"Master, you must know this. I've heard Lady Yuan talk about you before." Qu Moying said slowly, as if he didn't notice Master Ning Yin's stiffness at this moment.
"Has Princess Ying met Concubine Yuan?" Master Ning Yin took a deep breath and slowly turned around.
"Of course I have met and talked to you in this palace." Qu Moying said with a smile.
"I do know Miss Yuan, but I'm not very familiar with her." Master Ning Yin said slowly, his eyes cast on Qu Moying's face with scrutiny.
Qu Moying looked very calm, as if she was just saying it casually and had no intention of discussing it further. When he heard her say that, he smiled and nodded.
Master Ning Yin felt relieved. He bowed to Qu Moying again, turned around and left. His originally happy and excited mood became uneasy because of Qu Moying's question.
Should I tell this to the abbot
If I tell him, will the master know that I am interested in the prince? Before the matter is completely official, the master must not know about it.
She tightly clenched the case file in her hand. This was her own intention. The master of the temple had always had only Miss Yuan in his mind.
She wants to find a way out for herself...
Her hands relaxed slightly. Princess Ying had only said this and it was nothing. It might be that when she met Concubine Yuan in the palace, Concubine Yuan mentioned it herself.
As Princess Ying said, although the harem is large, she and Lady Yuan still have many chances to meet, which is really nothing...
After thinking this through, Master Ning Yin's frown eased a little and she looked at the case file in her hand. The abbot had been keeping her under his watch in the Taoist temple, but hadn't found a suitable candidate for the position. If he didn't choose her, she would be really old, and even if she was chosen by then, the other party might not necessarily look down on her.
How many years of youth does a girl have? She can't wait any longer.
If she missed this opportunity, she might never see the future. She was unwilling to stay at Qingyun Temple, even if the temple master promised that everything in Qingyun Temple would be hers...
What Yuan Meiren can do, she can do too, and she can do it even better...
Among the girls who were together at the beginning, she and Concubine Yuan were the most outstanding. Concubine Yuan could enter the palace and have a good future, so why couldn't she
Concubine Yuan can start from the appearance of the former Crown Princess, and she can start from the preferences of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
Although the support of the temple master is missing, it is never too late for God's will to come, and this case file is...
Thinking about her future, where she could be connected with the Crown Prince, Master Ning Yin's breathing quickened, and her face flushed slightly. She quickened her pace and headed for her residence. She had to think carefully about how to write a letter, how to talk about the Princess of England, and how to let the Crown Prince know her gentleness and understanding without making a sound...
Qu Moying stood up slowly and watched Master Ning Yin leave. The smile on her face slowly faded away. Her long eyelashes fluttered twice and her eyes became dim.
Yuxiu stood behind her and followed her gaze as Master Ning Yin left: "Master, Lady Yuan is indeed related to the Master of Qingyun Temple."
“Behind Concubine Yuan is the head of Qingyun Temple. Concubine Yuan’s father is my cousin’s second uncle. Concubine Yuan looks a bit like my cousin. If she dresses up properly, she will look even more like her. In some ways, she looks more like my cousin than Ji Youran. Concubine Yuan was selected to enter the palace before my cousin officially married into the East Palace. No one in the Ji Mansion knew about this.”
Qu Moying turned around and sat down in front of the brocade stool, speaking in a faint voice.
Yuxiu thought about what Qu Moying said and couldn't help but shudder: "Master, this matter... Was this matter premeditated?"
If it had not been premeditated, this Concubine Yuan would not have entered the palace so early. When she thought about it carefully, it was really horrifying. Yuxiu was also a maid who had seen the world, but she felt that the deeper she dug into this matter, the more frightening it became. It involved too many things and too much information, which frightened her.
A little Concubine Yuan is nothing, but why did this little Concubine Yuan enter the palace so early
She has been out of favor in the palace for so many years and may not even have seen the emperor. She is only given the title of "beauty" and has been living in a corner of the palace, and she seems to be living a good life.
If she hadn't met the emperor, it would have been impossible for her to be favored. Even if she had met the emperor, with her looks, it would have been impossible for her to be favored. After all, the emperor had met Ji Hanyue.
So why did she enter the palace
If the target is not the emperor, then it must be... the prince
If the Crown Princess was fine, the Crown Prince would never care about Concubine Yuan. Wouldn't Concubine Yuan be a useless move
When the master was testing her just now, Yuxiu had been staring at Master Ning Yin. It was obvious that Master's sudden words made Master Ning Yin very nervous. Although she didn't say anything in the end, she had actually shown a lot. Lady Yuan was indeed familiar with her, otherwise she wouldn't have been so nervous.
She wasn't this nervous when she was "forcing" her master just now. Such a simple sentence made her look a little stiff.
Thinking back to what she had found out, Yuxiu found many things coherent.
