After the prince enters the play

Chapter 195 Chapter 196: His Highness the Crown Prince Shows Weakness

Su Xinyi went back to the yard to pay her respects to her mother first. Seeing her coming back, the fourth lady smiled and asked, but didn't ask too much, because it was about King Rong after all.

After Su Xinyi came back from her mother, she asked the girl to prepare water and took a shower by herself, changed her clothes and came out. It was dark after a toss, and after dinner, she didn't go to study in the study today, and went to the tent early.

She couldn't figure out some things, and the more she thought about it, the more strange she felt.

In her previous life, there were so many things that happened to Yan Qiongsi. Basically, her life went smoothly, and she got what she wanted, but in this life, her fate was ill-fated, as if everything was not going well, it shouldn't be.

What's wrong?
She remembered that she didn't know until later in her previous life that the Prince's Mansion of Guangping County and the Prince's Mansion of Pingjing County were going to get married.

The ancestor of the king of Guangping County was the seventh son of Gaozu. Back then, their branch also had a chance to ascend to the throne of God, but it was a pity that they failed to seize the throne.Fortunately, they were able to bend and stretch, and immediately switched camps and flags after failing to seize the throne, so their lineage survived.

However, the royal family is still a bit jealous of them. The princes of the year were gradually reduced to county kings, and their presence in the royal family became less and less. Betrothed to the King of Guangping County, their branch became more and more popular in the capital.

However, the lessons learned from the ancestors, the King of Guangping County does not want to repeat the same mistakes, and has always been cautious. However, the Princess of Guangping County feels that her sister is the queen, and she has King Rong, the son who is loved by the emperor, so she naturally has the courage to plan.

However, the Prince's Mansion of Pingjing County is conferred with a different surname, and the ancestors have made great contributions to the court, so they can be conferred with a different surname.Conferring a king with a different surname is the value of the court, and on the other hand, it is also guarded against by the court.

Yan Qiongsi likes Shang Junyan, and the Pingjing County Palace supports Prince Rong. The two are in the same camp. If they want to keep their positions absolutely consistent, marriage is the best choice.

But now His Majesty is suspicious, so they naturally dare not marry directly, so they thought of marrying a daughter-in-law of a low family background for Shang Junyan to make a transition, so that the emperor's suspicion would dissipate.

Unexpectedly, Su Xinyi fell into the water in the previous life, and Shang Junyan rescued others, disrupting all the arrangements.

Therefore, she entered the Prince's Mansion of Pingjing County and was made things difficult everywhere. The Princess of Pingjing County prevented her son from consummating the marriage with her. She only learned about all this later.

The main purpose of these two marriages is to support King Rong to ascend to the throne, and it happens that Yan Qiongsi likes Shang Junyan, killing two birds with one stone.

But now something seemed wrong, Su Xinyi tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep, so she simply sat up against the pillow.

Yan Qiongsi, who was smooth sailing in her previous life, why does she always have problems in this life?
What went wrong?
Su Xinyi just wanted to figure out this problem, so he just thought of going there today, firstly to see King Rong's face, and secondly to see if there are any clues.

However, she saw today that Yan Qiongsi's madness was not faking, but really seemed to be possessed by a demon.

She was suspicious of Xu Yurong, but she had checked the incident in Biyang Palace last time, but she couldn't find any evidence that she did it. Instead, Shu Xuebo plotted her to marry someone into the farce.

The more Su Xinyi thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, but now she couldn't figure out what went wrong, so she couldn't help feeling a little irritable.

In the past, Xu Yurong often stayed in Andinghou's mansion and did not go out. It was not easy to check her. Now that she is married to Shu Xuebo, she simply lived a life of staying out of the house. It is even more difficult to check her.

But if we don't start with Xu Yurong, where should we start?
She can only find out who Yan Qiongsi has been in contact with. She only has Zhanqiao around her, and he is a familiar face.

But Rong Wang is very fraught with things, and he doesn't know if he can do it well.

