Chapter 227 My biased mother wants me to adopt my younger brother’s son!
Cheng now hates everyone in the Ning family indiscriminately except her and her daughter.
She hated Li, the culprit who killed her son.
I hate Zhang, the mother-in-law who cleans up Li's mess.
He hated his brother-in-law Ning Yucheng, who was a vested interest.
She even hated the children of the second wife, because as children of the second wife, they were born to be the vested interests. As those whose interests were harmed, Cheng had sufficient reasons and position to hate them.
She even resented her own husband. She hated that her husband had been instigated by her mother-in-law to fall out with her and her husband. She hated that her husband was foolishly filial and unwilling to support her in getting the housekeeper's power in Chengguo Mansion, which made it impossible for her to control the backyard and gave Li the opportunity to win people's hearts and kill her son.
Cheng hated every member of the Ning family equally. If it weren't for her daughter Ning Fu, she would have wanted to fight with these people.
Because now that Si Yuan has traveled through time, he acts as if he has seen through the true colors of Zhang and the second house, and is willing to stand on Cheng's side to avenge the murder of his son.
That's why Cheng could barely suppress her resentment towards her husband. After all, her husband was a victim just like herself. Although he was wrong, he was still her daughter's biological father. Now he was willing to mend his ways. The future of her and her daughter depended on him.
But as the direct murderer and accomplice who killed her son, Cheng hated him so much that she wanted to eat his flesh, sleep on his skin and drink his blood!
If Si Yuan hadn't told Cheng about his revenge plan, Cheng would have been unable to continue to endure this.
Now Cheng could only watch Li murder the second wife's illegitimate son with her own eyes to gain a little comfort in her heart. After all, she had begun to avenge Yuan Ge'er, and soon those who directly or indirectly caused Yuan Ge'er's death would have to go down to accompany Yuan Ge'er.
The maids Xiao Xing and Xiao Ju who served Ning Yun were bribed by Li a long time ago and were planted as spies in the first wife's house. When Yun Ge'er, the eldest son of the first wife, drowned, these two maids also made a great contribution.
After Si Yuan found out who the person was, he told Cheng and asked Cheng not to take action immediately, but to arrange for the person to serve and keep watch by Ning Yun's side.
Knowing Si Yuan's plan, Cheng resisted the urge to beat to death the two maids who had betrayed her and killed her son. Instead, she watched with hatred as the two maids worked for Li.
When Li ordered Xiaoxing and Xiaoju to keep watch for Yun Ge'er, she deliberately opened the window and lifted Yun Ge'er's quilt, allowing the still cold night wind after the spring to blow towards Yun Ge'er who was wearing thin clothes.
The next day, Yun Ge'er had some symptoms of cold.
Cheng pretended to be very concerned about her adopted son and immediately asked a doctor to take care of Yun Ge'er. After taking a few doses of medicine, Yun Ge'er's illness gradually got better.
Li didn't care and just asked Xiaoxing and Xiaoju to continue doing this. Children can recover from a single illness, but if they get sick multiple times in a short period of time, their bodies will not be able to bear it.
If letting Yun Ge'er die naturally from a cold doesn't work, it won't be too late for her to poison him.
With Cheng's deliberate letting the situation go, Li could easily succeed. When Yun'er fell ill, Cheng just thought it was the eldest wife's unlucky son and that Yun'er, who had always been in good health, would fall ill. She did not bother to investigate the cause of Yun'er's illness at all.
Li was secretly delighted about this, but Zhang felt that Yun'er's illness was strange. However, she could not openly say that she suspected someone wanted to harm Yun'er. After all, the person she suspected was Li, and for the sake of Ning Chi, Ning Ji, and Ning Rong, the three legitimate grandchildren, she had to give Li face.
Zhang could only secretly investigate whether it was Li who took action.
But this time, it was Si Yuan and Cheng who helped Li clean up the mess.
The real owner of the Chengguo Mansion is still Si Yuan, the Chengguo Duke. As the original owner of the Ning family, he failed to find out the cause of death of his previous children because he never doubted or guarded against his closest relatives, which led to the darkness in the light and gave the villain an opportunity to take advantage of him.
Now Si Yuan is well prepared. If he doesn't want Zhang to find out anything, Zhang won't be able to find out anything.
Zhang was relieved to see that the result of her investigation was that the child was sick normally. She no longer suspected Li. After all, she felt that Li did not have the ability to hide it from her. Besides her, who else in the entire Ning Mansion would help Li clean up the mess? Therefore, since Li cannot be found now, it means that it was not Li who did it.
At first, Li was worried that Zhang would find out about her. She had even thought about how she would use her three children as a life-saving talisman if she was discovered. Anyway, she had given birth to two sons and a daughter for Ning Yucheng. For the sake of the three children, it was impossible for Zhang to treat her badly just because of a bastard's son.
But unexpectedly, Zhang did not make any move. Li thought that Zhang did not care about Ning Yun, the illegitimate son. After all, she had harmed the children of the first wife before, and even killed the legitimate son of the first wife, but Zhang would still clean up the mess for her. Now she only harmed a illegitimate son and did not kill him, so it was normal for Zhang to have no reaction.
