There was a flash of astonishment in Jiang Jinyan's eyes, and it was obvious that he had just learned about this.
But he quickly calmed down and said:
"Doctor Wang has been treating the nobles in the palace for many years and has a good reputation in the capital. Many noble families invite him to their homes. My sister is not the only patient of his. I don't know what this means."
Jiang Xiancao sneered and said mockingly, "Young Master Jiang is really stubborn."
After saying that, she stepped on the back of Doctor Wang's right hand with a little force.
Doctor Wang cried out in pain, and she only laughed softly:
"Doctor Wang's unique skills of diagnosing pulses with hanging threads and removing poisons with golden needles all rely on this right hand. If I cripple your right hand today, how will you continue to be a miraculous healer?"
Doctor Wang cried out for mercy:
"Please, Your Majesty, let me go. I'll tell you everything!"
Jiang Xiancao didn't move her foot away, but stepped on him and said slowly, "Then tell us all the secrets between you and Miss Jiang in front of the two young masters of the Jiang family."
Doctor Wang secretly looked up at Jiang Jinyan. As soon as his eyes turned, Jiang Xiancao increased the strength of his feet.
"I advise you not to play tricks. If you tell me the truth, I can let you go. But if you don't, I will do what I say and cripple your hand first. I will hand you over to His Royal Highness Prince Zhan and let him treat you well with the methods of the Imperial City Bureau."
Doctor Wang seemed to hear the sound of his own hand bones breaking, and was so frightened that he dared not hide it anymore:
"Your Highness, the secret recipe for blood transfusion was indeed written down by Miss Jiang."
When Jiang Jinyan heard his words, he was furious and his blood boiled. He pointed at him and cursed loudly:
"You slandered Zhu'er!"
Doctor Wang shrank his neck.
But then he thought of the threats from the Ninth Prince, and knew that if he didn't confess everything today, his fate would be even worse. So he was no longer afraid of offending the Wen Ning Marquis' Mansion, and steeled his heart:
"It was indeed Miss Jiang who instructed me. I still have the jewelry she gave me hidden in my house! She wore it before. As long as His Majesty sends someone to investigate, we can find out everything. I didn't lie."
Jiang Jinyan said angrily, "Impossible! The Marquis's family tradition is strict. How could a young lady like Zhu'er, who strictly abides by the chastity of a boudoir, give something she once wore to a man outside her family? Stop talking nonsense."
Doctor Wang said anxiously:
"I'm not kidding! That day, Miss Jiang said she felt uncomfortable in her chest and sent someone to ask me to take her pulse. When I arrived, she told me to write a secret recipe for blood transfusion and give it to the Ninth Prince in a few days, and then gave me a silver note of one hundred taels as a reward.
The secret recipe for blood transfusion that she mentioned is something I have never heard of. Even if such a cruel recipe can really work, it is an evil technique that harms people. It is definitely not a proper medical skill, let alone presenting it to the prince. As an imperial physician, I don't want to sell my conscience for a hundred taels of silver.
So I politely declined Miss Jiang's offer at that time, but she insisted on having me do this for her. Finally, in order to convince me, she personally took out her dressing box and picked out two extremely valuable pieces of jewelry for me.
I have been treating the ladies in the palace for many years and have seen many fine things. I can see that the two pieces of jewelry are made of a lot of money. The East China Sea pearls on them alone can be sold for one thousand taels. I was tempted and agreed to help her this time.
Miss Jiang also told me to remove all the gold and silver jewels from the jewelry and sell them, and not to take the whole piece out, for fear that others would recognize it.
After I gave the secret recipe to the princess, I wanted to deal with the jewelry according to her instructions. Just as I found a reliable way, the princess's people came to find me.
In order to convince people, he told them all the details of the whole incident, and they all made sense.
Although Jiang Huaizhu was very favored in the Marquis' Mansion, as an unmarried daughter, she had little cash except for the fixed monthly allowance, and naturally could not take out large amounts of silver notes. Her most expensive property was her jewelry.
So she had no choice but to use her jewelry to bribe Doctor Wang. From her action, we can see how much she hated Jiang Xiancao. She would rather pay such a high price to let her fiancé bleed Jiang Xiancao.
This is to torture Jiang Xiancao's body and destroy her heart!
Even Chaoyue and Huayi couldn't help but feel sympathy for the second Miss Jiang after hearing this.
Jiang Jinyan, his biological brother, insisted that Doctor Wang had made up the story:
"I don't know who asked you to frame Zhu'er, but what's fake can't be real. The servants in Zhu'er's room all saw with their own eyes whether the jewelry was worn by her. It's definitely not possible for you to get away with it by just taking a few pieces of women's jewelry."
Hearing this, Jiang Xiancao's smile deepened, and he clapped his hands and said:
"Master Jiang is really smart, you are right, what is fake cannot be real, and what is real cannot be fake.
Huayi, have someone bring up the things they found in Doctor Wang's house."
Huayi had been listening to the play for so long that she couldn't wait to watch.
Finally getting the order from her master, she forgot the rules of the palace maids for a moment and went there happily, which earned her a glare from Chaoyue.
She quickly brought over the two pieces of jewelry.
"Your Highness, these are the two."
Lying quietly on the silver plate were a pair of crabapple flower hairpins and a magnolia flying butterfly ball crown.
The twin crabapple flowers were made of rare glazed agate and fine Hetian warm jade. Each of the twelve balls on the magnolia flying butterfly crown was as big as a pigeon egg, which was exactly the pearl of the East China Sea that Doctor Wang mentioned.
As soon as Jiang Jinyan saw these two things, his face became extremely ugly.
Especially the magnolia flying butterfly crown, which was the gift he gave to Jiang Huaizhu at her coming-of-age party. He also asked the most famous craftsman in the capital to make it, so it could not be fake.
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