She has a slender waist and delicate bones, and is able to seduce the ascetic horse.

Chapter 293 Choice
Shen Jiaojiao's thief-guarding look made the man laugh.

Meng Hun stared at the woman in front of him with a smile on his face, "Jiaojiao, how can you be so defensive against me?"

"Just tell me whether we should defend ourselves or not?!" Shen Jiaojiao was so angry that she almost broke her teeth.

"But you obviously like it very much..." The man looked at her, with gentle and affectionate love in his eyes.

She was choked by these words and couldn't speak for a long time.

An image of myself taking the initiative appeared in my mind.

Her face flushed and she glared at him fiercely.

At that time, she couldn't control her behavior at all, let alone like it or not!

"Meng Hui, stay away from me!"

She was so angry that she didn't realize she had shouted the man's full name.

Meng Hun uttered an "ah" with a slightly rising tone and a smile.

Where is there any trace of the indifferent and aloof Mr. Meng in his appearance?

"you you you……"

Shen Jiaojiao's face turned red with anger at his shameless behavior, but when she saw his gentle side, she couldn't help but feel her heart beating like thunder.

She stepped back hastily, putting some distance between them again.

Meng Hun took two steps forward, stretched out his big hand and pulled the person into his arms.

Shen Jiaojiao thought he was going to do something again, and she was so scared that her face turned pale and she kept struggling.

"Jiaojiao." Meng Hun pinched her nose helplessly and said softly, "Have breakfast obediently, and I promise not to touch you, okay?"

She nodded vigorously, as if she was afraid that the other party would go back on his word.

Meng Hun really did as he said and pulled Shen Jiaojiao to the round table. After they sat down next to each other, they didn't do anything else.

Shen Jiaojiao pursed her lips and moved aside a little with some discomfort.

"You're sitting too close, it's inconvenient to pick up food." She made an excuse seriously.

"Jiaojiao is right." Meng Hun smiled and nodded, and in line with her words, he also moved to the side.

There was half an arm's width between them.

Shen Jiaojiao was already starving, so she didn't care whether her brother was around or not. She picked up a bun and put it into her mouth.

Meng Hun kept an eye on her all the time, and it was no problem for him to bring her water and wipe her mouth.

By the time we finished breakfast, it was already noon.

Yuzhu brought people to take away the breakfast, and brought Keying and Ke Xin in.

After the two maids paid their respects, they looked at their young lady eagerly, fearing that she would suffer a loss.

Her cheeks felt slightly hot and she called the two of them over.

"Last night...did anyone notice?"

The question was about Ke Ying pretending to be Shen Jiaojiao and returning to Mingzhu Courtyard last night.

Ke Ying gently shook her head, "Don't worry, Miss, everything is fine."

Seeing that her young lady could never keep secrets, Ke Xin immediately retorted, "Nonsense, last night my son-in-law came to Mingzhu Courtyard and knocked on the door."

Shen Jiaojiao was surprised, "Chen Yuanli?"

As he said this, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at his brother who was sitting beside him.

Why didn’t you mention this just now, brother?
The entire Meng Mansion is under your brother's surveillance, how could he not know about it?

Unless... my brother is hiding it on purpose.

Meng Hun received her gaze, coughed awkwardly, and told the truth.

It turned out that after the two left the main courtyard yesterday, a fierce quarrel broke out between Mr. Meng and Mrs. Meng, and they even said extremely hurtful words.

Meng Wan was heartbroken. He questioned Master Meng word by word with tears in his eyes, and finally vomited blood and fainted.

Fortunately, the court doctor arrived in time and saved Meng Wan from danger.

Mr. Meng and Mrs. Meng finally calmed down. They asked Chen Yuanli to discuss countermeasures together - how to resolve Meng Wan's knot and tell her to stop targeting Shen Jiaojiao.

The three of them discussed it over and over again, but they couldn't come up with a conclusion, so they finally talked about Chen Yuanli's trip to Beijing to take the imperial examination.

Chen Yuanli did not refuse and swore to the two elders that he would pass the imperial examination and earn a title for Shen Jiaojiao.