"Master, the abbot of Qingyun Temple has a relationship with the second master of the Ji Mansion, which means she has a relationship with Ji Youran. They should have been in contact with each other a long time ago!" Yu Xiu said, connecting some previous events with the present. No wonder Ji Youran would trick her and her son to come to the abbot of Qingyun Temple's quiet room at that time.
Before, it was only said that the master of Qingyun Temple was extremely rare.
But he has such a good relationship with Ji Youran. If there is no other reason, he would never do such a thing.
"Master, could this Lady Yuan have been living here all along? The place where the nuns lived before... I feel it is different from other places." Yu Chun suddenly exclaimed.
"What's the difference?" Qu Moying finally came back to his senses and asked with a smile.
"Although nuns in other places also live together, they are not like Qingyun Temple, where there is a separate entrance. That is where the nuns live, and pilgrims cannot enter. Even if the nuns hide something in there, no one will know."
Yuchun Road.
She had followed her master in at that time and had not thought too much about it at first. But now that she thought that Lady Yuan might be hiding here, she immediately felt that this place was really secluded. If they hadn't had the Taoist nun from Qingyun Temple leading them, they would have had no chance of finding her.
"Master, Yuchun is right. A place like this is the best hiding place. Not to mention one Miss Yuan, even if there are more, no one would know if they hid in such a place. Just like Master Ning Yin, I have never heard of her before, but she has always been there, and it seems that she is highly regarded by the master of Qingyun Temple."
Yuxiu took up the topic with a serious face.
That place actually looked like the inner courtyard gate of a noble family!
"So... you all think that Lady Yuan lived in Qingyun Temple?" Qu Moying smiled.
"That's what I think."
"I think so too." The two maids nodded. The more they thought about it, the more possible it seemed.
Before, I only thought that the abbot of Qingyun Temple was an otherworldly sage, a carefree and carefree person like a wild crane. It was normal that I didn't see him usually. Now, the skin of this abbot of Qingyun Temple has been stripped off, and what I see is completely different from what I heard before. This abbot of Qingyun Temple is very suspicious.
What they did was even more suspicious.
What she did had a bit of conspiracy flavor...
"Could it be that Concubine Yuan entered the palace because of my cousin?" Qu Moying smiled, her eyes looking dim and without a ripple, except for the last bit in her eyes, which was inexplicably cold.
The two maids looked at each other. Yuchun was a little flustered and didn't dare to speak. She followed her master. Even though her master didn't seem to be upset, she knew that her master was in a bad mood.
Seeing Yuchun like this, Yuxiu finally spoke: "Master, I think it might be."
This answer was given cautiously. Although it was only one sentence, it made Yuxiu tremble with fear. The meaning of this sentence made her heart tremble. If... it was true, it meant that Concubine Yuan and the master of Qingyun Temple behind Concubine Yuan knew early on that something would happen to the former Crown Princess.
Moreover, Concubine Yuan is actually the prince's stepmother!
Didn't they say it was just an accident? How come... it was really predicted long ago, and at that time the Crown Princess hadn't married into the East Palace yet.
The former Crown Princess had not yet married into the Eastern Palace, nor had the Eastern Palace wedding been assassinated, nor had the Eastern Palace Crown Princess been injured while protecting the Crown Prince, nor had the Crown Princess been seriously injured and asked Ji Youran to go to the Eastern Palace to take care of her, nor had Ji Youran become a concubine of the Eastern Palace, nothing had happened to the former Crown Princess...
Yuxiu didn't dare to think any further, she lowered her head, clenched her fists tightly, and felt even more uneasy...
What should we do now
Can my master really investigate this matter
The former Crown Princess... The matter of the former Crown Princess... Was it really just an accident
"Before entering the palace, Concubine Yuan once lived in the Ling'an Marquis's residence. She must have been helped by the second wife of the Ling'an Marquis's residence. Regardless of whether Concubine Yuan's surname was Yuan before, she entered the palace as the daughter of a minor official with the surname Yuan. At that time, my cousin and my uncle had not gotten into trouble yet, and the second wife of the Ji Mansion was still nothing."
Qu Moying smiled, even with a bit of glamour, and her delicate features had a kind of breathtaking beauty, but also a kind of breathtaking weirdness: "Sure enough, everything is arranged, every detail is arranged very properly, whether it is before or after the event, everything is arranged... just waiting..."
Just wait for Ji Hanyue to die in the East Palace and daddy to die in Ling Anbo's Mansion, then everyone's plans will have a perfect result.
So many people were waiting for their death news, but I knew nothing at that time and was only waiting to get married. My father knew nothing at that time and repeatedly reminded me that after I entered the Eastern Palace, I must serve the prince carefully and not lose my temper because of my temper. I must be more dignified and decent in the future.
But who knew that everyone already knew their ending, had predicted their fate, and watched their lively wedding with cold eyes, more like watching a joke...
So many people are weaving a web, and the web involves the lives of everyone in the Ling Anbo Mansion...