“What happened?” Old Lady Qu’s heart jolted. She thought that Yu had plotted something evil again. Then her face turned sullen at once.
“Nothing, it’s just... Yesterday, I heard from a servant...” Qu Moying’s face suddenly turned red and she couldn’t continue the sentence.
“You do the talking!” Old Lady Qu looked up at Yu Dong who was standing behind Qu Moying and said that coldly.
“Old Lady, I... I did have... heard something. Lady... Lady Yu...” Yu Dong who had been called by Old Lady Qu knelt down in panic and faltered.
“Be more specific.” Old Lady Qu said in a harsh voice.
“Yes... Yes. I heard Lady Yu say... say that she was preg... pregnant... or... something... like... that. I don’t know whom the father is. I... I didn’t dare to get too close.” Yu Dong got more panicky as he heard Old Lady Qu talking so harshly. Luckily, he managed to finish the whole speech.
Granny Wu realized what he meant a
As Qu Moying just sat down, she heard a maid reporting, “My lady, Young Master Xu wants to see you.”“Tell him to leave!” Qu Moying shook her head.After a moment of hesitation, the maid said, “My lady, Young Master Xu insisted on meeting you. He said if you didn’t agree to meet him, he would break in.”“Break in? You guys can’t even stop a man?” Qu Moying said coldly with a sullen face.The maid didn’t dare to say another word and left. However, after a while, there was a loud noise coming through from the outside.“My lady, Young Master Xu got in!” Yu Dong walked to the window and looked out with a sarcastic smile, “The maids and senior housemaids couldn’t stop him, or they just pretended to stop him.”“My lady, I’ll go.” Yu Chun stood up.“It’s fine. Go invite him in!” Qu Moying said with a cold face. Did Xu Lipeng think that she was afraid of him?The maids and senior h
The old stories about the Qu’s family had been dug out and spread in the capital, including the one that Qu Zhizhen had made his concubine a madam.Yu had done a great job as a madam for all these years. People all regarded her as a qualified madam. However, rumor had it that she had treated the former madam’s daughter badly and was even responsible for the latter’s blindness. What’s more, she had also directed her maid to frame this legal daughter of Vice Prime Minister Qu, trying to destroy Qu Moying’s reputation. After her plan had failed, she had sold the maid right away and told the trader to find a good family for that maid.It meant that she was supporting the maid who tried to hurt the lady.There's another rumor about Vice Prime Minister Qu’s ex-wife. It was said that she had been set up by Yu who had been a noble concubine. Yu had given birth to her children not long after she had married into that family, even earlier than the
Seeing the chaos inside the room, Yue Wenhan pulled a long face. He took a glance at the situation and immediately recognized the people here. He rushed to stand in front of Qu Moying, blocked Qu Zhizhen's hand that was about to fall on her face, and sneered, "Mr. Qu, why do you treat your ex-wife's daughter so harshly after you just came back? I wonder if it's because my family mistreated you when you stayed in the Yue's Mansion during your trip to the South."Qu Moying's mother Yue was born in a scholarly family in the South. The Yue’s Family was not powerful but had a decent reputation, respected by many civil officials.Yue Wenhan was a previous principal graduate of the Imperial Examination. With his family background and great competence, he had already become the vice minister of the Dali Temple, a level-four official, at a young age. His rank was still lower than Qu Zhizhen's, but he climbed up the ladder with his own abilities and had a promising f
"Since Mr. Yue is already here to discuss the matter, please take a seat first. I do want to hear your opinion on this," the Old Lady finally uttered something. She smiled at the young man as Granny Wu sent someone to serve him tea."Thank you, Mrs. Qu!" Yue Wenhan still had much respect for the Old Lady. Her words softened the stern look on his face, and he bowed to her politely, "I was too worried about my cousin. Please forgive me for my rudeness, Mrs. Qu!"The young man turned back to his usual gracious look, leaving a good impression on the Old Lady. She smiled back again, saying that he didn't need to worry about it.Everyone sat down on their seats in order. Yu Chun helped Yu Dong up, and both of them stood back behind Qu Moying.Yu still tried to say something, but then she noticed Yue Wenhan's cold gaze falling on her. She held Qu Qiuyan's hand and shook her head quietly, signaling her to stay silent.However,
"My lord, what about Qingmeng? What about Qingmeng now? If we break off the engagement, they will never allow Qingmeng to marry into the Xu’s Family. Marchioness Yongning won't agree." Tears flowed down Yu's cheeks. She stared at Qu Zhizhen with a pitiful look on her face, sobbing. If it were before, Qu Zhizhen would soon soften and agree to her request.However, he was still annoyed by Yue Wenhan since he made him lose face in public. At the same time, hearing Yu talking about Qingmeng this whole time instead of Qu Moying became even more irritating. He flew into a rage and reached out to push Yu away rudely.That was not what Yu expected. She stepped back and almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Auntie Hai reacted quickly and stepped forward to keep her from falling."My lord..." Yu whined and pouted as her tears fell down."Stop, stop, stop! All you know is crying. Can you do something useful? Look at you, letting your own ni
