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Hearing that Shi Junhe had a request, Mo Shujun got unhappy, but since he had agreed with her, she still controlled herself and planned to listen to him first. What on earth did he want to do?
“What do you want?”
Shi Junhe pursed his lips and pondered for a while. Then he replied, “I hope that I can marry her as a concubine in a low profile. Don’t spread the news or let all people know it. Can you promise me, Mother?”
Mo Shujun pondered for a moment and soon understood why Shi Junhe asked her to do that.
Although she was resentful as Shi Junhe still considered for Dong Hui, she didn’t want to make the bad relationship between her and her son worse, so she nodded in agreement.
“Since you requested that, I can promise you.” Mo Shujun nodded at leisure.
Then she made her requirement naturally. “But I demand you to marry Leng Yan in five days.”
Shi Junhe was stunned and asked, “Why are you so anxious? Five days is not enough for us to prepare the marriage. You…”
“You want to make it simple, and I satisfy you. Why aren’t you happy?” Mo Shujun asked in reply calmly.
Then she added unhurriedly, “You don’t need to worry about the preparation for the marriage. In the past few days when I decided to marry Yan to you, I have ordered some people to prepare it. If you want, it’s no problem to get married right away.”
Shi Junhe had to nod helplessly. “Fine, in five days.”
After the major issue was discussed, Mo Shujun’s face softened, and then she looked at Shi Junhe with her gentle eyes, smiling. “Junhe, don’t worry. I am your mother and won’t harm you. I have brought up Yan and her moral quality and appearance are outstanding. I am unwilling to let her be a man’s concubine randomly if it weren’t you.”
Hearing such words, Shi Junhe wasn’t comforted but felt sad.
However, he knew that it would be useless no matter what he said to Mo Shujun, so he stopped talking and indifferently accepted her arrangement.
“Mother, if there is nothing else, I am leaving now.” Shi Junhe stood up and bowed to Mo Shujun respectfully.
He was even more distant than he had been when he came into the Shou’an Hall.
Mo Shujun thought that Shi Junhe finally agreed with her, so she didn’t care about the minutia. She just waved her hand and let him go away.
Shi Junhe strode forward and didn’t stop until he walked to the gate of the Shou’an Hall. Then he looked back at the courtyard that he was familiar with. He used to come here frequently when he was a child, a teenager and even a young man, and it bore a lot of his happy memories.
However, at the moment, he looked at it but felt cold, and even the person in the room, his mother became strange.
Would a mother force her child like this?
Shi Junhe had such a question on his mind involuntarily. He racked his brains yet couldn’t figure out why.
However, all the hopes he had laid in Mo Shujun became disappointment.
Maybe in the beginning, he shouldn’t expect that Mo Shujun would consider for him.
Shi Junhe shook his head with a bitter smile and turned around, walking back to the East House.
Shi Qingxue had just changed into a tracksuit to ride a horse. When she was about to go out, she bumped into Shi Junhe whose face was pale. She was scared and walked to him hurriedly. “Father, what’s wrong with you? Do you have a heatstroke? Are you all right? I am going to bring Doctor Qin for you, okay?”
She spoke fast and before Shi Junhe answered, she planned to run out to bring a doctor, yet Shi Junhe stopped her.
“I am fine. Don’t be anxious.”
Shi Qingxue looked Shi Junhe up and down in disbelief and saw that although his face was pale, his eyes were energetic, and he was just tired, with no sweat. He didn’t look like he was sick.
So she heaved a sigh of relief and patted her chest, complaining exaggeratedly, “Father, where are you from? You look so miserable. Anybody who doesn’t know the truth would think that you were mistreated.”
She just joked around.
Unexpectedly, after pausing for a moment, Shi Junhe nodded with approval and murmured with a bitter smile, “Right.”
“Hmm?” Shi Qingxue had sharp ears and noticed Shi Junhe’s voice at once. Then she gazed at him again.
Nevertheless, Shi Junhe didn’t want to talk about something dirty with her. He changed the subject impassively. “Are you going to ride a horse and shoot arrows with your ‘Brother Junyang’ today?”
Noticing his ridicule, Shi Qingxue blushed as expected.
She looked away and muttered, “What my ‘Brother Junyang’? He is not mine!”
“Gee! I mainly asked if you are going to ride a horse today. Why did you only pay attention to whether His Excellency is yours?” Shi Junhe teased her with a smile on his dignified face.
