Chapter 478 Three Birds with One Stone, Thinking It’s a Scheme
“Mrs. Duan, did you bring that lantern here?” Ji You Ran suddenly turned around and looked with a smile at Mrs. Duan who was following Mrs. Ji.
“Lantern?” Mrs. Duan froze for a moment, not responding.
“It’s the lantern that Cousin Qu told you about, the one of the Crown Princess.” Ji You Ran continued to ask with a smile, her tone affable, as if she was just asking casually.
She heard Xiao said, just now Qu Mo Ying and Duan sat together, said should be this lantern thing, Duan should be in the heart of the matter, he asked the focus of this time in the back of this sentence, Duan heard Qu Mo Ying words, will certainly have a reaction.
“Fourth Miss Qu’s said the Crown Princess’ lantern?” Mrs. Duan was at a loss, she truly didn’t know how this sentence suddenly appeared.
This reaction is not the same as what Ji You Ran imagined, looking as if she really didn’t know, Ji You Ran’s heart jumped suddenly, turning to Xiao to look at her, Xiao nodded wordlessly, indicating that Qu Mo Ying did talk to Duan at that time, and it was impossible for Duan to be unaware of it.
Regardless of what Qu Mo Ying said, as far as Duan’s is concerned, it is impossible not to know, I did not expect that Duan’s is quite capable of pretending, this is to see that something is not right?
But so what, she couldn’t believe that Duan could act so bewildered all the time.
The smile on his face grew softer, “You don’t know about the lanterns?”
“I don’t know, Fourth Miss Qu didn’t tell me about the lantern, the Crown Princess’ lantern?” Mrs. Duan shook her head again this time, not half hesitating, her eyes staying the same blank.
Xiao couldn’t help herself, stepped forward and said, “It’s that thing that Fourth Miss Qu specifically said, have you forgotten?”
“What was said?” Duan blinked and said bluntly, “Fourth Miss Qu hasn’t contacted me lately either, and only met for the first time today after things got better at Yuejin Pavilion.”
“Didn’t Fourth Miss Qu always send someone over before?” Xiao got aggressive.
The two things are sequential, but they can be confused together, and if the sequence is not made clear, they can easily be taken as the same thing.
“It came, but after the Yue Jin Pavilion matter, no one has been sent since, if younger siblings don’t believe me, they can have someone go and inquire about this matter.” Mrs. Duan replied still bewildered, looking at Xiao, she finally couldn’t bear it anymore before adding, “What’s wrong today, why do you keep mentioning the Crown Princess’s lantern, which lantern did the Lady Side Consort want?”
She didn’t think Fourth Miss Qu had said anything about it before.
One sentence, the smile on Ji You Ran’s face when she asked the question stiffened, this reaction was not half similar to what she expected, Duan was too good at pretending, or Qu Mo Ying really didn’t say anything?
“Mrs. Duan ……”
Sensing the Crown Prince’s gaze falling on her, Ji You Ran panicked a little, and with an effort to calm her heartbeat, she added.
“Alright!” Pei Luoan coldly interrupted Ji You Ran’s words, his face sullen and cold, knowing at a glance that he was displeased.
In front of the crowd of subordinates, as well as the people of the Ji Mansion, as well as Mrs. Qu’s face, Ji You Ran’s face turned red, but she couldn’t say anything else, her head was lowered, and she secretly clenched her teeth, not knowing which part of the ring had gone wrong.
Fortunately, that lantern has not yet appeared, otherwise this matter will be unraveled, made a wink to Xiao, Xiao will understand, know that things have an accident, to the side of a granny wordlessly shook his head.
The granny sneaks out and tries to go out and cut the man off.
But the granny only wanted to move, but was stopped by a guard coldly, scared the granny turned back and backed up two steps, almost stepping on Xiao, although Xiao avoided it, but looked at the guard with a cold face, her face was not too good.
“The two dowager ladies and the two madams go to the side to rest!” After Pei Luoan sat down, he waved his hand, signaling the others to retire.
It’s a matter of not wanting anyone to interrupt their conversation.
The two dowager ladies are both old and sophisticated, especially Mrs. Qu Fang repeatedly heard Ji You Ran and Xiao mention their own little granddaughter, the heart is still a little worried, but look at the current situation, it is not like their own little granddaughter to cause trouble, glanced at the side of the quarter dowager lady, first turned around.
Since the Crown Prince was not willing to let them watch from the side, he would retire for now and send someone to get Shadow Maiden to come over and ask about the situation in a while.
Mrs. Ji can also see some things, but she has always been this kind of nature, the most care about themselves, and has always been to avoid disaster, although some worry, but still followed the Qu too Mrs. side turned to go.
Duan naturally followed her.
Xiao was the most worried, but she also had to go, looking back to Ji You Ran three times a step, worried.
But after all the people had left, leaving only the people of the Eastern Palace and the one granny who was being guarded and unable to leave, Pei Luoan picked up the tea in front of him and took a sip, and after slowly putting it down, asked, “Ji You Ran, what do you want to do again?”
“Your Highness, my concubine …… didn’t ……” one sentence, Ji You Ran immediately couldn’t stand up, “flop” a kneeling down.
“Ji Youran, the Crown Princess’ lantern? Do you mean the lantern she made at her birth mother’s ceremony that day? How does this Fourth Miss Qu know about this? And how did she suddenly talk about this lantern, and why did she bring up this mention of the lantern?” Pei Luoan said coldly, his gaze falling on Ji Youran’s body with a seething chill.
