Chapter 223 Purpose Just a few minutes after Qin Yanfeng left, there was a knock on the door. Shen Manzhi slowly finished drinking the water in his cup before going over to open the door. "Madam Second Young Master, the Master wants to see you." The maid knocked on the door with her hands lowered and folded respectfully in front of her, then she took a half step back and lowered her head slightly. Shen Manzhi held the door open with one hand, "Now?" "Yes, the master is waiting for you in the study." She looked over the left shoulder of the person in front of her and saw a figure standing at the railing of the corridor. The person turned around and nodded slightly at her, and the maid also retreated to the outside of the corridor. Shen Manzhi agreed, went back to the house, got a coat, put it on and went out. The maid left, Qin Deyang walked ahead, and Shen Manzhi followed behind. She did not go upstairs, but went downstairs and walked out to the courtyard. She paused slightly. As if he knew what she was wondering, Qin Deyang walked in front and explained, "The old man is recuperating in the next building, and the younger generation is living in the main hall."
The drizzle has stopped. Shen Manzhi looked back at the main hall he had just come out of. The entire building was almost brightly lit, and Qin Yanfeng and the woman were in the study on the third floor. The building next door is actually also connected to the main hall, but the two courtyards are separated by a distance. When they reached the other courtyard, Qin Deyang stopped and stood outside the door to make way for Shen Manzhi. "The living room on the first floor." She tilted her head slightly, "Not together?" "The old man only sees you." Shen Manzhi understood, retracted his gaze, walked past him and stepped over the stairs. "According to seniority, you should follow Ah Yan and call me uncle." She stood on the flagstone path in the courtyard and turned around. "When you sent someone to Ah Yan, did you also think of me calling you uncle?" Qin Deyang stood outside the courtyard, with one hand in his pocket, looking at her, and seemed to have no intention of leaving. This man's handsomeness is more like beauty, and he looks even more charming in the night. It may be the Qin family's usual indifferent temperament, which appears very harmoniously on him, like a poppy in the snow that can only be admired from a distance and not approached. Compared to Qin Yanfeng, he is obviously more dangerous. Shen Manzhi did not hold back his edge at all. "What you want to talk to me about is related to this, right? Let me guess. Are you trying to persuade me to be more tolerant or to let me recognize my own identity?" The other party was speechless. She raised her eyebrows and said, "Are you... waiting to send me back later? Are you afraid that I will get angry with Ah Yan when I go back?" Qin Deyang didn't show his emotions, he just looked at her calmly, "You are very smart, but I hope you are not being too smart." Shen Manzhi folded his arms, his chin slightly raised, revealing a bit of casualness, "Then wait and see." The Qin family's impression of her didn't seem to have changed much. Compared to the main hall, the lights here are obviously dimmer, probably to take care of the needs of the elderly. The lights are soft, adding a leisurely and leisurely atmosphere.
