to send people from the Dali Temple to investigate."

Shangguan Xuanyi whispered something only the two of them could hear into Xiao’er’s ear. Xiao’er was startled upon hearing it, but then she nodded.

"Cough, cough..." Jingrui came over to the two who sat shoulder to shoulder, frowning.

Xiao’er quickly withdrew her hand from Shangguan Xuanyi and stood up, "Brother, is it time for dinner?"

"It is time for dinner, but I thought you two were full from your romantic tea drinking!" Jingrui gave them a glare.

Xiao’er: How does Jingrui know about ’The Intimacy of Drinking Tea’?!