When An Ancient Chinese Romance Novel Heroine Transmigrated Into A Lesbian Novel - Chapter 14

Leaving aside the commotion on Ji Heyuan’s side, Jiang Jiang went straight back to the Ji family’s old house after leaving the hospital.

She hadn’t greeted the old lady yet today, but it wasn’t a good time to go over. If she did, everyone would probably think she was going to complain to the old lady.

Even if everyone could see that she had been wronged, people were biased. Even if Ji Xu’an didn’t say it, she would definitely think of her as a troublemaker.

What Jiang Jiang needed to do at this time wasn’t to take the initiative, but to wait patiently, because Housekeeper Chen would definitely tell Ji Xu’an what happened today.

At that time, whether it was to appease the old lady or to save face, Ji Xu’an would most likely take the initiative to come to her.

Jiang Jiang just needed to wait.

Because Ji Heyuan and Housekeeper Chen weren’t there, besides Jiang Jiang, who was half the owner of the house, there were only a few nannies left in the old house.

Jiang Jiang hadn’t interacted with them much, but she remembered who was who.

She was particularly sensitive to other people’s gazes. When she walked into the entrance hall, she clearly felt someone looking at her. Jiang Jiang followed the gaze and saw the woman everyone called Sister Zhou retracting her head.

Jiang Jiang knew that they sometimes gossiped about her behind her back, but as long as it didn’t come to her face, Jiang Jiang pretended not to notice.

She ignored Sister Zhou’s gaze and returned to her room upstairs.

After locking the door, Jiang Jiang took out the white jade exquisite mirror from her black backpack, excitedly began to call Xie Xiao, and told her everything that had just happened.

“You…you injured Ji Heyuan?!” Xie Xiao was stunned for a full ten seconds after hearing this news.

She saw Jiang Jiang on the other side of the mirror kneeling on the carpet with her legs together, looking at her obediently, and felt that she had just misheard.

Coming back to her senses, Xie Xiao couldn’t help but frown. “No, how did you injure her? Did anyone else see it? If Ji Xu’an knows that you injured her sister, she definitely won’t let it go.”

She spoke quickly, thinking about how to deal with it.

Jiang Jiang felt her concern for her, and the smile on her face couldn’t help but become softer. The corners of her lips were curved, and her eyebrows and eyes looked particularly gentle and pure, very much like the well-behaved baby who could get the three good student award every year.

“Don’t worry, no one saw it.”

Jiang Jiang was very confident. She even considered that Xie Xiao had said that there were many cameras in the villa, and deliberately avoided the surveillance when she attacked.

“The ‘cameras’ you mentioned, although precise enough, are dead objects after all. Compared to the dark guards of the Duke’s mansion, they are still two inferior. At least they only know how to monitor, but can’t stop me from taking action.”

Moreover, Ji Heyuan was just an ordinary person with no power to restrain a chicken. Jiang Jiang admitted that although she only knew a little about martial arts, it was more than enough to deal with Ji Heyuan.

“Wait a minute, let’s slow down.”

Xie Xiao didn’t know which thing to be shocked about first.

“The Duke’s mansion has dark guards?!”

Then wouldn’t I usually be in a state of being spied on by others without knowing it??

Jiang Jiang nodded. “Yes, but they are only outside the courtyard. As long as you enter the bedroom, they can’t see or hear you.”

Xie Xiao finally relaxed, and then cared about the second thing, “No, aren’t you a delicate young lady from a noble family? How can you know martial arts?”

This incident shocked Xie Xiao as if, in the age of cold weapons, when everyone was still using knives, spears, sticks, and swords to fight, someone suddenly pulled out an M24, with an eight-power scope.

Xie Xiao racked her brains but couldn’t figure it out. Jiang Jiang clearly looked so slender and weak, her wrists were even thin, and her finger bones were soft and white, so fragile that they seemed like they would break if you pinched them lightly. How could such a hand throw a small peanut dozens of meters away?!

Xie Xiao received too much information today, especially when Jiang Jiang, with an innocent little face that screamed “naive and sweet,” said seriously that she knew how to use hidden weapons, Xie Xiao felt like her cerebellum was about to atrophy.

“So you just look frail, but actually, you can kill ten of me with one punch?!” Xie Xiao looked like she was questioning life.

Jiang Jiang thought seriously for a moment, “I probably can’t kill ten of you with one punch. I’m not good at physical skills. Besides, I was indeed physically weak when I was young, and I only learned a superficial understanding of the techniques my master taught me.”

