I just want to live a good life

The guards at the gate of the general's mansion were shocked to see Su Nuan. They ran through the gate and shouted, "The second young lady is back!"

This scene gave Su Nuan a bad feeling.

Sure enough, after entering the general's mansion and walking all the way, there was almost no one on the road.

Su Nuan wanted to know whether her original self, Xia Qingyan, had ever encountered such a situation, but that silly girl probably never took it seriously and had no memory of it at all.

"Little sister!"

A young man walked out of the inner courtyard to greet Su Nuan. This man was Xia Qingyan's third brother Xia Changze.

Xia Qingyan had the best relationship with this third brother, and Su Nuan called him "third brother" in the sweetest voice. Perhaps because she herself had no brothers and had never experienced this kind of brother-sister relationship, this "third brother" lacked a bit of family affection and had a bit more of a worldly flavor, sounding like she was acting coquettishly to her lover.

Su Nuan felt a chill in her heart, but fortunately Xia Changze didn't care.

"Has His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arrived?" Xia Changze glanced behind Su Nuan.

Su Nuan had been thinking about this question all along. When asked this time, she answered calmly, "Your Highness suddenly had some urgent official business to deal with. I don't know when I can finish it, so I came back alone."

Xia Changze seemed to have expected this result and did not ask any further questions.

He looked Su Nuan up and down, frowned and said, "Little sister, are you not living well in the Prince's Mansion? How come you have lost a lot of weight in just a few days of not seeing you?"

"I'm not used to the food in the Prince's Mansion." Su Nuan laughed dryly. She didn't plan to let the Xia family know about her situation in the Prince's Mansion because she felt that it didn't make much sense to say it. The conflict between her and Mu Yunting had to be resolved by herself.

Xia Changze took Su Nuan into Chongwu Hall, which was the place where the Xia family met guests.

The two of them sat down and the maid brought them tea.

Xia Changze seemed to have something to say, but he hesitated and didn't open his mouth.

After finishing two cups of tea, Su Nuan couldn't hold back her curiosity, so she asked, "Third brother, do you have anything to tell me?"

Xia Changze stammered, "Little sister, have you and the prince..."

"Is there anything?"

"Is there... Oh, I really can't ask. If mother wants to know, you should wait until she comes back and ask you herself."

Su Nuan thought about it and guessed what Xia Changze was going to ask. What Mrs. Xia wanted to know was nothing more than the result of the Huan Yixiang incident on the wedding night, but if he didn't ask, she wouldn't tell him on her own initiative.

According to Xia Changze, Mrs. Xia should not be at home. It is a bit strange that the mother is not at home on the day her daughter comes back to visit her parents.

"Isn't mom home?"

After asking this question, Su Nuan suddenly realized that she had been in the mansion for quite a while and had only seen her third brother as a relative.

"No, not only my mother is not here, but everyone else is not here either."

Su Nuan asked in surprise: "Where are all the people? Don't they know that I'm going home today?"

Xia Changze took a sip of tea and said quietly, "Dad went to the military camp. It was all thanks to you and the Crown Prince. The day before yesterday, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent someone to send a sum of silver, saying that it was to celebrate your wedding and to donate your annual salary to reward the soldiers at the border. So, Dad has been busy using this silver to buy food these days."

"What does our Fengyin mean? Is it referring to me and the prince?" Su Nuan asked with a frown.

"Yes, it's for both of you. I didn't expect the prince to be so generous. One year's salary plus your two years' expenses converted into cash would be tens of thousands of taels."

Su Nuan's heart was bleeding. Was this the reason why she ate carrots every day? The prince donated her silver without her permission. This behavior was too bad.

Seeing Su Nuan's expression change, Xia Changze asked carefully: "Little sister, what's wrong with you? Don't you know about this?"

"How could that be?" Su Nuan took a deep breath, calmed down, and then changed the subject: "Dad went to the military camp, so where did the others go?"

Xia Changze sighed and said, "Before talking about other people, I want to tell you something."

Seeing Xia Changze's serious expression when he spoke, Su Nuan sat up straighter.

"Cui Shaoyuan hanged himself the night before your wedding. Aunt Cui said that our Xia family forced her son to death and threatened to sue us. Mother was afraid that she would come to make trouble today, so she asked the eldest and second sisters-in-law to go to the old house to comfort her."

When Su Nuan heard the words "suicide by hanging", a fragment of memory seemed to flash through her mind. She tried to grasp this fragment and see clearly what this memory was, but no matter how hard she tried, the fragment of memory disappeared.

She had a feeling that this memory was about something important, but she didn't know what it was.

After making sure that she couldn't find the answer, Su Nuan turned her attention back to Cui Shaoyuan's suicide and Aunt Cui's plan to sue.

"It doesn't matter if Aunt Cui goes to court. After all, Cui Shaoyuan committed suicide. No matter where she sues, it has nothing to do with the Xia family."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Changze's gaze towards Su Nuan suddenly became stern. Su Nuan was shocked. She wondered if she had said something wrong while sticking to the facts.

"Little sister, how can you say that? Don't you know why Cui Shaoyuan committed suicide?"

Su Nuan thought about it with a bewildered look on her face. She really didn't know that in her original body's memory, Cui Shaoyuan was just the son of a deputy general of General Xia. That deputy general died on the battlefield a few years ago while blocking an arrow for General Xia. Since then, the Xia family has been taking care of Cui Shaoyuan and his son.

"You, you really don't know why he committed suicide, right?" Xia Changze said with anger on his face, "He was harmed by you. If you hadn't replaced Mu Yunshu's glass of wine with Cui Shaoyuan, and tricked him into meeting Qingyao in the garden, how could he and Qingyao... If it weren't for this incident, he wouldn't have blamed himself and died. Now you say his death has nothing to do with our family, how can you say that!"

After he said this, Su Nuan finally found this part among her original body's "insignificant" memories.

If she wasn't living in this body at the moment, she really wanted to slap Xia Qingyan hard in the face. Such an important matter was placed in an insignificant position in her memory.