Chapter 347 - The Conjectures at the Feast (1/2)

Shi Qingxue was surprised to hear Mo Junyang’s words. “I thought that you didn’t know it until the truth was exposed.”

Mo Junyang sneered and shook his head. “If I hadn’t known it until then, I might have died for thousands of times without knowing why.”

“So you…” Shi Qingxue pursed her lips and suddenly thought that she didn’t know what to say.

So she stopped talking and listened to Mo Junyang carefully.

“In the previous life, after King Rui’s wife died, the emperor didn’t know my relationship with him, so he just took me as a hostage to control my father and raised me in the imperial palace, telling the other princes to bully me willfully as long as they didn’t take my life.

“Those days, I lived a hard life.”

Mo Junyang just casually described his most miserable period of life as “a hard life”, yet Shi Qingxue knew that he had suffered much more than what he said.

And she didn’t even dare to imagine.

“I am sorry. I didn’t help you but even…” Shi Qingxue apologized with guilt.

She really wished that she could return to the previous life and treat Mo Junyang well, so would he suffer less?

Mo Junyang covered Shi Qingxue’s red lips with his hand and shook his head, chuckling. “I have said that you don’t need to say sorry to me, really. What I experienced in the previous life was bad, but it benefited me.”

If he didn’t suffer the hardships those years, Mo Junyang might not be like this.

So even though he didn’t like the past, he had never felt resentful at it.

After hearing Mo Junyang’s words, Shi Qingxue was stunned and then understood gradually.

Right, to them, probably there were many things unpleasant in the past.

However, because of those things, they became like this.

When she lost the memories about the previous life and became the sixth young lady who didn’t know the hardships in the world, Mo Junyang couldn’t accept it.

Wasn’t it because of this?

Shi Qingxue finally got relieved.

She hugged Mo Junyang, and a smile like the first sunshine after rain was shown on her cloudy face.

It made people feel warm like the bright and dazzling sun.

They embraced each other quietly. Although there were different kinds of unpredicted difficulties and hazards ahead, at the moment, they just needed a hug before they relaxed.

The feast celebrating the first month of the twins was held in Duke Shi’s mansion.

That day, all the influential noble families in the capital attended the feast, and even several princes drank some wine to do Duke Shi an honor before leaving.

The emperor rewarded Duke Shi with a lot of gifts to congratulate him.

These actions firmed Shi Junhe’s position as the first nobleman in the capital city undoubtedly.

Those people who had laughed at Duke Shi behind his back as he would have no heir started to feel embarrassed after seeing the fair-skinned and fat young master Shi Tianyou.

Then they began to praise the young master as he was nice, of dignified bearing and had a bright future at a glance and would surely be a talented person.

Anyway, they praised him randomly and didn’t care if it was practical to give the compliments to a baby who was only one month old.

Shi Qingxue brought Shi Qingmin to the feast. In order not to let people see the birthmark on his face, she refused the wet nurse politely and held him in her arms all the time.

The thick brocade clothes happened to cover little Qingmin’s cheek, and Mo Junyang stood beside her from beginning to end, so the people who wanted to flatter them didn’t dare to act recklessly. They glanced at Qingmin in the distance and then praised him no matter if they saw his face clearly.

It wouldn’t be wrong to say something nice.

Shi Qingxue held Qingmin and accepted the compliments calmly, expressing thanks to them on behalf of him.

The feast was held successfully, and nobody noticed something unusual. The outsiders didn’t find that the first young master of the Shi family was an “ugly” and “disabled” baby.

Even the Shi family didn’t know that there was something wrong with Shi Qingmin’s leg, except the servants who had taken care of him.

Shi Qingxue just hoped that Shi Qingmin could keep his pride and live a good life.

Unexpectedly, her action at the feast was a different sign in outsiders’ eyes.

“Is what you said true?” A petty official who came to work in the capital not long ago asked a big shot who claimed to be well-informed in this city in a low voice.

The big shot raised his chin and asked complacently, “Why would I cheat you? Haven’t you seen that Lord Shi has two sons this time? Obviously the first son is favored.”

“But I saw that the second young master showed his face in front of more people and got more compliments. It appears that he will inherit the title of nobility.” The petty official said what he had seen with uncertainty.

The big shot glanced at the petty official with disdain and almost said with his eyes that the latter was short-sighted.

The petty official hurriedly looked as if he were in fear and trepidation and listened to the big shot’s unique opinion.

The big shot’s vanity was satisfied, and he spoke in a more casual tone.

“The second young master had more chances to show his face in public, but I think that it might be a deceptive trick. Didn’t you see that he was held by a wet nurse and shown to the guests no matter how precious he is?

“The first young master is different. He was held by Lady Qingxue in person and introduced to others. It can be seen that the Shi family values this baby a lot.”

The big shot made a long speech and analyzed clearly and logically, which made the petty official look confused, yet he couldn’t fully understand.

The big shot patted the petty official’s head and stated furiously in a low voice, “Idiot, you don’t even understand this. You must know the man next to Lady Qingxue, right?”