Su Qing took the jade pendant from the prince's hand with a fascinated look, squinted her eyes and began to count with her fingers.

"What has my sister-in-law figured out?"

The prince saw Su Qingwan's movements stop.

"You are the prince."

"Um."

......

"And then?" The prince continued to ask when he saw Su Qingwan stopped talking.

"What then? I've already told you the result I calculated, what's the next thing?"

Su Qingwan stood up and patted her clothes, "Okay, I'm going to collect the balance now, He Guizi is leaving."

Prince...

I wonder if Ah Chi has been blinded by love.

"Who was she calling just now?"

Xiao Jingchi glanced at He Gui and said, "He's having a seizure."

"So was I fooled by her just now?"

This girl took away her jade pendant.

At this time, a head popped out of the door and said, "If Your Highness believes me, you won't take the usual route when you go back today."

After saying this, he retracted his thought and left.

Prince...

Su Qingwan and He Guizi came to Zhao Xiao's bank. Since the matter was done, of course they took the balance.

This time was different from the last time. He walked to the counter with ease and familiarity, without even waiting for the customer to speak.

When the shopkeeper saw Su Qingwan, he was as excited as if he had seen his own grandmother.

"My dear girl, I have been looking for you for several days, and finally you are here."

The shopkeeper came out quickly from the counter and greeted her attentively.

Su Qingwan glanced at the shopkeeper and said, "Why don't you exaggerate a little more?"

She just came yesterday.

The shopkeeper shook his head and laughed awkwardly twice.

"Why? Are you reluctant to cut down that tree?"

She felt it when she came in, the yin energy here is even heavier.

A flash of surprise flashed across the shopkeeper's face, and then he bowed and said, "Can you please spare a moment to meet my young master?"

Seeing that Su Qingwan didn't say anything, the shopkeeper added, "Don't worry, young lady. If you can solve my young master's problem, I will definitely not treat you unfairly."

After hearing what the shopkeeper said, Su Qingwan said, "Lead the way."

The shopkeeper immediately made a gesture to invite the guests in, and ordered his men to clear the place and close the door.

Su Qingwan followed the shopkeeper all the way to the courtyard behind the money house. They passed by a garden on the way. The further they went in, the more gloomy the atmosphere became.

Until we arrived at a door, the doors and windows were tightly wrapped with black cloth. In the center of the courtyard at the main entrance there was a locust tree that was at least a hundred years old.

The lush branches and leaves make the whole yard even more gloomy.

The shopkeeper turned around and said politely to Su Qingwan behind him, "Miss, please wait a moment. I will go and inform the master first."

Su Qingwan nodded slightly. After the shopkeeper went in, Su Qingwan walked around the yard by herself, slowly walking around the locust tree.

"Xian'er, there is no little ghost like me in the Zhao Mansion, so how come the yin energy is heavier than that of the Shen Mansion?"

He Gui has been following Su Qingwan, and even he can feel the weirdness of this Zhao Mansion.

Su Qingwan didn't reply but just looked up at the locust tree. Suddenly, there was a creaking sound behind her.

The door was opened, and the shopkeeper came out and walked behind Su Qingwan, "Miss, my master wants to see you."

"Um."

Su Qingwan followed the shopkeeper into the house, walked to the door, turned around and said to He Guizi behind him: "You stay in the yard."

This ghost has a very strong negative energy, and the people inside would probably be unable to bear it if they went in.

Although the shopkeeper was puzzled, he kept silent and did not ask any more questions.

After entering the house, the shopkeeper quickly closed the door. There was only a dim candle lit in the whole room, and not a single ray of natural light could shine in.

In the dim light, Su Qingwan looked towards the bedside. A man with a pale face and bloodless lips was leaning against the bed, covered with a thick blanket.

The man had a pair of peach blossom eyes, a high nose bridge, and looked like a yandere beauty.

"Miss, this is my son, everyone calls him Jade Master."

Master Yu? In my memory, there was such a person, who was called Master Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty together with Xiao Jingchi.

Xiao Jingchi fought on the battlefield and was the god of war of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, a member of the royal family. And this jade prince, with brilliant talent, unmatched, created the largest bank in the Northern Zhou Dynasty at a young age.

Some housekeepers and merchant girls of slightly lower status did not dare to dream of a godlike man like Xiao Jingchi, and could only aim to marry this Jade Master.

The only problem is that four years ago, the God of War fell, and those who were vying for marriage all retreated.

Two years ago, this Master Yu suddenly stopped going out of his house and stopped seeing anyone. As time went by, people forgot about him.

The man on the bed looked at Su Qingwan staring at him and had no intention of asking any questions.

He said in a weak voice, "Miss... I am Zhao Yu. I hope you don't mind my sudden invitation to you."

"You want me to save you?"

When doing serious work, Su Qingwan seemed like a different person, cold and aloof, with an attitude that kept people away.

"Does the girl have any idea?"

Zhao Yu didn't expect Su Qingwan to get straight to the point.

“There is a way, but it’s expensive.”

"As long as you can cure my son's illness, just speak up, young lady."

Without waiting for Zhao Yu to speak, the shopkeeper said hastily, "There is just one thing. That tree...cannot be cut down."

Su Qingwan sat down at the table in the sunlight, poured herself a cup of tea and took a sip, "Reason."

The shopkeeper said nothing. He would never dare to speak about this matter without the young master's consent.

"When you want to treat an illness, you need to ask for the cause. If you are unwilling to tell me, then you can ask someone else for help." Su Qingwan said coldly, put down the teacup and prepared to get up and leave.

"Wait a minute, young lady." Zhao Yu said weakly.

Su Qingwan sat back down and looked at Zhao Yu quietly.

After a while, Zhao Yu finally spoke.

"To be honest," Zhao Yu paused, "it's not that I don't want to cut down the tree."

"One day, a sorcerer came to my ancestor and cursed him. Since then, the Zhao family has only one descendant. After reaching the age of eighteen, they will suffer from this strange disease and spend the rest of their lives in this dark house. Most of them will only live to around thirty."

"The sorcerer cast a curse on the locust tree outside the house. If the tree was cut down, the Zhao family would be extinct."

This was a secret of the Zhao family, because all the men in the Zhao family married and had children at an early age. As for Zhao Yu, he wanted to find someone he liked, so he kept putting it off until he fell ill.

After Zhao Yu finished speaking for a while, Su Qingwan said in a cold voice:

"You're lying."

Zhao Yu's heart skipped a beat. Except for the men of Zhao Yu's clan, everyone else knew this.

He had told his father this before he died. This was a secret they had kept for a long time, but it was revealed by this little girl of 16 or 17 years old.

The key is that she didn't ask anything...

"You are not sincere, I can't save you."

Su Qingwan put down the teacup, stood up and walked towards the door.

"Miss, please stay." Zhao Yushen tried to stop weakly.

Seeing that Su Qingwan had no intention of stopping, he quickly glanced at the shopkeeper behind him.

The shopkeeper immediately understood and blocked Su Qingwan's way.