No One in Our Old Jiang Family is as Good-Looking as Jiang Yue

Back home, San Gou was still mindlessly munching on potato chips and watching TV, just a different variety show, a new batch of young ladies, and a new batch of bare white thighs.

"San Gou, those chips are Eldest Sister's lifeline. You've eaten half her life this afternoon. I think your chances of staying in the city are slim!"

"Huh?" San Gou was cornered.

"Let's go, I'll take you to buy a pair of pants. And we'll hand over these old pants to someone who needs them."

"Second Brother, who would want these old rags? Just throw them away."

Jiang Yue didn't explain. He carefully packed them in a plastic bag and went out with some money.

San Gou was naturally happy to go out.

He had long yearned for the dazzling world of the city.

On the way back, Jiang Yue had already told Officer Han about the pants. Whether it would be adopted or not, Jiang Yue couldn't decide.

He had provided the evidence and all sorts of information, fully fulfilling his obligations.

"Officer Han, one more thing. When you investigate the missing Ke Yunshan, you must take protective measures. The most important point is, don't get too close."

Jiang Yue couldn't dictate how they handled the case, but if he didn't say these words, his conscience would ache.

From the current situation, as long as he didn't make contact at a very close distance, the risk should be significantly reduced.

As for how to control Ke Yunshan from a distance, that was up to the police. They had plenty of methods.

Of course, all of this was predicated on Ke Yunshan being within a controllable range.

If he had truly transformed into an evil spirit, Jiang Yue couldn't imagine the consequences. There were no precedents to refer to.

"Second Brother, you're making a big deal out of a pair of old pants to alarm the police, aren't you?"

"San Gou, let me ask you, would you be willing to suddenly grow to be thirty or forty years old in the next second?"

"Who would want that!"

"Didn't you always say you wanted to grow up faster?"

"I want to grow up, like turning eighteen this year, nineteen next year, and eighteen again the year after. What's the point of being a thirty or forty-year-old man, all pathetic and useless?"

"Who told you that thirty or forty is old? Who told you they are pathetic?"

"Tch! Don't I know it from my dad? He's been scolded by Mom from his twenties to his forties. Isn't that pathetic enough?"

"Besides, I still want to go to high school." San Gou, who had always hated studying, was now claiming he wanted to go to high school?

"You? Want to go to high school?" Jiang Yue scoffed, not believing a single word.

"I didn't want to before. But there are hot girls like Han Jingjing in high school. If I don't go, I'll feel like I'm missing out."

Jiang Yue never imagined that San Gou was still thinking about Han Jingjing.

"You're still thinking about girls when you haven't even grown any body hair? By the time you get to high school, Han Jingjing will have already graduated from college. Stop dreaming."

"If one Han Jingjing graduates, there are countless Han Jingjings in high school! Second Brother, you, who cultivate virginity, shouldn't pretend to be an experienced driver."

"Better than you driving without a license, right?"

"Hehe, but I'm younger than you. When you're thirty, I'll be in my twenties. When you're forty, I'll be in my thirties. If Han Jingjing falls for someone else then, don't blame me, Second Brother."

"San Gou, you can dream, but pick a time. It's broad daylight."

"You don't believe me. I heard someone say..."

"Men in their twenties are like galloping horses, thirties are like standing trees, forties are like Microsoft, fifties like Panasonic, sixties like Lenovo... When I'm galloping, Second Brother, you might be old!"

Jiang Yue was speechless for a moment. The schools in this town were indeed driving schools. The speed of this "car" was so fast it was about to take off, and Jiang Yue was having trouble keeping up.

They bought San Gou a full set of spring clothes from a nearby clothing store. Seeing that it was getting late, they decided to go to the market to buy some vegetables and head back to cook.

The market was always full of life, with bustling crowds and a lively atmosphere.

At the entrance, old men playing chess to the point of cursing each other's ancestors, and a crowd gathered to watch a game of Dou Dizhu, made Jiang Yue feel like he had finally returned to the normal world.

The bizarre experiences of the past few days felt like an extra, strange world had appeared.

One was the normal world, and the other was the abnormal world.

These two worlds had always coexisted peacefully, but in the last few days, the abnormal world seemed to have suddenly gone a bit out of control, crashing into the normal world.

The vast majority of people in the normal world were, after all, just ignorant ordinary folks.

They had no time to feel the approach of the abnormal world.

They continued to diligently, painstakingly, desperately, lazily, wildly, and decadently live in their own little worlds, experiencing all sorts of life's dramas, joys, and sorrows.

They returned laden with several large bags of ingredients, enough for the whole week.

Although Jiang Yue was a scholar with a scholarly air, he was actually strong and healthy, the kind of man who looked thin in clothes but muscular underneath, envied by men and desired by women.

