Bi Zhenye had not been in the capital for the past few days, and had not seen Ling Yu nor his parents. The only thing his family knew was that he had gone out to find him, perhaps no one would have thought that he was following someone from the Ministry Of Justice to find his family's servants.
Because of his identification, he had very smoothly found the woman who had once served his mother. He did not know how to explain this to his sister. She would definitely feel that he had gone mad.
Seeing Hanxi crying so hard, he could only say: "Hanxi, your second brother has already let mother go once, it was mother who is not willing to let them go. If someone gave you poison, causing you to miscarry, if someone gave you poison, causing your mother to die, your brother wouldn't be able to vent his anger even if he killed his enemy with his own hands. He's done his best for us. "
"But that's our mother, brother …" Let's go beg the Brother Xingye again. " Hanxi knew that it was useless, but she could only plead for help.
"Hanxi, stay at home with Grandma and take care of her. Leave the rest to brother." Bi Zhenye wiped away his sister's tears. His gentle smile could not hide his exhaustion, "Go back to your room, the sky will not fall."
He left his sister and went straight to the main courtyard. When the servants saw the eldest young master, they all hoped that he would be able to resolve the current predicament. One of them said to him, "The lord is in the study, while the madame is alone in her room."
Bi Zhenye nodded, pushed open the door, and ordered the servants who were waiting in the room to step down, and walked over to his mother's bedside.
Mrs. Bi opened his eyes and saw his son.
"Mother, have you eaten dinner?" Bi Zhenye asked.
Mrs. Bi, on the other hand, retracted his gaze from his son's face. He hadn't seen her son for the past few days, and the servant said that the eldest young master had gone out. He didn't know what the others were thinking, but Mrs. Bi was clear that his biological son had gone to the countryside to look for someone.
"You saw her?" Mrs. Bi asked.
Bi Zhenye understood that his mother had already guessed it.
"I saw it and I asked." Bi Zhenye knelt beside the bed, "Mother, I would like to ask you one last thing, why did you kill the industry's mother?"
"Why don't you ask me, did I kill him?" The Mrs. Bi laughed miserably, "If I say no, would you believe me?"
Bi Zhenye nodded: "I believe you, but I do not wish for mother to lie to me."
"If I don't kill her, she will." Mrs. Bi's eyes were ferocious, filled with hatred, "She always acts so haughty in front of me, as if she's the proper wife. She's only the daughter of a county magistrate, how can she compare to me? She is not as beautiful as me, not as good-natured as me, not as good as me, and your father doesn't like her at all. But just because she was her original wife and her first wife, she was able to step me beneath her feet. "
"Mother …"
"Zhenye, do you know what a concubine is? A concubine is no different from a servant, she can't even be considered half a master. Mrs. Bi grabbed his son's arm, "I am the daughter of the Marquis, how can I be someone else's servant? You are clearly the older brother, yet you still carry the title of a concubine. Zhenye, Mother did it for you, I am … "
She started coughing and was unable to catch her breath. Bi Zhenye quickly helped her mother up, but he remained cold and didn't say anything.
"Do you think that Mother is shirking her responsibilities?" Mrs. Bi said.
"No." The young man smiled faintly and said, "Mom had taken the wrong path from the beginning, but now you won't be able to listen to any of the truths that have been said. You will only deviate from the right path, and walk further and further away."
"So you want to exterminate your parents and find a witness to testify against your mother?" Mrs. Bi stared at her son in pain. "Mother painstakingly gave birth to you and raised you, in exchange for this kind of ending?"
Bi Zhenye shook his head: "It's not that my son annihilated his family, it's because mother deserves it. As for me, I only hope that Hanxi and my future children can honestly grow up, and not be like us, who suddenly have to face the fault of our parents and our ancestors one day. "
Mrs. Bi's eyes were filled with hatred, as he clenched his teeth and stared at his son.
Bi Zhenye said with tears in his eyes: "You took the wrong path from the very beginning, look, even if the industry lets you go, you still crazily want to make them disappear. If you don't get punished this time, the next time, even more innocent people will die in your hands. Mother, you killed two people, did you know that you killed another person? "
"So what …" Mrs. Bi looked at his son with trembling eyes.
"Yeah, so what?" Bi Zhenye stood up and said to his mother, "In a few days, you will know what to do."
