Chapter 230 - Take a Bite of the Sweet Food, and You Won’t Feel Sad Anymore (1/2)

The turbulence in the Shi family ended up with Zhou Ruyu’s being imprisoned in the South House and Zhang Qiuyan’s copying the family rules for three hundred times as a punishment.

Dong Hui was stimulated and went into a coma, and Shi Junhe and Shi Qingxue tried their best to protect her, so she got away with it.

But she was damaged and stayed in her bedroom to recuperate.

Shi Junhe didn’t enter Dong Hui’s room for three days with the reason that he was busy with work.

Although the people in the East House kept it as a secret, and even most of the servants didn’t find the problem, Shi Qingxue knew that Shi Junhe and Dong Hui were at odds.

Shi Junhe didn’t ask Dong Hui about the matter that she dated Yan Lü in the Valentine’s Pavilion secretly at midnight. Maybe he was afraid that it would irritate Dong Hui, or he was waiting for her to explain to him.

Dong Hui didn’t talk about this issue with Shi Junhe. Nobody knew if she thought that it was no big deal, or she was…guilty.

Shi Qingxue was almost depressed to death by her parents’ silent treatment, and she was not in a good mood even when Mo Junyang took her to visit the lake and enjoy the scenery.

Mo Junyang told the boatman to stop the boat by the lake, and he got up, preparing to leave the boat.

Shi Qingxue finally came to reality from her thoughts and also stood up, asking in a hurry, “Where are you going? Didn’t you say that we would have a trip on the lake?”

She also realized that she was not herself today, and she was afraid that Mo Junyang would get mad, so she hurriedly grabbed his sleeve and didn’t let him go.

“Idiot!” Mo Junyang looked back and showed her a gentle smile, which confused her.

Her small hand loosened a little, and she heard Junyang saying slowly, “Wait for me here. I will be right back.”

Nobody knew if Shi Qingxue was numb because Mo Junyang called her idiot intimately or the man looked peaceful or even happy. After he left, she stood at the bow blankly for a long time and looked at his back going away.

He disappeared and then came into Qingxue’s sight again after a while.

He had a paper bag in his hand.

When he returned to the boat and stood in front of her, Shi Qingxue finally sighed with relief.

Then she looked at the bag in Mo Junyang’s hand with curiosity. “What’s this?”

“Here you are. Have a try!” Mo Junyang gave her the paper bag.

He didn’t explain what was inside.

Shi Qingxue was puzzled and opened the bag to have a look. Then she shouted with pleasure at once, “It’s the sweet cake!”

The Shi family’s rules were strict and they never allowed the children to eat the food sold by the street venders outside as they said that they were not clean. Qingxue ate the food secretly only several times when she was a child because her grandpa took her out alone and bought some for her.

After her grandpa passed away, she didn’t have a chance to eat this kind of sweet cake.

Although the chefs in the mansion made sweet cakes later, they tasted different, and the cake which was so sweet that it could make her narrow her eyes just existed in her memories.

Shi Qingxue held a piece of sweet cake with fragrance and lowered her head to take a bite. The familiar sweet taste made her shout in joy, “It’s so delicious!”

Mo Junyang also laughed and raised his big hand to put on her head.

Then he rubbed it gently.

“You once told me that after you eat something sweet, you will feel better.”

“When did I say that to you?” Shi Qingxue had food in her mouth and asked unclearly.

Doubts flashed in her big eyes, and she looked at Mo Junyang.

Why didn’t she remember that?

Logically, the memories about what happened before this life were kept in her brain, and if what happened between them, she shouldn’t have forgotten.

Mo Junyang didn’t plan to explain and smiled at her. “Forget it. It’s not important.”

But his smile seemed to be darker than before.

Shi Qingxue saw that and didn’t feel happy again, as if even the cake was not so sweet.

She chewed it slowly and at last, she felt it tasteless, so she put down her hand and gazed at Mo Junyang.

“You…” She bit her lower lip with difficulty and raised her eyes to peep at Mo Junyang. Then she lowered her head quickly.

After hesitating for a long time, she asked in a low voice, “Did it happen between us in the previous life?”

Mo Junyang caressed Qingxue’s hair slowly and in the end, he stopped and withdrew his hand.

After quite a while, he whispered, “Hmm.”

It was as she expected.

Shi Qingxue was relieved and started to try hard to think of what had happened in the past.

At the moment, she knew that the two lives were about her childhood, but there were differences more or less.

What made her suffer was that she clearly remembered the childhood that she didn’t “experience in person” in a sense, but she couldn’t remember the childhood in the previous life because too many years had passed.

Shi Qingxue thought for a long time and the hot sweet cake began to go cold, but she still couldn’t remember that.

Seeing that Mo Junyang was silent, she hurriedly put the sweet cake in his mouth and tried to please him. “Taste it. It’s so sweet.”

Mo Junyang didn’t refuse but chewed it little by little following Shi Qingxue’s hand.

Shi Qingxue cautiously observed Mo Junyang’s expression. After confirming that he was in a better mood, she asked, “I can’t remember many things in the past. Can you tell me?”

Mo Junyang stopped eating and moved backward, showing that he wouldn’t eat it, but he saw that Qingxue still raised her hand and looked at him with expectancy.

He couldn’t bear to make Qingxue raise her hand all the time, so he had to say, “I am full.”