A pair of jeweled clasps, a few exquisite handkerchiefs, and a bamboo gauze box.
Several very delicate pieces were placed on the table one by one.
Qu Moying picked up the gem clasp, looked at it, then put it down. He flicked the ruby clasp twice with his fingers, then put it down.
"Send this thing to them." Qu Moying smiled slightly, turned around and sat down on the chair.
"Will it arouse other people's suspicion?" Nanny Yan said anxiously. These items were obviously fine products and looked like they might even be from the palace.
Nanny Yan had seen some similar things in the palace, but at that time she had already gone to serve Concubine Qu and lived a secluded life, so she was not very familiar with these nearby ornaments.
"Don't worry, Madam Yan. Even if some accidents occur, it has nothing to do with us. Instead, someone will secretly smooth it over." Qu Moying smiled slightly.
There is no point in keeping these things that I got from my shop. The clue that has already told me is in my heart. As for the proof, there are only a few similar ones, and it seems impossible to find the final result, so I might as well use them here.
No matter who used his own shop to do the tribute business, it was all related to the palace. Since these things are useless now, they might as well be thrown out to muddy the waters.
The person who harmed her has someone in the palace.
There are people behind the clasp of rubies, and it depends on who wins now. In Qu Moying's opinion, although Madam Liu has a strong background, she is not a member of the palace after all, so it is not easy for her to interfere in the palace. Now that Liu Jingyu is going to marry Pei Luoan, her relationship with the Queen has become closer.
But before that, even if Madam Liu had a high status, it was not easy for her to interfere in the palace. The person who sent the ruby and those tributes must be someone in the palace, and he must be very powerful.
"Miss, are you talking about the owner of the ruby clasp?" Nanny Yan's eyes lit up.
"Madam Yan, can you ask them to explain where these things came from?" Qu Moying smiled slightly. As long as these things entered the palace, she would no longer be able to decide who would win or lose.
One is the owner of the ruby clasp, and the other is Madam Liu who has always wanted to kill her mother and herself in order to keep her identity secret.
Of course there may be others!
But it doesn't matter. She is not afraid of someone reaching in and sending things into the palace. Everything that happens from now on will be related to the palace.
The spring water in the pool was broken, and it all depended on who would be responsible for the final event. According to her calculations, the most likely person would be Madam Liu. After all, the current Madam Liu was not the original Madam Liu.
Minister Liu became the Vice Minister, and the Duke of Qi's Mansion told Madam Liu not to show up. Vice Minister Liu would definitely keep Madam Liu under surveillance. Even if she had connections, it would be difficult for her to get into the palace, not to mention that she had injured her legs and was under surveillance again.
"Miss, I understand. Don't worry, I will get it done." Nanny Yan thought for a while and said. She had already asked two embroiderers in the palace.
From their questioning, they learned that the manager of the sewing room who sent the drawings to them was the most suspicious.
She was the one who gave the drawings to the two embroiderers. Although she had someone else distribute them, it looked like someone else had made a mistake accidentally and it couldn't be blamed on her.
But if you
If the two palace maids who distributed the drawings were missing, she would be the most suspicious. Only she could have distributed the two drawings by mistake and changed the drawings.
If anything goes wrong, it can be blamed on the two palace maids who made the mistake.
"Such a big thing happened and the two embroiderers almost lost their lives. Young lady allowed them to get away with it as if nothing had happened. They are very grateful to you. Besides, if they don't get away with it, they themselves may not be able to save themselves." Nanny Yan said again.
No matter how small the matter in the palace is, it may become a big deal.
This situation seems to have been resolved, but if one plan fails, what about another? As long as the two embroiderers are still embroidering in Qu's mansion, who knows if there will be other things that will happen next, and their lives will still be in danger.
The two embroiderers were also panicked. It would be best if they could solve this matter at once to avoid any further troubles later.
"Then send these items to the palace!" Qu Moying smiled, and flicked her soft and slender fingers twice on the table, saying meaningfully, "No matter who is behind this, if she wants to plot against me again, I must cut off her hand."
Madam Liu can be quiet for a while, but it is she who is quiet, not the power behind her. It seems that this power will also be transferred away because of Madam Liu's setbacks.
This is fine, since they are both enemies, enemies who want to kill me, two enemies combined into one is not the result of a simple combination.
She really needs to see this result...
Qu Moying's smile was elegant and gentle, and her features were lively and beautiful, but the smile was a little cold, making people feel inexplicably chilled when they saw it.
Nanny Yan was someone who had served the Empress Dowager, but even the Empress Dowager was not much more imposing than the unmarried Fourth Young Lady in front of her.
