Chapter 237 - Chapter 237: I… Wasn’t It All For You!
Chapter 237: I… Wasn’t It All For You!
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
‘Ah Tao,” Shen Yao suddenly said. He walked up to Ji Zhao with a graceful smile and reached out to scratch her palm. He smiled and said, “Young Master and Second Brother You are guests at our door. You suddenly threw out such a profound question. It’s confusing.’
Only then did Ji Zhao realize that she had made things sound a little too serious. She hurriedly smiled apologetically and said, “Brother Qin, Second Brother You, I shouldn’t have said these things on a rare day of rest. I admit my punishment. I’ll punish myself with three cups, okay?”
‘Punish with what? Wine?” Qin Minghong, who had regained his senses, suddenly smiled and asked in a clear tone, “If it’s milk tea, I’m afraid you’ll be happy to drink 30 cups, right?”
‘My alcohol tolerance is really bad, but I’ll risk my life to accompany you today!” Ji Zhao also felt that she had said too much. She thought for a moment and really poured herself a glass of white wine. She drank it in one gulp!
Before Shen Yao, who was sitting beside her, could stop her, she had already drunk cups glasses of wine.
‘Boohoo… I’m so dizzyœ’
After a while, Ji Zhao felt the world spinning in front of her. Everyone’s faces were blurry—
‘Ah Tao’s alcohol tolerance….” Second Manager You couldn’t help but laugh when he saw Ji Zhao’s silly smile. “It’s really not good!’
‘Young Master, Second Brother You, apologies.” Shen Yao smiled helplessly.
Then, he stood up and carried Ji Zhao. “I’ll carry her back to our room first. Please forgive me!”
“It’s fine, it’s fine. Go take care of Ah Tao first!’
Shen Yao smiled gratefully and carried Ji Zhao back to his room.
“It’s uncomfortable-” Ah Tao, who was hugging his neck tightly, suddenly opened her eyes. Her eyelashes, which were as long as butterfly wings, seemed to be covered in a layer of mist.
She pouted aggrievedly. The expression on her face was extremely aggrieved. “Why did you drink so much even when you’re feeling uncomfortable?” Shen Yao smiled helplessly.
‘Tm already in so much pain, yet you’re still scolding me… Boohoo…”
At this moment, Ji Zhao shrunk into his arms aggrievedly. Her two pink fists were punching Shen Yao’s chest.
‘Silly girl.” Shen Yao placed her on the bed and explained gently, ‘How can I bear to scold you? My heart aches! You know that you can’t hold your liquor well, so why did you drink so much? Huh?”
At this moment, Ji Zhao’s eyes were red and she looked like she was about to cry. She looked aggrieved and pitiful. ‘Il… It’s all for you!”
“For me?” Shen Yao frowned in confusion.
“1 know that Ji Huai isn’t here for me!” Ji Zhao said angrily. ‘On the surface, he’s here for me, but in reality, he wants to harm you, right? I… You… I want to protect you! Although I don’t know about the Qin family, I think Brother Qin must have been forced to come to Dingyuan County!”
‘So you said those words in front of Qin Minghong just now to motivate him?” Shen Yao thought for a moment and understood Ji Zhao’s intentions.
‘Yes!” Ji Zhao nodded vigorously. “I, I… I know that I can’t help you. After all, matters in the bureaucracy are very complicated! But I will work very hard to earn money. With a lot of money, it will be easy to do things!”
“It’s just that I don’t dare to tell you what I think. I’m afraid you’ll think that I’m tacky.” Perhaps it was the effect of the alcohol, but Ji Zhao told him everything that she had hidden in her heart.
However, she was too sleepy. She did not hear Shen Yao’s response at all and fell asleep.
Looking at her peaceful sleeping face, Shen Yao felt a little complicated.
He seemed to have underestimated Ah Tao’s intelligence. In fact, she knew everything.
However, now was not the time to fight the Sun family head-on, so the method Ah Tao came up with was considered another good choice.
Cooperating with Qin Minghong was not necessarily a bad thing.
‘Silly girl.” Shen Yao planted a gentle kiss on her cheek. His deep eyes were filled with love. “Why would I think you’re tacky?”
She probably did not know that to him, she was a ray of bright sunlight that shone into his heart, pulling him out of the dark swamp and seeing the light again.
After tucking her in, Shen Yao walked out of the room quietly.
He came to the central room and saw Qin Minghong drinking tea.
“1 heard that the snow scenery at the back of Shanghe Village is very beautiful. I wonder if I can trouble Shen Yao to accompany me around?” Qin Minghong looked at him and smiled.
‘My pleasure.”
The two of them walked side by side to the back mountains.
However, the bright sunlight for the next few days had already melted the snow covering the mountain. Without the embellishment of the pure white snow, the scenery on the back mountains was not bright.
The bare branches added an indescribable bleakness to the scenery before them.
‘Ah Tao’s words are thought-provoking.” Qin Minghong stood with his hands behind his back and looked at a lonely tree in the distance. He was the first to break the silence. “Actually, when I was young, I made up my mind to study hard. Every time the teacher praised me for my improvement in front of my father, there would be a glint in his eyes. That glint was probably because he was proud.’
‘IAS the eldest son of the second branch of the Qin family, I’ve lived a life of luxury since I was young. It could be said that I lived a luxurious life. However, all the changes happened in the year my mother passed away.”
Qin Minghong suddenly let out a long sigh. Although he was trying his best to restrain himself, Shen Yao could still hear a trace of resentment and hatred in his tone.
“1n less than two months after my mother died of illness, Madam Liu entered the family and became my father’s second wife. In less than a year, I had a half-brother.’
‘Everyone thought that wealthy families were great, but after I grew up, I realized that there was dirty and dark mud hidden under those seemingly prosperous flowers. No matter how brilliant the flower on the surface was, the rotten mud still existed.”
‘Do you know why I didn’t like to study later?” Qin Minghong smiled self-deprecatingly. “It was because the teacher who taught me fell sick every few days and often said some specious words in front of my father. My father naturally thought that I was not obedient and angered the teacher. I tried to explain, but my father never gave me any trust. Gradually, my reputation as a good-for-nothing spread. Even after I came of age, Madam Liu directly asked the maidservant who served me to drug me… My reputation was not good, and I had a servant girl who I slept with early on. How could I get the favor of a young lady from a wealthy family? In order to avoid Madam Liu’s schemes, I begged Grandmother and fought for the chance to leave the prefecture city. I didn’t expect that it would be two years already.
‘You want to return to the prefecture city.” As the listener, Shen Yao suddenly looked into his eyes and said calmly, “1n your heart, you’ve already made a choice..”