Su Xinyi didn't sleep well that night, and woke up the next day not feeling well, so she went to the martial arts field to practice with her brothers and then came back.

After she came back, she felt that she still couldn't rely on Prince Rong alone, so she put on men's clothes again and left the mansion quietly.

The fourth lady got the news, she just nodded to show that she knew, and didn't say anything else.

The daughter changed into men's clothes and went out, so she must have business to do.

The more Su Xinyi thought about it, the more he felt that Xu Yurong had to investigate it himself, because the supporting spirit case that was brought up by the Biyang Palace incident last time had not been closed yet, and Princess Runyi went crazy, and the incident related to Biyang Palace It is even more difficult to check.

Shu Xuebo's father was an idler who received a salary and had no real power, so the Shu family's house was a bit out of the way.

Su Xinyi went to the mules and horses to rent a bullock cart and sat in it, and it took half an hour to arrive at Chongxianfang.Chongxianfang is only two streets away from the West Market, so there are a lot of people coming and going here. She let the ox cart stop at the West Market, settled the copper coins for him, and sent the people away.

Su Xinyi took a look at the West Market, it was very lively, there were many people walking on the street, and the shops on both sides of the road were very complete. Looking from a distance, there were silk shops, silk and satin shops, and rice, flour, and grain shops.

The capital is divided into east and west cities. There is a folk saying that the east city is expensive and the west city is rich.In the huge city of the capital, an unknown number of people travel between the two cities every day.

Su Xinyi was not in a hurry to go to Chongxianfang, but first found a shop selling breakfast to have breakfast. The golden pancakes that had just been fished out of the oil pan exuded a tantalizing aroma.Thick rice porridge was boiling in the pot next to it, and hot water was burning on the tea stove on the other side, emitting white smoke.

Su Xinyi asked for a pancake and a bowl of porridge, and sat down in a corner, eating slowly while listening to the chatter of other people who came to have breakfast.

Most of them talked about the market situation in the West Market, which shops had new products, which embroidery shops had new patterns, and which teahouses produced new teas. She listened to each other.

Suddenly, a question came to mind, why would the Shu family want to live in Xishi?
There are many merchants in the west market, and with the mind of being a scholar, he has to go to the square market in the east market.

Thinking about it this way, the more I think about it, the more reasonable it becomes. The Shu family has a queen, a county concubine, so how could they set up their home in Xishi? This is unreasonable.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt something was wrong. Su Xinyi had never thought about this problem before.

Su Xinyi rolled his eyes around and locked on an old man who was over half a century old. He took his own bowl and greeted with a smile, "Old man, can I ask you something?"

The old man didn't lift his head, he swallowed the porridge and uttered two words, "No."

Su Xinyi reached out and squeezed out a small ingot of silver from the armhole, flashed it in front of the old man's eyes, and then took it back.

The old man raised his head immediately, "Hey, my young master, please ask me."

"Old man, do you live near here?"

"That's not true. My son runs a shop here. Sometimes I will go to the city to live with him for a while. He lives in Yankang Fang."

"Your son is very capable. It's a good idea to open a shop in West Market, where you can make money."

"It's okay to be so-so, and it's not easy for a big family to be raised by him."

"It's not easy for any family. Isn't life like this these days? Our family is also a big family living together. Although there are many people, it is lively. Our ancestors said that the family is prosperous and the number of people is good."

"That's right." The old man took a sip of porridge, swallowed the last bite of oil cake, and took out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth.

Su Xinyi observed silently, and then said: "Old man, you don't live here often, I'm afraid you may not know what I asked about."

"That depends on what you're asking."

Su Xinyi smiled, "I just want to know about the family whose surname is Shu in Chongxianfang, do you know?"

"Who in this area doesn't know the Shu family. It's strange that there is an official master living in Xishi."

Su Xinyi didn't expect the old man to say, "Hey, their family is famous."

The old man looked at the money that Su Xinyi was holding in his palm. Although his family is not poor, why not make some money if he can earn it? This is silver, not copper.