After standing in the living room for a few minutes, I heard a sound from upstairs. The old man, who was almost 80 years old, was helped downstairs by the housekeeper, accompanied by bursts of coughing. "Manzhi..." The voice is deep and trembling, which is a natural phenomenon that people cannot avoid when they get old. However, over the past six months, the old man's health has indeed become weaker and weaker. Shen Manzhi watched the old man being helped to sit on the sofa, but he did not say a word. "Sit down," Qin Xianguo motioned for her to sit down. Brown age spots overlapped under his wrinkled eyelids, but his eyes became more loving. "Sit down and talk. Grandpa hasn't seen you for a long time... Manzhi?" He looked up at the person who had been standing still in front of him and sighed softly, "Are you angry with Grandpa because of the scandal surrounding Ah Yan and the matter of Miss Ji's family some time ago?" Shen Manzhi lowered his eyes slightly and sat on the sofa opposite the old man. "You have your own arrangements." "He doesn't even want to call me grandpa anymore," Qin Xianguo smiled, put his hands on his knees, and sighed, "Grandpa also has his own difficulties." Shen Manzhi was ready to listen attentively. The old man probably didn't expect that she would come to the old house with Qin Yanfeng, so he decided to meet her on a whim, and chose the time when Qin Yanfeng was talking with the so-called deputy general manager of annual inspection. This deliberate attempt to avoid starting to make up a lie became obvious the moment he saw Qin Deyang waiting outside the courtyard. Naturally, she had to follow their wishes and respond appropriately in order to keep the conversation going. "I don't know what went wrong with your relationship with Ah Yan. Since the beginning of the year, there have been rumors that you two are not getting along, and that you're even getting divorced..." Qin Xianguo sighed again, "I don't understand the feelings of you young people. You want to dispel the rumors, but Ah Yan never brought you back. He never talked about you. His father and I have talked to him several times, asking him to bring you back. Is there anything that cannot be communicated between husband and wife? Every time I talked about this, he just listened to it with one ear and let it out with the other. Later, he simply stopped coming home. You and Ayan are both sensible and well-educated people. The rumors are completely false. I think you don't like Ayan and can't accept this relationship, so you don't want to come back." Shen Manzhi lowered his eyes, hiding the unclear look in his eyes. The old man really took great pains to choose his words carefully in order to get the topic to the point. Even the hat of being sensible is put on her head. She is obviously the type who will fight back if she doesn't agree. "You're joking. I'm not that sensible in many things." Qin Xianguo's face was stunned for a moment, then he patted his knees gently and said, "Grandpa knows you must be angry." Shen Manzhi did not comment. "After Ah Yan returned to China, he has been involved in the company's business. He has gradually risen up and won several large projects. He has become more and more outstanding. With the background of the Qin family, his circle has expanded. When his partners invited him to banquets, they talked about marriage." He said with a helpless smile, "That old man Ji insisted that his little girl learn from A Yan. What a coincidence that the little girl is also A Yan's schoolmate. The two young people had a good chat at the party that day, and he asked A Yan to take care of his sister as a brother. You also know that although Ayan looks gentle, once he makes up his mind, he will definitely not do it. It's also my grandfather's fault for being confused. The Ji family made their fortune in Beijing, and the company's business moved south and had a lot of dealings with the Qin family. I couldn't afford to offend them, so I arranged for A Yan to coordinate the project with the Ji family. The girl became more and more attached to Ah Yan, and the two of them became familiar with each other. The unscrupulous media said that they were lovers, and the Ji family was very angry. They came to me several times to ask for an explanation..." Hearing this, Shen Manzhi calmly concealed the sarcasm in his eyes.
Qin Xianguo looked at her expression, and said with a heavy heart, "Afterwards, I looked for A Yan alone and asked him if he could bring you back so that the rumors outside would stop for a while. A Yan never talked about you, so later, when the little girl of the Ji family came to pester me to look for A Yan, I couldn't find a reason to refuse." Finally finished, the old man breathed a sigh of relief, "After all, I was too confused and interfered with the feelings of you young people. Fortunately, Ah Yan got you back." "Grandpa," Shen Manzhi also sighed softly, "You are still too serious. How can I blame you? If we hadn't gotten married, perhaps Miss Ji's admiration for Master Qin would be a good story." Qin Xianguo breathed a sigh of relief when he heard her address and compliments, but at the same time he felt that something was wrong. Shen Manzhi laughed silently in her heart. Words like "having a good chat", "getting familiar with each other", "brother taking care of sister" were