"Your Highness, please don't come over." Upon seeing Pei Luoan, Ji Youran hurriedly reached out to stop him, and placed his hand on the maid beside him, staggering.
"What's going on?" Pei Luoan stopped moving closer and looked over with a serious look.
"Your Highness, she...she wants to murder cousin Qu. She gave the things made by the smallpox patient to Fourth Miss Qu, and asked her to burn them for Second Madam Qu. I...went over to help Fourth Miss Qu burn those clothes. I may have been infected with smallpox. Not only me, but everyone here, please quarantine them."
Ji Youran knelt down gracefully, wiping her tears with a handkerchief as she spoke.
There were quite a few people who saw it just now, and it is impossible to hide this kind of thing, so it is better to uncover it yourself.
"You should go to the farm and rest for some time." Pei Luoan nodded. In fact, even if Ji Youran didn't say it, he would quarantine all the people who followed Ji Youran here today.
It’s best that Ji Youran is so tactful.
"Thank you, Your Highness." Ji Youran's eyes were red, she looked up at Pei Luoan, tears falling, "Your Highness, please take good care of yourself during this period, don't be like me, who was plotted against by others. Your Highness is of noble status, and I am not by your side. I am really worried about you."
Seeing that she was only concerned about him at this point, Pei Luoan's face lightened up a little, and his voice softened a bit: "Be careful when you go to the manor. I will ask the imperial physician to come. It's not a big deal, don't worry about it, just stay for a while and come back."
"I know... I... just want to leave Your Highness... I am heartbroken!" Ji Youran kowtowed slowly, clasped her hands on the ground, and placed her head on them, very respectfully, accompanied by low sobs, looking extremely pitiful, and she looked like she was wholeheartedly devoted to Pei Luoan.
"Don't worry, I will never let anything happen to you." Pei Luoan said gently.
"Your Highness, please go back! I will not leave you here." Ji Youran cried, her head falling on her hands but she did not look up again. Her body trembled slightly. It was obvious that she was crying, but she was trying hard to suppress it.
Pei Luoan didn't say anything. He looked at Ji Youran again, turned around and walked away.
The group of people who followed him all retreated, leaving only one guard behind. He said to Ji Youran inside, "Madam Concubine, His Highness has already left a carriage. After you get on the carriage, you will go to a manor outside the capital and rest there for a while. His Highness will come to invite you back home."
So, it was already booked before I said anything? Ji Youran bit her lip hard, and when she looked up again, she was already in tears...
When Luo came over, the house was already empty, leaving only a pool of blood on the ground. Luo only took one look at the blood and fainted without a word.
Qu Minghui had Luo helped out, and asked someone to ask, and found out that it was Concubine Ji's people who took Qu Xuexin away, and when they left, Qu Xuexin was carried away covered in blood...
"Miss, the eldest lady is not feeling well and has gone down the mountain." Yu Dong came in to report.
The main hall for rituals was replaced with a new one. Because it was a temporary replacement, it was not as conspicuous as the previous one and was also much smaller.
The layout is the same, with a large hall and two side halls. Many things were in the hall where the ritual was performed before. Qu Zhizhen was afraid that it would be a hindrance, so he did not allow them to be taken away. They had to be redistributed. He and Qu Mingcheng had already gone down the mountain and redistributed some necessary things. The hall at this time was missing a lot of things.
Things seem a lot simpler.
The only person left in the Qu Mansion was Qu Moying.
"Where is the eldest lady?" Yuchun asked anxiously.
"The eldest lady was beaten by Concubine Ji and then taken down the mountain. I heard that she will live in the farm for a while. It seems that she will be isolated for a period of time." Yu Dong said. This is Qingyun Temple. It is more convenient for the two of his men to move around. Before, they had someone keep an eye on Qu Xuexin's situation.
"Young Miss... it's all her own fault." Yu Chun said angrily, "She wanted to make others get smallpox, and she will definitely get it this time."
"Not necessarily!" Qu Moying shook his head.
"Miss, why are you so sure?" Yuchun asked puzzled.
"She... must have had smallpox, otherwise she wouldn't have taken such a risk." Qu Moying said, a hint of sadness flashing across his watery eyes. Although Qu Xuexin was crazy for fame and fortune, she was not really stupid. She was willing to risk her own life, killing a thousand enemies and injuring eight hundred of her own.
But if killing one thousand enemies would result in injuring twelve thousand of her own, she would definitely not do it.
The same thing happened last time. Qu Xuexin could hurt herself to harm herself, but her life would not be in danger. The same is true now. Since she could use smallpox to attack herself, and she was present at the time and was not affected much, there must be a follow-up plan.
Only close people would know about smallpox. Qu Moying was in the manor at the time, so of course no one would inform her. She also had no memory of Qu Xuexin having had smallpox.
But now I guess that he must have won.