The blush on Shi Qingxue’s face spread to her ears, and she felt that her whole body was hot.
She stomped with shyness and glared at Shi Junhe resentfully, shouting in a sweet voice, “Father, how can you tease me? You have gone too far!”
“After a daughter grows up, she won’t listen to her father. I am sad!” Perhaps Shi Junhe was addicted to pretending a gentle father, and he even pretended to cry while pinching his throat, as if it was true.
“Father!” Shi Qingxue rolled her eyes and didn’t know how to comment on her father’s bad behavior of joking.
Shi Junhe enjoyed Qingxue’s blush and shyness, and then he stopped joking and returned to be a gentle father. He pushed her out and said softly, “I won’t joke about you. Aren’t you going to ride a horse? Go now. Don’t keep him waiting.”
The father was afraid that Shi Qingxue would get mad again, so he was sensible and didn’t mention the sensitive words such as “your Brother Junyang” anymore.
Shi Qingxue glared at Shi Junhe for longer. Seeing that he didn’t care, she probably knew that if she continued, she would get nothing but make her eyes sour and ache, so she gave up.
She pouted and nodded with displeasure. “I am off now.”
Looking at Shi Qingxue turning around and then walking out, Shi Junhe sighed with relief, thinking, “Oh, my gosh. I finally convinced her.”
Otherwise, if Qingxue continued to ask, he wouldn’t know how to answer.
However, before Shi Junhe’s face softened, Shi Qingxue who walked to the gate suddenly looked back.
Under his astonished face, she walked back quickly and then stood in front of him.
Shi Qingxue raised her head and met Shi Junhe’s surprised eyes, with displeasure. Then she complained angrily, “Father, you tried to fool me.”
Shi Junhe didn’t expect that his thought couldn’t be concealed. He sighed helplessly in secret and meanwhile still pretended calm. “What are you talking about? When did I fool you? Don’t worry too much. Go to…” Ride a horse with His Excellency.
He couldn’t speak out the last words under Shi Qingxue’s more severe eyes.
The two stood at the gate of the East House and looked at each other speechlessly for a long time.
Shi Junhe felt guilty, while Shi Qingxue was furious.
At last, Shi Qingxue was “magnanimous” and forgave Shi Junhe who hid something from her. She pouted and said, “I will forget that you fooled me this time, but as a compensation, you should tell me what is wrong with you.”
Afterward, she ignored Shi Junhe’s unwilling gaze and forcefully pulled his arm, walking into the study with him.
Shi Qingxue sharply observed that what her father tried to hide from her must be something significant. As soon as they entered the study, she specially closed the door and windows. Then she pushed Shi Junhe to be seated in the chair.
She ran quickly to sit down across from Shi Junhe and looked at him anxiously, asking in silence.
“There is nothing indeed. Don’t think too much.” Shi Junhe was still struggling as he was unwilling to get Qingxue involved in the conflict between him and Mo Shujun.
Shi Qingxue pouted in an instant and looked sad, as if she was going to cry. She seemed to say, “If you don’t tell me, I will cry!”
Shi Junhe was speechless.
Although he knew that Shi Qingxue might pretend to be like this, he couldn’t bear to let her cry.
He could do nothing but tell her how Mo Shujun threatened him.
Shi Qingxue was dumbfounded while hearing that.
She had known since long ago that Mo Shujun didn’t like the first master’s family and Dong Hui, but it was the internal affair in Duke Shi’s mansion. Mo Shujun was proud, and how would she let outsiders laugh at their family?
“Father, are you joking? Mother’s issue… Fine. If the news spreads that she dated a man secretly, it would harm the whole family’s fame. How would Grandma do that?” Shi Qingxue asked in a low voice and still looked stunned.
Shi Junhe also could hardly believe that Mo Shujun would do something like this, yet it was the truth.
Mo Shujun threatened him with Dong Hui and the Shi family’s fame, forcing him to marry Leng Yan.
“Why? What’s the good of Leng Yan? Why would Granma force you to marry her? If Mother can’t give birth to a son for you and the family has no heir, Grandma would have a reason to force you.
“However, now even Doctor Shen said that Mother’s baby is likely to be a boy. How can she force you like this?” While thinking, Shi Qingxue thought it was strange.
Shi Junhe also wanted to know why, yet Mo Shujun wouldn’t give him an explanation.
