"Father!" Liu Jingyu was standing at the intersection. When he saw Minister Liu striding towards him, he stepped aside and saluted.
Seeing his daughter's obedient appearance, Minister Liu calmed down and waved to her: "Follow your father for a walk!"
"Yes, father!" Liu Jingyu followed him half a step behind him as he was told. Knowing that he had something to say to her, the servant and the maid cleverly retreated a few steps away and followed him from a distance.
"What did the Queen and the Crown Prince say?" Minister Liu asked slowly after taking a few steps.
Liu Jingyu lowered his head bitterly: "They are all blaming our family."
The person she was closest to before was her mother, but after recent events one after another, she suddenly found that her mother didn't seem that trustworthy. In comparison, her father was more powerful and really cared about her.
The feeling her mother gave her became increasingly strange.
"You do have to blame our family. The identity of the crown prince cannot tolerate any flaws, but the things in our family have repeatedly implicated Your Highness. Jingyu, you will marry into the East Palace in the future, so there can't be any mistakes. Your father has specially asked someone to clean up the people around you. Those who are not right must be removed for you."
Minister Liu whispered.
Liu Jingyu was startled, his face looked a little ugly: "Father... Is there anything else?"
"I don't know whether there is one or not, but it's better to check it again. If you don't have enough manpower, you can ask the prince for help. The people around the prince are much more reliable than those around you." Minister Liu reminded.
"Father... do you... do you hate my mother?" Liu Jingyu had these words in his heart for a long time, and he had never asked them in person. But at this moment, seeing his father's gentle face, the words suddenly came out of his mouth. After he finished speaking, his eyes turned red and he choked up for a moment.
"You don't need to ask too much about the elders' affairs. There have always been problems between me and your mother, so you don't need to ask too much. You are going to marry into the Prince's Mansion now, so you should pay more attention to the Prince's side, so that he won't blame you. I'm afraid it won't be good when you enter the Prince's Mansion." Minister Liu sighed.
"Like mother? Living alone in the backyard all the time?" Liu Jingyu was irritated by the calmness on Minister Liu's face and blurted out questions again and again.
Minister Liu stopped and looked at his daughter. He sighed heavily and answered irrelevantly, "Your mother... has unusual means. Not only is she fierce, but she is also vicious. I can't guess or see through her mind, but I never thought that a young lady from an aristocratic family would be as scheming and cruel as her. I'm afraid that your mother... will implicate you."
"So... so, the fourth young lady of the Qu Mansion has nothing to do with you... with you?" These words finally rushed out along with the previous words.
It weighed heavily on her heart for more than ten years.
"Miss Qu Si and me?" Minister Liu was stunned for a moment. He obviously didn't expect his daughter to ask this question. He looked at her in astonishment, "Where did you hear such nonsense?"
His expression was very natural and surprised. It was obvious that he was stunned by the question. Liu Jingyu was also stunned. She moved her mouth and tried hard to force a smile, but the smile was almost stiff: "No... It doesn't matter?"
"What's the connection? She is the daughter of Minister Qu. What does she have to do with me? Is that right?" Minister Liu suddenly understood. His face suddenly turned pale, and then turned blue with anger.
"Is your mother telling you nonsense again? Miss Qu Si's biological mother and I have never met in private since we came to Beijing. This is really nonsense!"
"Never... Nonsense..." Liu Jingyu was trembling all over. She had checked Qu Moying and knew that Qu Moying's biological mother gave birth to her several years after she married and moved to Beijing. Her father said that the two had not met privately since they moved to Beijing. Therefore, Qu Moying had no relationship with her father and was not her father's illegitimate daughter.
But this... How is it possible
This was the fact his mother had told him since he was a child, and it was repeatedly engraved in his mind. Seeing his parents appearing to be in harmony but not in harmony with each other, and seeing the two of them living in the inner and outer courtyards respectively and not even seeing each other in the past, Liu Jingyu hated Xiao Yue from the bottom of his heart, and hated the fourth young lady of the Qu family.
I hated her so much that I even wanted to strangle her to death myself.
She was still young at that time, and she really wanted to do so. She almost took the blind girl's life based on her instinct.
I have hated and resented him for so many years, but now they say that the two of them have nothing to do with each other, and Qu Moying has nothing to do with my family, then what does all the hatred I have had for so many years count for
Why should I hate her, an orphan who has nothing, and a blind girl at that, mother... What on earth is she doing
Why mislead her like this
This has made me hate and resent him for so many years, and even become extremely cold towards my father.
Liu Jingyu's face showed an expression that seemed to be neither crying nor laughing, and there was a strange sadness on it.
"You don't have to take your mother's words seriously... She is a lunatic, a very weird and vicious lunatic. She cannot stand others being good. As long as it is good, she wants to snatch it away. She wishes that all the benefits belong to her. How can you let your father live peacefully with such a person?"
