Chapter 261, Divorce
After a burst of nonsense, Si Xu carried the drunken and crazy Jiang Ran back to the apartment.
Huo Linyin sat in the garden for a while and called the housekeeper to come and clear the wine bottles on the table.
Huo Lingge came along.
"Sister." The girl followed the housekeeper obediently, "Brother is waiting for you in the study."
Glancing at his sister's lifeless eyes, Huo Lingyin, under the influence of alcohol, asked the question that had been bothering him: "Huo Lingge, why do you stay in the Huo family?"
If it’s not for Huo Heng, or for the position of the head of the Huo family, what is she after?
As if he didn't expect her to ask this, Huo Lingge tilted his head and didn't answer immediately.
The housekeeper tactfully carried the packed bottles and jars out of the garden, leaving the two sisters to talk in private.
Hearing the footsteps fading away, Huo Lingge groped his way to the table and sat down.
She rested one hand on the table, her fingers clenched tightly as she thought of something: "If I...if I say I'm doing this for Big Brother, will you kick me out?"
"Huh?" Unexpectedly, Huo Lingyin waved her hand, mumbling, "You're not doing this for me. Why would I chase you out when I have nothing better to do?"
Huo Lingge breathed a sigh of relief calmly, and his clenched fists loosened.
Huo Lingge sneered, burped, and stood up. "You're such a fool. I saved you once—that man Huo Sichan would save a cat or a dog if he saw one—but is it worth risking your life for such a simple thing?"
After the girl finished speaking, she walked towards the study with unsteady steps.
Huo Lingge didn't take her words to heart.
Even if it's just a matter of convenience, not everyone is willing to do it - Huo Sichan did it, so he is unique in her heart.
…
Arriving at the door of the study, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that the girl's words might not mean what she understood. Huo Lingyin stopped at the door of the study and murmured: "Could Huo Lingge's words just now mean that she likes Huo Sichan?"
She thought she was repaying the girl for saving her life, but in fact, the girl was planning to take her disabled brother home?
Huo Lingyin clapped her hands and said angrily: "I was wondering why she was so shameless to stay in the Huo family!" It turned out that she had set her sights on Huo Sichan, that little lamb!
The study door was opened, and Huo Sichan appeared at the door pushing a wheelchair. He saw his sister waving her fists in anger.
Huo Sichan: "...I know you're full of energy, but there's no need to unleash your energy in front of my study."
Huo Lingyin put down her hand, glanced at him, and sneered sarcastically: "I know you don't like me, but there's no need to come out and mock me."
Huo Sichan ignored her and turned his wheelchair towards the house: "Come in."
Huo Lingyin rolled her eyes at his back, but still followed him in reluctantly.
Huo Sichan loves tea and is good at tea tasting. However, as a blood-related brother, Huo Lingyin has no interest in this at all.
Seeing the tea set on the table and the teacup pushed in front of her, Huo Lingyin declined politely: "Are you deliberately trying to disgust me?"
Huo Sichan paused while pouring tea, raised his eyes to look at her, and said coldly: "It's just a cup of tea, it won't kill you."
Huo Lingyin: “…”
"Besides, you reek of alcohol. Drinking some tea will help you sober up, so you don't end up running to someone else's door and performing the Five Animal Frolics."
Huo Linyin: "..." If you weren't a disabled person, I would beat you until you cried for your parents.
After retorting to his sister, Huo Sichan's mood brightened up: "I called you here this time because I have something to ask of you."
"Please? Oh, Huo Sichan, I actually heard this word from your mouth. Did I hear it right?" Huo Lingyin continued to speak sarcastically.
Huo Sichan smiled: "You are still young, don't doubt your hearing."
Huo Lingyin retorted, "I'm not doubting my hearing, I'm doubting your tongue is cramping."
Huo Sichan calmly changed his tone: "Well, I have something I want to order you to do."
Huo Lingyin: “…”
The two siblings looked at each other, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.
"Brother, sister." Just as the two were about to decide the outcome with their eyes, the study door was pushed open again. Huo Lingge smiled softly and came in with a plate of osmanthus cake. "I made it with the dried osmanthus flowers left over from last year. Try it."
She knelt down beside the tatami as if no one was around and placed the osmanthus cake between the two of them.
When someone came in, Huo Sichan suppressed his childish side and looked away first, too lazy to argue with his sister.
Huo Lingyin picked up a piece of osmanthus cake and stuffed it into her mouth, humming softly: "Don't you have something to tell me? Go ahead."
Tapping his fingers on the table, Huo Sichan glanced at the two sisters, each with a different expression, and said calmly, "It just so happens that you're both here—Si Xu and Jiang Ran are going to the Dongchao base with Pei Xiao this time. You two should come along and visit your aunt."
"We?" the two sisters asked in unison. "Together?"
"Hmm." Huo Sichan thought for a moment and decided to tell the two sisters about the situation at the Dongchao base. "Uncle Pei and my aunt are in a family marriage. There were rumors that Uncle Pei had a mistress outside and had a daughter."
"I know. The one who was killed at Xiling Base." Speaking of her elder's illegitimate daughter, Huo Lingyin couldn't hide her sarcasm. "Pei Xiao even went to Xiling Base specifically for that woman—tsk, what a waste of time."
She was just an illegitimate daughter, and the illegitimate daughter of his father and another woman. Pei Xiao not only did not understand his mother's suffering, but also wholeheartedly sided with that illegitimate daughter. Haha, I don't know whether to say he was kind or stupid.
"The girl's mother's family came to the Dongchao base and wanted to discuss cooperation with the Dongchao base."
"Huh?" Huo Lingyin blurted out, "Why would they want to cooperate?"
"According to Pei Xiao, Pei Wan'er's mother's clan has awakened a group of very powerful psychics. They have now established a base in Zhaoyang City, not far from the Dongchao base. They want to merge the two bases into one, but the prerequisite is that Uncle Pei and Little Aunt divorce and marry Pei Wan'er's mother."
"W-what did you say?" Huo Lingyin really started to wonder if there was something wrong with her ears. She was so angry that she laughed. "That... what... Pei Wan'er's mother thought our Huo family was dead? She asked Pei Qing to divorce my aunt. Who do they think they are?"
“…”
Seeing Huo Sichan fall silent, Huo Lingyin frowned, took a deep breath, and asked: "...Does Pei Qing also have this idea?"
"That woman was his first love." Huo Sichan smiled bitterly. "You know, he and my aunt are just in a family marriage. Besides, my aunt had someone in her heart before she got married. Maybe this result will be good for both of them."
"Good? Bullshit!" Huo Linyin stood up immediately. "What did our Huo family do to stop our aunt from thinking about us? And what did the Pei family do? We agreed to make that woman disappear, but ended up with this illegitimate daughter—and now they're saying that our aunt has someone in her heart. Why didn't anyone care about her having someone in her heart back then?! That man has been dead for over 20 years, and Pei Qing wants to kick our aunt out just because he found his first love? He's dreaming!"
(End of this chapter)
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