Chapter 244 - Please Check the Evidence against You (1/2)

Shi Baoyou also got excited and hurriedly grabbed Zhou Ruyu’s hand. Her face was wrinkled, and she begged, “Mother, what idea do you have? Tell me now!”

Nobody knew if Zhou Ruyu really had a solution. Anyway, she calmed down and even patted Shi Baoyou’s hand, saying with a smile, “Don’t rush. Let me think about it.”

Shi Baoyou didn’t dare to urge her mother and just looked at her with expectancy. She got nervous gradually.

After a long while, when Shi Baoyou almost couldn’t wait anymore, Zhou Ruyu clapped again and stated with joy, “Hmm, let’s do it.”

“Mother, what on earth is it? Tell me now. Do you want me to die of anxiety?” Shi Baoyou asked anxiously once more, and all her feelings were shown on her face.

It made Zhou Ruyu burst into laughter, and she joked, “You are shameless. Do you want to marry His Highness so much?”

“…This…” Shi Baoyou was really anxious. After Zhou Ruyu mentioned it, she remembered that she should be shy, so she hurriedly lowered her head.

She whispered in embarrassment, “Mother, don’t joke about me, okay? Tell me what good idea you have.”

Zhou Ruyu was coaxed by Shi Baoyou and nodded repeatedly, saying yes, but she didn’t talk about the idea. Instead, she waved at Shi Baoyou and told her to bring a brush pen and a piece of paper.

Although Shi Baoyou was anxious, she could do nothing to Zhou Ruyu, so she had to do it obediently.

She kept looking at Zhou Ruyu’s hand, and the latter didn’t avoid her but wrote a few words in the white paper, “Lunar January tenth.”

Then she folded it and gave it to Shi Baoyou, telling her seriously, “Give this to your grandma and then tell her that you want to marry the fourth prince. Ask her for help.”

“Gee? Mother, what does this date mean?” Shi Baoyou was confused and didn’t understand why such three words could convince Mo Shujun to help her.

Mo Shujun supported Shi Qingxue now.

Zhou Ruyu didn’t plan to explain and just waved at her, saying simply, “Anyway, just do as I told you.

“Don’t ask too much about other things!”

After telling her, Zhou Ruyu was still worried and explained carefully, “Put away this note and don’t unfold it after you walk out of this gate or show it to anybody else. Just give it to your grandma. If she asks you, you just say that you didn’t read the words in the note. Do you understand?”

“But…” Shi Baoyou still wanted to ask.

Zhou Ruyu responded, “Don’t you want to marry His Highness?”

Shi Baoyou shut up obediently in a hurry and walked out with the note.

When Shi Baoyou reached the Shou’an Hall, Mo Shujun just finished dinner. Seeing her granddaughter, she merely looked up lazily. “What are you doing here?”

“I came to greet you, Grandma,” Shi Baoyou was well-behaved and answered.

She sat with Mo Shujun quietly for quite a while and then finally couldn’t control herself. Afterward, she took out the note from her pocket and gave it to Mo Shujun with her trembling hand.

Mo Shujun didn’t receive it and just looked at Shi Baoyou, asking indifferently, “What’s this?”

“It’s…Mother told me to give it to you. She said that you must read it.” Shi Baoyou was afraid of her grandmother who was dignified and enjoyed wealth and honor, so she spoke cautiously all the time.

If others didn’t reveal their relationship, the people who didn’t know it couldn’t tell that they were grandmother and granddaughter.

Mo Shujun was in a high position for many years and was used to being treated respectfully, so she didn’t think that there was something wrong with Shi Baoyou’s behavior.

But she blinked while hearing Zhou Ruyu’s name.

After a long time, she winked at Leng Yan, who then walked forward to Shi Baoyou and expressed respectfully, “My Lady, just give it to me.”

Shi Baoyou expressed her thanks in a hurry. “Thank you, Leng Yan.”

Leng Yan gave the note to Mo Shujun and didn’t open it by herself.

Mo Shujun grabbed the note in her hand and rubbed its cover with her fingers, as if lost in thought. Then she unfolded it after a long while.

When she saw the words in it clearly, her expression changed, and she looked at Shi Baoyou grimly, questioning, “Did you read this note?”

Shi Baoyou paused with hesitation and struggled for a moment, wondering if she should tell the truth. In the end, she chose to nod but expressed in a euphemistic way that she didn’t read it secretly. “Mother wrote this note in front of me. I don’t know what the words in the note mean, and I asked her, but she said that you would understand everything as long as I gave it to you.

“Mother told me that if you asked, I should answer that I didn’t read the note, but I think it’s not good if I cheat you…”

Mo Shujun could find at a glance if Shi Baoyou was telling a lie. Hearing that, she sighed with relief and meanwhile sneered involuntarily. “You are sensible. If I know that you hide something from me, I won’t spare you.”

“I dare not!” Shi Baoyou responded instantly and peeped at Mo Shujun, to find that her eyes fell on the note with unknown meanings again and she didn’t plan to question her, so she heaved a sigh of relief.

But after Mo Shujun received the note, she kept silent for a long time, seeming to forget that Shi Baoyou was here.

Her old face changed unpredictably and her emotions couldn’t be told.