Chapter 70 Sheng Weiqiao Was Left No Choice

Although Xu Baomo desired for all the beauties in the world, he was no dumb.

When he met Gongsun Yingjiang for the very first time on Daimao Island, he knew she was up to no good!

This Little Witch once said, “Young Lord Xu told me to dress like this and dance for Little Uncle.” If it were not for the good impression that he left to Sheng Family, he would be tied up and sent back to Cangwu County by Senior Master Sheng, and get beaten up by Old Marquis Xu.

Today in the garden, this Little Witch even gave him a look of threat. Now that she climbed into his room through the window at dusk, she definitely was up to no good!

She must want to get him into trouble!

“Look at you! Terrified.” Gongsun Yingjiang was composed to see him on the alert. She put down the teacup, leaned back a bit, and then said, “As for age, you’re older than me. As for inheritance, you’re the Young Lord while I’m of humble birth. As for fighting, you are endowed with civil and martial virtues anyhow. When we stay in the same space together in the evening, why are you scared of me? I’m not going to eat you.”

Xu Baomo looked at her defensively, “I’m not scared of you but rumors!”

He was going to marry Big Weiqiao!

If he were found to be in the same room with Big Weiqiao’s niece in the evening, no matter how generous Big Weiqiao was, he would definitely be screwed. After all, Sheng Family would never allow Sheng Weiqiao’s reputation to be stained by fighting with her niece for a man!

Wait! So, this Little Witch saw that and tried to get back at him now?!

“I have something important to tell you!” Gongsun Yingjiang smiled and crooked her finger, “Young Lord, you’d better come closer! Walls have ears.”

Xu Baomo didn’t get any closer while backed off a bit. He said coldly, “Miss Gongsun, have some self-respect, please. We are not related and of different genders! I dare not to listen to your important things. If you are really in a hurry, you should tell your aunt and uncle!”

“Who knows if you would grab my clothes and scream when I get closer,” he thought.

Honestly, Xu Baomo felt upset about this. He didn’t ever offend Gongsun Yingjiang! God knows why this Little Witch always pestered him and even climbed into his room through the window in the evening! Was it because he resisted her temptation？

The problem was that he was not even the man she liked!

“Anyways, I don’t want to mess up with this Little Witch of humble birth!” Xu Baomo reminded himself silently. “I will never pick anyone like this in the future, no matter how beautiful she is! If I have to pick her up, I will not use my real name, or it will be a disaster even I keep this woman outside of the family! My Big Weiqiao is so kind and gentle, so she can never handle a tameless concubine like this.”

Obviously, he had wholly forgotten Sheng Weiqiao had chopped off Young Master Han’s head on the sea, with only one slash of the sword….

Gongsun Yingjiang had no idea what he was thinking. Since he was not willing to get closer, she stood up, crossed her arms, and walked up to him, “Not scared of me? Why did you avoid me like I’m a monster when I asked you to come closer? Don’t you know that girls are narrow-minded? You want to escape from me, but I will walk up to you!”

Xu Baomo was scared and jumped back a little, “What do you want?”

Gongsun Yingjiang smiled. When she was about to talk, a cold voice came in through the window, “I will count to three. If you still stay in the guest house….”

Gongsun Yingjiang’s expression changed before the treat came out. She had no time to drop the hammer but jumped out of the window in a hurry, and growled when running, “I’m leaving now! Don’t do anything!”

When she said “-thing”, her voice already went far away from the room. It sounded like she had climbed over the wall.

In the room, Xu Baomo was surprised for a second to hear that voice, and then he tided his clothes and went out. It was not Sheng Shuihe but Gongsun Xi, who was dressed as the servant of Gongsun Yingjiang and stood in the yard with his hands behind his back.

The moonlight on his black clothes looked like a layer of yarn. In the dim light, his handsome face seemed more tender in the evening.

However, his look was cold and indifferent. He nodded at Xu Baomo, “We didn’t raise her right. Sorry for bothering you, Young Lord!”

“She’s just young!” Xu Baomo looked at him with suspicion, “Did Brother Hengshu make you follow Miss Gongsun?”

