Novel Full Chapter 1670: What a Coincidence
Chapter 1670: What a Coincidence
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
As it was getting last night, Shao Zhongxi did not stay for long and returned to his residence.
Shao Boqi also planned to get some sleep in. He entered the backyard and passed by the garden. However, before he entered the courtyard where he usually slept, he saw Shao Yucen’s two maidservants, Chun Hua and Xia Hua, sitting on the steps beside the hand-washing veranda.
Why were they forced to sit here, instead of serving his daughter in the courtyard?
Shao Boqi felt that it was strange and walked over.
Chun Hua and Xia Hua were originally in a bad mood because Shao Yucen scolded them for no reason. However, it had been more than two hours since then. They slowly forgot about what she did and stopped caring about it. It was useless to care about their grievances. Then, they began to doze off.
Hugging their knees, they were dozing off when they saw the Duke walking over. They were immediately shocked and staggered to their feet. Then, they lowered their heads and stood up properly. They called out, “Master.”
“Why aren’t you guys on duty?” Shao Boqi asked. “What are you doing here?”
“Miss doesn’t want us to serve her.” Chun Hua and Xia Hua trembled.
.comShao Boqi had always known that his daughter was quite willful. He was not surprised. He only said, “Even so, you should be sitting at the courtyard entrance and not here.”
“But, but, but…” Chun Hua and Xia Hua trembled even more. They didn’t dare to say that she wanted them to scram
“But what?”
Chun Hua and Xia Hua still didn’t dare to say.
“Speak!” Shao Boqi was a little angry. This was no time for dilly-dally.
Li Hanzhou’s stoic face cracked slightly, and after a long pause, he asked with a teasing tone, “Kid, are you telling me this now because you want to take responsibility?”
Li Miao desperately signaled to her brother with her eyes, asking him not to be too harsh since Qiao Yun had come from the countryside and didn’t realize that he was a fearsome figure in Shangjing, known to make others tremble. It was normal for her not to know the rules.
Qiao Yun thought seriously for a moment, then corrected him, “Legally speaking, I’m already eighteen and an adult, not a ‘kid’.”
“…?”
“Also, I’m not even of legal marriage age, so this would be considered sexual harassment.”
Seeing Qiao Yun’s serious face, a hint of speechlessness flashed through Li Hanzhou’s shining eyes.
Is this straightforwardness typical of country folks?
To prevent Qiao Yun from saying anything more outrageous, Li Miao took the initiative to grab Qiao Yun’s suitcase and pulled her into the car.
“Alright, it’s getting late, let’s get in the car and talk.”
Li Miao first put Qiao Yun’s luggage in the trunk and after getting into the car, saw Qiao Yun casually inspecting the interior, which immediately inflated her vanity.
“Cool, right? This is the latest model of smart sports car. It can drive itself and even go underwater. Only five have been made worldwide. Do you know how much it costs?”
Li Miao stretched out a finger: “Almost a hundred million, you’ve probably never seen this much money in your life, have you?”
Qiao Yun silently recalled her bank account balance and permissively nodded.
Seeing Qiao Yun play along, Li Miao’s eyes filled with admiration: “It’s pricey for a reason, after all, it’s equipped with an MR.Q-developed smart system. Impressive, right?”
Qiao Yun paused, her lips slightly curved up: “Impressive.”
“You wouldn’t understand even if I explained it to you.”
Pampered Li Miao assumed that since Qiao Yun lived in the countryside, she probably had to work in the fields after school every day and likely had no time to learn about these things.
“Oh right, I forgot to tell you, your parents had some issues today, so they couldn’t come to pick you up.”
Qiao Yun, without even lifting her eyelids, calmly acknowledged with an “Oh.”
Li Miao suddenly became curious, “Why don’t you ask what it was?”
Qiao Yun was uninterested, but seeing Li Miao eagerly looking at her, she paused and asked, “What was it?”
