Shi Qingxue was petrified by You Junle’s aggressive questions.
These questions were sharp-pointed and piercing to the bone, and You Junle’s stern eyes made her feel too ashamed to raise her head.
In fact, she had accepted You Junle’s words in her heart.
He didn’t need to lie to them for something like this.
Moreover, many signs showed that his words were not false.
Shi Qingxue was speechless and couldn’t bear You Junle’s attitude which changed sharply. She didn’t want to face the truth from selfish motives as it was so difficult to speak out.
But…
“Manager You, you are joking,” Mo Junyang suddenly stated coldly.
He said that You Junle was joking, yet he didn’t smile. He just looked horribly serious.
You Junle was stunned, but he was confident, so he swelled out his chest and looked at Mo Junyang. “What I said is the truth. If you don’t believe me, you can…”
“Whether it is the truth is not decided by you,” Mo Junyang retorted coldly.
You Junle snorted. “So I said that you can go back and ask your grandma. What did she do forty years ago? Or you don’t dare to?”
He spoke aggressively on purpose and wanted to force them with provocation to go back and confront Mo Shujun.
However, Mo Junyang had seen through this manager’s trick earlier and didn’t get angry. He just expressed indifferently, “Oh? I don’t know that when you have no evidence, you will go back home and question your mother only after an outsider guesses something. Great, great…”
You Junle probably hadn’t expected that Mo Junyang was so powerful and could make him speechless after saying only a few words.
His indifferent and playful tone made You Junle feel that he was offended. The latter wanted to say that it was different, but in fact, what was the difference?
Before today, no matter what his real identity was, he was just an unrelated stranger to the Shi family.
However, he just showed a cranium that he had got from “nowhere” and pointed out that Shi Junhe wasn’t Mo Shujun’s biological son, and he even told Shi Qingxue to return home and question Mo Shujun.
It was difficult to understand even for an outsider.
If Shi Qingxue did that, probably all people in the world would curse her as she was ungrateful.
You Junle knew this point, but he couldn’t bear that Shi Qingxue asked him about his resentment and then stopped.
Would his mother You Si be buried deeply under the ground and unable to have her identity revealed forever?
You Junle was reluctant, so he vented his grudge on Shi Qingxue.
Unfortunately, he hadn’t expected that Shi Qingxue had a protector who didn’t allow him to humiliate and blame her wantonly.
This young man just said something randomly, but it made You Junle feel so ashamed that he wanted to hide himself.
You Junle lowered his head in frustration. “I know that without evidence, you won’t believe anything, right? After all, Mo Shujun is your family and lives with you for more than ten years, while I am just a man who hides under the ground and can’t show the face, like a rat…”
“No…” You Junle’s sorrowful words moved Shi Qingxue, and she couldn’t help but cry out in a low voice.
In fact, before seeing You Junle, she was suspicious. Mo Shujun did something so cruel to the first master’s family. Anybody seeing that wouldn’t think that an elder who really loved them would do that.
Shi Qingxue couldn’t figure out why Mo Shujun did that. No matter how partial she was, there must be a limit.
Mo Shujun had gone too far. Shi Qingxue had suspected that Mo Shujun was so heartless because Shi Junhe was not her child.
However, this thought was too absurd. As soon as Shi Qingxue thought of it, she gave it up.
Now You Junle showed up. It was more proper to say that she reconsidered a guess which she could hardly believe than to say that she was shocked.
It was weird, yet it was not unacceptable. Perhaps what Mo Shujun did these days made them despair.
Shi Qingxue bit her lower lip and almost left a blood stain on her red lip. Then she asked with difficulty, “Why did you come to see me at this time? And…if I guess right, you told a lie in the living room.”
You Junle paused for a moment and then kept his countenance, asking, “What?”
“This stuff…” Shi Qingxue took out the cranium and showed it to You Junle, asking with certainty, “Even if this was given to you by Grandpa, he didn’t tell you to give it to me, but he hoped that you could give it to my father at the right time, right?”
After asking, Shi Qingxue stared at You Junle and wanted to find some clues from his expression.
Surprised flashed in You Junle’s eyes, but soon he returned calm.
He stayed silent for a while, and when he raised his head again, he looked unperturbed.
He answered, “Right, when Elder Duke Shi was dying, he gave this cranium to me and told me to give it to Shi Junhe if I wanted to avenge my mother in the future.”
He was impolite to call Shi Junhe’s name, but speaking of his identity, You Junle was Shi Junhe’s elder brother, so he had this qualification.
Shi Qingxue frowned and asked in doubt, “Why? Why did you do that?”