"Bi Zhenye, I'm your mother …"
"Mother, have you really thought that Hanxi and I are your sons and daughters?" Bi Zhenye laughed bitterly, he retreated a few steps and knelt down towards his mother, kowtowing three times, "Your son is unfilial."
Mrs. Bi was bawling loudly, his wails piercing through the night sky. Everyone in the house could only listen helplessly, and the Old Madem in the inner courtyard kneeled down, kneeling and sobbing non-stop. She caressed his child's back and cried, "What a sin …"
The next day, in the Lang Zhong Residence, Aunt Zhang woke up early to make Lian Yi some fried dumplings. Last night, Lian Yi said that she wanted to eat fried dumplings, so she got up early to chop them.
"Aunt." Lian Yi suddenly came to the kitchen and stood weakly in front of the door.
"Why are you up so early and dressed so thin?" The Aunt Zhang hurriedly said, "You are still sitting there, don't go down."
Lian Yi shook her head, "It's alright. I'm not a person who can only sit still after having a child, it's already much better."
Aunt Zhang said with a pained heart: "I always said that being a Xiao Yue Zi is more important, I can't be careless. Good child, listen to me, go back to your room and wait. You will be fine after breakfast."
However, Lian Yi said: "Ershan is going to attend the interrogation today. I don't know if it's time to eat yet, but I want to prepare some dry food for him."
Aunt Zhang said, "Sure, let's steam some steamed buns for him."
Lian Yi said: "Aunt, can I help myself?"
The Aunt Zhang thought for a bit, then stepped aside, allowing Lian Yi to enter. She taught how to mix noodles manually, and just happened to cut an onion.
Waiting for the time to wake up, Lian Yi sat by the stove to add firewood. There was a faint smile on his face, but his face was too pale, making one's heart ache.
Aunt Zhang gave her a bowl of fermented eggs and told her to eat it slowly. She sat beside her and said, "Lian Yi, regardless of whether or not there are children in the future, you and Ershan will be the ones to spend the rest of your life with each other. You see, your uncle and I don't have any children, so wouldn't we be fine? Although I occasionally feel pity in my heart, looking at you all, I feel that I am very fortunate. In this lifetime, there are many possibilities. There are many ways to live. The most important thing is to not have trouble with yourself. "
Lian Yi nodded, and laughed: "Aunt has taken good care of me, so I'm sure my body will get better."
Aunt Zhang touched her head: "What a good child."
However, Lian Yi said: "My body will eventually recover, and I might even have children in the future. But how will Ershan's big brother and little sister get along with each other in the future? The two siblings are both very good people. They simply cannot believe that they have such a mother. No matter how strong the bloodline is, it will never be able to condense into that kind of person. "
"Ershan will think of a way himself, don't worry." Aunt Zhang said, "But you should think about it, if he doesn't vent his anger this time, if something happens in the future, he will be furious for the rest of his life. We have already tolerated it time and time again, we have retreated step by step. As they approached us step by step, we could not always bully good people while feeling proud of ourselves. This is not fair. "
"I know." Lian Yi nodded, once upon a time, she had collapsed because of this right and wrong that she had persisted for twenty years.
"Recuperate well, and when you get happy, Ershan will be fine." The Aunt Zhang advised, "Let him handle the matters outside, that is his responsibility, he has an explanation for his mother."
Afterwards, the two of them steamed rolls of mantou together. After a family breakfast, they brought some for Ershan. Even so, he brought the rations with him.
Just as he was about to say his goodbyes, Bi Zhenye came over riding a horse. He was wearing a set of clean white clothes, and this was the first time they had seen Bi Zhenye since the incident.
He dismounted and walked over to the group. Subconsciously, Ershan stood in front of his wife and Aunt Zhang.
He remembered clearly that Bi Zhenye had asked Lian Yi to tell him that if he had anything to do, he should rush at him and not avoid him to deal with his mother. Ershan also did not know whether or not he had avoided this time.
Unexpectedly, Bi Zhenye actually kneeled down, and Ershan was startled as he hurriedly said: "What are you doing, stand up and speak."
Bi Zhenye kowtowed, "Let me help mother apologize to sister-in-law. I don't beg for your forgiveness, I only hope that sister-in-law can take care of her health and cheer up."