I was just playing tricks, how come I became Bai Yueguang

"..."

Shen Guiling and Shen Lanxi had blank expressions on their faces, while Shen Qingyu's eyes lit up. Not bad, he could lie so smoothly in front of the old man, he must be a big shot.

The old man believed it and turned to look at Xiao Lanlan, "Lanlan, Shanshan wouldn't lie. Maybe there's some misunderstanding here? You are both children of the Shen family. Grandpa hopes you can get along well."

Xiao Lanlan was completely stunned. Grandpa had just said that everyone could lie, but she had just told a huge lie!

Jiang Huashan looked calm and pulled Fu Suer, "Grandpa, let's go play."

Shen Zhuang nodded, "Lan Xi."

Shen Lanxi understood and followed the two of them. Shen Guiling and Shen Qingyu bowed slightly to Shen Zhuang, turned around and followed. The younger generation had all gone out, and it was not appropriate for Xiao Lanlan to stay, so after hesitating for a moment, she also followed.

After the children left, Shen Zhuang slowly turned around, his eyes wandering among the children, "Why? Are you dissatisfied with the child I adopted?"

Everyone was stunned and realized the seriousness of the matter, especially Shen E, who was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat.

Everyone then realized that Jiang Huashan was the old man's adopted granddaughter, and that belittling her was tantamount to slapping the old man in the face.

Shen Zhuang leaned on his cane and called out the names one by one, "Just bear with me if you're dissatisfied. After a hundred years, when you're in charge, come to my spirit and tell me how dissatisfied you are!"

This was a serious statement, and everyone was so scared that they begged for mercy.

Shen Qian glared at Shen E and stepped forward to support the old man. "Dad, calm down. You've always been the one who makes the decisions in this family. How could we be dissatisfied? It's just the kids bickering. It's not that serious."

Shen Yuan, "That's right, Dad. We are so ashamed to say this. The child you like must be a good one. How can we be so ignorant of good and bad?" As he said this, he did not forget to wink at Shen E.

Shen E looked embarrassed, "Dad, I just said the wrong thing in a hurry, please don't hold it against me."

Shen Jiao sneered, "Big brother, second brother, and big sister, stop saying such sarcastic things. If you really love dad, you should learn from me. Dad likes Shanshan, so I treat her as my own daughter and never find fault with her."

Shen E was shocked at this. This dead woman was so cunning. No wonder she suddenly recognized a daughter. It turned out that she did it to please the old man.

"Old man." Shen Zhi saw that Shen Zhuang's anger had subsided a lot. He bowed and walked to the old man's side and whispered, "A distinguished guest has arrived."

Shen Zhuang's eyes flashed with a subtle light. He glanced at Shen Zhi calmly, thought for a moment, and waved his hand, "Please ask the distinguished guest to go to Qin Garden." After that, he looked at Shen Qian again, "You can take care of things here first."

"Yes." Shen Qian nodded in agreement.

After the old man left the main courtyard, Shen Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Who is it? How could they go straight into Qin Garden?"

This question expressed what everyone was thinking. Today was the first time that Shen Garden had been open to the public in over 30 years, but in order to ensure the safety of everyone, only the front yard was temporarily open. Even if the Zhou and Su families came, guest houses had been prepared in advance to entertain them. However, this distinguished guest actually went straight into Qin Garden as soon as he arrived.

Everyone had different expressions, but they all went into the main hall to drink tea tacitly.

*

On the other side, Jiang Huashan and Fu Suier walked out of the main hall and headed towards the chrysanthemum garden. As soon as they turned into the hanging flower gate connecting to the backyard, they saw Shen Mianzhi standing by the pond.

This road is the only way back to Juyuan, and Shen Mianzhi came here specifically to wait for them.

"I have something to ask you."

Without waiting for her to speak, Jiang Huashan said frankly, "Yes, I did it on purpose."

Shen Mianzhi frowned, her tone very disapproving, "You really are going too far. How can you take advantage of other people's kindness?"

Jiang Huashan raised her eyes, as if she had discovered something interesting. "What did you say?"

