Seeing her slumped on the table in disappointment like a deflated ball, Murong Yan encouraged her, "Don't worry, Miss Ye. I've already sent people to investigate Miss Xu from the Censorate and Princess Liu from the Duke's Mansion. We'll have news in a few days."
"They absolutely cannot be the murderer." Ye Wanqing frowned and insisted, "They have no reason to harm me!"
"We'll have to investigate to find out if he's a suspect. If I hadn't done that, I wouldn't have known my third brother was such a disgrace. If Prime Minister Liu knew, he'd be so pissed off that his beard would twist."
Murong Yan leaned close to her and whispered tentatively, "It's a good thing that Miss broke off the engagement with him. If you had really married him, a man like him would have given you a lot of compliments."
"Your Highness!" Ye Wanqing stood up straight. "Don't mention breaking off the engagement anymore. The more I think about it, the angrier I get. What the hell was my grandfather begging for back then?"
Murong Yan covered his mouth and chuckled, saying cunningly, "Isn't it? This prince is still the most reliable. If General Ye had been a little bolder and directly asked for a princess, maybe I would have brought you wealth and glory."
"Stop being so conceited! How can you praise yourself like that?" Ye Wanqing blushed. Was the prince confessing his feelings to her? Although the prince was handsome, kind, and gentle, she was ultimately not meant to be with him.
She said dejectedly: "I am dead, and everything is gone."
Murong Yan held up his chin and looked into her eyes, saying with a half-smile, "Otherwise, you can marry me in Ah Xu's place."
"What a joke." Ye Wanqing's face suddenly turned red to the root of her neck. The prince was really confessing to her, but, but, Shen Xu would not agree! Even if, even if she was really a girl.
Her mother and her brother would not agree!
Murong Yan awkwardly lifted his hair and said with a hearty laugh, "Of course I'm joking."
"That's good. Your Highness, please don't have such dangerous thoughts. Be careful of being impeached."
"This prince is not afraid of being impeached." Murong Yan tilted his head, his eyes fixed on her rosy cheeks, looking completely fearless.
Miss Ye is so cute. It would be so nice if Ah Xu was a girl~
"If there are too many impeachments, His Majesty will consider appointing another crown prince. Don't let yourself get ruined."
"Haha, they're all my brothers." Murong Yan smiled gently and leisurely. He changed the subject and said, "It just so happens that Prime Minister Liu's residence will be hosting a poetry banquet in a few days. Most of the young men and women in Yong'an City will be attending the banquet. You can also go and inquire about the situation and see if there is anything suspicious."
Ye Wanqing nodded. "I also want to go visit Qianqian and Rongrong. Your Highness, would you like to go with me?"
After saying this, Ye Wanqing was a little worried that he would make a fool of himself and be laughed at. Everyone in Yong'an City knew that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was not good at poetry and literature, did not understand music, was not as good as Murong Yao in both civil and military skills, and even his appearance was slightly inferior to him.
If it weren't for Uncle Ling who was in charge of the national treasury and if it weren't for the favor of Your Majesty, he would never have been the crown prince.
Murong Yan said lazily, "This prince will not participate. Your father and the Great Demon King have reported me, and I am still under house arrest. I cannot come out and show off."
"But I will go to the outer city as soon as possible to investigate if there are any clues. Ah Xu is not familiar with most people in the capital, so you must not use his body for anything strange."
"Yeah, I know."
Just as Murong Yan said, he was currently under house arrest and it was inconvenient for him to stay outside for long. He quickly left the restaurant and parted ways with Ye Wanqing.
Ye Wanqing immediately thought of Ye Xueruo pawning some things at the pawnshop, and hurried to the pawnshop. When the owner spread out the things Ye Xueruo had pawned, Ye Wanqing was so angry that she almost asked A Rao to prepare a sack on the spot.
On the counter of the pawnshop were several sets of jewelry that Ye Wanqing had worn on a daily basis. But what made her furious was the set of colorful butterfly-embroidered headpiece. It was a relic left to her by her mother. She had never been willing to wear it and had locked it in the cabinet under the bed along with some of her savings.
But Ye Xueruo turned them all out. She must have pried open her own lock, taken all the silver she had saved, and pawned her mother's belongings.
That’s too much, Ye Xueruo!
In order to climb up the social ladder, she has abandoned all bottom lines. Sooner or later, she will be put in a sack and dragged into the alley to be beaten!
"Sir, although this headpiece is old-fashioned, everything is brand new and has never been used. The previous customer pawned it and they won't be redeeming it again." The pawnshop owner saw him holding on to the butterfly-embroidered headpiece and refused to let it go. He suggested, "If you like it, you can buy it directly."
Ye Wanqing was about to reach out to take out the silver, but saw A Rao standing beside her with a dark face.
"Arao..." She looked at Arao pleadingly, "I'll only buy this set."
"No need to talk about it. I'll send it to the northwest for you."
"I don't want it." Ye Wanqing was afraid that A Rao would really send the things to the northwest, so she had to put down the headwear in disappointment and left the pawnshop reluctantly.
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In the past few days, Ye Wanqing has been paying attention to the sale of land in General Ye's Mansion, but every time she asked Butler Shen to make a purchase, someone else would get there first, and even when she asked A Rao to check, she couldn't find anything.
Half of the ancestral land and property left by my grandfather, who had spent his entire life in military service, was squandered in one go.
When she thought about her father selling off his flesh and blood and even his property to raise the three hundred thousand taels, and how Ye Xueruo was still a traitor, Ye Wanqing wanted to rush home and make a scene, asking her father to kick the Second Madam and Ye Xueruo out of the house.
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