Chapter 289 Jiang Zhao's Conspiracy
In a secluded corner, Song Xiaoqin lowered her head, her body trembling slightly.
"I didn't have the chance to get in touch with Jiang Chen at all. They were watching me very closely."
She had been living with her aunt for almost half a month. During this time, she had always wanted to find Jiang Chen, but her aunt would not let her enter the yard. When she finally found a chance to run in, she was bitten by a wolf.
From then on, her aunt and the other two old women watched her even more closely, not giving her any chance at all.
The reason she was able to get away from her aunt today was because the dirty yard needed to be renovated and there were too many people coming in and out, so she found the opportunity to sneak out.
Song Xiaoqin secretly looked up and glanced at Jiang Zhao.
He had lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw him, and there were some bruises on his face. His jade-white face with flaws looked much closer.
Song Xiaoqin tried to negotiate with him: "School is about to start, can you return my admission letter to..."
Song Xiaoqin was violently interrupted before she could finish her words.
Jiang Zhao pinched her face hard, blocking the words from her mouth.
Because of the force, the veins on his forehead bulged slightly, making the gentleman's gentle face look particularly ferocious.
"I'll give you another ten days. If you can't seduce Jiang Chen, I'll sell you to the red-light district and let you experience what it means to live a life worse than death."
The gloomy voice was like cold water poured over Song Xiaoqin.
Jiang Zhao pushed her away in disgust and threw a small bag of medicine powder at Song Xiaoqin.
"With this, any man will become your slave, and Jiang Chen is no exception."
After he said that, he quickly left the gloomy corner.
Song Xiaoqin collapsed on the ground, holding the medicine bag, crying inconsolably.
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Zheng Zhiyuan was just about to go see Xiaorou when he ran into Jiang Chen on the way.
Jiang Chen hurried out with his fishing rod and bait.
Wang Guoqing was panting as he chased after him: "Stop right there, you little bastard!"
Jiang Chen continued walking, "My wife wants some fish soup. I'd like to borrow your fishing gear. Don't be so stingy."
"You don't know how to fish at all, don't ruin my fishing rod and bait!"
Wang Guoqing jumped up and down, chasing Jiang Chen, and yelled angrily, "Xiao Rou wants to drink fish soup, you can go buy some fish."
"No, my wife wants to drink the fish I caught myself." Jiang Chen refused coldly, stretched out his long legs, and walked faster.
The two people quickly disappeared from Zheng Zhiyuan's sight.
Zheng Zhiyuan frowned slightly, and with obvious confusion he went to the main building in the inner courtyard and went straight to the second floor.
He stood outside the bedroom and knocked gently on the door.
"Xiaorou, can I come in?"
Ye Rou recognized her grandfather's voice and said quickly, "Okay."
Zheng Zhiyuan pushed open the door and walked into the room, and saw the scene in front of him.
Ye Rou stood in front of the window, wearing a colorful woven shawl with thin shoulders. After a serious illness, she looked much duller. Her fair little face was made even whiter by her thick black hair, making her look particularly sickly and weak.
What surprised Zheng Zhiyuan even more was the confusion in Ye Rou's eyes.
"You've just recovered from your illness, why are you getting out of bed?" Zheng Zhiyuan walked over with a cane.
Ye Rou stared at her grandfather's legs and asked with concern, "Grandpa, is your knee hurting again?"
Zheng Zhiyuan waved his hand. "It's an old ailment. It's nothing serious. Besides, the Chinese medicine you prescribed has already alleviated it a lot."
Ye Rou helped her grandfather sit down on the chair.
Zheng Zhiyuan put away his crutches and rubbed his knees which were sore from climbing the stairs.
Seeing that he was in pain, Ye Rou disapproved, "I'm fine now. It's you who's taking the stairs because your knees are hurting."
Zheng Zhiyuan looked at Ye Rou and asked her, "Why are you still bothering Jiang Chen now that you've recovered?"
Ye Rou was slightly stunned, "How did you know?"
"I met him on the way here." Zheng Zhiyuan figured something was wrong when he heard Jiang Chen say that it was Ye Rou who asked him to go fishing.
Xiao Rou was the most attentive. She knew that Jiang Chen couldn't sit still and was very impatient with fishing, so she specifically asked for fish soup and wanted the fish to be caught by Jiang Chen himself. This was not in line with Ye Rou's usual style.
Zheng Zhiyuan has a wise vision and is full of tolerance.
Ye Rou sat down next to her grandfather and gave him a faint smile.
"I just tormented him on purpose."
Seeing Xiaorou admit it frankly, her delicate nose wrinkled slightly because of anger, losing her usual calmness and gentleness, and she looked more like a little girl of her age, with a bit of childishness in her mind.
