A moment later, Qiu Mingzhu, with a pale face, walked in with a chill all over her body. Her feet were wearing the silk shoes she had put on when she went to bed. They had been soaked by snow and water along the way, leaving a series of marks on the thick green carpet in the inner room.
She is two years older than Qiu Yilan, and her biological mother is Aunt Tian. Since she could not become a princess when she was a concubine, she could only be called Fourth Miss.
Aunt Tian has fallen out of favor, but a few years ago she recommended her cousin Aunt Bian to join the family. Aunt Bian, who is only eighteen years old this year, is as beautiful as a flower and can sing and dance well. Relying on Aunt Bian, the mother and daughter lived quite well in the palace.
It is said that Qiu Mengmin once promised that if Aunt Bian gave birth to a male heir, he would immediately appoint her as a concubine, which shows that Aunt Bian was favored.
"... It seems that either Mrs. Lu did not wrongly accuse Princess Yang; or it was Princess Yang who reacted so quickly that she knew something happened to Qiu Hongzhi and immediately pushed Aunt Bian out?" Qiu Yilan was thinking in her mind and looked at her face, which was so cold that she turned black. Qing Qiu Mingzhu walked in tremblingly and thought to herself, "But I can only protect myself now. Why did Qiu Mingzhu come to me?"
Thinking of this, she spoke softly: "Fourth sister, why did you come to my place?"
Qiu Mingzhu said anxiously: "Fifth sister! Can I hide here with you? Just hide until dawn, okay?"
"Huh?" Qiu Yilan frowned, "What does Fourth Sister mean by this?"
"The princess unjustly accused Aunt Bian of pushing my eldest brother into the lake!" Qiu Mingzhu burst into tears before she could finish her words. "Grandma said that it was the princess who instigated Aunt Bian to push my eldest brother into the lake. My mother, Aunt Tian, had already been captured by them. I went to interrogate, but Ruyi who was next to Aunt Bian secretly ran to me and told me, so I hid! "
Qiu Yilan frowned and said, "Fourth sister, you are dragging me down. You also know my status in this palace! You ran here in such disheveled clothes, I was afraid that you would freeze and I had to open the door for you. But, If someone finds you in my house later, what do you want me to say? Then I will be implicated in my brother's fall into the lake!"
"I will hide until dawn! You are in a remote place, and it was the princess who sent you back just now. No one may come to find you!" Qiu Mingzhu begged, "Aunt Bian is really wronged! You believe me! After dawn, I will go find my father... I will definitely come back to make decisions for Aunt Bian!" She promised, "Aunt Bian will not forget your great kindness!"
"No!" Qiu Mingzhu cried so hard that even Su He couldn't bear it, but Qiu Yilan still refused with a heart of stone, "Now I have saved my life! You'd better leave quickly! "
After saying that, she asked Zhou's mother, "Take the fur coat I made last year, put it on the fourth sister, and send her out!"
Zhou's mother was not like Su He. She also agreed not to wade into this troubled water. She immediately agreed, took Qiu Yi and pushed Qiu Mingzhu out.
Seeing this, a trace of resentment flashed across Qiu Mingzhu's face: "Do you still have a conscience?! You are a poor person yourself, why don't you help me?"
"Because I'm so pitiful!" Qiu Yilan said lightly, "How can I have the time to pity others?"
Seeing that she didn't feel guilty at all, Qiu Mingzhu broke away from Zhou's mother's hand and said through gritted teeth: "Okay! Since you are unwilling to help me, then I... I..."
When Su He heard this, he hurriedly stood in front of Qiu Yilan and looked at her warily, worried that she was going to say: "Then I will fight with you!" Zhou's mother also tried her best to hold on to Qiu Mingzhu and not let go.
As a result, Qiu Mingzhu said "I" for a long time, and what she said was: "...I...I will die for you!"
Qiu Yilan and Su He both laughed. Qiu Yilan seemed to hear someone chuckle at the same time outside the back window, but it was covered up by her and Su He's laughter. Her thoughts moved slightly, and she secretly I'm glad I didn't agree to Qiu Mingzhu.
At this moment, let Su He go up and hold Qiu Mingzhu together: "Then I don't dare to keep you anymore. I'm used to living in this courtyard and I really don't want to change places. Fourth sister, please let me go. After all, we used to do our own thing. I haven’t even seen him in the courtyard a few times. It’s not easy to hide in such a big palace, but you still want to embarrass me. Do you think it’s unreasonable for you?”
"There are no fires in those houses..."
"Is it okay if I give you the fur coat?" Qiu Yilan interrupted, "My boots are too small for you to wear. If you are still not satisfied, you can hug the quilt and leave, but you can't stay here!"
There was a look of resentment in Qiu Mingzhu's eyes. She walked to the door, suddenly turned around and said viciously: "If I get caught, tell me that you persuade me to stay here, and then leave the house after dawn to find my father! You!" You don’t want to help me, but you still want to stay out of it? That’s a dream!”
Su He and Zhou's mother's faces changed color at the same time!
Mother Zhou, who is not good at verbal disputes, was angry: "Fourth Miss, my princess has limited abilities and has already taken good care of you - you, how could you do this?!"
"Huh! That's what I am like. Either you keep me, help me hide until dawn, and help me sneak out of the house to find my father." Qiu Mingzhu sneered, "Otherwise, I will go to the princess and tell me that you persuade me so !”
"There is a saying that pitiful people must be hateful." Qiu Yilan smiled to stop what Su He was about to say, and said to her kindly, "Do you know why I didn't pity her just now?"
Su He said angrily: "I wouldn't have let her in earlier!"
"Princess, what should we do now?" Zhou's mother looked at Qiu Mingzhu bitterly and asked.
Qiu Yilan looked at the confident Qiu Mingzhu and said with interest: "What else can we do? Isn't the elder brother just an example? He took off her fur clothes and threw her into the lake! She froze to death... That is committing suicide out of fear of crime!"
Qiu Mingzhu was shocked: "You...!"
Su He hurriedly asked: "What if he doesn't freeze to death?"
"Then push her into the lake first and drown her!" Qiu Yilan smiled, "It's still death anyway. I don't think the fourth sister will care so much, right? In the dead of night, everyone is drowned by the elder brother. The thing about the lake is over. You and Zhou’s mother go and finish the matter together... I remember that no one came in tonight!”
"Wait a minute!" Seeing that Zhou's mother and Su He seemed to agree, Qiu Mingzhu was finally shocked and shouted, "Aren't you afraid that my father will find out and ask you to pay for my life?"
"I am the princess and you are a concubine. Your life is not worth my life!" Qiu Yilan said lightly, "Besides, eldest brother still doesn't know what's going on, and Aunt Bian is involved again. Do you think uncle is still there? Does Kung Fu care about you?”
Desperation flashed across Qiu Mingzhu's eyes. When she saw Su He reaching for a nearby heavy copper lampstand with the intention of knocking herself unconscious, she became really anxious and said hurriedly: "I'm just kidding, how could I slander you? You helped me." I can’t thank you enough—wait! I know a secret!”