“Because I don’t trust him,” You Junle replied straightforwardly and didn’t conceal his hostility to Shi Junhe.
You Junle didn’t like Shi Junhe from the beginning and thought that this man who regarded an enemy as his mother since childhood wouldn’t believe his words but would even forget who killed his biological mother because Mo Shujun had raised him.
Such a man didn’t deserve to be entrusted by him.
However, Shi Qingxue, his niece in name showed her courage to take the blame for what she did since childhood, and she was a person of action, with daring and resolution, like Shi Lei.
In the past, You Junle thought that his niece was spoilt, while she had really grown up these two years. She had been ignorant when she was young, yet she became more steady and smarter.
You Junhe bet on Shi Qingxue, but now it appeared that he lost.
Shi Qingxue glared at You Junle. Suddenly she saw that he looked gloomy, disappointed and frustrated, as if she bullied him.
“Ah, I didn’t say that you belittled my father, but why do you look like this? You don’t have enough evidence, so you should have expected that you will be suspected,” Shi Qingxue complained crossly.
You Junle was her uncle in name, even though she still doubted it. However, she couldn’t regard him as an elder.
Meanwhile, You Junle laughed and expressed directly, “He has taken an enemy as his mother for forty years. Shouldn’t I say something to belittle him?”
Shi Qingxue wanted to say that it was not that Shi Junhe was willing to.
Nevertheless, before she spoke it out, she held it back. It was no joking matter.
She couldn’t say that. Once she said that, it meant that she admitted that You Junle told the truth.
When Shi Qingxue was in a dilemma, Mo Junyang patted her shoulder and whispered in her ear to remind her. “What he said must be true.”
“What?” Shi Qingxue didn’t come back to earth in the beginning.
She was stunned for a moment and then realized that Mo Junyang talked about You Junle’s statement.
Since Mo Junyang said “must”, there was a great chance that it was the truth.
Shi Qingxue gazed at Mo Junyang doubtfully and asked silently, “Do you have evidence? And, how can I tell Father about something like this after going back home?”
She had a headache.
However, Mo Junyang just smiled at her to comfort her. Then he turned to You Junle and asked with a smile, “Manager You, thanks for telling us the truth. Since we have talked about it, how about we discuss it in detail?
“When Elder Duke Shi gave the cranium to you and told you to go to see Duke Shi with it if you wanted to avenge your mother. However, Elder Duke Shi passed away more than ten years ago. Why did you hide it all the time in the past but speak it out at this time?”
The resentment on You Junle’s face was more obvious. He looked at them, as if he could see Mo Shujun who killed his mother through them. Then he accused harshly, “Before my mother passed away, she told me not to bear a grudge or make things difficult for Elder Duke Shi. I thought that this was her last wish. Since she didn’t hope to mention it again, it was fine if I covered it up thoroughly, like a dead rat which can’t show its face forever.
“But I didn’t expect that Mo Shujun still pestered my mother as she just had a chance to be buried with her husband even after she died and gave up her title as a duke’s wife, and her son was snatched away. Because of jealousy, Mo Shujun even dug up Elder Duke Shi’s grave and made them unable to stay together after death.
“Since she can ignore the earlier agreement and act perfidiously, I don’t mind revealing her true features to the public.”
Shi Qingxue was frightened by You Junle’s stern words, but she couldn’t speak a word after she opened her mouth.
If she were the person concerned, she might be more resentful and do something more heartless, and she didn’t have a reason to criticize You Junle for doing something wrong.
However, it became like this. How should they end it?
She couldn’t go back with a cranium and ask Mo Shujun if Shi Junhe was her biological son.
“What? Don’t you plan to tell your father about this matter?” You Junle found Shi Qingxue’s plan at a glance and asked coldly.
Shi Qingxue was nervous and about to speak when a deep male voice came from behind. “No need to tell me. I have known it.”
The three looked back at the same time, to see that Shi Junhe was standing at the room door and staring at them, with a dark face.
Que Yuebai followed Shi Junhe. Meeting the three people’s eyes, he apologized repeatedly, “General Shi said that he had something important and wanted to see Lady Qingxue, and I couldn’t stop him, so…”
Mo Junyang leered at Qu Yuebai secretly, and the latter shut up obediently, stepping aside.
They made contacts silently and nobody found it.
Even Shi Junhe didn’t know that he “happened to” overhear the conversation between You Junle and Shi Qingxue because somebody did it intentionally, and he just felt lucky that he came in time.
He strode into the room and glanced at Shi Qingxue to comfort her first. Then he turned to You Junle.
They looked at each other deeply for a long time. Then he finally lowered his head and called in a gentle voice, “Brother.”