Chapter 264: The Divorce Settlement

Three days later, Duke Shi’s mansion was decorated with lanterns and colored hangings, in a festive atmosphere.

After Mo Shujun fell out with Shi Junhe in the Dong family’s mansion, she became brazen.

She broke her promise that she wouldn’t let everybody know about Shi Junhe’s marriage to a concubine.

Now all people in the mansion knew that the maid Leng Yan would marry the first master as his concubine, and some people were jealous of her.

Some people were happy and some were sad.

Early in the morning, Shi Qingxue prepared to go out. When she walked out of the East House, she saw that Shi Jie rushed in with a letter in his hand hastily. He even forgot to bow to her after seeing her and just ran to the study.

Qingxue was confused and subconsciously told him to stop.

“What is it in your hand?”

Shi Jie seemed to finally notice Shi Qingxue in front of him. His face stiffened, and he greeted dully, “My Lady, nice to see you.”

While speaking, he shrank his hand to his back and wanted to hide the letter.

But everything couldn’t escape from Shi Qingxue’s eyes.

She was just curious about what Shi Jie was going to do in a hurry. Now seeing that he was stealthy and suspicious, she was more curious even though she hadn’t planned to read the letter.

She ordered coldly again, “Show me the letter in your hand.”

Shi Jie stiffened and refused to move, begging in embarrassment, “My Lady, don’t make things difficult for me. This letter…is to be sent to His Lordship.”

Shi Qingxue sneered and said impolitely, “I didn’t say that this letter is not written to my father. I just want to know who sent an urgent letter to him today. Can’t I?”

“No, no!” Shi Jie didn’t dare to offend this master, yet he didn’t want to give the letter to her, so he was at a loss for what to do next.

Shi Qingxue waited a moment and then got impatient. She stepped forward directly and grabbed the letter from Shi Jie’s hand.

“My Lady, don’t…” unfold the letter.

Shi Jie wanted to say, “This is not a letter to you, and you can’t unfold it.” However, before he said that, Shi Qingxue looked at the envelop in a daze.

At the moment, Shi Jie suddenly realized that sometimes if they wanted to know who wrote the letter, they didn’t need to unfold the letter, and they just needed to check the handwriting on the envelop before confirming it.

Especially Shi Qingxue couldn’t be more familiar with the handwriting on this envelop. It was her mother Dong Hui’s.

“Mother wrote to Father?” Shi Qingxue turned to Shi Jie and asked blankly.

Shi Jie knew that he couldn’t hide it from her, so he had no choice but to answer frankly, “Last night, the Dong family sent somebody to tell me to go to their mansion this morning, and I couldn’t tell His Lordship in advance as it was Madam’s order. I had to do it. As a result, when I reached their mansion, Madam personally gave this letter to me and asked me to tell His Lordship that…”

Shi Jie looked baffled and couldn’t go on.

Shi Qingxue urged him anxiously, “What did Mother say? Tell me now!”

“Madam said…‘we are done and will never see each other’.”

Shi Qingxue was petrified, while the letter slipped out of her grasp and then fell on the ground, like a leaf in autumn.

Shi Jie was shocked by Shi Qingxue’s reaction and wanted to pick up the letter, yet he didn’t dare to.

He remained unmoved while kneeling for a long time and then called cautiously, “My Lady, My Lady!”

Shi Qingxue was suddenly awakened and her big eyes became red in an instant.

Dong Hui wanted to divorce Shi Junhe unexpectedly.

This was what Shi Qingxue had never expected. Why was it like this?

Didn’t Dong Hui love Shi Junhe deeply all the time? Why did she…give up so easily?

She had explained to Dong Hui that day, and then Dong Hui expressed that she understood and even promised…

“We are done and will never see each other.”

Did her mother even want to abandon her and Shi Baoning?

As Shi Qingxue thought about it, more and more tears fell from her eyes uncontrollably.

She didn’t feel it, but it frightened Shi Jie.

