Shi Qingxue didn’t notice the reproach in Shi Junhe’s eyes at all seemingly and shouted more exaggeratedly, “Why aren’t I injured? Haven’t you seen that a large part of it is red?”
Shi Junhe looked at her coldly and ignored her when she acted like a spoilt child.
Seeing that her father was so “hard-hearted”, Qingxue rolled her eyes and cried out instantly, “Purr, Father, you don’t love me at all! In the past, once I said that I was hurt, you would ask me and be afraid that there was something wrong with me. Now my hand is red after I fell on the ground, but you don’t care. As expected, I have become a wild child nobody loves.
“Little Qingxue lost her mother when she was just three years old…”
While speaking, she even sang a song in a sobbing voice.
It made people feel sad.
Even though Shi Junhe knew that Shi Qingxue just pretended, he was moved by her words, but the lyrics were really…
Duke Shi showed a straight face and rebuked crossly, “What nonsense are you talking about? Your mother is fine.”
Shi Qingxue blinked and asked quickly, “Where is she now?”
Shi Junhe was speechless.
He realized why this daughter came to please him and complain about her misery.
She beat around the bush and just wanted to beg for mercy for Dong Hui.
However, obviously, she said much more tactfully than Shi Baoning. Although he didn’t nod in agreement, he felt that his heart was shaky indeed.
Shi Junhe met Shi Qingxue’s pure and clean eyes and couldn’t help but sigh in secret. “No wonder Baoning said that I am partial.
“Although both of them are my children, my little Qingxue can relax me easily with only a few words and almost makes me open-minded in silence…
“How would I not like and spoil such a child?”
“Father, Father…” Shi Qingxue waited a moment but Shi Junhe didn’t give a response, so she started to call him like an old monk chanting. However, her voice was sweet, and as she called, it seemed that she played the woman.
It stopped Shi Junhe from feeling angry and emotional.
He sighed deeply and patted Qingxue’s shoulder, asking directly, “Did you come to beg for mercy for your mother, too?”
Shi Qingxue peeped at Shi Junhe and saw that he looked peaceful, so she thought, “He finally stops sulking.”
She was relieved and didn’t play tricks anymore. Then she nodded and admitted it, advising cautiously, “Father, don’t be mad at Mother, okay?”
“Do you know what she has done? You ask me not to be mad?” Shi Junhe’s voice was cold and unfriendly.
It appeared that he would get angry again.
Shi Qingxue thought it was bad and explained with a quick answer, “I don’t know. But I think that you love Mother so much and must not want to be angry with her. Just be broad-minded and forgive Mother!”
Although her words couldn’t solve the contradiction thoroughly, it really stopped Shi Junhe from being alert.
He fell into silence again and looked out the window with a complicated expression, without saying anything for a long time.
Qingxue didn’t dare to disturb him and just waited obediently, wondering how she could comfort her father.
What? Why didn’t she talk with Dong Hui and ask her to admit her mistake?
As soon as this thought just appeared on Qingxue’s mind, it was given up by her.
She had seen Dong Hui’s stubbornness as once she affirmed anything, others couldn’t move her easily.
Especially there were many conflicts that she couldn’t ask about as a daughter. It was better to ask Shi Junhe, this man to “bow and rise at will”, and it would be easier to solve the family conflicts.
“Qingxue, do you think that I should go to bring your mother back now?” Shi Junhe asked all of a sudden.
He even left this question to Shi Qingxue.
Shi Qingxue was stunned and then blinked before answering with a nod, “Yes, you should.”
After speaking, she was afraid that Shi Junhe would get mad, so she explained hesitantly, “We are family, so we should live together. If we get parted because of personal feelings, we would only give outsiders a chance to comment, and…”
Shi Qingxue racked her brains and tried to analyze the necessity from all sides that he should bring Dong Hui back home.
Shi Junhe listened to Qingxue quietly till she finished her words and then whispered something in her ear.
After hearing that, Qingxue was out of sorts again.
When she walked out of the study, it was nearly at dusk.
Xia Mang waited outside all the time and walked to her immediately when she came out, asking, “My Lady, what’s up? What did His Lordship say?”
“Nothing.” Shi Qingxue waved her hand wearily and didn’t want to explain so much. Instead, she led Xia Mang back to the Luotong Boudoir.
Seeing that, Xia Mang didn’t ask more.
After going back to the Luotong Boudoir, Xia Mang thoughtfully did everything for Shi Qingxue who was tired for one day, giving her time to ponder.
Next day, Shi Qingxue still hadn’t figured out a way, and she was like a deflated ball. She hid in the courtyard of the Luotong Boudoir and rested her head on her hands at the stone table lazily, pretending dead.
Dong Shuang was worried to see that and then teased her in a soft voice. “My Lady, are you going to compete on archery with His Excellency today?”
This girl thought that her lady liked shooting arrows, so it must be right if she recommended her to continue to play.
Shi Qingxue didn’t even want to move her finger and said gloomily, “I played for one day yesterday but got annoyed before I felt happy. It was not fun at all.”
No matter how stupid Dong Shuang was, she knew that Qingxue was annoyed by the conflict between Duke Shi and his wife. Although she wanted to make her lady happy, she had no good idea, so she had to turn to Xia Mang for help.
Xia Mang looked serious and walked forward, suggesting softly, “If you can’t convince His Lordship, how about asking Young Master to have a try?”
“Chi?” Shi Qingxue spoke out Wenren Chi’s name questioningly.
