Qi could see Qi Yunxi's undisguised hatred for Xiao Heng. She was shocked by the madness in Qi Yunxi's eyes for a moment, then she held her hand and called her aunt earnestly: "Even if you want revenge, don't rush..."
It is easy to make mistakes if you are too anxious.
Recently, both King Zhuang and King Fenyang have been troubled by the word "forbearance". Without patience, they naturally cannot think things through carefully.
There was a thick layer of dark circles under Qi's eyes because Qi Yunxi was coming back. She was happy and scared at the same time. In fact, she had not had a good night's sleep in recent days.
Driven by the pressure from her aunt, she was already a little frightened of this moody aunt.
Qi Yunxi looked at her deeply, and after a while he said, "You really don't have the backbone of our Li family."
These words immediately made Qi's face turn pale. She clenched her hands, lowered her head and said nothing.
There was an eerie silence and awkwardness in the room. Qi Yunxi was holding the small stove. Seeing that Qi Shi didn't say a word, he was about to say something when he suddenly heard voices outside.
Soon after, the curtain was lifted and Xu Huixian walked in happily. When she saw Qi Yunxi, she was stunned for a moment, then she cheered and called out "Auntie" and ran towards Qi Yunxi.
Although Qi Yunxi married and lived far away at the border, she had been very kind to her and Young Master Xu over the years, sending them gifts every year. When they were six or seven years old, he even took them to live with the Tong family for more than two years.
She naturally felt close to Qi Yunxi.
Seeing her, Qi Yunxi's originally gloomy face also had a little smile. He pulled her to his side and gestured, praising her: "You are much taller than before. You are a big child now. I am finally here to see you get married."
As she spoke, she couldn't help but feel a little disappointed: "It's just a pity."
Qi's eyes trembled slightly.
However, Xu Huixian did not understand the hidden meaning of her words. She just smiled and thanked her for the precious emerald headdress.
Speaking of that, Qi Yunxi's smile deepened, and he shook his head nonchalantly: "This is a gift for your engagement. I'll prepare something better for you when you get married."
This set of headgear alone would probably cost no less than five thousand taels of silver, but Qi Yunxi said it was nothing. Xu Huixian looked at her in confusion.
She knew that her cousins were getting married, and their dowries added up to no more than 8,000 taels of silver. But when it came to her, the headgear alone was worth the entire dowry.
It would be a lie to say that she didn't feel proud and happy. All the gloom that Xu Huixian had caused due to the quarrel with Su Yao some time ago was swept away, and she thanked Qi Yunxi happily.
Qi, who had been silent until now, smiled and urged her: "Go outside to see if your brother has come back, and ask your brother to go and pay his respects to his cousin."
The cousin she was talking about was the son of Qi Yunxi and Tong Tai, who also came to the capital every year to give gifts and visit relatives and friends. The two families had already become very close.
After Xu Huixian ran away without suspecting anything, Qi closed the door and turned around to stare at Qi Yunxi in silence for a while before letting out a long breath: "Aunt, don't show any signs in front of the child. What Li family? That's all in the past. If we shout "Li family" outside now, no one will remember our past glory and it will only bring disaster to our lives."
She tried her best to face Qi Yunxi's anger: "Even if the Li family was a descendant family in the past, so what?"
It was already destined when Emperor Yuanfeng seized the throne that the victor will be the king and the loser will be the bandit. The grass on the deposed emperor's grave is now eight feet high. If he is like this, how noble can the Li family, his queen's family, important officials of the previous dynasty, and the family with many talented people, be
On the contrary, because the Li family worked hard to protect the deposed emperor, they caused a lot of trouble to Emperor Yuanfeng. Even when Emperor Yuanfeng attacked the palace, the Li family took the lead in plotting against him, which almost caused Emperor Yuanfeng to capsize. Emperor Yuanfeng hated the Li family to the core.
When he ascended the throne, he forced the deposed emperor to depose Queen Li on the grounds of treason and the treacherous concubine bringing disaster to the country, and then he carried out a purge of the Li family.
The Li family, which had been powerful since the time of Emperor Taizu, was unable to recover during that purge and all nine clans were exterminated.
If she and her niece had not been secretly sent away by their mother in the chaos, no one in the world would know about the Li family today.
"So what?" Qi Yunxi was touched on a sore spot. He stood up coldly and slapped her in the face. He sneered angrily, "So what? If the Li family was still the Li family with two dukes, the glorious Li family, you and I wouldn't have to be like rats in the gutter, and you wouldn't have to marry a man named Xu! Your daughter wouldn't have been humiliated like this and couldn't fight back!"
Qi turned her head away after being hit, and sighed softly with tiredness and helplessness: "But speaking of it... ..back then, my father also led troops to kill Queen Hu's brother who was still in the capital..."
Ultimately, it is their respective positions that determine their hostility.
To be honest, it was indeed Empress Li who had been instigating the deposed emperor to suppress Emperor Yuanfeng, who was still a vassal king at the time. She also detained several vassal kings when they returned to Beijing to pay tribute, almost preventing them from returning.
and... ..
Qi had to remind her softly: "Aunt, we were able to escape because the Queen Mother signaled to Lord Hu who was on duty at that time..."
They grew up with their grandmother in their hometown since they were young. It was because Emperor Yuanfeng led his troops to rebel that their family brought them back to Beijing.
But before he could see the prosperity of the capital and the nobility of the Li family, misfortune had already befallen him.
It was Old Lady Li who realized something was wrong in advance and entrusted them to trusted old subordinates and sent them away.
Later, someone actually came to track down their whereabouts, but later a military commander named Hu said that it was the Queen Mother's intention, and that only the two girls were missing, and that was it.
It would have been fine if she hadn't said this. As soon as she mentioned this, Qi Yunxi's face suddenly turned the color of liver. She pushed Qi's hand away and angrily said, "What nonsense are you talking about?! She is just pretending to be merciful. If she really wanted to let us go, why did she watch those people massacre the Li family?!"
Separated from their clan and without the protection of their family, the two girls were nothing more than drifting flowers in troubled times, and anyone who stepped on them would turn them into dust.
Thinking of that past, Qi Yunxi still can't control his anger and hatred.
After a long time, she finally pushed Qi's hand away and said, "Well, if you don't want to be a member of the Li family, you don't have to recognize me. There are only two of us left in the Li family, you and I. What happens to me is my own business and will not involve you."
After all the talk, it's still the same as saying nothing.