Chapter 343: I’ve Never Tormented Or Overthought Myself
Qin Hengzhi said: “Let’s go find Cao Jing first. As long as she hasn’t lost her memory, we can tell from her expression whether she has any relationship with your Second Aunt.”
Yeah, that’s the reason.
Lu Qiaoge asked: “What if there is a relationship?”
Qin Hengzhi naturally said: “Of course, take her away for interrogation. I’ll find an interrogation expert. Although I can’t personally handle it, I can guarantee it will be fair and just from beginning to end.”
If it’s true, as long as it’s kept fair, that’s fine.
Lu Qiaoge no longer discussed the Second Aunt matter with Qin Hengzhi.
Actually, everything is unknown.
Maybe that maid has no relationship with Second Aunt at all.
Maybe Second Aunt really sacrificed.
And Second Uncle-in-law’s disappearance might have no relationship with Second Aunt either.
So continuing to dwell on it is useless. Go find Cao Jing in the evening, just like Qin Hengzhi said, and look at the other person’s expression.
It doesn’t matter if she doesn’t speak.
Standing here, looking out, the scenery of the mountains full of red maple leaves at this moment really is too beautiful.
Since they’ve already climbed the mountain, they might as well take a stroll.
After all, you can only see the mountains full of red leaves in this season.
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Qin Hengzhi had already told Grandmother and the others in the morning when he left that he wouldn’t come home for lunch.
After returning from Xiangshan, they drove to the Beidu Restaurant.
Besides the local specialties, the rest of the dishes were all ones Lu Qiaoge liked to eat.
As for Qin Hengzhi, perhaps because he himself is a soldier, he doesn’t picky eat; he can eat anything.
Nowadays, the taste of meals in every restaurant is really different.
It seems like every head chef has their own specialty skill.
Without so many seasonings to stimulate the taste buds, most rely on the flavor of the ingredients themselves.
After eating and drinking their fill, they didn’t go downstairs immediately, but stood in front of the window in the private room looking outside.
There are few high-rise buildings around this large restaurant.
The view is relatively open.
The autumn weather is clear and refreshing; the sky is like it’s been washed with water, blue and crystal clear, without a trace of impurity.
A few wisps of thin clouds float like light gauze, occasionally scattered by the wind, then slowly gathering again.
Such scenery makes one’s mood much more relaxed.
Lu Qiaoge looked downstairs; there were ginkgo trees planted below, and at this time, the ginkgo leaves were golden and brilliant, too beautiful to behold.
In her previous life, her ancestral home wasn’t Beidu, but she was born in Beidu.
Although she was familiar with the city decades later, the main buildings hadn’t changed. The scenery from this spot hadn’t changed, and the ginkgo trees downstairs would still stand in front of the restaurant’s main door even after a hundred years.
It was just at this moment that Qin Hengzhi pointed to a building not far away and said to Lu Qiaoge: “That’s my primary school. I studied there in elementary school. In the second semester of second grade, the homeroom teacher wanted to meet the family elder. At that time, my parents had gone to the Northwest Base, Grandpa wasn’t home, and Grandmother had gone out of town.
There was only my elder sister at home. After going back, I told my elder sister that the teacher was coming for a home visit that evening. Aunt Guo was there too, and she said why not call my Second Uncle to come over. My elder sister directly waved her hand and said no need, she could be the family elder for her younger brother.”
Lu Qiaoge curved the corners of her mouth. Yeah, that was indeed Qin Ruixue’s personality.
Qin Hengzhi continued: “The teacher came and mainly said that I wasn’t paying attention in class, but my exams were always perfect scores. She hoped my elder sister could relay it to the adults at home.
Then my elder sister asked the teacher: What’s the problem with that? Isn’t it based mainly on exam grades?
I remember the teacher saying: He either plays with glass beads or folds paper airplanes in class, or else he’s drawing with a pencil, which affects the other classmates.
My elder sister and I are six years apart; she had just started junior high and was at the age of particularly strong rebelliousness, so she said: My younger brother is a genius; how can he be compared to those idiots? My younger brother has already learned it all; isn’t it normal for him not to listen in class?”
At this point, they actually started arguing.
Lu Qiaoge asked curiously: “Then what happened?”
“Then the teacher angrily stood up and said, since he’s a genius, my class probably can’t teach him. How about this: tomorrow I’ll report to the principal to test your younger brother. If he’s really a genius, we can’t delay him; let’s skip grades right away.
When Grandparents came back, not even half a month later, I skipped from second grade to fifth grade. That autumn, I entered junior high.”
Lu Qiaoge listened with smiling eyes and brows. It was quite fun to understand Qin Hengzhi from his childhood this way, and it also explained why Qin Hengzhi suddenly brought up Qin Ruixue.
Qin Hengzhi’s gaze was very complex.
When he was little, his relationship with his elder sister was very good.
He could skip grades thanks to his elder sister’s impulsiveness.
Otherwise, he’d still have to learn addition and subtraction within ten with those little kids.
But actually, by then he was already at first-year junior high level.
Grandparents knew too, but they didn’t take it to heart.
After all, his age was still too young.
Only eight years old by virtual age; going to junior high, he wouldn’t fit in with the older kids, and kids his age couldn’t play with him either.
But by a twist of fate, he still ended elementary school early, then only stayed in first-year junior high for two years before going to the youth class.
“I don’t know why my elder sister is so obsessed with her feelings for Gu Jingwen, leading her to act so extreme now.”
Lu Qiaoge asked: “Does Gu Jingwen have any connection with your family?”
Qin Hengzhi shook his head and said indifferently: “He hates our family to the bone; there’s no connection at all.”
Lu Qiaoge frowned: “Did you also try to persuade her to divorce?”
“Yes, but she wouldn’t agree. She said if they divorced, she’d die, and she’d make everyone in the Gu Family accompany her in death.”
Lu Qiaoge also felt it was very tricky.
Qin Ruixue was different from Wei Xia; Wei Xia only hurt herself and absolutely wouldn’t hurt others.
Like that day she was dismissed, when she went to find Jiang Chusheng and Du Wanqing, Jiang Chusheng told her to go die, Du Wanqing mocked her as a good-for-nothing, but in that situation, she didn’t lay a hand on either of them or even curse at them.
Some people only hurt themselves, or the people close to them.
While some people attack indiscriminately.
Qin Ruixue’s personality was similar to the latter—I can’t get it, so no one can; if I’m not doing well, no one can.
How to deal with someone like that?
She never engaged in self-torment or tortured herself.
If you leave her with nothing and make her worry about survival, she might go even crazier?
Lu Qiaoge thought this was probably the reason why even Qin Hengzhi eventually became indifferent.
Since he couldn’t control it, just pretend she didn’t exist?
Qin Hengzhi reached out to hold Lu Qiaoge’s hand, gently clasping it in his palm.
His large hand enveloped Lu Qiaoge’s small hand, a faint warmth flowing from the palm.
It seemed to quickly spread throughout her body.
Qin Hengzhi had originally wanted to soothe Lu Qiaoge’s emotions, but unexpectedly, he was the one soothed by Lu Qiaoge.
He didn’t let go of her hand, gazing intently at Lu Qiaoge: “I know you’re strong inside; ordinary provocations won’t bother you. Someone like Jiang Lan, you wouldn’t take to heart at all. Even if my elder sister causes you trouble, you can easily resolve it. But I still have to say sorry to you; these unpleasant things caused by me have troubled you.”
