After Jiang Xiancao walked out of the imperial prison, the curfew had passed and it was dawn. She took a carriage back to her palace.
As soon as he got off the carriage, someone rushed towards him crying:
"My Lord, you must save my young lady!"
Before the man could get close to her, he was stopped by the guards in front of the palace gate.
Jiang Xiancao originally thought that it was Jiang Huaizhu's maid who came to her to plead for mercy, but she saw a round-faced girl who looked somewhat familiar.
She paused, frowning slightly, "Are you the Tangyuan who serves Miss Jiang Er?"
She still had some impression of the maid named Tangyuan.
When she was in the Marquis Wen Ning's Mansion, this girl seemed to be working in her yard.
Tang Yuan nodded vigorously, his big round eyes filled with tears, and he said anxiously:
"It is me! Your Majesty, please follow me to the Marquis Wenning's Mansion. If you were any later, my young lady would have been killed by her ruthless brothers!"
Jiang Xiancao thought for a moment.
Although she didn't think that the bastard Shen Tingsi's current situation was worthy of sympathy, that guy was occupying her original body after all, and she didn't want her original body to be destroyed by the Jiang family.
So she asked Tangyuan to get on the carriage, and asked Tinglan to take ten of the best guards with the best martial arts skills and follow the carriage to the Marquis Wen Ning's Mansion.
On the way, Tangyuan was so anxious that he couldn't sit still and kept lifting the curtain to look out.
"Your Majesty, could you please ask the driver to go faster?"
Jiang Xiancao ordered the driver to drive as fast as possible without hurting pedestrians, and then asked Tangyuan:
"You said that the young master of the Jiang family wanted to harm your second young lady. How exactly did they do that? And what was their reason for attacking your young lady? Don't be anxious. Speak slowly and explain everything clearly."
She had long known that those men with the surname Jiang were not good people, but now was the time when they should be worrying about Jiang Huaizhu and the future of the family, and they actually had the mind to take out their anger on "Jiang Xiancao" at this time?
It seems that she had underestimated their stupidity before.
Speaking of this, Tang Yuan clenched his fists in anger and said angrily:
"The eldest daughter colluded with thieves at the blessing banquet, nearly causing the loss of my daughter's reputation. Fortunately, you, the Fifth Prince, and Prince Zhan were there, and you rescued the daughter and restored her innocence. But because the eldest daughter was captured, the five young masters hated my daughter.
Last night, after returning to the Marquis of Wenning's residence, the second young master rushed into the young lady's room with a sword in hand, shouting like a madman that if anything happened to the eldest young lady in the imperial prison, she would pay for it with blood. If the housekeeper hadn't arrived in time to stop him, the young lady might have been covered in blood.
After the housekeeper took the second young master away, I thought the young lady could finally have a good rest. The young lady also asked me to go to sleep and not to watch over her anymore. I was really sleepy at that time, so I went back to my room.
But I didn't expect that when I woke up again, heated up the porridge in the kitchen and brought it to the young lady, I found that the young lady was no longer in the room.
I hurried out of the yard and asked around. After asking many people, an old woman finally told the truth, saying that the young lady was taken to the ancestral hall by several young masters and punished according to family rules.
When I arrived at the ancestral hall, Your Majesty, do you know what I saw?"
At this point, Tang Yuan was about to burst into tears, feeling both distressed and angry:
"I saw them actually hang the young lady on the rack and torture her with the clamps! All ten of her fingers were stained red, and they were still ordering people to pull them hard, just to force her to admit that what happened at the blessing banquet was not the eldest lady's fault, and that it was she and you, Your Highness, who framed the eldest lady!
But that's not the truth at all! My young lady was almost ruined by my eldest daughter, this is the truth! Why don't they believe my young lady, but instead believe that vicious woman Jiang Huaizhu?
Why do they treat her so cruelly just because she didn't help the murderer who almost killed her?!
Tangyuan became more and more excited as he spoke, and his questions were shouted at the top of his lungs.
In the end, her voice became hoarse and she buried her head in the car wall and burst into tears.
She continued crying:
"When I saw the young lady suffering, I wanted to rush over and ask for an explanation. But the young lady saw me first, and with such pain in her eyes, she told me to leave. I understood what she meant. She wanted me to find a way to leave the mansion and come to you, Your Highness. In this situation, only you can save her!"
She suddenly raised her head again and knelt down in front of Jiang Xiancao in the carriage:
"Ninth Prince, I used to think you were a heartless, bad man, but seeing how you've stood up for my young lady so many times, I know I was wrong! I'll never call you a scumbag again. Please save my young lady! I kowtow to you!"
Jiang Xiancao was just about to bend down to help Tangyuan up when the simple-minded little girl kowtowed to her several times.
Seeing that Tangyuan was going to keep knocking if she didn't agree, she said helplessly:
"I promise."
Tang Yuan then raised his head and looked at her with tearful eyes, "Really?"
Jiang Xiancao nodded slightly and helped her up.
"But there's one thing I don't understand. Ever since Jiang Huaizhu blamed the drowning incident on Second Miss Jiang, all the servants in her courtyard have run away. Why are you still with her? Is it because she treated you well in the past?"
This is actually Jiang Xiancao’s own confusion.
She had only been in the Marquis' Mansion for half a year, and during that time she had lived on thin ice and faced hardships. She had neither much money to bribe the servants nor the ability to protect her maid from being bullied.
So much so that a saying was circulated in the mansion:
The person in the second lady's room is not as good as a dog in the eldest lady's yard.
She actually didn't have any special impression of Tangyuan, because at that time she had to face too many difficulties and injustices every day, and she really couldn't pay attention to a little maid who was obedient.
If you ask yourself honestly, she is not a good master.
So she really couldn't understand why Tangyuan was so nice to "Jiang Xiancao"?
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