Chapter 95 Interrogation
Jiang Wan Ning slightly raised her hand.
The servants stopped the execution.
Jiang Zheng angrily swept the tea set off the table, "Fine, fine!"
"I can't believe I've been deceived by you and your daughter for so many years!"
"Your whole family is trying to steal my family's money!"
“Father, I’m afraid it’s more than that,” Jiang Wan Ning said. “Just now, Aunt Liu said that she has someone backing her.”
"My daughter feels that this matter is not so simple."
"Why not teach Aunt Liu and Granny Zhang to my daughter and let her interrogate them properly?"
“Master, I think Ningning is right. We have been blinded all these years. It’s good that Ningning discovered this early, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable.”
Zhou naturally spoke up for her daughter.
Jiang Zheng nodded, "Then let Ningning conduct the interrogation, and do it properly."
"We must find out who is behind this and what their purpose is."
"Yes." Jiang Wan Ning curtsied.
"You can't touch me! Although I'm not a concubine's daughter of the Marquis's family, I'm now the adopted daughter of the Grand Princess's family."
"Besides, these things have nothing to do with me."
Jiang Wanru is right; all the trouble we went through today really didn't do anything to her.
"Then pack your things and get out!" Jiang Zheng said angrily. "Tomorrow I will post a notice informing the clan of these matters."
"Since you are not a daughter of my Jiang family, you do not need to take my surname."
Jiang Wanru clenched her fists tightly, never expecting Jiang Zheng to be so ruthless, kicking her out as soon as he said he would.
Early the next morning.
Jiang Wanru was packing her luggage; right now, she had no choice but to beg the Grand Princess to take her in.
Just as Jiang Wan Ning was about to leave, Hai Tang, who was beside her, walked in. "What are you doing here?"
"What is Jiang Wan Ning planning to do now?"
"My young lady requests your presence."
"Why should I go!" Jiang Wanru ignored her completely.
Haitang suddenly punched Jiang Wanru hard in the abdomen.
Jiang Wanru subconsciously bent over and covered her stomach.
While he opened his mouth, Haitang threw a pill down his throat.
"What did you give me to eat?" Jiang Wanru pinched her throat.
"It's nothing, just a medicine that will cause skin ulcers."
"If you go obediently, you will naturally receive the antidote. If you don't want to go, it won't kill you either, but you will have to live with an even uglier face than you have now."
Jiang Wanru reached out and touched her cheek. Although the scars on her face had faded a lot, there were still faint marks after removing her makeup.
Jiang Wanru's heart tightened, and she reluctantly picked up her bundle and started walking forward, saying, "Aren't you going to lead the way!"
The two boarded the carriage, and Haitang then knocked Jiang Wanru unconscious.
"Miss didn't seem to say she was going to knock her unconscious." Peony looked at Jiang Wanru, who was slumping over.
“She has harmed Miss and Madam so much, I can’t help it.”
When she wakes up, she is now a county princess and the adopted daughter of the Grand Princess, so we can't make a move easily. We'll take advantage of her unconscious state to make our move.
Peony squinted and grinned mischievously, rubbing her hands together. "Then what are we waiting for?"
"Don't hit her in the face, pinch the soft flesh on her waist instead."
When Jiang Wanru woke up again, she was in a damp and dark place.
Water droplets dripped down from the gap above.
The faint light shining in allowed Jiang Wanru to see that this was a dungeon.
"Does this look familiar?" Jiang Wan Ning walked over.
Jiang Wanru turned around abruptly, "You... Ouch..." Why did her waist hurt so much?
"what are you up to?"
"I am now a county magistrate, and you will pay with your life if you kill me!"
Jiang Wan Ning smiled slightly, stopped walking, and Hai Tang brought over a round-backed chair.
Jiang Wan Ning slowly sat down and reached out to take the branding iron that Hai Tang handed over.
“I forgot. Of course you don’t remember this place, because you’ve never been here before.”
But everything here was so familiar to her. This was the dungeon of the Langya Prince's Mansion, the place where Pei Anqing and Jiang Wanru imprisoned her in her previous life.
"What are you saying? I don't understand! Jiang Wan Ning, let me out right now!"
Jiang Wanru ran around aimlessly in the dark.
With a snap of the fingers, the candles on the wall lit up.
The person who lit the candle quietly retreated outside to stand guard.
Jiang Wanru then saw the two people hanging in front of her by chains.
Aunt Liu and Granny Zhang.
"Mother!" Jiang Wanru rushed forward, "Mother, how are you?"
"Auntie, really," Jiang Wan Ning said slowly, "You don't even know how to respond when your sister asks you a question."
"Haitang, go help her."
"Yes, Miss."
Haitang pressed the red-hot branding iron hard against Aunt Liu's chest.
"ah--"
The excruciating pain jolted Aunt Liu awake.
"Jiang Wanning!" Jiang Wanru spread her arms to protect Aunt Liu. "How dare you torture my mother?"
"Where is this? What kind of place is this?"
"Why aren't you letting us out yet?!"
Jiang Wan Ning leaned back, crossed her legs, and slightly raised the corners of her lips, "Want to go out?"
"You can certainly get out of here alive, but what about the two of them..."
"If you dare to torture my mother, I will not let you get away with it!" Jiang Wanru said sternly. "I'm going to find the Grand Princess right now."
“Go,” Jiang Wan Ning said calmly, “go see if the Grand Princess will show up.”
"Jiang Wanru, Jiang Wanru, how could I have been so stupid to be deceived and framed by someone like you?"
Do you think the Grand Princess would save a pawn that's already useless?
"She was a concubine in the Marquis's household, committed adultery, and plotted against the Marquis. Even if the Emperor kills her, he can't say anything."
Jiang Wanru paused, then slowly turned around. "What exactly do you want?"
"You want the prince? I'll give the prince back to you! Just let my mother go."
Jiang Wanning tilted her head, playing with the token Pei Yanchuan had given her. "Hmph, only someone like you would be taken seriously by Pei Anqing."
"So what do you want?" Jiang Wanru asked, her voice tinged with pleading.
She almost forgot that she had just been given poison.
"Dear sister, we weren't like this before. Is there some misunderstanding?"
"I really admire your ability to change your face so quickly," Jiang Wanning said. "I was just putting on an act with you before in order to find out who was behind you."
"You really think we're sisters?"
There's no need to pretend anymore, and Jiang Wan Ning is no longer acting.
"If you tell me why the Grand Princess is targeting our Marquis's Mansion, I will promise to... spare their lives."
"How should I know?" Jiang Wanru roared. "I really don't know."
"All I know is that it was the Grand Princess who had my mother scheme to go to your Marquis's mansion."
"As for other things, the Grand Princess naturally wouldn't say."
“You don’t know,” Jiang Wan Ning said, “but Aunt Liu and Granny Zhang certainly do.”
"Unfortunately, they are too stubborn and just won't say it."
"Since they won't talk, then they can only die." Jiang Wan Ning glanced at Aunt Liu, but her words were directed at Jiang Wan Ru. "Your face will rot too."
"By then you will be of no use to the Grand Princess, and Pei Anqing will not stay with an ugly woman."
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