On the night of the broken engagement, the paranoid prince came to me crying and asking for my statu

"Okay, okay, I have roughly guessed the extent of your friendship with Hong Shu. For the sake of your friendship, I will ask you to ask Hong Shu for help later. It shouldn't be a big problem, right?"

"No, no," Liu Er waved her hands and shook her head repeatedly, with a little shyness on her face. "In fact, when I was helping Hong Shu collect the bodies of my father and mother, I told her that it was your idea. Hong Shu is still very grateful for your kindness. As long as you ask, Hong Shu will definitely do it without hesitation."

Now, it was Su Sui'an's turn to be surprised.

"In my name?"

"Because I didn't want the young lady to get into trouble like in that dream and have no one to help her, so I lied to Hong Shu."

Liu'er's voice was very low. Because she was nervous, her fingers were still twisting the necklace hanging from her belt.

"Liu'er, you..."

"Miss, Manager Fu came to look for you at noon, but you were still awake at that time, so he came to me and asked me to tell you that he didn't find the top-quality tea you asked him to find, but he did find a lot of rotten tea dregs, which is better than nothing."

Before Su Sui'an could finish his words, the voice of Nanny Deng came from outside the door.

"Miss, are you going to the pawnshop to pick it up in person, or are you going to ask Shopkeeper Fu to deliver it to you personally?"

Tea leaves are the secret code between her and Uncle Fu.

The quality of the tea leaves represents the usefulness of the information obtained.

Rotten tea dregs...

I guess this time, Shopkeeper Fu found out a lot of things that were both true and false.

Without any hesitation, Su Sui'an said to the person outside the door, "Ask Shopkeeper Fu to come over. Don't let mother know about this."

"Yes."

Nanny Deng responded and left.

During the time when Nanny Deng left to notify Manager Fu to come and look for Su Sui'an, Su Sui'an had already instructed Liu'er to contact Hong Su and ask her to keep a close eye on the movements at Shoukang Hall and notify them immediately if there was anything unusual.

Not long after Liu'er left, Manager Fu came to the front yard of Su Sui'an's residence with a hunched back.

"Little miss."

Just as he was about to greet Su Sui'an, Su Sui'an raised his hand and gave him a light support.

"Uncle Fu, have you found any clues about the matter I asked you to help investigate before?"

There was an impatience in his voice that could hardly be concealed.

Uncle Fu nodded and sighed.

"Miss, I have found out what you asked me to investigate, but the person I sent to investigate the power behind it only had a slight connection with it, but he lost his life... I don't want you to fall into such a dangerous situation."

The process of Zhao Qingwan coming to Changping Marquis Mansion was indeed not simple.

A hint of sharpness flashed across Su Sui'an's eyes.

When he looked at Shopkeeper Fu, he was extremely kind and gentle. "Uncle Fu, you can rest assured to tell me what you found out. As for what to do next, I will weigh the pros and cons myself. Besides, the original intention of asking you to investigate this matter was just to know the truth."

Manager Fu saw that Su Sui'an was determined.

Finally, he gave in.

"Before, you asked me to investigate the matter of the little girl surnamed Zhao. I found out that the girl was indeed murdered on her way back to Beijing, and it was a terrible murder by a bandit."

"Bandit disaster?"

Uncle Fu nodded, his tone full of regret and reluctance.

"Those damned robbers were really evil. A beautiful girl was raped to death. When she died, there was not a single piece of good flesh on her body. Even her lower body was rotten. If the bandit den that was raided outside Luojing City a few days ago was not the same bandit den that robbed and killed the little girl surnamed Zhao, the people I found would not have dared to tell the truth..."

When it came to the latter part of the sentence, Uncle Fu stopped abruptly and did not continue speaking.

"Is the gangster den that was destroyed related to the dignitaries in Luojing City?"

Su Sui'an asked the question in a declarative tone.

Seeing that he couldn't hide it anymore, Shopkeeper Fu nodded.

"The leader of the bandit den, surnamed Hu, was known as the Big Boss in the underworld. He also had another nickname, Hu Yidao, because he always carried a blunt tungsten steel knife with a notch on it on his waist, and he always killed people with one blow, so he had another nickname.

Almost everyone who knew him was intimidated by his blunt tungsten steel knife with a notch on it. Over time, no one could call out his real name anymore."

After a pause, Manager Fu raised his eyelids and secretly glanced at Su Sui'an, and saw that the latter was sitting on a rosewood armchair with his legs crossed, even with his hand supporting his chin, looking like he was listening with great interest.

Looking more closely, Shopkeeper Fu even found that the girl began to frown because of his pause. He could only remind her again with concern, "The rest are just some rumors, but my people died because of this rumor. Miss, you can just listen to it, but don't think of hitting a stone with an egg."

"Don't worry, Uncle Fu. Am I that kind of person?" Su Sui'an waved his hand at Shopkeeper Fu indifferently.

Shopkeeper Fu saw that Su Sui'an really didn't take what he said to heart, so he felt relieved to continue talking.

"Hu Yidao actually has an elder sister named Gu Yue'er, who is the 38th concubine brought into Prince Yun's mansion. Strangely enough, Prince Yun has changed women more frequently than he has changed clothes since the death of Princess Yun. Over the years, he has brought more than 80 concubines into his house. In order not to occupy too much space in Prince Yun's mansion, many concubines were only served by Prince Yun two or three times before being sent to live on the farm.

But it was this man who changed women so frequently that Gu Yueer, who was already nearly forty, lived a very comfortable life in Prince Yun's Mansion..."

"So, Uncle Fu means that the bandit den that was destroyed earlier was actually a sharp blade in the hands of Prince Yun's Mansion that was not meant to be seen in public?"

Shopkeeper Fu nodded, his face becoming more solemn, "Moreover, Prince Yun seems to have a close relationship with the Changping Marquis's Mansion. Forty years ago, there was an incident in Prince Yun's Mansion that caused a sensation."

Forty years ago?

Su Kang and Su Qishun were born only a few days apart.

Both of them are now in their early forties...

Su Sui'an's ears immediately pricked up.

"What happened forty years ago?"

This is a past event that would make you lose your head if you just mention it.

Shopkeeper Fu even lowered his voice a few notches. If Su Sui'an wanted to hear clearly, he could only crouch down and get close to Shopkeeper Fu like a thief.

Just as I stood firm, I heard the whisper of Shopkeeper Fu, "Forty years ago, the Princess of Yun, who had always been in harmony with Prince Yun, discovered that Prince Yun had a mistress. She ignored her ten-year relationship with Prince Yun and beat the drum to report the incident. After being beaten with eighty strokes of the cane, she filed a complaint with the emperor. The emperor was furious and almost stripped Prince Yun of his inherited title."