After his wife and daughter died tragically, the scumbag prince's hair turned white overnight

Xue'er's hands were still scratching her hands and body, and she looked up at Shen Muxi with unwillingness.

A pair of big eyes with clear black and white looked particularly pitiful at this moment.

Shen Muxi leaned over gently and smiled at her, "What should I help you with? Help you and others slander me?"

A hint of fear flashed across Xue'er's eyes.

"Miss, I don't know what you are talking about..."

Until now, she still wanted to pull Shen Muxi's skirt to make excuses.

Shen Muxi mercilessly stepped on her hand and asked, "Who ordered you to let that man into my room?"

Xue'er screamed, but still refused to speak.

But sometimes, even if you say nothing.

To some extent, it is no different from confessing one's crime.

"You are from the Zhang family."

Xue'er wanted to make a few more excuses.

Meeting Shen Muxi's determined gaze, she gave up struggling.

He simply admitted it and shamelessly put all the blame on Shen Muxi.

"Miss, you can't blame this servant, you can only blame yourself for being useless.

You can't protect my wife, and even your marriage can be snatched away. Following you, I worry every day that you might be killed by accident..."

Xue'er felt itchy and painful all over her body, and looked at Shen Muxi with a ferocious expression.

Shen Muxi released his foot from her hand.

He squatted down gently and looked at her, his eyes clear and calm with a hint of sarcasm, "Do you think you can divert my attention by pestering me? Aren't you a little naive?

Why, do you feel that the itching poison on your body is not enough, and you want me to give you something extra?"

Three questions came one after another.

Xue'er was shocked and felt a chill on her back, and the itching and pain on her body became more intense.

After a while, he managed to squeeze out a few words, "You...I'm itchy and painful all over my body now. Did you poison me?"

Shen Muxi chuckled, slowly stood up, and looked down at her condescendingly, "Guess why you have been stalling here, but no one in the yard has come over?"

The shock on Xue'er's face gradually turned into horror that could no longer be concealed, "It's you?"

Shen Muxi smiled but did not answer.

Just then, there was a commotion outside the yard.

Immediately afterwards, servants came in one after another holding torches.

"It's the middle of the night, why are you not sleeping here?"

The first one to come in was Shen Chuanhai.

Following closely behind Shen Chuanhai was Zhang.

Seeing Shen Muxi looking down at the dirty Xue'er, a hint of shock flashed in Zhang's eyes.

It soon calmed down.

"Xi'er, why are you not sleeping in the middle of the night and teaching a maid a lesson here?"

There was a hint of disapproval in her tone.

Obviously there is no topic to talk about, so he is just looking for trouble.

Shen Muxi has suffered enough humiliation before, so this time, she will not let herself down.

"Why, if I don't teach the maid a lesson, should I teach you, my stepmother?"

Xue'er, who was lying on the ground, heard Zhang's voice and immediately turned towards Zhang and Shen Chuanhai, "Master, Madam, please have mercy on me and save me.

I only heard strange noises coming from the young lady's room and was worried about her, so I approached her to check. But before I even took a few steps, I felt itchy and painful all over my body. The young lady said this was a lesson for me for meddling in other people's business..."

Upon hearing this, Shen Chuanhai immediately raised his eyes to look at Shen Muxi, "Is what she said true? Did you hide someone in the room?"

"Whether what she said is true or false depends on whether you, father, are blind."

"You rebellious girl, what nonsense are you talking about?"

"Isn't it?" Shen Muxi's eyes swept coldly over the several maids following Zhang. "They brought the servants and maids out with such fanfare. If it's not to catch an adulterer, could it be that they really came here for a stroll?"

She spoke so bluntly that even Shen Chuanhai couldn't help but look at Zhang twice more.

But in order to protect Zhang's reputation, Shen Chuanhai still spoke, "It's your stepmother who is worried that you won't be used to living here again, so she came with your father to see you."

He didn't come to see me for the entire afternoon and half the night, but waited until three o'clock in the morning to come with his great group.

Everyone in the Shen family must have thought she was a fool.

Shen Muxi raised an eyebrow. "It's hard for my father and stepmother to make this trip. What's the matter? My stepmother thinks the key to my mother's warehouse is too hot to handle and wants to hand it over overnight?"

When Zhang heard Shen Muxi mention the key to her biological mother's warehouse, her eyelids jumped violently, and her hand holding the handkerchief tightened.

