No wonder Assistant Wang’s expression was not right today. It seemed that something big really happened in the Jing family... and it was related to him.
"Are you alone at home?" Jing Cheng asked casually, striding into the hall with his backpack. Although the servants greeted him as usual, he could tell that everyone's tone was not as respectful as before.
Wealthy families like the Jing family have always had strict rules and regulations. You can tell your status in the family just by looking at the changes in the servants' attitudes.
Jing Cheng understood immediately, it seemed that his identity was exposed.
Jing Yue followed behind him and answered listlessly: "My mother is also at home, but she is busy memorizing the script. Dad and eldest brother said they will be back soon. You..."
Jing Yue bit her lower lip, looking conflicted.
Jing Cheng stood on the stairs, one arm resting on the handrail, and looked sideways at Jing Yue with a look of pure confusion.
Jing Yue mustered up the courage to ask, "Second brother, can I ask you something quietly?"
Jing Cheng could probably guess what she was going to ask, and smiled gently: "What is it?"
Jing Yue looked around like a thief, and indeed the servants' eyes had never left the two of them. Seeing this, she quickly lowered her head and pretended to be working hard.
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Gossip is human nature, especially for these middle-aged ladies in their forties and fifties.
Jing Yue had a bad temper and immediately got angry: "Why are you hiding? Do you think I didn't notice?!"
"If I catch you eavesdropping again, you'll get your wages and get out!"
The servants were silent as a mouse, and hurriedly pushed each other away, disappearing from the sight of the two men in a flash.
Jing Cheng: “…”
Jing Yue was still angry after she finished scolding Jing Cheng, and said to him, "They are very talkative. Let's go to your room and talk."
Jing Cheng: "...It's up to you."
Although Jing Cheng hadn't returned to Jing's house for more than ten days, his room was still spotless and clean.
Jing Cheng put down his backpack and glanced around every corner of the room, as if thinking about something.
Jing Yue tiptoed behind Jing Cheng into the room, looking out at the door, fearing that someone might follow and eavesdrop.
Seeing that no one followed her, she locked the door with confidence and let out a breath with her back to the door.
Jing Cheng found it funny and laughed out loud. He thought that he had only seen people who were guilty of their crimes, but he had never seen anyone who was more guilty than a thief in his own home.
His cheap sister is so funny.
Jing Yue glared at him: "How can you still laugh? Do you know that you have been exposed?" She had been worried since she got the news. She was really mad!
Of course I knew it as soon as I came back. Jing Cheng said helplessly: "So what do you want from me?"
Jing Yue asked suspiciously: "Do you know what I'm talking about?"
"I know." Jing Cheng didn't want to play dumb with her anymore, and said without warning, "I'm not your second brother."
Jing Yue's face turned pale when she heard this. She was shocked and her mind was full of thoughts like "He admitted it, he admitted it, he actually admitted it so easily..."
After a long while, Jing Yue trembled and said, "Then my second brother is real?"
Jing Cheng continued with a guilty tone: "Dead."
The room fell into deathly silence in an instant.
Just when Jing Cheng thought Jing Yue would burst into tears and ask him about the cause of his brother's death, or question why he occupied her brother's identity, Jing Yue lowered her head and suddenly said something softly.
Jing Cheng almost suspected that there was something wrong with his ears.
Because what Jing Yue whispered was: "Good death."
Jing Cheng was so surprised that he had to pretend to listen carefully: "What did you just say?"
To his surprise, Jing Yue raised her head, with no sadness on her face: "Nothing."
At this moment, Jing Cheng felt from the bottom of his heart that this little girl was extraordinary.
He was able to remain calm even when his family member's identity was replaced by an outsider after his death. If it were someone else, he would have collapsed long ago. Of course, Jing Cheng never expected that it was because Jing Cheng had done so many things in his lifetime that his sister didn't care at all about his life or death.
Jing Yue looked at Jing Cheng with a strange look, and said slowly: "Strange, why do you look so much like my second brother? Did you have plastic surgery? No, if you had plastic surgery, I should be able to see it with my sharp eyes. Could it be..."
Jing Cheng thought she would say that she used some magic, painted skin or other evil tricks, but unexpectedly she said: "Are you my father's illegitimate child outside?"