He just shook his head and sighed helplessly. “Anyway, that’s it. That’s your grandma’s requirement. Even though I am unwilling, she…”
Shi Qingxue still wanted to protest, but seeing Shi Junhe’s weary and distressed face, she couldn’t speak out what she was going to say.
Right!
Once it was possible for Shi Junhe to protest, he wouldn’t surrender.
“How do you plan to explain to Mother?” Shi Qingxue asked worriedly.
These days, she finally understood that Dong Hui couldn’t accept that Shi Junhe would have another concubine.
If Dong Hui knew that Shi Junhe would really marry Leng Yan, she would go crazy.
Shi Junhe also looked helpless and sighed after a long time. Then he smiled bitterly. “Fortunately, your mother has gone back to her parents’ home. I asked Mother to keep a low profile while handling this matter. I think this news won’t spread to your mother.”
“Ah? You plan to cheat Mother?” Shi Qingxue screamed.
When she met Shi Junhe’s bitter eyes, she understood and sympathized with her father gradually, even though she had been resentful.
Right, it was too much as her father hid something so important from his wife while he would have a concubine, and he shouldn’t do that.
But wasn’t it the unusual time now?
Dong Hui was pregnant and couldn’t get emotional. If she knew it, it might influence her emotion and the innocent baby in her womb at the least. If she couldn’t accept it…
The consequence could hardly be imagined.
As soon as Shi Qingxue thought about it, she shook her head in a hurry and got rid of her wild imagination.
Meeting Shi Junhe’s eyes with expectancy, Qingxue didn’t even need him to beg her, and she nodded to assure him. “Rest assured. I will keep it a secret and won’t let the news spread out of the mansion.”
After thinking for a moment, she felt that she couldn’t make sure. Then she kept looking at Shi Junhe with her big eyes, telling something silently.
Shi Junhe was scared by her stare and hurriedly begged for mercy. “Just say what you want to say. I will agree with you no matter what it is. Stop looking at me in this way!”
“Heehee!” Shi Qingxue smiled flatteringly in an instant.
Then she sat straight and gazed at Shi Junhe seriously, starting to fight for benefits for her mother. “Father, you are forced to marry Leng Yan, and I won’t say anything, but after she enters the East House, she can only remain idle like a piece of furniture. You can’t have other thoughts because she is young and beautiful.”
In the beginning, Shi Junhe thought that Shi Qingxue planned to make an unreasonable offer, so she was so serious, while he hadn’t expected that this smart girl wanted to say that.
He didn’t know if he should laugh or get angry. In the end, he raised his hand and knocked on Qingxue’s head heavily, rebuking in a deep voice, “Girl, what are you thinking about? Does your father have a lust for beauty? I know what to do even if you don’t remind me.”
Shi Qingxue didn’t get mad after she was rebuked. Instead, she showed a brighter smile to Shi Junhe.
In fact, she trusted her father, yet when it came to something like this, they still needed to make an agreement in advance. Otherwise, if in the future, her mother knew that she took part in this thing, wouldn’t she be skinned alive?
“Father, I just cover up for you at the risk of my life.”
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Hearing that Shi Junhe had a request, Mo Shujun got unhappy, but since he had agreed with her, she still controlled herself and planned to listen to him first. What on earth did he want to do?
“What do you want?”
Shi Junhe pursed his lips and pondered for a while. Then he replied, “I hope that I can marry her as a concubine in a low profile. Don’t spread the news or let all people know it. Can you promise me, Mother?”
Mo Shujun pondered for a moment and soon understood why Shi Junhe asked her to do that.
Although she was resentful as Shi Junhe still considered for Dong Hui, she didn’t want to make the bad relationship between her and her son worse, so she nodded in agreement.
“Since you requested that, I can promise you.” Mo Shujun nodded at leisure.
Then she made her requirement naturally. “But I demand you to marry Leng Yan in five days.”
Shi Junhe was stunned and asked, “Why are you so anxious? Five days is not enough for us to prepare the marriage. You…”
“You want to make it simple, and I satisfy you. Why aren’t you happy?” Mo Shujun asked in reply calmly.
Then she added unhurriedly, “You don’t need to worry about the preparation for the marriage. In the past few days when I decided to marry Yan to you, I have ordered some people to prepare it. If you want, it’s no problem to get married right away.”
