The orphanage where the original owner lived was located in a small county town of Minjiang City, about 300 kilometers away from the city, and it took more than three hours to drive there.
After the car entered the city of Minjiang, it drove all the way to the villa area in the western suburbs.
Assistant Bai looked through the rearview mirror at this young lady from the Jiang family who had just been found, only to find that she wasn't cramped at all.
It was as if the luxurious environment around the villa had nothing to do with her.
A child who grew up in an orphanage shouldn't behave like this, so she either really didn't care, or she was too good at pretending.
Assistant Bai was secretly surprised, and quickly made up his mind that he would never take the initiative to provoke this Miss Jiang family in the future.
Don't look at Mr. Jiang's lukewarm treatment of her now, but with that blood relationship, who can tell clearly what will happen in the future.
It's a pity that he has offended Miss Jiang Li once before, even if he deliberately behaves in the future, he may not be able to leave a good impression on her.
How did Jiang Li know that Assistant Bai had made up so much brain power? In reality, although she was not born into a wealthy family, she was never short of money, so naturally she couldn't be attracted by the villa area in front of her.
However, a man and a woman standing on the lawn in front of Jiang's villa managed to attract her attention.
The girl looks about the same age as me, and looks very beautiful, while the boy looks a little more mature, looking a lot like the juvenile version of Jiang Huai.
The boy was listening to the female voice with his head down, the tenderness and pampering on his face seemed to overflow.
Jiang Li guessed that this should be the fake heroine Jiang Ruo and her sister-controlled brother Jiang Zhou in the book.
Following Jiang Li's gaze, Feng Yun's eyes immediately became gentle, but she soon realized that she hadn't told Xiao Ling about Ruo Ruo yet.
Originally, she planned to talk about it on the way back to Minjiang, but because of the unhappiness between Xiaojie and her husband, she forgot about it.
Just as Feng Yun was about to explain, Jiang Ruo noticed the situation here.
Her eyes were shining brightly, ignoring her brother's warning to "run slowly", ran over and slammed into Feng Yun's arms, and said coquettishly, "Mom, have you finally brought my sister back?"
Feng Yun smiled and stroked her head, "Well, I got it back, and you sisters can go to school together in the future, so you can have a companion."
Then she turned her gaze to Jiang Li, and said with a smile: "Xiao Ling, this is Ruo Ruo. You two sisters were hugged wrong before, so your father and I always thought she was our biological daughter."
Before Jiang Li could speak, Jiang Ruo immediately greeted her in a friendly manner: "Hello, sister."
Hearing the word "sister", Jiang Li immediately remembered the plot in the novel.
After the original owner returned home, Jiang Ruo did indeed call her sister all the time.
Later, whenever the two had conflicts, Jiangzhou kidnapped the original owner morally, saying that his younger sister was not in good health, and that the original owner should let her go as a sister and not argue with her for everything.
Jiang Li had no intention of serving the little princess, and said bluntly: "We are the same age, and the date of birth should be about the same. You can just call me by my name."
Sensing Jiang Li's indifferent attitude, Jiang Ruo was a little at a loss, and looked up at Jiang Zhou as if asking for help.
Jiang Zhou immediately frowned and looked at Jiang Li, "It's just a title, is it necessary to care so much?"
Jiang Li raised his head and looked at him, "It's just a title, there is really no need to care about it."
Then she turned her gaze to Jiang Ruo, "You shouldn't care about it, right?"
Jiang Ruo: ...
Jiang Zhou didn't expect that his sister's EQ was so low, and he lost his good face immediately.
He turned his head and rubbed Jiang Ruo's head, and comforted him: "Since she doesn't appreciate it, you don't have to be too polite to her in the future, just call her by her name."
Jiang Ruo pursed his lips and said nothing.
The son and daughter were unhappy when they first met, which made Feng Yun a little embarrassed.
She looked at Jiang Huai with help-seeking eyes, but found that her husband looked like he had nothing to do with her, obviously not planning to take care of it.
