Chapter 324 - In the Eyes of Some People with Ulterior Intentions (2/2)

Neither of them thought that there was something wrong, and in fact, it was how they stayed together at ordinary times.

However, in the eyes of some people with ulterior intentions, it meant something else.

In the beginning, Dong Hui was talking with Shi Junhe and didn’t notice that Shi Qingxue had come. As Mammy Zheng grabbed her clothes in secret, she looked at them conveniently.

She paid attention to Shi Baoning’s gloomy eyes first and then followed her eyes, to see the two young people who were so close that it would make people imagine.

Dong Hui’s face fell, and she involuntarily thought of Shi Baoning complaining to her tearfully after the wedding day, so she was alarmed and hurriedly shouted, “Qingxue.”

The conversation between Shi Qingxue and Wenren Chi was forced to stop, and they looked at Dong Hui, with their questioning eyes.

Even Shi Junhe also looked at her and asked in a low voice, “What’s wrong?”

Dong Hui was speechless and didn’t know what to say.

She couldn’t say directly that she was afraid that Shi Qingxue had an affair with her brother-in-law and would steal her sister’s husband, so she stopped the girl in word.

Not to mention that she just suspected, even if she had evidence, she couldn’t talk about something like this openly. Otherwise, the family would be disgraced.

Dong Hui looked embarrassed and said with difficultly, “No, nothing. I haven’t seen Qingxue for a whole day, so I want her to come and accompany me.”

Such a reason was almost the same as a lie, and it could be found easily.

However, none of them questioned because she was a pregnant woman.

Shi Qingxue was stunned for a moment and then got up obediently. Afterward, she came to Dong Hui and sat next to her. She refilled her mother’s teacup and grabbed food for her, taking care of her attentively. “Mother, you are carrying a baby. Please eat more food.”

“Okay, okay. Just stay with me today and don’t go anywhere.” Dong Hui knew that such a request was unreasonable, yet she couldn’t find another way to separate Shi Qingxue and Wenren Chi, so she had no choice.

Although Shi Qingxue was in doubt, she still nodded obediently and didn’t go anywhere later but accompanied her mother as Dong Hui hoped.

However, Dong Hui still felt dissatisfied.

It was because Shi Qingxue didn’t talk with Wenren Chi anymore, while he seemed to pay attention to her all the time and remembered to tell the servants to put some delicious food in front of her.

Dong Hui checked carefully and found that all of them were what Qingxue liked to eat.

As for some food, as her mother, even she didn’t know that Qingxue liked to eat, which made her seem to have a thorn stuck in her heart, and she couldn’t spit or swallow it.

Such a feeling didn’t disappear even after she came back to their mansion.

“Zheng, I thought that there was nothing wrong with them sometimes, but there seemed to be something wrong sometimes today. It is so confusing, and I am almost in a daze…” Dong Hui felt perturbed and told Mammy Zheng about her worry.

In the end, even she couldn’t be sure about her thought. “Do I think too much?”

Mammy Zheng advised gently, “Madam, your worry is reasonable. A girl and her brother-in-law should pay attention to their closeness, in case that others comment on them. In my opinion, Lady Qingxue…”

At the mention of Shi Qingxue, Mammy Zheng intentionally paused for a moment and looked at Dong Hui with hesitation, seeming to be uncertain whether she should continue.

Dong Hui waved her hand. “Only you and I are here. Just tell me what you want to say.”

Mammy Zheng finally got relieved and said, “Lady Qingxue is animated and lovely, which is good, but she will forget her manners easily sometimes when she gets along with men, and it will make people gossip. Especially she is unmarried and hasn’t been engaged officially, so it will arouse gossip more easily.”

Dong Hui frowned while listening, yet she had to admit that Mammy Zheng’s words made sense.

To be frank, compared with her first daughter who was dignified and inflexible, Dong Hui preferred her second daughter who is sweet and nimble, but at the thought of Shi Qingxue and Wenren Chi, she felt uncomfortable.

Since Kou Lian took an opportunity to sleep with Shi Junhe and gave birth to Shi Baoyan that year, Dong Hui took it to heart all the time, so she had complex feelings for Shi Qingxue.

“Zheng, what do you think we should do?”

She couldn’t bear to see that Shi Baoning spent her days in tears, while if she had to frankly tell Shi Qingxue to stay away from Wenren Chi, she couldn’t speak out such words.

It was nothing if it would ruin the relationship between the mother and daughter because of this, while if Shi Qingxue never had such a thought but she had feelings after her mother said that, Dong Hui would shed tears.

Mammy Zheng guessed what Dong Hui thought about and suddenly brought up something else. “Madam, it’s more inconvenient for you to move recently. Don’t you want Lady Baoning to come and accompany you in the mansion?”

Dong Hui nodded. “Yes, but what does it have to do with our talk?”

“Lady Baoning and her husband just got married lately, and Master Chi lived in our mansion in the past. If she comes back, won’t he come back with her?” Mammy Zheng reminded Dong Hui cautiously.

Even though Wenren Chi had to work, he should come back to sleep at night.

They lived in the same mansion and would meet each other frequently. Then Wenren Chi and Shi Qingxue would have more chances to meet.

Hearing that, Dong Hui turned pale. “Why didn’t I think of this?”

She grabbed Mammy Zheng’s hand and said anxiously, “No matter if there is something wrong with them, we have to separate them first just in case.

“Zheng, you are clever. Figure out a way for me.”

In fact, Mammy Zheng had a solution, yet she stuttered for a long time and then replied hesitantly, “I do have an idea, but it’s…”