Chapter 272

Chapter 272 – Qu Moying Visited Earl Ling’An’S Mansion

Chapter 272 Qu Moying Visited Earl Ling’an’s Mansion

“What nonsense are you talking about…” The manager was angry and annoyed at being scolded by so many people. However, he was unable to argue against so many people. He was so angry that he pushed the people again while shouting, “My master has a distinguished status. How can you lowly people judge her?”

This time, Granny Miao was at the front of the crowd again. She fell badly. After she was pushed to the ground, she rolled her eyes up and fainted, foaming at her mouth. But coincidentally, when her feet reached out, she tripped over the manager, and the manager also fell to the ground with a plop.

When Granny Miao fell over, everyone hurriedly reached out to help her, but when the manager fell, many people stepped back, not wanting to help him.

He fell to the ground, his face turning green with pain. He held his waist with one hand and pointed at the people around him as he cursed, “How dare you make trouble here? I will ask Princess Ji to catch you all, throw all of you into the prison, exile you, and chop off your heads.”

The manager was very confident. His master was not a random nobody but the Side Princess Ji. Maybe she would be the future Crown Princess and even the empress. How could anyone slander her?

Someone couldn’t stand the manager anymore, so he picked up the cabbage leaves at hand and threw them at him. More and more people threw things at him, and they even threw two rotten eggs at him. Not long after the manager stood up, he fell down again and became unconscious.

Someone shouted, “Someone died! Someone died!”

“Report the case to Yamen. Hurry up!”

The onlookers immediately shouted. Some people ran out to find people, some went to the next door to report, and some went to help Granny Miao and the manager up. It was really a mess.

As for the manager’s mention of “Princess Ji”, few people heard him. Even though the people next to him heard it, they didn’t understand what it meant for a moment.

When Qu Moying came over, Yamen’s people had already come over. They were sent by the governor of the capital, and they were responsible for the capital’s public security.

Yu Dong went forward to help Granny Miao up. Seeing that Granny Miao was still in a coma, she was anxious. Someone reminded him to pinch her philtrum, so he did it.

Granny Miao’s philtrum turned red after being pinched a few times. Finally, she was awake. As for the manager, he had been slapped awake by Yamen’s people.

The manager sat up, still dizzy. When he saw Yamen’s people, he immediately grabbed them and shouted, “Catch these troublemakers! Quickly catch them!”

He spoke in a tone of command, making people uncomfortable.

Yamen’s people pushed him away, glanced at him coldly, and asked the people around him what was going on.

The people around him began to explain everything that had happened. The manager’s actions aroused the disgust of everyone. Because of this, everyone said that he was a domineering and arrogant person. Most importantly, they said that the manager’s master took away the Elder Yue’s dowry.

Changing the name of the shop was a piece of important evidence. Just like Yu changed Yue’s Clothing Pavilion into another name before, the one who changed Yue’s Gold Pavilion’s name wanted to keep the shop for herself.

There were so many people as witnesses, and they all spoke against the manager.

The manager was furious and didn’t care much at this time. Moreover, he had already said that his master was Princess Ji, so it was not difficult for him to bring it up again. He glared at the people around him and shouted, “My master is Crown Prince’s Mansion’s Princess Ji. What does Yue have to do with Princess Ji? I am warning you! Don’t you ever try to slander my master!”

The manager threatened fiercely.

Hearing his words, the crowd quieted down. This was completely different from what everyone had thought before. Even Yamen’s people felt that it was difficult to handle.

The Crown Prince’s Mansion was beyond their control. For a moment, everyone was strangely silent.

“Does this shop belong to Crown Prince’s Princess Ji?” A gentle and cold voice sounded. Everyone looked at the source of the voice and saw Qu Moying, who was standing in front of Granny Miao.

The long and wide eye veil covered most of her face, but it could be seen that there was a bit of coldness on her face. She tightly pursed her lips, and her gaze seemed to fall on the manager through the eye veil.

“Yes, our master is the Crown Prince’s Princess Ji.” The manager said. He was helped to stand up by an employee who came out of the gold jewelry shop, and he wiped his face proudly.

Qu Moying stared at the manager and asked again, “Are you sure your master is the Crown Prince’s Princess Ji? Do you know that if you talk nonsense, you will be heavily punished?”

Many people looked at the manager simultaneously.

The manager was a little flustered by Qu Moying’s question. After calming himself down, he felt that he had worried too much. Why was he afraid of a blind girl? “My master is the Crown Prince’s Princess Ji. If you don’t believe me, you can send someone to investigate. I am not afraid of being investigated!”

“Why does this shop belong to Princess Ji? Why?” Qu Moying said word by word.

“Why? Because it belongs to Princess Ji in the first place, so it belongs to Princess Ji. Why is there a problem?” The manager said indifferently. He thought that Qu Moying was afraid, so he emphasized his words and sneered, “If it was not our Princess Ji’s, do you think it would be yours?”

