Chapter 328 Mediation, Each of Them Paid for a Bracelet

Qin Wanru got on Madam Dowager’s carriage, and Qin Yuru got on the rear carriage alone. As the carriages slowly moved forward, everyone relaxed their hold and watched the carriages go away. After that, they started to talk about the two Young Madams of the Qin’s Mansion in groups of three and four.

The First Miss was so arrogant, while the Second Miss was so pitiful.

As expected the Second Miss wasn’t the biological daughter of the Qin’s Mansion, so the people of the Qin’s Mansion didn’t treat her very well. They could tell that she probably lived a poor life in the Qin’s Mansion. But even so, she still maintained her good manners.

Everyone thought that Qin Yuru had only herself to blame for the broken bracelets and it was all her fault. No one felt sorry for her or showed sympathy with her, even she finally left with red eyes.

Upstairs in the jade shop, the window facing the street was open. Someone looked coldly down with his hands clasped behind his back and happened to watch the farce downstairs.

“Master, would you like to take a break? You may feel tired after standing for so long!” A eunuch beside him reminded him in a low voice. He stole a glance at downstairs, but didn’t see clearly those who had quarreled among the crowd.

“The Qin’s Mansion!” Chu Liuyue slowly left the window and sat down in a chair.

“They are from the Qin’s Mansion? Which Qin’s Mansion?” The eunuch beside him didn’t understand what he meant. There were not a few Qin’s Mansions in the capital.

“The two daughters of Ningyuan Army General’s Mansion are really different!” Chu Liuyue marvelled and reached out to press his chest. He was really injured, but more seriously injured than he thought. He was the one who had plotted the a.s.sa.s.sination. However, a real a.s.sa.s.sin actually blended in and almost killed him.

At the thought of it, he felt a dull pain in his chest with his face turning increasingly gloomy.

“Have you found out who the a.s.sa.s.sin is?”

“I failed to find it out. The a.s.sa.s.sin is dead! But he has worked for us!” The eunuch lowered his head and reported.

“He has worked for us… If so, why did he intend to kill me!” Chu Liuyue said with a pale face and coughed, “Second brother, third brother, fourth brother and I, all of us got involved in it. There may be someone who deliberately meddled with the a.s.sa.s.sination or someone who secretly watched us fight with each other!”

“Master, could it be Prince Zhou?” The eunuch told of his thought. He unconsciously ignored Prince Chen and Prince Xin. Prince Xin still seemed like a child who hadn’t grown up. Regarding Prince Chen, who would worry about a man who was seriously ill and at the pit’s brink? The reason why his master had tracked it down was that his master was afraid that the late Emperor had left some manpower to Prince Chen. Prince Chen himself was not greatly threatening.

“Not likely!” Chu Liuyue shook his head. He had checked and found out that Chu Liuzhou was the cause of the a.s.sa.s.sination targeted at Chu Liuchen. If Chu Liuchen really died, Chu Liuzhou wouldn’t be able to explain it even if he had a hundred mouths. From this point of view, neither the Empress nor Chu Liuzhou would send someone from Prince Zhou’s Mansion to kill Chu Liuchen.

It was no good for Chu Liuzhou to irritate Empress Dowager and his father!

“Except for these princes, who else could it be?” The eunuch was confused with no clue. This time all the princes were injured and sent to the Imperial Inst.i.tute of Medicine for recovery. Today his master finally got out of the palace because of insisting returning his mansion to get some important things. His master should go back to the palace later.

Of course, the princes stayed in the palace not just for recovery. The emperor must have asked some people to investigate the matter.

Staying in the palace, all the princes could be protected and under surveillance.

As the henchman of Chu Liuyue, the eunuch certainly knew what it meant.

“There is someone else!” Chu Liuyue suddenly said with an extremely cold smile on his face which had always been frosty, “I didn’t think of him at the beginning. But now we are all injured, and he’s the only one who could benefit from it!”

“Your Highness, you are talking about…” The eunuch gasped with surprise and also thought of someone.

“Anyone else besides him? If all of us are involved or killed in this incident, he will be able to inherit the throne. Good plot. He hasn’t been discovered over so many years.” Chu Liuyue praised with a sneer.

The eunuch didn’t dare to continue talking and lowered his head carefully.

“Have you found out the relations.h.i.+p between Qin Wanru and Chu Liuchen?” After falling silent for a long while, Chu Liuyue suddenly changed the subject.

“Yes. When Prince Chen was in Jiangzhou, he had lived in Ningyuan Army General’s Mansion. He should have met the Second Miss Qin at that time.” Hearing himself asked, the eunuch raised his head and said.

The initial cause of the a.s.sa.s.sination, in which several princes got involved, was Qin Wanru.

“Third brother helped an acquaintance so enthusiastically? He has never been so enthusiastic in helping others. Or I can say that he doesn’t know what enthusiasm is at all,” Chu Liuyue snorted coldly and said casually.

“Your Highness, what do you mean?” The eunuch blinked, not understanding what his master meant.

“Check if Chu Liuchen fancies the Second Miss Qin,” Chu Liuyue said slowly with increasingly cold eyes.

“Your Highness, the Second Miss Qin is so young…” the eunuch said in astonishment. As an intimate eunuch of Chu Liuyue, he had seen Qin Wanru in Jiangzhou. She was so young and still looked like a child, right?

