Su Yin couldn't help but take a few more glances at the leader's appearance. When the other person got closer and closer to her, she could see his appearance clearly.
It's them!
Su Baozhu noticed Su Yin's strangeness and asked, "What's wrong?"
Following her line of sight, I also noticed the group of people coming on horseback.
When Su Baozhu saw that group of people, her expression suddenly changed, and her mind involuntarily thought of what happened that night.
Seeing that the other party was getting closer and closer to them, Su Yin stopped Su Baozhu, turned her back to them, and pretended to pick velvet flowers at the stall.
After the sound of horse hooves faded away behind her, Su Yin let go of Su Baozhu's arm and put the velvet flower she had chosen on her head.
"This flower looks good on you, little girl. It sets off your skin well."
Su Baozhu calmed down and replied with a smile: "Then I will choose this one."
After the two of them finished their selection, Su Yin seemed to mention the group of people just now unintentionally.
"These people are so reckless riding so fast on the streets, not afraid of hitting the elderly and children."
The stall owner took a look at the group of people going away, and recognized their identities by the clothes they were wearing. He said to Su Yin and the others, "They are not afraid of bumping into people."
"Why?"
"You don't know who these people are, do you?"
The stall owner glanced at the group of people rushing around, with fear and disgust in his eyes, "They are the personal guards of Shunyi Marquis. Shunyi Marquis is a favorite of the current emperor. Many officials flatter him. Our prefect of the capital can't do anything about Shunyi Marquis's affairs."
"When the personal guards of the Marquis of Shunyi killed someone, they just paid some money and that was it. Anyone who dared to cause trouble for them would be killed."
Su Yin asked, "What about this Shunyi Marquis?"
She had to understand something about this crazy couple, especially the crazy man Shunyi Hou.
I don’t know what the reputation of Shunyi Hou is among the people.
If they come into conflict with Shunyi Hou in the future, they will have a better idea of what to do and won't have to cram at the last minute.
The Shunyi Marquis that his father knew was from the perspective of a giant.
Everyone has multiple sides. What you see is not necessarily true, let alone comprehensive.
Especially given my father's identity, even if he is a puppet, Shunyi Hou definitely has two different faces in front of him and in front of ordinary people.
The Shunyi Marquis standing in front of the common people is what Su Yin wants to know.
The stall owner was immediately excited when he heard this. "What can we say about Shunyi Hou? In the eyes of the common people in Shangjing City, he is a very good man, especially his wife. She would go to the slums to distribute porridge every first and fifteenth day of the month. Shunyi Hou is often ruled by the people and is very sympathetic to them."
"If he cares about the people, why are his personal guards so rampant?" Su Baozhu was puzzled as to why this man's words were inconsistent.
The stall owner smiled and said, "Don't be impatient, young lady! Listen to me and tell you slowly. Didn't I just say that this is the Shunyi Marquis passed down by word of mouth by the people of Shangjing City. But that's not what I said."
Su Yin heard the hidden meaning and asked curiously, "Stall owner, I feel like there is a story behind this."
"What story is this? Well, I'd rather not tell you." The stall owner wanted to stop there.
Su Baozhu refused and said playfully, "You are such a strange person. You aroused our curiosity but didn't say anything. You have to finish your story today. I won't be able to sleep later and will have to trouble you."
The stall owner waved his hands repeatedly, "Okay, okay, I'll do what I say, but the two girls have to promise me not to spread what I said."
"Sure." The two of them assured.
The stall owner lowered his voice, "There is a relative of my wife's family who was beaten to death by the steward of Shunyi Marquis's Mansion. The steward had taken a fancy to the daughter of that family, but the daughter had already been promised to someone else. But the steward was so overbearing that he kidnapped the girl and gave her to..."
At this point, he paused, and continued angrily, "The girl lost her innocence, and she was so upset that she hanged herself. Her parents wanted justice for the girl, so they went to the housekeeper, but the housekeeper refused to admit it and beat the man to death."
"With her husband and daughter both dead, how could the wife give up? She stopped looking for the steward and went to find Shunyi Marquis, thinking that Shunyi Marquis was a good man who could bring justice to their family. But when she went to find him, he never came back. That wasn't the worst part. In the next few months, all six members of the family died."
"A family of nine, all gone. Do you say this was an accident? Do you believe it?" The stall owner said this with a sarcastic look on his face.
Su Yin and Su Baozhu were silent.
Knowing that the husband and wife are not human beings, it turns out that they are more than just inhuman beings.
From the stall owner, I roughly got a glimpse of what kind of person Shunyi Hou is in the eyes of ordinary people.
A person who talks a lot about benevolence, righteousness, and morality and attaches great importance to reputation, but inwardly he is a arrogant, murderous person who takes human life lightly.
After selling the velvet flowers, Su Yin picked up a few pieces of jewelry on the roadside. They were all ordinary hairpins with simple styles. She then turned the topic to Shunyi Hou, wanting to see what Shunyi Hou looked like in the eyes of others.
Just as the velvet flower stall owner said, in the eyes of these stall owners, Shunyi Hou was a good official with a kind heart who spoke up for the people.
The two of them picked and chose along the way and roughly figured out the situation in the Qingshi Lane area.
When I returned home, I saw Madam Xu directing several servants to carry furniture into the house one by one.
When Madam Xu saw Su Yin coming back, she felt like she had seen a savior.
"Yinyin, take a quick look and see where all these are."
Su Yin took a look at the furniture and immediately instructed the guys to move each piece of furniture to where it belonged.
Shunyi Marquis Mansion
The captain of the guards hurried towards the study, and the closer he got to the study, the more nervous he became.
I knocked on the study door and heard a deep voice coming from inside.
"Enter."
Gently pushing open the study door, the chief guard walked to the desk, knelt down in front of the handsome man behind the desk, lowered his head slightly, and respectfully replied, "My Lord, I haven't found Miss Xu yet."
The man behind the desk was holding a pen and writing calligraphy. Hearing this, he did not stop moving.
"Tell me what happened."
Hearing the Marquis' calm tone, the captain of the guards did not relax, but became even more nervous.
Everyone who knows the Marquis' temper knows that the calmer he appears, the angrier he is.
The captain of the guard did not dare to hide anything and gave a brief and honest report of what had happened along the way.
After the man finished speaking, the Marquis, who had been writing calligraphy, stopped what he was doing, slowly raised his head, and stared at him with cold eyes, "Go north, have you found it?"
"No, no. I guess Miss Xu should go south."
Just as he finished speaking, an inkstone was suddenly thrown at him. The captain of the guards did not dare to dodge and was hit on the forehead. Bright red blood flowed down his forehead and the sticky blood blurred his eyes, but he did not dare to wipe it off and still knelt upright respectfully.
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