After my rebirth, I was the most favored person in Beijing

The door opened, and it was the people around the Ninth Prince who urged him to go back quickly.

The two of them parted reluctantly again. Lin Yuanyue thought of a way to have the Ninth Prince deliberately leave a jade pendant in her hands before she returned home.

As soon as he entered his room, he couldn't wait to find the holy monk and tell him what happened today, but he only heard the news that the holy monk had left.

The room was filled with a faint scent of incense, the doors and windows were closed, and the visibility was poor.

Xu covered her nose, lifted the curtain and walked out from behind, waving the handkerchief in her hand and said, "Quickly put out the incense, I can't stand the smell now."

Although Lin Yuanyue didn't understand, she couldn't help but feel resentful after hearing what Xu said, "Mother, will father be partial to Lin Xi now?"

She lowered her head, her heart and eyes full of unwillingness. She had been pretending for so long in front of Lin Hewen just to make him like her, but she didn't expect that now she would let Lin Xi gain face in front of her father.

Xu shook her head and advised her, "It doesn't matter what your father thinks now. The most important thing is your future and whether it will benefit him." After that, she slowly put her hand on her belly and continued coldly, "If your marriage can make him proud and benefit the Lin family, then you will always be your father's favorite daughter. Do you understand?"

Lin Yuanyue nodded, and then looked at Xu's pale face, and asked with concern: "Did your aunt bully you? Why do you look like you are sick, mother?"

"No problem." Xu said calmly.

Lin Yuanyue seemed to know something extraordinary, and quickly said to her: "Today, I saw Lin Xi. She went to Lou Street. There is a restaurant under her name."

"Mother, isn't Lin Xi very capable? Let me see how she handles this matter."

Lin Yuanyue smiled and looked at Xu.

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The carriage drove through the streets and arrived at Lou Street. This area was famous for its restaurants in Kyoto. The shops here were open all night long, and there was music and dancing almost every night.

Lin Xi covered her face with a veil and instructed Aunt Xu beside her, "Don't alert the enemy."

She wanted to come and see today what had happened that caused the revenue of the shop given to her by her grandfather to be reduced by half.

The houses along the way were three stories high and filled with customers, creating a lively scene.

Keep walking inside and when you reach the corner, you will see the two connected shops that she had contracted. Looking ahead, you can see the words "Fanlou" hung high on the top of the building, and it is bustling with people. It is totally unlike what the man said, that there are no patrons.

Seeing that Lin Xi hadn't moved, Madam Xu asked, "Aren't you going in?"

Lin Xi waved her hand: "Wait a moment."

Suddenly, a boy wearing a hat came out cursing and slapped the little girl at the door in the face. The girl shrank back and quickly held her head with her hands, crying, "I won't dare to do that anymore, Second Brother Ye. I won't be lazy anymore."

After she finished speaking, she went out to solicit customers on the street.

Seeing this, Lin Xi frowned, looking unhappy, and asked, "Madam Xu, is this how you attract customers here?"

Aunt Xu replied, "Children of poor families have to grow up early. Some people will sell their children to shops. It will be even more miserable if they are girls."

It seems that such things happen frequently.

However, Lin Xi knew that this would never happen given her grandfather's temperament. She asked coldly, "Did he force a woman of good character into prostitution?"

Aunt Xu remained silent.

If such a thing really happened in the shop under her management, she would definitely not tolerate it.

The young lady saw Lin Xi was looking at her, and she couldn't help but look over, so she took the initiative to walk forward and said, "Miss, do you want to go to Fanlou for a drink?"

Aunt Xu looked unhappy, but Lin Xi hadn't spoken yet. She looked at Lin Xi and saw Lin Xi said calmly:

"Go."

"What's your name?"

The young lady replied softly: "My name is Jingyu, everyone calls me Xiaoyu, if you don't mind, you can call me Xiaoyu."

"Xiao Yu, you will serve the dishes beside me from now on." Lin Xi said as she walked into Fanlou. She only needed to take a quick glance to see that this Fanlou was also modeled after a restaurant in Kyoto, with three floors.

The hall on the first floor was full of people, and there was a small stage where a few girls were performing Pingtan.

The second and third floors were all private rooms, and everyone was busy. It was Ye Erge, who had just beaten Jingyu, who came up to greet them, "Miss, a private room or the hall?"