Shi Junhe had to nod helplessly. “Fine, in five days.”
After the major issue was discussed, Mo Shujun’s face softened, and then she looked at Shi Junhe with her gentle eyes, smiling. “Junhe, don’t worry. I am your mother and won’t harm you. I have brought up Yan and her moral quality and appearance are outstanding. I am unwilling to let her be a man’s concubine randomly if it weren’t you.”
Hearing such words, Shi Junhe wasn’t comforted but felt sad.
However, he knew that it would be useless no matter what he said to Mo Shujun, so he stopped talking and indifferently accepted her arrangement.
“Mother, if there is nothing else, I am leaving now.” Shi Junhe stood up and bowed to Mo Shujun respectfully.
He was even more distant than he had been when he came into the Shou’an Hall.
Mo Shujun thought that Shi Junhe finally agreed with her, so she didn’t care about the minutia. She just waved her hand and let him go away.
Shi Junhe strode forward and didn’t stop until he walked to the gate of the Shou’an Hall. Then he looked back at the courtyard that he was familiar with. He used to come here frequently when he was a child, a teenager and even a young man, and it bore a lot of his happy memories.
However, at the moment, he looked at it but felt cold, and even the person in the room, his mother became strange.
Would a mother force her child like this?
Shi Junhe had such a question on his mind involuntarily. He racked his brains yet couldn’t figure out why.
However, all the hopes he had laid in Mo Shujun became disappointment.
Maybe in the beginning, he shouldn’t expect that Mo Shujun would consider for him.
Shi Junhe shook his head with a bitter smile and turned around, walking back to the East House.
Shi Qingxue had just changed into a tracksuit to ride a horse. When she was about to go out, she bumped into Shi Junhe whose face was pale. She was scared and walked to him hurriedly. “Father, what’s wrong with you? Do you have a heatstroke? Are you all right? I am going to bring Doctor Qin for you, okay?”
She spoke fast and before Shi Junhe answered, she planned to run out to bring a doctor, yet Shi Junhe stopped her.
“I am fine. Don’t be anxious.”
Shi Qingxue looked Shi Junhe up and down in disbelief and saw that although his face was pale, his eyes were energetic, and he was just tired, with no sweat. He didn’t look like he was sick.
So she heaved a sigh of relief and patted her chest, complaining exaggeratedly, “Father, where are you from? You look so miserable. Anybody who doesn’t know the truth would think that you were mistreated.”
She just joked around.
Unexpectedly, after pausing for a moment, Shi Junhe nodded with approval and murmured with a bitter smile, “Right.”
“Hmm?” Shi Qingxue had sharp ears and noticed Shi Junhe’s voice at once. Then she gazed at him again.
Nevertheless, Shi Junhe didn’t want to talk about something dirty with her. He changed the subject impassively. “Are you going to ride a horse and shoot arrows with your ‘Brother Junyang’ today?”
Noticing his ridicule, Shi Qingxue blushed as expected.
She looked away and muttered, “What my ‘Brother Junyang’? He is not mine!”
“Gee! I mainly asked if you are going to ride a horse today. Why did you only pay attention to whether His Excellency is yours?” Shi Junhe teased her with a smile on his dignified face.
The blush on Shi Qingxue’s face spread to her ears, and she felt that her whole body was hot.
She stomped with shyness and glared at Shi Junhe resentfully, shouting in a sweet voice, “Father, how can you tease me? You have gone too far!”
“After a daughter grows up, she won’t listen to her father. I am sad!” Perhaps Shi Junhe was addicted to pretending a gentle father, and he even pretended to cry while pinching his throat, as if it was true.
“Father!” Shi Qingxue rolled her eyes and didn’t know how to comment on her father’s bad behavior of joking.
Shi Junhe enjoyed Qingxue’s blush and shyness, and then he stopped joking and returned to be a gentle father. He pushed her out and said softly, “I won’t joke about you. Aren’t you going to ride a horse? Go now. Don’t keep him waiting.”
The father was afraid that Shi Qingxue would get mad again, so he was sensible and didn’t mention the sensitive words such as “your Brother Junyang” anymore.
Shi Qingxue glared at Shi Junhe for longer. Seeing that he didn’t care, she probably knew that if she continued, she would get nothing but make her eyes sour and ache, so she gave up.
She pouted and nodded with displeasure. “I am off now.”
