Chapter 272, You Are a Murderer

Downstairs, Shi Yujiao walked out of the kitchen and ordered the servants to prepare lunch in the attitude of a hostess, just in time to see Jiang Ran going downstairs with Si Xu on his arm.

Remembering what her elder brother said, the woman stared at Si Xu carefully, and the more she looked, the more she felt that this young man looked like Huo Zhihua.

Could it be that Si Xu is really the Huo family who has hidden his identity?
The girl said that they came from Xiling base, since it is Xiling base, just try to know the truth.

……

I don't know what Huo Lingyin and Huo Zhiqiang talked about, but when Huo Lingyin went downstairs, her expression was not very good.

She walked up to Jiang Ran and sat down, with a stinky face and an air of keeping strangers away from her whole body.

Jiang Ran poured a glass of water and pushed it in front of her without saying a word.

Pei Xiao followed Pei Qing out of the study, looked around the living room, walked to Huo Lingyin, leaned over with one hand on the back of her chair: "My mother didn't come down?"

Huo Lingyin drank tea and hummed: "Little aunt is not feeling well, she fell asleep."

After finishing speaking, he glanced at Shi Yujiao who was talking softly with Pei Qing, and sneered: "People who are an eyesore are hanging around in front of you. If it were me, I wouldn't bother to come down."

Knowing that she was unhappy, Pei Xiao patted her shoulder lightly, walked to the empty seat on Pei Qing's left and sat down.

Huo Zhihua was supposed to be on Pei Qing's right, but Huo Zhihua didn't come down, so Shi Yujiao, who was talking to the man, took advantage of the situation and sat down.

At the end, he gave Huo Lingyin a provocative glance with a half-smile.

"boom!"

The teacup slammed heavily on the table, and Huo Lingyin was about to speak when Jiang Ran yelled loudly, angrily: "The tea I poured for you is fine if you don't drink it, what do you mean by pouring it on me?"

Two drops of tea foam splashed on her hand.

Huo Lingyin's crazily burning anger was extinguished by the girl's words. She took out a tissue and pressed it on the back of Jiang Ran's hand, annoyed: "Here, wipe it yourself."

Jiang Ran wiped her hands and muttered: "Wipe it yourself, it's so fierce~"

As soon as the girl interrupted, the originally weird atmosphere eased a little.

Pei Qing just smiled and listened to Shi Yuji's words the whole time, as if he didn't see the subtle atmosphere between Huo Lingyin and Shi Yujiao.

Pei Xiao winked at Huo Lingyin and ordered the servants to serve the dishes.

"I'm talking about you, if you can't bear it, you can make big plans." Jiang Ran wiped her hands and talked to Huo Lingyin in a low voice, "You don't look like such a stupid person."

Knowing that her actions just now were too impulsive, Huo Lingyin gritted her teeth: "I've already restrained myself—if it wasn't for the Pei family, I would have beaten her up to the point where her nose was bruised and her face was swollen."

"You?" Jiang Ran expressed doubts, "Si Xu said, the Patriarch of the Shi family is a dual-line power user with a good level of power. I'm afraid you alone are no match for their brothers and sisters."

"...Can you not let others' ambition destroy your prestige?"

"To be honest, how did you destroy your own prestige?" Jiang Ran snorted, "Only by seeing the reality clearly can we make more accurate plans. If we want to do it, we must defeat the enemy with one blow-such a simple truth, Huo Sichan never taught it. you?"

She spoke logically, and Huo Lingyin looked at her directly: "Tell me, what should I do?"

Jiang Ran picked up a piece of lettuce and replied casually, "Wait and see."

"..." Saying it is tantamount to not saying it.

After drinking for three rounds, the originally sluggish air pressure dissipated, and the dinner table gradually became lively.

Shi Yuji was already slightly drunk, and he was almost chatting with Pei Qing, so he turned his attention to Si Xu who was eating quietly.

The man stood up holding the wine glass: "Mr. Si, right? You have come all the way from Xiling Base, and you have worked hard all the way. Let me toast you."

He is an elderly man, and he got up to toast again, thinking that the other party should at least accompany him for a drink, but the young man didn't even bother to lift his eyelids, and said flatly: "I don't drink."

The wine glass that Shi Yuji held high suddenly froze in the air.

Si Xu took a sip of tea as if no one was around, and continued to pick up the peanuts in front of him.

Shi Yuji: "..."

Seeing the man's face turn from red to black, Jiang Ran got up: "Mr. Shi, you're welcome—my boyfriend pours a glass of wine, and I will toast you with this glass of wine on his behalf."

Without giving Shi Yuji a chance to speak, Jiang Ran drank the wine in the cup in one gulp.

The other party was a little girl, and she spoke politely. Shi Yuji couldn't continue pestering her, so she also drank and sat back on the chair.

When her brother hit a wall, Shi Yujiao smiled and asked curiously: "Since you two are from Xiling Base, do you know Pei Wan'er?"

As soon as Pei Wan'er uttered the three words, Si Xu's hands stopped, and he slowly put down his chopsticks.

He finally opened his eyes to look at the woman, suddenly: "Oh, you are Pei Wan'er's mother."

Huo Lingyin: "..." Chao whispered to Jiang Ran, "No way, Si Xu just now remembered that this woman is Pei Wan'er's mother?"

Jiang Ran probed: "You know, he has a bad memory." With a bad memory, people who don't matter usually can't remember.

Shi Yujiao asked casually, but she did not expect the young man to answer seriously. She was surprised: "You really know my Wan'er?"

"know."

"You...you are her colleague?"

"No." Si Xu said bluntly, "I am her boss."

"Boss?" Shi Yujiao murmured after hearing about what happened to Pei Wan'er at Xiling Base from Pei Xiao, "You, are you the one written in Wan'er's diary?"

Pei Wan'er's diary was handed over to Pei Xiao by Su Qin, and Pei Xiao entrusted someone to transfer it to the Shi family after returning to the base of the Eastern Dynasty.

Emotions surged in the woman's eyes, and she suddenly raised her voice: "You——you are the one Wan'er likes?!"

Huo Lingyin took a sip of tea: What did she hear, Pei Wan'er likes Si Xu?Is there any bloody plot that she doesn't know about?
Si Xu didn't respond.

He was very puzzled, why did Pei Wan'er like him, except himself, why did everyone in the world care about it?

"It's you!" Shi Yujiao stood up with her hands on the table, staring at Si Xu closely, "You, you—Wan'er likes you so much, why didn't you protect her?!"

She thought of the diary she carefully collected, which was the only thought left to her by her daughter who had been separated for many years. The diary recorded all the expectations and desires of the girl in her youth.

Although she didn't get a response in the end, she loved this man so much that she almost couldn't hold her heart in front of him.

She loved him so much, yet he watched her die in front of him!
"You murderer!" Tears filled the woman's eyes, her emotions seemed to collapse, "You didn't save her! You are also a murderer! You killed her!"

Before she finished speaking, Jiang Ran raised her hand, in a very casual posture, and directly poured the whole glass of red wine that was just filled on the woman's face.

"Huh?" The cold drink poured down on her face, and the woman's scolding stopped abruptly.

She stood there blankly, as if she had been dazed by the splash of red wine.

Jiang Ran put down the glass, picked up the napkin and slowly wiped his fingers, looked at the woman coldly, and smiled slightly: "This Ms. Shi, I respected you for the glass of wine just now - for your rude words, and for my boyfriend Inexplicable accusations."

After finishing speaking, she glanced at the maid next to her who was also stunned, and said softly, "Didn't you see that Ms. Shi was dirty? Why don't you take her to clean it up and change clothes?"

(End of this chapter)

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