Qu Moying thought very clearly. If she wanted to find out what happened, she had to start from the moment she was born, that is, from that nunnery.
I have asked Nanny Miao to check it out before. Although the small nunnery is not big, it is very clean and has had a good reputation in the past. There is nothing wrong with it.
There was one thing that Qu Moying was very satisfied with. The current abbot had been here fourteen years ago and was in charge of all matters in the nunnery at that time. This was the same person who was there when his biological mother Xiao Yue was murdered.
"Have you seen Yu?" Qu Moying's face darkened when he heard what Nanny Miao said.
"I saw from afar that Hailan was helping her rest in a place, and there were two young nuns from the nunnery helping her. They were chatting and laughing, and they all seemed to be in a good mood. Later, I saw an older person coming over and sitting next to Madam Yu to talk. Later, I asked around and found out that she was the abbot of the nunnery."
Nanny Miao's face was not looking good either. She naturally knew about Qu Moying's suspicion. She looked at the thin young lady in front of her. Although she was still a bit childish, she had to shoulder everything. She felt uncomfortable when she thought about it. She had followed the young lady for so many years and watched the young lady come step by step. Others might not know how difficult it was, but she knew it too.
All of this was because she lost her biological mother's care since she was young, and Minister Qu did not take his daughter seriously, allowing Mrs. Yu to torture her. The young lady only survived by a narrow escape from death.
"Madame Miao, go call Madame Zhou over." Qu Moying paused and said.
"Yes!" Nanny Miao knew that Qu Moying wanted to ask Nanny Zhou about some old things, so she immediately stepped back and brought Nanny Zhou in after a while.
After Madam Zhou had paid her respects, Qu Moying asked with a serious face, "Madam Zhou, when you and mother were in the nunnery, did you notice anything?"
Madam Zhou also knew that Qu Moying was looking into the past events. After thinking about it carefully, she shook her head and said with a wry smile, "Miss, I was so focused on taking care of Madam at that time that I really didn't notice anything. The people in the nunnery were neither good nor bad to Madam. They just took care of her three meals a day and she was not even seen at other times."
"Are they the ones who deliver three meals a day?" Qu Moying's heart moved.
"The nunnery sent someone to deliver it. Sometimes when Madam wants something special, I will go to the nunnery's kitchen to make it. But the things in the nunnery cannot be used casually. I have to pay extra money for each time I make it. The nuns in the nunnery don't seem to be kind, and they always ask for more."
Nanny Zhou said that she could not remember some details of the incident, but she knew the nun in the nunnery very well. That nun was a greedy woman and would not be happy if she was given too little. Sometimes she would deliberately give some defective products to the lady. Nanny Zhou sometimes had to suppress her anger before giving her the money.
"Is mother being neglected living there? Other people in the nunnery don't care about her either?" Qu Moying asked after a pause. This was completely different from his attitude towards Yu Shi.
My mother's situation was bad at the beginning. She was neglected by my father and had to leave the Qu Mansion while pregnant and went to the nunnery. She didn't seem to care at all, but she was the mistress of the family after all. What would happen after giving birth to the child was still unpredictable. How could even an old nun in the nunnery dare to treat my mother with such disrespect
"What I saw there was that no matter who saw Madam Yu, they were all very polite.
The nuns always bow first." Miao Ma also said this.
The contrast between the two situations is very strange!
Yu's current situation is definitely worse than her mother's. Even if she is the principal wife, it is almost impossible for her to return home in her current situation. Why is she so favored by the people in the nunnery? They visit her from time to time. She lives a more comfortable life than when she was in the mansion, just like a fish that has returned to the water after jumping out of the shallows.
Like a fish in water
How could Yu be able to do this, while my mother was looked down upon by others at that time? Did people think that she would never be able to recover
If this is the case, then how can they determine that there will be no day when their mother will reply
"Madame Zhou, when we were in the nunnery, would grandmother send someone to ask about my mother?" Qu Moying paused and asked again.
"The Madam would send people over from time to time, and sometimes she would bring some fresh vegetables and fruits. I felt that these things were fresher than what the nunnery gave to the Madam. Sometimes I could only pay silver to the kitchen and cook for the Madam myself. Every time the Madam sent food over, the Madam would eat it well and would not feel uncomfortable."
Nanny Zhou answered naturally.
"Mother, do you feel uncomfortable after eating the food from the nunnery?" Qu Moying was stunned, his eyes frosty.
"Sometimes, I feel that the vegetables in the nunnery are not that fresh. But it is far from the city, and I have to take care of my wife. It is impossible for me to find fresh vegetables every day. Fortunately, my wife would think of my wife from time to time and send someone to bring some fresh vegetables."
