"A hairpin."
"The gold hairpin is decorated with purple pearls."
"I've never seen purple pearls before. How much do these cost?"
"If you are not a rich family, you can't afford such things."
"This boy is dressed like this, his son must be poor, how could he have such a precious thing? What is this, a note?"
Someone with sharp eyes noticed another note fell from the purse and quickly reached out to grab it.
"I return your pearl with tears in my eyes. I regret that we did not meet before I got married?" The one who got the note was a literate person and he read out the words on it immediately.
Even though some people did not understand the first sentence, the second sentence was very straightforward and everyone present understood it immediately.
This means that a girl fell in love with a man and gave him her hairpin, but the man refused to accept it and just said that he wished they had never met before getting married. This means that the man was already married and did not want to disappoint his wife, so he rejected the girl's offer.
The man should be from an average family, and the woman should be from an extremely good family.
The unfaithful woman fell in love with another man and even gave him a hairpin in private to propose marriage, but the man refused.
The meaning here is much more interesting than that of private transactions.
Coming to this Dabei Temple and seeing this kind of thing really makes people want to see what happens next.
I didn't expect that just because they bumped into each other due to a large crowd, such an extremely erotic thing would happen. Now the goddess has the intention, but the king of Xiang is not.
This makes the play even more exciting to watch.
Almost everyone's eyes fell on Qu Moying behind Yu Dong. It seemed, it really seemed, that all the signs indicated that the woman inside was the Fourth Miss Qu.
"Fourth sister, this... this hairpin, I... I give it to you..." Qu Qiuyan's face changed drastically. She put her hand on her head. She also had a hairpin on her head, which happened to be a pair with the hairpin on the ground.
No one had noticed Qu Qiuyan at first, but when she said that, everyone's eyes fell on her. Then they looked at the hairpin in her hair and the hairpin on the ground. Needless to say, they were indeed a pair.
It turned out that this Miss Qu Si did not abide by the rules of the boudoir and took a fancy to other men. She even had the nerve to give her accessories to other men.
But looking at the appearance of Fourth Miss Qu, everyone felt that they could understand it. Although Fourth Miss Qu came from a wealthy family, she clearly had an eye disease, so it might not be easy to find a marriage for her. So she set her eyes on a man from an ordinary family and directly sent gifts to him, hoping to get him engaged. Unexpectedly, the man actually got married.
The fourth young lady of Qu? The fourth young lady of Minister Qu's mansion? She has no talent, no looks, and she has lost her mother. No wonder such a thing happened to her.
Some of the onlookers already knew Qu Moying's identity and started discussing it.
The servant suddenly pushed the old woman away and ran out of the crowd in panic. Some idle people hurriedly chased him and saw him running under a tree outside the hall. There stood a weak young man. Although his clothes were not gorgeous and seemed to be made of coarse cloth, he had a gentle expression and a handsome appearance.
When he saw the servant coming over, he almost fell down while running, but he reached out to help him up. After asking a few questions, he looked up at the people who were rushing down the stairs, then turned and left.
Helplessly, she took only two steps when she was stopped by someone. It was a maid named Yudong.
She had just come out chasing after the servant.
"Sir, are you the one who framed our young lady? Since you are here, please confront her face to face." Yu Dong stretched out his hand to stop her.
Qu Moying walked down the steps of the hall slowly, with Qu Qiuyan following closely behind her.
Qu Qiuyan originally wanted to find a way to get away, but Yudong left, so Qu Moying held the hand of her maid Qingju. Even if she wanted to leave, it was not convenient for her to do so, so she could only follow behind.
The onlookers all followed out.
Qu Moying slowly walked to the man, looked at his face, and was convinced that he had never seen him before. His face turned cold and he asked in a calm tone, "Who are you? Why did you frame me?"
"Qu... Fourth Miss Qu, it's me... I have implicated Fourth Miss Qu." Seeing that he couldn't leave, the man simply decided not to leave and turned to Qu Moying and said.
Qu Moying's identity is the easiest to recognize, because she is the only one in the crowd wearing a long eye veil.
At this time, several people came from outside the crowd. One of them was King Jing Pei Yusheng. Hearing the noise here, he also stood behind the crowd. Seeing Qu Moying and Qu Qiuyan in the crowd, he couldn't help but frowned. What he hated most was Qu Qiuyan showing up at such a noisy time.
This scene is clearly not a good one. How did Qu Qiuyan get involved
On Pei Yusheng's side, there were several young men and women, among them was Lady Jingyu, whom Concubine He had taken a fancy to. Her eyes also fell on the crowd, but she was looking at Qu Moying.
The noble men and women had no intention of going in, they just wanted to watch the fun. They didn't see what happened before, so they didn't see the hairpin. Now the hairpin was in Qingju's hand. Qu Moying asked Qingju to pick it up just now.
