It was Xu Mingjin's plan to pick up my cousin first.

He knew that what he was going to face was not those high-school children in the capital who were used to conspiracy methods, but just a mud-legged kid who had been raised in the countryside since he was a child and had never even read a book.

However, this mud-legged man has the noble blood of Duke Wei's mansion flowing, and wants to take away everything he owns.

Since it is an unchangeable fact that the person was taken back, Xu Mingjin knew very well that if he tried every means to stop him, or even attacked that mud-legged man impulsively, it would only arouse dissatisfaction and even hatred from the whole of Duke Wei's mansion—who made him just an innocent man?What about outsiders of blood!

Although he knows intellectually that he should accept the reality with peace of mind, and even take the initiative to give in, even if he is no longer the heir of the Duke of Wei, he can still have a place in the Duke of Wei.It's not without foundation.

If he can let go of his figure, curry favor with that mud-legged fellow from the countryside, and be a pair of "good brothers" with him, his life will probably be much better than that of Wei Guogong's side branch.

——But Xu Mingjin just wasn't reconciled.

He knew from birth that he was the eldest son of the Duke of Wei's mansion, and this huge Duke's mansion would be his in the future.Even the cousins of the second room, although they are brothers and friends on weekdays, he always looks down on them in his heart.

After all, Erfang's cousin will only be a side branch in the future, and he will be the master of Wei Guogong's mansion.

How can he, who is so proud, endure that everything he is proud of is taken away, and he becomes the mud leg that he despises the most in his daily life?Once he loses his status as the son of Duke Wei's mansion, what if he can still stay in Duke Wei's mansion?He is not a roadside wild dog who has been robbed of his meat and bones and can be satisfied by licking two mouthfuls of soup!

With the power of Duke Wei's mansion, most of the officials in the court had to be wooed.Without Wei Guogong's backing, what's the use even if he is admitted to the number one scholar?It's not like starting from a small seventh-rank official!Once that mud-legged person inherits the Duke of Wei's mansion in the future, will he have to bow his knees to that person all his life, and only by pleasing him can he get the help of the Duke of Wei's mansion?

It was precisely because he thought too clearly and saw too clearly that Xu Mingjin felt the pain from the bottom of his heart.

Just like an unlucky guy who has guarded a golden mountain for more than ten years since he was born but was forced to give it up to others. Even if he struggles for a lifetime, he can't earn a corner of that golden mountain. How can he not be jealous and resentful towards the new owner of the golden mountain?

Therefore, even though he knew that the loss of the status of the crown prince was a doomed fact, he knew that he should have a good relationship with the real crown prince, and knew what to do was the best for him, but he just didn't want to!Just not reconciled!

That being the case, how could he make that person happily accept everything about him, and look down on him happily from now on?

But Xu Mingjin didn't intend to create a situation where both sides would suffer.

He wants to use the most sincere attitude to invite this mud-legged person who is about to enter his home, and he wants the other party to believe in his sincerity, his guilt, and his uneasiness and pain caused by the exposure of his life experience.

In front of that person, he will be a filial son who "was entangled in pain because of breaking his life experience, but took the initiative to take the biological son of his adoptive parents home so that his adoptive parents would not be embarrassed."

In the two days that he squeezed out ahead of his cousin, he was also the victim of an accident, and he would try his best to build a good relationship with the other party, so that the other party would fully believe that he was harmless.

He would inadvertently let that person know how much love and cultivation the Duke and Duchess have given him in the past sixteen years, let him know what status Duke Wei symbolizes in Daqi, and how outstanding the heir to Duke Wei's mansion must be...

——In the original trajectory of fate, Xu Mingjin did succeed.

The original owner Li Sanlang was just a simple boy who grew up in the countryside. He arrived in Shanglin Village two days earlier than his cousin Xu Mingyu. In just two days, he got the favor of this simple boy.

Li Sanlang didn't feel jealous or resentful towards this lucky man who exchanged his life experience with his own. Instead, he believed in his sincerity and was willing to accept him as his friend and brother.

He longed for the prosperity of Shanghai described by Xu Mingjin, and felt sad when Xu Mingjin seemed to inadvertently say how his parents have nurtured him these years. Under Xu Mingjin's misleading, he was always worried that his parents would look down on him and be inferior to him in every aspect.Xu Mingjin's self.

He felt from the bottom of his heart that this new friend was like the bright moon in the sky and the rubble on the ground compared to himself, and in Xu Mingjin's mouth, Wei Guogong's mansion was such a prominent family that he had never even read a book.Will it embarrass his biological parents and embarrass Wei Guogong's mansion?

Xu Mingjin planted a seed of inferiority in his heart.

When Xu Mingjin took him all the way back to Shangjing and appeared in front of everyone in Duke Wei's mansion, the people in the Duke's mansion did not blame Xu Mingjin for his recklessness, because everything he did seemed to be for the harmony of the Duke's mansion.He took the initiative to invite the real son back, and there didn't seem to be any friction or conflict between the two, but they were as close as brothers.

You don't have to worry about how to deal with the relationship between the two children, but praise Xu Mingjin for his understanding and the generosity of the son.

For all, it was a happy ending.

