Chapter 16 Chapter 16 Wife and Daughter-in-law
"But it's okay to scare them occasionally." Qin Sheng thought thoughtfully.
"Just listen to what I'm saying, don't mess around. What if something really happens?"
Xu Zhaoyi didn't feel comfortable analyzing the pros and cons too clearly. If he simply died, at least he and the Qin family would both suffer losses. But if he was simply injured and caused the Qin family to have a false alarm, it would be a loss of 8,000 to himself while hurting the enemy by 300. It was somewhat unprofitable.
"Do I look that stupid?" Qin Sheng explained with a smile, "I just think this is a way to contain the Qin family when necessary. I won't do anything rash. I will definitely discuss this with you if anything happens."
"Yeah." Xu Zhaoyi finally felt relieved, thinking that Qin Sheng was indeed a bit overly cautious, so he was worrying too much.
The guards outside the manor increased their patrols, and the rest of the day passed safely. By evening, the Qin family had discovered the details of the escaped Gu Master.
After Qin Kangnian read the investigation results, he specially sent a copy to Qin Sheng. It turned out that the Gu Master was indeed the work of the Xu family.
Xu Zhaoyi's fifth uncle, Xu Wenbai, was hired through a middleman named Feng Lili. The other branches of the Xu family were afraid of the Qin family and did not dare to interfere, but they all acquiesced and did not stop it.
However, these noodles had already been investigated and the information they collected was much more comprehensive than theirs, including the fact that the Gu Master was actually from Southeast Asia, where his ancestral home was, the hospital where he was born, and even a copy of his birth certificate with the footprint print.
Originally, according to Old Master Qin, the brothers of the Xu family could all be killed. No matter who their real target was, their decision to send a Gu Master to the manor to cause trouble clearly meant they didn't want Qin Sheng to live.
Even if we don't mention Qin Sheng's specialness, just saying that they dared to drag the eldest son of the Qin family head to be buried with him in order to resolve their own internal grievances, this was a slap in the face of the Qin family, and their deaths were not unjust.
However, Qin Kangnian thought about it again and again and decided not to act rashly.
It's not that he intends to let them go, but if the Xu family is massacred today, no matter from which perspective, the engagement party of Qin Sheng and Xu Zhaoyi will have to be postponed.
It's impossible that the Xu family is in a state of bloodshed and the uncles' bodies haven't been buried yet, while the nephew is getting engaged with all the fanfare. Outsiders who don't know the truth will definitely stab them in the back and add to their bad luck.
Unless the grudge is made public, that would be equivalent to admitting that it was the Qin family that destroyed the Xu family. Although the Xu family was the first to commit evil, they did not succeed after all. The Qin family was too ruthless, and people's hearts are like this. Regardless of whether they are right or wrong, they can easily cause fear in the weak.
Moreover, they cannot completely ignore the opinions of the officials. This world is no longer a place where practitioners can act with impunity.
But once the wedding was postponed, Qin Sheng would make a fuss.
So after sending him the investigation results, I specifically explained to him that everything should be discussed after the engagement party. His family knew that he had been wronged, and they would listen to him on how to deal with it.
Qin Sheng handed the phone to Xu Zhaoyi. Xu Zhaoyi read it quickly and had no opinion, but he was shocked. To be honest, if he didn't know the truth about the soul sacrifice, who would not be confused when faced with such unconditional preference of the family?
These are biological parents, naturally close.
Xu Zhaoyi inevitably thought of his parents. Although he lost his father at a young age, he remembered that his parents loved him very much. The strict father and the kind mother were two completely different experiences from the almost flattering indulgence that Qin Kangnian and his wife showed to Qin Sheng.
The next day, the Qin family actually sent Qin An to pick him up in person. Xu Zhaoyi noticed at a glance that the pretended respect on the butler Qin's face was much more genuine this time.
He was right. Qin An really didn't expect that Qin Sheng's safety was just threatened. Not to mention that he was not even scratched, the Gu Master was discovered and escaped before he even entered the manor. The news would cause such a big shock in the Qin family.
Especially the old man. They have been master and servant for many years. No matter how you look at it, his master should not be a kind old man who dotes on his grandson. Qin Sheng is destined to have no future. The last time he went home, he offended the old man in public for a man. In his opinion, any junior of the Qin family is more worthy of training than Qin Sheng.
I don’t know what kind of magic potion the old man drank. When he heard the news yesterday, he lost his composure and became furious. He was even worried to the point of sweating.
He dared to say that when the old man's parents passed away, his emotions had never been so intense.
That reaction, if Qin Sheng hadn't been born under his watch, and if the old man had devoted himself to cultivation after the mistress's death and had never come into contact with any young women, including his daughter-in-law, he would have suspected that Qin Sheng was actually the old man's illegitimate child...
Bah, bah, bah. Thinking about it again would be disrespectful.
He was grumbling in his heart, but in fact he had already clearly realized that he had underestimated Qin Sheng's importance.
Qin Sheng grew up safely these years. Apart from his temper that got worse with each passing day and he always got angry with himself, there were no other accidents. He had not witnessed the scene yesterday, which led to his misjudgment.
