She returned to the county princess's residence and told Madam Su what had happened. Then, she snuggled into her mother's arms and said sweetly, "Mother, I helped you get revenge! How was it? Wasn't it satisfying?"

Mrs. Su sighed and gently pinched her daughter's nose. "You! You just rashly went to their door to make a scene. Aren't you afraid of what those powerful people will do?"

Xiao Youran hugged her mother and grumbled, "I don't care! How dare they say that the princess's daughter is the eldest daughter? Doesn't that mean they don't respect me and my brother? Unless our scumbag father married into the family, their daughter won't have the surname Jiang!"

Mrs. Su was surprised, "Scumbag father?"

"He betrayed Mother first, and then tried to kill me and my brother. What else could he be but a scumbag father?" Xiao Youran said angrily!

Madam Su was horrified. "What did you say?! He wants to kill you and Chen'er?"

Xiao Youran nodded. "That day when we returned to the capital, the guards chased away a group of assassins in the middle of the night. One of them looked a lot like Jiang Quan. I just tested my scumbag father, and it was definitely him. That's why he and my grandmother, no, Lady Jiang Qian, the wife of the Marquis of Yong'an, dared to treat the princess's daughter as their eldest daughter without any qualms. Mother, he has murderous intentions towards us!"

Moreover, she suspected that the highly skilled man in black who had come to her aid might have already killed Jiang Quan and the others.

Otherwise, Jiang Mingyi would have known that the mother and daughter had come to the capital and purchased an old prince's residence to use as a county princess's mansion.

Su clenched her fists, her expression filled with grief and indignation, "Jiang Mingyi!"

Xiao Youran hugged her, "Mother, now that my brother has gone to Ghost Valley Mountain, he's very safe. This county princess's mansion is also very safe, with guards sent by Senior Brother Da Bai. It's just that my visit today exposed our whereabouts in the capital, so I'm afraid we should be careful when we go out these days."

Holding the little one in her arms, Madam Su said, "Mother is not afraid. If that Jiang fellow dares to harm you again, Mother will fight to the death to ruin his reputation."

Xiao Youran then asked seriously, "Mother, can you tell me now what exactly happened between you and that scumbag father?"

Over this period of time, Su Shi has come to realize that her daughter is no longer the ignorant, willful, and capricious five-year-old girl she once was, but an exceptionally intelligent child who has also studied under Guigu Mountain. Therefore, she is no longer surprised by the unusual ways of thinking that Xiao Youran displays.

In particular, she attributed all the financial knowledge and bookkeeping methods that Xiao Youran taught her along the way to the knowledge taught by Monk Wuwang.

So when her daughter asked her about her divorce from Jiang Mingyi, she wasn't surprised at all.

With their current intelligence, the fact that their parents are divorcing can no longer be hidden.

So she recounted what happened that day, "Do you remember last year on May 15th, the day of Jiang Qianshi's fifty-eighth birthday, this Princess Qingping was also invited to the mansion to offer her birthday congratulations?"

Xiao Youran nodded, "Of course I remember. Lady Yong'an was worried that I would cause trouble like breaking bowls or setting fires during the banquet, so she found an excuse early in the morning to confine me and two other maids in the Buddhist hall, saying that I was copying scriptures for her to show my filial piety. It was quite difficult for the two maids, who had to stay with me in the Buddhist hall for a whole day."

Her face was full of sarcasm. Last year, she was only four years old and could barely read. How could she possibly copy Buddhist scriptures?

Su nodded, "It's fortunate that you were confined in the Buddhist hall and didn't see that sordid scene."

"How did they scheme against Mother?" Xiao Youran gritted her teeth.

"Your eldest aunt, Madam Gao, the first wife of the Jiang family, had her wet nurse drug my wine and bribed the stable boy in the manor to wait in my room. It was Zhao Mama who noticed something was wrong. How could a lowly stable boy freely enter and leave the backyard of the Earl's manor? Fortunately, Zhao Mama's two sons came to deliver belated Dragon Boat Festival gifts to her that day—because they had been away on business during the Dragon Boat Festival and had just returned to Dingzhou on the fifteenth of May. Zhao Mama then had her two sons knock the stable boy unconscious, take him out of the backyard, and force him to tell the truth. Zhao Mama was terrified and rushed to the front to tell me."

I then devised a plan so that my naive sister-in-law would witness Gao's wet nurse drugging my drink. When they brought the glass of wine to me, my sister-in-law rushed forward and knocked it over. I then took the opportunity to tell Jiang Qian about Gao's actions, but Jiang Qian simply raised her hand in a huff and put it down lightly. I knew then that Jiang Qian must have known about what Gao had done, and perhaps she had even instructed her to do it.

Later, I found an opportunity in your scumbag father's study to discover a belt embroidered with intricate plum blossoms. I recognized this unique pattern from Princess Qingping's belt that day, and I instantly understood—those two had probably been eyeing each other for a long time.

She took another deep breath. "That Gao family member was just following her mother-in-law's wishes, but your scumbag father must have had his own plans. So I used this plum blossom belt and the stable boy's testimony to force him to sign the divorce papers instead of a letter of separation."

"In order to keep you from finding out, and to prevent you from being saddened by your parents' divorce, I pretended that your eldest uncle was unwell and took you back to the Su family for a few days. Unexpectedly, I received a letter from your great-aunt. So I decided to take you and Chen-ge to the capital to relax. What I didn't expect was that this trip south would last for more than half a year."

Thinking back on what she had experienced over the past six months, she couldn't help but sigh.

Xiao Youran looked at her mother with clear eyes and said, "Mother, we might be sad at first when you and that scumbag father get a divorce. But it's obvious that he's already involved with that Princess Qingping, and his heart is no longer with us. Why force him to stay? It's a good thing that you can get a clean divorce! But we can't let that princess get away with your ten-mile-long wedding procession that caused such a stir in Dingzhou!"

Madam Su smiled but didn't say anything. In fact, she just didn't want to set foot in the Yong'an Marquis's mansion again and see that group of people who disgusted her. Also, because she always had her son and daughter with her, she didn't want them to know, so she hadn't dealt with it for a long time.

Xiao Youran's expression grew even more indignant. "Mother, I saw it today! Your double-sided embroidered glass screen and the ancient zither with the phoenix and the cry of blood were placed on the antique shelf in the flower hall!"

Seeing that her mother's expression had wavered, she added fuel to the fire, "Father kept telling me to go see my boudoir, but I clearly saw my red coral screen behind the flower hall! The beaded curtain in the middle is the same South China Sea pearl curtain that my eldest uncle sent last year!"

"This is outrageous!" Madam Su exclaimed, her chest heaving with anger.

Xiao Youran said, "Mother, please don't be angry. Now that they have moved their entire family to the capital, it's easier for them to do things. We are in the capital, and my eldest uncle is in Dingzhou. As long as we have the list of your dowry from back then, we can get it back one by one. Even if we can't get it back, we still want the world to know that your dowry is still in the Princess's Mansion!"