After hesitating for a moment, she frowned and looked at her son, "Xiao Li is also your sister, how do you talk?"
Jiang Zhou shrugged, "She doesn't even call her brother, how do you think I should talk to her?"
Feng Yun was stunned for a few seconds, as if she suddenly realized something, she looked at Jiang Li with hurt eyes, "Xiao Li, are you blaming Mom and Dad for not finding you earlier?"
Jiang Li shook his head, "I don't think so."
"Then why..." Feng Yun hesitated to speak.
The child in front of me is obviously my own daughter, but why does it always give people the feeling of being rejected thousands of miles away
Is it my own illusion
Jiang Li could roughly guess what Feng Yun was thinking. Thinking of the plot in the book, she suddenly smiled and asked, "You mean to say that I didn't call your parents or his brother?"
Feng Yun: ...
She really thought so, but she never thought that her daughter would ask so bluntly.
"Because I'm not sure yet, whether you will recognize me." Jiang Li's voice was cold.
"Of course we want to recognize you! If we don't recognize you, how could we come to you from all the way? Xiao Ge, you are hurting parents too much by saying that."
Feng Yun looked like she was about to cry, as if she had been greatly wronged.
Jiang Li didn't give her a chance at all, "But everyone knows that Jiang Ruo is the daughter of Jiang's family. Are you going to announce to the public that we were wronged when we were young?"
Upon hearing this, Feng Yun immediately lost her momentum.
They had already discussed this issue before they went to pick up Xiao Ling, and they finally unanimously decided not to announce Xiao Ling's identity for the time being, otherwise Ruo Ruo's situation would become very embarrassing.
As for Xiao Ling, they declared that she was the adopted daughter of the Jiang family. Anyway, the family knew her true identity and would treat the two children fairly.
When Jiang Zhou proposed this plan before, Jiang Huai agreed without much consideration. Although Feng Yun was a little hesitant, she also acquiesced to her husband and son's decision.
But at this time, when she heard her own daughter's questioning, she always felt a little bit wrong.
Jiang Zhou frowned and looked at Jiang Li, "Are you so concerned about the identity of Jiang's daughter?"
Jiang Li shook his head, "I don't care."
Jiang Zhou sneered, "If you really don't care, how about forcing us to disclose your identity as soon as you come back?"
Although Jiang Huai kept silent, he agreed with his son's words and felt that Jiang Li's eyelids were too shallow.
Jiang Li and Jiang Zhou looked at each other, wondering: "Didn't you force me to call someone first?"
Jiang Zhou: ...
"You and I are related by blood, so it stands to reason that you should change your words, but if you don't intend to admit that I am your relative, it should be normal for me not to change my words, right?"
Jiang Ruo looked at Jiang Zhou at a loss, and whispered: "Brother, otherwise..."
Jiang Zhou patted her on the shoulder lightly, and comforted her: "You don't have to worry about these little things."
Jiang Huai finally stopped pretending to be dead at this time, he looked at Jiang Li with condescending eyes. "Ruo Ruo has been by our side during the fifteen years you have been outside. Everyone knows that she is the daughter of the Jiang family. If you suddenly announce your identity, Ruo Ruo will definitely be criticized.
But you are different. People in the circle don't know you. As long as you tell the outside world that you are our adopted daughter, everyone will treat you politely. You should understand, right? "
Jiang Li was noncommittal, and asked instead, "Can you change the story?"
Jiang Huai frowned, "What excuse?"
He has already seen that the little girl in front of him is not a fuel-efficient lamp at all, and he only hopes that she will not make any whimsical requests.
"Since you don't intend to reveal my identity, then tell the public that I am a distant relative of the Jiang family, and I am only using the Jiang family temporarily." Jiang Li said in a casual tone.
Feng Yun was about to refute, but Jiang Huai said first: "Yes."
In his view, Jiang Li pretended to be indifferent to the world, but she was only retreating to force her family to announce her identity as the daughter of the Jiang family.
He is not as good as she wants.
But to Jiang Huai's surprise, the girl's plan had obviously failed, and she didn't even cry or make a fuss, she was pretty good at pretending.
