Chapter 709: Strategy for the Blind Villain (5)
The night was dark.
Shi Yiben had no intention of sleeping and had come out to relax. She was walking aimlessly on the path in the yard when she saw her father talking to a man in a cloak by the pond in front of her.
She could not hear what they were saying from a certain distance, but from their body movements, she could tell that her father's attitude was more intense, while the man in the cloak was more calm.
She had been keeping her eyes on the two of them, but she did not notice that there was a young man squatting in the bushes not far behind them.
"Why did you do that?" Master Qu looked at the bright face under the cloak, feeling anxious and angry.
"I was wrong at the beginning. Mingzhu, I'm thirty-four and still single. I really want the child back to me."
"The child is already fourteen, and he lives well in the mansion. If he goes back with you, how will he deal with his identity, and how will you explain it to the outside world?" Master Qu patted his thigh, "You can't act on impulse."
"I'm not acting on impulse. Everything I do now is carefully considered. I promise that I will solve all your worries."
"No!" Master Qu's attitude was still firm, "He is a person in my mansion now, and Shiyi has always taken good care of him. When he has a few years, I will find him a daughter from an honest family, and he will live a peaceful life. I absolutely don't agree with you using him as a bargaining chip."
"Mingzhu!" The woman's voice was pleading, "I'm thirty-four years old. How many good years can a woman have in her life? I have wasted so many years for that man, and now I just want him to give the child a reward, is that not enough?! I won't let the child threaten any status of Lu'er. You and I have been the closest since we were young, and you have devoted all your life to him. Can you understand me and the heart of a mother, please?"
"Wanhua, it's not that I don't understand you. It's just that it's not appropriate to create unnecessary trouble at this time. The child is already grown up, why bother disrupting his life rhythm at this time." Master Qu Wangyue sighed heavily, "I know that man has let you down and the child, but that person has a special identity. You and I both know that the child's identity cannot be made public." The
woman sobbed, "I knew you still disliked me in your heart. But don't you think about my situation at the time? My father didn't love me, and my mother didn't love me. Only he was always good to me. At the age of falling in love, how could I care about so many things."
"Wanhua. That's not what I meant." Master Qu felt speechless. He lowered his voice and explained, "I just feel that life is already very smooth now. You don't need to take the risk and dig up these old things. It's not good for you, and it's not good for that person either."
"You are still worried about him in your heart. Who is it not good for?" The woman said jokingly, "It seems that it's the worst for me. I have been a widow since I got married. For so many years, have you ever cared about me? Has he ever asked me a question? You have all forgotten me."
With a plop, something fell into the pond. Master Qu and the cloaked woman both looked in the direction of the sound, but saw nothing except a dark bush. At this time, a frog jumped from the pond to where they were standing, and they both breathed a sigh of relief.
"Okay, okay, we have said enough tonight. You can go back first." Master Qu touched his sweaty forehead.
His conversation tonight was private. If someone else heard it, it would inevitably lead to other things.
"I know you don't want to help me. But I won't give up. He owes me so much, it's time for him to pay me back." The woman wrapped her cloak tightly and hurriedly turned to the small door on the side.
After the two of them finished talking, Shiyi crouched and returned to his room.
There was no sound of talking or breathing around him. Qu Jingrong, who was hiding in the bushes, changed his posture and sat on the ground, thinking about what he had heard before.
"Fourteen years old", "reward", "inexplicable identity", no matter how you think about it, it has something to do with him.
Who is this thirty-four-year-old woman whose maiden name is "Wanhua"?
From what Qu Mingzhu said, he didn't seem to be his biological son. Then whose son is he?
After the moon in the sky floated in the night sky for a long time, until it was hidden in the dark clouds, he crawled out of the bushes little by little.
Thinking of the piece of wood that fell into the water, he didn't know how to explain it to Qu Shiyi for a while. After
sending the cloaked woman away, Qu Taifu did not go back to his yard directly, but came to his daughter's boudoir.
He suspected that the noise just now was caused by his daughter.
In this mansion, she was the only idle person who didn't sleep late at night.
He stood outside the door, but didn't knock.
Now that he was going in, what was he going to say to his daughter? It seemed like ten days had passed since he last spoke to his daughter.
The older his daughter was, the less he, as a father, understood her.
That's all. Just assume that the noise just now was really made by her, and it didn't matter if she heard their conversation. How much could she, a little girl, understand?
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At dawn, Shi Yi, who had been tossing and turning in bed all night and couldn't fall asleep, got up immediately to dress up.
She had made an appointment with her best friend, the eldest lady of the Marquis's Mansion, Bai Yuer, to visit the newly opened flower and bird market today.
When she arrived at the place she had agreed to meet with Bai Yuer, she was a little disappointed.
This so-called flower and bird market was too simple. There were a few birds in a few cages, and a few pots of flowers were placed in a mess. It didn't look good at all.
Bai Yuer saw through her heart at a glance and joked, "This is only the first day of the new opening, and it's so early, you are too anxious."
"I asked you out today just to go shopping with you and pick up some things you like to take back. How can I not be disappointed with this scene now?"
Shi Yi sighed, which made Bai Yuer laugh, "You, those who know you know that you are a rich lady. Those who don't know you think you are a young wife who worries about everything."
"I am a young wife." Shi Yi was just talking nonsense when a man in white suddenly stepped on her instep. She had a bad temper and couldn't stand it for a minute, so she grabbed his wrist, "Hey, you, why are you so annoying? You don't want to take the wide road, but you have to squeeze in here with me."
"Let go, let go. Our master is not someone you can touch with your dirty hands." The man in black with a sharp voice reached out to hit her hand, which made her even more angry.
"You two, master and servant, one wearing white and the other wearing black, are you playing the Black and White Impermanence? You stepped on me, you must apologize to me!"
"Bah!"
(End of this chapter)
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