Chapter 416: Ten Years in a Hurry
Li Bijie moved out of the Marquis's Mansion with Cheng Bingzhi and Cheng Lanying, and was driven to live in the courtyard where she had previously been a concubine.
That courtyard was given to Cheng Bingzhi by Lu Lingyun when he divided his family property.
From then on, he would give the three of them a sum of money every month until Cheng Bingzhi grew up and Cheng Lanying got married.
This is all we can do.
The distinction between illegitimate sons and daughters was originally based on whether they were favored and whether they were valuable to the family.
Like her younger brother Lu Kuan in his previous life, as a bastard he did not receive any help from his family. After he became an adult, he lived alone and had to earn his own career and family fortune. There was no extra stuff for him in the mansion.
It would be nice if he doesn't suck the money back and can help support the family.
This is where Lu Lingyun's attitude towards Li Bixi's two children lies. After she takes the children away, she will no longer care about them, and whether they are prosperous or not has nothing to do with her.
Cheng Bingzhi and Cheng Lanying had their own luck and gained power, but she would not get involved. Their gradual decline and obscurity was also something their mother had fought for, so she would not care.
As Cheng Lanying followed Li Bixi out of the small door carrying her small bag, she turned around and looked at the marquis's mansion with deep and high walls in front of her.
"Mom, do we really want to leave here with you?" Cheng Lanying asked one last time.
"You idiot, let's go with mother. We can do whatever we want and eat whatever we want. No one will care about us or bully us anymore! If you want to stay, then stay by yourself. Otherwise, Madam will punish you by making you copy books every day. You will regret it!" Cheng Bingzhi raised his eyebrows and pointed at her.
When Li Bijie heard Cheng Bingzhi scolding his sister like that, she said nothing but looked at her son with shining eyes, quite approvingly.
"Mom, do you think I'm right? We've finally made it through. We no longer have to look at that annoying lady's face and be bullied by her! From now on, we can still openly call you mom! We don't have to call her mom anymore!"
Upon hearing this, Li Bixi hugged her precious son tightly with heartache, "Bingzhi, you are really a good son to me!"
"Mom, let's go! I want to eat the crispy meat you made!"
"Okay! Mom will make it for you!"
When Cheng Lanying saw this, her brows tightened even more.
Looking at her mother and brother who were only taking care of their son and walking out with large and small bags on their shoulders, Cheng Lanying couldn't help but lower her head and sigh. She took a last look at the tall marquis' mansion, and walked dejectedly to catch up with her mother and brother.
Here, Li Bixiang and her two daughters completely left the Ningyang Marquis' Mansion, and no one in the Ningyang Marquis' Mansion was against Lu Lingyun anymore.
The Li family on the other side.
Lu Hanyi has been sighing a lot these days.
"Oh! How could this happen!"
"Alas! How can she live a good life again?"
"Now, she has become the emperor in that broken mansion!"
Li Shouye looked at his mother, who was looking sluggish and full of jealousy and resentment, and couldn't help but say, "Mom, please stop talking. What are you saying? If outsiders hear it, they might find fault with you!"
"Finding trouble with me! What else do you want to find trouble with me!" Lu Hanyi was furious. "I have been so humble and submissive, what else do you want me to do? I just recited a few words of Lu Lingyun in the room, and they still want to kill me!"
"Why is my life so miserable? I was bullied by your father, your grandparents, your uncles and aunts, your grandparents, your aunt and your brother-in-law! How come everyone in the world only bullies me? My fate is so unfair! God has no eyes!"
"Why is my life so miserable?"
Come on, come on, here it comes again.
Li Shouye wanted to slap himself twice.
Why did you just say that to his mother?
This time he's got to keep on talking.
Seeing Lu Hanyi crying and complaining about the injustice of the world, Li Shouye interrupted her and said, "Mom, don't say anything. When I grow up, I will protect you!"
His words are useful.
And it is extremely useful.
Lu Hanyi had lived her whole life hoping that someone would drop from the sky and give her a good life, but unfortunately, even after her rebirth, she was not so lucky.
In her eyes, everyone bullied her and hurt her. Her face was distorted with resentment, and she didn't know any way to resolve it.
Except for her son's big cake.
After Li Shouye's big cake was painted, Lu Hanyi stopped crying immediately. She looked at her precious son with shining eyes, "Shouye! My good son!"
"You are the only one I have!"
"You must strive to be great! You must pass the imperial examination for me! Become a first-rank prime minister and ask for an imperial decree for me!"
Li Shouye: “…”
He shouldn't have been so mean just now, just listen to his mother!
Lu Hanyi took a big bite of her son's cake, no, to be more precise, the cake she drew for herself, and then she came back to life. With shining eyes, she kept muttering, "Oh! No matter how powerful and proud the widow Lu Lingyun is, she doesn't have a son of her own to ask for her imperial decree! What's the point of her living!"
"She's a widow now, hahahaha! Cheng Yunshuo, that rubbish, has become a monk, so she has to live as a widow for the rest of her life!"
"There's still a long way to go, she won't be fine!"
Li Shouye: “…”
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Grass grows and birds fly, flowers bloom and fall, spring goes and autumn comes.
In the blink of an eye, another ten years have passed.
Today, the Ningyang Marquis' Mansion is bustling with people coming and going.
"Good news! Great news!"
"Ma'am, great news!"
In the main courtyard, a woman in a lake blue silk dress was leaning lazily under the wisteria trellis, with a pure white Persian cat lying in her arms.
The hurried footsteps of the servants outside the yard startled the kitten. The kitten yawned lazily, meowed, and jumped off the woman.
The woman woke up.
At that time, Lu Lingyun was 34 years old.
Counting the days, she has been married into the Ningyang Marquis's Mansion for eighteen years.
Eighteen years had transformed the young girl into a mature woman, but the years of luxury and carefree life had made her face less wrinkled.
Among the noble ladies of her age in the capital, she looked the youngest, and looked like a young woman of twenty-five or twenty-six years old.
Even the Liu sisters and the Tong sisters, who were much younger than her, gradually looked older than her.
This may be God's preference.
She heard the noise and stood up lazily, "What's wrong?"
Shuang Hong, dressed in a nanny's uniform, entered Lu Lingyun's courtyard with a beaming face, "Madam! There's news from Jiangnan, great news!"
"What do you mean?"
"Our Second Young Master is coming back!"
When Lu Lingyun heard this, her sleepiness instantly disappeared. She propped herself up and stood up, "Show me the letter."
"Yes, ma'am!" Shuanghong hurriedly handed the letter sent by Jiangnan to Lu Lingyun.
Lu Lingyun unfolded it and saw the first line on it.
Mother opened the door.