Shocking Mountain Moon

Chapter 115: The Palace Walls Are Deep
Looking at the girl who bowed respectfully, Xue Quan smiled and walked away.

Qiu Heng stood quietly, watching Xue Quan's departing back.

Scenes flashed through her mind: Xue Han came to the Yongqing Earl's house and asked her to stretch out her hands on the pretext of investigating a minor matter. When they met by chance on the street, Xue Han said that she could find him if she needed help in the future. After helping him again and again, Xue Han said that he sympathized with the poor and the weak...

All those anomalies that made her puzzled and defensive finally had answers.

Fangzhou came over and asked in a low voice: "Miss, did that person embarrass you?"

Qiu Heng walked forward and saw the worry in Fangzhou's eyes. She did not hide it: "Don't worry, it's not difficult. Just tell me that Master Xue said in front of Master Jin yesterday that he admired me for another reason, so that I should not be so self-indulgent."

"You are so self-indulgent?" Fangzhou was so angry that her eyebrows were raised. "It was clearly said by Master Xue himself, how could he say that about the girl!"

"Lord Xue said that out of guilt, and Eunuch Xue was afraid that I had misunderstood..." Qiu Heng told the story that she had heard from Xue Quan.

In fact, she has no impression.

My mother said that when she was found, the kidnapper’s body was right next to her. She was so frightened and, because she was too young, she had no memory of what happened before she was kidnapped.

Naturally, I don’t remember anything about red bean cake or little beggar.

Qiu Heng felt a little aggrieved when thinking about these things.

If she had known from the beginning that he approached her out of guilt, she would have been more careful and guarded her heart.

"So, the girl was abducted because of Lord Xue?" Fangzhou looked shocked.

Although the man and woman treated the girl like their own daughter, the girl was lucky to meet a good family. The fate of most beautiful girls who fell into the hands of kidnappers can be imagined.

"You can't say that." Qiu Heng thought of the boy's deep and forbearing eyes when he looked at her, and she was calm, "It was fate that played a little joke on me."

The little beggar did nothing wrong, she just envied her father for buying her snacks. The little girl did nothing wrong, she just ran to him out of sympathy for the poor and the weak.

Pity the poor and the weak - Qiu Heng pondered in her heart, and suddenly felt that the excuse Xue Han found was really appropriate.

In the eyes of the world, the sixth daughter of Yongqing Marquis's house had a bad fate, falling into the hands of a kidnapper. But after growing up and returning to Yongqing Marquis's house, she was grateful for the ten years she lived with her father and mother.

If she had not been loved by her parents for those ten years, and if she had not stayed in the Great Xia of the future, she would have been kept in a cage like a canary, and would have done nothing but cry if her grandfather had skinned her and sold her.

"Even if Lord Xue has other hidden secrets, it is not the right of Eunuch Xue to talk about the girl." Fangzhou felt aggrieved for Qiu Heng.

Qiu Heng walked forward slowly: "Eunuch Xue is Mr. Xue's adoptive father, so it's only natural for him to worry about Mr. Xue."

"I just think that you are not worthy of his son." Fangzhou was angry and held Qiuheng's hand, "You should stop liking Master Xue."

Qiu Heng smiled: "I know, I won't like him anymore."

"Really?"

"real."

After that, they walked in silence all the way to Lady Qiu's residence. Fangzhou stayed outside while Qiuheng followed Zheng Yu inside.

Zheng Yu doesn't look well.

"Eunuch Zheng looks a little haggard. Did he not sleep well yesterday?"

Zheng Yu smiled bitterly: "It seems that the sixth lady slept well."

Such a big thing happened yesterday, but there was no reaction at all. This girl is really carefree.

"Sixth Miss, I'm afraid the beauty will have a hard time in the future." Zheng Yu lowered his voice and said quickly.

After he finished speaking, he himself was surprised as to why he couldn't help but say these to Miss Qiu Liu.

Are you looking forward to what a little girl can do?

It's really crazy. Miss Qiu Liu did enough yesterday to make the palace servants who served Miss Qiu burst into tears of gratitude.

You have to know that once it is confirmed that Concubine Qiu has an affair with someone, there is no doubt what will happen to these people.

Passing through the layers of curtains, Qiu Heng saw Lady Qiu, who looked much more haggard than Zheng Yu, with a frighteningly pale face.

"Sister." Qiu Heng called out.

The expressionless Qiu Mei rolled her eyes and looked at the graceful girl standing there.

"Eunuch Zheng, please go out first. I want to talk to my sister."

Since Lady Qiu didn't say anything, Qiu Heng took the initiative to send the servants out and walked over to sit next to Lady Qiu.

Lady Qiu looked at her and said in a voice so soft that it could be blown away by the wind: "Sixth sister is here."

"Of course I'll come." Qiu Heng took something out of his arms and held it in front of Lady Qiu.

When Lady Qiu saw the wooden doll in Qiu Heng's hand, her face turned even paler.

"Is this wooden doll given to Lin Dutou by my sister?"

Qiu Meiren shuddered, met the cold eyes of the girl in front of her, and shook her head: "No."

Qiu Heng raised her eyebrows slightly.

It turned out that it was not sent by Lady Qiu.

Seeing Qiu Heng's surprise, Lady Qiu laughed at herself and said, "Since my sixth sister has seen my shameful thoughts, I don't care about the embarrassment. During these years in the palace, I have never let go of Lin Chengfeng... He and I love each other, and I always thought we would be happily married and live together until old age. Who knew that the emperor suddenly filled the harem, and I happened to be of the right age. My grandfather forced me to enter the palace, and I fought desperately but there was no turning back..."

Qiu Heng listened quietly to Lady Qiu talking about the painful past.

"See you in the enclosure. He is a young guard with a promising future, and I am a concubine who has lived in the deep palace for a long time without freedom. No matter how much I can't let go of him, I can't give him a wooden doll carved in my own image... I can't hurt him because of love..." At the end, Lady Qiu burst into tears, holding the handkerchief tightly in her hands.

Qiu Heng pursed her lips and did not offer any unnecessary comfort.

Say what?

It is said that after so many years, Lin Chengfeng still has you in his heart. Is his sincerity not in vain?

It says that now that you have entered the palace, you should let go of unnecessary thoughts and let the past go?

Whatever you say, it's cruel.

"Sixth sister, do you look down on me?" Lady Qiu cried and then smiled.

It was a dull laugh.

"No."

Lady Qiu has always been fond of Lin Chengfeng, but she was not the one who sent the deadly wooden doll. The woman trapped in the deep palace is not a wooden doll, but a person with flesh and blood who can feel pain.

It would be too harsh to still blame her.

"I don't look down on my sister." Qiu Heng looked at the woman who seemed like she would break at any time.

She was only in her early twenties, but she looked like a flower that was about to wither.

Qiu Heng said word by word: "It is my grandfather whom I look down upon."

Lady Qiu shuddered all over, and she hugged Qiu Heng and suppressed her sobs.

When Lady Qiu had cried enough, Qiu Heng whispered, "Since the wooden doll was not given by my sister, I want to go see Lin Chengfeng again. Is there anything my sister wants me to tell him?"

Lady Qiu was silent for a long time, and finally shook her head: "No, I have nothing to say to him."

She no longer had the right to say anything to him, and she shouldn't have even looked up at him that day.

"I understand." Qiu Heng put away the wooden doll and walked out of the palace.

(End of this chapter)