Xiao Youran opened her mouth and bit Jiang Mingyi's palm, causing Jiang Mingyi to immediately release her in pain.
"Oh, so you've been saying that my younger sister is the eldest daughter, but it turns out you don't consider me the eldest daughter at all. Is this dowry for me or for her? Does a noble princess's mansion really need my mother's little ornaments?"
Lady Yong'an was so angry she jumped up and down, "Are you ever going to stop?"
"This isn't over yet." Xiao Youran adjusted her hairpins and straightened her clothes with a serious air. "You said my mother said she wouldn't take anything with her when she left? I never heard my mother mention it. My mother is in the capital right now, so I'll go back to the manor and ask her."
“When a couple divorces, the woman usually takes her dowry with her, unless it is explicitly stated that it will be left to her children. I have always been with my mother, and she has never mentioned leaving her dowry in the Jiang family for me as part of my dowry. So I must ask my mother about this matter.”
After saying that, he took a step to leave.
Lady Yong'an felt as if a mouthful of blood was stuck in her chest.
Is it really appropriate to publicly humiliate someone like that?
Although she didn't say anything definitive, the fact that she had already moved those priceless items into the princess's mansion was too easy to speculate about.
In front of such a group of noble ladies from the capital, this was a blatant humiliation of the Yong'an Marquis's mansion!
But she and Jiang Mingyi both remained silent at this moment, neither stopping Xiao Youran's steps. They would be grateful if she could leave right now.
Let's settle this once we leave this flower hall and get outside.
At this moment, the star of the 100-day celebration, three-month-old baby Xiaoyun'er, suddenly started crying.
Xiao Youran pulled her foot back from the threshold.
Jiang Mingyi's heart skipped a beat again.
Princess Qingping quickly went to the wet nurse's side to check on her, "What happened?"
Lady Yong'an also rushed forward anxiously to check on her, "What's wrong with Xiaoyun'er?"
Xiao You turned around and exclaimed in a clear voice, "My little sister's cry is so loud, she doesn't seem like a premature baby at all!"
Jiang Mingyi immediately turned around, grabbed her, and pulled her outside, saying, "Let's go, let's go!"
Get rid of this plague god as soon as possible.
We can't let this wild girl stay any longer; who knows what shocking things she might say next.
What was said without malice may have been taken to heart by the listener.
It wasn't just the few with guilty consciences who were intentionally involved; several noble ladies nearby were also among them.
They whispered among themselves, "Yes, I also took a close look at this baby girl just now. She's fair-skinned and chubby, not at all like the premature and weak baby they said she was..."
"Perhaps it's because she took good care of herself after giving birth?"
"Shh, didn't you hear what this county princess just said? They got married last July, and the baby was born prematurely in March. That means the pregnancy was at most eight months. They say seven months is enough for a baby to live, eight months is not. Even if the baby survives seven months... this child, tsk tsk tsk, doesn't look like it has any congenital defects at all..."
While comforting her precious granddaughter, Lady Yong'an listened to the commotion around her. She felt a little flustered and wanted to explain, but she was afraid that she would only make things worse, so she dared not make any rash moves.
Princess Rong watched coldly as her daughter and her in-laws met, her heart sinking.
Could it be that my own daughter has been having an affair with this Jiang Mingyi all along?
...
Outside the door, Jiang Mingyi pushed his daughter towards the door, his face also looking very unwell.
Xiao Youran knew that she was all alone today and could only make a fuss like this, so she let him push her away.
She suddenly asked, "Father, when we left Dingzhou, there was a mountain called Yuping Mountain on the border of Dingzhou. I heard that there are many bandits on that mountain. Is that true?"
Jiang Mingyi quickened his pace, "Dingzhou has 300,000 troops stationed there, so where would there be bandits in its jurisdiction?"
"Then...where is Uncle Quan? I can't find him."
Uncle Quan's real name is Jiang Quan, and he is Jiang Mingyi's personal bodyguard.
Jiang Mingyi paused for a moment before saying, "He was sent back to Dingzhou by Father to collect samples of something important."
"Oh, I remember he was injured in his right hand, so he switched to using his left hand to hold the sword. I saw a left-handed guy the other day who looked a lot like Uncle Quan." She skipped around, then turned around and stared into her scumbag father's eyes.
Jiang Mingyi, looking guilty, turned his eyes away. "You must have mistaken him for someone else. He's not in the capital. How could you have seen him?"
She said "Oh" again, then walked towards the door with a grin, "I'm off!"
Just as Jiang Mingyi was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Xiao Youran stopped again, turned around, took out a jade pendant from her sleeve, and smiled even more, "Father, look carefully, this is my birthday gift for my sister!"
Having said that, he flicked his hand, and the jade pendant immediately flew to the eaves.
A figure suddenly fell from the eaves.
Jiang Mingyi froze, then suddenly shouted, "An assassin!"
The guards surged in from all directions.
Xiao Youran then moved lightly in a few steps and went straight out of the mansion.
Along the way, she felt her heart grow numb with coldness.
It was him!
Two days before she arrived in the capital, one night she heard the sounds of guards fighting outside.
She didn't wake her mother; she quietly got up and looked at it herself.
These thieves were very strong, and the guards were having a hard time fighting back. But then a black-clad man with extremely high martial arts skills appeared out of nowhere and quickly drove the group of thieves away.
One of the thieves, who was wielding a sword in his left hand, had a posture and movements very similar to Jiang Quan's.
She suspected she had misread it and didn't mention it to her mother.
But then she remembered that in her previous life, when she and her two children were returning to Dingzhou from the capital, the band of bandits they encountered was also a man who wielded a sword in his left hand!
That test just now was basically tantamount to the scumbag father admitting it.
Therefore, whether in her previous life or this one, Jiang Quan was sent by her own father to kill her and her son!
Just now, Jiang Mingyi and Lady Yong'an looked at them as if they had seen a ghost. Moreover, Lady Yong'an's words, "Your existence is a sin," and their matter-of-fact expressions when they talked about the eldest daughter of the princess, all showed that this scumbag father had long harbored murderous intentions towards them!
Perhaps in their eyes, they think that they, their mother, and their brother have already been "dealt with" and are no longer alive, which is why they can say that the princess's daughter is the eldest daughter!
As for the man in black who offered help that night, the guards all said they didn't recognize him.
Xiao Youran then assumed that perhaps it was another bodyguard sent by her senior brother who was protecting them in secret.
But if Jiang Quan was the one who ambushed them in Dingzhou disguised as a bandit in the previous life, could this bodyguard be the general who rescued them from Jiang Quan in the previous life?
She thought about it carefully and then felt it was unlikely.
The general was far away in Dingzhou and was just passing through at the time.
How could he possibly be my senior brother's bodyguard?
Moreover, at this time in her previous life, she and her senior brother had never met.
As they were leaving, the housekeeper was leading someone in through a side door.
She felt he looked familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, she realized he was the troupe leader who had come to Wufeng County to buy scripts on the Lantern Festival.
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