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

They were both stunned at the same time. When they saw the person outside the door, Jiang Huashan was so frightened that his whole body trembled and he almost exploded.

Shen Guiling was only slightly stunned at first, but soon he became incredibly calm. He lowered his head and patted her shoulder, "Don't be afraid."

Jiang Huashan glared at him, pushed him away, and stood up hurriedly, "Mom...Mom..."

Shen Jiao walked in from outside the door stepping on the broken light. Her eyes hesitated between Jiang Huashan and Shen Guiling for a moment, and finally fell on Shen Guiling's torn shirt.

Jiang Huashan rolled her eyes and quickly explained, "It was an accident."

Shen Jiao raised an eyebrow, her eyes unable to discern any emotion, "Sneaking into the ancestral hall was also an accident?"

“…” Jiang Huashan was suddenly speechless.

Shen Jiao glanced at Shen Guiling, turned around and walked out without saying a word. When she stepped over the threshold, she saw that Jiang Huashan had no reaction and was slightly dissatisfied. "What? Are you still reluctant to leave?"

"I'm willing to give it up."

Jiang Huashan was about to catch up when Shen Guiling grabbed her hand without warning, his eyes full of reluctance. "You will come back, right?"

Bullshit!

Let go! Her eyelids twitched, and she glared at Shen Guiling fiercely, "Stop it!"

Shen Guiling's eyes turned red and she slowly let go.

Shen Jiao couldn't bear to watch it anymore and turned away.

"..." Jiang Huashan was so angry that he didn't care about Shen Guiling and kept jogging after him.

"Mom, you...you listen to my explanation!"

Shen Jiao turned a deaf ear to him and walked quickly in her ten-centimeter diamond high heels until she turned out of Qinyuan and finally stopped.

Jiang Huashan slowly approached Shen Jiao. After hesitating for a moment, she felt that she should explain things clearly. Shen Jiao treated her sincerely, and she didn't want Shen Jiao to be disappointed in her.

"Don't be angry, Shen Guiling and I..."

Before she could speak, Shen Jiao could no longer bear it. She turned around and tapped her forehead in frustration, "You, you, are you too lawless? How could you use everything I taught you on Ah Ling? You've obsessed him so much now. If the old man knew, he would definitely not forgive me."

“…” Jiang Huashan opened her mouth, but suddenly didn’t know what to say.

Shen Jiao took her silence as a tacit agreement and was even more disappointed. "If you like beautiful girls, there are plenty of them out there. Why bother messing with someone at home? You're just too young and only care about momentary pleasure and can't tell the difference between the important and the unimportant."

Jiang Huashan, “…”

Shen Jiao frowned and pinched her cheek unhappily, "Why aren't you talking? Aren't you usually very talkative? Why aren't you quibbling?"

Jiang Huashan also felt that she should make an excuse and cleared her throat, "Things are not what you think. He and I have no relationship yet."

Shen Jiao glanced at her sideways, "It doesn't matter. Ah Ling is willing to kill for you? Have you bewitched him into a mentally retarded person? Or do you think I'm mentally retarded?"

"I... this... you..."

Jiang Huashan's face froze. There was too much information in this sentence. Even if she reacted quickly, she was caught off guard. In the end, she could only utter, "Were you eavesdropping outside?"

Shen Jiao's eyes wandered for a moment, but how could a mother be so insecure in front of her child? Shen Jiao pretended to be calm and acted like a queen, "You're so bold! You don't even know how to be careful during a tryst. What if I don't keep an eye on you and someone sees us?"

“…” Jiang Huashan covered his forehead, feeling like the CPU in his brain was about to burn out.

Is she wrong or is Shen Jiao wrong?

Any of these things alone would be a disaster, but Shen Jiao is only worried about her getting caught?

"What's wrong? You look like you're about to die?"

Jiang Huashan frowned, "Since you heard everything, aren't you angry? I'm talking about Shen Zhi."

"I thought it was something else." Shen Jiao laughed. "I know you're a good kid, that's enough. As for whether you're angry or not, I was angry. Why do you, a child, care about adults' affairs? But if you think about it carefully, if adults have done it well, why would a child bother with it? In the end, it's the adults who failed in their duties."

Jiang Huashan's eyes were slightly hot, and she seemed to suddenly understand why her grandfather let Shen Guiling go, because those who truly love you will never find fault with you, they will only think that they are not good enough.

