Chapter 19 : Double standards.

"Spill the beans."

Jiang Xuejing asked with no expression on his face whatsoever. The males of the Jiang family had this weird sort of double standards.

They would be as gentle as the hot spring and warm as the morning rays of the sunshine when faced with the three females of the family. Yet they changed expressions in the speed of lightning when they talked to anyone except the aforementioned females, that including each other.

They were quite loyal.

Haha.

"The Zhou family,what about them." He said walking towards Jiang XueYue's bed to help take of her home slippers while Jiang Xuejing tucked her in the duvet since it was winter.

Jiang Xuewei asked away in a laid-back manner,too lazy to explain any further. The father and son duo walked away with the latter two following behind them.

Though Xuewei's brief question,the other three were familiar enough to understand his intentions.

The group of four men sat in the study facing each other with staid mein.

Though only Jiang Xuesheng accompanied the ladies to shopping,the three were keen enough to notice the slight soreness on the other member's faces when they came back.

"Second brother, how do you know it's related to the Zhou family?"

Jiang Xuesheng questioned ,his eyes widened with confusion. He was sure that he had not told them a single word about the matter till now while the ladies instantly followed Yan Yixing to her room,thus eliminating the chances of them letting the cat out of the bag.

"He made Zhou family go bankrupt a week ago, how would he not know their behaviour after being cornered."

This time, Jiang Xuejing answered instead of Jiang Xuewei amidst the conflicting atmosphere in the room.

"Weren't we done with our revenge already?"

Jiang Xuesheng inquired again. His usually clever mind going numb at this moment.

Jiang Xuewei thus revealed the reason behind his scheme against the Zhou family. Father Jiang and Jiang Xuewei sheng boiled with rage coming to know of the despicable means deployed by the Zhou family,while Jiang Xuejing still felt enraged even though he knew of the matter. In fact , Jiang Xuejing had helped his younger brother in his conspiracy.

Jiang Xuewei had investigated the matter of Jiang XueYue's abduction alongside the other students. Given the tight security of the Wei High school,it made no sense that the criminals could get their hands of it's whereabouts. While investigation, Jiang Xyewei's team discovered the Zhou families involvement into the kidnapping matter.

The Zhou family had taken over a huge project few months ago ,which required them a great deal of capital. However,the Zhou family was all but a low tier company ,which could not incur such sum even if they were to sell it. The Zhou family had yet again asked the Jiang family for a 'little' help which the Jiang family instantly refused to give.

Thus, leading the Zhou family to play dirty by planning to kidnap Jiang XueYue by letting the dr*g dealers know about the whereabouts. They had wanted to exchange Jiang XueYue over for a deal with the king of underworld,who coincidentally had a deal with the smuggling organization.

Those filthy swines had wanted to use Jiang XueYue to kill two birds with one stone by joining hands with each other . First ,knowing the children of the school were the offsprings of the elite family, the smugglers could gain an upper hand by using the children's as their leverage. And second ,the Zhou family could get the huge sum needed for the project.

Jiang Xuewei had thus revealed the dirty dealings under the Zhou family's name over the years to extract revenge, almost rendering the Zhou family business to fall in state bankruptcy.

Now , those rats were forced out of their holes to come looking for a helping hand and Jiang Xuewei was well aware that the Zhou family had but them to turn to.

The males halted their discussion after being called being called for dinner by Aunt Tan, the lady working in the Jiang manor . Only then did they realise that they have been in the study for whole two hours. Since it was winter,the daylight shortens while the nights lingers long,where day time felt fleeting.

....

Jiang XueYue was woken up by the slight breathing sounds coming from her side,only to be momentarily attacked by a pair of beautiful dark brown doe eyes . Those dark eyes twinkled with life and energy as they quietly stared at her. Jiang XueYue giggled in adoration at the sight of Yan Yixing standing by her bed side.

"The girl's here to wake you up for dinner but couldn't bear to." Jiang Xuewei's voice sounded from the door followed by a throaty chuckle , watching the pair of adorable girls acting all soft and mushy.

Fortunately he was well aware of the wild nature behind their harmless and cute faces, lest he elicited their wrath.

"Give me a moment while I clean up then, you guys go ahead, I'll follow up in a minute." Jiang XueYue said warmly while making her way to the washroom to wash up.

"Second brother,you go fisrt, I'll come with sister." Little Yixing remarked as she obediently sat on the carpet to wait for Jiang XueYue.

This little thing had some standards there. she would address the Jiang siblings as brother and sister yet proceeded to call Mo Sicheng as Uncle , who in fact was of the same age as Jiang Xuewei.

Jiang XueYue alongside the little girl came downstairs.

"Woah, smells so good."

Little Yixing visibly swallowed at the fragnant smell of food coming from the kitchen. She excitedly dragged Jiang XueYue by her hands to run towards the kitchen.

"The dinner's ready .Go wash your hands first then join us on the dining table."

"Okay."

The Jiang siblings answered enthusiastically as they went to wash up before rushing to join the dinner with the elder's.

The dining room was adjacent to the kitchen with a large rosewood dining table in the middle of the room with eighteen chair with the same material as the table around it.

Old Master Jiang sat on the head chair in the middle while Old Madam Jiang sat on his right with Master Jiang on his left alongside Madam Jiang by his side .