Became a vicious male mother

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chapter274

Gu Xinglan could see the turtle's rear end clearly from behind the cold water pool.

He could hear Li Jianbai's intermittent words, but his gaze could only be fixed on the turtle's rear end.

Goodness, could this be a piece of raw jade?

Thinking he had misjudged, Gu Xinglan blinked twice and carefully examined the turtle's rear end.

It was indeed glowing with a green light, shimmering brilliantly; I wasn't mistaken.

After looking at it for a long time, he finally said, "Li Jianbai, is there jade inside this tortoise?"

Belatedly, I heard regular breathing coming from the other end of the phone... It seemed like they were asleep.

If the jade inside such a large stone turtle were also this big, it would be priceless!

Gu Xinglan wanted to take a closer look, so she took a few steps back until her back was against the wall. In a daze, she saw the hole hidden on the turtle's tail.

"Li Jianbai?"

He called his phone a few times.

Li Jianbai told stories, and he didn't feel sleepy at all; on the contrary, it was Li Jianbai, who was telling the stories, who got sleepy first.

Helpless, he could only hang up the phone and shine his phone's flashlight up.

There are also ladder-like handrails on it.

Gu Xinglan paused for half a second... He seemed capable of climbing up.

There's nothing special about it.

A long stone bed, a stone table and chairs, the temperature was very low, and the vines hanging down around were covered with a thin layer of frost.

It seems someone lived here for a while; there's a leather photo album on the stone table.

All the photos inside were gone, and there was a long-standing burnt smell. Gu Xinglan managed to pull out a half-burnt photo from inside.

It was a gentle and refined man and a woman wearing a cheongsam.

He had seen the woman before, in the office of the Changgu villa, in that large portrait painting. At the time, Li Taihe had even grabbed him by the neck and asked if the woman looked like him.

This is Li Taihe's mother.

The man next to him must be Li Taihe's father.

It's just too blurry to make out its specific shape.

The wall slowly emitted a crisp ticking sound, echoing in my ears like some unknown countdown, along with a feeling of being spied on.

From the moment he arrived until now, he has always felt like there are two eyes staring at his back.

Gu Xinglan put away the photo album and turned her head as if she had noticed something.

There are many small holes in the wall.

He was about to peer through the hole when he heard the sound of water coming from behind him.

Depend on?

The water level has actually risen?

As Gu Xinglan walked up to the cave entrance, she could see the water surging upwards below.

"Li Jianbai!"

He made several calls, but the person on the other end didn't answer.

He didn't know what mechanism he had triggered, but as water rushed into the hole, he quickly used his fingers to pry open the gaps in the wall and climb up.

These openings seemed to have been prepared just for him. Gu Xinglan climbed up the hole, continuing to climb to the top.

There's a board on it, and the wind keeps letting in through its edges. There's also a rusty lock.

"..."

Fortunately, as soon as these pores come into contact with water, they suddenly act like a sponge, constantly absorbing the water.

The water can't reach it.

That day, he made do with sleeping on the stone bed.

Gu Xinglan pulled her clothes tighter, shivering.

outside.

Li Jianbai was teetering on the edge of his seat outside the water room.

The wind blew by, stirring up a large swarm of dandelions, as if it were going to blow people away with them.

"Third Master, I don't know what happened, the area downstairs suddenly got flooded..."

The water pump kept pumping water, and the pool was almost full, but it still didn't seem to be empty.

Some people are already wearing diving suits.

"It must be connected to the water outside the cave."

There are many potholes on this mountain. When it rains heavily, the water can't drain away and over time it erodes into water-storing caves. If it's mixed with mud, you can't tell it's water, and it might even be like a swamp where people could drown.

Li Yuan stood to the side, his face as black as the bottom of a pot, his eyes filled with fear.

"Sure enough, this is retribution. Retribution has indeed come. Such a situation has not occurred for decades, yet it has happened so blatantly now." Li Yuan was somewhat dazed.

"That child... probably won't survive."

No matter who it is, once they arrive at the Li family, they will become the object of a curse. Once cursed, those around them will also be harmed.

His desire to drive these outsiders away was, in a way, for their own good.

"Third Master, that's a living, breathing person. You haven't checked his birth chart, how can you get so close to him without permission?"

Whether in the inner or outer courtyard, the servants were all selected based on their birth dates and were the most suitable people to stay in the Li family. Yet, one after another, they died or disappeared.

It could be said that Li Jianbai killed that child.

Li Yuan frowned, his face looking even older.

"Uncle Yuan!"

People who came back from diving in the water room downstairs pulled off their hoods, looking both hesitant and surprised.

Seeing this, Li Yuan quickly went over and asked, "Do you see any bodies down there?"

"No, no."

The tense atmosphere immediately relaxed after these words were spoken.

"Where is that person?" Li Yuan's already furrowed brows furrowed even more deeply.

"No, not at all..."

The maid, startled by Li Yuan's expression, clutched her diving suit tightly.

Who knows how dark it was down there? He shone the light everywhere but couldn't find a single human face. There was a stone turtle, though, which looked really creepy. He touched it twice, but didn't dare stay any longer. He just wanted to climb out of the water as soon as possible.

"There's nothing here, nothing there, could it have been eaten by the stone turtle inside?" Li Yuanqi said angrily.

In the chaotic crowd.

Li Jianbai was wearing thick clothes, which made him appear shorter. He coughed twice.

Beautiful things are probably all fleeting.

He's used to it.

"Let's go, everyone's tired. Let's call it a day."

After coughing with his hand over his mouth, Li Jianbai faced the crowd with a slight smile on his lips.

No one dared to meet that eye.

Except for Li Yuan.

Li Yuan, being old and with his back even more hunched, kept muttering, "How could it have disappeared..."

How could a perfectly healthy person just vanish without a trace? This has never happened in decades.

It felt like being swallowed whole by something.

“Perhaps Mr. Gu escaped from the washroom first and may not still be inside,” Li Zhuang said hesitantly.

He was the last one to leave, and at that time he could still see Gu Xinglan swimming around in the water.

He didn't lock the door to the water room when he came out.

He never expected that the groundwater would suddenly gushed out within just a few hours. He had never known that water was alive before; he had assumed it was pool water that the servants had poured in…

Over the course of a day, the water level gradually receded and returned to its original position.

This matter has already alarmed Master Li.

"That dead one was the servant that Li Hetai brought, right? Where is Li Hetai?"

Li Shengwa was arrogant and haughty, his chin held high.

The boy's words were echoed by his lackeys: "Then he's not a person. How can someone who isn't a person have emotions and desires?"

"That's it."

“We beat several of them yesterday. When the whip came down, Li Hetai couldn’t even make a sound.”

"He's practically mute, isn't he?" Everyone burst into laughter.

One of the children was immediately hit hard on the head twice.

"Hello, Uncle Yuan!" The child immediately stood at attention.

"What are you all standing here for? What time is it? Go back and take a nap!"

Li Yuan talked as he walked, his feet never stopping, until he reached the water room.

Dozens of the Li family's stewards were standing there, including the steward who was specifically in charge of Master Li.

The scene was enormous. When Li Yuan saw the row of people standing there, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.