Chapter 05 Chapter 5

Everyone said so. They all said there was no possibility for her and Gu Huaisheng.

In Jiang Jingchun's heart, her grandmother was different from others, but now even her grandmother said so.

Jiang Jingchun was unwilling to accept it and was not willing to admit it.

Perhaps there is really no possibility for her to have a relationship with her cousin from the Gu family.

The old lady did not continue to answer her, but the look in her eyes clearly told her the answer.

It was now late at night. Jiang Jingchun had been kneeling here for an hour, and the old lady had been sitting beside him for an hour. After all, they were old and weak, and could not hold on any longer.

She rubbed her brows and said to Jiang Jingchun, "There's nothing much to say about this. It's not up to me to decide whether Fu Yan likes you or not. You've been spoiled to no end by your mother, and now you're married, you don't have any manners at all. In the future, when you're by my side, I'll help her educate you, you fool."

Jiang Jingchun was stunned for a moment. She was talking about something else just now, but why was she talking about this now?

But after she came to her senses, she felt that what the old lady said was indeed right.

She couldn't stay with her mother all her life. When she was with her mother, she would always treat her as a child who would never grow up.

Although her grandmother was strict, Jiang Jingchun liked her very much.

Just like she said just now, if someone bullied her, she could actually fight back.

Besides...my cousin likes people with rules.

There's nothing wrong in learning the rules from the old lady.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Old Lady Jiang thought she was unhappy, so she frowned and asked, "You don't want to?"

Jiang Jingchun bowed her head and said, "Mother will..."

My mother will definitely be unhappy and she will definitely not agree.

"Don't worry about your mother. I have my own way. Besides, I'm only letting you come to Rongde Hall from now on. I'm not sending you to a place thousands of miles away. What are you afraid of?"

The old lady looked a little tired. She stopped talking and said, "It's too late. Let's go back today."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Jingchun did not stay any longer and left respectfully.

But after she left, the old lady, who sounded tired, asked someone to call Jiang Jingchun's father, Jiang Nan.

Because Jiang Jingchun stayed in Rongde Hall for a long time and did not come back, Madam Jiang had a tantrum in her own yard. Jiang Nanfang comforted Madam Jiang and was about to rest, but when he heard someone coming from Rongde Hall, he immediately got up and hurried here.

He sat in the seat below, not showing any impatience at being disturbed, but lowered his head and asked obediently, "Why did mother call me here?"

Jiang Nan was the oldest and most stable of the three siblings. When the Jiang family first encountered trouble, he was already in his twenties, had lived the longest good life, read the most books, and was the smartest.

After he won the first place in the imperial examination, he was favored by Li Wanning, now Madam Jiang, whose father was then the chief priest of the Imperial Academy. Later, his third sister Jiang Ruo married into the Marquis's mansion through her childhood marriage, and since then, the Jiang family has regained its status in the capital.

Jiang Nan's journey from being the son of an abandoned minister to his current position as a minister has been extremely difficult. With all the hard work, he is now in his forties with gray hair at the temples.

The old lady asked him, "Have you found the whereabouts of the person?"

The dim light in the room made the old lady's expression unclear. Jiang Nan raised his eyes slightly and met those sad eyes.

They both knew exactly what she meant.

After a long while, Jiang Nan finally spoke, his voice a little hoarse.

"She is my child, so I will look for her."

"Did I not ask you to look for it?"

The way he acted, it seemed as if she was holding him back.

She quickly added, "You go ahead and look for her. Leave Jingchun with me from now on. I'll take care of her a bit so she doesn't end up alone."

She seemed to be saying this was a very common occurrence.

However, this remark somehow touched Jiang Nan's heart. He suddenly frowned, as if he was extremely puzzled. "She is an outsider no matter what. She doesn't have a trace of our blood in her. After Jinghui got into trouble, Wan Ning used her as a substitute and wanted to find some comfort from her. I can understand this."

"But why does mother treat her so well? Even if I find my child, I will not abandon her. Why do you say such harsh words?"

He always listened to the old lady, but now he really didn't know what she was thinking. Why did she value a person who had nothing to do with him more than her own granddaughter?

She said Jiang Jingchun would be alone? He wouldn't do anything like throwing her out on the street.

Madam Jiang snorted coldly, "Because she looks a bit like Jinghui, but you and your wife insisted on bringing her back."

Jiang Nan's face instantly turned ugly.

The old lady didn't want to dwell on the past, so she said, "I called you here today not to discuss this with you. Go and tell your wife that I will teach her myself from now on."

Jiang Nan wanted to argue again, but he said, "No, Wan Ning won't agree."

The old lady said, "The child is not hers. A habit is like killing a child. She has been raising him like a bird from the beginning to the end. Now she has raised him to be so pampered. If you find Jinghui in the future, will she still be able to survive?"

The real daughter is back, how could the fake daughter end up well?

None of them wanted to leave her any way out, and the old lady couldn't bear to see it anymore, so she wanted to stop them before the person was found.

She had made up her mind and without saying anything more to Jiang Nan, she stood up and walked towards the inner room.

"That's it."

Seeing that the old lady had made up her mind, Jiang Nan knew that he couldn't persuade her, so he didn't say anything.

He went back and told his wife, Mrs. Li, about this.

When Li found out, she immediately started to make a fuss. If Jiang Nan hadn't stopped her, she would have killed everyone in Rongde Hall. It was as if the old lady was some kind of vicious and evil person who wanted to take her child away.

