"Could you please find a quiet place for me, Madam? I want to ask what happened to my cousin." Qu Moying turned to the wife of Duke Yu and asked.
There was nothing that Lady Yuguogong couldn't agree to. She knew that they were meeting for the first time and would definitely have a lot to talk about, and there seemed to be a lot going on.
"I still have things to deal with. Yanyue, you just stay here with Princess Ying." Lady Yuguo stood up.
"Yes, mother." Ji Yanyue wiped her tears and agreed.
Lady Yuguogong looked at Qu Moying deeply, suppressed the throbbing in her heart, and walked out slowly.
She was also a woman who had experienced many things. Just now, this news had made her flustered and lost her composure. Now that she had calmed down, she was able to act with confidence.
There is no point in her being anxious about this matter now. She has to wait for the servants from the Qu Mansion to come, otherwise everything she says will be false.
This would leave the house to the sisters.
"Cousin, what happened that day? Where did you go? Did anything happen?" Qu Moying asked anxiously after the wife of Duke Yuguo left.
Now there are only his confidant and Ji Yanyue in the flower hall.
"Cousin... I... I don't know what happened. It was my father who asked me to go. It was Daddy... who told me to leave first. He said... let me go first and talk later..." Ji Yanyue burst into tears.
She had been feeling depressed for so long, and the situation at that time was still vivid in her mind. She didn't know what had happened, and she didn't even dare to go to the yamen. Although there were official documents for her there, she didn't dare to go. All this was arranged by her father.
"That day, when my sister's bridal sedan left the house, my father sent someone over. He told me to leave immediately and to stay out for a day or two. If nothing happened, I could come back. But if something happened in the mansion, even if I heard that my father and sister were dead, I couldn't come back."
Ji Yanyue said slowly that she still didn't understand what happened that day, but that didn't stop her from following her father's instructions and secretly leaving Ling Anbo's Mansion.
She left in the cover of night and in the chaos. The mansion was in a state of disorder at that time. On the wedding day, there were guests to be entertained, both from the outer courtyard and the inner courtyard. Since she was still young, she did not have to take on any responsibilities. She only talked for a while with a familiar daughter of a noble family, and then she listened to her father and left.
Because she left in a hurry, she only had time to take some simple clothes and her two personal maids.
The three of them were all dressed like ordinary women. The two maids were a little older and looked like older sisters. They secretly left with one of Ling Anbo's confidants.
The original destination was a safe place, which was arranged by Ling Anbo early on.
But unexpectedly, there were pursuers in the dark night, and someone was chasing after them. In order to stop the pursuers, Ling Anbo's confidants let them go first.
The master and his two servants fled for their lives in a panic and even fell in the dark. The pursuers behind them seemed to be approaching again.
A maid asked Ji Yanyue to stay where she was while she led the people away, but Ji Yanyue was unwilling to let her personal maid take risks.
In the end, it was this maid who snatched her blood jade bracelet and led the pursuers away.
Ji Yanyue and another maid waited for a long time but their maid didn't come, so they had no choice but to stumble forward. They had no idea which direction to go, so they just ran forward instinctively, away from Ling Anbo's mansion, the farther the better. In the end, they missed a step, and the maid tried to pull her up, and the two of them fell down the slope together.
He came down and then fainted. Later he met the Prince of Yuguo, who rescued him and settled him here.
The next day, news came that the Crown Prince was getting married, the East Palace was assassinated, and the Crown Princess was seriously injured while trying to save the Crown Prince.
Upon hearing the news, Ling Anbo was so anxious that his old injury relapsed and he fell ill.
Something happened to the two closest relatives at the same time, and from outside it seemed that it was all because of the assassin, and the assassin wanted to assassinate the crown prince. One could only sigh that the crown princess had a bad fate, and also sigh that the fate of Ling Anbo's mansion was not good.
Ji Yanyue felt panic, deep panic, the kind of fear that came from the bottom of her bones.
Did Dad know about this a long time ago
How did Daddy know? Who are those people who are chasing her? Why are they chasing her? She is just a weak girl in the boudoir. She knows nothing and understands nothing. Why are they chasing her
What happened to my sister? Who harmed her
Her father's previous warnings were still ringing in her ears, making her even more frightened.
Ji Yanyue didn't dare to go back home or look for her sister. She just hid her surname and lived in the manor of Duke Yuguo's mansion. She just said that her family met a strong man and everyone was killed, and she was the only one who escaped.
Lady Yuguogong felt sorry for her background, and seeing that she behaved gently, had the demeanor of a noble lady, and her every word and action was pleasing to the eye, she took her in as her goddaughter.
When she was escaping at night, she broke her arm and it hasn’t fully healed yet. A doctor said it might be like this for the rest of her life and she can’t move it flexibly…
Ji Yanyue cried as she spoke all the stories. Sometimes, she became incoherent due to her excitement and even repeated herself several times.
