"You know my last name is Zhao?" Qu Moying stopped and looked sideways.
"I know Miss Zhao and Mr. Zhao." The middle-aged shopkeeper said with a smile.
"Since you know my last name is Zhao, I would like to hear what you have to say. However, if you don't tell the truth, then don't say anything. Although I have only been back to Beijing for a short time, this account book can be verified." Qu Moying sneered, slowly turned around and sat down again.
"Ms. Zhao, don't worry, I will explain it clearly." The middle-aged shopkeeper nodded repeatedly.
"Tell me, did you have any deal with Yu's before that made Yu's value you so much?" Yu Dong asked.
“Actually, it’s not… what, it’s just that Madam Yu thinks that I’m a loyal person…” the middle-aged shopkeeper stuttered, his eyes rolling around again.
Qu Moying suddenly stood up and walked out.
"Someone, take him to the Qu Mansion and give him to Fourth Miss Qu." Yu Dong shouted loudly to the outside.
Two servants came over from outside and looked like they were going to take the person away.
"Miss Zhao, Miss Zhao, wait a moment, let me tell you, isn't it okay for me to tell you?" the middle-aged shopkeeper shouted anxiously.
Qu Moying stopped, without looking back, waved his hand, and said lightly: "Speak!"
The two servants stopped walking, but their eyes were still fixed on the middle-aged shopkeeper viciously. It looked like they would attack him if he said something that was not to their liking.
The middle-aged shopkeeper didn't know that Miss Zhao was so decisive, so he dared not talk nonsense. He turned around while kneeling and said hurriedly: "I helped Madam Yu in the past, that's why Madam Yu thinks so highly of me."
"What's the matter?" Qu Moying took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly.
“Back then, Madam Qu gave birth prematurely… it was… it was Madam Yu who sent people to startle her. I found a few scoundrels I knew back then and went to the nunnery. We accidentally bumped into Madam Qu, and then… then…” the middle-aged shopkeeper stammered, his face pale.
Premature birth and difficult labor are the reasons for my mother's early death? But premature birth does not necessarily lead to difficult labor. How can Yu be sure that my mother will have a difficult labor
He clenched his hands into fists, letting his palms feel the pain from his fingertips.
She had suspected long before that her mother was forced to leave the house, which seemed to be the first step of Yu's elaborate plan, so, this was the second step
"Speak clearly!" The voice behind the veil became increasingly cold.
The middle-aged shopkeeper wiped the sweat from his forehead. He dared not hide anything anymore and told the whole story.
When Yu entered the mansion, she was pregnant. Because of her status as a lady from an official family, Qu Zhizhen insisted on giving her the status of a noble concubine. After the lady's objection was in vain, Yu entered the Qu mansion.
A few months after she entered the Qu Mansion, Yue also became pregnant. Then Yu gave birth prematurely and blamed Yue for deliberately wanting to harm the baby in her belly. Afterwards, Yue was forced to leave the Qu Mansion and go to a nunnery to take care of the pregnancy for a while. Yu arranged for this person to go to the nunnery to scare Yue, because she didn't want Yue to give birth to a legitimate son.
The reason why we don't use anyone from the mansion is because we are afraid that the Madam and Qu Zhizhen will find out.
There were many people protecting Yue, and they had not really bumped into Yue in the previous few times. As the time for Yue to give birth was getting closer, Yu became anxious and issued a death order, insisting that the middle-aged shopkeeper take Yue away.
The collision caused premature birth, and this time, Yue was finally hit.
Although the people around Yue reacted quickly and protected her immediately, and Yue was not really hit, Yue was frightened and gave birth prematurely that night.
"What evidence do you have?" After hearing what the middle-aged shopkeeper said, Qu Moying felt cold all over. It turned out that all of this was caused by the Yu family. Yu family deserved death to be blamed for this.
“I… the people I was looking for at that time were my old friends from the past. They are… they are still in the capital. If Miss Zhao doesn’t believe me, you can go and ask them for proof.” The middle-aged shopkeeper said anxiously.
Now that I have started talking, I can’t keep it secret any longer.
Qu Moying took a deep breath and said, "Do you have something else in your hand that made Mr. Qu come to find you?"
“Yes… These are some banknotes that Madam Yu left here for me. She asked me to keep them and say… say…” The middle-aged shopkeeper began to sweat again.
"What did you say?" Yu Dong shouted.
“They said…they said that all of it will be given to Miss Qu San as her dowry.” The middle-aged shopkeeper shuddered and began to stutter again.
"Why not give it to the Second Young Master Qu, but leave it to the Third Young Miss Qu?" Qu Moying asked.
“This… this part of the banknotes… is not in my hands now… I have to… I have to wait for Miss Qu San to ask for it herself…” The middle-aged shopkeeper stuttered, becoming more and more panicked.
"Where is it?" Qu Moying asked coldly.
“This… this…” The middle-aged shopkeeper couldn’t continue speaking, his eyes wandering with doubt.
