Chapter 247 Greedy Orphan Nanny VS Mentally Retarded Young Master 14

The room upstairs.

Jiang Zhiyi applied some medicine to Jiang Shen's hand. The wound wasn't serious and didn't need excessive treatment. "Just leave it like this. Be careful not to bump into it."

Jiang Shen looked at his fingers and kept telling her to blow on them, "You have to blow on them for them to get better."

Jiang Zhiyi buried herself in packing the first-aid kit, ignoring his request, and only said, "Didn't we just blow on it? Jiang Shen, don't be so delicate."

"I don't want to, it hurts, blow on it for me." Jiang Shen refused to agree.

Jiang Zhiyi wasn't buying it and threatened, "Jiang Shen, if you keep doing this, I'm not playing with you anymore. You're not strong at all, you're a useless guy."

"I'm not..." Jiang Shen was unhappy and a little anxious. He quickly tugged at her sleeve. "I'm useful. You have to play with me."

Jiang Zhiyi: "If you behave well, I'll play with you."

She seemed to remember something else.

They'll be leaving tomorrow, so she needs to give Jiang Shen a heads-up.

"Jiang Shen, do you still remember the IOU you wrote to me?" she asked.

Jiang Shen thought for a long time, then shook his head and asked, "What is an IOU?"

Jiang Zhiyi guessed that he definitely wouldn't remember.

She went downstairs to her room and retrieved the original IOU.

She said, "Look, your own name is written here. You promised me before that when you had money, you would give it all to me."

Jiang Shen examined the note and saw the puppy and flowers he had drawn on it.

He remembered the thing, but he had just forgotten that it was actually an IOU.

Seeing that he hadn't spoken, Jiang Zhiyi coaxed him, "Good children never lie. Jiang Shen, are you a good boy? You'll give me all your money, right?"

“Yes! You can have them all!” Jiang Shen immediately nodded in agreement.

He was the most obedient and well-behaved child.

"Great job, Jiang Shen, you're amazing." Jiang Zhiyi patted his face with satisfaction, then put the IOU into her coat pocket.

...

The next morning.

The group took Jiang Shen to the mountain to pay respects to their ancestors.

However, apart from Qingmu and a few other young Taoist priests, the rest of them didn't need to go up; they could just wait at the foot of the mountain.

The appointed time was almost here, but unexpectedly Jiang Shen threw a tantrum.

He thought he was going to play in the mountains today, but that wasn't the case at all.

He was completely unfamiliar with the area, and he could only go up with a few strangers, so he didn't want to go at all.

A group of people surrounded Jiang Shen, trying to coax him, but he wouldn't listen and refused no matter what.

Li Dongyan: "Could we have a few familiar people accompany the young master? He might be a little scared."

Qingmu shook his head: "No."

Jiang Zhiyi also coaxed him from the side, "Jiang Shen, be good. Didn't you say you were the best behaved yesterday? Why are you being naughty again?"

Jiang Shen took her hand and said, "You come with me. I don't want to go with them."

Jiang Zhiyi: "I can't go."

"I want you to come with me!" Jiang Shen said with a long face, clearly unhappy.

After observing the commotion for a long time, Qingmu led Jiang Shen to a nearby grove of trees.

He pointed to Jiang Zhiyi standing in the distance and asked softly, "Young Master, do you want her to go with you?"

Jiang Shen nodded.

Qingmu: "Only those who have pricked their hands can go up. I'll prick her hands now and make them bleed. It might hurt a lot, so much that you'll keep crying and bleed a lot... But then she can go up with you."

Jiang Shen was naturally unwilling.

He thought for a moment, then hurriedly said, "No... don't prick her hand... I can do it myself."

Qingmu smiled and said, "That's good."

Soon, Qingmu led Jiang Shen, who had been successfully persuaded, up the mountain.

...

evening.

Jiang Zhiyi was searching for someone in the courtyard downstairs; she was playing hide-and-seek with Jiang Shen.

Qingmu suddenly appeared and called out to her.

"What...what do you want with me?" Jiang Zhiyi looked at him in confusion.

This Qingmu is quite capable.

She knew Jiang Shen's temper very well; he was very stubborn and willful, and once he started making a fuss, he wouldn't stop. She never expected that she would be persuaded to calm down by him during the day.

Qingmu handed her a note.

Jiang Zhiyi picked it up and saw that it was the IOU that Jiang Shen had been tricked into writing.

She quickly checked her coat pockets, and sure enough, there was nothing there.

I don't know when the note fell out, or how Qingmu managed to pick it up.

Jiang Zhiyi was extremely flustered.

Although the IOU was essentially worthless and useless, she only intended to use it to trick Jiang Shen into giving her money. However, if other people saw it, it would definitely cause her trouble.

Jiang Zhiyi remained silent for the moment, wanting to see what he really meant.

Qingmu simply smiled and said, "It's good that it's returned to its rightful owner."

Jiang Zhiyi put the things into her pocket and then tentatively asked, "Did you take pictures with your phone?"

Qingmu shook his head.

Jiang Zhiyi hesitated, not understanding why he wanted to help her, but she didn't want to cause any unpleasantness with him right now, so she simply said, "Thank you."

Qingmu's expression remained unchanged as he said, "No need to thank me. If what you said is true, we're actually half in the same boat, both here to... scam money. So naturally we should help each other out."

"..." Jiang Zhiyi was really annoyed. How could this person be so vengeful and speak so sarcastically?

That's outrageous.

“Master Qingmu, I take back what I said before. I didn’t mean it, I’m sorry,” Jiang Zhiyi said.

charlatan, charlatan, charlatan, charlatan, charlatan...

She was internally ranting and raving.

Qingmu looked at her with a half-smile, as if he knew what she was thinking.

He didn't reply, just nodded slightly, and then strode away.

Jiang Zhiyi stared at Qingmu's departing figure, feeling inexplicably uneasy.

"What were you doing just now?" Jiang Shen walked over from the other side of the courtyard. He had been hiding there for a long time but hadn't seen her come over.

Jiang Zhiyi walked straight up to him and took his hand. "Nothing happened... Let's not play hide-and-seek anymore, let's go upstairs. Auntie made us some small cakes."

“Okay,” Jiang Shen said.

Jiang Zhiyi thought for a moment and then said, "Jiang Shen, I'll tell you secretly, that person just now wasn't a good person. We shouldn't play with him anymore, okay?"

"I understand, we won't play with him." Jiang Shen nodded obediently.

He squeezed her hand tighter and asked, "Do you know what it means to have ulterior motives?"

Jiang Zhiyi found it a bit strange and asked, "Where did you learn this? It's an idiom."

Jiang Shen: "That person said to me on the mountain during the day that I had ulterior motives."