Chapter 34: Treating it like playing with a monkey?

Actually, over these past few days, Song Fu and Song Mu had come to visit him every day, and they would try to persuade him on the issue of marrying a wife and having children. In the past, when women took a fancy to Song Shijie and came to propose, his mother would ask for his opinion, and knowing he didn't like them, she would reject them. She had rejected them until he was twenty-five, and he had never been married.

But this time, for some reason, his mother hadn't taken a fancy to any of the unmarried noble ladies in the entire Capital, and had instead taken a fancy to someone else's concubine from the Pei Mansion!

Over these past few days, Song Shijie had also thought it through. To repay Lin Jiaojiao for saving his life, gritting his teeth and marrying her to provide for her was not unreasonable.

Furthermore, his mother had been nagging him so much that his ears were calloused.

What was most strange was that his father, who never gave him a good look, actually had nothing but praise for Lin Jiaojiao!

He was even willing to lower his status and go to the Pei Mansion to ask them to release her, so that Song Shijie could marry a wife in the future.

Since they were going to marry, how could he let her leave the Pei Mansion later?

His mother's spit would drown him!

It was just that Lin Jiaojiao was completely unconcerned. Thinking of this, Song Shijie said coldly, "You say come, you say go. Are you treating this like playing with a monkey?"

Lin Jiaojiao retorted, "Are you stupid? How can face be more important than feelings! If you meet your true love one day, I am one hundred percent willing to separate from you. If I meet my true love later, then you must let me go too."

"That way, we can be even!"

"Don't think I don't know you want to repay my kindness, but I am not the type of person who would make you sacrifice your whole life just because I saved you once. Of course, I also couldn't sacrifice my whole life to you."

She said it as if it were only natural, with a completely indifferent attitude.

Song Shijie stared at Lin Jiaojiao and said coldly, "You certainly draw clear lines."

Just as they were talking, a noisy sound came from the doorway!

Both thought it was Pei Aosong returning, and Lin Jiaojiao hurriedly reached out to hug Song Shijie's neck, feigning intimacy. However, they saw it was Lu Zhenting holding a sharp sword.

Lu Zhenting had just returned from outside, his silver armor dented and pitted from being hacked.

He had gone through all sorts of hardships to avenge Song Shijie, exhausted himself jumping out of the bandits' encirclement, and returned home only wanting to drink a cup of tea before going out to fight again. Who would have thought he would see the two of them hugging and cuddling!

What kind of decorum is this!

"Good, I treat you like a blood brother, going out to hack a few of the bandits who hurt you yesterday to avenge you, and you, you brat, are quite capable."

Lin Jiaojiao immediately let go of Song Shijie, even pushing him to the side, not even caring that he was a wounded patient!

"No, no! General Lu, don't misunderstand!" She hurriedly waved her hands to explain, "We are just acting! Just acting!"

"Acting?" The doubt in Lu Zhenting's eyes deepened, "Acting for me to see?"

"Are you blind? Didn't you run into that wimp Pei Aosong when you entered the mansion?" Song Shijie looked coldly at Lu Zhenting. Hearing him call Pei Aosong a wimp, Lin Jiaojiao almost laughed out loud.

"Pei Aosong came?" Lu Zhenting frowned, "I climbed over the wall to enter the mansion; I didn't run into him."

Song Shijie helplessly held his forehead: He didn't use the main entrance of his own home and had to climb the wall? As expected, he wasn't a normal person.

That this guy could become the Zhenguo Great General was truly outrageous!

"Why did he come?" Lu Zhenting frowned and continued to ask. When his gaze fell on Lin Jiaojiao, he immediately understood, "He came to call you back, right?"

Wang Jiaojiao nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes, but I refused him! That's why I put on a good show with Lord Song!"

Hearing them say this, Lu Zhenting felt a little better. He sat down to pour tea and began to talk about being surrounded by the Japanese pirates.

"It was a trap, Shijie. Those Japanese pirates first released bait to lure us officials with martial arts skills over, and then they surrounded and slaughtered us."

Song Shijie saw the hack marks and bloodstains on Lu Zhenting's silver armor and couldn't help but be stunned: He himself had been surrounded by more than twenty bandits and had only barely escaped with his life. This guy had jumped out of the bandits' encirclement all by himself?

His martial prowess had truly grown!

As soon as Lin Jiaojiao heard about the Japanese pirates causing trouble, she was so angry she gritted her teeth. She was the first to answer and curse, "Damn them! Then we must find a way to fight back! And then wipe out these Japanese pirate thieves in one fell swoop!"

