After hearing this, Butler Jiang's face suddenly turned cold. He stared at Mrs. Zhao and took back the money bag he handed over.
Looking at the housekeeper's cold expression, Mrs. Zhao panicked and quickly shook her head and argued, "Ning'er, how could Auntie sell you? You must have been confused and heard it wrong..."
"Oh? No?"
Jiang Ning's eyes fell on Zhao's waist. Zhao felt guilty and subconsciously covered the cloth belt tied around her waist.
"Then where did the five taels of silver you hide in your waist come from? The Zhao family is so poor that it is impossible to have so much silver." Jiang Ning asked.
"I...I..." Cold sweat suddenly broke out on Zhao's forehead, and she was speechless.
Upon seeing this, Butler Jiang signaled and asked the maid to search. Soon the maid walked over and took out five taels of broken silver from Mrs. Zhao's waist.
Zhao's face was pale and her hands and feet were cold.
Butler Jiang snorted coldly after hearing this and looked at her unkindly.
"Mrs. Zhao, are all these words true?"
Mrs. Zhao was so frightened that she could not speak, and her legs and feet became weak.
Mr. Tian, who was hiding in the crowd, heard that a wealthy family in the capital had come to take Ning girl back. He suddenly remembered what he had done yesterday. He almost attacked the girl, and his legs and feet were trembling with fear.
He walked out and slapped Zhao hard, "Great! You almost killed me!"
Zhao's ears were ringing from the beating and her head was dizzy.
Mr. Tian said to Butler Jiang, "This is none of my business! It was Mrs. Zhao who said she wanted to sell her niece to me. I didn't know that she was not her biological niece... Sir, you need to be clear."
Butler Jiang was so angry that he couldn't speak. He turned to look at Jiang Ning and respectfully asked for instructions.
"Young lady, what are you going to do with them?"
After hearing this, Mr. Zhao and Mr. Tian were so frightened that they knelt down. Ms. Zhao cried, "Ning'er, no, Young lady Ning... I did something I shouldn't have done in a moment of confusion! For the sake of my years of upbringing, please forgive me..."
"Upbringing?"
Jiang Ning seemed to have heard something particularly funny.
Zhao had beaten and scolded her every day since she could remember. She had to do endless work from morning to night. If her hands and feet were a little slow, she would beat her mercilessly, almost crippling her. Yesterday, she even sold her for money.
Now you dare to come and talk to her about upbringing?
Even if there was a favor, it would have been repaid long ago.
Jiang Ning turned around and got on the carriage coldly, saying calmly, "I don't want to hear them talking anymore."
Butler Jiang understood and signaled, and the maid walked over and slapped Zhao's face left and right. After a few slaps, Zhao's face was red and swollen, and she couldn't say anything to beg for mercy.
After the fight was over, Butler Jiang slowly said, "It's getting late, it's time to go."
Listening to Mrs. Zhao's gurgling sounds, Jiang Ning seemed to have let go of some of the bad feelings she had for many years.
After getting on the carriage, she opened the curtain and looked at the hill not far away, where her adoptive parents were buried. Every year during the festival, the Zhao family thought it was a waste of money and did not allow her to worship, so she could only pick wild fruits from the mountain to worship.
When she returns to the Marquis Mansion and avenges her past life, she will definitely come back and build a new tomb for her parents.
The carriage swayed and bumped on the road, rushing all the way to the capital.
Jiang Ning's face was calm and she sat quietly, with no expression on her face.
In fact, she secretly clenched her fists under her sleeves.
Little did they know that not long after she left, another group of people came in a hurry. When they arrived outside the village, they saw the scars on the man who was pale but still couldn't hide his aura. Their expressions were shocked, "My lord, you are injured!"
"No problem!" Chu Yunli closed his eyes and glanced at the injuries on his body. Thinking of the girl who was obviously afraid but still hiding him, a glimmer of light flashed in his usually cold eyes, "Go and check whether there are any special things happening in this village in the past few days! Also, if you see someone with this King's jade pendant, bring her to me."
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