But no matter how foolish she was, she was still the side wife of the crown prince. Fourth Miss was not someone who could be compared to a person who carried her into the Eastern Palace through the back door.
Crown Prince's Wife didn't know what to say to her, but she understood her depth in a few sentences, and looked down on her from the bottom of her heart. She absent-mindedly said a few polite words to dismiss her, and after returning back to her own courtyard, she casually ordered the little girl beside her: "Send a few more people to help Fourth Miss, if she wants anything, just give it to her, don't bother me."
The servant understood tacitly, "Yes, Crown Prince's Wife."
Fourth Miss had lived in the East Palace for a whole few days and had not seen any sign of the Crown Prince, but he did not lack food or clothes, but he felt that he did not want to live a life, thus he could not help but go out for a stroll while holding his stomach.
The Eastern Palace's rules were not something ordinary aristocratic families could compare to. In addition, the crown prince was greedy and satisfied, and his extravagance was even greater than that of the imperial palace. After walking around the entire palace, Fourth Miss felt a deep sigh from the bottom of his heart.
However, there was something about a dignified house that made her uncomfortable, and that was that a fool's house was actually better than hers. In the Eastern Palace, other than the's courtyard, which was pretty good, which was shared by the concubines and the concubines, all of them were similar to Fourth Miss's, but Fourth Miss felt that this was not what she wanted. She stood outside the concubine's courtyard for a long time before hesitantly walking in.
"Four, Fourth Miss?" The maid in Qin Wanwan's room was extremely surprised by the arrival of the Fourth Miss, because after entering the Eastern Palace, they did not recognize her, so she was at most a concubine. However, she heard that a few days ago, a little girl called her this once in the courtyard of the Fourth Miss.
Qin Wanwan was sitting in the courtyard. Because she was not in a good mental state, she was not normally allowed to go out, when she was free, she would walk around the courtyard. She raised her head to look at Fourth Miss for a long time, then lowered her head and played with the flower in her hands. Qin Wanwan was also once a beautiful lady from a noble family, her current face was still the same, and her body had been cleaned up, but her haggard and lifeless expression was really unbearable, and this was when she was relatively normal, when she got sick, she would hide in corners and not be able to find her, there was nothing she could not hide from the dog hole, when she was hungry, she would snatch food from dogs and cats.
Seeing her current state, Fourth Miss's nostrils were filled with disdain. He walked to Qin Wanwan with his hands on his waist, and mocked: "Qin Wangfei? "Hmph, he really looks like a cat or dog."
Qin Wanwan saw a protruding stomach appearing in front of him, she looked at it curiously, and was about to poke at it with her finger, as though she suddenly thought of something terrifying, she screamed suddenly, pushed Fourth Miss's stomach away and ran into the water behind him, while shouting, "Bad guy! "Bad guy!"
Fourth Miss was pushed until she staggered, just as she was about to take the chance to flare up, she heard the sound of water falling, unexpectedly, Qin Wanwan just jumped down like that, causing all the girls in the courtyard to scream and call for help.
The pool was not very deep, but it was definitely not shallow either. It was not as if it had disappeared from the top of her head, but after Qin Wanwan had entered, he had stayed at the bottom of the pool the entire time. A few young eunuchs who had gone down to fish for people were actually unable to pull her away no matter what they did.
The amount of time a person could live underwater was really limited. Not long later, Qin Wanwan stopped moving, the panicking eunuchs were still afraid, afraid that she would drag them down with her, like a ghost. They hesitated and went over to pull her, but this time, they did not resist, but everyone's hearts were cold like ice.
A few eunuchs dragged Qin Wanwan out of the pond at random, and without knowing whether she was dead or alive, they sent people to call for the Imperial Physician first. A few experienced eunuchs helped Qin Wanwan spit out some water, and after a while, Qin Wanwan slowly opened her eyes, which were lifeless.
However, the moment she saw Fourth Miss again, her originally turbid and unfocused eyes suddenly widened, and the degree of fear was comparable to seeing a ghost. Immediately after, Qin Wanwan's breathing became hurried, like a drowning fish, she opened her mouth wide, pointing fearfully in the direction of Fourth Miss, yet no one knew where she was looking at in the end, as his eyeballs seemed as though they were going to pop out from their sockets.
Although he knew that she was abnormal, he did not expect her to be so scary. How could she have nothing to do and jump into the water to play with?
It was fine that she jumped into the water. What did this expression mean when he saw her? Did she look that scary? However, Qin Wanwan seemed to have recognized her, and kept pointing in the direction of the Fourth Miss. Her breathing gradually quickened, her eyes turned red and ferocious, and his lips turned pale and blue from the shortness of her breath. From time to time, white foam would be spat out from her mouth.