Speaking of this, Jiang Jiang was a little ashamed. It was precisely because she wasn’t good at physical skills that she practiced this kind of sneak attack technique to protect herself.

After all, she couldn’t have imagined at that time that she would be promised to the Crown Prince in the future. During the ten years she spent with her master practicing in the mountains, Jiang Jiang didn’t even know if she would have a chance to return to the Duke’s mansion, so she had to plan for herself.

Xie Xiao waved her hand, “I understand, I understand.”

Top students always say they know a little, but in reality, they can open up and kill others in minutes.

After being shocked, Xie Xiao suddenly became excited again, “Then can you do Qinggong?”

“Not very good at it,” Jiang Jiang said honestly.

This sentence automatically turned into “proficient” in Xie Xiao’s mind. She widened her eyes and rubbed her hands expectantly and nervously, “Damn, you really can!”

“Then can you fly over walls and enter other people’s houses without being discovered, as if you’re in an uninhabited place?”

Jiang Jiang looked at her amusedly, “Xiao Xiao, you think too highly of me. I don’t have that ability.”

She then picked up the white jade exquisite mirror, walked to the window, and opened the curtains, signaling Xie Xiao to look outside.

“I should be able to jump down from here and land safely, but nothing more than that.”

She tilted her head and asked Xie Xiao, “Do you want to see?”

Looking at the ground that was at least ten meters high from the window sill, Xie Xiao was so scared that she called Jiang Jiang’s name repeatedly.

“Sister Jiang! You’re my own sister! Calm down, I believe you, I believe you, don’t jump!”

If Jiang Jiang jumped down, tomorrow she would either be on the social news or become the protagonist of the new episode of “Approaching Science.”

Jiang Jiang was actually teasing her. Even if Xie Xiao really wanted to see it, she wouldn’t perform Qinggong in the Ji family’s old house. Don’t forget that there were still many “eyes” watching outside.

“Okay, okay, I won’t jump, Xiao Xiao, don’t be afraid,” Jiang Jiang said, taking two steps back away from the window and returning to where she was sitting just now.

Only after seeing her sit down did Xie Xiao breathe a heavy sigh of relief.

How could she not be afraid, she was scared to death!

Xie Xiao patted her chest, “That was too exciting!”

Having recovered, she saw Jiang Jiang on the other side of the mirror secretly laughing, and immediately understood everything.

“Good, I didn’t expect you, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, to also know how to tease people!”

Here I was so scared that I had became younger!

Jiang Jiang apologized quickly, “I was wrong.”

Xie Xiao rolled her eyes, “And then you won’t change, right?”

After the commotion just now, Xie Xiao didn’t seem so shocked anymore and finally accepted the idea that Jiang Jiang was a suspected martial arts master.

“Jiang Jiang, you’re really amazing.” Xie Xiao lay on the table, listless. “You’re smarter than me, and you know martial arts. I feel like I’m a waste.”

Jiang Jiang could stand firm in the huge Duke’s mansion by herself, but Xie Xiao relied on the shelter left by Jiang Jiang and still lived in fear every day.

Hearing this, Jiang Jiang immediately sensed something. “Has someone been bullying you?”

Xie Xiao didn’t answer, and Jiang Jiang’s expression turned cold. “It shouldn’t be the elders in the mansion, otherwise you wouldn’t be so sad. Is it my arrogant and domineering half-sister, or a servant from some room?”

Xie Xiao didn’t expect her to guess it all at once. While feeling sad and wronged, she also felt very ashamed. “Am I very useless?”

She told Jiang Jiang about some things that had happened recently, and said in a low voice at the end, “Your sister insisted on sending me two maids, but I really don’t like them. They seem to be here to monitor me, and they have to ask about everything.”

In the end, Xie Xiao’s temper was too soft. She could only talk big, but in reality, she was easily bullied. If Jiang Jiang were there, her half-sister would never dare to do this.

“Are you troubled about what to do with those two maids?” Jiang Jiang’s tone was very gentle, without a trace of blame.

Xie Xiao bit her lip and nodded lightly.

Jiang Jiang gave her an idea, “It’s not difficult. Go to Xie Wanwan and ask her to give you the contracts of those two maids.”

Xie Xiao was stunned. “Will she give them?”

Jiang Jiang said firmly, “She will.”

