Chapter 76 - Not Because of Love

Shi Qingxue smiled slightly and asked, “Of course, the carriage and guards are no problem at all. But Sister Yi is so concerned about Sister Jing. Are you at ease about letting Sister Jing return alone?”

Zeng Yi was choked. She glared at Shi Qingxue for a long time and said nothing.

Mo Junyang said at this right time, “Sister Xue is right. Since you are so worried about Second Lady, I can ask Wei Zichao to send you back home by carriage. As for visiting the lake, it is enough for me to have Sister Xue accompanied.”

“What?”

“Ah?”

Zeng Yi and Shi Qingxue spoke at the same time, looking at Mo Junyang in disbelief.

Mo Junyang was calm. He looked at Qingxue and argued reasonably, “Zeng Yi cares about her sister, so of course she needs to go back together with Second Lady. You have just heard so much about allusions and poems. Are you even unwilling to repeat them for me?”

Shi Qingxue had some scruples in her heart, so she was unwilling to stay with Mo Junyang alone at this time. But Mo Junyang gave her a glance, and she could only take back her rejection.

Well, she had a hidden task, which was to drive away all the unqualified admirers around Mo Junyang. She thought about this task at this moment and found it really troublesome. However, she was so desperate to compensate Mo Junyang at that time. At last, it was her who had to suffer.

Qingxue sighed in her heart heavily, but there was a sweet smile on her face, “Brother Yang has such interest. How can I be unwilling?”

Mo Junyang also smiled and determined, “Wei Zichao, you go and ask someone to drive the carriage here. You must send these two ladies back to the house of the Zeng Family safely.”

It seemed that Wei Zichao didn’t realize that once he drove the carriage away, his master couldn’t go back home later. He responded politely, “Yes.”

The carriage soon arrived. The two ladies were sent into the carriage quickly. And the carriage rushed to the House of the Zeng Family.

During this period, Zeng Yi had no chance to say a word. She could only move farther and farther away in the carriage, and watch the figures of Mo Junyang and Shi Qingxue becoming smaller and smaller.

By the lake, the two were walking in silence.

Mo Junyang didn’t speak, Shi Qingxue also didn’t say anything at first. The silent atmosphere made her a little uneasy. She racked her brains and thought of a topic, “Did you cause the matter of Shi Baojin?”

It was a question, but without a tone of doubt.

Mo Junyang raised his eyebrows slightly, trying to look surprised, “Why do you think so?”

Qingxue didn’t even look at Mo Junyang and said with certainty in her tone, “You just tell me whether it was you or not!”

Mo Junyang was silent for a while, pondering over the two issues of dealing with this matter alone and never lying to Shi Qingxue. He was about to shake his head.

Shi Qingxue stopped and said more firmly, “I know it was you!”

Okay, this time Mo Junyang nodded without hesitation, “Well, it was me. I promised that I would handle this matter well.”

Shi Qingxue knew that Shi Baojin had sent a stranger to rape her. This time she didn’t ask for mercy for Shi Baojin, but asked with a smile instead, “Was your method to find her a good marriage?”

Until this moment, Shi Qingxue didn’t doubt that the Zhao Family would marry Shi Baojin. After all, the Shi Family had great fame. Besides, Mo Shujun wouldn’t allow her beloved granddaughter to give herself to a man for nothing.

“A good marriage?” Mo Junyang sneered and lowered his voice, “Whatever you say.”

Shi Qingxue glanced at Mo Junyang with a suspicious look, “Are you going to make trouble?”

Mo Junyang smiled innocently, “How come? Am I such a narrow-minded and vengeful person?”

Speaking of these two words, the two both couldn’t help remembering what Mo Junyang had done to his enemies after having gained power in his previous life. Then they became silent at the same time.

“Ahem!” Mo Junyang coughed twice before he earnestly said, “You can rest assured. Not only will I mess up the marriage of Zhao Liang and Shi Baojin, but I will also try my best to promote it, in order to make sure that Shi Baojin marries him as impressively and conspicuously as she wants.”

Rest assured? It was even more impossible for her to rest assured in this way!

Shi Qingxue judged objectively, “Well, I don’t believe it. So what exactly do you want to do?”

Mo Junyang didn’t feel uncomfortable with his being doubted at all. Instead, he had a sweet feeling in his heart. His mind was full of sweet thoughts that my Qingxue certainly knew me best, which made King Rui’s eldest son, who was always intelligent and imposing, a little bit dizzy.

Of course, King Rui’s eldest son was good at pretending. He looked indifferent and said calmly, “I will give her whatever she wants. Then I will ask them back in the future. Is it too excessive?”

Well, that was to say, he lifted her high enough first, and then smashed her with a snap.

Shi Qingxue didn’t know what Mo Junyang planned to do, but this plan made her feel inexplicably happy. She couldn’t help but laugh and made a little joke, “Well, you really have everything under control!”

Mo Junyang stared at Shi Qingxue for a long time. His darkened expression was full of complexity which Qingxue couldn’t understand. She pursed her lips anxiously and asked in a low voice, “What’s wrong? Why are you looking at me?”