No one knew what exactly happened to her, and no one dared to go forward to look at her either. It was as if she had really turned into a drowning fish, and after a long period of lack of nutrients for survival, she began to gradually wither away. After a struggle which seemed like the return of the sun, Qin Wanwan's life was fixed in this round and angry expression.
Qin Wangfei's courtyard was dead silent for a moment. No one knew why Qin Wangfei had suddenly disappeared. Was she angered by the Fourth Miss? That shouldn't be, Fourth Miss was a bit injured, but it wasn't enough to make people commit suicide, right? If she didn't want to, then she wouldn't be a fool, so how was she supposed to say that?
By the time the Imperial Physician arrived, Qin Wangfei was already completely dead. The Imperial Physician's sigh told him everything, there was no other way, report to the Crown Prince's Wife, and report to the Duke Qin.
However, how could he say that Qin Wangfei had jumped into the river to drown because of her illness? But obviously, he didn't drown, but was scared to death by the Fourth Miss? But the Fourth Miss was not scary at all, other than having a bad mouth, they did not have the ability to scare people to death.
When Qin Wanwan first sent them to the Eastern Palace, he had originally treated Qin Wanwan as a mascot. Qin Wanwan was fine, the two of them were able to maintain a calm surface, and once the mascot, Qin Wanwan, was gone, the debt between the two of them would never be settled for the rest of her life.
Who allowed the Fourth Miss to enter her courtyard, are you all dead? Crown Prince's Wife was so angry that she wanted to throw the table, "Pass my order down, Fourth Miss is not allowed to move while she's pregnant, stay in her yard and don't go out to recuperate!"
When Duke Qin entered the Eastern Palace to collect the corpses, he brought a group of soldiers and servants over. Duke Qin's sons followed along as well, it was obvious that they were about to fight.
The Duke Qin angrily pointed at the Crown Prince's Wife's nose and scolded him, "You fox's tail has been revealed, are you waiting for a long time today? You think that our lady is a burden, or a disgrace? You have long thought of whether or not you guys could get rid of her. Since your Eastern Palace wants to tear off our Duke's face, then our Duke's Palace has nothing to say.
Crown Prince's Wife said with a face, "Duke Qin, let's talk peacefully. Since Qin Wangfei has entered our Eastern Palace, she is a member of our Eastern Palace, she has always been taking good care of people, and has never been slow. This is just an accident, and you also know that there are times when I can't control her, we were also caught off guard, and no one wants to do something like this, don't you agree?"
"Unexpectedly?" The Duke Qin snorted, "Then we have to investigate carefully, what exactly is so unexpected about it."
Just like that, Duke Qin filed a complaint against Eastern Palace disciples for murder, causing them to be extremely shocked.
Regarding Qin Wanwan, it had always been the imperial family that owed Duke Qin, it was the crown prince who had insulted her daughter, and he was not in the right path at all, he could make up for it when she was still alive, but now, with the death of people being unclear, it was not too excessive for the Duke Qin to request for a thorough investigation into the cause of death.
If the His Majesty were to say that, the Crown Prince was not afraid, it had nothing to do with him, after all, it had nothing to do with him. Since Qin Wanwan entered the door, he had not even looked at him, so long as she was not the one who killed him, he, the Crown Prince, would be fine.
Although she did not do anything, everyone had heard her insult Qin Wanwan before. It was very likely that it was the reason to induce Qin Wanwan to jump into the water, so with that in mind, she had someone send a letter to Lady Zou and the Gu family's second master, asking them to come forward and seek Gu Yun's favor.
It was impossible to find Gu Yun directly just to ask for favors, even if he did, it wouldn't work, so he could only try to find Xie Jingxi and make peace. First, Second Old Master of the Gu household personally went to find Marquis, but Marquis was unable to dishonor his brother, so he could only look for Xie Jingxi to remind him of his plan. However, the hints in his words were subtle and tactful, which meant that he had to do something like this for the both of you to decide what to do.
After that, Lady Zou came to visit Lady Zeng again. Because Lady Zeng had received orders beforehand, she immediately called him sickly. Lady Zou saw that it was really bad for Lady Zeng, so after sitting for a while, she left, without even mentioning anything.
Hearing that the Lady Zou had arrived, Ming Yu's face was filled with disdain. Of course, this face of disdain had existed since the moment she knew that the Fourth Miss was pregnant. Now that she knew that the Fourth Miss had stirred up trouble, her mouth did not have any kind words.
"Indeed, wherever the Fourth Miss goes, she's always a troublemaker. If she gets into trouble, she knows to look for our Young Master. Why didn't she come over to say something when she was carrying him into the Eastern Palace? What a snobbish person."
Xie Jingxi grumbled as she had no plans to care about this matter.