"Ming Xian'er?""Right, her name's Ming Xian'er. The group she belongs to, the Xifu Opera Group, is quite difficult to book for private performances. Since the Crown Prince is fond of one male-role performer in that group, they usually stay at his mansion and rarely take performance invitations from outside. I didn't expect that they would agree to come this time. It's truly surprising..."The Old Lady was still talking. Since the matter about Qu Moying was settled, the Old Lady finally had some spare time to consider her birthday banquet. She was in a good mood and started to share this pleasant thing with her granddaughter.Qu Moying listened to the Old Lady's prattle smilingly. Gradually, the sound faded away as she lost in her own thoughts. This was not the first time she heard the name "Ming Xian'er," and she could even be considered acquaintance in her past life.Ming Xian'er was known as the star of the Xifu Opera Group, but
"Send her back to the Crown Prince. Tell him she's my gift!" Pei Yuanjun said lazily."Yes, my lord!" A guard came over and dragged the woman out."Thank you, my lord! Thank you!" The woman was staring at the air blankly before. Hearing Pei Yuanjun's words, a trace of shock flashed across her eyes, and then she felt overjoyed.She was not going to be killed!She not only survived but also was sent back to the Crown Prince. Didn't it mean that she became Lord Yun's gift for the Crown Prince?She used to be a music performer that served in the Crown Prince's Mansion. When she was there, she heard that the Crown Prince valued Lord Yun's opinions a lot. Now since she became a gift from the lord, the Crown Prince had to treat her well.Compared to Lord Yun, she preferred the Crown Prince much more...The room fell into silence after the woman was dragged out. Pei Yuanjun stood up and walked to the
In her past life, Ji Hanyue loved reading. For that, her loving father had built an exclusive study in her yard to store many books he collected, including some casual reading ones.Once in a while, she would put on some neat clothes instead of a dress and practice sword dance as an exercise when no one was there.As for embroidery, she was not good at it at all. She could, at the most, do some simple embroidery, not letting the thread ends come out of the pattern. But her embroidery could definitely not be considered a decent gift for the Old Lady.Since Qu Moying had an eye problem in her current life, making embroidery was really harmful to her eyes. People around her didn't let her spend too much time on it, so the embroidery she made was just average, far from being outstanding.The Old Lady's banquet would be the first time for Qu Moying to show up in public as her granddaughter. Many people would attend the event and see eve
"Miss Liu, the king said that there is no female master in the residence, so he is not in a position to receive you, and asked if there is anything important you need?" A guard descended from the steps and walked to Liu Lanxin's carriage, giving a respectful salute inside.Liu Lanxin's carriage was again blocked in front of the Ying Wang Mansion."It's an important matter, a message from father's side." Liu Lanxin reached out and pressed the cuff of his sleeve, there was indeed a letter there, a letter to the King of England.The guards didn't dare to delay the border matter and said to Liu Lanxin, "Miss Liu wait a moment."After saying that, he turned around and went inside to report.This time it took a little longer to get in, long enough for the originally chesty Liu Lanxin to feel like things weren't a little unexpected again.Finally, the guards reappeared and smiled at Liu Lanxin, "Miss Liu, our king invites you in.""Good!" A big sto
Zhu Yan'er did not expect Yu Dong actually remembered her, and also demolished her identity, but in her reaction is also fast, slightly flustered after, immediately asked with a smile; "Which house are you from?""Slave servant is from the Qu Mansion, Miss Zhu, please." Yu Dong moved to the side and reached out to lead the way to the private room.Zhu Yan'er this is also difficult to ride the tiger, had to make a look with a few points of bewilderment to the private room, as if she really did not mean it, originally just want to make some trouble out of it, and now also put themselves into it.Yu Dong, the maid, was still recognized by the people around her just now.Her features carried a bit of the innate cluelessness of a young girl, easily inviting, and while some were skeptical, there was a part of her that was immediately convinced that she was truly innocent.It's just the maids under her that are petulant.A maid is not good, even the mast
That rather strange Mr. Zhao was actually amongst the crowd, standing with his hands behind his back under a store on one side, watching the slowly moving carriages on the street.Looking at his upright posture, it is hard to believe that he actually also came to see the fun, should be coincidentally encountered, and he has been blocked up like himself."Mr. Zhao?" Yu Dong saw her stop moving and her gaze looked over.Qu Mo Ying nodded and turned to leave after a couple more looks.Down the stairs, got into the carriage, followed the traffic slowly forward, the curtain of the window of the car outside a layer had been picked up before, the inner layer is made of yarn, from the inside can see the outside, but the outside can not see clearly inside.It wasn't annoying to pass by while looking at the passersby on both sides of the road.See that Zhao Gongzi again, a flash, in fact, did not see clearly, this Zhao Gongzi seems to be talking to a person
