"What did you find out? Why do you think it's impossible? Is it because you are sure that the jade pendant is with me, or is there another reason?" Qu Moying said coldly, "Please explain clearly, what is going on? Why are you so sure that I took the jade pendant?"
Qu Mingcheng panicked. After all, he was still young and had never experienced such a scene. In particular, the people present looked at him with some displeasure.
Not only Qu Moying had an angry look on his face, even his father and grandmother looked at him with some anger in their eyes.
My heart started to panic, and I immediately felt that the jade pendant in my hand weighed more than a thousand gold coins.
"Fourth sister, maybe I saw it wrong." Qu Mingcheng put down the jade pendant in his hand and said hesitantly.
"Second brother made a mistake and accused me of stealing Third sister's jade pendant, which looks like a very important jade pendant. I wonder if second brother also made a mistake. In fact, Third sister's jade pendant was not lost at all and is still in her yard?" Qu Moying sneered, with a slight curl of the corners of his lips, with a bit of sarcasm, "Second brother said before that if he didn't find it in my place, he would definitely take me to search Third sister's. I wonder if this still counts now?"
"Of course... it counts!" Qu Mingcheng had to bite the bullet and said, at this moment he just wanted to get away. He turned his eyes and saw Yu Dong standing timidly beside Qu Moying, and pointed at her, "Fourth sister, I'm still a little confused. Why did Yu Dong look so panicked just now, as if he was guilty of a crime?"
"Then you have to ask Yudong himself!" Qu Moying said coldly and turned to look at Yudong.
Yu Dong came out and bowed to Madam Tai and Qu Zhizhen gracefully, then looked up at Qu Mingcheng and said, "Second Master, you said I was terrified, but I just wanted to protect these ornaments of yours. These were left to you by the late Madam, and I was afraid they might get damaged, so I snatched them away."
"Then why are you so nervous?" Qu Mingcheng stared at Yu Dong.
"I am nervous. The young lady attaches great importance to every one of the late madam's things." Yudong said.
"Then you..." Qu Mingcheng said sternly, but he couldn't ask any further. He looked at Yu Dong with a cold gaze. How could he not understand until now that this maid had clearly not fallen into the trap. The purse was probably given to him to see, so that she would feel more at ease after letting him see it.
"Second brother, let's go and see third sister. Maybe she has found the jade pendant again!" Qu Moying interrupted Qu Mingcheng.
"Grandma, can you go see my third sister?"
"Madam, you go with them." The old lady nodded and instructed. At this point, they should indeed go and see Qu Qiuyan. Things had always turned out like this based on Qu Qiuyan's one-sided story. The old lady felt a little annoyed.
At this time, we really have to give Qu Moying an explanation, otherwise it would be unacceptable for things to have come to this point.
Qu Zhizhen frowned and wanted to speak to stop him, but after looking at Qu Moying's angry face, he said nothing and just waved his hand.
This time, Qu Mingcheng and Qu Moying brought people to Qu Qiuyan's Furong Pavilion.
In Furong Pavilion, Qu Qiuyan had not slept yet. She sat under the lamp waiting for news from Qu Mingcheng. She was in a good mood and chatted and laughed with several maids.
When I was getting excited, I heard a lot of noise outside the courtyard gate.
Qu Mingcheng came back, but he was not too surprised and asked the maid to open the curtain.
Unexpectedly, it was not only Qu Mingcheng who came in, but also Qu Moying. Seeing Qu Mingcheng's dark face, Qu Qiuyan became uneasy.
"Second brother!" Qu Qiuyan stood up and bowed to Qu Mingcheng, then raised her eyes to look at Qu Moying on the side and said indifferently: "How come Fourth Sister has time to come to me at this time!"
"I was about to go to sleep, but my second brother said there was a commotion in the mansion, so I came to my third sister's place to see if the jade pendant was really lost." Qu Moying said coldly.
Qu Qiuyan was stunned for a moment, and turned her gaze to Qu Mingcheng: "Second brother..."
"Fourth sister said that your jade pendant might not be lost. Let's go and have a look together." Qu Mingcheng looked unhappy. He had been thinking about it carefully all the way here. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He had clearly made all the preparations, so why did Qu Moying escape in the end? Was it because of that bitch Yudong
"Third sister, you said the jade pendant was lost. I think it might not be lost. I want to help you find it. Father and grandmother are still waiting. Second brother, let's ask someone to look for it!" Qu Moying sat down on a chair beside him and said bluntly.
"Come to my place to look for my lost things?" Qu Qiuyan understood and immediately became furious.
"Third sister, let her find it!" Qu Mingcheng interrupted Qu Qiuyan impatiently. He was in a very unhappy mood, as if he was hit by a punch and when he fought back, it felt like thick cotton.
I felt so frustrated that I almost wanted to vomit blood!
Qu Qiuyan wanted to say something, but seeing Qu Mingcheng's behavior, she guessed that things had changed, so she stopped trying to stop him and coldly ordered the maid beside her to step back.
