P.S. Here comes the May Day update, don't rush to play after finishing reading, remember to vote for a monthly ticket first. From now on, 515 fan festival is underway with double monthly tickets, other activities include giving out red envelopes, take a look!
Song Chuyi fell silent for a moment before asking, "What happened next?"
"What happened later?" Old Lady Song sneered for a moment: "Later, your uncle got several more concubines and now has three illegitimate children. And your aunt's health is getting worse and worse... Even so, she refused to agree to our suggestion to return to her maiden home and still stubbornly stayed in Qingzhou."
Song Chuyi clenched her handkerchief and didn't speak.
It turns out that a heart can really go from boiling hot to cold and hard as a knife. It turns out that disregarding dignity and face not only fails to win back one's husband, but instead pushes him even further away.
"Xiao Yi, if you hadn't had this dream and told me those words, I would never have said these things to you." Old Lady Song looked at her as if she saw the bright and carefree Song Lin Cang from back then, her gaze gradually turning cold: "I want you to remember this forever, but perhaps due to appearance there might be a moment of heart movement, yet it's vastly different from true liking. Rather than thinking about unrealistic ****, why not choose a simple life with a down-to-earth person? In this world, there isn't a man worth throwing everything away for. If he was, he wouldn't ask you to throw everything away. Do you understand?"
Mrs. Xu was somewhat perplexed - how could such a young child understand such profound words?
"I understand." Song Chuyi raised her face, her eyes shining brightly: "Just like Shen Qi, he wasn't worth hurting your and Father's hearts. What is mine will be mine, what isn't mine, forcing it won't work."
Mrs. Song felt comforted in her heart and praised, "You're right, you told me yesterday that you were forced to agree with your father about the marriage between you and Shen Qi. Since Shen Qi treated you like that later on, it means he was never satisfied with this marriage from the start. If he was never satisfied, then it's inevitable that you two would become a mismatched couple. The Shen Qi in your dream is indeed unforgivable, but you also need to take some responsibility for this. This is why I asked if you hated Shen Qi so much that you wanted him dead."
"It's a good thing you didn't entirely shift the blame to Shen Qi." Song old lady pulled her up, saying with a heavy heart: "Xiao Yi, I hope that everything in your dream doesn't come true. If it does happen, I also hope you won't be as stubborn as you were in the dream. In the future, no matter what you encounter, think about what you already have first, don't just focus on what you don't have."
Song Chuyi understood the old lady's meaning and responded with a respectful expression.
But in her heart, she naturally understood that things were not so simple. Some things couldn't be said to Old Lady Song. Just like the "dream" she told Old Lady Song, from start to finish, she never mentioned what Li and her daughter had done to her, nor did she mention Song Yan.
The tree wants to be still but the wind will not stop.
Whether she likes it or not, whether she avenges herself or not, is never something that can be done at her will.
Li returned to her room when Song Chuning was playing with a bird under the corridor, holding a jade pendant, laughing with curved eyes and an innocent face.
Her heart softened a bit, and the chill that had lingered since last night's shocking words dissipated by half. She beckoned her to come forward.
"Who would have thought that Song Chuning opened her mouth and asked her: "Mother, did you hear yesterday that the eldest house invited a great doctor?"
Isn't it a normal thing for the head of the house to invite a doctor? Li was somewhat puzzled and asked casually, "Who's ill?"
Song Chunin smiled with a curved lip, her eyebrows and eyes still showing three parts of cunning and seven parts of laziness. She pulled Li Shi into the inner room, dispersing everyone else, before tilting her head back to laugh: "It's not an illness, it's a joyful event."
Li furrowed his brow for a moment, then smiled and said: "Isn't it that your elder sister is pregnant?" His tone was cheerful, genuinely happy for Li Qingzi.
Although she had some unpleasantness with the madam a few days ago, her relationship with Madame Lai, the wife of the young master, was extremely good, and upon hearing this, she couldn't help but feel a little happy.
Song Chuning's mouth curled up with a peculiar smile: "Mother shouldn't be too happy yet. Even if the eldest branch has good news, it can't solve your current predicament. You know, Sixth Sister being taken to Old Lady's place to be raised is almost a done deal, and today Old Lady must be using her descendants to pressure you, right?"
Li's smile froze, and she looked at Song Chuning without saying a word.
She felt as if she no longer knew her own daughter, or perhaps she had never understood her daughter at all.
Song Chun saw that she didn't respond, and continued on her own: "Later, Mother will find it even harder to reach out to Sixth Sister."
Li rubbed her tired eyes and raised her hand to stop her nonsense: "What do you want to say?"
She usually held Song Chunin in her arms, but at this moment she suddenly couldn't do so. Song Chunin always reminded her of the high and mighty Old Lady Song, as if she had seen through all the ways of the world.
A five-year-old child, how out of place with such a description, yet Song Chuning's mind was obviously not just five years old, she had a headache.
Song Chunin fiddled with the agate and pearl inlaid bracelet on her hand, hardly hesitating at all, and said matter-of-factly: "Now the good news is not yet fully confirmed, and neither Old Lady nor Eldest Lady has had a chance to intervene. If Yan Ge or Sixth Sister accidentally gets into an argument with Big Sister-in-law and causes her to miscarry... wouldn't that be killing two birds with one stone?"
Li almost inhaled a mouthful of cold air, feeling as if a basin of cold water had been poured over her head, chilling her to the bone.
She immediately stood up and slapped Song Chuning hard: "Do you know what you're talking about?!"
Song Chuning was small and weak, and was immediately slapped by Li's ear scraper, retreating several steps back, his elbow hit the red lacquer wooden table, knocking over a crystal vase filled with grapes on top of it.
"That's your elder sister!" Li's eyes were red with anger, pointing at Song Chuning with trembling hands: "When you had a high fever back then, she took care of you for more than half a month!"
Song Chunin only felt that her elbow was numb and painful, and she almost couldn't lift her arm for a moment. It took her a long time to calm down, and then she looked at Li with a cold smile: "Since you still remember, I'd like to ask, where were you at that time?"
Li was stunned and couldn't speak for half a day.
Song Chuning rolled up her sleeves in front of her, and even if she saw the skin scratched, she didn't feel frightened. She took a handkerchief to cover it, staring straight at Li Shi: "At that time, you were in Qingliang Temple asking for a peace symbol for Sixth Sister, but you didn't know that I had been running a high fever for three days. Fortunately, Eldest Sister discovered something was wrong, otherwise my life would have been gone long ago. Since you can do this to get rid of the children left by the first wife, why are you being soft-hearted now?"
Li looked at the bloodstains on her pale arm and couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, just as he was about to go forward and comfort her, he heard her say this string of words, and was left standing there speechless.
"Thank you for your continued support. This time, the starting point of 515 fan festival's author Glory Hall and works general election, hope to get your support. In addition, there are some red envelopes and gift packs in the fan festival, grab them and continue subscribing!"