The Phoenix is Back - Chapter 35

Chapter 035 Siblings Play Chess
A louder howl came from the Li Manor’s matriarch’s courtyard.

“Mother, why don’t you drink some medicine first?” Li Lin looked at Madam Qi who was lying on the bed wailing in pain.

Madam Qi cried out, “Drink what medicine! Forget about letting me die! How can I still have the face to be alive right now?”

Perhaps there were rumors all over the capital that she had been sent to the Marquis Temple by the board. What face did she still have to face people now?

“Mother, don’t be like this” Li Lin frowned and looked at Madam Qi with a helpless expression.

“Letter! Quickly write a letter and send it to Su Yang. Tell your father to come back and make the decision for me!” Madam Qi patted the bed and cried bitterly.

“Mother” Li Lin shouted awkwardly at Mrs. Qi and sat in front of the bed without moving.

“Hurry up and go! Do you really want to see me die?” Madam Qi howled.

“Mother, Daddy, he was ordered to inspect Su Yang’s calamity. How can he return so easily? Besides, what can he do even if he comes back?” Li Lin frowned.

Madam Qi cried out in a’wow ‘, “Then … can I only be humiliated in vain?”

“Mother, don’t even think about it once things are over. Drink the medicine first, otherwise your body will not be able to endure it.” When Li Lin saw Madam Qi crying so hard that her heart was torn apart, her heart also felt a burst of pain.

Before Madam Qi could reply, the girl beside her suddenly walked up to Li Lin and whispered, “Young miss, my cousin is here.”

Before Li Lin could react, Madam Qi, who was lying on the bed, pointed at the door and said in a shrill voice, “Let her in! Get her in here quickly!”

Qi Yuerong, who was standing in the outer room, heard Madam Qi’s shrill voice and her entire body trembled. Her face immediately turned pale.

“Miss Cousin, hurry up and go in.” The girl pulled and pulled Qi Yuerong to Madam Qi’s side.

“Auntie …”

Just as Qi Yuerong opened her mouth and shouted, a bowl of boiling hot soup smashed towards her. She subconsciously tilted her head, and the thick soup sweat still splashed onto her face.

“Do you think you did something to me on purpose?” Madam Qi pointed at Qi Yuerong and vented her anger.

Qi Yuerong was inexplicably shocked. Her small face was as white as paper. “Auntie … it’s none of my business … it’s really none of my business …”

“Who else! You gave me that handkerchief! You kept saying that the handkerchief was Xiao Xiwei, but the result …” Madam Qi was excited and accidentally pulled on the wound on her buttocks. She immediately grimaced in pain and let out another wail.

Qi Yuerong hurriedly said, “That handkerchief is indeed Second Miss Xiao’s. At that time, she personally took that handkerchief to bandage my wound …” At this point, Qi Yuerong suddenly looked at Li Lin. “Cousin, you were there at that time. Tell aunt that I didn’t do anything in the middle.”

Li Lin turned to look at Madam Qi and said, “Mother, I did see that handkerchief. It was indeed Xiao Xiwei who took it out to bandage Yue Rong’s wounds.”

“Then how did that handkerchief become Brother Le’s?” Madam Qi raised her voice, but she still didn’t believe it.

Li Lin’s eyebrows gradually knitted together. “Perhaps … from the beginning, the handkerchief that was used to bandage Yue Rong Wei’er was Le Jie’er’s handkerchief.”

“Impossible!” Madam Qi said without thinking.

Li Lin grabbed Madam Qi’s hand and stared into Madam Qi’s eyes. “Mother, have you ever thought about it? Perhaps, Wei-jie already knew about your plan with Aunt Qi.”

Madam Qi’s pupils suddenly dilated. She subconsciously muttered to herself, “No, that’s impossible! She’s just a fourteen-year-old girl … How is that possible?”

“Mother, at that flower appreciation banquet, Yue Rong clearly wanted to push her into her brother’s arms, but she inexplicably dodged it, while Le Jie’er inexplicably fell into his brother’s arms? Don’t you find it strange that you added this handkerchief to it? She seems … like a prophet?” When Li Lin said this, her heart involuntarily trembled.

If what she had guessed was true, she could not have imagined that the gentle and gentle girl would have such deep thoughts.

Not only Li Lin, Madam Qi also felt a chill crawl up from the bottom of her feet.

Compared to the Li Manor, the Marquis Manor’s Sparse Shadow Pavilion was a different scene.

In a vine-covered pavilion.

Xiao Xiwei and Xiao Xiyang sat opposite each other. There was a chessboard on the stone table. Blackie’s aura soared and occupied more than half of the chessboard. Although Baizi was slightly weak in this heavy encirclement, in fact, he kept Blackie in check step by step, leaving Blackie nowhere to fall.

Xiao Xiyang’s eyebrows furrowed slightly as he held a black spot in his right hand and stared straight at the chess game.

Xiao Xiwei smiled faintly and took a sip of the iced plum soup on the table. “Brother, would you like a bowl too?”

Xiao Xiyang waved his hand and said, “Don’t make any noise. Let me think about it for a while longer.”

After waiting for a while, Xiao Xiyang finally landed a son.

Xiao Xiwei did not think about it. He raised his subordinate and immediately killed a large number of Blacksmiths. This time, Xiao Xiyang was completely dumbfounded.

“This, this is impossible?”

Xiao Xiwei smiled sweetly, “Why? Don’t you admit defeat?”

Xiao Xi Yang couldn’t help but say, “It’s just a game of chess. If we have the original plan, let’s play another game!”

