Chapter 90 Beneficiaries
Listening to these sensational words, Jiang Li looked at Abraxas unmoved, "So what do you want me to do."
"Don't be nervous, I have no ill intentions towards you."
Abraxas was a little agitated and kept coughing. His whole body was in pain and his face showed pain.
"I...I just want you to...help me take care of Lucius."
He said this with great difficulty, and looked at Jiang Li through the curtain with a hint of pleading in his eyes.
"I can't take care of him all the time. I don't want to be a nanny." Jiang Li said coldly.
"You don't need to look after him all the time. You just need to help him when he's in danger." Abraxas breathed heavily.
He was running out of time and couldn't teach the kid much.
Fortunately, Lucius is very smart. He is like him, but not too much like him. At least his son is very loyal.
"Don't be so pessimistic. Maybe you can live another ten or eight years." Jiang Li comforted him.
"I won't live that long." Abraxas said with some sadness in his eyes, "Those people finally seized the opportunity, they won't let me live that long."
Seeing that he wanted to die, Jiang Li deliberately provoked him, "Why don't you struggle a little longer? If you die suddenly, Lucius may not be able to keep the Malfoy family property, and he may become a pauper with nothing."
"It doesn't matter if he has no money, as long as he is alive and well."
Abraxas' eyes gradually blurred as he said, "I am an unqualified father, so... Gardenia, please take care of him."
Hearing his gradually weakening voice, Jiang Li knew that his condition was beyond recovery.
She looked at Abraxas and said slowly, "They say that Malfoy puts profit first, but I think you should change it to family first. You are obviously going to die, but you are still thinking about Lucius."
"Gardenia, please..."
Abraxas opened his eyes and stared in the direction of Jiang Li.
He really couldn't think of anyone more suitable to take care of Lucius than Jiang Li.
As soon as the news of his death spreads, those people will pounce on him like hyenas and tear apart the property belonging to the Malfoy family.
Looking at his miserable appearance, Jiang Li sighed slightly and said slowly:
"As long as it does not violate my principles, if Lucius is in danger, I will do my best to help him."
Finally hearing what he wanted to hear, Abraxas relaxed and his eyelids slowly closed.
Jiang Li stood up, walked to the door, looked at Lucius standing outside and said, "He is in a very bad condition, please stay with him."
Lucius looked at Jiang Li who was walking past him and asked, "What did my father say to you?"
Hearing this, Jiang Li raised his eyes to look into those gray-blue eyes and said slowly: "He hopes you can live a happy life."
Lucius was slightly startled, and vaguely guessed what they had said to each other.
When I looked at Abraxas lying on the bed in the room, I felt a little sad.
When we returned to Hogwarts from Malfoy Manor, it was already dark and the young wizards had all returned to the dormitory to rest.
Jiang Li walked slowly back along the corridor and stopped in front of a lion sculpture.
She turned her head to look at the empty corridor on the right and asked slowly, "Are you waiting here for me to come back?"
In the darkness, an outline gradually emerged. Snape's figure appeared not far away, looking at Jiang Li quietly.
"How did you know I was here?" he asked aloud.
He had dealt with the smell on his body before coming here, and tried his best to avoid any fluctuations in his magic power.
I really don't understand why Jiang Li could tell he was here at first glance.
Jiang Li looked at Snape with a smile and said, "I guessed."
This is her habit.
In the world of cultivation, there are endless various covert methods. When you are not sure if there is someone around, just pretend that there is someone nearby and perform it to the air to fool those people. Sometimes the guilty guy will expose himself.
It was just a sudden impulse today, and I didn’t expect that there were actually people there.
Jiang Li walked towards Snape, looked at him jokingly and said, "Why do you go out for a night stroll every day? There shouldn't be a student like you in Slytherin. You go out for a night stroll as often as James Sirius."
"I'm not as stupid as them and wouldn't be discovered strolling at night by others." Snape said coldly.
"So, it's OK to go out at night without being discovered?" Jiang Li looked at him with a smile and said, "Does this count as knowingly committing a crime, Professor Snape?"
She tilted her head slightly, and her soft hair fell from her shoulders. The light golden hair seemed to glow in the dark night.
Snape resisted the urge to hold the lock of hair and said slowly, "How is Abraxas?"
"I'm not sure. When I went to see him, he wouldn't let me lift the curtain for fear of infecting me. But I don't think his condition is good. I don't think he will last long."
Jiang Li's voice sounded somewhat melancholy.
She still liked Abraxas as a partner. Although he focused on benefits, he was not too greedy and did not fuss over trivial matters.
Snape observed Jiang Li's condition and said seriously, "He has dragon pox. You shouldn't visit him."
"It's okay. I'm very far away. He used a magic isolation circle on the curtain, otherwise everyone in Malfoy Manor would have been infected."
They walked slowly in the long corridor of the castle. The moonlight from the window poured in like water, gently falling on them. As they walked, the light and shadow changed on their faces.
"Lucius told me that you published the news about the improved wolfsbane potion in Potions Weekly. Didn't you say before that you didn't want to become famous so early? Why did you suddenly change your mind?" she asked Snape.
“Publishing earlier will also allow more people to see my abilities, and I can do more.”
Snape didn't want to continue on this topic. He looked at Jiang Li and asked, "How is Malfoy doing?"
"Not very well. Abraxas asked me to take care of Lucius. I guess he thinks someone is trying to harm him."
"Who do you think it could be?" asked Snape.
"Isn't this easy to guess?" Jiang Li played with the ring on his index finger with a playful smile on his face. "Abraxas is dead. Whoever is the biggest beneficiary is the mastermind behind this matter."
The Malfoy family is a gold mine. Abraxas is an excellent head of the family. It is not easy to get a share of the pie from him, but it is different for an underage Lucius.
Being young and having no prestige, the people under him simply would not trust such a young head of the family.
In order to change the status quo, Lucius must make a choice.
"Do you think Voldemort did this?" Snape looked at Jiang Li and asked.
"From the results, isn't Voldemort the one who benefits the most from this incident?"
For the glory of the Malfoy family, Lucius joined the Death Eaters, worked for Voldemort, and became Voldemort's money bag.
Snape remembered what Lucius had done for Voldemort in his previous life.
"How are you going to help him?" he asked.
"Let it be. If he doesn't figure this out, he will suffer in the future."
Jiang Li looked at the black hair sticking up on Snape's head and felt itchy, so he reached out and ruffled his hair.
Snape: "..."
He gritted his teeth, grabbed Jiang Li's hand, stared at Jiang Li, and didn't speak for a long time.
Jiang Li retracted his hand, looked at Snape and said seriously: "Okay, now it's time to tell me why you are in a bad mood today."
Snape was slightly stunned. He didn't know how Jiang Li could see it, as he had concealed it very well.