After the dinner, Song Yi stayed in the main room of the second house. Li Shi personally served him, aside from his clothes, and specially brought a bowl of calming tea: "You've had a hard journey, drink this bowl of tea and go to sleep early."

  Song Yi took a few sips from her hand and then stopped, suddenly asking: "I heard that Xiao Yi was ill for some time recently?"

  Li's eyebrows jumped, and she immediately handed the crystal bowl to Su Zhi with a nonchalant expression, smiling: "Isn't that so? She had a fight with her fourth sister, both of them are just kids, they don't know their own strength."

  Song Yi shook his head with some worry: "What's not serious? Children playing together naturally don't have a sense of seriousness, otherwise why would so many nursemaids and servants follow them around eating dry rations? Not one person went to persuade or help, what kind of behavior is this?! And as for Fourth Young Miss, she's still an older sister, no matter how overboard Xiao Yi was, she shouldn't have used such a heavy hand!"

  This is probably what parents all over the world think - their own children are never wrong, it's always someone else who is at fault.

  A surge of anger suddenly rose to Li's heart, and the ferocity in her eyes almost couldn't be concealed. However, she quickly covered it up with a gentle smile: "It's just that those maidservants didn't serve well, this matter has been worrying me... Unfortunately, they were all left behind by my sister, and I don't know what to do about it."

  "What's wrong with that?" Song Yi interrupted her, saying without thinking: "If it doesn't fit, I'll change everything. This time I fell and became like this, next time who knows what other tricks will happen."

  As soon as Song Yi returned, he didn't ask her how she had been doing these days, nor did he ask about Song Chuying. Instead, he immediately mentioned that Song Chuyu was ill. Li's anger intensified, and her tone became somewhat stiff: "You're not unaware of her temperament... Although I've been kind to her, there's still a distance between us. If I were to move against the people around her, how would others view me?"

  Song Yi saw her pretty face turn pale, and her thin lips pursed tightly, he knew she was angry.

  "Never mind, never mind." He pulled her down to sit beside him and said, "I know it's hard for a stepmother, but you're from a scholarly family and are a virtuous person, so don't neglect teaching your children."

  As soon as he spoke in a gentle tone, the chill on Li's body dissipated instantly, and her previously tense face suddenly showed a few smiles.

  "I didn't know these things? You also have eyes, how I treated them over the years can't you see?" Li leaned into Song Yi's arms, her hands circling his neck, her voice getting softer and lower: "I knew before that we owed sister an apology..."

  The scenes in the back house of Qingliang Temple are still vivid, Cui's unbelievable eyes with a big belly are still etched in his heart. His temples throbbed a few times, and when he thought of his brother-in-law Cui Yingxu's various questions on his way to Jinzhong this time, his heart sank like falling into an ice cellar.

  Li noticed his abnormality and roughly guessed what Song Yi was thinking about now, but she wasn't nervous at all. She sighed: "If we were more careful back then... it would have been better. Nowadays, whenever I see Xiaoliu, I feel a little inferior, just wanting to take good care of her for my sister's sake. Even if it means getting the moon from the sky, I'd want to pluck it down for her."

  "Anning has also come to understand things recently. Every time I show a little more affection for Xiaoliu, she gets angry with me and cries secretly behind my back..." Li wiped away the tears that had welled up in her eyes: "I find it really heartbreaking. Xiaoliu is pitiful, but what did our Anning do to deserve this? In the end, it's all because of my own doing. I can only hope that someday I'll be able to swallow my pride and apologize to my sister in the afterlife."

  The whole of China is in Song Yi's heart.

  Yes, Song Chuyi who lost her parents is indeed pitiful, but Li's family has already done their best to treat her well, which can make up for some of the shortcomings. The young girl Song Chunying should not be neglected either, after all, they brought her into this world...

  Song Yi felt more and more dizzy, his hands shaking involuntarily, it took him a long time to squeeze out a few comforting words, with a heavy sigh: "Don't think too much, the dead can't come back to life, go to sleep."

  Li quietly sobbed for a while, then suddenly seemed to remember something and pulled on Song Yi's sleeve, leaning her head against his chest: "Second Brother, do you think Xu Mama might know something?"

  Song Yi was like being drenched with a basin of cold water on a winter day, and he suddenly became wide awake, where was there any trace of sleepiness? He stiffened his back, and his voice also involuntarily carried a few parts of solemnity: "Xu Mama? How did she know...... Did she say something to Xiao Yi?"

  Mr. Li stroked his chest lightly with his hand: "No, no, I just said it casually. It's just that last time Xiaoliu went to the ancestral hall and knelt down once, which made me uneasy after all. I'm really afraid that Xiaoliu was instigated by someone and believed those untrue rumors, hating us..."

  Song Yi's forehead throbbed with a blue vein, and after a while, he said in a low voice: "Find an opportunity to get rid of that Xu mother. Just because she is a close relative of Zhan Mei, don't treat her too lightly. Send her to a distant villa to enjoy her old age, send her far away, and tell her not to come back again."

  Li and others are just like Song Yi. No one knows Song Yi better than her, she has put in so much effort on him... Now, she deliberately blurred the fact that Song Chuyi went to the ancestral hall, making Song Yi think that Song Chuyi had doubts about Cui's death. Song Yi is this kind of person, looking refined and elegant on the surface, but actually like a child who has not grown up, without any sense of responsibility. After all these years, he still feels guilty for Cui's death, and every time it is mentioned, he feels uneasy. This is also why Xu's mother often cries about Cui in front of him, because one cry can get what she wants.

  But from now on, with this medicine in his eyes, the suspicious and sensitive Song Yi would no longer be able to face Song ChuYi with a clear conscience...

  Li was satisfied and hooked the corner of her lips, smiling with some complacency. The inner house is deep in water, thinking that practicing good etiquette and rules to please the old lady can be worry-free? Dream on.

  She waited for five whole years until today to start giving Song Chuyi eye medicine for the first time, just to be able to trample her to the ground with one foot and make it impossible for her to turn over again.

  Wait, Cui's death was too sudden back then, and she didn't get to experience much suffering. But Song Chuyi has all the time in the world to make Cui and her children taste the bitterness she had endured.