Chapter 225 My biased mother wants me to adopt my younger brother’s son!
The time point when Si Yuan traveled through time was exactly when the last son of the original owner, Yuan Ge'er, the legitimate son of the original owner and Cheng, was killed by Li.
Si Yuan watched as the original owner's mother, Zhang, once again brought up the matter of adoption, and this time she even brought it up in front of Yuan Ge'er's corpse.
Not to mention how the original owner would feel after hearing this, at least Si Yuan is now furious.
He sneered in his heart, but he did not expose Zhang directly, after all, there was no evidence.
He traveled through time at an inopportune time, and it was estimated that the evidence of Li's murder of Yuan Ge'er had been erased by Zhang. If he wanted to find out, he would have to use extraordinary means. It would be difficult to find out using normal means.
But it doesn’t matter. Revenge doesn’t necessarily require evidence. It’s enough to know who the enemy is.
Moreover, even if he found conclusive evidence, the most he could do was to cause Li to die of illness and force the original owner's brother Ning Yucheng to move out of Duke Cheng's Mansion.
Zhang, who was helping to clean up the mess, could not deal with her directly due to her reputation for filial piety.
It can be said that every member of the original owner's family died at the hands of Ning Yucheng's family. The Zhang family was just an accomplice. Simply killing them like this does not count as revenge.
And it was not only the original owner who suffered the pain of losing his sons, but also the biological mothers of his sons.
Si Yuan thought for a moment, then said to Zhang: "Mother, my sons have died one after another over the years. Maybe I am destined to be childless. What if my second brother's son dies young too after I adopt him?"
Zhang felt somewhat guilty. After all, her eldest son's sons died one after another, and she knew very well the real reason behind it. She was the one who helped the murderer to clean up the mess. So of course she would not believe Si Yuan's words about being childless, and continued to persuade Si Yuan to adopt her brother's son.
Si Yuan glanced at Yuan Ge'er's drowned body, nodded, and said, "Okay, then it's as mother wishes. But I'm still a little worried, so why not take my second brother's son and raise him for a while, and after making sure nothing will happen, then record him in the family tree."
Seeing that Si Yuan seemed to be convinced that it was his fate of being childless that killed his sons, Zhang did not refute much. After all, if the eldest son thought from this perspective, he would not suspect that someone had killed his sons and would investigate the truth in depth.
Anyway, Li would not take action against her own biological son in the future. The child would be recorded in the family tree after being raised in the eldest house for a period of time. There was no need to argue with the eldest son over this time difference, so she agreed immediately.
Si Yuan and Zhang did not avoid Cheng at all in their conversation. Cheng, who had just lost her son, heard that her husband did not think about finding the murderer who killed her son when his body was still warm, but instead turned around and adopted a son.
This is simply tearing her heart out! Cheng cried and refused to adopt the son, saying that no one was allowed to take her son's place!
Zhang was about to get angry, but Si Yuan stopped her: "Mother, calm down. Yuan Ge'er just died, and she can't get over it for the time being. Your son is here to persuade her. After all, we still have Sister Fu, and she has to consider Sister Fu."
Zhang took a look at Yuan Ge'er's body and felt guilty. After all, he was her grandson, and she still felt a little hypocritical and guilty. So she stopped targeting Cheng and turned away.
She also has to tell the second brother's family the good news.
Si Yuan stretched out his hand to stop Cheng who was tearing at him and quarreling with him, and said to the servants: "You go down first!"
The servants filed out, leaving only Si Yuan and Cheng in the room. Si Yuan lowered his voice and said to Cheng, "Do you still want to avenge Yuan Ge'er?"
Cheng suddenly became quiet, but a mad look still remained on her originally delicate and quiet face. She stared at Si Yuan with her bloodshot eyes wide open: "Do you know who killed Yuan Ge'er?"
Si Yuan covered her mouth and signaled her to lower her voice: "Keep your voice down, otherwise what if it gets out and the murderer is prepared?"
Cheng's eyes were filled with tears and a fierce look. She nodded viciously. She would do anything to avenge her son.
She also quickly grasped the key point in Si Yuan's words: "The murderer is in the mansion?"
Otherwise, she wouldn't be worried that what she just said would get out and be heard by the murderer.
Si Yuan sneered, "My sons are all dead, who benefited the most? Isn't it the second son's family? After all, I have no sons, so this huge Duke's Mansion can only be inherited by the second son's son? It's ridiculous that I thought we were relatives and never doubted them before. So many sons died in vain!"
Cheng was also awakened by Si Yuan's words. She gritted her teeth and said, "It was the second wife who did it!" She didn't ask for any evidence. She was heartbroken at the moment of losing her son and urgently needed an enemy to whom she could place all her hatred. As the vested interest group, the second wife had been regarded as the enemy who killed her son. She didn't need evidence, just suspicion was enough.
Cheng was so angry that her teeth were about to bleed: "Damn it, damn them! You actually agreed to adopt the second wife's son!"
Cheng would rather the title of Duke of Chengguo be left without an heir and be taken back by the court than let the son of the second wife inherit it.