"Hey, I said, what exactly do you want to know, young master?"

"Let's talk about it in another place? There are so many people here that I can't understand it."

"You have a lot to do."

Su Xinyi smiled and walked out of the shop first, and found a corner of the street where there were no people, and the two stood in the shade at the base of the wall and talked.

"I can tell you this time, right? It's not easy to earn some money from you." The old man said angrily.

Su Xinyi was overjoyed, and handed him the money first, "You suffer, I'm not trying to be clean."

When the silver was in hand, the old man's unhappy face burst into a smile, he stretched out his hand and put it in his arms with satisfaction, "What do you want to ask? I can tell you what I know, but I don't know if I don't know. You can't know the money." Take it back."

"Look at what you said, it's yours if you give it to you. If you don't know, you can recommend someone to me later and I'll ask if it's okay."

"That's fine." The old man nodded, thinking that the young man was reasonable. "You ask what the Shu family is doing. That family's reputation in this area is not very good. Although I have lived here for a short time, I have also heard that their family does a lot of bullying."

It's really a small temple with strong evil spirits and shallow pools.

The Shu family lived in the East City, and they couldn't even get a tail. When they came to the West Market, they came to pretend to be a wolf with a big tail.

"Then you know about the Shu family marrying their daughter-in-law?"

"You know, when you marry a daughter-in-law, it's quite a big event. Almost all the merchants in these streets gave gift money. My son also went to such a small shop, and gave 20 taels of silver. I feel sorry for you. Didn't sleep well all night. You said, our family has no relationship with the Shu family, and we don't see them taking care of business in general. At this time, we know how to make money, a bunch of black-hearted people."

Su Xinyi thought to himself that this was an unexpected harvest. A small shop would come with a gift money of 20 taels of silver, and the merchants in these streets, large and small, would earn a lot of money.

"Are you telling the truth? How could the Shu family accept your son's money? The master of the Shu family is just a idler who only receives a salary and has no real power. Why do you honor him? Isn't this thrown away for nothing?"

"Oh, so to speak, he can't help much, but he can do bad things if he can't help it. Isn't this business just trying to be smooth and clean? People don't fight with officials, we can't fight, and we dare not fight. "

Su Xinyi: ...

It seems reasonable.

"If you want to say that, there may be more places to spend money in the future. When his daughter-in-law gives birth to a child, will you also have to pay a gift money? This child has a lot of things, three years, one full moon, one hundred days, one year old ...Oh, it will be a disaster for their family to do it one by one."

The old man's face turned green when he heard the words, and then his face became better when he remembered something, "This is not good. I heard that the son and daughter-in-law of that family are not on good terms, and they are noisy."

"Oh, you are really amazing, do you know everything about this high-walled compound?"

"How do I know, this is all from the neighbors in the neighborhood. I don't come here often, and I hear them gossip once in a while, don't I know? Some of the servants of the Shu family are not strict with their mouths. I heard that Mrs. Shu doesn't like this daughter-in-law of a noble family, and she deliberately let people around her say bad things about her daughter-in-law in order to cherish her reputation. We don't know if it's true or not. I just listen to what others say. Listen to the little boy as a joke, I dare not tell the truth."

"What you said is, I'll take it for fun." Su Xinyi really didn't know that Xu Yurong's life was really not very good. Knowing that she was not doing well, she was happy. "It's strange that you keep saying that this Shu family is an official. The official lives in Xishi, and I'm afraid there are not many colleagues who come to visit us."

"Usually no one comes, but it's not that no one comes. Twice I saw a carriage parked in front of their house, and the carriage was quite impressive. But this was all last year, and I haven't seen it recently. "

"What kind of carriage? I'm quite curious."

"Oh, I can't remember clearly, it's been too long." The old man frowned, "I don't remember anything else clearly, but I remember that the car was painted with gold and it looked rich, and it had a very fragrant smell, lah The horses and horses in the cart look very smooth and smooth."