all euphemisms used by the elderly to start a conversation. If she had not seen with her own eyes how Qin Yanfeng treated the pretentious Miss Ji at the hunting grounds, she might have believed it. Thinking of this, she said seriously, "I left him a divorce agreement at the beginning of the year." "divorse agreement?" Qin Xianguo's pupils widened slightly, and he was obviously a little surprised that she suddenly jumped to this topic. "Before the marriage, you told me that if we divorced, he would leave the house with nothing. This was your promise to me." The old man was stunned for a moment, seemingly not understanding what she was going to say when she brought up the past. He just replied, "Yes, I was afraid that you would be wronged if you married me." Shen Manzhi's expression remained calm and his voice was soft. "But feelings really can't be measured by money. I didn't do it for the little money he had, and I didn't feel wronged. It was just because I had no feelings for him at that time." When she said this, the fingertips on her knees subconsciously hooked up and drew a mark on the fingertips. The old man subconsciously asked, "What about now?" "As you said, he got me back." "Oh, good...very good," the old man's expression was unnatural for a moment, but it was fleeting. He folded his hands together as if he was thinking about something. He also knew almost everything about his grandson's pursuit of others. Shen Manzhi smiled and said, "Just say what you want to say." “I’m a little ashamed to say that.” Qin Xianguo obviously didn't expect that she would say that in advance, causing him to now ask Shen Manzhi, the main wife who was finally won back by his grandson, to understand and tolerate a man who coveted her partner. If the old woman knew about this, she would ask someone to give him a slap in her dream every night. "The daughter of the Ji family was also very spoiled. She went back to her family and cried to them that Ah Yan was mean to her and didn't want to take care of her. The Ji family wanted to withdraw their investment and also stopped the cooperation project that the two families had previously agreed on." Shen Manzhi already knew what the old man was going to say, so he played the emotional card to shake her heart. It was similar to what she had just said to Qin Deyang outside the courtyard, except that the old man chose the first option, asking her to be tolerant and understanding, or even better, to turn a blind eye. Sure enough, Qin Xianguo showed an expression of reluctance, and said helplessly, "These projects are all in Ayan's hands. If the Ji family really wants to break off cooperation with the Qin family, Ayan will have a hard time in the company in the future." Guessed it. Shen Manzhi opened her red lips slightly, "What do you want me to do?" The old man thought he had convinced him, and he straightened his body a little. He said earnestly, "I will ask Ah Yan to come and apologize. Now that the little girl of the Ji family knows about your existence, I believe she will not overstep the line like before. Ah Yan has always been sensible in what he does, so you should be more tolerant of him." Shen Manzhi frowned at first, but then sneered in his heart. What this meant was that Qin Yanfeng, an innocent person, had to come to the door to beg for peace, and he had to continue to take good care of his "sister" in the name of "brother", so that she would also be tolerant and understanding.
So I suddenly decided to meet her and played this emotional card. "Grandpa, why would you rather listen to the one-sided words of an outsider than to protect your grandson?" Shen Manzhi had put away his previous emotions and said in a cold voice, "Miss Ji knew that Qin Yanfeng was married, but she ignored my advice and used her family to threaten me. I really don't have the ability to reason with such a person, so don't expect me to tolerate her." "Manzhi..." "Also, regarding the apology, I don't understand. As a married man, shouldn't Qin Yanfeng keep a proper distance from the opposite sex? Instead, should he accept her love and affection, and accept the ambiguity she deliberately creates? You also said that he has outstanding abilities and is becoming more and more dazzling, but if this brilliance needs to be maintained by pleasing the daughters of partners, is he really the person you want to cultivate?" Qin Xianguo was stunned by her words. He obviously didn't expect that she was considering A Yan the most. Even he himself had never thought about it. After all, these were not within his consideration. "You said he was trustworthy at the beginning, and you watched him climb halfway up the mountain and then to the top," Shen Manzhi stood up, looking a little tired from the conversation. "If it's because of something like this that I want him to apologize... then why not persuade him to divorce me and give him the right to choose." Rather, being forced into submission. The old man had been shocked more than once or twice by Shen Manzhi's words tonight, and at this moment he couldn't say anything else. "Manzhi, I didn't mean that..." "It's getting late, Grandpa, go to bed early. I'm going back first." After saying that, Shen Manzhi bowed slightly to him, turned around and left the hall. The old man did not move, Shen Manzhi's last words still echoing in his mind.