bookrandom Chapter 139: Unrepentant
Chapter 139: Unrepentant
After Lan Qing left, Li Ziru stood at the door and watched the gradually disappearing figure with mixed feelings.
"Seventh Uncle, did I go too far?"
He could see Lan Qing's dejection and loss, and as a father, he realized he had failed in his duty. As a clan elder, his daughter had attempted to murder the clan leader. Anyone would probably find this unacceptable, right?
"He must be feeling ashamed to face the clan leader and the clan members, right?"
Fei Qi sighed softly, a look of sympathy on his face.
"The news of Lan Di's incident has spread throughout the clan. Today, the Lan family seemed to be surrounded and questioned by the clan members. Some angry members even smashed their yard. Later, I went there in person to calm the anger of the clan members."
After all, murdering the clan leader is a serious crime that the entire clan cannot tolerate!
"How could this happen?" Li Ziru had just heard about this. He frowned, and there was a hint of anxiety in his voice.
"The leaders were Colun's mother and brother. The rest were the family members of the tribe who had followed Landy out of the tribe and were later injured by Master Baili and his men. They knew that it was Landy who had framed Colun and caused the others to be shot and injured, nearly losing their lives, so..."
Li Ziru's face was gloomy. He turned his head to look at Fei Qi and said, "Let's release Ge Lun. The clan is in need of people right now. Let him make amends for his crime."
Fei Qi nodded and agreed.
The moonlight is brilliant, soft and slightly cool, standing quietly in the sky, illuminating all living beings equally.
Li Ziru arrived at Randy's house. The once clean and tidy yard was now a mess. Broken pots and pans, messy wooden shelves and benches, all of which spoke of the disaster they had experienced during the day.
At the door, there were two tribesmen guarding it.
They saw Li Ziru about to salute, but was stopped by him.
Inside the house, bursts of sobbing could be heard under the dim candlelight.
Then, Lan Qing's soothing voice was heard again.
"Why?" Hu Sanniang asked unwillingly, "As an elder of the clan, you have done so much for the clan, why did Li Ziru treat our Lan family like this?"
"Now, Adi has lost her reputation in the tribe. Everyone wants to bite a piece of flesh off her when they see her! She's just a child, why do you treat her like this?!"
Lan Qing sighed heavily, not sharing the same discontent and resentment as Hu Sanniang. "To murder the clan leader is a crime punishable by immediate death."
Hu Sanniang looked at him, unable to believe that these words came out of his mouth. "She is your daughter, you, how could you say such a thing?!"
"I'm telling the truth." Lan Qing leaned back on the bed, his face radiating fatigue. "Young Clan Master has shown mercy. If it were someone else, there's no way they would have received such a simple punishment!"
Hu Sanniang opened her mouth and subconsciously wanted to refute, but reason told her that Lan Qing was right.
But even so, she still found it hard to accept.
At this time, Randy, who was hiding outside, couldn't stand it anymore and rushed in, shouting hysterically at Lan Qing, "Dad! Are you still my real dad? How can you say that to me? Do you really want your only daughter to die at the hands of someone else?"
Lan Qing felt a pang of pain in his heart as he looked at his daughter, who was not obedient at all, had a ferocious look on her face, and had thrown even the most basic rules to the wind.
How could his daughter become like this?
"Adi! What nonsense are you talking about?! How can you talk to your father like that?" Hu Sanniang looked at her daughter who spoke without thinking, her face full of heartache, but she couldn't bear to blame her any more.
"What's wrong with what I said?" Randy really didn't expect that her biological father, under such circumstances, would not even intercede for her or turn the situation around, but actually wanted to execute her! How else could she treat such a father?
"Daddy, even if I made a mistake, I'm your daughter! The eldest daughter of the Beast Tamer Clan! That Collen is just a small beastmaster. What's wrong with him taking the blame for me? What's the big deal?"
"After this is over and Brother Ziru has calmed down, I'll plead for his release! I didn't say I'd leave him alone! Why are you doing this to me?!"
Randy still doesn't know what's wrong with him.
Upon hearing this, Hu Sanniang froze in her tracks, her eyes filled with disappointment. She had never imagined her daughter could say such a thing!
She, she didn't teach her like that!
Lan Qing's expression froze at this moment, and his heart, already bruised and battered, became even more desperate and cold.
He walked up to Landy with a very calm expression, so calm that Landy was a little scared, and even Hu Sanniang couldn't help feeling uneasy.
He won't be so angry that he will hit the child, right?
"Father, father..."
Randy watched her father approaching her, fear flickering in her eyes. She lowered her head, avoiding his gaze, and her body was forced back step by step until she was against the wall, with nowhere to retreat.
"Adi, Daddy just wants to ask you one question," Lan Qing's voice was so calm that it was almost impossible to tell the emotion. There seemed to be no sadness, no anger, and no blame. It was just a very ordinary inquiry.
"Did you intend to poison the clan leader on purpose?"
"Brother Qing!" Hu Sanniang was shocked, and a strong sense of uneasiness and fear surged in her heart.
Landy was a little panicked and subconsciously looked at Hu Sanniang.
"Don't look at your mother!"
Lan Qing yelled, scaring Landy so much that he trembled all over and his face turned pale.
"Tell me, Dad, did you harm the clan leader?"
He looked at Randy, trying his best to calm himself down and make himself look less scary and less frightening.
But at this moment, his anger, disappointment, shame, and all kinds of negative emotions enveloped him and overwhelmed him. He almost couldn't control the release of his emotions, but looking at the daughter he had doted on since childhood, he suppressed it.
"Daddy..."
Randy no longer had the arrogance and temper he had before. The seemingly calm Lan Qing made her feel a kind of oppression like a storm, and she was a little scared.
"Tell me, is there one?"
Seeing her hesitation and avoidance, Lan Qing had basically made up his mind.
But he was still unwilling to give up and wanted to hear her say it herself.
"I...I..." Randy wanted to look into his eyes, but she didn't dare to speak.
The room fell into an eerie silence, with the three men standing in three directions, forming a triangle.
Hu Sanniang looked at Lan Qing, full of worry, afraid that Lan Qing would do something out of control.
Lan Qing stared at Ran Di, feeling heavy and desperate, with an idea forming and solidifying in his heart.
And Randy, under an inexplicable pressure, looked at Hu Sanniang for help, wanting to escape from here.
This state did not last long, but in the hearts of the three people, it seemed as long as three winters.
Randy didn't say anything for a long time, and Lan Qing finally gave up.
The countless suppressed emotions in his heart seemed to disappear in an instant. At this moment, he no longer had the desire or courage to scold Randy.
How could he blame others for his child's development? He had failed to raise his child well, and the root of the problem lay with him...
He dragged his weak body back to the bed, with his head hung. It seemed as if all the strength in his body had disappeared and he looked completely exhausted.
His pale hands were placed on the table beside him, silent and composed, like an elderly man who had been alone in the house and forgotten for decades.
Randy looked at her father, who seemed to have aged dozens of years overnight. She panicked and called out in self-blame, "Daddy..."
Hu Sanniang also noticed that something was wrong with him and walked forward worriedly.
Lan Qing looked up at Randy, his slightly cloudy and confused eyes filled with struggle. Still unwilling to give up, he asked again.
"Adi, Daddy, can I ask why?"
"Why? Is Uncle Li not nice to you? Why are you doing this?"
Randy stood there in a daze, his mind blank, and the words that were on the tip of his tongue couldn't come out.
A deathly silence fell in the room.
Outside the house, Li Ziru looked gloomy.
He left, his steps firm. Deep down in his heart, it felt as if two threads called "expectation" and "friendship" had been completely severed.