She has had it before, but Ji Youran has not. It is very likely that Ji Youran will be infected this time. Ji Youran probably wants to eat Qu Xuexin's heart.
It was not easy to get Pei Luoan to give in, and she entered the Eastern Palace. However, Qu Xuexin had just entered the Eastern Palace and caused such a big trouble. Needless to say, Qu Xuexin made such a big scene, and although she entered the Eastern Palace in the end, she was just imprisoned in a different place.
"Miss, will Concubine Ji beat the eldest lady to death?" Yu Chun had a new question.
"No, she won't." Qu Moying smiled faintly, "She would... rather... torture people to death slowly!"
There is a high possibility that Ji Youran has contracted smallpox, but Qu Moying doesn't think that Ji Youran will die of smallpox. Many people have contracted smallpox, but many have also escaped.
Qu Moying is fine, Qu Xuexin is fine. I remember that when I was a child, when I had smallpox, there was another boy who also got it. He looked so sick and it seemed like he was about to die, but he seemed to be fine afterwards.
Ji Youran's personality is such that she would suffer a lot before going to the manor, and ask Pei Luoan to send the imperial physician to treat her, which would increase the possibility of recovery.
Compared with ordinary people, the masters of such aristocratic families have a higher chance of recovering from illness.
However, even if she didn't die, Ji Youran would suffer a lot, especially her previous injuries, which got worse and worse, and recurred again and again. Would there really be no impact
That was the wound she left behind when she risked her life to drag Ji Youran with her to jump off Linyuan Pavilion. She wanted Ji Youran to have this wound for the rest of his life...
"Miss, the wife of the Duke of Qi is here." A maid came in to report.
Qu Moying calmed down, stood up, and went to the door with two maids.
Mrs. Qi brought quite a few people with her.
, and brought a lot of offerings. After having someone arrange it, Madam Qi went forward to light the incense herself, inserted the incense into the incense burner, and looked at the spirit tablet in the curling smoke. She couldn't help but sigh. If it weren't for the accident, the person in front of her would be her niece, and of course she wouldn't have ended up like this.
After she offered incense, Qu Moying invited her to sit aside, and Yu Chun served her tea.
"Where are the other people in the mansion?" Looking around, Madam Qi said dissatisfiedly. The only master here was Qu Moying, a girl who had not yet reached the age of marriage.
"My aunt is not feeling well, so my eldest brother sent her down the mountain. My father and second brother needed to buy some other things before they came down the mountain." Qu Moying explained softly.
"Such a big thing... How can I leave you alone?" Madam Qi frowned and asked, "Where is your grandmother?"
"Grandma's old illness has relapsed."
"Your family...really..." Madam Qi became more and more dissatisfied. She felt that no one in the Qu family, starting from Madam Qu, had taken this matter seriously. However, she could not dwell on it too much. She just felt very aggrieved. "Your mother...is really pitiful!"
Qu Moying lowered his head.
"Miss Qu Si...is there no one in your house who can make the decision for you?" Madam Qi asked again.
"My grandmother is very kind to me." Qu Moying raised her eyes and said softly, "She is really not feeling well today and can't get up for a while."
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about your grandmother. I just saw the Yongning Marquis's son and wife. I heard that your family is holding a funeral for your mother, so I'm coming here to pay my respects as well. I was going to tell your elders, but there's no one around you right now, so I can only tell you that your mother and the Yongning Marquis' wife had a very good relationship back then... You should come in and pay your respects now, too."
Mrs. Qi said.
Qu Moying didn't move his eyebrows. He just pondered for a moment and then nodded.
When Mrs. Qi saw that she agreed, she nodded secretly, looking generous and decent.
He called a maid beside him to go out and invite the person in.
The old woman went out, and soon came back with the wife of Marquis Yongning and Xu Lipeng, followed by two baskets holding incense sticks and other things. Everything was so well prepared that it didn't look like they had met by chance.
Qu Moying looked at the wife of Marquis Yongning and Xu Lipeng, and after pretending to pay their respects, he took them to the side hall, as there were too few seats on the side of the main hall.
As soon as she sat down, the wife of the Marquis of Yongning said with red eyes: "I got along well with your mother that day. I saw that she married to the capital alone, and there was no one else to talk to except Madam Ling Anbo. I felt the same way when I was married far away. After your mother got pregnant with you, we arranged a marriage for you. If the baby is a girl, she will be Xu's wife. If the baby is a boy, we will marry brothers."
When Lady Yongning Marquis talked about her sad moments, her eyes were already filled with tears.
"The previous events were all caused by the Yu family. If there were no such incident, how could it have come to this point?"
In a word, all the faults are Yu's.
Qu Moying sneered in his heart but did not show it on his face. He still kept his head down, as if he was quietly listening to what the wife of Marquis Yongning had to say, but did not express any opinion.
These two people from Yongning Marquis' Mansion were really a coincidence, and they had prepared for it long ago. She couldn't help but think about it!