Gold paint?
Su Xinyi frowned, and then smiled casually: "I'm afraid you misread it? A gold-painted carriage is not something ordinary people can ride in. Don't fool me, what kind of nobles can come here?"

"Young master, I'm not sure about that. After all, the carriage usually appears only when it's blacked out. Maybe I'm really wrong. However, I think the horse is pretty good, and it's really well-raised."

According to the law of this dynasty, merchants are not allowed to drive with horses, even the officials of the DPRK and China have a certain grade to use horse-drawn carts, and ordinary merchants and merchants mostly use donkey carts instead.Cattle are not allowed to pull carts, because cattle need to be added, even beef is not allowed to be sold privately, and the imperial court is very strict.

When she was in the countryside, if the cattle on the farmland died, they had to be reported to the police, and then someone from the government office would take the cattle away. Anyone who dared to slaughter the cattle in private would violate the law.

"Then do you remember when that car usually comes?"

"I usually come to my son's house at the end of the month, and leave at the beginning of the month for a few days. Anyway, it's just those few days."

At the end of the month and the beginning of the month, it is the waning time of the moon, the sky is already dark, and there is no moonlight at night, so it is really easy to hide your whereabouts.

Su Xinyi asked a few more questions about the Shu family, and then said goodbye to the old man.

Then she went around a few places and found different people to inquire about the Shu family. There were two things that overlapped. I also saw it personally, but he said more specifically that once he saw a driver with a white face.

With a pale face and no beard, that is the inner eunuch of the palace.

Could it be someone sent by the Queen?
Su Xinyi couldn't figure it out, but this information was very important.

In addition, Su Xinyi also got news that Xu Yurong, the daughter-in-law of the Shu family, would return to her natal family one day a month.

This news is also unusual, like the second sister in their family, who is from a good family and is not far away, but she doesn't go home very often, sometimes she doesn't come back once in two or three months.

Whose daughter-in-law can return to her natal home every month like Xu Yurong?
Before that old Zhang also said that he had heard Mrs. Shu was always embarrassing Xu Yurong. Since she was embarrassing her, why did he agree to return to her natal family every month?
Xu Yurong's relationship with her natal family is not very good, and she doesn't look like someone who misses her natal family.

Su Xinyi inquired about the news, and quietly went to the street where Shu's family lived. Her face, Shu Xuebo, knew everyone around Xu Yurong. She didn't want to be discovered, so she just looked at it from a distance. I took a look and left.

Seeing that it was almost noon after turning around in this big circle, Su Xinyi walked back, planning to find a car dealer and hire a car to go back. After walking for half a street, he didn't see it, so he asked passers-by, It was only when I pointed the way that I realized that the carriages and horses were all on the back street.

She walked to the back street again, and before she could reach the end of the long alley, she saw a man squatting at the entrance of the alley, whose back was somewhat familiar.

"Master Yang?"

As soon as Su Xinyi said these words, he saw the figure startled and quickly stood up and turned around. It was really him.

"Miss Six? Why are you here?" Yang Jin was also stunned, Xishi is not Shangsanfang.

"I'm here to inquire about something, why is Lord Yang here?" Su Xinyi asked.

Yang Jin said: "This subordinate is investigating a case, and I'm squatting here. Hey, Miss Six, Your Highness is just across the street. This subordinate will lead you there. Your Highness must be happy to see you."

Just as Su Xinyi was about to say no need, she saw Yang Jin yelling to the attendant beside him, "Idiot, hurry up and report to His Highness."

The idiot was kicked and ran away like a rabbit.

Su Xinyi: ...

Yang Jin said very courteously, "Miss Six, this way please,"

Su Xinyi kept smiling, "Thank you, Master Yang."

"No hard work, no hard work, this is what the subordinates should do." Yang Jin smiled, "Miss Six came here to investigate something, I don't know if it is convenient for her to tell her subordinates, the subordinates squatted here a lot Damn, I might know something."

Su Xinyi said: "I'm here to investigate Shu's house, what does Master Yang know?"

