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

Jiang Mian glanced at him: "You have no manners."

Jiang Xu chuckled twice and recounted the entire trip to him in detail, including the attitudes of Jiang Jin and He Lan.

After hearing this, he felt a mix of emotions. A sour feeling choked him up, making it hard to even breathe.

After a while, Jiang Mian sighed with some melancholy, "They really treat me very well."

Although Jiang Jin and He Lan are the heads of the main family, there are many things they cannot control.

From the moment he was born, he could feel the attention those two insects were giving him.

"Do you know anything about the Jiang family?" Jiang Xu asked, thinking of the Jiang brothers, Jiang Baiyou and Jiang Baiyang. "What's your relationship with the Jiang family's collateral branches?"

Jiang Mian quickly recalled the image of Jiang Qin's family, thought for a moment, and then said, "It's not exactly good."

After all, back then, this family had added fuel to the fire regarding his affair with Jiang Bian; otherwise, he wouldn't have actually left the south so far.

At that time, all his social circles were there. After coming to the East, he had no relatives or friends. Now, every brick and tile of the Jiang family is the result of the foundation he laid slowly in the early stages.

However, he was also glad that he came to the East, otherwise there would have been no story between him and Zoran.

"What do you mean by that?" Jiang Xu had expected this and was not surprised by his answer.

"Perhaps it has something to do with my two grandfathers." Jiang Mian thought for a moment and continued, "I never met these two grandfathers when I was born. Later, when I grew up, I heard from Jiang Jin and He Lan that they had passed away many years ago."

The conflict between our family and Jiang Qin's group seems to stem from a feud between their generation of insects.

Jiang Jin, being a native male insect, was born and raised in this environment, and his only companion throughout his life was his female father.

In the fragments he knew, the reason he was like this was largely because there were too many female insects in the older generation's family, coupled with the characteristics of the local male insects, his father did not have a good childhood.

If it weren't for his remarkable abilities shown from a young age, he might have died long ago.

"This feud has dragged on for quite a long time." Jiang Xu rubbed his head. The average lifespan of a person is only seventy or eighty years old. Some people live to be four generations old, while others may not even reach three generations.

The saying goes that debts are settled upon death, and this only lasts for a few decades.

The average lifespan of the Zerg is about two hundred years. Even if each generation lasts twenty-five years, that's almost eight generations.

This doesn't even take into account the fact that no one in their family has ever married before the age of twenty-five.

"Who can argue with that? It's been going on for far too long." Jiang Mian sighed. "But it's not surprising. Although the lifespan of Zerg bodies can reach two hundred years, many Zerg don't even live to that age."

The Zerg are at war, and there's also the dangerous species, the male Zerg, so many Zerg don't die naturally.

Jiang Xu understood what he meant and sighed, "Alright, let's not talk about that. I just want to ask you one question."

Jiang Mian looked at him and raised an eyebrow: "What's the problem?"

"Based on your feelings, do you think that branch of the family would go so far as to kill you in the struggle for decision-making power within the Jiang family?"

After asking the question, Jiang Xu suddenly found it somewhat ridiculous.

In this world where insects eat insects, this should be normal practice. Where is there any family affection to speak of?

Immediately afterwards, he received a look from Jiang Mian, who looked at him like he was an idiot.

"..." Jiang Mian didn't speak for a long time before finally saying, "Stop talking nonsense."

Jiang Xu's eyes flickered uncomfortably as he explained, "I still unconsciously projected them onto the human persona."

Otherwise, I wouldn't have asked such a naive question in a moment of madness.

"The two families have been secretly competing with each other. Back then, the main Jiang family was at the height of its power, and then the Jiang Bian incident happened. It was because of this that they gained the power to compete with the main family."

After arriving in the east, Jiang Mian was unaware of the rivalry between the two families.

It was only after he established his own Jiang family in the east, came into contact with more and more cooperative insects, and learned more and more about the situation that he realized Jiang Qin's family had already developed.

"Have you thought carefully about why you got into trouble?" Jiang Xu asked.

Jiang Mian remained silent.

The events of that year were a rather melodramatic old story: "Although I went with them to hand over the goods, the location we agreed upon was in the west of the city, which was only a ten-minute one-way trip."

We had just arrived when they changed the information, temporarily altering the location to the western suburbs.

"Did those insects ambush you?" Jiang Xu asked, his face darkening.

"No, that's the absurd part. They were only notified at the last minute. Our group of insects was suddenly surrounded and attacked, and the other side was also stunned."

If it weren't for the insects from both sides protecting me so fiercely, I probably wouldn't have made it back.

Jiang Mian's injuries were too severe to remember the details clearly, but when that batch of insects appeared, both he and the recipient were stunned.

During the process of covering his retreat, both sides suffered numerous casualties.

Not long ago, he heard from Zoran that both sides involved in the handover of goods had perished.

Moreover, all they found in the end was bloodstains; not a single insect corpse.

However, later, because of Jiang Xu, they found a pile of bones, which may have contained the remains of those missing insects.

Jiang Xu remained silent, wondering if these matters were related to the Jiang family in the south.

He turned to look at the instrument in the corner, and paused, momentarily stunned. He seemed to have found a thread amidst the tangled mess of wires.

"Knock knock—" A knocking sound came from the study door, causing the two insects inside to look towards the door.

"My lord, Xiao Xu, you may come out for dinner now." Zoran's calm voice came from outside the door.

Jiang Xu then realized that they seemed to have been talking for a long time.

The sunlight that had been streaming through the window had somehow dissipated. He turned to look at Jiang Mian and said, "Let's stop here for now."

As he spoke, Jiang Mian, who was standing next to him, had already stood up. By the time he finished speaking, Jiang Mian had already walked towards the study door.

"..." Jiang Xu remained silent and quickly followed after him.

Jiang Mian opened the door, and Zolan came into view.

"Grandfather-in-law," Jiang Xu said somewhat embarrassedly, "we got so engrossed in our conversation that we forgot the time. I'm really sorry."

Jiang Mian was actually very curious as to why Jiang Xu could have two different attitudes.

They showed great respect to these insects that they only lived together and had probably only met a few times, using only honorifics in their speech;

Then observe the other person's attitude when they speak to you!

When he was first found, Jiang Xu was trembling and bewildered. As he grew older, the other person gradually spoke to him in a tone of equality.

They couldn't gain even the slightest verbal advantage.

Jiang Xu looked at Jiang Mian's gaze with bewilderment and confusion.

Zoran hummed in response, "Xiao Fei has arrived too."