"Fighting over family property?"
Li Dahai was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter. "Hahahaha, with our family like this, what family property is there to fight over? I heard, Ziqing, I heard you're doing well elsewhere, your company is booming. Your third uncle here has a project, a sure win, no risk. Why don't you invest? It's keeping it all in the family."
Li Dahai was indeed Li Zijian's biological father; their way of speaking was quite similar.
Li Ziqing sneered, too lazy to expose the so-called bullshit project.
Wang Peixia slapped Li Dahai across the face. "You big idiot, she's here for the ancestral home! The property deed is in her hands now!"
"What? Here for the ancestral home?"
Li Dahai's drunkenness completely wore off. "Wasn't the property deed mortgaged to Money Leopard by Zijian, that silly boy? How could it be in her hands? Did she pay to redeem it?"
"Money Leopard was killed by my sister..."
Li Zijian finally told the truth. "More precisely, it was my brother-in-law."
Wang Peixia glared fiercely at her foolish son. Why didn't you say that earlier?
If you had said it, why would I have been so embarrassed just now?
"I said, my sister isn't the same sister as before..."
Li Zijian defended himself weakly.
"Indeed, she's different."
Li Dahai narrowed his eyes, staring at Li Ziqing. "But as the saying goes, you can tell an old man at three. This girl has been ruthless since she was little."
"She has a gun,"
Wang Peixia added.
Li Dahai's heart skipped a beat, but it wasn't entirely unexpected. After all, if she dared to kill the local thug Money Leopard, what was a gun in her hand?
"Li Dahai, let's talk."
Li Ziqing looked lazily at Li Dahai and said softly.
"Talk, then let's talk."
Li Dahai pulled over a chair and sat down opposite Li Ziqing.
As for the trivial matter of Li Ziqing not calling him Third Uncle, he naturally wouldn't bother with it.
Li Dahai sat down with a commanding presence, truly exuding a certain aura.
Although he was usually suppressed by Wang Peixia, at critical moments, he still had to display the demeanor of the head of the household.
However, to Li Ziqing, this was somewhat amusing.
For someone like Li Dahai, in the business world, he wouldn't even have the opportunity to speak directly with her.
"Li Ziqing, you were driven out of the Imperial City three years ago, and you dare to come back today? I see you're not here with good intentions, but I also see you're here to court disaster!"
As soon as he spoke, Li Dahai started with a sarcastic tone.
"Whether I'm courting disaster or not is not for you to judge. We're not here to talk about those things today, we're here to talk about our matters, the matters of the Li family!"
Li Ziqing was full of spirit, a true heroine.
Especially when she spoke, Li Dahai's imposing manner immediately weakened by a third.
"What else is there to talk about regarding the Li family? You don't really think that just because the property deed is in your hands, this house belongs to you, do you?"
Li Dahai sneered sinisterly. "This is the ancestral home of the Li family. By all rights and reason, it should be in the hands of a man of the Li family... Women, sooner or later, will marry out and become outsiders!"
"Heh, well said, a man of the Li family. The foundation my father built back then, you all squandered and wasted it all, and you still have the nerve to say such things?"
Li Ziqing retorted sharply. "This house was also bought by my father. If it belongs to the Li family, it belongs to Li Tianyou's Li, not Li Dahai's Li!"
"What belongs to my father, I will naturally take back!"
Li Dahai roared arrogantly. "You say you'll take it, so you'll take it? What do you think you are? Do you really think your wings have hardened? That you can challenge me? I'm telling you, no matter how well you do outside, in front of our ancestors, I am still your Third Uncle!"
"You still have the nerve to say you're my Third Uncle? When the five great families of the Imperial City ganged up to bully my father back then, what were you doing?"
Li Ziqing questioned sternly.
Then she answered her own question. "You were busy kicking him while he was down, you were busy fighting over family property. You want to be my Third Uncle? You think you're worthy?"
"Truly outrageous!"
Li Dahai, reeking of alcohol, shouted, "You also know that your father offended the five great families of the Imperial City? Do you know how much trouble your father brought to the Li family? If we hadn't severed ties with him, our Li family would have been destroyed!"
"Those things back then, do you think I wanted to do them? But could I not do them? Do you know my difficulties?"
"You little brat, you don't understand anything!"
Seeing this scene, Chen Xiao's expression turned cold. Just as he was about to speak, Li Ziqing gently grabbed his hand and looked at Chen Xiao with a pleading gaze.
Chen Xiao understood Li Ziqing's intention and said calmly, "You handle it. I won't interfere."
"Hmph, boastful talk. What do you think you are? Is it your turn to interfere?"
Li Dahai became even more arrogant.
Meanwhile, Li Zijian on the side was trembling with fear. His father was courting death, daring to speak to his brother-in-law like this...
"I'm not here to argue with you today."
Li Ziqing, who had been a bit agitated, calmed herself and said coldly, "I'm here today to make three demands."
"First, invite the memorial tablets of my parents into the ancestral home."
"Second, your family must kneel and kowtow to their memorial tablets, offering incense and apologizing."
"Third, move out of the ancestral home immediately!"
"If you fulfill these three conditions, you will still be my relatives, Li Ziqing."
Before the memorial tablets of the ancestors, Li Ziqing decided to give Li Dahai's family a chance.
Among Li Dahai's family, only Li Zijian realized this was an opportunity.
He anxiously said, "Dad, hurry up and agree, hurry up and agree!"
In Li Zijian's opinion, this was already the best outcome.
Kowtowing and admitting fault was not a problem for someone like him, let alone the fact that those two dead people were his second uncle and second aunt.
Moving out of the ancestral home was also not a problem. This ancestral home, although it looked grand, was actually quite inconvenient to live in.
If all their other properties hadn't been squandered, he would have moved out long ago.
Moreover, having a relative like Li Ziqing would be incredibly beneficial. At the very least, he wouldn't have to worry about money for the rest of his life.
He had inquired, and Li Ziqing now controlled a large enterprise with assets worth hundreds of billions.
While he could understand these things, Li Dahai couldn't.
Li Dahai turned around and slapped his son. "I agree? I'll agree your mother's ass!"
"Who the hell are you calling names!"
Wang Peixia slapped Li Dahai back.
Li Dahai was almost knocked to the ground. He glared fiercely at his wife but ultimately didn't dare to hit back.
Besides, this was not the time to argue with his wife.
"I will not agree to any of the conditions you've stated. Let's see what you can do to me!"
Li Dahai sat on the chair with a swagger, exuding a defiant attitude.
"Alas..."
Li Ziqing sighed. "I've already given you a chance. If I meet my parents below, you must tell them that your family's fate is entirely your own doing!"