"Mrs. Qu's birth dates just happen to coincide. I heard that Jiangnan Yue is the best friend of Duke Qi. The old Duke even beat your father because of your mother's matter. Miss Qu, do you really think it's just a coincidence? What kind of relationship made the old Duke lose his temper like this? When we were in the mansion, the second son... The old Duke's personality is not like this."
The nun lowered her head and murmured without answering Qu Moying's words.
"Second... The old Duke is very affectionate and respects the princess and the Duke very much... At that time, it was very dangerous to protect their children and take away a baby girl. But if the old Duke really knew there was such a child, he would definitely take her away. It's just that the Duke of Qi's mansion cannot keep two baby girls."
"So it was my mother who was sent away?" Qu Moying clasped his hands in front of his knees and held them tightly, his sharp fingertips piercing into his palms, but he could still hear his own low and calm voice.
"I want to see Miss Qu Si's appearance." The nun raised her head and proposed again, "I don't know who the young lady's biological mother is related to, but if I can take a look at Miss Qu Si, maybe it will be enough!"
"Okay!" Qu Moying didn't refuse this time.
The nun was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect Qu Moying to agree so decisively.
Yu Dong came over to take off Qu Moying's veil, but saw her shaking her head. After thinking about it, she decided to guard the door. She couldn't let anyone hear the noise in the house at this time, so she listened to the noise outside with high vigilance.
Qu Moying reached out and took off her veil herself. When the veil fell, a pair of eyes as bright as water appeared under her long eyelashes, revealing a sense of tranquility and elegance. Her beautiful face blossomed with a brilliance that was different from the world in this small and dark room.
Her face was clearly seen by the nun. Her eyes twitched fiercely, her face changed drastically, she put her hands on the ground, as if she wanted to stand up, but she fell down all of a sudden, her eyes were filled with shock: "No... No, why is it wrong... Impossible..."
"What's impossible?" Yu Dong scolded in a low voice, "Speak properly."
“This… is impossible… This isn’t… isn’t… How can it not be, isn’t… isn’t…” The nun’s voice unconsciously became sharper, with a hint of fear, as if she had suffered a great shock. For a moment, she couldn’t even speak clearly, her eyes fixed on Qu Moying’s face with a look of horror.
The noise here got louder, and Yu Dong heard the footsteps of someone coming over, "Miss, someone is coming!"
Qu Moying had put her veil back on and nodded. Yu Dong opened the door a little more. He stood by the door and waited for someone to come.
"What's not? Not what you guessed? Or do I look completely different from what you guessed?" Qu Moying asked sternly in a low voice.
“No, you’re not, you…how could you…no.” The nun’s voice lowered unconsciously, her expression struggling. Suddenly, she stretched out her hand forcefully, as if trying to grab something, but the next moment, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and her body suddenly collapsed to the ground.
The footsteps were getting closer. Yu Dong quickly retracted his hand and glanced at his mistress. Seeing her nod, he quickly opened the door and rushed out in a panic, shouting, "Someone, come quickly, come quickly!"
"What happened?" A bailiff ran over.
"He's vomiting blood... Go and have a look... He's vomiting blood..." Yu Dong grabbed the yamen runner and panicked.
His face was pale and his whole body was trembling.
A maid was scared like this, could something really have happened
The bailiff strode in nervously. As soon as he entered the room, he saw a nun lying on the ground, unconscious. There was blood on the ground, and it looked like she had vomited blood. Another young lady sitting on the chair was stunned and seemed to be trembling. She couldn't even stand up.
"What on earth happened here?" the bailiff asked.
Another person came over from behind. It was a clerk in charge of document management. Compared with ordinary yamen runners, the clerk's status was obviously higher.
As soon as he entered the door, the bailiff hurriedly saluted.
"What happened?" The clerk came over, squatted in front of the nun, stretched out his finger to probe between her nose wings, and said calmly, "She is too weak. She vomited blood after speaking a few words. It turned out that she was sent here by the Western Prison."
After saying this, he shook his head, looking extremely regretful.
Everyone in the Dali Temple knew that this nun had been taken away by the Western Prison and then returned. They also knew that the nun was very frightened at the time.
Was this because he was tortured at the time, but the hidden injury was not noticed
The bailiffs did not dare to ask too much about the affairs of the Western Prison.
"Take her away. This is Miss Qu Si, the cousin of Lord Yue, who wants to ask about the Yu case." The clerk stood up and pointed at Qu Moying who was "scared silly".
"Greetings, Fourth Miss Qu." Hearing that she was Yue Wenhan's cousin and had a close relationship with the case, although there were some irregularities, the case had already been tried clearly, so these minor irregularities were nothing.
"Take the man away." The clerk said calmly.
The bailiff nodded, grabbed the nun by the collar and dragged her away. Since it was nothing serious, it should be the result of a hidden injury. It made sense. How could such a weak lady do anything to this nun!
