Chapter 270: Aunt Qiao, You've Already Met Our Grandmother

Shi Lin said that, making Shi Ren's mouth twitch involuntarily; since when has his family's third uncle become so shameless!

Xiao Shitou's face turned gossipily as his eyes widened.

Shi Yun pursed his lips.

Shi Jin shouted, "Aunt Qiao, is there something happening between you and my third uncle that we don't know? Do you now only like my third uncle and not us? He's become your treasure…"

Shi Lin, while listening to Shi Jin's first part, wanted to stab him, but after hearing the latter part his mood visibly brightened, and a smile that hadn't been there before appeared on his face.

Shi Ren felt that even the June sky couldn't make his face change as quickly!

Qiao Sheng glared at Shi Lin and said, "Shi Jin, don't listen to your third uncle's nonsense; how could the treasure I picked up be him? He's not the one I picked up."

Her words had just ended.

Xiao Shitou retorted, "Who says it isn't? Shi Shushu originally was the one you picked up, wasn't he? If not for that, could you be like this now?"

This kid, which side is he on!

Qiao Sheng was speechless.

Shi Lin swaggered, lifting his chin, as if saying, "Look, look, Xiao Shitou even testified, yet you still won't admit it!"

Shi Ren also joined in, "Aunt Qiao, you said the treasure you picked up isn't our third uncle, then what is it? Can we have a look?"

"Here."

Qiao Sheng casually took off the hairpin that Shi Lin had given her.

"Picked."

Shi Lin: "……"

She really thought Shi Jin and the others were kids, easy to fool!

Shi Ren examined it and said, "This hairpin is clearly a superb jadeite; Aunt Qiao, where did you pick it up?"

All of them.

Qiao Sheng's expression paused, then answered, "In a thicket outside."

She had just finished speaking.

Shi Ren began, "Such jadeite hairpins are only found in the Imperial Capital, nowhere else. Moreover, I've seen jadeite of this pattern on my grandmother's head before."

"What, grandmother's!"

Shi Jin's eyes widened.

This…

Shi Jin opened his mouth and asked, "Aunt Qiao, you've already met our grandmother? Are you going to marry my third uncle? You all are so unscrupulous, keeping it from us and not telling us."

Qiao Sheng: "……"

She suddenly felt like she was moving a stone to smash her own foot!

Now that it's like this, how to fix it?

Qiao Sheng's foot reached out and kicked Shi Lin, making him explain.

Shi Lin, suppressing a smile, sat upright and said seriously, "That's right, Aunt Qiao, you already have the idea of marrying your third uncle to me, but I haven't fully convinced her to decide to marry me, so I still have to keep trying. As for this hairpin, she really doesn't know what's going on; I dropped it by the roadside and let her pick it up."

Trusting him was a mistake!

He is not a child!

Shi Ren thought to himself.

Shi Jin shouted, "San Shu, your nerve is truly great, taking grandma's hairpin to give to Aunt Qiao and doing this. Aren't you afraid someone else will pick it up!"

"I've calculated it; how could I make a mistake?"

Shi Lin stopped talking, sat down, lifted a bowl of congee and ate it together with the meat‑filled buns and flower rolls made by Chun Xue and the others.

Qiao Sheng said to Shi Jin and the others, "Alright, hurry and eat breakfast; you still have to attend Feng Ji Private School later!"

"Mm."

Shi Jin and the others responded, picked up their chopsticks, lifted their bowls, and began eating.

The meat buns and flower rolls that Chun Xue and the others made were taught by Qiao Sheng; although theirs weren't as good as hers, they were about sixty‑seven percent alike, so Shi Jin and the others liked them quite a bit.

After breakfast, Shi Lin had An Liu and the others escort Shi Jin to school, let Chun Xue and the others go to the restaurant first, and he took Qiao Sheng aside to talk.

(End of Chapter)