"I'm sending you to the Qu Mansion without explaining clearly. Just because you offended Fourth Miss Qu's biological mother before and caused Madam Yue to die in childbirth, you deserve the death penalty." Yu Dong scolded coldly.
These words made the middle-aged shopkeeper shudder. He then realized that what he had said before was not about confirming the collision, but about the death of Mrs. Qu. His whole body went cold.
When he said it just now, he didn't think it was such a big sin, but now when he thought about it carefully, he broke out in a cold sweat.
This crime has reached such a serious level.
Right now in the Qu Mansion, Madam Yu has lost her power. I heard that she has been locked up. She may never see outsiders in her entire life and may be locked up to death.
“There is… there is an account book, placed… placed under the small bed…” The middle-aged shopkeeper now only wanted to get out of this situation, because if he started, there would be no possibility of recovery.
"Which of your homes?" Yu Dong asked.
“In… in my wife’s home, the first home, under my bed there was… an account book… it was… it was where the banknotes went…” The middle-aged shopkeeper looked at Qu Moying in panic with a pale face, and suddenly kowtowed: “Miss Zhao, please let me go for the sake of my truthfulness. Madam Yu asked me to do those things, and I had no choice.”
"Weren't you... saved by Yu? I heard that you kept thanking Yu after she saved your life. Why are you betraying her now?"
Qu Moying said coldly.
"Miss Zhao, I am loyal to you, but now I have parents and children to take care of. If something happens to me, what will happen to my family? Madam Yu is the wife of an official, and she has given birth to the third daughter. She will soon become the concubine of King Jing. With King Jing around, Madam Yu will be fine, but I...
I have something to say, please let me go, Miss Zhao!"
The middle-aged shopkeeper was particularly smart and sober at this time, and he kowtowed as he spoke.
My head hit the bricks inside the house, making a "dong dong dong" sound, which was very creepy to hear.
Qu Moying pursed her lips, a sneer appeared on the corner of her lips, "Since you know that you have old people above you and young children below you, have you ever thought about what Madam Yue did wrong? The daughter she gave birth to lost her mother at an early age, so what's wrong with that?"
At this moment, there was frost in his eyes and his smile was sharp and aggressive.
My mother was even more innocent. Because Yu wanted the identity of Mrs. Qu, she hired someone to plot against my mother, causing me to lose my mother when I was just born. Afterwards, Yu made me blind, and together with Qu Zhizhen, cold-bloodedly threw me, who was so young, far away in the farm.
She framed him time and again, and tried to take his life time and again, all just for Yu's selfish desires. And now her lackey comes to her crying and begging her to let him go for the sake of his parents and children. Is that possible
As early as when she woke up again, after she woke up from Qu Qiuyan's anger, she had been speculating about this possibility. Everyone was saying that Yue's incident was an accident, and no one wanted it to be like this. Even the lady had repeatedly talked to her about this matter, only to say that no one had thought of it at the time!
But did you really not expect it
The person who benefited the most when his mother got into trouble was Yu. The pair of children she gave birth to became the biggest winners in the Qu family. Then, something happened to her when she was still young and she was driven away. The entire Qu family became Yu's world. People in the capital only knew that Minister Qu Zhizhen had a son and a daughter, a pair of twins. Who would have remembered that the untalented and ugly Miss Qu, who had eye problems, was also the daughter of Minister Qu.
And she is a legitimate daughter in the true sense.
As for Yue who married from Jiangnan, no one remembered her anymore. She had just married into the capital not long ago and didn't know many people. The elegant and quiet woman in the past lost her life after a difficult childbirth, and the daughter she gave birth to had little presence.
All of this actually indicates that my mother's affairs are related to Yu, but Yu looks very innocent, as if she has nothing to do with these things!
It's really funny to think about it now. There's no trace of it at all! It's just because she gave birth to a pair of "good" children, Qu Mingcheng and Qu Qiuyan!
The street was crowded with people. Qu Moying stood at the entrance of the street, standing quietly for a while.
The two maids also stood quietly behind Qu Moying, knowing that the young lady must be feeling very uncomfortable at this moment. But looking at her slender and straight figure, they knew that anyone would not be able to calm down if they knew that their biological mother was murdered by someone, even the young lady was the same.
After a long while, Qu Moying finally said in a hoarse voice: "Let's go!"
"Miss..." Yu Dong was very worried. He took two steps forward and looked at Qu Moying. Although he couldn't see the lady's face clearly, he could still hear something from her voice. "Miss, should we go to the teahouse in front to rest and have a cup of tea?"
Yudong pointed to a teahouse in front of him on the left.
"No need, let's go over there!" Qu Moying closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she looked towards a bookstore in front of her. There were not many people coming and going in that bookstore, and it looked quite quiet. And most importantly, this bookstore looked familiar. She inexplicably wanted to go to that bookstore to sit and calm her mind.