“No matter how many more dishes you place, they will be the same.” Xiao Xiwei smiled faintly as he looked at Xiao Xiyang, who was about to pick up some seeds and fight another round.

“Xiwei, are you looking down on your brother like this?” Xiao Xiyang raised his head and looked at his sister, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Xiao Xi sighed and slowly picked up the pieces on the chessboard. He put them back into the white porcelain chess jar one by one. “Big brother, on the battlefield, as a soldier, you go out and kill your enemies with a mouthful of hot blood. It’s not wrong to go forward bravely and put your life and death out of reach.” But if Big Brother was the commander-in-chief and the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers were in Big Brother’s hands, wouldn’t Big Brother have to think for those soldiers before he did anything? Do you plan to do anything? ”

His grandfather, Xiao Qi, had said these words to him before, but he had never taken them to heart. He never expected that he would hear them from his sister today.

Xiao Xiwei looked at Xiao Xiyang and smiled softly, but there was a hint of bitterness in his smile. “They say that the battlefield is like a chess game, but in fact, isn’t the backyard a chess game? If you want to not lose, then you have to take three steps, four steps, five steps, and even more steps!”

“Xiwei …”

“Big brother, you are an honest man. However, not everyone in this world is as honest as you. Most of them are wearing kindly masks. The darkness hidden beneath the masks is the true humanity!”

“Wei’er, is there someone bullying you? At the birthday banquet today …” Xiao Xiyang’s eyebrows gradually knitted together. He threw away the chess piece and reached out to stroke Xiao Xiwei’s face. “Wei’er, it’s all because big brother didn’t protect you well.”

He had heard all about today’s birthday party. His younger sister was like a flower at this age. She should have grown up with the love and care of her family. She should be a naive and happy little girl who was not familiar with the world! However, she had suffered such a great grievance.

Xiao Xiwei raised his hand to hold Xiao Xiyang’s warm and generous palm and gently shook his head. “Big brother, I’m not blaming you for saying these words. I’m just afraid that they’ll deal with you like they did with me … I’m worried about you …”

At the end of her sentence, her eyes gradually became moist.

She just didn’t want her brother to repeat the tragedy of his previous life.

“Silly girl.” Xiao Xiyang reached out and rubbed Xiao Xiwei’s forehead, his smile full of doting.

“Second young miss, second young miss, save me …” A little girl suddenly stumbled in.

“Which courtyard are you from? Why are you so rude!” Xiao Xiyang raised his eyebrows and said unhappily.

The girl covered her chest and gasped for breath, but her eyes were filled with panic. Xiao Xiwei recognized her with a single glance. She was Pearl, Xiao Min’s personal maid from Ping City.

“Big brother, she’s aunt’s girl.” Xiao Xiwei whispered to Xiao Xiyang, then looked at Pearl and said, “Look at your panic, what’s wrong?”

“This servant, this servant doesn’t know what to say. Second young miss, hurry up and listen to the Rain Pavilion. Madam, she … Madam, she …”

Madam Li?

Xiao Xi raised her eyebrows.

Could it be that his father had showcased his cards to Madam Li in rage?

“Big brother, I’ll go listen to the Rain Pavilion. It’s not early. You can go back and rest first.” Xiao Xiwei hurriedly turned to Xiao Xiyang and said.

“I’ll go with you.” Xiao Xiyang frowned.

Everyone in the hall had already been disturbed by what had happened, and the Marquis of Loyalty had already lost all face. As soon as the guests dispersed, Xiao Yan ran to Hua Jin Garden to vent his anger. He heard that he even gave Madam Li a slap.

After this incident, Xiao Xiyang had some understanding of Xiao Xiwei’s situation. He knew that Madam Li had no good intentions towards Xi Wei. Although he didn’t know why she ran to the Rain Hearing Pavilion to make a fuss, he still subconsciously hoped that Wei’er could stay away from Madam Li.

Xiao Xi smiled faintly and said, “No need.”

“Xiwei.”

“Big brother, I’ve grown up.” Xiao Xiwei let go of Xiao Xiyang’s tightly clenched hand and smiled softly, “This is a matter of the inner mansion. Big brother can’t interfere in it. Besides, big brother can’t stay by my side to protect me for the rest of my life, right?”

Xiao Xiyang opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end, he didn’t say anything.

Xiwei was right.

He has never done his duty as a brother for a day. His sister, without his noticing it, had gradually grown into a big girl, but he had done nothing. Why would he say protect her?

“Xiwei, big brother is truly ashamed of you …”

“How is that possible? I’m still waiting for my brother to make contributions and become a Marquis to back me up that day.” Xiao Xiwei held Xiao Xiyang’s arm and smiled. He wiped it and added, “Let’s see who dares to bully me then!”

Xiao Xiyang couldn’t help but smile, “Alright, just say those words to my Xiwei. No matter what, big brother has to earn a title to let you show off!”

“Then big brother must remember it well. Don’t forget it.” Xiao Xiwei looked up at Xiao Xiyang and blinked, “However, if Big Brother really wants to help Wei’er, there’s actually one more thing he can do.”

“What?”

Xiao Xiwei smiled sweetly and whispered a few words into Xiao Xiyang’s ears.

Xiao Xiyang was stunned for a moment, then he reached out and nodded Xiao Xiwei’s forehead, “You ghost elf.” After saying that, he lifted his leg and walked out of the pavilion.

Xiao Xiwei looked at his back and a bright smile gradually blossomed on the corner of his lips.

Big brother, I only wish you peace and happiness in this life. I don’t care about anything else.