"When will the palace send someone to ask?" After a long while, Qu Moying pushed Pei Yuanjun and calmed his previously disordered breathing.
"Not today, let's do it tomorrow! I will take you to the palace tomorrow!" Pei Yuanjun pulled Qu Moying to sit on the stool and said casually.
"Why not today?" Qu Moying asked in surprise. After something like this happened, there was no way he would wait until tomorrow to ask.
"The palace is in chaos today, and there is no point in you going in. I came here to ask what happened. Now that I'm here, there's no need to rush." Pei Yuanjun said casually.
There were too many meanings in these words, and Qu Moying couldn't figure it out for a moment. She looked at him in surprise and asked, "Why is the palace in chaos?"
It was clearly the chaos in her house. From the perspective of outsiders, her coming-of-age ceremony was unsuccessful, and it would not be something to be proud of talking about in the future.
She prepared so much and for so long, and it sounded like a lot of attention was paid to it, but in the end it ended up like this. Not only did she, the bride, lose face, but even the guests were panicked.
"Liu Jingyu is the Queen's future daughter-in-law, and she's wearing a phoenix robe. If she has a phoenix robe, she might also have a dragon robe. The phoenix robe can still be related, but the dragon robe is a serious crime, and the Queen can't bear it." Pei Yuanjun said lazily.
Qu Moying's heart skipped a beat. "What will happen then?"
"Let's just argue with each other." Pei Yuanjun narrowed his eyes, "Do you want me to help you deal with this county lady? After this incident, the position of this county lady's crown princess is not so secure!"
"No need!" Qu Moying hurriedly stretched out her hand to stop him. She still hoped that Liu Jingyu could enter the Prince's Mansion in the East Palace.
Those people are all in the Prince's Mansion, so why would they need Liu Jingyu
Without Liu Jingyu, Ji Youran might become more powerful, which was contrary to her original intention.
"Don't you need my help?" Pei Yuanjun raised his eyebrows.
"No need." Qu Moying shook her head again and refused, "Liu Jingyu and the prince are a perfect match!"
As soon as he said this, Pei Yuanjun's handsome eyebrows and eyes sparkled, like spring light sweeping across the lake, "I also think they are a good match."
"Since they are a perfect match, of course we have to lock them down." Qu Moying also smiled.
"Then lock it up!" Pei Yuanjun said indifferently, his brows relaxed, his voice lazy, but like beautiful music.
Pei Yuanjun didn't care who Pei Luoan wanted to marry, but since his little girl thought they should be locked up, then they had to be locked up anyway.
Qu Moying felt inexplicably at ease, and then he told the whole story in detail, including how he painted the phoenix pattern on Liu Jingyu's clothes.
The grass juice corrodes gold ornaments very slowly, but it corrodes clothes very quickly. The shape appeared not long after it was painted on, and then it had to be wiped off carefully to prevent the corrosion from accelerating.
"Will it leave traces?" Pei Yuanjun understood what she meant after hearing her and smiled.
"It should be left if you check carefully." Qu Moying nodded and admitted.
"First, she was accidentally bumped into, and then there were traces on her clothes. It seems that this Lady of Jingyu County can still get away." Pei Yuanjun already understood what she meant. He reached out and tucked a strand of hair that had been accidentally pulled down behind her ear.
"Is the maid okay?"
"They're gone. Yudong brought them here."
Qu Moying understood and the corners of his lips curved slightly.
"Then there's nothing to worry about." Pei Yuanjun said.
"Where did you get your grass juice?" Qu Moying breathed a sigh of relief and suddenly asked with her watery eyes flashing.
"There are people from Northern Border in the capital, and quite a few of them." Pei Yuanjun said indifferently.
"A lot?" Qu Moying was surprised. She really didn't expect this. No matter in her previous life or this life, she had always lived in seclusion. She only knew about things in the boudoir. She really had no idea about things like this.
"There are people from the Central Plains in the Northern Border, and there are people from the Northern Border in the Central Plains. This is not a conflict. If not, how were those things from the Northern Border transported to the capital?" Pei Yuanjun couldn't help laughing when he saw a trace of confusion in her watery eyes. Although she was not as smart as before, she had the ignorance that she should have at her age.
After his long eyelashes fluttered twice, Qu Moying realized that he was asking a stupid question. If someone comes, someone will naturally go. The world is bustling with people coming for profit, and the world is bustling with people going for profit.
As long as there is benefit, there will be people coming and going. Besides, there is no obvious difference between people from Northern Frontier and those from Central Plains. As long as they change their clothes and speak fluent Central Plains dialect, people will naturally not recognize their Northern Frontier identity. The same goes for people from Central Plains when they go to Northern Frontier.
"You don't have to worry about the grass juice. Do you still want to keep that nun?" Pei Yuanjun glanced at her and changed the subject.
"Or... keep it for now!" Qu Moying hesitated for a moment, her eyes drooping slightly, with a hint of fragility that she herself didn't even notice.