"Is it Fourth Miss Qu?" Outside was a maid, looking a little familiar, Yu Dong thought a little and immediately recognized it."It's our young lady." With a slight smile, she stepped forward and replied, giving a bow to the woman standing behind her, Miss Liu Lanxin, the daughter of the Auxiliary General, still wearing the appearance of a thin veil over her eyes."Our lady is from the Auxiliary General's residence, and we have met your lady before." The maiden laughed."Slave girl will go report to our young lady." Yu Dong turned around and went in, and when she came out again she invited Miss Liu in."Miss Liu!" Qu Mo Ying stood up and saluted.Liu Lanxin also smiled and gave a salute, and the two of them politely took their seats."Fang looked like Fourth Miss Qu, so I came over to meet her." Liu Lanxin smiles, "Since the last time I saw Fourth Miss Qu, I didn't expect to see her after such a long time."The last time the two met was in th
The carriage slowly moved forward, Qu Mo Ying sat in the carriage, there has been a period of time did not go to the auxiliary to visit, this time to take advantage of the matter of clothes to go by the way to go to the Yueyi Pavilion to take a look.Qi Gongfu today and sent people over, said some details of the matter, the dowager lady thought to also pay attention to some details, never let people from the top of the clothes than the Qi Gongfu.The more clothes cabinet is doing this kind of business, Qu Mo Ying got the meaning of the dowager lady to the more clothes cabinet to pick some of their own, but also with the shopkeeper Yang aunt to discuss how to better, this aspect of Yang aunt can be regarded as a competent hand, the most will help people accessorize the clothes, some small details, it is possible to affect the overall feeling."Why is it still stuck in traffic?" The carriage had been stuck in the traffic jam for some time, Qu Mo Ying gently lifted th
Sister Miao was from the northern border and had come to the capital before to find someone to join her.In fact, it's not really a family member, just looking for the original village old folks, the village because of a disaster, almost no one escaped again.This part of the past, what Qu Mo Ying knew was not clear, this was Sister Miao's hidden pain, since Sister Miao was not willing to talk about it in detail, she would not force her.In the next period of time, the Duke of Qi's residence sent people over from time to time to deal with some small problems in the details, fearing that there would be the slightest mistake.Attitude prudent so that Mrs. Qu feel that the Duke of Qi is not too much attention, originally just change one of the three, is not the most important set of clothes at the time of the big make-up.Qi Gongfu so practice let her a lot of pressure, as if Qi Gongfu do more than she this pro-grandmother, but also on the heart, is to sho
"Miss, this is the jewelry sent by the Duke of Qi's residence, saying that it's for use with the clothes." Yu Dong walked in with a gift box in her hand.The gift box was put down, and after Sister Yan walked over and opened it, she took a look at it and nodded, "Miss, this is an excellent set of jewelry, it's very suitable for a maturity dress, and I'm afraid the value of this isn't small.""After dispensing, send it back." Qu Mo Ying's eyes were pale as he said."Sending it back, miss, I'm afraid this is not in keeping with etiquette!" Sister Yan shook her head, a big family, since it was sent, where was the reason to return it."The Duke of Qi gave me such a big gift, where can I accept it raw, I have to return the gift, choose one of similar value and return the gift!"Qu Mo Ying thought for a moment and said, she was not willing to owe the Duke of Qi at all, as long as she thought of her mother's death, she felt that the jewelry in front of her wei
"Mother, what is the matter you called me over for?" As Liu Jingyu entered, she playfully bowed to Mrs. Liu."Sit here mother." Mrs. Willow beckoned to her.Seeing her mother's rare closeness, Liu Jingyu was in quite a good mood as she took two steps forward and sat down next to Mrs. Liu.Mrs. Liu looked at Liu Jingyu to say something."Mother, what's wrong with you?" Seeing Mrs. Liu in this form, Liu Jingyu's face sank and she asked eagerly."There is nothing much, just heard the news that came from the Duke of Qi's house before, and felt ..." Mrs. Liu sighed a long breath, and the words came here, and for a while she actually couldn't go on."What did Grandmother do again? Something to do with Qu Mo Ying?" Liu Jingyu asked almost intuitively.The feeling as if she was a natural enemy immediately lifted her spirits.Mrs. Liu nodded gently, "Your maternal grandmother recently did not know what was wrong, but actually so close to this y
"What does Mrs. Qi mean?" Mrs. Qu looked at the matron of the Duke of Qi's house in front of her and said in surprise."Qu second lady's matter, we all feel guilty all over the house, the old Duke of State almost wanted to move to Jiangnan, directly to Qu second lady's father to ask for forgiveness, but the Duke of State did not agree, the old Duke of State must be older after all, I heard that the Qu fourth young lady is going to have her maturity rite, our dowager lady's intention, want to make a set of clothes for the Qu fourth young lady."The granny sent by the Duke of Qi's residence was very good at talking, sighing, feeling, and finally longing.The people of the King's House came and left with great fanfare, a little inquiring to know the meaning of the King's House, actually want to make a set of dresses for this Qu fourth young lady at the time of the maturity of the big makeup."His Highness the King of England has already sent someone." Mrs. Qu wa