Chapter 368: Being wronged, putting on a show
Mrs. Qiao said, "Master Ji, you also said that these were things that happened when we were young. Now it is not the same as before. After all, I am old and ugly. The more I grow old, the more I go backwards. I deserve to be scolded by Master Ji."
Ji Bolian clicked his tongue twice and looked at her profile.
"Didn't we agree in the letter that you and I would act out a play and leave Xiaowu at home? How would I perform it?"
Mrs. Qiao was unwilling to face him directly, and said, "That's great."
Ji Bolian asked with concern: "Did the broken pieces of the cup hurt you?"
He reached out to hold Qiao's shoulders, but she pushed him back with a frown.
Qiao said sarcastically, "It's just a cup. It can only cut your flesh, but it won't hurt your heart."
A trace of bitterness also appeared on Ji Bolian's face, and he knew what she meant.
"I have good intentions, but if Madam still doesn't understand me as a husband, I'm afraid my heart will break into a thousand pieces."
Qiao knew the inside story in advance and felt sad about those words. She felt uncomfortable when she thought that Ji Qingwu knew nothing.
She snorted loudly through her nose and said with a serious face, "Master Ji has such great authority and speaks without regard for others. If I were Xiaowu, I would be heartbroken to hear this and would never want to recognize you again."
Ji Bolian's expression changed again and again, as if he had thought of this possibility.
Finally, he said with emotion: "Madam, don't tell me, Xiaowu is a person who can never suffer any loss. He almost got me into trouble."
"She also told me about the ways of being an official, and about the rule of obeying one's husband after marriage. It seems that she also knows the rule of obeying one's father after marriage. Xiaowu understands everything. This child has been smart and clever since she was young. She is not the kind of child who studies to death."
There is praise in every word.
Ji Bolian started to praise him, saying, "Madam, tell me, Xiaowu's features are still the same as when he was a child, they haven't changed much, especially his eyes, they can show joy or anger, I can't take my eyes off him once I see him."
This time he started to praise himself.
Mrs. Qiao glared at him: "Didn't you see her being dragged away? Her little face was wrinkled into a ball, and her eyes were full of tears. How could you bear to do that?"
Ji Bolian touched his nose and said, "I really didn't see it. I turned my back."
He was afraid that he would be soft-hearted, so he turned around after saying the harsh words.
Mrs. Qiao said, "I have already said that we should inform Xiaowu in advance. She married into the Wei family out of desperation, and she didn't want to stay there."
"Xiaowu is smart, she will definitely cooperate with us."
Ji Bolian disagreed: "If she knew in advance, then the performance would not be real."
"Without the consent of my father-in-law, he wants to marry my daughter, and force her to marry him. That kid from the Wei family is just dreaming!"
At this point, Ji's father was really angry.
Qiao said, "I don't care about your reasons. Now our Xiaowu has been wronged. What do you think we should do?"
Ji Bolian shook his head and said, "This child looks soft and cute, but according to what you wrote in your letter, she is a person with her own ideas. Her personality is completely different from her appearance. She is simply fearless."
"You think that she will be home soon, so you always pamper her and spoil her. This is not good for the child."
Ji Bolian sighed, "There must be someone in the family that she is afraid of."
"You are not satisfied with being this evil man for your husband?"
Qiao curled her lips and said, "You evil person, I still find you hateful when I see you now, stay away from me."
She pushed Ji Bolian and stood up and walked into the inner room.
"Go back to your study and don't stay in my Anjuyuan."
"I just got home and you're kicking me out?"
Ji Bolian looked at her in astonishment.
Qiao let down the gauze curtain in the inner room, and the sound slowly came from inside to outside.
"Didn't Master Ji say that we should act? If we act, we have to do it in full. I need to take a short rest. Please do as you please, Master."
Ji Bolian sighed and walked around the room twice. Only after he was sure that Qiao really didn't want to pay attention to him did he leave Anjuyuan.
But he did not return to the study, but went out of the house.
*
Ji Qingwu thought he would be taken to a remote room and locked up, but Chunhua took him back to Wutong Garden, and there was no one guarding the door.
She thought she would not be given any food, or would only have simple meals, but the lunch was unexpectedly sumptuous, and all the food was her favorite.
If this was what being locked up was like, she was willing to stay locked up forever.
After settling her down, Chunhua returned to Anjuyuan, leaving Qiushi here.
Ji Qingwu swallowed the fried chrysanthemum dish in his mouth and asked, "Is this made by Madam Li?"
She could tell who made it the first time she tasted it.
Qiu Shi said: "The meals were prepared and sent over by Anjuyuan a long time ago."
Ji Qingwu nodded. Even if he held his breath, he couldn't hold it in his stomach as he had used up a lot of food.
Qiushi was told to write down all the dishes she used.
After lunch, Ji Qingwu had nothing to do, so he went back to bed and relaxed in his own yard.
Even the quilt had been freshly dried, fluffy and fragrant, the smell of Qiao's house.
She slept soundly.
When he woke up, he found there was a maid in the room.
Lanzhi looked at her from the bedside and said happily, "Fifth Miss."
Ji Qingwu thought he was sleepy, so Lanzhi should be guarding the Wei family? Why are you back to the Ji family?
She sat up and asked, "When did you come back?"
Lanzhi said excitedly: "It was the Lord who brought me back personally."
She stepped aside and pointed to several large boxes on the ground, saying, "These were brought back by the master and the servants in the mansion."
Ji Qingwu took a look and saw that these were her dowry and clothing box, and his eyes flashed slightly.
Did Ji Bolian really intend to keep her at home?
But this would be equivalent to breaking off relations with the Wei family.
"Fifth Miss, you don't know how cool it is for the Lord to stand there in front of the Wei family."
Lanzhi imitated Ji Bolian's action and waved her hand.
"Take all of Wu'er's things away. As a father, I never agreed to marry my daughter into your family."
Even the action of stroking the beard was imitated perfectly by Lanzhi.
"You, the Wei family, have gone too far. I will settle this account with you later!"
Ji Qingwu pretended not to care and straightened his wrinkled clothes, but he was listening carefully to what Lanzhi was saying.
Lanzhi remembered something and said, "Oh, Miss Fifth, the master seems very angry."
Ji Qingwu paused and nodded: "I know."
Lanzhi was surprised and asked, "Young lady, you even know that Master is angry?"
"But......"
Ji Qingwu said in a muffled voice: "Stop talking." She didn't want to hear these unhappy things.
She got out of bed and walked to the small couch in the outer room, found the medicine powder, and refilled the half-empty porcelain bottle.
As if she had noticed Ji Qingwu's gloom, Lanzhi stopped talking and packed up the big box that she had brought back with Qiushi.
Put the objects inside back to their original positions.
There were footsteps at the door...
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