102: The Prince’s Routine

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"What your Highness means is that the Duke of Qin's Palace will use Sister Jun to blackmail the Duke of Qi's Palace into rescuing her?" Su Xinyi asked.

The prince smiled but said nothing. It was inconvenient for him to speak about family matters involving the Qin Duke's Palace and the Qi Duke's Palace.

Su Xinyi understood.

How brave Ma Rude was, his private treasury was not located outside the city, but was located in a remote place in the south city.

Most of the people living in Nancheng are ordinary people from poor families. The streets here are also very dilapidated, the streets are narrow and numerous, and the people living there are even more numerous and mixed.

The only people who come in and out of a place like this are people who are looking for a living, so how can they have any room to care about what others do.

Ma Rude's private treasury is located behind the most remote alley. There is a row of wooden row houses that look very dilapidated. In fact, underneath the wooden houses is the private treasury dug out.

Su Xinyi was also amazed when he saw this layout. In order not to attract attention, they all changed their clothes before entering Nancheng.

The prince changed into a shabby-looking gown. Su Xinyi changed into a beggar's uniform for the convenience of investigation. He also messed up his hair, his cheeks were darkened, and he walked with a hunched back. He really looked like he was hungry. A beggar for a few days.

Prince:......

Su Yi followed the prince and looked at her sister who seemed to be a different person in the blink of an eye. No matter how she looked at it, she felt sad. If she pretended to be like this, her sister was really hungry and had been a beggar before, right?

Wu Shun originally lived in Nancheng and was familiar with this area. He followed Yang Jin and took the initiative to show him the way.

The group of them quickly found the area around the private warehouse. Su Xinyi looked at the row of wooden houses and sighed: "Sure enough, I have an idea. If I didn't know the truth, who would have thought that a warehouse was built under such a dilapidated house."

Moreover, digging a large and stable warehouse did not happen overnight. They inquired about the surrounding residents, and no one heard that this wooden house had been renovated in the past ten years, which means that this private warehouse must have been built for at least ten years. explain.

This question is even more interesting. If this private bank has existed for such a long time, how long has it been since reselling private salt?

The five people gathered together were really conspicuous. The prince asked people to disperse and walked with Su Xinyi. "Let's go over there and investigate."

Su Xinyi nodded immediately, "What does Your Highness want to find out?"

Yan Junchu looked at Su Xinyi, "Since you are on business abroad, please don't call me Your Highness to avoid exposing your identity."

Su Xinyi said: "Then what should I call you?"

Anyway, she didn't dare to call her by name, how disrespectful.

Yan Junchu looked at Su Xinyi, "Call me Shiyuan, this is my name."

The corner of Su Xinyi's mouth twitched. It would be better to call the prince by his name. Only people who are very close can address each other by words.

Looking at Su Xinyi's troubled face, Yan Junchu lowered his eyes slightly and said, "It's just a name, just for convenience. Miss Six doesn't need to take it to heart."

When Su Xinyi thought that it was indeed an expedient measure, he nodded and said, "Okay, then Xinyi is offended."

"Then what should I call you? It seems inappropriate to call you Miss Six." Yan Junchu asked with a smile.

Su Xinyi was startled when he heard this, and then thought for a while before saying: "I don't have any words. When I was at home, my mother gave me a nickname of A Yuan. Your Highness, please call me A Yuan."

Su Xinyi didn't think much about it. She couldn't just fool anyone after the prince said his own name. This was so disrespectful to His Highness. After thinking about it, she only had this nickname.

"Ah Yuan?" Yan Junchu repeated softly. The word Yuan means gentle and kind, but Su Xinyi's temperament is completely opposite to it.

interesting.

Su Xinyi always felt that the prince smiled strangely. What was so funny?

The two walked to a house with the door open. Through the door, they could see the messy scene in the yard. The ropes in the yard were covered with washed clothes. These clothes were white in color and had layers of patches. At first glance, You know life is hard.

