I just want to live a good life

"Your Highness, please wait here for a moment. I have something to say to Aunt Zhang."

"Okay, go ahead."

Su Nuan walked towards the people in the old house.

Seeing her coming alone, the people in the old house seemed relieved.

"Aunt Zhang, I came here in a hurry today and didn't bring anything for you. Why don't you help me run to Liangyi Zhai on Zhusheng Street and find Mr. Ying and tell him that I asked you to bring back ten kilograms of cakes."

Widow Zhang, who was named, happily accepted the task and ran out like a gust of wind.

Su Nuan needed someone to verify her suspicions, and the best candidate was Aunt Zhang. Su Nuan's request that she go to get the cake was fake, and her request that she go to identify Ying Shu was real.

Although Ying Shu tried his best to get close to me, it was true that he was shielding me from the arrows, making money for me, and saving my life.

If his target was just the wooden box, then from the moment Zhao Zong wanted to kill him, Ying Shu's goal had been achieved, and there was no need for him to take the risk to save himself.

Unless he has other purposes.

Having saved his life twice, Su Nuan couldn't hand him over to Mu Yunting. She wanted to investigate him herself.

The Xia family’s old house was not far from Zhusheng Street. Su Nuan estimated that Aunt Zhang would be back in less than half an hour.

She asked someone to prepare tea while she took Mu Yunting around the old house.

Relying on Xia Qingyan's memory, she walked around, explained along the way, and talked about some interesting childhood stories, as if she really returned to the old house this time just to reminisce the past.

When they are tired of walking, they will sit in the pavilion and enjoy the autumn breeze.

After the Xia family moved away, no one paid to repair the flowers, plants and trees in the garden, and the garden became desolate.

At this time, there is really nothing to appreciate except the autumn wind.

Mu Yunting didn't care. He played with the teacup in his hand, his deep gaze falling on a small vegetable garden not far away.

The two people each had their own thoughts and hadn't spoken a word since they sat down.

Time slips away quietly in silence.

Until the guards carried back Aunt Zhang's body.

It is said that on the way back, she encountered a thief who stole money, and Aunt Zhang was killed by the thief when she went to chase him.

The moment Su Nuan saw the corpse, her heart sank to the bottom.

She thought that asking Aunt Zhang to find Ying Shu in her name was to tell the other party that she suspected him and that he shouldn't kill anyone. Killing people would confirm her suspicion of him.

But Su Nuan miscalculated. She didn't expect Ying Shu to be so cruel and vicious.

Disappointment, heartache, and guilt came flooding in, and Su Nuan finally couldn't hold on any longer and fainted.

When she woke up again, she was already lying on the bed in Duiyueju, with Chunliu guarding her. She did not see Mu Yunting.

"Where is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

"Miss, you don't take your body seriously. Why did you run away when you were so seriously injured? I was really scared when His Highness carried you back."

"Where is His Highness?"

"His Highness has gone out for something, and he asked me to keep a close eye on you, young lady, and not let you run out again."

"How long have I slept?"

"Almost a day and a night."

Su Nuan got up, washed and dressed, then hurriedly left Duiyueju.

After she confirmed that Mu Yunting was not in the mansion, she went to Liangyi Zhai alone despite Chunliu's dissuasion.

The servant of Liangyi Zhai saw her and brought a stack of account books to her.

Su Nuan sat in Liangyi Zhai and looked at the account book for the whole afternoon.

At the same time, in a house in the imperial city, Ying Shu was being taught a lesson by a young woman.

"I told you not to participate, why don't you listen?"

"I am also a member of the Xun family. Why can't I participate in the revenge for the Xun family?"

"Do you really want to avenge the Xun family? I think you do it for that woman."

"The Xun family's vengeance has nothing to do with her."

"But she has a grudge against me."

"What hatred does she have against you? She was just forced to marry your sweetheart, but she didn't want to do that. It would be unfair to her if my sister hated her for that."

"Okay, okay, this is my little brother who I raised. You think it's unfair to her, right? Then let me ask you, who has ever been fair to me? If it weren't for the Xun family's accident, I would have been the Crown Princess long ago. For so many years, I kept my identity secret in order to overturn the case for the Xun family. I didn't dare let Yun Ting know that I was still alive. I watched him marry someone else and watched him fall in love with someone else. Do you know how much pain I felt in my heart?"

"But it's not her fault."

"Then tell me whose fault it is?"

"The fault lies with the people who framed the Xun family. Sister has already sent all the evidence she has collected over the years to the Crown Prince. It won't be long before he can overturn the case for the Xun family. By then, you can be with the Crown Prince openly."

"Yes, I handed him all the evidence I collected with great effort, but why didn't he take any action yet?"

"..."

"Because he is already obsessed with that woman, he will not overturn the case for our Xun family just because of the little love he has left for me. So that woman must die."

"If Mu Yunting only overturned the Xun family's case because he has feelings for you, then the Xun family's case should not be entrusted to him alone. If he is unwilling to overturn the Xun family's case, I will find another way. I will not let you touch Xia Qingyan."

"She is already the prince's woman. Regardless of whether the Xun family overturns the verdict or not, there is no chance for you and her. Why do you still want to protect her like this?"

"I protect her not to take her for myself, but to see her live well."

"I didn't expect that I have a brother who is a lover. But I tell you, if I want her to die, you can't protect her."

"Then I will die with her and protect her on the road to the underworld."

"You... for a woman, you actually threatened me with your own life. You are not worthy of being a son of the Xun family."

"Then please kill me now, sister. I will go to the underworld and ask our ancestors whether I deserve to be a son of the Xun family if I kill innocent people to overturn the case of the Xun family."

"Get out of here."

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The lights were just coming on and Su Nuan had only read half of the account book in front of her.

The early autumn wind was a little chilly, so she asked the servant to close the door.

Liefeng and Lieying, who were not far away, kept staring at the figures reflected by the candlelight in the window, not daring to go forward to disturb them, nor to leave.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's order was to follow the Concubine and record her every word and action.

The shadow on the window moved occasionally, as if turning the pages of a book, exactly the same posture as the concubine when she was reading the account book in the afternoon.

When the servant closed the door just now, there was still a thick stack of account books on the table that had not been read through. I wonder if the concubine intends to sit here and look at the account books all night.

However, out of their sight, Su Nuan had already slipped out the back door.

She found a note left for her in the account book. It was written by Ying Shu and stated that she should go to see him alone.

So Su Nuan left Falcon and Liefeng and came to the meeting place alone.