Chapter 124 – Sinister Plan, But Not Heavily Injured
Outside the crowd, Yang Yurou who had already made her decision said in a loud voice, “Eldest Sister, how come I didn’t see Sixth Miss Wei pushing Fourth Miss Wei? Instead, I saw you pushing Sixth Miss Wei.”
People were greatly shocked by her words. Everyone looked at Yang Yuyan in astonishment.
“Second… Second Younger Sister, how could you say such words?” Being watched by so many people, Yang Yuyan was panicked and confused. She blushed and couldn’t help but cry, “Even if you don’t like me, you can’t say such words!”
“Eldest Sister, I wasn’t the only witness at that time. Don’t tell me that you think other young ladies from aristocratic families will collaborate with me to frame you up.” Since Yang Yurou stood out, she must have certain evidence. Moreover, she was by nature bolder than Yang Yuyan. At this moment, she pointed at the several young ladies beside her.
When she followed Yang Yuyan all the way here, her bosom friends also followed.
They had been standing close to Wei Yuewu. In addition, when the Crown Prince and the two princesses appeared, they came to pay their respects together and therefore did not attract any attention.
Only Wei Yuewu noticed that Yang Yurou had been following behind Yang Yuyan. She had also intentionally lured her here…
“Yes, we saw it. When Fourth Miss Wei fell out, she pulled Sixth Miss Wei’s sleeve. Eldest Miss Yang pushed Sixth Miss Wei hard from behind.”
“Eldest Miss Yang pushed her. Otherwise, Sixth Miss Wei wouldn’t have hit the tip of the sword and been injured.”
“Eldest Miss Yang is too vicious. She actually wants to kill Sixth Miss Wei.”…
Since Yang Yurou had spoken, the young ladies from the aristocratic families who were close to her exchanged glances and said indignantly.
Yang Yuyan’s face was deathly pale, but she was so frightened that she couldn’t say a single word to defend herself. Then, she could only look at the Third Princess with dull eyes to plead for help.
Everyone’s gaze followed her gaze towards the Third Princess, their eyes filled with doubt.
Seeing that everyone was looking at her, the Third Princess’ expression sank. She covered her face with a handkerchief and cast a sidelong glance at Yang Yurou. She ignored Yang Yurou, turned around and whispered a few instructions to the palace maid on one side. The palace maid then nodded her head and retreated.
“Sixth Younger Sister, so it wasn’t you who pushed me. It was actually Eldest Miss Yang who pushed you. I mistakenly thought that you pushed me, which caused resentment between the two of us.” Wei Qiufu was shocked in her heart, but she immediately took on a different look, as if she was blinded by others. She looked at Yang Yuyan angrily with tears in the corners of her eyes, and then reached out trying to hold Wei Yuewu’s hands affectionately.
The truth about the incident had been basically known. Wei Yuewu didn’t have the mood to perform the show of affectionate sisterhood with Wei Qiufu. Unable to hold on any longer, she fell backwards. Without waiting for Jin Ling to reach out her hands to help, Yan Huaijing already hugged Wei Yuewu’s sliding body. His long and narrow phoenix eyes narrowed as he looked at Yang Yuyan who was paralyzed on the ground. Then, he swept his gaze over the Crown Prince’s face with an unfathomable look. The corners of his thin lips curved up as he turned around and strode towards the side hall.
The imperial physician hurriedly trotted after him.
Wen Tianyao’s feet moved slightly, but he didn’t follow Yan Huaijing in the end. He only focused his gaze on Yang Yuyan, who was lying on the ground at the side.
“Someone, send Eldest Miss Yang back to her mansion!”
Up until now, a verdict could be basically made. For some unknown reason, this Eldest Miss Yang of the Assistant Minister Yang’s mansion had deliberately set Wei Yuewu up.
With the Crown Prince’s instruction plus a look of disgust in his eyes, Yang Yuyan’s body softened and she fell to the ground with a plop. Originally, she had been kicked by Jin Ling in her waist. At this moment, she fell again and let out a painful cry.
However, the two guards who came over did not show any mercy and directly dragged her by the arms. The maid Jin’er cried out in alarm and chased after her.