Shen Mianzhi, "You deliberately asked me that because you were sure that I would help you to deceive others in order to avoid making things worse? And just now, you also deliberately angered cousin Lanlan, because you knew that if a conflict broke out between you, I would definitely not stand idly by, so you used me to provoke the conflict. Even now that you admit it so frankly, it was because you knew that I would not tell Grandpa!"

Fu Suier's mind was spinning. What the hell? Wasn't it just a quarrel? How could there be so much going on?

Jiang Huashan twitched the corner of his mouth, "Oh, so you know everything?"

Shen Mianzhi was stunned, with an expression of disbelief on her face. "How could you still say such a thing? I have never had any ill will towards you, why did you deliberately use me? And Grandpa, he trusted you so much, but you took advantage of his trust."

Jiang Huashan was too lazy to talk to her, and said indifferently, "Are you done?"

Shen Mianzhi looked at Jiang Huashan in disbelief. How could someone be so evil?!

Jiang Huashan, "Since I'm so bad, go report me."

Shen Mianzhi's lips trembled with anger, "You are so sure that I won't. You are bullying me because I am too kind."

A dark light flashed in Jiang Huashan's eyes. "Too kind? So you know your own problem?"

Shen Mianzhi was stunned.

Jiang Huashan stared into her eyes, as if trying to see into her heart, "I always thought you didn't know, but it turns out you know everything?"

"What are you talking about? I don't understand." Shen Mianzhi turned his face away guiltily.

Jiang Huashan's eyes were filled with more interest as he glanced at the label on the sleeping branch.

She just suddenly realized a problem. Shen Mianzhi's five labels, love-brained, saintly, intelligent, courageous, and filial, are different from Fu Suier's labels which are progressive one by one. Except for love-brained, the other four labels of Shen Mianzhi are the same size. This means that the three characteristics of intelligence, courage, and filial piety have the same influence on her as saintly.

Smart and courageous people can always see the root of things directly. Perhaps, Shen Mianzhi is not unaware of her "saintly" characteristics, and she even deliberately defines this behavior as kindness.

If this was really her choice after careful consideration, Shen Mianzhi was too scary. She completely subverted Jiang Huashan's perception of her.

People often make mistakes without realizing it, and such mistakes are relatively easy to correct. All you need to do is make her realize that she is making a mistake.

But there is one kind of mistake that can never be corrected, that is, committing it knowingly. Shen Mianzhi belongs to the latter.

It's like one is accidental killing and the other is intentional murder.

Jiang Huashan slowly approached her, his eyes as sharp as a knife, "You, do you really have no hostility towards me?"

Shen Mianzhi lowered her eyes slightly, and the thick lenses of her glasses blocked the light in her eyes.

"Okay, I'll believe you for now, but... you mean well to me, right?"

Shen Mianzhi kept silent.

Jiang Huashan talked to herself, "You're so smart, you should be able to tell the difference between 'goodness' and 'hypocrisy', right? Please give me your opinion. Do you think what you're doing now is 'goodness' or 'hypocrisy'?"

Shen Mianzhi kept his eyes down, showing no intention of answering.

Jiang Huashan smiled and put away his aggressive attitude, "Suier, let's go."

Fu Suier glanced at Shen Mianzhi, then silently followed Jiang Huashan's steps, occasionally glancing back, "Is she also a mean person?"

Jiang Huashan shook his head, "I'm not sure, I need to wait and see before deciding."

Fu Suier was confused. "What are you looking at?"

Jiang Huashan still shook his head, "I don't know what to look at either, my intuition tells me to take another look."

*

"Zhizhi."

Shen Rang came all the way from the Chuihua Gate courtyard and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Shen Mianzhi.

"Why are you here? Daddy's been looking for you everywhere."

Shen Mianzhi adjusted his glasses and slowly exhaled, "I'm sorry, Dad. I shouldn't have run around."

Shen Rang touched her head and said, "Dad didn't mean that. Doctor Meng said you left before you were bandaged. Dad thought something was wrong with you."

Shen Mianzhi shook her head. "It's okay. It's just a minor injury. I..." She paused. "Dad, I'm tired. Let's go back and rest."

As soon as he finished speaking, a green light flashed on the branch above Shen Mian, and the labels changed to: Love-brained, Madonna, Intelligent, Filial, and Disguised.

……