Chapter 232 My biased mother wants me to adopt my younger brother’s son!
Ning Chi listened to his mother's extremely sad howls, his body trembling slightly. It was also the first time that he attacked his own brother, and the evil thought suddenly came to his mind without giving it too much thought. But when he actually saw the body of his own brother floating on the surface of the pond, the fear in his heart was indescribable.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have shown his guilty conscience and fear so easily, allowing people to easily see that he was the one who killed Ji Ge'er.
The first time he did something bad and harmed someone, the person he harmed was his own younger brother. How could Ning Chi be so gifted and flawless from the very beginning?
If he is given enough time to calm down, after a day or two, he will not reveal his true emotions so easily, and will deny that he is the murderer.
But he did not have enough time to calm his panic, and he was not mentally prepared to face the body of his own brother whom he had killed.
At this time, Ning Chi reacted a little late and realized that he had confessed. If his grandmother, uncle and parents knew that he was the one who killed Ji Ge'er, what would be his fate?
He should be okay, right? After all, he is the only male heir in the entire Chengguo Mansion. If something happens to him, wouldn’t the Chengguo Mansion be extinct?
Ning Chi quickly comforted himself in his heart, and even felt fearless. After all, he was the only male in the entire Chengguo Mansion, whether in the first or second house. Even if his uncle or father had another boy in the future, he would be too young. Who else could support the entire Chengguo Mansion except him?
Si Yuan and Cheng admired Li's agony and Ning Yucheng's pain and anxiety. Only after they were satisfied did Si Yuan speak to Zhang, "Mother, how do you think this matter should be handled?"
Zhang looked at him with tears in her eyes and asked in disbelief, "Do you have to be so ruthless? Ji Ge'er is your own nephew!"
Si Yuan chuckled, then whispered in Zhang's ear, "Mother, it wasn't me who killed Ji Ge'er, but his eldest brother. Isn't this kind of brother-killing drama what mother likes to watch the most? Why, now that it's the turn of the grandchildren, mother is heartbroken?"
Zhang became even more certain that her previous guess was correct. All the secrets she wanted to hide had already been discovered by the eldest son. The second house was doomed.
Zhang knew that once her eldest son found out how his sons died, he would take revenge on the second wife and no one would be able to control him. Otherwise, Zhang would not have helped Li clean up the mess before, because she was afraid that the eldest son would know the truth and take cruel revenge on the second wife.
Now the nightmare has finally come true, and Si Yuan's means of revenge are more cruel than she had imagined - he did not do it himself, but used the position of the Crown Prince of Chengguo as bait. He first adopted the illegitimate son of the second house, luring Li to kill the two illegitimate sons of the second house, and then deliberately adopted the second legitimate son of the second house, luring Ning Chi, the eldest legitimate son, to be jealous of his own younger brother and thus do an unforgivable mistake in a moment of impulse, killing Ji Ge'er, and Ning Chi himself also carried a lifelong stain.
However, the couple of the first wife had their hands clean. After all, these evil deeds were done secretly by the second wife in order to compete for the position of the crown prince. What did they have to do with the first wife?
Zhang wanted to control the first wife but couldn't, so she could only plead with Si Yuan in a low voice: "Chi'er is already the only male heir of the Chengguo Mansion, he must not get into trouble again. If Chi'er ruins his reputation, what future does the Chengguo Mansion have?"
Zhang threatened Si Yuan implicitly, "You still have Sister Fu. Think about Sister Fu. If she doesn't have a brother to support her in the future, she won't be able to live well even if she gets married."
Si Yuan sneered, "Ning Chi could even kill his own brother, how can I expect him to take care of Sister Fu, his cousin from the next room?"
Zhang hesitated for a long time, but couldn't say anything to guarantee Ning Chi.
After all, she was really shocked and could not accept the behavior of Ning Chi, the eldest grandson, who killed her own younger brother. If Ning Chi was not the grandson she had loved for many years and her only grandson at present, she would not want to see Ning Chi now.
Zhang could accept that her daughter-in-law Li murdered the eldest wife's child, but she could not accept that her son Ning Yucheng did the same. She could accept that Li murdered the second wife's illegitimate son, but she could not accept that her own grandson murdered another grandson.
Because they are blood relatives!
Whether it was Li who murdered the children of the first wife or the illegitimate son of the second wife, Zhang could understand it because Li had no blood relationship with these children.
Zhang herself never wanted to murder any of her children. In fact, she had never tried to murder any of her grandchildren over the years. She just warned Li, but Li didn't listen. After Li took action, in her heart, Li, the mother of Ning Chi, Ning Jin and Ning Rong, was more important than those dead grandchildren. She didn't want to make a big deal out of it and let her eldest son take revenge on the second house, so she helped Li clean up the mess.
But Zhang found it hard to accept the fact that brothers were killing each other.