That night, Feng Yun and Jiang Huai had a night talk.
"Xiao Ling would rather we say that she is a distant relative of the Jiang family than that she is the adopted daughter of the Jiang family. Are you blaming us?"
Jiang Huai said as if nothing had happened: "She is young and can't understand adults' thoughts, so she is just angry with us, and it will be fine in a few days."
Feng Yun frowned slightly, "But I always feel that the purpose of her saying that is just because she doesn't want to change her name to call us mom and dad."
Jiang Huai snorted coldly, "It's just a child throwing a temper tantrum. The more you give in, the more she will push her forward. Could it be that we still let her go and announce her and Ruo Ruo's identities?"
Feng Yun hesitated for a while, then whispered: "She grew up in an orphanage, no one taught her, so she will inevitably be willful, otherwise..."
"Impossible!" Jiang Huai interrupted her, "Ruo Ruo was brought up by you, we raised her for more than ten years, needless to say about the relationship, and Ruo Ruo and Qin Zheng have a marriage contract, if the Qin family Knowing that Ruo Ruo is not our own, I'm afraid it will end badly."
Feng Yun's eyes were a little confused, "Isn't it because Ruo Ruo and Qin Zheng like each other that we made a verbal engagement with the Qin family before?"
Jiang Huai smiled mockingly, "It's true that Qin Zheng likes Ruo Ruo, but you think those of the Qin family are doing charity? I have my own plans for this matter, so don't worry about it anymore."
Hearing what he said, Feng Yun sighed and stopped insisting.
Early the next morning, the couple got up for dinner, only to find that the three children were already sitting at the dining table.
Feng Yun subconsciously skipped Jiang Zhou and Jiang Ruo, and her eyes fell on her biological daughter Jiang Li.
At this time, Jiang Li was wearing a large black T-shirt, her long hair was tied into a ponytail with a silk scarf, and her thick bangs were tidied up and fixed with a black clip.
Probably due to long-term bangs, the skin color on her forehead is paler than other parts of her face, which looks a little inconsistent in comparison, but it should be easy to cover up with light makeup.
Feng Yun stared at her for a long time, and couldn't help thinking: her own daughter has a good-looking appearance, even if she doesn't wear makeup, she looks no worse than Ruo Ruo.
The most important thing is that when the little girl sat at the dining table and ate western food, although her movements were not very standard, she looked very natural. Such a temperament did not seem to be cultivated in an orphanage at all.
Feng Yun wanted to get close to her daughter, so she took the initiative to sit beside her and said softly, "There are so many new clothes in the cloakroom, why don't you wear them?"
Jiang Li finally looked away from the dinner plate, and said in a calm voice, "There are a lot of clothes in the cloakroom, but the sizes are too small, and none of them suit me."
After hearing Jiang Li's words, Feng Yun was obviously stunned.
She asked the housekeeper to prepare clothes for Xiao Ling before, Ruo Ruo offered to wrap them on her after hearing this, but she didn't expect that the clothes she prepared were in the wrong size.
But this can't be blamed on Ruo Ruo, because she doesn't know Xiao Ge's size at all.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the clothes that the housekeeper uncle prepared for you were all recommended by me, but I didn't expect you to be so tall, otherwise I wouldn't make a mistake."
Jiang Zhou didn't want his sister to be wronged, so he squinted at Jiang Li, "The clothes don't fit, just ask someone to change, you don't have to feel like everyone owes you."
Jiang Li gently put down the knife and fork in his hand, frowned and asked, "What should I do so that you don't think that everyone owes me?"
Without waiting for Jiang Zhou to answer, she asked again: "Do you have to wear those inappropriate clothes so that you won't make trouble for no reason?"
According to the content of the novel, the first day the original owner arrived at Jiang's house, he was dazzled by the clothes in the cloakroom.
She put on the brand clothes that the hostess carefully selected for her, but she couldn't stand up at all, as if the word "awkward" was written all over her body.
