Xie Chengtian walked to Jiang Xinci's side and hugged her to comfort her. He scolded the servants for being useless and could not even take care of a child. Tears welled up in his eyes.

Jiang Xinman had already been helped up by Jiang Yuexiu. When Jiang Xinman saw his pretentiousness, she couldn't help but sneer.

His criticism was coming...

As expected, Jiang Xinman began to blame the Jiang family.

Xie Chengtian questioned Jiang Yuexiu, "Is this how your Jiang family does things? You only know how to shirk responsibility and run away when something happens?! Now that my son is gone, are you satisfied?!"

Jiang Yuexiu brought the entire mansion and knelt down on the ground, speaking with some difficulty: "This commoner has never thought that a fire in winter would go against common sense. I hope the Emperor can understand that someone among them snuck into the Jiang Mansion to do something bad!"

Xie Chengtian sneered, "You're a wise man, aren't you? In the cold winter, you need to set up a charcoal fire. It's reasonable for a fire to break out. At the very least, it's an excuse for you to do something evil! Men, take down everyone in the Jiang family. If my son dies, all of you will be buried with him!"

Heh... Take him down?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Buried with him? If the Jiang family included Jiang Xinci, would she also be executed? She didn't believe that no one would notice such a blatant intention to make an example out of the Jiang family.

Jiang Xinman stood up. Jiang Yuexiu kept pulling her and telling her not to be impulsive, but Jiang Xinman had to be impulsive today no matter what. In any case, she would die no matter what!

The guards who came from nowhere placed their hands on Jiang Xinman's neck. Jiang Xinci used her hand to block the blade. The guards did not dare to hurt Jiang Xinci, so they did not cut down.

Jiang Xinman, who had given up on herself, laughed so hard that she trembled. After laughing for a long time, she finally stopped and said sarcastically, "Tonight's focus is on the banquet, and the warehouse is quite far away from here. Usually, it's locked and unattended. ! Isn't it contradictory?"

"When the incident happened, I didn't see how much you cared about your son, Xie Chengtian. You didn't say a word. The Jiang family is incompetent, but I didn't see you take charge of the situation."

"Anyone with a discerning eye can clearly see that someone is messing up the situation. Are you really that blind? Or is it because you like to hear the news and want to kill the Jiang family? Why do you have to do so many things? Are you tired? Are you crazy? "

Only Jiang Xinman's scolding could be heard. The others did not even dare to breathe loudly, afraid that they would suffer if they did.

Xie Chengtian sneered, "Are you done with your last words? Kill her! Jiang Xinci, if you stop me, I'll kill you too!"

Jiang Xinci was a little afraid at first, but behind her was her family, and she had to protect them! Hearing Xie Chengtian's words, her fear suddenly disappeared, and she stood in front of Jiang Xinman even more firmly.

Her actions explained everything!

"Alright, alright... then don't blame me for being heartless!"

After she finished speaking, she ordered the guards to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys. Jiang Xinman had already closed her eyes. Everyone wanted the Jiang family to die, but all they lacked was a dignified pretense. No matter how much they did, they would eventually be caught...

However, the sound of swords clashing forced Jiang Xinman to open her eyes. What she saw was a broad back blocking Jiang Xinman and Jiang Xinci's path.

"Why are you so angry? Are you eating fire?"

His sloppy voice made him sound very annoying, but Jiang Xinman knew he was reliable, even more reliable than Jiang Yunfan. Jiang Xinman wanted to cry when she heard his voice.

"What? Your son is gone? Isn't that right next to you? I didn't think the Emperor was blind."

This person was Jiang Xinman's second brother, Jiang Yunting, a person who often went out and wandered around when Jiang Xinman was young.

Xie Chengtian was about to kill him too, but the man said his son was beside him. Subconsciously, he looked around and found his son sleeping at his feet, wrapped in a thick blanket.

Xie Chengtian's face was stiff. He didn't know what kind of expression he should have right now. Everyone present had seen the prince fall into the lake, but why was he here now?

Although Xie Chengtian didn't want to believe it and didn't want to believe it, it did exist. There was only one reason for it.

"Who are you?"

Xie Chengtian tried his best to adjust his expression.

"The second son of the Jiang family..."

Jiang Yunting's indifferent behavior made Xie Chengtian very suspicious, but looking at the Jiang family's behavior, it was indeed like that. Jiang Yuexiu also said it himself.

Whether or not he was the second child of the Jiang family, whether or not the Jiang family had found someone else to fill the numbers, he had to be, and Xie Chengtian had to believe that he was.

If the prince was fine, then he couldn't do anything to the Jiang family anymore.

Xie Chengtian had seen it before. The child had a birthmark on his right wrist, and the clothes he was wearing were all the same. This child was indeed his, not used to make up the numbers.

Therefore, Xie Chengtian could only forgive the Jiang family. This was a carefully planned conspiracy against his son, and the Jiang family had protected the prince from it.

Xie Chengtian hadn't expected things to turn out this way, but he wasn't at a disadvantage, was he?