"Oh? The divine physician actually hates the pirates this much?" Lu Zhenting was astonished in his heart: There were very few women in this world who could have such hatred for the pirates, let alone her being so indignant and wanting to wipe them out!

"That is for certain!" Lin Jiaojiao thought of modern history; it was all written in blood and tears!

"From ancient times to the present, they have never given up their plan to destroy our country! We might as well destroy them early!"

Suddenly, Li Guanjia came to report and sent a letter to Lu Zhenting, "Young Master, a letter from the Song Mansion."

Lu Zhenting opened the envelope and took a look. The expression on his face changed again and again. Finally, he put down the letter and looked at Song Shijie meaningfully, "A letter from your father, telling me to recognize the divine physician as my adopted younger sister, and then have her marry into your Song Mansion from the General's Mansion in a grand manner."

When he reached the last sentence, Lu Zhenting almost spat the words out one by one, "Good, you weren't acting; you really are going to marry?"

Lin Jiaojiao saw his expression and felt something was wrong.

But she couldn't say what was wrong, so she could only guess that he didn't want to recognize her as his adopted younger sister, and laughed dryly, "Hehe, it doesn't matter if General Lu doesn't recognize me as an adopted younger sister."

"Is it a question of whether I recognize her as an adopted younger sister?" Lu Zhenting was particularly dissatisfied!

Yet, facing Lin Jiaojiao's face, he could not bring himself to be angry. He turned his face to look at Song Shijie and cursed in a low, angry voice: "You bastard! I treated you like my own brother, and you actually went behind my back to poach my corner!"

"Pry away what wall," Song Shijie was extremely indifferent. He had no romantic love for Wang Jiaojiao, so he spoke with a calm face.

"She isn't just able to treat my mother; my wounds still need her to heal. Once she marries into our Song Mansion, she can still come over to treat my mother."

Lu Zhenting looked at Song Shijie on the left and Lin Jiaojiao on the right, and no matter how he looked, he couldn't see that these two were people who could spark love.

His mood calmed down a little, "For this? You brat, you really don't have any selfish motives?"

"My parents have taken a fancy to her," Song Shijie glanced at Lin Jiaojiao, "She felt this could help her escape the Pei Mansion, so she agreed."

"Yes, yes, yes, we are just having a fake marriage." Lin Jiaojiao nodded repeatedly, "Pei Aosong just came looking for me, wanting to take me back to the Pei Mansion. If I go back, I don't know when I will lose my life!"

"By then, if you want to find me to treat your wounds or illnesses, you will probably only be able to find me at my grave, and maybe there won't even be a grave." Speaking of this, Lin Jiaojiao felt a wave of sadness in her heart.

"Even if he comes to call you back, there is no need to make the marriage such a farce," Lu Zhenting looked steadily at Lin Jiaojiao, "Why didn't you tell him that the person you are marrying is me?!"

What is he saying!! Marry him?! Does this count as a confession?!!!

Lin Jiaojiao's pupils shook. She blushed under Lu Zhenting's gaze and hurriedly looked away to look at Song Shijie, as if looking at Song Shijie one more time could cool down her hot, restless heart.

Song Shijie looked back at Lin Jiaojiao, his sharp eagle eyes seeing through her thoughts at once. He responded faintly, "You have a wife who is already in the genealogy, while I am still unmarried."

Lin Jiaojiao's pupils shook again: What kind of scumbag is this!!! He has a wife and still says such nonsense about letting her marry him!!! She almost believed it!

Once his late wife was mentioned, Lu Zhenting fell silent for a long while before slowly saying, "It is precisely because I have had such a relationship that I know that a marriage between two people who do not love each other is a torture for both sides."

"Uh, hehehe." Lin Jiaojiao laughed dryly a few times. No wonder that little girl in the General's Mansion always said she was an outsider!

So it turned out that he was already taken. That was no wonder; after all, Lu Zhenting's muscles and posture were walking hormones. It was not surprising that he had a wife and children, and it wouldn't be surprising if he kept eight or ten outsiders.

That little girl might even be in line, waiting to take the position and marry Lu Zhenting.

"In any case, the marriage between the two of you was decided too abruptly and needs to be discussed again!"

Finally, Lu Zhenting finished speaking in a muffled voice, then turned and left the hall to return to his room to remove his armor.

But after removing his armor, he discovered several knife wounds of varying sizes on his body. Just now, on the way back and entering the house, seeing Lin Jiaojiao hugging Song Shijie, he had been so angry that he had thrown the pain of his own knife wounds to the back of his mind.

His knife wounds were not deep, but he didn't want the House Physician Liu Zhongyi to treat him. Now, his mind was full of wanting to call Lin Jiaojiao to come and bandage his wounds! ===== CHAPTER 35 =====