Chapter 821: The Disabled Young Master 34

It took He Jiantong quite a while to understand what she meant after hearing her words.

Although he had no idea what an egg-yolk pie was, judging from Wanwan's description… emmmm…

It did seem rather fitting.

For a moment, He Jiantong couldn't help curling up the corners of his lips. “You certainly know yourself well.”

“Hehe… Then, Tongtong, do you like me this way?” Tang Wan asked with a beaming smile.

“What do you think?” He Jiantong's gaze changed.

Ever since his legs had become disabled, he had actually had no expectations for the future.

Even when he went to the Chu family to ask for Chu Pan'er's hand in marriage, it was only because she was the woman his parents had wanted him to marry while they were still alive.

As for how he would treat her after bringing her home, his original plan had simply been to support her for the rest of her life.

He had never thought any further than that.

But he had never expected that after meeting Wanwan, it was as though he had become a whole man again.

She made him realize that aside from being unable to walk on his own, there was no difference between him and an ordinary man.

The disability of his legs did not affect him in any way, nor would it affect her.

……

Several days later, the third son of the second branch was arrested by the Imperial Guards for embezzlement and cheating in the imperial examinations.

After he was taken away, Second Uncle and Second Aunt finally became completely frantic and came to beg He Jiantong.

“Jiantong, your Second Uncle will kneel down to you. I'm begging you, save your Third Brother! He wasn't involved in the imperial examination cheating case. As long as we make up the money he embezzled, he won't be sentenced to death!”

“Jiantong, your Second Aunt is begging you! I know you're angry with us for the things we did after your parents passed away, but we really know that we were wrong! Now that your Third Brother has been thrown into prison, if we don't get him out in time, His Majesty will definitely sentence him to death! You can't just stand by and watch your Third Brother be executed!”

However, He Jiantong remained completely unmoved.

“Was I the one who made him embezzle? Besides, if he hadn't been involved in cheating in the examinations… Hmph! How could he possibly have embezzled as much as one hundred and forty thousand taels? You'd better pray for yourselves! If the second branch isn't implicated by him and your entire household isn't confiscated and several generations of your family executed, you'll already be lucky!” He Jiantong sneered.

They knew how to regret it now?

When they were spending the money they had embezzled, why hadn't they thought about the consequences?

……

Seeing that He Jiantong remained unmoved, the two of them once again began loudly cursing him for being heartless and ungrateful.

He Jiantong had long since been hurt deeply by them and had already seen through their true nature, so their behavior now could not move him in the slightest.

In the end, the two of them could only leave in a fury, so angry that they felt as though they were about to spit blood.

After they left, Tang Wan walked up to He Jiantong and couldn't help saying, “Tongtong, they're really going too far!”

In ancient times, embezzlement and cheating in the imperial examinations were crimes serious enough to result in the confiscation of one's property, and there were even cases where entire clans were implicated and executed. Yet the people from the second branch not only showed no remorse, they actually wanted Tongtong to help them!

They hadn't even considered whether Tongtong might be implicated if the emperor decided to pursue the matter.

But then again, they probably wouldn't consider such a thing.

In the eyes of the other branches of the He family, Tongtong was probably just a pushover with neither father nor mother, someone they could bully.

Fortunately, he was capable and had a firm attitude. Otherwise, no one knew how badly the other branches might have bullied him by now.

……

He Jiantong merely looked at her puffed-up cheeks and smiled faintly. “Why get angry with them? I'm already used to it! As far as I'm concerned, they're nothing more than a group of people who are even less than strangers to me now.”