Zheng Zhiyuan was so soft-hearted.
"Why, did you have a fight?" He suddenly thought of something and changed the subject, his tone suddenly becoming stern.
"Is your fever this time related to him?"
Zheng Zhiyuan's gaze was like an eagle's. Ye Rou felt guilty when he looked at her. She turned her head away and said, "I just knew something that Jiang Chen didn't want me to know."
She told her grandfather the whole story.
Ye Rou originally wanted to tell her grandfather and ask him for some advice, but after she finished speaking, she saw her grandfather's face turned red with anger, and he stood up from the chair, no longer looking like the elegant gentleman he used to be.
"He doesn't want to have a child with you, so he asked Old Liu to seal his meridians and kept lying to you that he couldn't have children?"
Seeing that grandpa was like a hot air balloon, about to fly into the sky after being ignited, Ye Rou hurried to cool him down.
"Grandpa, calm down, calm down."
"I'm going to beat that brat to death!"
Zheng Zhiyuan picked up his cane and waved it, completely changing his previous frail appearance.
Seeing that the situation was getting more serious, Ye Rou was afraid that her grandfather would really beat Jiang Chen. She rolled her eyes, covered her chest and started coughing, pretending to be sick.
"Grandpa, cough cough, cough cough, don't be angry, cough cough cough cough..."
"Xiao Rou." Zheng Zhiyuan calmed down and looked at Ye Rou worriedly. "Isn't your fever gone? Why are you coughing again?"
Ye Rou pinched her voice to a shrill tone, pretending to be weak, and said, "Illness comes like a mountain falling, and goes away like a thread being pulled out."
Zheng Zhiyuan didn't care to be angry, and said distressedly: "I bought a hundred-year-old ginseng by chance a while ago, but I thought it was useless to me, so I gave it to Lao Liu. Wait, I'm coming back now and making soup for you."
"!" Ye Rou knew that ginseng.
The master loves to drink, and he says that what he drinks is medicinal wine that he made himself, which is harmless to the body, and he drinks it endlessly.
After Ye Rou raided her master's wine cellar, she found a bottle of medicinal wine soaked in old ginseng.
Now these medicinal wines and the gold are kept in the basement of the villa.
Grandpa hated drinking and drunk people. If he knew that Master had made medicinal wine with ginseng, he would have been furious.
Ye Rou quickly pulled her grandfather aside, pretending to calm down a bit and said, "Ginseng is very nutritious. I already have a fever and can't eat ginseng."
Zheng Zhiyuan looked a little disappointed, as he had thought that the ginseng could help Xiaorou.
He sighed, looked at Xiaorou, and suddenly asked, "What are you going to do about your relationship with Jiang Chen?"
Ye Rou shook her head.
She actually hadn't thought it through.
She got angry when she thought about how Jiang Chen had kept it a secret from her for so long, and watched her frantically worry about his illness without telling her.
But Jiang Chen's tears made her heart soften.
A cold breeze blew in from the half-open window. Ye Rou gathered her shawl around her body, wrinkled her face and shook her head.
Seeing her lonely and confused expression, Zheng Zhiyuan sighed.
"I bought a yard in Jing City, not far from here. It will be convenient for you to go to A University in the future. It's in your name, and it's almost ready. If you want to separate from him temporarily, grandpa will move in with you."
Ye Rou was at a loss whether to laugh or cry when she heard this.
"Grandpa, are you encouraging Jiang Chen and I to separate?"
Zheng Zhiyuan spoke in an extremely earnest tone.
"I just want to give you some confidence. You don't have to worry about falling out with Jiang Chen. You have a place to stay."
Ye Rou smiled and said, "If it really comes to that, Jiang Chen will be the one to move out, because this yard is in my name."
Zheng Zhiyuan noticed something and suddenly asked, "Don't you want to make this a big deal?"
Ye Rou nodded.
"Why?" Zheng Zhiyuan was really confused.
Ye Rou said as a matter of course: "Jiang Chen doesn't know that I know about this yet. I want to take this opportunity to give him a good beating."
Zheng Zhiyuan not only understood the tongue twister but also grasped the key points.
"What happens after this?"
Ye Rou said casually: "Talk to him and make him realize that this is wrong."
"that's all?"
Zheng Zhiyuan's face was filled with obvious surprise.
Seeing her grandfather's disapproval, Ye Rou humbly asked, "What else can we do?"
Zheng Zhiyuan immediately said, "You should ask him to change and stop being so overbearing and domineering."
Zheng Zhiyuan saw how Ye Rou and Jiang Chen were getting along. Jiang Chen's strong possessiveness and desire to control Xiao Rou had long displeased Zheng Zhiyuan. Now that he had found an opportunity, he immediately began to persuade Ye Rou.
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