Chapter 1270: Chapter 1270: The Confused Shen Erkui

Su Xue was locking the front door.

This time, after she left, she would never return to live here again, except during the Qingming festival and New Year, when she would come back to visit her parents’ graves.

“Someone’s come to plead their case,” Zhou Hengguang said as he took out a pack of cigarettes from his coat pocket, drew out one, and put it in his mouth with a smile that was not quite a smile, watching the approaching group of people.

Su Qing turned her head and glanced at him with annoyance before turning back and walking towards Li Youcai and his group.

“Deputy Director, you can’t smoke,” Ji Fang said anxiously as he saw him about to light up, “The doctor said smoking is bad for your health, and everyone asked me to keep an eye on you.”

Zhou Hengguang ignored him and took out an intricately designed, silver-grey lighter with complex engravings. With a flick and a flare, he tilted his head slightly to light the cigarette, took a puff, and casually exhaled a perfect ring of smoke.

“Deputy Director, you… you should put out the cigarette quickly,” Ji Fang became desperate, “Your uncle will kill me if he finds out.”

“Just pretend you didn’t see it, okay?”

“But that won’t work, your doctor can tell if you’ve smoked or not,” Ji Fang was a straightforward person.

Zhou Hengguang’s gaze followed Su Qing, and as he listened to Ji Fang’s nagging, he grew annoyed and gave him a cold stare, “Are you my man, or are you my uncle’s man?”

“I… I’m your man,” but he was also very afraid of the Deputy Director’s uncle.

“Then do you know why Zou Yi went abroad in the first place?” Zhou Hengguang slightly narrowed his eyes, showing a hint of a malicious smile.

Ji Fang shivered and shook his head.

“Because he was always meddling in everything.”

Ji Fang got so scared that he immediately shut his mouth, watching the Deputy Director leisurely puffing away right in front of him. The way he smoked somehow seemed more and more appealing. He had never seen that man move with such elegance!

The cigarette held between his fingers seemed to have transformed into something noble.

“What are you looking at? Keep staring and I’ll gouge out your eyes,” Zhou Hengguang said with utter distaste at Ji Fang’s mesmerized gaze, “Don’t be disgusting here.”

“Oh!” It was then that Ji Fang came back to his senses, his face turning red as he turned his head to watch Su Qing talking with someone from afar, and he forgot to continue keeping an eye on the Deputy Director to prevent him from smoking.

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Li Youcai and the others unanimously pushed Shen Erkui forward since he had the closest relationship with the Su sisters and had almost become Su Qing’s live-in son-in-law at one point.

“Girl Qing,” Shen Erkui was actually quite troubled and knew that taking the lead might also provoke Su Qing’s displeasure.

“Are you here to plead?” Su Qing’s lips curled slowly, forming a cold arc, “Brother Erkui, you don’t have to, do you? So, you’re standing on Trinity village’s side now?”

Shen Erkui’s face turned red with restraint as he said, “I…”

He had barely uttered a word when Su Qing interrupted him without hesitation, “Considering my father and Big Sister, I wasn’t planning to pursue the matter with you, and moreover, you’ve opened your own shop in the county; you are surely going to settle down there.”

She had made it quite clear that Shen Erkui no longer had any business with the matters of Trinity village.

Since he had no relation, he should not have gotten involved.

He could have stayed out of the situation, but he got involved and even chose to stand on the opposite side from them.

Shen Erkui’s face turned both green and white, looking more embarrassed in front of Su Qing than he ever had. When had this second daughter of the Su family, who since childhood rarely showed a distinct personality and always acted obediently before him, and who had been completely overshadowed by Su Wen, grown to this extent?

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