218: Thicker-Skinned than Su Xinyi

Although it was very sudden, Su Xinyi would not refuse the prince's words, and the prince looked at her with a serious expression, which made her feel something different.

He introduced her so seriously to his younger brother, the Prince of Xiang, to show that he valued this marriage.

When she was in the Prince of Pingjing's mansion, no one in the mansion looked at her straight in the eye and treated her as a family member.

This is what it feels like to be valued.

"Su Xinyi, you don't have to take it too seriously. It's just a meeting and recognition." Prince Rong was not happy that his elder brother said so. How could the Prince of Xiang be so important? He didn't see his elder brother introduce himself to Su Xinyi at the beginning. "The main thing is that I want to welcome you and my elder brother."

How could Su Xinyi not see Prince Rong's little thoughts, and she was immediately amused.

Prince Rong became even angrier when he saw it, "What do you mean, are you mocking me?"

Su Xinyi immediately said, "Of course not, Your Majesty is overthinking."

Yan Junchu was too lazy to pay attention to Prince Rong and took Su Xinyi in.

As soon as Su Xinyi entered the room, she saw the originally seated Prince Xiang standing up immediately. He was wearing a light blue brocade robe, a golden crown on his head, and his eyebrows were well-shaped and his eyes were handsome. He was like a piece of beautiful jade, gentle and soft. Especially compared with Prince Rong, Prince Rong's childishness was simply unbearable to look at.

"It's all my poor eyesight that I didn't know it was the Princess of Yong'an County. Please don't blame me, Princess." Prince Xiang immediately came over and said with a smile.

Su Xinyi smiled lightly, "Greetings, His Royal Highness, Prince Xiang. Your Highness, you are too kind. I am here on His Majesty's orders to protect His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince. Today I am dressed as a man, so how can His Royal Highness know who I am?"

Prince Rong had already shouted for the dishes to be served. He asked his eldest brother to sit down first, and then looked at Su Xinyi, "You sit next to my eldest brother. I don't know what my father is thinking. He doesn't need so many powerful guards, but insists on making you run all the way."

Su Xinyi saw His Royal Highness sitting down, and saw that Prince Xiang and Prince Rong had not yet sat down. Just as she was hesitating, she felt her hand being pulled. She turned her head to face the smile of His Royal Highness, and then sat down.

She took back her hand a little uncomfortably, which was very strange.

Yan Junchu smiled and took back his hand.

Prince Rong snorted and couldn't help complaining, "Brother, are you afraid that she will suffer?"

Prince Rong sat down opposite Su Xinyi in a huff. After he sat down, Prince Xiang also sat down with uncontrollable surprise in his eyes. The scene in front of him made him feel very surprised.

Yan Junchu didn't even raise his head and replied to Prince Rong, "You are talking a lot now. If you are so efficient when investigating a case, how can there be any trouble?"

Prince Rong:...

Brother's words are like knives, and every knife is deadly.

"Can you blame me for this?" Prince Rong glared at Prince Xiang angrily.

Prince Xiang immediately said with guilt on his face: "It's all my willfulness that has implicated my seventh brother."

Su Xinyi smiled and said nothing. Her relationship with the Li family was not very harmonious. Although Prince Xiang was the younger brother of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the Li family was also his in-laws.

Yan Junchu looked at his two younger brothers with a gloomy face, "The matter of Ding'an Guard is not complicated. When you arrived, you should have called the parties involved for questioning. What happened? Each of them had more ideas than the other. Although it is not wrong to investigate the case privately, it is wrong to put you in danger. I will report this matter to my father truthfully after returning to Beijing."

Prince Rong was not convinced, "I was implicated by Prince Xiang. It was obviously he who insisted on going to the riverside and insisted on climbing the mountain after he went there. Brother, you can't just beat him to death with a stick. You must tell the truth in front of my father."

Yan Junchu frowned and looked at Prince Rong, "You are brothers, so you must advance and retreat together. If my father hears this, you will be punished first."

Prince Rong had a sad face. He knew that he couldn't go out with Prince Xiang. It must be bad.

Compared to this, Prince Xiang is not as good as Su Xinyi. Although there are often accidents when he is with Su Xinyi, Su Xinyi is powerful and can protect him if something happens, right?

The more Prince Rong thought about it, the more sad he felt. Seeing that Su Xinyi, a female demon, had a kind face, he couldn't help but said, "Su Xinyi, next time something like this happens, we might as well work together."

Su Xinyi almost spit out her tea. With Prince Rong?

They are both people possessed by the God of Bad Luck. If they work together, it will be bad luck on top of bad luck. Let her go.

"Your Highness, this is impossible." Su Xinyi refused. She wanted to live a long life.

"Why?" Prince Rong was unhappy. Su Xinyi also disliked him? He looked at his eldest brother, "Brother, listen to this. You should also control her. This person is going to be my eldest sister-in-law in the future. How can she be so cold and heartless to me, your younger brother? I am your younger brother, dear."