“She sent people to you, intending for those two maids to serve the legitimate daughter in her name, so naturally she should give you the contracts of the two people. If she doesn’t give them, it’s blatantly planting spies in the legitimate daughter’s courtyard. You just need to ask her about this, and she will compromise.”

Xie Xiao’s eyes lit up. “I understand.”

Although Xie Wanwan had that intention, it was something everyone knew but didn’t say. Jiang Jiang was teaching her to directly overturn the table and not admit it, putting everything out in the open.

“Once I get the contracts of those two people, I won’t be afraid that they will harm me at any time.”

Jiang Jiang felt that something was wrong with this statement. “You’re still planning to keep those two people?”

Xie Xiao looked at her blankly, “No, otherwise?”

Jiang Jiang looked at her incredulously. “Why keep people who you know won’t be loyal around to be an eyesore?”

Xie Xiao humbly asked for advice, “Then how should I deal with it?”

Jiang Jiang’s tone was very light and calm, as if she was talking about the most ordinary thing, “If they haven’t taken action yet, there’s no need to take their lives. Just sell them far away as soon as possible.”

“Sold them?!” Xie Xiao was stunned.

In the end, her thinking hadn’t changed. Although she had enjoyed the privileges of a feudal aristocratic family for a period of time, she was essentially a modern person with modern moral concepts.

Knowing that buying and selling people was a normal thing in this era, it was difficult for Xie Xiao to sell two living people as lightly and without any psychological burden as Jiang Jiang said.

Even more so, killing them.

Thinking of this, Xie Xiao couldn’t help but shudder.

She looked at the confusion in Jiang Jiang’s eyes. The other party’s attitude was so matter-of-course that Xie Xiao realized for the first time that Jiang Jiang really wasn’t the simple and harmless little white rabbit she thought she was.

Although Jiang Jiang hadn’t killed anyone with her own hands, human life wasn’t that important in her heart, at least not as important as her own interests.

Xie Xiao couldn’t say anything to refute. She knew that this wasn’t Jiang Jiang’s fault, but a characteristic given to her by the era she lived in.

In an era where imperial power was supreme, the lives of ordinary people were indeed like grass. It was already difficult for the people at the bottom to just survive. If she hadn’t been lucky enough to switch identities with Jiang Jiang, the legitimate daughter of the Duke’s mansion, she probably wouldn’t have been able to hold on.

In the end, Xie Xiao could only tell Jiang Jiang, “I’ll consider your suggestion, but Jiang Jiang, you can only say this to me. Don’t let anyone else hear it, or the police uncle will invite you to tea.”

Jiang Jiang knew this. The police were the same as the constables.

She frowned slightly, “Can’t you sell servants here?”

“There are no slaves in the new era. Do you remember what I told you? Trafficking is illegal, and everyone is equal.” Xie Xiao then remembered that she only told Jiang Jiang that human traffickers abducting children and women was illegal, and didn’t mention anything else.

“But the Ji family also has servants,” Jiang Jiang raised a new question.

Xie Xiao’s mouth twitched thinking that, Jiang Jiang shouldn’t have called them that in front of those people, right?

“Those aren’t servants, they’re hired nannies and housekeepers. In essence, it’s a voluntary employment relationship, and either party can terminate the contract at any time.”

Xie Xiao spent a lot of time explaining, and Jiang Jiang finally understood that this world was indeed more free than she imagined, and there was still a lot for her to learn.

However, soon, she had a new question, “Then why are other people so respectful to Ji Xu’an, and respectfully call her President Ji or Miss?”

Xie Xiao shrugged, “Well she’s the boss, the provider of food and clothing.”

Jiang Jiang understood that it seemed that everyone wasn’t completely free.

As the two were talking, Jiang Jiang’s phone, which was placed aside, suddenly rang. The screen showed a string of unfamiliar numbers.

Xie Xiao covered her mouth, “You answer it, I won’t talk.”

Jiang Jiang hesitated for a moment between answering and not answering, and finally chose to answer.

She held the phone with both hands, bringing the screen to her lips, “Hello, who is this?”

Her voice was sweet and pleasant, with a faint nasal sound in the ending, vaguely, like she was acting coquettishly.

No one would have a bad impression of someone with such a voice.

This was a small trick that Jiang Jiang instinctively used to gain favor from others.

The other side was silent for a few seconds, and then a voice that Jiang Jiang was particularly familiar with sounded.

“You didn’t save my number?”

It was Ji Xu’an!!