chapter 47.2

After dinner, Old Madam beckoned Lin Shi, Yu Si Yu and all the stewards to announce the news about a Di young miss of Yu family who had been placed in foster care outside.

Everyone was very surprised, and there was an uproar after looking at each other. Yu Si Yu also followed the trend and made a stunned look, but in actual fact, her eyes kept pursuing Yu Xiang’s face, appearing somewhat gloating.

Pinching her fingers in calculation, Lin Shi realized there were still more than ten days before the end of the month and immediately expressed her objection, “Mother, why must it be the end of the month to bring her home? Can’t we go tomorrow?”

“Tomorrow is not an auspicious day by the perpetual calendar, which should avoid travel and marriage. If you want your daughter to hit bad luck, then just go and pick her up.” Old Madam closed her eyes and waved her hand, not waiting to see Lin Shi’s sullen face.

Lin Shi was very concerned about her daughter’s safety, thus she dared not rush against even such an obscure thing, merely pursed her lips and stopped talking.

Yu Pin Yan looked askance at her with a sneer.

Old Madam also instructed all the stewards to bring forth this news to their subordinates to avoid making a mountain out of a molehill at the end of the month then waved her hand and let everyone leave.

Seeing Yu Pin Yan bending over and about to carry Yu Xiang away with an indescribable gentleness in his actions, Lin Shi’s unpleasant mood became more gloomier that she loudly said, “Yan’er, you stay. Mother has something to discuss with you.”

Yu Pin Yan took no notice of her. He carried his younger sister and weighed her within his arms. Listening to her chuckles, it invoked a twitch at the corners of his lips as he walked out.

“Yan’er, you don’t listen to Mother’s words anymore? How can you be so disobedient and unfilial!” Lin Shi was trembling with anger. It was as if she had awakened at once and opened her eyes to observe the world around her once her daughter returned. Her son’s attitude towards her could no longer be described with the words ‘cold and distance’, but rather chilling sightlessness. There was no existence of her or his biological younger sister. He could only see Old Madam and Yu Xiang. It was fine with Old Madam as she was his own paternal grandmother after all, but what was Yu Xiang? How could a bastard and a jinx, have the right to share her daughter’s spoils?

Lin Shi desperately wanted her son to know who he should really care about.

“Elder Brother, you stay and listen to what she wants to say.” Attaching herself to Yu Pin Yan’s ear, Yu Xiang whispered.

Yu Pin Yan took two more steps until his younger sister poked his chest lightly before he smiled and placed her in the wheelchair, then instructed Tao Hong and Liu Lu to serve her carefully.

Once everyone exited the main hall, Yu Pin Yan sat next to the closed-eye Old Madam and asked, “What do you want to say?”

Lin Shi poured herself a cup of hot tea and slowly sipped it before she spoke, “Since Qi’er has been found, shouldn’t Yu Xiang be sent away?”

Seeing Old Madam open her eyes sharply towards her, she quickly added, “Not expelling her from Yu family, merely claimed she is sick and placed her in the village. Her remaining in the manor is eventually an eyesore.”

Without waiting for Old Madam to speak, Yu Pin Yan crushed the armrests of the chair and sneered, “If you think Xiang’er is an eyesore, then pack up and move to Shui Yue Nunnery to accompany Shen Miao Qi. There’s no need to come back for the rest of your life”

“You, how can you talk to me like that?” Lin Shi looked at him incredulously.

“Why can’t I talk to you like this? I am Marquis Yongle and this is the Marquis Yongle manor. Whoever I want to stay, must stay and whoever I want to let go, must leave immediately.”

“I am your mother! You’re such an ingrate!” Lin Shi stood up and hissed at him.

“My mother had already died the day my father died, and now you are just a ghost.” Yu Pin Yan shook off the wood chips on his palm as he spoke coldly, “You said that yourself, or have you forgotten instead? Since you are just a lone ghost, stay in your open grave in peace and don’t go around stirring up trouble, otherwise you will inevitably end with a scattered soul.”

Old Madam placed down the rosary beads and a mockery smile also appeared on her face. Dead, she had accepted that this daughter-in-law died fourteen years ago, but shouldn’t you die a clean death so why did you suddenly swindle the body? One would have affections for a child that one raised even without any blood ties, so how could you say abandon and truly just forsaken? Lin Shi was indeed heartless, thus it was not surprising the way Shen Miao Qi treated the Shen family as she was indeed like her.

Lin Shi was speechless as she watched her son strode away helplessly, and then spat out words that chilled her to the bone, “If you dare to mention this matter again in the future, you will leave the Marquis manor along with Shen Miao Qi. I, Yu Pin Yan, have always disowned my relatives, so don’t attempt to challenge my patience.”

Gasping heavily, Lin Shi turned to Old Madam for help.

“If you dare reveal her identity in front of Xiang’er or send her away privately, then you can go home with the bill of divorcement.” Old Madam hinted at Ma Momo who immediately stepped forward to drag the greatly shaken Lin Shi away.

In the garden, Yu Si Yu stood in front of a rockery waiting for Yu Xiang to pass by.

“Mother’s beloved is coming back and there will be no more place for you in this Yu manor, aren’t you afraid?” She leaned over slightly, her smile incomparably sweet, but like a layer of poison wrapped in honey.

Yu Xiang raised her chin and spoke casually, “Elder Brother is Marquis Yongle and this is Marquis Yongle manor. As long as Elder Brother is here, there will always be a place for me. Don’t forget, I am also Elder Brother’s beloved. It’s hard to say who doesn’t have a place yet, however I can precisely tell you, there is definitely none for you!”

She winked, her smile hundred times sweeter than the other party with enough hidden spiciness to choke people.

The beautiful face of Yu Si Yu was twisted beyond recognition. When she was about to launch an attack, she saw Yu Pin Yan standing a short distance away, a meaningful smile at the corner of his mouth.

The same words were always said to different people in different locations, and this tacit understanding seemed to have long carved into their souls, which made him feel extremely happy whenever he thought about it. But Xiang’er was wrong about one thing….

Yu Pin Yan strode over and nudged the tip of her nose as he laughingly said, “Silly girl, you are not my beloved.”

Seeing the sad and weeping expression on his younger sister’s face, he laughed out loud. Carrying her into the crook of his arms, he walked away and added with extreme tenderness, “You are not my beloved but my lifeblood. As long as I am still Marquis Yongle, this Yongle manor will always be your home.”

Yu Xiang hugged his neck and buried her cheek into his shoulder socket with a contented smile.

Looking at the intimate backs of the two people, Yu Si Yu snapped off her fingernails. Qiu Shi who was standing behind her, shook her head helplessly.