Zerg: Cold and aloof Major General, stop pretending to be innocent, I have a headache!

"......." Jiang Xu watched as the snow weasel, whose movements were much faster than the insect cub, leaped up to his waist in the blink of an eye.

It hooked one paw around the opening of the coat pocket, pointed the other paw into the pocket, and looked at him with its bright, sparkling eyes.

He glanced down at his pocket, and under the other person's expectant gaze, took out a milk fruit.

The paws that were gripping the pocket instantly moved away, and the weasel stretched its upper body to reach into Jiang Xu's hand. In the blink of an eye, it grabbed the fruit and climbed onto the desk, where it began to gnaw on it without any restraint or fear of the wild.

Jiang Xu looked helpless. He picked up Jiang Yi, who was climbing onto his arm, looked at the snow weasel, and turned to Fei, saying, "So it's another glutton."

He had been wondering before, shouldn't this kind of animal be very shy?

It must be because when he took out milk fruit to give to Jiang Yi before, this little guy saw it and that's why he remembered it.

"Father, grab, grab!" Jiang Yi leaned over and climbed onto the table, clearly wanting to play with the snow weasel.

Jiang Xu grasped the outstretched hand, hesitated for a moment, and slowly reached out to touch the snow weasel.

To everyone's surprise, the other person didn't even look up; their entire focus was on the milk fruit in their hand.

When his hand touched the snow weasel's back, the weasel finally glanced at him. After seeing that it was him, it continued to eat the food in its hand.

"..." Jiang Xu thought to himself, "This snow weasel, putting aside everything else, will surely die from its gluttony in the future."

He moved the baby insect in his hand closer to the snow weasel, but the weasel remained unmoved, as if vines had grown from its bottom, firmly binding it to the desk, without budging an inch.

The little bug was delighted, contentedly lying on the snow weasel's back, gently rubbing its body with its two paws.

Jiang Xu was amused by this and offered another milk fruit to the snow weasel. The snow weasel froze instantly, raised its head and looked at Jiang Xu with its dark eyes, then lowered its head and glanced at the fruit in front of it.

"Squeak—" It finally moved.

It raised its two front paws, grabbed the fruit from Jiang Xu's hand, wrapped it in its arms, held it firmly in front of its belly, and ate it with even more gusto.

Jiang Xu shook his head and turned to Fei beside him: "Keep an eye on those two."

After saying that, he turned and walked to the bookshelf to continue searching for the remaining record books.

This time, Fei did not refuse. After all, he had to keep an eye on the insect cub and the seemingly docile creature to prevent any accidents from happening.

Time passed slowly, and Jiang Xu only realized it was almost evening when the words on the pages gradually darkened.

He glanced at the remaining books on the bookshelf and estimated that there were about one-fifth left.

"My Lord." Fei had walked up to him without him noticing.

Jiang Xu glanced at Fei, who had walked up to him, and then looked at the desk behind him, where the two little ones were having a great time playing.

"What's wrong?"

"It's getting late. Let me help you find the rest of the record books."

This time, Jiang Xu did not refuse.

Searching with two insects together naturally made the search much faster. Half an hour later, the remaining record book was already more than half empty.

"My Lord!" Fei's eyes suddenly lit up as he pointed to the butterfly pattern he remembered in the booklet, his voice tinged with excitement. "Is this it?"

Jiang Xu first saw the undisguised joy on Fei's face. He paused for a moment, pursed his lower lip, and then looked in the direction the other person was pointing—it really was!

He quickly took the notebook from Fei and began to flip through it rapidly.

First, I carefully read the records of the origin, meaning, and heritage of the butterfly pattern, and then my gaze moved down to the second page.

"???" The transition between the two pages was too abrupt. Jiang Xu frowned and subconsciously looked at the page numbers on both sides of the page.

"What's wrong?" Fei looked at Jiang Xu's expression. The joy that had been on his face vanished instantly, and he looked at him with some nervousness.

Isn't that right?

"Two pages are missing." Jiang Xu closed the notebook and looked up at him.

Seeing that the other person unconsciously pursed their lips because of his words, he reached out and pinched Fei's cheek, and continued, "Look around, see if it's in the rest of the documents."

Today's decision was made on a whim, so it's normal that he couldn't find it right away. After all, he didn't expect these problems to be solved so smoothly.

"Hmm." Fei glanced at the remaining documents, feeling a pang of guilt.

This was the first time he had taken the initiative to do something for Jiang Xu, but in the end he couldn't help at all.