Then her beautiful eyes lit up with gorgeous light. “Right! Why didn’t I remember that I can ask Chi?
“Chi and Baoning will get married soon, even if… When they get married, as their biological mother and foster mother, Mother should come back home.”
While thinking, she believed that it was true, so she didn’t stay in the courtyard in depression anymore. She hurriedly told Dong Shuang to prepare a horse as she planned to go to see Wenren Chi in the military camp of the City Guardian Army.
“My Lady, you rode a horse for half a day yesterday, so you must be tired if you ride a horse again.” Xia Mang reminded her euphemistically. Of course, the most important was that if a woman rode a horse on the street openly, it was not good, but she didn’t say that.
Shi Qingxue didn’t care about something like this and replied casually, “A carriage moves too slowly. I can’t wait.”
Afterward, she hurriedly ran into the room and changed into a tracksuit. Then she led Dong Shuang to the military camp of the City Guardian Army.
Wenren Chi was training soldiers. He was stunned for quite a while after seeing Shi Qingxue and then asked in confusion, “What are you doing here?”
Shi Qingxue was anxious and didn’t keep Wenren Chi in suspense. Finding that he was not busy, she pulled him aside and roughly told him in a low voice what happened in the mansion these days.
In the end, she couldn’t control herself and had tears in her eyes, muttering, “Chi, you haven’t been back home for a long time and didn’t ask while so many things happened at home. Did you really abandon us?”
Since Shi Qingxue knew that Wenren Chi bore a grudge against Mo Shujun, she didn’t force him to go back home anymore, but as a result, he seemed to break away from the Shi family. If he wasn’t Shi Baoning’s fiance, Shi Qingxue almost thought that she would lose a brother.
Of course, it wasn’t that Wenren Chi neither cared to inquire nor to hear about the Shi family. He had heard about what happened in the family these days, yet he didn’t know if he qualified to ask.
Now Shi Qingxue suddenly asked him, and he didn’t know what to say.
They kept silent for a while, and then Shi Qingxue felt the tense atmosphere, so she tried to save the situation in a hurry and said, “Chi, I didn’t mean that. In fact, I came today because I have something to ask for your help.”
Wenren Chi naturally wouldn’t refuse, so he asked after nodding, “What’s it?”
“Hmm…” Shi Qingxue told Wenren Chi what she was worried about.
Her pretty face wrinkled. She had no choice. Otherwise, she wouldn’t want to disturb Wenren Chi because of something insignificant.
After Wenren Chi heard Shi Qingxue’s words, his heart beat quickly and his expression changed. She lowered her head and didn’t see his unusual expression but continued, “I don’t know why it became like this. Anyway, only you can handle this matter.”
While speaking, she put her palms together and it looked like she was begging.
Wenren Chi restrained his shock and tried to pretend as if nothing had happened, asking slowly, “What do you want me to do?”
“Gee?” Shi Qingxue just wanted Wenren Chi to do something, yet she didn’t consider what he should do to solve it, so she was dumbfounded for a moment.
She pondered for a while and then asked with little hope, “How about you ask Baoning first what on earth she is thinking about?”
Wenren Chi met Qingxue’s pure eyes and felt guilty for no reason. He couldn’t calmly face her expectancy and dependence.
He walked forward quickly for a few steps and avoided Qingxue’s eyes, saying with tolerance, “I am afraid that I have no solution.”
Shi Qingxue was confused by Wenren Chi’s weird actions and moved a step forward rapidly. She didn’t give up and ask, “Why don’t you have a solution? Baoning loves you so much and must listen to you. If you ask her, she will surely… Ah!”
She strode forward in a hurry and didn’t notice her feet.
Before she finished her words, she was tripped by something and didn’t stand steadily. Then she rushed forward directly.
Hearing that, Wenren Chi looked back and saw the dangerous scene, so he reached out his hand in haste to catch her.
However, he was in panic and couldn’t grab Shi Qingxue but fell on the ground with her.
When they were about to fall on the ground, Wenren Chi forcefully switched their positions. Then he fell before Shi Qingxue while she pressed him.
Shi Qingxue fell on Wenren Chi heavily and her position was awkward.
Her head knocked his and her nose bumped into his. Even her lips went close to his…
Both of them were stunned by this accident and met each other’s eyes for a long time, looking blankly at each other’s face magnifying infinitely.
Till a scream came into their ears, they were dragged back to reality.
Shi Qingxue supported her body and looked at the voice source subconsciously, but unexpectedly, her waist was touched by somebody. She couldn’t exert strength on her hand and fell back on Wenren Chi again.
With this angle, their lips didn’t meet again this time, yet because she turned her face away, Wenren Chi’s lips kissed her ear.
The hot air went into her ear and made her tremble. Her body softened again.
“What are you doing?”
Shi Baoning walked quickly like wind to the two people who had fallen on the ground, and she questioned angrily.
Seeing Shi Baoning’s tearful face, Shi Qingxue instantly realized that her sister misunderstood, so she explained in haste, “It’s not what you have seen. Baoning, you misunderstood…”
She explained and meanwhile wanted to get up, but the more anxious she was, the more easily she would make a mistake. She tried several times yet couldn’t stand up successfully. Instead, she put her and Wenren Chi in a more awkward position.
Shi Qingxue almost wanted to cry because of her stupidness. When she was at a loss what to do, suddenly she felt that her body was light and she was picked up by somebody at once.
She reached out her hands to hug the person’s neck subconsciously. Afterward, she raised her head to have a look and then got startled.