There was a big fuss about the Ling Anbo Mansion wanting to promote the late Ling Anbo's concubine to be his co-wife.
Such things do happen, but they are rarely heard of, especially for a noble family like Yun. After all, it is a matter related to the title of nobility, so it is almost impossible to exist.
But in the end, this thing actually happened, which was beyond many people's expectations.
After all, the second branch of the Ling'an Marquis's Mansion has been in charge for a long time, and the wife of the second branch is the official wife of the inner courtyard. The first branch now has only one concubine and one aunt, and one child who is considered to be the crown prince, but many people are not optimistic about his future. Before this child was made the crown prince, he was just a bastard who made a living by the wife of the second branch.
Another thing is that the daughter of the second wife is now a concubine in the Eastern Palace.
Although she is only a concubine, because there is no Crown Princess in the Eastern Palace now, she is also the only female master in the Eastern Palace. Moreover, there are rumors that this concubine Ji is very likely to become the Crown Princess.
After all, she entered the Eastern Palace out of gratitude and to serve the former Crown Princess. She had a close relationship with the former Crown Princess during her lifetime and they had a deep sisterly love.
Even if the Crown Prince was looking at the former Crown Princess for her sake, he would still look up to Concubine Ji. Besides, since she was also from the Ling Anbo Mansion, it would not be difficult for her to become the Crown Princess of the Eastern Palace.
But this thing actually happened!
Many people were wondering what was going on. It turned out that Madam Ji did this because she loved her eldest son. It was said that Madam Ji was so stubborn that she wanted to make the concubine a concubine to support the first wife. However, many elders of the Ji family opposed this and the two sides came to a stalemate.
Finally, an old ancestor of the Ji family came forward and stood behind Mrs. Ji. He took out a letter that Ling Anbo had written to the old ancestor of the Ji family and said that this was also Ling Anbo's intention.
It was this letter and the intervention of Ji's ancestor that made this matter a success.
Concubine Xiang became the co-wife of the Ji family's first wife. She had the title of raising the eldest son of Lord Ling'an. She could legitimately secure the lineage of the first wife. This also surprised those who had been optimistic about the second wife of the Ling'an mansion. How could this happen
It's too unbelievable!
If the people from the Second House could agree to this, then this concubine who was about to become the Crown Princess of the Eastern Palace could also agree to it? She had a brother with the same father and mother, right
Without people's understanding, Aunt Xiang officially became the second wife of Ji Yongming, the eldest son of the first wife's family. This change in status gave her confidence and also allowed her to restore her surname. Her original surname was Duan, but now she became Mrs. Duan.
On the second day after the identity was confirmed, Mrs. Duan took Ji Yuanhai to the yamen to ask about the progress of the previous incident.
Although the government office had not made much progress before, it also said that it would investigate. If it was still Concubine Xiang in the past, the people in the government office would not ask any more questions. But now they said that the matter is still under investigation, and if they get any news, they will immediately send a letter to Madam Duan and the young master.
After coming out of the yamen, Mrs. Duan sent a letter to Qu Moying, telling her about the incident and asking what to do next. Mrs. Duan had always been upset about the third young lady, but she was powerless to do anything about it. Now that she had some power, she naturally put this matter on the agenda.
After Qu Moying opened the letter and read it, he also returned a letter to Madam Duan, asking her not to worry for the time being, and just send people to the yamen to inquire from time to time, so that someone would know about this matter.
She already had a plan in mind for the search for her sister, and now she just needed to push it forward slowly...
"Miss, Yu Qian is coming in." Yu Dong came in with Qu Moying's lunch in her hand. She just came from the big kitchen and happened to see a sneaky figure. She followed him for a while and found out that Yu Qian had gone to find the old woman again and came back.
"It should be about time." Qu Moying nodded. Calculating the time, it has been a while. It's time to reel in the net that has been cast.
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If a suitable buyer has not been found after such a long time, then the company’s ability to use money is really too poor.
"Miss, shall we do as you said before?" Yu Dong asked after putting down the food basket.
"Let's wait until the old woman comes!" Qu Moying said.
Yudong nodded and took out the dishes in the food basket one by one. There were not many dishes, but they were all Qu Moying's favorites in the past. Qu Qiuyan was not available for the past few days, so most of the matters were reported to Qu Moying, and only some major matters were reported to Qu Qiuyan.
Even though she was reprimanded, Qu Qiuyan had no intention of giving all the management power in her hands to Qu Moying.
On the surface, Qu Moying is still a supporting role!
Qu Moying didn't care about this.
After lunch, Yudong packed up and came out, and saw the old woman hurried over. Seeing Yudong, she hurriedly smiled and said, "Miss Yudong, I got what you asked me to do before."
"What's the matter?" Yu Dong asked in surprise, as if he had really forgotten about it.
"It's what you mentioned before, the matter of the shopkeeper named Yu." The old woman reminded in a flattering manner.
"Oh, how is he?" Yudong asked casually with a nonchalant look on his face, walking out with the food basket.
The old woman hurriedly followed up, "It means that we have found a buyer, and now we just need a land deed, a shop deed or something like that, and we want to take it to complete the final formalities."
"Let him take the silver first. He's unlikely to escape from our house." Yu Dong said, walking so fast that the old woman had to jog to keep up with him.
“This… this… what should we do if something happens?” the old woman said anxiously. She knew that something might happen to Yu Qian, and she was afraid that it would involve her family.
