Chapter 1192: Chapter 1194 Gratuitous Donation_1
"Father?"
"Later, when Daddy meets with guests, you two mustn’t speak, okay?"
"Okay!" Little Lele nodded obediently.
Yangyang, on the other hand, acted as if he hadn’t heard a word and continued to wander around the room, hands clasped behind his back, as though he were the official Old Master, making Ye Zi’an unable to help but chuckle.
Before long, the Eldest Young Master Jiang arrived and paused momentarily upon seeing the two children in the room.
Fortunately, he quickly recovered.
"Commoner pays respects to Lord Ye!"
"Pays respects to Lord Ye!"
No sooner had Young Master Jiang finished speaking did he feel something amiss—why was there an extra voice and, moreover, a rather tender one at that?
When he looked down, he saw a small child, no taller than his shin, who was bending over and mimicking his gesture of salutation.
Seeing that Young Master Jiang was looking at him, Yangyang even fluttered his eyelids and flashed a shallow smile.
Ye Zi’an, of course, saw his son imitating the guest and didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
"Yangyang, this is Young Master Jiang, you should greet him properly!"
"Dare not, dare not..." Young Master Jiang hurriedly responded.
Upon hearing this, Yangyang lowered the fists he had held in salute; he glanced at the man before him, then back at his father, and then once again clasped his hands together in a small salute, "Hello!"
The manner of this greeting clearly stemmed from Yang Chuxia’s teachings.
However, to Young Master Jiang’s ears, it seemed rather extraordinary, and after a pause he quickly replied, "Greetings to the young master."
But the boy retorted, "Not good, not good!" leaving Young Master Jiang utterly bewildered.
It was then that Lele ran over and tugged him away, "Daddy has business! You mustn’t be naughty!"
Ye Zi’an saw that the two were indeed sitting quietly to one side before resuming his conversation with Young Master Jiang.
"Young Master Jiang, what brings you here today?" Ye Zi’an had a favorable impression of this Young Master Jiang, and the Jiang Family’s reputation in Qingjiu Town wasn’t bad either.
"Lord Ye, I am here today by my father’s command to donate half of the Jiang Family’s estate to the Mianyang County office at no cost, hoping to do something for the people of Mianyang."
"What did you say?"
Ye Zi’an looked at the man before him with mixed emotions.
The Jiang family’s brewery was famous and profitable, so well-known that any family in Mianyang County who was aware of this envied them a little. Otherwise, neither the Liu Family nor the Huang Family would have conspired to produce that letter after the death of young Master Liu.
Yes, it was indeed the Second Young Master Jiang and the younger brother of Archivist Huang who had killed Liu’s young master. The motive was that young Master Liu, who had homosexual tendencies, had toyed with the Second Young Master Jiang and then tainted the unwitting younger brother of Archivist Huang with a potion. When the two woke up and could not accept the fact that they had been played with, they killed young Master Liu in a fit of anger.
Protecting his younger brother, Archivist Huang pinned all the blame on Young Master Jiang. Since the Liu family’s young master had not been favored and there was someone to be buried along with him, they did not pursue the matter further. However, when they heard that the murderer was Young Master Jiang, they entertained thoughts of compensation.
Archivist Huang also recognized the value of the Jiang family’s brewery and was willing to lend a hand, so the two families together produced a forged suicide note. Unfortunately for Eldest Young Master Jiang, his father was resolute and refused to relinquish the brewery.
While the Jiang family had few connections in the government office, they had a reputation for integrity, which made it hard for others to find any fault. The incident with the Second Young Master Jiang was the first time in many years that the Jiang family had encountered trouble.
Furthermore, given the certain loopholes in the Second Young Master Jiang’s case, the Jiang family was not willing to give up the brewery, and neither the Huang Family nor the Liu Family could forcibly demand it. Since the Second Young Master Jiang had already paid with his life, the Liu Family could not do much more.