After the bailiff left, Qu Moying's expression returned to calm. He took Yu Dong and followed the clerk back to see Yue Wenhan.
Yue Wenhan already knew about the nun fainting and vomiting blood. Seeing Qu Moying coming over, he asked with concern, "Is everything okay?"
"Don't worry, cousin, nothing happened. She seemed extremely frightened when she saw my appearance and then she vomited blood." Qu Moying said in a concise and shocking manner.
"Do you need me to ask again?" Yue Wenhan asked.
"No need. I don't know what you've been thinking about. Cousin, you'd better stay away from her. Her identity is not simple. It might really be related to..." Qu Moying's words were very vague.
She didn't want Yue Wenhan to be involved in this matter. If this matter was really made public, it would cause earth-shaking changes. No one would benefit from being involved. The Jiangnan Yue family had done a favor to her mother, so they must not be involved.
"Okay, then I'll send the person to the Ministry of Justice on a certain day." Yue Wenhan looked at Qu Moying deeply and nodded in agreement.
The criminal has been tried clearly. Now it is no longer the Dali Temple's business. He will be sent to the Ministry of Justice and will be executed when the time comes. This is the case for Yu and the nun!
This is also the reason why Qu Moying came here immediately after receiving the news.
Without Yue Wenhan in the Ministry of Justice, it is not so convenient to see the prisoner.
After coming out of the Dali Temple, Qu Moying reached out and pressed his head. His forehead was throbbing, and he felt very uncomfortable and it was difficult to calm down.
The nun's last few words sounded like crying and laughing.
She looked crazy and stupid, and it was obvious that she had suffered a great blow. What caused such a great shock to the nun? Her appearance was nothing like what she had imagined
Or maybe this matter was not what she guessed, which meant that her mother had nothing to do with the Duke of Qi's Mansion
Qu Moying denied this. If two baby girls were really born, one of them must be the mother. Putting all the previous clues together, the last missing key point was the two baby girls. Now that the nun has filled in the clue, there is only one last question left.
Is mother the daughter of Princess Xian'an
That's why the old Duke acted the way he did, and why he lost his temper and rushed to the palace gate to beat up his adoptive father. Ever since the first time I met the old Duke, every part of him exuded some subtle feeling. If all this was based on the premise that my mother was the baby girl of the Duke of Qi's mansion, then everything would be natural.
My mother's affairs with the Yue family in Jiangnan were also explained.
Why did she stay at home and rarely go out? Why did everyone know that there was a Second Miss Qu at that time, but no one had seen her? People only said that she was frail and sickly. But how could she be so frail and sickly that even some of her relatives could not see her
What everyone saw was the figure of mother Dayue, who was always present at every banquet, but mother Xiaoyue was almost never seen in the Jiangnan Yue family.
If my mother had not married my father in the end, nothing would have happened now.
First she was going to marry Minister Liu, and then she was going to marry her stepfather. She never thought of finding a marriage in Jiangnan, as if she was determined to marry into Beijing
Afterwards, Minister Liu's wife snatched away my mother's marriage to Minister Liu, and the Empress Dowager's people went to Jiangnan to look for the Pure Daughter. It all seemed like someone had been tracking my mother's whereabouts and was even targeting her
Who was this person? The wife of Duke Qi? Not really. It seemed that she had just found out about it and her attitude towards me had changed drastically. When they first met, I didn't see anything unusual about the wife. But if it wasn't her, who else could have known
If it wasn't for a coincidence, the nun would not have known about what happened back then. If the old Duke wanted to take the person away, only his confidants must have known about it, and that is Princess Xian'an. So many years have passed since the incident, and the people who were involved back then are no longer here. Who could have been targeting my mother
There always seemed to be an invisible thread connecting my mother, and in the end all of her tragedies seemed to be related to this thread.
On the surface, it was Yu, but who was it really? He was terrified and pressed his hand against his chest. His lips immediately turned pale, without a trace of blood.
"Miss, what's wrong with you?" Yu Dong hurriedly reached out to help, saying anxiously.
"I'm fine!" Qu Moying closed his eyes, and this time he felt a slight headache.
"Miss, do you want to go to the clinic in front? I remember there is a clinic not far ahead." Although Qu Moying said it calmly, Yu Dong found that her lips were so pale that there was almost no trace of blood. She panicked and reached out to pull open a corner of the car curtain and said anxiously.
"Don't panic, just take it easy!" Qu Moying said nonchalantly. There was nothing wrong with his chest, except that he was suddenly frightened just now. The pain in his forehead was not very strong, but it was continuous.
Anxiously Yu Dong lifted a corner of the curtain, and suddenly a very familiar face appeared. The face was full of smiles, and when he saw Yu Dong looking over, the man smiled and waved at him...