I just want to live a good life

Chapter 136: A Past

"How dare you come to see me alone?"

Ying Shu asked Su Nuan.

"I thought that someone who saved my life twice would not harm me."

"Are you willing to trust me?"

"If you hadn't killed Aunt Zhang, I would be willing to trust you."

"I didn't kill her."

"But she died after she saw you."

"I know I am the biggest suspect, but I really didn't kill him."

Su Nuan didn't believe such words. She came to see Ying Shu not only to ask about Aunt Zhang, she had many other questions to ask. Since Ying Shu didn't admit to killing Aunt Zhang, there was no point in asking further.

"Tell me why you are so determined to get close to me. What is your purpose?"

"I said I want to protect you, do you believe me?"

"I have the secret guards of the Crown Prince's Mansion protecting me."

"You know best whether they are protecting you or monitoring you."

Su Nuan was choked and she couldn't refute.

From the beginning, she knew that Liefeng and Falcon were sent to monitor her, but they did not stand by and watch her die when she encountered danger several times later, so she gradually forgot the original purpose of these two people following her.

Well, she couldn't argue with that, so let's change the question.

"How do you know I'm in danger? What does Cui Shaoyuan's death have to do with you?"

Ying Shu replied, "Cui Shaoyuan's death has nothing to do with me. I didn't kill him. He had something very important in his hand, and I wanted that thing, so I approached him on purpose, hoping to find a chance to get it, but he died before I could do anything. That's when I knew you were in danger."

"Do you know who killed Cui Shaoyuan?"

"do not know."

"So what is that thing you all want?"

"An important piece of evidence."

"What evidence?" Su Nuan asked.

"I can't tell you now. Give me some time. I'll give you an explanation when I get the evidence."

Su Nuan's intuition told him that he was lying, and he must know who killed Cui Shaoyuan.

Thinking of the back figure in the "dream", Su Nuan blurted out: "Is that person Prince Yongping?"

Ying Shu was surprised for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure, "I really don't know who that person is. That night I went to the Xia family's old house, and when I arrived, Cui Shaoyuan was already dead."

"Okay, I'll take that as the truth. I have one last question."

"You ask."

"Why do you want to protect me?"

Ying Shu looked at Su Nuan for a long while, and asked instead of answering, "Do you really not remember me at all?"

"Don't think you can get away with it by saying this. I do forget some things, but if we were familiar with each other, the people around me would recognize you."

Ying Shu smiled faintly: "Very good, your mind is still clear. No matter what you think, just know that I will not harm you. I am afraid that you can't hide the fact that you came to see me tonight from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Have you thought about how to face him?"

"As long as I hand you over to him, he won't make things difficult for me."

"Are you attracted to the prince?"

"..."

"Do you know that his heart is not with you?"

"But I'm already his concubine."

"So you're just going to accept your fate and wait to share a husband with another woman? He's the crown prince, the future emperor, and he's destined to have many women in his harem. You're just one of them, and not even the one he loves the most. Are you willing to do this?"

Of course Su Nuan was reluctant, but what was the use of being reluctant? She had no ability to change anything.

Seeing that Su Nuan didn't say anything, Ying Shu pulled her away.

"Where are you taking me?"

"Go to see the prince, aren't you going to hand me over to him?"

After walking a few steps, Ying Shu stopped, turned around and asked Su Nuan, "Does the injury on your shoulder still hurt?"

Su Nuan nodded, and the next moment she was carried on Ying Shu's back.

"My injury is my shoulder, not my leg. I can walk by myself. Put me down."

The only response she received was the sound of wind in her ears. Ying Shu was running with her on his back at an extremely fast speed.

Su Nuan experienced the feeling of flying on Ying Shu's back. She never thought that the weak scholar who was bullied by the maids would have such good martial arts skills.

Soon, the visitor arrived near a house on the edge of the imperial city.

There was a carriage parked in front of the house, and Su Nuan recognized it as Mu Yunting's.

Ying Shu told Su Nuan that the house was Lou Guang's residence. On the day she was injured, Ying Shu placed her on the road between Lou Guang's residence and the Prince's Mansion.

"Their relationship is not what is rumored outside. The prince is not gay, and Lou Guang is not his male lover. They are just good friends."

Su Nuan and Ying Shu stood under the shade of a tree, and Ying Shu told them the relationship between Mu Yunting and Lou Guang.

It turns out that Lou Guang was the adopted child of the former Prime Minister Xun Yu. His original name was Xun Ye. He was about the same age as Mu Yunting. When Xun Yu was not yet in office, he had been Mu Yunting’s teacher.

Xunye and Mu Yunting studied together, and they gradually became friends.

At that time, Lou Guang was not the only one who was friends with Mu Yunting, there was also Xun Yu's daughter Xun Yue.

The three of them were inseparable and talked about everything. Mu Yunting and Xun Yue even had a secret crush on each other.

Later, when the prince came of age, the emperor sent him to Jiangnan to control floods in order to train him. He was away for more than half a year. Xun Ye changed his name to Lou Guang and followed him as an aide.

But when the two returned to the imperial city, the Xun family was no longer there. Prime Minister Xun Yu was framed for treason and his entire family was killed.

As Xun Yu's adopted son, Xun Ye was not listed in the Xun family's genealogy and was not among those killed. In the massacre, almost all those who knew that he was Xun family's adopted son died.

Since then, he has been living under the name Lou Guang, as the prince's aide.

The prince and Lou Guang have been close in recent years, and others think it is because he is a homosexual. No one knows that they have had such a past.

Together they investigated the case of Xun Yu being framed, hoping to overturn the case for the Xun family. As the prince missed his old friend, he made a vow at his old friend's grave that he would give his position as the principal wife to Xun Yue after overturning the case for the Xun family.

"No wonder." Su Nuan sneered, and then she asked Ying Shu: "According to what you said, Lou Guang's identity is special, and Mu Yunting has always kept him hidden very well. How do you know all this?"

"Don't you remember who I am?"

Ying Shu looked at Su Nuan with clear eyes.

Facing such a pair of eyes, Su Nuan had no choice but to face his problem squarely.

She tried hard to search in Xia Qingyan's memory, but she couldn't find any memory related to Ying Shu.

After a long while, under Ying Shu's expectant gaze, Su Nuan spoke with difficulty: "Seven years ago, there was a big fire in the old house of the Xia family, and I was trapped in the sea of ​​fire. Maybe I was scared, after the fire, I forgot many people and many things."

"So, you didn't forget about me on purpose, that's good."

"Are you from Xun's family?"

"My name is Ying Shu. I just heard the story from a passerby. Concubine Xia, just listen to it."

As the two were talking, the door of Lou Guang's mansion opened and Mu Yunting walked out.

Ying Shu looked at Su Nuan deeply and walked towards Mu Yunting's carriage.