Marriage of the Di Daughter Chapter 140.2: Part 2: Issue an Order

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Marriage of the Di Daughter Chapter 140 Part 2: Issue an Order

“Miss Jiu Yue has specially treated County Deputy Xue, Jiang Li thank you in advance.”

“No need to thank.” Situ Jiu Yue said, “I don’t dare to disobey Ji Heng’s order. Is there anything else? If there’s nothing else, I’ll go first.”

After speaking, she really walked away, free and easy, not saying another word to Jiang Li. However, Jiang Li had no other thought and instead felt that this young lady was really interesting.

When she walked out, Ji Heng had left at some unknown time. Wen Ren Yao saw her coming out, his eyes brightened, and she was entangled with his call of “Second miss”. Jiang Li’s forehead sweated by his enthusiasm, she looked for an excuse and immediately left the Ye mansion to return to the Ye residence.

After Jiang Li left, Wen Ren Yao stood in the garden and asked Situ Jiu Yue, “Jiu Yue, am I good looking?”

Situ Jiu Yue, “Get lost!”

“Strange,” He looked at himself in the mirror, the young man reflected in the mirror was still fair and elegant, charming like jade. He said, “Why did Miss Jiang second look at me as if seeing a ghost? Usually, when I treat other ladies like this, don’t they all become especially happy?”

Situ Jiu Yue said sarcastically, “Ji Heng looks much better than you, but Jiang Li looks at him very calmly. She does not like to eat top-notch delicacies, would she still like to eat excrement?”

Wen Ren Yao, “…..”

He said, “You are really too vulgar!”

……

In the Jiang residence, old madam Jiang was sitting with her eyes closed in Wan Feng Hall.

After the event with Taoist priest Chong Xu, Aunt Hu committed suicide shortly after. The Jiang family was considered to have undergone great changes; although this news could not be leaked outside, the people in the Jiang residence were well aware. The disturbance had reached a stage where Ji Shuran had harmed several lives unfeelingly right in front of her eyes. Old madam Jiang seemed to have aged a lot overnight.

She had always been hearty and in good spirits. Even if she was at an advanced age, she still had the same courage and prestige as when she was young. However, after this incident, more than half of her energy and mind seemed to be drained away. The nanny saw that old madam Jiang only sat with her eyes closed every day.

She did not even glance at her most beloved little grandson, Jiang Bingji.

Fei Cui walked in and said, “Old madam, the third miss is still outside, requesting to see you.”

Old madam Jiang opened and closed her eyes, yet did not look at Fei Cui, merely looked at the stove in front of her and said, “Tell her to go back.”

Fei Cui said, “Yes.” Then she left to reply to Jiang You Yao.

The nanny stood beside old madam Jiang, carefully ma.s.saging her shoulder and said, “These few days, the third miss has come to see old madam several times already.”

“She’s clever, coming to see me instead of looking for her father.” Old madam Jiang’s tone was laced with a faint ridicule.

Jiang Yuan Bai loved Jiang You Yao the most, yet after this incident, Jiang You Yao did not mention asking to intercede for Ji Shuran in front of Jiang Yuan Bai. Instead, she came looking for old madam Jiang. She was afraid that Jiang Yuan Bai would take his anger towards Ji Shuran out on her, so she simply chose not to appear in front of Jiang Yuan Bai.

“As shrewd as her mother.” Old madam Jiang said, her eyes were somewhat weary.

Although she knew what Ji Shuran did had nothing to do with Jiang You Yao, people grow up eating five grain crops¹ and have various emotions and desires. It’s one thing to know it rationally, but it was another thing to actually be able to do it in reality. Old madam Jiang knew she should not take her anger out on Jiang You Yao, but as long as she recalled Ye Zhen Zhen, thought of the death of Jiang Yue, thought of Ji Shuran going as far as had a child out of an affair with Liu Wen Cai, old madam Jiang immediately felt disgusted. She could not even bring herself to look at Jiang You Yao.

In fact, it was difficult for her to treat Jiang Bing Ji, who she had raised with her own hand, like in the past, no need to even mention Jiang You Yao.

“Old madam….. A few days have pa.s.sed, how do you plan to handle Ji-s.h.i.+?” The nanny asked.

Old madam Jiang’s movements paused slightly.

There was a long silence, when the nanny nearly thought old madam Jiang had fallen asleep, old madam Jiang spoke in a flat tone, “Feed her medicine.”

The nanny’s hands shook, the Jiang family had not fed medicine to people for many years. Although the old madam was strict, she hardly ever harmed people’s lives. Unless the servant made a grave mistake, even then she would not directly kill them. It was clear that this time she must have hated Ji Shuran so much to absolutely demand her life.

“Why? You think I’m too ruthless?” Old madam Jiang sensed the other person’s hesitation. Without waiting for the nanny’s reply, she laughed at herself, “I still hate that she is let off so lightly. Without bringing up engaging in adultery and conceiving an illegitimate son, in our Jiang family alone, she has to pay for three lives. Three lives!” She mumbled, “Say, how vicious is her heart that she could even attack a child?”

“I’ve told Yuan Bai from the beginning, when marrying a wife, he did not need to pick a very smart one. Based on the Jiang family’s background, there is no need to climb up. Although Ye-s.h.i.+’s family background was a bit inferior, most importantly, the person was gentle and honest. Thinking about it now, don’t know whether it was good fortune or a disaster, perhaps precisely because Ye-s.h.i.+ was used to being too lenient to people, thus her subordinates became disloyal, being led astray by Ji-s.h.i.+, and lost her life. But, this is also my sin for not managing the house rigorously. If I had paid a bit more attention that year, maybe Ye-s.h.i.+ would not have followed the path Ji-s.h.i.+ had laid out.”

“Old madam, don’t blame yourself too much.” The nanny said, “Who would have known that Ji-s.h.i.+ would be fancying Madam’s position when the Madam was still alive and produced wicked thoughts? This is something unheard of in Yanjing.”

“Not to mention Ye-s.h.i.+, I did not take care of her daughter, the second girl, well either. The old madam’s smile was bitter, “That year, the second girl kept on saying she did not push Ji-s.h.i.+, but I believed my own eyes, never thinking it was orchestrated by Ji-s.h.i.+. I just never expected for Ji-s.h.i.+ simply abandon the flesh and blood in her belly.”

Thinking of this, the nanny unconsciously became frightened. That was her own flesh, even if it came from an illicit affair, she still had blood connections with it. For the sake of setting up Jiang Li, Ji-s.h.i.+ actually gave it up without hesitation. Under the public eyes, she deceived everyone.

“The second girl stayed in Mount Qingcheng for eight years. Now that she’s returned, you see, has she gotten close to a single person in this residence?” Old madam Jiang asked.

Footnotes:

^{1: millet, soybean, sesame, barley, oats, peas, beans, rice.}

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