Miss Truth
Chapter 350 - 220: Take Down Ran Yun Now_2

Chapter 350: Chapter 220: Take Down Ran Yun Now_2

Indeed, Ran Yan paused briefly and asked, "What’s the embroidery of?"

Xiao Song sincerely said, "Plum blossoms."

Ran Yan punched him hard and hissed through clenched teeth, "Despicable! Shameless!"

All that talk of being considerate and composed, everything was deceiving, from a nasty fellow! Ran Yan seethed in her mind.

Often, the most direct and genuine reactions were the most embarrassing. In fact, she felt less humiliated by Xiao Song teasing her in such a joking tone, and it somewhat diluted her sense of literary inferiority.

Xiao Song talked about some embarrassing moments of Liu Qingsong to amuse Ran Yan.

At the beginning, Ran Yan still managed to listen with reluctance, but the more she listened, the more she realized that Liu Qingsong was an oddity, his actions truly hard to analyze with normal human thinking, and his embarrassments were particularly speechless.

Back at the Government Office, Ran Yunsheng and Liu Qingsong had already drunk a bellyful of tea.

When Xiao Song and Ran Yan entered the room, they noticed something was amiss. Liu Qingsong was sprawled out on the mat, while Ran Yunsheng seemed to be sighing mournfully.

"What happened?" Ran Yan asked as she walked toward Ran Yunsheng, her gaze coldly fixed on Liu Qingsong lying next to them.

"Oh, it’s rather embarrassing, Doctor Liu told me a story about a monkey’s Journey to the West..."

Ran Yunsheng was interrupted midway by Liu Qingsong, "It’s ’A Chinese Odyssey’."

Ran Yunsheng nodded, "Indeed, it’s truly sigh-worthy!"

Ran Yan only knew of "Journey to the West" and had never seen "A Chinese Odyssey," so she asked, "What is ’A Chinese Odyssey’?"

Liu Qingsong widened his eyes and stared at Ran Yan as if she were a bizarre creature, "You can’t be serious! You really lack literary knowledge! ’A Chinese Odyssey’ is a spin-off of ’Journey to the West’!"

"Then what about someone like me who doesn’t even know ’Journey to the West’?" Xiao Song sat down across from her, his tone cool.

Liu Qingsong suddenly rose up, seeing Xiao Song looking at him with a half-smile, he chuckled dryly, "Jiulang, don’t you know me? I am careless, I say whatever comes to mind."

"Understood." Xiao Song tugged at the corner of his mouth and poured himself a cup of water, "That’s why I just mentioned to Ah Yan that the old lady especially dotes on you."

Liu Qingsong gaped, looked at Ran Yan’s calm expression, and then said to Xiao Song, "Jiulang, you can’t play like that!"

The Duke’s household also had numerous wives and concubines, with only one formal wife and no main concubines, the rest were all lesser ones. Moreover, the Duke paid special attention to such matters, not allowing his concubines to get pregnant. On the rare occasion that one slipped through and indeed had a child, it turned out to be a son. Passing on the family line was naturally important, but it just so happened that the old lady quite favored girls. With none in the household and unwilling to get close to the wives of other branches, she ended up raising Liu Qingsong like a granddaughter.

Luckily, Liu Qingsong had spent over twenty years being a straightforward man in his previous life, otherwise, he might really have been raised as a girl by the old lady.

In truth, it wasn’t completely the old lady’s fault. If anything, blame Liu Qingsong for being too obsequious, knowing that the old lady liked girls, so he thought it was a good opportunity. He actively ingratiated himself, playing the zither, reciting poetry, and sometimes even mimicking a wife’s way of speaking to amuse the old lady. Over time, the old lady indeed began to see him as a granddaughter.

What does it mean to bring disaster upon oneself? What does it mean to weave a cocoon around oneself? Both referred to Liu Qingsong.

"Did Ah Yan recognize those people?" Ran Yunsheng changed the subject and asked about the previous incident.

Xiao Song, knowing that Ran Yan was not good at lying, took over, "The night Ah Yan was abducted, there were two groups of people, those we caught were from the first group that broke into the Ran residence, and Ah Yan recognized them. However, the mastermind behind the scenes is still unknown, we’ll have to wait till after the interrogation to find out."

Ran Yan looked at him with astonishment; everything he said, from any angle, didn’t seem like a lie. Had they really caught the people?

"I see." Ran Yunsheng nodded, pondered, but could not figure out where Ran Yan might have offended someone.

Since the matter had concluded, Ran Yunsheng thought it best not to linger in the Government Office any longer and thus proposed to leave.

Xiao Song personally escorted them out of the Government Office.

Liu Qingsong crept up beside Xiao Song and whispered, "Jiulang, did you really say that?"

"Do I look like I’m joking?" Xiao Song replied indifferently.

Liu Qingsong growled, "You can’t do this to me! I’ve been plotting for you to chase your wife, and this is how you repay me, betraying me in the process. If Ran Yun happens to dislike me after knowing about this, what will I do for the rest of my life?"

"Then find another." Xiao Song said nonchalantly.

In frustration, Liu Qingsong exclaimed, "Find another? With someone as tricky as Ran Yan, how could you just find another! Could you find someone younger, prettier, and richer than Ran Yun for me? I’m counting on her to support me for the rest of my life, marrying a wealthy woman to save half a lifetime of struggle! You, a gentleman from a wealthy family, wouldn’t understand!"

The words "your household’s Ran Yan" clearly pleased Xiao Song, hence he didn’t bother to argue further, only asking nonchalantly, "Are you suggesting that Xiao Family lacks food and clothing?"

"It’s pointless discussing this with you; strike while the iron’s hot, I’m going to claim Ran Yun right now!" Liu Qingsong dropped the statement and sprinted out of the gate.

Walking ahead, Ran Yan and Ran Yunsheng were utterly bewildered, hearing only Liu Qingsong’s shouts from behind, of which the line "I’m going to claim Ran Yun right now" was the loudest. He was indeed proactive, but he seemed to have forgotten that her elder brother was still standing right there. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to visit Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation ticket and monthly ticket. Your support is my greatest motivation.)

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