At this time, Minister Liu also understood the meaning of Liu Jingyu's words. He was angry and hateful, but he could not do anything to Madam Liu. He could only grit his teeth and said to his daughter hatefully.
"You have to be careful about others, but also be careful about your mother."
After Minister Liu finished speaking, he felt depressed and did not intend to let Liu Jingyu follow him. He said to her, "Your father still has official business to deal with, so you should go back first. Remember, the people around you must be your confidants. Remember, they are your confidants, not anyone else's, not even your mother's!"
Watching his father leave, Liu Jingyu could no longer hold back his tears, which began to fall one after another. He reached out to hold onto a tree trunk and cried uncontrollably.
The maid behind him saw Minister Liu leaving and hurried forward to persuade him.
After a long while, Liu Jingyu finally stopped and looked at the empty yard with red and swollen eyes. The Liu Mansion has always been considered to have a very clean backyard among the aristocratic families. It was indeed very clean. There was no one in front of him, so how could it not be clean
"Miss, do you still want to see the madam?" the maid asked cautiously.
"No need, let's go back first!" Liu Jingxia said tiredly. She was not in the mood to see her mother again for a while. She could feel that what her father said was true, but her mother had deceived her for more than ten years with such a lie, and made her hate her for more than ten years.
What’s funny is that it’s actually fake. What’s even funnier is that this is the person she trusts the most. If she can’t even trust her mother, who else can she trust
She even had the urge to rush over and ask her mother why she said that and why she did that.
But in the end, all of it was suppressed. Too many things happened in the past few days. Her mother was not the mother she imagined, the Queen was not the Queen she imagined, and even the Crown Prince was no longer the considerate and gentle Crown Prince. She had to make plans for herself.
"If you don't go, what will happen to Wenyan this time?" the maid asked cautiously. This was an important reason why Liu Jingyu wanted to find Madam Liu just now.
This was also the method that the Queen Mother had asked her to find a way to deal with all these things.
Holding the Huiwen banquet in advance could accumulate some good words for his increasingly bad reputation, at least it would make him stand out. It would be even better if he could get closer to the fourth young lady of the Qu family.
However, will this Fourth Miss Qu really come? I heard that she is seriously ill, so it is obviously not appropriate for her to come at this time. However, she dare not disobey the Queen's will. In the past, she could ask the Crown Prince to help her talk it over, but now the feeling that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gives her makes her feel intimidated, as if everything has changed...
They have become unrecognizable and are no longer the people I remember...
However, even if this is the case, it doesn't matter. She is the Crown Princess, and Qu Moying will eventually be stepped on by her. But now she has to think carefully...
"Miss, Minister Liu and Madam Liu really have a special relationship. People outside say that Minister Liu and his wife are very loving, and that Minister Liu's backyard is much cleaner, but in fact, it's all fake... I heard that the quarrel was so loud that the whole yard could hear it clearly." Yu Dong smiled and reported the message to Qu Moying.
This really happened by chance. The little maid who had just come in was bought into the Liu Mansion by Grandma Mo Ya. The Liu Mansion was short of people recently, so Grandma Mo Ya sent a few people in. One of them was sent by Yu Dong at the request of Qu Moying, and the news spread just like that.
She was just a new maid, so she wouldn't get much information. Qu Moying didn't require her to know much, just some simple housekeeping in the mansion. She had a hunch that sending such a maid in would have no effect now, but might have a big effect next.
Madam Liu is obviously too extraordinary!
"It is said that Minister Liu and Madam Liu had a huge argument, and it was very loud, but Madam Liu was very strong. After that, Minister Liu was angry and left. On the way, he met County Lord Jingyu. From a distance, he saw that County Lord Jingyu seemed very sad and suffered a great blow. After that, he did not go to Madam Liu's courtyard and went back alone."
Yudong said again.
A young maid who had just entered the mansion had no idea what was said specifically. She just saw some very simple things from a distance. They didn't sound like a big deal, but Yu Dong felt that there was something fishy going on.
"Miss, do you want to ask someone to inquire more carefully?" Yu Dong suggested, as the information obtained by a little maid was not enough after all.
Qu Moying shook his hand: "That's enough, no need to ask too much, lest we alert the enemy! This Madam Liu... I'm afraid she is not what we saw!"
At the end of the conversation, he was almost whispering to himself, with a cold look in his eyes. This man was the biggest beneficiary of his mother's death, but also the biggest culprit.
So she just wanted to cover up her identity and enjoy everything that originally belonged to her mother
There was another guess in his mind, a guess that made Qu Moying realize that it would cause even more earth-shaking consequences.
My fingers unconsciously moved across the music sheet in front of me, as if thinking about something...