Chapter 299: Somebody Is Dead

Dong Hui was petrified. After she realized what Shi Baoning meant, she looked scared and pushed the girl to sit straightly, shouting exasperatedly, “Baoning, do you know what you are talking about?”

Shi Baoning gazed at Dong Hui, and the smile on her face was cold and sharp. “Do you think that I will make irresponsible remarks if there is nothing like this?”

Dong Hui was speechless.

She was unwilling to believe that Shi Qingxue would do something so absurd, but tears fell from Shi Baoning’s eyes at once.

Shi Baoning’s face was soaked with tears and it seemed to be covered with fog. Anybody would feel pity for her after seeing that.

Even a stranger couldn’t bear to see a beauty shed tears and wouldn’t rebuke her, let alone Dong Hui, her mother.

As Dong Hui saw that Shi Baoning cried, she was not firm anymore. She just pulled the girl into her arms and comforted her gently. “Stop crying! Why are you crying? I don’t want to scold you. I just…”

“You don’t believe me!” Shi Baoning sobbed. She blamed her mother, yet because her voice was weak, Dong Hui felt sadder for her.

Dong Hui got soft-hearted and denied it repeatedly. “It’s not that I don’t believe you. Really. I believe that you are a good child and won’t talk nonsense to slander anybody else.”

Dong Hui comforted Shi Baoning for a long time and then the girl gradually stopped crying, but her eyes were red, and she might be scared at any time, like a frightened rabbit.

Looking at Shi Baoning in this condition, Dong Hui didn’t dare to say something harsh, yet the “fact” that Shi Qingxue seduced Wenren Chi was like a story in “The Arabian Nights” for her.

Dong Hui was in a dilemma and had to ask tentatively, “Qingxue is not that kind of person. Is there a misunderstanding between you?”

Hearing that, Shi Baoning instantly looked as if she was going to cry again. She gazed at Dong Hui, with her tearful eyes. “In the final analysis, you believe Qingxue, not me…”

“No, I don’t mean that.” Under Shi Baoning’s gaze, Dong Hui felt her blood freezing and her heart tightening. She just felt sad and couldn’t ask more.

After hesitating for a long time, Dong Hui raised her hand and wiped away the tears on Shi Baoning’s face, sighing helplessly. “Fine, I understand what you mean. No matter what happened, I promise you that Chi will have only one wife, you, and he won’t have a concubine or marry Qingxue…”

At the mention of this matter, Dong Hui felt embarrassed.

Till now, she still thought that it was a fanciful illusion that Shi Baoning thought about Ehuang and Nüying.

After all, Shi Qingxue’s identity was honorable, and she would never be a man’s concubine, even if the husband was Wenren Chi. In the worst situation, even if Shi Baoning died of an illness and Wenren Chi would marry another woman, Shi Qingxue would never be a man’s second wife.

Hearing Dong Hui’s promise, Shi Baoning finally showed a smile on her face, and especially her eyes were bright and impressive.

Dong Hui saw that and couldn’t help but laugh. She joked, “Gee! You are so happy after hearing that I won’t let Chi marry another woman. If he really stays with you alone for a lifetime, won’t you be overjoyed?”

Shi Baoning had a slow response and finally felt shy, yet she still restrained it and said honestly, “Mother, I really love Brother Chi since childhood. The only man that I want to marry is him. Thanks for your help.”

Under Shi Baoning’s firm eyes, Dong Hui was unable to reply.

It was because she suddenly remembered that in the past, before Shi Qingxue was close to Mo Junyang, Dong Hui considered that she would marry Shi Qingxue to Wenren Chi and their child would inherit the title of Duke Shi.

As their mother, she almost had never thought about the marriage of Shi Baoning and Wenren Chi.

However, God arranged everything. Shi Qingxue just took Wenren Chi as her brother and respected him all the time. She had never thought about marrying him, but Shi Baoning and Wenren Chi got married unexpectedly.

At this thought, Dong Hui felt that she ignored Shi Baoning’s feelings, yet at the same time, she was more certain that Shi Qingxue didn’t fall in love with Wenren Chi.

Otherwise, the bride at this wedding wouldn’t be Shi Baoning.

However, Dong Hui couldn’t bear to say it frankly.

She sighed deeply in secret and still cheered up on the surface, assuring Shi Baoning, “Don’t worry. Something so absurd like the story about Ehuang and Nüying will never happen in our family.”

The story about Ehuang and Nüying had been told from mouth to mouth with general approval, but it only happened to Monarch Yao who was like a sage. If it happened to anybody else, it would merely a joke.

Even if Shi Baoning didn’t mention it, Dong Hui wouldn’t allow something like this to happen in Duke Shi’s mansion.

Dong Hui and Shi Baoning had a heart-to-heart talk. When they came to the main hall after they retouched the make-up, the others were sitting at the table.

When Dong Hui entered the hall, she saw that Shi Qingxue and Wenren Chi sat together and talked closely while laughing from time to time. Their bodies were close occasionally.

It couldn’t be more normal. Shi Qingxue and Wenren Chi were sister and brother originally, and she was his wife’s sister now.

They were close but not indecent or improper.

However, Dong Hui felt nervous after seeing that and couldn’t help shouting, “Qingxue!”

