"I won't scold you for being injured, but if you get injured again and don't tell me, I definitely won't tolerate it anymore. Since I supported you working on the construction site, can you please stop hiding it from me?"
He had expected a storm to break, but to his surprise, he was let off the hook, which immediately put Lu Xiangnan at ease.
"Don't worry, sis, I'll never do it again."
He said it as easily as drinking water, even though he was more rebellious than anyone else.
Jiang Tian saw through his pretense and remained silent.
Now, with one person injured in the hand and the other in the arm, they worked together to cook a meal.
After cooking, they sat on the small sofa and watched TV, just like any other day.
Looking at her profile, Lu Xiangnan couldn't help but ask, "Sis, don't you have a younger brother? Why are you so nice to me?"
Before coming, Lu Xiangnan had spoken with Zhu Zi, who repeatedly said that Jiang Tian was his own sister and told him not to be polite and to stay there peacefully.
After living together for several months, Lu Xiangnan discovered that Jiang Tian had barely contacted Zhu Zi at all.
The siblings were not close.
He was a little doubtful, yet also had a faint sense of anticipation.
Jiang Tian seemed shocked by his words. She turned to look at him and said, "You're here with me, yet you have to go to the construction site, serve me, and be treated like a slave every day. In your eyes, is this good for you?"
Lu Xiangnan nodded, his gaze earnest: "You're very good to me, I can feel it."
Jiang Tian seemed speechless.
Lu Xiangnan thought he wouldn't get an answer, so he stopped asking.
After a long while, Jiang Tian's voice rang out again: "Because I'm not Zhu Zi's biological sister, I've always been an unwanted person in that family..."
In rural areas, there are some customs, such as if a couple cannot have children, they can adopt one first, and maybe their biological child will come along.
In those days, adopting a girl was very easy.
Jiang Tian may be an orphan, or she may have been abandoned by her biological parents. In any case, she was already at Zhu Zi's house when she became conscious.
In those days, people in the countryside didn't have much money. The couple raised her for several years, but when they found out that their own child hadn't arrived, they were no longer willing to raise her. So they handed her over to an opera troupe, and that's how she became acquainted with those opera masters.
Jiang Tian lived with the old men for a few years before returning home, and her adoptive mother finally became pregnant.
That's how the pillars came to be.
Zhu Zi and Jiang Tian were not close. In fact, that family had wanted to get rid of Jiang Tian for a long time, but the law was strict.
Jiang Tian was very self-aware; she left that home after graduating from high school.
That couple was just an ordinary couple, with no ill intentions. They just didn't want to raise someone else's child. After Jiang Tian left that family, she sent some money to that family while taking care of several elderly people.
This amount of money far exceeds her spending over the years, which already indicates her intention.
The family took the money but didn't mention letting her go home, clearly indicating they wanted to sever ties.
Later, the two sides would occasionally keep in touch and exchange gifts during holidays.
“Zhu Zi is protected by his parents, so he’s not actually close to me. But I told him he could come to me if he needed anything, so he brought you here.”
"Compared to him, you are more like my younger brother in my eyes. You are good-looking and obedient. We are destined to be together."
Jiang Tian winked at him on purpose.
She told Lu Xiangnan about her past in a casual way.
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