CHAPTER 113: CHAPTER 113: DON’T WANT UNCLE, WANT MOMMY (2)

With these thoughts in mind, he quickened his pace.

Housekeeper Lin followed behind, and the two headed straight to the third-floor study.

Just as they reached the door of the study, they heard Jingxi’s heart-wrenching cries, causing Beichen Jue’s heart to clench tightly before he immediately pushed open the door.

When the door was suddenly pushed open, Beichen Rui, thinking it was a servant, turned to look unhappily. He was about to scold when he saw Beichen Jue’s face and stopped himself.

"Grandpa, why are you here?"

Was the boy’s crying too loud? Did it even alarm Grandpa?

Jingxi, meanwhile, was startled and stared blankly at the doorway, his tears still falling relentlessly.

Beichen Jue walked into the study without acknowledging Beichen Rui and instead looked at Jingxi.

Jingxi sat on the sofa, his eyes red from crying, little face full of tear stains, and his mouth twitching. Seeing this, Beichen Jue felt a deep pang of heartache.

He looked at Beichen Rui with some reproach and said, "What have you done? How did you make the child cry like this?"

Ignoring Housekeeper Lin standing by, he began scolding Beichen Rui in his presence.

Housekeeper Lin, who had been with the master for many years, was used to it and knew exactly what to listen to and what to ignore.

Thus, he automatically ignored Beichen Jue’s words, trying his best to become invisible, nonexistent.

Beichen Rui, knowing he was at fault, didn’t retort and just stood there listening.

After Beichen Jue had exhausted his words, he turned to Jingxi, squatted down in front of him, and said in a gentle tone, "Jingxi, tell Great Grandpa, did this brat bully you?"

Jingxi glanced at Beichen Jue, then at Beichen Rui, and didn’t respond for quite a while.

He just pouted, his little face long, obviously unwilling to speak.

Beichen Jue didn’t mind and continued to coax, "Jingxi, tell Great Grandpa, and I’ll deal with him."

Jingxi still ignored him, the tears kept falling, but he didn’t cry and make a scene like before; instead, he softly sobbed.

Right now, he didn’t want to talk, especially not to anyone here.

Beichen Jue felt helpless; he knew Jingxi wasn’t close to him. He didn’t force the little guy to get closer to him.

He just didn’t want things to become too strained between Jingxi and Beichen Rui, making it difficult to resolve later.

He had thought of letting them build a relationship, but the brat had gone and made Jingxi cry.

He gave Beichen Rui an exasperated glare, and the latter looked at him with an innocent expression.

Beichen Rui himself couldn’t understand what he had done to offend the little one. Wasn’t he just teasing him a bit? How did it end up like this?

He didn’t know how to soothe him.

He never imagined that he accidentally touched the little one’s bottom line. And he couldn’t have known that Jingxi’s bottom line was his dear mommy.

Beichen Jue sighed, not expecting him to comfort the little one.

He turned to Housekeeper Lin and said, "Housekeeper Lin, you have half an hour to calm the young master. I won’t handle this."

"I’m a bit tired, so I’ll rest first." After giving Beichen Rui a sidelong glance, he left the study.

In recent years, Beichen Jue’s health hadn’t been good, so he went to bed early.

After the old master left, Beichen Rui glanced at Housekeeper Lin, motioning him to coax the little one.

Anyway, he had no way to deal with it.

So, he stood by watching, thinking he might as well learn how to soothe a child.