Chapter 299 You're happy even though you're disfigured? You're sick in the head.
Yao Qingling pretended to think for a moment, then put on a stern face and shoved Sheng Dahe away: "With a brain like yours, you're giving me bad advice?"
"You're so afraid he'll sell you out, but now you're just offering me up to him in exchange for your safety. Sheng Dahe, you're something else—"
Sheng Dahe: "Qingling, please don't! This isn't something that can be done—"
"Alright, I'm not talking to you anymore, it's bad luck." Yao Qingling flung her hand away, angrily walked onto the deck, and went ashore.
Sheng Dahe turned his head and put his hands on his hips at Lin Shiyuan: "I saw it, my sister would rather die than submit. If you try to take advantage of her, watch out for my knife!"
He patted the long sword at his waist, making a loud clapping sound.
Lin Shiyuan glanced at him disdainfully, then walked away with a mocking smile.
They completely ignored his threats.
Sheng Dahe turned his neck in the direction he was walking: "Hey, one or two of them, they don't even respect me."
He stroked his chin and muttered, "I still can't shave this beard. Saying I'm not beardy enough to scare people, especially with Yao Qingling..."
On the shore, Yao Qingling sat in the carriage, which was about to depart.
When Lin Shiyuan arrived at the carriage, the driver had to stop.
Lin Shiyuan knocked on the carriage, and Yao Qingling lifted the curtain, her eyes darting around warily.
But judging from Lin Shiyuan's treacherous image, it's clear he's "persecuting her," relentlessly pursuing her.
Yao Qingling then adopted a haughty attitude and snorted, "Why are you here? Don't tell me you just happened to be passing by. The dock isn't your territory."
Lin Shiyuan laughed: "How is the dock not my territory?"
The Ministry of War has a wide jurisdiction, and the docks are important transportation routes. He can easily find a pretext to send people to seal off the docks.
Yao Qingling pursed her lips and quickly pulled the curtain down.
Lin Shiyuan lifted the curtain and looked inside: "Are you angry?"
Yao Qingling snorted; "Why would I be angry? You're an adult, and I'm just a little girl."
"This young lady and I worked together perfectly; weren't we just putting on an act a moment ago?"
Yao Qingling glared at him: "Who said I was acting? I just didn't want to..."
Before she could finish speaking, Lin Shiyuan lowered the curtain, and upon hearing the noise, he left.
Yao Qingling was furious.
Ha, either he doesn't show up for several days, or when he does, he comes to annoy her.
Yao Qingling gripped the handkerchief so tightly it was almost torn to shreds.
Suddenly, the carriage sped off, and Yao Qingling seemed to hear a man shout, "Giddy up!"
There were also sounds that seemed to be the coachman calling out "Hey, hey!"
Yao Qingling sensed something was wrong, so she lifted the curtain and looked outside. She saw that the person sitting on the carriage floor driving the carriage was none other than Lin Shiyuan.
"Where is my driver?!"
In her haste, Yao Qingling lifted the curtain again and looked back. She saw her coachman chasing after her, but at the speed of the carriage, he couldn't catch up at all.
"Lin Shiyuan, you...you're being a pervert!"
Lin Shiyuan, looking like a rogue and powerful official, was as smug as a bandit who had stolen a woman. He drove the carriage away at breakneck speed, leaving Yao Qingling inside shouting and cursing, giving the dockworkers plenty of entertainment.
The carriage headed straight for the Marquis's residence. When they arrived at the gate, he didn't try to hide anything and, in front of so many people on the street, carried Yao Qingling out of the carriage and into the Marquis's residence.
He didn't care when Yao Qingling kicked and hit him.
Once the door was closed, it blocked the prying eyes of others.
Lin Shiyuan put Yao Qingling down.
As soon as Qingling landed, she strode towards Mulan Courtyard.
Hearing the commotion, Madam You ran out to see what was happening. She was stunned to see a large man suddenly appear in her house: "You—"
Lin Shiyuan stood with one hand in front and the other behind, exuding an air of grandeur, yet his treacherous nature remained unchanged.
