Chapter 94 You are cheating
When Qi Huaijing returned to the courtyard, Chen Tang had already removed her makeup and taken a bath. She had just dried her black hair until it was half dry and was holding a palm-sized copper stove to warm her hair strand by strand.
"You're back."
Qi Huaijing took the copper stove, let her lie on his legs, and helped her dry her hair.
"Why don't you wait until I come back?"
Chen Tang smiled with his lips pursed, and deliberately provoked him again, imitating Yue Lingshu's accent with eighteen bends.
"I dare not trouble you, cousin. I am afraid that you will forget about me after seeing other cousins... Ugh!"
As expected, Qi Huaijing smiled and slapped her.
"Girl, you are talking nonsense!"
Chen Tang raised his head and smiled, "I'm talking nonsense? Then I'm talking nonsense again. Did you persuade him or quarrel with him?"
"Neither. I just went and scolded her so that she would know her limits."
"Oh~"
Chen Tang supported his chin and lowered his eyes slightly.
Having followed her aunt and cousin in their battle of wits and courage these days, she also realized that the little girl would act silly and coquettish on the surface, but when no one was around, she would become cunning and cunning.
But she is very good at winning people over. She can divide a small group of cousins into five or six small gangs, and everyone obeys her. She really has some skills.
"Cousin, if... I'm just saying, if you didn't marry me, would you marry her?"
Qi Huaijing sighed secretly. This girl didn't know that even though he had already married her, the old man still wanted to force him to marry another one.
"I would rather be alone in my life than marry someone like this. She schemes against me in my dreams and sleeps, which makes me unable to sleep peacefully. Thank God, I have you as my wife now, and I am very satisfied."
He suddenly remembered something and asked her, "What about you? If you don't marry me, who will you marry?"
As soon as he finished speaking, before Chen Tang answered, Qi Huaijing started talking again.
"Forget it, don't say it, I don't want to hear it."
He didn't want to listen, but Chen Tang insisted on leaning over to look at his depression, with a gentle smile on his face.
"You forgot~ You and I were destined to be together in our previous life, and we will definitely be husband and wife in this life. If your aunt hadn't married into my family, I would never have recognized you, and I would have been able to keep looking for you... until I became an old lady and you became an old man, and we both happened to meet on the road with crutches, nodded to each other, and then I would say..."
She deliberately lowered her voice, kowtowed twice, and acted like an old person.
"...Ahem, so you are here!"
Qi Huaijing then smiled, stroked her long hair, and kissed her youthful and tender face.
"When you are old, you will definitely be a very beautiful old lady."
Chen Tang also smiled and nodded.
"Stop talking nonsense. Go to bed early. You've been so busy these days. I see you've lost some weight."
"Wait until your hair is dry, and then go to sleep. I have to go to the shop tonight. I have a big, urgent business deal, so I have to stay up all night. If you are afraid to sleep alone at night, call Bai Lu to accompany you. I can go home tomorrow night."
Chen Tang sat up and said in surprise, “Such urgent business!”
"Yes, I almost didn't have time to come to the old man's birthday party today! An old customer said he wanted to go to Jiangnan. The ship was booked, but the goods he originally ordered could not come. The cargo ship couldn't be sent empty, so he ordered the spices from our shop - a very good business, and we can make a lot of money."
He smiled, leaned over to Shen Tang's ear, and spoke in a very proud tone.
"It's a large sum of money."
Chen Tang smiled and nodded, lowering her shoulder-length black hair and kissing his eyebrows.
"In that case, you should go earlier. I'm not going to sleep yet. I'll take advantage of my free time to sort out the medical records I brought from home. When I finish writing, my hair will be dry."
Qi Huaijing nodded, and before leaving, he remembered something.
"If you have time these few days, ask the maids to pack up the luggage. After I receive the payment for this business, we will set off back to Guangling... The old man's birthday party is over, and I really don't want to live here anymore. There are too many annoying things!"
Chen Tang nodded in agreement, holding his hand and walking him out of the courtyard, watching his tall figure gradually walk away in the hazy spring night.