Shi Jie thought in depression, “If His Lordship knows that I made Lady Qingxue cry, would he kill me?”

“My Lady, My Lady! I beg you. Stop crying, okay? How about…” Shi Jie had no choice and ignored all the rules. He gave the letter to her with both hands and then added, “I never went to the Dong family’s mansion and have never seen this letter. Everything never happened. Is it okay?”

Shi Jie was helpless, so he figured out such a lame idea.

The letter was put in Shi Qingxue’s hand, and she came to her senses after being in a trance for quite a while. Then she murmured, “Let’s pretend that nothing has happened?”

Shi Jie nodded in haste.

Anyway, this letter was to be sent to Shi Junhe. As long as it wasn’t sent, what Madam said about the divorce would be invalid, and Shi Jie didn’t need to get a scolding.

After all, when he guessed that this letter might be a divorce settlement, he was much more depressed than now.

Now that the young lady could carry the can for him, he was relaxed.

Shi Qingxue grabbed the letter, with many thoughts in her brain.

She was not as optimistic as Shi Jie, who thought that it would be fine as long as the letter wasn’t sent to Shi Junhe.

But now the letter was in her hands, and perhaps she could do something to save the situation.

The first person Shi Qingxue thought of was Mo Junyang, so she instantly went out with the letter.

As soon as she walked out of the gate of the East House, she bumped into Shi Baoning.

Seeing that Shi Qingxue was in a hurry, Shi Baoning couldn’t help but ask, “Are you going out to play around today?”

Shi Qingxue didn’t notice Shi Baoning’s improper words. Seeing her elder sister, she seemed to see a savior and hurriedly walked to her.

She thought involuntarily, “Although Mo Junyang is capable, anyway distant waters are powerless against near fires.”

She and Shi Baoning were of a mind, and maybe Shi Baoning could help figure out a way to win back Dong Hui’s heart.

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So she immediately told Shi Baoning what had happened.

Hearing that, Shi Baoning frowned deeply and looked Shi Qingxue up and down distantly for a long while, which made the latter nervous. Then she asked coldly, “Why did you unfold Father’s letter without permission?”

Shi Qingxue was speechless.

She had thought that something important occurred to Shi Baoning, while the latter paid attention to something insignificant unexpectedly.

She couldn’t help sighing with disappointment. Then she reminded Shi Baoning to focus on the main point, but the other party pestered her.

Qingxue was so angry that she gave the folded letter to Shi Baoning and said coldly, “See? I didn’t unfold Father’s letter. Are you satisfied?”

Shi Baoning glanced at the sealed letter and blushed with shyness instantly. She asked in embarrassment, “Since you didn’t unfold the letter to Father, why do you know that Mother wanted to divorce Father?”

Shi Qingxue couldn’t control herself anymore and rolled her eyes. “Mother said something to break up. What can it be except a divorce settlement…” Can’t you use your brain and think it over?

Fortunately, later she finally remembered that this was her elder sister, so she didn’t speak out those words. Otherwise, the sisters would become enemies.

Shi Baoning stayed silent as she was unable to retort Qingxue.

After a long time, when Shi Qingxue almost couldn’t wait anymore, Shi Baoning asked unhurriedly, “What does it have to do with you?”

“What?” Shi Qingxue asked in reply and almost thought that she misheard it.

However, her elder sister’s serious expression told her obviously that she didn’t mishear it.

Shi Baoning rebuked her as she meddled in other people’s affairs.

Shi Qingxue instantly felt a rage surging in her heart for no reason, and she could hardly control herself. She almost lost temper, but fortunately her sanity reminded her at the crucial time.

She just pointed out coldly with her face darkening, “The people involved in this matter are our father and mother. They will get a divorce. Do you think it has something to do with us?”

Shi Qingxue thought that she had made it clear, and no matter how numb Shi Baoning was, she should be aware.

Unexpectedly, Shi Baoning just looked indifferent and snorted coldly. “All men like to abandon the old for the new and love the beauties. It is not surprising that Mother made such a choice. We are her daughters, and shouldn’t we support her?”

