Chapter 255 My biased mother wants me to adopt my younger brother’s son!
Li was counting on Zhang to help, so how could Si Yuan not know about it? But he didn't give Zhang any chance to speak.
After Si Yuan came here, he never went near Zhang's bedside. He only questioned Li, actually just to buy time.
Si Yuan's consciousness sensed that Zhang's vitality was getting weaker and weaker. After Zhang's vitality was completely extinguished, he pretended to be angry with Li: "Humph, you'd better pray that mother's condition will not be aggravated by you, otherwise..."
Si Yuan had a worried look on his face. He walked towards Zhang's bed and leaned over to ask with concern, "Mother, are you okay?"
However, at this time, Zhang's eyes were narrowed, and he seemed to be still alive.
But no matter what Si Yuan said, she didn't react at all. Si Yuan couldn't help but take two steps back and said nervously: "Doctor, come and take my pulse!"
The court doctor stepped forward and placed his finger on Zhang's pulse. After a moment, his face changed drastically. He knelt down in front of Si Yuan and said in a sad tone, "My Lord, please accept my condolences! The old lady is gone!"
Si Yuan covered his face and cried: "Mother..." Even though many people present knew that he and Zhang had a falling out, he still had to pretend to be a filial son. This was politically correct.
Cheng was also shocked. The mother-in-law whom she had hated for most of her life actually died like this? She just felt a little dazed.
Li was the saddest person after hearing the news of Zhang's death. She rushed to Zhang's bedside, tightly grasped Zhang's cold hand, and cried loudly: "Mother, why did you die like this? After you are gone, what should I do? What about Rong'er?"
In fact, Li didn't like her mother-in-law Zhang very much, although between her and Cheng, Zhang unconditionally favored her.
However, Zhang was not happy with her beloved son's wife in many ways, and the conflict between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law still existed. Li was resentful of Zhang for giving Ning Yucheng a beautiful concubine, and was also dissatisfied with Zhang for taking her children away to raise.
It's just that the interests of both parties are consistent, so they maintain a relatively good relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Li took advantage of Zhang's mentality and used her favoritism towards the second wife to gain benefits.
Now that Ning Rong is in trouble, the first thing Li thinks of is to seek Zhang's help.
No matter how strained the relationship between Zhang and the first wife was, it was an indisputable fact that she was the biological mother of the master of Chengguo Mansion. Li felt that there was no overnight hatred between mother and son. Even if Si Yuan really harbored resentment towards Zhang, it was a mixture of love and hate. If Zhang really made a request to Si Yuan, no matter how reluctant Si Yuan was, he would still be willing to do it if he could do it with just a wave of his hand.
But now Zhang is dead!
She died before she could even open her mouth to plead with Si Yuan!
Li was very upset. She should have brought a doctor with her to be ready to save Zhang's life when she told her the bad news that the Yong'an Marquis Mansion was confiscated.
Zhang died at a really bad time. Even if she was going to die, she should have held on to her last breath and asked Si Yuan to save Ning Rong before dying!
In this way, she didn't believe that Si Yuan could ignore his biological mother's last wishes and still choose to stand by and watch his niece being exiled while pregnant.
Li didn't know that Si Yuan was preventing Zhang from leaving such a will, so he deliberately delayed time and waited until Zhang died before visiting her.
Si Yuan pulled away Li, who was crying more sadly than his legitimate son beside Zhang's body, and attacked her directly: "You've pissed off your mother to death, and you still have the nerve to pretend to be crying here! Someone, kick her out!"
Si Yuan ruthlessly ordered his men to drive Li out of Duke Chengguo's Mansion.
Such an exciting thing happened in front of the gate of Duke Chengguo's Mansion, which naturally attracted the attention of others.
What did Li do to be ruthlessly driven out by Duke Chengguo?
Soon, the news of the death of Mrs. Zhang, the wife of Duke Cheng, spread, and those curious people had vague guesses in their minds.
The gossip circulating within the Chengguo Mansion also confirmed their speculation - it was really Li from the second house who angered the seriously ill wife of the Chengguo Duke, Zhang, to death!
Si Yuan acted as if he was angry with Li and the entire second house because of the death of his own mother. He ignored Ning Rong who was exiled with the Yong'an Marquisate and turned a blind eye to her.
With nowhere else to turn, Li could only sell some of the family property and give the money to Ning Rong, so that at least Ning Rong could have a better life in exile and have some chance of survival.
As for more, Li couldn't do it.
Mrs. Li was actually a selfish person by nature. Although she valued and loved Ning Rong, her only healthy and alive daughter, her value did not extend beyond herself. She could take out part of her family property to take care of Ning Rong, which was the limit of what she could do for Ning Rong.
After Ning Rong received the silver and money sent by Li, she also learned from Li that her grandmother had passed away. Her uncle did not want to care about her bad news, so she could only take the money sent by Li and the money she had secretly hidden, and find ways to make her life better.
