As soon as they left, the ancestral hall fell into dead silence. The pale lanterns exuded a ghostly atmosphere. Together with the coffin in the center of the main hall, it was dark, cold, lonely, and desolate.

Li Xianyuan sat down cross-legged on the ground at the end of the coffin, facing the courtyard outside the ancestral hall. The pear blossoms in the courtyard were covered with moonlit nights, and there was a lone moon in the bright sky.

The surroundings were completely silent at first, but as time passed, the faint chirping of insects came from outside.

Sitting cross-legged, Li Xianyuan seemed to be sitting in meditation, motionless until——

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Birds perch on the branches of trees. Buildings are spread out in the distance, and a red sun rises, dispersing the morning mist.

Chirp——

A sparrow landed in front of the ancestral hall, jumped into the ancestral hall, jumped to Li Xianyuan's side, and tilted his head to look at it.

Li Xianyuan's eyelids trembled, and the sparrow was frightened, fluttering its wings and flew away and landed on the eaves.

Li Xianyuan slowly opened his eyes, rubbed his eyebrows and stood up. He was so tired that he fell asleep leaning against the coffin before he could sit down for half an hour last night.

Li Xianyuan subconsciously looked back at the coffin, and then chuckled. He even took a special look at the coffin. Could it be that the old lady would be resurrected?

Walking to the spring-filled courtyard, stretching a little, I saw Xiaohong walking into the courtyard.

"Mr. Li, the eldest lady asked the servant to call you back to the guest room to rest."

Li Xianyuan nodded and asked, "Where is the eldest lady?"

Xiaohong hesitated for a moment, then said: "Some evil guests came to the door, and the eldest lady went to deal with them. She also asked the slave not to tell Mr. Li about you."

"Evil visitor?"

Xiaohong nodded, with a hint of disgust on her green face: "The relatives of the Pang family who were driven away by the old lady are here. They heard that the old lady has passed away, and they all want to come and compete for the Li family's property.

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Li Xianyuan said: "Where are they?"

"In the drawing room."

Li Xianyuan rubbed his forehead and said, "Take me there."

Naturally, Xiao Hong would not disobey Li Xianyuan. She took care of the old lady all day long, and of course she knew that the old lady treated Li Xianyuan as her own grandson. She also wished that Li Xianyuan could drive the Pang family out of the Li family.

Following Xiao Hong, she arrived at the living room. From a distance, she heard the sound of quarrels coming from inside.

Li Xianyuan stopped and said to Xiao Hong: "Go to the carriage outside the house and find a guard named Song Shi. Ask him to wait outside the living room. He will come in when I call him."

The little maid nodded in understanding and trotted away. Li Xianyuan straightened her clothes, tied up her messy long hair, and stepped into the living room.

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"Niece Yujin, the old lady is gone. Someone needs to take care of the Li family. Rather than letting the Li family's property take on a foreign surname, it's better to take care of it together with your own people." A woman advised her in the living room.

She is about forty years old, her figure is somewhat bloated, but her facial features are somewhat pretty, so she could be considered a beauty when she was young.

The other relatives of Pond's family sat on chairs on both sides and nodded in agreement.

The eldest lady said with a delicate face: "Grandma has expelled you from the Li family a long time ago. It has even been removed from the family tree. You are also considered an outsider."

"Niece Yujin, you can't say that. Your aunt hugged you when you were little. If your parents were here, they would still call me sister. But after all, blood is thicker than water. We are also sad that the old lady passed away..."

"Grandma kicked you out of the family tree. Although your surname is still Li, you are no longer from the Li family of Marquis Wu. I let you in today simply because you were my elders." The eldest lady was indifferent. She traveled around the world at the age of eighteen.

In charge of the Li family's property, how could he easily believe what the woman said? He said coldly: "If nothing happens, please leave the Li family."

The woman said with a sincere tone: "Have you thought about my niece Yujin? Now that the family tree is passed down from one line, I think you are the only one left alive.

You are the head of the family, and you will marry an outsider sooner or later. When the time comes that the Li family's property will be given to outsiders in vain, how can you have the face to treat the ancestors of the Li family and the deceased old lady?"

The eldest lady's expression froze, and her heart was conflicted. People in the world value the inheritance of the family line most. Naturally, she couldn't let the Li family have no descendants, but she couldn't let these ill-intentioned people return to the family tree.

"What's the problem? I'll give birth to a son someday and let him be named Li." Suddenly, a voice cut in from the side.

The woman turned to the direction of the voice and said, "It's easy to say. Are you willing to let your son change his surname...who are you?"

The woman discovered that the person speaking outside the door was a young man.

"I'm Li Xianyuan." The young man held his hand.

The woman looked at the eldest lady: "Niece Yujin, is this your guest?"

Li Xianyuan was dressed in a washed green shirt, with red lips and white teeth, and a dusty temperament. There were a few broken plum petal-shaped ink marks on one eyebrow. It was obvious at a glance that he was not an ordinary child. The woman was cautious about what she said and did not dare to speak rashly.

The eldest lady glanced at Li Xianyuan and said truthfully: "I'm not very familiar with him. But the old lady is on good terms with him."

This was done to avoid suspicion. If they said they knew him, these relatives would definitely gossip and implicate Li Xianyuan.

"So you are an outsider?" The woman breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at Li Xianyuan: "Young master, you and the old lady have been friends for many years, and I think you know the Li family's affection. You need to persuade Yu Jin more, this Li family

, nothing can fall into the hands of outsiders..."

The woman's words were thorny. The outsider here naturally refers to Li Xianyuan.

"An outsider?" Li Xian was surprised because of this: "The old lady once promised me to be her son-in-law, but I refused temporarily because of my young age. I will wait for a few years before talking about it. Unexpectedly, the old lady passed away suddenly.

If you don’t believe it, you can ask everyone in the Li family and those who attended the birthday party yesterday, who knows about this?”

As he spoke, he walked to the eldest lady and stood side by side. Unfortunately, he was still young and was half a head shorter than the eldest lady...

Li Xianyuan looked up at the eldest lady's side face with a complicated expression. It was a good thing that his mood was gradually recovering, but at this time he would rather return to his iceberg-like indifferent temperament.

"What nonsense are you talking about, you idiot!" the eldest lady said in a low voice, ashamed and angry.

"The old lady once wanted to betroth Wan'er to me." Li Xianyuan replied in a low voice.

He took advantage of a loophole. Everyone present thought that Li Xianyuan was referring to the eldest lady, but it was actually Li Waner.

"Where are you from? This is a matter of the Li family. What does it have to do with you?" The eldest lady opened her mouth to ask for details. A skinny man in his forties or fifties suddenly slapped the case and stood up, pointing at the eldest lady and yelling:

"Li Yujin, I think you fell in love with this little mistress, forgot about your ancestors, and wanted to monopolize the Li family's property! Maybe the two of you jointly killed the old lady!"

After the red face sang, the white face came on stage. Li Xianyuan raised his eyebrows and his eyes turned slightly cold.

"You..." The eldest lady lost her composure after being splashed with sewage inexplicably. As soon as she uttered one word, a strong man rushed in from outside the door.

What the skinny man wanted was this result, so that he could make use of the topic. He snorted coldly: "Why, are we relatives going to be kicked out?"

Unexpectedly, the strong man ran straight past him without paying any attention to him. He stirred up a gust of wind and ran to Li Xianyuan. He knelt down and clasped his fists respectfully.
Chapter completed!