After finishing her worries, Sun Youwei reluctantly said goodbye to Liang Heng.

After she and Su Xuqing left Tianxing Pavilion, Bai Zhu sneaked up to Liang Heng.

"Hey, Pavilion Master, what's going on with this Miss Sun?"

"What's going on?"

Bai Zhu looked constipated and muttered, "Just now, when the Pavilion Master was not back yet, I heard the Crown Prince's Consort say that your taste in tea is quite similar to that of the Crown Prince. That guy made me break into a cold sweat, fearing that she would suspect that you two were the same person, so I hurried out to explain and said a few bad things about you. Guess what happened in the end..."

Liang Heng: “…”

Liang Heng didn't want to guess because he probably already knew.

Seeing that he didn't respond, Bai Zhu slapped his thigh and said, "As soon as I finished speaking, Miss Sun scolded me and said that I ruined your reputation. How wronged I am! Let's just say, this Miss Sun, could it be that she likes you?"

Hearing the last sentence, Liang Heng felt a pain in his heart.

"Oh, I'm worried."

Bai Zhu's eyes widened immediately, and then he laughed, "It seems that this is really the case. Moreover, the person was brought here by the Crown Prince's Consort. Let her know about this later..."

Liang Heng glanced at Bai Zhu, his eyes dim and silent. Bai Zhu shrank his neck and said, "Okay, I won't say any more. I won't say any more."

Bai Zhu walked out of the door carelessly, and then laughed secretly outside.

Liang Heng leaned back in his chair, feeling very worried...

"correct."

Bai Zhu came back and poked his head outside the door and said, "Master, I heard something interesting today..."

At the same time, in the Prince of Zhennan’s Palace.

If I were to use one sentence to describe Su Miner today, it would be a monkey with chili pepper smeared on its butt.

When Su Min'er woke up today, she hurried to the gate and asked the doorman whether Duke Su and Zhao had come last night. When the doorman told Su Min'er that they had not come, she was furious.

You have to know that Li loves money like his life and he checks his own piggy bank every now and then.

So Su Min'er was extremely panicked, fearing that Li would find out that she had stolen the banknotes. If Li got angry and asked Shen Chejin to divorce her, then everything would be over!

Su Min'er was in a state of panic the whole day. She waited at the door for a whole day and sent people to look for them near the Duke's Mansion, but Duke Su and Zhao were nowhere to be found.

It was not until it was getting dark that the maid learned from the guards at the gate of the imperial city that Duke Su and Zhao had left the capital overnight and no one knew where they had gone.

Upon hearing the news, Su Min'er felt like she had been hit by a club and was on the verge of collapse.

"What a beast! He even lied to his own daughter!"

Su Min'er was furious and started cursing angrily.

At this moment, a little maid came out from inside the door, walked up to Su Min'er and said hurriedly: "Young Madam, the Second Madam wants you to come over, saying that she has something to ask you."

Su Min'er's expression gradually became tense and she was very worried. Could it be that Li had already discovered that the banknotes had been stolen?

"okay, I get it."

The distance from the front door to the backyard of the second house was neither far nor near, but Su Min'er walked very slowly and it took her a long time to get back to the second house. She racked her brains thinking about what to do if Li really found that the banknote was lost.

After entering Li's orchid room, Su Min'er saw Li sitting at the table with a dark face. Seeing this, she felt very disappointed.

"Mom, what do you want from me?"

Li slammed a wooden box onto the table with a clang. "The banknotes in my box are gone. Do you know what happened?"

Su Min'er pretended to be very surprised, "What? The banknotes are lost? Who is so bold?"

Li half-closed her eyes and stared at Su Min'er's face again and again, "Didn't you take it?"

Su Min'er's face changed, and she said quickly: "Mom, even if I have the courage of heaven, I dare not touch your money!"

"But besides Che Jin and I, you're the only ones who know where the banknotes are hidden. Now he's lying on the bed recovering from his injuries, so he definitely can't touch my banknotes. If it's not you, who else could it be?"

Su Min'er cleared her throat and had no way to defend herself, but she could not admit it now, otherwise she would definitely be kicked out of the house by Li.

"Mom, you have to believe me, it was definitely not me who took it."

Su Min'er's eyes wandered, and she quickly thought of a solution, and then said hastily: "I think it must have been Su Xuqing who secretly took it last night!"

"She?" Li frowned.

Seeing that Li was suspicious, Su Min'er quickly struck while the iron was hot and said, "Mother, think about it, yesterday Su Xuqing borrowed all the money from other branches in order to distance herself from my parents. Now the whole family is extremely poor, and only our second branch has money. She is desperate because she has no money to spend. If not yours, whose will she steal from?"

When Li heard this, it seemed to make sense.

"Let's go! Let's go confront her!"

In the carriage outside the Prince of Zhennan's Mansion, Su Xuqing was about to get off when Sun Youwei grabbed her sleeve and took out a stack of banknotes from her arms.

"Sister Su, this is the payment for the first batch of herbs for making the freckle removal potion. Please keep it."

"Hmm? You haven't rented the shop yet, why are you in such a hurry to pay?"

Sun Youwei smiled and said, "Just now at Tianxing Pavilion, I heard Sister Su say that she owed you money. I thought about it and realized that you must be very short of money, so I paid you the money in advance so that if anything happens, you won't be short of money."

"Miss Sun, why are you so considerate~"

Su Xuqing was indeed short of money, so she did not refuse and took the banknote from Sun Youwei, feeling deeply touched.

"Sister Su has no money left, but she still had to give me some concessions when we were negotiating the contract today. You're thinking about me, so I have to think about you, too. Otherwise, I'd be a terrible friend..."

Sun Youwei has curved eyes and her smile is sweet and gentle.

Su Xuqing was secretly complaining in her heart, thinking that Liang Heng was really stupid, he didn't want such a good girl even when she was right at his doorstep!

"The main reason I'm giving you a discount is because I think you're losing out. You've worked so hard for so long and only made a small profit. How can you afford the expenses of the shop?"

Su Xuqing frowned and suggested again: "Why don't we revise the contract?"

Sun Youwei pursed her lips and shook her head. "Sister Su's freckle removal potion is a unique and good thing. I use it not to make money, but to build a reputation and let the people of Beijing know about the store I opened. When everyone knows about my existence, I can sell other things better. By then, I will definitely make a lot of money from other places. Sister Su, you don't have to think about giving me a profit anymore."

Seeing that Sun Youwei's ideas were so clear, Su Xuqing had no choice but to give up.

After saying goodbye to Sun Youwei, Su Xuqing got off the carriage, walked up the steps and entered the Prince of Zhennan's Palace.

As he walked towards the fourth room, Su Xuqing counted the silver bills in his hand. Each bill had a denomination of one hundred taels, and adding up to thirty bills, he made exactly three thousand taels.

"Well, it turned out to be you who stole my banknotes!"

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