"Tsk." Jiang Xu looked at Fei, whose emotions and thoughts were completely written on his face, and helplessly ruffled his hair: "Don't feel guilty. I'm happy that you can help me."

Fei looked at Jiang Xu and remained silent for a while before slowly replying, "I'm also very happy to be able to help the Lord."

Since their marriage, Jiang Xu has almost completely excluded him from all matters, leaving him to simply watch quietly from the sidelines.

This was the first time he had come across what Jiang Xu was doing, and he thought he could be of some help.

"What a stubborn person," Jiang Xu sighed inwardly.

He turned to look at the two little ones playing happily beside him, who were completely unaware of what was happening here.

Jiang Xu leaned forward and quickly placed a kiss on Fei's lips: "Good girl."

He casually patted Fei's head again, then squatted down and took out all the remaining documents.

This time, he focused on the scattered single sheets of paper.

Fei, who was standing there, was in no mood to blame herself. Her ears were flushed as she looked at Jiang Xu beside her. Suddenly remembering something, she turned around and looked behind her.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the little insect hadn't noticed him at all.

Fei pursed her lips, looked at Jiang Xu, and then squatted down to start searching for the remaining documents.

In the end, they still managed to read through all the remaining documents before dark.

Jiang Xu could confirm that those two pages were indeed missing from the documents.

These two pages were clearly taken by a treacherous individual, but he didn't know why.

He suddenly remembered what Jiang Bian had said: Only Jiang Jiachong was allowed to view these materials.

His gaze darkened as he thought of the two brothers, Jiang Baiyou and Jiang Baiyang.

It seems there's a lot more to the Jiang family than meets the eye.

He watched as Fei was putting the documents back on the bookshelf and reached out to join him.

After tidying up, he patted the dust off his hands, took out a handkerchief from his bag, took Fei's hand, and carefully wiped the dust off his fingers one by one.

Then he began to clean the remaining dust from his hands: "Let's go, Uncle Jiang should still be waiting for us."

Fei turned and scanned the remaining bookshelves in the room: "Don't you want to look any further?"

He knew that once he left tomorrow, the chances of coming back to search for him would be slim.

Along the way, Jiang Xu asked Jiang Bian some questions, intentionally or unintentionally. Although it was not obvious, he knew that Jiang Xu wanted to know the origin of the butterfly totem of the Jiang family.

"Let's not look for it anymore." Jiang Xu looked at him, thought for a moment, and said, "This thing is unlikely to have been put on another bookshelf so easily."

Moreover, the Jiang family attaches great importance to this area, so it won't be thrown away as garbage by the cleaning bugs.

Thinking about it that way, the matter becomes quite obvious.

Jiang Jin didn't know about this item, but Jiang Bian had seen it before, so it couldn't have been lost for too long.

When his grandfather was in the Jiang family, he couldn't have failed to search for them. In other words, it's highly likely that by the time he searched, those two pages were already missing.

Based on this, he could roughly guess when it was lost.

He just didn't understand why he took those two pages out of everything else.

So now he's even more curious about what's written on those two pages.

Can you resolve all his current doubts?

He pulled his thoughts back, walked to the desk, picked up the laughing insect cub from the table, put it inside his clothes, and patted its head affectionately: "Say goodbye to the snow weasel."

"ah--"

"squeak--"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was greeted with a head tilt from the two little ones.

"Father, I want it." Jiang Yi clung to Jiang Xu's collar, refusing to go inside, looking at the snow weasel with a pitiful expression.

The ferret on the table seemed surprised that the three people in front of it would leave so suddenly, without taking it with them.

It paused, looking at Jiang Xu with a puzzled expression. After tilting its head and thinking for a moment, it moved again, quickly darting onto Jiang Xu's shoulder and then burrowing into his clothes like a little insect.

Got it!

Jiang Xu looked down at the two little ones hugging each other and sighed.

Okay, okay, he can still afford to raise Naiguo.

Jiang Xu turned around and looked at Fei with a helpless expression: "Let's go."

Fei glanced at the snow weasel, and seeing Jiang Xu's expression, a smile flashed in his eyes.

The Jiang family's banquet had long since been devoid of insects.

When the two of them arrived at the banquet hall, the once bustling hall was completely empty.

Jiang Xu looked up at the viewing pavilion on the second floor, where he could faintly hear voices.

"Oh—you're back?" Jiang Ping's tone carried a barely perceptible joy as he faced Jiang Xu, who had just lifted the curtain.

Jiang Xu entered the pavilion, raised an eyebrow slightly to look at the other person, and did not miss the joy in his eyes.