San Gou, though not fully grown, was quite strong.

The brothers easily carried two large bags each. Passing a grain and oil store, Jiang Yue also called for a 50-jin bag of rice and two 30-jin bags of flour.

The grain and oil store delivered to their doorstep, which was quite convenient.

As the two walked back to the entrance of their residential compound, a middle-aged couple wearing glasses and looking refined walked towards them.

When Jiang Yue appeared, the aunt wearing gold-rimmed glasses greeted him with exaggerated enthusiasm.

"Oh, isn't this Jiang Yue? Back from your hometown? Come, come, let Auntie have a good look at you. You're always staying at school these days, and I never get to see you."

The aunt held Jiang Yue's hand, looking him up and down with a beaming smile, as if appraising her own son.

"Did you just come from the market?"

"Yes, I bought some groceries and plan to make dinner," Jiang Yue replied politely.

"What are you making? Come over to Auntie's house for dinner tonight. Your Little Yi Sister talks about you, Brother Jiang Yue, all the time. Honestly, are you deliberately avoiding me?"

"No, no! I'm happy just to see Aunt Zhang, how could I avoid you?" Jiang Yue said, unsure whether to laugh or cry.

The middle-aged uncle beside her also chuckled, "Little Jiang, why don't you just forget about cooking dinner and come eat with us? Little Yi has some questions about her studies, and she's been wanting to ask you. You're known as the top scholar in our neighborhood."

Jiang Yue smiled, "Aunt Zhang, Uncle Ye, I really can't make it today. I have a guest at home."

The couple seemed to notice San Gou for the first time.

"Who is this?"

"This is my younger brother, Third Uncle's son."

"Oh!" Aunt Zhang looked him up and down and nodded, "Young man, you're sturdy. You could be an athlete when you grow up! But you're still not as good-looking as our Jiang Yue."

Athlete, my ass! You're the athlete! Your whole family are athletes!

San Gou hated hearing that the most. What do you mean 'not as good-looking as your Jiang Yue'? What part of me, San Gou, isn't good-looking?

And whose family is 'your family'? How did Second Brother become yours? Are you trying to poach him from our Old Jiang Family? Are you declaring war?

"Auntie, my name is San Gou. Do you know why I'm called San Gou? Because the day I was born, the old mother dog at home happened to give birth to three puppies. You know, mother dogs with new puppies tend to bark a lot, indiscriminately, at anyone they see. They're really annoying."

"Oh? Is that so? Hahaha..." Aunt Zhang was a city dweller, and with her glasses, she was clearly an intellectual. She had no idea San Gou was indirectly insulting her.

Jiang Yue shot San Gou a look and pulled him towards the residential compound, "Uncle, Auntie, why don't you go ahead? We can chat another time."

"Hey, hey, look at this child, so well-behaved and educated. So refined and fair-skinned, and so good-looking, how can he be so likable?" Aunt Zhang watched Jiang Yue's retreating back, finding him more pleasing to the eye the more she looked, wishing she could take him home and raise him.

"Hurry up, you. You're old enough to know better, and you're still so adorably silly," the middle-aged man, Uncle Ye, said with a wry smile.

"How am I adorably silly?" Aunt Zhang immediately took offense.

"That child was indirectly insulting you, didn't you hear it?"

"Nonsense, why would he insult me? Look at him, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, he looks like an honest child."

"Heh heh, think about why he insulted you again," the middle-aged man, Uncle Ye, shrugged and strolled leisurely out of the compound gate.

On the path within the compound, Jiang Yue admonished, "San Gou, if you keep your mouth this sharp, don't blame me if I don't let you out anymore."

"How was it sharp? Wasn't that just the truth? Mother dogs act like that after giving birth, they just bark randomly."

"You think you're so clever, don't you?"

"Heh heh, who asked her to provoke me? Second Brother, what's the deal with that Little Yi Sister? I think they're looking for a live-in son-in-law! The way she looked at you, it was more affectionate than looking at her own son. I'm not convinced, am I not as good-looking as you, San Gou?"

Jiang Yue chuckled helplessly. This kid, sometimes he was so broad-minded, and other times so petty.

Along the way, they kept running into acquaintances. Almost every one of them couldn't help but exchange pleasantries, especially those with eligible daughters at home, who were particularly enthusiastic.

San Gou was initially indignant, but eventually could only fume silently on the side, playing the role of an invisible bystander.

"Second Brother, I think you don't even need to go to school. Just pick a well-off family in your neighborhood, preferably with an only daughter, and you can cut twenty years of hard work."

"San Gou, are you jealous?"

"Hmph! If you weren't my Second Brother, I'd smash your window tonight."

San Gou felt extremely wronged. The accumulated blows he had suffered in his life didn't even come close to the ones he received today.