Chapter 11 Design

"I asked my cousin to come. I misremembered where I put the clothes."

"Xun Jiang, don't be so confrontational. Pay attention to your manners." A cold male voice sounded, with no room for argument.

Jiang Qingning's body froze, he lowered his eyes, clenched his hands, took a deep breath, and warned himself in his heart to be patient.

Bai Qingyi's legs went weak, and she fell heavily to the ground as if she had been pushed down.

Her eyes were red, and she exclaimed, "Ah! Miss Jiang, I really didn't mean to attack your servant, why did you push me?"

Xun Chen's face turned black as he strode in from outside Qingyi Courtyard. Without even glancing at Jiang Qingning, he bent down and helped Bai Qingyi up.

"Xun Jiang, you're really going too far."

She was convicted without even asking any questions.

Jiang Qingning crossed his arms and looked at the "sincerely affectionate" cousins ​​with his own eyes.

"Did I push you?" Jiang Qingning didn't even glance at Xun Chen, but faced Bai Qingyi with her bright eyes curved.

Xun Chen wanted to get angry, but when he suddenly saw Jiang Qingning's bright smile, he felt a rare movement in his heart. He had never seen Jiang Qingning like this before.

Why didn’t Jiang Qingning have this much agility before?

Xun Chen pursed his lips, feeling a little itchy.

"No, it wasn't my cousin's wife. I accidentally fell to the ground and mistakenly thought my cousin's wife pushed me..."

Bai Qingyi's eyes were red, and she lowered her head timidly.

Jiang Qingning got a satisfactory answer and turned to look at Xun Chen: "The Earl of Anping heard it, it wasn't me who pushed it."

Xun Chen hummed, helped Bai Qingyi steady herself, and then lowered his head to warn her, "Cousin, be more careful next time and don't subconsciously misunderstand others."

"Cousin?" Bai Qingyi looked up in disbelief, her eyes filled with hurt.

Xun Chen didn't look at her. He said to Jiang Qingning, "Since you can't find a house, forget about the divorce. Later, go and beg your mother for forgiveness. Qingyi Courtyard will remain yours from now on."

"Don't make any more fuss about what happened today. It will do you no good."

Xun Chen instructed Jiang Qingning and waved his hand to signal everyone to leave.

When Liu Ma and the others saw their backers coming, the momentum that had just dissipated was instantly restored. They jumped up from the ground and led the servants who were going to carry out the execution to leave.

"Stop, who said that today's matter is just like this."

Jiang Qingning folded his hands in front of his abdomen, with a dignified demeanor and majestic aura.

"Mr. Anping, were you just saying that I was the one causing trouble?"

Xun Chen was puzzled: "What else do you want to do? It was your servant who was unreasonable today, and Liu Mama was disciplining you on behalf of your mother.

You didn't say thank you, but instead beat and scolded her. With a vicious look like you, how can you still be the mistress of the Anping Marquis's mansion?"

"Who allowed her to hit my servants? These are my servants, Jiang Qingning. They have been in your Anping Marquis's mansion since they entered.

The money I receive is from my dowry, and I pay for my food and lodging on a monthly basis. Why should you, the Anping Marquis' Mansion, discipline me?"

"When I first married into the mansion, the old lady told me that I would discipline and support the people I brought with me. She even thought it was dirtying her own land when she saw me!"

"Besides, did I tell you that I still want to be the mistress of the Anping Marquis's mansion? Xun Chen, don't flatter yourself."

Jiang Qingning was full of vigor and his eyes swept over Aunt Liu sharply, frightening her so much that she quickly took a few steps back, her legs so weak that she could not stand.

"What are you talking about? A woman who marries her husband should obey him and return the servants she brings into her husband's house to his family.

"The indenture should have long been the property of the Anping Marquis's Mansion. Xun Jiang, please don't say such nonsense that defames your mother's reputation!" Xun Chen was furious.

"Don't call me Xun Jiang anymore. I'm Jiang Qingning, not your appendage."

Jiang Qingning was not afraid at all, and raised her head and said, "If you don't believe me, you can go ask Aunt Liu. She was my mother's maid when she came with her as a dowry, and she was there with us!"

"Ask each and every one of you thoroughly, and do not wrongly accuse an innocent person."

Xun Chen was shocked and glanced at Madam Liu, who was kneeling on the ground begging. This posture had fully confirmed Jiang Qingning's words.

"Madam Liu, is what Madam Xun and Madam Jiang said true?"

Xun Chen's voice was hoarse and he was very sad.

"Master, spare me! You promised to go to her in a letter, but the old lady was very unhappy.

That's why we separated from her on the day she first entered the mansion. Husband, Miss Jiang has indeed never spent a single copper coin from our Anping Marquis's mansion!"

Nanny Liu knelt down and begged. When she looked up and met Jiang Qingning's gaze, she immediately shrank back and kowtowed for mercy.

Jiang Qingning sneered and turned to Xun Chen: "Master, you heard it clearly, so what right do you have to hit my servant?"

"Xun Jiang, shut up!"

Xun Chen became angry and embarrassed.

"Why should I shut up?"

Jiang Qingning pressed forward step by step, refusing to give in.

"What qualifications do you have to lecture me? If the Jiang family hadn't supported you because of the engagement, how could you, Xun Chen, be where you are today?"

"I'm grateful for the protection and kindness of the Anping Marquis' Mansion and forgiving you so much back then, but now we're even. If you want me to tolerate you, I'd have to die and be reborn to sever all ties with you!"

Seeing her like this, everyone around her was as if they had seen a ghost, and they couldn't help but imagine at the same time: Could it be that Xun Jiang's body has been taken away today?!

"Xun Chen, you have been eating my food, drinking my drinks, and using my things for the past eight years, and everyone in your house has been affected by this.

The mung bean soup for the servants every summer and the cotton-padded clothes and quilts needed in winter, which one of them was not paid for from my dowry!

How dare you scold me? Why should I keep giving in? "

Jiang Qingning seemed to vent his anger.

For eight years, she had to accept the criticism and criticism from everyone in the mansion, and the cold treatment from her mother-in-law, but she had to go there every day to set the rules, rain or shine. Only at dusk could she return to the "home" whose name even the main courtyard had a deep meaning.

Otherwise, if she didn't go one day, her good mother-in-law would send someone to cry to her extremely filial son.

Xun Chen would ignore the rules of the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month and come to scold her in the middle of the night, forcing her to kneel down and copy scriptures to pray for her mother-in-law and apologize.

But she had never eaten a grain of rice or drunk a sip of water from the Anping Marquis's Mansion, but she had lived alone in Qingyi Courtyard for eight years and endured for eight years.

Apart from the people she brought with her, no one spoke to her and no one looked up to her.

Because even she looked down on herself.

She is obviously the daughter of the eldest son of the Jiang family, the daughter of a third-rank military general, and the younger sister of a fourth-rank military general. Why should she suffer all this?

"Xun Jiang, you!" Xun Chen looked at Jiang Qingning in surprise, not understanding why she was so crazy.

Aren’t these what a daughter-in-law should do?

Everyone can do it, why can't Xun Jiang do it alone?

It's not that she has bad character and is not a good person.

"Don't call me Xun Jiang. I'm not Xun Jiang. I fought tooth and nail to divorce you, not for you to indulge your servants in beating up my own servants!"

"Just because I, Jiang Qingning, have suffered injustices in your Anping Marquis's Mansion for eight years doesn't mean that my servants should be punished by your people for no reason!"