"Uncle Wang, let the Queen handle this matter!" Pei Yusheng sighed and turned to Pei Yuanjun. The meaning of his words was to convict Qu Moying, but on the other hand, it also saved Pei Yuanjun's face.
He glanced at Qu Moying who was standing there. She looked delicate and weak, which made people feel sorry for her. It was a pity that such a stunning beauty fell into the hands of the Queen. Even if it was for the sake of maintaining the dignity of the royal family, she could not escape the word "death".
"Uncle Wang, this matter can also be asked to several queens in charge of the harem together." Pei Luoan was unwilling to let only his mother come forward.
Of course, Concubine He should also be brought in.
"Even if there are several ladies in charge in the harem together, the Queen is still the one who makes the decision." Pei Yusheng was even more reluctant to involve his mother.
"Miss Qu Si, do you have anything else to say?" Pei Yuanjun raised his eyes and looked at Qu Moying meaningfully, tapping his fingers lightly on the table.
"Your Highness, someone framed me!" Qu Moying said frankly.
"Where is the evidence?" Pei Yuanjun seemed very interested in Qu Moying's frank look. He smiled and his expression softened.
"The sachet is evidence, this person is also evidence, and of course this navy blue dress is also evidence." Qu Moying turned to Liu Jingyu and said, "Jingyu County Lord, I came to your house today and was invited by you. Why would someone frame me? Who knew where I was resting so well that he could lead my people away and sneak out of my house to harm me?"
“Miss Qu Si, I don’t understand what you mean? Your affairs… have nothing to do with me, right? Besides, whether this is really a frame-up or not, it’s still up to you princes to figure it out.” Liu Jingyu raised his eyes and said softly.
"This is the Liu Mansion. Who is this man? The county magistrate should know, right?" Qu Moying pointed at the still unconscious man.
"I don't know, maybe some young master brought it in!" Liu Jingyu looked at it carefully and shook his head.
"If someone sneaked in, how could he get to the rest area in the inner courtyard? This is Liu Mansion. Even if I really have some ideas, I can't find the place. How can I avoid everyone and enter the inner courtyard without being discovered?" Qu Moying smiled slightly and pointed at the sachet in front of him. "This sachet appeared under my bed, and there is such a man facing it. Even if he denies it, will I be unable to defend myself?"
"Miss Fourth Qu shouldn't be asking me this." Liu Jingyu pointed at Miss Fourth He and the others, "I came the latest, and I still don't know what happened."
She had made up her mind not to intervene. Originally, she was just a bystander and didn't understand why Qu Moying kept staring at her. The King of England was sitting upstairs, which put a lot of pressure on her. Even if she was very angry, she didn't dare to show it obviously.
"Since you know nothing about it, could I trouble you in one favor?" Qu Moying said.
"What's the matter?" Liu Jingyu asked after a moment of silence.
"Please help check how this young man got in and whether he took the notice. There is someone at the door who collects notices. He should know, right?" Qu Moying pointed at the man who had fainted on the ground.
Up to this point, she has basically figured out the whole situation. The origin of the man in front of her is somewhat suspicious, and can be used as a breakthrough.
"Every post sent by the county lord is recorded, right?"
"The posts are all recorded, but when they were collected, they looked at the posts instead of the people. If he took someone else's post, he could still get in." Liu Jingyu shook his head, saying that this was very difficult.
Disaster.
"My Lord, you just need to check whether all the posts have been collected, and then ask the young master outside whether he has brought a man who is not currently seated into Liujing." Qu Moying smiled in the midst of everyone's surprised gazes.
"This is easy." Liu Jingyu agreed and called a maid to ask.
After a while, the maid came to report that all the notices were there. The same number of notices were sent out and received back, with no errors. All the young masters said that even if they had brought someone with them, the person was now at the seat, right in front of them, and was not absent.
"Is there any lady here who came in without a sticker?" Qu Moying looked inexplicably relaxed, as this was something she had expected.
"I came in with my own post."
"I took mine, too."
"I don't have the note, but I came in with my cousin, and she took the note." The ladies looked at each other and immediately proved their innocence.
Miss He Si lowered her head and covered her feet, seeming not to notice their conversation. Only she knew that she was already panicked at the moment. She had imagined all the possibilities, but she had never thought that the posting would be checked, and it would be found that all the posts had been entered, and that an impossible person would appear.
He pinched his feet hard, unconsciously panicking.
Qi Xiangyu looked at her who had fallen to the ground, then looked at Qu Moying, took a step forward, walked in front of Miss He Si, and asked, "Miss He Si, do you have a note?"
"I... Of course I do." Fourth Miss He answered stiffly.
"But when I entered the room, I didn't see anyone receiving your note. You came in with me." Qi Xiangyu only glanced at it casually at the time and didn't see it very clearly, but this time he deliberately deceived her.
"I didn't, I gave it on the note." Miss He Si was very anxious.