Qu Moying listened to her quietly the whole time, and didn't interrupt her even when she repeated herself.
Her eyes were filled with tears. Her sister, the sister she had protected since she was a child, almost lost her life. She was lucky to be alive now.
She originally thought that she had no relatives left in this world, but unexpectedly, God was still kind to her.
After Ji Yanyue had roughly recounted what happened and calmed down a little, Qu Moying poured her a glass of water and handed it to her: "Cousin, why didn't you go to the government office? People from the government office should have looked for you before, right?"
"I don't dare to go. Daddy said that day... I don't know who wants to harm us... harm my sister and daddy. I want to find out the truth... and clear Daddy and sister's name." Ji Yanyue took the water cup and took a sip. A trace of hatred flashed in her originally weak eyes. "Then they actually let my eldest sister enter the Eastern Palace. She went to the Eastern Palace to take care of my sister? Sure enough, what I saw at that time was true."
"What did you see?" Qu Moying asked in surprise.
"One time, I went to the yard to pick flowers, and I saw my eldest sister and the prince arguing with each other. I panicked and made some noise. After the prince left, my eldest sister came over to explain that she was not careful when picking flowers and almost fell. Fortunately, the prince helped her up. I believed her at the time, but I didn't expect...she...she was so..."
Ji Yanyue really couldn't continue. If she had died that night, she might never have known until her death that her cousin would be such a vicious woman.
Fortunately she didn't die, fortunately she is still alive.
“What are you talking about taking care of my sister? It’s obvious that... he and the prince... kept it a secret from my sister... Poor sister doesn’t know anything yet, and she even went to block the sword for the prince... My sister... she..." Ji Yanyue began to tremble, feeling that her sister’s death was unjust.
She couldn't say those words, but the facts were there.
"Yan Yue, it's all over. What you owe must be repaid. God is always watching." Qu Moying comforted Ji Yan Yue softly.
"But my sister...my sister is gone!" Ji Yanyue shed tears.
Ever since leaving Ling Anbo's Mansion, Ji Yanyue would only shed tears silently when she was alone. At other times, she looked like an ordinary girl.
She knew that without her father and sister, she would be nothing. She had to live well and find out what happened that day.
"Yan Yue, who do you think it could be?" Qu Moying looked at her deeply and said.
"I don't know... Could it be that someone deliberately led the assassin to Ling Anbo's mansion? To shift the blame of the Eastern Palace to Ling Anbo's mansion? But... But why are they chasing me? I don't know anything."
Ji Yanyue wiped away her tears.
She kept speculating about the matter afterwards and wanted to get to the bottom of it.
But she had no one around her to use, and in order to hide her behavior, she seldom went to the capital. Only when she couldn't help it, she would go to Yuejinge, which was once the place her sister managed.
She was waiting, waiting for her father to recover from his illness and her sister to recover from her injuries and come to find her.
But what she finally received was the news of her father and sister's death. Both of her relatives were gone.
Thinking of the extreme pain, Ji Yanyue couldn't help shedding tears again. She had waited for so long, but in the end all her hopes were dashed. She was the only one left in the world. If she couldn't live well, if she couldn't find out what happened at that time, maybe her father and sister would have died in vain.
"Yanyue, do you think... this matter is related to the Eastern Palace?" Qu Moying asked.
"It must be related, it must be related. Not only Donggong, but also Ji Youran. It must be related to her as well." Ji Yanyue said hatefully.
Waking up from dreams at midnight, with countless speculations, how could Ji Yanyue not have some opinions of her own
She felt friendly towards this cousin when she first met her, and now she couldn't help but say a lot of words. However, as soon as she spoke about the speculations about the East Palace and the prince, Ji Yanyue came to her senses and looked at Qu Moying uneasily. After all, she had never met this cousin before, and she didn't know if saying this would bring trouble.
Seeing her shudder, Qu Moying sighed in his heart. His sister used to be innocent and cute. She would never care about so many things, let alone think so much. In that environment, even if she lived well in the manor of Duke Yuguo's mansion, she had grown up a lot and was no longer the carefree little girl.
There was a surge of pain in my heart, and then pity came over me.
"Yan Yue, don't worry. I was in the manor at the time. If it weren't for my cousin protecting me, I would have died by now. Now that something has happened to my cousin, I will definitely investigate. Even if this matter is related to the East Palace, I will definitely investigate it. If you have any guesses, you can tell me. Don't worry about it."
Without mentioning Pei Luoan's name, only mentioning the people from the Eastern Palace, but the meaning of this sentence is already included.
Ji Yanyue's eyes were wet again. This cousin looked extremely weak, but she inexplicably felt like a sister. She felt at ease. After thinking about it, she made up her mind, took out something from her sleeve, and pushed it in front of Qu Moying. "Cousin, this is what my father left for me. I wonder if it will be useful."