Jing Cheng: “…”
Jing Yue clapped her hands and suddenly realized, "That must be the case! No wonder Dad and Big Brother never doubted it, it turns out they already knew you were the Third Young Master of the Jing Family! Because you look a lot like Big Brother, and if the fact that Big Brother died is exposed, it will definitely have a negative impact on the company, and the media will even point the finger at Big Brother, so they just took advantage of the situation and recognized you and let you replace Big Brother."
Jing Cheng: “…………”Not really.
"I see!" Jing Yue raised her chin proudly, "You didn't expect me to find out, did you? I'm so smart!"
Jing Cheng held his forehead with his hand. This little girl's logic was too strong. He knew very well that he couldn't explain his identity to the Jing family. When he was chatting with Qin Yan and the others before, he had tried to find out indirectly. Once an unknown person like him was exposed, he would most likely be caught by some people with ulterior motives and sliced for research.
After all, human hearts are more complex than we can imagine.
After struggling for a while, Jing Cheng asked the question that had arisen in his mind since he entered the room: "...How do you know that I'm not your second brother?"
Jing Yue tried to organize her words: "This morning, the coroner's office mailed the DNA identification list of the people who died in the explosion when my second brother had the accident. My second brother's name was on it, as well as his autopsy report."
Jing Cheng: “…”
The technology a hundred years later was really amazing. He remembered that Jing Er’s body should have been blown to ashes, but his identity could still be verified.
Thinking of this, Jing Cheng felt a little uneasy. If he hadn't attracted the lightning to teach the kidnappers a lesson, Jing Er would have had an intact body.
Jing Cheng hesitated for a moment: "Who knows?"
Jing Yue thought for a moment and said, "My mother, me, and my eldest brother, but my mother said that she suspected your identity a long time ago, but my father never paid attention to her."
Jing Cheng thought, no wonder Mrs. Lu was so embarrassed every time she saw him, it turned out she had known for a long time that he was the one occupying the magpie's nest.
Jing Cheng acted very calm, and Jing Yue believed that her guess was correct. She generously comforted him, "Don't worry, you are Dad's biological son anyway, and my mother wouldn't dare to do anything to you."
Jing Cheng: “…”
Jing Yue glanced at him secretly again and again. She had always thought that the other person was her second brother, so she hated him from the bottom of her heart and never looked at him straight in the eye. Now, thinking back, her "third brother" was a hundred times better than her "second brother" in temperament and conversation. She should have discovered it earlier.
Now that the problem has been clarified, Jingyue is ready to leave the room. It is not a good idea for a grown-up girl like her to always stay in her brother's room.
"Okay, let's go downstairs to eat first, and my brother and the others will be back soon."
Seeing that she was about to leave, Jing Cheng suddenly remembered how he felt when he first entered the room. An idea quickly flashed through his mind, and he quickly called her, "Who has been to this room while I was away?"
Jing Yue was puzzled: "There are servants coming to clean every day."
"Do you know who it is?"
"I remember Aunt Zhang is in charge of your place..." Jing Yue said uncertainly, and then asked him, "What's wrong? Did you lose something?"
Jing Cheng remembered that when he was downstairs just now, he always felt that there was an unfriendly gaze surrounding him. Now it seems that it should be that Aunt Zhang.
Jing Yue saw that he seemed to be thinking, and her heart sank: "Did something really get lost? Then she must have stolen it. Last month she broke my mother's vase and deducted her salary for a month. She might have been holding a grudge, so she stole things."
"Wait a minute, I'll go downstairs to find her!"
Jing Cheng stopped her and shook his head, saying, "It's not that something is lost, it's that there is one more thing."
Jing Yue was puzzled and stared at his actions in a daze.
Jing Cheng walked slowly around the room, finally squatted on the ground, and reached out to feel under the bed.
After a while, he pulled out a small gray wooden box from under the bed.
The outer shell of the wooden box was covered with an uneven layer of dark red paint. The whole box was smaller than Jing Cheng's palm, and the workmanship was extremely rough, with burrs on the edges.
Jing Yue came closer to him and asked in surprise: "What is this?"
She reached out and touched it curiously, and found that there was a lid on top of the wooden box. She pushed it with her fingers and it actually moved.
Inside was a small wooden figure with lifelike facial features and a few strands of black hair wrapped around its neck.
The wooden man's face was very similar to Jing Cheng's, with a smile on his lips.
Weird... and terrifying.
Jing Yue was horrified and quickly withdrew her hand: "What is that?"
Curse.
Jing Cheng smiled gently and met you again.
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