"When I came in, the maid from the Liu Mansion who collected the notices happened to be someone I knew. You can call her over to ask her." Qi Xiangyu said coldly.
Miss He Si's expression already indicated that something was wrong.
She sincerely wanted to be on good terms with Qu Moying, but she didn't expect that she would bring such a disaster upon Qu Moying. How could she not be angry? She turned around and asked someone to call the old woman over.
She helped host half of today's banquet, and some personnel arrangements were still handled by her.
"I... I'm not..." Miss He Si was really panicked. This matter could be easily clarified. She blushed and explained, "I... My post was lost. It disappeared."
"Miss He Si's note disappeared, so this man came in. What's even more coincidental is that someone entered my room wearing a navy blue robe. Later, when the ladies came in, he jumped into the lake from the back door and escaped. The robe was very similar to that of the man who was fished out now." Qu Moying responded to Miss He Si's words with a smile.
Everyone could see that something was amiss, and no one was ignorant enough to respond at this time. The most important thing was that the King of England looked at them with a gloomy gaze, which made people feel uneasy. They had a lot to say, but they didn't dare to say much. They just waited to see what would happen next.
"Aren't these other things... Miss Fourth Qu's business? How should I know... Who knows who got my post?" Miss Fourth He said loudly with a flushed face.
"Lord Jingyu, I have to trouble you with one more thing. Could you please bring me the inkstone I used before?" Qu Moying looked at Liu Jingyu and said.
Qi Xiang
Yu looked at Miss He Si and then at Qu Moying uneasily, and subconsciously felt that there was something wrong here, but these were still gifts to Qu Moying from her.
Qu Moying looked up and gave her a soothing smile, which miraculously made Qi Xiangyu relax.
Liu Jingyu sent someone to get Qu Moying's inkstone, and soon the inkstone was placed on the table in front of Pei Yuanjun.
"There is a drug powder in here that makes people drowsy. I was fine when I was painting. But when the inkstone was brought to me, the water in it was ground into ink, and I smelled a drug that makes people hallucinate and sleepy. I woke up and avoided the downwind outlet, so I felt better and didn't fall asleep all of a sudden." Qu Moying pointed with his finger.
Pei Yusheng's face changed drastically. He took a step forward, sniffed it lightly, and then nodded to a guard behind him. The guard went down and brought in an imperial physician after a while.
"Come and take a look!" Pei Yusheng ordered.
The imperial physician took two steps forward, picked up the inkstone, smelled it, examined it carefully, nodded affirmatively, and stepped aside.
"Uncle Wang, I was attacked by a dagger before. It was a kind of drug that makes people sleepy. I drank it at that time. After drinking it, I felt very sleepy. I fell asleep on the stone table for a while. After I came back, nothing happened. But how could I fall asleep when I was fine, especially when I was in Ling Anbo's mansion."
Pei Yusheng looked at Pei Luoan unconsciously. He found out something about what happened that year afterwards, but he couldn't figure out who drugged him. He even wondered if he had misunderstood.
But he was sure that he would not be so sleepy as to fall asleep in the pavilion and see Pei Luoan when he woke up.
This was also a matter of doubt in his mind.
He brought the imperial physician with him, intending to visit the King of Wei after the banquet. Unexpectedly, he would come in handy.
"So, someone has indeed put drugs here, and someone is plotting against Fourth Miss Qu." Pei Yusheng's face turned cold, and he glanced at Pei Luoan. If it weren't for the drug, he wouldn't have suspected Pei Luoan, but now, it reminded him of what happened in the Ling Anbo Mansion.
Could it be that Pei Luoan framed the young lady from the Qu Mansion just to drag himself into trouble
If you think about it this way, it is really possible, after all, there is this idiot He Si.
"Brother, what do you think?" Pei Yusheng looked at Pei Luoan with burning eyes, and simply pushed the matter in front of Pei Luoan, so that Uncle Wang would not only see himself.
"Second brother, what you said is very unreasonable. Since someone has framed Fourth Miss Qu, let's continue to investigate." Pei Luoan's robe trembled, and he looked at the trembling Fourth Miss He. "At the moment, Fourth Miss He is very suspicious. Uncle Wang, why don't you ask this Fourth Miss He!"
Seeing everyone's eyes looking at her again, Miss He Si had to grit her teeth and persevere. At this time, either Qu Moying would die or she would die.
"I didn't give this inkstone to Fourth Miss Qu. Even if there was something wrong with it, it could have been done by Fourth Miss Qu herself. There was no one else at the table at the time, so it would have been easy for Fourth Miss Qu's maid to get it. If she hadn't nearly fainted, Fourth Miss Qu wouldn't have left so early and been helped away, and there wouldn't have been any subsequent incidents."
This means that Qu Moying directed and acted in this drama just to meet her lover in secret, and Miss He Si was determined to throw the basin of dirty water on Qu Moying no matter what.
"The inkstone is one reason, and the next thing is the sachet!" Qu Moying knew that she would not admit it so easily. In fact, the more she argued, the better...