I just want to live a good life

Chapter 559 Understanding Forgiveness

"It is Liao Xinyi."

Hearing this answer, Su Nuan was not surprised. There was no one else besides Ying Shu and Liao Xinyi who had the opportunity to appear by Liu Yin's side and were willing to help her change the medicine. Ying Shu was forced to kill people, so he obviously did not know that the medicine had been changed. Therefore, the only person who changed the medicine was Liao Xinyi.

"What about her?"

Su Nuan asked.

"He's locked up."

"I want to meet her."

Su Nuan wanted to understand why Liao Xinyi wanted to harm her, and why she saved her after harming her. What was the hidden story behind it?

"Let the old doctors take a good look at you first. We can talk about other things after you've rested."

Su Nuan knew this was for her own good. The most important thing for her to do now was to have the old doctors take a good look at her. She had spent several days with Liu Yin, and who knew if she had been poisoned by her? She was very worried if she didn't have the old doctors examine her.

The four experienced doctors were very helpful. After taking her pulse, they all concluded that there was no poisoning and that Consort Xia was in excellent health.

Su Nuan breathed a sigh of relief, but Mu Yunting couldn't. The thought of his beloved concubine suffering outside made his heart ache. Naturally, he wanted to vent his anger on the instigators, but the instigators, Liu Yin and Zhao Zong, had already been sent to the Dali Temple, where Lord Shen was already interrogating them.

Su Nuan really wanted to attend the trial, but Mu Yunting hadn't rested for two days and two nights while looking for her, and he looked visibly haggard. If this continued, the handsome young man would turn into a weathered old man in just a few years, which Su Nuan couldn't accept, so she quickly pulled him to rest.

After she had put Mu Yunting to sleep, she suddenly remembered that Fusheng was still imprisoned in the dungeon of the Crown Prince's residence.

Since Fusheng was willing to ask him for help on Yingshu's behalf, they must be quite close, and Fusheng should know many things about Yingshu. Why not ask him to come and have a chat?

So she had someone bring Ying Shu to Duiyue Residence.

After a few days apart, the energetic young man had become listless.

So much has happened in the past two days, and the information Liu Yin and Zhao Zong received was so explosive that Su Nuan didn't even think about one question: when did Ying Shu find out about his background?

Perhaps this question can be asked by the person in front of you.

“I have seen Ying Shu.”

Su Nuan got straight to the point, bringing up Ying Shu directly.

Upon hearing this, Fusheng's face lit up with a hint of joy, but it quickly turned sour.

Su Nuan could roughly guess what he was thinking, but she didn't say anything. She continued, "He saved me again. This time, he saved me from Liu Yin."

Fu Sheng didn't react much when he heard the name Liu Yin, but given his previous behavior of pretending to be well-behaved in front of her, Su Nuan couldn't tell whether he really didn't know Liu Yin or was just pretending to be calm.

At this moment, Fusheng spoke up, "Master, if you could, could you please be kinder to my young master? He is truly a pitiful man."

“Your young master is the only son of the Xun family. Once His Highness the Crown Prince marries Miss Xun, he will be the future brother-in-law of the emperor. He will be living a life of luxury. How can he be pitiful?”

Su Nuan deliberately said these things to test how much Fu Sheng knew about the fake Xun Zheng.

“My young master doesn’t care about being the emperor’s brother-in-law. He doesn’t need to live a life of luxury because of that status. He’s a business genius with many big deals in his hands. You’ve always liked doing business, haven’t you? He can help you make a lot of money.”

"If he's so rich, why would he let you run off with my money?"

"That wasn't the young master's idea, it was the young lady's..."

Fusheng seemed to have made a great decision before continuing, "The young lady said that the master was having a hard time in the Crown Prince's mansion, so she went out to open a shop to earn money. After His Highness the Crown Prince marries her, the master's life will be even more difficult. If you run out of money, you will have to find another way out. At that time, she will help you get out of the Crown Prince's mansion and live a free and easy life away from the capital with my young master."

"You believe that?"