"Who are you?" Qu Moying looked at the man without changing his gaze, as if he didn't hear what he said, "I... know you?"
"Fourth Miss, when I came to Beijing, I passed by the manor where you lived and stayed for two days. Can you say you don't know it? The head of the manor there can testify."
The man's face turned red, then pale, and then anger appeared on his face.
"Miss Qu Si, I know I was wrong, but you don't have to send me gifts. Thank you for letting me stay overnight." After the man said this, he looked like he was going to leave in anger.
In just two sentences, the meaning is very clear.
First, she was not afraid of being investigated; second, there were witnesses; and third, Qu Moying had taken a liking to this man at the time, so she let him stay overnight, and then gave him a gift to express her feelings. The man was unwilling, so she returned the hairpin today.
Originally, the matter had passed quietly, but unexpectedly, it was ruined by a servant.
"Do you know me?" Qu Moying suddenly smiled.
"Of course I know her. I saw the young lady when I stayed at the farm." said the man.
He had a handsome appearance and elegant manners, and he looked like an educated man. Although he was angry, he did not really say anything bad. Moreover, he did not take the hairpin from the woman, but returned it to her instead. Considering his wife at home, he should be a good person.
Compared to Qu Moying, everyone felt that what this young man said was true.
"You said I gave you this hairpin?" Qu Moying asked again, "When did I give it to you?"
"Just before lunch today, I happened to meet the young lady, and she asked someone to give the hairpin to me.
Come here, I know the young lady may think that I am poor and help me out of kindness, but even if I am poor, I cannot give things away casually, I hope the fourth young lady will forgive me." The man said.
This makes people feel even better after saying it.
Knowing clearly that it was Fourth Miss Qu who did not follow the rules and sent her the hairpin, she refused it in this way so that Fourth Miss Qu would not feel so embarrassed.
This young man has good character.
How can you give away a lady's personal belongings casually? If you really want to provide her with financial support, just give her silver.
Qu Qiuyan suddenly felt that it was not bad not to leave. She covered her lips with a handkerchief to hide the smug look on her face. It was indeed a happy thing to see with her own eyes that Qu Moying lost his reputation.
What could Qu Moying, this blind bitch, use to compete with me? Yet, my grandmother still treats her like a treasure and doesn't even look at what kind of person this bitch is.
Even if she cannot be killed this time, she will be locked up in an ancient temple in the mountains for the rest of her life, never to see the light of day.
There will be no problem with my father, but it will be a little troublesome with my grandmother. But even if my grandmother protects her, what's the use? There is no rope to take Qu Moying's life. It's good enough to maintain the reputation of the entire Qu family. First, throw Qu Moying into a small nunnery in the mountains, and then find gangsters to defile her body. See if she still has the face to survive.
The more Qu Qiuyan thought about it, the more proud she became. She could hardly hide the smile on her face. She suddenly lowered her head to suppress the laugh that was about to burst out.
Qu Qiuyan knew that this man surnamed Gao was hired by her mother to deal with Qu Moying. Unexpectedly, Qu Moying returned to Beijing so quickly that she didn't use him for a while. Now that Yu Qingmeng used him, it was not bad.
If Qu Moying died, this person would be of no use.
"Are you sure it was me who gave it to you?" Qu Moying asked again.
"The maid said that when she came over," the man replied.
"Which maid?" Qu Moying asked relentlessly.
The man looked around, then looked at Yu Dong's face, and shook his head: "No one is here, I don't know who it is."
He was a scholar, and a smart one at that. He originally wanted to slip away before Miss Qu Si came out, but he didn't expect that the maid named Yudong would stop him so quickly.
Looking at Qu Moying who was becoming more and more calm, he felt inexplicably uneasy in his heart. He did not follow the answer Yu Qingmeng had given him in advance and pointed at Yu Dong and said.
"Is this hairpin mine?" Qu Moying pointed at herself again, and the corners of her pale lips curled up slightly, as if she was smiling.
"This... is said to belong to Fourth Miss Qu." Gao An was a little panicked. He originally thought that this was an easy matter, but how come it suddenly became so complicated? This Fourth Miss Qu was obviously not someone who was easy to mess with.
She has an eye disease, is neither talented nor pretty, is aloof and timid. Is this person who stands in the crowd with such ease and grace without a trace of panic really the fourth young lady of the Qu family
Qu Moying reached out and took the hairpin from Qingju, raised it and shook it a few times. The purple pearls dazzled everyone's eyes in the sunlight. Pei Yusheng, who was standing outside the crowd and was just watching the excitement, suddenly changed his expression. How could he not recognize this hairpin? It was given to him by his mother and asked him to give to his future wife, but he took two of them and gave them to Qu Qiuyan.
"This hairpin is a tribute from the palace!" Qu Moying's next words made his face look very ugly, and what made his face so ugly was that he saw another person squeezing over from the crowd opposite.