Looking at Shi Qingxue turning around and then walking out, Shi Junhe sighed with relief, thinking, “Oh, my gosh. I finally convinced her.”
Otherwise, if Qingxue continued to ask, he wouldn’t know how to answer.
However, before Shi Junhe’s face softened, Shi Qingxue who walked to the gate suddenly looked back.
Under his astonished face, she walked back quickly and then stood in front of him.
Shi Qingxue raised her head and met Shi Junhe’s surprised eyes, with displeasure. Then she complained angrily, “Father, you tried to fool me.”
Shi Junhe didn’t expect that his thought couldn’t be concealed. He sighed helplessly in secret and meanwhile still pretended calm. “What are you talking about? When did I fool you? Don’t worry too much. Go to…” Ride a horse with His Excellency.
He couldn’t speak out the last words under Shi Qingxue’s more severe eyes.
The two stood at the gate of the East House and looked at each other speechlessly for a long time.
Shi Junhe felt guilty, while Shi Qingxue was furious.
At last, Shi Qingxue was “magnanimous” and forgave Shi Junhe who hid something from her. She pouted and said, “I will forget that you fooled me this time, but as a compensation, you should tell me what is wrong with you.”
Afterward, she ignored Shi Junhe’s unwilling gaze and forcefully pulled his arm, walking into the study with him.
Shi Qingxue sharply observed that what her father tried to hide from her must be something significant. As soon as they entered the study, she specially closed the door and windows. Then she pushed Shi Junhe to be seated in the chair.
She ran quickly to sit down across from Shi Junhe and looked at him anxiously, asking in silence.
“There is nothing indeed. Don’t think too much.” Shi Junhe was still struggling as he was unwilling to get Qingxue involved in the conflict between him and Mo Shujun.
Shi Qingxue pouted in an instant and looked sad, as if she was going to cry. She seemed to say, “If you don’t tell me, I will cry!”
Shi Junhe was speechless.
Although he knew that Shi Qingxue might pretend to be like this, he couldn’t bear to let her cry.
He could do nothing but tell her how Mo Shujun threatened him.
Shi Qingxue was dumbfounded while hearing that.
She had known since long ago that Mo Shujun didn’t like the first master’s family and Dong Hui, but it was the internal affair in Duke Shi’s mansion. Mo Shujun was proud, and how would she let outsiders laugh at their family?
“Father, are you joking? Mother’s issue… Fine. If the news spreads that she dated a man secretly, it would harm the whole family’s fame. How would Grandma do that?” Shi Qingxue asked in a low voice and still looked stunned.
Shi Junhe also could hardly believe that Mo Shujun would do something like this, yet it was the truth.
Mo Shujun threatened him with Dong Hui and the Shi family’s fame, forcing him to marry Leng Yan.
“Why? What’s the good of Leng Yan? Why would Granma force you to marry her? If Mother can’t give birth to a son for you and the family has no heir, Grandma would have a reason to force you.
“However, now even Doctor Shen said that Mother’s baby is likely to be a boy. How can she force you like this?” While thinking, Shi Qingxue thought it was strange.
Shi Junhe also wanted to know why, yet Mo Shujun wouldn’t give him an explanation.
He just shook his head and sighed helplessly. “Anyway, that’s it. That’s your grandma’s requirement. Even though I am unwilling, she…”
Shi Qingxue still wanted to protest, but seeing Shi Junhe’s weary and distressed face, she couldn’t speak out what she was going to say.
Right!
Once it was possible for Shi Junhe to protest, he wouldn’t surrender.
“How do you plan to explain to Mother?” Shi Qingxue asked worriedly.
These days, she finally understood that Dong Hui couldn’t accept that Shi Junhe would have another concubine.
If Dong Hui knew that Shi Junhe would really marry Leng Yan, she would go crazy.
Shi Junhe also looked helpless and sighed after a long time. Then he smiled bitterly. “Fortunately, your mother has gone back to her parents’ home. I asked Mother to keep a low profile while handling this matter. I think this news won’t spread to your mother.”
“Ah? You plan to cheat Mother?” Shi Qingxue screamed.
When she met Shi Junhe’s bitter eyes, she understood and sympathized with her father gradually, even though she had been resentful.
Right, it was too much as her father hid something so important from his wife while he would have a concubine, and he shouldn’t do that.
But wasn’t it the unusual time now?
