Chapter 272, You are a murderer
Downstairs, Shi Yujiao, acting like a hostess, directed the servants to prepare lunch. She walked out of the kitchen and just saw Jiang Ran coming downstairs with Si Xu.
Thinking of what her brother had said, the woman stared at Si Xu carefully. The more she looked, the more she felt that this young man looked like Huo Zhiju.
Could it be that this Si Xu is really a member of the Huo family who has hidden his identity?
The girl said they were from Xiling Base. Since it was Xiling Base, we could tell whether it was true or not just by testing it out.
…
I don’t know what Huo Lingyin and Huo Zhigui talked about. When Huo Lingyin came downstairs, her face didn’t look very good.
She walked over to Jiang Ran and sat down, with a sullen look on her face, and her whole body exuded an aura that said "keep away from strangers."
Jiang Ran poured a glass of water and pushed it in front of her without saying a word.
Pei Xiao followed Pei Qing out of the study, scanned the living room, and walked over to Huo Lingyin. He leaned over, holding onto the back of her chair with one hand and asked, "My mother didn't come down?"
Huo Lingyin drank her tea and hummed, "My aunt is not feeling well and has gone to bed."
After saying that, he glanced at Shi Yujiao, who was talking softly to Pei Qing, and sneered: "If it were me, I wouldn't bother coming down if there were such an eyesore hanging around."
Knowing that she was unhappy, Pei Xiao patted her shoulder gently and walked to the empty seat on Pei Qing's left and sat down.
Huo Zhijue's seat should have been on Pei Qing's right, but Huo Zhijue didn't come down, so Shi Yujiao, who was talking to the man, sat down.
At the end, he glanced at Huo Lingyin with a half-smile, which was full of provocation.
"Bang!"
The teacup banged heavily on the table. Huo Lingyin was about to speak when Jiang Ran yelled angrily, "I poured you tea. If you don't want to drink it, then forget it. But why do you want to pour it on me?"
Two drops of tea foam splashed on her hands.
Huo Lingyin's rage, which had been burning like crazy, was extinguished by the girl's words. She took out a tissue and pressed it on the back of Jiang Ran's hand, saying unhappily, "Here, wipe it yourself."
Jiang Ran wiped his hands and muttered, "Just wipe it yourself, why are you being so fierce~"
Once the girl interrupted, the originally weird atmosphere eased a little.
Pei Qing just listened to Shi Yuzhi with a smile on his face the whole time, as if he didn't notice the subtle atmosphere between Huo Lingyin and Shi Yujiao.
Pei Xiao winked at Huo Lingyin and ordered the servants to serve the food.
"I'm telling you, a little impatience can ruin a big plan." Jiang Ran wiped his hands and spoke to Huo Lingyin in a low voice, "You don't seem like such a fool."
Knowing that her actions just now were too impulsive, Huo Lingyin gritted her teeth and said, "I have been very restrained. If this wasn't the Pei family, I would have beaten her up."
"You?" Jiang Ran expressed his doubt. "Si Xu said that the Shi family's patriarch is a dual-element psychic with a decent level of ability. I'm afraid you alone are no match for them."
"...Could you please stop encouraging others and destroying your own prestige?"
"How can telling the truth destroy your own prestige?" Jiang Ran snorted and laughed, "Only by seeing the reality clearly can we formulate a more accurate plan. If we are going to do it, we must defeat the enemy with one strike - such a simple principle, didn't Huo Sichan teach you?"
She spoke clearly and logically. Huo Lingyin looked at her straight in the eye and said, "Tell me, what should I do?"
Jiang Ran picked up a piece of lettuce and casually replied, "Let's wait and see."
“…” It’s as good as saying nothing.
After three rounds of drinks, the initially depressed atmosphere dissipated and the dinner table gradually became lively.
Shi Yuji was already slightly tipsy and had almost finished chatting with Pei Qing. He turned his attention to Si Xu who was eating quietly.
The man stood up, holding a glass of wine. "Mr. Si, right? You've come all the way from Xiling Base and must have worked hard. I want to toast you."
He was the elder, and he stood up to toast, thinking that the other party should at least drink a glass with him. But the young man didn't even bother to raise his eyelids, and said lightly: "I don't drink."
Shi Yuzhi's raised wine glass suddenly froze in the air.
Si Xu drank a sip of tea as if no one was around and continued to pick up the peanuts in front of him.
Shi Yuji: "..."
Seeing the man's face turn from red to black, Jiang Ran stood up and said, "Mr. Shi, you're too polite. My boyfriend has already poured one glass of wine, so I'll toast you on his behalf."
Without giving Shi Yuji a chance to speak, Jiang Ran drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.
The other party was a young girl who spoke politely. Shi Yuji didn't want to continue to pester her, so he drank some wine and sat back in his chair.
Shi Yujiao smiled and asked curiously, "Since you two are from Xiling Base, do you know Pei Wan'er?"
As soon as the word Pei Wan'er came out, Si Xu paused while picking up the food and slowly put down his chopsticks.
He finally opened his eyes and looked at the woman, and suddenly realized: "Oh, you are Pei Wan'er's mother."
Huo Lingyin: "..." She complained to Jiang Ran in a very low voice, "No way, Si Xu just remembered now that this woman is Pei Wan'er's mother?"
Jiang Ran stretched out his hand: "You know, he has a bad memory." People with bad memory usually can't remember unimportant people.
Shi Yujiao had asked casually, but she didn't expect the young man to answer seriously. She was surprised: "Do you really know my Wan'er?"
"know."
"You...you are her colleague?"
"No." Si Xu said bluntly, "I'm her boss."
"Boss?" Shi Yujiao murmured after hearing from Pei Xiao what happened to Pei Wan'er at the Xiling base. "You, you are the person mentioned in Wan'er's diary?"
Pei Wan'er's diary was given to Pei Xiao by Su Qin. After Pei Xiao returned to the Dongchao base, he asked someone to pass it on to the Shi family.
The woman's eyes were filled with emotions, and she suddenly raised her voice: "You—you are the one Wan'er likes?!"
Huo Lingyin spat out a mouthful of tea. What had she heard? Pei Wan'er liked Si Xu? Was there some other melodramatic plot she didn't know about?
Si Xu didn't respond.
He was very confused. Why was it that except for himself, everyone else in the world seemed to care about the fact that Pei Wan'er liked him?
"It's you!" Shi Yujiao stood up with her hands on the table and stared at Si Xu. "You, you—Wan'er likes you so much, why didn't you protect her?!"
She thought of the diary she had carefully collected. It was the only memory left to her by her long-lost daughter. The diary recorded all the expectations and desires of the girl in her youth.
Although she didn't get a response in the end, she loved this man so much that she almost gave him her true heart.
She loved him so much, but he watched her die in front of him!
"You murderer!" Tears welled up in the woman's eyes, and she seemed to be emotionally broken. "You didn't save her! You are also a murderer! You killed her!"
Before she finished speaking, Jiang Ran raised his hand, and in a very casual manner, he poured the entire glass of red wine that had just been filled on his hand onto the woman's face.
"Eh?" The woman's scolding stopped abruptly as the cold wine poured down her face.
She stood there blankly, as if she had been stunned by the red wine.
Jiang Ran put down the cup, picked up the napkin and slowly wiped his fingers. He looked at the woman coldly and smiled slightly: "Ms. Shi, that glass of wine just now was a toast to you - for your rude words and inexplicable accusations against my boyfriend."
After saying that, she glanced at the equally stunned maid next to her and said softly, "Can't you see that Ms. Shi is dirty? Why don't you take her to clean up and change her clothes?"
(End of this chapter)
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