The next day, Chen Tang called Bai Lu and the maids to slowly pack their luggage for home, ready to say goodbye and leave at any time.
However, Qi Huaijing did not return home that night.
After lunch the next day, she sent someone to the shop to question him, and the servant brought back his note.
"I have something to say, please wait, don't worry."
It was written hastily, but it was written by hand. Chen Tang thought that he was busy in the shop, so he waited patiently.
For seven or eight days, he hardly went home. After he came back, he went straight to his grandfather's study. No one dared to go in, but they could all hear the grandfather and grandson making a big fuss.
After leaving the study, Qi Huaijing left the Yue family again and went to the shop again. No one knew what was going on.
Once, he returned to the courtyard late at night, just kissed her, and fell asleep.
As soon as he woke up, he wanted to leave again, but Shen Tang grabbed him and asked him what he was busy with and why he quarreled with his grandfather?
He only talked about the things in the shop and told her not to worry about them. After that, he went out again.
Chen Tang felt vaguely uneasy, and asked Mrs. Du, his aunt and others indirectly, but they all said they knew nothing.
One day, when Chen Tang was daydreaming on the swing in the garden, a little child suddenly ran over.
"elder sister!"
It turned out to be Dongdong.
Zhao Wenzhen was not far away either. He walked over leisurely and greeted them cheerfully.
"Nephew's wife, basking in the sun!"
Chen Tang looked at her uncle-in-law who had grown up with Qi Huaijing, blinked in the spring breeze, and suddenly burst into tears.
Zhao Wenzhen was so panicked that he looked left and right, and luckily there was no one around.
"This is...what's going on? It's all right! If you have anything to say, just say it nicely!"
Chen Tang raised her tearful eyes and looked at him sadly and resentfully.
"Uncle-in-law, do you think Huai Jing will agree to that?"
Zhao Wenzheng was stunned. "You...you know everything?"
Chen Tang nodded without saying anything, pearly tears rolling down her cheeks.
She guessed that there must be something important that involved both the inside and outside of the family, and the grandfather and grandson could not reach an agreement. The uncle-in-law had been a close friend to him since childhood, and they were both business friends and family relatives. If something like this really happened, Qi Huaijing would probably consult him.
As she expected, Zhao Wenzheng sighed.
"Don't worry! Huai Jing is not that kind of person. He has always been soft-hearted and would rather be forced into bankruptcy by the old man than agree to marry two wives!"
Chen Tang was stunned and forgot to shed tears for a moment.
Huai Jing's shop went bankrupt? The old man forced him to take over two branches?
She couldn't quite tell which one was more outrageous, or maybe both of them were outrageous!
Zhao Wenzhen looked at her expression and realized that he had been fooled. He hurriedly hugged Dongdong in his arms and prepared to walk away.
"Oh my! You are cheating! Don't say it was me who told it. You two are really..."
Zhao Wenzheng was about to leave holding Dongdong, but Chen Tang stepped forward and blocked his way.
"Uncle-in-law, I already know. If you explain it clearly, Huai Jing might blame you. If you don't explain it clearly, not only Huai Jing will blame you, I will blame you too!"
Seeing that Chen Tang was about to shed tears again, Zhao Wenzheng was panicked and at a loss. He was really helpless and had to tell her the whole story.
"You also know that Huai Jing's shop was built by the old man, so it is naturally interconnected. A few days ago, an old customer named Sun bought a large amount of spices at a high price, but he was slow to pay..."
"Huai Jing realized it later. It turned out that the shopkeeper Sun had received instructions from the old man and did it on purpose. The price of this batch of goods was high, and the shop had invested a lot of capital, but the other party was dragging his feet on the payment. The situation was deadlocked for a while. If it lasts another month or two, the shop will be unable to turn around and will definitely suffer a heavy loss..."
"He has always been cautious in business, and he never thought that his old customer could do such a thing! The old man used a dirty trick to force him to submit by means of business warfare, so that he could marry Miss Yue in the name of the eldest brother of the Qi family who died young."
After hearing the whole story, Shen Tang couldn't help but grit his teeth.
"This is not a business war, it's robbery!"
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