Yuan family, Ling Luoyi looked at Yuan Chengxi, who was stunned, and said, "Even if you have to die, at least respond to the Fifth Princess's feelings. I heard she has done a lot for you. Even if you don't like her, you have to say it directly, don't let her fall deeper and deeper until she can't extricate herself. As a princess of a country, to be able to do this for you is considered a devoted heart. That's all I have to say, think about it yourself."
After speaking, Ling Luoyi turned to the Ling family disciples and said, "Take the items back. Regardless of how they will be dealt with later, it will be decided by the Patriarch and the elders."
"Yes." Someone stepped forward to carry the boxes.
Dozens of large boxes, each weighing several hundred pounds, even for the Ling family members whose bodies had been cleansed many times, it still required two people to lift one.
The boxes were directly carried back to the Ling mansion. Some people had ideas about those boxes, but upon recognizing the people carrying them, they abandoned those thoughts. The Ling family had caused too much commotion in recent days, and regardless of whether families were on good terms with the Ling family, no one dared to scheme against the Ling family at this time.
Many people had also come from other countries in recent days. They had intended to go directly to the Ling mansion, but upon learning that the Ling mansion was very busy recently, they stayed in inns near the Ling mansion, waiting to visit as soon as the Ling family finished their affairs.
This afternoon, Ling Luoyi visited many families, basically for the same matter. After completing it, she removed the barrier. Then, she arrived at the second to last family, the Yin family.
As before, Ling Luoyi only opened the barrier at the main entrance and walked in together.
Upon entering, she saw that the current head of the Yin family and his heavily pregnant wife were wearing mourning clothes and sitting in the main seats of the front hall. Like the Yuan family, the courtyard was filled with boxes containing weapons, medicine bottles, books, and other items.
Ling Luoyi frowned and sent out her spiritual sense. After a moment, Ling Luoyi withdrew her spiritual sense. It seemed that the Yin family had also lost many people in recent days, and her grandfather and the others should have visited the Yin family as well. However, what were the head of the family and his wife doing?
Seeing Ling Luoyi frown, the Yin family head stood up, cupped his fists, and said, "Eldest Miss Ling, these are items that the Yin family stole from the Ling family in the past. Today, we return them tenfold. Please accept them, Eldest Miss Ling."
The day after Ling Luoyi returned and caused a stir at the Alchemist Guild, the Yin family head had wanted to do this. He had secretly prepared the items over the past few months and intended to send them to the Ling mansion at a good time. He did not expect the Wei family to make a move first. Later, the Ling family head led people to their door. To avoid further enraging them, he did not mention it at the time and waited until the Ling family came to collect the barrier before sending the items.
Ling Luoyi was not concerned about the items, but she had a question to ask, and she did not want to wrong herself, so she asked directly, "If I remember correctly, the Yin family head also went to the Ling mansion on that night ten years ago and killed many people. Judging by the current situation, it seems my grandfather and the others have been here, and many people in the Yin family have also died. Why did my grandfather let you go?"
Ling Luoyi truly did not understand this. In the original owner's memory of that night, the current Yin family head was among those who attacked the Ling family with the then head of the Wei family. Her grandfather and the others would not have forgotten, but why did they specifically forget him?
Upon hearing Ling Luoyi's question, the Yin family head turned and looked affectionately at his wife, then said to Ling Luoyi, "Because on that night, I protected two pregnant ladies of your esteemed household. Therefore, at the plea of the two ladies, the Ling family head let me go."
Hearing this, Ling Luoyi glanced at the Yin family head's wife, who was looking at her husband with concern. She looked at her bulging belly and then remembered that when the Wei family attacked the Ling family, it was four months after the Third Madam, Li Ziya, gave birth to Ling Luofeng and Ling Luofei. At this time, the Fourth Madam, Yao Yuxin, was more than six months pregnant, and the Second Madam, Bai Jingzhi, had just found out she was three months pregnant.
After that night, Yao Yuxin almost had a premature birth. Three months later, when she gave birth to Ling Luomeng, she almost died along with her daughter. It was only when Princess Qiao intervened and invited imperial physicians that both of them were saved. Bai Jingzhi also almost miscarried, and it was only because Ling Yue privately sent a lot of precious medicinal herbs that the pregnancy was saved, resulting in the Ling family's direct descendant, Ninth Miss Ling Luozhi.
"Since my grandfather and the others let you go, I have nothing more to say. I will take the items, but..." As she spoke, Ling Luoyi repeated the move she had made at the Yuan family and then removed the barrier.
Seeing this, the Yin family head knelt down and kowtowed to Ling Luoyi, then said, "Thank you, Ling family, for sparing my family."
Ling Luoyi waved her hand and said, "No need, but my grandfather and the others chose to let you go, but other clansmen will not let you off so easily, especially the families of those you killed back then. Therefore, you should take your family and leave, and do not appear before them again."
"Thank you for the reminder."
Ling Luoyi turned and signaled them to take the items away, then led the remaining people to the last family.
Wei family, nearly eighty percent of the people in the old Wei family mansion had died, except for the very young children and those who had not participated in the events of that year. Everyone else had died. Especially the lineage of Wei Wensong, who had proposed the idea, had no descendants left.
The new family head, Wei Chuzhan, was in the room of the Second Master Wei, taking care of the Second Master Wei, who was inexplicably losing weight rapidly. Looking at the Second Master Wei, who was skin and bones and appeared to be dying but still breathing, Wei Chuzhan couldn't help but panic. He didn't know if his father's condition was related to the Ling family, but his father had become like this after returning from the Ling family, so he couldn't help but think of the Ling family.
Just as Wei Chuzhan was about to feed the Second Master Wei something, a servant reported that Ling Luoyi had arrived with people.
Wei Chuzhan put down the bowl, instructed the servant to take good care of the Second Master Wei, and then walked towards the front hall.
After Wei Chuzhan left, the young servant looked at the dying Second Master Wei with deep disdain in his eyes. If it weren't for the barrier set up by the Ling family in the Wei mansion, he wouldn't have been able to leave. And fearing being beaten if he didn't do his job, he wouldn't have come.
Looking at the thick, fragrant porridge, the servant glanced at the dying Second Master Wei lying on the bed, thinking that since he couldn't eat it anyway, he might as well drink it while others were not around.
After a bowl of porridge, the servant couldn't help but smack his lips. Indeed, the master's things were much more refined and delicious than those of the servants.
In the front hall of the Wei mansion, Ling Luoyi stood in the courtyard with her people, while the servants of the Wei mansion trembled beside them.
When Wei Chuzhan arrived, he saw this scene. Looking at the culprit who had reduced the Wei family to this state, Wei Chuzhan was angry but dared not vent his anger on Ling Luoyi, so he could only direct his fury at the innocent maids nearby.
"What are you standing here for? Hurry back!"
"Yes!" The maids immediately ran towards the back courtyard.
Wei Chuzhan sat in the main seat, picked up a teacup to cool himself down, and took a sip of tea. It was cold. He instinctively wanted to spit it out, but seeing that there were outsiders, he forced himself to drink it down. He put down the teacup, doing his best to maintain his already lost dignity, and said, "I wonder if Eldest Miss Ling is here to lift the barrier of the Wei mansion?"
The Ling family members looked at this new head of the Wei family, who had only been in charge for a few days and whose family had already declined, as if they were watching a clown. They then looked at their own young lady, who exuded nobility just by standing there, even without doing anything, and shook their heads helplessly. There was simply no comparison between the two.
Seeing that Wei Chuzhan had finished putting on airs, Ling Luoyi said with a smile, "I am indeed here for this matter."