Jiang Jinyan frowned and said, "If Your Highness truly had physical evidence, he would have produced it long ago. Once I see the physical evidence, I will surely be convinced. Why would you waste your breath on it?"
The implication is that he doesn't believe Jiang Xiancao's words and thinks she is just bluffing.
Jiang Xiancao did not argue with him, but just smiled and said:
"Mr. Jiang is right."
Jiang Jinyan stood there waiting for her next words, but he only heard her say to Chaoyue and Huayi:
"Go call the guards and have them keep these witnesses under guard. Once His Royal Highness Prince Zhan has investigated the drowning case, I will present all of this to the Emperor."
After saying this, Jiang Xiancao yawned, "After such a long day, I am also tired. Please make yourselves at ease, gentlemen."
That’s it?
Just when Jiang Jinyan was feeling suspicious, the Ninth Prince had already turned around and left with two maids.
He pulled up his brother who was lying on the ground and unable to move. The two of them leaned on each other and finally walked out of the palace.
As soon as he left the palace, he saw his personal servant with a worried look on his face:
"My two lords, you are finally out! Something happened in the Marquis' Mansion!"
Jiang Jinyan was stunned for a moment and then hurriedly said, "Tell me clearly, what is going on!"
The servant said with a sad face, "When you and the Third Young Master were in the palace, the Ninth Prince's guards broke into the eldest lady's courtyard with the imperial token. Then, they seemed to have found something in the eldest lady's room..."
"What is it?!" Jiang Jinyan's tone changed and he asked through gritted teeth.
The servant said in panic:
"It seems to be a bottle of medicine. I don't know what the medicine is specifically for. I only know that the palace guards brought people from the Imperial Hospital with them and asked the old doctor to examine the medicine on the spot. After the examination, the palace people confiscated the bottle of medicine and also took away another maidservant beside the eldest lady. The eldest lady cried so hard that she almost died."
Jiang Jinyan was trembling all over, and it took him a long while to speak, "The maid who was taken away, is her name Bi Cha?"
The servant nodded repeatedly, "Yes, it is Bicha!"
After hearing this, Jiang Jinyan felt a little distraught.
After returning to the Marquis' Mansion, he and Jiang Jinyi immediately went to Jiang Huaizhu's yard.
As soon as I entered, I saw Jiang Huaizhu kneeling on the ground, with the other three young masters standing beside her, all comforting her in gentle tones.
Jiang Jinyan walked forward quickly, and Jiang Huaizhu choked up when she saw him:
"Big brother, the guards from the prince's palace came to Zhu'er's room and rummaged through all my most private things. They were so rude, as if Zhu'er were a criminal. If this gets out, my sister will be humiliated. How can I live like this?"
Seeing that she never mentioned the bottle of medicine that was found, Jiang Jinyan's face darkened slightly. He paused and asked:
"Zhu'er, is the medicine the palace guards found in your room the Xipin Dan?"
When Jiang Huaizhu heard these three words, there was a moment of unnaturalness on his face.
But she quickly covered up this strange color and cried:
"Zhu'er didn't know what that bottle of medicine was. I'd never seen it before, let alone taken it."
Jiang Jinyan couldn't help but emphasize his tone after hearing this. "But I met Doctor Wang in the palace. He said that he gave you the recipe for the Xiaopin Pill. He also said that after taking the Xiaopin Pill, people will become superficially weak as if they are seriously ill. Is this true?"
Jiang Huaizhu opened his eyes wide and looked at him in disbelief. "Brother, are you asking this because you doubt Zhu'er? Do you really think that Zhu'er's weakness after falling into the water was faked by taking the Imitation Pill?"
She turned her head and looked at Jiang Jinan who was standing next to her, "Fourth brother, you are a medical student, tell me, was Zhu'er's previous serious illness fake?"
Jiang Jinyan also looked at him, his expression unusually serious, waiting for his answer.
Jiang Jinan felt very uneasy.
When Jiang Huaizhu was seriously ill before, he took her pulse and felt that her pulse was actually very stable and not as critical as she appeared.
But when no one was around, Jiang Huaizhu pulled his sleeve and said that she was heartbroken and wanted Jiang Xiancao, who intended to kill her, to be severely punished so that Jiang Xiancao would learn his lesson and not dare to go astray again.
He believed it, so he exaggerated her illness in front of others.
Now that this matter was suddenly brought up, with his most respected brother on one side and his most beloved sister on the other, he hesitated for a long time, but in the end he sided with Jiang Huaizhu:
"Brother, don't you still trust my medical skills?"
Jiang Jinyan frowned and fell silent.
Jiang Huaizhu seized this opportunity and said with a sad smile:
"I see. When brother went to the palace, the Ninth Prince must have said something to you that made you doubt Zhu'er. So now, in brother's eyes, Zhu'er is the scourge of the Marquisate, and all the faults are on me alone, right?"
Hearing her sad words, Jiang Jinyan immediately felt heartbroken.
He shook his head. "That's not the case. Zhu'er, listen to me. The evidence the Ninth Prince has is very unfavorable. I just don't know how to explain it to help you..."
Jiang Huaizhu pretended to lower her head and wipe away her tears, but her eyes were cold and gloomy.
When she looked up again, she said in a loud voice:
"In fact, I sensed a change in the prince's attitude towards me some time ago. I've also seen Sister Cao'er secretly meeting him more than once, but I trusted my lover so much at the time that I never asked him anything.
Now that I think about it, it was at that time that he believed Sister Cao'er's slander and became disgusted with me.
The brothers were not unaware of the Ninth Prince's character. He was known for his extreme passion and passion, and he dared to do anything absurd. He would unconditionally help whoever he liked, and would unreasonably suppress whoever he disliked.
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