Shi Qingxue was talking with Wenren Chi about the anecdotes in the military camp in high spirits, so she was scared when Dong Hui suddenly called her name.

She looked at Dong Hui in confusion. “Mother, what’s wrong?”

After Dong Hui called, she was regretful as she was possessed and couldn’t control herself but shouted.

And she called the name pointlessly, which would show that she had a dirty thought.

Meeting Shi Qingxue’s pure eyes, Dong Hui was embarrassed, yet Shi Baoning’s deep eyes were on the other side.

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Dong Hui had to bite the bullet and wave at Shi Qingxue, saying, “I haven’t talked with you for a long time. Come here and sit next to me. You sister and brother-in-law are a new couple, and you should let them sit together.”

Shi Qingxue tilted her head and looked at the other side of Wenren Chi as they had kept a seat for Shi Baoning. Then she turned to Dong Hui.

She blinked. Although she was puzzled, she still got up obediently and supported Dong Hui’s arm to sit beside Shi Junhe.

So Mo Junyang who originally sat next to Shi Qingxue was opposite to her.

They looked at each other in a distance, like the Cowherd and the Weaving Maid who were separated by the Queen Mother cruelly.

Mo Junyang had a straight face, and now he looked colder and showed that strangers couldn’t get close to him. Even the servants who served food didn’t dare to approach him. They hesitated and made a detour in the end, putting food on the table from the other side.

Shi Qingxue was about to cover her mouth and laugh quietly, but she met Mo Junyang’s cold eyes.

She was not afraid of Mo Junyang, yet she still felt a shiver down her spine under his glare, so she hurriedly winked at him flatteringly.

She tried to please him silently. “I have no choice. Mother told me to sit here.”

Mo Junyang arched an eyebrow. “Why did you chuckle?”

Shi Qingxue hurriedly covered her mouth and only showed a pair of big bright eyes which blinked. She looked lovely and witty. “No. I didn’t say anything.”

They exchanged love glances happily.

However, from Dong Hui’s angle, she thought that Shi Qingxue “ogled” at Wenren Chi.

She felt nervous again, and her face fell in an instant.

However, before Dong Hui rebuked Shi Qingxue, a manservant from outside rushed to report, “My Lord, bad news. The second master was found to have died suddenly at home this morning.”

Shi Junhe just grabbed his chopsticks. Hearing the sad news all of a sudden, his chopsticks fell on the table and then rolled to the floor.

The silver chopsticks fell on the floor with a clash, which was clear in the silent main hall.

Shi Junhe sprang from his seat and questioned the manservant, “What did you say?”

This manservant was a runner. When he was questioned all of a sudden, his legs weakened and he knelt on the floor, repeating while trembling, “The second master…was found to be dead at home this morning, and the second madam told me to send a message to you and ask you to come immediately…”

Before the manservant finished his words, Shi Junhe strode out of the main hall like storm wind, heading to the second master Shi Junfeng’s mansion.

The others in the main hall came back to reality from the bad news of Shi Junfeng’s sudden death gradually and looked at one another speechlessly.

Shi Qingxue made a decision. “Let’s go to have a look, too. Is there something wrong?”

Although Shi Junhe had known his real relationship with Shi Junfeng and Shi Juncai, anyway, they had been brothers for thirty or forty years, and he couldn’t ignore them.

Shi Junhe rushed to Shi Junfeng’s mansion, and Shi Baojing was standing at the gate waiting for him.

Shi Baojing looked solemn, with sorrow that she couldn’t hide. She sobbed as soon as she spoke. “Uncle…you finally come.”

Shi Junhe patted Shi Baojing’s shoulder to comfort her in silence.

Nevertheless, he looked gloomy. “Don’t cry. Tell me what happened.”

“This morning, a servant went to Father’s bedroom to wake him up, but there was no answer all the time. Because Father got up late recently, we didn’t care and thought that he was still asleep.

“Till one hour ago, I happened to have something to discuss with Father, so I went to see him. Seeing that he didn’t answer, I felt restless and told a servant to open the door. Then we found…that Father lay on the bed with his eyes open and had died long ago.”

Shi Baojing held back her tears and cried out as if she fell apart after she finally made it clear, yet nobody knew if she didn’t make a sound when crying because of her character.

She just shed tears silently and looked more pitiful.

However, Shi Junhe’s brain was occupied with nothing but the news of Shi Junfeng’s sudden death, and he didn’t have extra energy to care about her feelings.

“Take me to have a look at Junfeng’s bedroom.”

Before seeing Shi Junfeng’s dead body, Shi Junhe still refused to accept the fact that his brother was dead and insisted that seeing is believing.

Shi Baojing nodded quietly and restrained her sorrow, leading the way.

When they came into the master’s house, the grieved crying in the room was deafening and extremely sad.

Shi Junhe instantly recognized that it was the second madam Zhang Qiuyan’s voice. He paused for a while yet then rushed into the room more anxiously.

The door of Shi Junfeng’s bedroom faced the north, and it was noon, but it was still dark in the room.

As soon as Shi Junhe came in, he saw that Zhang Qiuyan knelt beside the bed and cried her heart out, while the person lying on the bed was the second master Shi Junfeng.

His eyes were wide open, and blood flowed out of the seven apertures in his head and covered his face, which looked horrible.

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