Li Miao, her eyes full of mockery: “It was your half-sister from a different father and mother. I heard she was hospitalized with a fever yesterday and was so dramatic, clinging to your mom and wouldn’t let her go. Coincidentally, my mom heard about it and decided to pick you up instead. Oh, by the way, my mom and your mom were elementary school classmates.”
They were the type of classmates who kept in touch maybe once a year; she wondered why suddenly they were so eager to help.
Qiao Yun replied indifferently, “I see.”
“You’re not upset??”
Li Miao thought Qiao Yun’s reaction was abnormal since most people would be disappointed if their biological parents chose to take care of someone else who wasn’t even their own.
Qiao Yun perplexed: “Should I be upset?”
Li Miao: “…”
Feeling something wasn’t quite right and yet it seemed all right???
Qiao Yun truly wasn’t upset. Although this body was biologically related to the Lu family, she had been lost at the age of three and abducted, and they hadn’t seen each other for more than a decade.
Li Hanzhou watched Qiao Yun through the rearview mirror.
Her snowy white face partially engulfed in shadows, those eyes indifferent without a trace of emotion.
She truly felt no anger.
As Li Miao’s eyes darted around, thinking that Qiao Yun, on her first trip to the city, must be curious about the world outside the mountains, she started to describe the scenery.
“You see that skyscraper? It’s Shengqiao Group’s newly completed headquarters. Impressive, isn’t it? Not bragging, but in China, only Li Group can rival Shengqiao Group.”
Qiao Yun’s bright eyes looked up at the towering skyscraper and nonchalantly hummed an approval, showing no envy.
Just then, Qiao Yun’s phone vibrated.
Her slender fingers tapped on the message.
[Heard you’re back in Shangjing, when will you visit the Group?]
Qiao Yun glanced down, tapping on her phone: [I’ve already arrived.]
[Where? Why didn’t you say earlier, I could have arranged a welcome ceremony for you.]
Qiao Yun: [Driving past.]
After a while, the other side replied: [……]
Qiao Yun typed with utmost sincerity: [The new building is so ugly, looks like a huge vest.]
[A hundred-billion-dollar building and you call it a vest? There’s something I’m not sure whether I should say!]
Qiao Yun coldly replied: [Hold it in.]
After a while, the other person sent an aggrieved emoji.
Li Miao had been explaining for a long time and seeing that Qiao Yun didn’t respond, thought she might be overwhelmed by the big city, so she changed the subject: “By the way, now that you’re back in Shangjing, you must have transferred your school registration, right?”
Qiao Yun put away her phone and drawled, “It’s been transferred.”
Li Miao nodded, “Excellent, the resources in Shangjing City are definitely better than in the countryside. Just focus on your studies and you’ll surely make something of yourself.”
Qiao Yun lifted her eyelids, her gaze conveying an unspoken message to Li Miao, ultimately saying nothing.
“You guys are serving her, how could you not know?”
Chun Hua said, “We don’t know. We were originally sitting at the door of her room, waiting for her to wash up and pour her bath water. Who knew that she would open the door and say that she accidentally cut her hand and asked us to get some medicine? We wanted to go in and treat her wound, but she scolded us and asked us to get lost. We came here. It’s been so long, but she hasn’t asked us to help with the bathwater. I don’t know if her wound has been treated, but we secretly looked around and saw that the light in her room was off. So we concluded that she should be asleep.”
Shao Boqi was originally quite worried when he heard that his daughter accidentally cut her hand. He wanted to ask how his daughter was, but the more he heard the story, the more he felt strange.
His daughter had been pampered since she was young. How could she not let her maids treat her wound? She got angry and scolded the servant girl instead. She did not allow the servant girl to enter and even asked the servant girl to get lost.
It wouldn’t be right if she didn’t call a servant girl to pour the bathwater…
He recalled that his second brother, Shao Zhongxi, had come to tell him that the thief who had entered the Ministry of Works had been injured and was missing. Since he was injured, he needed medicine to patch himself up…
What a coincidence. His daughter’s hand was injured tonight and she asked for medicine…
Shao Boqi couldn’t help but ask, “Did you see if she accidentally cut her hand?”