Regent, please maintain your aloof image.

The next day, the stall owner brought the fine horse from the previous day to Ronglin Hall. He stood at the door, hesitating for a long time before finally deciding to go inside.

The shopkeeper smiled broadly when he saw someone enter, but when he saw the stall owner's clothes, his smile vanished instantly, replaced by a look of disgust. "Go away, go away! Don't you even know where you are? Do you think you're someone who can come here? Get out of here and don't dirty my place."

"I..." the stall owner said, somewhat embarrassed.

"What do you mean, 'get out'?" The shopkeeper saw that he wouldn't leave, so he reached out and pushed him.

The stall owner lost his balance and fell to the ground, the horse he was carrying landing right at the shopkeeper's feet.

The shopkeeper kicked it away in disgust.

Seeing this, the stall owner, disregarding his own pain, quickly crawled over to retrieve the item and then checked for any damage. When he saw the scratches, he was heartbroken.

Just then, Su Qianrou walked in and saw the stall owner kneeling on the ground. She couldn't help but ask, "What happened?"

Upon seeing her, the shopkeeper immediately adopted a fawning attitude and approached her obsequiously, "Miss, is there anything you'd like to buy?"

"You are the manager here."

"Yes".

"You pushed him."

"He's just a blind fool, Miss, don't worry about him... Guards, throw him out!" the shopkeeper ordered.

Upon hearing this, the servants standing nearby immediately stepped forward.

"Let's see who dares," Su Qianrou said, walking over to the stall owner and helping him up. "Are you alright? Are you hurt?"

"I'm fine, thank you, miss."

"I'm sorry, I've humiliated you."

"No, miss, there's no need to apologize. I expected it to be like this, but..." As he spoke, the stall owner glanced at the horse in his hand and sighed, "What a pity."

"Don't worry, I'll make it up to you," Su Qianrou said, looking at the shopkeeper. "This is your way of treating guests."

Seeing that she seemed more like someone looking to cause trouble than to buy anything, the shopkeeper became less polite. "Miss, if you're here to buy something, Ronglin Hall welcomes you. But if you're here to cause trouble, then I'm sorry, you've come to the wrong place."

Su Qianrou chuckled lightly, "Is that so? What if I insist on causing trouble?"

"Then don't blame me for being impolite."

"How dare you! Do you know who you are standing in front of?" Chunzhu shouted.

“I don’t care who she is. Anyone who dares to cause trouble at Ronglin Hall is asking for death.”

"Ha, what a boastful tone."

"I think you're the one who's courting death, daring to speak to your master like that."

"Master, she's really courting death. Let me tell you the truth, this shop belongs to Madam Su. You know Madam Su, right? She's the wife of Prefect Su of Yangzhou. You're not trying to tell me that she is, are you?" The shopkeeper couldn't help but laugh.

“Miss, I know you want to help me, but what you’re doing… is really inappropriate,” the stall owner said, clearly also feeling that Su Qianrou’s actions were reckless.

Su Qianrou glanced at Chunzhu.

Chunzhu understood, took out the land deed, and held it up in front of the shopkeeper, saying, "Open your dog eyes and look carefully."

The shopkeeper took it and looked at it. "How is this possible? How could you have the land deed for Ronglin Hall?" Then, as if thinking of something, he said, "Well, you have a lot of nerve, daring to try to fool me with a fake one." He then ordered, "Go, go and call the yamen runners. Have them arrest all these troublemakers and lock them in jail."

"Yes," the servant replied, and then went to report to the authorities.

Su Qianrou said calmly, "No need, they will arrive shortly."

The servant was stunned and looked at the shopkeeper.

"What a joke! Why would the yamen runners come for no reason?"

"I sent them."

"Ridiculous, who do you think you are? You think you can just order them to come whenever you want?"

"It's laughable that you are like this. Let me tell you the truth, our young lady is the legitimate daughter of Lord Su, that is, the eldest daughter of the Su family. Not to mention the yamen runners in the county government, even the yamen runners in the prefectural government can be ordered around by our young lady."

"What did you say? She's the eldest daughter of the Su family?" The shopkeeper looked at Su Qianrou in disbelief.

"Otherwise, do you think this land deed came from? It was my mistress's dowry for our young lady, you fool."

"That's impossible. How could she possibly be Miss Su?" The shopkeeper didn't believe it, or rather, he didn't want to believe it.

Just then, two bailiffs walked in, along with Li An.

Li An walked up to Su Qianrou and called out, "Miss."

The yamen runners called out, "Miss Su."

"Thank you for your help."

"Miss Su, you're too kind. It's what we should do."

"You really are Miss Su."

"You'll find out soon enough," Su Qianrou said, giving the constables a look that signaled them to arrest the man.

Without hesitation, the constables arrested the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper panicked. "Although I was blind and didn't recognize your greatness, I did not do anything wrong. What do you mean by this, Miss?"

"You probably don't even remember how much you've embezzled from Ronglin Hall over the past few years, Manager Li."

"I didn't. I am loyal to Madam. How could I have done anything to embezzle? Miss must have misunderstood."

"Whether you have it or not, go to the county government and tell them. Take him away."

"Yes".

"Miss..." The shopkeeper wanted to say something, but was forced out by the yamen runners.

"You really are Lord Su's daughter, Miss Su."

"Ok".

"No wonder you asked me to come, so you..." The stall owner suddenly realized, and then wanted to ask something, but was too embarrassed to speak.

Su Qianrou knew what he wanted to say, but she didn't expose him. "I'm currently short of a manager. Are you interested?"

"I... will be the shopkeeper," the stall owner exclaimed in astonishment.

"Hmm, would you be willing?"

"Why me?"

Su Qianrou glanced at what he was holding and said, "Your skills are not bad."

The stall owner glanced down at it, hesitated, and after a moment, finally said, "This... I didn't carve it, it's my son's."

Su Qianrou seemed to have known all along, and didn't react much, nor was she angry.

After waiting a long time without her speaking, the stall owner couldn't help but look up at her. He saw her staring at him. Despite her young age, she had eyes that seemed to see right through people. He couldn't help but look away, feeling guilty and unable to meet her eyes directly.

Su Qianrou said calmly, "Tell me, why did you hide it?"

The stall owner was silent for a moment before speaking slowly, "Miss, you may not know this, but this shop originally belonged to our family. However, it was seized ten years ago. At that time, Lord Su was only a county magistrate, and the prefect had a son named Liu Qi, who was arrogant and domineering, never caring about the lives of ordinary people. Our shop was doing very well at the time, and that's why he took a liking to it and tried to seize it. Naturally, I refused, so he brought people to cause trouble every day. One time, my son came here to see me and happened to see him pushing me, so he went up to argue with him, but he broke my son's leg, so my son still can't walk normally. That day was the joyous day when my son passed the imperial examination and became a scholar; he came to tell me the good news." "Well... ever since then, my son has become listless and self-destructive. His mother and I have put in a lot of effort to rekindle his hope and get him to learn the craft of carving." As he spoke, he looked at the wood carving in his hand and continued, "And this one, he only took three years to create such an exquisite work. You can imagine how talented he is. However, seven days have passed and he still hasn't been able to sell it. I wanted to lie to him, but he found out, which made him doubt himself again. He locked himself in his room for three days and three nights and hasn't come out since. He hasn't eaten or drunk anything, so I had no choice but to..." At the end, the stall owner was a little embarrassed. No matter what, lying was wrong.