A life of two souls traveling through time

After breakfast the next day, Li Yunye was suddenly invited by Butler Fang to the front hall. Before he got close, he could hear the noisy and joyful voices in the front hall from afar. Li Yunye guessed that someone must have come to pay New Year's greetings again, so he asked Butler Fang and found out that it was the main managers of the famous Li families in Jiangnan who came.

Li Yunye walked into the front hall, and several people who were chatting happily inside all looked over with smiles. Except for Li Xingyuan who was sitting there and Shopkeeper Yuan who was standing next to him, everyone else was very unfamiliar with Jiang Siyao at this time. She could only remember people according to Ange's description to her before:

The short and fat man with a greasy face is Feng, the shopkeeper of Guan Mocheng shop; the one who always smiles with squinting eyes like a fox is Lu, the shopkeeper of Guan Wangcheng shop; the tall but skinny man with a shrewd and worldly-wise look is Yang, the shopkeeper of Guan Yujiang city shop; the one with thick eyebrows, big eyes and a voice as loud as a bell is Ni, the shopkeeper of Guan Jicheng shop.

Jiang Siyao finally looked at a man in his early thirties. He was handsome, with eyebrows like ink, eyes as bright as night stars, and a goatee on his chin. Although he was taciturn, he looked very kind and introverted. He was the youngest among the many managers, and also the adopted son that Li Xingyuan relied on the most, and Li Yunye's sworn brother Mu Liang, who ran a shop far away in Liangdu, the capital.

Mu Liang was bought by Li Xingyuan from a bully twenty years ago. At that time, he was beaten to death by the bully. Li Xingyuan who happened to pass by saw him, so he rescued him and brought him back to the Li Mansion, and later adopted him as his son.

Seeing that these people were bowing to him and wishing him a happy new year, Li Yunye responded in a relaxed and polite manner. He had broadened his horizons and learned a lot from going out for social events with Master Li these days.

Seeing that the young master seemed to have been reborn, several shopkeepers from other places could not help but praise Master Li again and again. Only Mu Liang remained silent, but he smiled and secretly gave Li Yunye a thumbs up.

Li Xingyuan was naturally happy to see his son honor him in front of others. In addition, he had witnessed the growth and changes of this rebellious son with his own eyes recently and had long been relieved in his heart. However, he still acted like a strict father in front of others.

After the joke, Li Xingyuan went on to talk to the shop owners about the things in the cloth shop. Li Yunye was naturally very bored listening to him, but he had to force himself not to show any impatience.

After finally waiting for the meeting to end, shopkeepers from all over the country followed Shopkeeper Yuan to visit several cloth shops in Qile City. As the adopted son of the Li family, Mu Liang naturally had to go to see his adopted mother, Madam Li, first. Accompanied by Li Yunye, they came to the Plum Garden. Madam Li was naturally very happy to see Mu Liang, whom she had not seen for a year. She hurriedly took her adopted son to ask about his well-being, and finally started talking about marriage:

"You are not young anymore, and your adoptive father doesn't even know how to find a marriage for you?"

"Stepmother, you can't blame stepfather. He did mention it before, but Mu Liang had no plans to get married for the time being, so he refused." Mu Liang smiled awkwardly and replied respectfully.

"Oh, you two are always giving me a lot of worry!" Mrs. Li stared at the two sons in front of her and shook her head helplessly. After all, she couldn't even take care of her own biological sons, so how could she dare to take care of the affairs of her adopted son?

Li Yunye was speechless. How could he be implicated even though he didn't say a word?

After leaving the Plum Garden, Jiang Siyao wanted to go back to Qingyun Garden by herself, but Mu Liang was with her. Although she and Mu Liang were not familiar with each other as this was their first meeting, Li Yunye and he had a friendship as they grew up together. Now that she was Li Yunye's identity, she couldn't just ignore this brother who came from afar, right?

"I haven't seen you for a year, and you have really impressed me, your sworn brother."

Just when Jiang Siyao was struggling, Mu Liang spoke first to ease the embarrassment of the two standing outside the plum garden.

"Everyone grows up eventually." Li Yunye smiled at his sworn brother Mu Liang as usual, and then said, "Brother Mu Liang, you haven't been back to Qile City for a long time. Can I take you out for a walk?"

"Okay." Mu Liang smiled happily after hearing that, with his eyebrows curved into beautiful arcs.

After staying in Qile City for several months, Jiang Siyao already knew all the places for eating, drinking and having fun. Today, under the pretext of accompanying Mu Liang, she could finally step out of the gate of Li Mansion and go out to have fun under the nose of Li Xingyuan.

With Mu Liang around, Li Yunye naturally didn't let An Yun accompany him, but An Yun didn't dare to slack off at all and had to follow the two of them from a distance.

Li Yunye and Mu Liang first headed to the busiest West Street in Qile City:

"The daytime is not as fun as the night. There are puppet shows, shadow plays, acrobatics and storytelling at night. It's really lively. I'll take you out after dinner. You should stay in Qile City for a few more days, right?" Although there were people coming and going along the way, it was not as fun as the bustling city at night. Li Yunye asked Mu Liang beside him.

"Well, my godfather asked me to stay and celebrate the Lantern Festival." Mu Liang nodded and said with a smile.

"Oh, what a coincidence, meeting Mr. Li here." Li Yunye was naturally happy when he heard it, but when he was about to say something, he was suddenly interrupted by a familiar voice behind him.

"Mother Qin, it's you." Li Yunye turned around and saw the middle-aged woman who was dressed as gorgeously as usual. He felt nervous again and leaned behind Mu Liang while greeting her.

Perhaps it was the trauma of the night when her soul traveled across time and space, Jiang Siyao and even Mother Qin didn't want to have too much contact with her, let alone a brothel owner whom she hated from the bottom of her heart.

Mu Liang saw everything, and eager to protect his brother, he stepped forward and stopped Qin Mama who was about to approach Li Yunye. He knew that his brother often lingered in brothels, so he shouldn't be so shy about the madam of the brothel. It seems that he has really grown up.

"Mr. Li, do you know that Xuanyu has left Qile City?" Mother Qin was very dissatisfied with being stopped so abruptly. It was obvious that the young man in front of her was wearing the finest fabrics from the famous Li family in Jiangnan, so she naturally did not dare to offend him. She just cleared her throat awkwardly and continued to ask Li Yunye behind Mu Liang.

"Mother Qin, do you know when she will be back?" Upon hearing that it was about Yan Yu, Li Yunye walked around Mu Liang and asked Mother Qin.

"Come back? Sir, you are joking. She has redeemed herself, why would she come back?" Mother Qin sneered and sighed dejectedly. The cash cow that she had worked so hard to get just left like that. Her heart was bleeding.

Mother Qin's words made Jiang Siyao feel empty for a moment. When Kuqi was lost as a child, her mother said she would find her, but she didn't; when her parents divorced, her grandmother comforted her that her father loved her, but her father never came to see her once; when her grandmother was seriously ill, her family comforted her not to worry and told her to go back to school and study with peace of mind, so she didn't even see her grandmother for the last time; her boyfriend said he would love her forever, but he betrayed her not long after. Now she has lived again, but she still can't escape being deceived by the people she trusted. No wonder she expressed so many emotions last night, and no wonder the piano sounded so sad last night. It turned out that it was not a temporary farewell but a permanent farewell. Yes, she redeemed herself and came back for what? But why did she lie? Can't people say goodbye formally?