A life of two souls traveling through time

Chapter 224 Mrs. Li's Guilt

By the time Li Yunye and Manager Yuan returned to the Li family, it was already dark. Bursts of grief-stricken cries were heard from the Li Mansion on the other side of the West Street River.

The Li family ancestral hall was brightly lit, and the coffins of Mr. Li and the housekeeper were placed in the mourning hall next to the ancestral hall. A group of people were crying outside. Mrs. Li, who had been crying for a while before, saw Mr. Li lying in the coffin and cried again in her son's arms. Li Yunye also hugged his mother tightly with tears in his eyes.

"Oh no, Madam, Master, Aunt Xin hanged herself!" Just when everyone was sad, an old maid suddenly ran over crying and shouted.

Everyone was shocked when they heard the sound. Manager Yuan and the servants and maids in the mansion all looked at the mother and son of the Li family. After all, on weekdays, this concubine Xin was favored by the master, which made the lady very jealous and resentful. The son naturally disliked the person that the mother hated. Now that the master was gone, Concubine Xin was just a concubine, and she died for the master. I don't know how the lady and the master will deal with this matter.

"Has the person been rescued?" Li Yunye frowned and asked the old woman hurriedly.

Since Jiang Siyao came to the Li family, it seems that she has never spoken a word to Aunt Xin, so she doesn't hate or like her, just treats her as a neighbor under the same roof. But when she heard that Aunt Xin wanted to commit suicide, she was worried. After all, she was also a member of the Li family, and her father doted on her when he was alive. Jiang Siyao naturally didn't want Aunt Xin to get into trouble.

"Aunt Xin deliberately sent people away, and by the time that girl Bier found out, everyone was dead!" After the old maid said this, she covered her face and wiped away her tears.

Li Yunye was so panicked that he didn't know what to do. He looked nervously at Madam Li beside him. Aunt Xin died for love for his father. Although Li Yunye was moved by Aunt Xin's deep love for his father, he had to consider his mother's feelings.

Mrs. Li's face turned pale, and she trembled all over when she heard that Aunt Xin was dead. Then she laughed silently, but suddenly burst into tears while laughing, which really scared Li Yunye and others.

"Mother?" Li Yunye, with a pale face, hugged Mrs. Li and called carefully.

"Puff..." Mrs. Li looked up at her son with tears in her eyes. A trace of regret flashed in her eyes. She opened her lips, but before she could speak, she spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted immediately.

"Mother....."

"lady...."

There was a sudden panic outside the mourning hall. Li Yunye, with the help of Lan Jie and several other maids, carried Madam Li back to the Plum Garden. Manager Yuan quickly arranged for some people to call for doctors, some to keep watch at the ancestral hall, and he himself took people to check on the Bamboo Garden.

After returning to the Plum Garden, Li Yunye tried his best to carry Madam Li to the bed, then he sat down on the edge of the bed, gasping for breath, exhausted.

"Son..." At this time, Mrs. Li suddenly woke up. She grabbed Li Yunye's sleeve tightly and called weakly.

"Mother, don't be anxious and don't think too much. Your son is by your side. Don't worry, the doctor will be here soon." Li Yunye held Mrs. Li's hand tightly and cried fearfully. His father had just left, and he didn't want his mother to have any more accidents.

"Mother is a sinner... Both of them refused to forgive me until their death... Especially her... She would rather go with him..." But Mrs. Li was still trembling and crying to Li Yunye intermittently.

Although Li Yunye did not understand what Mrs. Li said, he vaguely guessed that it was about the grudge between his mother, father and Aunt Xin.

"Madam, why are you bringing up these old things at this time? The Li family is in such a disaster now, and the young master is still young and hasn't even established a family. He still depends on you to take care of his health and help him!" Sister Lan, who was wiping her tears, interrupted the madam and cried to persuade her.