Su Xinyi looked at Prince Rong in astonishment. How could this person be so unrefined and complain like this?

How could he be more shameless than her?

Su Xinyi was so angry at the smug look on Prince Rong's face that her face turned black. Just as she was about to speak, she heard His Royal Highness the Crown Prince say, "I can't control this. After all, my father has told me to treat the Sixth Miss well. Besides, you are not right. The Sixth Miss and I are engaged, and we are on this trip at the order of my father. If your previous words were heard by my father, he would scold you."

Su Xinyi:...

Your Majesty has said such words?

Prince Rong:...

Father has said such words?

Su Xinyi looked at Prince Rong and suddenly she changed to a smug smile at him.

Prince Rong's face was dark and he wanted to pound the table. Is there any justice in the world? He was so angry that his throat trembled, "She is so powerful, who can bully her? Besides, you said, big brother, she will be my sister-in-law in the future. This eldest sister-in-law is like a mother. Isn't it right for her to share my burden?"

Su Xinyi heard the Crown Prince say, "The Queen is in good health now, and she probably won't be happy to hear what you said."

Only those whose biological mothers have passed away will have the saying that the elder sister-in-law is like a mother.

Prince Rong immediately covered his mouth, "You guys pretend I didn't say anything and didn't hear anything." Then he looked at Prince Xiang, "Ninth brother, right?"

Prince Xiang immediately said, "Seventh brother, don't worry, I heard everything just now."

He was very shocked by Prince Rong's temperament. He seemed to be a little afraid of Princess Yong'an. How could this be possible?

What surprised him even more was that his elder brother was very protective of Princess Yong'an, and his father said such a thing?

What happened during the time he was away from Beijing?

Why did the whole world seem to have changed when he came back?

When the food was served, Prince Rong poured a glass of wine for his elder brother, and said with a rare sense of guilt: "This time, it was my younger brother who made you suffer. You are still injured. I offer you a glass of wine as an apology."

Yan Junchu looked up at Prince Rong, and seeing that he did look a little guilty, he raised his glass, "Don't worry about it. I am the elder brother, and you are my younger brothers. If something happens, I will naturally come to find you. But, remember to think carefully about everything you do when you go out on business in the future."

Prince Rong and Prince Xiang responded in unison.

Su Xinyi was about to raise her glass, but she saw a jade-white hand stretched out from the side and took away her glass, "Don't drink alcohol at night, just drink soup instead."

Su Xinyi looked at the bowl of soup in front of her, and then looked at the serious look of the prince, so she picked up the soup. In front of Prince Rong and Prince Xiang, she had to maintain the dignity of His Highness.

But, drink soup?

Su Xinyi heard Prince Rong laugh, and her face turned black.

Yan Junchu glanced at Prince Rong, and Prince Rong immediately stopped laughing. Who made him cause the prince to not be able to recover properly this time? Alas, I was so humble that I had to bow my head.

Prince Xiang took a sip of the wine glass, and his eyes moved inadvertently among the people.

"Brother, do you think Wang Shao was telling the truth or Wang Daoji was telling the truth?" Prince Rong started to talk about business.

Yan Junchu picked up the public chopsticks and picked up a piece of squirrel mandarin fish for Su Xinyi and put it on the plate. "Try it. The soup here tastes very special."

Su Xinyi took the plate and said, "Thank you, Your Highness."

Yan Junchu put down the public chopsticks, and then looked at Prince Rong and Prince Xiang, ignoring their shocked eyes, and asked, "Do you two think it's true or false?"

Prince Rong retracted his shock. It was incredible, Su Xinyi, this is really going to fly up to the tree and become a phoenix. His elder brother has never picked up food for him!

But he was not jealous. He took back his wandering thoughts and did not speak first, but thought seriously.

After several shocks, King Xiang looked at the prince in surprise. Talking about official business at the dinner table? In front of the Princess of Yong'an County?

Is this... appropriate?

King Rong thought for a while and said, "I think what Wang Daoji said is true. This man has lived a miserable life."

Su Xinyi didn't know what happened yet. When she heard what King Rong said, she looked up with a puzzled look.

When King Rong saw it, he didn't think much and explained to her, "You were not here today and didn't hear what Wang Daoji said. It was miserable, it was really miserable. He lost his father, mother, and wife, and even his own life almost died several times."

Su Xinyi only knew about Wang Daoji after listening to King Rong's story. Wang Daoji said that after his father Wang Zhifang died in battle, his cousin Wang Daoxin took away his father's official position on the grounds that he was too young to take over the position of commander. It was agreed that Wang Daoxin would return his official position to Wang Daoji after he came of age.

As a result, what awaited him when he came of age was not his official position being returned, but his fiancée Luo canceled the engagement with him and married Wang Daoxin instead. His mother was so angry that she went to the Luo family to argue, but was ridiculed by the Luo family. On the way back, she was almost injured by a frightened horse. She was afraid, angry, and felt incompetent, so she fell ill and died soon after.

