"Again, someone was sent?" Ji Youran asked with a frown.
Since that day, the British Palace would send people to deliver gifts to Qu Xuexin from time to time. She had to pretend to be Qu Xuexin because she had no choice.
She didn't plan to keep pretending like this. Although she had a limp like Qu Xuexin, she was not Qu Xuexin, and she didn't want to appear in public as Qu Xuexin.
"Did you discover something?" She looked at the eunuch standing beside her. This eunuch was the one who served her and was actually the one who was guarding her.
The eunuch was in a dilemma, he didn't know why things had turned out like this, it was all just for a lie but now he had to keep covering it up.
Ji Youran's affairs are a secret and cannot be known to anyone. Even in the hot spring manor, only the manager and a few trusted guards know about it. But now it has to be made public. Madam Qu lives here, otherwise it cannot explain why the Princess of England sends people to give gifts from time to time.
"It shouldn't be. I heard that Princess Ying is still bedridden. It was someone from the Qu Mansion... The eldest lady of the Qu Mansion knew about her daughter's situation, so she asked Princess Ying to send something over." The eunuch shook his head, feeling uneasy.
For this matter, he specially asked the steward of the East Palace to check it out, and he said that it was indeed the East Palace of Qu Mansion who sent the things over, and it was the idea of the eldest lady of Qu Mansion.
The things all belonged to the East Mansion of the Qu Family. Princess Ying just passed them on through others. Given her relationship with Qu Xuexin, it was impossible for them to be so close.
"Didn't they say that Qu Xuexin has been kicked out of the house?" Ji Youran asked. She had handled the matter personally and didn't care about it. She didn't expect that there would be such a trouble now.
"It's said that Madam Qu loves her daughter. Even though she said before that she would not care about her anymore, she couldn't bear it now... And she didn't give her anything particularly expensive, just some daily necessities. If she gave her something expensive, she was afraid that Princess Ying would be unhappy. Madam Qu also took Princess Ying's feelings into consideration."
The eunuch said with a gloomy face.
He had investigated the matter thoroughly, for he was afraid that there might be something fishy going on. After making sure that it was not the Queen's intention, he was slightly relieved.
Even so, this matter is not easy to handle now.
“Eunuch... are you still going to take it? This won’t never end, will it?” Ji Youran didn’t want to pretend to be Qu Xuexin. On the one hand, she was in no mood to act with the people in Prince Ying’s Palace. On the other hand, she knew that this was not what she should do now. She was “dead” now, and if she wanted to live well, she had to be useful.
This is not useful for pretending to be Qu Xue Xin. Who is Qu Xue Xin? It would be enough for her to die for her. Do I have to live under her name in the future
"Let's meet first." The eunuch said helplessly, and then warned Ji Youran, "Madam, you should know what to say for the best. If you can't get things done, you won't know how you died. At the beginning, there was still someone who could take care of it, but now that person is gone."
"Don't worry, father-in-law. I know." Ji Youran nodded. She didn't want to use Qu Xuexin's name at all...
The maid was brought in. It was Yuxiu. After seeing Ji Youran, she stepped forward and saluted: "This servant greets Madam Qu."
"What's the matter again?" Ji Youran said gloomily.
"Our princess asked me to bring a gift to Madam..." Yuxiu said with a smile.
Ji Youran was annoyed when she heard this again. She slammed her hands on the table and said, "Didn't I tell you not to send any more here? If you do, I will throw them away. I don't want to see anyone from the Qu Mansion."
As he spoke, he pushed the gift box on the table. The gift box was pushed off the table, and several pieces of jewelry fell to the ground. The originally delicate gold threads were immediately broken.
Yuxiu took a step back in fear and said anxiously, "Madam, these are all the things you used before. The eldest lady asked our princess to send them here... Do you really not need them? Even if you don't wear them, at least they can be used as money to protect yourself."
"I don't need it." Ji Youran said coldly. This is what she said in the past, without giving Yuxiu any face. This maid is just a plaster, once it is put on, it cannot be removed. She really doesn't believe that she can't let this maid give up. She has a bad premonition that letting this maid keep pestering her will definitely not be good.
"Madam, you are in the Eastern Palace... Whether it's food or daily necessities, or ordering people around you, don't you need these? It doesn't matter whether you wear it or not. The eldest lady just wants you to keep it here first. There are always some valuables, and maybe they will be useful in the future!" Yuxiu advised.
"No, I don't want anything from the Qu Mansion. Please don't give me anything again in the future. I won't accept it even if you give it to me again." Ji Youran said firmly.
"But this was given by the eldest lady..." Yuxiu looked embarrassed.
“I don’t want that either.” Ji Youran said without hesitation.
"But the eldest lady said...she wanted to see you..." Yuxiu continued.
