After Xu Qianqian finished speaking, everyone turned to look at Jiang Yuwei with suspicion.
Jiang Yuwei smiled, took a sip of tea, looked at Princess Qinglan, and said:
"Does Princess Qinglan mean I'm lying, or is the Crown Prince lying?"
Upon hearing this, Qinglan glanced nervously at the princess sitting in the main seat and quickly explained:
"Of course you're lying! How could the Crown Prince possibly lie!"
Jiang Yuwei put down her teacup, looked intently at Qinglan, and said:
How can you be so sure I'm lying? Do you have any evidence? Or did you see it with your own eyes?
Upon hearing this, Qinglan blushed and looked at her best friend Huarong as if begging for mercy.
Seeing this, Hua Rong coughed a few times and said:
"We didn't say you definitely lied, just that we have reasonable suspicion. After all, you're just a village woman, how could you possibly have saved the prince?"
Jiang Yuwei sneered and spoke:
Does reasonable doubt justify making things up?
After saying that, Jiang Yuwei looked at Qinglan and continued:
“Since you suspect me, then provide evidence to prove that I lied, instead of just making things up here.”
Seeing Jiang Yuwei's aggressive demeanor and her indomitable spirit in front of so many noble families, Qinglan regretted her earlier words.
But with everyone staring at her, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and reply:
"I will find the evidence!"
Jiang Yuwei glanced at Qinglan indifferently and said:
"when?"
Princess Qinglan didn't react for a moment, staring blankly at Jiang Yuwei and letting out an "Ah".
Jiang Yuwei continued to press:
"I asked you when you planned to find false evidence to frame me. If you're determined to find fault, you can always find a pretext."
Before Qinglan could speak, Jiang Yuwei walked directly up to her and said with a smile:
"Just because you like my husband and want to force him to marry you, does that give you the right to slander me like this?"
"Ah, Princess Qinglan, she..."
"No way, no wonder she wouldn't agree to marry me when I went to her house. It turns out she already had someone else in her heart."
"My God, Princess Qinglan has gone too far!"
"How could a princess like you do something like forcibly taking another woman's husband?"
"Hmph, she puts on such an arrogant act in front of others. My brother sent several matchmakers to propose marriage, but she refused them all. It turns out she had her eye on a married man all along!"
Jiang Yuwei listened quietly to the whispers of the crowd, watching Qinglan's eyes grow redder and redder.
She didn't want to go too far, but Qinglan had been picking fights with her repeatedly since she came to the Prince's mansion, and now she was trying to use the fact that she had saved the Prince to sow discord.
If Jiang Yuwei doesn't teach her a lesson, she'll just think of Jiang Yuwei as a pushover.
Princess Qinglan couldn't sit still any longer after being talked about by everyone, so she stood up, bowed to the princess, and took her leave, her eyes red as she rushed out.
The princess did not try to stop her, but merely glanced at Jiang Yuwei indifferently. Ning Zixuan had been praising Jiang Yuwei to her, and now the princess was also interested in seeing what Jiang Yuwei was capable of.
Of course, Qinglan had just said that Jiang Yuwei might not have really saved the prince, and she still had doubts about that, so she wanted to see how Jiang Yuwei would defend herself.
The princess hadn't expected that this would lead to such a complicated matter. Now it seemed that what Jiang Yuwei said was true, otherwise why would Princess Qinglan have repeatedly come to pick a fight with Jiang Yuwei?
Seeing that Qinglan had left, Jiang Yuwei smiled and walked up to Xu Qianqian.
Xu Qianqian didn't tell Ning Zixuan that she had come to see him before, and now that they've met, she's speaking ill of him on behalf of Qinglan and the others. He definitely won't let her off the hook today.
Since she's not letting me have an easy time, there's no need for me to hide it for her.
“Xu Qianqian, it’s true that we come from the same village. I’m also very happy that you can acknowledge me as a fellow villager in front of so many people today.”
Xu Qianqian looked at Jiang Yuwei with a horrified expression and waved her hand, saying:
"I don't know anything about your affairs, and I'm not familiar with you."
Jiang Yuwei laughed even more happily after hearing this.
"You dare to speak recklessly just because you don't know me? The way you were acting just now, you seemed to be trying to be a witness for Princess Qinglan?"
Xu Qianqian shook her head, her face deathly pale:
"No, no, I didn't!"
Jiang Yuwei looked down at the upright-sitting Madam Sun and said:
"Your first wife is truly tolerant and magnanimous; even a woman like Xu Qianqian, who has been married twice, can catch your eye."
Upon hearing this, Xu Qianqian exclaimed in surprise:
"No, I didn't, I'm not!!"
At this moment, the princess, seated in the main seat, also sensed that things were not so simple, so she looked at Xu Qianqian with a stern face and asked sharply:
"What on earth is going on!?"
Upon seeing this, Xu Qianqian was so frightened that she immediately knelt down before the princess.
"Please forgive me, Mother, I really didn't, I didn't..."
Jiang Yuwei interrupted her directly and asked sharply:
"No what?! You, Xu Qianqian, I thought the Prince's mansion was generous enough to accept a second-marriage woman like you as a concubine, but I never expected you to have married into the family without the Prince's knowledge!"
Upon hearing Jiang Yuwei's words, the princess felt her head buzzing. With so many noble families present, and Xu Qianqian's status being so lowly, the Jing Prince's Mansion was likely to become a laughing stock in the capital.
Seeing this, Madam Sun quickly knelt down next to Xu Qianqian.
“It’s the daughter-in-law’s fault, and she is willing to be punished.”
Jiang Yuwei naturally knew that by revealing this matter today, everyone involved would be implicated.
She insisted on doing this not only to teach Xu Qianqian a lesson, but also to let Sun Shi and Chen Guixiang know that even in the capital, she was not someone to be trifled with.
Seeing that something was wrong, the maidservant beside Madam Sun had already secretly run off to find Ning Chunlin.
When Ning Chunlin heard that Xu Qianqian's background had been revealed by Jiang Yuwei, he became extremely anxious. However, he was afraid of Jiang Yuwei from the bottom of his heart, so he turned his gaze to Ning Huaizhi, who was not far away.
She walked straight over, pulled him up, and headed towards the inner courtyard.
Seeing this, Ning Huaizhi hurriedly said:
"Chunlin, what are you doing? How dare a man like me enter the inner courtyard of the Prince's mansion!"
Ning Chunlin turned around impatiently and shouted at Ning Huaizhi:
"Your wife has caused trouble, if you don't clean up the mess, who will?"
Upon hearing that it concerned Jiang Yuwei, Ning Huaizhi disregarded the inner courtyard issue and strode inside.
As soon as Ning Chunlin entered the room, he knelt down and cried out:
"Mother, things aren't what you think!"
Ning Huaizhi followed in, looking at Jiang Yuwei with a worried expression, and asked:
"Madam, what's wrong?"
Before Jiang Yuwei could speak, the princess looked up and saw Ning Huaizhi; their eyes met.
The princess was shocked. How could this person look exactly like the prince when he was young!
Just as the princess was about to speak, she fainted from emotional distress.
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