Part 1 - The Double / Marriage of the Di Daughter

☆ Chapter 032 Blaming

"This headpiece is fake," she lowered her eyes, "This is not my headpiece."

The crowd was silent for a moment.

Madam Liu spoke first, and she asked: "Miss Jiang Er, what do you mean by this?"

Jiang Li smiled, handed the headpiece in her hand to Madam Liu, and said lightly: "I spent four hundred taels of silver to buy a ruby ​​headpiece in the Jixiang Building in Yanjing City. There are only three ruby ​​headpieces in the entire Jixiang Building, because the gem is of excellent quality and bright colour." After a pause, Jiang Li continued to say, "But the one I have in my hand now is crudely made and dull in colour. Let alone four hundred taels of silver, it is not even as good as forty taels of silver."

"Miss, what do you mean..." Tong'er couldn't help asking.

"Even if I really want to curse my third sister, I won't use such a shabby little thing." Jiang Li said with contempt, "This is not my headdress. Someone took my headdress and replaced it with such a broken thing."

Someone took her headdress!

Things took a sharp turn for the worse in an instant. Everyone suddenly realized, but after a moment, they fell into deeper confusion.

Old Madam Jiang said, "Li girl, someone took your headdress. What does this mean?"

Jiang Li turned around and smiled at Old Madam Jiang, saying, "Old Madam, don't worry, I'll figure it out what's going on now."

Old Madam Jiang was startled. In front of the guests, Jiang Li called her ‘Old Madam’ instead of ‘Grandmother’. She could tell the distance from her. Was she resentful of her because she didn't stand by Jiang Li's side when she was in trouble?

Jiang Youyao and Ji Shuran both had a flash of surprise on their faces. Things shouldn't have developed like this. Ji Shuran's heart moved, and she didn't want Jiang Li to break her plan, so she said: "Li'er, how could this gem headpiece be fake? Did you recognize the wrong one?"

"Impossible!" It was Madam Liu who spoke. She said firmly: "The things produced by Jixianglou can't be of this quality. You are all frequent customers of Jixianglou, and you will know after trying it." Madam Liu handed the headpiece to the ladies around her. Several ladies touched each other and nodded.

Confirmed Madam Liu's words.

Ji Shuran frowned, she looked at Jiang Li, and suddenly found that from the beginning to now, when the cracks on the gem headpiece were discovered, whether it was the accusations or the strange eyes of the people, Jiang Li had never been angry in the face of these.

Jiang Li was puzzled, puzzled, regretful, and apologetic, but she was not panicked, angry, helpless, and desperate.

Even now, Jiang Li still had a gentle smile on her lips, exactly the same as she was at the beginning.

Why is she still laughing at this time? What's so funny?

Ji Shuran thought, and felt more and more that something was wrong. Subconsciously, she saw Jiang Li looking down at the person on the ground, and she followed Jiang Li's gaze and found that Xiang Qiao was kneeling on the ground, and it seemed that she was about to collapse.

Xiang Qiao was trembling.

Jiang Li squatted down and reached out to help Xiang Qiao up. She looked at Xiang Qiao with a kind and gentle look, and her tone was still as kind as before.

She said: "Xiang Qiao, you stole my headpiece, didn't you?"

"No, no." Xiang Qiao insisted, "I didn't do this."

"Then this is strange." Jiang Li murmured to herself with a little confusion, "Since you said that you saw me carve the ruby ​​headpiece with your own eyes, but the headpiece has been replaced by someone else, what you saw, is it... a ghost?"

Jiang Li said the last two words very softly, but Xiang Qiao felt that they were sinister and spooky.

"Third sister, you said that Xiang Qiao took your headpiece. Do you have any evidence?" Jiang Yu'e said unwillingly.

"Evidence?" Jiang Li stood up again and smiled at Ji Shuran, "As the mistress of the big house, please send someone to Xiang Qiao's room to search for the whereabouts of the ruby ​​headpiece. All the ladies and sisters are here, just in time to be witnesses. It will save Jiang Li from having to bear the crime for nothing after proving her innocence."

The guests felt a little guilty after hearing this.

Jiang Li's words were accusing them of putting themselves in a high position while staying out of the matter when they were watching the show just now, and treating Jiang Li as the initiator without any explanation.

Ji Shuran smiled and clenched her teeth. She was not stupid. She knew that everything she had planned to do with Jiang Li today would be fruitless. She was surprised that Jiang Li could strike back, a person who had no connections and no money in the Jiang Mansion could actually turn things around. But she was afraid that Jiang Li had another trick up her sleeve, so she subconsciously looked at Xiang Qiao again.

When Xiang Qiao heard that Jiang Li wanted to search the room, she was relieved. When she saw Ji Shuran, she immediately had a plan in her mind. Knowing that Jiang Li probably couldn't find anything, she assigned a few people to search Xiang Qiao's room.

The whole main courtyard was quiet again.

At this time, Jiang Yuanbai finally came to his senses and felt that he seemed to have done something wrong. He looked at Jiang Li and saw that his daughter was standing not far from Jiang Youyao. Jiang Youyao was dressed in exquisite clothes and had gorgeous hairpins, but Jiang Li was dressed in plain clothes. If it weren't for her graceful appearance, she would really be as inconspicuous as a maid.

Jiang Yuanbai suddenly felt a little uncomfortable again.

Jiang Yuanbai was very proud and protective. Even if he hated and was angry with Jiang Li, he didn't want Jiang Li to lose the Jiang family's reputation in front of the guests. Moreover, at this moment, the facts proved that there was something fishy about the headwear, and Jiang Yuanbai wondered if he had been too harsh with Jiang Li just now.

Jiang Li didn't care what everyone was thinking, Jiang Yuanbai's regret, Ji Shuran and Jiang Youyao's disappointment at all. She stood in the courtyard, staring at Xiang Qiao who was trying to remain calm with interest, and suddenly wanted to laugh.

She had known what Ji Shuran and Jiang Youyao were planning for a long time, but what she had to do was not as simple as proving her innocence.

People have no intention of harming tigers, but tigers have the power to hurt people's hearts. Ji Shuran's people staying in Fangfei Garden are always a disaster. She has learned a lesson from her tragic experience in her previous life, and she must nip the problem in the bud and cut off the roots.

After a while, the people sent to search Xiang Qiao's room came back. In order to show fairness, Old Lady Jiang also assigned the nanny around her to go with them.

Aunt Zhang brought people back to Madam Jiang, took a look at Xiang Qiao on the ground, and said: "Madam, we found a ruby ​​headpiece in Xiang Qiao's room. There are no knife marks, so it must be real."

Xiang Qiao's body softened, and she murmured: "Impossible."

Jiang Youyao was also stunned. Ji Shuran saw Jiang Li's smile getting bigger and her scalp tightened immediately.

Sure enough, Aunt Zhang hesitated for a moment, and then said in front of all the guests: "We also found a lot of precious jewellery in Xiang Qiao's room. It must be a gift from the wife of the eldest house to the second lady."

Jiang Li was surprised for a moment. For the first time, there was anger in her voice, but if you listen carefully to that anger, it seems to be a little bit of ridicule.

She said: "It turns out that Xiang Qiao coveted the treasure and put the blame on others!"

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