Mrs. Meng was unhappy, and no one knew what she was afraid of. She actually made the unreasonable request that Meng Wan accompany him to the capital.

This made Master Meng very angry again. Afterwards, Chen Yuanli came to Mingzhu Courtyard alone, holding an oil-paper umbrella and standing alone outside the courtyard gate.

The gatekeeper wanted to go into the house to pass the message, but was refused by Chen Yuanli. He stood there quietly for half an hour, his hair frozen into white frost, before he left with a stiff body.

……

"Puchi!" Shen Jiaojiao covered her mouth and laughed out loud.

She found it funny when she thought of the scene of Chen Yuanli standing stupidly at the door getting wet in the snow.

How could this man be so stupid?
I really want to shake his head to see if it is full of water.

She didn't love him, and she wouldn't even frown even if he froze to death outside.

"What happened next?" Shen Jiaojiao couldn't help but ask out of curiosity, "Where did he go later?"

"The son-in-law went to the villa, and went back to the mansion early this morning to visit the second young lady." Ke Xin said.

She nodded, waved her hand to send the servants away, then turned to look at Meng Hun.

"Why did stepmother Meng suddenly want Meng Wan to go to the capital? No, that's not right. Stepmother's behavior last night was also very strange. Why would she suddenly force me to forgive Meng Wan?"

Meng Hui played with her fingers and said casually, "Maybe she's scared."

"Fear?"

"Well, we were chatting in the corridor yesterday and she heard us. Maybe she was afraid that I would take action against Meng Wan, so she simply begged for your forgiveness."

Shen Jiaojiao suddenly realized, no wonder...

She said, why did her stepmother look so panicked, as if something bad would happen to Meng Wan if he didn't get her forgiveness.

It turned out that he had eavesdropped on her conversation with her brother-in-law.

"It seems that Meng's stepmother is very afraid of you."

Meng Hui raised his lips and smiled, "Who knows, maybe she has something to hide."

"Something's wrong?" She repeated, with a look of melancholy in her eyes. "My stepmother's whole heart is devoted to Meng Wan. I really envy her."

"My whole heart is filled with you, why don't you envy yourself?"

"Brother!" She snorted in annoyance, "If you keep saying these nonsense things, I will... I will never talk to you again!"

After saying that, he stood up and walked quickly to the door.

Meng Hun thought she was really leaving, so he quickly followed her, "Jiao Jiao, I..."

"I know, you don't have to tell me." Shen Jiaojiao interrupted him, walked to the corridor in three or two steps, raised her face, squinted her eyes and looked at the sky where snow was no longer falling.

She knew what Meng Hun was thinking.

She had the same thought.

People always think that Miss Shen, who was raised in seclusion and has a gentle and submissive temperament, should be a virtuous woman.

pity……

If she was truly virtuous, how could she have agreed to Mo Qian's request and married Chen Yuanli in order to stay in the Meng Mansion and marry her sister?

She should have hanged herself with a piece of white silk long ago.

She has her own ideas. She was raised by her adoptive father on his lap since she was young. She is well-versed in the Four Books and Five Classics. She is full of talent and deserves the praise of her adoptive father, "It's a pity that you are not a man."

When she was nearly humiliated by Prince Qing, she finally figured it out and she also liked her sworn brother.

She was willing to express her feelings.

But that doesn't mean she wants to stay.

Even if she couldn't find any evidence of guilt in the main courtyard, and even if she and her sworn brother had a sympathetic understanding, she just wanted to leave.

Run away, run away far away.

People only know that Miss Shen is weak, but they don’t know that she has always been good at using a weak appearance to cover up her inner emotions.

She was tired and didn't want to continue to argue.

Shen Jiaojiao closed her eyes to hide her emotions.

The cold wind blew on her face, smoothing out the last ripples in her heart. She cleverly changed the subject:
"Brother, when you went to the Jiang family yesterday, did you remind Governor Jiang that Prince Qing wanted to win over the Jiang family?"

Meng Hun walked up to her and stood side by side with her.

"The Jiang family is not that stupid."

As he spoke, his warm palm gently held her cold hand.