“Now she’s different. It’s been a long time since she moved to the capital, and she should have grown up a lot.” Chu Liuyue thought of her innocent and delicate face which he had seen a moment ago. Even in this situation, she remained decent and gentle. She was a rare girl who deserved a man better than his third brother who was an invalid and could die at any time.

“Yes, Your Highness. I’ll check it out!” The eunuch nodded and was about to leave, but was stopped by Chu Liuyue. Chu Liuyue said, “Don’t check it now. It’s not so easy to check the affairs of third brother. If you attract his attention and he reports it to father and grandma, I’ll be rebuked again!”

He really didn’t dare to inquire about too much news of Chu Liuchen. There were guards at the door, which made it difficult for him to inquire. What was more, these guards were sent by father. Despite one or two guards he deployed among them, he failed to inquire about anything in the end. Unfortunately, he had once exposed a secret to the invalid, and the invalid reported it to father.

Chu Liuyue still remembered the rage of father!

“Go and check Qin Huaiyong. I heard that he has got along well with the aristocratic families in the capital recently!” Chu Liuyue said after thinking. He had another guess that the incident in which Chu Liuchen saved Qin Wanru was not simple. Maybe he could start the investigation from Qin Huaiyong.

If it was inconvenient to check the affairs about Chu Liuchen, he could check in another direction.

“Yes, I’ll ask someone to check it!” The eunuch nodded and left, and pa.s.sed by a guard at the door. Watching the guard hurriedly going upstairs, the eunuch followed him after thinking. His master was alone upstairs now, and he could not rest a.s.sured.

“Report to Your Highness, I found something from the dead coachman!” The guard knelt down respectfully towards Chu Liuyue after entering the room, and presented the scroll in his hand.

Chu Liuyue reached out to take it. After glancing over the roll in his hands, he sneered with a cold face a moment later. “It’s actually related to Duke Yong’s Mansion?”

Knowing that Chu Liuyue wasn’t asking him, the guard held his breath without answering.

“Duke Yong’s Mansion! Go and check Duke Yong’s Mansion! Leave the affairs of the Qin’s Mansion aside. It’s no big deal!” Chu Liuyue raised his voice to say to the eunuch.

Glancing at his master’s face, the eunuch knew that his master was really angry. He nodded and hurriedly left. After a.s.signing the tasks downstairs, he went upstairs again to help his master out of the building and then into a large carriage. The carriage went all the way to the palace…

“Father, Old Madam of Duke Xing gave me this pair of bracelets, but they were broken by second sister. Father, please handle the matter for me!” Qin Yuru, Qin Wanru, Madam Dowager, Shui Ruolan and others were all in Qin Huaiyong’s study. Qin Yuru reached out to point at Qin Wanru and said angrily.

With her red eyes, Mei Xue presented the fragments in the handkerchief to Qin Huaiyong.

“Wanru, what happened? Why did you break your elder sister’s bracelets?” Glancing at the bracelets that had been broken into several fragments, Qin Huaiyong said with his face darkening.

“Yong’er, Zhuozhuo shouldn’t be blamed for this. Yuru made trouble out of nothing and messed with Zhuozhuo on the street. She then drove Zhuozhuo off the carriage and dragged her. During the process, she dropped a bracelet and it was broken. After that, she intended to beat Zhuozhuo. Some pa.s.sersby couldn’t bear it and came over to stop her. During the process, another bracelet was dropped and broken as well!”

Madam Dowager put down the cup in her hands heavily, and was not satisfied with Qin Huaiyong’s att.i.tude.

“Mother, the bracelets are given by Old Madam of Duke Xing’s Mansion!” Qin Huaiyong was distressed and reached out to rub his brows, only feeling exhausted.

“Yuru smashed them and blamed Zhuozhuo for that. A lot of people saw that. If you don’t believe it, you can send someone to ask them!” Madam Dowager said in slight anger.

“Mother, I don’t mean that. I mean the bracelets were given by Old Madam of Duke Xing’s Mansion. What can I do now to compensate for that?” Qin Huaiyong said humbly.

“Since they have been broken, we should tell Duke Xing’s Mansion about that, lest Yuru can’t wear them when she’s asked to do that next time. We should be honest!”

Madam Dowager also frowned.

“No. They are obviously broken by Qin Wanru. Why should I take the blame!” Qin Yuru opposed in a sharp voice, reached out to point at Qin Wanru, who was on the opposite side, and said, seemingly about to rush over.

“Yuru, you know best about the truth. It’s useless for you to keep saying that. There were too many people who have seen the incident. It should have been spread all over the capital,” Madam Dowager said coldly, extremely dissatisfied with Qin Yuru’s unreasonable actions.

“Grandma, you are too partial. I am your biological granddaughter!” Seeing Madam Dowager defending Qin Wanru again, Qin Yuru said loudly in anger.

“As the grandma of both of you, I can’t let you alienate each other. It’s just a pair of bracelets. Even if someone should pay for them, they have their price. Let me make the decision. Each of you pays for a bracelet, and I’ll send someone to buy a pair of similar bracelets.”

Madam Dowager was distressed and said.

Qin Huaiyong fell silent. It was an excellent solution that wouldn’t waste time and could allow Qin Yuru to have a pair of jade bracelets again.

“So be it!” Qin Huaiyong said helplessly.

“I don’t agree!” However, there suddenly came another voice at the same time…