"Miss, don't worry, I will arrange everything properly." Nanny Yan lowered her head and said respectfully. What she had to do now was to create a seemingly coincidental "encounter". As for the rest, it had nothing to do with Nanny Yan. It was very easy to arrange a small "encounter".
Besides, she also knew a little habit of the Queen.
"Thank you, Nanny Yan." Qu Moying smiled and waved her hand, indicating that Nanny Yan didn't need to be polite.
Nanny Yan raised her head, nodded, and retreated. When she retreated to the corridor, she turned around and looked behind her, and sighed softly. She was the young lady's grooming nanny, but most of the time she felt that the young lady did not need any grooming at all. Her every word and action was standard, and the young lady even understood some things that she had not thought of.
She was very clear about her position. She was now the young lady's person and should do things for her. Everything in the past had nothing to do with her anymore.
Even the old master, Concubine Qu, is now in the past. She knows clearly that since she officially recognized her master, Nanny Yan has been very clear about her position.
And the more she followed the Fourth Young Lady, the more frightened she became, and the more convinced she became...
"Where did this come from?" The Queen's face turned cold and she leaned back. A maid standing beside her scolded her harshly.
The two embroiderers turned pale with panic and said in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, this was given to us by the steward just now. We are asked to embroider the veil for Miss Qu Si with all our heart and soul. There cannot be the slightest mistake. If there is anything wrong, we will be held accountable."
The ruby clasps, the delicate handkerchief and a bamboo gauze box all fell on the table, and a maid came over to examine them carefully.
Then she nodded and said, "Your Majesty, it is indeed from the palace. I have distributed it to the palaces on your behalf before. However, this box seems to be a fake. It is not the real thing, but it is a very similar imitation. You must have seen the real thing."
"There must be records in the palace about which palaces these were sent to. Let's check." The Queen said leisurely. Today, as usual, she went to the Queen Mother's old palace to check it out.
A few days before the New Year, the palace where the Empress Dowager previously lived would be thoroughly cleaned. Often at this time, the Empress would come in person to supervise the cleaning in order to show her filial piety.
Unexpectedly, I met two flustered embroiderers today, so I had them captured and brought to me.
Originally, there was nothing to do, I just asked casually. This is not the Pepper Palace, but a pavilion outside the palace where the Empress Dowager lived before. I can see the cleaning work outside the Empress Dowager's place and enjoy the scenery. It is quite leisurely, unlike in the past when the concubines had to come over to answer questions.
Because I had some free time, I had the leisure to ask the two embroiderers questions.
I didn't expect to find these two things. The Queen didn't think that a manager of a sewing room would have so many things.
There is someone behind the person in charge.
He then gestured and asked a eunuch to investigate the affairs of the manager of the needlework room. He wanted to find out everything about her, including who she had come into contact with since entering the palace and who she had been interacting with recently.
The two embroiderers were taken aside, and the maid who had interrogated them before continued to interrogate them, asking them to clarify what they were doing in the Qu Mansion and if there was anything wrong. The two embroiderers did not hide anything and mentioned that they had made a mistake in the previous drawing, which was discovered by the fourth lady of the Qu Mansion. Later, they re-drew a correct one and told the same story.
The rest is fine.
This matter was true, and the two of them spoke very seriously. Even when the nanny in charge asked very detailed questions, the two of them responded with ease and told the whole story in detail without adding any extra speculations of their own. They just stuck to the facts, and then there was the matter of the pair of buttons and the handkerchief.
The two embroiderers had just come from the needlework room, but unexpectedly they took the wrong road when they came out and bumped into the Queen. They were so frightened that they tried to avoid her secretly, but were discovered by the sharp-eyed palace servants and captured together.
The two embroiderers explained the cause and reasons of the incident clearly and systematically, although their faces turned pale and they were trembling with fear.
The housekeeper asked again and again, and then examined them again. Not finding anything unusual, she turned around and reported to the Queen.
The Queen had just been sitting in the middle, listening to the questions from the side. Then she listened to the report from the housekeeper and nodded. "Let them go to Qu's house first. There's nothing else to do now!"
"Thank you, Queen. Thank you, Queen." The two embroiderers were overjoyed and bowed to the Queen excitedly.
"Now that you're at Qu's house, do you know what you should and shouldn't say?" the housekeeper warned the two embroiderers in a stern voice.
"Don't worry, Ma'am. We came to the Qu Mansion only to embroider the veil. We won't tell anyone anything else." The two embroiderers nodded hurriedly and said repeatedly with pale faces, looking like the kind of people who are timid.