Ling Xiao stiffened his neck and confronted Ling Qingwan. Apart from Liu Er, he didn't believe anyone else, including his own sister.
The servants around were whispering, mostly talking about how Ling Xiao had changed. He used to treat Ling Qingwan so well, but now he was scolding her for another woman.
These words were like silver needles piercing Ling Qingwan's body.
"If you can't accept Liu'er, you shouldn't have agreed to it in the first place. No one is holding a knife to your neck. Liu'er is in Tokyo now. She doesn't know anyone except me. If you drive her away, isn't that just driving me away in disguise?"
Seeing that Ling Qingwan didn't say anything, Ling Xiao thought she was guilty.
"Ling Qingwan, I'm warning you. If you bully Liu'er again, I won't be polite to you." Ling Xiao gritted his teeth and threatened Ling Qingwan viciously.
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a crisp "slap" sound, and a slap hit Ling Xiao's face hard.
Ling Xiao felt a stinging pain on his cheek, and he widened his eyes and looked at Ling Qingwan with shock.
"I also warn you, this is the general's mansion, not a place for you to act wildly. It doesn't matter if you don't recognize me, and it doesn't matter if you can't remember the past, but you should know that I am your biological sister, a biological sister who was born of the same mother and had the same clothes. So, do I deserve to be wrongly accused and scolded by you for no reason?"
Ling Qingwan met Ling Xiao's gaze frankly and questioned Ling Xiao again and again.
She always thought that if she waited a little longer, Ling Xiao would slowly remember. So she always tolerated and indulged Ling Xiao. Unexpectedly, Ling Xiao bullied her even more.
Just at that moment, Ling Qingwan looked at Ling Xiao questioning and scolding her with rage, and finally realized that the person in front of her was completely different from her brother except that they shared the same body and skin.
He is not her brother, he is Liu'er's brother. He has never considered her as a family member. Thinking of this, Ling Qingwan felt a pain in her heart and almost couldn't stand.
Qiao'er supported Ling Qingwan from behind.
"You actually hit me?" Ling Xiao was stunned for a long while before he reacted.
"Yes, what's wrong with me hitting you? I've already told you that I never told Liu'er to leave. You didn't believe me and threw dirty water on me in front of everyone in the mansion. Shouldn't I be angry? Why should I let you bully me?" Ling Qingwan asked Ling Xiao in return.
Perhaps because he felt guilty, or perhaps because he was frightened by Ling Qingwan's appearance, Ling Xiao stood there in a daze, not saying a word.
"Hong Shang." Ling Qingwan called Hong Shang.
Hong Chang understood what Ling Qingwan meant. She nodded and pressed Ling Xiao's acupuncture points, temporarily making him unconscious.
Ling Qingwan was exhausted and turned back to her room.
Soon, Shen Chengzhou came back. As soon as he entered the mansion, he heard about this matter. He hurried to see Ling Qingwan, fearing that Ling Qingwan had been wronged.
"Did that guy attack you?" Shen Chengzhou asked hurriedly.
"No." Ling Qingwan smiled and shook her head. "It was me who slapped him."
After resting for a while, Ling Qingwan regained some energy, but still looked very tired. Shen Chengyuan felt very sad to see his precious granddaughter being tortured like this.
"He deserves to be beaten!" Shen Chengzhou answered without hesitation.
He even felt that Ling Qingwan didn't hit him enough. If Shen Chengzhou was there, Ling Xiao would have received more than just this one slap.
"It was only later that I realized that my brother is now like a seven or eight-year-old child. I kept accommodating him, but he couldn't remember my kindness and instead became even more aggressive towards me. No matter what I do, in his heart he only recognizes Liu'er as his sister. It's better for me to be a bad guy, at least he can be more obedient." Ling Qingwan smiled bitterly.
She truly felt Ling Xiao's favoritism towards Liu'er.
"Besides, he will definitely regret everything he did today when his amnesia is cured and he thinks about it again. I'll slap him in the face, and he'll feel better when he thinks about it in the future."
No matter how Ling Xiao treated her during this period, she never blamed Ling Xiao. People around her thought that she was very good to Ling Xiao, but Ling Qingwan knew in her heart that what she did for Ling Xiao, Ling Xiao also did for her.
No matter what happens, she will never question the brother-sister relationship between Ling Xiao and her.
I didn't expect Ling Qingwan to still be thinking about Ling Xiao at this time, and even thinking about the distant future. Shen Chengzhou was surprised, and couldn't help but sigh at Ling Qingwan's kindness and thoughtfulness.
"He scolded you today for that Liu'er, and in the future he might overturn the entire general's mansion for her. In short, this Liu'er can't be kept." Shen Chengzhou said in a firm tone.
When he mentioned Liu'er, he felt a little resentful. But Shen Chengzhou was a great general after all, and he shouldn't be angry with a little girl.
Liu'er bullied Ling Qingwan today, otherwise he wouldn't care so much.
"What is Grandfather's plan?"
Ling Qingwan hadn't come up with any good ideas about Liu'er's whereabouts. She was a little curious about what Shen Chengzhou was thinking.
"Since she is leaving and has even packed her luggage, why not just fulfill her wish and let her go back to Taohua Village." Shen Chengzhou snorted coldly.
"No." Ling Qingwan rejected Shen Chengzhou's proposal without thinking. "You can see that my brother is very dependent on Liu'er now. Liu'er just showed signs of leaving, and he is so anxious. If Liu'er really leaves, my brother will definitely have a breakdown, and he might even leave with Liu'er."
"We have worked so hard to get him to accept us a little bit. We can't let all our efforts go to waste like this."
If it was so easy for Liu'er to leave, Ling Qingwan would have let her go back long ago. It was precisely because she had to consider Ling Xiao's feelings that Ling Qingwan was hesitant to make a decision.
What is certain is that when she first met Liu Er, Liu Er was a good girl. It is also an undeniable fact that her mind has changed now.
After all, Ling Qingwan felt that she was also responsible for the ruin of a kind and simple girl.
If Liu'er had not seen the prosperity of Tokyo, she would not have had any second thoughts.
"Then let's send someone to warn her and ask her to behave herself." Shen Chengzhou offered another suggestion.
Ling Qingwan shook her head.
"I asked Madam Park to give her some advice. I know Madam Park's personality. She would not say harsh words to Liu'er without my permission. Besides, I told her to just give Liu'er some advice. You can see that it didn't work at all."
Not only did it not work, but it also instigated Ling Xiao to cause trouble for her. What a good way of putting the blame on someone else.
"I can't chase her away or talk her out of it. Can I really let a little girl like her mess up my general's mansion?" Shen Chengzhou was furious.
To him, Liu'er's matter was more difficult than the siege of the General's Mansion by 100,000 Japanese pirates. He had never thought that these emotional matters were so difficult to resolve.
Ling Qingwan was also thinking about this problem.
"I'll go and talk to you."