Chapter 56 - Affairs

Shi Qingxue didn’t know that someone was watching her all the time. Shi Junhe’s return only made her life more comfortable. It seemed that nothing could bother her any more.

But it was just seemingly.

Because half a year later, her father, the leader of the Shi Army, was ordered to go to Qingluo Mountain to remove the bandits but was murdered by the renegade. Her brother Wenren Chi went to revenge for father and his head was chopped off by the bandit.

At that time Shi Qingxue had already married Fourth Prince and was trapped into the fight in the Imperial Harem. She didn’t even get the chance to see her father and brother for the last time.

Although many things had been different from her previous life since the rebirth, the death of her father and brother was still more horrible than a nightmare to Shi Qingxue. She couldn’t rest at ease, no matter how.

After thinking about it, she decided to meet Shi Junhe first and told him her thoughts.

“Daddy! Daddy!” Shi Qingxue hurriedly went to Shi Junhe’s reading room, but she found there was a guest.

The elated shout was suddenly dumbfounded by Mo Junyang’s gaze. She was suddenly speechless.

She stood in dignity and saluted to the two, “Father. Your Highness.”

Shi Junhe rarely saw such obedient appearance of Qingxue, and couldn’t help laughing, “I rarely hear you call me father before. Why do you change the way you call me when King Rui’s eldest son is here today?”

Shi Qingxue was even more embarrassed after being teased.

She just didn’t want to let Mo Junyang see that she was coquettish with her father, probably because even she knew that it was inappropriate to do this kind of thing at her age.

“What are father and His Highness talking about? If it’s not convenient, I will go back first.” Shi Qingxue didn’t dare to look at Mo Junyang and said in a low voice.

Of course, Mo Junyang would not let Qingxue leave easily, and said immediately, “It’s not inconvenient. We are just talking about some interesting news in the court. You can just listen to it and divert yourself from boredom.”

“Really? What interesting news?” Shi Qingxue’s eyes became blinking suddenly, and she looked at Mo Junyang eagerly and refused to leave.

Mo Junyang handed the reports in his hand to Shi Qingxue, explaining, “Recently, there are many things in the capital city, so the reports come frequently. But the accuracy of the information has not been verified yet. You can take a look at them like reading stories.”

The so-called report is the information collected by the spies developed by the aristocracy. It usually talked about politics, but there were also various gossips.

The nobles who were in good relationship would exchange reports with each other, but so important things were generally in the hands of the host.

Shi Qingxue didn’t even see the reports of the Shi Family a few times. Suddenly she got Mo Junyang’s reports, and she immediately read them with interest.

But looking at them, she was dumbfounded.

“What’s this written on them? Why are they different from what I’ve seen before?” Shi Qingxue spread the reports. She only knew the language of the Mo Country.

Mo Junyang smiled, and then took the report before explaining, “This report is written in cipher text. If you don’t learn the specific cipher text, of course you won’t understand it. I’ll read it for you.”

He walked straight to the side of Shi Qingxue, and put the report in front of them. Then he read it in a low voice, “In November, 41st year of the Mo Dynasty, the Shi Army defeated the Liang Country’s Army. The army came back to the capital city…”

One was reading seriously, when the other was listening intently. They didn’t notice at all that Shi Junhe opened his mouth wide enough in surprise that an egg could be put inside.

Obviously, these two weren’t behaving properly. But why did he have a sense of redundancy?

This was his reading room!

Shi Junhe was a little desperate in his heart. He wanted to go up and pull away the one who coveted his baby daughter, but he hadn’t made a move, when a subordinate came to report, “Master, Third Madam is here.”

Two pairs of eyes turned to him, with doubts in them.

Shi Junhe was embarrassed in their sight. He couldn’t help shouting back, “Why are you looking at me?”

Shi Qingxue blinked her eyes, as if she didn’t understand why Shi Junhe suddenly got angry. She only frowned and asked, “Third Aunt is always in conflict with us. Why does she come alone to find you?”

Qingxue was really just wondering at first, but when she said those words, she also felt that this word “alone” contained another meaning in it.

Shi Junhe was even more uncomfortable, even though his eyes fluttered, he couldn’t escape Shi Qingxue’s inquiring gaze, “How do I know? I always don’t know about the matters back here.”

“Really?” Shi Qingxue asked skeptically, straightly looking at Shi Junhe, making him awkward and helpless.

He gritted his teeth secretly. Why did he have such a rebellious daughter?

Fortunately, there was a good assist here.

Mo Junyang coughed twice, comforting her, “Your Third Aunt took the initiative to come here, so it’s normal that Duke Shi didn’t know it.”

But before Duke Shi gave Mo Junyang a sight to praise his having done a good job, Mo Junyang continued to say slowly, “Anyway, there is a cubicle in the reading room. If you do want to know what’s going on, you can just hear their conversation. Right?”

Shi Junhe’s face was about to crack!

This was the first time that he had seen that someone demanded to overhear straightforwardly but didn’t blush!

However, Shi Qingxue nodded after hearing this, turned around and looked at him eagerly, “Daddy, can I?”

Shi Junhe, “…”

Could he say no?

“Sure.”

Shi Junhe sadly said the answer that made him regret it immediately, and watched Shi Qingxue grab Mo Junyang and hide into the cubicle.

He didn’t seem to agree to let Mo Junyang overhear together?

It was too late for him to stop them. The subordinate had led Zhou Ruyu inside the room.

Shi Junhe had no choice but to ask someone to offer a cup of tea and asked coldly, “Why do you come for me?”

