Chapter 94 The Child of the Concubine and the Granny
Duke Rongguo recounted what he had personally witnessed on the pleasure boat back then.
Finally, he added, "Your Excellency is a man, and I'm sure you understand this."
"It is impossible for a person to engage in sexual misconduct while in a state of extreme drunkenness."
So-called "drunken promiscuity" all happens when one is half-conscious.
In other words,
If the Marquis really did force himself on Concubine Liu after drinking, then I must remember it.
"I've already said what I needed to say, and it's getting late, so I won't bother you any longer."
Duke Rongguo got up and left.
Jiang Zheng saw the person out.
“Father, it seems that my second sister is not your child. It was all arranged by Aunt Liu.”
Zhou's eyes were red, and Jiang Zheng was also filled with mixed emotions.
Because of this incident, the once loving couple gradually stopped talking to each other.
He initially felt more guilty towards Aunt Liu, but now it seems he was terribly wrong.
He made his wife suffer so much injustice over the years.
Jiang Zheng slammed his fist hard on the table next to him.
The teacup on the table jumped up, and the lid cracked open.
"Bring Aunt Liu and the Second Miss here! I'm going to get to the bottom of this today!"
When Aunt Liu was brought up, she was already ashen-faced.
“Aunt, the Duke of Rongguo just came to tell Father that Second Sister is not Father’s child.”
"He saw it back then. You drugged and knocked out Father. How could someone who was drunk and passed out force a woman to have sex with him?"
Jiang Wan Ning was trying to trick Aunt Liu with her words; the Duke of Rong only saw Aunt Liu being helped to another room by her father.
I really don't know what happened to them inside.
"Hmph, Miss, don't try to fool me." Aunt Liu sneered, "Although I have an affair with Granny Zhang..."
"But Ru'er is the Marquis's child! If you have the guts, go ahead and investigate!"
The Kingdom of Dongling did not practice blood tests for kinship, and Aunt Liu was betting that they wouldn't be able to find out.
"You really won't shed a tear until you see the coffin," Jiang Wanning sneered. "Peony, take the things out."
Peony took two different small bottles.
"Ningning, what's this?" Zhou asked, pointing to the bottle on the tray.
"Mother, this is a blood type test kit. To find out if Jiang Wanru is Father's biological daughter, we only need to test her blood type and Father's blood type."
Yu Hai said that everyone's blood type is different, but verifying whether someone is related to another person by blood is still very complicated.
However, as long as the father and Jiang Wanru have different blood types, it can be determined that she is not the father's biological daughter.
Jiang Wan Ning already knew whether Liu was her biological daughter or not; she was just trying to trick Aunt Liu into admitting it herself.
"Hmph, what kind of method is this? It's utterly absurd," said Aunt Liu. "What the young lady is saying is simply too outrageous. Can human blood be different?"
"Don't try to fool me here. Even if I die, Ru'er is still the Marquis's own daughter."
Right now, Aunt Liu is at her wit's end. Her only hope is to preserve Jiang Wanru's status as a concubine's daughter in the Marquis's mansion.
As long as Jiang Wanru is safe, the Grand Princess has said she will protect her life.
Will we still be afraid of not being able to turn things around then?
Fortunately, she had already been discovered, and Aunt Liu stopped pretending.
Looking at Jiang Zheng and Zhou Shi with disdain, he said, "You people, you call yourselves superior."
"You think you're superior, but haven't I been fooling you for all these years?"
"Jiang Zheng, to tell you the truth, it's not that I want to harm you, it's that someone wants to harm you."
"If I die, someone else will come."
"Slap! Slap!" Before Jiang Zheng could even speak, Madam Zhou had already stepped forward and slapped Aunt Liu twice hard. "Shut up!"
“Aunt Liu, I’ve thought about your humble origins all these years and haven’t held it against you.”
"Now, you've actually colluded with outsiders to harm the Marquis's mansion? You truly deserve to die!"
"Pah!" Aunt Liu covered her face. "Zhou, what are you pretending for?"
"What I can't stand the most is people like you, with your superior attitude."
"You probably don't remember anymore, but back then, when I was being bullied on the street, you came to my aid."
"I originally wanted to thank you for taking my most precious hairpin."
"But you turned around and gave the hairpin to the maid beside you."
"I still can't forget the look of disgust in your eyes back then, which is why I agreed to come to the Marquis's mansion to break you up."
After Aunt Liu finished speaking, Madam Zhou recalled the events and roughly remembered the scene from back then.
"So it was you." Madam Zhou looked at Aunt Liu. "If I had known this would happen, I shouldn't have saved you in the first place."
“Save me?” Aunt Liu pointed at herself. “That wasn’t saving me, it was just trying to gain a good reputation.”
Zhou Shi, too lazy to talk to Aunt Liu anymore, turned around and returned to her seat. "Ningning, you can begin."
Jiang Wan Ning nodded and instructed someone to prick Aunt Liu's finger and draw blood.
“Aunt Liu, the Madam didn’t dislike it at first, but was allergic to the material of that hairpin, so she just let this old servant wear it.”
As the old woman spoke, she was the maid that Aunt Liu had mentioned.
Aunt Liu froze. "Don't try to defend her. She's just a hypocrite!"
"Granny, don't waste your breath on her," Zhou said.
The blood draw was completed quickly.
Jiang Wanning followed the method Yu Hai had taught her.
Jiang Wanning gave a perfunctory explanation, after all, Jiang Wanru was not her father's biological daughter, but Aunt Liu's.
The only explanation is that her blood type is different from her father's, and this method simply cannot determine whether she is his biological daughter.
"You're talking nonsense!" Aunt Liu said. "Do you think people will believe you just by spouting nonsense?"
"Has Auntie forgotten that there are hermaphrodites like Granny Zhang? What's so strange about people having different blood?"
"Sister, what you're saying has no evidence whatsoever. It's hard to believe you just because of your words."
Jiang Wanru calmed down at this point, "If word gets out, it will probably be good for my sister's reputation."
Jiang Wan Ning simply stopped pretending. She had been too tired of pretending these past few days in order to find out who was behind Aunt Liu.
She got up and walked to Aunt Liu, bent down and whispered in her ear, "I know that the person behind you is the Grand Princess."
You pose no threat to me.
Aunt Liu froze, her pupils dilated, and she stared at Jiang Wan Ning in disbelief.
How did you know?
Jiang Wan Ning slightly curved her lips, raised an eyebrow, straightened up, and turned to Jiang Zheng Dao: "Father."
"It seems the only option is to torture Aunt Liu."
Jiang Zheng glanced at Zhou Shi and said without hesitation, "Guards, beat her until she tells the truth!"
Aunt Liu's body went limp, and Jiang Wanru stepped forward to beg for mercy.
Jiang Zheng ordered his men to subdue him.
Aunt Liu and Granny Zhang were beaten until their skin was torn and bleeding. Jiang Wanru couldn't bear it any longer and knelt down, pleading, "Stop hitting them! Stop hitting them!"
“I will tell you, I will tell you, I am the child of my aunt and the nanny, not my father.”
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