Chapter 445: I

445. Chapter 445: I'm afraid I can't help you.

I ask knowingly.

Qiao Sheng's beautiful eyes widened.

Shi Lin laughed: "I just like it when you look at me with disapproval yet have no way to deal with me…"

"Is that so?"

Qiao Sheng leaned in and whispered: "Do you believe it? Tomorrow I'll make you sleep in the next house?"

"No, my wife."

"Wife, I was wrong…"

Shi Lin saw that he had upset his own wife and hurriedly apologized.

Since Qiao Sheng became pregnant.

Shi Lin, after finishing his business, rushed home and didn't stay outside any longer.

The news reached Feng An Nuan's ears shortly after, and upon hearing it, she grew even more envious, jealous, and resentful.

If there were no Qiao Sheng.

The woman Shi Lin now holds in his palm must be her.

The more he thought.

Feng An Nuan grew increasingly unwilling, and she began sending people to investigate those around Qiao Sheng.

After a round of investigation.

Feng An Nuan decided, through Ji Xue, to eliminate the child in Qiao Sheng's womb.

Exactly.

Ji Xue also came to the Imperial Capital.

Since Ji Fan passed the provincial examination and entered the Hanlin Academy, she also came to the Imperial Capital.

She divorced her former husband.

After the divorce.

Not long after arriving in the Imperial Capital, she found another.

Now this one.

He is a pig‑butcher.

He opened a pork stall in the Imperial Capital.

Ji Xue wanted to marry into a better family, a family with fewer problems, but who would be willing to take a woman who's already been married?

A few better families did appear later.

But they clearly had ulterior motives.

Finally.

After a selection.

Ji Fan decided that Ji Xue should marry the current butcher, Li.

Butcher Li had previously married, and because his wife was in poor health, they had no children.

After marrying him, Ji Xue gave birth to a son and now raises the child at home.

She had just finished washing clothes, holding the child, and after walking in the courtyard for a short while, she heard a knock from outside.

She thought it was her mother‑in‑law who had gone out to buy groceries returning.

Ji Xue, holding the child, walked over and opened the door; when the visitor, a stranger, appeared, she stepped back two paces and asked, "Who are you? Did you come to the wrong place?"

Hearing this.

The older man said, "You're Ji Xue, Ji Fan's sister? If you are, then we haven't come to the wrong place."

"Exactly."

The young man beside him echoed.

"Could they be friends of our brother?"

Coming to his senses.

Ji Xue opened her mouth and said, "I am Ji Xue. What business do you have with me?"

The older man stepped forward and said, "We do have business with you, but the outside isn't a place for talking."

"This…"

Ji Xue felt uneasy about letting them in.

He seemed to see her worry.

The older man said, "If we really intended to do something to you, do you think you could escape just by not letting us in? Rest assured, we won't hurt you; we just want to say a few words."

Upon learning this.

Ji Xue led them inside, but did not close the main door.

She led them to the main hall to sit.

The older man took a stack of silver notes from his bosom and placed them on a side table.

Ji Xue's eyes lit up: "What does this mean?"

The older man didn't answer but asked Ji Xue, "Do you know Qiao Sheng?"

"I know him, so what?"

Ji Xue wore a puzzled expression.

The older man immediately said, "If you do one thing for us, the money will be yours."

Ji Xue didn't know how much money there was.

She knows Qiao Sheng's current situation.

Ji Xue pressed her lips and said, 'Now Qiao Sheng is not someone I can provoke; I'm afraid I can't help you.'