"At first I didn't believe it, but later His Highness the Crown Prince went so far as to ask for the Xun family's old mansion on behalf of the eldest young lady and to prepare to marry her as his principal wife. It seems that he truly loves the eldest young lady. So I took it upon myself to give all the money from the employer to the eldest young lady and to hand over all the people that the employer had trained to her. These were all my own decisions and have nothing to do with my young master. The employer must not let this cause any estrangement between him and my young master."

Fusheng became more and more anxious as he spoke, and it didn't seem like he was lying.

He even mistook the fake Xun Zheng for the young lady, so he probably didn't know the truth either, and we couldn't get any useful information out of him.

There was no point in keeping Fusheng locked up, but Su Nuan was unwilling to let him go like this.

Although Fusheng was misled by the fake Xun Zheng into taking the money, he did indeed do it. The money he worked so hard to earn was turned into bricks and tiles of the Xun family's old house. Su Nuan felt she couldn't be the one to suffer this loss.

“Your young master is my savior, and I have no grudge against him. However, I will not let you go so easily. Since you admit that you took my money without my consent, you have to repay it yourself. For your young master's sake, I will allow you to work in my shop. Earn 30,000 taels for me, and then you can leave.”

Fusheng showed no sign of joy at not being locked up in the Crown Prince's dungeon.

Su Nuan assumed he just didn't like working for her, but the debt still had to be repaid. She thought that the punishment given to Fusheng was already lenient, so she pretended not to see his worried expression and continued, "This isn't indefinite. You have three years to earn enough money."

She believed that with Fusheng's abilities, it was entirely possible for him to earn 30,000 taels of silver in three years, given a platform.

"If I give you 30,000 taels of silver, will I be able to leave?"

"Correct."

Su Nuan nodded in confirmation and saw Fu Sheng take out a stack of silver notes from his pocket, then count them one by one in front of her, finally handing her thirty notes.

Su Nuan looked at the silver notes handed to her, then at the same amount of silver notes that Fu Sheng had put back in his pocket, and felt a pang of sadness.

"This is your money, young master. I'm keeping it safe. I think you're willing to use this money to redeem me."

"If you have so much money, why didn't you contribute it when Miss Xun was renovating the old house?"

"Young Master said that this money cannot be given to the eldest young lady, because who knows what she might do if it is given to her. Uncle Yue was almost harmed by her because of the money, and this matter is somewhat related to the master."

"related to me?"

Su Nuan thought for a moment and said, "Are you referring to the matter of the counterfeit banknotes?"

"Indeed, if His Highness the Crown Prince hadn't suppressed this matter, it would have implicated Uncle Yue. With tens of thousands of taels of counterfeit silver notes, Uncle Yue would definitely have faced imprisonment."

Baozhu once mentioned that Master Yue came to the Crown Prince's residence to see the fake Xun Zheng, so it is likely that Master Yue is the Uncle Yue that Fusheng mentioned.

Then Fusheng continued, "Uncle Yue has served by the young master's side for many years and has watched the young master grow up. After the young master came to the capital, he sent Uncle Yue back to his hometown to retire. Who knew that the young lady would secretly call Uncle Yue to the capital to do things for her."

"Is this Uncle Yue an old servant of the Xun family?"

Su Nuan asked.

"Yes, when you were in the Xun family, it was always Uncle Yue who protected you. Although the matriarch of the Xun family was kind, how could she tolerate raising her husband's illegitimate son in front of her? You had a very difficult time in the Xun family during those years."

At that time, Ying Shu's status was truly awkward. On the surface, he was the adopted son of Lord Xun, but everyone regarded him as Lord Xun's illegitimate son. In Xun Yu's heart, however, he was an outsider.

Su Nuan felt increasingly sorry for Ying Shu, but at the same time, she also felt that the whole thing was strange.

Xun Yu knew from the beginning that Ying Shu was not his son, but after Aunt Ying died, he took Ying Shu into his household to raise him. This can be understood as him pitying Ying Shu for being lonely and helpless. But why would he let others misunderstand that Ying Shu was his illegitimate son without clarifying the situation? With his abilities, he could have easily eliminated this misunderstanding, but he did not do so. The only possibility is that he wanted others to believe that Ying Shu was his son.

Why did he do that?