Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

Were the bandits arranged by the crown prince? Did Emperor Jingzhang suppress them in order to protect the crown prince?

No, this matter is so serious that it can be suppressed for a while but not forever. The news will be reported back to Shengjing City sooner or later.

Li Shuangwan suddenly raised his head. Could it be, could it be that Gu Xingyan did it?

She would have to find a chance to ask him.

After Chen Ping left, Butler Luo also came over and told her everything that had happened in the past few days.

Roman said angrily, "Princess, look, I was right, wasn't I? Miss Yao refused to follow you to the farm just to make it easier for her to seduce Your Highness when you're not at home."

Housekeeper Luo: "Miss Yao has been going out almost every day recently and returns to the mansion in the evening. She almost always tries to time the prince's entry every day, so it would be nice if she could say a few more words to him at the gate."

Li Shuangwan knew what was going on. To Zhou Caiyao, Ling Heng was good-looking, a prince, powerful, and a gentle and elegant man.

"At the beginning, the prince would say a few words to her, but then he basically ignored her."

Upon hearing this, Roman raised his head high.

When night fell, Ling Heng went to the yard in the alley and asked Gu Xingyan to replace him to accompany Li Shuangwan.

Ever since that conversation that day, Gu Xingyan hasn't seen Li Shuangwan for more than ten days. Although he wants to see her very much, he never dares to show up in front of her.

When he came in, Gu Xingyan was holding a box in his hand. As soon as the door closed, he tore off the human skin mask on his face.

Li Shuangwan just glanced at him.

Gu Xingyan: "Madame Zhao cannot be trusted. The gambling house that his son owes gambling money to is Ling Heng's property."

Li Shuangwan: “I know.”

"Ling Heng is very likely to use this to bribe her. If it is inconvenient for you to take action, I will kill this person."

"Don't kill him yet. I still have some use for him."

Gu Xingyan didn't ask any more questions, just said: "Okay. I'll help you keep an eye on him."

"Ah."

He pushed the box in front of Li Shuangwan and said, "Golden silk soft armor, invulnerable to swords and spears. You can use it. Here you go."

Li Shuangwan naturally would not refuse such a good thing. What she was about to do was extremely dangerous and it was impossible for her not to get hurt, but it would be different with this thing.

Li Shuangwan took out a thick stack of banknotes from the drawer and pushed it in front of Gu Xingyan: "This thing is priceless, but this is all I can give you now. Or should I write an IOU to the Ninth Master?"

Gu Xingyan took out a piece of paper and said, "Just one piece is enough. Although the item is good, I am the prince of Daliang after all. This kind of item is not rare in Daliang."

Li Shuangwan suddenly laughed. This man couldn't even lie.

Gu Xingyan felt a little guilty about this smile: "Ling Heng has many businesses in secret, and my people have already started to lay out the plan."

He pointed to the stack of banknotes on the table and said, "Isn't it going to be much more than this?"

"Is this a bonus for me?"

"Yes, dividends. From now on, every six months, there will be a dividend delivered to Miss Li."

Li Shuangwan rarely raised his eyebrows in front of Gu Xingyan, and then calmly took the banknote back.

Gu Xingyan chuckled softly, his eyes burning with rage, but only for a moment.

Li Shuangwan still caught it.

She asked: "So, was Xu Jianzhou really killed by your people?"

"Yes, Liang Tianyou is very good at Qinggong, I sent him to kill him. This man has done many evil things and should have died long ago. Moreover, he is a business genius. If we want to kill Ling Heng, we must first cut off his source of income. Killing him is very necessary."

Li Shuangwan nodded.

"As for that woman, Uncle Ou has already found out where Ling Heng hid her. If Miss Li wants to see her, she can do so at any time. Huang Sheng will visit her every three days. She is extremely weak and not suitable for having children."

Li Shuangwan shook her head. No matter who she was, she would never let Ling Heng's evil plan succeed in this life. So she suddenly didn't want to know who this woman was.

Moreover, she had roughly guessed some of it.

She suddenly remembered what Roman said that day at the farm.

Nineteen years ago, twins, a boy and a girl, were born in Shengjing City.

Li Shuangwan raised his eyes to look at Gu Xingyan and asked, "How is Hu Shuyi?"

"I had someone send him to Daliang. Don't worry, he will be safe."

Li Shuangwan thought of the ending of Hu Shuyi in his previous life, and the inevitable death of the dozen or so people in the Hu family in this life, and his face was heavy: "He, will he be okay?"

Gu Xingyan was tall and straight, but at this moment, in front of Li Shuangwan, he bent slightly, and his narrow and long eyes only focused on the woman in front of him: "No, they are all brought by Uncle Ou, it is impossible that they can't even protect a child."

Li Shuangwan's heart finally settled down a little: "Prime Minister Hu's family was abducted in Liangshan. Was it you who did it?"

"No, it's Cui Jingyu."

"Why, why is it him?"

"Yes, it was him. My people received the correct information. The fourteen dead members of the Hu family were indeed killed by Cui Jingyu. They were all from the Hu family's side branches."

Gu Xingyan looked at Li Shuangwan in the darkness. His eyesight was very good, and even in the dark, he could clearly see the anxiety on Wanwan's face.

He said, "Cui Jingyu said that if fourteen people died, the remaining forty or so people in the Hu family could be protected, and he thought it was worth it. Moreover, those side branches he killed were not good people. Miss Li, not everyone in every aristocratic family is worth saving. There are always a few parasites."

She naturally knew that even in their Li family, there were people like her second uncle's family, right?

"In the previous life, the male members of the Hu family died so tragically. In addition to the hatred that the people of Zhao hated them to the core, most of the reasons were due to those few side branches. Later, Wushan Pass was breached, Zhao captured five cities in a row, and hundreds of thousands of people died. These people also contributed to this."

"But I remember that all the men of the Hu family were slaughtered by the Zhao people. How come the Zhao people didn't spare the lives of these side branches?"

"He can betray his own country and relatives completely. How can Zhaoguo keep such a scum?"

Li Shuangwan nodded in agreement.

"Besides this, what else is his purpose in doing this?"

"Put the blame on Ling Yao."

Li Shuangwan's eyes lit up, and then he snorted coldly. Wasn't it him who helped Ling Heng climb to a high position step by step in the previous life?

So, at this time, Cui Jingyu was already wearing the same pants as Ling Heng?

Oh, it’s hidden really deeply.

"Are you familiar with Cui Jingyu?"

"We are not that familiar with each other. I protect Hu Shuyi and he protects Hu Zhenfang's family. We just have the same purpose."

Gu Xingyan added: "The women of the Hu family had a very hard life. When the Hu family was raided, they were not allowed to take anything except the clothes they wore."

"Seven or eight out of ten servants ran away at that time. The few who stayed behind could no longer bear the lack of food they had to live with their masters for several days, so they took the few remaining things and ran away."

"They didn't even have a decent piece of clothing left for them. Now that the weather is cold, many women in the Hu family have fallen ill."

Li Shuangwan felt that it was indeed the time. If the Hu family wanted to stand on their own feet, they could only rely on themselves. They could only be helped in emergencies but not in poverty. If they were not pushed to this point, they would end up like in their previous life, with some dying and some dispersing. The entire Hu family of Youda ended up being wiped out in just a few years.

"I want to meet the eldest daughter of the Hu family. Can Master Gu, Nine, help me?"

Gu Xingyan didn't even think about it. When he heard him call her the Ninth Young Master instead of the Ninth Prince, she curled her lips in a good mood and said, "Okay, I said, I support you in whatever you want to do."