Mingyuexi can make some tricks to make the old lady happy, and take these broken shops as treasures, then she simply let the old lady see the true face of Mingyuexi's incompetence from this shop, and dislike her again.

Shen Mengyi asked people to go to Buzhuang and asked them to bring the shopkeeper back.

She used the name of the second prince, and the shopkeeper categorically did not have the courage to refuse, so when she was taken to the place with a little anticipation in her heart, she looked up and saw that it was Shen Mengyi, and couldn't help but be surprised, and at the same time, a trace of disdain flashed in her eyes, who didn't know that Shen Mengyi was constantly pestering Gu Yanbai?

"How are you? Didn't the second prince call me ......"

Before she could finish speaking, Shen Mengyi sneered, looked at her mockingly, and played with the teacup in her hand.

"It's just a shopkeeper, why did the second prince see you, it was the princess who brought you here, and you still feel wronged?"

She deliberately bit the three words of the princess very hard, and the shopkeeper of the cloth village was taken aback, and quickly withdrew his disdain, lowered his head in a panic, and did not dare to look directly into her eyes: "Emperor, the princess said that she laughed, but the little one did not." ”

"You'd better not have it, or you'll ......" Shen Mengyi sneered twice, and suddenly slammed the teacup in his hand to the ground, and the debris was suddenly all over the ground.

The shopkeeper screamed in fright and wanted to get up, but was held down by the guards, knelt on the ground trembling, and almost cried: "The princess spares her life, the little one doesn't know what he did wrong, please let ......the princess let me go."

Shen Mengyi looked at her in awe, her heart was full of pride, and the unhappiness of being despised just now disappeared: "I heard that Mingyuexi went to you today, what's the matter?" ”

The shopkeeper didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly told the truth what happened, and when she said that the shopkeeper slandered her, Shen Mengyi sneered again, which scared the shopkeeper.

"I advise you not to lie to me, Mingyuexi likes to pretend to be a good person, I won't, I will kill you directly."

The guard had already put the sword on her neck, and the shopkeeper did not dare to hide anything more, and told her the truth with tears in his eyes, hoping to survive.

"I didn't expect you and the housekeeper to really have a leg, just your posture ......" Shen Mengyi reached out and pinched her chin, glanced at it, let out a disdainful cold snort from her nose, stood up and wiped her hands, as if touching something dirty, "You also saw my means today, listen, I want you to cooperate with me to do something." ”

"You can also refuse, but I promise to let the whole capital know about the affair between you and the housekeeper, and make you like a street rat for the rest of your life."

"Miss Shen......"

The shopkeeper looked up in panic, only to think that she was laughing very cruelly, like a demon, and couldn't help but shudder.

"It's the princess!" Shen Mengyi corrected impatiently, with a fierce light in his eyes, and the weak and sensible judge that he pretended to be before, so that the shopkeeper didn't dare to say a word.

"The little ones are all at the behest of the princess."

After Mingyuexi told the old lady everything in the store, she hesitated and mentioned the matter of the housekeeper and the shopkeeper.

"Steward Wang and the shopkeeper ......" The old lady couldn't hide her shock, but stopped halfway through speaking, she was ashamed to speak, and could only shake her head, "The housekeeper is an old man in the Hou Mansion for decades, how could he do such a thing?" ”

Mingyuexi understood that the old lady would not believe it, and if she didn't trust it very much, she wouldn't hand over her shop.

She told Old Madam Gu about the things in the account, but Old Madam Gu still shook her head, firmly unwilling to doubt the housekeeper.

Mingyuexi left helplessly, the old lady is like this, she values love and righteousness, once she determines whether a person is good or bad, she rarely changes, unless something important happens.

But she didn't have time for the old lady to slowly recognize it, so she had to find another way, secretly went to the older people in the Hou Mansion, and asked their housekeeper if there was any unusual behavior.

The end result was very different from what she expected, almost no one said that the butler was not, and even many people became emotional when she showed a skeptical attitude, felt that her suspicion was incomprehensible, and desperately tried to say good things for the butler.

"Young lady, the housekeeper has worked hard for the Hou Mansion for decades, and he has worked hard without merit, you can't ...... like this"

"Okay, I see, I'm just asking." Mingyuexi interrupted the other party's excited words with a headache and invited the person out.

Yu Li, the loopholes in the ledger and the suspicious performance of the housekeeper are clear, only one evidence is missing, but the housekeeper can't find fault with it.

"How so?"

Mingyuexi muttered to herself, Gu Yanbai looked at her sitting at the table in a daze, and was a little distressed, and walked over and touched her head: "The truth will definitely come out, don't worry too much." ”

"Young lady, young lady!"

As soon as his words fell, a panicked shout came from outside the courtyard, and before he saw him, he heard his voice first, and the next person ran in and found that Gu Yanbai was also hurriedly saluting.

Looking at the anxious look on Mingyuexi's face, Gu Yanbai waved his hand and asked, "No need to be polite, what happened?" ”

The next person's face was full of panic: "The young lady asked the little one to go to the government to inquire about the situation, but before the little one heard any news, he heard that someone had died in the prison, and it was the shopkeeper who died......

"What?" Mingyuexi stood up suddenly, she was so excited that she almost couldn't stand steadily, but fortunately, Gu Yanbai held her, her eyes were fixed on the next person, and she repeated, "That person is dead?" ”

"Yes, absolutely."

Mingyuexi only felt a headache, and she didn't care about saying anything, so she pulled Gu Yanbai and walked out.

When the two came to the prison, the people from the government were trying to carry the body away, and Mingyuexi immediately rushed up and stopped: "This person died for some reason, how can you dispose of it casually?" ”

The people in the government looked at each other: "Mrs. Gu, this person hanged himself, and he has already come to check." ”

Mingyuexi didn't believe it, and after letting people put down the corpse and go out, she and Gu Yanbai reopened the white cloth on the corpse, and what caught them was a pair of dead eyes, although the eyelids were barely closed, they were still unwilling to be half-open.

There was a deep strangulation mark on his neck, almost half of which was cut into the neck, and it seemed that he had been hanging for a long time, and it was clearly marked with mottled traces of hemp rope.

Gu Yanbai looked carefully, Xiao Er's eyes bulged outward, his face turned red into the color of pig liver, and his nostrils were dilated, he was indeed strangled to suffocation.

There are also traces of strangulation on the side face, these are not fake, the cause of death of the shopkeeper is indeed suicide by hanging.