"Is there anyone here? Looking for a drink of water." Su Xinyi stepped forward and knocked on the door. She knocked lightly on the old door and leaned against the wall, making a creaking sound.

"Who is it?" A loud female voice sounded, followed by a thin woman with a yellow complexion who walked out, staring at them suspiciously.

"Sister-in-law, my brother and I are really thirsty when we come here and want to ask for a bowl of water. You can do it." Su Xinyi took a step forward and said pitifully.

"There's no hot water, but there's enough cold water pipes. If you're not worried, just come in."

This woman looked fierce, but unexpectedly she was easy to talk to. Su Xinyi said hurriedly: "Sister-in-law is such a kind person. How can I ask you to waste firewood to boil water for us? Cold water is enough."

Before Yan Junchu could recover from the words about brother, he saw Su Xinyi following the woman through the door very familiarly, and talking to others with a very sweet mouth.

This Su Xinyi promised well, and would rather call him brother than address him by his first name. He was really... stubborn.

Su Xinyi didn't dare to give the prince cold water. What if he got drunk? She deliberately placed the cracked porcelain bowl containing cold water farther away from her, and she drank from the bowl of cold water while talking to the woman.

"Sister-in-law, although you live in a small place, you keep it very clean. You can tell that you are a diligent person. Why don't you see the children at home? If there were two monkeys in our hometown, the house would be in a mess."

When Yan Junchu listened to Su Xinyi's words, he realized that she was observing very carefully. There were children's clothes hanging on the drying strip, one big and one small. At first glance, they belonged to the two children, but they were dried in the corner, so you couldn't find them without paying attention.

The woman's expression eased a lot after hearing this. "They go out to play and can't stay at home. Children of this age are running around the streets."

"Yes, the two children of my former neighbor are the same. They can't stay idle at home. They always like to climb over the wall to make trouble at my house. Sometimes the herbs I dug in the mountains are overturned by them. They are very naughty."

"When children are young, they are hated by people and dogs. They will be better when they grow up." The woman smiled rarely. "Where are you from, little brother? Your accent doesn't sound like you are from the capital?"

"Sister-in-law has a good ear. We are here to escape. Our hometown is hundreds of miles away from here." Su Xinyi sighed and said, "I thought I would have some bricklaying skills to make a living, but I didn't know that the capital doesn't lack this. That's why I have no place to go and I have to eat one meal a day."

When the woman heard this, she said, "Why do you want to come to the south city to do this? There are only poor families here. Who would spend money to repair a house if there is nothing to do. Go to the west city, where there are many rich people. As long as you have good skills, you can make a living No problem. "

"Thank you, sister-in-law. I'll go look for it tomorrow." Su Xinyi said with gratitude, "On the way here just now, I saw a row of wooden houses over there. They looked uninhabited and quite shabby. I thought I could find some work there."

Hearing Su Xinyi's words, the woman's face changed, "Little brother, don't go there. The house over there is very weird. The owner is weird and beats people whenever he sees them. After a long time, no one wants to be unlucky."

Su Xinyi's eyes lit up and he immediately said, "Is there such a thing? When I came, it didn't look like there was anyone there. I saw that the doors and windows were closed, so I thought there was no one there." He patted his chest and said, "Fortunately, I didn't go over and knock on the door, otherwise I would not be able to ask for water and get beaten. I really have no place to complain."

"That's right. The old man who lives over there doesn't go out during the day and wanders around at night. Any child who bumps into him will be scared by him." The woman complained about this. They were not far from there, and her own children had been scared several times.

"Isn't there a curfew tonight?"

"In a place like ours, there won't be any soldiers patrolling. It won't work here."

"Then you have to keep an eye on the children. Was the owner like this before? Or is he just like this now?"

"It's hard to say. He's been like this since I got married. He's crazy. I've heard my mother-in-law talk about it for years."

"That's so pitiful. Doesn't he have any family? It would be better if there were family members to look after him. I see that there are quite a few houses over there. It looks like a place where a whole family lives. There's no place this big in our hometown. A family building three rooms is considered spacious."

