Chapter 294 - 295: Short Dinner-II

Li Lian knew that sitting with the relatives in the dining room with Mrs. Jin and Jin Nu Yuan's appearance after their conversation earlier wouldn't be the least peaceful. She walked out with Li Jun Wei from the room, her shoes padding down the carpeted floor when she felt her hand caught by Li Jun Wei.

His hand slides to interlock with her fingers, "I'm wondering what I should do." started Li Jun Wei that had Li Lian who looked at him to raise her brows in question, she wondered what he meant with his words and what he was weighing for.

"What you should do, for what?" asked Li Lian, her neck lifting up at him so they could speak eye to eye.

"Aunt Jin." He replied, an evil look came by his face, "I had punished her, but from how she spoke today, she seemed to not yet know what it is. When she meet her husband, she should know what I am talking of."

That was already a punishment but Li Jun Wei didn't seem to be calming down his anger yet. He knew how poisonous his family could be. They had never been the best and could be even say as the worse. The punishment he gave was still too little and he wondered what he should do, "But it isn't enough yet." completed Li Jun Wei and Li Lian heard his words.

"What did you do?" She asked curious, wondering what was his punishment.

Li Jun Wei pressed his lips to a smile, "I just fixed his company a little." He raised his hand up and down, "Pushing their income down to leave only a quarter for them for the entire week. I trust that Uncle Jin wouldn't be able to come to the festival or his son."

It may sound simple and light from Li Jun Wei's mouth but in truth it was a crisis for Mr. Jin. Their income from the company had been stable only until two days ago when suddenly without reason their income plummeted, making their company having the worse one hell of a week that Li Jun Wei did. "He must be very stressed now. I should tell him if he is able to come of the mistake that his wife did. Maybe by then they could learn their mistake."

Li Lian brought her shoulders up and noticed Li Jun Wei tilting his head at her, "What's wrong?" he asked her.

"I just wondered if it is true." Li Lian replied, "Mrs. Jin seemed to be a stubborn person."

"Do you have any idea to punish her then?" questioned Li Jun Wei with intrigued in his voice.

Li Lian hummed to give a thought, being asked she thought to help Li Jun Wei and find a suitable punishment. She then heard his voice spoke, "What kind of punishment does Ryouma Clan have in the family?"

Li Lian looked at him, a question of how did he know disappeared to her as she knew well Li Jun Wei was able to know many thing that wasn't much of strange to him, "It is a punishment that originated from the past, before grandpa ruled the clan, his great grandfather."

"What is it?" He asked her.

"A whip punishment, the whip is a wooden flat board to their back to people who broke the rules in Ryouma house. But it is never done anymore." replied Li Lian and she wondered that it wouldn't be possible to physically harm others in Li Family.

Li Jun Wei hummed, his hum was used to note down something in his mind and he continued to ask, "What did your grandfather do when there is a traitor then?"

Li Lian looked at him who had lowered his voice as if telling her she could tell him a secret, "I don't know." Li Lian replied to him, unknowingly using a lower voice as they were walking beside each other where their voice could clearly be heard by one another. "Grandfather doesn't want me to know anything that happens in Ryouma Clan. He didn't want me to be involved with it." But she had vague ideas of what happened to the people who had double crossed their clan.

Once Li Lian knew of a man who had worked with Ryouma clan for years. The man was seen normal and there had been no odd actions he took that could make him look suspicious until one day he was caught by Kei for almost trying to kill Shun. Li Lian didn't know the details of what happened or the continuation of the story but she was sure after that day, the man was never seen again from the Maple House, "They are possibilities killed, I think. Having traitors in the house or to let them go had never been good. Grandfather said that once he condoned a person but the person didn't amend their ways and came to do the same mistake."

"I could take from your grandfather's words that forgiveness is not needed." smiled Li Jin Wei, happy that Li Lian seemed to think the same way he did.

Li Lian showed a mindfulness, "Mrs. Jin and Nu Yuan are your family, would you be alright?"

Li Jun Wei's stared at her like he did since before, and his right corner of his lips pulled up. Rather than saying he shouldn't do it or to stop him because it was wrong or that she was worried of others, Li Lian was more worried about him. All Li Lian did this past few weeks was thinking about him, his emotions and he didn't miss her studious eyes while looking at his expression to observe what he was feeling or thinking. It seemed from how she now knew what he was thinking too faintly, Li Lian had gotten a hang in guessing his thought process and he was pleased to know her dedication to him.

"They are my family but also outsiders who could knock on my door bringing and serving me to death. I don't believe them at all, most of them." replied Li Jun Wei as they walked to the dining room he took a stop and Li Lian who had been siding her shoulders to be on the same slow pace he did to make her walk more freely, followed to stop beside him.