Li Dabo, with the help of his son's strength, walked to his wife's side. He slowly crouched beside his heartbroken wife.
"My dear, my Li family has wronged you. Whatever you want, I'll agree to it, just don't torment yourself anymore. For over thirty years, Rongguo should have gone to a happy family, without schemes, only love."
"Is that true?" Li Dabo's wife raised her tear-blurred eyes.
"It's true." Li Dabo raised his hand and caressed the white hairs at his wife's temples. "Let yourself go, and let my mother go too. My mother was also led astray by the Wu family. When the police arrive, we'll go with them and put the Wu family, Wu Huidi, and Li Erzuo in jail together."
Li Dabo's wife nodded, "Alright, I've been waiting for this day for half my life."
Li Erbo didn't understand how a well-laid plan had turned into this. He tried to salvage the situation, "Big Brother, do you believe Tian Jing?"
Li Dabo stood up, pulled by his younger son. "I do. Since Tian Jing knew all along, she must have been waiting, waiting for you to make your move."
"Because she has a conscience. If you hadn't acted, she would have let you go out of blood relation."
"Now, there's no need to look for evidence. Zhang Fangcao's four children are your grandchildren. You want to cling to Zheng Guo, also for the money he has now."
"Since childhood, you've been close to the Wu family, always clamoring to visit your maternal grandmother's house. When you were getting married, I advised you not to marry into the Wu family. I understood your mother's pain and helplessness very clearly, but you wouldn't listen."
"Now I understand. Back then, you were already corrupted by the Wu family's crooked ways of using their daughters to scheme for other people's property, which is why you insisted on marrying Wu Huidi."
"Second Brother, now I also understand why you targeted Third Brother. When Father passed away, he only called for Third Brother, not even me. I have no objection; the elderly can see whomever they wish before they die."
"But you've grumbled in my ear many times, always believing that Father left something for Third Brother."
"I understand even better why Father didn't see you: because he knew your nature. I never expected that a willful act before Father's death would sow the seeds of hatred in your heart."
"After Third Brother was gone, the days of my family and yours feasting on meat came to an end. What good is having money? You can't buy things."
"In your eyes, human life is insignificant; money is supreme."
"From now on, I, Li Dazuo, have no second brother, only a third brother. Our brotherhood is hereby severed. You are unkind, so I cannot be unjust; I must avenge the innocent Third Brother."
"Innocent?" Li Erbo's voice rose. "He is not innocent! Father did leave something behind. I asked him, and he denied it, but he always hunted to supplement both our families. This is a sign of a guilty conscience."
"Zheng Guo was able to join the army because he used the resources Father left behind. I asked him to get another spot, but he insisted on relying on his own strength, and even advised me that being a soldier involves great danger on the battlefield."
"What strength? Zheng Guo still came back limping… uh."
Li Erbo's words were interrupted as Li Zhengguo walked steadily towards him.
"You? You? You were faking?"
Li Zhengguo nodded, "Comrade Li Erzuo is indeed smart. You've hit the nail on the head. I had a mission, so I feigned a limp and retired. Being a soldier truly relies on strength; schemes and tricks are useless."
"Back then, you didn't ask my father for another spot; you directly ordered my father to give the spot to Li Weiguo. My father disagreed, and you said we'll see. So, this is how you made my father 'see'."
Li Zhengguo raised his arm towards Li Erbo. "Right now, I wish I could tear you to pieces, but I can't. I must rely on the law. The law will punish you."
Li Erbo flinched back, then stood firm upon hearing Li Zhengguo's words. "I haven't broken any laws."
"That's not for you to say. The police will investigate."
Li Zhengguo turned to Li Rongguo. "Eldest cousin, do you remember when we were children, we went into the deep mountains to find food?"
Li Rongguo nodded. "I remember. Bao Guo and I caught a wild chicken."
"Yes, it was that time."
Li Zhengguo then looked at Li Sheng Guo and Li Bao Guo. "I don't know if you two genuinely didn't see or were pretending not to see, but Li Weiguo was indeed going to hit Eldest Cousin with a stone."
"It was because he had finished the chicken meat he was given and was still hungry. Eldest Cousin asked me if I had enough, not him. His method of snatching the chicken from Eldest Cousin's hand was to hit Eldest Cousin on the back of the head with a stone."
"I pushed him, and he broke his arm. My father went to apologize, and he demanded twenty fat wild chickens. It was a time of famine; where could we find so many fat wild chickens?"
"That year my father went into the deep mountains and returned with a broken arm. Li Weiguo smiled and said it was even. Was it even? He wanted to harm Eldest Cousin over a piece of chicken."
"He was only eleven or twelve that year. He's truly Li Erzuo's son, inherited his ways."
Li Sheng Guo waved his hand. "I really didn't see."
Li Bao Guo also waved his hand. "I didn't see it either."
Li Zhengguo shook his head and chuckled. "Li Bao Guo, you are not innocent. Aunt mentioned that Li Erzuo and Wu Huidi were plotting for you, and she wasn't wrong."
"Li Erzuo and Wu Huidi never avoided discussing matters with you. You and Li Weiguo grew up listening to all sorts of schemes and calculations."
"You both knew that what Li Erzuo schemed against Aunt was for you. Now, what he's scheming against me is for Li Weiguo. You were still dissatisfied and even argued."
"You? How do you know?" Li Bao Guo asked in surprise.
Li Erzuo glared at his eldest son with disappointment.
Li Zhengguo smirked.
Only then did Li Bao Guo realize he had spoken out of turn. "Dad~"
The villagers held their breath. What kind of people were in this family?
Li Zhengguo then turned to the protagonist of the day. "Zhang Fangcao, your four children are all Li Weiguo's. Your first husband was also Li Weiguo. I've known all of this for a long time."
"Do you think Li Weiguo loves you? No, he's taking revenge on me for not giving him the spot to join the army. Don't say I implicated you; a fly doesn't land on an egg without a crack."
"When I was still in the army, before I faked my limp and retired, you were already involved with Li Aiguo. You put a powder on Accountant Li to attract wild beasts. You both knew my father would protect Accountant Li."
"You and Li Weiguo both disregarded my father's life. In your hearts, there was only yourselves."
"When you wanted to break off the engagement, I already knew you were involved with Li Aiguo. I endured it to cover my tracks."
"Later, Tiantian arrived, and your focus shifted to Tiantian. It seemed like a love triangle, but in reality, you were carrying out a mission for Li Weiguo."
"Li Weiguo and Li Erzuo's initial goal was for me to remain single for life, for my mother to die of grief, and for my sister to be exchanged as a bride to the Tian family."
"Everything was designed by Li Erzuo, aiming to destroy his third brother's family."
"Later, when Tiantian held the family together, you changed your methods, intending to use looks to deceive the villagers, so I would acknowledge Li Weiguo's children and scheme for my property."
"Eldest Uncle is right; we weren't going to pursue it, as the deceased are gone. However, some people refuse to give up, they still want to scheme..."
"Where do you think you're going?"
Ouyang Meihua shouted loudly, leaping out from the crowd and grabbing three young boys, interrupting Li Zhengguo's words.
These three boys were Li Baoguo's eldest son, Li Weiping, Li Weiguo's eldest son, Li Weikang, and Liu Yongcheng, the son of Li family's eldest daughter, Li Rong.