After dressing as a substitute princess

When Chen Nuo woke up the next day, Li Ci had already left. He turned his head and found a piece of paper next to his pillow, which said, "See you at the Lantern Festival tomorrow night."

Chen Nuo recalled the Lantern Festival two years ago, when he secretly followed behind them, he saw Qu Moting smiling at Prince Li Qing with crooked eyebrows, only the prince was in his eyes, and he also saw Li Ci secretly looking at Qu Moting His eyes were full of tenderness.

Everything has changed, yet nothing seems to have changed.

Li Ci still only has Qu Moting in his eyes, and he is just a superfluous one.

Chen Nuo's heart was empty, he put away the paper, and waited for Jin Chan and Jin Zhu to help him get up.

Qu Enliang went to the palace as usual, and Chen Nuo was really bored alone, thinking of the Wang family whom he hadn't seen for a long time, he suddenly wanted to see her for some reason, so he said to Jin Chan, "Jin Chan, push me to Madam's place." courtyard."

Jin Chan smiled and helped Chen Nuo push the wheelchair. Along the way, many servants bowed their heads and knelt down when they saw Chen Nuo, and no one dared to take a second look.

The servants in the mansion all wondered why Young Master Qu Moting suddenly had both legs disabled and couldn't walk, but no one dared to say a word, because before someone was beaten to death by Prime Minister Qu after only a few words in private.

All the servants and maids in Qu's mansion signed the contract, and no one dared to disobey the order of the master. Even though Prime Minister Qu was usually kind and friendly, he was absolutely merciless when it came time to be ruthless.

Chen Nuo was pushed by Jin Chan to a very remote courtyard in the mansion. The plaque outside the door read the words "Jingxin Garden".

Chen Nuo vaguely heard the sound of knocking wooden fish coming from the room, and also smelled a faint scent of sandalwood.

Nanny Zhou heard the sound of the courtyard door being pushed open in the room, and came out in a hurry, and was stunned when she saw "Qu Mo Ting" sitting in a wheelchair, and hurried to Qu Mo Ting to salute, "This old servant has seen the second young master .”

Chen Nuo said: "Nurse Zhou is free, how is mother these days?"

"Everything is fine, Ma'am, but... just eat less." Zhou Nanny looked a little uncomfortable, her eyes wandered from side to side, as if she was deliberately hiding something.

Chen Nuo couldn't help frowning, "Mother is not feeling well? Could it be that she is sick?"

"No, madam is not ill."

Chen Nuo was full of doubts in his heart, he said to Jin Chan, "Jin Chan, push me in."

Nanny Zhou stepped aside, and then went to the back of the wheelchair to help push Chen Nuo. When she reached the steps, Jin Chan took out an iron sheet from under the wheelchair and spread it on the steps, and then pushed the wheelchair up.

Chen Nuo smiled at Jin Chan, he liked this girl's strength, and planned to observe for a while, if Jin Chan was loyal, he would arrange for someone to teach Jin Chan martial arts.

Chen Nuo has long been thinking about marrying a girl as a dowry. In addition to Jin Chan and Jin Zhu, he also plans to pick a few girls who can learn kung fu from Xingyun Eighteen Villages to follow, and he will also bring a few brothers. According to the rules of the princess, He can bring at least 20 people as dowry.

Nanny Zhou pushed open the door, and Chen Nuo saw Mrs. Wang sitting on the futon knocking on the wooden fish. The rhythm was slow, and she didn't feel any impatience at all.

Chen Nuo thought, hoping that the hard life during this period of time would allow Mrs. Wang to calm down and think about it. He cleared his throat and said, "Ting'er pays respects to his mother, please greet her."

Mrs. Wang paused, put down the wooden fish and got up, turned around and found "Qu Moting" strange, and immediately asked with astonishment: "What's wrong with you?"

"Mother, Ting'er injured her leg, and the doctor said that she will not be able to walk anymore." Chen Nuo followed Qu Mo Ting's example and sobbed softly with her head bowed.

Wang suddenly rushed in front of him in disbelief, "You, how did you get hurt? Have you had the imperial doctor look at it? I heard that His Majesty gave you a marriage to the third prince. How are you going to marry to Prince Yu's mansion like this?"

Wang's hands were propped on both sides of the wheelchair, her eyes were fixed on Chen Nuo, her expression was slightly ferocious due to excitement.

Chen Nuo pretended to sob and said, "The Third Prince doesn't know that Ting'er's legs are disabled, mother, Ting'er is fine..."

"How can it be all right? Who is so bold that he dared to hurt the young master of the Qu family? What about your brother? Could it be that Qu Mohuai was also hurt?" Wang's anxious expression did not seem to be acting.

Chen Nuo replied in a low voice: "My brother is fine, but my grandmother is sick, so I keep my brother by my side to take care of her."

"It's fine... Ting'er, thank you for still being willing to call me mother, but I'll call you aunt in the future. People like me are not qualified to be mothers."

As Wang was talking, she suddenly burst into tears. Chen Nuo took out a clean handkerchief from her bosom and handed it to her, "Whether it's aunt or mother, as long as you don't harm anyone, you will still be Ting'er's relative, Ting'er." My son will take care of my aunt."

"Well, it was my aunt who made a mistake before, and my aunt shouldn't have listened to slander, woo woo..." Madam Wang wept, covering her face with a handkerchief.

Chen Nuo raised her eyebrows slightly, and said to Nanny Zhou: "Nurse Zhou, I'm a little hungry, you and Jin Chan go to prepare lunch, I'll stay and eat with my aunt."

"Yes, slaves will prepare now."

Nanny Zhou bowed and retreated, Jin Chan hesitated for a while, but followed Chen Nuo's gesture obediently.

