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Ji Mo Sheng said, “At the time, I also thought that once the base was destroyed, everything would be over.”
“But later, I started thinking just like you…”
It was too much of a coincidence.
As soon as he discovered that base, it was immediately destroyed.
How could such a coincidence exist in this world?
At that moment, Lin Qing You walked in with a bottle of Maotai. “Shifu, are you done talking? I’m coming in now.”
Ji Mo Sheng twitched at the corner of his mouth. “Aren’t you already inside?”
Lin Qing You handed him the Maotai. “I heard everything too.”
Ji Mo Sheng: “…”
“You…” Ji Mo Sheng rubbed his forehead. “You little rascal, how could you eavesdrop? You have no sense of honor!”
“Tsk…” Lin Qing You returned to her seat and continued eating her wild mushrooms. “I thought you deliberately sent me away so you could mistreat my baby, but turns out it was just this?”
Ji Mo Sheng: “…”
So she stayed outside to make sure he wouldn’t mistreat Yin Han Yu?
This little rascal, always siding with outsiders.
“Shifu, don’t be surprised.” Lin Qing You ladled some mushroom soup for Ji Mo Sheng. “You thought you could keep this from me, but I already knew about that base long ago.”
Ji Mo Sheng frowned. “How did you know?”
He didn’t want her exposed to those dark, bloody sides of the world.
That’s why he deliberately sent her away.
He just wanted her to be happy.
Lin Qing You smiled and scooped a bowl of soup for Yin Han Yu as well. “My baby told me.”
Ji Mo Sheng instantly glared at Yin Han Yu with displeasure.
Lin Qing You noticed and quickly defended him. “Shifu, don’t be mad at my baby. I forced him to tell me.”
“He used to think just like you—planning to keep it from me no matter what, even going out of his way to hide it.”
“You men…”
Lin Qing You sighed, then clicked her tongue in distaste. “You men always claim you’re doing things for our own good, yet you keep us in the dark.”
“Little do you know, most of the time, women get hurt precisely because of your secrecy.”
“And when things finally go wrong, you say, ‘I was doing it for your own good.'”
“Ha! What a joke!”
“For my own good? Then tell me everything, make things clear.”
“Otherwise, if someone with ill intentions manipulates the truth, we’ll end up hurting each other instead.”
“Even the strongest relationship can’t withstand endless lies and interference.”
“Think about it. If everyone else knows something, but the one closest to you is kept in the dark, what does that make them? A stranger? A joke?”
“If I were hiding something from you all—if I secretly took on a dangerous mission, got injured, or even died, and you were completely unaware like fools, how would you feel?”
“If we’re truly the closest to each other, then we should face difficulties together. Otherwise, what kind of family, what kind of love is that?”
Ji Mo Sheng fell silent. Everyone fell silent.
Suddenly—
Ji Mo Sheng reached out and squeezed Lin Qing You’s shoulder, just as she used to do to please him. “Xiao Youzi, I’ve learned my lesson. From now on, you’re my teacher.”
Lin Qing You: “…” !!!
“Pfft—” Yin Yi Xuan was so startled that he spat out his mushroom soup.
After dinner, the sky was already dark.
Ji Mo Sheng gave Lin Qing You a few instructions before leaving alone under the night sky.
He said he had something important to do.
Lin Qing You didn’t ask what it was. She only reminded him, “Shifu, whatever you’re doing, be safe! Safety first—everything else is secondary.”
Ji Mo Sheng had already walked far, but hearing her words, he turned back and waved. “Don’t worry, Xiao Youzi. Your Shifu is strong.”
“We’ll see each other again soon.”
He still had to prepare her dowry.
“Yin Han Yu, take good care of my Xiao Youzi. If she loses a single strand of hair or suffers even a little, I’ll put a bullet in you.”
On the way back, Lin Qing You specifically stopped by a shop to buy fresh wild mushrooms and dried ganba fungus.
Yin Yi Xuan couldn’t help but comment, “You’ve already eaten so much of this stuff. Why are you buying more?”
“You don’t get it.” Lin Qing You said, “I’m buying it to cook for my aunt and Yin Xiao San.”
“Yin Xiao San? He gets a share too?” Yin Yi Xuan pouted. “He talks behind your back all the time, and you’re still nice to him?”
Lin Qing You: “Because Yin Xiao San is more obedient than you. Compared to you, he’s a little angel.”
“…” Yin Yi Xuan was speechless. “He talks bad about you all the time, and he’s an angel?”
Lin Qing You shot him a cold glance. “So you’re trying to drive a wedge between me and my little brother-in-law?”
“What wedge? I’m just telling the truth. If he hadn’t badmouthed you so much, I wouldn’t even remember your name.”
But what Yin Xiao San said wasn’t even true.
He kept saying Lin Qing You treated Yin Han Yu poorly and hurt him.
Yet from what Yin Yi Xuan saw, Lin Qing You was the one who treated Yin Han Yu the best.
Just now, to keep her “baby” from getting tired, she made Yin Yi Xuan drive the entire way himself.
After seven or eight hours of driving from dusk to dawn, Yin Yi Xuan was exhausted and wanted to switch with Yin Han Yu.
But Lin Qing You immediately shut it down. “No way! My baby is injured and needs rest.”
And Yin Han Yu? He shamelessly let Yin Yi Xuan drive the whole way.
But in his mind, he was just obediently listening to his wife.
If Lin Qing You told him to rest, then he would rest.
Besides, he was deep in thought…
“Yin Xiao Er, what exactly did Yin Xiao San say about me?”
“Too much to remember.”
“Really?” Lin Qing You remained unfazed. “I badmouth him even more, and I beat him up all the time.”
Yin Yi Xuan: “…”
“But that doesn’t stop me from cooking for him.”
Yin Yi Xuan pouted but resigned himself to keep driving.
Nobody loved him.
Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Ming Yu, who was sitting in the front passenger seat.
She hadn’t spoken a single word to him.
But somehow, he was still in a good mood.
He decided to pretend that he and Ming Yu were on a road trip.
And the two annoying lovebirds in the back were just hitchhikers.
Lin Qing You gently patted Yin Han Yu. “Baby, what’s wrong? You’ve been so quiet. Is your wound hurting again?”
“No.” Yin Han Yu shook his head. “I was just thinking about something.”
“What are you thinking about?” Lin Qing You asked.
Yin Han Yu suddenly looked at her. “Did you bring your household registration book?”
Lin Qing You nodded. “Of course. That was the whole point of our trip back home—I wouldn’t forget something so important.”
She had always been serious about marrying him.
Yin Han Yu said, “Then let’s go to the Civil Affairs Bureau and get our marriage certificate.”
Originally, he wanted to prepare a wedding properly, following the traditional process she wanted.
But now, he didn’t want to wait anymore.
He had a bad feeling…