Chapter 312 – The Missing Letter
Chapter 312 The Missing Letter
Qu Xuexin spent another two hours doing embroidery in Qu Moying’s place. Only after East Mansion sent someone over to ask her back did she leave.
After Qu Xuexin left with all the things she had brought over, Qu Moying put down the embroidery frame in her hand, and she looked at Qu Xuexin through the window.
“Lady, please rest your eyes!” Yu Chun stepped forward to help her remove the eye veil.
Qu Moying leaned back and closed her eyes. Yu Chun gently rubbed the corners of her eyes to help her relax her eyes. Qu Moying had been embroidering for a long time just now. Once she was taking a rest, she did feel uncomfortable in her eyes.
After coming in and cleaning up the tea set, Yu Dong served Qu Moying a new cup of tea. “Lady, what are First Lady and Young Master Xiao trying to do?”
“They asked me to go out on the Qixi Festival!” Qu Moying said indifferently. She did not know what exactly they were going to do, but Qu Mingcheng and Qu Xuexin must have planned something. As for Xiao Hanyuan, he must have played a part as well!
She sneered silently, and her eyes turned cold.
In Qu Mansion, only the Old Lady treated her as a family member. As for the others, they had been plotting against her, so how could she treat them as a family?
Yu Chun understood something and said angrily, “Lady, they went too far!”
“It doesn’t matter. It’s just the law of the jungle!” The corners of Qu Moying’s lips curled up. Her elegant and beautiful face was indifferent, but her eyes were gloomy. She clearly did not take this matter seriously.
After experiencing the betrayal of the family in her previous life, it was hard for her to trust people again!
In the future, there would definitely be more storms. She had never thought about what would happen in the future. Perhaps she would not have a future, so what else could she expect?
These things were trifles compared with her efforts to make Ji Hanyue’s sufferings come to light!
Yu Dong was shocked. He already knew that Qu Moying was different, but he didn’t expect her to be so different. As a weak unmarried lady, she was supposed to be shy and fragile. She looked really weak compared with other ladies. However, she was really tough inside.
At this moment, she gave off a sinister feeling. She was very much like Lord Yun. She was also extremely good-looking, cold, and gloomy. However, compared with Lord Yun, Qu Moying was more pitiful. It was admirable for her to accomplish what she had after experiencing so many hardships!
Which young lady else could do this?
“Lady…” Yu Dong wanted to say something but hesitated.
Qu Moying smiled elegantly, hiding her gloominess. “Let’s stop talking about this. We’ll see when the time comes. Yu Dong, get Granny Miao to keep an eye on Young Master Xiao and see if there’s anything unusual about him. As for Eldest Sister…” Qu Moying paused for a moment, then suddenly said, “The main thing is to keep an eye on her. She should make a move!”
She felt that Qu Xuexin would definitely do something although she might not be able to find out about her plan.
“Lady, I understand!” Yu Dong nodded. He had the same thoughts as Qu Moying. Qu Xuexin was ambitious, so how could she sit still?
Sure enough, in the evening, a maid of East Mansion went out of the gate. After walking around the street a few times, she went to the back door of Minister Liu’s House.
An old maid opened the door for her. After the elapse of about an hour or so, the maid came out fugitively. After coming out, she looked around before leaving carefully.
The maid thought that she was very careful, but in fact, her every movement had been seen by a secret guard. When Yu Dong entered Qu Mansion, Pei Yuanjun had specially assigned two secret guards to him to protect Qu Moying in secret. Right now, the one outside Minister Liu’s House was the secret guard sent by Yu Dong.
The maid wandered on the street for a while again. After casually buying something, she turned to go back to Qu Mansion. Although it was already night, it was only a short while past dinner time. The streets were still bustling with people coming and going. When she was halfway, she was suddenly hit by someone and fell to the ground. She could not stand up for a while, and her leg was injured.
She looked up and saw a bully-like young master. He had a lad servant by his side. The lad servant grinned and said, “I’m sorry. Someone hit me just now, so I accidentally bumped into you. Are you okay?”
He didn’t look like a good person. The maid did not dare to let him help her up. She hurriedly shook her hands.
The young master glanced at her. Seeing that she was just an ordinary-looking maid, he ignored her. He walked on, and the lad servant followed his master. They continued to walk forward and ignored the maid, who was still sitting on the ground.
A kind-hearted person on the side couldn’t bear with it and helped the maid to a clinic on the street and asked the doctor to apply some ointment for her. Only after that did she limp back. When she was about to reach Qu Mansion, a person walked over and almost knocked her down. Fortunately, she was very careful this time. She took a few steps back to hold the corner of the wall and was only slightly scraped.
It was a man. She couldn’t see him clearly in the dark, and they almost bumped into each other. The maid was about to start cursing, but the man had already disappeared. She could only return to the mansion.
After entering Qu Mansion, the maid went to East Mansion to Qu Xuexin’s place. Seeing her limp, Qu Xuexin frowned and asked, “What happened? Why are you like this?”