Dong Hui was pregnant and couldn’t get emotional. If she knew it, it might influence her emotion and the innocent baby in her womb at the least. If she couldn’t accept it…
The consequence could hardly be imagined.
As soon as Shi Qingxue thought about it, she shook her head in a hurry and got rid of her wild imagination.
Meeting Shi Junhe’s eyes with expectancy, Qingxue didn’t even need him to beg her, and she nodded to assure him. “Rest assured. I will keep it a secret and won’t let the news spread out of the mansion.”
After thinking for a moment, she felt that she couldn’t make sure. Then she kept looking at Shi Junhe with her big eyes, telling something silently.
Shi Junhe was scared by her stare and hurriedly begged for mercy. “Just say what you want to say. I will agree with you no matter what it is. Stop looking at me in this way!”
“Heehee!” Shi Qingxue smiled flatteringly in an instant.
Then she sat straight and gazed at Shi Junhe seriously, starting to fight for benefits for her mother. “Father, you are forced to marry Leng Yan, and I won’t say anything, but after she enters the East House, she can only remain idle like a piece of furniture. You can’t have other thoughts because she is young and beautiful.”
In the beginning, Shi Junhe thought that Shi Qingxue planned to make an unreasonable offer, so she was so serious, while he hadn’t expected that this smart girl wanted to say that.
He didn’t know if he should laugh or get angry. In the end, he raised his hand and knocked on Qingxue’s head heavily, rebuking in a deep voice, “Girl, what are you thinking about? Does your father have a lust for beauty? I know what to do even if you don’t remind me.”
Shi Qingxue didn’t get mad after she was rebuked. Instead, she showed a brighter smile to Shi Junhe.
In fact, she trusted her father, yet when it came to something like this, they still needed to make an agreement in advance. Otherwise, if in the future, her mother knew that she took part in this thing, wouldn’t she be skinned alive?
“Father, I just cover up for you at the risk of my life.”
Hearing that Shi Junhe had a request, Mo Shujun got unhappy, but since he had agreed with her, she still controlled herself and planned to listen to him first. What on earth did he want to do?What do you want?Shi Junhe pursed his lips and pondered for a while. Then he replied, I hope that I can marry her as a concubine in a low profile. Don't spread the news or let all people know it. Can you promise me, Mother?Mo Shujun pondered for a moment and soon understood why Shi Junhe asked her to do that.Although she was resentful as Shi Junhe still considered for Dong Hui, she didn't want to make the bad relationship between her and her son worse, so she nodded in agreement.Since you requested that, I can promise you. Mo Shujun nodded at leisure.Then she made her requirement naturally. But I demand you to marry Leng Yan in five days.Shi Junhe was stunned and asked, Why are you so anxious? Five days is not enough for us to prepare the marriage. YouYou want to make it simple, and I satisfy you. Why aren't you happy? Mo Shujun asked in reply calmly.Then she added unhurriedly, You don't need to worry about the preparation for the marriage. In the past few days when I decided to marry Yan to you, I have ordered some people to prepare it. If you want, it's no problem to get married right away.Shi Junhe had to nod helplessly. Fine, in five days.After the major issue was discussed, Mo Shujun's face softened, and then she looked at Shi Junhe with her gentle eyes, smiling. Junhe, don't worry. I am your mother and won't harm you. I have brought up Yan and her moral quality and appearance are outstanding. I am unwilling to let her be a man's concubine randomly if it weren't you.Hearing such words, Shi Junhe wasn't comforted but felt sad.However, he knew that it would be useless no matter what he said to Mo Shujun, so he stopped talking and indifferently accepted her arrangement.Mother, if there is nothing else, I am leaving now. Shi Junhe stood up and bowed to Mo Shujun respectfully.He was even more distant than he had been when he came into the Shou'an Hall.Mo Shujun thought that Shi Junhe finally agreed with her, so she didn't care about the minutia. She just waved her hand and let him go away.Shi Junhe strode forward and didn't stop until he walked to the gate of the Shou'an Hall. Then he looked back at the courtyard that he was familiar with. He used to come here frequently when he was a child, a teenager and even a young man, and it bore a lot of his happy memories.However, at the moment, he looked at it but felt cold, and even the person in the room, his mother became strange.Would a mother force her child like this?Shi Junhe had such a question on his mind involuntarily. He