Chapter 182: The Hypocrisy and Sincerity

As soon as Dong Hui heard the beginning, she felt dizzy and almost couldn’t stand steadily.

Shi Qingxue wanted to tell the truth, but she didn’t expect that her mother would be so scared. She hurriedly supported Dong Hui and asked, “Mother, what’s wrong with you? Call for a doctor…”

At the moment, Shi Baoning walked over in haste and supported Dong Hui to replace Qingxue forcefully. There was anger which was not obvious but clear in her pretty eyes, but she controlled herself and stated coldly, “Let me take care of Mother. Go to call for the doctor first.”

Shi Qingxue didn’t need to call for a doctor in person. Shi Baoning just didn’t want her to support Dong Hui.

While Shi Qingxue listened to Shi Baoning and went out to bring Doctor Qin.

After Doctor Qin checked Dong Hui’s pulse, he explained, “Madam is pregnant and should better relax and keep calm. She can’t get mad or be provoked. Otherwise, it would be harmful to the mother and baby. I will give her a prescription for calming the nerves. Just have a try and I will check the effect. She should be very careful in the first three months of pregnancy. It would be bad if there is a sign of miscarriage.”

Hearing that Dong Hui went into a coma and the doctor came, Shi Junhe rushed over in a hurry. He was anxious and angry while listening to Doctor Qin’s instructions.

He told a servant to go with Doctor Qin to get the medicine and then asked Mammy Zheng to stay with Dong Hui beside the bed. Then he led other people on the spot to another room.

“What happened?” Shi Junhe asked in a deep voice and looked terrible.

Zhou Ruyu replied casually, “I am afraid that you need to ask your daughter.”

Shi Junhe turned to Shi Baoning and Shi Qingxue, asking coldly, “What did you two do? You know that your mother is weak recently, but you still make her angry. She loves you so much all the time.”

Before Shi Qingxue spoke, Shi Baoning felt wronged. “Father, of course I know Mother is tired and I never dare to annoy her. How can you blame me before asking?”

Shi Qingxue was shocked and turned to Shi Baoning in disbelief.

Shi Baoning also told the truth, like Shi Baoyan did.

They spoke frankly but tried to shift the blame. Anybody who was not brainless could hear their hidden meaning.

However, when Shi Baoyan said that, Qingxue just felt no more than disappointed. Anyway, she didn’t truly love Shi Baoyan.

To return perfunctory feelings with false affection, it was a fair deal.

But she was treated with hypocrisy after she loved somebody with sincerity…

As long as Shi Qingxue thought of the profound meaning of her sister’s words, she felt pained with tears in her eyes, as if her heart had been stabbed.

“Sister, you can even defend our half-sister Shi Baoyan out of kindness who has made a big mistake and is distant to you, no matter if she was wrong.

“And I am your sister!

“You are supposed to be the closest to me except our parents, but you are unwilling to intercede with Father for me, and even can’t wait to dissociate yourself in the beginning.

“Is it that you don’t like me? Or do you think that a ‘strong’ woman doesn’t need her relative’s protection?”

Shi Qingxue couldn’t figure it out and felt extremely unhappy.

It seemed that her eyes were burnt by a raging fire and it hurt her, but she still restrained her urge to shed tears. She lowered her head and hid her weakness.

Right, even if she could be pitied and treated well when she showed that she was weak, she would only be strong.

“Qingxue, what’s going on?” Shi Junhe turned his questioning eyes to Shi Qingxue and didn’t soften because she was his favored daughter.

Shi Qingxue didn’t feel scared and told him that she was brought to the East House this morning and Dong Hui and the others questioned her.

Zhou Ruyu heard that and got furious.

She interrupted, “Qingxue, you are so irresponsible to say that. You stayed out for a whole night, regardless of your fame, and made your mother angry. Do you mean that we interfere too much?”

Shi Qingxue rolled her eyes in secret and thought, “Right!”

Shi Junhe glimpsed at Zhou Ruyu and asked coldly, “Ruyu, it’s the East House here. I teach my naughty daughter a lesson. I am afraid that you don’t qualify to interrupt, right?”

Zhou Ruyu was clear that it was more difficult to incite Shi Junhe than Dong Hui, so she was worried that she would go for wool and come home shorn. Then she had to shut up resentfully and cursed in her heart, “Huh, he is really partial. Shi Qingxue has admitted, but he is not angry.”

She glanced at Shi Baoyan meaningfully in secret.

Shi Baoyan understood and stepped forward, defending Shi Qingxue hurriedly, “Father, Qingxue was brainless and didn’t mean to make Mother angry. Please forgive her because she is young.”

Shi Junhe thought her words were unpleasant to the ear, but it was the truth that Shi Qingxue made Dong Hui angry and fall into a coma, so he didn’t say anything but turned to Shi Qingxue.

Shi Qingxue was as calm as before and asked Shi Baoyan, “Baoyan, do you mean that I did something wrong and made Mother angry? What wrong did I do?”

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Shi Baoyan didn’t expect Shi Qingxue to be so calm. She was stunned for a while and then advised her patiently, “Qingxue, don’t try to deny. Now Father is mad. As long as you apologize to him, he would forgive your meeting a man secretly and staying outside for one night.”

“Meet a man secretly? What a crime! Baoyan, when you went out with me yesterday, why didn’t you say that? You kept telling me that you have never seen the magnificent King Rui’s mansion and insisted on having a look. You wanted to enter the mansion even when you knew that His Excellency was not at home.”

