The Phoenix is Back - Chapter 73

Chapter 073 Withdraw One’s Wife
On this day, the sky became gloomy and dim as if ink had been splashed on it. Because he was not yet an adult, burial matters should be kept to a minimum.

In the mourning hall, Matriarch Lao, Xiao Yan, Xiao Xiyang, Xiao Xiwei, Xiao Xichun, Auntie Zhou, and Third Auntie had all arrived. Even Xiao Xile, who had been hiding in Huajin Garden for the past few days, had come.

“Master, the hour has come. It’s time to restrain yourself.” Manager Wang walked over to Xiao Yan and reminded him in a low voice.

Xiao Yan held back his tears and nodded.

After hearing Xiao Yan’s words, a few servants of all sizes came forward and surrounded the coffin.

“Tomorrow! My child!” Suddenly, a shrill voice accompanied by a figure rushed towards the coffin. Madam Li rushed in with her hair disheveled. She pushed the servants away and lay on Xiao Ximing’s coffin, tears rolling down her cheeks.

“What are you doing here!” Seeing Madam Li, Xiao Yan frowned and clenched his hands into fists.

If it weren’t for the fact that there were so many people watching from the mourning hall, he would have ordered someone to drag her down a long time ago.

“Tomorrow! Open your eyes and look at Mother! Mother knows that you died wrongly, and you are not willing to leave! But Mother does not have the ability to avenge you! If you have grievances and hatred in your heart, turn into a fierce ghost and ask those who harmed you to defend your life for you!” Madam Li cried as he hugged the coffin.

“Shut up! Do you sound like a mother? Tomorrow is already gone, so you can’t let him go!” The matriarch knocked hard on her cane, her pale face filled with anger.

“Tomorrow! My poor child! All of you have grievances and hatred against me! Take my life away, why do you want to harm my tomorrow!” Madam Li didn’t seem to have heard Matriarch Lao’s angry rebuke as she cried out loudly.

Xiao Xiwei’s eyes inadvertently swept towards Xiao Xile, only to see her desperately lowering her head, her body slightly trembling, and her hands tightly twisting their handkerchiefs.

Madam Li wholeheartedly thought that she had killed her son, so every word of it killed her heart. Unexpectedly, this heart was her daughter’s.

“What are you still waiting for! Pull her down! Pull her down!” Seeing Madam Li’s impervious appearance, the matriarch felt her chest surge with blood and qi. She raised her hand and heavily knocked on the cane, almost fainting.

Very quickly, the two women walked to Madam Li, one on the left and one on the right, wanting to take her off the coffin.

“Go away! All of you, go away! Pull me again! I’ll crash and die here!” Madam Li played like he was kicking and hitting the two ladies.

“Third sister, aren’t you going to persuade mother?” Xiao Xi turned her face slightly and stared at Xiao Xi Le motionlessly.

Xiao Xile was stunned. When she raised her eyes and touched Xiao Xiwei’s cold and quiet eyes, she felt inexplicably panicked.

Seeing that the Li Clan was becoming more and more noisy, Xiao Yan finally burst out in anger. He stepped forward and grabbed the Li Clan’s hand and threw it fiercely on the ground. “Get lost! Even if you want to die, you still have to die outside. Don’t dirty my Marquis Manor’s land!”

Mrs. Li raised her eyes to look at Xiao Yan, her gaze dull with a trace of disbelief. “You … you want me to die …”

Xiao Yan’s lips twisted tightly, and his gaze towards Madam Li was filled with resentment and disgust.

Mrs. Li looked at Xiao Yan’s cold and heartless face and felt as if someone had stabbed her in the chest with a dagger one after another, causing her heart to ache, but the man in front of her did not show the slightest bit of emotion.

She entered the Marquis Mansion at the age of seven and accompanied him for 22 years.

Twenty-two years!

She had given him all the best years of a woman! But in the end, what did he repay her?

Disgust?

Disdain?

He even told her to die!

Haha …

Mrs. Li suddenly covered her painful and stuffy chest and let out a low laugh. With a smile, tears fell down her cheeks.

“Mother, I’m begging you, don’t say anything else. Just pretend, just pretend that it’s for me, okay?” Seeing that Xiao Yan was so angry, Xiao Xile was afraid that Madam Li would be implicated if she continued, so she hurriedly stepped forward and whispered to Madam Li.

The corners of Madam Li’s lips moved, wanting to say something else, but looking at Xiao Xile’s pleading and worried gaze, he finally swallowed the words that had reached his lips forcefully.

“Yan’er! It’s better to restrain yourself!” The matriarch looked at Xiao Yan with a serious expression and spoke.

Only then did Xiao Yan look back and nodded at the old lady.

Xiao Ximing was only nine years old, and he hadn’t paid his respects, so the funeral had to be simple. The second day after he entered the palace, he was buried at a funeral.

Xiao Ximing’s funeral had just been completed, and the Marquis Manor had yet to recover its calm. A letter of divorce instantly caused the Marquis Manor to explode.

Madam Li’s injuries weren’t healed yet. In addition to Xiao Ximing’s sudden death, she leaned against Li Xiang’s body sickly. When Xiao Yan threw the divorce certificate on her face, she bounced up. Her gaze was filled with fear and surprise as she looked at Xiao Yan and said, “You, you want to divorce me?”

Xiao Yan glanced at Madam Li in disgust. “Don’t you know what you’ve done? I’ve already sent someone to inform the Li Clan. You can leave by yourself later!”

Mrs. Li’s feet softened, “Are you, are you serious?”

Xiao Yan snorted coldly and didn’t even bother to look at Madam Li. He turned around and sat on a chair.

