Chapter 93: A Little Too Cheap
Yue Liu'er's maid led Qi Huaijing through the flowers and willows, and soon they arrived at the pavilion by the lake.
The water surface shimmered under the night lights. Yue Lingshu was leaning on the railing of the pavilion, having been waiting for him.
She was holding two lanterns in her hands, and her smile looked particularly gentle under the light.
Qi Huaijing was used to seeing her like this, so he just stood far away with his hands behind his back and a playful smile on his face.
"Cousin, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Hearing the voice, Yue Lingshu turned around and smiled like a flower with bright eyes, as if she couldn't hide her girlish thoughts.
"Cousin, in previous years, on our grandfather's birthday, my brothers and I would always light lanterns and pray for his good health and longevity. This year, my brother is not at home, and only you and I are left, so naturally we can't forget."
Qi Huaijing smiled and agreed readily.
"OK!"
Yue Lingshu handed over a lantern, but Qi Huaijing did not take it. Instead, he took two steps forward, raised his leg, and stepped on the railing of the pavilion.
“Crack!”
Not only did he break the long pole of the lantern, he also trapped her in the corner of the pavilion.
When my cousin saw him so close, she tilted her head slightly, her face shy.
"Cousin, what are you doing..."
Qi Huaijing looked at the shy girl in front of him and spoke in a very light tone.
"Cousin, to be honest, I knew you earlier than I knew Chen Tang."
The cousin raised her peach blossom eyes slightly, looked at his handsome face, and nodded shyly.
"Of course, we grew up together, so if we talk about affection..."
"When I think of my childhood, I remember a lot of things. How about we recall them together?"
Without waiting for his cousin to answer, Qi Huaijing picked up the lantern with a broken pole, held it in one hand, and started talking to himself.
"When you were eight years old, a cousin's little sister came to stay with us. Everyone liked her. But two days later, you said you had lost a pair of gold bracelets. It only took you a meal to find them in the bag of your cousin's maid. The maid was beaten half to death, and your sister was punished by not being allowed to eat for a day."
My cousin's face changed, with a hint of surprise.
"Oh? It happened so long ago, who can remember it clearly? You can't..."
The candle in the lantern went crooked and ignited the paper covering the lamp. Qi Huaijing looked at the burning lamp in his palm, still speaking slowly and calmly.
"When you were twelve years old, you invited your best friends to your house to appreciate flowers. The girl wrote a poem and everyone praised it. But halfway through the flower-viewing banquet in the garden, she suddenly vomited and had diarrhea in public... The girl felt ashamed and never came to the Yue family again."
My cousin’s face was pale and the smile on her face froze.
"She ate the wrong thing, even if she lost a big person, it has nothing to do with me!"
The lanterns burned brighter and brighter, the flames reflected in Qi Huaijing's eyes, and a smile appeared on his lips.
"Oh, one year, you and Miss Chen from next door were flying kites in the suburbs. Her kite was big and nice, but halfway through, she fell off the platform for no apparent reason and broke her leg on the spot. She couldn't get out of bed for half a year."
"She just slipped accidentally! There were so many people here, how can you say it was me?"
Qi Huaijing chuckled softly, casually threw the lantern that was about to burn in his palm onto the lake, turned around, still smiling on his face, but his tone was cold as ice.
"Why? You and I are siblings, don't we know each other? Huh? I've seen enough of your tricks since I was a child! Who do you think you are pretending to be? Stop the fucking acting!"
Qi Huaijing suddenly walked closer, looked her up and down, and lowered his voice.
"I also heard that you insist on marrying me and even thought of conferring the title of my wife? Okay, okay! Let me ask you, do you like me, or do you like to use me as a stepping stone to trample on everyone else's heads? Cousin... don't fucking dream in front of me!"
The cousin didn't expect that he could see her thoughts so clearly, and couldn't help but take a step back.
Qi Huaijing's eyes were as cold as the frosty moonlight. He lowered his head and fixed his sleeves that were messed up by the wind.
"Fortunately, I'm married and you're about to get engaged. Cousin, to tell you the truth, although I don't like you, for the sake of the old man, I don't want to break up with you over such a dirty thing. Just take care of yourself."
He turned around and wanted to leave, but Yue Lingshu suddenly mustered up the courage to throw the jar into the air and raised his voice.
"Qi Huaijing, you...you stop right there!"
Having said this, when she spoke again, she no longer used that delicate, childish tone.
"Cousin, you claim to be a smart man. If you are not stupid, why don't you choose me! I am smarter than her, more capable than her, I knew you earlier than her, and I am more tolerant than her! I don't ask for your sincerity, I don't ask for your kindness, and even, I can tolerate you marrying two wives, can she? As long as you marry me, you can get more than half of the Yue family's property - cousin, the little property you have, I am afraid that even if you work hard for a lifetime, you may not be able to catch up with one-third of your grandfather's! Even so, you still choose her? Why! What for!"
Qi Huaijing turned to face her, Ningguang's eyes full of mockery.
"To this day, you still don't understand? I didn't choose Shen Tang over you. Instead, I chose not to have the family property over you."
Yue Lingshu was stunned. She felt a chill down her spine when she heard these words.
"I am so disgusting! Can't I buy a reputation by being disgusted with two or three million taels of silver?"
"It is indeed not a losing deal to earn millions of taels of silver for a title. But human greed knows no bounds, and you are particularly greedy, and even more scheming."
“Haha. Hahahahahaha…”
Yue Lingshu suddenly couldn't help laughing.
"I am scheming? Anyone in this world who doesn't have a scheming mind is a fool! Isn't your wife scheming? I heard that she has been without a mother since she was a child. If she was really innocent, how could she grow up and marry you smoothly?"
Qi Huaijing raised his eyebrows and nodded in agreement.
"Of course she is not. Everyone has their own schemes, but she not only takes care of herself, but also remembers to take care of others. To the best of her ability, she always wants to help those around her to do better and move forward! People treat her sincerely, and she treats others sincerely. And you, if you get a sincere heart, I'm afraid you will still be sincere and willing to peel off the skin and suck the blood of the person, for fear of missing a little bit of dregs!"
Qi Huaijing walked closer, and a sneer appeared on Junyan's face.
"With someone like you who only wants to cause chaos around me, I have to be on guard all the time, be cautious, and be on edge. But cousin, people can be on edge for a while, but not forever! It's too tiring! The ups and downs of business are already like courting death, and I can't grow a third eye to be on guard against the evil hands of those around me all the time."
He looked at the crescent moon in the sky and breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Just two or three million taels of silver, you want to buy me a lifetime of restlessness? Oh, it's really... too cheap!"
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