The man was named Deng Guozhu, and his name was good, and he was the pillar of the country. Unfortunately, he wasted such a good name. He was not an official, but a businessman. He was from Huaihe County. He used to do water business. Later, after he arrived in the capital, he started a medicinal materials and silk business. There were several large medicinal materials shops and silk shops in the capital that he opened.

He went to Jinjing City six years ago. Without any connections, it would be impossible for him to open so many shops in Jinjing City in such a short time. Moreover, when he was dressed, he was at most a person living in a low class. If he was in a water business, he would definitely not be able to dress so ordinary.

And she remembered that Xu Zhilan's hometown was Huaihe County. That day, Xu Zhilan said that he was asking for directions, but with her understanding of Xu Zhilan, she was not a enthusiastic person, especially those from the lower class, she felt that she looked down on such people from the bottom of her heart.

Moreover, although she didn't hear what they were saying at that time, it can be seen from her expression that this was not the first time she met that man. A person who was once so indifferent, has now become a wealthy businessman in Jinjing City after a few years!

Xu Zhilan is a reborn person. She has the ability to master the opportunity. Will this man have the advantage of dealing with her?

After hearing Lan Yi's report, Chu Xinyu thought for a while and said, "Did you find out how the scars on his face come from?"

"I heard that when I was doing business, I encountered a robber and was stabbed by the robber."

If it weren't for sure that he and Xu Zhilan knew each other, they wouldn't have associated them when they heard this. But since she met her many years later, whether they had anything to do with her is necessary, she must find out. After all, this is Deng Guozhu, who is the only person who knows Xu Zhilan.

Chu Xinyu thought for a while and ordered: "You ask Shao Sanniang to send someone to keep an eye on him secretly to see most of his contacts with those people. In addition, if there are other side jobs in the business he does, and who are dealing with him in business."

Lan Yi said: "Girl, we don't have such professional staff. If you don't ask the King of Qin to borrow some, he must have some connections in this regard."

It was indeed easy for the King of Qin to find people. He once said that if she had any needs, she could find him. Maybe it was time for her to ask him out and sit down and have a good talk. That day, the population was mixed, and it was inconvenient for others to come.

"By the way, there are two more things to report to the girl. Shao Sanniang said that she saw many refugees ten miles outside the city yesterday, who might have fled from the disaster area, but the gatekeepers in the city did not allow them to enter the city. They could only camp ten miles away, so when leaving the city, they must be more careful, for fear that these people would have bad ideas about the people in the city."

Chu Xinyu nodded. When she was passing by the street in the morning, she saw more beggars than she had seen last time. When she remembered that she had not returned to the capital, she would sometimes receive letters from friends who left Puling Temple. She would occasionally say that there were floods in a certain place, snow disasters in the north, plagues in the south, etc.

These natural disasters are hard to guard against, but it seems that in the past six months, the disaster situation in many places has been quickly controlled and no greater harm has occurred. These should be the strong governance of the court.

In this case, why are there so many refugees outside the city? Where did these people come from?

However, these are not issues she cares about. Naturally, those refugees were taken care of by the court. She only focused on finding out the evidence that Xu Zhilan colluded with others and caused her parents to be hurt.

"What about another thing?" Chu Xinyu asked.

Lan Yi was sure that no one eavesdropped outside the door, so she leaned into her ear and whispered: "When I came back today, I discovered something..."

After hearing this, Chu Xinyu asked without hesitation: "It's true?"

Lan Yi nodded.

"You did a good job." Chu Xinyu praised her, and then sneered: "She is really dead."

"Then how do you correspond next?"

Chu Xinyu pondered for a moment, "She hasn't started yet. You first find someone to find out who they have found, and then discuss how to correspond."

"OK."

Chu Xinyu's face was not very good at this moment. In fact, she really hated these tricky life in the back house. If it weren't for revenge and to seek justice for Yu'er, she really wanted to be a simple person.

However, her fate was destined to be unable to live such a simple life. Even without Xu Zhilan's plan, she would still be involved in the struggle of the government.

If she takes revenge, she just wants to live a simple life, a pair of people for a lifetime.

I wonder if this wish can be realized?

After talking about an important matter, Lan Yi remembered another important thing and asked: "Have you found out the traitor from Xiaozhuyuan?"

She kept thinking, who betrayed the girl, and only she could enter the girl's study, Zhubo, Danqing and Ziling, no, and Zhao's mother, she is the manager of Xiaozhuyuan. She knows all the big and small things about Xiaozhuyuan.

