Fall in love with your enemy

Continuing from the last time, when I said those words to my brother, the embarrassment on his face had not completely disappeared, but was instantly covered with a layer of gloom again.

I know that my brother really loves me, and no matter what the situation is, he will not be on guard against me like others. So my second uncle and brother Qingyun can figure out a very simple truth, but he still has to come to me. Only when I tell him can he understand. The only person I can trust in the second house is my brother. He may not be able to judge everyone's thoughts, but at least he can really help me mediate in front of my second uncle. He is sure of his intentions, and brother Qingyun will not make things difficult for me.

I walked forward and held my brother's hand, and said pitifully but seriously: "Brother, don't worry, I'm not forcing myself to do anything. It's just a drug. Whoever is behind it wants me to have an attitude. I'm not that wronged. I don't care who passes the message or what secrets they make. What can I do? So it doesn't matter who knows."

"As for my attitude today, it was because I put my family on the line. William killed my father and brother, so I had to put everything aside and focus on dealing with him. Even though I've won, it doesn't mean there wasn't danger at the beginning. What's more, I really used Gao Xinci to get involved with him again."

"If I really marry him with all the family interests as compensation, it will be good for me, but the Fu family will inevitably be looked down upon. On the one hand, they will say that I abandoned Mo Du, and on the other hand, they will say that I used the second branch as a stepping stone. The girl I raised with great difficulty has now become someone else's. I am just giving them peace of mind, and this is my own will, not someone threatening me. I have no problem with Nan Nan, and he and I have already obtained the marriage certificate, so of course I want to live a good life. Now I tie him up in the house in the hope that he can figure it out and understand that I am destined to be a life-and-death struggle with them, and there is no option of reconciliation. The medicine is also to help him figure it out."

"No threats yet. What did He Qingyun say to you last night?" My brother looked at me as if he disliked me for being "unmotivated" and didn't even bother to complain.

"Did you two have a fight?" I approached him with a shameless face, grabbing the corner of his clothes and shaking them: "Brother Qingyun is also thinking about you. What if I am really that ignorant?"

"For my own good, bully my sister for my own good."

"He just asked me a few questions. He wouldn't push me to any extent. After all, I am his sister and we grew up together. I'm so cute, how could he bear to bully me?" I smiled at the maximum angle and soon my face felt tired. My brother pinched me and I immediately called him brother like a rooster crowing.

"He'd better remember." My brother said unhappily, and then when he saw me "chuckle" again, he coughed arrogantly before letting me go: "Okay, but have you really thought it through? Still staying with that vixen? If you don't want to, just tell your brother. Even if it's the one from the Gao family, marriage is for the rest of your life. As long as you are happy, nothing else matters."

"Don't worry, brother. I'm not stupid. If I'm not doing well, I will speak up. How can I be mute?"

"You look like a mute this time! Why didn't you tell me?" My brother pinched my face and shook it. I was really convinced and immediately begged for mercy.

"I was wrong! I won't dare to do it again next time..."

"Do you want a next time?!"

"No, no! There won't be a next time!"

My brother finally let go. I knew my face must have turned red without looking in the mirror. I really expected him to beat me up, but I didn't expect him to do it out of the ordinary and pinch my face! What are these pads on my body for? Are they just pads for nothing? How can I protect my face? Should I put more oil on it so that he can slip?

Outrageous.

My brother felt that he had learned his lesson, and since I was the victim, he could just give him a few words of scolding. So he turned around and prepared to leave. Before he left, I stopped him again, feeling very embarrassed and annoyed: "Brother, my medicine..."

My brother rolled his eyes at me, turned his head away, handed me the medicine bottle, and said something: "It's not a good thing, use it sparingly." Then he left.

I shook the bottle. I heard that there were only a few pills. The people in the old house still had some brains and would not let me indulge. My brother, Feng Shizhi and the others knew that this was not a good thing, but it was still kept in the pharmacy for a long time. Who was not a good thing? The medicine or the people? They all knew it. A medicine that could not speak or move would not bear this responsibility.

I smiled bitterly. Mission accomplished, I took my things and went back to the house. Chengcheng would stay in the office tonight to deal with company matters and would not come back. It would be more convenient for me to stay in his room. I asked people at home to send him some food so that he would not be busy too late. After my aunt agreed, she also said something else.

She pointed upstairs, her expression was very exaggerated: "Miss, my son-in-law can't stand this anymore. For a whole day and night, he couldn't swallow anything, even if someone stuffed it into his mouth. He vomited everything he ate. If he continues like this, his body will not be able to bear it. Why don't you go and see him? If he has done something wrong, he should be punished when he is sober, right..."

