In the side hall, there were only three people, Zhou Cishen, Ruan Xingwan and Jiang Shanghan.
Zhou Cishen was sitting on the sofa, his features were cold and stern, and there was no warmth in his eyes when he looked at Jiang Shanghan, and his whole body was radiating a chill.
Jiang Shanghan's expression was always cold and unchanged.
Two powerful forces clashed invisibly, and the whole room felt oppressive.
Ruan Xingwan sat next to Zhou Cishen, put his hands on his knees, and took a deep breath.
I don't know how long it took, but Jiang Shanghan said calmly: "I think everything you want to know is already clear. Is there anything else you want to ask?"
Zhou Cishen said coldly: "What do you want to do."
"I didn't do what happened in Nancheng. If you're asking about what happened just now, then I have nothing to say. This was your mother's choice."
"Or I should ask, what did you say to her."
Ever since Xu Yue had preferred to remove her name from the family tree and left Jiangzhou without looking back, she had spent so many years alone in Nancheng and suffered so many injustices and injuries, yet she never even stepped foot into Jiangzhou to seek help from the Jiang family.
With a little help, you can see that she is proud and unyielding at heart.
She would never choose to return to Jiangzhou or the Jiang family suddenly at this time.
Jiang Shanghan answered with ease: "Didn't my aunt say that she probably regretted not being able to fulfill her filial piety during my grandfather's lifetime?"
Zhou Cishen looked at him expressionlessly: "You asked Jiang Yan to bring her back."
"I just told her that I can let her go back to the Jiang family. Whether she comes back or not is her choice."
Zhou Cishen asked repeatedly: "What do you want to do?"
Jiang Shanghan's expression calmed down a bit, his slender legs crossed, his fingers lightly tapped the armrest of the sofa, and he said nothing.
Ruan Xingwan felt suffocated. Do these two people have to talk like this?
Can't you explain it clearly once and for all?
After a while of silence, she said: "According to Aunt Xu's character, it was her decision to leave the Jiang family, so it is impossible for her to come back."
After saying that, Ruan Xingwan looked at Jiang Shanghan: "Either you threatened her, or she had a reason to come back."
Jiang Shanghan said: "Maybe, it's possible."
"Then what you said before, what happened in Nancheng twenty years ago was also related to Xu..."
"I said, you have to check it out yourself. Whatever you find is what you find."
Ruan Xingwan pursed her lips slightly, feeling that this matter was getting more and more complicated.
But the only thing that is certain now is that the recent events in Nancheng have nothing to do with Jiang Shanghan.
But it must be related to the Jiang family.
Just from today's ancestor worship, it can be seen that there are so many people in the Jiang family that it is completely impossible to find out.
Just when Ruan Xingwan was confused, Zhou Cishen stood up, took her hand and left.
He walked so fast that Ruan Xingwan had to jog to keep up with him. She turned her head and looked at Jiang Shanghan, opening her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't say anything.
Along the way, no one stopped them.
After leaving the side hall and standing in the garden, Ruan Xingwan stopped and asked in a low voice: "Don't you have something to ask him? Don't you want to ask him any more?"
"What you should ask is already known today.
As for the rest, he won’t say anything.”
Ruan Xingwan also noticed that Jiang Shanghan's answer today was like doing Tai Chi. Apart from knowing that Aunt Xu was from the Jiang family, he had no clue about anything else.
"That……"
"Let's go, I'll take you out."
After walking a few steps, Ruan Xingwan realized that what he had just said was to send her out.
Ruan Xingwan looked at him: "What about you?"
There was no emotion on Zhou Cishen's face: "My work here is not over yet."
Ruan Xingwan thought that Aunt Xu was still kneeling in the ancestral hall.
She nodded: "Okay."
Zhou Cishen drove Jiang Yuan's car and sent her to the gate of Jiang's house.
Outside, Lin Nan was already waiting there.
Before getting off the car, Ruan Xingwan said: "If you... have anything to say, please say it. Don't be impulsive, and don't lose your temper with Aunt Xu."
Hearing this, Zhou Ci pursed his lips, laughed silently, raised his hand to tuck her hair behind her ears: "I'm not a child, I know."
"The Jiang family is quite chaotic. I feel that Jiang Shanghan can't control them. You should be careful."
Zhou Ci stared at her with deep dark eyes. After a few seconds, he pushed forward the hand behind her ear, tilted his head and kissed her on the lips, roughly prying open her teeth.
Ruan Xingwan could clearly feel his suppressed emotions running wildly in his chest.
She slowly closed her eyes and responded, trying to comfort him.
Sensing her long-awaited initiative, Zhou Cichen grabbed the back of her head and deepened the kiss.
After the kiss ended, Zhou Cishen said in a low voice: "I'm leaving."
"Um……"
After Ruan Xingwan got off the car, he stood there.
It wasn't until Zhou Cishen re-entered Jiang's house and the shadow of the black car disappeared from sight that she looked back.
Ancestral hall.
Jiang Yuan was no longer satisfied just sitting on the floor, and even ordered some fruits and pastries on the table to eat.
Just when he was full of food and drink, footsteps finally came from outside.
He quickly wiped his mouth and knelt down upright.
When he saw that the person who came in was Jiang Shanghan, he collapsed instantly: "It's you, who did I think it was."
Jiang Shanghan gave him a look: "Are you full?"
"eat……"
As soon as Jiang Yuan opened his mouth, he saw the remains of mung bean cake on the ground next to him.
He said regretfully: "Let's just do it. A little meat would be better."
"Clean up and get out."
Jiang Shanghan had already spoken, and Jiang Yuan stood up in a hurry and happily went to find a broom.
Jiang Shanghan glanced at Xu Yue in front of him, and then at Jiang Chuning, who kept his head lowered as if he had been greatly wronged.
He spoke slowly: "Jiang Chuning."
Hearing his voice, the latter's back tensed up for a moment, but he still resisted stubbornly and silently.
Today! Even if she knelt down and died here! She was beaten to death by her father! She would not marry him!
Jiang Shanghan's tone was a bit colder: "You are twenty years old and you are not a child. How long will you continue to lose your temper? Do you plan to kneel here for the rest of your life?"
Jiang Chuning finally raised his head, his face stained with tears, and said with sobs: "As long as I don't marry you, I am willing to kneel for the rest of my life!"
"Did I say I wanted to marry you?"
"But……"
"As long as I don't agree, no one can make this decision for me."
Jiang Chuning choked up several times: "What if... what if... you suddenly want to marry me again, then... wouldn't that force me to jump into the fire pit?"
Jiang Shanghan's temples jumped a few times, and he held back his temper and said, "There is no such eventuality."
Jiang Chuning: "Oh."
She stood up immediately and wiped away the tears on her face: "This is what you said!"
After saying that, she looked at Xu Yue again: "This aunt also heard it, I have a witness! You can't go back on your word!"