Chapter 121 Has Qingqing become soft-hearted?
"You...you actually want to evade me with such words?"
Xi Qingtong's voice trembled, tears blurred her vision, and she suddenly felt extremely ironic.
Song Yunhe turned his head away without answering, but got into the carriage directly, ignoring Xi Qingtong who continued to cry and question him.
"How can you use such words to evade me? Yes, we are cousins, but can she compare to me? She has only been back to the Xi family for a few years, and how many years have you known me?!"
Even so, Song Yunhe did not stop. Hearing these words, he felt more and more ironic.
Yes, they had known each other longer, about a dozen years, but did she really treat him as if they had known each other for more than a decade?
He treated Qingwu coldly for three months, but Qingwu was still kind to him. Even if he got angry and looked cold at him occasionally, he never bossed him around, let alone slapped him!
What about her? He had only glanced at Qingwu a few times, and she was so angry? What was wrong with him looking at Qingwu? She was his legally married wife!
Song Yunhe lifted the curtain indifferently and got into the carriage. Xi Qingtong staggered behind him. Jinzhu wanted to help her, but she pushed her away.
She practically climbed onto the carriage, without a trace of her former demeanor, looking utterly disheveled.
After getting into the carriage, Xi Qingtong saw Song Yunhe's calm appearance with his eyes closed, and once again couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, he choked up and said:
"Song Yunhe, don't forget..." She clutched her dress, "who you rely on in the capital!"
"Enough!" Song Yunhe interrupted her abruptly, a trace of pain flashing in his eyes, "I, Song Yunhe, can achieve what I have today thanks to ten years of hard study!"
Talking about this over and over again had worn out Song Yunhe's patience. He couldn't help but glance at Xi Qingtong and sneered:
"Even if I was taken care of by the Xi family, so what? I rely on this blood relationship, not you! Even when it comes to marriage..."
He paused for a moment, staring into Xi Qingtong's eyes and saying word by word, "Qingwu is the same."
Xi Qingtong's pupils suddenly dilated, his face turned pale in an instant, his lips trembled but he couldn't utter a word to refute.
It was indeed the same. Although her mother and brother were partial to her, her father was fair to both of them. He was even more indulgent towards her because of Qingwu's disappearance.
Whenever Qingwu couldn't bear it anymore and went to her father to make a fuss, they would always give in, but Qingwu rarely did so.
Xi Qingtong suddenly became afraid.
Truth will come to light sooner or later. Even if my father is transferred to Jingzhou, he will not never come back. At the earliest by the end of this year, or at the latest in three years, he must return to Beijing to participate in the annual performance review.
She and her mother wanted to take advantage of the time difference. As long as the matter was settled before her father came back, and preferably a child was conceived, then her father would have no choice but to agree no matter how angry he was.
But the premise for the realization of this plan is that the father will not know about it in the short term. If the man in front of him is forced into a corner, will both sides be destroyed?
As if foreshadowing something, the man in front of him leaned forward and took a step closer, sneering softly, "Xi Qingtong, have you forgotten who was the one who begged you to change your husband, and who kindly agreed to it?"
These words were like a knife, piercing Xi Qingtong's heart. But she didn't dare to say anything.
Yes, she could make a big fuss and end up in a catastrophe, but if she did, it would be a crime of deceiving the emperor, and she would lose her head. But Song Yunhe was different. He only needed to write a letter to inform his father, and the worst consequence would be that his father would dislike them both and stop providing help.
If no help is provided, Song Yunhe's career will be more difficult, and the one who will be most affected will be herself, as she will no longer be able to become the wife of a high-ranking official.
No, this is not what she wants. Xi Qingtong, who was overwhelmed by anger and jealousy, finally regained her sanity.
She wiped away the tears from her eyes and gave Song Yunhe a smile that was uglier than crying.
"Cousin..." Xi Qingtong suppressed the emotions surging in her heart, reached out and gently pulled Song Yunhe's sleeve, and apologized in a low voice: "I lost my composure."
She lowered her eyes to hide the resentment in them, "I just... I just care about you too much."
"Seeing the way you look at your sister, I feel sad..."
When she said this, Xi Qingtong's tears burst out again, she couldn't hold it back. Even if it was a lie, this sentence was indeed true.
That kind of nostalgic and slightly obsessed gaze had always been on her before...
Song Yunhe coldly pulled back his sleeves without replying. The atmosphere in the carriage was stagnant and suffocating.
Xi Qingtong bit her lip, then stood up and sat beside Song Yunhe, holding his arm tightly: "Cousin, does your face still hurt? Let me see..." She pretended to touch his face, but Song Yunhe turned his head away.
"No need." Song Yunhe said coldly, "I'm tired."
The carriage fell into dead silence, with only the clatter of horses' hooves on the official road.
Song Yunhe looked at the passing scenery outside the window and felt extremely tired. In this wife swap, he thought he had exchanged for the moon in his heart, but what he got was not what he thought.
What he thought was a fish eye seemed to be an unpolished gem.
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Meanwhile, in the palace, Qing Wu was squatting before Xiao Ji's lap, teasing the two little ones together. The orange cat curled up on the boy's lap, its chin tickled by the two men, purring contentedly.
"Just let them go like that?" Xiao Ji curled his lips and chuckled.
Qing Wu tilted his head and raised it, "What else? Should we really let them stay for a few nights?"
She paused, then suddenly laughed and said, "Do you think Xi Qingtong is furious now?"
It was rare for Xiao Ji to see a wicked smile on her face, but such wickedness was far from enough for him. He couldn't help but move his hand away from the cat's body and placed it on the lady's head, gently stroking it twice, and smiling with a bit of helplessness.
"What I'm saying is, shouldn't we give them some punishment?"
Meeting the girl's puzzled gaze, the young man paused and said lightly, "For example, send Song Yunhe out of Beijing."
The third place winner in the imperial examination is always expected to enter the Hanlin Academy and become a noble Hanlin. Being sent out of the capital is tantamount to exile.
Even though he has lost his power now, he still did this little action. Even if he did nothing, he would have been excluded based on his relationship with his brother-in-law. It was only because of Xi Jingzhou that others were a little cautious.
Qing Wu was startled when he heard this, then slowly shook his head: "No need."
However, he didn't expect the young man in front of him to have a dark expression, purse his lips, and exude a resentful air.
"Could it be that Qingqing has softened her heart?"
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