Or he could not stop Gongsun Yingjiang in time. However, was it really a coincidence?

Xu Baomo even suspected that Gongsun Xi had been outside for a long time but stood aside to watch them. He stopped Gongsun Yingjiang just because he didn’t want to make a big scene.

“Chief said that she has been restless lately, so he made me look out for her.” Gongsun Xi said with a poker face. “However, as a man, I couldn’t follow a girl every minute. She ran out due to my oversight, and I will confess to chief and ask for a penalty later. If Young Lord thinks it’s not enough, you may tell chief tomorrow.”

Xu Baomo squinted his eyes and said gently, “I know she was just fooling around, so you don’t have to mind that. Brother Hengshu must hold you in high regard, or he would not have only brought you when he left Daimao Island. If you take this seriously, Brother Hengshu and I may seem divided.”

He noticed that Gongsun Xi hardly reacted to his gentle attitude. However, his eyes lit up when hearing “Brother Hengshu must hold you in high regard…,” and his poker face slightly changed for one second.

“It’s pretty late now. I should get out of your hair, Young Lord!” Gongsun Xi put back his poker face quickly, saluted, and then left.

Like Gongsun Yingjiang, he left by climbing over the wall. He was nimble like a leopard cat and disappeared in a moment.

Xu Baomo held his breath, stood still to listen for a while, and turned around until he could confirm the faint footsteps had gone. He thought, “It’s weird…. Why does it seem that Little Witch is more scared of this servant than Brother Hengshu?”

Although he didn’t clearly know how Sheng Shuihe educated his niece, he could tell from the untamed behavior of Gongsun Yingjiang that Sheng Shuihe could barely handle her, which was not surprising. Sheng Shuihe just returned to Sheng Family. While he was highly regarded by Gongsun Family, he was only a foster son on Daimao Island. However, Gongsun Yingjiang was the blood of Gongsun Family.

Sheng Shuihe dared not to lecture Gongsun Yingjiang as his junior.

However, Gongsun Xi was not even a foster son of Gongsun Family. He was only a servant who just took the family’s name, while he could scare the hell out of the daughter of Gongsun Family, which was interesting!

When Xu Baomo’s thought still wondered, Gongsun Yingjiang, who returned to the Qiongpa House in a hurry, startled the maid in the House because she was afraid that Gongsun Xi might kick her ass. Her maid Yushan was left on the island, so her servants here were assigned by Sheng Family, and their loyalty went to Sheng Family first.

In the beginning, Sheng Family meant no harm to Gongsun Yingjiang, and they had no intention of supervision when assigning servants for her. However, Sheng Weiqiao was deeply worried by the words of Gongsun Yingjiang in this morning. “… Then I will sleep with Young Lord Xu.” So, she made Lvjin tell the servants in Qiongpa House to look out for Gongsun Yingjiang at dusk. If Miss Gongsun did something inappropriate, they should report to the Zhuying Mini Villa immediately!

Therefore, when the maid had seen Gongsun Yingjiang who climbed over the wall, she withheld her exclamation, waited patiently for Gongsun Yingjiang to enter her room, and then she left Qiongpa House quickly for Zhuying Mini Villa to tell Sheng Weiqiao everything!

At this point, Sheng Weiqiao just took a bath and leaned on a brocade couch with her knee-long black hair down, drying off her hair with Lvqi together by handkerchiefs.

After hearing this, she was so pissed off that she threw the handkerchief to the ground and asked coldly, “Where did she go?”

The servant answered in a low voice, “That maid said that she didn’t even notice Miss Sun had left the house, and she only saw her back.”

“I see. I will deal with that!” Sheng Weiqiao said with a cold face. She put her hands together, stood up, walked back and forth in the room to hold back her anger. Then she stopped and said, “Give that maid a tael and tell her to shut her mouth! Or her fate will be the same with that mistress of Second Uncle!”

