Chapter 74: What good will it do you to implicate the Jiang family?
Mrs. Jiang burst into tears, feeling so sorry for Jiang Guiyu.
Jiang Qingyue just looked at him coldly, with no emotion on her face.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Jiang Guiyu was just pretending and didn't really want to die.
When she first arrived at the front hall, Cuizhu was clearly serving Jiang Guiyu personally, but when she had a conflict with Mrs. Jiang, Cuizhu stood by the wall.
As luck would have it, Jiang Guiyu was about to commit suicide, and Cuizhu stopped him.
This was obviously arranged long ago.
"What are you still standing there for? Come and see Gui Yu!"
Mrs. Jiang glared at him angrily, as if she were some heinous murderer.
"She only suffered minor injuries."
Jiang Qingyue had just finished speaking when Jiang Guiyu raised his hand and touched the wound on his forehead. Looking at the little bit of blood wiped off his fingertips, Jiang Guiyu's body suddenly trembled.
"Blood! Mother, am I going to die?"
Mrs. Jiang cried several more times, from the beginning when she urged Jiang Qingyue to see her, to the end when she cursed and scolded him.
Jiang Qingyue's face turned pale.
That day she was wrongly accused of poisoning her elder sister in Liuxiang Garden, and was beaten with a stick on Jiang Shouye's orders. Her clothes and flesh were torn and she was covered in blood.
At that time, Mrs. Jiang just watched coldly. Not to mention speaking up for her, she wasn't even nervous at all.
Although she had seen it clearly a long time ago, at this moment, Jiang Qingyue's heart still felt like being pricked by a needle.
Jiang Shouye rushed over and saw that Jiang Guiyu was injured. Before asking the reason, he started scolding Jiang Qingyue.
"What good things have you done? Are you so happy that you have to make this family a mess?"
Jiang Qingyue smiled bitterly in her heart.
She thought that with the relationship with the Xuanping Marquis Mansion and Xie Lingyun's plea for him, even if she couldn't win over Jiang Shouye, she could make him temporarily ignore Jiang Guiyu.
But she was too naive after all. Jiang Guiyu was the treasure of the Jiang family.
Those who are pampered are fearless.
And she, Jiang Qingyue, is just an unpopular person.
"Sister Guiyu!"
Jiang Mingyang ran in and stepped on a hairpin that fell on the ground. The pearl almost slipped on him, but he kicked it away angrily.
Seeing the wound on Jiang Guiyu's forehead that was about to heal, he immediately became furious.
"Jiang Qingyue, you dare to hurt my sister, you are seeking death!"
He raised his hand to hit Jiang Qingyue, but she didn't dodge or evade. She just looked at him straight.
"Want to hit me? You'd better think carefully before you do it."
Thinking of how he had lost his voice and became mute, Jiang Mingyang suddenly felt a tightness in his heart and withdrew his action in disappointment.
Jiang Shouye's face was terribly gloomy. "What on earth is going on?"
Madam Jiang raised her finger and pointed at Jiang Qingyue, "It's all because of her. She made Guiyu want to commit suicide. If Cuizhu hadn't stopped her, my daughter would have been gone long ago!"
"Jiang Qingyue!"
Jiang Shouye slammed the table loudly.
Jiang Qingyue let out a breath of foul air.
"Since I stood here, I've spoken no more than five sentences. I don't know which of my words irritated the Second Miss."
Mrs. Jiang rushed to her in a rage, "How dare you say that! You're the one who let her die!"
"Didn't she say she didn't want to live? What's the point of just saying it? She should really die. This gentle bump is just for you to see."
Seeing her talking back, Mrs. Jiang wanted to hit her again, but she stopped her hand firmly.
"Ma'am, you've already hit me once."
Mrs. Jiang's heart trembled.
"That's enough! Isn't it embarrassing enough?"
As soon as Jiang Shouye spoke, Mrs. Jiang didn't dare to say anything else.
"Now that so many people are eyeing my position as Minister of Revenue, why don't you just keep quiet and keep causing me these scandals? If this gets out, there will be even more memorials filed against me tomorrow."
But Jiang Qingyue couldn't be beaten, and Jiang Mingyang was still angry.
I saw Jiang Qingyue's outfit as soon as I entered the door, and now I have found an opportunity.
"Sister Guiyu even used her private treasury to provide relief and porridge for the refugees outside the city, yet you are flaunting yourself everywhere in your gold and silver jewelry.
Jiang Qingyue, don’t you know how many people are eyeing your father, the Minister of Revenue?
Instead of living in peace and quiet, you always get into trouble.
Do you think you can gain any benefit by causing trouble for the Jiang family?"
Only after hearing him mention this did Jiang Shouye notice her outfit.
Indeed, he was dressed in gold and silver and paraded through the streets.
She explained in a deep voice, "This was given to me by my aunt."
"You keep calling me aunt, and you call me that more affectionately than I, your mother, do."
Mrs. Jiang's resentment suddenly came to her head. She rushed forward, pulled the hairpin that was wrapped around Jiang Qingyue's hair, pulled off her earrings, and finally reached out to grab the bracelet on her wrist.
She forgot which hand it was, so she pulled up her sleeve and saw a gold-inlaid bracelet, which made her even more furious.
"You don't want the things your family gives you, and you insist on going to the Xuanping Marquis's Mansion to be a beggar. Jiang Qingyue, you are deliberately trying to embarrass our Jiang family!"
The bracelet was exactly her size, and Mrs. Jiang was like crazy, trying to take it off.
How could Jiang Qingyue have such a good thing that Gui Yu doesn’t have?
hiss!
Mrs. Jiang's movements were so violent that Jiang Qingyue gasped twice in pain. Her wrists were already red, swollen and bruised from her struggle.
But Mrs. Jiang didn't care and refused to give up until she got the bracelet off.
Jiang Qingyue struggled uncomfortably, and Mrs. Jiang called Jiang Mingyang over to help slow her down and prevent her from moving.
The sudden onset of madness made Jiang Shouye frown, and his face became so dark that ink seemed to be dripping out.
Jiang Mingyang looked at Jiang Qingyue's wrist which was stained with blood and turned his face away.
"If we don't teach her a lesson today, she'll only go even further next time and bring disgrace to our Jiang family!"
Mrs. Jiang pulled hard, but failed to pull the bracelet off her right hand. Instead, both of them fell out.
At that moment, the jade bracelet worn on the other hand broke.
With the sound of breaking, Mrs. Jiang finally woke up.
Oh no, this is a gift from my cousin!
Ignoring the pain in her right hand, Jiang Qingyue hurriedly picked up the broken bracelet on the ground.
Suddenly remembering something, she took out the jade pendant that she had not had time to wear.
Same, it's broken.
"mother."
Jiang Guiyu probably wanted to help Madam Jiang, but he just stood up and fell down again.
Mrs. Jiang rushed to her side, and the mother and daughter hugged each other and cried bitterly again.
From beginning to end, no one cared about Jiang Qingyue, and no one even said sorry.
Jiang Shouye watched all this coldly, feeling only annoyed.
"Qingyue, you've been home for so long, I thought you would be more sensible, but I didn't expect you to be so stubborn and not even as good as Guiyu."
"Do you know how many people were displaced by the blizzard in Jizhou? These people have been stranded outside Yanjing for days. If no one comes to their aid, they will die."
Jiang Shouye shook his head and sighed, "You and Guiyu are both my daughters, but Guiyu can use the money from her private treasury to give out porridge to save people outside the city, and you, on the other hand, are wearing gold and silver and walking around the streets and alleys showing off."
"Qingyue, you really disappoint me."
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