"Which master are you working for?" Qu Moying asked calmly.
"I... I am the maidservant serving the Third Young Lady, and I just came back from outside." The maidservant said hurriedly.
"You want to knock over my pleasure boat and make me fall into the water?" Qu Moying continued to ask. Although he couldn't see her eyes, he could sense the coldness in her words. "Whose idea was it?"
"I... your servant..." The old woman's eyes wandered, looking left and right.
Suddenly, the rudder in her hand was pushed into the water, and she sank into the water along with it. She was drowned. Several gulps of water poured down her face, making her hands and feet go weak. She once again felt that she was going to die here.
"Fourth Miss, I say... it was... Third Miss who asked me to come..." the old woman said loudly, struggling desperately, trying to jump out of the water, hoping to use Qu Qiuyan to suppress Qu Moying.
The rudder rose up, and she also floated to the surface, half lying on the rudder, coughing violently.
"Third sister, you want to make me fall into the water? Why?" Qu Moying looked indifferently at the old woman in front of her, deliberately confusing her words, and asked.
"Do you want to ruin our young lady's reputation and eyes?" Yu Chun was extremely angry. Whenever she thought about how the young lady almost got into trouble right under her nose again, she was so angry that she wanted to pin this old woman to death right here.
“No… No…” The old woman tried to explain while coughing.
She had gone out early in the morning for something and had just returned when she happened to see Qu Moying and his servant boarding the pleasure boat. Knowing that the Second Madam and the Third Miss hated the Fourth Miss very much, she followed them onto a pleasure boat by the lake and paid a high price to have the boatman deliberately ram into them in an attempt to knock Qu Moying off the boat.
If the boatman goes to rescue Qu Moying after she has drunk enough water, not only will his reputation be ruined, but his eyes might even be blinded. I heard that the fourth young lady's eyes were burned when she was a child, and she is almost half blind. It is possible that she will go blind directly after falling into such a cold lake.
If I do something like this, the Second Madam and the Third Miss will definitely reward me handsomely.
But at this time, the old woman just wanted to survive and didn't dare to have any evil thoughts anymore.
"Was it the Third Miss who wanted to make our Miss fall into the water and ruin her reputation and eyes?" Yu Chun got a hint from Qu Moying, put her hands on her hips and continued the topic, shouting loudly.
“No…” The old woman subconsciously wanted to say that the Third Young Miss didn’t know about this. The rudder was pushed inward again, and she took another sip of water, her eyes turning red from holding it in.
"Could it be that you, the evil old woman, want to harm our Fourth Young Miss? Yesterday there was a case of an evil slave harming his master, and now it's happening again today?" Yu Chun's face turned grim, and she spoke harshly at the old woman who was being dragged up again.
The old woman also knew about what happened yesterday. Neither Wang Ma nor Qinghe's family had a good ending. Yuchun's words made her suddenly realize that if she didn't push the blame on the Third Young Miss at this time, even if she didn't die here, the whole family would be implicated.
Ji Lingling shuddered and subconsciously looked at Qu Moying.
The smile on Qu Moying's face had disappeared, her delicate cherry lips were tightly pursed, and she looked cold and unfeeling.
The old woman was scared. She was afraid that she would die here, and she was also afraid that her whole family would be implicated because of her impulse today. Qinghe's entire family had been bribed!
“Yes… yes Third… Third Miss…” The old woman didn’t dare not answer this. Her whole body was trembling, and she didn’t know whether it was because of fear or cold.
"It was the Third Miss who asked you to harm our young lady. Why?" Yu Chun continued to ask loudly.
Being forced to this point, the old woman had no choice but to continue answering, stammering: "The third young lady said...said that if the fourth young lady fell into the water, her eyes...her eyes would really be blind, and if the boatman went down to save her, her reputation would...would be completely ruined..."
There was quite a lot of movement here, and several pleasure boats had already surrounded them.
After hearing what the old woman said, some people pointed at the old woman in the water, and were guessing which family this vicious third young lady was from.
"Pull her up." Seeing that the time was almost right, Qu Moying said, then turned around and went back to the cabin.
Zhou An pulled the old woman up, and Yu Chun found a blanket from the pleasure boat and threw it on the old woman. The old woman wrapped herself in it shivering, her face turned blue from the cold, and her lips lost their color. She followed Yu Chun into the cabin in a miserable state.
"Go back now and testify against Mo Qiuyan?" Qu Moying said coldly as she watched the old woman come in. The color in her eyes behind her veil was cold and gloomy, leaving her a way.
"Plop!" The old woman's legs softened and she knelt heavily on the ground, "Please, Fourth Miss, please forgive me, please, Fourth Miss, please forgive me!"
Even if Qu Qiuyan really ordered this, the old woman would not dare to testify to her face, not to mention that she had just said it out of necessity.
If the Third Miss knew this, I would have no chance of survival.
"You don't want to testify?" Qu Moying asked.
"Please spare my life, Miss Fourth, please spare my life!" the old woman kept saying. There was a wolf at the front door and a tiger at the back door. The old woman regretted how she acted on impulse and thought of pushing the Fourth Miss into the river to please the Second Madam and the Third Miss.
“It’s not impossible to survive, but…” Qu Moying paused here.
"Whatever the Fourth Miss says is what I am asking. I only beg you to spare my life!" The old woman cried loudly and kowtowed to Qu Moying several times. Immediately, a red spot appeared on her forehead.
"You should say this when you go back..." Qu Moying already had an idea in mind. She stretched out her hand and hooked her finger. The old woman hurriedly leaned her head closer.
At this moment, she would do anything as long as Qu Moying would let her go. She would not testify against the Third Young Lady. She knew that was a dead end. If the Third Young Lady and the Second Madam knew about it, they would definitely not let her go...