activa-t Chapter 444
Chapter 444
"My background?" Jiang Yuanrang looked at Xu Heming in shock.He had doubted his own origins before, but this was the first time someone had spoken of it so bluntly to his face.
Previously, it had only been a suspicion.
A suspicion that he was not the child of Madame Jiang.
"Does my benefactor know who my mother is?" Jiang Yuanrang asked, looking at Xu Heming with some urgency.
However, while he suspected he wasn't Madame Jiang's child, he never doubted he was a child of the Jiang family.
After all, a family as large as the Jiangs would never tolerate the muddling of their bloodline.
"I have a rough idea." Xu Heming glanced at Jiang Yuanrang. At this moment, he couldn't make a definitive conclusion. After all, only Li Tianyou and Lady Yao knew whether this was truly their child.
However, even if he was their child, Xu Heming had no objections.
After all, he thought it would be quite nice for Li Zhiwei to have an older brother to back her up.
"Is she well?" Jiang Yuanrang clenched his fists, taking a long time before finally asking this question.
He didn't know what had happened back then, or why his mother had given him to Madame Jiang to raise.
"She is doing well," Xu Heming thought for a moment before answering truthfully.
However, he wasn't entirely sure who Jiang Yuanrang was asking about.
But whether it was Li Tianyou, Lady Yao, or Li Zhiwei, they were all doing quite well.
"That's good. Your Highness, please pass a message to her for me. As long as she is well, that is enough. Since she was the one who abandoned me first, from now on, she should pretend she never had me as a son!"
Jiang Yuanrang stood up and turned his back, fighting back the tears gathering in the corners of his eyes.
He believed he was a child abandoned by his mother.
Since he was abandoned back then, there was no need to see her now.
As long as she was living well, that was enough!
"You aren't going?" Xu Heming frowned.
That wouldn't do. After all, this was the person Li Zhiwei had specifically asked for.
Li Zhiwei rarely made requests of him.
Now that she had finally made such a rare request, he couldn't let her down.
"Your Highness, thank you for saving me!" Jiang Yuanrang gave Xu Heming a solemn bow.
He was genuinely grateful that Xu Heming had saved him.
However, he had his own responsibilities. Moreover, she was the one who hadn't wanted him back then, and now, he was long past the age of needing a mother.
"I was entrusted by someone to bring you back to the capital this time. Make your arrangements; I will send someone to pick you up first thing tomorrow morning."
After saying this, Xu Heming left.
He wasn't here to ask for Jiang Yuanrang's permission regarding this matter anyway.
"Ah, benefactor!" Jiang Yuanrang was dumbfounded. He hadn't expected this prince to act so unconventionally.
But he wasn't prepared to meet his birth mother either.
Xu Heming had just stepped out of the Jiang residence.
"Your Highness, I just found these two sneaking around outside Young Master Jiang's courtyard, so I apprehended them," Qingsong hurried forward to report as soon as he saw Xu Heming come out.
As he spoke, he kicked the two men lying on the ground.
"Clean them up thoroughly," Xu Heming said with a look of disgust.
"Your Highness, are we returning to the capital now?" Qingsong asked just before he was about to leave, dragging the two men along.
"We leave first thing tomorrow morning," Xu Heming said after glancing at Jiang Yuanrang's courtyard.
Qingsong was dumbfounded now. If they were leaving tomorrow morning, where were they supposed to sleep tonight?
But looking at the two men in his hands, Qingsong didn't think twice and simply flew off.
Xu Heming, on the other hand, disappeared in a flash and headed to Jiang Huaishan's courtyard.
"Father, do you think it will work tonight?" Jiang Yuanda looked expectantly toward the direction of the Jiang family's first branch.
At this moment, he wished he could immediately hear the news of Jiang Yuanrang's death.
That way, the entire Jiang family would belong to their second branch.
It was just a pity that Jiang Yuanrang was like an unkillable cockroach, extremely difficult to eliminate.
This time, they had hired highly renowned assassins in the martial world.
He refused to believe that Jiang Yuanrang would be so lucky this time.
"Hmph, we hired the Black and White Twin Demons. I don't believe he can escape tonight." Jiang Huaishan also wore a look of inevitable victory.
"Father, once you become the head of the family, can you give me more silver?" Jiang Yuanda looked at Jiang Huaishan expectantly. Every month, Jiang Yuanrang only gave them a meager allowance.
If they wanted more, he wouldn't give it.
It frustrated him to death.
Now, he could finally look forward to good days ahead.
"Don't worry. As long as your father becomes the family head, how could an outsider have the final say in this house?" Jiang Huaishan said smugly, as if the position of the Jiang family head was already his.
"Father, what about me?" Jiang Yuanli also looked at his father with eyes full of hope.
At this moment, the father and his two sons were all envisioning the good days they were about to enjoy.
They never once considered that their plan might fail.
Xu Heming looked down at the men below with a mocking expression.
They actually wanted to murder his brother-in-law?
He had no intention of swallowing this insult.
Xu Heming directly locked the courtyard doors tight and then flicked a fireball down.
Only after watching with his own eyes to ensure that even if they didn't die, they would lose a layer of skin, did he finally leave the Jiang residence.
Jiang Yuanrang had just gone to bed when he heard people shouting outside: "Fire! Fire! There's a fire in the western wing!"
Hearing this, Jiang Yuanrang quickly got up.
The western wing? Wasn't that where the second branch lived?
How could it catch fire?
Jiang Yuanrang hastily threw on his clothes and went out.
"Young Master, why are you out?" Xiao Wu walked out with sleep-filled eyes, only to see his young master about to leave.
Just now, he didn't know what had happened, but he had fallen into a dead sleep.
"I'm going to take a look. They say there's a fire at the second branch's place." Jiang Yuanrang frowned. For some reason, he had a feeling that all of this wasn't so simple.
Hearing this, Xiao Wu hurriedly followed him.
In his heart, he also wondered, how could a fire start at the second branch?
However, if the people of the second branch were unlucky, Xiao Wu felt they deserved it. Who told them to constantly trip up his young master for no reason?
As soon as Jiang Yuanrang arrived at the western wing, he saw many servants carrying water toward Jiang Huaishan's study.
"Where is Second Uncle?" Jiang Yuanrang asked with a frown.
He thought to himself that at this hour, Jiang Huaishan shouldn't be in his study when the fire started.
"Eldest Young Master, this old servant hasn't seen the Second Master," the steward, Jiang He, quickly replied.
"Where is Second Aunt? With such a major incident happening in the second courtyard, how can there be no one in charge?" Jiang Yuanrang frowned, thinking that it was impossible for the whole family to be in the study.
"Eldest Young Master, since this old servant arrived, I haven't seen anyone from the second branch. I will send someone to call for them right away!" Jiang He also found it strange. With such a huge commotion in the second branch, why hadn't anyone come out?
It was as if there was no one in the courtyard at all.
"What are you all arguing about in the middle of the night? Are you going to let anyone sleep?" Jiang Huaishan's wife, Madam Feng, walked over from a nearby courtyard with an impatient look, scolding as she approached.
"Second Madam, where is the Second Master?" Seeing Madam Feng, Jiang He quickly looked behind her but didn't see Jiang Huaishan's figure, so he couldn't help but ask anxiously.