Si Yuan's face showed an indifferent expression: "I am destined to have no children. Even if it is an adopted son, it is normal for him to be killed, right? After all, I have lost so many sons. An adopted son is still a son."
In the original plot, the second wife killed all the orphans and widows of the first wife, and each of the second wife's sons was not a good person either.
After hearing what Si Yuan said, Cheng's eyes lit up: "I'll do it! I want to avenge my son myself!"
Si Yuan looked at Cheng in surprise, but thinking that Cheng and the second wife had a grudge for killing each other's son, it was normal for her to want to kill the second wife's son to avenge her own son.
After all, in ancient times, people didn't care about one person's own actions, but rather collective responsibility.
Moreover, as Li's partner, does Ning Yucheng really not know about Li's behavior? Si Yuan didn't believe that Ning Yucheng was unaware of anything, but the original owner's younger brother pretended not to know and tacitly allowed his wife to murder his eldest brother's son, while he stood behind his wife and reaped the benefits.
Si Yuan patted Cheng's back and said softly, "Don't worry, you don't need to do anything for now. Someone will naturally help us."
Cheng Shi had hope for revenge and was relatively calm. When he heard Si Yuan's words, he asked curiously, "Who will help us?"
Si Yuan said: "I plan to adopt Yun Ge'er first."
Cheng said subconsciously: "Brother Yun is a bastard..."
Ning Yun is Ning Yucheng's youngest son, born out of wedlock, and the fourth child.
Ning Yucheng has many more descendants than the original owner, with a total of four sons and three daughters. Among them, the eldest son, Ning Chi, was the child who was adopted into the eldest wife's house in the original plot. He is sixteen years old this year.
The second son, Ning Ji, is ten years old this year. He is also born to Li and is the second legitimate son.
The third son, Ning Zhen, is six years old this year and is a concubine's son.
The fourth son, Ning Yun, is four years old this year and is a concubine's son.
The eldest daughter is the heroine Ning Rong in the original plot, who is fourteen years old this year.
There are also two concubine daughters who have little presence. One is three years old this year and the other is still in swaddling clothes. They don’t even have names yet, and are just called Third Sister and Fourth Sister.
Judging from the ages of the children in the second wife's backyard, we can tell that Li controlled Ning Yucheng's backyard for more than ten years. It was not until her last child, Ning Ji, was four years old and independent that she allowed concubines in the backyard to have children. Ning Yucheng's two illegitimate sons and daughters were very young.
The original owner considered that she was over fifty years old and no longer had the energy to raise a child from childhood to adulthood. She was also worried that she would die before the adopted son came of age, leaving the Chengguo Mansion without a successor, so she adopted the oldest child, Ning Chi.
Si Yuan chose to adopt Ning Yucheng's youngest son Ning Yun, and the reason was very normal - the child was young and easy to raise. After all, whoever adopts a son doesn't want him to be close to him in the future, so adopting a young child who is still young and ignorant is the best option. Si Yuan's decision will never arouse anyone's suspicion.
But will Li be willing to accept this? She murdered so many of the original owner's sons with the purpose of letting her own son take the title of Duke of Chengguo. How could she be willing to let the illegitimate son take advantage of it? Will she and her children have to depend on her husband's illegitimate son's mood in the future?
Li would never really treat her husband's illegitimate son as her own. The reason why she allowed her concubine to give birth to illegitimate sons and daughters was, first, because her children were all established, her eldest son was able to marry, and her eldest daughter was about to reach the age of marriage, and the illegitimate sons and daughters born to her concubine posed no threat to her; second, because she felt that as long as her son inherited the Chengguo Mansion, she would be able to become the old lord of the Mansion in the future, just like her mother-in-law Zhang, and the illegitimate daughter could just be married off with a simple dowry, and the illegitimate son could only get one tenth of the second wife's property. How much could he get? Her legitimate son can get the entire Chengguo Mansion.
That's why, in order to maintain her reputation as a virtuous woman, Li allowed her concubine in the backyard to give birth to illegitimate sons and daughters.
But what if Li knew that these illegitimate sons were trying to snatch away the title of Duke Chengguo that she had been planning for many years? What will she do?
According to Si Yuan's prediction, Li would most likely deal with these illegitimate sons who might be adopted into the first house just like they dealt with the original owner's sons.
Will Zhang still be able to calmly clean up for Li by then? After all, this time, the person Li murdered was not an unborn fetus, nor the son of her disliked eldest son, but the biological son of her favorite second son. Even if he was a bastard's son, he was still Ning Yucheng's son.
If Zhang couldn't stand it and started fighting with Li, the first wife could just sit on the mountain and watch the fight, watching them both get bitten by each other.
Cheng was very smart. She didn't wait for Si Yuan to explain. After she subconsciously blurted out that Ning Yun was a bastard's son, she immediately understood what Si Yuan meant.
She also didn't believe that her sister-in-law, Li, who was smiling but harbouring a dagger, would watch the illegitimate son under her control climb over her and her children.
So Cheng also guessed what Si Yuan meant, that the person who would help them was Li.
Cheng was not in a hurry. She let Li deal with Ning Yucheng's illegitimate son first, and then she would deal with Li's son herself, so that Li could taste the pain of losing her son.
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