Chapter 343 Awakening Jiang Han
"I just haven't met the person I like yet. Anyway, I'm not too old and I still have to observe the national mourning period, so there will always be some buffer time. Isn't that what you told me before, mother?"
“I did say that, but times have changed.
Your father just told me that Lord Qin has uncovered some clues. Your abduction yesterday was definitely not accidental. The underlying issues are a bit complex and difficult to uncover for now.
However, he intercepted a secret report. He didn't know who was instructing the Ji family to do everything they could to welcome you into their family.
Jiang Han immediately sat up straight, frowned and thought for a moment.
"Did my sister give me a message?"
"Yes. Lord Qin suggested that it would be best to remove the problem at the source, and your sister also agreed that the family should arrange your marriage right away."
"good!"
This girl is truly an extreme sister complex, and her symptoms are obviously more serious than her mother's.
"My sister definitely won't cheat me. I'll do whatever she says! Who will I choose?"
Looking at his decisiveness, it felt like he was going to fight rather than get engaged. His mother, who had been trying to persuade him earnestly, couldn't help but twitch her lips.
"Sister Han, do you have a choice in mind?"
"No. Since ancient times, marriage has always been decided by parents and matchmakers. I will listen to you."
In fact, Li Laowu's face suddenly appeared in front of her, but she quickly pushed it away.
Her sister had taught her since childhood that the Duke of Ling's Mansion was their foundation and support. In times of crisis, her own likes and dislikes were irrelevant; everything had to be based on the Jiang family!
"Okay then, let's leave this matter to my parents."
Mrs. Xu reached out and touched her daughter's pretty face, with some guilt in her eyes.
"Sister Han, mother will definitely choose a good man for you to be with."
"I know."
When the child was young, the mother felt embarrassed, but when the child was so sensible, the mother could not help but feel distressed. She took her daughter's little hand in her own and patted it gently.
"Han Jie'er, I haven't been a good mother to you. From childhood to adulthood, you have had older sisters above you and younger brothers below you, and you have always been the one most easily overlooked in the family.
I often think about wanting to make it up to you, but I can't help but be partial to you and bypass you. Sister Han, I really feel sorry..."
"No! Why would you think that? How have you ever let me down? I don't think I'm having a bad life."
Jiang Han sat next to his mother and placed his little head affectionately on her shoulder.
"Mom, you don't have to feel bad, I've been living a very good life since then.
There are always times when there are not enough children in the family. But I have my sister, and she is the most partial to me. She gives me double the amount of water that you didn't give me!
I know she favors me the most, so I don't think there is anything worth feeling bad about.
After all, life is full of difficulties. Compared to the truly pitiful people, I've really had a good life!
My parents supported me and my sister helped me grow my pride. That’s why I am the upright Ah Han of the Jiang family today, not some poor little kid in the backyard of a wealthy family.
Born with a delicate temperament, she has a clear mind. Xu Ruoyu is not bragging, her daughter is really a lovely child.
"I'm glad you're not upset. I'm really happy that you can think so clearly."
“Actually, I’m not always so clear-headed, and sometimes I get jealous.
My sister is so smart, so capable, so outstanding and so perfect. I will probably only be a supporting role to her for the rest of my life.
But I can't help but show off. Such a smart, capable, excellent and perfect person is my sister!
And she loves me the most!
Hahaha, just thinking about it makes me happy. Mom, why do you think my sister favors me so much?
"Because you're a good kid."
Xu recalled many years ago, when she was also a younger sister who was cherished and cared for by her elder sister.
Many years passed, and then she looked down at her own daughter's face and saw the happiness that belonged to her in the past.
"No matter what time it is, never forget how much your sister has loved you since you were a child."
"Of course!"
Jiang Han pointed to the half-finished work on the table.
"I always listen to my sister. I never delay doing anything she asks me to do. Look at how much I've already written down. I guarantee that every single one of them is the result of my painstaking efforts and experience, and they're definitely not just random words!"
"Mom knows you two sisters are the most powerful!"
Speaking of this, Xu's face was full of pride.
"Do you know what those seals your sister asked you to make some time ago are for?"
"It's for my brother-in-law to use when he's lazy!"
The little handicraft expert pouted her lips and stretched out her fingers to act coquettishly with her mother.
"Look, when I was carving those clay seals, I cut my hands with small cuts. My sister is good in every way except for one thing. She dotes on my brother-in-law too much, doesn't she?
When my third child and I didn't want to practice calligraphy when we were little, she beat us. Now when my brother-in-law doesn't want to write, she turns around and tries every possible way to help him cheat.
Humph, mother, don’t you think my sister is a little too partial now? And my brother-in-law is an emperor after all, but he is always taking advantage of others, huh!
"Sister Han, stop talking nonsense! You know your brother-in-law is the emperor, so how dare you speak so recklessly?"
Whenever it comes to competing for favor in front of the eldest girl, the second girl will want to kill everyone fairly.
"The truth? Why don't you let people tell it?"
Jiang Han's mumbling complaints eventually died down. Then, in frustration, she raised her pretty face, a picture of smugness on it.
"Mom, let me tell you, wasn't I stuck on that spinning wheel improvement a while ago? Then, the virtuous Concubine Dowager is truly well-versed in history and has read countless books. She had a copy of Heshi Bowenlu that I borrowed, and it inspired me to successfully change the hand-cranked spinning wheel into a pedal-operated one."
Then he let out another long sigh.
"Mom, people like you who come from aristocratic families are truly unfathomable. Your collection is truly all-encompassing, with everything!"
Xu smiled as if she was used to it.
“That’s because one of the He family’s former heads was a disciple of the Mohist school, so their family collected some miscellaneous books.
My family didn't have any of those back then. Your grandfather mostly collected classics, history books, and collections of essays by great scholars, or calligraphy, paintings, and musical scores.
Later, when the family was destroyed and everyone died, I wonder who got all those things my father loved so much?"
On this issue, Xiao Qin, Lao Xu's former favorite disciple, who is now Lao Qin, has the most say.
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