Jiang Xiancao sneered and said sarcastically:

"Your actions of defending Jiang Huaizhu while disregarding justice and family have already made both Father and the Empress Dowager utterly disappointed in you. Even if you didn't resign, Father would not allow a fool like you who can't distinguish between the important and the unimportant and has no conscience to continue to stay by the Crown Prince's side.

You're going to be a commoner soon, and you still want to exchange what you're about to lose for my non-interference? Grand Secretary Jiang, you can think of yourself as a fool, but don't assume that everyone else is as foolish as you.

Jiang Jinyan felt that all the blood in his body rushed to his face.

He wanted to retort, but couldn't think of any words to refute.

There was even a hint of panic in my heart:

Is it really like what the Ninth Prince said, that the Emperor has already become disgusted with him?

After saying these words, Jiang Xiancao ignored Jiang Jinyan who looked like a fool and was about to leave behind the guards, but was stopped by Jiang Jinan.

"Master Jiang Si also has something to say?" she asked mockingly.

Jiang Jinan looked at her for a moment, then suddenly said in a resounding voice:

"Even if Zhu'er did something wrong, have you forgotten that she once saved your life?"

Jiang Xiancao stood there without saying anything. Jiang Jinan thought she was feeling guilty, so his voice became more and more confident and louder:

"A year ago, you were seriously injured in the outskirts of the city. It was Zhu'er who encountered you on her way to the temple to pray! If she hadn't been kind enough to pick you up and put you back in the carriage, would you still be standing here alive, showing off your Ninth Prince status?

As the sage said, a drop of kindness should be repaid with a spring. But how did you, the great Ninth Prince, treat your lifesaver?

You swore to marry Zhu'er, but later regretted it and sent your savior to prison without caring about her life or death. Doesn't your conscience hurt?!"

At the end of his speech, Jiang Jinan was shouting with almost all his strength.

Jiang Xiancao waited indifferently for him to finish shouting, then sneered slowly:

"Of course, we cannot repay a lifesaver with resentment. This is the most basic virtue of being a human being."

Hearing this, everyone in the Jiang family looked at her in shock.

Jiang Jinan's face showed ecstasy.

He thought his words had worked, and the Ninth Prince had finally changed his mind. He said excitedly:

"Since the prince knows this clearly, why not take advantage of the situation and come with us to ask for an audience with His Royal Highness Prince Zhan? The Imperial Prison is such a terrifying place. For a weak woman like Zhu'er, staying there for even a second is torture!"

After saying this, he excitedly asked his servants to prepare the car.

Jiang Xiancao put his hands behind his back and watched him work coldly.

When he had prepared the carriage and was eager to take her to the Imperial City Division, she sang out the unfinished words in a lazy tone:

"But the problem is, Jiang Huaizhu is not my savior at all."

Upon hearing this, the joy on Jiang Jinan's face froze instantly.

He frowned. "What are you talking about? Zhu'er didn't save you? Then who risked being hunted down to take you into hiding, apply medicine to you, and take care of your injuries? If these weren't done by Zhu'er, could they be done by a ghost?"

The more he spoke, the angrier he became, and he felt that the Ninth Prince was a complete jerk.

Zhu'er has done so much for him, but now he says she is not his savior and wants to erase all the kindness.

But even so, he had no doubt that the woman who did all these for the Ninth Prince was not Jiang Huaizhu at all!

Jiang Xiancao smiled and said slowly:

"Master Jiang Si wasn't present that day, so how do you know it was Jiang Huaizhu who did all this?"

Jiang Jinan said angrily:

"Nonsense! Of course it's because Zhu'er told us that she saved you, and she has the token you left for her! Are you trying to deny it now?!"

Jiang Xiancao smiled again:

"Then may I ask, Fourth Young Master, when did Jiang Huaizhu first take out the token I gave her and tell you that she had saved me?"

"When? What's the point of saying this..."

Jiang Jinan suddenly stopped talking here.

Because he remembered that the first time Jiang Huaizhu mentioned this matter was half a year ago when Jiang Xiancao returned to the Marquis' Mansion to recognize his relatives.

At that time, the Queen Mother learned that Jiang Xiancao was the real daughter of the Jiang family, and issued an imperial decree to arrange a marriage between her and the Ninth Prince.

The Marquis Wen Ning's Mansion held a grand engagement banquet for this purpose. After the Ninth Prince arrived, Jiang Huaizhu suddenly took out the token and cried and told her brothers that she had saved the Ninth Prince and that she was the woman the Ninth Prince had promised to marry.

They felt sorry for Jiang Huaizhu at the time and felt sorry for her because they let the marriage contract that should have belonged to her fall on Jiang Xiancao who had just returned home.

To be fair, they told the Ninth Prince about this.

After seeing the token, the Ninth Prince immediately changed his mind and said that he would ask the Queen Mother and the Emperor to let him marry Jiang Huaizhu instead.

The whole thing happened naturally and they never suspected anything.

But now that he was asked this by the Ninth Prince, he suddenly felt that something seemed a little strange.

But he really couldn't think of anything strange about it.

So he said to the Ninth Prince with confidence:

"You're not trying to say that Zhu'er is lying, are you? But there's a token as proof that Zhu'er is the one who saved you!"

Jiang Xiancao's voice was cold and deep:

"She had my token in her hand, but it wasn't her who saved me."

This time, even Jiang Jinzhen, who was listening at the side and was known for his natural intelligence, couldn't help but say:

"What exactly does your Highness mean? Are you trying to say that Zhu'er stole the token from someone else? Then why don't you bring the woman whose token she stole here?"

Jiang Xiancao smiled and said:

"Hasn't the woman whose token she stole been staying in the Marquis Wenning's mansion the entire time?"

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