When Yu Dong returned to Qu Moying's back, the expression on his face had calmed down and he looked as if nothing had happened. However, when he walked and stood behind Qu Moying, his feet moved restlessly twice.
Qu Moying smiled and said to Qi Xiangyu: "Miss Qi, can I go for a walk outside?"
"Of course it's good, but I..." Qi Xiangyu just talked about speculation with Qu Moying, and she also wanted to make friends with him. She looked at her grandmother and said in embarrassment, "I may not be able to accompany the fourth lady."
She was the host today and the only lady in the family, so she couldn't leave at will. She had to stay to entertain those young ladies. It was already very rude of her to have been talking to Qu Moying just now. If she took Qu Moying away alone, her grandmother would be angry.
Qi Xiangyu knew that she was not the dowager's bloodline, and the dowager did not favor her that much. She was much worse than Liu Jingyu, and if she did anything wrong, she would definitely be blamed.
Qu Moying knew Qi Xiangyu's situation, so he smiled and took the initiative to explain for her, "Miss Qi is the host, so of course you can't leave. I'll just take a walk outside. It's a bit boring to stay inside all the time. I'll be back after a short walk. It won't be too far."
Hearing Qu Moying say this, Qi Xiangyu smiled knowingly and nodded secretly at Qu Moying's understanding. If Qu Moying really had any connection with her family, she would be very willing to accept it and would like it very much.
I chose to talk with Qu Moying on purpose. On the one hand, it was because I felt that Qu Moying was indeed a good person. I didn't take it seriously before, thinking that even if the rumors were not credible, there must be some reasons. Now I realize that the rumors are really not credible at all. If someone like Qu Moying is dull, then there is no truly smart person in this world.
This person is extremely smart and knows a lot. No matter what you say, she can always respond calmly. She is also sincere and considerate. She can indeed be a good friend who you can get along with.
As for the other aspect, it is due to the ancient guqin "Feng Yu"!
Just now, Qi Xiangyu repeatedly asked about the origin of this guqin, and Qu Moying also answered, but she only gave one answer, that it was the dowry of her mother, Xiao Yue. As for where it came from, she had to ask the Jiangnan Yue family.
Of course, it is not convenient to go and ask this question with great fanfare, after all, this matter does not seem to be that important.
Qu Moying said goodbye to Qi Xiangyu, and walked to the door of the flower hall as Qi Xiangyu saw him off with a smile, with Yu Dong following closely behind.
The two men went out of the door and turned to a nearby path.
Just as they turned onto the path, Yu Dong looked around and saw that there was no one around. She immediately took out a sachet from her bosom, her face a little nervous, and said concisely: "Miss, I saw this. I picked it up in the flower hall on the other side."
As she said this, she turned around and pointed, "There's a flower hall over there with banquets set up inside. It looks like they're going to have a banquet there as well."
When I was talking to Qi Xiangyu before, Qi Xiangyu had also briefly mentioned the banquet and said that another banquet would be held in the flower hall opposite.
"That's the flower hall where men are entertained!" Qu Moying pondered for a moment and immediately understood the arrangement of the Duke of Qi's Mansion.
The flower hall here is not small, and there are not many female relatives coming, so it can accommodate them all. If there is a banquet over there, it will not be for the female relatives.
The two flower halls are separated by a flower-viewing garden in the middle, and they are clearly divided! It would be best if there were seats for women on one side and seats for men on the other.
Yudong handed the sachet to Qu Moying. Qu Moying took the sachet and looked at the pattern on the outside. The familiar pattern immediately brought back her memories.
"Qu Xuexin embroidered it, but the pattern seems to be drawn by me, and it really looks like I embroidered it." Qu Moying looked at the sachet in his hand, and the smile on the corner of his lips turned cold.
Come down, affirmatively.
There is no way to escape this word in my name, which means I have confirmed that this is the sachet I embroidered.
"Miss, I think there is something else inside." Yudong reminded her.
When Qu Moying pinched it just now, he felt that there was something inside. He looked at the drawstring on the sachet, carefully pulled it open, and took out a folded piece of paper from it. It turned out to be the "Chengxin Paper".
Not everyone can afford this kind of paper.
When you open it, you will see that it is a very neat regular script, with good strength in each stroke, but that is all, nothing else can be seen. In other words, such characters can be written by anyone, only those who have practiced for a few years, and it is impossible to tell who wrote them.
The words written above were written by Qu Moying with a repeated sneer. It is a very ambiguous poem, expressing a woman's longing mood. The lingering meaning in it makes people feel that this woman is nostalgic and affectionate.
The poem is very beautiful, but if you savor its meaning carefully, you will feel that the woman who wrote the poem is frivolous and does not abide by the rules of a boudoir.
So, this is my ironclad evidence. No matter who picks it up, it will become evidence that I have an affair with another man. If that man continues to insist that it is true, then I will have no other choice but to become that man's concubine.
Or there is another possibility, which is to prove innocence through death!
Of course, it is also possible that the man who picked it up may say that it was an accident, and that he picked it up and it had nothing to do with him. But if it has nothing to do with him, so what? There will always be someone who has something to do with him, and then he will also be unable to defend himself.
It can be said that this sachet is the ironclad evidence of her “not living up to the teachings of the boudoir”. I’m not sure which man it is, but I am sure of it!
After listening to Yu Dong's words just now, Qu Moying was certain that both Liu Jingyu and Qu Qiuyan took part in this matter. One of them threw the sachet there first, and the other stuffed a poem into it.