The gatekeeper whispered in Madam You's ear, explaining Lin Shiyuan's identity, and then said, "Minister Lin carried the young lady back."
Lin Shiyuan simply bowed to Madam You and said that he wanted to marry Yao Qingling. He would bring a matchmaker to propose marriage on a chosen day, and then he left.
"..." Madam You stared wide-eyed, mouth agape, unable to react for a long time.
Later, she heard that Lin Shiyuan, relying on his power, had taken liberties with Yao Qingling and wanted to marry her to wash away his shame.
That's a story for another time.
But as soon as Lin Shiyuan left the front gate of the Marquis's mansion, he went around to the back gate, checked that no one was around, and then leaped into the Mulan Courtyard.
At this moment, Qingling was sitting in the courtyard, holding Zhao'er and playing with a rattle drum.
Without even looking up, she said calmly, "Are you a weasel? Sneaking around like that."
Lin Shiyuan walked up to her with his hands behind his back and sat down on the chair next to her: "I didn't just bring you into the Marquis's mansion in broad daylight to fulfill your legitimate dream."
Yao Qingling remained silent, glaring at him sideways. Lin Shiyuan touched his nose and changed his words: "Fulfill my dream of having a beautiful woman in my arms in a perfectly legitimate way."
Yao Qingling then let him go.
The man reached out, took the child, and also took the rattle drum.
Knock knock knock.
He knocked louder and faster than Yao Qingling.
The little guy stretched out his chubby little hands and cried out, trying to grab it.
Lin Shiyuan taught him to play the drum, but Zhao'er played it incorrectly, became impatient, and lost his temper.
The rattle drum struck Lin Shiyuan's forehead with a loud thud.
The child didn't know his own strength and hit him hard. Even the man, who was used to pain, winced in pain.
Yao Qingling quickly picked up the child and looked down at his forehead, where the skin was scraped and blood was seeping out.
"Zhao'er, you can't hit people, do you understand?" Qingling scolded the child and called the wet nurse over.
At this moment, He Yin also brought over the plaster.
Yao Qingling applied some medicine to the man's forehead with her fingertips: "You're disfigured."
The man looked at her with a slight smile: "You're disgusted?"
Yao Qingling: "You're happy even though you're disfigured? You're sick in the head."
Lin Shiyuan took her wrist and said, "It's not that I didn't want to come these days, it's just..." He frowned slightly, "It's just that we're stuck on that matter, and I'm afraid that the more we meet, the colder we'll become."
Yao Qingling glared at him with displeasure: "So, you think everyone should calm down and think about what to do next?"
Lin Shiyuan held her in his arms, resting his chin on her shoulder, his arms tightly around her as if afraid she would run away.
A deep, magnetic voice sounded in her ear: "Yao Qingling, you know, I can't live without you in this life. Neither of us wants to give up everything we've worked so hard for, but in the face of power, we need to find a suitable way to keep us together forever."
Yao Qingling's throat tightened, and a bitter feeling welled up in her heart for no reason.
She misses him terribly these past few days.
Only by constantly finding things to do can I stop thinking about whether he feels that their path has come to an end and it's time to go their separate ways.
She sniffed, her voice slightly choked: "So now, you've figured it out?"
When he suddenly appeared at the dock and, in the manner of a sycophant, declared his intention to marry her, Qingling understood his purpose.
Therefore, by cooperating with him, she could also make Sheng Dahe lower his guard and not regard him as an enemy.
It was rare for Lin Shiyuan to see her cry, and he was heartbroken because of their relationship. He felt both sorry for her and touched.
He was also restless, wishing he could immediately go to the palace to ask the emperor to issue an imperial decree to grant him a marriage, leaving behind all those beautiful women.
In the past few days, many officials have sent him invitations and invited him to banquets to celebrate his promotion. As Lin Shiyuan is new to officialdom, these are social obligations he cannot refuse.
The intentions of these officials who sent their wives' sisters, daughters, and even girls from their relatives to him were all too clear.
Yao Qingling is well-informed; how could she not know?
She was clearly sad, but she suppressed it and refused to show it.
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