Li became even bolder and continued to attack Ning Yun. She also did not let go of Ning Zhen, another illegitimate son of the second house.
Because Ning Zhen was not raised in the first house like Ning Yun, Li needed to be very careful in her actions. Ning Zhen was completely in the palm of her hand in the second house, so it didn't take long for Ning Zhen to catch a severe cold.
Li looked worried and anxious, but she actually delayed the time to call the doctor secretly, and then tampered with the medicine that Ning Zhen drank. There was no need to poison it. She only needed to pour out half of the medicine Ning Zhen drank, and then add water. The efficacy of the medicine would be halved. The doctor would not be able to find any problems and would only think that the medicine had little effect on Ning Zhen, the child.
Ning Zhen suffered from a cold for a few days and then passed away.
Ning Yucheng was naturally sad because of the death of a son, but he had many sons and the deceased was an unimportant bastard, so his sadness was limited. He didn't even look at his son's body twice and left everything to Li to deal with.
Li's pretended sadness was even sadder than Ning Yucheng's.
Ning Zhen's biological mother was secretly killed by Li during childbirth, leaving the son alone. She only needed the illegitimate son and daughter to enhance her reputation as a virtuous woman, and she did not need the biological mother of the illegitimate son and daughter to stay and get in her way.
So if Ning Zhen died and Ning Yucheng didn't pursue the matter, no one would care.
Zhang did care a little, but she was only on guard against Li's plan to murder Ning Yun, who was to be adopted by the eldest son of the royal family. She didn't expect that Li would not even let Ning Zhen go.
In addition, children in ancient times were very likely to die from colds and had difficulty living. Li's actions were covert, and Zhang had not sent people to monitor Li at all times to protect Ning Zhen, so she could not catch any evidence against Li.
Zhang did not suspect that it was Li who murdered Ning Zhen. After all, Li had allowed Ning Zhen to grow up to the age of six, and it was not Ning Zhen who was adopted into the eldest house. What reason did Li have to murder Ning Zhen? So Zhang was just sad and regretful for a while, and did not suspect that there was another reason for Ning Zhen's death.
After Li got rid of Ning Zhen, the illegitimate son, she focused on dealing with Ning Yun, the even more annoying illegitimate son.
Because of Cheng's help, even though Ning Yun fell ill many times, Cheng still asked Xiao Xing and Xiao Ju to keep watch over Ning Yun, giving Li ample space to murder Ning Yun.
Finally, the cold was too severe this time and Ning Yun couldn't survive.
The doctor gave Ning Yun strong medicine, but his high fever could not be reduced and he died.
Cheng cried even more sadly than Ning Yucheng, Ning Yun's biological father. Si Yuan also sighed, but he did not feel any regret. This was all part of his revenge plan. He did not have the heart of a kind father to lament Ning Yun's innocence and pity.
In the original plot, the first wife's family died, and the second wife took all the benefits. Ning Yun, as the son of the second wife, was also a vested interest.
And even if Ning Yun is innocent, whether in this ancient small world or in the Tiancang world of cultivation, the emphasis is on collective punishment and rooting out the evil.
In the Tiancang Realm, Si Yuan had even fought in a war to annihilate his entire clan, so how could he develop any unnecessary fatherly concerns over such a small matter?
He sighed only because most of the plot of this world was confined to the inner house, and there was not much description of the court. This made Si Yuan spend a lot of time and energy to sort out the affairs of the court, which even delayed his time to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth.
The people who were truly sad about Ning Yun's death were Zhang and Ning Yucheng. After all, after Si Yuan agreed to adopt Ning Yun into the first house, they regarded him as the guarantee of the second house's future prosperity and wealth. Now that he had died, how could they not be sad?
Especially Zhang, she truly loved the grandson born to her by her second son.
Ning Yucheng was more sad that his son who would inherit the throne of Duke Chengguo was gone. He couldn't help but ask Si Yuan, "Brother, Yun Ge'er is gone. Why don't you adopt Ji Ge'er?"
Ning Yucheng was really worried that his eldest brother would dislike his two remaining sons because they were too old to be raised, and would adopt younger children from other branches of the clan.
After all, since it is an adopted child, it is naturally easier to raise a younger one, and it doesn’t matter even if the blood relationship is not that close.
Ning Yucheng actually had some idea about the brotherly relationship between himself and his eldest brother. After all, he had been jealous of his eldest brother's status as the eldest son and the ability to inherit the title of Duke of Chengguo for many years. He had never been very close to his eldest brother and always acted aloof and arrogant. Even if his eldest brother promoted him in officialdom, he would still pretend to be aloof and arrogant and would not go along with the crowd, and he would force his eldest brother to beg him to accept the promotion.
It's just that my eldest brother was too tactless. He didn't see the insincerity behind his noble refusal at all. He thought he really didn't want to be promoted and actually gave up on promoting him.
This made Ning Yucheng hate his elder brother even more. He no longer felt close to him and often secretly complained about him to his mother.
Now Ning Yucheng is very afraid that his elder brother will not be willing to adopt his son because he is not close enough to his brother.
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