Jiang She's eyes widened.
He couldn't believe his ears.
Why?
The eldest brother is clearly the kindest of the three Jiang brothers.
Would he really have so many tricks up his sleeve?
He didn't believe it.
I'd rather die than believe it.
Sure enough, Jiang Hejun retorted loudly: "Don't try to pin this on me. I don't recognize a single word. What's the point of just talking nonsense?"
Tsk~~
Xu Manzhi shook her head.
They really won't give up until they reach the Yellow River.
She had anticipated everything.
Her feigned madness paid off; she managed to steal a key from Jiang Hejun.
She took it out.
A bronze-colored multi-tooth key.
"I accidentally found a small wooden box hidden in a drawer in Jiang Jiuhe's bedroom. It contained quite a few things, including official documents and letters exchanged, although every single word was marked with Jiang Jiuhe's name—"
call out.
Xu Manzhi took out two crumpled pieces of paper from her trouser pocket, pinched them between two fingers, and unfolded them to reveal the words on them.
"August 9th, Chenqiao, ambush... Jiuhe."
Upon seeing this note, Jiang Hejun trembled with fear.
He forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart and said with a sinister smile, "What does this have to do with me? It's not mine. Even if there's a problem, it's my third brother's personal behavior."
Otherwise, why isn't the box in his room?
"You're really good at scheming against your family." Xu Manzhi clapped.
She then unfolded another sheet of paper.
“Look closely, the ‘crane’ in Jiang Jiuhe’s name has a sharp curve at the last stroke, but the stroke you imitated is extremely smooth. Almost every character is like that. That’s the power that comes from personality. Even a machine can’t imitate it so accurately.”
"And this too."
Xu Manzhi then took out two pieces of transparent tape from her pocket, each with two fingerprints on it.
"Did you see that clearly? The fingerprints are different. Even though you were very meticulous and wiped it clean, how come a wooden box that Jiang Jiuhe opened and closed repeatedly wouldn't have his fingerprints?"
She had told Gu Meiyun before that the one lurking in the shadows was a cunning old fox.
Jiang Hejun is that poisonous fox.
"You are the eldest son of the Jiang family, but you have nothing to show for yourself. In terms of talent, you are not as good as Jiang Jiuhe, and in terms of honesty and integrity, you are not as good as Jiang She. You have almost nothing outstanding. Even your admiration for Jiang Pengyue is a pretense. Don't you admit that you are a good-for-nothing?" Xu Manzhi sneered.
"Shut up! Shut up!"
Jiang Hejun suddenly flew into a rage.
The word "useless" struck a nerve with him.
He was clearly the eldest son of the Jiang family, blessed with good fortune, and should have enjoyed all the love from his parents and the affection from his grandparents. But from the moment he was born, his grandfather deduced that he was a good-for-nothing.
It was just the ramblings of an old feudal madman, yet it rewrote his entire life's destiny.
Although everything was understandable before the founding of the nation.
But Jiang Mingda and Gu Meiyun, those two fools, lived under the bright sun, yet they trusted the old man completely and kept having children, one after another, until they gave birth to Jiang Jiuhe.
The old man said: This child is a genius.
From then on, Jiang Jiuhe became the focus of the Jiang family's cultivation, receiving abundant resources and even showering love upon his younger brother...
Every time Jiang Jiuhe stumbled or bumped into something, Jiang Mingda would slap him across the face and kick him hard with his right foot, roaring, "How did you take care of your brother? Useless, useless, I shouldn't have given birth to you."
Gu Meiyun was in a bad mood and took it out on him, whipping him with bamboo strips as if he felt no pain. She kept cursing, "There is no child in the world more stupid than you. You can't take care of your younger brother. You might as well die sooner rather than later, so as not to waste the Jiang family's food."
Look.
They were born into the same womb, yet their treatment is worlds apart.
He's a piece of trash.
He deserves to die.
He deserves all the unfair treatment he's received.
But he's just a child too.
On what grounds?
He felt that God was unjust, the earth was cruel, and every member of the Jiang family was a monster in human form, deserving of death a thousand or ten thousand times.
So, when Gu Meiyun gave birth to her youngest daughter, the old man went to the hospital to visit her. Coincidentally, the nurse was holding two babies. He concluded that one of the babies was a jinx who would bring misfortune to the Jiang family, while the other baby the nurse was holding was a child of destiny who would lead the Jiang family to the top. He insisted on getting closer to her.
Jiang Mingda then secretly switched the two children.
Of course, he also wanted to see what kind of jinx his biological daughter was, so he checked the address registered by the child's parents and silently memorized it as Old Xu's house in Xinghua Village...
After the old man made his prophecy, Jiang and Jun secretly took action.
One dark and windy night, a fire burned down the old courtyard. He watched the old man's miserable state from the flames, and saw his withered mouth wide open, as if he wanted to call for help or breathe, but he stuffed a handful of dirt into it.
Xiao Jiang and Jun also said to the old man, "Grandpa, I'll tell you a little secret: three little girls were born in the hospital on the same day..."
Old Jiang's resentful gaze only made him feel relieved.
For many years afterward, he quietly played the role of the unassuming, simple-minded, and somewhat foolish eldest brother.
Taking care of my younger brother...
The special kind.
When Jiang Jiuhe was eccentric and difficult to control, he secretly expressed his love for Yueyue, saying that Yueyue was the bright star of the Jiang family and the lighthouse illuminating the future of the Jiang family.
Time and time again.
However, he repeatedly stated that Yueyue was a village girl from Xinghua Village with an ordinary appearance, and that once her identity was revealed, she would definitely be abandoned, which was too pitiful.
Which young person doesn't dream of becoming a hero?
Jiang Jiuhe was the same.
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