Chapter 151: It’s Time to Settle the Score
After Jiang Yu finished her long speech, she looked at Jiang Wan seriously. It was as if her face was saying, “You want to lie, I’ll just stand here and watch you continue to lie”.
She had spoken a lot today and she was a little thirsty.
Jiang Yu said slowly, “Take your time to think about it. There’s no rush.”
Then, she walked over to Feng Linbai and asked, “What would you like to drink?”
“Lemonade, same as you.”
“Okay.”
Jiang Yu went to the kitchen and poured two cups of lemonade. After handing Feng Linbai a cup, she led him to the sofa and sat down.
After the two of them had had a sip of their refreshments, they sat down and did not speak.
Jiang Yu was in no hurry and Feng Linbai did not have the self-awareness of a guest.
He casually sat beside Jiang Yu and felt that this was a good thing. If they dragged this out a little longer, Jiang Yu would not chase him away so soon.
As for Jiang Yu, she didn’t mind Feng Linbai knowing that she and Jiang Wan didn’t get along.
This was the truth after all. Whether it be in school, where many people have seen their quarrels, or the incident that happened outside the school, where Feng Linbai was also involved. There was nothing to hide.
There were several reasons why Jiang Chenglang didn’t chase Feng Linbai away.
Firstly, Feng Linbai was a member of the Feng family. The strength behind the Feng family was not something the Jiang family could compare to.
However, this was only the secondary reason. After all, who would be willingly allow their family’s dispute to be put on display in front of outsiders? At the very least, they would usually persuade the person to leave.
Secondly, Feng Linbai was also the other person involved in that incident. It looks like that incident had to be cleared up today.
Compared to Jiang Yu’s nonchalant attitude, Jiang Wan seemed to be deeply troubled.
Jiang Yu’s words had blocked her path of retreat.
After Jiang Yu finished talking about the first two points, Jiang Wan had indeed thought of a countermeasure.
The countermeasure that she had originally thought of was indeed as Jiang Yu had predicted. She was prepared to say that she had bit off more than she could chew and had been used by someone else. That was why she had suspected Jiang Yu.
All she had to do was apologize to Jiang Yu, admit that she had wronged Jiang Yu, and ask for her forgiveness.
Now that Jiang Yu has revealed her plans, if she continued with that course of action, it would be like admitting she was making things up.
Jiang Wan did not say a word but her tears flowed down her face.
It was as if she did not even dare to make a sound. She bit her lips and her body trembled slightly.
She lowered her head and her eyelashes fluttered. Tears fell on the hem of her school uniform, staining it with round water marks.
Jiang Wan twisted her fingers together as if she had been wronged. After a long time, she sniffed and said in a muffled voice, “Since you think so, then continue to think so. I know that no matter what I say, you won’t believe me.”
She raised her head and looked at Jiang Chenglang with tears in her eyes. “Big Brother, it’s my fault. I said the wrong thing before and now I’ve wronged you. You should just banish me. You will never forgive me for this.”
“I have no way to prove my innocence, and I have no way to prove the wrongs I’ve suffered. This matter will end like this. It’s all my fault.”
“I… I can slowly forget about how I’ve suffered today. It doesn’t matter. We… I… will let it go…”
“Who said that this is over?”
It was Feng Linbai who opened his mouth.
His fingers stroked his glass. “Last time outside A High, Miss Jiang gave us a present. Miss Jiang has not forgotten, right? Now, it’s time to settle the score.”
Chapter 152: A Little Uncomfortable
Jiang Wan asked with a confused look, “Mr. Feng, what present? What score? Why are you saying something that I don’t understand?”
“You don’t understand? Doesn’t matter. You’ll understand soon enough.”
Feng Linbai said, “I don’t have much patience. I don’t want to talk nonsense. Just let the facts speak for themselves. Mr. Jiang, you should already have evidence on your phone. Why don’t you just show it to Miss Jiang, let her take a look, and confirm it?”
He said slowly, “That way, you can ease your guilty conscience.”
Jiang Wan’s face was still blank, as if she didn’t know what was going on.
Jiang Chenglang sighed.
He finally opened his mouth and said, “Wan Wan, there’s something that needs to be resolved today. Did you… say something to your uncle?”
Jiang Wan thought to herself, “It’s here, it’s finally here”.
When she had seen Feng Linbai appear earlier, she had already made a guess in her heart.
However, she was not afraid. It was because when she had chosen Lu Hetai, she had already thought of an alibi.
She had chosen him so that she could better shift the blame.
“Big Brother, I’ve told my uncle many things. What are you referring to?”
Jiang Wan asked doubtfully, “You know, my mother and uncle have a very good relationship. Uncle has always been good to me. Before Mother passed away, Uncle often came to the Jiang family to visit Mother and me. However, after Mother passed, I was the only one left in the Jiang family. Uncle is always busy, so he doesn’t come by often.”
“However, Uncle would call me from time to time to ask about my wellbeing. I, in turn, tell him everything so that he would not feel left out.”
“However, there are too many things that happen every day. I don’t remember what I’ve said either. Big Brother, what do you mean by asking me that?”
Jiang Chenglang could only ask further, “Did you tell him about Xiao Yu?”