“Your Highness, my Sixth Younger Sister, she… will she be fine?” Wei Qiufu’s expression was filled with both regret and hatred. “It was all my fault. I didn’t know who pushed me and hastily blamed Sixth Younger Sister for doing it. My rashness caused Sixth Younger Sister to ignore her injury and provide an explanation. It was all my fault. When I get back, I’ll report it to grandmother and have grandmother punish me.”
She didn’t pass the buck. Moreover, she had acted to create an illusion that she offered to take responsibility for everything, which was very impressive. Speaking of which, she was the one who fell out first, and the person next to her was Wei Yuewu. It was normal for her to mistake Wei Yuewu as the one who pushed her. Although Wei Yuewu was hit by the sword, Wei Qiufu’s situation at that time was not good either. Who knew if the sword would pierce into her body at that time.
Wen Tianyao’s expression softened a little and he comforted her, “Fourth Miss Wei, don’t worry too much. Sixth Miss Wei was not seriously injured.”
Wen Tianyao practiced martial arts. When his gaze swept past Wei Yuewu’s wound, he saw that she didn’t bleed much. He naturally came to this conclusion and believed that there was probably just some damage to her skin. She had fainted because she was just a delicate young lady and was both shocked and frightened beyond her limit!
When the incident occurred, he reached out to hug Wei Qiufu who had fallen in front of him. As a result, he didn’t see Yan Huaijing pressing on Wei Yuewu’s acupoint to stop her bleeding. Seeing that Wei Yuewu held on for so long, he had determined that her injury wasn’t serious. Otherwise, how could Wei Yuewu, a thin and weak young lady, be able to endure the pain for so long?
“Is the injury really not serious?” Wei Qiufu asked worriedly. The corners of her eyes were filled with expectation and anxiety. Anyone could sense her anxiety and nervousness.
“It’s really not serious. Nothing bad will happen.” Wen Tianyao still had a good impression of this elder sister who had always cared about her younger sister. He immediately replied gently.
“But Sixth Younger Sister didn’t faint when she was struck by the sword. How come she fainted now?” Wei Qiufu asked worriedly.
“Perhaps your Sixth Younger Sister had been kept busy providing an explanation so that she ignored her injury. When in the end she remembered that she was struck by the sword, she was unable to hold on.” The Fourth Princess said impatiently, withdrawing her gaze from Yan Huaijing’s back, “Eldest Brother, are we going to worship Buddha?”
In other words, Wei Yuewu was just pretending.
A trace of doubt flashed through Wei Qiufu’s eyes. What the Fourth Princess said was also very reasonable. Could Wei Yuewu really be faking it? And now it’s such a good time for her to faint…
Her eyebrows narrowed slightly as she turned around to look in the direction where the Heir-apparent of the Duke of Yan State had disappeared. In places that no one had noticed, her gaze turned cold!
Others might think that she merely misunderstood Wei Yuewu and that there was actually nothing between the two of them. But in reality, the two of them had already exchanged blows secretly. The message from Xie Qingzhao said that the reason for the current unexpected results was because of her, the Sixth Younger Sister who had just been back in the mansion.
She had planned this for so long, how could she allow something to happen at this critical moment?
Now that the two of them knew what the other party was up to, Wei Qiufu felt that this was the best opportunity for her to attack. Wei Yuewu pretended to be seriously injured, didn’t she? Very good, she has plenty of ways to make Wei Yuewu’s trick known…
“Let’s go in!” Even though Yan Huaijing was not present, there were still three hairs-apparent present. Wen Tianyao nodded, and the group of people climbed the stairs and entered the main hall.
When Wei Yuewu woke up, it was already afternoon!
“Miss, how do you feel?” Hearing her voice, Jin Ling immediately pulled up the curtain and asked with concern.
“How… serious is my injury?” Wei Yuewu could not lift her arm because of the pain. A slight movement would cause her heart to palpitate. Even speaking would cause extreme pain because the wound was stretched. Wei Yuewu could only stretch out her other hand to press down on the wound before asking with a bit of hoarseness.