"The Shu family?" Yang Jin was taken aback, "The sixth girl is for the case of supporting the spirit in Daling Temple?"

Su Xinyi shook his head, thought for a while and then nodded.

Yang Jin couldn't understand, is this true or not?

Su Xinyi said: "It's a little bit related, but it's not a big deal. Master Yang, have you heard about Princess Runyi's madness?"

Yang Jin was very surprised, and said in great surprise: "There is such a thing? The subordinates have never heard of it. Why is this good person crazy?"

Su Xinyi said: "Princess Runyi's family said that she had run into something evil and insisted on calling to see me, so His Royal Highness invited me to visit her."

Yang Jin's expression turned ugly, and he immediately said, "Miss Six, you are just soft-hearted, you shouldn't go."

Su Xinyi smiled, "I shouldn't go, but I have something to check, so I have to go."

Yang Jin had a flash of inspiration, "Could it be that Miss Six is ​​for that trip to Biyang Palace?"

Su Xinyi was amused, "Can you guess this too?"

Yang Jin scratched his head, "I'm also just guessing, isn't it just that I haven't found out about that time, and Miss Liu must remember it. Hey, speaking of it, that time has something to do with the young lady of the Shu family. It's related, no wonder Miss Six is ​​here."

While speaking, Su Xinyi heard familiar footsteps. She raised her head and saw His Highness the Crown Prince in casual clothes striding out from the opposite teahouse and walking towards her.

Yan Junchu walked through the crowd, his eyebrows were sculpted and his eyes were handsome, and the people around him seemed to be the foil.

Su Xinyi was a little nervous at this moment, standing there watching him walk in front of her, the scorching sun fell on his body, and his cold eyebrows and eyes were warmed up.

"A Yuan."

Su Xinyi heard him calling her by her nickname, and suddenly remembered that he called her that for a while, but at that time they had something to do, it was to deceive people's eyes and ears, and after the matter was over, he didn't do it again. Called myself.

Now that the two were engaged, and he started calling her that again, Su Xinyi's face turned red all of a sudden.

Yan Junchu chuckled, his eyebrows and eyes seemed to be raised, "It's just time for lunch, let's use it together?"

Su Xinyi was a little entangled, she didn't want to be afraid that the prince would be sad, but she felt embarrassed when she went. This change of identity made her such a free and easy temper a little bit twitchy.

Yang Jin slipped away a long time ago, Su Xinyi tried to find an excuse but couldn't find any, so he was hesitating when he heard His Highness the Crown Prince's somewhat disappointed voice, "It's okay, if you're busy, we'll talk about it next time."

"I'm fine." Su Xinyi's mouth was faster than her brain, and she blushed even more after she finished speaking. She coughed lightly, kept her composure, and pretended to speak, "It's just that, there are some things I want to ask Your Highness."

"How about you still call me when you are away from home?"

Su Xinyi: ...

It always felt more and more wrong, her heart was beating so fast.

Yan Junchu didn't tease her when he first saw her, it would be bad if she really annoyed her.Taking Su Xinyi to the opposite teahouse, he booked a private room on the second floor, and he happened to be able to see the situation on the opposite side clearly from the window.

After the two of them sat down, the guards outside immediately asked the store to deliver the food, then closed the door and continued to guard outside.

It was rare for Yan Junchu to look at Su Xinyi's reserved look, and said with a gentle expression, "A Yuan, you said you had something to ask me, what is it?"

Speaking of business, Su Xinyi's expression immediately became more normal. He looked at His Highness the Crown Prince and said, "There is something very strange. Shu Xuebo got married and received gifts and silver from several merchants in the street. Does Your Highness know about this?"

Yan Junchu slightly raised his eyebrows, "Is there such a thing?"

Su Xinyi gestured with his fingers, "I asked, those who only opened a shop in the family brought 20 taels of silver, how much do you think those big merchants should give? There are many merchants in these streets, and it is a good idea to get married with a scholar. It's a windfall. I think it's not right, how could he have such courage, even if the empress is his aunt, he can't make money like this. "

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