When there were only the two of them left in the room, Chen Nuo asked, "Auntie, did something happen?"

Wang looked at Chen Nuo with teary eyes, but said, "Huai'er, you can ask whatever you want, Auntie won't lie to you."

Chen Nuo was slightly stunned, and said with a wry smile: "So my acting skills are so bad, did my aunt already notice it?"

"I just know Ting'er too well. I watched that child grow up. He is timid and cowardly, and he will never come here to visit me unless someone instigates him. I am afraid that in Ting'er's heart, I have nothing Not any more."

Wang's heart is quite bitter, she just feels sad, even if she did something wrong, she has worked hard to raise Qu Moting, and she has paid a lot for the Qu family these years, but since the accident, her husband Prime Minister Qu never came to see her again, the first one to see her was this stepson who had no relationship with her.

"Huai'er, for more than two years, my aunt has seen through this indifferent world. When you are in glory, everyone fawns over you, and when you fall into the dust, everyone avoids you. Auntie is tired and doesn't have the heart to fight for it anymore. Rob."

"Auntie, I do have a lot of questions in my mind. I hope my auntie can clear it up for me." Chen Nuo saw that Wang was sincerely repentant. He knew that Wang was being used by others, so he had no intention of pursuing it now. He was more concerned about the behind-the-scenes Who is the person.

Wang Shi smiled faintly, "Just ask."

"Has my aunt ever poisoned Xiao Ting?" At the beginning, Wu Bencao diagnosed that Qu Mo Ting had poison in his body, and the poison almost caused him to be infertile again, but no evidence was found for this matter.

But Wang's eyes were full of doubts, "I never ordered anyone to poison Ting'er, and I don't need to hide the matter from you until now. Back then Cuizhu secretly told me that Ting'er was the real disaster, but your mother Wang Qi didn't want to part with that child, so I let you, my stepson, go to the nunnery to suffer."

"How old is Cui Zhu, why does he know this?"

"Cuizhu is your nanny's daughter. You were young at the time, so you probably don't remember it. Your nanny Qian Momo's family was kicked out to the Zhuangzi of Xiangchuan's hometown because of ineffective protection of the master. Later, Qian Momo passed away due to illness. His husband married another daughter-in-law, and Cuizhu was bullied by that stepmother since she was a child, and she didn't return to the mansion until she was ten years old, it was because of the relationship between Nanny Cui and Nanny Qian."

It was the first time Chen Nuo heard about these things, and she couldn't help asking in surprise: "Is it the mother Cui who is next to my aunt who brought Cuizhu back to the Qu Mansion?"

"That's right, Nanny Cui is a servant of the Wang family and also my nanny. She came to the Qu family with me, and now she is doing well in Zhuangzi." Wang sighed.

"Auntie, what else did the green bamboo say?"

"Cuizhu said that she knew some friends from the rivers and lakes. She met them when she was in Xiangchuan, and said that those people's kung fu is very powerful. I was also in a daze to listen to a little girl. How could she know what a person outside is?" Someone, I'm afraid those so-called masters are a bunch of charlatans."

"The assassin at the Lantern Festival two years ago was arranged by Aunt Cui Zhu?" Chen Nuo asked in a deep voice.

Wang sighed, but said with annoyance: "Don't mention it, I asked Cuizhu to arrange for someone to arrest Qu Moting and lock him up for a few days, and then let him come back quietly, so that the child's reputation will be ruined." It may be fate that she definitely can't be the prince's side concubine, but in the end it was you who became the elder brother, no, should it be the younger brother? You actually saved him."

"Then why are those people cutting towards Xiaoting's life gate?"

"I-I don't know either, Huai'er, you trust Auntie. Although Auntie hates Qu Moting, she never thought of killing him!"

"Hush, keep your voice down, Auntie, you should call me Ting'er, my identity needs to be kept secret." Chen Nuo reminded in a low voice helplessly.

Wang's expression was complicated, "But you really don't look like Ting'er, Ting'er is even more delicate than a woman, you don't look like... By the way, your mother has a very precious jade pendant, it seems to be Left by his sweetheart..."

"You want to say that neither Xiao Ting nor I are Prime Minister Qu's children?" Chen Nuo stared at Wang with a straight face.

Wang sneered and waved her hands, "I didn't say that, you should be his children, after all Wang Qi married to Qu Mansion one year after that person left, and then gave birth to you eight months pregnant. "

"Oh, what happened to that jade pendant?"

"I don't know the details, but I suddenly remembered that Wang Qi seemed to have said that the person told him that that jade pendant hides a shocking secret, I just want to remind you that if you see that jade pendant, you must put it away. "

"What kind of jade pendant?"

"A piece of green jade pendant with the word Zhiyun engraved on it. Later, Wang Qi took the character for herself and called it Zhiyun."

The more Chen Nuo heard it, the more familiar it became. Where did he seem to have seen that jade pendant?

"Ting'er, you don't need to visit me again in the future, everything is fine with Auntie."

Wang's tone suddenly changed, and Chen Nuo turned her head following her gaze, and found that it was Madam Yan who had come.

Sister Yan's face was flushed, she looked happy, and she didn't know where she came back from. When she saw Chen Nuo, she immediately came over and saluted, "My servant has seen the second young master."

Chen Nuo ignored her, and turned to Wang Shi: "Auntie, rest well, Ting'er will go back first."

"Well, go back."

Chen Nuo didn't stay for lunch, so he called Jin Chan and pushed him back to the courtyard. He thought carefully about what Wang said, until he entered the courtyard and suddenly remembered that Lao Qu had given him a jade pendant ?

But why can't he remember where he put that jade pendant?