Chapter 143

Chapter 143 Bedside Discussion between the Vicious Master and Maid

“I-I didn’t…” After being interrogated repeatedly by Qu Moying, Yu was extremely aggrieved for being retorted back at every instance. Yu was already weak, and now she was angry to the point that the taste of blood appeared in her mouth. She clasped her chest and spat out a mouthful of blood.

“Madam!” Hai Lan rushed over in panic and cried out.

“What’s going on?” Qu Zhizhen’s voice suddenly came from the door. Qu Moying took a step back and gave a deep bow to Qu Zhizhen.

“Father!”

“Why are you here?” Qu Zhizhen glanced at Qu Moying and asked indifferently.

“I came to visit Second Madam,” Qu Moying answered. She had never called Yu mother, always Second Madam. The Old Lady, Qu Zhizhen, and even Yu had never raised any objection at the address.

“Second Master, Fourth Lady irritated Madam so much that Madam fainted,” Hai Lan immediately complained with tears in her eyes as soon as she saw Qu Zhizhen. Yu, who was on the bed, tilted her head and fainted.

Yu used a lot of strength just now and even vomited blood, so she felt a little dizzy already. No one could tell that she pretended to faint now.

“Father, I just wanted to ask Second Madam some things,” Qu Moying lowered her head and said indifferently.

Without a word, Qu Zhizhen looked at Qu Moying with some scrutiny. Although Qu Moying lowered her head, she could sense this kind of scrutiny, and she sneered. She had heard at the door that Qu Zhizhen’s breath suddenly became deeper and faster. But that was when she asked the last question, not when Yu vomited blood.

Her so-called father was not concerned about Yu as much as Qu Moying had imagined.

This was a somewhat unexpected confirmation.

“If you’re just here to visit her, why do you irritate her so?” Qu Zhizhen asked coldly.

“Father, I just want to know the truth!” Qu Moying raised her pale face and answered stubbornly.

Qu Zhizhen was silent again. After a long time, he waved his hand and grunted impatiently, “I already know about this matter. Go back. Don’t come again if you don’t have any business here.”

“But Father…” Qu Moying bit her lips, looking upset. Everyone outside the mansion knew about this matter, but no one inside the mansion had said anything since Qu Moying’s return. Or more precisely, Qu Zhizhen had not expressed his opinion.

It was as if what Yu did was really just an accident.

“I know this. Now go back!” Seeing that Qu Moying was still not leaving, Qu Zhizhen berated her with a face full of displeasure.

This time, Qu Moying shut her mouth and did not speak again. After bowing to Qu Zhizhen, she lowered her head and turned to leave. Even though she had her head lowered, Qu Zhizhen could see the aggrieved expression that flashed across her face. After a moment of silence, he watched Qu Moying leave.

Yu Dong casually placed the food basket at the entrance of the room, turned around, and chased after Qu Moying.

“My lord… I didn’t frame her.” Yu, who was on the bed, woke up at the right moment. She looked at Qu Zhizhen, who was watching Qu Moying’s back silently, and sobbed with red eyes.

“Yu, don’t try to talk your way out of it! Do you think I will tolerate you if it isn’t for the sake of our children?” Qu Zhizhen turned around coldly and looked at Yu’s thin, haggard face.

“My lord, I… I swear to the heavens that it wasn’t me. I didn’t do anything to those clothes. I-It was Qu Moying! She must have wanted to frame me. That’s why such a thing happened!” Yu cried loudly. She reached out and pulled twice in the air, as if she wanted to grab Qu Zhizhen’s sleeve. However, the two of them were a little further away and her hands fell weakly.

“Imbecile!” Qu Zhizhen snapped angrily. Instead of moving toward her, he retreated two steps away from Yu and grunted with a grumpy face, “You can be an imbecile all you like, but don’t implicate Yan and Cheng.”

“My lord… I…” Yu still wanted to explain, but Qu Zhizhen would no longer listen. He flung his sleeves and turned to leave.

“Second Master, dinner is ready. Please stay for dinner,” Hai Lan quickly said as Qu Zhizhen was about to leave. This was the reason why she invited Qu Zhizhen over, as well as telling him about Fourth Lady Qu’s visit to the Second Madam’s yard.

When Qu Moying sent a maid to get the new pastries, it took a lot of time, so Yu managed to get the news of her visit.

“My stomach is full of anger! Off you go!” Qu Zhizhen barked indignantly and kicked the food basket that Qu Moying had placed at the door. The pastries in the food basket were kicked over, and the plates and pastries inside were shattered on the ground. The crisp sound of glass shattering made Yu tremble in fear and tightly pulled Hai Lan’s sleeve.

Qu Zhizhen’s shoes were also splashed with some scraps. After kicking the basket in disdain, he turned around and strode away.

As for the sound of Yu crying behind him, he pretended not to hear it.

Yu cried miserably. She pulled Hai Lan’s sleeve and sobbed. She had just vomited blood and there was still blood at the corner of her mouth.

“Madam, please calm down. It’s okay. You’re still the Qu Mansion’s Second Madam. Everything will be okay,” Hai Lan had to comfort Yu.

“No… he… he suspects me… He actually suspects me. I have been wholeheartedly devoted to him for so many years. He… He…” Yu cried so hard that she could not breathe. She held Hai Lan’s hand and cried as she tried to speak.

