When the prince is reborn, he will only hit me if he doesn't hit the wall!

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In the Rong Palace, Qin Yuechuan was personally copying the betrothal gift list. Qingyang hurried over to report, "Your Majesty, there is movement in the imperial mausoleum. I have found a group of people waiting nearby, but they don't look like Prince Qi's men."

Qin Yuechuan paused, raised his head and asked him, "Can you see clearly what sign the other party has?"

"Apart from the black clothes, there are no other marks. However, I can roughly judge from the weapons they use that they are not from Prince Qi's mansion. The last time I dealt with Prince Qi's men, the weapons they used were all uniformly equipped, but this group of people is different. The weapons they use are very scattered."

Qin Yuechuan lowered his eyes and thought: Is there anyone else besides him who has the same plan as him?

No, it’s not certain yet. Whether it’s an enemy or a friend still needs to be investigated.

Qin Yuechuan put down his pen and said, "This matter is of great importance. I will go with you to investigate. Let's make a quick decision."

"Yes!"

Xu Xinyue and Xu Yuanshan discussed the "deficit" for a whole day.

Until late at night, Xu Yuanshan was still calculating all his assets and money by candlelight.

Xu Xinyue, who was standing next to him, seemed unconscious. She was sleeping soundly on the table, holding a brush in her hand.

Xu Yuanshan was helpless with her. He rolled Su Yu closer to her side, took the brush from her hand, wiped the ink stains on Xu Xinyue's face, and covered her with a fox fur coat.

He sighed, "You little bastard, you sleep so well, I wonder who will get married."

The only thing that responded to him was Xu Xinyue's breathing, which became longer and longer.

The next morning, Xu Xinyue stretched her numb arms, stretched her back and muttered to herself:

"Yesterday, I spent the whole night with Dad counting the silver. I don't even know when I fell asleep... Little Chan!"

"Miss, you are awake."

"What time is it? Where's Daddy?"

"It's Mao time. The master went out early in the morning."

"Ah? Where did you go?" Xu Xinyue asked puzzledly.

"This slave doesn't know."

"Where can Dad go with his legs and feet now?"

Could it be that he went to another shop to settle the accounts?

"After breakfast, let's go look for daddy."

At the end of the morning, Xu Xinyue got on the Xu family's carriage, ready to take a look at Xu Yuanshan's shops one by one.

For things like this, she should come. Xu Yuanshan's legs and feet have not yet healed, so it is not suitable for him to walk too much.

When passing by the street, Xu Xinyue accidentally lifted the curtain to look around and saw a wedding shop not far away.

Xu Xinyue recalled that there was a shop that specialized in selling wedding supplies. Although Qin Yuechuan had said that she didn't need to worry about anything and that he had prepared everything, it was her own wedding after all, and it seemed a bit unreasonable not to participate at all. After all, it would be enough to make some small gifts as a token of her appreciation.

Thinking of this, Xu Xinyue suddenly had an idea. It wouldn't take long to go and take a look.

"parking."

Xu Xinyue got out of the car, holding up her skirt, and went straight into the wedding shop.

A smiling woman came towards them. She was about thirty years old. Xu Xinyue guessed that she must be the shopkeeper.

"Hey, sir, is there any happy event recently?"

Xu Xinyue nodded.

The shopkeeper's eyebrows curved even more when he heard this, and he spoke sweet words without hesitation: "I see that your face is full of rosy glow, and there must be something happy. You are a new bride, right? What do you want to buy?"

"I want to look around and buy some... materials and patterns for embroidering wedding veils."

"You've come to the right person. Our shop is the largest and most comprehensive wedding shop in Kyoto. We have all the latest patterns and materials you want, in all kinds of colors for you to choose from..."

Xu Xinyue listened to the shopkeeper's introduction and took a rough look. There were indeed quite a few styles. Just as she saw a pattern she liked and reached out to take it, another slender hand got there first.

When I looked up, it was Xu Mingxi.

"Xu Xinyue? You're here too?"

Xu Xinyue said indifferently: "Yeah."

She had no intention of chatting with Xu Mingxi any further, and instantly lost the mood to buy things, so she turned around and wanted to leave.

Xu Mingxi seemed to be unyielding: "Why are you running away when you see me? Are you feeling guilty?"

Xu Xianyue was very surprised and turned around to ask, "Feeling guilty?"

The shopkeeper who was introducing them looked at the two people as if they knew each other, but there was a hint of hostility. He could not continue to introduce them, nor could he drive them away. He kindly reminded them, "Dear guests, if you have something to talk about, there is a private room upstairs in our shop. You two can talk slowly."

Xu Mingxi glanced at the shopkeeper, then turned his gaze back to Xu Xinyue: "I have something to tell you, do you dare to follow me upstairs?"

Xu Xinyue laughed: "Why not?"

Not to mention that Xuan Yi was in the dark, Xu Mingxi seemed to be here by chance, and she must have come here on impulse. In that case, what was there for her to be afraid of?

The two of them went up to the private room, where the shopkeeper served them tea and snacks and tactfully closed the door for them.