“Yes.”
Jiang Wan nodded. “Uncle had heard about the news of my sister being found, so he asked about my sister’s situation. I naturally answered him…”
Feng Linbai rubbed his forehead. “Mr. Jiang, if you keep talking like this, how much longer will you have to talk? I’m getting sleepy listening to you.”
Jiang Yu yawned. “I am getting quite sleepy too.”
Feng Linbai immediately sat up straight and suggested, “Do you want to lean on my shoulder and rest for a while? You’ve finished the first half. I’ll handle the second half. You should rest first.”
Jiang Yu shook her head. “There’s no need.”
She leaned back. “This is good.”
Jiang Yu felt that the sofa was obviously softer than the bones in a person’s shoulder which was so hard. What’s so comfortable about leaning on it?
She planned to settle this matter once and for all but since Feng Linbai had said so, she decided to just watch the show from now on.
Jiang Chenglang looked at the interaction between the two of them and felt a little uncomfortable.
It was obvious that Jiang Yu was getting close to this man.
He already knew that Jiang Xingyi and Jiang Zeyu had interacted with Jiang Yu. The two of them were Jiang Yu’s older brothers. It was understandable for Jiang Yu to be close to them since they treated Jiang Yu well.
He also tried his best to make up to Jiang Yu for all the lost years. Alas, it was hard being the middle person trying to appease everyone. In the end, the younger sister that he had raised since young seemed to have changed into a different person. The younger sister that he had just acknowledged was closer to an outsider than him.
He did not have the right to say anything though.
Jiang Chenglang felt a headache coming on.
He pressed his temples and said, “Wan Wan, I think you still remember that there was a time when Xiao Yu came home late and there was some friction between the two of you.”
“At that time, Xiao Yu had come home late because something had happened outside of the school. A group of delinquent students wanted to cause trouble for Zeyu, Xiao Yu and Mr. Feng happened to be there.”
Chapter 153: Watching Her Performance
“Although those people had initially gone for Zeyu, and none of the three people were injured in the end… There were some other people mixed in with this group of gangsters. These people had been hired by your uncle, Lu Hetai.”
Jiang Wan said in surprise, “Big Brother, you mean to say that Uncle hired people to find trouble with Fourth Brother and Big Sister? Why would Uncle do such a thing?!”
After saying this, she suddenly came to a realization. “No wonder you asked me if I said something to Uncle. Is it because you thought that I said bad things about Big Sister in front of Uncle and he wanted to avenge me, so he went looking for someone to harm her?”
Jiang Yu sat quietly, watching her performance.
“Big Brother, why do you think such things?” Jiang Wan’s expression darkened. “I don’t deny it. When Uncle asked about my big sister, I told him that she doesn’t like me.”
“That is the truth after all. I didn’t say anything wrong, did I? I might have been in a bad mood at that time. My uncle is a concerned elder and my relative. I couldn’t help but complain to him, but I really didn’t know that he would such a thing.”
“I want to deny that there might be some other plot behind this, and now that I’ve said it, it sounds so ridiculous.”
“My big sister and fourth brother are just students, and my uncle has been working for so long. He has no need to compete with students, nor could he possibly have any financial disputes with Fourth Brother and Big Sister.”
“So, thinking about it, my uncle could only be looking for trouble with them because of me. My uncle did not tell me anything about this though. I don’t know anything about it. If you don’t believe me, I can call my uncle now. If you don’t believe me, you can ask him yourself.”
Of course, Jiang Wan wasn’t afraid of confronting Lu Hetai because she wasn’t the one who had instructed him to do so.
Lu Hetai was only concerned about Jiang Wan’s situation after Jiang Yu had returned. He was only concerned about whether she could get her hands on the Jiang family property.
He was more concerned about whether Jiang Yu would threaten Jiang Wan’s position.
After all, when Jiang Wan’s mother had been around, all his resources had been supplied to him by her mother. Even after her mother’s passing, because of his relationship between the Jiang family and him, who wouldn’t give him face when he went out?
Otherwise, would he have gotten all those projects? Did he really secure all of them by himself?
So, if Jiang Wan fell out of favor in the Jiang family, wouldn’t his source of income be cut off as well?
When Jiang Wan spoke to him on the phone, she only exaggerated a little about how the older brothers of the Jiang family all doted on Jiang Yu, saying that she was neglected in the Jiang family and that she might even get kicked out of the Jiang family.
When Lu Hetai heard this, he was speechless.
How could he not be angry and want to solve the problem called “Jiang Yu”?
He almost wanted to go directly to the Jiang family to meet this Jiang Yu. How could a daughter raised by a mediocre family compare to Jiang Wan, who had received so many years of higher education from the Jiang Family?
It was Jiang Wan who stopped him and told him to not be so impulsive. Things were not too bad, so he should not make the move to make things unmanageable.
But…
Of course, she had other ways to spread the idea that she had thought of to Lu Hetai.
Jiang Wan pursed her lips. There were still traces of tears on her face. “Big Brother, if I really wanted to harm my big sister, why didn’t I find a stranger to do it instead of asking uncle? Wouldn’t it be too obvious and I’d be exposing myself?”