“I’m agitated? When was I ever agitated? I merely think that there’s something wrong with you!” Jiang Yeqian was so furious he got up from the chair. Fists clenched tightly, he walked over to the window at the side, wanting to open the window and get some fresh air. However, when his fingers closed on the window, he realized that he was not wearing his mask. He looked back, and noticed that the children were sleeping soundly. So he did not open the window. He merely stood beside the closed window and took deep breath after deep breath.
Qi Qingyao curled her lip. She too felt indignant after being scolded. “You’re only a servant. Remember that before you yell at me!”
“Me, a servant?” When he heard her say that, Jiang Yeqian felt the unnamed ball of fire in his heart rush to his head. He turned back and said, inordinately furious, “Yes, I’m a servant! A f*cking servant! He wants to sleep with you if he wins the bet, don’t you know that?! You… You…”
“I what?” Qi Qingyao was calm now in the face of yet another terrible scolding.
Jiang Yeqian bellowed exasperatedly, “You have no self-respect, self-love, and self-dignity at all!”
Qi Qingyao looked at Jiang Yeqian, who was so furious he might explode, and rubbed her temple helplessly. She asked Si Jin softly, “Why is he so furious? Did he take the wrong medicine? I won us such a big house, and yet he yelled at me like that! He’s being insolent!”
Si Jin noticed that Qi Qingyao did not bring up what had happened the past day, and so he said with a serious expression, “Elder Sister, I also think that you can’t wager yourself on a bet!”
“I merely made use of the opportunity to achieve my own ends,” Qi Qingyao said calmly.
Si Jin pursed his plump lips, and he took on a caring expression. “I care about Elder Sister too. If I were there, I wouldn’t let other people say that they wanted to sleep with you! They went overboard!”
Qi Qingyao could not help but laugh. She teased him jokingly, “Hahahaha! I called him Young Mistress Lu, too! What would you think if I called you Princess Si Jin?”
“I would be a bit angry…” Si Jin said weakly after a pause.
“He was furious.” That was right. Qi Qingyao gave Si Jin an understanding smile. “Only when Lu Yan’s furious will he, a calculating merchant, bet on his wealth. Or… How else can I make Lu Yan wager his house?”
Just after she said that, Jiang Yeqian took his seat again. His temper seemed to have subsided, but when he spoke he still sounded unkind. “You were right, but you can’t wager yourself.”
“You’re still pissed off over that?” Qi Qingyao poured him a cup of tea calmly. She shrugged lazily, uncaring. “I’m merely a widow who has given birth to children. He wouldn’t want me even if I gave myself to him for free! He was just putting on a facade of bravery. Why would you take it that seriously?”
Jiang Yeqian shot up again with a whooshing sound and pointed at her nose. “Qi Qingyao, if you wager yourself, then what are Si Jin and I? The two of us are… servants!”
He paused for a while, and then he said, even louder than before, “I! If Jiang Bai’s master was ‘forced’ to wager herself, I’d feel insulted. It makes me look useless.”
“…” Was that so? Qi Qingyao scratched her head.
“You might not think that. You gave all you had in exchange for the other party’s trump card. This is your strategy. But you better figure it out. You aren’t allowed to do that again in the future.” Jiang Yeqian noticed Qi Qingyao’s slightly bewildered expression and thought, ‘Is this woman really that oblivious?’