"This is Brother Yi'er's opportunity."

"Brother Yi has always wanted to make a career in the military."

Chu Lingxiao was also proud of his eldest son out of wedlock. Chu Yunyi was admitted to the Imperial College on his own and now he has caught the eye of Prince Chen. He is a young talent and is worthy of being his and Minshan's son.

Chu Lingxiao couldn't bear to part with Chu Yunyi, but he knew that Shen Zhi would definitely not tolerate Chu Yunyi, the eldest son of a concubine.

Aunt Jiang stared at Chu Lingxiao without blinking, and spoke even more slowly: "Are you... going to give up on Brother Yi?"

"How could that be?" Chu Lingxiao retorted subconsciously.

Aunt Jiang sighed quietly and continued, "For your job, you would rather give Brother Yi to that scumbag Kang Hongda."

"Just like fifteen years ago, you would rather let me be a concubine for the sake of the Marquis's Mansion."

Although her voice was still soft and gentle, it revealed a sense of coldness.

Chu Lingxiao: “!”

Chu Lingxiao felt that her last few words were full of thorns, which made him feel uncomfortable all over. The tenderness in his heart was instantly washed away as if by a bucket of ice water.

His face suddenly became stern, as dark as water, and he looked intimidating without even getting angry. He felt that Jiang Minshan was different today than before.

She used to be a sweet-talking and considerate person, but today she became sharp and mean... a bit like his rebellious daughter Shen Qianchen.

Even though he was unhappy, Chu Lingxiao still said patiently: "Minshan, I am not giving up on Brother Yi, but there are priorities. The most urgent thing now is to appease Shen Zhi first, and then think about other things."

"Moreover, Brother Yi is Sister Chen's biological brother, and the brother-in-law of Prince Chen. As long as he has a promising future, it won't be difficult for him to be crowned a king or given a title."

Chu Lingxiao defended himself convincingly.

"Brother?" Aunt Jiang laughed sarcastically, "I do have a brother!"

"Chu Lingxiao, you are planning to give up Brother Yi in order to please the King of Chen. You are just deceiving yourself by saying this."

As she spoke, Aunt Jiang stood up from Chu Lingxiao's arms and took two steps forward.

Then, she suddenly turned around and looked at him again, her pretty face expressionless and dull, almost numb.

"I know best what you are thinking. I know you too well." Aunt Jiang's voice was dry and hoarse, and she spoke softly and slowly.

Her eyes, which seemed to be shining with tears, became colder and deeper.

After his thoughts were exposed by Aunt Jiang's words, Chu Lingxiao's face turned blue, white, and purple, feeling embarrassed, awkward, and angry.

"You have changed..." He looked at Aunt Jiang with an incredulous look. He felt that the woman in front of him was so strange, and the last trace of tenderness in his heart disappeared at this moment.

Both women have changed.

Shen Zhi was shameless. Even Jiang Minshan had changed. She was no longer the pure lotus in his memory. In that case, he had nothing to say to her.

Chu Lingxiao slammed his palm heavily on the coffee table, causing a lot of the scented tea in the cup to spill out.

“That’s enough!”

"You'd better know your limits. You are just a concubine. Brother Yi is my son. I have the right to decide his life. He has to do whatever I want him to do!"

Chu Lingxiao looked at Aunt Jiang with a condescending look and a cold expression.

Shen Zhi slapped him in the face, and now Jiang Minshan is going to slap him in the face too, doesn't she want to think about who she is? !

Aunt Jiang: “…”

Aunt Jiang bit her lower lip slightly, her jade-like teeth almost biting the tender cherry lips to bleed, and she seemed to hear the sound of something being broken deep in her heart.

Her heart felt cold, an extremely complicated smile appeared on her face, and she sighed.

"That's true..." she whispered to herself.

Chu Lingxiao thought that Aunt Jiang had finally realized the current situation and showed some pride of a winner, but he heard Aunt Jiang still muttering: "As long as you are still here, Brother Yi will have to listen to you and be used by you again and again until he is no longer of any value."

Chu Lingxiao's face froze instantly, as if she had slapped him hard in the face, and a surge of anger suddenly ignited in his heart.

He pointed in the direction of the door curtain and shouted angrily, "Get out! Get out of here!"