"It's said that they used to be one family, but later they wanted to split up. A good family broke up." At this point, the woman lowered her voice, " I heard that it was because the old man's wife had an affair with his brother, and because of this, he became crazy. "

"What about his wife?"

"She was beaten and ran away, and the child was taken away with her."

"What about his brother? Even if they split up, they all lived in this area, so they wouldn't go far away."

"Originally, they lived in the front and back streets. Later, the old man's wife couldn't stand the beating and left with the child. Not long after, the old man's brother also disappeared. Everyone was saying that the old man's brother went to find the old man's wife."

Su Xinyi:...

She looked at the prince. It seemed that in order to cover up the private salt storage, such a rumor was deliberately made up, which not only made people around afraid to go to that house at night, but also made everyone feel reasonable and reasonable, which was quite troublesome.

After finding out the information she wanted, Su Xinyi quickly got up and said goodbye, and the woman stuffed her two steamed buns.

Su Xinyi walked out of the door holding two steamed buns, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Yan Junchu stared at the steamed buns for a long time, reached out and took one and took a bite.

It was prickly and rough in the mouth, and there was not much taste of grain, but only the astringency of wild vegetables.

Yan Junchu looked at this piece of land intently. Everyone said that the people under the feet of the emperor were rich, but in this capital, there were still people eating this kind of thing.

Su Xinyi was shocked by the prince's behavior. Seeing the prince slowly eating a whole steamed bun, she didn't know what to say.

At this time, the prince asked, "Ayuan, did you eat this kind of thing when you were in the countryside?"

"Yes, every household in the countryside has limited land and has to pay land taxes. You can't eat all the remaining grain. You have to take some of it out to exchange for copper coins for household expenses. If you don't have your own land, you have to rent other people's land to grow crops, and the grain you get is even less. Who can eat pure grain every meal? They all dig wild vegetables and make vegetable dumplings to eat together."

"Did you eat this before?"

"I ate a lot when I was young. At that time, I was young, and my mother had to take care of me and couldn't go into the mountains all the time. Later, when I grew up, I followed my mother into the mountains. When I learned kung fu, our family stopped eating this kind of thing. There are many treasures in the mountains, including medicinal herbs, prey, and wild fruits, all of which can be taken out to exchange for money."

"You... really suffered." Yan Junchu found it difficult to imagine the life that Su Xinyi had lived before. There was no trace of the hardships she had suffered.

"It's not hard, that's how the country folks live. I don't have to work in the fields. The girls in our village have to work in the fields during the busy farming season, so it's much easier for me." Su Xinyi smiled, "Later, I became good at boxing and kicking, and I could hunt more prey every time I went into the mountains, so life at home became better."

"Don't you have any land at home?" Yan Junchu asked again.

"No." Su Xinyi said calmly, "My family is not a local. We moved there to seek refuge. We don't have our own land. My mother couldn't farm with a child, so we had to buy food. Later, after living in the village for a long time, our relationship with the village gradually improved."

Country folks live in villages, and the people in the village are all related, so they are very xenophobic.

Yan Junchu could imagine how hard life was for Su Xinyi and her daughter. He looked at her, "Since your mother knew your father's identity, why didn't she come to him?"

Su Xinyi didn't expect the prince to ask this question, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

"I am presumptuous." Yan Junchu said, looking at Su Xinyi's expression. It would be rude for outsiders to ask about private matters.

"It's nothing. Actually, my mother doesn't like my father, and my father doesn't like my mother either. My father was recuperating at my mother's house. He didn't want to be plotted against by the neighbors. It was just an accident that I was born. She doesn't like to be restrained. She is used to being free in the mountains. How could she live in a mansion and follow the rules?" Su Xinyi couldn't help but smile when she thought of her mother.

Yan Junchu looked at her smile and felt that she must have a good relationship with her biological mother. So even if she knew her identity, even if her biological mother took her to suffer in the countryside for so many years and refused to let her return to the Duke's Mansion, she didn't have any resentment.