Qu Qiuyan's action seemed more like an accident. Even though she had prepared the sachet, she had not prepared the ambiguous poem. That's why Liu Jingyu made the follow-up move. In order to better kill herself, Liu Jingyu's people also took action.
"Pull out a hairpin for me." Qu Moying said to Yu Dong.
Yudong immediately understood what Qu Moying meant and carefully pulled out a sharp hairpin from Qu Moying's head.
Qu Moying took it and after thinking about it, he picked out a few threads of the writing on the sachet. However, even after picking them out, he could still make out a faint trace on it, which was still the word "影".
Qu Moying thought about it and made a few similar marks on top of the previous ones.
After she finished tying her hair, she looked at it and felt satisfied, then she handed the hairpin to Yudong. Yudong took it and put it on her hair carefully again.
"Throw this sachet back!" Qu Moying said, stuffing the note back in and then tying the sachet tightly.
Yudong took it, turned around and ran back. He had to throw the sachet back to the corner while the maid wasn't paying attention.
Qu Moying continued to walk forward casually, but he didn't expect that when he turned an intersection, he saw Qu Qiuyan's back from afar and stopped.
Qu Qiuyan and Xu Lipeng, the son of Yongning Marquis whom she hasn’t seen for a long time
Qu Qiuyan had her back to her, so she couldn't see Qu Moying, but Xu Lipeng saw Qu Moying. He saw Qu Moying stunned for a moment from afar, then said goodbye to Qu Qiuyan and actually came over to Qu Moying.
Qu Qiuyan was talking to Xu Lipeng, when suddenly Xu Lipeng said goodbye to her and walked behind her. After being stunned for a moment, she turned around and saw Qu Moying walking towards her from afar. She didn't have a maid with her. Where did Yu Dong go
There was a flash of joy in Qu Qiuyan's eyes.
He glanced at Qingju, then turned and walked away, as if he didn't see Qu Moying coming over here.
Anyway, she had already hinted to Xu Lipeng just now. Xu Lipeng was not stupid and must have understood what she meant. Originally, Qu Qiuyan just wanted to find a young man with a bad reputation, preferably a playboy who had married a wife. She only needed to hint that Qu Moying had lost the sachet and said that Qu Moying had a stunning appearance, which would surely attract the playboy to look for the sachet.
After finding it, she will definitely say that it was given to her by Qu Moying.
A playboy like this is the easiest to deal with.
Qu Qiuyan was walking outside, originally intending to meet the right person near the Chuihua Gate outside. Unexpectedly, she met Xu Lipeng before she even reached the Chuihua Gate. This was truly a pleasant surprise.
If there is anyone who hates Qu Moying, Master Xu is one of them.
I heard that this Master Xu is also unhappy now! When this sachet falls into Xu Lipeng's hands, Xu Lipeng will definitely not let Qu Moying go and will definitely ruin Qu Moying's reputation.
If we leave this place to Qu Moying and Xu Lipeng now, Qu Moying will be even more confused when the time comes. What's the point of giving a sachet at this time
Qu Qiuyan felt that God was helping her, and a proud smile appeared on her face...
Xu Lipeng was indeed very unhappy, or it could be said that everything was unsatisfactory for him!
Ever since he broke off the engagement with the Qu family, he has hardly had a happy life. The originally arranged assignment was only a matter of time, and he would be able to enter officialdom, but in the end it was gone, and it was said that the job had been given to someone else. Later on, he inquired and found out that it was actually the Duke of Qi's Mansion who sent people to lobby. Xu Lipeng didn't even know how he had offended the people from the Duke of Qi's Mansion.
The prince of the Duke of Qi's Mansion was a good-tempered man, and he would always praise him whenever they met. The two young masters of the Duke of Qi's Mansion also had a good relationship with him, and they would never give him any trouble. And the highly respected Duke of Qi was not someone he could easily meet, let alone offend him.
But it just so happened that it was the Duke of Qi's Mansion that really obstructed this matter.
And then the Crown Prince Donggong, who had shown goodwill to him before, did not respond at all, as if he had misunderstood the intention to cultivate him before.
But how could he have misunderstood? The prince clearly wanted to recruit him at that time, so why is he ignoring him now
The matter of Yu Qingmeng and the matter of Miss Duan Er, various things have damaged his reputation. He is no longer the innocent and loyal Prince of Yongning. Many of his "true" friends have also left. The second young master Yan, who used to be his closest friend and always stood on his side in everything, has now become less friendly with him, and they have not been in contact for a long time.
Whenever he thought of this, Xu Lipeng felt that it was all Qu Moying's fault. How could a woman be so unruly? Even if he wanted to take a concubine, so what? Even if he and Yu Qingmeng had some private affairs, so what? At most, it was just a concubine. How could she not even tolerate a concubine
If Qu Moying had not insisted on breaking off the engagement with me, I would have probably entered officialdom by now, and would have been given a good job. I might even have been recruited by the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince would not have lost sight of me and felt that I was incompetent and useless just because I did not enter officialdom.
Xu Lipeng felt inexplicably angry and resentful towards Qu Moying, and felt very aggrieved.
His downfall came inexplicably, and he couldn't find any other way out, so he took out all his anger on Qu Moying. When he saw Qu Moying coming, he couldn't hold back and went to greet Qu Moying. He asked himself if he had been doing his best to Qu Moying by not taking the initiative to cancel the engagement, so why did Qu Moying treat him like this
Now that he has met her, he has to ask for clarification...