Lin Xi smiled lightly: "The best private room, I want her to serve me."

Madam Xu took out some money from her purse and threw it to Ye Er, "Go and serve the dishes."

When Jingyu saw the silver and sensed Ye Er's threatening look, she hurriedly and attentively led the person to the private room on the top floor, saying, "Miss, it's quiet here and no one will disturb you."

Lin Xi sat down casually, and seeing that she wanted to go out, she signaled to Aunt Xu to stop her. Aunt Xu quickly said, "The young lady said that if you are asked to serve, you should stay here and don't go anywhere."

After that, Aunt Xu gave her the money and said, "Don't worry, I won't let you serve my young lady for nothing."

"Thank you, Miss." Jingyu quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed. She finally had some money.

"Fanlou is so lively." Lin Xi said indifferently.

Jing Yu had good eyesight and said quickly, "Yes, Fanlou is the best restaurant in Kyoto."

Lin Xi looked at the wine, took a sip, and spit it out, throwing the bowl to the ground: "Why? Are you trying to fool me with this kind of wine?"

Jingyu panicked for a moment, waved her hands and said, "No, Miss, this wine is the best wine in Fanlou."

Lin Xi couldn't help but sneer. She knew a little about wine. She only took a sip and found something wrong. "The best wine? Is there water in it?"

Jingyu was shocked, and kowtowed quickly and said, "Really not!"

The noise above naturally attracted the attention of the people below. Ye Er came up immediately, and the first thing he did was to kick Jing Yu: "How did you make the noble angry?" After saying that, he quickly said to Lin Xi: "I wonder why the noble feels uncomfortable?"

Lin Xi looked at the person in front of him and asked, "The restaurant served me fake wine mixed with water."

Ye Er didn't expect that she could actually tell the difference. He sold the fake wine to her just now because he saw that she looked like a sucker. He didn't expect that this was a mistake.

She actually knows wine.

"Sir, how can Fanlou sell fake wine?" Ye Er could only bite the bullet and say, "If you don't like this wine, I will go and get you another one right away."

As he said that, he wanted to take action. Lin Xi placed the jade token representing his identity on the table.

"What? Are you still not going to admit it now?"

How could Ye Er not see the identity of this jade token? The young woman in front of him was his boss. He knelt on the ground with a plop, "Boss?"

Lin Xi looked at the person in front of him and said with a smile: "Call out the person in charge here!"

The person in charge showed up quickly. He didn't expect that his boss would discover that he was selling inferior goods as good ones.

The boss was unlikely to show up. He was used to being the boss, so he didn't expect to be discovered. But what if he was discovered?

She's just a little girl, she's just talking, what can she really do to him?

"Boss, this is a mistake made by our subordinates. Business has been so good these days that we were too busy." The person in charge apologized immediately. He raised his head and wanted to see who the boss was, but there was only a curtain.

"Oh?" Lin Xi grasped this point and asked, "Then why is Fanlou's income less?"

"Isn't this an increase in costs? The price of millet for making wine has increased recently, and the government has also restricted wine merchants from purchasing it, so we have to resort to this desperate measure. Boss, please forgive me for this being my first time, and forgive us!"

Lin Xi asked calmly: "Bring the account book here."

"Go get the account book."

The manager thought that since he had already filled in the account book, there shouldn't be any problems, but sweat still broke out on his forehead, fearing that something might be discovered.

Lin Xi did not even look at the account book. He tapped his fingers on the table and suddenly asked softly, "When I came here, I checked with Mr. Wang. You owed Mr. Wang 300 taels at the casino. Logically, you should not be able to pay it back, but the casino said you paid it back. What's going on?"

Wang Zhushi said quickly: "This, this, I used the money I borrowed to pay it back."

"Why don't you tell the truth?" Lin Xi was too lazy to waste words and threw all the evidence in his face, then said, "Do you still want to lie?"

These were all the things she had found out about Mr. Wang from Jiang Zhong. Ever since her grandfather sold the shop to her, he had become addicted to gambling for some reason, and even lost his wife and children, but he still refused to stop.

He even embezzled money from the shop, and in order to make up for the shop's losses, he sold inferior goods as good ones in the restaurant.

