Chapter 110: False Love Deceives the Real Insider
In the evening.
Seeing that there was no one around, Sun Shaozong took advantage of the cover of the flower bed, crouched down and walked in small steps to the front of the rockery.
She carefully moved the Taihu stone away, and rubbed the hem of her clothes clean with both hands. Then she took out a pleated long skirt from her arms and handed it to Ping'er.
Then he explained carefully: "I stole this from Yiran Xuan. When you are done with it, remember to throw it nearby so that they will think it was blown away by the wind."
Ping'er had just packed up simply with her clothes and hairpins, so she took the pleated skirt and put it on directly. Then she reached out to Sun Shaozong's palm for leverage and crawled out of the cave.
While gathering the loose hair on her forehead with her hands and gazing at the half-moon in the sky, she couldn't help feeling as if she were in another world.
"Can you keep it a secret if you go back like this?"
Sun Shaozong hesitated and said, "How about I talk to Brother Lian and ask for you to go home..."
"Absolutely not!"
Before he could finish, Ping'er shook her head firmly and said, "Mr. Lian is different from Mr. Xue. Even if he doesn't get close to the women around him, he won't allow others to think about them."
Sun Shaozong naturally knew this.
He just slept with her without knowing it, and after she found out the truth, she magnanimously said "let bygones be bygones". He can't just not have any reaction, right?
That's why he gritted his teeth and expressed his willingness to ask Jia Lian for Ping'er.
Now hearing what Ping'er said, Sun Shaozong felt relieved.
However, he didn't dare show it on his face. Instead, he looked at Ping'er with a reluctant expression, as if he wanted to say something but stopped himself.
After "confessing their feelings" in the cave and confirming her guess, Ping'er only resented Wang Xifeng and Lai Da, and could not muster any hatred towards Sun Shaozong, who was also a victim.
Seeing Sun Shaozong's face full of "loss and disappointment" at this moment, compared with Jia Lian's usual ruthlessness and disloyalty, he couldn't help but feel some strange feelings.
So after a little hesitation, she whispered, "Don't worry, I have my own way to hide it from others. If the Second Madam takes any action again in the future, I will find a way to inform you."
Having said this, he bowed slightly and was about to turn around and leave.
This clearly means that he wants to be my accomplice!
If Sun Shaozong let her go like this, he would be a real fool!
Although he did not suffer any loss this time and even slept with a beautiful woman for free, Sun Shaozong would not give up on revenge on Wang Xifeng, Lai Da and others - and if he wanted to take revenge on them, what method could be more convenient than to instigate Ping'er to rebel?
So he stepped in front of Ping'er and said excitedly: "Miss Ping'er, I have so... so blasphemous to you, but you treat me like this, it's really... really..."
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pulled out a jade pendant from his waist, stuffed it into Ping'er's hand, and said solemnly: "I can't write any love poems either, so you can keep this jade pendant that has been passed down from my family for now. If I find an opportunity in the future, I will definitely marry you home!"
Ping'er held up the jade pendant and took a closer look at it, but she couldn't help feeling absurd - the thing that Wang Xifeng had tried so hard to get but failed was given to her by Sun Shaozong.
After a long while, she raised her head and said in confusion, "Master Sun, I... wu..."
Unexpectedly, just as she started, Sun Shaozong suddenly bent down and kissed her.
Ping'er's body stiffened at first, then relaxed again, allowing him to do what he wanted just like she did in the cave - no, this time not only did she give up resistance, she even cautiously responded!
After kissing for a long time, the two let go of each other, panting.
The two looked at each other for a while, and Ping'er could no longer resist Sun Shaozong's fiery gaze. She blushed and lowered her head and said, "I... I have to go."
As he said this, he ran a few steps in panic, but couldn't help looking back.
When Ping'er found that Sun Shaozong was still looking at her affectionately, she felt even more comforted. She moaned and left, covering her face.
Sun Shaozong watched Ping'er disappear at the end of the tree-lined path, then he put away his infatuated look, raised his hand and slapped himself in the face, muttering, "This damn bastard, he really has no bottom line!"
He is not a lustful young man who is greedy for women. How could he be so infatuated with a woman just because he slept with her in a daze?
Therefore, ninety percent of what happened just now was acting, and the so-called "family heirloom jade pendant" was actually a thank-you gift from Feng Xin when he took office. Sun Shaozong only wore it occasionally, and not many people knew that he had this thing.
Even if Ping'er turned against him later and tried to use the jade pendant to blame her, he could just play the blame game and pretend he knew nothing about it.
but……
Compared to that old fox Jia Yucun, Sun Shaozong was still inferior. If he had not verified with Ping'er in the cave just now and discovered some clues, he would have fallen into Jia Yucun's trap again.
The old fox had actually already prepared a precaution in front of Lai Da, saying that he and Sun Shaozong had completely fallen out, and that if any mistakes or difficulties occurred, he would frame them all on him.
With these words as a basis, no matter how much Sun Shaozong talked, Lai Da would only think that he was evading and trying to instigate.
Alas~
It turns out that it’s not that easy to get into the officialdom!
Sun Shaozong sighed, walked to a flower bed, lay down in it without saying a word and rolled around for a few times. After getting up, he slapped his hands a few times and then rushed to the flower hall with a head of weeds.
Now that several hours had passed, Jia Lian and Jia Baoyu naturally could not still be waiting here, but because they had not found Sun Shaozong, two servants were left inside.
Seeing him walk in covered in dust, the two servants came up to him and asked in surprise, "Master Sun, you...what happened to you?!"
"Nothing, I drank a few glasses of strong liquor at noon, and accidentally fell asleep in the flower bed." Sun Shaozong said vaguely, and then asked: "Where are Brother Lian and Brother Bao? It's so late, I have to say goodbye to them quickly."
Seeing how embarrassed he looked and how slurred his words were, the two servants naturally believed what he said. They held back their laughter and led Sun Shaozong into the hall to sit down. They also sent one of them to invite Jia Lian.
Not long after, Jia Lian came hurriedly. Seeing Sun Shaozong's hair full of dead leaves, he couldn't help but burst into laughter. He pointed at Sun Shaozong and said, "Erlang, Erlang, you usually claim to be a man of great tolerance, but I didn't expect that you would be so embarrassed."
Seeing his gloating look, Sun Shaozong felt relieved. He spread his hands and smiled bitterly, "I don't know where Brother Bao got the wine from. It's so strong. I'm drunk after just a few bowls. If it were an ordinary person, wouldn't he be drunk to death?"
As he spoke, he smacked his lips again, and said with a look of aftertaste: "But this sleep was really very comfortable - Second brother, why not try a bowl too, I guarantee you will have an endless aftertaste."
"I do."
Jia Lian also spread his hands and said, "But when everyone was busy looking for you, I don't know who accidentally knocked over the jar of wine, and now there is not a drop left."