"What does it have to do with you? You didn't ask me to buy it." Yu Dong said indifferently, "You just went to ask. Aunt Hailan said to do it according to Madam's wishes."
"Yes, yes, I understand." The old woman breathed a sigh of relief and said repeatedly. She was just afraid that this matter had something to do with her. This matter was not a trivial matter no matter how you looked at it. "It was all Aunt Hailan's idea."
The old woman understood what she meant and turned to look for Hailan. Hailan had been going to the big kitchen these days and she had seen her many times. She should be able to meet her at this time.
Sure enough, she met Hailan on the way and talked about Yu's matter. Hailan impatiently asked her to get off and said that she should just do it as usual. She kept asking what it meant. Could it be that she didn't want to be the shopkeeper anymore
These words were spoken at the door of the kitchen. The old woman stepped back smilingly and passed on the message.
Hai Lan left with the food basket. The lady had become more and more picky about food in the past few days. She went to the kitchen several times a day and always felt too busy. However, there were not many people left around the lady, especially with this kind of food, how could she not take care of it.
As for what happened on the Third Miss's side, Hai Lan didn't care. She only heard that the Third Miss and the Second Miss had a fight before and knew that both were punished. But she didn't know about what happened at the Great Compassion Temple this time. She just thought that the Third Miss was punished again and it must be related to the Second Miss's matter.
Hai Lan felt speechless about these things. How could the Third Miss and the Second Miss quarrel like this? Especially when they went to Prince Jing's Mansion, and it was so ugly. It was not good after all.
When they were halfway there, Hai Lan thought for a moment and turned a corner, heading for Qu Moying's Qianyue Residence.
Madam has urged you several times, and she will be angry if you don't go.
When the old woman guarding the door saw that it was Hailan, she hurried in to report. After a while, Yudong came out and led her in.
"Aunt Hailan, what can I do for you, Madam?" Qu Moying asked slowly after Hailan had paid her respects.
Although Yu is now imprisoned, he is still
Qu Zhizhen’s wife.
"Madam wants to borrow something from the fourth young lady." Aunt Hailan said with a smile.
"What is that?" Qu Moying raised her eyebrows in surprise.
"I heard that the fourth young lady has a prescription that can relieve depression. I wonder if I could lend it to you. Madam has been in poor health recently and has been unable to eat." Hai Lan said.
This so-called prescription actually belonged to the old lady. After Qu Moying came to the mansion, the old lady gave her this prescription for regulating the spleen and stomach. She always felt that Qu Moying was too thin and was afraid that it would have an impact on her health.
"Yes, there is, but it may not be suitable for Madam." Qu Moying said lightly.
"It's okay. I'll make some and let Madam try it. If it doesn't work, I'll think of another way." Aunt Hailan smiled helplessly and pointed at the food basket in her hand. "Madam is using less and less now. What should we do next?"
He spoke with great sorrow.
"Yuchun, go get the prescription and show it to Aunt Hailan." Qu Moying ordered.
Yuchun went in and took out a prescription after a while. She handed it to Hailan and said with a smile, "Aunt Hailan, take a look, is this the one?"
Aunt Hailan took it and looked at it, nodding repeatedly and said happily, "Yes, this is the one, it is indeed this one, thank you, Fourth Miss."
"I don't know if it's useful or not. I had never used it when my grandmother gave it to me." Qu Moying said lightly.
Aunt Hailan was naturally not surprised by Qu Moying's coldness. She thanked him several times before leaving with the prescription.
Yu Dong saw her off, and when he sent her to the gate of the courtyard, he came back, looking a bit confused: "Miss, what does she want this prescription for?"
Qu Moying's eyes flickered, the corners of his lips curled up, and he leaned back, "Of course she wants to push the blame on me."
"But this prescription was given by the Madam." Yu Dong said puzzledly.
"The recipe was given by my grandmother, but it's with me now. Next, she should go to the big kitchen to cook something. Yudong, go get some stewed soup later. The fattier the soup, the better. When she goes to the kitchen, bump into her."
Qu Moying said that since Yu was going to take action, she would "help" her and add fuel to the fire so that Yu would have more evidence to support her argument.
The Qu Qiuyan incident happened. If Yu Shi makes a fuss now, people will think it is a deliberate frame-up. So she will make Yu Shi look a little more "hard". Too much is too little, especially at such a critical juncture...
Yudong is best at this kind of thing.
She nodded repeatedly: "I understand."
Qu Moying gave some other instructions and watched Yu Dong leave. There had been no movement from the Yu family in the past few days, and he thought that Yu Dong was so patient this time, and now it seemed that she was going to take action against him.
Although I don't know how to do it specifically, I always have to go to the big kitchen. After all, only in the big kitchen can you cook, and you can cook where everyone can see.
Nanny Miao reported to Qu Moying these days that Qu Zhizhen had not been to Yu's courtyard in the past few days, and had not even asked anyone to send anything to Yu. He must have had other ideas in his mind, but with Qu Zhizhen's personality, he didn't take it to heart, and he didn't have time to inform Yu for a while, so he forgot about it.
The investigation into the assassin is still ongoing. Although the Ministry of Works is not the Ministry of Justice, it also has to help. Qu Zhizhen has been very busy these days.
Qu Mingcheng went to see Qu Qiuyan, but did not go to see Yu Shi. That was on the day he came back from Dabei Temple, and he never went to see Qu Qiuyan again after that.
So, since no one informed her, Yu couldn't hold back...