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Li Rong actually had nothing to say in response to these words.

Even if she had, Li Qiang never got to know about it as the door of the room was knocked at this moment.

Li Rong got up from the bed and Li Qiang allowed whoever was outside to come inside. 

However, when he saw the person stepping inside the room, his face went black and he looked away coldly.

Even the person, Li Chen who had stepped inside the room froze when he saw his father sitting on the bed.

He had thought that his father was outside and that's why he came to meet his mother and tomorrow he had to leave the Imperial City.   

"Li Chen, son…why are you here? Is everything alright?"

Li Rong hurriedly wiped her teary face and put on a soft smile as she looked at her son with eyes full of motherly love.

Li Chen also felt distressed when he saw his mother's pale face. His mother was like this and he was leaving her in the city alone. However, he could also do nothing.

Li Chen knew that he stayed in the Imperial City then he would surely go crazy because of the guilt inside his heart.

"Mother, I am leaving for the borders tomorrow."

Li Rong frowned after hearing her son's words.

"Leaving for the border…"

She whispered and an anxious expression was formed on her face.

Li Chen and Li Qiang, both of them, knew why she looked anxious. It was very cold. Since the moment, he had been allowed to go to the borders with his father or uncles, her mother would always ensure that the weather was fine.

Only then she would send Li Chen to the borders. If it was too hot or too cold, then she would persuade her husband to make General Li stop from sending Li Chen to the borders.

Actually, Li Chen knew that if his mother wanted then perhaps she would not even have let him go to the borders. He had always felt very annoyed with his mother's protectiveness as he had always wanted to learn how things worked on the borders but because of this overprotectiveness, he never faced something hard.   

In other words, since he never suffered so he remained incapable in the second uncle's eyes who were already paving way for his own son in Li Chen's eyes at that time.

However, Li Chen, no matter how annoyed he felt he never spoke against his mother.

He would just look at his father and plead to let him go, however, even his father would go weak in front of his mother's requests. 

Li Chen sighed full of guilt.

Why did he even blame his second Uncle in the past because he could never get any opportunity?

It was never his second uncle who stopped him from going to the borders. In fact, it always had been his own mother. However, his sisters' manipulation made him put all the blame on the second household and his second uncle.

Li Qiang's thoughts were no different from his son.

His heart was also full of guilt.

If only he had not been so weak then perhaps Li Chen would never have felt any need to do what he did.

He was sure that his younger brother must have noticed how his wife was making him treat Li Chen differently from other men in the whole family. Their family had a military background and hence every man had to go through a very hard training. Even Li Chen go through it, however, Li Rong would always try to make things easier for him.

So even if he knew everything, it was nothing in his brother's eyes.

Because he never suffered what those men at the borders have to go through in too much hot and too much cold.   

However, Li Heng never complained because he respected him.

This time, Li Qiang didn't say anything to coax his wife when she looked at him anxiously. This time, he would not stop Li Chen even if it was so cold.

Li Rong felt heartbroken seeing this as she understood what her husband's silence meant. She could only swallow her emotions and smile in front of his son as she said anxiously

"Then I will prepare some warm clothes for you…also some things that are eatable and keep your body warm …"

Li Rong continued to mutter many things that could make Li Chen's life comfortable on the borders. However, Li Chen had a helpless expression on his face as he heard his mother's every word.

He could not tolerate any more and enlightened her

"Mother, I can't take all these things with me."

Li Rong frowned at these words and said immediately

"I will not listen to you no matter how much you refuse."

In the past, Li Chen had tried to refuse her so Li Rong thought that her son was saying this because he again had this strange wish to suffer like other people on the border.

However the next moment after hearing her son's words, she was more startled.

"Mother, this time I am going to the border as an ordinary soldier. I can't take all these things with me."

The soldiers are not allowed to take many things with them because of security purposes.

Five decades ago, things were not like this. However, at that time some enemy soldiers entered Li Clan's military with a few weapons hidden in their things and late at night attacked the sleeping soldiers.

Although those soldiers could not do any harm, since then every soldier was restricted to take anything while entering the army except some memorable things that they needed to keep with themselves to keep their family in their memories.

Everything else was provided to them by Li Clan itself and since he was now going to be one of them, the same rules applied to him also.           

However, Li Rong's anxiousness increased more when she heard this.

Even after being a part of Li Clan for almost two decades, how could she not know in what kind of condition those soldiers lived in?

Her son …how will he live there in such harsh conditions?

She felt very angry when she thought that it was Li Heng who had taken such a decision and blurted out the first thought in her mind.

"Your second uncle is just too much.. He is venting his anger he had for Li Na and Li Caihong on you since he knows that he can't do anything to them."