Si Yuan looked at the pain and confusion on Zhang's face, and a sneer appeared on his face: "Mother, you are so hypocritical. Didn't you acquiesce to Li's murder of my son? Li was able to do things so cleanly without leaving any tails. Wasn't it mother who helped her clean up the mess? Otherwise, I should have had several sons over the years. Sister Fu is still afraid that she will not have brothers to support her? Mother, what's the point of pretending to regret and suffer now? I thought that although mother was a little partial to my second brother, it was insignificant. I didn't expect that mother would sit back and watch Li murder me for my second brother. You are really my good mother. I don't know how mother will have the face to meet my father and the ancestors of the Ning family in the underworld in the future!"
Si Yuan's words were like a cold sword piercing Zhang's heart. In this era when women who married into their husband's family were buried in their husband's ancestral tomb, in this era that attached great importance to posthumous remembrance, Zhang believed that after death, people's souls really did enter the underworld and that they could be reincarnated.
Her heart seemed to be trembling, and subconsciously her mind emerged with the angry accusations of her long-dead husband. The ancestors of her husband's family did not recognize her as their daughter-in-law... Zhang rolled her eyes and fainted.
Si Yuan, who was closest to her, just watched her faint, not even bothering to lend a hand to help her. He watched Zhang faint on the ground with cold eyes. Ning Yucheng rushed over to help her up: "Mother! Mother, are you okay?"
Ning Yucheng angrily accused Si Yuan, "Brother, how can you be so unfilial? Your mother fainted in front of you, and you were indifferent?!"
Si Yuan said calmly: "She can watch her grandson being killed by your wife and remain indifferent, so why can't I watch her faint and remain indifferent?" After saying that, he walked to Cheng's side without even looking at Ning Yucheng and Zhang.
Ning Yucheng was speechless and pale. It was not until Si Yuan spoke out the truth that Ning Yucheng was really sure that his elder brother really knew the truth and he was finished.
At this time, Ning Yucheng wanted to keep Zhang as his life-saving talisman even more. After all, Zhang was his and his eldest brother's biological mother. With his mother around, he would not end up too miserably. His eldest brother should always take his mother into consideration, right?
Ning Yucheng hurriedly carried Zhang out and called a doctor to treat her.
The mansion of Duke Chengguo has always had a palace physician, just to make it convenient for him to treat the master of the mansion. But also because they were afraid that the doctor would be bribed by outsiders and murder people in the mansion of Duke Chengguo, so they simply kept a palace physician in the mansion.
Seeing that the matter was almost over, Si Yuan said, "Xiao Xing and Xiao Ju failed to take good care of the Second Young Master, causing him to accidentally fall into the water and die while playing. They shall be punished with fifty strokes of the cane."
Xiao Xing and Xiao Ju were the maids who were bribed by Li and killed the original owner's legitimate son Yuan Ge'er. Si Yuan had been persuading Cheng to keep them, just to provide convenience for Li to murder Yun Ge'er and for Ning Chi to murder Ji Ge'er. Now that the goal has been achieved, there is no need to keep them anymore.
However, it would be bad for one's reputation to spread the news of beating someone to death. The life and death of the two maids who had signed the death contract were indeed in the hands of their master.
Si Yuan only beat them with fifty sticks. They didn't die, but they were just hanging on. Their lower bodies were paralyzed and they were locked in the woodshed. There was no doctor to treat them, no medicine, and no one to bring them food. They couldn't even survive a day.
Being beaten to death sounds bad, but dying of a fever after not being able to survive the punishment sounds much better.
Si Yuan's punishment was equivalent to sentencing them to death.
Xiao Xing and Xiao Ju had already anticipated their fate and did not kowtow and beg for mercy, for fear that they would anger Si Yuan again, and that Si Yuan would not even spare their families.
Cheng didn't say anything. She knew what the punishment given by Si Yuan meant. Since the two maids who had betrayed her and killed her son were doomed to die, she would not insist on torturing them herself.
What she wanted to see more now was the grief of Li, the culprit. How could she be the only one to bear the pain of losing her son? Li, the murderer who killed her son, should also feel the same way!
With a smile on her lips, Cheng admired Li's mad look as she held Ji Ge'er's body.
Si Yuan looked at Cheng's appearance and sighed slightly in his heart. He couldn't let Cheng continue to indulge in the mood of revenge, otherwise he would become mentally ill sooner or later.
Si Yuan reached out and patted Cheng's shoulder to wake her up, and said to her: "So many things happened today, you go back and take good care of Sister Fu, she doesn't know anything and must be scared."
Si Yuan and Cheng's revenge plan was of course kept secret from Sister Fu. Otherwise, if a 15-year-old girl like her were involved in such a big event, it would only make her temper worse and would be detrimental to her healthy growth.
Now that Si Yuan said this, Cheng finally remembered her daughter.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com