Chapter 259 - Cover up for You at the Risk of My Life (1/2)

Hearing that Shi Junhe had a request, Mo Shujun got unhappy, but since he had agreed with her, she still controlled herself and planned to listen to him first. What on earth did he want to do?

“What do you want?”

Shi Junhe pursed his lips and pondered for a while. Then he replied, “I hope that I can marry her as a concubine in a low profile. Don’t spread the news or let all people know it. Can you promise me, Mother?”

Mo Shujun pondered for a moment and soon understood why Shi Junhe asked her to do that.

Although she was resentful as Shi Junhe still considered for Dong Hui, she didn’t want to make the bad relationship between her and her son worse, so she nodded in agreement.

“Since you requested that, I can promise you.” Mo Shujun nodded at leisure.

Then she made her requirement naturally. “But I demand you to marry Leng Yan in five days.”

Shi Junhe was stunned and asked, “Why are you so anxious? Five days is not enough for us to prepare the marriage. You…”

“You want to make it simple, and I satisfy you. Why aren’t you happy?” Mo Shujun asked in reply calmly.

Then she added unhurriedly, “You don’t need to worry about the preparation for the marriage. In the past few days when I decided to marry Yan to you, I have ordered some people to prepare it. If you want, it’s no problem to get married right away.”

Shi Junhe had to nod helplessly. “Fine, in five days.”

After the major issue was discussed, Mo Shujun’s face softened, and then she looked at Shi Junhe with her gentle eyes, smiling. “Junhe, don’t worry. I am your mother and won’t harm you. I have brought up Yan and her moral quality and appearance are outstanding. I am unwilling to let her be a man’s concubine randomly if it weren’t you.”

Hearing such words, Shi Junhe wasn’t comforted but felt sad.

However, he knew that it would be useless no matter what he said to Mo Shujun, so he stopped talking and indifferently accepted her arrangement.

“Mother, if there is nothing else, I am leaving now.” Shi Junhe stood up and bowed to Mo Shujun respectfully.

He was even more distant than he had been when he came into the Shou’an Hall.

Mo Shujun thought that Shi Junhe finally agreed with her, so she didn’t care about the minutia. She just waved her hand and let him go away.

Shi Junhe strode forward and didn’t stop until he walked to the gate of the Shou’an Hall. Then he looked back at the courtyard that he was familiar with. He used to come here frequently when he was a child, a teenager and even a young man, and it bore a lot of his happy memories.

However, at the moment, he looked at it but felt cold, and even the person in the room, his mother became strange.

Would a mother force her child like this?

Shi Junhe had such a question on his mind involuntarily. He racked his brains yet couldn’t figure out why.

However, all the hopes he had laid in Mo Shujun became disappointment.

Maybe in the beginning, he shouldn’t expect that Mo Shujun would consider for him.

Shi Junhe shook his head with a bitter smile and turned around, walking back to the East House.

Shi Qingxue had just changed into a tracksuit to ride a horse. When she was about to go out, she bumped into Shi Junhe whose face was pale. She was scared and walked to him hurriedly. “Father, what’s wrong with you? Do you have a heatstroke? Are you all right? I am going to bring Doctor Qin for you, okay?”

She spoke fast and before Shi Junhe answered, she planned to run out to bring a doctor, yet Shi Junhe stopped her.

“I am fine. Don’t be anxious.”

Shi Qingxue looked Shi Junhe up and down in disbelief and saw that although his face was pale, his eyes were energetic, and he was just tired, with no sweat. He didn’t look like he was sick.

So she heaved a sigh of relief and patted her chest, complaining exaggeratedly, “Father, where are you from? You look so miserable. Anybody who doesn’t know the truth would think that you were mistreated.”

She just joked around.

Unexpectedly, after pausing for a moment, Shi Junhe nodded with approval and murmured with a bitter smile, “Right.”

“Hmm?” Shi Qingxue had sharp ears and noticed Shi Junhe’s voice at once. Then she gazed at him again.

Nevertheless, Shi Junhe didn’t want to talk about something dirty with her. He changed the subject impassively. “Are you going to ride a horse and shoot arrows with your ‘Brother Junyang’ today?”

Noticing his ridicule, Shi Qingxue blushed as expected.

She looked away and muttered, “What my ‘Brother Junyang’? He is not mine!”

“Gee! I mainly asked if you are going to ride a horse today. Why did you only pay attention to whether His Excellency is yours?” Shi Junhe teased her with a smile on his dignified face.

The blush on Shi Qingxue’s face spread to her ears, and she felt that her whole body was hot.

She stomped with shyness and glared at Shi Junhe resentfully, shouting in a sweet voice, “Father, how can you tease me? You have gone too far!”

“After a daughter grows up, she won’t listen to her father. I am sad!” Perhaps Shi Junhe was addicted to pretending a gentle father, and he even pretended to cry while pinching his throat, as if it was true.

“Father!” Shi Qingxue rolled her eyes and didn’t know how to comment on her father’s bad behavior of joking.

Shi Junhe enjoyed Qingxue’s blush and shyness, and then he stopped joking and returned to be a gentle father. He pushed her out and said softly, “I won’t joke about you. Aren’t you going to ride a horse? Go now. Don’t keep him waiting.”

The father was afraid that Shi Qingxue would get mad again, so he was sensible and didn’t mention the sensitive words such as “your Brother Junyang” anymore.

Shi Qingxue glared at Shi Junhe for longer. Seeing that he didn’t care, she probably knew that if she continued, she would get nothing but make her eyes sour and ache, so she gave up.

She pouted and nodded with displeasure. “I am off now.”

Looking at Shi Qingxue turning around and then walking out, Shi Junhe sighed with relief, thinking, “Oh, my gosh. I finally convinced her.”

Otherwise, if Qingxue continued to ask, he wouldn’t know how to answer.

However, before Shi Junhe’s face softened, Shi Qingxue who walked to the gate suddenly looked back.

Under his astonished face, she walked back quickly and then stood in front of him.