"No way," she said firmly.
"Well, there you go," Sun Yiran pointed at Tai Yong. "Look at your second senior brother. He made this kind of mistake back then, and he's still single to this day."
Shi Wan moved her lips. She knew that her second senior brother had a woman he loved deeply, but they were separated by death in the end, and he hadn't looked for anyone else since then.
"I got it."
"Good. What do you want? Senior brother will buy it for you."
Shi Wan: "..."
Just as she was about to speak, Shi Qing suddenly stood up from another place.
"Shi Wan? What's this? Are you begging with two beggars here?"
Sun Yiran and Tai Yong were wearing long gowns. They didn't really care about their clothes. They just patched them up when they were torn, and there were at least two patches on them now.
The two looked at each other. They seemed to have embarrassed their junior sister.
"Your mouth stinks. Are you not feeling well, little girl?"
Sun Yiran would never allow anyone to say a single bad word about his junior sister, even if it meant embarrassing himself.
"So what? I'm not well, but I've got plenty of money to treat myself. As for you guys, I bet no one will care when you die in a few years."
"Shi Qing, are you asking for trouble?"
Shi Wan's cold gaze made the words on the tip of Shi Qing's tongue freeze.
But the look in her eyes when she looked at them still carried a hint of contempt.
"Get these three out of here. How could these bumpkins understand the piano?"
Shi Qing looked haughty.
"Who dares?" Tai Yong looked gentle, but when he got angry, it was a different story. "This is a restaurant. If you don't want to play, you can leave. The piano is just an inanimate object. It's people who give it life. Different people play different melodies and endow it with different meanings, nobility or not."
Shi Qing heard the sarcasm in his words. "I won't argue with someone like you who doesn't understand the piano."
Shi Wan curled her lips. When it came to the piano, her second senior brother was an expert. It was said that he learned it for that girl back then.
After that girl died, he never touched the piano again.
She never thought that he would be mocked like this by Shi Qing.
"Shi Qing, do you know who these two are? How dare you kick them out?"
"Who? Aren't they just bumpkins like you?"
"Shut up!" A man walked over and gave Shi Qing a warning look. "Who told you to say such things?"
Shi Qing didn't care. "So what? Do you guys in this restaurant even serve people like them? If that's the case, I won't play here anymore."
"Be my guest." The man walked up to the three of them and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, teachers. I'm the general manager of this store. I failed to recognize your identities and was rude to you. Please don't take it to heart."
Seeing this, the disdainful looks in the onlookers' eyes gradually changed.
"Who are these three? How could they make the manager act like this?"
"Who else? The best thing about this store is its service attitude. As long as you come in, you're a customer. I bet they're just bumpkins like that woman said. The manager just bowed and apologized to maintain the store's reputation."
"No, I remember that's... Shi Wan!"
"Damn! Really?"
As soon as Shi Wan's name came out, everyone got excited instantly.
Shi Qing sneered secretly. The more this happened, the more she wanted Shi Wan to fall from the position of a detective.
She only wanted people to hate her in the end.
"Then who are the two people beside her..."
"Teacher Sun Yiran, Teacher Tai Yong, and Teacher Shi Wan. Please move upstairs. Today's consumption will be on the house. Please forgive us."
...
As soon as the three names came out, the whole place fell silent as if everyone had been nailed to the ground.
Shi Qing was confused.
Suddenly, someone in the crowd let out an exclamation!
"These... these are actually those two big shots!" The person sighed. "Sure enough, big shots are always surrounded by big shots!"
Shi Qing was stunned. What big shots?
Weren't those two just beggars?
They were wearing tattered clothes.
"That woman actually called them beggars and said no one would care when they died. She's so blind."
Before she could figure it out, there was a chorus of mockery below.
"Exactly. Masters of that level are hard to meet. She actually called them beggars. What good upbringing."
"I don't even want to listen to the piano anymore. I suddenly feel unworthy."
"Me too..."
...
One by one, people left, and Shi Qing's heart grew colder and colder.
Weren't these people just praising her piano playing a while ago?
"Miss Shi, please leave. Our restaurant won't hire you anymore."
Shi Qing was taken out of the restaurant before she could react. The people who were still there just now hadn't left yet, and the mocking voices were really harsh to her ears.
She never thought that the two people beside Shi Wan who looked so much like beggars were actually big shots.
...
After Shi Wan sent the two of them home, as soon as she entered the door, she was pinned between the door and a man.
The man was aggrieved and unwilling. "Sweetheart, you didn't even take me with you?"
"Wasn't it a gathering among our sect?"
"Then why didn't you reply to my messages?"
He had sent Shi Wan several messages during that time, but there was no response at all.
Shi Wan tried to soothe him, feeling a bit guilty. "I was busy. Besides, the sun was too strong outside. It wouldn't be good for you to go out."
"And then the pretty boy turned into a tanned guy?"
He had anticipated her anticipation.
Shi Wan: "..."
"Speak."
He leaned over and kissed her neck and the back of her ear.
"Okay, I'll take you with me next time."
"There won't be a next time."
"Huh?"
"The Shen family will ban them from entering."
Shi Wan: "That doesn't seem to be up to you, does it?"
Shen Siyan's face darkened. He picked her up with one arm and sat her on his forearm. He patted her buttocks and walked towards the bed.
"As long as I want."
At least Sun Yiran wouldn't dare to come. As for Tai Yong, it would be even easier to deal with. Just let the eldest senior brother suppress him a bit, and he wouldn't dare anymore.
"Now, it's time to teach you a lesson."
...
In the next few days, the two of them really didn't come, but they still called once a day.
Shen Siyan was sitting beside her, twirling her long hair with his fingers, as if he had found a really fun toy and couldn't put it down.
"Sweetheart, how come your hair can smell so good with the same shampoo?"
"I don't know. Are you sure you're not smelling things?"
"No." He confirmed again. "It smells so good."
Shi Wan moved a bit to the side, but the next second, the man picked her up and sat her on his lap.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"I... I was about to fall."
Shen Siyan glanced at her and indeed, she was. "You won't fall if you sit still."
"Junior sister? Little junior sister?"
Tai Yong's voice came from the phone. Just as Shi Wan was about to answer, the man suddenly grabbed her chin and leaned over to silence her.
The only sound left in the living room was Tai Yong's confused voice.
But even so, Shi Wan didn't hang up the phone, and neither did Tai Yong.
"Little junior sister, the dean of the Chinese medicine hospital here asked me and senior brother to go there. We probably won't be able to come and see you for a few days."
Tai Yong's voice continued. Shen Siyan found it annoying and reached out a hand to hang up the phone that had fallen on the ground.
Finally, it was quiet.
After a while, both of them were a bit out of breath.
Shi Wan lay in his arms and punched him reluctantly. "What are you doing?"