Chapter 46: Seducing Prince Qi
Liu Yu was too lazy to talk nonsense with her and directly showed her the jade pendant in his hand:
"Is this yours?"
Bai Wei's eyes lit up. She had been with Qiu since she was a child and had seen a lot of things. This jade pendant felt warm to the touch, and the jade was transparent without a trace of impurities.
Greed was in her eyes:
"Yes, it's mine."
Liu Yu snatched the jade pendant from Bai Wei's hand.
"Liu Yu, what are you doing? I told you this is mine, and you're still trying to steal my things. Don't go too far." Bai Wei shouted.
"Bai Wei, I don't know what you are thinking. I advise you not to have any delusions, otherwise, I will send you to the old lady. Jiang Xueqing has the second master to protect her, what about you? Do you think the old lady will let go of those who ruin the reputation of the Chen family?"
"You asked me to come and recognize it."
Just ask her to recognize it and it will become hers? Are you thinking you are blind?
Having lived for two lifetimes, Liu Yu still admires Bai Wei's shamelessness.
Liu Yu directly asked Guyu to get her out.
"You are so shameless..." Guyu pushed Bai Wei and walked out.
She looked at Bai Wei's staggering figure. Now that she and the Liu family had fallen out, Liu Yu didn't want to maintain the superficial peace. Regardless of whether Bai Wei had put the jade pendant in her room,
He always kept Bai Wei, a person with ulterior motives, on his side, and there was a possibility that she would stab him in the back at any time.
But she didn't want to be sent back to Pingnan Marquis Mansion.
Liu Yu was reborn, she believed in ghosts and gods,
All the people she cared about in her previous life had a bad ending. She wants to do good deeds and will not kill people easily.
After much thought, Liu Yu thought of a good place for Bai Wei.
"Let Guyu bring Bai Wei back." Liu Yu ordered the maid guarding the door.
After a while, Bai Wei was pushed back again. This time, Liu Yu directly asked Guyu to wait outside as well.
When Liu Yu and Bai Wei came out of the room, half an hour had passed. She told Gu Yu who was waiting outside the door:
"Dress her up nicely and let Lixia take her out for a walk. Pay attention to Chengyu Street, Huanglin Road..." These streets are all facing the Qi Wang Mansion.
Guyu didn't know what her wife was going to do, but she would do whatever her wife asked her to do.
After the two of them left, the room fell into silence.
Liu Yu's gaze fell on the jade pendant in her hand again, and she narrowed her eyes.
Who is this person who wants to harm her? It didn't take long for Liu Yu to think about it, and he probably had a candidate in mind.
She had experienced too many dirty tricks in her past life, so he went to such great pains to put such a precious thing in her room, most likely he was planning a big move.
Just in case, this piece of jade cannot be left in Qinyuanju under any circumstances.
But who to give it to? That’s the difficult question.
Liu Yu stuffed the jade pendant into his arms and opened the door as if nothing had happened.
After finishing lunch at Qinyuanju, she left the East Courtyard and went to visit the backyard, actually to inquire about the origin of the jade pendant.
Prevention is important, but only by understanding the whole story and nipping unnecessary trouble in the bud and cutting off the source can we solve the problem once and for all.
The jade quality of the jade pendant in her hand is not something that an ordinary maid or old woman can use. Finally, Liu Yu fixed his gaze on the young ladies and ladies in the Chen Mansion.
But it is definitely not a good idea to just go looking and asking blindly.
In the Chen Mansion, the only people Liu Yu was familiar with were Chen Ruqi and Chen Xiyao.
Comparing the two, Liu Yu went to Wutong Courtyard. She planned to find Chen Xiyao.
When she arrived at Wutong Courtyard, Chen Xiyao was embroidering a headband. From the half-finished pattern, Liu Yu saw that Chen Yaoxi was embroidering a bat with an emerald inlaid in the middle.
"Five blessings? Are you embroidering this for the old lady?" Liu Yu asked with a smile as she took the tea that Chen Xiyao made for her.
Chen Yaoxi was surprised: "You can see this?"
"Yeah," Liu Yu nodded: "It's very easy to recognize! You have outlined the contours of the five bats," she glanced at the unfinished headband in the sewing basket.
"Yu'er, you have a really good eye. The little girls around me still say that the peonies I embroidered are really good." Chen Xiyao laughed. She had been embroidering this headband for more than ten days, but Liu Yu was the first one who could recognize that it was a pattern of Five Blessings.
"Uh." Liu Yu took the headband from the basket and looked at it for a long time. It didn't look like a peony at all. "It's clear that there's not even the shadow of a flower here."
Chen Xiyao's personal maid smiled shyly:
"Young lady, you only know how to tease me. I have always been short-sighted."
"Look, I didn't embroider well, but I didn't dare to say it. I'm not a good servant if I spoil my master like this. If I tell you, you will be sold out."
"Miss, you are annoying. You are teasing your slave again."
Looking at the two master and servant who were like sisters in front of her, Liu Yu took the needle beside her, picked up the thread and unstitched a few wrong stitches, and then repaired the wrong stitches in these places afterwards.
During this period, Chen Xiyao had put down what she was doing and came behind Liu Yu. She was amazed to see that by just changing a few needle techniques, the entire bat pattern became lifelike.
Liu Yu pointed at the places she had patched up:
"Do you mind if I change it for you?"
"Yuer, do you know the Suzhou embroidery rolling needle technique?" The rolling needle technique is intertwined, and the embroidery looks like it was written in one stroke, vivid and lifelike.
But she tried several times, but always felt something was missing.
As a result, there has been no progress on this headband after so many days.
"Yeah, I studied for a while."
"Can you teach me?"
Then Liu Yu taught Chen Xiyao the rolling needle embroidery method step by step, and the two chatted casually.
When the time was right, Liu Yu asked casually:
"When I came to Wutong Courtyard just now, I saw a maid looking for something?"
"Yes, that's Chen Ruqi's man. We've been looking for him for many days."
Chen Xiyao didn't realize that Liu Yu was deliberately asking her questions. She embroidered carefully according to where Liu Yu pointed.
"The fourth girl hasn't given up on searching for so long, it must be very important!"
"Yes, I heard it was a personal item."
In the Jin Dynasty, if an unmarried girl lost her personal belongings, it was no small matter. If someone with ulterior motives used it to make a fuss, the matter would be difficult to explain.
Liu Yu was probably certain that the white jade pendant found in her room this morning was most likely Chen Ruqi's.
But how did Chen Ruqi's jade pendant get to her room? Chen Ruqi had never been to Qinyuanju, and in her room, besides herself, there was only Master Chen San and the maids in Qinyuanju.
There is someone around her who wants to harm her!
Seeing that Liu Yu didn't say anything for a long time, Chen Xiyao stopped what she was doing and looked up at her: "Yu'er, what's wrong with you? Did you pick up something?"
Liu Yu looked at Chen Xiyao. Even if she returned the jade pendant to Chen Ruqi at this time, the one found in her room didn't make sense.
"No." Liu Yu shook his head without hesitation and said, "Since it is a personal item, I really need to look for it carefully."
Liu Yu stayed in Wutong Courtyard for another half an hour before getting up and saying goodbye.