mtl008 Chapter 357: Billowing Green Smoke
Chapter 357: Billowing Green Smoke
Seeing everyone's slightly thoughtful and skeptical looks, the little girl couldn't help but feel a little impatient. She slammed the table and said firmly, "If you don't believe me, then come back to Tiandi Pavilion with me. We will see for ourselves then!"
Seeing how tough this little girl is, and how she can tell all the details, and even dares to lead them to the Tiandi Pavilion for a confrontation, her identity should not be fake.
Like Liu Yunhe, he is not good at hiding his feelings, and one can tell what he is thinking at a glance.
and.
When she looked at Jiang Lian'an, the concern in her eyes could not be fake.
Lin Lezhi soothed him, "I believe what you say. However, there are many people with the same name in this world. It makes sense to identify people based on the smoke and cloud scar on their arms. Why can you also use blue smoke as a basis for identification?"
Just now, when Chi Ruxia was talking about the basis for identifying Jiang Lian'an, she actually mentioned the blue smoke before the scar. This shows that she subconsciously felt that the blue smoke was more convincing than the scar.
This inevitably made Lin Lezhi curious, and it was a good opportunity to further explore the background of this little girl.
When talking about this, Chi Ruxia's eyes sparkled with memories, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise.
"You don't know this."
A small smugness, a secret known only to them, flashed in her eyes as she reminisced, "Big Brother has had poor health since childhood, and Daddy also told us not to bring Big Brother along to play around at home, lest his health worsen. Therefore, we never bring Big Brother along on any dangerous endeavors."
When talking about this past, Xiao Yihuo watched the expression on Lin Lezhi's face out of the corner of his eyes, with a subtle look of inquiry in his eyes.
Guan Ziheng also stared at Lin Lezhi for a while, with a thoughtful look in his eyes, as if something was not right.
"One New Year's Day, when we were setting off firecrackers together, I didn't bring my eldest brother with me. I ran out to set them off secretly, and only returned home after the streets were deserted. One snowy day, about ten days later, there was a sudden explosion in an unoccupied room at home. Fearing that a thief had broken in, almost everyone in the pavilion rushed over."
When talking about Jiang Lian'an, everyone became interested and listened very carefully.
"When we arrived, white smoke billowed out of the house. Dad yelled at the thief to get out. After a long while, there was finally movement in the house. Finally, it was the eldest brother who came out. His face was as red as a little cat from the smoke, and his eyes were choked with tears. I don't know what was stuck in his chest, but it was bulging. He looked ashamed and guilty as if he had done something wrong. The eldest brother usually didn't play tricks on us and was always clean. The children in our pavilion rarely saw him like this. We all thought it was funny and novel, and we laughed so hard that we fell down, laughing at him for being smoked like a big cat."
Chi Ruxia looked at everyone and said, also looking at Lin Lezhi with expectation: "Guess what he said at that time?"
"say what?"
Liu Yunhe listened very carefully and asked curiously.
"The eldest brother was choking and couldn't stop coughing. Tears welled up in his eyes, but he still had a strong face. He pointed at the billowing smoke behind him and said, 'What are you laughing at? I released this smoke on purpose. One day, he will become famous all over the world with this smoke. Wherever there is smoke, there is me, Jiang Lian'an!'"
As she spoke, the smile in Chi Ruxia's eyes disappeared, and the corners of her mouth drooped. Seeing that Lin Lezhi didn't react at all, tears welled up in her eyes and her voice took on a hint of tears.
"Afterwards, he was scolded by Daddy. We secretly lay in the corner and found out why the eldest brother was like that."
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"You said you weren't feeling well, so why were you secretly fiddling with these dangerous things?"
Chi Feibai was furious and threw the things to the ground. They were a few books, the same ones that Jiang Lian'an had hidden in his arms before, some books about the art of gunpowder.
Although he did something wrong, Jiang Lian'an, who was kneeling on the ground, kept his back straight, as if he didn't think he was wrong.
"I have the ability to tinker with these things, but now I don't dare to admit it."
"I'm not afraid to admit it, it's just..."
Jiang Lian'an's words suddenly choked in his throat, and a hint of loneliness flashed in his eyes.
"Just what?"
Jiang Lian'an picked up the book from the ground and said in a low but stubborn voice, "It's just that I saw my fellow junior brothers and sisters having fun that day, and I couldn't join them. I thought that as the eldest senior brother, I could at least do something for them to make them have more fun."
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"We only then found out that the day we went out to play with firecrackers, our eldest brother had secretly followed us. He had been watching us from the side for as long as we were playing outside."
Chi Ruxia picked at her fingertips, trying to suppress her urge to cry. Her voice choked, "Big Brother...actually, he wanted to play with all of us, but he was afraid his presence would spoil the fun, so he kept hiding. That day, when the incident happened, he was afraid everyone would be upset because of his consideration, so he deliberately said that."
Before this, Jiang Lian'an was a very frivolous person to Lin Lezhi, who did not care about fame and fortune and was not afraid of the powerful. He was almost a character that would only appear in a storybook.
But after hearing what Chi Ruxia said about the past.
Jiang Lian'an fell to the ground and was no longer floating.
He also has his own little thoughts, unknown losses and small selfishness. Those little stubbornness and unwillingness, as well as the kindness hidden under the stubbornness, all make this person come alive.
It is not a deified being, but a real flesh and blood body that exists in this world.
Liu Yunhe glanced at Lin Lezhi, then glanced at Lin Lezhi's arm, a trace of heartache in his eyes as he asked, "Then was the scar on his arm caused by that injury?"
Chi Ruxia shook her head and said, "No. The scar was already on our eldest brother's body when Daddy found him. We thought it might be a mark left by our eldest brother's family in their efforts to find him."
Recalling those days, Chi Ruxia's eyes were filled with mixed feelings of joy and sorrow, her voice tinged with nostalgia and sadness. She continued, "Big Brother didn't know we were hiding in the corner, and we kept it a secret from him. Later, to convince everyone of what he said that day, he would rush to any place where he saw wisps of green smoke. Even if a disciple was just hungry in the middle of the night and secretly roasted sweet potatoes in the courtyard."
After saying this, Chi Ruxia looked at everyone, her misty eyes becoming even more intense and resolute as she spoke, "So, when the name of Jiang Guitan spread throughout the martial arts world, we were certain that he must be our senior brother!"
"But, you said Jiang Lian'an is not in good health. Our Le Zhi is very skilled. He can beat eight people by himself. If Le Zhi hadn't rescued me from those hooligans, I wouldn't be sitting here now."
Just in case, Guan Ziheng felt that he had to ask about what he felt was wrong, even if the words might not sound nice.
Guan Ziheng was also afraid of upsetting the little girl, and he wasn't sure himself, so he asked cautiously, "You...really didn't get the wrong person?"