He turned to look at Jiang Jin and He Lan, who were sitting on the soft couch, and bowed to them: "Great-grandfathers, we apologize for disturbing you today. It's getting late, so we'll take our leave now."

Jiang Jin's eyes clearly showed some reluctance, but she still nodded and replied, "Okay. Go ahead."

Meanwhile, Helan remained silent throughout, as if his anger had been exhausted before Jiang Bian arrived.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Ping quickly stood up from his chair, bowed to Jiang Jin and He Lan, and then walked behind Jiang Xu.

Jiang Xu glanced at him secretly and saw him breathe a sigh of relief. He wondered: What had Jiang Ping suffered that afternoon?

"Oh, right." Jiang Xu looked at his two great-grandfathers, rummaged in his clothes for a while, and then took the snow weasel out of his arms:

"I found this ferret in my backyard. I wonder if I can take it home?"

The ferret's fur was glossy and smooth, and it didn't look like a wild animal at all, so he guessed that it must have been raised by his two great-grandfathers.

After Jiang Xu took out the snow weasel, Jiang Jin was visibly taken aback when she saw it. She stood up and walked towards him curiously: "How did you catch it?"

This ferret is not friendly with insects. Although they have raised it for many years, it runs away as soon as it sees them.

Therefore, I usually put food in front of its bed on time.

Now it's being held so easily in the hand of the little insect in front of it?

"?" Jiang Xu looked at him in confusion, paused for a moment, and said, "It came here by itself."

"..." Jiang Jin stared in astonishment at the snow weasel in his hand, then turned to Helan, her tone tinged with surprise: "Helan, look at this thing, it's such an ingrate. I feed it well and treat it well, and it's hard to even see it normally, but now it's easily attached to the bug cub."

He feeds his animals only custom-made, expensive ingredients, which took quite a bit of effort to find.

At this moment, Helan, who had been silent for a long time, finally got up and walked over.

Looking at his master's disgruntled and complaining expression, he said helplessly, "It means Jiang Xu and it are destined to be together."

Undeterred, Jiang Jin continued to look at the snow weasel in Jiang Xu's hand. It was obediently playing dead, motionless, its two dark eyes staring at him.

"......" He really wanted to strangle this ungrateful wretch in front of him, until he noticed some crimson stains on the fur around its mouth, and then he looked at Jiang Xu curiously and asked:

"What did you feed it? You won it over so easily?"

"Uh—" Jiang Xu looked at the slightly eccentric and jealous great-grandfather in front of him, slowly took out a milk fruit from his pocket, unfolded it and placed it in front of Jiang Jin.

In the blink of an eye, before he could say anything, the milk fruit had disappeared from his palm and was held securely in the arms of the snow weasel.

However, this time it did not eat directly, but instead guarded its food and looked at Jiang Jin across from it, as if afraid that the insect would steal its food.

"........."

What followed was a two-minute silence from Jiang Jin. His expression gradually hardened, then cracked, as he stared at the snow weasel in disbelief: "Milk Fruit?!"

All those special foods he bought weren't even as good as a single milk fruit?!

"........." Jiang Jin held her forehead with her hand, not wanting to see the snow weasel in front of her anymore, and said painfully, "Take it away, don't let it appear in front of me again."

Otherwise, he would be tempted to strangle it.

He has carefully fed them for so many years, but it's not as good as a single milk fruit.

He turned to look at Helan beside him: "Let's raise a mechanical ferret from now on. Those things don't need special feeding and can even do some housework."

Helan's eyes lit up with a smile: "Okay."

He and Jiang Xu exchanged a glance, and after receiving a signal, the latter quickly left with Fei and the two children.

Only when all footsteps could be heard did Jiang Jin turn her head and glance in the direction of the Jiang family's gate: "They're gone?"

Both insects tacitly knew who the question was directed at.

"I'm leaving," Helan replied.

"Sigh—" Jiang Jin sighed. After this parting, who knows how many years it will be before they meet again.

"If you can't bear to part with them, you can..." Helan thought, "It wouldn't be impossible to force them to stay for a few more days."

"No need." Jiang Jin waved her hand, the dejection on her face instantly disappearing, followed by a smile: "This is such a big insect, how can it be as willful as a little bug?"

Moreover, he clearly knew that Jiang Xu had important matters to attend to. If he obstructed him again, would Jiang Mian's situation have to go through the same thing again?

He tilted his head slightly and asked Helan beside him, "How many years has Xiaobao been away from the Jiang family?"

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It has been completed.