"If you have anything to say, just say it."

Xu Xinyue picked up the teacup, took a sip, and went straight to the point.

"Did you have any hand in my mother's affairs?"

Xu Mingxi stared at Xu Xinyue's every move.

She took a sip of tea and suddenly chuckled, as if she heard something funny.

"why are you laughing?"

Xu Xinyue raised her eyes and said, "What am I laughing at? I am laughing at you for making baseless accusations. I am laughing at you for guessing that I am the murderer, but then asking the murderer if I was the one who did it."

Xu Xinyue smiled with a slight smile, "Xu Mingxi, do you have any evidence?"

"Of course I have!" Xu Mingxi took out the scattered remnants of the incense pills from his sleeve.

"You did this, didn't you? I know about the affairs of the Xu Mansion. You can make incense. I asked someone to check this incense. It was mixed with a drug that can cause hallucinations and mental confusion. The shop that delivered these incense was in the Xu Mansion, and you were in charge of it in the past! Do you dare to say that you were not involved?"

Xu Mingxi's every word was sonorous, and he became angrier and angrier as he spoke, and his voice became higher and higher.

Xu Xinyue still looked down at the tea in her hand calmly, watching the green leaves rise and fall in the tea soup. Her fingers stroked the edge of the cup and she said calmly: "After all, it's all your speculation. There is still no evidence."

She raised her head and looked at her calmly. "Let's not talk about whether it has anything to do with me. Even if I was involved, so what? So what if those shops inside have cooperated with me before? But, whether to use it or not, isn't the final choice in the hands of Yang?"

"If Yang abandons the incense, won't this plan fail? Yang won't fall into the trap? It won't have anything to do with me then."

Xu Mingxi was angry. Xu Xinyue was really sharp-tongued. She added, "Because you know he will definitely use it! She used it in previous years too! Those incense sticks were in my mother's hands in previous years."

Xu Xinyue was slightly surprised, her eyes widened, and she pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Ah? Really? Has the incense always been used by Yang in the past years? Oh, I only know this today, I didn't know it before."

Xu Mingxi stood up, shaking with anger: "You! You! You clearly...!"

Since it was a shop cooperating with Xu Xinyue, Xu Mingxi didn’t believe that Xu Xinyue didn’t know what was given away and where it went!

Xu Xinyue tilted her head and asked softly, "Me? What's wrong with me?"

Xu Mingxi's stomach churned. Xu Xinyue was still pretending! How could she not know before that Xu Xinyue's acting skills were so good!

Seeing that she couldn't say anything else, Xu Xinyue thought that he had played enough with her. He drank the tea in the cup, choked it on the table, stood up and said coldly: "Since there is no evidence, don't bother me with these broken things."

She threw the fragments of the incense ball in her palm to the ground.

Xu Mingxi had never expected her to do this. He was caught off guard and could only watch the debris rolling all over the floor.

"Xu Xinyue, you dare not admit it, you are not a gentleman!"

Xu Xinyue was too lazy to fight with her: "When did I say I was a gentleman? If I didn't do it, then I didn't do it. If you have the ability, find other evidence! If not, get out of the way!"

As they were about to reach the door, Xu Mingxi suddenly spoke up: "Does he know that you are such a person? Cruel, vicious, and using insidious schemes to harm your own relatives!"

Xu Xinyue looked back at her and realized that Xu Mingxi was probably talking about Qin Yuechuan.

"Whether he knows or not is none of your business! He knows how to do it, so what if he doesn't know?"

Xu Mingxi said: "Qin Yuechuan hates evil and cannot tolerate any grain of sand in his eyes. He will take even the smallest grudge into account. He hates women with deep scheming the most. If he finds out one day that you are such a person, he will eventually despise you!"

Xu Xinyue sneered and said sarcastically, "Like you? He and I, you and he, are completely different."

"Ha, what's the difference? Do you think you're special? He just fell in love with you after we broke up, and I used to have a relationship with him."

"He once said he wanted to marry me to repay a favor for a pack of dim sum. I admit that I did something wrong and he found out, so I broke up with him."

"But what about you? You just met him halfway and didn't even have any emotional basis. If he found out, the consequences would be worse than mine!"

Xu Xinyue had no intention of discussing this with her, and it was not Xu Mingxi's turn to intervene between her and Qin Yuechuan.

However, she frowned unconsciously when she heard a sentence and asked, "What snacks, what kind of repayment?"

Seeing her reaction, Xu Mingxi suddenly thought of something: "Ah, I still have to thank you for this. If you hadn't asked me to deliver snacks to your mother at the temple when you were young because you looked after her, I wouldn't have been able to have the fate between him and me."

Xu Xinyue's whole body was cold: "Temple? When you were young?"

"He asked me my name, and I told him. A few years ago, at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, when I was on stage performing my talent, I introduced myself and he recognized me. Finally, he asked me if I was married."

"When I was with him, he never treated me differently based on my status. He even didn't like me calling him Prince Rong and always asked me to call him Young Master Qin."