Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

"Adjutant Shen! You've arrived just in time!"

In front of the heavy teak door, the gray-haired old butler, upon seeing Shen Jingyuan stepping onto the stairs with a serious expression, hurriedly called out to him like a drowning man who had grabbed a life-saving straw.

"Uncle Quan." Seeing the panic that could not be concealed on the face of the usually calm old butler, Shen Jingyuan could not help but pause, his face solemn, and subconsciously pressed the cold gun case on his waist. He strode to the old butler, frowned, and asked in a low voice, "What happened?"

Uncle Quan seemed to be completely unaware of his guarded movements. When he saw someone approaching, he hurriedly grabbed the cuff of Shen Jingyuan's arm, tried to calm his somewhat anxious breathing, and then spoke in an anxious tone.

"Adjutant Shen, please come with me! The young lady is... throwing a tantrum upstairs again. She's making quite a racket, and no one can stop her!"

Hearing the word "Miss", Shen Jingyuan's tense expression suddenly relaxed for a moment, but then he frowned even tighter.

"Where's the wife?"

He slowly withdrew his hand from the gun case at his waist, and did not enter the room immediately. Instead, he frowned and glanced quickly and calmly into the depths of the hallway. Then he withdrew his gaze, pursed his lips and asked in a low voice.

Uncle Quan pulled up his sleeve to wipe the sweat from his temples. His cloudy eyes were filled with helplessness, and he answered hurriedly.

"I just... I just called the Yin Mansion," he said, taking a breath, his tone more sorrowful, "but the servant who answered the phone said that the mistress and her friends were tired from playing cards and were planning to go out for a stroll in the garden to relax. I'm afraid... I'm afraid we won't get any news for a while."

At this point, the old housekeeper paused, his cloudy eyes suddenly brightened, and he looked at Shen Jingyuan with a subtle hope, "The commander... the commander..."

"The commander has important matters to attend to today." Before the butler could finish, Shen Jingyuan interrupted him in a serious tone, "No one is allowed to disturb him."

"This..." When Quan Bo heard his unyielding tone, his already worried face suddenly became even more helpless.

The commander's favor for the eldest daughter is known to everyone in the mansion. The commander will always agree to whatever the eldest daughter wants. However, once important military or political matters arise, no matter how precious the eldest daughter is, she will have to give way temporarily in the commander's heart.

Uncle Quan raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his face again, and quickly glanced upstairs. There was a faint sound of porcelain falling to the ground, which made his eyelids jump.

Finally, he took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and as if he had made up his mind, he stepped forward, stretched out his hand and grasped the cloth on Shen Jingyuan's arm, and said with a hint of pleading, "Adjutant Shen, then, please..."

He didn't finish his words, but his clenched hands and worried eyes looking upstairs expressed his unspoken thoughts vividly.

Shen Jingyuan lowered his eyes, his gaze fixed on Quan Bo's hand that was clutching the sleeve of his military uniform, and he didn't speak for a long time.

A brief silence filled the space between the two of them. Just when Quan Bo thought Shen Jingyuan would refuse, he suddenly withdrew his arm and whispered "OK".

Seeing Shen Jingyuan agreed, Quan Bo's tense shoulders relaxed instantly. However, before this brief sense of relief faded away, a heavier sense of guilt with a hint of guilt quietly spread from the depths of his heart.

Although Adjutant Shen is the commander's distant nephew and the eldest lady's nominal cousin, the relationship between the two can be described as "irreconcilable".

Whenever they met, they could never end peacefully. Especially the eldest lady regarded Shen Jingyuan as a thorn in her side. Every time they ran into him, she would make sarcastic remarks and hit the sore spots that Adjutant Shen was most reluctant to mention.

On several occasions, the situation became extremely tense. The eldest lady was so angry that she even picked up the teacups and vases at hand and was about to smash them. She forced Adjutant Shen, who usually did not show his emotions, to turn pale and walk away before she gave up.

I don't know how it happened, but right after my wife left today, right after my wife got on the car and left the mansion gate, the thin piece of letter with an exotic stamp and a distant postmark was delivered to the eldest daughter.

The letter was sent by none other than the eldest son of the Xu family, who was far away on the other side of the ocean and had been engaged to the eldest daughter of the Xu family since childhood.

No one knew what nonsense the young master of the Xu family wrote on those thin pages of Western letter paper. The eldest daughter opened the letter and read only a few lines. She was so angry that she threw the powder box to the ground.

That’s not all. From morning to noon, no matter how the kitchen prepared snacks in various ways, the eldest daughter didn’t eat a single grain of rice.

I thought taking a nap would help me calm down, but when I woke up, my anger was not extinguished, but instead it was like adding fuel to the fire. The room was suddenly filled with the sound of things being thrown around, each one more terrifying than the last.

Furthermore, the eldest daughter issued a strict order: no one was allowed to call the Commander's wife! Several maids and servants who usually had good reputations took turns going in to persuade them, but were either shouted down or forced back by objects thrown at them. They were all frantic, but helpless.

Uncle Quan was listening to the incessant sound of breaking downstairs, his heart trembling. It was not because he felt sorry for the good things that could not be bought with money outside, but because he was afraid that the young lady would hurt herself.

Being forced into a desperate situation and seeking all possible help, Quan Bo gritted his teeth and placed his last glimmer of hope on Adjutant Shen, who was his "brother".

Maybe... maybe this awkward relationship can play an unexpected role at this time?

Uncle Quan silently prayed in his heart for the Buddha's blessing, almost deceiving himself, and temporarily suppressed the eldest lady's undisguised disgust and hostility towards Shen Jingyuan in the deepest corner of his heart, selectively forgetting it completely.

Shen Jingyuan had no idea of the turmoil and guilt Quan Bo was feeling at the moment, or perhaps, even if he knew, he would just think it was insignificant.

After all, he and Lin Xi, the spoiled and willful eldest daughter of the Lin family, disliked each other. This was an unspoken fact in the huge Lin Mansion.

Although in his limited memory, he had thought about it countless times from the first day he stepped into the gate of Lin Mansion until now, he really couldn't find out what he had done that could make her continue to mock and confront him for more than ten years.

Her hostility, like the flowers and trees in the mansion that change with the seasons, exists naturally, with no clear root cause.