Things had happened all of a sudden, and she didn’t expect Wei Qiufu to be so ruthless so that she failed to dodge the fatal moves of Wei Qiufu in the very beginning.
“Miss, drink the medicine first. The imperial physician said that the sooner you woke up, the better.” Shufei picked up the medicine that had been kept warm on the table and handed it to Jin Ling.
Jin Ling took the bowl of medicine and looked at Wei Yuewu’s slightly red face. She knew that Wei Yuewu must be having a fever and her expression became a little heavy.
The medicine was neither hot nor cold. Wei Yuewu leaned on the bed and drank up the medicine that Jin Ling fed her. She closed her eyes and breathed a sigh of relief before asking.
“How was the incident handled?”
“The Crown Prince ordered guards to pull Eldest Miss Yang out and send her down the mountain. Fourth Young Lady is fine. When I went with the imperial physician to get the medicine, I saw Fourth Young Lady chatting and laughing with the two princesses and the Crown Prince from afar, as if nothing had happened.”
Shufei said angrily. They were Wei Yuewu’s people. When they were still at the foot of the mountain, they already knew that the Fourth Young Lady had ill intentions. Although there was no evidence, they all felt that everything had to do with the Fourth Young Lady.
“Of course she’ll be fine.” Wei Yuewu closed her eyes. Her long eyelashes flashed twice, but she did not open her eyes. She only revealed a faint cold smile. How could a person like Wei Qiufu expose her true face so easily?
“Miss, what’s even more outrageous is that when I went to cook the medicine, someone would always come out along the way and asked me how serious your injury was. They asked if you were awake and when you planned to wake up, saying if your injury wasn’t that serious, you should come out early and walk around.”
Thinking of the maids and old maidservants she met along the way who all expressed their concern with such gazes and expressions that were clearly intended to ridicule Wei Yuewu, Shufei felt so angry that her lungs were about to explode.
“Are there many of them?” Wei Yuewu tried hard to endure the pain on her shoulder. She opened her eyes and asked in a low voice.
“A lot of them, at least a dozen of them.” Shufei’s eyes were about to turn red from anger.
Wei Yuewu’s pale lips curved into a smile!
In other words, there were at least a dozen young ladies who felt that she had pretended to faint. There were only twenty or so of them who went up the mountain today. Needless to say, Wei Qiufu must have contributed to this situation. In order to show her innocence, she must make someone else a scapegoat.
Only Yang Yuyan couldn’t drag Wei Qiufu into the mire.
Wei Yuewu believed that Wei Qiufu did not reveal any useful information to Yang Yuyan. She only made use of Yang Yuyan. Perhaps Yang Yuyan was still kept in the dark and didn’t know Wei Qiufu had used her as a cat’s paw! She had noticed Yang Yuyan frequently looking at the Third Princess…
Wei Qiufu was one of the wife-born daughters of the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang. Although her rank was a bit lower that other sisters, she was famous throughout the capital. Even the Third Princess and the Fourth Princess treated her as their confidante. So she must have her unique talent!
This kind of scheming talent was not something Wei Yan could possess. It was not that easy to deal with her!
“Has Fourth Elder Sister’s maid come to ask about my conditions?” Wei Yuewu covered her shoulder and coughed softly twice. She closed her eyes again and leaned against the pillow, feeling weak and short of breath.
Her body was weaker than ordinary people. Granny had asked countless famous doctors to treat her. They all said that the root cause was congenital deficiency when she was still in her mother’s womb. Normally, nothing looked serious on the surface, but if she was injured, it would be much harder for her to recover than ordinary people. This was also another reason why granny wanted her to live a calm and ordinary life.
“Ming Yan had been waiting outside and refused to leave, but the heir-apparent’s people came over and chased her away!” Jin Ling answered.
“Heir-apparent of the Duke of Yan State?” Wei Yuewu frowned. On the surface, she did not seem to have any relationship with him, nor did she have anything to do with him. What did Yan Huaijing mean? Then, she thought of something and opened her weak but clear eyes and instructed Jin Ling, “Where is the imperial physician of the heir-apparent of the Duke of Yan State?”
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