How could Lin Xi let him keep doing this? "If you leave Fanlou now, I can still save some face for you. If you don't want to leave, don't blame me for being rude."

Seeing that she was going to chase him away, Wang immediately stood up and changed his expression, "Boss, I promoted all the people in Fanlou. If I leave, they will definitely follow me. Do you want to destroy Fanlou?"

Lin Xi sneered. How could she see such a threat? "I won't keep anyone who wants to follow you."

She even took out the indentures of these people and said, "Grandfather gave me your indentures a long time ago. If you want to leave, you can take them with you."

Jingyu blinked her eyes. She had never seen such a generous boss before, and was hesitant to step forward to take her indenture.

These people could be dealt with in a few words. Lin Xi looked at the few people who had not left, and his eyes fell on Jing Yu. He couldn't help asking, "How did you get into Fanlou?"

Jingyu lowered his head and knelt at Lin Xi's feet and said, "Reporting to the boss, I was sold to Fanlou by my family."

"Yeah." Lin Xi looked at her, thinking about her every move just now, and then said: "Fan Lou, I will have someone take over later. You just watch over it for the time being and don't cause any trouble."

"Yes. The boss is really powerful. He immediately made Wang the Master go back to Fanlou."

Lin Xi listened to her and asked, "Do you hate Master Wang?"

Jingyu quickly knelt on the ground, tears welling up in her eyes: "Of course not, Boss."

Lin Xi looked at her kneeling on the ground, trembling, and frowned slightly: "You get up first!"

Fanlou was something she handled conveniently. She had secretly investigated all these people, except for Jingyu, who had a lame father and a sister who died young. She sold herself into Fanlou to take care of her father.

However, her lame old father had never been to Fanlou.

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When Lin Xi returned home, he received an invitation from the wife of Huaiyin Marquis, which said that he wanted to play Cuju.

When Lin Hewen received the post, he said, "Let your sister go too. She hasn't been out for a long time and must be feeling suffocated at home."

Lin Xi remained calm, thinking about the information he had gotten from Shen Qingran.

The wife of the Marquis of Huaiyin liked me so much only because she had a little son at home who could not inherit the title and was a poor man who could not afford to support himself, so he spent all his time indulging in prostitutes.

She wanted to find a wife with a good temper so that she could help her control her dissolute little son.

Moreover, Shen Qingran also said that the youngest son of the wife of the Marquis of Huaiyin already had a mistress outside and had an illegitimate child. This family of equal status had more or less heard the news, so it was naturally impossible for them to marry their daughter to him.

When the reputation of the Lin family was damaged, she still invited me to her home. Her intention was probably very obvious.

However, Lin Xi did not expect that at this time, Lin Hewen still favored Lin Yuanyue.

"Why not?" Lin Hewen looked at her.

Coming back to his senses, Lin Xi smiled and replied, "How could that be? If Yue'er wants to go with us, of course it's possible."

After that, her eyes fell on Madam Wen beside Lin Hewen, "Father, Madam Wen must have come to see mother when she entered the mansion, right?"

Hearing this, Lin Hewen's face changed, and he coughed unnaturally and replied: "Your mother is still under house arrest, so it is naturally inconvenient for her to see you."

When Lin Xi saw the frail Madam Wen, he knew that Lin Xiu had probably had this idea in mind for a long time since he had found such a person.

Madam Wen was very similar to Madam Xu when they were young.

No wonder her father keeps her with him now.

However, recently Xu has been very obedient and doesn't make any noise or trouble.

Lin Xi thought about it and then smiled, but so what.

She holds the things that matter to her most in her hands, and she is not afraid that she will actually do anything.

"But, father, how come there is no one left in your house who used to serve my mother?" Lin Xi asked.

Lin Hewen's expression suddenly changed, and he looked at Lin Xi with a more inquiring look, "What do you know?"

"My daughter thinks that she will get married one day, and it would be a little comforting if she had someone around her mother to take care of her."

Lin Xi's reason made sense, but Lin Hewen avoided answering: "It's enough for you to have Aunt Xu by your side, don't talk about this anymore."

He turned around and left with Madam Wen.

Lin Xi saw his back and his face darkened.

Unexpectedly, this experience made her realize that the people she thought were her family might not be hers.

But no matter how difficult the truth is, she will find it out.