Chapter 4 Juanjuan's Past
Adjutant Qi saw the invitation on his desk and said, "General, this is the way the Huadong Commercial Bank makes money, and you've never been involved in gambling on stones."
"If it's all down to luck, the probability of trial and error is too small. If the Third Master were here, we might have some chance of success."
Siming stood up, put his hands behind his back, turned and looked at the snow in the yard outside the window: "I can wait, but the people in the city can't wait, and my brothers can't wait either."
He turned to look at Adjutant Qi and said, "So, this time I want to try my luck. If I win, it can also ease our current situation."
"If I lose the bet, it won't necessarily be worse than it is now."
When Si Jinchen woke up, he asked someone to help him walk around. He felt much better, but he was still quite tired after walking for a while.
"Where's Juanjuan?"
"Master, the young lady is in her own room next door." Jiang Ze helped him walk to the door.
Si Jinchen thought for a moment and said, "Let's go see her."
Bai Ling saluted him immediately upon seeing him: "Master."
"I'll go see Juanjuan." He asked Bailing to open the door.
Juanjuan slept very comfortably. She had never slept on such a soft big bed, and it was so warm that she didn't feel cold at all.
When she woke up, she turned over and sat up, stretching out her thin little hands to rub her eyes.
When Si Jinchen came in, he saw her sitting on the bed rubbing her eyes. She looked like she had just woken up, and she looked silly and adorable.
Juanjuan, with two strands of hair on her head, turned to look at Si Jinchen and said softly, "Brother."
When Si Jinchen saw her yellow and dry hair, he couldn't help but feel sorry for her and decided to give her the delicious food in the future.
"Brother, give me a hug." Juanjuan saw him coming over, stretched out her little hand, and showed a sweet smile.
Si Jinchen smiled and stretched out his hands to hold her tightly in his arms. His hands felt like bones. "Juanjuan, you are so light."
"Juanjuan has grown fat, and brother can't hold her anymore." Juanjuan hugged Si Jinchen and rubbed his cheek.
"No matter how big you grow, your brother can still hold you." Si Jinchen helped her smooth down her two little hairs.
After Siming and Adjutant Qi had discussed the gambling on the stone, he instructed, "Go and investigate Juanjuan's past yourself."
"Yes." Adjutant Qi immediately turned around and left.
Siming was looking at the documents in his hand in the study, waiting for Adjutant Qi to come back.
A few hours later.
After returning, Adjutant Qi went straight to the study: "General, I have asked all the neighbors around the Li family and those who have contact with them."
"Speak." Siming put down the documents in his hand and crossed his hands on his folded legs.
"Mr. and Mrs. Li San, Miss Juanjuan's adoptive parents. They had been married for many years but had no children. Three years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Li San went to the river to wash clothes and found Miss Juanjuan, who had been left in the reeds."
"Because they had no children, they loved the child they found very much. However, six months later, Li San's wife became pregnant."
"After she got pregnant, she stopped caring about the young lady. After the child was born, she treated the young lady as a dispensable existence."
"All the good things are reserved for my own children, so the young lady has been starving. She used to be plump, but now she looks like a nobody."
"Neighbors occasionally took pity on her and would secretly give her some food, but when Li San and his wife found out, they would snatch it away."
"They even locked her up in a tiny room with only some hay on the floor."
"Three years passed like this, until a while ago when the two of them died in an accident while working. The Li family didn't want to raise this person who was not related by blood, so they sent him to the Governor's Mansion to bring good luck to the young master."
Adjutant Qi explained clearly what he had learned.
"You mean, the Li family had no children before, and after they picked up Juanjuan, they took good care of her for half a year before she got pregnant?" Siming looked at him and asked.
"Yes, yes, they didn't even register the young lady. You didn't see that the place she lived in before was damp and dark, but she was always cheerful and cheerful when she saw anyone and never complained."
Adjutant Qi felt a little sorry for her as he spoke.
"Bang!" Siming slapped the table: "It's too easy for them to die like this."
He looked at the invitation on the table and said, "Go and reply to the East China Chamber of Commerce. I will bring my daughter with me."
He wanted to let these people in Beiyang see that Juanjuan was his, Siming's, jewel in the crown, and everyone had to respect her from now on.
"General, do you want to take the young master with you?" asked Adjutant Qi.
"Achen's body is not fully recovered yet, so let's not take him with us for the time being." Si Ming was also afraid that something might go wrong with his body by then.
After he said that, he walked towards Juanjuan's room and saw two children sitting on the floor.
Juanjuan took the building blocks and put them on top, while Si Jinchen helped her to protect them, fearing that the building blocks would fall.
"Dad." Juanjuan waved her little hand holding the building blocks at him, her voice soft and tender.
Siming walked over to them and sat down cross-legged: "Juanjuan, Daddy will take you out to play in a few days, okay?"
Juanjuan turned to look at Si Jinchen: "Is brother going?"
"Brother, you can't go out until you are not well enough. You have to wait for some time until you are fully recovered." Siming rubbed her not-so-soft hair.
This child must be raised well. My Siming's child must be plump, fair and healthy.
Juanjuan wrinkled her nose and said, "If my brother doesn't go, Juanjuan won't go either."
"Why?" Siming looked at her, somewhat confused.
"If Juanjuan goes, brother will be lonely." Juanjuan's beautiful big eyes are full of innocence.
Si Jinchen felt warm in his heart: "Brother has been there, this time it's Juanjuan's turn."
Juanjuan looked at him seriously, not sure if what he said was true: "Really?"
"Really? Juanjuan, bring me a gift when you come back, and I'll go with her next time, okay?" Si Jinchen smiled gently.
Juanjuan nodded vigorously: "Okay."
She turned to look at Siming: "Dad, can we bring a gift for my brother when we come back?"
"Of course." Si Ming looked at her with doting eyes.
Juanjuan raised her hands happily and said, "Dad is the best." She kissed Siming on the face.
Siming was stunned for a moment, and a smile spread across the corners of his lips.
At noon, the two children only had some porridge, and they could eat something else in the afternoon.
The kitchen prepared easy-to-digest food for them.
Juanjuan looked at the clear soup noodles in the bowl, which had a golden fried egg on top and was sprinkled with emerald green chopped green onions.
She held the chopsticks for a long time without moving, just staring at the chopped green onions on the noodles with a look of deep resentment.
Si Jinchen sat next to her and watched her every move clearly.
He stretched out his chopsticks and picked up all the chopped green onions on the poached egg and put them into his own bowl: "Brother likes to eat chopped green onions, Juanjuan, can you give it to brother?"
Juanjuan didn't understand why he liked to eat such a strange thing, but still nodded in agreement: "If brother likes it, then give it to him."
"Brother doesn't like fried eggs. Can Juanjuan help him eat them?" Si Jinchen pointed to the fried eggs in the bowl.
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