Chapter 566 - 167 Encounter_4
"I dare not," Mei Xiang continued, "It’s just that as of now, the Jiang Family has not given up looking for Jiang Youyao. If Jiang Yuanbai finds out that Jiang Youyao’s death is related to Your Highness, I fear he will spare no effort to grasp a handle against Your Highness. Your Highness now has the little son..." If Jiang Yuanbai found evidence that Princess Yongning was pregnant, and if he played any tricks with the child in Yongning’s belly, that would indeed be a loss greater than the gain.
Impatience flickered between Princess Yongning’s eyebrows, "Cannot kill her? Then are we to keep her?"
"Your Highness, why not send her to the Private Prison first," Mei Xiang suggested. "Many people have already stayed in Your Highness’s Private Prison. Having Miss Jiang the Third stay there won’t draw any attention. Besides, just like those mute children in Eldest Young Master Li’s room, feed Miss Jiang the Third a Mute Medicine, lock her up in the Private Prison for a year or two. Once the Jiang Family stops searching for Jiang Youyao, she can be sent on her way."
Jiang Youyao clearly heard Mei Xiang lay out her fate and immediately shed tears. She was extremely terrified and suddenly regretted her choices, wishing she had stayed with the Jiang Family. At least there, she was Miss Jiang the Third, where no one dared to mistreat her. Had she not left the Jiang Family that night, she wouldn’t have encountered Li Lian on the road, wouldn’t have been taken to the Right Chancellor’s Residence. Had she not been in the Right Chancellor’s Residence, she wouldn’t have seen Princess Yongning, wouldn’t have learned Princess Yongning’s secret, wouldn’t be silenced. And if she died, no one would know, no one to claim her body!
Right, Li Lian! She still had Li Lian! Hope suddenly reignited wildly in Jiang Youyao’s heart. As long as Li Lian came back and noticed her absence, he would certainly search everywhere for her. Once Li Lian learned that she had been taken away by Princess Yongning, he would surely demand her return. Li Lian could save her!
But in the next moment, the words of Princess Yongning and Mei Xiang were like a bucket of cold water, thoroughly extinguishing Jiang Youyao’s hope with a "pfft."
Princess Yongning said, "This Jiang Youyao is now Li Lian’s person. If we take her away, Li Lian is likely to come and demand her return."
"That’s not necessarily so," Mei Xiang said with a smile. "Now that Jiang Youyao is staying at the Li Family, nobody outside knows, and it should be the same for the Jiang Family. It looks like Chancellor Li is also in the dark. What Your Highness took away was just an ordinary maid, not Jiang Youyao. Young Master Li the Second won’t dare to acknowledge Jiang Youyao’s identity and will acquiesce instead. Your Highness is the princess and to discipline a common maid is an easy task. Young Master Li the Second will not argue with the princess and may even thank the princess for disciplining his household."