Chapter 1228 - 956: Questioning the Past_2
"I went to see Miss Xi’Er, she has gotten very thin, and her pregnancy is showing. I asked her: Sister-in-law, did you come to see me to help prepare the things needed for your delivery?
She shook her head and took out a box, saying to me: I invited Brother Yuan because I want to ask for your help. I am about to set off back home. I am going to fulfill Li Qi’s dying wish. Please go with me to his family and put on a performance, allowing me to stay in the Li Family, so I can give birth safely and let the child grow up in the Li Family, so he can honor his father in the future."
"What a foolish child! If she had known all that would happen to Suisui later, I wonder if she would have chosen to return to the Li Family?"
Old Madam Ji suddenly couldn’t help but cry.
Yuan Yifan saw how Old Madam Ji was, and as the conversation was coming to an end, he quickly finished the rest of his statements.
"I and the brothers from the Escort Agency escorted Miss Xi’Er all the way back. Afraid something might happen to her during the journey, we also brought along the doctor who had previously detoxified Li Qi, and returned to Xun’an County. I brought the human skin mask prepared by Miss Xi’Er beforehand, fifty taels of silver left behind by Li Qi, and another fifty taels collected by the brothers, totaling one hundred taels, and sent Miss Xi’Er to the Li Family.
Initially, the people of the Li Family were neither warm nor cold towards Miss Xi’Er and even gave both her and me a hard time.
They even said that they didn’t partake in the marriage between Miss Xi’Er and Li Qi, therefore it wasn’t valid, and in short, they wanted to drive Miss Xi’Er away.
Seeing this, I couldn’t help but worry about Miss Xi’Er and her unborn child.
So I wanted to take her away, but she was unwilling, instructing me to use the silver to silence Old Madam Li.
Indeed, Old Madam Li couldn’t stop smiling when she saw the hundred taels of silver I presented and clung to Miss Xi’Er all day, cherishing her so much, saying she would treat her like her own daughter.
Seeing such a change, Miss Xi’Er implemented her second plan, having me leave under the pretense of enlisting in the army, and as planned, at around the right time, find someone to send some silver along with a mourning report to the Li Family."
"I see, what Xi’Er did was almost flawless, but it’s a pity she left too soon."
Ji Youyuan, after hearing all this, couldn’t help but admire his sister.
Ji Youzhi had something to say.
He asked Yuan Yifan.
"If I’m not mistaken, before my sister went to the Li Family, she only intended for you to use Li Qi’s identity to send her to the Li Family and then later create the false impression of enlisting in the army and disappearing without news, without the matter of sending the mourning report and compensation silver, right?"
Upon hearing this, Yuan Yifan widened his eyes involuntarily, looking at Ji Youzhi with great admiration, "Truly, as expected of the Divine Hunter Ji, you guessed it right. Indeed, before reaching the Li Family, Miss Xi’Er did not want to break the news that Li Qi had already died."
Ji Youzhi furrowed his brows. "Then why did she change the plan later?"
"I’m not exactly sure, because I wasn’t truly Li Qi. So once I reached the Li Family, I tried to avoid contact with others as much as possible. Miss Xi’Er was different; she used all sorts of reasons to chat with the Li family’s women and even had me prepare some things. She spent a whole day chatting about domestic matters under the big willow tree at the east end of the village with the young women and wives, and came back in the evening looking troubled. When I asked her, she wouldn’t say.
The next day, she enacted the plan of Li Qi enlisting and dying in battle, even giving me a gold bracelet to pawn for some silver, so by the time it would be sent back with the mourning report as compensation silver.
I didn’t take the gold hairpin, told her to keep it safe, and left, not knowing what happened afterwards."
After saying all this, Yuan Yifan couldn’t sit still, his back soaked with sweat.
"Old Madam, young sirs, may this humble one take his leave?"
Old Madam Ji waved her hand, "Brave one, please see yourself out, there will be a maid at the courtyard door to guide you to Steward Liu!"
Yuan Yifan quickly nodded in agreement, then clasped his hands together and took his leave.
As Yuan Yifan departed, Old Madam Ji could no longer hold back her tears.
"Mother! Please don’t be sad, Xi’Er has achieved what she sought. Besides, even though Li Qi may not have lived up to his full potential, he was a hero. Such a person, excluding his family background, is worthy of being the son-in-law of our Ji Family."
"Eldest, Seventh, you both head back first! Let mother have a moment!"