Chapter 04: Impersonation

Ji Duo is six years older than Ji Ze and is already 28 years old this year.

His family had been trying to find a partner for him a few years ago, but he was a stubborn person and would not look at any of the girls introduced by relatives or friends.

Once, Ye Minshu killed someone first and asked for permission later, and took him home. He also used the excuse that the troops were busy, turned around and left with a cold face. At that time, Ye Minshu felt a little embarrassed, and complained for several days in a row, saying that he would never meddle in Ji Duo's affairs again.

Because of this, there were some negative rumors about him behind the scenes, and in the past one or two years, few people have introduced him to anyone.

Of course Ji Ze didn't believe that, but he also thought that his uncle was devoted to his career and would take care of his soldiers for the rest of his life. He never thought that he would be whispering with a young girl here, and the distance between them was quite close.

Ji Ze couldn't help but look at Lin Qiao again.

To be honest, she was dressed a little shabbily, but she had a beautiful face, especially her eyes, which were bright and charming. She could make her uncle, who was so stubborn and unyielding, fall in love with her, so maybe she really had something special.

Ji Ze felt that he was probably right, but the two people opposite him looked at him speechlessly.

Especially Ji Duo, who looked at him in silence for a long time, "This is the granddaughter of your grandfather's old comrade-in-arms."

I didn't mention the child marriage because I was afraid he wouldn't be able to accept it at once.

Ji Ze scratched his head after hearing this, "Ah? Did I make a mistake?" He was a little embarrassed and wanted to slip away, "Then you guys chat, I'll go see Grandpa."

"I'll go alert the nurse."

Ji Duo said something to Lin Qiao and followed him out.

When he reached the nurse's station, he whispered, "It's just right. My sister-in-law brought you a date. The person is still in the ward."

"My mom brought me a date?"

Ji Ze was shocked at first, and then he felt terrible. "Didn't I say I'm only 22, no rush?"

He trotted to the end of the corridor and opened the door of the ward, "Mom, why are you making such a mess again..."

Ji Duo stopped there and didn't move.

What he said just now was very vague. It can be understood as "sister-in-law brought your partner here" or "sister-in-law brought someone here and said he was your partner". How to understand it depends on whether Ji Ze really has this partner.

Now it seems...

Ji Duo lowered his eyes, estimated the time, raised his hand and knocked on the nurse's desk, "Bed 33, remove the needle."

Ye Minshu was still praising Song Jing when Ji Ze suddenly barged in and the smile on her face froze.

She immediately went to see Grandpa Ji, her expression unable to hide her panic, "Xiao, Xiaoze, weren't you in the army? Why are you back? I was just telling your grandpa about you and Xiaojing talking about dating, you came just in time."

She tried her best to wink at her son.

Ji Ze didn't know what was going on, but he was not stupid. He could still feel the change in his mother's expression and the stagnant atmosphere in the ward.

He paused, "I ran into my dad on the road and he told me that grandpa was sick."

"Ji Jun, I'm on a business trip and can't come, so I'll just bring you back."

Ye Minshu wanted to follow his lead and bring the topic back to her husband, but Old Master Ji obviously didn't buy it. He just stared at her for a long time, then suddenly said, "Xiao Ze, close the door."

He has been in a high position for a long time, and once his face is expressionless, there is a sense of majesty between his brows.

Ji Ze did not dare to neglect and quickly turned around to close the door. Before he turned around, he shouted at Ye Minshu, "You are so stupid to find someone to pretend to be Xiao Ze! Do you think I am stupid or dead?"

These words were quite harsh, not to mention Ye Minshu, even Ji Ze's heart skipped a beat.

Ye Minshu, who was at the center of the storm, turned completely pale, and then quickly turned red, even her eyes turned red, "Dad, am I that kind of person? Back then, you arranged for Xiaoze to marry the girl from the Lin family without even asking, and I didn't say a word."

She was from an art troupe, and although she had long since switched from a dancer to a management position, her red eyes still revealed her frailty and pity.

Ji Jun was the most susceptible to her tricks. Whenever she cried, he would do nothing about her. But Old Master Ji had a hot temper and hated her for behaving like this even at her age. "Do you not want to say it, or can't say it? Do you think I don't know?"

Ye Minshu choked, and this time tears really came out, it was so embarrassing.