According to her original idea, no matter what happened to this nun, she would not interfere.
But when the words came to my lips, they inexplicably changed their meaning. After I finished speaking, my heart felt heavy, as if something was pressing down on me.
"If you want to keep it, then keep it. It's not a big deal." Pei Yuanjun reached out, took her hand and squeezed it hard.
The pain in his hand brought Qu Moying back to his senses. He subconsciously cried out in pain and tried to shake off his hand.
Pei Yuanjun had no intention of loosening his hand. He still held her, but he no longer squeezed her hard: "You can do whatever you want with this matter. Even if it is really exposed, you can spare the Duke of Qi's Mansion from punishment."
A meaningful way.
"No need, let's leave it at that for now!" Qu Moying shook her head, a hint of emotion flashing across her slightly lowered eyes. She actually didn't want him to interfere in this matter, and it would not be good for him if it was exposed.
All she could do now was to let this incident affect him as much as possible, whether it was good or bad. She was willing to bear it herself, but she didn't want to drag him into it.
The crime of deceiving the emperor is as serious as the sky...
Pei Yuanjun didn't stay in Qianyueju for long. Before long, Qu Moying respectfully sent him to the gate of the courtyard.
When Pei Yuanjun was leaving the mansion, Qu Zhizhen, who had received the news early, hurried out to see him off. He accompanied him all the way to the gate and watched Pei Yuanjun leave before returning to his study with a heavy heart.
Then he sat in the study for a long time, then wrote a letter and asked his personal servant to send it away...
"Your Highness, this matter has nothing to do with me. It was the Qu Mansion. It was the people in the Qu Mansion who wanted to frame me and harm Your Highness. Even if I had the courage of heaven, I would not dare to do such a thing. I am also familiar with history books, so how could I do such a thing that would cause trouble."
Liu Jingyu knelt down in front of the Queen, crying and explaining.
Madam Qi, who was sitting on the side, was also extremely anxious. She looked at the cold face of the Queen, then at her granddaughter, feeling both distressed and helpless.
She really didn't expect the matter to turn out like this. She was very confused at the moment and didn't even know what to do now.
"Your clothes, the clothes you brought yourself, if anything happened to them, how can you blame the Qu family?" The Queen said angrily, her face turned ashen, and she slammed her hand heavily on the table.
No wonder she was so angry that she lost her usual dignity and respect as a queen.
If this matter is taken into account, it will inevitably involve his own son. Prince Jing and Concubine He are really eyeing their son covetously. Even the smallest mistake will be magnified to infinity.
What's more, this matter.
"Queen, I really have no idea. Maybe when we were at Qu Mansion, the carriage was parked there and someone tampered with it." Liu Jingyu explained while crying.
"Your clothes were placed in the carriage, and someone had tampered with them, and the effect was immediate. Do you really think you can deceive me by saying this?" the queen said angrily.
If she had known that Liu Jingyu was such an imprudent person, she would never have let her son marry her. She didn't like Ji Hanyue, but she only remembered the good things about Ji Hanyue. Besides, no matter what Ji Hanyue did, she would never let her son fall into such danger.
"Prince, how do you think we should deal with this matter?" The queen said angrily, looking at her son who was sitting aside.
Pei Luoan glanced at Liu Jingyu with a gloomy face, anger in his eyes. What he was thinking about now was the consequences after being involved in this matter.
But compared to the queen, Pei Luoan was much calmer at this time. He did not blindly reprimand Liu Jingyu, but asked Liu Jingyu to explain the cause and effect of the matter in detail.
After she finished speaking, she suddenly asked, "What's the matter with the Huasheng on the head of the fourth young lady of the Qu Mansion?"
There was also the shadow of a phoenix on that Huasheng. Compared with Liu Jingyu's matter, this matter was really just a trivial matter, but Pei Luoan heard this suspicious point.
The Queen was stunned for a moment, frowned at first, and then her eyes lit up. She didn't notice this detail when she listened just now.
"Where did she get that Huasheng? We can check it from this Huasheng and we will definitely get something."
"This Huasheng was... sent to Qu's residence by me, but there was no Phoenix Shadow on it at that time." Madam Qi said with shame on her face.
"Why was Madam Tai's Huasheng sent to the Qu Mansion?" The Queen felt that there was something fishy going on. When did the relationship between the Duke of Qi's Mansion and the Qu Mansion become so close
Her news still remained at the point where the old Duke had beaten Minister Qu, and this incident had caused quite a stir. The Emperor had even reprimanded the old Duke, and even the old Duke's title had been passed on to his son, all because of this incident.
"I was thinking of the birth mother of the fourth young lady of the Qu family, so I specially sent her a set of clothes and a set of jewelry for her coming-of-age ceremony. Among the jewelry was this Huasheng." Madam Qi had to explain reluctantly.
She secretly hated it because it sounded like the Duke of Qi was the mastermind behind this matter because of these connections, but she really knew nothing about it...