Shi Qingxue taunted and peeled off Shi Baoyan’s hypocritical mask.

Shi Baoyan had thought that once Shi Qingxue was exposed, she would be panicked, but unexpectedly she could point out something wrong with her behavior and make her unable to reply.

What Shi Qingxue said was true.

Many people in the Luotong Boudoir knew that she insisted on asking Shi Qingxue to take her out yesterday, and she couldn’t deny it, but she blamed Shi Qingxue now, and it seemed that she waited to find fault with Qingxue.

But it was a fact that Shi Qingxue dated Mo Junyang. Shi Baoyan didn’t feel scared after being nervous for a while. There was such a great chance in front of her. Even if it would make her father dislike her, she would ruin Shi Qingxue’s fame.

Shi Baoyan pretended to be awkward and responded purposely, “I didn’t know then. I thought you had got Mother’s permission, so you could go out. If I had known that you didn’t tell Mother, I would have stopped you from doing anything wrong even if I risked my life.”

She said she didn’t know and wanted to dissociate herself. It was a worthwhile deal.

Shi Qingxue sneered. “Baoyan, as you said, I went out with permission, but you suddenly wanted to go out with me. Did you tell our parents?”

“Qingxue, our parents are present. Since you did something wrong, you should admit your mistake. Why did you tell a lie?” Shi Baoning cut in harshly. Obviously she was mad because Shi Qingxue still refused to admit her mistake.

Shi Qingxue was petrified. Her expressionless face didn’t change because Shi Baoning criticized her. She didn’t even give Shi Baoning a glance.

However, Shi Junhe looked at Shi Baoning with displeasure and asked indifferently, “Baoning, why are you so sure that Qingxue told a lie?”

“I…” Shi Baoning believed that it was Shi Qingxue’s fault, and moreover, it was so “clear”, so she said that.

But she knew why Shi Junhe asked such a question. Because she was Shi Qingxue’s sister, she shouldn’t have said that before the truth was found.

“Father, I just get mad at Qingxue because she made Mother so angry, so…” Shi Baoning blushed and explained hesitantly, but she couldn’t help blaming Shi Junhe in her heart as he was partial.

Did Shi Junhe love Shi Qingxue so much that he didn’t blame her after she made his wife faint?

“Yes?” Shi Junhe didn’t show his opinion.

Then he impassively said something beyond everybody’s expectation. “Qingxue told me before she went out yesterday.”

So the crime of meeting a man secretly was not existent.

“No way!”

“No way!”

Zhou Ruyu and Shi Baoyan denied at the same time, and even Shi Baoning looked at Shi Junhe in disbelief.

Shi Junhe’s expression didn’t change. “Why? Do you think that I will help Qingxue tell a lie?”

As the first reaction, all the three thought Shi Junhe was lying, but soon they realized that it was impossible. With Shi Junhe’s upright character, he would never tell a lie in order to cover up for Shi Qingxue.

In another word, Shi Qingxue told Shi Junhe and got his permission before going to King Rui’s mansion yesterday, but Shi Baoyan suddenly went out with Shi Qingxue without asking for her parents’ permission.

Shi Baoyan got nervous and expressed hurriedly, “But, Qingxue didn’t return home last night, and yesterday she didn’t see His Excellency but went with Prince Haoran (the third prince of the Zhao Country)…”

“Baoyan, please speak with caution!” Shi Qingxue suddenly interrupted and warned Shi Baoyan.

“It’s fine if you defame me. Prince Haoran is from the royal family of the Zhao Country and a respected guest of our country. You can’t slander him recklessly. So please think twice before speaking. Can you take the responsibility for your words?”

Shi Baoyan was frightened and trembled. There was hatred in her heart, but she didn’t dare to provoke the royal family’s majesty, so she could do nothing but shut up.

Seeing that Shi Baoyan was scared, Zhou Ruyu got anxious again. She finally found Shi Qingxue’s fault. If she let Shi Qingxue turn the table, she didn’t know when she would have something on this girl.

She glared at Shi Baoyan a few times secretly, but the latter pretended not to notice. Then she had to aim at Shi Qingxue. “Even though you told your father before you went out, it’s true that you didn’t return home last night. We didn’t wrong you.”

“Prince Haoran asked me to compete on shooting in the training ground, and I couldn’t refuse his kindness, so I had to go with him. Later we went to the mountain behind the training ground to practice horsemanship, but I didn’t know why my horse got panicked all of a sudden and ran crazily. Then His Excellency saved me, but we got lost as a result.

“Unfortunately, there was heavy rain. His Excellency and I had to take shelter from rain and spend the night in a cave. At dawn today, His Excellency was worried that I would be commented when I returned home in a sorry state, so he kindly invited me to King Rui’s mansion so that I could change my clothes and asked his subordinate to send me back home.

“That was what had happened. Aunt, if you don’t believe me, you can go to ask in King Rui’s mansion or the embassy of the Zhao Country. Neither His Excellency nor Prince Haoran would lie because of me.”

The people in Mo Country were open-minded and wouldn’t strictly forbid the unmarried women from going out. Although Shi Qingxue shouldn’t have spent one night outside, it was an emergency, and it couldn’t be commented.

Under the situation, Zhou Ruyu couldn’t blame Mo Junyang because he should have left Shi Qingxue alone and come to tell her family that Qingxue sprained her ankle on the training ground, so he left her in a cave and came to inform them to pick her up.

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