When the two families were getting engaged, she really didn't dare to say anything. First, Ji Jun didn't object, and second, something happened in her family at that time, and she was asking the Ji family for help. She hadn't had time to curry favor with Master Ji yet, so how could she dare to have any opinions?

But she has raised a good son to this age, who would be willing to marry him to a country girl?

He has no family background, no culture, and no knowledge. It's embarrassing to bring him out, let alone tell others about him.

So when she saw the letter from the nanny was written with "Lin Chang", she said without a second thought that she had found the wrong person. That's why the girl got into the second brother's car with a thick face, and she was in a hurry to let Song Jing pretend to be Xiaoze's partner temporarily.

She just didn't believe that Xiaoze had a partner, and that the partner was good in every aspect. How could her old man have the heart to break up Sun Zi and force him to marry Lin Qiao?

Fortunately, the two families had a good relationship, so Song Jing agreed to help her without saying anything.

But she never expected her son to suddenly come back and expose the lie. She also never expected that the old man would not care about her face and would

He attacked her and said such harsh words, but Song Jing was an outsider.

The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. She simply covered her face and turned away from Xu Li. "Our two families haven't had any contact for many years. You know, Mom, who still remembers that child marriage? I brought Xiaoze's boyfriend here because Dad was sick and wanted to make him happy."

"Don't tell me you haven't met Lin Qiao." Old Master Ji interrupted her.

Seeing that she was still stubborn and insisted that Song Jing was Ji Ze's target, the old man simply asked his grandson directly: "Xiao Ze, tell me, have you and the girl from the Song family discussed a target?"

Since Ji Ze entered the door, unexpected news has been bombarded one after another.

First, his mother really brought someone over and said that he was his partner, and then he found out that he had a childhood marriage.

Ji Ze was stunned. He looked at Old Man Ji, then at Ye Minshu, lowered his head and said nothing.

Without saying anything, Ye Minshu tacitly acknowledged that Song Jing was his partner. She immediately became confident, "Dad, you saw it too. I didn't lie to you. Yes, I had selfish motives. When the girl from the Lin family came to my house, I deliberately told her that she had made a mistake. But Xiaoze didn't even know that she had a childhood marriage and had already found a partner. Now that she has come in, do you want me to forcibly break us up?"

Ji Ze just stood there silently, without saying anything and without looking at Old Master Ji.

It was obvious that the mother and son had the same idea, which made Old Master Ji so angry that his blood rushed to his head, and he almost fell off the bed.

Ji Ze was startled and was about to step forward, but Xu Li stopped him first and said, "Stop talking." Then she said to Old Master Ji, "You fainted at noon and almost scared me to death. Don't you know how high your blood pressure is? And you're still angry."

The person being spoken was Grandpa Ji, but Ye Minshu felt that this was clearly an accusation against her for making the Grandpa angry.

She was not convinced, so she blurted out, "If that girl from the Lin family hadn't come to our house, there wouldn't be so many problems."

When Master Ji heard this, he got angry again, and his face turned red. A nurse pushed the door open and walked in, "Bed 33 needs to have the needle removed, right?" Noticing that the atmosphere in the room was not right, she immediately frowned, "Why are there so many people? Don't you know that the patient needs to rest?"

After the nurse removed the needle from the old man, she quickly went to get a blood pressure monitor.

After measuring, my blood pressure was really high, the diastolic pressure was 164 and the diastolic pressure was 203.

The nurse helped the old man untie his belt and said in a harsh tone, "The blood pressure is already very dangerous. It could be a cerebral hemorrhage. The patient himself doesn't know how to control his emotions. Don't you, the family members, know the same thing? Don't leave so many people in the ward if there's nothing wrong."

Knowing that his old man's blood pressure was high again, Ji Ze was already feeling a little regretful, and felt even more ashamed after hearing this.

He quickly pulled his mother out and said, "Then we won't disturb Grandpa from resting. You take a rest first, and I'll come to see you another day."

With the old man in this situation, there are some things that we really can't be impatient about. What if we make him angry and something bad happens?

Ye Minshu said nothing. As soon as the door closed, she looked at Song Jing with some embarrassment and said, "I'm sorry to make you laugh."

Speaking of this, Ji Ze was also speechless, "Why did you drag Song Jing into our family affairs?"

"Isn't there anything I can do? You want to marry a country girl?"

Song Jing got angry when Ye Minshu was mentioned. She lowered her head, a little embarrassed. "It was just a simple task. I didn't have anything to do. But I didn't act like it. Master Ji still saw it and got angry."

