Part 1 - The Double / Marriage of the Di Daughter

☆ Chapter 132 The Truth

In the Jiang Mansion, Jiang Li stared at Zhao Ke, her eyes motionless.

Zhao Ke said nothing at first, but in the end, he finally gave in and said, "When I came to Jiang's house, Eldest Miss Jiang had already passed away. My lord asked me to stay at Jiang's house, so I asked about everything I could find out about it. But the infighting in the harem was not within my scope, so I only got a rough idea."

"You tell me." Jiang Li said.

"Although I didn't see Eldest Miss Jiang's early death with my own eyes, the Jiang family kept it a secret. Since then, Miss Jiang's biological mother, Aunt Hu, moved into the side yard and was almost in danger of her life several times."

Jiang Li's eyes condensed: "What do you mean?"

"They were all unexpected things, but Aunt Hu was lucky and escaped by chance every time. Later, Old Madam Jiang felt sorry for her and helped her from time to time. Aunt Hu also had a seizure from time to time, and gradually there was no trace of this person in the mansion."

Jiang Li thought about it and asked: "Zhao Ke, just tell me, is Eldest Miss Jiang's death related to Ji Shuran?"

Zhao Ke was obviously not used to talking about this kind of thing with others. He hesitated for a while before saying: "100%."

"Sure enough..." Jiang Li murmured, she turned to look at Zhao Ke, and the question became more sharp: "Then how much do you know about my affairs?"

Zhao Ke: "What?"

"At that time, my reputation of killing my stepbrother was spread all over Yanjing City. As for the Jiang family, it was also a big event that the Jiang family could name. Since you came to the Jiang family as a spy, you couldn't miss this. How much do you know about me?" 
 
"For example, why did I push Ji Shuran to have a miscarriage? Before that, Ji Shuran and I had a good relationship. I was so young at that time, but I was able to do these things. Maybe there are some hidden feelings in it?"

The events of that year were too long ago. Tong'er didn't know anything at all, and as for Bai Xue, she came in later. It is said that the maids and old women who were involved in the incident were driven out of the mansion for not taking good care of them. 

Now if you want to find someone who knows the truth, you can't find it at all. The clues left by that incident, except for a reputation full of evil, there is nothing. But Jiang Li herself is not the real Second Miss Jiang, and has no memory of that incident, so she doesn't know the truth at all.

Zhao Ke said, "Second Miss, although this is a big event for the Jiang family, when you went to Qingcheng Mountain, you were undoubtedly abandoned by the Jiang family in the eyes of the people of Yanjing. The master asked his subordinates to lurk in the Jiang family, and he would not bother to investigate the matter of an abandoned child."

Jiang Li: "..."

Ji Heng's subordinates are exactly the same as Ji Heng. This is very impolite, of course, it is not wrong. A daughter of the prime minister was expelled to a nunnery thousands of miles away to practice in seclusion. No matter how you look at it, this lady may never be able to return to Yanjing in her lifetime. 

It is strange to spend too much time on a lady who has been forgotten by everyone.

"Besides," Zhao Ke said again, "Why does Second Miss Jiang ask these questions of my subordinates? Isn't Second Miss Jiang the one who knows the truth best?"

He even turned the tables. Maybe Ji Heng's subordinates are like him, with sharp eyes and can grasp the key points. Jiang Li smiled: "But what I saw back then was also one-sided. I only saw part of Ji Shuran's hidden face. It's not that what I saw is the truth. Maybe there is something deeper behind the truth, isn't it?"