Shi Qingxue felt extremely astonished at the moment.

She finally realized what was wrong, or what was wrong with Shi Baoning.

It seemed that once they mentioned that Shi Junhe would have a concubine, Shi Baoning was strange and always made sarcastic comments. She was even critical of society.

“Baoning, you…” Shi Qingxue stared at Shi Baoning in doubt.

The suspicion flashing in her sister’s eyes scared Shi Baoning, and she almost thought that she revealed what she was thinking about.

Shi Baoning pretended calm and interrupted Shi Qingxue. “What’s wrong with me? I am fine.”

The more Shi Baoning pretended, the stronger feeling Shi Qingxue had.

She gazed at Shi Baoning for quite a while and then was suddenly enlightened.

Then facing Shi Baoning’s nervous expression, she asked seriously, “Does Chi love another woman and want to have a concubine, too?”

Shi Baoning was dumbfounded.

However, Shi Qingxue thought that Shi Baoning tacitly approved as she was in a daze, so she cursed resentfully, “Hump! Chi is so bad. No, I have to teach him a lesson.”

While speaking, she even rolled her sleeves, and it seemed that she would fight against Wenren Chi to avenge Shi Baoning.

“What nonsense are you talking about?” Shi Baoning blurted out after she came back to earth.

This time, it was Shi Qingxue’s turn to be startled and at a loss.

Shi Baoning restrained her restlessness and continued coldly, “I told you not to meddle. Don’t you understand? You are an outsider. Why do you get involved in the relationship between me and my fiance? Do you want to ruin our relationship? Answer me!”

The aggressive tone and unreasonable words were like sharp arrows and penetrated Shi Qingxue’s chest, with much fresh blood.

She was hurt and raised her head, looking at Shi Baoning. It seemed that she hadn’t realized till now why she considered for her elder sister out of kindness but Shi Baoning thought she was evil and even criticized her.

After Shi Baoning vented her anger on Shi Qingxue, she happened to meet her younger sister’s pure eyes.

There were injuries, doubts, confusion and all kinds of emotions mixed in her eyes, yet there was no hatred toward Shi Baoning.

Even though Shi Baoning was rude and even abused her sister, Shi Qingxue didn’t bear a grudge against her.

However, because of this, Shi Baoning felt more ashamed and didn’t have the courage to face Shi Qingxue, so she covered her face and ran away.

“Eh! Baoning!”

In the beginning, Shi Qingxue felt she was hurt, but soon she was confused by Shi Baoning’s contradictory actions.

So what on earth was wrong with Shi Baoning?

Was she frustrated by the fact that Wenren Chi fell in love with another woman, so she couldn’t control her emotions and became so moody?

Shi Qingxue didn’t know that what she thought was far away from the truth and believed that she guessed right. Then she arbitrarily decided to have a talk with Wenren Chi when she was free.

It was wrong to be a jerk.

But the top priority now was to handle the major issue at hand.

Shi Qingxue looked down at the hot potato in her hand and felt annoyed.

So what should she do now?

“Qingxue, why are you standing here?”

Shi Qingxue suddenly woke up and looked back, to see Shi Baojing staring at her with concern.

“Baojing…” Shi Qingxue called in a low voice and asked, “What are you doing here?”

Shi Baojing smiled with shyness and whispered, “Uncle and His Excellency helped me last time, and I keep it in mind all the time, but because I am busy with the family affairs these days, I just have time to visit you now. I am sorry. Please forgive me.”

Shi Qingxue knew that Shi Baojing talked about her marriage to Mo Junwen, so she waved her hand and smiled. “You and His Highness love each other, and we just brought a romance to a happy ending, and you helped us solve a big problem. We just benefit each other. No bother at all.”

“I need to thank you. If you didn’t speak for me, I am uncertain what would happen to me today. Now my wish comes true, and you have helped me a lot.” Mentioning what had happened that day, Shi Baojing still felt scared and lucky.

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