Chapter 1732: Audacious

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Qiao Nan wanted to push Zhai Sheng away, but she was no match for Zhai Sheng. The moment the tiger unleashed its power, a weak chicken like Qiao Nan could not do anything but beg for mercy after a few rounds. At the very most, she would never bring up this topic that made Zhai Sheng unhappy in the future.

Qiao Nan realized that this was not the first time that they had mentioned this topic. But every time, it would always end in a ‘fight’. The next day, she would always be as weak as noodles. But on the other hand, Zhai Sheng would always be full of energy and vigor as though he had replenished his Yin and Yang. Usually, if she begged for mercy, Zhai Sheng would still try to restrain himself.

But the agitation from talking about this topic made Zhai Sheng merciless. The mention of this topic initially made Qiao Nan feel psychologically uncomfortable and sour. But after doing ‘that’, Qiao Nan’s whole body felt comfortable.

That was why Qiao Nan was the only one who ‘got injured’ every time this topic came up. Why would Qiao Nan still touch on it?

Only when Qiao Nan fell asleep did she finally realize that they had had such a long chat, but they had not come to a consensus about the matter regarding Ma Yuanyuan. What kind of att.i.tude was Zhai Sheng showing? Was he going to interfere, or was he going to give Da Bao a heads-up?

Er Bao was such a good kid, but he had nearly fallen for Zhou Xing’s schemes. No matter how sensible and intelligent Da Bao was, he might just commit a folly after meeting Ma Yuanyuan. Gao Feng had already fallen into Ma Yuanyuan’s trap.

With Zhai Sheng as a ready-made example, Qiao Nan could not rest easy about Da Bao and Ma Yuanyuan. She was afraid that Da Bao would become the second Zhai Sheng and that he would simply accept Ma Yuanyuan.

She thought about how Qiu Chenxi had been so ferocious and unreasonable, always trying to cause trouble. She did not wish to follow in her mother-in-law’s footsteps and have to hide away when Ma Yuanyuan and Qiu Chenxi came to bother them in the future.

Zhai Sheng might not have answered Qiao Nan, but thankfully, he was a wife lover. Knowing about his wife’s concerns, he would not let this matter develop any further for the sake of his wife, not his son’s.

After Qiu Chenxi got married, she remained in the capital to develop her career. Zhai Sheng knew about that. But after Old Master s.h.i.+ pa.s.sed away, s.h.i.+ Peng did not unreservedly help Qiu Chenxi and Qi Minlan as Old Master s.h.i.+ had. As such, Qiu Chenxi’s career did not go far after her marriage. The man Qiu Chenxi had married was miles apart from Peng Yu, let alone Zhai Sheng.

Qiu Chenxi was a woman, after all. Her in-laws could not help her, and neither could her own mom, Qi Minlan, help her. As for that father of hers who had been released from prison, it was good enough that he did not do anything to drag Qiu Chenxi’s down, much less help her.

Thus, more than a decade had pa.s.sed, but both Qiu Chenxi and her husband had not made much progress. In such a prosperous place like the capital, they did not have much to their names.

After getting hold of Qiu Chenxi’s information, Zhai Sheng quickly got into action. Both Qiu Chenxi and her husband had been in the capital for quite a long while, but their annual appraisals were always very average. In the capital, no matter how average the couple was, that was still based on the standards of the central government, not anywhere else.

Instead of letting the couple die in the pit that was the capital, it was better to demote them. Perhaps, Qiu Chenxi and her husband could take this opportunity to do something for the country and the people and stop wasting taxpayers’ money.

Zhai Sheng had just expressed his slightest intention of doing so and had not even said anything, but everything had proceeded so quickly. It might not be easy to help a person up through the ranks, but it was too easy to kick someone down. Even if he did not have a thousand reasons to do so, he had a hundred at least.

Qiu Chenxi and her husband had always been performing averagely at best. Even though s.h.i.+ Peng had risen through the ranks and had firmly established himself in the central government, his att.i.tude toward his niece, Qiu Chenxi, had never changed. Qiu Chenxi might not have gotten any huge benefits, but she had still benefited quite a lot because of s.h.i.+ Peng.

Who did not know about those important people and relations.h.i.+ps in the capital? Qiu Chenxi’s performance might have been average, but what she did have was an impressive uncle and a female general, s.h.i.+ Qing, as her cousin.

For the sake of the s.h.i.+ family, no one dared to create any trouble for Qiu Chenxi or her husband. Even if they did not have many accomplishments, they would simply allow the couple to continue squatting in the pit. With such family relations, it was good enough if the couple did not make any mistakes or create trouble for them. They were not counting on the couple to do anything great for them.

So it was not that Qiu Chenxi and her husband could not find anyone to help them if they wanted to stay in the capital. They did have someone whom they could ask. And so, upon hearing this news, Qiu Chenxi immediately went to find s.h.i.+ Qing and s.h.i.+ Peng for help.

s.h.i.+ Peng had reached the retirement age and had retired long ago. But s.h.i.+ Peng still had influence. Upon hearing that Qiu Chenxi had come to visit him, s.h.i.+ Peng expressed that he was old and was sore all over. He still wished to experience the birth of his great-grandchild, so he had to seek treatment with a traditional Chinese doctor. He really had no time to meet any guests.

It was not his first day meeting his niece, Qiu Chenxi. Their families were not even on good terms to begin with, but they were trying to act like normal relatives and ask him for a favor? How could they be so naive?

s.h.i.+ Peng had never once forgotten how his sister, Qi Minlan, and Qiu Chenxi had abandoned him when he had still been in the army and needed to eat nouris.h.i.+ng food when he had fallen sick. If it had not been for Qiu Chenxi, he would not even have needed to leave the army.

The army was where s.h.i.+ Peng longed to be. All his hopes and disappointments were in the army. To s.h.i.+ Peng, there was a complicated nostalgia he felt toward the military. Even after he left the army and his health improved, s.h.i.+ Peng knew that he would feel honored if he had died while serving the military.

Because of Qiu Chenxi and Qi Minlan, he had not been able to fulfill that dream. Today, he lived quite a comfortable life, but that had nothing to do with Qi Minlan and her daughter. At that time, they had not considered his feelings at all when hurting him. It was through his own efforts that he had been able to create such a life for himself.

As for a niece like Qiu Chenxi, s.h.i.+ Peng could not kick her away any quicker.

Of all people, Qiu Chenxi had chosen to provoke the Zhai family and be at loggerheads with the Zhai family. The audacity! If the Zhai family put the word out, there was probably no one in the whole capital who would dare to help her, much less himself.