Zhou Ruyu smiled and winked, “Look what you’ve said. I’m your sister-in-law anyway. Can’t I come to visit you if I have nothing to do? Or brother has really hated me to the extent that you are not willing to see me?”

When she talked, she also pretended to wipe the corners of her eyes, as if she had been really hurt by Shi Junhe’s relentlessness.

Shi Junhe was unmoved, and only said, “If you have something to tell me, just say it straightforwardly. Don’t talk in a roundabout way.”

Zhou Ruyu’s expression was stiff on her face before she barely smiled and said, “Since you have said so, I won’t bother you with those casual talks.”

Shi Junhe put down the tea cup and stared at Zhou Ruyu, waiting for her following words.

Shi Junhe had an advantage that many people couldn’t compare. It was that no matter how much he hated you, he would still listen carefully when you spoke.

But in a way, this was also a disadvantage, because even if you knew that he disdained you, you would still be deceived by his soft and affectionate eyes, as if he had really loved you.

Zhou Ruyu suddenly felt upset that she was about to cry, and she tried to squeeze a smile but couldn’t maintain her smile. At last, she could only give up and shouted in a low voice, “Wenyu, do you really hate me so much?”

“What’s the meaning of your words?” Shi Junhe’s eyes remained unchanged, as if he really didn’t understand the meaning of Zhou Ruyu’s words.

Zhou Ruyu’s eyes showed resentment, and she got up and walked to the front of Shi Junhe, raised her hand to touch Shi Junhe’s face cautiously.

“Sister, please respect yourself.” Shi Junhe turned his face and got up, avoiding Zhou Ruyu’s movements quickly, and warned her solemnly, “If you don’t have anything else to say, please go back!”

“Wenyu, do you really hate me so much that you are unwilling to have any relationship with me in this life, and unwilling to be close with me?” Zhou Ruyu looked sad, as if she had been badly broken.

Shi Junhe didn’t change his look, and only emphasized, “It’s inappropriate for us to be alone due to our identities.”

“Inappropriate?” Zhou Ruyu suddenly laughed, and her eyes looked sad and angry. She gritted her teeth and asked, “Why didn’t you say it was inappropriate when you hugged me in the house of Marquis of Wuyang?”

Shi Qingxue covered her mouth in surprise, “…”

She didn’t expect that she heard such a shocking thing out of curiosity. Was it too late to cover her ears at this moment?

Although she thought in this way, Shi Qingxue still listened to them carefully, for fear of missing any words outside.

Mo Junyang looked at her big eyes full of fear and excitement, and felt speechless, especially when no one had spoken for a long time and Shi Qingxue wanted to reach her head out to peek.

“Don’t move!” Mo Junyang simply stretched out his arm from behind and held Shi Qingxue’s arms, trapping her in his hug, and covered her beautiful eyes with his another hand.

Shi Qingxue was startled, and wanted to shout but was afraid to attract the attention of the people outside. She could only ask in a low voice, “What are you doing? Let me go!”

Mo Junyang didn’t move, “Stop jabbering.”

Shi Qingxue was argued back and was choked. She even wanted to use the same words against Mo Junyang. Who was jabbering?

“They will find you if you move again.” Mo Junyang whispered in Shi Qingxue’s ear, and Shi Qingxue didn’t dare to move immediately.

After being silent for a while, she couldn’t hear any sound. Shi Qingxue felt that it was full of her heartbeat in her ears. Boom! Boom! It made her annoyed.

It seemed that Mo Junyang didn’t find the atmosphere too ambiguous, and he was holding her tighter and tighter. Her back attached close to Mo Junyang, and the lower parts of their bodies were also close to each other’s. She could even feel the fiery hard object.

Shi Qingxue realized what it was, she was suddenly shocked. She pushed Mo Junyang forcibly and shouted in shame in a low voice, “Mo Junyang, what are you doing?”

Mo Junyang was pushed away and he hit on the table and chair behind him, making a muffled sound like Bang. The one outside suddenly became alert.

“Who’s there?” Zhou Ruyu’s face changed and she wanted to go inside.

Shi Junhe scolded secretly that the two of them could only make trouble, but stood in front of Zhou Ruyu and solemnly said, “No one’s there. The window is not closed, so the wind blows down something. It’s no big deal. I’ll ask someone to clear it up later.”

“Really?” Zhou Ruyu glanced at Shi Junhe suspiciously. But maybe she wouldn’t realize that Shi Junhe could spoil her daughter to the point where everyone would be indignant at it, so she didn’t doubt Shi Junhe’s words. Instead, she took advantage of the close distance between them and tried to fall into Shi Junhe’s arms.

But Shi Junhe had foreseen her move early, and stepped aside. Zhou Ruyu missed her target and almost hit the chair.

Zhou Ruyu stood reluctantly, embarrassed and angry, and asked, “Shi Junhe, what do you mean?”

Shi Junhe looked back at her coldly, and said indifferently, “Stop mentioning the things in the past. You are just my sister-in-law now.”

He deliberately stressed the word “just”, which was the most powerful insult to Zhou Ruyu, so that all her sinister seduce was exposed.

Zhou Ruyu was both embarrassed and angry. She trembled and pointed at Shi Junhe for a long time before she resentfully said, “Okay! Shi Junhe, since you are being so cold, don’t blame me for being ruthless! You let me down today, and I will make you repay ten times, even a hundred times!”

Shi Junhe ignored the harsh words said by Zhou Ruyu. When she left, he hurriedly rushed into the cubicle and asked, “What happened?”

Seeing the scene in the room, he was suddenly stunned, “What’s the matter?”