Marquis Wen Ning didn't care at all about the abuse Jiang Xiancao suffered.
In his opinion, the family's inheritance depends on his sons. As for Jiang Xiancao, a daughter, she could be tortured. This little thing was nothing.
So he was not here to seek justice for Jiang Xiancao.
He just felt that Jiang Jinyan couldn't even control his own sister, which led to the family scandal being exposed, making the Queen Mother angry, and bringing shame to the Jiang family in front of the whole city. All of this was too stupid and was not the behavior his heir should have.
As for the little thing between Jiang Huaizhu and Jiang Xiancao, he didn't care at all about who bullied whom.
Although one is an adopted daughter and the other is a biological daughter, in the eyes of Marquis Wen Ning, they are just tools for the Jiang family to make more in-laws through marriage in the future.
"Also, who gave you permission to beg the Crown Prince and the Imperial Preceptor for Jiang Huaizhu's sake?" Marquis Wen Ning angrily demanded, "Are you truly so foolish that you can't tell what she did and didn't do?"
His vision was much sharper than that of his sons, and he had long seen that Jiang Huaizhu was deeply scheming.
But he didn't care about that. Jiang Huaizhu was more talkative and pleasing than Jiang Xiancao. He liked smart and sensible women.
Jiang Xiancao was a dull and boring person who didn't even know how to please others. In his opinion, she deserved to be bullied.
So he never cared about what Jiang Huaizhu did in private.
He originally thought that Jiang Huaizhu knew her limits, but he didn't expect that she was just a smart-aleck fool.
His indulgence of her made her really believe that she had the love of the whole family as a guarantee. She dared to act recklessly in major matters and dragged down the entire family.
Jiang Jinyan looked up and said in surprise:
"Father, Zhu'er is your daughter after all, our sister. Could it be that you..."
Marquis Wen Ning raised his hand and slapped him again, saying coldly:
"Remember this from now on. I have expelled this sinful girl, Jiang Huaizhu, from my family. Whether she lives or dies has nothing to do with you. I will also send someone to inform the Crown Prince and the Imperial Preceptor of this matter. Now you only have one sister, and that is Jiang Xiancao."
Now that Jiang Xiancao has caught the eye of the Queen Mother and the Ninth Prince, he is counting on her to repair the relationship between the Jiang family and the royal family.
Marquis Wen Ning thought nonchalantly that Jiang Xiancao had lived a hard life outside the mansion for so many years. When she first returned to the mansion, she was so cautious and flattered everyone just to gain a little affection from them.
Such a fragile and loveless little girl must have been too angry with Jiang Jinyan and others to become so rebellious. After he brings her back home, he only needs to use a little trick to make her loyal to the Jiang family again and take the initiative to speak well of the Jiang family in front of the Queen Mother and the Ninth Prince.
Once he has achieved his goal with her, there is no point in continuing to be nice to her.
When the time comes, after marrying her off and gaining the greatest benefits for the Jiang family through her marriage, he will pretend that he had never given birth to this unfilial daughter who wanted to take revenge on the entire family because she had suffered a little grievance, and let her fend for herself in her husband's family.
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Imperial prison.
Shen Yubai stood outside the iron window of the torture chamber, looking at the bloody woman hanging on the rack inside.
Ever since he ordered people to torture Jiang Huaizhu, this woman was tortured to the point of passing out, and was quickly woken up by being splashed with ice water. After going through this life-and-death cycle several times, she was still able to insist that she had never hired a killer from Tianming Pavilion, and that she had been wronged from the beginning to the end.
"Your Highness, she has refused to confess. Should we continue to whip her?" The deputy envoy of the Imperial City Bureau asked in a low voice.
Shen Yubai smiled lightly, "Miss Jiang's bones are harder than I expected. In that case, let's give her a good scrape."
The bone scraping in the imperial prison was ten times more cruel than the bone scraping and poison treatment performed by the great doctor Bian Que on Guan Yu as recorded in historical records.
First, an iron rod that has been burned by a branding iron is used to pierce the victim's scapula, and then all the important joints of the victim's limbs are fixed in the same way. After making sure that the victim cannot move, a special knife that looks like a boning knife is used to cut the flesh and scrape the bones.
The sound of a deliberately blunt blade falling on human bones was extremely rough and hoarse. Even the most hard-hearted person would feel their scalp tingling after hearing it, and they would never forget this nightmarish sound for the rest of their lives.
The deputy envoy paused for a moment and said, "If you use the bone scraping punishment, the person will be disabled. And she is a woman, I am afraid she can't withstand such torture."
It's not that he was sympathetic to women, but he was worried that Jiang Huaizhu, an important criminal, would not be able to survive and die, and then there would be no way to investigate the case of the remnants of Tianming Pavilion.
Shen Yubai smiled and said:
"If she can't bear it any longer, stop. You can make her suffer a fate worse than death, but you can't let her escape. You decide the right balance here."
The deputy envoy went to prepare the torture instruments. Jiang Huaizhu in the torture room obviously heard Shen Yubai's words and was so scared that he trembled all over.
She knew very well that she was able to endure so long in the torture chamber because Shen Yubai had only allowed her to be whipped with the most ordinary punishment before.
But she almost didn't survive the very minor flogging in the imperial prison.
If torture is really used, can she still keep the secret?
But if she can't bear the secret, then her life is doomed to end here.
In a trance, tears flowed down her cheeks.
In addition to fear, there is also deep resentment in my heart.
Why didn't the Jiang family make any move? Didn't Jiang Jinyan and the others usually dote on her the most?
When it came to her life or death, they all avoided her.
It can be seen that their usual favor towards her is just false.
And that person, it was clearly him who instructed her to use the remnants of Tianming Pavilion to deal with the Ninth Prince and Jiang Xiancao. He promised in advance that no matter whether this matter succeeded or not, he would keep her safe afterwards. But when something really happened, he hasn't shown up until now!
The resentment in Jiang Huaizhu's heart seemed to be turning into a poisonous sore that would ooze out sinister black blood. For a moment, she thought, why not just say it out loud.
If she tells it out, she will be dragged down with her even if she dies.
It's better than her being tortured here alone and letting those who abandoned her live freely outside.
But when the words came to my lips, I couldn't say them.
Her will to survive was so strong that she was unwilling to die in a dark cell in this life, and she was still betting that things would turn around until the last moment!
At this time, Shen Yubai walked into the torture room, followed by the deputy envoy and several men in charge of torture.
Jiang Huaizhu opened her eyes wide in horror, watching those horrific torture instruments getting closer and closer to her. She didn't care about the wounds on her body, and began to struggle violently:
"I'm truly innocent, you're forcing me to confess!"
Shen Yubai sighed softly after hearing this:
"Miss Jiang really won't cry until she sees the coffin, so let's do it."
Suddenly, a cold voice sounded:
"etc."
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