"I heard that the two brothers from my previous boss lost a lot of money in a gambling house, so they went to borrow money from their current boss. In order to successfully borrow the money, they mortgaged the shop under their name.
Unexpectedly, they lost all the money they borrowed. They were not convinced and borrowed money from other shops as collateral. They kept losing money and kept mortgaging, and then they ended up in the current situation. "
After the old shopkeeper finished speaking, he couldn't help but sigh, "The ancestors are indeed right. It is easy to conquer a country but difficult to defend it."
After Luo Yao understood the cause and effect, she helped the old shopkeeper scold the two Shu brothers and left.
On the way back, she sorted out in her mind the general process of the change of ownership of the Shu family store.
Could it be that Chu Lin deliberately played a trick and deliberately made the two Shu brothers lose money, and obtained the store of the two Shu brothers by borrowing money from him?
It's not impossible.
But why did Chu Lin want the two Shu brothers' shop?
Is he targeting the two Shu brothers, Shu Qing, or the Prime Minister's Mansion?
There are too many doubts about this Chu Lin. If you want to find out his purpose, it seems that you have to ask the person involved.
When she came to her senses, she found herself outside a gambling house.
The parties involved were not only the two Shu brothers and Chu Lin, but also people from the gambling house. If she could find an insider in the gambling house where the two Shu brothers gambled, they might be able to give her a lot of information.
How to find it?
She immediately thought of the fourth prince Xiao Ziyi.
Xiao Zi has been hanging around major gambling houses for many years, so he will definitely be able to help her find an insider.
Find Xiao Ziyi!
She searched all the streets and alleys of Pingdu, but it was almost dark and she could not find Xiao Ziyi.
She could only drag her tired body back to the abandoned house. As soon as she returned to the yard, she saw Li Xingchen, Bitao and Xiaoxue sitting in the house waiting for her, with a sumptuous dinner on the table.
Seeing her coming back, the three of them stood up at the same time to greet her.
"Princess, you are finally back." Bitao said.
Xiaoxue also said hurriedly: "Where have you been? Why did you come back so late?"
"I went to do some errands." She glanced at the food on the table, "Next time I don't come back, you can eat first without waiting for me."
"How can that be done?"
While Bitao was talking, she handed her a wet handkerchief to wipe her hands.
After wiping their hands, she sat down, but the other three stood aside, not taking their seats for a long time.
"What are you doing?" she asked doubtfully.
"You eat first."
She got up angrily, pushed the three of them back to their seats one by one, and said, "From now on, we will be a family. You don't have to call me princess, miss, or whatever your name is."
Bitao and Xiaoxue looked at each other, but neither of them spoke.
"That's it."
After saying that, she took the initiative to pick up food for them.
Li Xingchen smiled and held the bowl and chopsticks in his hands to thank him, and curiously asked: "Sister, you are the princess, why are you still living here? Could you not..."
Before he finished speaking, Bi Tao kicked him under the table to remind him not to talk too much.
He glanced at Bi Tao, then realized what he was saying and apologized hastily, "I'm sorry! I said the wrong thing."
"It doesn't matter. I was a princess before, but I won't be from now on."
From the night she moved here, she separated from Xiao Yan in her heart.
She is no longer Princess Li.
He has nothing to do with Xiao Yan anymore.
While eating, Bitao suddenly mentioned, "Miss, I rewashed all the clothes in your room today because I had nothing to do, and accidentally got your letter wet, but fortunately the letter was blank."
Just when Bi Tao was rejoicing, she suddenly put down her bowls and chopsticks and stood up.
"What did you say?"
Bitao was frightened by her reaction and explained hesitantly: "It's that letter..."
Without hearing what Bitao said, she rushed back to the room. Only the jade pendant with the writing on it was left in the closet, and the letter was gone.
"Miss……"
Bi Tao looked at her with an apologetic look, too frightened to say a word.
She turned around quickly and asked, "Where is the letter?"
"I didn't dare to lose it, so I put the letter in the yard to dry. I'll get it to you."
"take me."
"yes."
Luo Yao hurriedly followed Bitao to the yard, and found the letters hanging on the firewood pile in the corner of the yard.
Seeing her reading the letter, Bi Tao finally breathed a sigh of relief and comforted herself, "I finally didn't lose it."
She was stunned when she got the letter.
The originally wordless letter was filled with rows of densely packed small words.
It can be seen that the letter was written by Lan Qin before his death. The letter told Luo Yao to live a good life, not to remember her death, and not to be an enemy of Luo Zhenming.
Lan Qin had known about Luo Zhenming and Shu Qing for a long time. She said that she owed Luo Zhenming and asked Luo Yao to be filial to Luo Zhenming.
What exactly does Lan Qin owe Luo Zhenming?
What happened between Lan Qin and Luo Zhenming? Even if she knew that Luo Zhenming was keeping an extramarital affair behind her back, she still wouldn't hold any grudge against Luo Zhenming.
Luo Yao stood there with the letter in doubt, never understanding this.
Seeing that she remained silent, Bitao couldn't help but ask: "Miss, what's wrong with you?"
She didn't reply. She turned around and saw Xiaoxue and Li Xingchen standing at the door. She walked straight towards Xiaoxue.
"Xiaoxue, come to my room."
"oh."
Xiaoxue glanced at Bitao and Li Xingchen in confusion, then followed her back to the room.
Seeing Xiaoxue coming, she pointed to the chair and said, "Sit down."
Xiaoxue shook her head hurriedly, "I dare not sit down."
"As I said just now, from now on we are all one family. You don't have to treat me as a slave anymore. If I ask you to sit down, just sit down!"
Xiaoxue's injuries are still recovering and she cannot stand for long.
Xiaoxue sat down obediently and asked, "What's the matter with Miss calling me here?"
"When you were in the Prime Minister's Mansion, did you hear anyone mention my parents?"
Xiaoxue nodded, "Some older nuns are well-informed. I occasionally heard them mention the prime minister and the eldest lady."
"What did you say?"
Xiaoxue recalled carefully and said: "They said that the prime minister and the eldest lady treated each other with respect. On the surface, they looked like a loving couple, but in fact they were very distant."
Luo Yao frowned, "Why do they say that?"
"They said that the prime minister and the eldest lady didn't have much eye contact. Even if they did occasionally, they were like strangers. They didn't look like a loving couple at all. And..."
Seeing that Xiaoxue suddenly became hesitant, she hurriedly asked: "What else?"
"I heard it too, but I don't know if it's true."
After a pause, Xiaoxue continued: "I heard that the Prime Minister and the First Madam do not live together. If they live together once or twice, the Prime Minister will leave in the middle of the night."
Luo Zhenming only had Lan Qin as his wife, but they did not live together.
This sounds really weird.
"What else?" Luo Yao asked again.
"I heard that the Prime Minister met the Second Madam during that period. Since then, he rarely went to the Eldest Madam, and the Eldest Madam never asked. The two of them didn't look like a couple." Xiaoxue truthfully told the mothers what they said. Relay it to Luo Yao.
If what these nannies say is true, then there is indeed something strange between Luo Zhenming and Lan Qin.
If you want to find out the reason, you have to ask Luo Zhenming.
In the middle of the night, Luo Yao, dressed in men's clothing, put on a mask, quietly left the abandoned house and went straight to the Prime Minister's Mansion.
She entered the Prime Minister's Mansion by a familiar route and arrived outside Luo Zhenming's room. The conversation between Luo Zhenming and Shu Qing came from inside the house, which made her frown.