Madam Li’s heart, which had yet to recover, seemed to be thrown back into the cold pool, and he felt a bone-chilling chill all over his body. Because she knew that this time it was true. He really wanted to divorce himself.

“Tomorrow, I just left. You … are you going to do this to me?” The tears that Madam Li had finally stopped flowing out of her eyes.

Xiao Yan could not sit on the chair with Wen Feng.

“La Yue, help me go back.” The matriarch said exhaustively.

‘”Auntie” Seeing that the Matriarch was about to leave, Madam Li hurriedly cried out in sorrow.

The matriarch seemed as if she didn’t hear him and held Mammy Liu’s hand as she walked out step by step.

In the past, she was the bloodline left behind by her cousin, and she was Ming’er’s biological mother. Even though she knew that she had done so many wrong things, she always advised herself to forget it. Don’t argue about it. But now … Ming’er is dead, and she is also old. She doesn’t want to care about it anymore, and she really can’t care about it anymore …

Seeing that the matriarch ignored her pleas, Madam Li felt a chill run down his spine. She looked around. Xiao Yan’s face was ashen. Zhou Shumei and Xiang shi stood behind him and looked at her mockingly. Turning around, Xiao Xiyang frowned slightly, his face revealing disgust. At the side, Xiao Xiwei’s gaze was cold and quiet, while Xiao Xichun lowered his head and did not say a word. No one pleaded for her! They were all waiting for this moment. Madam Li felt despair in her heart. Suddenly, a glimmer of hope jumped out of her eyes. She hurriedly turned to look at Shearer, who was standing by the side with her head lowered.

Yes! She had Shearer!

Sheila was her own! She will definitely help her!

Xiao Xile subconsciously turned around and avoided Mrs. Li’s gaze, pretending not to see it.

The tiny flame of hope that Madam Li had just ignited was completely extinguished.

Even she wouldn’t help her!

“Master, do you want me to get someone to set up a carriage to send Madam?” Seeing that even the Li Clan’s biological daughter ignored her, the third concubine mother was overjoyed in her heart and hurriedly stepped forward and whispered to Xiao Yan.

“I’ll leave it up to you!” Xiao Yan impatiently glanced at Third Concubine.

Third Concubine heard this and hurriedly turned to Xiao Yanfu, wanting to go down and instruct the servants to set up the carriage. She had just taken two steps when a cold voice rang out.

“Wait a moment.”

Third concubine mother watched Xiao Xiwei slowly walk out in a plain white dress. Her face stiffened and the smile on her face faded away. “Second young miss, what are you …”

At this juncture, shouldn’t she still be thinking of pleading for Madam Li?

Xiao Xiwei, however, did not look at Third Concubine and walked straight to Madam Li. “I asked myself why you always wanted to harm me three times and four times since I didn’t do anything to disobey you.”

“You didn’t do anything to disobey me! Then how did you die tomorrow? I really regret that you were too light. If you were a little harder, you wouldn’t have tired me to death!” Upon seeing Xiao Xiwei, Madam Li felt that her internal organs were being roasted by the fire. She immediately scratched Xiao Xiwei’s face without even thinking about raising her hand.

“What are you doing!” Xiao Xiyang shouted angrily. He raised his hand and grabbed Madam Li’s hand. He exerted a bit of strength, only to hear a’cracking ‘sound. Madam Li’s entire face twisted.

Xiao Xiyang had already made preparations when Xiao Xiwei approached Madam Li.

In the past, he was not in the manor, but now, in front of him, he did not allow anyone to dare to hurt his sister.

“Do you think I’m the one who killed you tomorrow?” Xiao Xiwei said coldly as she looked at Mrs. Li without changing her expression.

“It’s not you! Xiao Xiwei, aren’t you afraid of coming back tomorrow night to seek revenge on you?” Madam Li shouted angrily as he covered his broken hand.

No one noticed that a trace of fear flashed through Xiao Xile’s pupils.

“Revenge?” Xiao Xiwei raised his eyebrows slightly and said coldly, “If Tomorrow really is alive, I hope that he can come back and personally avenge himself and ask that person why he wants to harm him!”

“Xiao Xiwei, you still want to quibble at this time! Do you think I will believe you? Xiao Xiwei, you won’t even let go of a nine-year-old child! I curse you that you will die a terrible death! Lightning strikes at the end!” Mrs. Li stared at Xiao Xiwei with resentment and shouted hysterically.

“Shut up!” Xiao Xiyang raised his foot and fiercely kicked Madam Li.

Xiao Xiyang had always hated Madam Li ever since he knew what Xiwei had done to Madam Li. If it weren’t for Xi Ming and his father’s face, he would have wanted to expel her long ago! Now that Ximing was dead and her father had given her another divorce certificate, there was no need for him to worry.

Madam Li only reacted so fiercely to her malicious words. If he knew the truth about her mother’s death, Madam Li would probably strangle her to death to avenge her mother! It was precisely because he was familiar with this that Xiao Xiwei concealed this matter. Madam Li deserved to die, but she didn’t want her brother to be implicated in the slightest because of someone like Madam Li.

“What she cursed was that the person who killed Ming’er would die a terrible death. There was no need for big brother to be so angry when the heavens struck with lightning.” Xiao Xiwei reached out and gently held Xiao Xiyang’s hand. After saying that, she paused for a moment, then suddenly turned to look at Xiao Xile, the corner of her mouth curled into a faint smile, “Third sister, did you say that?”

Xiao Xile was shocked, and a trace of panic flashed in her eyes, “I… I don’t know what you said?”

“I wonder what I said?” Xiao Xiwei smiled coldly. “What’s in that glass of wine? Third sister, you don’t know? You should know that the cup Ximing drank was personally served by third sister!”