But the money she had was only enough for herself, and it was definitely not enough to bring other people from the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion.
Ning Rong originally wanted to bring her husband with her. After all, she was pregnant and needed a man to rely on during her exile, otherwise the money in her hands would be snatched away.
But her husband was a fool who could be fooled by a few nice words from his parents. Ning Rong was naturally unwilling to see that all her money was taken away by her husband to contribute to his parents and brother.
Ning Rong was unwilling to give the money, and the Prince of Yong'an was very angry and wanted to snatch the money from her. However, Ning Rong was, after all, the niece of Duke Cheng, and the officers and soldiers in charge of guarding the exiles were somewhat concerned about Ning Rong. This concern made the Prince of Yong'an dare not really take action, but his attitude changed drastically.
Ning Rong was a pregnant woman. Even though she had some officers and soldiers to look after her during her exile, it was impossible for them to walk or work for her, so her life was still extremely difficult.
Finally, when she was six months pregnant, she was pushed by the wife of the Marquis of Yong'an, and fell to the ground and had bleeding. Unfortunately, the exile team walked to a place where there was no village or shop nearby, and there was no way to find a doctor. Ning Rong had a miscarriage but could not give birth to the dead fetus, so she kept bleeding, and two lives were lost.
When Ning Rong died, those officers and soldiers were very worried that they would get into trouble. After all, Ning Rong's uncle was the powerful Duke Chengguo. Perhaps Duke Chengguo did not rescue his niece Ning Rong in order to enforce the law impartially or not to offend the emperor. But now that Ning Rong was dead, Duke Chengguo could kill these small people with just a wave of his hand to avenge his niece. Even if it was just to maintain the face of the Ning family, Duke Chengguo would most likely not let them go.
The officers and soldiers, frightened by their own imagination, began to target the people from Yong'an Marquis Mansion who killed Ning Rong.
Deliberately targeted by the officers and soldiers who escorted them, and without Ning Rong's financial support and identity protection, within ten days, almost all the exiled people from the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion died on the way to exile.
After Si Yuan received the news, he asked someone to pass the news of Ning Rong's death to Li.
Li was devastated. Her husband became paralyzed, her children died one by one, and Ning Chi, who was ill, also passed away. She was truly left alone.
Li finally realized that Si Yuan and Cheng had never let go of the hatred for her son's murder, and had never thought of not pursuing the matter. It was just that their revenge was so subtle and slow that she lost everything without realizing it.
Li knew that if she continued to stay in the capital, she would die without a burial place due to the revenge of the Chengguo Mansion.
So after learning of Ning Rong's death, Li immediately sold all his properties in the capital and fled to other places overnight, hoping to find a chance of survival.
Originally, Li was living in the capital and did not escape. If Si Yuan wanted to deal with her, he would have to use normal means within the rules. But now that Li has escaped, it becomes much easier.
After Li left the city, he was kidnapped by unknown bandits and his whereabouts disappeared from then on, and this person was never seen again.
Si Yuan informed Cheng of Li's final fate. Cheng said in a daze, "She died? Did Yuan Ge'er get his revenge?"
Cheng couldn't believe that things were over so quickly.
For a moment, she felt inexplicably empty. Without the support of hatred, her heart was empty.
In order to divert her attention, Si Yuan said, "Fu'er's due date is this month. You should go to the Duke of Ying to look after Fu'er, so that you don't have to stay at home and have wild thoughts."
Cheng came back to her senses from the joy and emptiness of having her son's revenge, and thought of her pregnant daughter Ning Fu who was about to give birth. Si Yuan had indeed successfully diverted her attention: "Okay, Master, then I will leave and live in the Duke of Ying's mansion tomorrow."
Because the Duke of England's wife was bedridden and basically took care of things, the entire Duke of England's mansion was under the management of her daughter Nymph. The Duke of England also had a very close cooperation with Si Yuan, and the relationship between the two families was extremely close.
Lin Chengqi, the prince of the Duke of Yingguo, often brought Ningfu, who missed her parents, back to the Duke of Chengguo's Mansion to live for a period of time. Sometimes, when Lin Chengqi did not have time to accompany Ningfu back to her parents' home, he would ask someone to bring Cheng to the Duke of Yingguo's Mansion to stay for a few days.
Cheng was very familiar with living in the Duke of England's mansion and had no problem with it at all, otherwise she would not have said such hasty words as moving in tomorrow.
After all, if it was her first time to live in the Duke of England's Mansion, she would definitely have to go through the formal channels, hand in a visiting card first, then let Si Yuan explain the reason, and let Nymph and the Duke of England's Mansion make preparations before she could live there permanently.
Seeing that Cheng had shifted her attention to Ningfu and her unborn child, Si Yuan felt relieved. He continued to control the slow progress of the reform in the court and boiled the conservatives like a frog in warm water.
Si Yuan was very concerned about the reform, and dealing with the second branch was just a casual pastime.
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