When Ji Ze heard this, he looked at Ye Minshu again, "Mom, what's the matter with child marriage?"

"What else could it be? Your grandfather owed you a favor, so he sent you away. You haven't seen that girl. She's dressed like a beggar, and her eyes are restless. I don't know where she got the nerve to come to our house."

He was dressed like a beggar, and his eyes were restless...

A bright face that he had just seen appeared in Ji Ze's mind, "Mom, you are not talking about the one who was with my uncle, right?"

"Have you seen her?" Ye Minshu immediately became alert, "Don't just listen to your grandfather because she looks good."

"No, I saw her with my uncle and thought she was his girlfriend."

"It would be nice if she was your uncle's girlfriend..." Ye Minshu wanted to say something, but when she saw the people in the stairwell in front of her, she swallowed her words back.

After all, she was the eldest sister-in-law and had to be respectful in front of her brother-in-law. She just said that the nurse did not allow too many people to stay in the ward.

Ji Duo didn't ask much, and Ji Ze was even less likely to talk about what had just happened in the ward. When he passed by Ji Duo and Lin Qiao, his expression was a little evasive.

This made Lin Qiao raise his eyebrows silently, wondering what Ji Duo had said to him just now.

And from Ye Minshu's expression, it was obvious that she had not had a pleasant conversation with Mr. Ji in the ward just now.

Was it that Mr. Ji was dissatisfied with the choice of daughter-in-law she brought, or was it the fact that she brought this person here that made Mr. Ji dissatisfied?

Could this matter be related to her?

But if this Ozawa was really the male protagonist, how could his mother allow him to arrange a marriage for her son when she was so opposed?

The old man has a biological son who is about the same age. Although they are of different generations, they are not really related. Why should he allow his grandson to marry her but not his son?

Lin Qiao was a little confused, but compared to who the male protagonist was, there was obviously something more important at hand.

In the ward, Master Ji was also thinking about why Lin Qiao had to come this time.

Seeing that he was calming down, Xu Li peeled an apple for him. The thin apple peel left a long strip on the back of the knife. "Are you still angry? I don't think you can blame the child for this. At that time, there were still people who were unwilling to accept arranged marriages. Besides, he found out about this so suddenly. You should talk to him nicely. Let the two children have more contact. Xiaoze is not an ignorant person."

She only said that Ji Ze didn't mention Ye Minshu because he wanted to make things easier. But Master Ji shook his head and said, "I'm afraid this matter is not that easy to handle. Xiao Ze looks easy to talk to and cheerful all day long, but I'm afraid he has his own ideas just like the second brother. It's also because the second brother didn't set a good example. When Xiao Ze was young, he just followed him around. He didn't learn the good things, but he is better at making people angry than the second brother."

"Okay, okay, it's all my fault for not teaching my second brother well, okay?"

"It's not all your fault. I was quite used to him when he was little. He's your old son, and you got him with great difficulty."

It's a bit off topic to mention these things. Xu Li returned to the issue of child marriage. "If it really doesn't work, don't force it. It's not necessary to repay the favor. You don't have to put the two children together. I don't think their family is very positive about this matter."

Old Master Ji was silent. Just at this moment, they heard footsteps approaching, and the two of them stopped talking.

Lin Qiao and Ji Duo came in, and the four of them tacitly did not mention what had just happened. Old Master Ji also came to his senses at this time, and when he saw Xu Li had peeled the apple, he asked her to give it to Lin Qiao directly, "I didn't hear you finish just now, what exactly is going on in your family?"

As soon as Lin Qiao entered the room, he found that there was still a sense of depression in the air.

She thanked him, took it, and told him everything without exaggerating.

Old Master Ji had long guessed that Lin Qiao would run away, fearing that there was something wrong with this marriage, but he never expected it to be so wrong.

Not only did they sell Lin Qiao without regard for her will, they also confiscated her household registration and all her documents, forcing the child to sneak out to seek help. This method is too...

The old man frowned deeply, and after a while he asked again, "What day is it set for?"

"The day after tomorrow."

This time, Master Ji was silent for a longer time, and looked at Ji Duo who was sitting on another bed, "Are you free these two days?"

Asking this question at this time obviously meant that he had something to do. Ji Duo paused for a moment and said, "I have a few days off."

"Then you should accompany Miss Qiao and take care of her family affairs first."