Chapter 277, Return Gift
Pei Xiao, who was standing by the table, glanced at the contents of the document. His mouth twitched as he comforted his father: "Dad, just let them handle this kind of thing on their own. You don't have to worry about it."
"I don't need to worry about it?" Pei Qing looked up at his son, angrily, "If Si Xu gets angry and kills them all, who will be responsible?"
Pei Xiao didn't care: "Si Xu is not a fool. He knows how to deal with this kind of thing. Even if he kills someone, if the Shi family comes to find us, we should tell the truth."
Tell the truth? Did he mean to let the Shi family cause trouble for Si Xu?
Pei Qing glanced at him and said, "Aren't you allied with him? Why don't you consider your ally at all?"
Pei Xiao curled his lips and said, "If we can't even deal with the Shi family, what's the point of our alliance?"
He was confident that Si Xu could solve the trouble caused by the Shi family.
Just like what Jiang Ran often said - in the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are useless.
He said it naturally, and it sounded like he had thrown aside the friendship of the alliance, but it was obviously because of trust and he was too lazy to waste time.
Pei Qing threw the Shi family's information to him, stood up and stretched. "You've been hanging around for so long, it's time to focus on your work. I'll leave the Shi family's affairs to you."
Pei Xiao was indifferent: "I understand, Dad."
When he came out of the study, he happened to meet the Huo family's aunt and nephew who were returning from a walk. Pei Xiao stepped aside and said, "Mom, it looks like it will rain tonight. Remember to close the windows when you go to bed."
Huo Zhigui smiled and touched the top of his head: "I see. How come you're even more talkative than Xiao Lai?"
She glanced at the documents tucked under his arm, showing a rare interest in his work: "Did your dad give you a job?"
"Yeah." He rarely talked about work with Huo Zhijue, but since the incident tonight concerned Si Xu, he simply said, "Someone attacked Professor Si and Jiang Ran. My father asked me to deal with it."
His face suddenly turned pale. Huo Zhigui subconsciously grabbed Pei Xiao's arm and asked anxiously, "Are they both okay?"
If you listen carefully, you can hear the suppressed trembling in the voice.
Pei Xiao seemed to have not noticed his mother's unusual behavior and shook his head: "I'm not hurt. Dad was just worried that those people would come again, so he asked me to keep an eye on them from the dark and make sure they don't cause any trouble."
Hearing that the two were unharmed, Huo Zhigui breathed a sigh of relief and forced a smile: "Is that so? Go ahead and get busy."
She straightened her son's clothes and gently reminded him, "Come back early to rest after you've dealt with this. Don't stay up late, okay?"
Pei Xiao nodded, winked at Huo Lingyin, and walked around the two of them and went downstairs.
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Although the psychic who was sent out returned safely, the news he brought back was like a bolt from the blue to her.
Shi Yujiao walked around the room anxiously twice. Seeing that the sky outside was gloomy and it seemed that a heavy rain was coming, she hesitated for a long time, but still ran out of the room to find her brother.
Shi Yuji had drunk some wine and had already fallen asleep, but was woken up by his sister in a daze. After listening to her incoherent account of what happened that night, he immediately sobered up.
He stared at Shi Yujiao, who was about to cry but had no tears. After a while, he squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "You arranged for someone to attack those two people?"
Shi Yujiao burst into tears after being yelled at. "Didn't you say he was just a space-based psychic? I thought, let's just kill him and destroy the body, and no one will know..."
"Nonsense!" Shi Yuji pounded the bed, angrily saying, "This is the Dongchao base! Not Zhaoyang! Do you think what you do here can escape Pei Qing's eyes?"
"Brother Qing, are you going to make me pay with my life for two outsiders?" Shi Yujiao retorted, then sobbed twice, "Brother, didn't you hear what Brother Qing said? He wants to cooperate with that man - if that happens, what will happen to our Shi family?"
"You're doing this for the Shi family?" Shi Yuji sneered, unmoved by her sister's tears. "You're doing this for Wan'er, right?"
He knew that she wanted to avenge Pei Wan'er, but he didn't expect her to choose such a stupid way.
When Wan'er's name came out of her brother's mouth, the woman's tears stopped instantly.
Her hands tightly grasped the corners of her clothes, her face twisted with hatred: "Wan'er is dead, how could that man still be alive and dare to appear in front of me with another woman! He should be buried with Wan'er! He deserves to die!"
"Snap!" With a crisp sound, Shi Yuzhi slapped her sister, whose face was distorted, to the ground.
"Wan'er is dead." He looked at his sister who was covering her face and remained silent, and said word by word, "Even if you killed that man, she would not come back to life."
Shi Yujiao is the youngest of five siblings. She was spoiled by her brothers since she was a child and developed a spoiled and unyielding temperament.
Back then, for Pei Qing, she bribed the Pei family's servants to cause Huo Zhigui to have a miscarriage. Although they did not approve of their sister's actions, no one stood up to blame her because she was crazy about love and could not get it.
After losing Pei Wan'er, she became much quieter and was no longer as paranoid and willful as before.
He thought that the pain of losing her daughter had made her realize her mistakes and help her grow up, but he didn't expect that she hadn't changed at all - for the sake of a daughter who had been separated from her for many years, she abandoned her plan and rashly sent people to attack Si Xu!
It would have been fine if she succeeded, but she failed. It would have been fine if she failed, but she actually let the other party know that it was her doing!
Idiot! Idiot!
"You are Wan'er's mother, and that man is Wan'er's lover. If Wan'er knew that her mother was determined to kill the person she loved..." The man sighed at his sister's stunned look. "What do you think Wan'er would think?"
Shi Yujiao was a little dazed after being slapped, but after hearing this, she gritted her teeth and said, "He is Wan'er's lover. If I send her lover down to accompany her, she will only feel happy!"
There's no hope! Shi Yuji endured it and didn't slap him a second time.
"Did you do it?" Unable to persuade him, he simply said directly, "Did you kill that man? You didn't! Not only did you not do it, you also exposed yourself! You idiot!"
"You said he was just a space-based psychic, so I..."
She was an ordinary person and could not tell the type and level of the psychic. She only remembered her brother saying that the man was a space-type person with no combat ability, and the girl was an ordinary person like her. That's why she thought of killing her to silence her.
"That's enough!" Not wanting to continue shirking responsibility with her, Shi Yuji stood up and said, "Call a taxi. We need to leave the Dongchao base immediately!"
"Leave?" Shi Yujiao's eyes widened. "Why should I leave?!" Her lover is here, her enemy is here too, why should she leave?!
"Didn't you listen to what they said?" Shi Yuji said angrily. "Professor Si's ability level is unknown. He already knows that it was our Shi family who did it. Do you think he will let it go?!"
Shi Yujiao: "..."
After being pulled by her brother for two steps, she shook his hand off and said angrily: "What are you afraid of?! There are so many people with special abilities guarding the courtyard, do they dare to come to our door--"
"boom--!!!"
Before the woman finished her words, a loud bang was heard outside the house, followed by flying wood chips and bricks, and flames shot up into the sky.
"Hello~" The girl's voice spread through the loudspeaker to every corner of the villa, "Excuse me, do the Shi family live here? I'm here to return the gift~"
(End of this chapter)
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