After hearing this, Jiang Xiancao almost laughed out loud.
"Young Master is truly fair. Your sister Zhu'er committed such a serious mistake that nearly caused Second Miss Jiang to be charged with attempted murder, yet you only asked her to apologize to Second Miss Jiang?
If apologies were useful, what would be the point of laws and family rules?
Are the rules of the Wenning Marquis' Mansion really so absurd and casual?"
Jiang Jinyan first handed the unconscious Jiang Huaizhu to Jiang Jinan, who was knowledgeable in medicine, and ordered him to take good care of the person in his room. Then he looked at Jiang Xiancao coldly:
“The Jiang family respects His Majesty, but His Majesty should not overreach.
Ultimately, this matter is just a misunderstanding and conflict between sisters. As long as the second sister forgives Zhu'er, it has nothing to do with outsiders."
Jiang Xiancao turned around and asked Shen Tingsi, who had a complicated expression, mockingly:
"Miss Jiang Er, after everything that's happened, are you willing to accept Jiang Huaizhu's understated apology?"
Of course Shen Tingsi was unwilling.
No one in the world can be so magnanimous.
Even though Jiang Huaizhu was his white moonlight and he had liked her, he could not accept her repeated frame-ups.
And because he once believed in her and truly thought she was pure and beautiful, after seeing Bai Yueguang's ugly and vicious true face, the feeling of being deceived made him feel like a thorn in his throat and he couldn't let it go.
How could he have been so blind as to trust such a villain?
But he didn't intend to answer Jiang Xiancao's question.
Forgiveness or not is not the most important thing for him at the moment.
When he was about to say the speech he had prepared for a long time to attract Shen Yubai's attention, Jiang Jinyan suddenly said:
"After so much has happened, my second sister is exhausted. Someone, send her back to her room to rest!"
Nanny Li stepped forward quickly, forcing a smile that was full of wrinkles on her face. "Second Miss, please follow me."
After she finished speaking, she secretly pinched Shen Tingsi's sleeping point. Shen Tingsi immediately half-closed his eyes in fatigue and sleepiness, unable to utter a word.
Jiang Xiancao did not stop them, but just watched coldly as the people from the Jiang family took him away.
She said to Jiang Jinyan, "Master, we have a long way to go."
Then she turned and left without any reluctance.
Jiang Jinyan looked at her departing back with gloomy eyes. At this time, Chen Yubai also evacuated with the people from the Imperial City Bureau.
After everyone left, Jiang Jinyi walked up to him:
"Brother, why did the Emperor cancel the engagement between the Ninth Prince and the Jiang family?"
The Emperor and the Empress Dowager originally had a good impression of Jiang Xiancao. He had thought that they would use this incident to clear Jiang Xiancao's name and facilitate her marriage to the Ninth Prince as soon as possible.
But unexpectedly, Zhu'er did not become the princess, and Jiang Xiancao was also out.
Jiang Jinyan sneered, "Because what I asked the prince for was to get Jiang Xiancao out as well."
Jiang Jinyi was stunned. He never expected Jiang Jinyan to say that. "Jiang Xiancao is a daughter of the Jiang family after all. If she can marry the Ninth Prince, then the Hou Mansion will have a princess. Why do you have to..."
Jiang Jinyan's eyes were icy. "Ever since she used the Ninth Prince, an outsider, to deal with the Jiang family, I no longer treat her as my sister. Zhu'er can't be a princess, and neither can she."
Jiang Jinyi fell silent.
Seeing that he seemed to disagree, Jiang Jinyan said:
"Do you think Jiang Xiancao would be kind to the Marquis' Mansion if she really became the princess? She is an ungrateful person who can never be tamed. She will only use the power of the Ninth Prince to intensify her revenge on the Jiang family!"
Jiang Jinxing was also indignant after hearing this:
"Big brother is right, Jiang Xiancao is an ungrateful person!
Just like what happened today, if she hadn't been secretly plotting, how could it have alarmed the royal family and caused the emperor to have a bad impression of our Jiang family?
She admitted she had been wronged, but what was her small grievance compared to the family's honor? If she hadn't owned the Wenning Marquisate, she would still be working as a prostitute in a suburban wine shop. How could she have lived a life of luxury and become the daughter of a marquis?
She is not as sensible as Zhu'er, narrow-minded and petty, and she doesn't have the gentle and virtuous demeanor of a noble lady. She is a disgrace to the Jiang family bloodline in her body!"
Jiang Jinyi nodded heavily and said nothing more.
But he still felt an indescribable discomfort in his heart.
He is an official in the Ministry of Justice. He usually judges right from wrong and is very particular about fairness.
He originally thought that the fall into the water was all Jiang Xiancao's fault, just as Jiang Huaizhu said.
So he had complete faith in Jiang Huaizhu and had always been very determined to protect her.
But now it seems that he was wrong.
Although he was also dissatisfied with Jiang Xiancao's behavior of exposing the family's dirty laundry, and felt that she was selfish and ignorant, he could not go against his conscience.
Because Jiang Xiancao was indeed wronged.
She had also turned to her brothers for help, asking them to give her justice, but none of them helped her.
At that time, she must have been very disappointed with them?
There was a voice deep in his heart saying that she was forced to report the matter to the royal family, and it would have been great if he could have believed her earlier.
But he pretended not to hear the sound and walked into Jiang Huaizhu's room.
When he saw the frozen little face of his beloved sister since childhood, the guilt he felt towards Jiang Xiancao instantly disappeared.
He also began to blame Jiang Xiancao.
It's just a little injustice. Jiang Huaizhu is her sister. Why would she be so cruel?
Big brother is right. If such a vicious woman were to become a princess, it would only bring disaster to the Jiang family.
…
Shen Tingsi woke up quietly in the room, his throat was dry and uncomfortable.
"Tangyuan, Tangyuan..."
He called out in a low voice, but the little maidservant who had always been around him did not come over.
Instead, a strange figure pulled open the curtain and slowly walked towards him.
Shen Tingsi frowned, "Who are you?"
This fragile body had not yet fully recovered from the previous injuries, and he caught a cold from the wind in the orchid garden. His head was so hot that even his vision was a little blurry.
He couldn't see the man's face clearly, but he instinctively smelled a dangerous aura from him.
That is the evil aura that only people with great martial arts skills and blood on their hands can have.
Shen Tingsi's whole body tensed up and he swallowed nervously.
Could it be that Jiang Xiancao was afraid that the body-swapping would be exposed, so he sent someone to kill this body to silence it?
But then, Shen Tingsi thought of the note he received in the ancestral hall.
Sure enough, the man's cold voice sounded:
"Miss Jiang Er, I am from the Imperial City Department. I have come here on the orders of His Royal Highness Prince Zhan to confirm something with you."
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