Help! The General’s Gone Mad With Pampering Me - Chapter 22

Chapter 22: The Fury of the Shen Matriarch

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

When Zhou Qing heard Shen Jiao’s question, she almost choked. She put down the teacup and patted her chest with her hand, pretending to be serious.

“You child!”

Shen Guang’s old face stretched and tugged at itself as he agreed.

“That’s right. You’re a girl. Why do you always talk about marriage? If others find out, they’ll laugh at you.”

Shen Jiao was embarrassed when her father and mother said that. She mischeviously stuck out her tongue.

“I-I was just asking. It’s not like you guys don’t know that I’ve liked Big Brother Zhong Yuan for years.”

Zhou Qing did not know what to do with her now. After all, she was her own daughter. She knew how anxious Shen Jiao really was, and that she was just trying to play it off.

Zhou Qing caved in. She pulled Shen Jiao’s hand and placed it in her palm, and blurted out to her, “It’s settled! Calm down!.”

Shen Jiao immediately raised her face, the corners of her mouth almost reaching her ears.

When she saw her like this, Zhou Qing sighed. She was worried.

“Don’t forget why the Empress Dowager placed you by his side. Your heart and mind are all on him, but it may not necessarily be the same for him.

Moreover, that person has never been particularly close to anyone. If you successfully win him over, that’s good, but if he has the slightest thoughts of rebellion, do you know what will happen to him?

“There’s also the matter of his legs…”

Shen Jiao did not think that this was a problem. She hurriedly interrupted her mother’s words.

“Can’t he still be cured? If he didn’t get into this accident, I wouldn’t have been the one to be bestowed a marriage.”

Si Yan was both refined and handsome. His figure was the envy of mankind. He had broad shoulders and a narrow waist. Just by standing there, he made many girls blush.

The Empress Dowager had no shortage of people. Many were willing to be by his side, even if they had to spy for her.

But this time, he was wheelchair-bound.

The women who liked him in the past all vanished. From the top to the bottom of the list, the Empress Dowager finally reached Shen Jiao.

Shen Jiao was only too happy. As the saying goes, love grows with time. She did not think that she was a bad candidate, either. She was proficient in the four key arts, music, boardgames, calligraphy, and painting. Si Yan would fall for her eventually.

While Shen Jiao was immersed in her fantasy of the future, a servant girl suddenly rushed in from the door.

“Master, Madam, the old lady is here. She’s waiting in the main hall. She said it’s an emergency.”

As soon as she finished speaking, the family of three in the room immediately looked at each other.

Old Madam Yin usually only had to wait for them to come and pay their respects. When had she ever personally come to visit?

Shen Jiao was terrified of her grandmother. She glanced at her father and mother and was on the verge of running away.

“I’ll go back to my room.”

Shen Jiao had just run away when Old Madam Yin entered the house.

Madam Yin was leaning on her walking stick. Her hair was white, but her voice was still full of vigorous anger.

She took her walking stick and heavily thumped the ground twice. She looked at Shen Guang and Zhou Qing with an angry face and shouted at the top of her voice.

“How dare you guys come back?!”

When Shen Guang saw his mother in unbridled rage, he was confused.

Even so, coaxing her was more important than getting to the bottom of the matter.

He stood up and went up to her, forcing a smile on his face.

“Mother, what’s going on? Did we not have a vacation in the suburbs? What could we have possibly done to incur your wrath?”

Old Madam Yin only seemed to grow angrier. She spoke through gritted teeth.

“Who cares about your wretched vacation? Do you know what happened in your Second Brother’s residence the few days that you weren’t here?”

Second? That would be Shen Hai.

“He’s not alive. What could have happened?” Shen Guang was puzzled.

Old Madam Yin frowned, two deep grooves appearing on her forehead.

“Does he not have that jinx of a spawn? She forcibly took back all the land and shops with a group of hooligans!”