“Your Highness, Your Concubine …… Concubine ……”
Ji Youran has tasted some bad, do not dare to go back to the previous method to say, although looking aggrieved, but the eyes wandering, a look at the heart is very weak.
Originally, she wanted to say that this matter was what Qu Mo Ying had said to her privately on the path just now, and as for why she knew about the lantern, of course it was pushed onto Sister Zhou, which was a point that came to mind with Qu Mo Ying.
She would say that Qu Mo Ying lifted this lantern on the path and had to put it into the Crown Princess’s offering herself, saying that it was to show her worship to Her Highness the Crown Princess, and also saying that back then, Her Highness the Crown Princess also worshipped her aunt in this way.
As for Qu Mo Ying’s purpose, Ji You Ran can’t say it explicitly, but she can imply it, implying that Qu Mo Ying is intentionally coming in front of the Crown Prince to show the affection between her and the Crown Princess two, indicating that her sisterhood with the Crown Princess two is more intimate than her own sisterhood with the Crown Princess.
It was implicitly stated that Qu Mo Ying had something in mind for the Crown Prince.
This thing, was originally a one-two punch, one is to let the crown prince anger to punish Duan, it is best to directly dispose of Duan, Duan a go, on a small child, the mother is bound to be able to deal with, by the time the whole Ling’anbu House or have to return to the hands of their parents.
Of course, the lantern will not say that it was found from Ji Yan Yue’s courtyard, it has to be said that Duan secretly took it from the Crown Princess’s old residence, Duan didn’t take the Crown Prince’s words seriously, and just such a crime can make Duan eat and suffer.
Secondly, it was Qu Mo Ying, although Ji You Ran had a mouthful of cousins and looked affectionate towards Qu Mo Ying, inexplicably, when she saw Qu Mo Ying, she always couldn’t like it, and was even vaguely a bit hostile, which she already had this feeling when they first met.
This feeling was very uncomfortable, sometimes, Ji Youran even felt that in Qu Mo Ying’s body, there was a vague shadow of Ji Hanyue, which was the most intolerable thing for her.
Ji Hanyue was already dead, so long ago that even the weeds had grown in front of her grave, by what right did she still jump out to disturb her mind and make her unconsciously nervous.
Together with Duan, she had needlessly removed the lantern from the Crown Princess’ old residence, wanting to show her love and sisterhood with the Crown Princess in front of the Crown Prince, or to draw the Crown Prince’s attention, whichever of these purposes would cause the Crown Prince’s dislike, and since Duan had been punished, Qu Mo Ying would not be able to escape either.
As for whether Qu Mo Ying had said anything to himself at that time, even if Qu Mo Ying denied it, it was useless, the only ones who would be on the path would be his own master and servant and Qu Mo Ying’s master and servant, and the Crown Prince of course believed in his own words more.
And the third point, but Liu Jingyu, sacrificing the crown princess when this kind of thing happened, the crown prince is the most focus on reputation, especially and JiHanYue’s off the place, sacrificing when something happens, this is the disrespect to the crown princess, or also may be some people will seem to say that this is the warning of the crown princess, or else the good life of the Duan’s and QuMoYing how to come out of this kind of stupefying trick.
Of course this was only the prospect, she still had a backhand, after the Crown Prince had chastised Duan and Qu Mo Ying, she vaguely pointed out that the Crown Princess was unwilling to have this kind of thing at the time of her sacrifice.
The so-called unwillingness, naturally refers to Ji Hanyue is not willing to the Crown Prince so soon, to marry another newcomer into the Palace, when the Crown Prince heard, although annoyed, but will also feel that this is not the best to declare Liu Jingyu as the Crown Princess of the best time, this marriage can be delayed a little more.
For that high and mighty Liu Jingyu, Ji Youran felt that she still had to utilize to the dead Ji Hanyue, and she also had clearer preparations ……
But now things actually appeared such a big mistake, how can Ji You Ran not panic, stuttering even words can not go on, mind desperately think of exculpatory ideas, it is obvious that His Highness the Crown Prince perceived something.
Pei Luo An did notice, with Qu Mo Ying’s words padding in his heart, the party Pei Luo An observed very clearly, saw some small moves between Ji You Ran and Xiao’s mother and daughter, and also let the guards stop the granny that Xiao had sent out, with the purpose of seeing how she was going to move next.
Ji You Ran and Xiao’s actions have already explained everything, Pei Luoan was a little puzzled before, but now he is sure, sure that Ji You Ran is stirring things up inside, his heart flooded with anger, he would like to see how Ji You Ran justifies herself.
When Ji You Ran stammered and considered how to excuse herself, two grannies suddenly came outside the main hall, holding a lantern in their hands, and when they saw the guards guarding the doorway froze for a moment, and were about to leave, but then they saw the guards step forward, took the lantern from the grannies’ hands, turned around, and walked inside.
The two grannies were startled and didn’t dare to go any further, shivering as they stood fixed outside the main hall.
The guards presented the lantern to Pei Luoan’s face, looking at an obvious scratch on top of the lantern’s base, Pei Luoan pointed with a cold smile, “Ji You Ran, what is this?”
“Your …… Highness, I really don’t know, I just …… just heard that Mrs. Duan brought a lantern over, it seems to be the Prince Consort’s lantern, I… . just wanted to teach Mrs. Duan a lesson, it was my concubine …… who misheard my mother’s words and thought that Mrs. Duan was just a concubine, incapable of sitting above the position of a madam!”
Ji Youran’s tears immediately rolled down, aggrieved, she knew at this time that the momentum had gone, and no longer dared to push towards Duan’s and Qu Mo Ying, and directly pulled Xiao out to block the arrow.