After Wang Daoji's mother died, Wang Daoxin and Wang Daoli had no more concerns, and the return of the official position was never mentioned again. Then Wang Daoji encountered danger several times in that year and almost died.

Once or twice was a coincidence, but after many times, Wang Daoji knew that someone wanted to kill him.

He then secretly investigated and found that there was something strange about his mother's death. First, the appearance of the frightened horse was too coincidental, and second, the prescription prescribed by the doctor who treated his mother was also problematic.

Wang Daoji had been investigating secretly, and when he found out that there was something wrong with his father's death, he felt like the sky was falling.

For the position of a commander, his family was destroyed.

In order to take revenge, he sold all the property left to him by his mother, spent a huge amount of money to bribe the people around Wang Daoxin, and secretly killed him when he went out to suppress bandits.

As soon as Wang Daoxin died, Wang Daoli suspected the cause of his brother's death, but Wang Daoji was already a playboy who sold his property and became addicted to gambling. He was penniless and owed a lot of gambling money. After Wang Daoli suspected it, he found no evidence and concluded that his brother's death might really be an accident, so he stopped investigating.

After Wang Daoxin died, Wang Daoji became a playboy addicted to gambling again, so Wang Daoli took over the position of commander himself on the grounds that Wang Daoji was not good at archery and horse riding and could not be competent for the position of commander.

Wang Daoji said that he knew that as long as Wang Daoli did not die, he would never have a chance to succeed. If he did not pretend to be a playboy or a gambler, he would not even be able to save his life.

Later, he lived so hard that he even believed that he was a rogue gambler. Finally, he got the opportunity. Wang Daoli fell in love with an actor and liked him very much. He insisted on taking her into his concubine and made a big show of it. The banquet gave her face. I don’t know what Wang Daoli was thinking, but she actually sent a message to Wang Daoji.

Wang Daoji knew that the opportunity was rare, so he deliberately dressed himself up as a decent-looking poor relative who was fighting in the autumn wind.

Wang Shao hated Wang Daoji so much that he was not allowed to appear at the banquet. He rushed him to the kitchen and asked the kitchen steward to throw him some leftovers. He also ordered the kitchen people to drive him away after he finished eating.

Wang Daoji said that he didn't care whether he was embarrassed or not. He only focused on the deer penis soup cooked for Wang Daoli on the stove. After Wang Shao left, he pretended to be unsteady and fell down, causing the dishes and bowls to break. On the ground, while the people in the kitchen were busy cleaning up, he took the opportunity to poison it.

Because of this fall, he, a dignified young master of the Wang family, was beaten up by the servants in the kitchen.

But it's worth it.

Wang Daoli is dead.

Su Xinyi didn't come back to her senses for a long time after hearing this. Is this even worse than her?

If it is true, his biological father and mother were killed, his fiancée was also snatched away, and even his life was pretending to be self-destructive. It is indeed not easy.

"Is what Wang Daoji said true?" Su Xinyi asked thoughtfully, "Why did he explain everything without leaving a way out for himself?"

The murder was clearly explained, which basically involved oneself.

"Hey." King Rong rarely said with a hint of indignation, "It's not easy for him to snatch the position of commander from Wang Shao. His close relatives and family members are all dead, and the tribe is definitely more inclined to support having soldiers. Wang Shao, who is protected by Quan, is all a jackal. According to Wang Daoji, he doesn’t want to live anymore, but he wants justice for his father and mother.”

Su Xinyi lowered her eyes slightly, she could understand this feeling.

King Rong did not notice Su Xinyi's strangeness, and turned to look at the prince, "Brother, you said that Wang Daoji's explanation was so clear, it must not be false. The problem now is to verify the cause of death of Wang Zhifang and his wife. Although Wang Daoji has evidence , but the evidence is not enough to close the case, which is a bit difficult.”

Yan Junchu did not ignore Su Xinyi's strangeness. After listening to King Rong's words, he thought for a moment and then said: "The evidence for Wang Daoji was incomplete at the beginning because he was not confident enough to investigate the cronies around brother Wang Daoxin and Wang Daoli. Now if we conduct a thorough investigation on the people who have done things with the two of us, we should find something."

At this time, King Xiang, who had been silent, said: "Brother, after so many years, even if there are witnesses, it is difficult to collect physical evidence. Besides, the position of the Wang family's commander must be discussed again."

After such a scandal, the Wang family will definitely not be able to keep their official positions.

I can't come to a conclusion at the moment, I still need to get evidence.

After eating, Yan Junchu sent Su Xinyi back to the backyard. The two stepped onto the verandah. Yan Junchu waved the person away and looked at Su Xinyi holding her hand, "I have something to tell you."

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The second update of 6,000 words is completed today. I am not sure if there will be an update in the early morning. Please check it out tomorrow morning. Thank you for your support, little cuties.

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