"Sister Lan, you stay outside. I have something to say to Yunye." Madam Li glanced at her personal maid, then closed her eyes and gave the order.

"Madam..." Sister Lan naturally knew what the Madam wanted to say to the Master. She was about to speak to stop her but was interrupted by Li Yunye:

"Aunt Lan, if mother wants to say something, let her say it. It's better for her to say it out loud than to keep it in her heart."

Seeing the young master say this, Sister Lan naturally didn't dare to say anything more. She bowed and turned around to leave the room.

Mrs. Li sat up with the help of Li Yunye. After calming down, she pointed to a mahogany box on the dressing table and said, "Bring that box here."

Li Yunye wiped the tears from his face and stood up to hand the mahogany box to his mother. Mrs. Li opened the box, took out a red card and handed it to her son: "This is the engagement document with the Fan family."

"My marriage is the decision of my parents and the matchmaker, so just keep this document, mother. What do you want me to do?" Li Yunye frowned slightly. He was not in the mood to listen to his mother talking about this marriage. Moreover, the Li family had suffered such a disaster, so the marriage would definitely be postponed.

"As soon as your father passed away, the marriage had to be postponed for three years. I don't know if the Fan family can wait for three years. Mother also knows that you don't like to be manipulated by others. Although this marriage was arranged by your father, if you don't like it, you can use this opportunity to cancel the engagement with the Fan family. Now that the Li family has this incident, the Fan family may not disagree." Madam Li said with a bitter face and coughed lightly after speaking weakly.

Li Yunye didn't say much, but stood up and poured a cup of hot tea for his mother. He also knew that his father hadn't been buried yet, so even if the marriage was to be cancelled, it was not appropriate to bring it up now. His mother seemed to be explaining the funeral arrangements, which made him panic.

"Mother did something wrong ten years ago, and it is because of this that your father hates me to this day..." Madam Li sighed, and then slowly said, "When you were still young, I hid it from you. Now they are all dead, and I feel even more guilty. I feel guilty towards the ancestors of the Li family, your father, Aunt Xin, and you..."

"Mother...how could you be so ashamed of me?" Li Yunye reached out to wipe the tears from his mother's face, choking with sobs.

"Originally, you were supposed to have a younger brother, but I killed him with my own hands."

Li Yunye's face froze, and his hand, which was wiping Madam Li's tears, stopped in mid-air, somewhat at a loss.

"Your father met Aunt Xin in another place. Although I was sad when he brought her into the house, as the mistress of the Li family, I had to accept her magnanimously. But every time I saw them being so harmonious and loving, my heart felt like it was being cut by a knife. The affectionate look your father gave Aunt Xin made me jealous and crazy. He has never looked at me like this since I married him..."

At this point, Mrs. Li patted her chest and cried in agony. Li Yunye didn't know how to comfort her, so he just held his mother's other hand and lowered his head to wipe away his tears.

"It has been less than half a year since Aunt Xin entered the mansion and she got pregnant. I was jealous and at the same time I was afraid that once her child was born, your father would be more inclined towards Zhuyuan. Mother could endure being ignored, but I couldn't let you, the eldest son of the Li family, suffer all the grievances. Mother was soft-hearted and naturally didn't dare to argue openly, so she had to secretly bribe the servants to replace the pregnancy-preserving medicine with abortion medicine... The five-month-old baby in her belly was gone, and she could no longer have children..."

Mrs. Li naturally felt much better after she expressed the guilt that had been weighing on her heart for years. But now that Aunt Xin had committed suicide, her sense of guilt had only worsened.

Jiang Siyao had mixed feelings after hearing this, but she just continued to hold Madam Li's hand in silence. The right and wrong of all this was a cause and effect relationship, and she had no right to judge. She only felt sad for the innocent unborn child of the Li family.

Under the system of polygamy, women who cannot be independent and can only depend on men have to fight to the death in order to obtain status and benefits from men. Children will become victims of the fight.