It's really because Jiang Yinan is usually nice to his family and has good relationships with people that so many people speak for him. I felt soft-hearted and really planned to release him a day in advance, at least to let him sleep in bed. Unfortunately, I regretted it as soon as I went up. Li Shirong was guarding the door, and the light in the room was not on, but people left a gap for him, so the people inside could still see the light.

I wanted him to experience the endless darkness, as people's senses are clearer in the darkness. I wanted to make him afraid, terrified, and desperate, so that I could take revenge on him and make both the living and the dead feel at ease. But someone left him this gap, and he spent two nights like this. He didn't do anything I wanted to do, and the suffering I wanted him to suffer didn't happen to him at all.

I turned around and asked Li Shirong: "Who told you to do this?"

The answer was not Brother Qingyun or anyone else in the family. Li Shirong realized that something was wrong and uttered tremblingly: "Son-in-law... No, it was Gao Xinci."

I knew he came that day. My second uncle took the initiative to let him in, and he also wanted to see my reaction to him. I didn't see him, but he went to see Jiang Yinan and helped him so much. Why didn't he just let the person out?

It took me a long time to recover. I couldn't show my resentment. I wanted to close the door again, but then I thought better of it. I wanted to punish him, but my family was watching and the people around me knew me. I didn't want the second and third wives or the servants to think I was too cruel and couldn't even tolerate this. So I just said to Li Shirong, "You listen to him quite well."

Li Shirong was startled and lowered his head, not daring to look me in the eye.

"You've been watching for a whole day, go back and have a rest, and change the banker to Xin." I said.

Li Shirong agreed and left with a few people behind him. They formed a new queue before I went downstairs. Jiang Yinan heard my voice and looked back at me, but I was not ready to see him and left in a hurry. However, a new problem occurred when I went downstairs. My heart suddenly ached so much that I couldn't even stand up. I shivered all over and squatted down slowly while holding on to the wall. I felt the pain carefully, but it didn't seem like a disease, but rather the loss of some important people. Sure enough, I was helped back to the room and lay down for a while, and then news came from Wen Ke: Aunt Lin was dead.

I thought she wouldn't survive that night, but Wen Ke went in to collect her body the next day and found she was still breathing. We sent her to the hospital according to the rules. She struggled for a whole day, but finally died just now.

I didn't cry or do anything. I just quietly stroked the pair of gold bracelets she gave me for the first time. I didn't hate her, but I didn't love her either. The fate between us as mother and daughter has been completely exhausted since last night. But the outside world still has to watch. Even if I am not her daughter, I am still her daughter-in-law. There is no Jiang Yinan in the world anymore. What Nanxing left for him is only the clean identity of Lin Modu. I took over this identity for him, so I had to be filial to him. Therefore, a luxurious coffin and a grand funeral had already been prepared.

"You go tell Wen Ke that I will take care of the rest. The deceased is gone, so there is no need to ask certain questions. Please ask her to interrogate William and inform me of the results as soon as possible. Also, I hope she can help me hide the news of my adoptive mother's death. Mo Du and I are going to have our wedding in two months, and I don't want to worry about this bad luck. Let's worry about the funeral after the wedding." After I said that, I took a sip of tea calmly.

Li Xi has always been soft-hearted. No matter what Aunt Lin did, no matter how much she had scolded her before, she just couldn't open her mouth to a dead soul after her death. She looked very sad and sighed deeply.

I smiled bitterly and stuffed a piece of dessert into her mouth. After eating it, she felt better. Then I said something less cruel: "Tell the old house to prepare in advance. The wedding must be grand. This funeral will follow closely and will be even grander than the wedding. My parents were buried in sandalwood coffins. I used nanmu for her, so that she would not raise me in vain for thirteen years. In addition, I asked a Feng Shui master to find a new cemetery, which is specially for the Lin family. The price is very expensive, and no one will think that I am treating people unfairly. When she is buried, I will move Xie Ge's grave there. When I have descendants, I will ask my descendants to worship the Lin family every year after burning incense to the elders of the Fu family, and tell them that without the Lin family, there would be no Fu Xishi today."

"We have done the most for the Lin family by honoring them after their death." Li Xi gritted his teeth and nodded.

"I have done my best for the other members of the Lin family, but for Brother Xie..." He stopped here, and there was a long silence. I don't know if it can be considered fair that Aunt Lin killed Brother Xie to save me. Anyway, most of the Lin family members are buried now, and I can't get answers from the dead. I will probably be tormented by this for the rest of my life, but I saw Brother Xie again in my dream that night.

