I just want to live a good life

Chapter 221 Substitution

Wearing a waiter's clothes and carrying hot water in his hand, Ying Shu walked towards Su Nuan's room.

In the room, Su Nuan had just finished washing with hot water. There was no one on the boat to serve hot water, so after tossing and turning all night long, she just wiped it briefly. She couldn't sleep like this.

Now that I was feeling refreshed and was about to go back to bed for another nap, the door of the room was suddenly pushed open.

Su Nuan was shocked. How could the door be pushed open? It was clearly bolted, so how could it be pushed open so easily?

If I had been pushed away a little earlier, I would have been seen naked.

The thoughts that suddenly emerged in my mind were instantly extinguished when I saw Ying Shu's face.

"How did you come?"

The tone clearly showed that he was not welcome. Ying Shu paused as he walked in, and his heart suddenly ached without warning.

But now that I'm here, I have to say a few words before I leave.

"I saw you were injured yesterday, and I wanted to come and see if your injury was serious."

With one foot in the door and the other out, it would be too easy to be discovered. Su Nuan ignored Ying Shu's tangled expression and hurriedly urged him, "Come in quickly and close the door."

Her look of being as if facing a great enemy frightened Ying Shu, and he quickly went into the house and closed the door obediently.

"What's wrong with you?"

Su Nuan looked at Ying Shu with a complicated expression, and asked instead of answering, "Is there something important that you are in a hurry to see me about?"

Ying Shu was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I just saw you fall off your horse at the city gate yesterday, and I was worried about you."

"Are you really just worried about me?"

"Why do you ask?"

Ying Shu was a little suspicious of Su Nuan. In the past, when they met, they would try to be as secretive as possible, trying not to be discovered by the prince's people. But he acted differently yesterday and just found someone to deliver the letter.

What would have happened if she hadn't poured that bowl of boiling hot medicine on him yesterday?

The messenger would crawl into her room and would either be caught on the spot by Mu Yunting or discovered by the guards. In any case, he would be caught.

Then it was natural to turn Ying Shu over.

No matter how you look at it, it seems like Ying Shu deliberately wanted to spread the news that he had met her in private.

But why did he do that?

Su Nuan guessed that Ying Shu should know the original owner, Xia Qingyan, and he might have had romantic feelings for Xia Qingyan after persuading her to leave Mu Yunting several times. Could it be that he wanted to use this method to make Mu Yunting misunderstand that there was an affair between him and her, destroy her relationship with Mu Yunting, and then come forward to take her away?

As soon as this thought came to her mind, Su Nuan rejected it. She had not been with Ying Shu for a long time, but from the few things they had experienced, she could tell that this man was not a despicable person.

Even if he had some feelings for Xia Qingyan, he would not use such dirty means, otherwise he could have kidnapped her when he rescued her from Zhao Zong and took the opportunity to do something.

So she asked Ying Shu that question to confirm his real intention of coming to see her.

Judging from his reaction, Ying Shu didn't seem to be lying.

"Someone sent me a message yesterday morning saying that you would come to meet me privately in the evening."

She deliberately emphasized the word "secret meeting".

Ying Shu's face changed immediately when he heard this. He confirmed that he had sent someone to approach her, but he did not send anyone to pass the message, and it was even more impossible for him to say that he had a private meeting with her.

Besides, he just found someone to enter the inn yesterday afternoon.

"I didn't send you a message."

As soon as Ying Shu finished speaking, they both fell silent.

Who sent the messenger and what was his purpose?

The answer to the first question is obvious in Yingshu's mind.

Su Nuan knew the answer to the second question.

However, neither of them spoke, because they were not stupid, and the question that they were unsure of soon had an answer.

So both of them thought of another question.

"What is your relationship with Xun Zheng?"

"Who is that Leng Yue?"

The two spoke almost at the same time.

Then they all fell silent again, and this time it was Su Nuan who was waiting for Ying Shu to speak.

She had long suspected Ying Shu's identity. She had asked him once before, but he evaded the question. This time, she wanted a precise answer.

Ying Shu didn't want to answer because he had concerns.

He had been urging Xia Qingyan to leave with him. If he let her know that he and Xun Zheng were siblings, he was afraid that she would misunderstand his intentions.

"Is your relationship with her so difficult to talk about?"

When Su Nuan asked this question, her tone was full of curiosity, without any hint of blame.

"She is my eldest sister."

Those five simple words were like a spell that frightened Su Nuan so much that she sat there for a long time, unable to speak.

Wasn't it said that the Xun family was sentenced to the heinous crime of extermination of nine clans, and all nine clans were exterminated? Then how come Xun Yu's children are living so well one by one.

It would be fine if it was just Leng Yue. She was a miserable person, without a father to love her and never included in the family tree. But what about these two siblings? How did they escape that disaster?

As if seeing through Su Nuan's thoughts, Ying Shu slowly opened his mouth and explained to her the secret of how he and his sister were able to survive.

When Cheng Ji launched the rebellion, Xun Yu was not unaware of it, but he did not believe that he could not defeat Cheng Ji.

Unfortunately, things are unpredictable. Lord Xun, who was able to make things happen with a wave of his hand and was second only to the emperor, was actually defeated by Cheng Ji, a lowly ant.

The Xun family was defeated, but the centipede was still alive. There was time for Xun Yu to operate between the conviction and the confiscation of their property.

He used a trick to switch the two and secretly sent his most beloved daughter and youngest son away.

Of course, if we send them out, someone will have to die for them.

If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had not left the Imperial City at that time, and if he had been present when the Xun family was executed, he would have discovered that the Xun Zheng killed on the execution ground was somewhat different from the one he knew.

Something seemed to suddenly flash through Su Nuan's mind.

"Who died for Xun Zheng?"

The question was asked in a hurry and the voice became louder unconsciously.

Just as Ying Shu was about to answer, he heard someone knocking on the door.

"Ma'am, what happened?"

From the sound, it seems to be the prince's secret guard.

Although Su Nuan was afraid that people would find out that Ying Shu was in her room, compared to the question she just asked, nothing else was so important.

She waited for Ying Shu to give her an answer.

But Ying Shu's reaction was greater than hers. He didn't even give Su Nuan a chance to speak again. He flashed to the window and then turned over and was outside the window.

"Ma'am, can I come in?"

The secret guard became a little anxious when he didn't get a reply from Su Nuan.

Su Nuan glanced out the window and saw that Ying Shu was gone, so she quickly replied, "Come in."

The secret guard pushed the door open, glanced quickly around the room, and then lowered his head.

"Madam, I just heard voices in the room. Do you have anything to tell me?"

This secret guard is quite clever, Su Nuan thought. She was the only one in the room at the moment, and it would be difficult for the secret guard to say it out loud, for fear that he would turn around and leave the room and tell Mu Yunting that someone was talking in his room.

Of course Su Nuan would not be stupid enough to bribe this secret guard. What she had to think about was how to explain to Mu Yunting, so there was no need to say much to this secret guard.

"You heard me wrong. I didn't say anything just now. But you came at the right time. I'm hungry. I asked the waiter to bring some food over."