Chapter 190: Someone’s Playing Matchmaker 4
Seeing that Qi Qingyao believed him, Si Jin said with a smile, “My body’s a little weak. A physician treated me. He suggested that I swim often, especially during winter. It’s better for the body, he said.”
Qi Qingyao glared at him from the corner of her eye. “And if you don’t?”
“I’ll be fine.” It was just that he had already gotten used to it, and would feel uncomfortable if he did not. Si Jin would not tell her that, however.
“You aren’t allowed to go for a swim again, then,” Qi Qingyao said deliberately.
“Sure. I’ll listen to you, Elder Sister.”
Si Jin smiled sweetly.
Jiang Yeqian had not fainted. After he was moved to the bed, he fell asleep because the bed was too warm.
It was already afternoon when he woke up.
Although Qi Qingyao said that she believed them, she lay down by the windows and waited for them to fly out of the windows when night came. However, nothing happened after she waited for a while. She was furious. Why did they not come out?
D*mn it.
That night, Jiang Yeqian was not tired at all, as he had gotten enough sleep during the day. He sat in the hall and read. He looked at Si Jin, who did not leave that night and was sleeping soundly on the bed.
That woman had definitely gotten to him and taught him a lesson, judging from how obedient he was.
If he did not go out during the night, it would be much more difficult to track him…
When dawn fell and the sun just rose, Jiang Yeqian felt like there was someone at the door. Sure enough, Qi Qingyao kicked the door open and came in. Jiang Yeqian looked up at her and met her gaze. “Yes?”
“B-both of you are here, huh.” Qi Qingyao scratched her head. She did not want to say that she came in to catch them in the act.
“Where would I be if not here?” Jiang Yeqian asked, opening his eyes slowly.
Qi Qingyao chuckled, embarra.s.sed. Her gaze scanned the bed, and made sure that Si Jin was sleeping soundly. Only after that did she say, “I wanted to go to the toilet but entered the wrong room. Hehe…”
As she spoke, she retreated from the room.
Qi Qingyao reclined on the door and thought, ‘D*mn it, none of them went out last night…’
She had made her motives too clear that morning.
From that day onward, Qi Qingyao prepared to catch them in the act of eloping every night but failed every time.
The two men in the room next to hers slept soundly every night, having no inclination of going out during the night at all.
Qi Qingyao, on the other hand, woke up early and slept late, and as a result, she now had dark eyebags…
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On the tenth day after Qi Yuancheng’s funeral, the building by the village was almost at the stage of completion. At the sight of it, Madam Wu felt like something was lodged in her heart, making her feel painfully uncomfortable. During the past few days, no one in the family brought up Eleventh Daughter’s name, as if they wanted to forget that she existed.
On this day, however, Madam Wu was finally at her limits. She exclaimed at the dinner table, “Her house is almost done.”
Qi Boli threw down his chopsticks. “Can you not bring her up?”
Madam Wu knew how the others were feeling, but she had been holding everything in for so long. “I don’t want to either, but she’s right there!”
“Our son is already dead because of her. Do you want all of us to die?” Qi Boli pointed at Madam Wu’s nose.
“Shouldn’t we take our revenge exactly because of that?” Madam Wu could not admit defeat just like that!
“You do it, then,” Old Man Qi said grimly.
Revenge, she said, but how should she do it? Madam Wu ranted about it for a while, but her daughter-in-law, Madam Guo, said nothing, and all her grandchildren looked gloomy. Madam Wu was furious. “I’ll wait for the old lady to return, and have her deal with that girl!”
Madam Guo said nothing. She could only wipe her tears, tell everyone that she was done with her meal, and leave for her room.
Looking at her daughter-in-law’s retreating back, Madam Wu had a thought.
Old Man Qi and Madam Wu lived with their oldest son. Now that he was dead, his wife was no longer related to them. If anything happened to Old Man Qi and Madam Wu, Madam Guo was not the best person to take care of them.
Madam Wu started considering if they should move to Qi Yuanxiu’s home.
She would talk about it with Madam Liang first.