I just want to live a good life

Chapter 264: The Twisted Magistrate Wang

Su Nuan was really curious about what Mu Yunting had done to Chu Qi again. She grabbed Chu Qi's sleeve tightly and didn't notice Mu Yunting's murderous eyes at all.

"My dear, can't I just not leave? Can you please let go of my hand?"

Chu Qi almost knelt down to beg Su Nuan. The Crown Prince next to him was glaring at him hungrily, as if he was going to tear him to pieces in the next moment. He was so scared.

"Well, you go back first, I'll come find you later."

Su Nuan felt that Chu Qi would not dare to complain in front of Mu Yunting, and she did not want to make things difficult for him, so she planned to let him go.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she let go, Chu Qi flew several feet away, with a speed so fast that even a falcon might not be able to match it.

"What did you do to him?"

Su Nuan asked Mu Yunting.

Mu Yunting took Su Nuan's hand and replied unnaturally: "Don't listen to his nonsense. What can I do to him?"

"Really?"

Su Nuan looked at Mu Yunting suspiciously.

"Let's not talk about him anymore. Let's pack up and go."

Su Nuan thought to herself that she must find Chu Qi to get to the bottom of things today.

The team quickly set off. During several breaks, Su Nuan wanted to look for Chu Qi, but was interrupted by Mu Yunting every time.

At first Su Nuan didn’t think much about it, but after it happened so many times she had to suspect that Mu Yunting did it on purpose.

The journey was smooth and the sun had not yet set when we arrived at the next station.

With Liao Xinyi's "help", Su Nuan's leg healed quickly. After getting off the carriage, she took a walk around the post station.

This post station is located in the suburbs a few miles away from the town. You can see the whole picture of the town by standing on the small hill behind it.

Su Nuan really wanted to stroll around the town, but as the prince's concubine, she was closely watched wherever she went. She couldn't even run away, so she could only stand on the hillside and enjoy the view.

"Concubine Xia, do you know what is ahead?"

Su Nuan turned her head and saw that the person coming was Princess Guang'an.

Princess Guang'an didn't really want to ask Su Nuan, so she listened to her continue: "That's Ruoliu Town. I heard that the county magistrate Wang Qin is a fellow student of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Your Highness's fellow disciple? Could it be Xun Yu's student?"

"Exactly."

"I heard that many people were implicated in the Xun Yu case. Wasn't Magistrate Wang implicated?"

"Wang Qin was credited with exposing Xun Yu, and not only was he not implicated, he was even promoted. However, he felt that he had let his teacher down, so he took the initiative to request to be sent to Ruoliu Town to serve as a county magistrate."

Su Nuan smacked her lips and pictured the twisted image of Magistrate Wang in her mind. Publicly, he had exposed his mentor and contributed to the tragic death of his mentor's family. Privately, he felt guilty and did not want to climb up on top of his mentor's corpse.

This person must be an upright person. Only an upright person would be so entangled and twisted!

"Princess Guang'an knows it very well."

"My father was the Dali Temple official who supervised the Xun Yu case back then."

"Princess Guang'an is Lord Lu's daughter?"

"Exactly."

Princess Guang'an's maiden name was Lu Yingyue, and she was the daughter of Lu Jingzhi, the Minister of the Dali Temple.

"What is the princess saying to Concubine Xia?"

Prince Guang'an's voice suddenly floated over, sounding sinister and making Su Nuan feel uncomfortable.

It had only been two days since Princess Guang'an saved her. Seeing the two of them together now would indeed make people suspicious. Su Nuan couldn't let Prince Guang'an catch the princess, so she stepped forward and said coldly, "I didn't say anything. I just wanted to talk about some interesting things when Lord Lu put me in the death row of the Dali Temple."

After saying that, Su Nuan glanced at Prince Guang'an with a half-smile, then walked away, humming softly as she passed by Prince Guang'an.

They are still enemies even if they don't break up, so she has nothing to worry about.

Looking at Su Nuan's departing back, Prince Guang'an frowned and asked the princess: "When did you become so familiar with her?"

"Who knows? Ever since the concubine made the prince lose face that day, this concubine Xia has been full of hostility towards me. I don't think I have offended her. It is likely that there is some misunderstanding."

"Don't get too close to her. This woman is not a good person."

Princess Guang'an smiled faintly and said softly, "I understand."

Today's dinner was prepared by the chef hired by Mu Yunting. He only cooked one meat dish and one vegetable dish, but he cooked a lot, so everyone's table had the same dishes, except for Su Nuan.

There was an extra roast chicken on her table, and it was only for her. Liefeng bought it when he went to the town to buy medicine.

Su Nuan tore off a chicken leg and some chicken meat and brought them to Liao Xinyi's table, then tore off another chicken leg and put it into Mu Yunting's bowl after a moment of hesitation.

Then she picked up a chicken foot and started to eat it with relish.

Mu Yunting looked at the chicken leg in the bowl and couldn't help but murmured, "The roast chicken is well made today. The chef deserves a reward."

"What does it have to do with the chef? Liefeng bought this roast chicken."

"This kid finally did a good thing."

"Your Highness won't reward him?"

"reward."

Su Nuan was gnawing on the chicken feet while staring at the chicken legs in Mu Yunting's bowl, thinking to herself that this prodigal man was giving a reward without even taking a bite of the roast chicken.

The two of them were enjoying their meal when they heard that something had gone wrong again on Prince Guang'an's side.

He called the cook over and asked him why he didn't make roast chicken for him.

The cook was totally confused by the question and thought, you didn't tell me you wanted to eat roast chicken. Besides, what are the conditions of this post station? Can you just make roast chicken?

In order to prevent the prince from asking for whatever he wanted, the cook quickly replied, "The ingredients in this post station cannot make roast chicken. If the prince wants to eat it, I will go to the town to buy the ingredients tomorrow and make it for you."

Did you hear that? You can’t have whatever you want to eat. You have to prepare in advance.

Prince Guang'an pointed at Su Nuan and said, "Then why is there a roast chicken on her table?"

Su Nuan was sucking on the chicken neck when she suddenly found the bone. Before she could spit it out, she grinned and said loudly, "If the prince wants to eat chicken, just ask someone to go to town to buy it. Why bother the cook? But I'm afraid it won't be available in town now."

At this point he glanced down at the remaining chicken rack on his plate and said regretfully, "If you had told me earlier, I could have given you some meat. Now there are only bones left. You can take them if you don't mind."

"presumptuous."

Prince Guang'an tried hard, "Who do you think I am? I'm not fighting for a bite of food."

"What else?" Su Nuan asked with a pair of innocent big eyes.

"you you you......"

After a long while, Prince Guang'an still couldn't come up with a clear answer. He glared at Mu Yunting, his eyes seemed to say, "Your concubine is so unreasonable and you don't care about it!"

Mu Yunting smiled and pretended not to see anything.

Su Nuan covered her mouth with one hand and whispered to Mu Yunting: "This Prince Guang'an is a prince after all, why is he arguing like a child?"

It was just that the whisper was a little loud, and the entire lobby of the inn could hear it.

Prince Guang'an's handsome face turned red. He slammed his chopsticks on the table and went back to his room angrily.

Mu Yunting said softly: "He is an elder after all, you should give him some face."

"He threw his reputation on the ground himself. He doesn't even want it anymore. What's wrong with me stepping on it?"

"You!"