Chapter 254 Similarity

Jiang Jianni smiled, and instead of answering, asked, "How did you guess?"

Aunt Lu sighed, "You don't seem like you're telling the truth for the first time."

Psychology has summarized five stages for how humans deal with difficulties: denial, anger, compromise, frustration, and acceptance.

Lu's mother was unaware of this professional terminology.

But she's sixty years old; she's lived a long life, seen a lot, and witnessed even more.

I've seen countless stories even more dramatic and absurd than Jiang Jiani's background.

Many people's first reaction upon learning this is rejection and anger.

Although Jiang Jianni appeared angry, she maintained a relatively calm and composed state.

Besides the fact that she already knew about her background, Lu's mother couldn't think of any other explanation.

Jiang Jianni gave her a thumbs up: "Mom, it has to be you!"

"You are this person."

This observational ability is truly remarkable; someone who has been a nurse for two or three decades is incredibly meticulous and attentive.

Standing beside him, Mr. Lu looked helpless and bewildered: "Wait, what are you talking about? How did Jia Ni know all along?"

He looked at Jiang Jiani incredulously: "Your parents know you're the Fang family's daughter?"

Generally, if a child is not biologically related to the parents but was raised from a young age, the parents and those around them will tacitly keep it a secret from the child.

Moreover, the intention is to ensure that the child never knows, and to never proactively tell the child.

If the Jiang family told Jiang Jiani, how did they know?

Could it be related to the child abductors who stole children back then?

Jiang Jianni shook her head repeatedly: "No, no, no, they don't know. They just told me I was adopted."

"They told me my true background after I married Xiangyang."

Jiang Jiani only found out after her parents told her that not only had her appearance at the time frightened the elderly couple, but they were also worried that she might do something wrong if she found out unintentionally, so they took precautions in advance.

On the other hand, it was also because a similar incident happened in the family compound.

Those two families weren't switched at birth.

Instead, one family had five daughters in a row, and another had seven sons in a row.

After they found out, they swapped their youngest children, so that both of them now had both a son and a daughter.

The matter was kept a secret, but unfortunately, the girl who was switched at birth found out and went to her biological parents to ask to be switched back.

The girl had no choice.

Although she was the only girl in the family, she was adopted. Her six older brothers knew this, and her grandparents, uncles, parents, and other relatives all knew it as well. Therefore, they treated this adopted girl very indifferently.

When the girl grew up and was able to work, she started doing housework.

The little girl, who was six or seven years old, swept the floor every day with a broom that was as tall as her.

The six older brothers not only didn't think it was wrong, but they also thought it was the right thing to do.

After all, the other party took his younger brother's position to enjoy the good life, so what's wrong with doing some work?

In fact, this is the case in many families: girls tend to take on more housework, whether by choice or not.

But this girl was really smart, she studied very well, and she was always in the top ten of her grade in exams.

When people in the family compound talked about that girl, they said she was the second Jiang Jiani, and that she would definitely become a college student and get a good job in the future.

Unexpectedly, this angered one of the older brothers.

I don't know what's wrong with this family, but all the boys seem to dislike studying more than the last.

Five of them managed to finish junior high school, but the last one dropped out before even finishing junior high.

He neither went to school nor looked for a job nor tried to make money; he just hung out on the streets with a bunch of hooligans.

This sixth brother of mine talks all the time about how girls will get married sooner or later and don't need to go to school at all.

Fortunately, the parents were reasonable and hoped that a college student would come from the family. They did not listen to their youngest son's nonsense and prevent their youngest daughter from going to school.

But at the same time, they also felt that they had supported her education, so what was wrong with her brother saying a few words to her? They thought that although their youngest daughter was smart, she was too pretentious.

When the girl got into the same high school that Jiang Jiani had attended, this sixth brother exploded.

He tore up the girl's acceptance letter, refusing to let her go to school.

The girl was bold enough to go to the high school administration and get a second copy of the acceptance letter.

Who knew this would enrage the clueless Sixth Brother.

He actually found a so-called friend to rape his sister, forcing her to marry someone else.

They even said that she was just an adopted girl, destined to be used to buy dowry money, and that she shouldn't even dream of going to university.

The girl couldn't accept it and jumped out of the window. Fortunately, she only suffered a fracture in her leg and was not seriously injured.

But their family's troubles also spread.

After learning about her origins, the girl was determined to find her biological parents.

Later, somehow she found out her biological parents' address and ran away from the hospital to find them.

The girl's biological parents were much better off than her adoptive parents.

She raised her four daughters and one son very well.

The other party was also shocked when they learned about their daughter's ordeal, and the younger son was even more shocked that his own parents and brothers were such people.

Then the family worked together to get the girl back.

The girl's biological parents were even more regretful.

I think it would have been better to have only adopted a boy and raised him and my own little girl as twins.

The problem was that both families gave birth in the same delivery room at the same time, and the boy's paternal grandmother's suggestion to switch babies came too suddenly.

Without time to think further, the two promised to raise their children well and then hurriedly left with each other's children in their arms.

Little did they know that the other party claimed their family consisted entirely of boys, and that their only daughter would definitely be pampered.

The result of spoiling a girl is treating her like a servant.

When a scoundrel tried to use his sister to get a bride price, the family's first thought wasn't to educate the sixth son, but to tell the girl not to be ostentatious and not to ruin her brother's reputation.

The two sides had a huge fight over the child.

After a long period of commotion, the girl's biological parents finally paid a large sum of money to take her away. Of course, the adopted child remained in their family.

It doesn't matter if the boy is his biological parents.

There are too many sons. Only two of them have been married off, and there are still four who are still single.

Even if he has a partner, he doesn't have the money or a house to help his son get married.

If the seventh brother comes back, it won't lighten the burden, it will increase it.

Besides, they felt that the seventh son was also very good at studying, and he was their own son, which was much better than that of an adopted daughter. They believed he would definitely be more successful than the adopted daughter in the future.

Then let them continue raising it.

Anyway, the son is our own, how could he run away?

When our youngest son becomes successful in the future, he will be able to help support the family.

Little did they know that the girl's biological parents were afraid that they would try to take advantage of the situation. Since they had money, they went abroad after getting the girl back.

Yes.

That's right.

Their whole family went abroad.

The boy's biological parents wanted to check on their child's studies two or three months after the other family went abroad, only to find out that the whole family had run away.

It was a complete failure; we gained nothing.

The Jiang family was trembling with fear upon hearing this.

Especially since their own family situation was very similar to the other family's, the only difference was that they didn't know what the family conditions of Jiang Jiani's biological parents were like.

Regardless of the other party's family background, if their biological parents want to take Jiang Jiani away, they, as ordinary citizens, will have no way to deal with it.

The only option is to tell Jiang Jiani first and see what her choice is.

Lu's mother: "..."

Lu's father: "..."