Marriage of the Di Daughter

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Marriage of the Di Daughter Chapter 142 Part 2: Spread

Jiang You Yao rushed aggressively inside.

Jiang Li was standing, looking at her.

Jiang You Yao caught sight of Jiang Li, feeling a thorn in her eyes. Jiang Li wore a plain, soft, embroidered flexible satin, with her long hair half tied and a pair of glossy pearls hanging on her ears, making her face appear fair, beautiful and bright.

The words spoken by Yin Hua floated in her mind, how the people outside ridiculed, “Could the Jiang family’s third miss also be the child born out of Ji-shi’s affair? Then wouldn’t that make the second miss the sole legitimate daughter of the main branch? I’ve said it before, during the Six Arts examination, the second miss looked more outstanding than the third miss!”

If these words were said before, Jiang You Yao would only scoff, but now, she discovered sorrowfully that she had no way to retort. Unwittingly, in this residence, though Jiang Li had only returned later, she had dominated Jiang Yuan Bai’s attention and occupied grandmother’s partiality. Compared to herself, nowadays, Jiang Li was the chief assistant’s noble daughter while she, in the face of outsiders, was a child born out of an affair!

So unfair!

“Rushing like this, does the third sister have an important matter?” Jiang Li asked.

“Stop pretending to be such a disgusting person,” Jiang You Yao sneered, “the rumors outside are spread by you. Father and grandmother have distinctly said that these matters must not be spread outside, yet you unexpectedly made these matters known to everyone, reducing the Jiang family to a laughingstock. Jiang Li, what’s your intention?!”

Jiang Li shook her head, “Not me.”

The ridicule on Jiang You Yao’s face got worse, “Not you? Then who else? In the entire Jiang residence, you are the only one who hates me and my mother! You want to cut my way to survive, so you ordered people to leak this news outside to slander me! You are ruining me!”

“I’ve said that it wasn’t me. If I wanted to spread it, I would have done so that day and wouldn’t wait until after the burial.” Jiang Li said, “Besides, I didn’t cause the Jiang family to be reduced to a laughingstock, it’s Ji Shuran. Ruining you is also not me, it’s Ji Shuran. Everything fell into my head, forgive me, I don’t have such great abilities.”

When talking about killing people without seeing blood, Jiang You Yao really wasn’t Jiang Li’s opponent. It was just a few words but it made the angry Jiang You Yao even more enraged. She stared at Jiang Li, her mouth muttering, “I’m going to kill you…..” before she directly pounced over!

However, in this room, there’s still the unusually strong Bai Xue. At the same time as Jiang You Yao pounced forward, she put the teacup aside and rushed to stand in front of Jiang Li. Bai Xue was taller than Jiang You Yao, Jiang You Yao’s hand was grabbed and twisted in one go. She exasperatedly said to Jin Hua and Yin Hua at the side, “What are you doing still stunned over there? Quickly capture this lowly slave for me!”

Jin Hua and Yin Hua snapped out of their daze and surrounded Bai Xue. But Tong’er was also not a fuel efficient lamp, calling out to Qing Feng, Ming Yue, and a few other people to circle them. Jiang Li didn’t know whether to laugh or cry and went out of the room in a few quick steps. She called a few rough women to separate the people and also asked someone to look for old madam Jiang.

Old madam Jiang’s subordinates soon came. They couldn’t help being apprehensive upon seeing Jiang You Yao’s clothes disheveled while Jiang Li looked carefree. They relayed to Jiang Li that old madam Jiang had invited the two young ladies to make a trip to Wan Feng Hall.

Jiang You Yao was leaking with anger but did not dare to be presumptuous to the old madam’s subordinates. Even if she was unwilling, she could only restrain herself until they arrived at Wan Feng Hall. There, they saw that Jiang Yuan Bai was also present.

“Father.” Jiang You Yao called out timidly.

Jiang Yuan Bai saw Jiang You Yao and felt complicated.

He was not a saint and it’s hard not to implicate Jiang You Yao in his hatred towards Ji Shuran. But seeing Jiang You Yao trembling with fear, it was hard to harden his heart. Jiang You Yao had been spoiled growing up in the Jiang residence, when had she ever cowered like this? His two daughters, don’t tell him that they will ultimately walk the same path? Be disappointed in him as a father and be thoroughly at odds with the Jiang family?

Old madam had already learned of the whole sequence of events, looked at Jiang You Yao furiously and said, “Third girl, you are too much! You’ve been learning the rules everyday but actually going to harm your own sister!”

“Grandmother.” Jiang You Yao knelt down neatly and said, “You Yao was impulsive. But…. everyone outside is now discussing mother….. Mother’s death. This matter was passed in such a lively manner, as a daughter, You Yao naturally knew that mother’s crimes were unforgivable, so did not plead for leniency. But mother is gone, she had paid the price, why even a dead person was not let off? How should the children’s frame of mind be? Father, please, asking you to sympathize for a bit!”

Jiang Li looked at Jiang You Yao. It seemed that Jiang You Yao had finally matured a little after Ji Shuran’s death. At least she could use the bitter meat trick to gain others’ sympathy.

“Besides, the Jiang family will also be harmed with mother’s news spread out. How others would look at the Jiang family, now all the people outside said that father is not strict in managing the family and the Jiang family is in turmoil. Second sister,” she looked at Jiang Li, tears falling like rain, and knocked her head a few times on the floor towards Jiang Li. She said, “You Yao knows she cannot make up for the harm sustained by second sister, but please be magnanimous, don’t discredit the Jiang family. As long as you can let go of the Jiang family, You Yao is willing to do anything!”

Tong’er was speechless in anger when she heard this. Initially, she thought that this third miss had no brain, now it seemed that she must not be underestimated. At least her acting skills were the same as Ji Shuran. No wonder there was a saying, like mother like daughter, her pretending to invoke pity made people want to sigh. In the current situation, it instead showed Jiang Li’s aggressiveness, while she looked quite innocent.

Jiang Li said, “Third sister, I didn’t do it.”

“Who else could it be if not you?” Jiang You Yao sobbed, “Only you hated mother, you want to clear your injustice away, and only you have the freedom to enter and exit the residence…..”

Jiang Li went to the Ye residence everyday. Because Jiang Yuan Bai and old madam Jiang felt guilty of the previous affairs, they did not restrain Jiang Li. Unexpectedly, it became Jiang You Yao’s “evidence”.

“Although I have resentment towards father and towards the Jiang family, I will not go so far as to pull the Jiang family into the water.” Jiang Li said calmly, “Although spreading this can clear away my grievances, it will put the Jiang family in a very disadvantaged position. First, it doesn’t do any good for me.” Jiang Li smiled slightly, “I am clear of third sister’s difficulty, but the pros and cons of this difficulty need to be considered, don’t just do things impetuously.”

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