Fortunately, he had not yet put into action his previous idea of teaching the young master a lesson in private, but the head of the family seemed to have noticed it, so this time he took the initiative to volunteer to meet him, and his attitude was three points lower when they met.
Qin Sheng glanced at him with a smile and said that he would drive himself and let the people brought by Qin An surround him and protect him.
[Host, thank goodness you're handsome, otherwise you'd be the perfect example of a villain who triumphs over his own success.]
Noodles turned into a cat and was held by Xu Zhaoyi. I heard that in order to please Qin Sheng, they specially prepared a small dress for it. It would be a waste not to refuse it. It’s just turning off the microphone for two days. It’s not that it can’t communicate at all. It can still send text messages to Xu Zhaoyi and harass the host in his heart.
[They feel more at ease if I'm a little superficial.] Of course, it's not a loss if I can make them angry.
Qin Sheng treated it as a compliment to him.
A group of people got on the bus.
Because Qin An, who was at the fifth level of Qi Refining, was accompanying them this time, although they were at some distance, Qin Sheng and Xu Zhaoyi tacitly did not communicate much for the sake of caution.
The main thing is their relationship. It seems that they are getting along better and better these days, but in fact, apart from things that the Qin family cannot hear, they have no other common topics at all.
It's not that it's intentional, but the two of them are not familiar with each other at all, and their relationship is a bit messy, so they can't be friends who share the past and talk about everything.
The occasional tacit understanding between them is entirely due to the synchronization of their IQs, and there is no trace of telepathy.
After a long silence, not only Qin Sheng and Xu Zhaoyi, but even Noodles thought this was too strange.
So the argumentative noodles came online.
[Host, you two are a couple who have been dating online for six months and decided to get married the same day you met in person. And you're getting engaged, not attending a funeral. Look at you two, you look even more estranged than a couple going through the seven-year itch. Is this appropriate?]
[…inappropriate.]
Qin Sheng was at a loss for words, so he had no choice but to swallow his pride and ask, "So, what do you think, Brother Mian?"
[Ahem, that's not a brilliant idea, but you can just flirt and joke around a bit. If you don't know how, I have a script here, just read it.]
Qin Sheng's mouth twitched. He really wasn't being modest at all. It didn't sound like a very wise idea.
He couldn't help but say, "Put away all those cheesy love stories. Stop reading those weird things. Even now, the very thought of Qin Mianmian still makes me dig my toes into the ground."
Noodle Kitten's face fell, and the memory of social death that had been buried with great difficulty came back to life and attacked it, not because of the name Qin Mianmian, but because it remembered its clown-like marriage fraud performance.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
It snorted heavily.
[There's really nothing much to say to a straight guy like you who doesn't understand romance. How are you going to find a wife in the future?]
Qin Sheng didn't bother to respond to such childish words that were made out of shame and anger. In his current situation, he had no time to think about future love affairs. But when he caught a glimpse of Xu Zhaoyi beside him, his mouth replied faster than his brain:
[My 'wife' is holding you in my passenger seat.]
[…I completely forgot about it.]
Noodles was stunned and didn't even refute his flawed attempt to save face.
However, what Noodles said was true, and Qin Sheng finally listened to it. Finally, he forced himself to find a topic to break the silence in the car.
He cleared his throat and waited for Xu Zhaoyi to look at him before he tentatively said, "After the engagement is over, you and I should go pay our respects to your uncle and aunt together, right?"
“…”???
Xu Zhaoyi's eyes suddenly widened, and he subconsciously wanted to refuse. There was no need to tell his parents about the fake marriage. How could their older generation accept such a trendy thing?
What's the difference between this and going to his parents to confess when he's done something bad, for fear that his parents won't come to him in his dreams and scold him?
But when he caught a glimpse of the butler's car following closely behind him in the rearview mirror, his heart trembled and he quickly swallowed his words.
“…Okay, I guess so.”
Xu Zhaoyi rubbed his temples and thought, when the time comes, he will just have to confess in his heart and if his parents want to scold him, they can scold Qin Sheng, the daughter-in-law who insisted on marrying him before they could cooperate with him.
"But I don't want too many people to disturb them..." He pointed to the cars following in front and behind.
"Then we can only plan it later."
Qin Sheng was just looking for a topic at first, but he regretted it as soon as he noticed Xu Zhaoyi's resistance at that moment. He thought it was just a courtesy visit to the grave, but for Xu Zhaoyi it was like going to meet his parents. He really shouldn't have said this proposal so lightly.
"After what happened yesterday, it's unlikely they'll follow me when I go out these days."
Qin Sheng looked at Xu Zhaoyi with a hint of apology and changed the subject.
Xu Zhaoyi breathed a sigh of relief quietly, but he did not mean to blame Qin Sheng. Think about the parents Qin Sheng had. Even if he could not empathize with all the children in the world who relied on their parents, Xu Zhaoyi would not find it strange.
No one could blame him for this.
"It's okay, there's no rush anyway." He smiled reassuringly at Qin Sheng.
"Well, then tell me when you want to go."
"good."
After this start, the two of them were finally able to chat with each other from time to time, and the feeling of divorce was not so strong anymore.
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