The matter was over with Xie Chengtian's apology. The Jiang family had suffered no substantial losses other than a false alarm.

However, the sudden turn of events caught the mastermind unprepared.

After the dinner, Zhuang Qiyan quietly came to Jiang Xinman's side and said, "Miss, I found out, but they didn't do it themselves."

"Lead the way!"

Jiang Xinman followed Zhuang Qiyan to the back door of the mansion. There was no one at the back door either. For today, Jiang Xinman deliberately told Hong Dou that there was no one at the warehouse and back door all year round. Sure enough, the meeting place was at the back door.

There were three people at the back door, two women and one man. One of them was the maid beside Hong Dou and Concubine Wang.

The maid was furious. "How did you do it? Can't you even do this?"

Hong Dou stood in front of the boy and did not speak. Every time she spoke, she would beat him up and scold him, and when the maid finished, she said, "You said you didn't care about the consequences, but what happened to the contract? You should give it to me now! "

The maid sneered, "Humph! How dare you ask for a reward when things are like this? Wait until the next thing is done!"

The servant girl flicked her sleeves and was about to leave, but the boy behind Hong Dou stopped her.

"Why did you go back on your word?"

The servant girl looked at him with disdain, "How big of a deal did you do? Isn't it just a little bit of shouting? You should have done more in any residence, right? Hmph!"

The servant girl pushed him away and left.

Leaving Hong Dou and her brother to look at each other, the younger brother's face was filled with sorrow.

"I'm finished..."

Hong Dou didn't say anything. Everything was just as Lotus Seed had said. They wouldn't give what they wanted. They would only use it as a hostage to force others to do things over and over again.

When Jiang Xinman wanted to investigate Hong Dou's background, she noticed Hong Dou's abnormality. Once, when Hong Dou returned to the mansion, Lotus Seed secretly followed her and discovered that she had secret dealings with people from the Outer Palace.

Because Lotus Seed was taking care of Red Bean in the mansion, Red Bean did not do anything to harm Lotus Seed, and even if he did, Lotus Root would come out and stop him.

Hong Dou had never told Jiang Xinman about these things. She didn't know if Jiang Xinman sympathized with her or was angry that she didn't fight. After Jiang Xinman said those words to her, her rebelliousness was stronger than ever before.

She didn't know what Jiang Xinman liked about her, but he took more and more care of her, unintentionally revealing a lot of things about the Jiang Mansion. Hong Dou's intuition told her that Jiang Xinman was not a person who would tell secrets, but for her brother's sake, she had to spread the news that she didn't know if it was true or not.

There was no way she could have gotten her brother's papers without passing them on. There was no way she could have saved him from the traffickers.

She was gambling, betting that they would really keep their promise... Unfortunately, reality always struck a blow when people had unrealistic hopes or a little hope in their hearts.

After the servant girl left, Jiang Xinman and Zhuang Qiyan also left quietly. They were watching all of this from the next floor. This was all caused by the concubine.

Children... The Emperor can have any one he wants, every woman in the harem wants to give birth to princes and princesses, and in the harem, the princes are the most precious, and the princes are the most wretched...

Jiang Xinci's side was stabbed... Provoked, she hid in the house with the child in her arms. She didn't see anyone, including the Emperor... She was completely worried about the others. She thought that the nanny arranged by the Emperor could be trusted...

She had never thought the Emperor could be so cruel. Did he know? No... impossible. If he did, she would not be standing here.

Jiang Xinman and Zhuang Qiyan secretly followed the servant girl who had not gone far and saw her respectfully arrive at the side room where the concubine was.

Jiang Xinman saw that the guards around her were in a dilemma. It was impossible for her to hear any useful information. Just as Jiang Xinman was about to take the risk and step forward, Zhuang Qiyan hurriedly stopped her.

He took out an earplug from his sleeve and gave it to her to put on. Jiang Xinman could clearly hear the conversation in the room. She didn't expect Zhuang Qiyan to have such a thing.

Zhuang Qiyan himself did not use his earplugs to listen. He did not want to know too much. What if he was killed?

Jiang Xinman calmed down and listened to their conversation.

"Your Majesty, I've already said what I wanted to say."

"Where's Jiang Xinci?"

"Your Majesty, she's still in the room and refuses to come out. She won't see anyone."

"Humph! She is lucky this time. I don't believe that child of hers can live the rest of her life. When will the Emperor let them live? He only has that person in his heart. Jiang Xinci is just a substitute, how can she get pregnant so quickly! Humph!"

..." Forget it, send someone to keep an eye on Jiang Xinci. Report anything that happens. "

" Yes! "

Jiang Xinman heard a royal gossip. The emperor loved someone else, and Jiang Xinci was just a substitute. It was only a matter of time before the children died. What did the loved one have to do with the children? Why did the Emperor draw blood, and it was his own blood?

A few things that she couldn't bear to look at popped up in Jiang Xinman's mind... Hopefully, it wasn't as melodramatic as she thought...