The key was on Zhu Bo, and she claimed that she had never left her body. If she had not left her body, how could Huang Lian get it? Moreover, Huang Lian could not enter the girl's study, and she would not know where the jewelry box was placed.

Chu Xinyu said lightly: "I think I know who it is."

According to Zhu Bo, when she opened the jewelry box in the morning, the jade bracelet was still there. The time when the other party stole the jade bracelet was when they left Xiaozhuyuan. The Ministry of Justice came to arrest people at noon. She went to Anshantang to pay her respects and come back. During that time, Zi Ling and Danqing were in Xiaozhuyuan.

Zi Ling was embroidering her shawl and Danqing was cleaning the room. No one entered the room at that time. Later, she came back for a while and left again. Zhubo followed her out, and Lan Yi went out early in the morning.

Zi Ling and Danqing were still staying behind in Xiaozhuyuan. Danqing suddenly felt a stomachache because she poured a cup of frozen tea in the kitchen and drank it. She went to the toilet. There was only Zi Ling in the room. She once suspected Zi Ling because she had the best chance to get close to Zhu Bo and steal the key, which was also the longest time she had been in the room.

But according to her, a little maid came to tell her that her sister-in-law was waiting for her outside the gate and asked her to go out. When she saw that Danqing had not come back, Zhao's mother got a little cold because she kicked the quilt while she was sleeping last night and had a headache in the morning. The girl asked her to take a day off today.

Zi Ling then locked the door of the main room. But when she arrived outside the gate, the guardian said that her sister-in-law couldn't wait and left a pack of snacks for her.

She was depressed. Why did her sister-in-law give her snacks? At that time, she didn't think much about it. She thought that her sister-in-law had found a job for her sister-in-law. She asked her to give this snack to the girl. Last time when the Sixth Girl helped her sister-in-law, she also brought snacks to the Sixth Girl.

When she returned to Xiaozhuyuan, Danqing had not come back yet. After a quarter of an hour, Danqing walked back with her belly soft and said that she had drunk a cup of tea and diarrhea. They didn't notice it at that time, thinking that the tea was cold, and Danqing would have diarrhea after drinking it.

So Chu Xinyu estimated that the other party entered the house to steal the jade bracelet when Zi Ling locked the door and left.

Who is the thief?

The only one with the key to the main room is Zi Ling, and the key to Zi Ling was given to her today.

Zhu Bo followed her all day today, so the key to the safe was not taken today, but had been secretly copied before today.

Zi Ling had just announced her Zhong, and it was even more impossible for her to betray her. Only Mother Zhao could enter the main room, and only she knew where her jewelry safe was placed in the study.

Why did she suspect that it was Zhao's mother? Because she had asked Zhao's mother just now. According to her, except when the Ministry of Justice came to the trial, she had not left the room all day.

Isn’t it just a little headache? Why didn’t she go out of the room all day? Unless she knew that someone would come to steal things today, she didn’t go out all day in order to avoid suspicion.

Zhu Bo also remembered that when she was drinking tea last night, she accidentally touched her mother Zhao accidentally got her clothes dirty. Zhao's mother asked her to go back and change her clothes. She returned to her ear room and changed her clothes.

Mother Zhao came in and said she would help her wash her clothes. At that time, her key was still there and she hadn't taken out her clothes. When she remembered it, she chased her out to get the key back.

In just such a short time, Zhu Bo didn't take it to heart. Now that Chu Xinyu asked about it, he remembered it.

Therefore, Chu Xinyu inferred from these that Zhao's mother was this inner thief. She was likely to have secretly printed the key when she got the bamboo clothes and handed it over to Yuan. Yuan asked someone to make a hand overnight.

When Zi Ling left, someone went in and took the jade bracelet away. If the person who stole the jade bracelet had some knowledge, he should not steal the jade bracelet.

Although it is easy to know that the jade bracelet is hers, the value of jade bracelet is high. If you send a maid to do things for her, you can make an ordinary silver hairpin or a ingot of silver. Why use a jade bracelet worth a thousand taels of silver? If a maid sells the jade bracelet, it will be enough money to redeem her own contract and then buy a two-entry courtyard in the town.

But no matter who came in to steal the jade bracelet, it was a fact that Zhao's mother betrayed her, which made her very sad. She had tried her best to persuade her to let her go, and it must have been Yuan's instructed her to do this.

If she didn't infer that she was betraying her, those words were indeed very touching. She was thinking about herself and worried about her future, but after finding out that she was an inner thief, those words were really disgusting!