Later, Jiang Nan saw that Li was going to make trouble endlessly and had no other choice but to ask someone to call Jiang Jingchun over.

He asked Jiang Jingchun in front of Li, "But you are willing to go to your grandmother?"

In Jiang Nan's eyes, Jiang Jingchun had been spoiled by Li. If there was anything that didn't go her way, she would definitely make a fuss first. Since she didn't make a fuss, it meant that she was willing to be with her grandmother.

He didn't like his daughter very much, and even said he hated her a little.

Perhaps it was because he knew from the beginning that this was not his child. He was not as foolish as Li Wanning, who spoiled a fake child as if it were his treasure. Or perhaps it was because the child's behavior was really annoying.

In short, he didn't like it.

Jiang Jingchun had guessed that her mother would be angry, but she didn't expect her to be so angry.

She was afraid that she would anger her grandmother, so she quickly said, "Grandma said so, but I want to go by myself."

But who knew that Li immediately pointed at her and scolded: "Haven't I been good to you? Why do you want to leave me......!"

Li had never spoken anything loudly to her. No matter what mistakes she made, most of the time she would just stand by and tolerate her, just like she did last time when she pushed Lou Yanyan.

But she just went to live with her grandmother and was taught by her for a few days, but it turned out that she was like this.

Perhaps in her eyes, Jiang Jingchun was like an ungrateful bastard. She treated her so sincerely, but she still wanted to be with someone else.

Jiang Jingchun was a little frightened, her face turned pale, she wanted to say, "I won't go, mother, is it okay if I don't go..."

Fortunately, Jiang Nan let her out before she opened her mouth.

He stayed to comfort her himself.

"Well, you heard it too. She wanted to go there on her own..."

Their voices gradually faded away, and Jiang Jingchun fled out of the room.

Hua Yun, who was waiting at the door, also heard the noise inside. She looked at Jiang Jingchun's pale face and asked, "Miss, what happened?"

Jiang Jingchun stared at Hua Yun in a daze, and finally came back to his senses.

She swallowed her saliva, then shook her head and said, "Nothing."

Her mother seemed to really love her, but this love was almost obsessive, as if she could never leave her sight, otherwise she would collapse and lose control.

She thought that now that she had grown up, she couldn't always stay by her mother's side and be protected by her.

This seemed a little strange, but she couldn't tell what.

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From then on, Jiang Jingchun went to live with the old lady.

At first, she was not quite used to it, but gradually she got used to it.

Although the old lady was strict, she was not harsh to her. In order to teach her better, she even used her connections to find a nanny from the palace.

Everyone called the governess "Madame Liu". She was quite different from the old lady. She was a cold-hearted and stern person.

Jiang Jingchun was a little afraid of her and behaved very well in front of her, fearing that he would make the slightest mistake.

During her time at Rongde Hall, she was very obedient and would never complain even when she was tired.

Of course, she also had her own selfish motives for cooperating so well.

She thought, Cousin Gu didn't like her because she didn't follow the rules and was childish, so if she behaved better, would he pay more attention to her?

When you meet someone after three days, you should look at him with new eyes.

She was looking forward to seeing him next time, and she would be well behaved and not make any noise then.

As for Li, she was still angry with her and even refused to see her, as if she was deliberately making her angry.

She wanted to use this method to force Jiang Jingchun back to her side.

However, this child was even more cruel than she thought. He stayed in Rongde Hall for ten whole days and never came back.

Li naturally took out her anger on Jiang Runchu.

After he got off duty that day, she grabbed him and scolded him for no apparent reason, "Your sister hasn't come back for a while, don't you care at all?"

Old Madam Jiang lives in Rongde Hall, and the eldest branch of the Jiang family lives in Chongming Hall. If someone died, it would just be the transfer of one branch to the other. When he was studying away from home, his mother didn't behave like this. But now, after not seeing him for only ten days, she is targeting him.

He quickly begged for mercy, saying, "If mother misses her, she can go to grandmother's place to look for her herself. Why force me to do that?"

It was only a few steps away, not even the time it takes to stick up an incense stick.

Li refused, "Why do you want me to see her? She is such a heartless person, why doesn't she come to see me?"

He refused to do this and that, and Jiang Runchu was getting a little overwhelmed.

He held his forehead helplessly and said, "So what do you want?"

It seems that Jiang Jingchun has been busy learning the rules these days and cannot come back.

He advised her, "Isn't it good for Jiang Jingchun to be like this? You always force her to do something."

At Rongde Hall, she was indeed much more obedient than before. She didn't cause any trouble and was willing to quietly learn some needlework and read some books. Even Jiang Runchu was a little surprised by her.

Li got angry because of this. "I give her whatever she wants. Is it wrong for me to treat her badly? I just want her to be obedient and stay by my side. What's wrong with that?!"

Jiang Runchu knew that he couldn't explain it to her, so he simply shut up. The two of them didn't agree on anything, so he planned to get up and leave.

But at this time, Li suddenly asked her, "Did your aunt send us an invitation? She set up a stage at Gu's house and invited us to come?"

After this reminder, Jiang Runchu remembered this matter.

He was puzzled and asked, "Why do you ask this?"

Li said to her, "Go tell your sister that I will be visiting Gu's family in a few days."

Doesn’t she like Gu Huaisheng? If she knew this, she would definitely come to pester her again.