Mo Junyang didn’t look away. After a while, he said in a deep voice, “I thought you would get mad. Last time you…”

Shi Qingxue suddenly recalled that when Mo Junyang was annoyed by Shi Qingxue before, he almost let a group of beggars rape Shi Baojin out of rage.

At that time, she was already unhappy with Shi Baojin, but considering that they were in the same family and that domestic shame should not be made public, she wouldn’t like to see Shi Baojin bullied.

Maybe in her heart, she still intended to protect the weak at that time!

At present, a similar situation happened, but the above emotions never appeared in her heart again. She even felt that Mo Junyang’s retaliatory method of seducing her was reasonable.

Well, there was nothing bad about it.

But why did she have such a change?

Compared with Mo Junyang, Shi Baojin was no longer a family shame or the weak person who needed her protection.

In her previous life, Shi Baojin had done something worse than this, but Shi Qingxue was stubborn. Even though those scandals might suffocate her or drag her down, she wouldn’t allow the outsiders to handle them.

Mo Junyang was no longer an outsider.

Shi Qingxue was astonished and shook her head quickly, throwing away those increasingly divergent thoughts.

“No, I can’t think about it anymore. It will be bad if I think about it again…”

Mo Junyang looked at her suspiciously, “What will be bad?”

Shi Qingxue didn’t expect to speak out what she was thinking when she was nervous, so she looked even more embarrassed. Those thoughts could never be said to Mo Junyang anyway. It was too shameful!

“Nothing. Nothing. Aren’t we here visiting the scenery? Let’s go ahead…” When Shi Qingxue was nervous, she could be talkative, so Shi Qingxue started to talk about the allusions and legends of the Mingyang Lake without any pauses.

Mo Junyang wanted to interrupt her several times but didn’t find a chance, so he had to give up and act obediently as an audience. But wouldn’t her mouth become dry when she kept talking like this?

King Rui’s eldest son, who cared for his future wife, thought so.

Shi Qingxue finally told Mo Junyang what Zeng Yi had told her after adding some details to them, and another two hours passed.

She looked up at the sky. It was already noon. Then she looked at Mo Junyang, “Are we going back?”

Mo Junyang shook his head without thinking about it, “The environment is good here. Why do we go back? Do you still want to be bothered by others?”

Shi Qingxue pouted her mouth, and had to admit that Mo Junyang was right. She only murmured, “It’s not me who is bothered anyway.”

Mo Junyang raised his eyebrows, “Well? Who said that she would try her best to keep those worthless people away from me?”

Shi Qingxue didn’t have any thoughts on Mo Junyang’s contemptuously regarding Zeng Yi as a worthless person, nor did she feel unfair for her.

With Mo Junyang’s identity, not to mention in this small Yecheng County, even those noble people in the capital city were merely mediocre.

She just frowned, and asked in doubt, “You could hold Baojing just now, right? Why did you…”

Mo Junyang shrugged indifferently, “I showed enough mercy by reaching out and pulling her. What else did you want me to do?”

Shi Qingxue also didn’t know what she wanted him to do. She just felt strange, “Don’t you like Baojing? Why are you so cold to her…”

Seeing Mo Junyang’s face darkened immediately, Shi Qingxue realized that she said the wrong words. She hurriedly shut her mouth and waved her hands, pretending that she said nothing. She also blinked her eyes, making her look innocent and cute.

Mo Junyang had no way to get mad at Shi Qingxue, who was acting cute, so he sighed helplessly, “Why do you think I like Shi Baojing?”

“What?”

Shi Qingxue looked at Mo Junyang stupidly, and she spoke all of her thoughts out, “You didn’t kill her, and you treated her in a special way. You cared about her. So I think…”

The more she said, the lower her voice became. At that time, she also realized that she might be wrong.

Mo Junyang treated Shi Baojing in a special way. But it was not because of love.

Mo Junyang’s face was darkened as he listened to her, and his anger surged, and he blurted out, “I…”

Didn’t you know whom I liked?

Mo Junyang took a deep breath, he suppressed his impulse, and put on a calm and harmless smile which made others even believe it, “I don’t like Shi Baojing.”

“Well. Okay!” Shi Qingxue was stunned for a moment, and looked silly when she responded.

Fortunately, she quickly came to her sense, she nodded and answered quickly, “I see.”

Mo Junyang carefully pondered over Shi Qingxue’s expression to make sure that she really received and believed his answer, and then he nodded with satisfaction, “Well, then you…” don’t match the wrong people together!

“Can you like Baojing in the future?”

The two people spoke at the same time, but Shi Qingxue insisted on finishing her words.

There was silence again. After seeing Mo Junyang’s face upset for the third time, Shi Qingxue wished that she could lose her voice.

She quickly waved her hands and hurriedly explained before Mo Junyang got angry, “No. I’m just thinking, you say that you need a wife. So I think of Baojing… Well, she is pretty good. If you get along with her for a long time, perhaps…”

The more she said, the more difficult it was for her to explain. When she saw that the expression on Mo Junyang’s face seemed frozen, she shut her mouth.

She desperately thought that she was not suitable for being a matchmaker at all!

After a while, Mo Junyang finally moved. He raised his hand, reaching for Shi Qingxue.

Qingxue closed her eyes subconsciously and cried in her heart, “Can anyone hear her when she calls for help?”