Chapter 32 Putting the blame on
"This headdress is fake," she lowered her eyes, "It's not mine."

The crowd was silent for a moment.

Madam Liu spoke first. She asked, "Second Miss Jiang, what do you mean by that?"

Jiang Li smiled, handed the headpiece in her hand to Madam Liu, and said calmly: "I spent four hundred taels of silver to buy a ruby ​​headpiece in the Jixiang Tower in Yanjing City. There are only three of these ruby ​​headpieces in the entire Jixiang Tower, and it's because the gem is of excellent quality and bright in color." After a pause, Jiang Li continued, "But the one I have in my hand now is crudely made and dull in color. Not to mention four hundred taels of silver, it's not even worth forty taels of silver."

"What the girl means is..." 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 it away and replaced it with this broken thing."

Someone took her headgear!
Things took a sharp turn for the worse in an instant, and everyone suddenly realized what was going on, but after a moment, they fell into deeper confusion.

Madam Jiang asked, "Little Li, someone took your headgear. What does that mean?"

Jiang Li turned around, smiled at Madam Jiang, and said, "Madam, don't worry, I'll find out what's going on now."

Madam Jiang was startled. In front of the guests, Jiang Li called her "old lady" instead of "grandmother". She could tell the closeness of the relationship by just hearing it. 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 looked surprised. Things shouldn't have turned out this way. Ji Shuran's heart moved. She didn't want Jiang Li to ruin her plan, so she said, "Li'er, how could this gemstone headpiece be fake? Did you make a mistake?"

"Impossible!" The speaker was Madam Liu. She said in a decisive tone, "Nothing produced by Jixiang Tower can be of this quality. You are all regular customers of Jixiang Tower. You will know once you try it." Madam Liu handed the headgear to the ladies around her. The ladies touched each other and nodded.

This confirmed what Mrs. Liu said.

Ji Shuran frowned, she looked at Jiang Li, and suddenly realized that from the beginning until now, since the crack on the gemstone was discovered, Jiang Li had never been angry, no matter the accusations or strange looks from the crowd.

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

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

It's already this time, why are you still laughing, what's so funny?

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

Xiangqiao is trembling.

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

She said, "Xiangqiao, it was you who stole my headgear, wasn't it?"

"No, no." Xiangqiao insisted, "I didn't do that."

"That's strange." Jiang Li murmured to herself with some confusion, "Since you said that you saw me carving the ruby ​​headpiece with your own eyes, but the headpiece has obviously been replaced by someone else, what you saw, could it be... a ghost?"

Jiang Li spoke the last two words very softly, but Xiang Qiao felt that they were eerie and spooky. "Third sister, you said Xiang Qiao took your headgear away, do you have any evidence?" Jiang Yu'e said unwillingly.

"Evidence?" Jiang Li stood up again and smiled at Ji Shuran, "Mother, as the mistress of the main house, please send someone to Xiangqiao's room to search for the whereabouts of the ruby ​​headpiece. All the ladies and sisters are here, just in time to be witnesses. This will save Jiang Li from having to bear the blame for nothing after she proves her innocence."

The guests felt a little guilty after hearing this.

Jiang Li's words were actually an accusation to them for putting themselves in a high position while watching the show just now, but staying out of it, and blaming Jiang Li as the instigator without any explanation.

Ji Shuran smiled, her teeth clenched. She was not stupid, and knew that her plan to plot against Jiang Li today would be fruitless. She was surprised that Jiang Li could strike back, that someone with no connections or money in the Jiang Mansion could 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 Xiangqiao heard that Jiang Li wanted to search her room, she was relieved. Ji Shuran saw this and immediately had an idea in her mind. Knowing that Jiang Li probably couldn't find anything, she assigned a few people to search Xiangqiao's room.

The entire main courtyard returned to silence.

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

Jiang Yuanbo suddenly felt a little uncomfortable again.

Jiang Yuanbai was very proud and protective, and even though he hated and was angry with Jiang Li, he didn't want Jiang Li to lose face in front of the guests. Moreover, at this moment, the facts proved that there was something fishy about the headgear, and Jiang Yuanbai wondered if his tone to Jiang Li just now was a little too harsh.

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

She already knew what Ji Shuran and Jiang Youyao were planning, but what she had to do was not as simple as proving her innocence.

People have no intention to harm tigers, but tigers have the intention to hurt people's hearts. If Ji Shuran's people stay in Fangfei Garden, it will always be a disaster. She has learned a lesson from her tragic experience in her previous life, so she should nip the problem in the bud and eradicate it.

After a while, the people who were sent to search Xiangqiao's room came back. In order to be fair, Old Madam Jiang also assigned the nanny beside her to go with them.

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

Xiangqiao's body softened and she murmured, "Impossible."

Jiang Youyao was also stunned. Ji Shuran's scalp tightened immediately when she saw Jiang Li's smile widen.

Sure enough, Nanny Zhang hesitated for a moment, and then said in front of all the guests, "We also found a lot of valuable jewelry in Xiangqiao's room. They should be the gifts from the wife of the eldest house to the second young lady."

Jiang Li was surprised for a moment. For the first time, there was anger in her voice. However, if you listened carefully, the anger seemed to be mixed with a bit of sarcasm.

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

(End of this chapter)