racked his brains yet couldn't figure out why.However, all the hopes he had laid in Mo Shujun became disappointment.Maybe in the beginning, he shouldn't expect that Mo Shujun would consider for him.Shi Junhe shook his head with a bitter smile and turned around, walking back to the East House.Shi Qingxue had just changed into a tracksuit to ride a horse. When she was about to go out, she bumped into Shi Junhe whose face was pale. She was scared and walked to him hurriedly. Father, what's wrong with you? Do you have a heatstroke? Are you all right? I am going to bring Doctor Qin for you, okay?She spoke fast and before Shi Junhe answered, she planned to run out to bring a doctor, yet Shi Junhe stopped her.I am fine. Don't be anxious.Shi Qingxue looked Shi Junhe up and down in disbelief and saw that although his face was pale, his eyes were energetic, and he was just tired, with no sweat. He didn't look like he was sick.So she heaved a sigh of relief and patted her chest, complaining exaggeratedly, Father, where are you from? You look so miserable. Anybody who doesn't know the truth would think that you were mistreated.She just joked around.Unexpectedly, after pausing for a moment, Shi Junhe nodded with approval and murmured with a bitter smile, Right.Hmm? Shi Qingxue had sharp ears and noticed Shi Junhe's voice at once. Then she gazed at him again.Nevertheless, Shi Junhe didn't want to talk about something dirty with her. He changed the subject impassively. Are you going to ride a horse and shoot arrows with your Brother Junyang' today?Noticing his ridicule, Shi Qingxue blushed as expected.She looked away and muttered, What my Brother Junyang'? He is not mine!Gee! I mainly asked if you are going to ride a horse today. Why did you only pay attention to whether His Excellency is yours? Shi Junhe teased her with a smile on his dignified face.The blush on Shi Qingxue's face spread to her ears, and she felt that her whole body was hot.She stomped with shyness and glared at Shi Junhe resentfully, shouting in a sweet voice, Father, how can you tease me? You have gone too far!After a daughter grows up, she won't listen to her father. I am sad! Perhaps Shi Junhe was addicted to pretending a gentle father, and he even pretended to cry while pinching his throat, as if it was true.Father! Shi Qingxue rolled her eyes and didn't know how to comment on her father's bad behavior of joking.Shi Junhe enjoyed Qingxue's blush and shyness, and then he stopped joking and returned to be a gentle father. He pushed her out and said softly, I won't joke about you. Aren't you going to ride a horse? Go now. Don't keep him waiting.The father was afraid that Shi Qingxue would get mad again, so he was sensible and didn't mention the sensitive words such as your Brother Junyang anymore.Shi Qingxue glared at Shi Junhe for longer. Seeing that he didn't care, she probably knew that if she continued, she would get nothing but make her eyes sour and ache, so she gave up.She pouted and nodded with displeasure. I am off now.Looking at Shi Qingxue turning around and then walking out, Shi Junhe sighed with relief, thinking, Oh, my gosh. I finally convinced her.Otherwise, if Qingxue continued to ask, he wouldn't know how to answer.However, before Shi Junhe's face softened, Shi Qingxue who walked to the gate suddenly looked back.Under his astonished face, she walked back quickly and then stood in front of him.Shi Qingxue raised her head and met Shi Junhe's surprised eyes, with displeasure. Then she complained angrily, Father, you tried to fool me.Shi Junhe didn't expect that his thought couldn't be concealed. He sighed helplessly in secret and meanwhile still pretended calm. What are you talking about? When did I fool you? Don't worry too much. Go to Ride a horse with His Excellency.He couldn't speak out the last words under Shi Qingxue's more severe eyes.The two stood at the gate of the East House and looked at each other speechlessly for a long time.Shi Junhe felt guilty, while Shi Qingxue was furious.At last, Shi Qingxue was magnanimous and forgave Shi Junhe who hid something from her. She pouted and said, I will forget that you fooled me this time, but as a compensation, you should tell me what is wrong with you.Afterward, she ignored Shi Junhe's unwilling gaze and forcefully pulled his arm, walking into the study with him.Shi Qingxue sharply observed that what her father tried to hide from her must be something significant. As soon as they entered the study, she specially closed the door and windows. Then she pushed Shi Junhe to be seated in the chair.She ran quickly to sit down across from Shi Junhe and looked at him anxiously, asking in silence.There is nothing indeed. Don't think too much. Shi Junhe was still struggling