“I was hit…” The maid felt wronged and wanted to say something but was interrupted.
“What did County Lady say?” Under the light, Qu Xuexin’s face was not as gentle as usual but looked a little cold and fierce.
“County Lady agreed on your plan, saying that she would think about the details. County Lady also asked me to bring you a letter.” As the maid spoke, she reached into her pocket to take out the letter, but she found nothing. Her face paled, and she cried out in alarm, “Lady, the letter is gone!”
“What?” Qu Xuexin’s face suddenly darkened. She stood up and shouted, “Check it carefully!”
The maid fumbled in her pocket for a while, but there was indeed nothing. She cried out in fear, “Lady, it’s really gone. Someone bumped into me just now. Maybe it was lost at that time.”
Qu Xuexin asked anxiously with a livid face, “Who bumped into you?”
The maid said timidly, “It’s… It’s a man. He looks like a young master from a rich family. He brought a few lad servants with him at that time.”
She did not dare to say that it was the lad servant who had bumped into her. Instead, she said it was the young master who had bumped into her.
Hearing that it was a young master from a rich family, Qu Xuexin breathed a sigh of relief. It was impossible for him to have anything to do with Qu Moying. It was really an accident.
“Didn’t you check the letter at that time?”
“I didn’t pay attention to it. There were so many people at that time.” The maid cried and complained. She suddenly remembered that she was almost knocked down before she entered the mansion. But she didn’t think her letter was missing at that time. She must have lost the letter when she was hit the first time. The second time when she was almost hit, the man only brushed past her. She could not have lost the letter at that time.
“Get out and look for the letter!” Qu Xuexin snapped, but she was not too flustered.
County Lady Jingyu had always been cautious. Even if she wrote something in the letter, she would not make it too clearly. This letter would be useless in the hands of others.
The maid did not dare to delay. She complied and found an old maid to look for the letter together with her.
However, when she went out to look for the letter, she asked a lot of people, but no one had seen it.
At this moment, the letter was already lying on the desk in front of Qu Moying, and it had already been opened. After reading it, Qu Moying put down the letter. She lowered her watery eyes. Her long eyelashes cast a shadow on her cheeks.
The letter was actually very simple, and there was no signature on it. The one who wrote it was very cautious.
Qu Xuexin’s name wasn’t mentioned in it, either. Liu Jingyu addressed Qu Xuexin with “you” in the letter. She was indeed cautious.
In the letter, she expressed her agreement with what Qu Xuexin was going to do, and she repeatedly promised that she would help cement a good marriage for Qu Xuexin. She would find someone better than Third Young Master He for Qu Xuexin.
To be able to be on par with Third Young Master He, who had Lord Jing as backing, the man must have a really powerful background. Qu Moying was truly surprised that Liu Jingyu actually dared to promise this.
But from this, it could be seen that Qu Xuexin had no intention of marrying Xiao Hanyuan. Qu Xuexin had been close to Xiao Hanyuan during this period of time, and it was really worth thinking about her intention.
Since Xiao Hanyuan was not Qu Xuexin’s target, he must be her tool to deal with Qu Moying.
In order to marry somebody, Qu Xuexin really went all out. Was Qu Xuexin going to step on her to get a really “good marriage”?
Seeing that Qu Moying was silent, Yu Dong asked, “Lady, what’s in the letter?”
The secret guard acted without being noticed by anyone. He first pushed the lad servant, causing the latter to bump into the maid. However, it was not a good time to act at that time. There were too many people around. It was just a trap to make the maid think that it was just an accident. The second time he almost hit the maid, and he made the real move to get the letter.
He had guessed that there should be a letter, but he did not expect there really was one.
Qu Moying pushed the letter in front of Yu Dong. Yu Dong took it and read it quickly. After reading it, he slowly put down the letter. After carefully thinking for a while, Yu Dong said, “Lady, they want to do something to you on the Qixi Festival, right?”
“Probably!” Qu Moying said with a faint smile. Under the light, she looked so indifferent as if it was none of her business, but she made people somehow feel dangerous…
“The seventh day of July. So it is Qixi Festival?” Pei Yuanjun swirled the wine glass in his hand. The glass reflected the light, looking bright and beautiful. Pei Yuanjun was leaning against the couch, lazily looking down at the prosperous capital.
Ji Hai suggested with a smile, “Yes. Your Highness, do you want to go take a look? You haven’t seen how the Qixi Festival is celebrated in the capital, right? This is a rare opportunity. You can take a look.”
Lord Yun Mansion was too lifeless. He hoped there could be a female Master as soon as possible. It would be even better if she gave birth to a young master.
Thinking of this, Ji Hai grinned happily.
“I will go. Since there is something interesting, I have to go and see.” Pei Yuanjun said lazily. He closed his handsome eyes slightly as if he had collected the starlight in his eyes…
