Marriage of the Di Daughter

Chapter 33: Yun Shuang

"So as it turns out, Xiang Qiao covets money and valuables yet blames others ah!"

A single stone caused a thousand waves. The guests immediately started to comment. Originally, it was thought that the second young lady of the residence hated the third miss, that was having disagreements between the sisters. Jiang Li maliciously cursed Jiang You Yao. But unexpectedly, in the end, it was actually the close-fitting servant girl who was a money-grubber but blamed others.

This kind of thing was really simple. It originated from Jiang Li's close-fitting servant girl, Xiang Qiao, who was prone to stealing and wanted to steal Jiang Li's gift for Jiang You Yao. Yet she was afraid the matter would be exposed when it was investigated on her. So she simply looked for a head ornament with a much inferior quality as a substitute.

Xiang Qiao shook her head desperately, holding Jiang Li's calf as she said: "No, no! All those jewelry were given by second miss! They weren't stolen by this servant! Second miss, quick say a few words on behalf of this servant ah!"

Those jewelry and hair clips indeed were not stolen by Xiang Qiao. But Jiang Li also wouldn't admit it.

Jiang Li merely looked at her and lamented: "Xiang Qiao, I didn't treat you thinly. Why are you treating me like this? Besides, I didn't have plenty of silver money. The entire silver was spent to buy the head ornament for third sister. What remained was just the jewelry. This jewelry was not cheap, if giving you one or two piece, then it's nothing much. But giving them all to you, afraid there are very few people in Yanjing who can be so generous!"

Every guest in the surrounding nodded. It was precisely like she said. If the people below did something very well, bestowing a bit more of something was understandable. But whoever's money wasn't brought in by the wind. To have such a generous hand, using a small box of jewelry to bestow it to the person below, wouldn't happen unless the person's brain was broken. Furthermore, Jiang second miss just now mentioned, all her silver was used to buy Jiang third miss's birthday present and all that remained were those jewelry. It was even more impossible to consciously give them away to people. It was not worth it ah!

Xiang Qiao looked dazedly at Jiang Li. Jiang Li had a sincere expression, not the slightest trace of falsehood was seen, almost confusing Xiang Qiao.

Her eyes were only fixed on Jiang Li's small box of treasures. When Jiang Li bestowed the rewards to her, she happily accepted them. But she didn't realize that a Master bestowing so many things to the lower person was naturally too abnormal. She only thought it was due to Jiang Li being a country bumpkin and not understanding the ways of the world. Nevertheless, she didn't foresee that quickly receiving these refreshing things would in turn become a seal that would press her to her death.

Ji Shuran let her put her hands on the birthday present Jiang Li was going to send. But Xiang Qiao's mouth was raised wickedly in recent days and her courage also became big. Her mind moved upon seeing the head ornament. By lucky coincidence, in the courtyard she heard the servant girls chatting about a jewelry craftsman who could produce counterfeit articles. Soon after, she looked for him and spent a bit of money to make an identical head ornament.

Apart from the difference in purity, there wasn't any error on the surface. Xiang Qiao thought, on the day Jiang Li couldn't dispute the matter, the people in the Jiang family would punish her and that head ornament would naturally be treated as an inauspicious thing. This matter could be considered as over.

In this way, she could both fulfill her task from Ji Shuran to set up Jiang Li while she would also freely get the head ornament.

What Xiang Qiao didn't expect was that during this frenetic situation, Jiang Li could still discover that there was something amiss with the head ornament. Moreover, Jiang Li had merely touched the real head ornament for a while, how could she argue so calmly. What was even more unexpected was that head ornament actually turned up in her own room.