This time, it was the maid brought by Yu Dong and Qu Mingcheng who was searching. The maid just randomly searched two places and then stopped. The Second Young Master was forced to be brought here, just for the sake of showing her appreciation.
Yudong didn't have so many concerns. After looking through the things, he found a small handkerchief bag on the desk in front of the window. When he opened it, he saw a jade pendant inside.
"Miss, what do you see?" Yu Dong walked over and handed the handkerchief in his hand to Qu Moying.
Qu Moying took it and held it up to the light, smiling slightly: "There is a word inside, I wonder if this is the piece that Third Sister is looking for."
As he said this, he handed the jade pendant in his hand to my nanny.
My nanny took it and glanced at Qu Qiuyan with a very unhappy expression.
Qu Qiuyan didn't take it seriously at first, but after hearing what Qu Moying said, she looked over carefully and her face changed drastically. She naturally recognized this jade pendant.
But this jade pendant has already been given to Qingmei, who was asked to deliver it to Yudong. Why is it still here now
His gaze turned to Qingmei, his eyes were cold and fierce.
"Miss Third, could you please go with me?" Wu Ma looked at Qu Qiuyan and asked gently. Things had come to this point and it was no longer something that a servant like her could solve.
Qu Mingcheng simply didn't believe what he saw. His gaze shifted from Qu Qiuyan's face to Qingmei on the side. Qingmei could no longer stand and was trembling all over. She opened her mouth and looked at Yudong, but found that she couldn't say a word. How could she say that she gave the jade pendant to Yudong
Looking at Qu Qiuyan's face, Qingmei's face turned pale and she was about to collapse. She reached out to hold the corner of the table in despair.
It happened so fast that she never expected that it would burn her body.
Qingmei finally stayed, and the three siblings of the Qu family took their people back to the lady's place.
As soon as she entered the room, Qu Qiuyan knelt down in front of the lady, crying and saying, "Grandma, I really don't know why the jade pendant was there. Someone must have taken it away on purpose. I thought it was lost, so I hurried to tell my brother about it. I didn't expect it to still be with me."
At this point, Qu Qiuyan had no choice but to admit it.
The Madam had already heard about this from my nanny. She took the jade pendant and took a look at it before handing it to her son. She reached out and pressed his head, “You go ahead and ask!”
Qu Zhizhen also took it and took a look with a headache. This time it was very clear. He saw a word inside when he shone it under the light. It was indeed King Jing's jade pendant. When compared with the other jade pendant he got from Qu Moying, they were actually not similar. It was just that when they were not placed together, they were somewhat similar.
"Qiuyan, how could you let someone hide such an important thing, and cause such a big incident?" Qu Zhizhen said after a pause.
"I... I really don't know, father. I didn't know someone around me would do such a thing. Don't worry, father. I will thoroughly investigate this matter after I go back. I will find out who did it." Qu Qiuyan pressed the corner of her eyes and said with a bit of grievance in her crying voice.
Qing Ju, who was standing behind Qu Qiuyan, shuddered twice and her face turned pale immediately. Was she going to push someone else to take the blame? Anyone who could enter the Third Miss's room must be a confidant.
"Father, since it was my sister's fault, just punish the people around her." Qu Mingcheng also stepped forward to smooth things over.
Qu Moying sneered in his heart. These two siblings had seen things come to this point and the truth was about to be revealed, but they were still making such a fuss, pretending to be aggrieved and trying to smooth things over. How could it be so easy
"Father, when my second brother came over, he didn't see the jade pendant in Yudong's hand clearly, but he insisted that I took my third sister's jade pendant. I don't know why my second brother is so sure? The place where my third sister's jade pendant was hidden just now is not a place that ordinary people can hide. Please ask my second brother and third sister to explain clearly."
Qu Moying smiled coldly. Even with her eyes covered by a veil, one could sense the coldness on her face. "It's so strange what happened. Not to mention that the jade pendant of Third Sister has a great origin. Even if I really had an idea, how did I know that the jade pendant was with Third Sister, and how did I take it away? There are so many people around Third Sister, and a maid next to me could get such an important thing by just giving her a Buddhist scripture. Isn't there anyone around Third Sister?"
The jade pendant belonged to King Jing. When King Jing's things fell into Qu Qiuyan's hands, she must have treated them as a treasure. It is impossible for such an important thing to be easily obtained by Qu Moying, even if she really wanted to.
Of course, unless there is another possibility, which is to put the blame on someone.
Thinking about what his son had said, his son's affirmative expression when Qu Moying had brought the jade pendant over, and the current situation, Qu Zhizhen was eighty to ninety percent sure that this matter had something to do with his son and third daughter, and for a moment he was very angry.
"Fourth sister, please don't slander me. I really thought that third sister's jade pendant was missing, and I really thought that the jade pendant belonged to third sister. I didn't think anything else!" Upon hearing Qu Moying's words, Qu Mingcheng could no longer sit still and hurriedly explained.