Aunt Jiang pretended not to hear anything, smiled sweetly, and continued to talk to herself: "But what if you are gone?"

Her smile is happy and charming.

But at this moment and in this situation, this smile seemed indescribably weird, like a poisonous oleander, which made people shudder.

The woman in front of him still had the same appearance, but her eyes were different, as if she had a new soul beneath her skin.

Chu Lingxiao: “…”

Chu Lingxiao felt a little uneasy, and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up. The first thought that came to his mind was, is she crazy?

The next moment, he felt a dull pain in his abdomen.

At first, he thought it was caused by Pei Linye's kick just now, and just frowned slightly.

But soon, he found that the pain was getting worse and worse, as if someone had stabbed him hard in the lower abdomen with a knife, and then repeatedly used the knife to stir his intestines.

His intestines seemed to be cut and crushed.

Chu Lingxiao's forehead, neck, and back were covered in cold sweat. He was sweating like rain and his face was pale without a trace of blood.

etc!

Chu Lingxiao suddenly thought of something, his pupils shrank sharply, he covered his stomach tightly with one hand, and looked at the two teacups on the coffee table next to him.

Aunt Jiang's cup of scented tea was full, which meant she didn't drink it herself!

This realization made Chu Lingxiao shiver all over, his eyes widened to the extreme, and his eyeballs were almost popping out.

"You...bitch, what did you just give me to drink?!" Chu Lingxiao's voice suddenly rose, so sharp, so excited, with an obvious tremor.

A strong sense of fear emanated from his expression and words.

Aunt Jiang stood a few steps away, looking down at Chu Lingxiao who was sitting on the chair, and replied expressionlessly: "A little bit of poison."

The four words are light, calm and indifferent.

Chu Lingxiao: “!!!”

The pain in his stomach became more and more intense, so much so that he just wanted to roll on the ground. The pain was so severe that he felt like he had been fished out of a river.

He asked with difficulty: "Why?!"

Why did she do this? ! He was so good to her, he did so much for her! "Why?" Aunt Jiang murmured to herself, and seemed to chuckle, staring at Chu Lingxiao's painful expression, without the slightest emotion or wavering.

"I really, really loved you. For you, I was willing to be your concubine. Even if your father sent me back to my hometown, I had no complaints. Even if our first child died, I would not blame you."

"Oh, it took me so many years to realize that in your heart, I am nothing at all. I have not left any trace in your heart at all."

"You are a heartless person who only loves yourself."

Aunt Jiang's tone became increasingly calm, and she seemed like a person who was detached from the world, with no expression of joy or sadness on her face.

Chu Lingxiao's face turned even paler, his breathing became heavy and difficult, and he struggled to retort: ​​"You are the heartless one!"

"Of course I like you. Over the years, I have always doted on you and pitied you. When you had a miscarriage and were heartbroken, I brought Sister Chen to you just to let you vent your anger."

Hasn't he done enough for her? ! The sting of a wasp is the most poisonous, and the heart of a woman is the most poisonous, but this woman is still not satisfied!

Aunt Jiang smiled as if she heard a joke, but the smile was strange and cold.

"Are you sure you want to vent my anger?" She sneered and asked, "But you don't dare to resist your father, nor do you dare to turn against Shen Zhi, so you can only attack a baby girl? Do you want to watch Shen Qianchen become more and more miserable, and his own mother is by his side but he can't recognize her, so that you can get the pleasure of revenge?"

Now that things have come to this, Aunt Jiang will no longer give Chu Lingxiao any fig leaf.

Looking at Chu Lingxiao's angry and miserable face, Aunt Jiang felt very happy. She raised her finger and pointed at his nose and continued, "It's you!"

"It was you who caused Shen Zhi to give birth prematurely, it was you who stole the newly born Shen Qianchen during the chaos, and it was you who named her Qianchen."

"All you did was not for me, but for your own selfish desires!"

There were some things that even Chu Lingxiao himself seemed to believe as he spoke them. He said them for her.

Ridiculous, really ridiculous! Chu Lingxiao's face became even uglier after Aunt Jiang's sharp words hit the mark.

The severe pain in his abdomen was still getting worse, so much so that he could hardly speak. He was gasping for breath and his body slumped in the chair like mud.