In my dream, I returned to the ward where he died. His face was very blurry and I couldn’t see him clearly. I also forgot what his voice sounded like, but I was sure it was him. He was smiling. He told me: I can complain about anyone, but don’t blame yourself. I have done very well. Love and hate are involuntary. Don’t feel that anything you do will make you feel sorry for him. My happiness is his greatest happiness.

I woke up the next day with a wet pillow...

After washing up, I calculated the time to go see Jiang Yinan. If he continued to kneel like this, even if I wanted to forgive him, he wouldn't be able to bear it mentally and physically. Besides, I would have to mourn again before the wedding. Before leaving, I pulled out the soft knife from my wrist, which Old Fu left for me for self-defense. Although it was only a thin piece, it was definitely enough to wipe someone's neck. I took it upstairs.

It's true, it's very lively upstairs. It seems that the news that Jiang Yinan refuses to eat or drink has spread throughout the family. Even Feng Shizhi couldn't stand it anymore and was squatting in the room. There was a bowl of rice and a bowl of soup on the bedside table. He would feed one of them every now and then in different ways. Zhuang Congxin and the others were squatting and looking into the door. They would have liked to applaud if their son-in-law could take a lick of the food. Unfortunately, Jiang Yinan had the same look from beginning to end - his head leaning against the bed with a look of despair on his face. He would not open his mouth no matter how hard he tried to feed him. He could say a few words to people, but he couldn't win the argument.

Feng Shizhi: "Eat something, my good uncle. I already call you uncle, can you please give me some respect?"

Jiang Yinan: "Why do you bother so much? This is not your job."

Feng Shizhi: "I feel bad about the food. Now we are advocating the "Clean Plate" campaign. If you don't eat, I will have to finish it. If I eat too much, I will get fat and look ugly."

Jiang Yinan paused and changed the subject: "Always by my side, if I die, it will be you, shouldn't you earnestly hope that I will ascend to heaven as soon as possible?"

Feng Shizhi thought about it and thought this point of view was very constructive: "That's true."

The big white fox rolled his eyes and almost fainted on the spot. He moved his head to his hands and pinched his philtrum for a while before he recovered. Then he stared at Feng Shizhi again.

Zhizhi shrugged innocently: "What are you looking at? It's the truth, and you said it yourself."

I pushed the door open and went in. I didn't want Jiang Yinan to be pissed off by Zhizhi before he even saw me. Both of them were very surprised to see me. Feng Shizhi was okay. He was stunned for a moment and then remembered that I said I would come yesterday. He stood up, put the bowl back on the tray, and wiped Jiang Yinan's mouth with a tissue.

Jiang Yinan was different. His pitiful look on the verge of tears really made me panic. Unfortunately, his hands were rubbed badly by the rough hemp rope. He dared not move, as any movement would hurt his wounds. He was not afraid of the pain, but his heart and eyes were full of doubts. He was afraid that his pain would not be reciprocated equally by me, and that I would not come in to see him, or that even if I saw him, I would announce the bad news.

I sighed and asked Jiang Yinan if he wanted to eat. He shook his head. I took the tray of dishes away from the bed, and I don't know which action made him think that I wanted to leave. I didn't care about the pain in my hands, and grabbed the hem of my skirt by the rope. Tears were already falling, but I couldn't say a word. I opened my mouth but remained silent.

I gently waved his hand away and deliberately took a step forward. Seeing him lonely made me sad and relieved. I handed the tray to Feng Shizhi: "Zhizhi, call everyone out and close the door. I have something to say to Modu."

Everyone in the family knew Jiang Yinan's identity, but I called out "Modu" in front of Feng Shizhi. He understood what was going on and signaled with his eyes that I shouldn't be too angry or make a fuss. He took the things and went out, taking away Zhuang Congxin and his people. He closed the door with a click, and I went to lock it. Then I came back, squatted down, and untied all the restraints on him.

A layer of skin had fallen off his wrist. I asked him to sit down, rolled up his trouser legs and looked at his knee, which was also swollen.

"It doesn't hurt..." He answered before me, eager to see some emotion in my eyes.

But before the more important answer appeared, I always maintained that cold expression, unshakable. I pulled the soft knife out from my wrist and handed it to him.

"Do you hate me?" I asked, prying his hand open and pointing the blade at my lower abdomen: "I will only give you this one chance today. I can tell you that I killed Nanxing in the most painful way. He died with his eyes open. If you hate me, then kill me and then kill yourself. We will die together. If you don't hate me, there will be no Jiang Yinan in the world. There will only be Lin Modu, Fu Xishi's husband Lin Modu. You can choose one."