The Xie family.
Xie Jinqian had returned.
Only Xie Jinzhao and his wife remained at home. Xie Jinzhao told his second brother everything that had happened at the Xie Residence.
Li Duoduo felt rather awkward, as though she were an outsider. "I'll go prepare a welcome feast for you and my husband."
"Go on, go on." Xie Jinzhao sent her away.
Once she was gone, he looked at his second brother and could no longer hold back his sobs.
"Second Brother, do you know how much I've suffered lately? That cowardly fool, our eldest brother, didn't come back to take charge at a time like this. He went with his mother to bury the Xu Siblings instead. I can't bear all these accusations anymore..."
"Please come back and help me."
Xie Jinzhao sounded utterly broken. Since yesterday, his head had been filled with condemnation after condemnation from the common people.
The family business, the family estate-everything would eventually be left to their eldest brother.
Why?
Why did he have to shoulder all the pressure?
Compared with him, Xie Jinqian appeared very calm. Of all the brothers, he had the gentlest features and the best head for business.
"If people outside want to talk, let them. No matter how badly you fall apart, you can't stop their mouths. You'll only wear yourself down for nothing."
"Father is imprisoned now. We need to focus on getting him out, not on the gossip outside."
"Third Brother, do you still remember the promise we made when we knelt together before Heaven?"
Xie Jinqian's voice was gentle, his expression unhurried and composed. His fingers kept rubbing the archer's ring on his thumb.
"I remember. But Second Brother, Fourth Brother is dead too. Only the two of us are left," Xie Jinzhao said.
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