After eavesdropping on my thoughts, my whole family changed their fate

"Is...is there anything else?" Jingzhao Yin always felt that nothing good was going to happen.

"You said someone died after eating at Jiuanyuan. Where is that person? Did his family sue him? How will you handle the situation?"

Cheng Che's series of questions caught him off guard.

"Yes...someone died. He has been buried now. It would be a bad idea to dig him out."

They arrived so quickly that he didn't have time to prepare for what was to come.

At this moment, his brain was working fast, trying to get the matter over with.

If Cheng Che wanted to investigate, this matter would be full of loopholes, and he would be very panicked.

"Oh, he's been buried. Then take me to find his family. This is a matter of life and death, so we can't just let it go. I have to meet his family and find out what happened."

Jingzhao Yin was completely panicked.

He planned to make arrangements early tomorrow morning since those four kids were easy to fool anyway.

Cheng Che came very suddenly and he was not ready yet.

He just wanted to lock up Jin Yuanyuan and the others for a few days and then ask their families for some money. He took advantage of the time difference to find someone to act and pretend to be the victim.

He didn't expect that the parents of these four people were so powerful, and he couldn't afford to offend any of them.

Cheng Che knew that he couldn't produce it. He had asked around before coming and learned that Jiuanyuan had never eaten anything dirty, and no one had made a fuss saying that the food was unclean. It was obvious that they were being framed.

"Too many people are involved in this matter. Let's go to His Majesty to seek justice."

When he heard that he was going to see the emperor, Jingzhao Yin was almost frightened to his knees.

"No! We can't go to the emperor. This is just a small matter. We can solve it privately. Why bother the emperor? I have already released the person."

Everything he did was full of loopholes. Once the emperor checked, he would know it was his fault, and the consequences would be disastrous.

Cheng Che insisted on taking him to see the emperor.

Jin Ruoyun got on the carriage and arranged for someone to send Xiaojiu and He Linyuan home.

When He Linyuan returned home, He Hong was still sleeping and didn't notice that he didn't come back.

Ruan Qi, who went to inquire, came back to report.

"Master, today... Today, the eldest master is not feeling well and is bedridden. The old master has been staying by his side and has never left... So..."

So no one noticed that He Linyuan had not returned all night, and He Hong had already fallen asleep with Ruan Zhi in his arms.

He Linyuan's eyes were dim and nothing could be seen on his face.

"I understand. You should go back. You have been locked up in prison and have not had a good rest. Go back and sleep."

Ruan Qi looked at him with heartache as he returned to his room. The moment he closed the door, he let out a long sigh.

As soon as he entered the room, a small insect crawled into his palm. This was the one that bit He Lingsheng. It was because of the insect that He Lingsheng had been bedridden today and it would take at least a month for him to recover.

After washing up and lying on the bed, he stared straight ahead and smiled bitterly.

"I was wrong. I shouldn't have had such illusions. I thought he would worry about me. I never thought that he was only worried about him and Ruan Zhi's son. He didn't even know that I didn't come home."

Similar things had happened before, but now, he was not as sad as before.

He now has friends and is no longer alone.

He Linyuan took out the porcelain bottle given by Jin Yuanyuan from under the pillow, poured out a pill and swallowed it.

Then he closed his eyes and stopped thinking about the fatherly love that did not belong to him at all.

After Jin Yuanyuan returned home, he walked back and forth in the yard because he ate too much in prison. He fell asleep at dawn the next day.

Cheng Che didn't come back until the evening of the next day.

Jin Ruoyun quickly poured him a glass of water and asked, "How is it? What did His Majesty say?"

He took a big gulp of water with a faint smile on his face.

"It's no problem for your husband to take action. The Jingzhao Yin was dismissed and investigated. The emperor also found out that he had concealed many reports from the Hotpot Xingzhou restaurant. There were no less than ten reports that the food at the Hotpot Xingzhou restaurant was not clean. Not only were the dishes covered in mud, but the pork was also covered in hair and dead bugs."

When he heard the report, he was shocked.

So many problems were concealed, and those complaints were buried in the sea. Now that they have been brought to light, Zhao Lingzhou is in trouble.

Gu Xingruo's store was fined five thousand taels and ordered to temporarily close for half a month for rectification and reopen after it was back to normal standards and clean.

Upon hearing the bad news, Gu Xingruo was extremely anxious.

"How can we close the shop? If we close it for one day, we will lose a lot of money! You are a prince, can't you discuss with the emperor and open the shop while reorganizing it?"

"You were told to deal with Jiuanyuan next door, why are we the ones being punished?"

Their store had finally started to pick up, how did it end up like this? It was obviously the store opposite that should have closed, why did it become theirs?

Ultimately it's because he's incompetent and can't even do this little thing.

Zhao Lingzhou heard the complaint in her words, blaming him for not handling the situation properly.

"Gu Xingruo, can you blame me?! This is your own problem. Didn't I tell you before that you should clean the store properly and not make it so dirty? If you keep doing this, something bad will definitely happen, but you just didn't listen!"

"Everything was going smoothly when dealing with Jiuanyuan, but who knew... who knew that it was Jin Yuanyuan's four little bastards who opened the store. They messed up my plans!"

His original plan was that once the store opposite closed, he would buy the Jiuanyuan store and open a second store, but now it was they who were almost closing.

Zhao Lingzhou was exhausted both physically and mentally and didn't want to talk nonsense with her.

"If something like this happens again, forget about opening a store! You should think about what to do."

Gu Xingruo cried in grievance. She worked so hard to make money just to support his plan to usurp the throne in the future.

Now that something has happened, he only knows how to blame her. Doesn't it seem like he has done nothing wrong?

The two parted unhappily and didn't speak for a long time.

The store opposite closed, and Jiuanyuan became more and more crowded.

Many people went there for the hotpot restaurant Xingzhou at first, but when they arrived they found that they had suspended business. When they looked up, they saw that a hotpot restaurant had opened across the street.

They all came for the food, and didn't care which shop was open or closed, they just went straight to Jiuanyuan.

In this way, Jin Yuanyuan's store became more and more popular, and she added new menu items to the store: charcoal-grilled pig's trotters and braised beef in soy sauce.

More people came, and Jin Yuanyuan looked at the countless silver bills and laughed foolishly.

"I can just lie down at home and earn money without doing anything. It feels so good!"

The four-member team gathered in a private room, eating hot pot and talking about the hot pot restaurant.

He Linyuan ate a piece of green vegetable and touched his legs. He always felt his legs were a little itchy.

Time passed quickly and a month later, Gu Xingruo's hot pot restaurant reopened.

This time she compared the prices across the street and lowered the price in her store to even lower than Jiuanyuan's.

She just couldn't believe that it was so cheap and still couldn't attract customers.