Seeing Wang Xiaoer choke, the handsome young man continued, "So, this young man is a fraud?"

"You're talking nonsense, I didn't say that," Wang Xiaoer immediately retorted, but his words were clearly unconvincing.

The handsome young man ignored Wang Xiaoer and continued, "This young man is from the capital. The employees of Treasure Pavilion are all brought back from the south by their boss. So you two shouldn't be related. Then what you just said about your cousin's cousin working at Treasure Pavilion is a lie."

The others looked at the handsome young man, then at Wang Xiaoer. Seeing Wang Xiaoer's face turn red, it was clear that he was lying. Since Wang Xiaoer had no connection with the shop assistants at the Treasure Pavilion, what he had just said was simply a fabrication.

Upon seeing this, the person assisting Wang Xiaoer immediately became anxious and quickly asked, "Young master, how do you know that after Treasure Pavilion came to the capital, it didn't recruit any people from the capital to work as shop assistants?"

Everyone present looked at the handsome young man again. Yes, how did this young man know about this?

The handsome young man smiled slightly and said, "Since I am the owner of Treasure Pavilion, I am naturally aware of everything that happened at Treasure Pavilion yesterday. The staff in my shop are indeed brought from out of town by me."

Upon hearing this, everyone gaped in shock. Their first reaction was that the owner of Treasure Pavilion was so young, and their second reaction was, "What? The owner of Treasure Pavilion is actually sitting here?"

At that moment, curious, surprised, puzzled, scrutinizing, and admiring gazes all fell upon the handsome young man.

The handsome young man was none other than Shen Shuyan in disguise. He had taken some people out to handle some matters a couple of days ago and had just returned. He originally intended to go straight back to the Treasure Pavilion, but when he passed by here, he suddenly heard someone mentioning the Princess Consort of Nanqing, so he came in.

“Young man, if you’re not lying, then tell me which of the shop assistants in this shop is your relative. I’d like to ask him to come out and acknowledge his family. After all, he was abandoned as a child, and if it weren’t for my father taking him in, he probably wouldn’t be alive today. He’s been searching for his relatives ever since,” Shen Shuyan said calmly.

"No, I'm not related to him. I just blurted it out in a moment of impulsiveness," Wang Xiaoer quickly explained.

Almost everyone in this area knows Wang Xiaoer, and people here are very superstitious about abandoning children. If someone actually abandons a child, everyone will think that they have a problem with their character, and they will be disliked and ostracized.

There was a young couple who abandoned their child for some unknown reason. After everyone found out, they were ostracized and could hardly live here anymore, so they were forced to move away.

If Wang Xiaoer were to take responsibility for this matter today for the sake of ten taels of silver, how would his family continue to live here?

"Just to get a moment's satisfaction, you're willing to falsely accuse someone?" Shen Shuyan raised an eyebrow at Wang Xiaoer. "Then I'd like to ask you, why did you say that? You clearly know nothing about what happened at the Treasure Pavilion, yet you claim that the Princess of Nanqing did this or that. Who gave you the audacity to slander the Princess of Nanqing like this?"

"I...no, I..." Wang Xiaoer was speechless. Looking at everyone's suspicious gazes, he didn't know what to say for a moment. He turned to look at the person who had cooperated with him earlier.

But the person was nowhere to be seen; they had quietly left sometime earlier.

"You haven't been bribed by someone, have you?" Shen Shuyan smiled slightly, his eyes fixed on the money pouch at Wang Xiaoer's waist.

Everyone couldn't help but look at Wang Xiaoer's money bag. It wasn't as empty as usual; instead, it was bulging and looked like it contained a lot of silver.

Seeing everyone eyeing his purse, Wang Xiaoer instinctively covered it. He glared fiercely at Shen Shuyan, "Even if you're the owner of Treasure Pavilion, you can't just spout nonsense and slander others. Who's been bribed?"

Shen Shuyan glanced at the servant beside him. The servant nodded and, before anyone could react, rushed forward and took the money pouch from Wang Xiaoer's waist. Wang Xiaoer was just an ordinary person and didn't have time to react before his money pouch was in someone else's hands.

"What do you think you're doing in broad daylight!" Wang Xiaoer said angrily when he saw his silver being stolen.

The servant didn't say anything, but instead opened the money bag and poured all the contents onto the table. Everyone could see that there were about ten taels of silver and two copper coins.

However, the two greasy copper coins looked out of place in front of the clear and clean silver coins.

Many people know about Wang Xiaoer's family situation. Wang Xiaoer was originally a petty hoodlum with no proper way to make money. He usually relied on talking nonsense, and his family couldn't possibly come up with ten taels of silver.

Now everyone understood. It was clear that someone had given Wang Xiaoer money to say this on purpose. Moreover, to make everyone believe it, Wang Xiaoer even said that his relative worked as a shop assistant at the Treasure Pavilion. Unexpectedly, the owner of the Treasure Pavilion exposed him to his face.

The person who wants to do this is clearly from the Xu family. The Xu family wants to reverse their reputation, so they deliberately have people spread rumors in front of them, intentionally leading them to believe that yesterday's events were all deliberately orchestrated by the Princess of Nanqing.

Wang Xiaoer rushed over in a panic, snatched the money bag from the servant's hand, then collected all the silver and copper coins on the table and slunk away from the teahouse.

Watching Wang Xiaoer's departing figure, everyone suddenly felt like they had been tricked. They had genuinely believed Wang Xiaoer's words, thinking that Princess Nanqing had really said or done something to make Madam Xu spend such a large sum of money on jewelry.

Shen Shuyan didn't say anything more. He had thought it through. The reason everyone believed Wang Xiaoer was because what Wang Xiaoer said didn't seem fake. Once Wang Xiaoer's lies were exposed, everything he had just said would be doubted.

Everyone knows who bribed him; the Xu family was feeling guilty and deliberately had someone say that.

The anger towards the Xu family intensified, after all, they had almost been misled and actually believed that the truth was the fault of the Princess Consort of Nanqing.

It turns out someone wanted to harm the Princess Consort of Nanqing.

Seeing that public opinion had turned around, Shen Shuyan threw down a tael of silver and left with his servant. It wasn't far from the Treasure Pavilion, and some busybodies secretly followed them.