sjar Chapter 486 There is a Hidden
Chapter 486 There is a Hidden
Ever since Li Hongting was assassinated in Changning Village, she understood that the struggle for succession was inevitable.
But if this really happened, Lu Shian would still be very nervous!
Although he was nervous, Lu Shian still pretended to be mysterious!
"Third Prince, please go back!"
Lu Shian took two steps and suddenly thought of Jing Youran. She stopped and turned her head!
"There is one thing I can't help but ask. Are the princesses of Wu always so brainless?"
The Third Prince naturally knew about what had happened in the palace before, so he asked someone to pass on a message to severely reprimand Jing Youran, and asked Jing Youran to stay put and not cause any more trouble.
The Third Prince clasped his fists and said, "I wonder how the concubine can calm down?"
"Calm down, huh, let her stay away from me."
She, Lu Shian, doesn't think she is a good person, but now she is pregnant, and for the sake of the baby she doesn't want to make a big fuss, but this doesn't mean that this matter will be forgotten. Later...
The Third Prince added: "If the concubine is willing, I can ask her to never bother you again."
Lu Shian raised his eyebrows: "You want to take her back?"
The princess who came here to marry is more likely to die here than to go back.
"If she can stop bothering you, would the concubine be willing to cooperate with me?"
"talk later."
As soon as the third prince left, Lu Shian immediately called Lu'er over.
"Lu'er, are you still in touch with your former colleagues?"
"Ah?" Lu'er was stunned. Colleague? What was that?
"Um, colleague, is there anyone you know from the Susha Sect?"
Lu'er nodded: "Yes."
"Then can you help me check Prince Duan's movements?"
Lu'er thought about it and nodded: "Okay, but I may not find anything."
"Just do your best."
Lu'er took the order and went out. Lu Shi'an thought about it and felt that he couldn't rely on Lu'er anymore, and he also needed to work harder.
Suddenly she thought of Yuejiyuan, and she slapped her forehead speechlessly.
"Oh, my brain."
Yuejiyuan is very well-informed about the news, so how could she have forgotten about this?
Li Hongting's study.
Shen Cuo put the list he found on Li Hongting's desk.
"This is a list of officials who had private dealings with Li Hongyu."
Li Hongting picked it up and started flipping through it carefully. With every page he read, he became angrier.
"Li Hongyu."
"What is the prince going to do?"
Li Hongting sneered: "What to do? Of course, do nothing."
Shen Cuo frowned. When Li Hongyu came back from Huainan City, he said that he brought a team of several thousand elite soldiers, but in fact the team had more than 10,000 people.
Ten thousand may not seem like a lot, but Li Hongyu's mansion also has thousands of soldiers, plus the 20,000 people kept in the mountains. This large number of people cannot be underestimated.
"Your Highness wants to use stillness to control movement?"
Li Hongting didn't say anything, but asked Shen Cuo to go out.
"Go and call Yongchang over."
Yongchang came in quickly, and Li Hongting asked directly: "How is Cheng'an recovering now?"
"Thanks to Miss Nanxing, Cheng An has almost recovered."
Li Hongting nodded: "Well, I have something for you to do."
Yongchang clasped his fists and accepted the order, then said, "The Third Prince came to see the concubine today and wanted to buy some grain seeds from her."
Li Hongting sneered: "He secretly purchased a large amount of food, and at the same time he pretended to come to the concubine. Does he really think that everyone is a fool?"
"I don't think the Third Prince is a good person. He used the excuse of staying in Anjing for a few more days to have fun, but he has been interacting with officials in private."
“Take down the names of those officers and keep a close eye on them.”
"I am already doing it."
Li Hongting nodded. Yongchang and Chengan were his most capable right-hand men. During the period when they were injured, he felt their importance especially.
When Lu Shian led Lu'er out of Yuejiyuan, it was already slightly dark.
Lu'er helped her get on the carriage: "Concubine, go slowly."
Lu Shian waved his hand: "It's not that exaggerated. I can walk by myself."
The two of them sat down and the carriage started moving slowly. Lu Shian opened the curtain out of boredom, only to see Liu Sheng hurriedly turning into an alley.
She frowned. "Strange."
"What's wrong?" Lu'er looked in the direction Lu Shian was looking, but there was nothing there.
