Chapter 53 You can be rich, but you can’t be sick
On the way back to the city, Chen Tang sat in the carriage, stroking his forehead in a daze. He didn't even have the heart to appreciate the wild scenery. He kept thinking about what Qi Huaijing said last night... the unspeakable secret.
No wonder he never interfered in Qi Chengzhou's business.
No wonder he didn't allow himself to compete with Qin for the right to be the housekeeper.
There is an old saying that goes, "Those chasing after deer don't care about rabbits; those deciding on gold don't argue over the price of a penny."
He doesn't care about that little bit of money... Naturally, he has the capital to care about it.
Qi Huaijing rode his horse slowly, and seeing that Chen Tang hadn't lifted the curtain to chat for a while, he guessed that she was thinking about something again, so he simply dismounted and got into the carriage.
"Move in a little, my lady, and leave some space for your husband. I want to take the bus, too."
When Shen Tang saw him get into the car, he came back to his senses from his deep thoughts.
"Aren't you riding a horse?"
"Riding a horse is so boring."
Since he was thirteen years old, he rode a horse every time he went to the capital, and he never said it was boring.
Qi Huaijing sat down next to her, opened the secret box in the car, and took out a chessboard.
"Let's play chess in the car. It's elegant and it will help us to relieve boredom. How about that?"
Shen Tang didn't know when he prepared the chessboard, but seeing that he was very interested, he nodded and agreed.
"Okay."
In previous years, Qi Huaijing went to the Shen family to study, and often played chess with Uncle Shen in his spare time. Shen Tang sometimes watched the game and occasionally played a game with him. Both sides won and lost.
The two sat opposite each other. Qi Huaijing set up the chessboard and asked Chen Tang to play with white pieces first. After just a few moves, he asked her casually.
"Do you remember the first time we met when we were little?"
Chen Tang picked up the chess piece and began to plan the game in his mind, and answered nonchalantly.
"Remember. When I first met you, you were playing chess."
Qi Huaijing was surprised and delighted: "You remember it so clearly?"
Chen Tang raised his hand and dropped a piece, thinking of what happened back then, with a hint of helplessness in his tone.
"That day, my wife took me to visit your house. My second cousin had a big dog in the backyard. Probably because I was a stranger, it kept barking at me. I was so scared the whole day that I had to be careful wherever I went... So I remember everything that happened that day."
Qi Huaijing burst into laughter when he heard this.
"It seems that I have to thank that vicious dog for helping you remember our first meeting."
Chen Tang laughed and said, "I was still a kid back then, and that dog was almost taller than a human when it stood up. It really scared me a lot."
Qi Huaijing placed a piece on the chessboard and recalled the past events.
"I remember it clearly. I was playing chess with my second brother at the time. I made a wrong move but didn't notice it. I was about to lose when you suddenly came over to talk to me and gave me a look..."
He spoke with details in mind, but Chen Tang narrowed his eyes when he heard it.
“…Is that true?”
Qi Huaijing didn't expect that she couldn't remember it. He leaned over and tapped her head with his fingers, speaking with hatred.
"Yes! Think about it! My second brother left after he lost the game, and we continued playing another game."
"Oh, yes, I remember now. It really happened... Oh, it happened, so don't do anything!"
Qi Huaijing was pushed back to his seat by her. When he heard her say that he remembered, he smiled and felt slightly proud.
"Did you... fall in love with me at that time?"
When Chen Tang heard this, she raised her bright eyes unconsciously, and seeing his handsome eyes shining with expectation, she felt a little reluctant to lie to him again.
"About... not really? We were still kids back then, I was only seven or eight years old, and you were just..."
"Ten years old. I'm two years older than you."
"Yeah, with such a young child, how can you say whether he likes it or not?"
Qi Huaijing leaned on the couch, a smile between his handsome eyebrows, and refuted slowly.
"If you don't like me, why did you choose to help me instead of helping my second brother?"
Chen Tang was stunned and was speechless because of his question.
After all, she couldn't remember this incident, and really didn't know why she helped this third cousin whom she met for the first time.
Seeing that she was hesitant and silent, Qi Huaijing thought that he had hit the nail on the head and his smile grew even wider.
"You still say you don't like it?"
After saying that, he leaned over, kissed her lips, and whispered.
"When I first saw you, I loved you so much."
As Chen Tang responded to his kiss, he recalled the past. He only remembered that he was playing with his younger sister in the Qi family's garden. Suddenly, Xiao Li'er ran away. He went to look for her, and then he met his two cousins playing chess in the garden...
She hadn't figured this out yet, when this man saw that she was distracted, he suddenly bit her lips hard. Shen Tang felt pain, cried out, and pushed him away.
"Thank you for your kindness. I will definitely remember this time. Please stop making trouble and continue playing chess. "
Qi Huaijing smiled and stopped, wiped off the smudged lipstick for her, then sat back down and tapped the chessboard with his fingers.
“This is the chess piece from that year.”
Chen Tang was startled when he heard this, and his beautiful eyes were filled with unconcealable shock.
She inexplicably thought of Mrs. Yue's warehouse.
This guy, wouldn't be like Madam Yue, collecting all the items related to her...
This is a bit scary... My husband can be rich, but he can't be so sick.
Chen Tang stared at the chessboard with paint peeling off the four corners, feeling mixed emotions, wavering between deep emotion and horror, and did not speak for half a day.
Qi Huaijing looked at her expression and chuckled softly, his tone very casual.
"I didn't keep it at first, but I found it by chance many years later, and I liked it, so I kept it and used it ever since."
Shen Tang heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Oh."
"I see, what a coincidence... Play chess, play chess, let's continue, this game isn't over yet!"
Qi Huaijing calmed down and said, "When playing chess, there must be a winner and a loser, so it's better to have a bet. If I win, you are not allowed to refuse anymore and let me kiss you properly, how about that?"
"……OK."
The two men sat upright, each of them deep in thought, without speaking for half a day. There was silence, and only the faint sound of chess pieces falling and the rumbling of carriages could be heard.
Qi Huaijing learned chess from a famous teacher in Beijing since he was young, while Chen Tang learned chess by himself from the father of the Shen family.
Even so, the two of them still fought back and forth, and it was very intense.
After the game was over, Shen Tang won a great victory and smiled triumphantly.
She was calmly collecting her pieces when Qi Huaijing admitted defeat, but suddenly came over and kissed her deeply.
"You are a defeated general! You dare to be so presumptuous and act like a rogue even after losing."
Qi Huaijing simply lay down in her arms, smiling.
"I lost, but I didn't play rogue... Miss Shen, I am your trophy."
He took Shen Tang's hand and stroked his handsome eyebrows with her slender fingertips.
"How do you like it?"
He always asks, always worried.
Chen Tang gently covered those sparkling eyes with her ten fingers, kissed his forehead, and answered him again.
"I like it, I like it very much. When I first met Huai Jing, I liked him very much too."
Amid the rumbling sounds of carriages and horses, Qi Huaijing's lips unconsciously curled up into a smug smile.
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