After saying that, he looked Qu Moying up and down. He thought that she was just an ordinary young lady. When he looked at Granny Miao standing behind Qu Moying, he was even angrier. “Is she your old maid? If you want to live well, I advise you to sell her or beat her to death so that she wouldn’t cause any trouble.”

These words made the onlookers angry. It was the manager who made such a mess, but now he pushed the blame on others.

“Since you said that this shop belongs to Princess Ji, do you dare to confront her in person?” Qu Moying’s cold gaze landed on the manager.

Yu Dong turned around and said to the two Yamen runners standing there, “Sir, our young lady wants to sue Princess Ji.”

“Wh… what?” The two court runners did not expect such a thing to happen. They were tongue-tied and did not know how to answer for a moment. They were just ordinary court runners, and they didn’t dare to take such a case.

“Our lady’s aunt left this shop for the ex-Crown Princess and Third Lady Ji. Now that the ex-Crown Princess and Third Lady Ji are both dead, this shop should be left for Young Master Ling’an. Why did it become Princess Ji’s dowry?” Yu Dong said angrily.

“Hey, what are you talking about? These were left by the ex-Crown Princess. Now that the ex-Crown Princess is gone, they naturally belong to Princess Ji.” Hearing Qu Moying’s words, the manager knew that she was Vice Minister Qu’s Mansion’s Fourth Lady. But even so, he was not afraid.

“The ex-Crown Princess’ dowry was left to Princess Ji? How powerful Princess Ji is! She actually did such a thing.” Qu Moying sneered and turned to leave.

Of course, she would not really sue Ji Youran. On one hand, two court runners were not enough. On the other hand, it was inconvenient for a noble lady like her to go to court directly. Although this matter was exposed, she was an outsider in this matter.

The carriage was waiting by the side of the road. Qu Moying got on the carriage and left with her people.

Seeing that they had nothing to do, the two court runners also hurried away. This kind of thing was really not something the two of them could manage.

Seeing the court runners all left, the onlookers immediately dispersed. As soon as they dispersed, they began to talk about everything they did not dare to talk about just now.

“Is Princess Ji the one who entered Eastern Palace to take care of the ex-Crown Princess?”

“Yes, it’s her. It seems that there is something fishy about this matter. She is clearly not a good person. She even dares to plot and steal the ex-Crown Princess’ dowry.”

“I heard that if one is dead not long after getting married and doesn’t have a child, her parents’ family could claim her dowry back. Why isn’t anyone mentioning this?” Someone asked.

“I heard that the branch in charge in the ex-Crown Princess’ parents’ family is the second branch, and the second branch’s madam is Princess Ji’s mother. Why would she claim the dowry back? It’s good to leave it to her daughter.” Someone said in a low voice.

“That’s right. So, this is the reason why Princess Ji stole the ex-Crown Princess’ dowry? If so, Princess Ji might not have entered Crown Prince’s Mansion because of the ex-Crown Princess. Could it be that she was the one who killed…”

The man didn’t dare to continue. He rolled his eyes and immediately lowered his head, but everyone understood what he meant.

It was said that Princess Ji entered Eastern Palace because of the ex-Crown Princess, but maybe the ex-Crown Princess was angered to death by her. The ex-Crown Princess was so young. Even if she was sick, it was impossible for her to pass away so early.

This was a big deal!

“Does it mean that before Princess Ji entered Eastern Palace, she had already had a relationship with…” Another person guessed. His words were vague, but the meaning in his words was obvious. He was guessing that Princess Ji and the Crown Prince had an affair long ago. Otherwise, she would not have entered Eastern Palace at that time.

Such a thing could not be discussed. Once it was started to be discussed, the gossip would appear to be true. But the fact was that it was indeed the truth. No one mentioned it before, but it seemed to be true now. If it was true, the Crown Prince’s so-called deep affection for the ex-Crown Princess was way too fake.

What was more, when the ex-Crown Princess was seriously ill, he let such a woman enter the palace to anger the ex-Crown Princess. When the ex-Crown Princess was angered to death, she took away the ex-Crown Princess’ dowry and even changed the name of the ex-Crown Princess’ shop. Was she trying to steal the shop just like Yu stole the ex-Madam’s shop?

The Crown Prince was the heir to the throne. If he really did such a thing, it would make people doubt his moral quality and think whether he was really suitable to be the next emperor.

While everyone was discussing and speculating about Pei Luo’an and Ji Youran, Qu Moying had already arrived at Earl Ling’an’s Mansion.

Yu Dong went up to knock on the door. A guard came out. Hearing that Qu Moying was looking for the first branch’s Madam Duan, the guard was very hesitant. After a moment of hesitation, he said, “Madam Duan is sick. It is inconvenient for her to receive guests. Fourth Lady Qu, please go back!”