"Nothing, I just saw Liu Sheng."
"Mr. Liu?"
Lu Shian nodded: "I must have seen it wrong."
Lu Er said casually: "Then Liu Sheng's martial arts should be pretty good."
Lu Shian paused: "What did you say?"
"I think Liu Sheng's martial arts skills should be pretty good."
"How do you know he knows martial arts?"
Lu Er explained: "Of course people who don't know martial arts can't see it, but people who know martial arts can see it. Your skills that you inadvertently reveal have already been exposed."
Does he know martial arts?
But she didn't remember Yinzhu saying that.
"Are you sure?"
Lu'er would not make a mistake on this point. She nodded: "It will definitely not be wrong."
Lu Shian immediately told the bearded man, "Bearded man, go to the noodle shop."
There are quite a lot of people in the noodle shop at this moment. Lu Shian usually comes during the day, and this is the first time he comes so late.
Seeing Lu Shian coming, Lu'er immediately stepped forward and said, "Hey, why are you here?"
"I came by to see you."
"Why are you looking at me? I'm fine. You know you, oh..."
"You shouldn't go out at night."
Yinzhu kept talking non-stop, and Lu Shian listened to her patiently. After Yinzhu finished speaking, Lu Shian asked her, "Where is Mr. Liu? Why can't I see Mr. Liu?"
"Oh, Mr. Liu has a stomachache today. He went out to get medicine."
"Get some medicine." Lu Shian glanced at the clinic diagonally opposite.
Isn't the clinic just opposite?
Then why did he appear so far away?
Lu Shian made a joke seemingly unintentionally: "You are a martial artist, but your body is so weak."
"He is not a martial artist, he is just a person with a miserable life. He grew up with his mother, but when the flood happened, his mother also passed away. Now he is all alone."
Lu Shian and Lu'er looked at each other, and at this moment, Liu Sheng walked out of the clinic opposite.
He was still holding the medicine in his hand when he entered the noodle shop. He saw Lu Shian there and smiled at him honestly, "You're here."
Lu Shian smiled and glanced at him. Yes, she was definitely not mistaken about the person she saw just now was Liu Sheng.
"Yinzhu, since you are busy, I will go back first."
"Hey, wait a minute."
Yinzhu hurriedly wiped the water off her hands and walked out with a smile.
"I originally planned to tell you tomorrow when I went to the Prince's Mansion, but now that you are here, I can't help but want to tell you now."
Seeing the unconcealed joy on Yinzhu's face, Lu Shian guessed, "It looks like a good thing."
Yinzhu's face turned even redder under the candlelight, and she lowered her head shyly: "Brother Sheng and I are planning to get married next month."
Lu Shian tried hard to force a smile: "Okay, congratulations, I will definitely come to the wedding banquet when the time comes."
Yinzhu smiled again: "Go back quickly, and be careful on the road, okay?"
"Don't worry, you're busy, I'll go back first."
Back in the carriage, Lu Shian could no longer maintain the smile on his face.
"There's something wrong with this Mr. Liu."
"Lu'er, help me check this Liu Sheng. Why did he hide the fact that he knows martial arts?"
Lu Er comforted him, “Many people in the underworld want to remain anonymous, so those who are unwilling to reveal their true identities are not necessarily bad people.
Lu Shian murmured, "I hope so."
into the night.
In an unused room in the Prince's Mansion, Lu'er and Shen Cuo met in the dark, and Lu'er told Shen Cuo what Lu Shian had told her.
"Master, do you really want to investigate?"
Shen Cuo shook his head without even thinking: "Let's put it off for now."
"Yes."
"The prince does not completely trust me. You must be careful in the future and do not come to me unless it is important."
"Yes, I obey."
Soon Lu'er climbed out from the back window.
But Shen Cuo did not leave. Instead, he waited in the room with his eyes closed.
After a while, the cabinet on the wall was gently pushed, and then Qi Sha crawled out from the half-man-high hole.
After standing up straight, he brushed off the dust on his body and then saluted Shen Cuo.
"Master of the Gate."
"You said there was news?"
"Yes, I found out about an old maid in the palace who used to serve the princess. She said that once the prince consort scolded the princess severely. The princess got drunk after returning home and alarmed the Empress Dowager, who was the queen at the time. Not long after, your father was killed."