So in grandpa's heart, Shen Guiling is also a good child.

She suddenly felt very fortunate to have the opportunity to experience her life again, because without this encounter, she would never know that these people whom she had treated as a mere chapter and passed over had once been tender and sincere to her.

Jiang Huashan sniffed and hugged Shen Jiao, "Queen~"

"Okay, now is not the time to act like a spoiled child." Shen Jiao pushed her away without understanding the situation, her expression serious. "No kidding, Shen Guiling is Shen Qian's favorite now. With his despicable and sinister character, if he knew that Shen Guiling had been bewitched by you and had become mentally retarded, who knows what he would do? Especially the matter of Shen Zhi must not be known to him."

"Also, no secret meetings are allowed in Shen Garden from now on. If you really can't help it, I'll find a place for you."

"..."

It turns out that when people are speechless, they really don't want to explain anything.

Jiang Huashan pinched her brows and changed the subject, "Mom, how did you find yourself here?"

The ancestral hall is an important place for the Shen family. No one would come here unless it was something important. Before coming here, she had asked Zheng Song to guard the main gate, so Shen Jiao's appearance was by no means accidental.

Shen Jiao, "Of course I followed you. I knew something was wrong the moment you rolled your eyes."

"……That……"

Jiang Huashan wanted to ask more questions, but Shen Jiao interrupted her.

"Alright, Shen Zhigang is dead and there's still work to do in the backyard. Go back quickly and don't let anyone know you've come to the ancestral hall. Remember, today's events have nothing to do with you."

Without waiting for Jiang Huashan to react, Feng Ma brought Zheng Song over from the other side of the wall courtyard.

Shen Jiao gave Zheng Song a look and waved her hand to urge Jiang Huashan to hurry up.

During the whole process, Jiang Huashan was like a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes. Since she came back, she had always been making plans for others. Now that she was being loved so wholeheartedly, she couldn't bear to let him down.

So even though Jiang Huashan knew that Shen Jiao was hiding something from her, she did not expose it.

When the two figures completely disappeared, the kindness on Shen Jiao's face instantly faded, and she turned to look at Feng Ma, "Let's go back and talk."

After returning to Dongyuan, Feng Ma immediately poured out all the information she had found out.

"Shen Zhi's body has been dealt with by the one from the second house. It seems that the old man has authorized Mr. Qian."

Shen Jiao's eyes were deep. "A Ling has already admitted this matter. Even for his own sake, that old scoundrel Shen Qian wouldn't sit idly by. Have you found any results on the other matter I asked you to investigate?"

Aunt Feng nodded. "We've already checked. Before the banquet, Shen Zhi had close contact with two gentlemen. One was Mr. Yuan, and the other was the Fifth Young Master. Mr. Yuan was in charge of seating arrangements for the banquet, while the Fifth Young Master was discussing matters related to the Dark Hall with Shen Zhi."

"Also, there's one more thing. When I was bringing Zheng Song here from Qin Garden, we happened to run into Xiao Gong from Ju Garden. She was about to enter through the middle gate, but when she saw us, she pretended to have just come out through the corner gate."

"Xiao Gong?"

There were about a hundred or eighty people in Shen Garden, and Shen Jiao was at a loss for words. Feng Ma immediately explained, "Xiao Gong is the housekeeper who moved into Ju Garden later. The ancestral hall is just past the screen wall from the middle gate of Qin Garden. Why would an ordinary person go there on purpose? I'm worried he's going there for Shan Shan."

Shen Jiao shook her head. "Not necessarily. Right now, everyone only knows that something happened in the backyard, but no one except the person involved has a clue what exactly happened. If I were the person behind Shen Zhi, I would definitely find a way to contact him to find out what happened. But if Shen Zhi loses contact, he will definitely contact someone else."

Feng Ma thought about it and felt that it made sense. "Miss, what you mean is that Xiao Gong was instructed by the person behind the scenes to get information?"

Shen Jiao, "It's hard to say right now. Find someone to keep an eye on this Manager Gong. Shen Zhi is dead, so the people behind this will definitely be more cautious. We can only wait patiently for the fish to take the bait."

Aunt Feng nodded, hesitated for a moment, and then asked the question in her mind, "Miss, do you already have someone you suspect?"

Shen Jiao didn't deny it, looking tired, "I hope I'm overthinking it."

……