Hai Lan’s expression changed greatly. She covered Yu’s mouth, lowered her voice, and spat in a trembling voice, “Madam, please stop talking!”

Yu seemed to have caught her breath at this time. She nodded seriously and stopped talking. She just kept crying.

Hai Lan put down her hand and comforted Yu with a gentle tone. After a long time, Yu stopped crying. She took Hai Lan’s handkerchief and wiped her tears. Then, she leaned against the thick cushion weakly, and her eyes flashed with hatred. “Hai Lan, I can’t just let her go like this. That little bitch actually set me up. I… I…”

Others may not know the whole thing, but Yu knew it very clearly. She definitely had not done anything to Qu Moying’s clothes. Even though she had done something else, its outcome should not be like this. In the end, it was her own daughter who had such a reaction. Fortunately, the matter was suppressed due to her daughter’s relationship with Lord Jing.

But who knew if it would be revisited one day.

After this incident, Yan said that Lord Jing was very angry and even hinted that the Princess he wanted to marry should have not only a high status, but also a high moral character. He could not let other royal family members gossip about them.

Both Yu and Qu Qiuyan felt that the status was not a big problem. In the past, there were also Crown Princesses who were from humble backgrounds. Moreover, Qu Zhizhen was now a Vice Minister. It was not an important position, but he could be considered a high-ranking official. However, Lord Jing was referring to this matter when he mentioned the so-called high moral character and gossip.

At the time of this incident, apart from Crown Prince and Lord Jing, even Princess Changyu and her family were involved.

Thinking that her daughter might have missed the chance of being Princess Jing and that all these years of planning would go up in smoke because of Qu Moying, Yu wanted to tear Qu Moying apart. Once again, she hated herself for giving in to her soft side. She hadn’t made many moves against Qu Moying across the years. After Qu Moying survived, she had not taken further actions against Qu Moying, either.

Yu actually felt that she was being kind, but she never considered that the reason why she did not dare to kill Qu Moying was that she was afraid that Old Lady and Earl Ling’an’s Mansion’s Ji Hanyue would find out. She did not dare to make her move openly, so she could only do it secretly. Every time something happened, she would hurriedly hide behind the scenes and did not dare to make a move in a short time.

Later, she did not do anything rashly because Ji Hanyue had sent a doctor to check on Qu Moying’s eyes.

“Madam, please calm down. It’s not worth it. Think about it, Third Lady should be ready soon. At this time, you should treat Fourth Lady better. Didn’t I tell you before to calm down no matter what Fourth Lady said? Talk nicely to her, and don’t let her lead the conversation.”

Hai Lan advised. She wiped the blood from the corner of Yu’s mouth with a handkerchief.

“I-I was so pissed… That bitch…” Yu gritted her teeth. When Hai Lan sent someone to invite Qu Zhizhen, Yu wanted to say a few words to vent her exasperation before Qu Zhizhen arrived, but she didn’t expect that Qu Moying would gain the upper hand and that their following conversation would go out of control.

“Madam, let’s not talk about this for now. You have already arranged the rest of the matters,” Hai Lan commented.

Yu nodded, a sinister expression appearing on her face. “This wretched girl, who does she think she is?! She should count her blessing. Who else would she be if she weren’t born as the Qu Mansion’s Fourth Lady by that bitch!”

“It’s good that you can think this way, Madam. Anyway, we’ll settle everything in the next few days. Since the Fourth Lady is a fake, everything related to her is naturally fake, and it can’t be true that you tried to harm her. We can prove your innocence in this matter,” Hai Lan reassured. “Fortunately, you had a plan when the Fourth Lady returned to the mansion.”

When Qu Moying was going to come back to the mansion back then, Yu had already made a move, thinking that if one plan failed, there was still another plan.

“That’s all I can do for now. If I’m feeling well, I will definitely do it myself, but now… I am really worried about Yan.” Yu closed her eyes weakly.

“Don’t worry, Madam. Third Lady can do it. Didn’t you tell her very clearly when she came over? To say the least, even if this plan failed, Third Lady would not be implicated, right?”

“That’s all I hope for! I’m just worried that… Yan is too young. We don’t have enough evidence. If only there were more!” Yu nodded weakly.

The room quieted down. Hai Lan looked at the crushed pastries, got up, and walked to the door of the inner room, thinking about getting someone to clean them up.

However, when she walked to the pastries, she stopped and frowned. Her gaze fell on the pastries. She paused for a moment, and then lowered her head to look at the pastries, deep in thought.

“Hai Lan, what’s wrong?” Yu, who was on the bed, heard that Hai Lan had not moved. She slightly opened her eyes and whispered.

Hai Lan stood up and walked to Yu’s side. “Madam, look at these pastries…”

“What’s wrong with the pastries? Why aren’t you throwing them away? Who wants to eat that wretched girl’s pastries?” Yu angrily patted the bedboard.

“Madam, these pastries are all newly made. They don’t seem like the ones our mansion originally had…” Hai Lan muttered.

“So what? Where did that little bitch find new pastries? Even if she found new pastries, I wouldn’t eat them. Throw them away.” Yu patted the bed again. She didn’t understand why her trusted subordinate, Hai Lan, was so stupid today. Would she dare to eat the things Qu Moying brought over?

“Madam, these pastries look like new pastries from the kitchen. I’ve never seen them before, so they may be useful,” Hai Lan whispered in Yu’s ear. Yu was first surprised and then nodded repeatedly…