“Miss, this is not good.” After the servant stepped down, Lvqi, holding the handkerchief, said in worry, “Miss Sun only came to Sheng Family for several days while she already climbed over the wall for entry in the evening. If others knew about this, our reputation would be damaged! What if your reputation also gets frayed?”

Grinding her teeth, Sheng Weiqiao kept silent. Lvqi was ignorant, and she only worried about her reputation. However, Sheng Weiqiao has already known where Gongsun Yingjiang left Qiongpa House for after climbing over the wall!

It was most likely that she had gone to the guest house where Xu Baomo stayed in!

After all, from their conversation before, Gongsun Yingjiang had promised her to give up on Sheng Shuihe. Even she didn’t give up, she admitted that Sheng Shuihe was out of her league.

But she never promised that she would give up on Xu Baomo!

Sheng Weiqiao couldn’t imagine if Gongsun Yingjiang had met Xu Baomo after she left Qiongpa House, and what did she say or do to him.

“It can’t go on like this!” Sheng Weiqiao thought quickly, “Old habits die hard. But if we indulge her, she will ruin our entire family!”

But she didn’t have the heart to get Gongsun Yingjiang away. “She has already taken the wrong path. If she ever returned to Daimao Island, there is no way for her to get back to righteousness.”

The life of her first cousins, Shen Jiuniang and Sheng Weirao, had totally been changed on the island. She couldn’t bring Gongsun Yingjiang, a girl of her age, back to that hellish place!

Biting her lips, Sheng Weiqiao leaned back to the brocade couch and said, “I need to figure it out…. Wait!”

She remembered that when Gongsun Yingjiang had thought that something had been going on between her and Xu Baomo, she had promised her, “I will never get into the way.” If Gongsun Yingjiang were someone who kept her words, maybe this was where she could start with.

“Now, this is the only way!” At first, Sheng Weiqiao thought it was inappropriate because Xu Baomo had nothing to do with it. From her perspective, since he came to Sheng Family, he has already helped her and her family a lot. However, Sheng Family has never treated him well.

She shouldn’t bother him again for Gongsun Yingjiang.

However, after thinking about it, Sheng Weiqiao had come out with no other method to deal with that rebellious Little Witch. Finally, she could only sigh and say to herself, “Tomorrow I will talk to Brother Xu about it. If he disagrees with it, I’ll let it go. If it goes the other way… let’s see if Yingjiang is worth it!”

Although Sheng Weiqiao didn’t have the heart to get her niece back to the island, however, if Gongsun Yingjiang had not kept her words, she would not care about the girl’s future anymore!

After all, if a person who didn’t keep his words and even disobeyed his family was kept in Sheng Family for the long term, he would be a trouble for the family sooner or later!

The pity of Sheng Weiqiao to Gongsun Yingjiang could never exceed the importance of Sheng Family!

Therefore, in the next morning, when Xu Baomo was told that Sheng Weiqiao had invited him to the Cuimo Waterside Pavilion in the afternoon, he thought she was going to tell him the result of the conversation between her and Gongsun Yingjiang.

When they met in the Cuimo Waterside Pavilion in the afternoon, Sheng Weiqiao said with hesitation, “Brother, did Yingjiang bother you last night?”

Xu Baomo almost thought that Gongsun Yingjiang had talked nonsense again. When he was thinking hard for explanation, Sheng Weiqiao, who had already told what happened, sighed, “She did bother you.”

Surprisingly, Sheng Weiqiao felt a bit relieved hearing that, because it was not Sheng Shuihe but Xu Baomo that Gongsun Yingjiang left the Qiongpa House for. Did it show that her niece indeed kept her words?

“Brother, I had a bumpy conversation with Yingjiang yesterday. Therefore, I have an awkward request for you. If you feel offended, please tell me directly.” Sheng Weiqiao looked at Xu Baomo, who was freaking out inside and wondering what he could say, took a deep breath, and said, “Yingjiang has intentions that she shouldn’t have to you, but she promised me that she would never fight with me for you. So, I would like to know if Brother Xu could pretend to fall in love with me… for a while?”

She forced a smile, “Yingjiang is still young and not mature. I think it will not take long before she gives up on you!”