Shen Cuo didn't seem surprised. He hadn't been able to find out the truth of the past for so many years, but he knew in his heart that the person who killed his mother was very skilled and didn't seem like a gangster.
"What should we do now?"
"Keep investigating. I want solid evidence. I want her to have nothing to say."
"Yes."
The next day.
Ever since Shen Cuo started working at the Prince's Mansion, Su Qianqian would come to visit him often.
Because of her pregnancy, Lu Shian rarely went out to meet outsiders, but Qin Jingzhi, as the mistress of the house, had to personally entertain the prince's cousin.
However, the two have known each other since childhood and can chat with each other.
After breakfast today, Su Qianqian came again with food.
Shen Cuo looked at Su Qianqian coming with a cold face and was unwilling to say more.
Su Qianqian was so smart that she could tell at once that something was wrong with Shen Cuo.
"Brother, what's wrong with you? I see you don't seem very happy."
Shen Cuo stared at Su Qianqian, and Su Qianqian subconsciously touched her face: "What's wrong? Is there something on my face?"
"No, if you have nothing else to do, go back first. I'm still busy here."
"No, I won't leave. I asked the prince, and he said there is no task for you today."
"The prince appreciates me, so I must do my best."
"Is this why you don't go home?"
The Princess's Mansion cleared out a room for Shen Cuo, but Shen Cuo had never lived there. He didn't go back to the Shen Mansion now and mostly stayed in the Prince's Mansion.
"I said that the prince appreciated me, and I will do my best."
"Brother, do you hate my mother?"
"She's not the murderer of my mother, so I naturally don't hate her."
Su Qianqian keenly noticed that there was something wrong with this sentence: "Brother, have you found out something?"
"What do you want me to find out?"
Shen Cuo's eyes were sharp, and Su Qianqian felt guilty.
"Brother, please don't do this. I'm scared if you do this."
Seeing that Su Qianqian’s face had turned pale, Shen Cuo turned around and looked to the side.
"Go back."
Seeing Shen Cuo being so distant from her, Su Qianqian walked forward with red eyes and said, "Brother, please don't ignore me. We are half-siblings from the same father."
"You go back first, and when I'm free, I'll treat you to a delicious meal, how about that?"
"When?"
"When do you want it?"
"Today, no, tomorrow. Tomorrow will be fine too."
"Okay, tomorrow, I'll treat you to a delicious meal tomorrow."
After hearing what Shen Cuo said, Su Qianqian finally burst into laughter: "Then I'll wait for Big Brother tomorrow."
Only after Su Qianqian left did Shen Cuo breathe a sigh of relief.
In the distance, Qin Jingzhi looked at Shen Cuo meaningfully until his back disappeared.
"If you don't tell me, who can tell that they are half-siblings?"
Jin'er didn't understand what her young lady meant, so she stared at her with her big eyes and asked, "Young lady, what are you talking about?"
Qin Jingzhi turned around and said, "I mean you cannibalize people. Send someone to the Marquis' Mansion and ask how the brown sugar buns are made. The concubine loves them!"
"Oh, yes. I will ask someone to ask right now!"
Since that day when she went to the Marquis' Mansion, Yu Xiuying sent her brown sugar steamed buns every now and then. One time, Qin Jingzhi happened to be there, and she ate half a piece and found it delicious!
But that was made by her parents for the concubine, so it was not right for her to snatch it from a person with a twin body!
Lu Shian felt extremely troubled when looking at the thick account book. Before she got married, Lu Xianchun was the one who did the accounting!
Now she doesn’t even have an accountant!
She yawned again and decided to settle the account later!
"Miss, are you going to bed?"
When Lu'er came in with the sweet soup, she saw Lu Shi'an stretching lazily and going to the bed!
"Forget it, forget it. I'll just find an accountant tomorrow!"
Lu'er smiled secretly, she put down the sweet soup and put away the account book on the table!
"Yes, we still need to find an accountant. There are thirteen pork head shops, more than thirty rice shops, six bean curd workshops, and a hot pot restaurant. These don't even include the shops we opened in partnership with the Shen family!"
This is just a shop, Lu Shian’s land is countless!
After hearing this, Lu Shian only felt more sleepy!
"Stop talking, stop talking. If you keep talking, I'm afraid I'll sleep until this time tomorrow!"