See me? Ji Youran almost choked on her saliva. She was a fake, how could she see Madam Qu? It seemed that Madam Qu was determined to see her.
"No, I don't want to see her. When such a big thing happened, she didn't stand on my side. Why should I see her now?" Ji Youran said hatefully, as if to put all the blame on Madam Qu.
"What happened back then will be determined by justice. If Madam Qu feels that it is wrong, she can confront our princess face to face to prevent the first lady from being wronged." Yu Xiu said with a serious face when it came to her master.
"Unfair? Whether it's unfair or not, you know it yourself." Ji Youran said disdainfully.
"Madam is wrong." Yu Xiu was not polite, and looked around. "Madam, your current situation is not good, right? I heard that you were demoted. If it weren't for your status, you might not even be demoted to this place. The eldest lady has a mother-daughter relationship with you, and our princess also remembers your surname Qu, otherwise she wouldn't have asked me to come here again and again. If Madam really doesn't care about all this..."
Yuxiu paused here.
Ji Youran suddenly became nervous and asked subconsciously, "What will happen?"
"If you really don't care about all this, our princess wants to sever the sisterhood with Madam Qu and remove Madam Qu's name from the Qu family's genealogy. From now on, whether Madam Qu is good or bad has nothing to do with our princess or the Qu family. I wonder if Madam Qu agrees?"
Yu Xiu looked at Ji Youran coldly, without the flattering attitude she had shown before. "The removal of the sect's genealogy is a big deal. We will have to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess to be witnesses, lest Madam Qu brings this up again in the future, and then it will be an injustice. Our princess cannot afford to harm our sisters from the same clan."
It was obvious that Ji Youran's words just now aroused Yu Xiu's anger. In order to protect her master, this girl tried her best. She even dared to say such words in front of "Qu Xuexin". She really wanted to break off with "Qu Xuexin".
Ji Youran panicked when she heard this, and hurriedly looked at the eunuch. Her identity was not to be made public, and her affairs could not be known to other people. If there was an incident of her being expelled from the family tree, it would be a big deal. Her secret would definitely be revealed in such a big thing, and by that time she would have nowhere to escape and would only have death in the end.
When she was first sent here, Ji Youran didn't understand it. But during this period of time, and after hearing the rumors from the two maids who escaped, Ji Youran has realized that her reputation has been ruined and she is no longer useful. If she wants to live well, she has to be useful and make the prince think that she is useful.
If it works, there is still a possibility in the future. As long as she can give birth to a child, it doesn't matter if her appearance is ruined.
She still has a chance...
The people coming from the northern border are right in front of her. She has been waiting for this opportunity. There can't be any mistakes at this time. After hearing Yuxiu say this, cold sweat broke out on her vest.
The eunuch was also a little panicked, and hurried forward with a smile: "Miss Yuxiu, you have also seen our lady's situation... She is also upset, so she said such things. As a daughter, how could she miss her mother? It's just that in the current situation, our lady has no choice, for fear of implicating the Qu Mansion."
The eunuch pointed around and said that someone had already cleaned the area in the past few days. After all, everyone in the farm knew that a concubine of the prince named Qu lived here. She was demoted, but even if she was demoted, she was still the master. It didn't matter if she lived in such a remote place, but she had to be presentable.
Compared to the moldy place before, it is indeed much better, but from the perspective of the personal maid in the British palace, it is really not that good.
Looking around, Yuxiu's expression softened, and she obviously accepted the eunuch's explanation, but she still said with a puffed face: "The eldest lady said she is not afraid of being implicated. Even if the lady is no longer her daughter, she is still the eldest lady's daughter. The eldest lady wants to see the lady. If she can't see her this time, I'm afraid she will have no chance to see her again when she returns to the East Palace."
"I don't want to see my mother." Ji Youran also adjusted his mood, lowered his head and said firmly.
She pretended to be Qu Xuexin. This might be okay to fool others, but she didn't think she could fool the eldest lady of the Qu family. That was Qu Xuexin's biological mother. The mother and daughter knew a lot of things, so how could an outsider like her know them all? If she knew nothing about anything when asked, she would be exposed.
Judging from the maid’s reaction just now, it can be seen that the lady loves her daughter very much. When she found out that she was a fake, all the previous arrangements were ruined.
She doesn't want to die yet.
"Madam, don't want to see Madam Qu?" Yuxiu frowned. "Madam Qu is worried and must see you."
"No!" Ji Youran said firmly.
"Then... why not meet our princess? If she does, she can persuade the Madam that she is doing well, and she might listen." Yu Xiu thought for a moment and said, but then shook her head, "This may not work. Our princess is still sick and can't see guests now."
When Ji Youran heard the first sentence, she was startled and subconsciously thought of a reason to refuse. After hearing the next sentence, she was immediately overjoyed, "Well... there's really nothing I can do. I originally wanted to meet your princess..."