The jade pendant connects the past and present; the exiled crown prince's wife takes her entire

"You old hag, don't think I don't know what you're up to. You just can't stand to see our family doing well. You clearly wish we were dead, but you still try to pretend to be fair and kind. I'm tired of your act!"

Liao never expected Song Wanzhen to be so disrespectful to her in front of others. She pointed at Song Wanzhen, her chest heaving with anger.

She glared at Zhao, her face darkening: "Is this how you raise your daughter? Teaching her to talk back to me like this!"

"Stop always going to my mom. Are you just picking on the weak?"

"Speak of me, why bring up Mother again!" Jiang Jinning straightened her back, her eyes unusually sharp. "I haven't settled the score with you for pushing Wanzhen earlier!"

The second wife and her family members felt somewhat guilty, but they stubbornly refused to admit it.

Tian: "Nonsense! She clearly tripped and fell because she couldn't walk properly. Whose fault is it! We're family, how could we harm her! But you, you little slut, have no morals whatsoever, you pounce on anything, good or bad!"

Song Yanxi: "Sister-in-law, you've misunderstood us. We've been so good to Second Sister, especially Grandmother, who always gives her her cornbread. How could we refuse her? Besides, let's keep things separate. We're talking about Sister-in-law's matter now..."

"I don't care, you're just pushing Wanzhen."

"I told you we didn't push it, don't you understand? We're not like you, we wouldn't do anything to harm people."

Jiang Jinning still said, "You pushed Wanzhen."

No matter what anyone from the second branch of the family said, Jiang Jinning would only say: "You pushed Wanzhen," which made the other party furious and want to slap her.

You can't explain it to me, can you?

"Stop arguing!"

Zheng Jiecha lashed his whip across the ground, and everyone immediately fell silent.

"Song Guangying, did you see it with your own eyes?"

Song Guangying glanced at his mother's dark face, and his wife was pushing him. He then closed his eyes.

"Yes, I saw her talking to Officer Chen..."

"Did you see Jinning give the sachet to Chen Jiechai with your own eyes, Second Uncle? What kind of sachet was it? Our two families are in two separate teams, but we live close by. You can see Jinning making sachets on a regular basis, so you should know what they look like. After all, you pay so much attention to the affairs of our eldest son's family. You even know things that I, as her husband, don't know."

Song Qingyan's sarcastic and indifferent remarks left Song Guangying speechless.

Song Guangying was already afraid of his eldest brother and nephew, and after saying just a few words, he became even more stammering.

"I, I, I didn't see it clearly either... It should be embroidered with mandarin ducks..."

"Aren't mandarin ducks or orchids?"

"Oh, I remembered wrong, it's orchid..."

Song Qingyan smiled enigmatically: "What is it? What, Uncle, are your eyesight failing?"

"I……"

Zheng Jiechai understood perfectly well what was going on with that hesitant and stammering manner.

"You bastard, how can you say you saw it if you didn't see it clearly!"

Jiang Jinning strode out, showing no fear whatsoever.

"Everyone says they saw me talking to the guards, and that they saw me giving away sachets. I ask you this: where would a prisoner like me find scraps of cloth and needles to make sachets and give them away?"

A single sentence awakened me from my reverie.

Right, these exiled prisoners can't even get enough to eat, how could they have time to make sachets to give away? That's something only someone with plenty of food and nothing else to do would do.

Zheng Jiechai thought this made sense and glared at Yuan Jiechai.

"Boss, you can't listen to her excuses! I've seen Chen Hui hooking up with this slut several times. Maybe it was that traitor who instructed her to do it, so she can escape..."

Zheng Jiechai's pupils contracted as he stared intently at Song Qingyan, clearly considering the veracity of his words.

Chen Jiechai was anxious.

He didn't explain immediately because he was concerned about his beloved's reputation, but if he didn't explain the situation soon, his wife's reputation would be ruined.

"This sachet of mine, it's...it's from Xiaoya...the knot on the last one came undone, and she kindly mended it for me...Boss, you know Xiaoya too."

Chen Jiechai looked shy and embarrassed, and his face turned bright red when he said "Xiaoya".

"Cough cough cough..."

Zheng Jiecha immediately coughed from the choking.

If I remember correctly, Xiaoya, whom Chen Hui mentioned, was his neighbor, the one with the loud voice who was five feet tall and stronger than him.

It turns out that Xiao Chen really likes this style.

Song Qingyan's wife indeed looked down on him, thinking he was like a little chick.

"Speaking of which, I remember now, I did see Brother Chen wearing this ugly duck sachet at the beginning..."

"Yes, I saw it too..."

Several other commentators chimed in.

Chen Jiecha was very grateful to them for clarifying the truth, but he wanted to say that those were mandarin ducks, mandarin ducks, Xiaoya embroidered mandarin ducks!

"Boss Zheng, don't just listen to his side of the story. Chen Hui and Song Qingyan definitely have an improper relationship..."

Yuan Jiechai was about to say something more, but Zheng Jiechai, who was impatient, lashed him down with a whip.

"You weren't here when the tiger was fighting, but now you're jumping out to stir up trouble. If you say another word, believe me, I'll tear your mouth apart!"

"And you all..." Zheng Jiechai had his own thoughts and considerations, but he despised ingrates who turned on their benefactors. Don't think he didn't know that this second branch of the family had taken advantage of the Duke's mansion to gain benefits in the past. "I hate bullies within my own ranks the most! You want to use me as a pawn to harm others? Do you think you can just use me as a whip to be used as a tool?"

As if venting his anger, Zheng Jiechai lashed the second branch of the family several times with a whip.

"Good draw!"

Zhao quickly pulled her gloating daughter down.

"Could you please say less? What's wrong, aren't your legs going weak now?"

"Mother~"

After lashing them a few times, Zheng Jiecha let them go, his gaze fixed on the dead tiger, his eyes gleaming.

"Chen Hui, this tiger was killed by you and Song Qingyan, so you can deal with it as you see fit."

They said they would handle it, but their eyes clearly didn't mean it that way.

Chen Jiecha glanced discreetly at Jiang Jinning and Song Qingyan beside him, then immediately clasped his hands and said, "Naturally, it should be handled by the person in charge; how can I overstep my bounds?"

When Zheng Jiecha saw that they were on the right track, he was very happy and laughed heartily.

"Then I won't stand on ceremony! Let's deal with this big worm first, and then sell its hide and flesh in the next town to buy wine and meat for the brothers!"

The escorts immediately beamed with joy, cheered, and loudly praised Zheng Jiechai for his wisdom.

Jiang Jinning picked at her fingers, somewhat unhappy, her joy at escaping from the jaws of death unable to overshadow her displeasure.

She understood the logic; they certainly couldn't handle the tiger. But she was still somewhat unwilling. She had heard that the tiger's pelt could sell for forty or fifty taels of silver.

It was clearly the young general who fought the tiger.

"Um, I'm sorry," Song Wanzhen said awkwardly, fidgeting with her fingers and unconsciously drawing her name on the ground with her foot, "Sister-in-law..."

Jiang Jinning's attention was originally focused on Song Wanzhen's worn-out shoes. She was thinking that now that her relationship with Chen Jiechai was better, she should be able to change her shoes. Suddenly, she heard Song Wanzhen call her "sister-in-law" and looked up in surprise, staring at Song Wanzhen.

Song Wanzhen felt embarrassed by her gaze, and her face flushed red instantly.

"Why are you staring at me like that...?"

Before he could finish speaking, a piece of food wrapped in a vegetable leaf and a very beautiful bracelet appeared in his hand.

"For my younger sister..."