"You... have always been doing this for yourself." Aunt Jiang turned her disgusted gaze away from him and looked at the peach blossoms swaying in the spring breeze outside the window. Her eyes were far away, as if she was missing something else through those peach blossoms. "But you and I are different. I still have Brother Yi."

She was originally alone and once regarded Chu Lingxiao as her heaven and her earth, but Chu Lingxiao could not protect her. When she had a miscarriage in her hometown, she knew that she only had herself.

It was not until she gave birth to Yi Ge'er that she had real relatives.

Yi Ge'er is the child she gave birth to after ten months of pregnancy. He is connected to her by blood. He is everything to her and is worth her efforts.

She has faced the reality. The root of the problem lies not with Chu Lingyu or the lady, but with Chu Lingxiao.

As long as Chu Lingxiao was around, he would rely on his natural advantage as a father and use her Yi Ge'er again and again to get what he wanted.

Can Yi Ge'er escape once, twice, three times... or a hundred or a thousand times?

There is only a thief who can steal for a thousand days, but there is no such thing as a thief who can guard

Therefore, it is better for Chu Lingxiao not to be here.

As a father, he cannot protect Yi Ge'er, so it would be better for Yi Ge'er not to have this father. His life will be smoother.

Thinking of her brother Yi, Aunt Jiang's expression was filled with kindness from the bottom of her heart, but when her eyes turned to Chu Lingxiao, they turned into coldness and disgust.

Chu Lingxiao was in so much pain that he fell off the chair in a panic.

He held his stomach with his hands, twitching and rolling around, like a fish that had been pulled out of the water, struggling desperately.

He realized that Jiang Minshan was serious, she really poisoned his tea! Fear, shock, regret, resentment and other emotions intertwined in his heart.

He yelled as if to vent his anger:

"Jiang Minshan, you bitch!"

"I was blind and mistook you, a vicious woman, for the love of my life!"

"You vicious woman!"

"It hurts! Someone come!"

“…”

Chu Lingxiao cursed and scolded her at first, but gradually, he couldn't stand it anymore and began to beg her humbly: "Minshan, please save me! I was wrong before!"

"I promise you, I won't give Brother Yi away, and I won't let Shen Zhi come back. From now on, our family of three will live together happily."

"We will be like before..."

Chu Lingxiao used all his strength to squeeze out these words, trying to soften Aunt Jiang's heart.

"In the past?" However, to Aunt Jiang, the other party's words were extremely ridiculous.

Their "past" was nothing but a hypocritical drama.

He is acting and she is acting too.

Aunt Jiang lowered her eyes and looked down at Chu Lingxiao who was rolling on the ground. Her voice was so cold that ice chips fell out of it. She said word by word, "It's too late."

Her moon-like beautiful face seemed to be covered with a mask, cold and heartless.

In Chu Lingxiao's eyes, she looked like a female ghost crawling out of hell.

Chu Lingxiao began to curse again, using all the ugly and vulgar words he knew, cursing Aunt Jiang and Chu Yunyi, rolling on the ground like a worm.

He was in so much pain that he couldn't care about anything else. His body accidentally pressed on the broken porcelain pieces on the ground, leaving bloody marks on his hands, back, shoulders and other parts of his body from being cut by the porcelain pieces.

"vomit!"

Chu Lingxiao opened his mouth and vomited a large mouthful of blood. Then, another mouthful of blood sprayed onto the ground and onto Aunt Jiang's frosty white embroidered shoes, which was shocking.

At this moment, Aunt Jiang was finally moved, but it was not fear, but pleasure.

The corners of her lips curled up into a faint smile, like the flawless white pear blossoms on the branches, pure and fragile, but in this situation, very strange.

She seemed to have seen something that made her feel extremely happy, and said with a smile: "I once believed in you, but it took me twenty years to see through you. I was wrong."

She thought Chu Lingxiao would be her best choice, so when she overheard the conversation between the old lady and the old marquis, she panicked. With her status, she couldn't marry into a good family, at least the other party would definitely be far inferior to the Chu family.

Moreover, at that time, she really liked Chu Lingxiao.

"I misjudged the person and trusted the wrong person."

"So, I won't believe a word you say now."

"Fortunately, I still have Brother Yi."

Yes, her Yi Ge'er is enough.

Only after Chu Lingxiao died could her brother Yi have a good life and no longer have to worry about being plotted against in the future.

(End of this chapter)