As they talked, they returned to the row of wooden houses. Standing in the distance, the two of them looked at the row of houses. Su Xinyi didn't want to mention the past anymore, so she asked, "How long will Your Highness wait to take action?"

"There was a letter from Futai Casino. The people here should take action after getting the news. It will be in the next few days." Yan Junchu said.

Su Xinyi seemed to be thinking about something. After thinking for a while, she asked again, "If the person is caught red-handed, will Your Highness take action?"

This action refers to the Duke Qin's Mansion.

In her last life, nothing happened in the Duke of Qin's mansion before she died. However, she had not heard about the prince's investigation of the salt permit case at that time. If that was the case, Ma Rude would not be involved. Without Ma Rude's appearance, the Duke of Qin's mansion would naturally be safe and sound.

Unexpectedly, in this life, since she intervened to save Wu Shun, the development of things has completely changed.

"It is better to do it sooner rather than later." The prince nodded.

"I know." Su Xinyi had to go back and tell her family that it would be better to let her elder sister take Yun Jie'er out to hide for a while during this period of time, otherwise Shi Zhongqian would come to visit his daughter in the name of visiting the door, and they would not be able to drive him away.

Not long after, Yang Jin and the others also came back to meet up. Everyone exchanged information and found that the things they had inquired were similar. Yang Jin took Wu Shun and Su Yi to stay and wait, while the prince and Su Xinyi left first.

All the way back from Nancheng, Su Xinyi returned to the mansion dressed as a beggar.

The eyes of the people in the mansion were all wrong when they looked at her. What was she doing again?

Su Xinyi really couldn't argue. She racked her brains and thought about it, then said, "I just went to help my eldest brother investigate the case."

The first lady was annoyed when she heard it, "What's wrong with this bastard? What case can make you like this? It's too outrageous. When he comes back, let his father deal with him."

Su Xinyi:...

Family Su Si said hurriedly, "The two children have important things to do. They dress like this to facilitate the investigation. Don't be angry, sister-in-law. I will take Xinyi back to change clothes first. We'll talk later."

Family Su Si returned to the yard and asked someone to bring hot water. She watched Su Xinyi wash twice before letting her out.

"You are a girl, you can't be so careless about your appearance in the future. I know you want to help your eldest brother. You can change a way. You don't have to make yourself a little beggar." The fourth lady was really distressed.

"Mother, I just changed clothes, I didn't suffer." Su Xinyi said hurriedly.

Mrs. Su Si looked like she believed me, but there was a look of suspicion in her eyes. Since Xiaoliu came back, how come Su Yi has also learned to be so wild?

This child used to be so steady.

Su Xinyi still had business in mind, so she said to her mother: "Mom, there is one more thing you need to tell your aunt."

"What is it? Oh, is there something wrong with your eldest brother?" Mrs. Su Si asked worriedly.

"No." Su Xinyi hurriedly explained the matter simply, "In short, it's best to let the eldest sister take Sister Yun out to avoid it."

The fourth lady's face changed, "This is not a trivial matter. Why did the Duke Qin's Mansion make such a big fuss? Could it be that a good Duke's Mansion can't be saved?"

Su Xinyi said, "I don't know the details. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince reminded me. I guess it must be related to Ma Rude, but I don't know how deeply involved."

The fourth lady couldn't sit still, "You eat something and rest first. I'll go to see your grandmother and aunt. Such a big thing, your uncle has to make the decision."

Su Xinyi watched her mother leave in a hurry. She was really hungry. She didn't eat anything during the whole journey.

Madame She brought two maids to deliver the food. Su Xinyi saw that Madame She was there, so she couldn't let herself go, so she sat there and ate properly.

Before they finished their meal, Su Jingmo came running over and asked Su Xinyi, "Xiao Liu, is the story about my elder sister true?"

Su Xinyi swallowed the last mouthful of soup, pulled Su Jingmo to the living room and sat down, then said, "Fourth sister, you are well-informed."