Thinking of the hardships that the Madam had gone through in the nunnery, Nanny Zhou's eyes also turned red and she wiped her tears with a handkerchief. A pregnant woman, with only one servant by her side, her husband had other children in the house, twins, who ignored her. The reason she came to the nunnery was that she was worried about the quarrel between wives and concubines, which caused the concubine to give birth prematurely.
I felt more and more sorry for the lady.
Such a kind lady, but in the end she didn't marry a suitable man. Not only did she waste her time, but she also delayed the young master. Madam Zhou was so sad that she couldn't help crying.
"Miss, at that time, besides the Madam, Mrs. Ling Anbo came to ask about her and show concern, Mrs. Ling Anbo was also controlled by Madam Ji at that time. She couldn't go out whenever she wanted. She could only send some things over to support her. As for the Yue family, it was too far away for her to take care of them."
The Yue family's people in the capital were indeed only these two sisters, one was Lady Ling Anbo, and the other was the second wife of the Qu family. Although Lady Ling Anbo loved her sister very much, Madam Ji was not easy to deal with. At that time, Xiao was also there, and the Yue family had not yet established a firm foothold.
Although Qu Moying had never experienced this, he could understand it by thinking about it.
“Miss, I…I don’t think something is right.” Aunt Miao, who was listening, turned pale, as if she had thought of something.
"Madam, what do you think is wrong?" Qu Moying pursed her lips and asked.
"Madam had the support of Lady Ling Anbo and the Madam Dowager at that time. Even if she was not favored by the master, she was the principal wife and in this situation. How dare the people in the nunnery treat her so badly? And now Madam Yu is even worse than Madam back then, why do the people in the nunnery treat her so well?"
Aunt Miao said.
Some things cannot be seen at first glance without comparison, but once the two are compared, the difference will be immediately apparent.
This was what Qu Moying had originally suspected, so she nodded and said, "Madam Zhou, what do you think?"
"Are the people in the nunnery treating Madam very well now?" Nanny Zhou wiped her tears and asked in disbelief. She was too excited before and did not hear what Nanny Miao said before.
Nanny Miao nodded and reiterated, "The abbess of the nunnery will also come to chat and laugh with Madam Yu."
"This is impossible!" Madam Zhou exclaimed.
"Why not?" Qu Moying asked, his eyes looking up, deep and unfathomable, as if containing two deep pools, making people unconsciously panic.
Madam Zhou clenched her hands and tried to calm down. "When I lived in the nunnery with Madam, I never met the nunnery's headmistress. I heard that she was in poor health. She was sick most of the time and was very weak the rest of the time. All affairs were managed by another nun in the nunnery."
Qu Moying looked at Nanny Miao.
Madam Miao nodded affirmatively: "Miss, I have inquired clearly. This person is the abbot of the nunnery at that time. Many people have seen her, and no one has heard that she is in poor health. She often appears in front of people. Some pilgrims who come to the nunnery have seen her before."
Qu Moying said coldly: "Miao Ma, go check this nunnery master again, it would be best if you can check further back."
Nanny Zhou and Nanny Miao were talking about the same abbess, but to Qu Moying it sounded like she was two different people.
If they hadn't made a mistake, there had to be a reason for it.
Nanny Miao nodded. She also understood something about it. After saying goodbye to Qu Moying, she turned and left.
Seeing Nanny Miao leave, Nanny Zhou wiped away her tears and said goodbye to Qu Moying.
Watching Nanny Zhou leaving, Qu Moying's eyes were filled with thoughtfulness. She always had a feeling that Nanny Zhou seemed to know something but didn't say it, or that Nanny Zhou still had a secret in her heart. This could be seen from the fact that Nanny Zhou was most reluctant to talk about what happened that day.
Unless she brought it up herself, Nanny Zhou rarely mentioned her mother or that past.
Is there anything else here that I haven't suspected
Yudong came back first. When he entered the room, he was holding a gift box in his hand. Qu Moying recognized it at a glance. It was clearly the gift box he had sent back before.
"Miss, this is a gift from Miss Qi. It also contains a thank-you gift from Duke Qi." Yu Dong stepped forward and reported with a smile, "It really was a mistake."
As he said this, he placed the gift box in his hand on the table in front of Qu Moying and reached out to open it.
On top of it was the same jade screen. Yu Dong asked Yu Chun to take the jade screen away, and then took a few pieces of paper from under the jade screen and handed them to Qu Mo Ying: "Miss, this is a thank-you gift from Duke Qi. He said that the jade finger is an important item that cannot be lost. Fortunately, you returned it, otherwise it would be a disaster!"
"The jade screen in the gift box was obtained by Miss Qi from Duke Qi. After receiving it, it was kept by her and she never opened it. This time I thought of this small ornament and thought it would be a good gift for Miss Qi. I didn't expect that there was a jade ring pulled down by Duke Qi in it. Miss Qi also asked me to thank you."
Qu Moying reached out to take the papers, looked at them carefully, and his face changed drastically.