Su Dalang shook his head calmly, "Grandma said that any good thing she gets should be given to her aunt first."

Su Erlang, standing nearby, added slyly, his voice extremely low, "The way Miss Wei looked so reluctant just now was just like when Xiao Hei lost the bone fight with Da Bai. This love charm must be a good thing, Auntie, you should put it away quickly."

Su Hua: "!!!"

The two brothers are young, but they have already won over Su Dahu's heart with their love. However, the metaphor is a bit too honest. If Wei Jianjia heard this, she would probably jump off the carriage and snatch the love charm back.

Su Hua touched the jade pendant and the love pendant to the bluestone bracelet. The bracelet reacted slightly to their proximity, with the love pendant reacting a little more strongly, though still much less so than the jade bowl Ying Xian had given her yesterday.

No wonder Wei Jianjia looked like her beloved bone had been taken away.

It seems that the bracelet's sensitivity to jade material truly changes depending on the grade of the jade. After thinking for a moment, she took out a small pouch from her wide sleeve and put the jade pendant and the love charm inside. "There are a lot of people at the jade gambling event, so I'll keep these two for you for now. I'll return them to you when I get home."

Su Dalang and Su Erlang held the nine-linked rings in their hands, their faces showing difficulty.

He stammered, "We're men, real men, it's inappropriate for us to wear these girly things!"

Su Hua found it amusing. "What's wrong with women's things? You don't like them now, but when you grow up, you'll all have to marry young women. These pendants and love charms would be perfect gifts for your wives!"

The two men blushed deeply, and Su Erlang shook his head vigorously, "I won't marry a young lady! Absolutely not... a young lady will only slow me down when I'm cooking!"

Su Hua paused for a moment, then burst into laughter, her body trembling with joy. The man beside her smiled as he listened to her silvery laughter.

After the laughter in the carriage had subsided for a long time, and the two children were focused on the nine-linked rings, Xiao Jinhan raised his hand and handed the plate of bayberries next to him to Su Hua, his voice barely audible, "Hua'er, do you suspect her?"

Su Hua's almond-shaped eyes darkened slightly. "Actually, I'm not sure myself."

She and Wei Jianjia had a grudge from their first meeting, and she was afraid that Wei Jianjia would hold a grudge against her again when she went to the Qin family to deliver the crabapple. It seemed that Wei Jianjia wanted to see her and Su Dahu make a fool of themselves at the Hundred Flowers Banquet, and the way she looked at Su Dalang and Wei Jianjia just now was full of displeasure.

But none of this is a big deal. There is no conflict of interest between them, so they shouldn't have gone to such lengths to set up a scheme just to harm her.

Moreover, to catch someone in the act of adultery or to catch a thief red-handed, mere suspicion is not enough; you need evidence.

Seeing her furrow her brows, Xiao Jinhan said slowly, "Hua'er, don't worry. Perhaps the truth will come out when we return from Tangshan Prefecture today."

Since Hua'er has suspicions, there must be a reason for them. In her view, there is no need to have evidence to arrest someone. If her subordinates cannot find out the results today, they can arrest the person and then ask for evidence.

"Yes, I trust Zichen." Su Hua smiled.

Since this thorn has already been there for so many days, whether it's one day more or one day less doesn't really matter.

The carriage looks like an ordinary blue cloth carriage on the outside, but it is actually quite different inside. The carriage body is made of refined iron, the floor is covered with a whole piece of dark black fur, and two fist-sized luminous pearls hang from the ceiling. Shadow silk curtains hang by the windows, so you can't see inside the carriage from the outside, but people inside can see the scenery outside clearly.

After leaving Qingshui County, the carriage headed north.

The driver was very skilled. Su Hua could hear the wind whistling past outside the carriage, but she could not feel any bumps. Outside the window, the tall trees and willows on both sides of the official road gradually receded, replaced by endless rice fields. Heading north, the rice fields began to be interspersed with mounds of wheat.

In early May, the wheat ears had already begun to turn yellow, though they were still a little short of being fully ripe and golden. A faint aroma of wheat could already be smelled in the air.

Amidst the alternation of green and yellow, the group finally arrived at Tangshan Prefecture City.

Su Hua raised her eyes and, through the shadowy silk curtain of the carriage, saw an ancient and imposing city wall standing not far away. The wall was made entirely of bluestone and rammed clay. In the gaps between the bluestone and clay, clumps of wild grass grew, their leaves green and their flowers either pale yellow or pink, adding a lot of vitality to the weathered city wall.

At the highest point in the center of the city gate hangs a black plaque with three large, gilded characters engraved on it: Tangshan Prefecture.

Beneath the plaque, on either side stood a row of imposing yamen runners, roughly twenty or thirty in number. Each of them wore a knife at their waist, the tips of which reflected a chilling glint in the sunlight.

The entrance fee to Tangshan Prefecture was twice that of Qingshui County: two coins for pedestrians and four coins for carriages and horses.

Of course, the number of entrances to the city is twice that of Qingshui County, with two entrances for pedestrians and two for carriages. It is now around 9:00 AM, and the carriage entrances are not very crowded. There are only four or five carriages parked in front of Su Hua's group's carriage. While waiting to enter the city, the curtain of the Qin family's carriage next to them is lifted.

Qin Yucheng's smiling face appeared. "Hua'er, would you like to eat something first, or go straight to the jade gambling street?"

Su Hua blushed slightly upon hearing this, "Why don't we just go to the jade gambling street?"

Her mouth was never empty the whole way. She had just finished eating bayberries when cherries were offered to her, and she even ate most of a plate of delicious but hard-to-chew yak jerky. Now, her belly was practically growing out.

Qin Yucheng glanced at the other person's table, chuckled, and nodded, "Alright, let's go straight to the jade gambling street then."

After paying the entrance fee, the two carriages entered Tangshan Prefecture side by side. Once inside, the difference between the county town and the prefectural town became immediately apparent. In Qingshui County, the streets were only wide enough for two carriages to drive side by side, while in Tangshan Prefecture, the access roads could accommodate four carriages at a time with room to spare.

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