But soon, they discovered that was not the case.

Influenced by Xu Mingjin, the original owner got along very cautiously with his parents, always worrying that his parents would look down on his vulgarity.

Mrs. Wei Guogong invited her husband to teach him how to read and write. The original owner worked hard, but he didn't have that talent.

Not only that, but the original owner was also incompatible with the honorable sons of the upper capital. Every time he was invited out for a trip or a banquet, he was the one who couldn't get into the topic.Even though many people flattered and flattered him due to his status, people who were similar to Wei Guogong's mansion looked down on him. The original owner was keenly aware of the unspoken contempt others had for him.

This made him even more uncomfortable.

So, Xu Mingjin kindly took him to make friends.

——Xu Mingjin, who grew up in Shanghai since she was a child, has her own circle of friends.Even if he lost his status as the eldest son, not all his friends abandoned him.

And Xu Mingjin's friends are all self-proclaimed talented young masters.Even though they no longer recognized Xu Mingjin's identity, they still admired Xu Mingjin's talent, and felt sorry for and sympathized with what happened to him. They heard that the original owner was from the countryside and had never read a book, so they all looked down on him.Some of Xu Mingjin's friends even had prejudice against the original owner because of Xu Mingjin's secret instigation. Sometimes even if they laughed at him generously, the uneducated original owner would not be able to understand the connotation and ridicule of others, which made people look down on him even more.

The original owner was only taken out by Xu Mingjin for a tour, and rumors that the son of Duke Wei's mansion was an idiot spread throughout the capital.

Everyone praised him on the surface, but laughed at him behind the scenes.

Even if his parents love him in every possible way, it is still difficult to dispel the depression in the original owner's heart.In other words, the better his parents treated him, the more the original owner wanted to be outstanding and bring credit to them.

Of course, all that Xu Mingjin did could not shake the status of the original owner's son, nor did he benefit much.But watching the original owner being ridiculed by others, he can find comfort in his painful heart. Seeing the original owner studying hard every day with low self-esteem, and suffering because of lack of talent and missing too much time in the past, he has the pleasure of revenge.

And this trip to Shanglin Village was supposed to be the beginning of destiny, the beginning of Xu Mingjin's plan.

But Xu Mingjin never imagined that the enemy he believed was about to take everything away from him had already seen through the thread of fate and gave up everything he had to another person.

So, before he could say a word, he was beaten into a pig's head and thrown into the pigsty to be with pigs.

Xu Mingjin, who was bound and gagged and thrown into the pigsty, was about to go crazy!What an out-and-out unruly little man!

Before being fainted in the pigsty, Xu Mingjin was still yelling at that unreasonable mud leg in his heart.

And everything after that, he didn't know.

...

Xu Mingjin woke up in pain.

He was slammed to the ground, and he felt that all his bones were about to fall apart after being beaten up not long ago.

Xu Mingjin couldn't help but let out a cry.

"be honest!"

Before he could react, he was lifted up from behind, kicked his knee, and fell to the ground.

And a middle-aged man with a three-strand beard in the gown of a magistrate slapped the gavel above, and asked:

"Who is in the hall, whose name is it, and what did he do?"

This shout flashed through his mind like lightning, waking Xu Mingjin up. He finally realized his situation at this time, and blurted out a sentence: "He actually reported to the government?!"

That unreasonable mud-legged boy actually reported to the police to arrest him!

And his uncooperative attitude made the county magistrate even more dissatisfied, and the yamen servant's big hands like iron tongs slapped him hard again: "My lord is asking you something, why don't you tell me honestly!"

Xu Mingjin was going crazy.

"Do you know who I am?" He laughed angrily, while struggling, he looked up at the so-called magistrate in the hall.

This kind of petty official is usually not even qualified to climb the threshold of Wei Guogong's mansion, but now he is forced to kneel here and be interrogated by a mere sesame seed official, which is really ridiculous!

If Xu Mingjin had remained the same image he had when he first appeared in Shanglin Village, coupled with his arrogance, the county magistrate might have hesitated a bit, but now that he is covered in mud and his nose is bruised and his face is swollen from beatings, he still dares to stand in courtProvoking the county magistrate is simply courting death.

"Disrespect to adults, you should be beaten!" Without saying a word, the two yamen servants beat them down with a few snaps of their killing sticks.

Xu Mingjin was beaten so loudly that he lost all the prestige of the prince of Wei Guogong's mansion.

"Wait—" Lan Xin, who was among the crowd watching, couldn't bear it any longer. She ran over anxiously to protect Xu Mingjin, and was immediately beaten several times. She screamed in pain and said, "NowThere may be a misunderstanding..."

Xu Mingjin took advantage of the little effort she had won and hurriedly said: "Stop beating, stop beating, I am the son of Wei Guogong!"

The county magistrate above was shocked, but he immediately realized that something was wrong: "The son of the Duke of Wei? The son of the Duke of Wei is far away in the capital, how could he appear in this small town?"

As he spoke, he waved his hand.

"Pretending to be the son of the Duke of Wei deserves to be beaten!"

Seeing the sticks falling like rain, Xu Mingjin couldn't care about anything else, he shouted: "I have a token to prove my identity!"