"I was playing with Sister Yun at my aunt's place, and I was shocked when I heard the news. I was so upset that I hurried to ask you." Su Jingmo felt that it was not real. The Duke of Qin's Mansion was a family whose ancestors had made great contributions. If they were really gone, it would be scary.

"We don't know how deep the involvement is yet. It's just a precaution, so we can't say for sure." Su Xinyi said hurriedly.

Su Jingmo was not comforted much when he heard this, and said with a pale face: "Isn't it just selling a few salt quotes, that's how powerful it is?"

"A few salt quotes are nothing, but what if there are many, many?" Su Xinyi said, "Salt is something that ordinary people can't live without. They are indispensable for three meals a day. Once the salt quotes are gathered in the hands of a few big salt merchants, , by driving up the price of salt, the common people cannot afford it. Salt is not like meat, and they can live without it. Without salt, people will have no energy, so they have to eat it no matter how expensive it is. Can this be a good thing? "

How could Su Jingmo, a delicate young lady raised in a boudoir, know about these people's livelihood matters? Only after listening to Su Xinyi's words did she realize how terrible the matter was.

"This is a bit scary." Su Jingmo said.

Su Xinyi nodded, "That's why His Royal Highness will keep pursuing this matter. In short, Fourth Sister, don't worry. As long as the eldest sister and Sister Jun are not in the house, there is nothing you can do even if Shi Zhongqian comes to make trouble. After this period, It’ll be better in time.”

Su Jingmo said: "That is to say, Sister Jun is still so young. The eldest sister can only go to Zhuangzi to hide with the child. There is no way to live comfortably in Zhuangzi. The Duke of Qin's mansion is really hateful. It will be destructive to do this. It’s a matter of conscience, you dare to make money like this.”

Su Jingmo also knew that it was useless to tell Xiaoliu, so he stood up and said, "I'm going to prepare some food for eldest sister, mother and daughter."

Su Xinyi saw Su Jingmo Fenghuohuo leaving again, and suddenly she couldn't laugh or cry.

In the evening, the old man called someone over and asked her about today's events.

The old man and his wife had different questions. In order to plan for the future, Su Xinyi was much more cautious when talking to her grandfather, and explained clearly what happened this time, including the matter of Tian Zao and Bao Datong.

The old man looked at Su Xinyi, "Sending a few people to the army is not a big deal, but you have to know whether these two people can be trusted. Once they go out, if it is in your name or your father's name, Qi Guogong If you do something bad in the name of the government, it is your own family that will be implicated.”

"Grandpa, don't worry. They are still young and will have to stay in the house for at least a year or two. This time is a good time to see their character." Su Xinyi said.

The old man nodded with satisfaction after listening to Su Xinyi's words. He could think so much, which shows that he didn't just agree in a hurry.

"Your elder brother has mentioned a few things about Wu Shun. What are your plans?"

Su Xinyi smiled and said: "Wu Shun is currently working as an errand in the East Palace, and he was borrowed by His Highness the Prince to investigate the salt case. When the others come back after finishing their work, the granddaughter plans to let the eldest brother take Wu Shun and Wu Shun. Shunyi is good at martial arts, and being by his side can be considered a boost.”

The old man looked at his granddaughter and suddenly asked: "What are you thinking about pushing your elder brother forward step by step this time?"

Su Xinyi was startled and stood up subconsciously, "Grandpa, I don't mean anything else. I just think that the eldest brother is too loyal, and honest people suffer a lot. In our countryside, choosing a Li Zheng Na requires a lot of thinking. There are people above who can do it." Take it."

After Su Xinyi finished speaking, she looked at her grandfather with his eyes down and said nothing, and his heart was beating fast. Could it be that what she did was too obvious, so his grandfather became suspicious?

The old man raised his head and looked at Xin Yi, his cloudy eyes were shining brightly at this moment, and then he said after a while: "Su Jiajun, do you know?"

Su Xinyi looked confused, Su Jiajun?

She had never heard of it.

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