I just want to live a good life

Su Nuan's heart was still beating wildly as she ran all the way back to Duiyueju.

Seeing her come back, the four maids surrounded her at the same time.

Chun Liu was the first to ask, "Miss, how is it? Did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince notice that the dishes were replaced?"

"Um"

"Is your highness angry?"

"Um"

"Should we return the duck?"

"Give it back? How?" Su Nuan asked in surprise.

As soon as she finished speaking, Baozhu brought a plate of eight-treasure duck with a missing leg to her and said, "Your Majesty, we didn't dare to eat it. Why don't we return it to His Highness?"

"..."

Su Nuan felt a lot of emotions towards the duck. It was because of it that she had brought trouble upon herself. She didn't know how Mu Yunting would deal with her. But since she had already eaten it, there was no point in giving it back.

Patting Baozhu on the shoulder, Su Nuan said, "Do you think His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is someone who is short of a duck?"

Baozhu shook her head and replied, "No."

"Then do you think His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will eat what I leave behind?" Su Nuan continued to ask.

"It seems not."

"That's it. I've already taken it. Just eat your food peacefully. I'll take care of it if there's any problem." Su Nuan said this with a bit of lack of confidence. She didn't know if she could handle it.

But after hearing what she said, the four maids' eyes lit up as they looked at the plate of Eight Treasure Duck.

Su Nuan sighed and thought, it is really hard for these four people. They have to eat vegetarian food every day with her, the prince's concubine, and they can't even see any meat.

She reached out and pulled off the other duck leg, stuffed it directly into Baozhu's mouth, and said, "Alright, stop watching and start eating. Baozhu has been working in the flower garden every day recently and has been the hardest working. This duck leg is a reward."

After hearing what Su Nuan said, Bitao and Meixiang couldn't help but tear the duck meat. Chunliu looked at the duck leg in Baozhu's mouth and frowned. Seeing that Bitao and Meixiang had already put it in their mouths, he reluctantly tore off a small piece of duck meat and put it in his mouth.

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Three days later, the wound on Su Nuan's arm had completely scabbed over and no longer needed dressing changes, and she could move more freely.

But she couldn't muster up the energy. Ever since that day when Mu Yunting said he would settle accounts with her in the future, she had been feeling uneasy. She didn't know when and how Mu Yunting would settle accounts with her.

These days she didn't dare to go to Mu Yunting to ask for a fair conversation. Sometimes when she saw Mu Yunting from afar, she would hide.

This matter has become a thorn in her side.

There was another thing that made Su Nuan even more upset, which was that a chicken was lost from her chicken coop every day, and three chickens had been lost in a row.

Without chickens, there would be no eggs, and without eggs, all she would have left was radishes and cabbages.

Su Nuan hated this chicken thief so much that she wanted to catch him. So last night, she arranged for five people from Duiyueju to take turns to watch over the chicken coop, but when they opened the chicken coop this morning and counted the chickens, there was still one missing.

This scared the maids so much that they were all worried that the couple's house was haunted.

Su Nuan didn't believe that the loss of a chicken had anything to do with ghosts. She began to suspect that an animal like a weasel or a snake came to eat the chicken, but she quickly denied this idea. If an animal came to eat the chicken, there would definitely be some traces left in the chicken coop, but the chicken coop was too clean, without a trace of blood.

Su Nuan squatted in front of the chicken coop and stared at the only two remaining hens in a daze for a while.

She was also terrified about the chicken being lost last night, but her fear was different from Chunliu and the others. She didn't believe in ghosts and was sure that it must have been man-made.

Human intervention is the most terrifying. If someone could steal a chicken without anyone noticing, and if he wanted to kill her, she would be dead.

When thinking about life-threatening situations, Su Nuan thought of two people, Falcon and Liefeng.

Su Nuan hurried to the backyard and waved towards the treetops, but no one came down after waiting for a while.

In the past, if no one responded she would leave, because that meant it was not Falcon and the other two on duty here.

Su Nuan tried it, but as long as the two Falcons were not on duty, no one would come down to see her no matter how she called out. Even if she clearly saw a piece of clothes sticking out from the treetops, it was useless.

She guessed that since these people were called secret guards, they would not show up casually, and the reason why Falcon and the other two were willing to come to see her was because she had seen their true faces.

Su Nuan had something important to ask today, so she didn't leave. She ran under the tree and circled around it twice. There were only a few places to hide on the tree canopy, and she had already figured them out.

Sure enough, I vaguely saw someone squatting on a branch with dense leaves.

"Come down, I can see you." Su Nuan said to the man, "I just have two questions to ask you?"

After waiting for a while, seeing that the person on the tree still did not respond, Su Nuan continued, "If you don't want to come down, forget it. I'll just ask you this. Did you see anyone sneak into Duiyueju to steal things last night?"

I waited for a while, but still no answer.

Su Nuan sighed. There was nothing she could do. The prince didn't like her in this mansion, so it was normal for others not to take her seriously and not answer her questions. Although no one would take the initiative to bully her, her situation was not much better than being bullied.

It seems that she felt that the falconer was not bad. At least he could come down and talk to her face to face.

Although she didn’t get the answer she wanted, it didn’t mean that Su Nuan had gained nothing. She was sure that the secret guard was still there.

Since the secret guards were there, they would not be unaware of the fact that someone had been sneaking into Duiyueju one after another, but they did not take any action, which meant that they knew that the purpose of the sneaker was not to kill, or they knew that the person was here to steal chickens. It was very likely that they recognized this person and he was from the Prince's Mansion.

After coming to this conclusion, Su Nuan became excited. If someone from the Prince's Mansion came to steal her chickens, then there was nothing to be afraid of. Not only was she not afraid, she also wanted to catch the chicken thief.

So she stopped worrying about whether the person in the tree answered her question and turned away.

After a long while, there was a slight noise in the treetops.

Liefeng asked Lieying in a very weak voice: "Why didn't you go down to see the concubine today?"

Falcon replied: "When I see her, she will definitely ask me about the chicken lost in Yueju. How should I answer?"

"Why do you think Lord Ye Yin would steal a chicken? If he wanted to eat a chicken, why didn't he just go to the kitchen and ask for one?"

"That's right! I think this is most likely an order from His Highness."

"Why?"

"You forgot that the concubine secretly replaced your highness' duck that day."

"But Your Highness is not a stingy person. Why would you let Lord Ye Yin do such a sneaky thing just for a duck?"

"I can only say that this concubine is too special. Your Highness can only use some special methods to deal with her."

"I think the concubine is pretty, smart, and capable. It would be great if Your Highness could treat her better."

"Liefeng, you are courting death. Who are you to say such things?"

"I'm telling the truth!"