as he was unwilling to get Qingxue involved in the conflict between him and Mo Shujun.Shi Qingxue pouted in an instant and looked sad, as if she was going to cry. She seemed to say, If you don't tell me, I will cry!Shi Junhe was speechless.Although he knew that Shi Qingxue might pretend to be like this, he couldn't bear to let her cry.He could do nothing but tell her how Mo Shujun threatened him.Shi Qingxue was dumbfounded while hearing that.She had known since long ago that Mo Shujun didn't like the first master's family and Dong Hui, but it was the internal affair in Duke Shi's mansion. Mo Shujun was proud, and how would she let outsiders laugh at their family?Father, are you joking? Mother's issue Fine. If the news spreads that she dated a man secretly, it would harm the whole family's fame. How would Grandma do that? Shi Qingxue asked in a low voice and still looked stunned.Shi Junhe also could hardly believe that Mo Shujun would do something like this, yet it was the truth.Mo Shujun threatened him with Dong Hui and the Shi family's fame, forcing him to marry Leng Yan.Why? What's the good of Leng Yan? Why would Granma force you to marry her? If Mother can't give birth to a son for you and the family has no heir, Grandma would have a reason to force you.However, now even Doctor Shen said that Mother's baby is likely to be a boy. How can she force you like this? While thinking, Shi Qingxue thought it was strange.Shi Junhe also wanted to know why, yet Mo Shujun wouldn't give him an explanation.He just shook his head and sighed helplessly. Anyway, that's it. That's your grandma's requirement. Even though I am unwilling, sheShi Qingxue still wanted to protest, but seeing Shi Junhe's weary and distressed face, she couldn't speak out what she was going to say.Right!Once it was possible for Shi Junhe to protest, he wouldn't surrender.How do you plan to explain to Mother? Shi Qingxue asked worriedly.These days, she finally understood that Dong Hui couldn't accept that Shi Junhe would have another concubine.If Dong Hui knew that Shi Junhe would really marry Leng Yan, she would go crazy.Shi Junhe also looked helpless and sighed after a long time. Then he smiled bitterly. Fortunately, your mother has gone back to her parents' home. I asked Mother to keep a low profile while handling this matter. I think this news won't spread to your mother.Ah? You plan to cheat Mother? Shi Qingxue screamed.When she met Shi Junhe's bitter eyes, she understood and sympathized with her father gradually, even though she had been resentful.Right, it was too much as her father hid something so important from his wife while he would have a concubine, and he shouldn't do that.But wasn't it the unusual time now?Dong Hui was pregnant and couldn't get emotional. If she knew it, it might influence her emotion and the innocent baby in her womb at the least. If she couldn't accept itThe consequence could hardly be imagined.As soon as Shi Qingxue thought about it, she shook her head in a hurry and got rid of her wild imagination.Meeting Shi Junhe's eyes with expectancy, Qingxue didn't even need him to beg her, and she nodded to assure him. Rest assured. I will keep it a secret and won't let the news spread out of the mansion.After thinking for a moment, she felt that she couldn't make sure. Then she kept looking at Shi Junhe with her big eyes, telling something silently.Shi Junhe was scared by her stare and hurriedly begged for mercy. Just say what you want to say. I will agree with you no matter what it is. Stop looking at me in this way!Heehee! Shi Qingxue smiled flatteringly in an instant.Then she sat straight and gazed at Shi Junhe seriously, starting to fight for benefits for her mother. Father, you are forced to marry Leng Yan, and I won't say anything, but after she enters the East House, she can only remain idle like a piece of furniture. You can't have other thoughts because she is young and beautiful.In the beginning, Shi Junhe thought that Shi Qingxue planned to make an unreasonable offer, so she was so serious, while he hadn't expected that this smart girl wanted to say that.He didn't know if he should laugh or get angry. In the end, he raised his hand and knocked on Qingxue's head heavily, rebuking in a deep voice, Girl, what are you thinking about? Does your father have a lust for beauty? I know what to do even if you don't remind me.Shi Qingxue didn't get mad after she was rebuked. Instead, she showed a brighter smile to Shi Junhe.In fact, she trusted her father, yet when it came to something like this, they still needed to make an agreement in advance. Otherwise, if in the future, her mother knew that she took part in this thing, wouldn't she be skinned alive?Father, I just cover up for you at the risk of my life.