After hearing Chu Xinyu's speculation, Lan Yi couldn't believe that the person who betrayed them was Zhao's mother. Thinking of the day the girl came back, the laughter and tears on her face were so sincere. She also took care of them like her own children when she was with her. Xu Han asked about her well-being.

These days, they have also taught them a lot of rules when they are at home. Although she is not the girl's wet nurse, she is the mother who takes care of the girl and Zhubo respects her very much.

"Why didn't you ask her just now, why did you betray you?" Lan Yi was very angry. Such a person who betrayed the Lord is no longer worthy of her respect.

Chu Xinyu sneered and said, "Money and life are good reasons for betrayal. Besides, she may not admit it. Maybe there are already a lot of comments."

In Yu'er's memory, Zhao's mother was always very nice to her, so she began to doubt Zi Ling first, but she did not doubt Zhao's mother, but she adopted the method of exclusion, and Zi Ling was excluded.

"Then what are you going to do with her? Would you just let it go?"

"How is that possible?" Chu Xinyu hated the most was the betrayer. At that time, Xu Zhilan used a heart to please her with a thought for her everywhere, and pushed her and her parents into hell step by step. So, no matter whether Zhao's mother has difficulties or not, betrayal is betrayal, she will never forgive her!

However, Yuan has now dismantled a Qin mother and damaged a yellow lotus. The remaining Chunmei will definitely become a thorn in her eyes. Zhao's mother asked others to steal jade bracelets and avoid suspicion. The purpose is to not want to expose her identity. If she deals with Zhao's mother now, it would be equivalent to telling Yuan that Zhao's identity has been discovered.

Perhaps it was a secret thread that Yuan started to bury around her. Before Yuan could discover that the secret thread had been discovered by her, she must still want to use her, so she had to pretend that this insider was not Zhao's mother, but someone else.

Chu Xinyu then thought for a while and said, "Zi Ling Danqing and Zhu Bo come in."

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At night, silent, there is a courtyard in the city, and the fragrance of flowers lingers.

In the hexagonal pavilion in the garden, the eaves of the pavilion are hung with a light blue gauze curtain as thin as cicada wings. The breeze blows, and the veils of the lanterns under the eaves are also slightly shaking.

On the stone table in the pavilion are delicacies, wine and fruits, and a guzheng next to it.

A plain green figure stood on the edge of the pavilion, looking at the mysterious moon in the sky, and sighed silently.

"Girl, be careful to catch a cold." With a sound of concern, a big red marking of dark flowers, Shu brocade cloak was draped on her.

"Xueliu, do you think he will come?" Xu Zhilan asked lightly.

"The Marquis of Peiping will come, but he did not refuse to accept the letter. He will definitely come when he sees it." Xueliu comforted her.

"It's almost time now."

"this……"

"You don't need to comfort me, I know he won't come."

"It's not that I'm not even over yet, right? Girl, why do you give up so quickly?" Xueliu thought for a long time before she thought of a reason to comfort her.

"He has never been late." In fact, she only made an appointment with him three times, and every time it was daytime. She drew flowers in the garden, and he sat there watching her draw, occasionally giving her some advice.

Because the mansion is in a large population, people will gossip when they get along. This place is actually his property. He said that the peonies here are blooming very brilliantly, and if she wants to draw, she can come here to draw.

They had only met him here once since he returned to Beijing, but at that time he proposed to marry her, but she did not agree, but she did not refuse. She knew that she should not use this attitude to him at that time.

Now even the Empress Dowager has agreed to his engagement with Chu Xinyu, and she believes that the imperial edict will be released soon, so she is unwilling to accept it!

Especially when she saw that he was so protective of Chu Xinyu today, she would rob him back no matter what.

"Girl, the Marquis of Peking must have you in his heart, otherwise he would not promise to find the painting "Mid-Autumn Night" back. It is the master's favorite painting. He will definitely give it to you on your birthday."

Xu Zhilan did not speak out. She could not tell Xueliu that the painting he gave her was not the reason, but Fu Yinghua told him that when she returned to Jinjing one day, if he could not recognize her, she would give him "Mid-Autumn Night" and the jade pendant as a betrothal gift and marry him home at that time.

She had never heard Fu Yingfu say this. Fu Yingfu never took the initiative to talk about Lin Chenyao. She was all trying to find out from the inside and some memories of her previous life. Now she realized that Fu Yingfu and Lin Chenyao actually had many memories, but she didn't know it.

For example, painting, why did Lin Chenyao ask her a strange question on the day of the Baihua Banquet? Could it be that she didn't know any secrets between him and Fu Yinghua?

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