"What...what private vault key?"

Without waiting for Shen Chuanhai to speak, Shen Muxi spoke as if he was afraid that the world would not be in chaos.

"Didn't father tell you? She already promised me at grandmother's place today."

Zhang looked at Shen Chuanhai with hurt eyes, "Master."

What did he say at the beginning?

The power to manage the household lies in her hands, so the key to the private vault lies in her hands.

Now that the key to the private vault has been given to Shen Xi, is she still in charge of this family?

Shen Chuanhai knew he was in the wrong, so he touched his nose and lowered his voice a lot.

"It's the middle of the night, don't disturb the children's rest here, go back first."

No one expected that they were here to catch someone committing adultery.

The rapist was not caught, and the two masters went back first.

Xue'er looked unwillingly in the direction where Zhang and Shen Chuanhai left, but Shen Muxi blocked her way.

"Okay, now no one can help you. You only have one way to go."

He raised his eyes and met Shen Muxi's gentle smile.

Xue'er fell to the ground in dejection.

...

Qinghui Garden.

"Master, how can you just return the key? You know our current expenses..."

"Alright, replace the valuables with common items tonight. Return the key tomorrow after the imperial decree arrives. Then give her a new account book. She grew up as a medicine boy, what could she possibly understand?"

This was Shen Chuanhai’s idea.

In his opinion, Shen Muxi was sent to a country farm to work as a medicine boy for an old doctor since he was a child.

Just muddle through and it will be over.

But Zhang was still worried.

"But..."

"There aren't that many buts. Just do as you're told."

After saying that, Shen Chuanhai left without looking back.

It's easy to imagine that he must have gone to another concubine's place.

Zhang's teeth were about to break from biting.

He went to Chunxiyuan for no reason, but failed to frame her. Instead, he almost had the keys to her private vault returned to him.

The more she thought about it, the more unwilling she became. She finally called Aunt Cui and said, "Send someone to find out what happened to that person tonight."

"Yes."

...

Early the next morning.

The imperial decree granting marriage has come down from the palace.

The high-ranking officials in Yecheng were all shrewd people and knew that marrying the prince would be a difficult task with no good results.

Therefore, when the imperial edict fell on the Shen family, no one came out to make trouble.

Shen Muxi received the order smoothly.

On the afternoon of the day she received the imperial decree granting her marriage, she personally visited the Xiaodong Palace.

"Master, the eldest lady of the Shen Mansion is here."

Murong Jingyan pulled the folding fan back with his backhand.

"I am not feeling well today, so I won't see you."

But...

"Miss Shen said she has some knowledge of medicine and has experience with difficult and complicated diseases. She might be able to help you."

Murong Jingyan paused slightly as he stood up.

"Do you know medical skills?"

He sat back in his original position, tapping his knuckles on the desk in front of him, a hint of darkness flashing in his eyes.

After thinking for a moment, he instructed He Xuan, "Tell her that I am mourning my deceased wife and ask her to wait. Go."

Dead wife?

He Xuan looked at Murong Jingyan in shock, dressed in a flamboyant red robe, "Your Highness, where did you get your deceased wife?

Murong Jingyan frowned and said, "Go if I tell you to."

"Yes."

...

Shen Muxi sat quietly in the front hall.

He looked at every blade of grass and every tree in the Prince's Mansion calmly.

It must be said that although the prince is not favored, he still has the necessary dignity.

She doesn't understand calligraphy, painting, flowers or plants, but she understands money.

In Danyang, it was very likely that a fine painting or calligraphy could be sold for several thousand or even tens of thousands of taels.

She whispered to Shen Xi, "Look, that's the original work of Lushan Ke. I didn't expect he had so many..."

Shen Xi whispered beside her, "It seems that this prince is not as unpopular as we imagined, or perhaps he is not as useless as we imagined."

Shen Muxi nodded.

She actually doesn't care whether she is favored or not, useful or not.

She showed up today just to make her presence felt in front of the prince.

While he was thinking, He Xuan came back.

"Please wait for a moment, Miss Shen. My master will be here soon."

"It doesn't matter."

He Xuan smiled and sent someone to bring her tea and snacks.

About a quarter of an hour passed.

A tall, plain figure appeared at the door of the front hall.

"Miss Shen."