Even the servants couldn't help discussing in private, saying that the original owner was not only inferior to Miss Ruo Ruo in appearance, but also N blocks worse in temperament than Miss Ruo Ruo, and he didn't look like the Jiang family at all.
But those people never thought that the clothes in the cloakroom were all prepared according to Jiang Ruo's size. Although the original owner was slender, she was half a head taller than Jiang Ruo. It would be strange if those clothes fit her.
However, from the beginning to the end, the novel only emphasized that the original owner was not as good as Jiang Ruo in everything, and did not explain these details clearly at all.
Jiang Li is not the original owner, she will not force herself to wear inappropriate clothes, and it is even more impossible for her to tolerate Jiang Zhou's deliberate behavior of finding fault and provocation.
Facing Jiang Li's calm and indifferent eyes, Jiang Zhou couldn't find any words to refute for a while.
At this moment, he suddenly regretted that he didn't stop his parents from picking up Jiang Li back then.
The tense atmosphere between her son and daughter made Feng Yun a little at a loss. She tried her best to ignore the low pressure around her son and turned to look at Jiang Li.
"I'll ask someone to prepare the clothes for you again. Your brother is just talking badly. In fact, he treats you very well. He has been looking forward to your return before, and even went through the transfer procedures for you in person."
Jiang Li shifted his gaze to Feng Yun, "He didn't ask for my opinion before handling the transfer procedures for me."
Feng Yun immediately explained: "Your previous school was just an ordinary junior high school in the county, and Minjiang Foreign Language is the best private middle school in the province..."
Jiang Li interrupted her, "Then have you ever thought that I'm going to take the high school entrance examination in two months, and I won't be able to adapt to changing schools suddenly?"
In the true and false Qianjin novel, the heroine Jiang Ruo's high school entrance examination scores exceeded the high-high line by more than 90 points, and she was admitted to the elite class of Minjiang No. 1 Middle School, becoming the pride of everyone in Jiang's family.
The original host, as the heroine's control group, didn't even go to the heavy high school line, and couldn't go to high schools in the main city at all, so he could only choose among the few schools in the suburbs.
Under the banner of being good for her, the Jiang family put her student status in a school in the suburbs, and then found a relationship to make her a student in the elite class of No. 1 Middle School, hoping that she could improve her grades earlier.
But after going there, the original owner realized that she couldn't keep up with the rhythm of the teachers at all, and she was completely reduced to the bottom professional in the class.
When those people in the class knew that she was the "adopted daughter of the Jiang family", they couldn't help discussing in private, saying that she and Jiang Ruo were so different, and the Jiang family didn't know what they thought, but they adopted her.
Under the malicious speculation of some people, the rumors about her being Jiang Huai's illegitimate daughter also intensified.
Unknowingly, the original owner completely isolated himself and stopped communicating with anyone in the class.
Three years of high school life changed the original owner from being introverted and sensitive to lifeless, which made many people reluctant to approach her.
But Jiang Li has the memory of the original owner. She knows that although the original owner is not a talented party, he has always been diligent and studious. He used to go to middle school in the county town and was able to get a scholarship after every big exam.
With her strength, if she can perform normally, it will definitely be more than enough to pass the exam.
After returning to the Jiang family, her life has undergone earth-shaking changes, but the Jiang family did not realize that it was because of their self-assertion that the original owner's performance was abnormal.
They also felt that the family had already provided such good conditions for the original owner, but she was neither smart nor motivated, and she was completely incomparable with Jiang Ruo.
At this time, upon hearing Jiang Li's questioning, Jiang Zhou didn't think there was any problem with Jiang's family's actions, and he smiled meaningfully and asked, "You haven't even gone to school yet, and you've already decided to retreat, right? Didn't you plan to put the blame on me when you fail the high school entrance examination?"
Jiang Li looked calm, "I'm just refuting what Ms. Feng said just now, because I don't think it's good for me to handle the transfer procedures for me."
After hearing Jiang Li's words, everyone in the room was dumbfounded.
They never expected that Jiang Li would call her biological mother "Ms. Feng".