Chapter 267, Give Her a Brick
After the lady said this, the maid didn't know what to say. She just stamped her feet to express her anger.
The laughter and chatter continued in the living room. After Huo Zhigui finished watering Jasmine, he took the handkerchief handed to him by the maid and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Madam, the sun is so strong, let's go under the tree." The maid, wilting from the scorching sun overhead, reminded the woman, "The eldest young master should be back today. Do you want to go to the city gate tower to pick him up?"
Huo Zhiju put down her handkerchief and smiled gently: "Time flies. He's almost back. I won't go pick him up. His father will go."
"But……"
The servant was about to say something, but the woman returned the handkerchief to her and said softly, "Xiao Lai, I'm going back to my room to rest for a while. When Pei Xiao comes back, ask him to come to my room."
Outsiders all said that Madam Pei was gentle, quiet and unpretentious, but after being with her for a long time, she knew very well that her master had a strong character and once she made a decision, there would be no room for maneuver.
Xiao Lai could only respond: "Okay, ma'am."
…
In order to avoid the guests in the living room, Huo Zhijue deliberately came in through the side door, bypassed the living room, and prepared to go upstairs.
"Oh, Sister Huo!" Unfortunately, that person did not do as she wished. He greeted her loudly from a distance of more than ten meters, as if he was afraid that others could not hear him.
Huo Zhijue is the one who cannot hear.
When she heard the woman calling her, she continued to go upstairs without changing her expression, her steps calm and graceful, without even a pause.
"Hey..." Shi Yujiao looked helpless as she watched the woman's slender figure disappear into the corridor. She turned around to look at the man behind her, her eyes gradually reddening. "Brother Qing, are we going too far?"
Without waiting for the man to reply, she began to sob. "Although I truly love you, I've never considered destroying your family. I don't seek any status, I just want to be by your side. Sister Huo treats me so coldly. I'm afraid... I'm afraid she's suspicious of me."
She was born delicate and graceful like a willow in the wind, and when she cried, her tears were like pear blossoms in the rain, which made people feel very pity for her.
The beauty shed tears, and Pei Qing turned his gaze from the second-floor corridor back to the beauty.
He smiled gently, took out a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to her, saying softly, "Zhiju is naturally cold and aloof. It's not targeting you. Don't take it to heart."
The woman cried even more sadly after hearing this: "Brother Qing, do you regret agreeing to my brother's request? I know that you treat Sister Huo..."
The man's eyes darkened slightly, and he interrupted the woman's sobbing: "My marriage with her is just a family alliance."
Family marriage.
The woman naturally understood that there was no friendship between the two.
Hiding behind the handkerchief, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up. She whimpered a few times before stopping crying. "I heard from my eldest brother that Master Pei Xiao is coming back today? Brother Qing, are you going to meet him at the city gate later?"
Speaking of his eldest son, Pei Qing's eyes lit up with a gentle smile. However, hearing that she was so concerned about Pei Xiao's whereabouts, he looked at her with a half-smile: "You care about Pei Xiao a lot?"
"Of course. The eldest young master is Wan'er's brother. I know how much he took care of her." Speaking of her deceased daughter, the woman's eyes were red again. "I... I owe Wan'er so much. I made her suffer in that place. Fortunately, the eldest young master thought of her and returned her ashes to me... I..."
She couldn't continue.
Pei Wan'er was abducted when she was young, and his impression of his daughter still remains at the time when she was just learning to speak - her face has long been blurred.
Pei Qing felt nothing when the woman mentioned this, but considering how sad she was crying, he could only patiently comfort her: "Wan'er is his sister. It's his duty to take care of her. Don't take it to heart."
"I'm grateful to the young master for taking care of Wan'er... Brother Qing, I'll go with you to pick him up later. Is that okay with you?"
Pei Qing said indifferently: "As long as you don't mind being tired."
"How could that be? He is Wan'er's benefactor, so he is also my benefactor."
The woman choked up a few more times, and someone came in from outside to report that the young master's whereabouts had been detected on the city wall, and he would reach the base in an estimated twenty minutes.
Pei Qing nodded in understanding and called out to a passing servant, "Xiao Lai, Pei Xiao is coming back soon. Go ask Madam if she wants to come with me to the East City Gate to pick him up."
Glancing at the tearful woman, Xiao Lai curled his lips, lowered his head, and said respectfully, "Master, Madam just told me that she's not feeling well and wants to lie down for a while, so she won't be accompanying you to pick up the young master."
That was indeed the answer.
Pei Qing pursed his lips into a line and responded lightly.
When Shi Yujiao heard that Huo Zhigui was not going, she showed a surprised expression, rubbing the corner of her clothes, and said hesitantly: "Is it because I am going that Sister Huo..."
"It's none of your business." Pei Qing casually comforted the woman and said to his assistant waiting at the door, "Drive the car over. We'll go to the East City Gate."
…
Whether it was a coincidence or a design, Pei Qing had just taken Shi Yujiao out when they met Shi Yuzhi, the head of the Zhaoyang base and the current head of the Shi family, who was visiting at the door.
So, when Jiang Ran arrived at the base, he saw a group of people waiting at the door at a glance.
"Huo Lingyin, are they all here to pick up Pei Xiao?" Jiang Ran looked at the group of people across from him and asked his companion in a low voice, "Is that woman your aunt?"
There was only one woman present. In the Dongchao base, Jiang Ran only knew one person, Huo Zhigui.
Unexpectedly, Huo Lingyin spat bitterly after hearing this: "What nonsense! How can such a filthy person be worthy of the name of our Huo family?"
"Huh?" Jiang Ran was confused by her sudden anger and asked, "Did you eat explosives?"
Huo Lingyin also realized that she was too emotional. She took a breath, resisting the urge to throw a brick at the woman's face. She quickly explained to Jiang Ran: "That woman's name is Shi Yujiao. She is Uncle Pei's first love and Pei Wan'er's biological mother. Her brother Shi Yuji is the current head of the Zhaoyang Base - the Zhaoyang Base is right next to the Dongchao Base, not far away."
Jiang Ran was a smart man and immediately understood what she meant: "I heard that your first love has become successful, so Pei Qing wants to dump your aunt and get back together with her?"
Huo Zhiju sneered: "That depends on whether he has the ability!" If he doesn't show them some color, he really thinks that the Huo family is easy to bully.
Jiang Ran said "oh" and looked at Si Xu from the side.
He obviously heard their conversation just now, but his expression was indifferent, as if he was listening to the gossip of an unimportant person...who was indeed an unimportant person.
Jiang Ran held Si Xu's hand tightly and put it close to his arm: "Si Xu, I want to meet that woman."
She wanted to meet Huo Zhijue - no matter what Mr. Tu Su said or what Si Nian said about Si Xu's life experience, Jiang Yize was already dead, and now only Huo Zhijue was the person involved, and she knew the situation best.
As for how much truth and falsehood there was in what she said, she would naturally distinguish them carefully.
Si Xu had been staring at Shi Yujiao with a frown on his face. He muttered, "I was wondering why that woman was getting uglier and uglier. Turns out it wasn't her..."
Jiang Ran: “…”
After muttering, Si Xu lowered his eyes to look at her, his peach blossom eyes curved: "Do you want to see her? We'll be able to see her eventually if we follow Pei Xiao."
(End of this chapter)
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