Chapter 284, Just the Beginning
After Huo Lingyin asked the question, Jiang Ran fell into a long silence.
Thinking that his question had embarrassed the girl, Huo Lingyin let go of her, patted her shoulder generously, and smiled: "It's okay if it's not convenient to answer. Anyway, based on your reaction, I know what the answer is."
"no……"
"Hmm?" No? Did she guess wrong? That shouldn't be the case.
"I'm not criticizing you, but I thought you'd have figured out something so obvious a long time ago. Turns out you didn't know." Jiang Ran finished her words in one breath. "They look so similar, how could you not see that?"
Huo Lingyin: "...could you please stop panting when you talk?"
After receiving a positive answer, she ruffled her hair in annoyance: "So, Si Xu is the child of my aunt and her first love?"
"What else?"
"No wonder you specifically asked me about my aunt when we were at Beichen Base." Huo Lingyin suddenly realized, "Si Xu...is he also an enemy of our Huo family?"
"Ah? With the Huo family?"
"After all, you also said that his father's death was closely related to our Huo family."
In order to make Huo Zhigui give up, Mr. Huo used some shameful means.
Her father said that her aunt's lover was very young when he died.
If Mr. Huo had not intervened, Huo Zhigui would not have been separated from his lover, and Si Xu would have had loving parents and a happy childhood.
What he went through could have been avoided.
"Ah." Jiang Ran uttered a single sound and subconsciously asked, "Do you think Si Xu took those things to heart?"
If Si Xu really regarded the Huo family as enemies, he would not have helped the Huo family survive the disaster at Beichen Base.
"Si Xu is very generous about some things." Or in other words, he doesn't care.
Parents, relatives... When he needed these people the most, no one showed up for him, and he went through the most difficult period alone.
If you have never owned something, you can't even talk about losing it, so why would you care about it?
"You tell someone who has never tasted sweet that sugar is the most delicious food in the world, and the children who have eaten it all say it's sweet...isn't that ridiculous?"
That being said...
Huo Lingyin sighed: "I see how my aunt treats him..."
The reason she noticed the relationship between Huo Zhiju and Si Xu was mainly because Huo Zhiju's behavior had been too strange since Si Xu appeared.
"She must care about Si Xu very much." Huo Lingyin said, "She loves Si Xu's father very much."
"..." Jiang Ran remained noncommittal about Huo Lingyin's words and said, "Are you done asking? Now can we go downstairs?"
Huo Lingyin was still lost in thought about Si Xu and Huo Zhijue's relationship. When she heard Jiang Ran's unromantic question, she rolled her eyes and said, "Go ahead. I won't stop you."
Jiang Ran snorted and continued to go downstairs.
Huo Zhigui followed behind her, patting his chest as if recalling something terrifying. "Fortunately, when we first met, I didn't really do anything to Si Xu, otherwise..."
Si Xu is Huo Zhigui's son, and like Pei Xiao, she is also his cousin...
"Yeah, luckily you controlled your lust, otherwise you would be doomed." Jiang Ran laughed at her unkindly.
“…” That’s right, I almost did something messy to my cousin.
…
Huo Zhigui was waiting downstairs. When she didn't see Si Xu, she breathed a sigh of relief but couldn't hide her disappointment.
Huo Lingyin and Jiang Ran were both wise enough not to reveal the woman's thoughts.
The three women strolled for a while under the scorching summer sun, but soon lost interest.
Huo Lingyin found a shady place to squat down and refused to leave no matter what.
"No, I'm going to get tanned." The woman stroked her arm, heartbroken, "It's already tanned! Jiang Ran, do you know how difficult it is to maintain your appearance in the apocalypse?"
"I don't know." Jiang Ran imitated Si Xu's tone of voice, "Si Xu has a lot of skin care products collected in his space. I think I will never finish using them all."
Huo Lingyin felt hurt: "Jiang Ran! You've gone too far!"
She rushed towards Jiang Ran angrily and pushed him into the sun: "I should have been cruel and hung you on the city wall to bask in the sun too!"
"Believe me, I'll hang you up first." Jiang Ran smiled, "Don't forget, I beat Si Nian with my bare hands."
Hearing the name again, the gentle smile on Huo Zhigui's face disappeared, and the hands hanging by his side tightened unconsciously.
That woman... She could understand that she was targeting the Huo family, but why did she plot against Si Xu and Jiang Ran?
Didn't she know that Si Xu was her only relative in this world? And Jiang Ran, Jiang Ran was her eldest brother's daughter, she...
What is she planning?
…
Watching the two girls playing and fighting, Huo Zhigui waited for a moment and said helplessly, "Since you're tired from shopping, let's find a place to rest for a while, okay?"
Huo Lingyin fanned herself with her hands. "Okay, how about we go back to the manor for tea?"
"Are you going back now?" Jiang Ran reminded her, "Aren't you going to take me somewhere?"
Huo Lingyin had long lost interest: "Let's go tonight. It's so hot now, you won't be interested. Besides, Si Xu is not here. I'm afraid he'll beat you up if I take you alone."
Jiang Ran immediately concluded that she was not going to a good place.
…
Back at the Pei residence, Huo Zhijue instructed Xiao Lai to make tea, then took out a box of snacks and handed it to Huo Lingyin: "Xiao'er forgot to bring it when he went out this morning. Lingyin, could you please help me deliver it to him?"
"Ah?" Huo Lingyin, who finally leaned on the sofa to catch her breath, subconsciously wanted to refuse, "Why..." Why did she have to go? Aren't there so many idle servants!
Jiang Ran kicked her and said, "Miss Huo, it's time to show your brotherly love. Go quickly."
Huo Lingyin realized it belatedly: "Uh... okay."
Huo Zhigui obviously just wanted to find an excuse to get her away and talk to Jiang Ran alone, probably because of Si Xu's matter.
She took the box and sighed: "Aunt, please don't blame me if I finish the snacks on the way."
Huo Zhijue chuckled and stroked her hair: "Go ahead, please."
…
As soon as Huo Lingyin left, Xiao Lai came over with brewed tea.
"Xiao Lai, go wash some fruit." Huo Zhigui found an excuse to send the maid away, then looked at Jiang Ran and asked, "Have you met Si Nian?"
She got straight to the point, and Jiang Ran didn't beat around the bush: "I've met him, and we even had a fight."
"Next time you see that woman, stay away from her." Huo Zhijue frowned. "That woman is a lunatic."
Huh? Huo Zhiju is quite hostile towards Si Nian. Why?
Without getting a response from Jiang Ran, Huo Zhi was afraid that she would doubt her words, so she asked in a deep voice: "She likes your father, did you know that?"
Jiang Ran nodded: "I know."
"She liked Big Brother, but Big Brother didn't like her, so she made up a dream for herself. In the dream, Big Brother and she were in love. Even though Big Brother was already married to Sister Mu Xin, she could still comfort herself by saying that Big Brother was forced to leave her by the Shen family..." Thinking of that woman's crazy love, Huo Zhigui smiled bitterly. "She always said that. She said it so often that even when others didn't believe it, she started to believe it first."
Jiang Ran remembered the story Jiang Suxin told her - it seemed that what she had said that day was correct, that woman was just a poor creature immersed in her own fantasy world.
(End of this chapter)
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