Chapter 176 Check On the Cui Family
Seeing that he was thinking, Su Yi thought he couldn't remember. So, she reminded him again, "It's the woman who reminded you earlier that the gang of miscreants had built a secret passage outside."
Only then did Mu Shaoling come back to his senses and said with a look of sudden realization, "So it's her. She's also a smart girl. Yi's friend is really not ordinary."
Look at his words. He made it clear that he had no interest in other women, but he also praised his little princess without a trace.
How could ordinary people think so fast? Mu Shaoling was satisfied with his reaction.
But Su Yi also had a very good memory. As soon as she heard his words, she immediately snorted coldly. And the rubies on her ears shook with her breath.
"If I remember correctly, you wanted Jiuyue to stay and serve you at that time!"
Mu Shaoling was stunned!
In the past, he was a fool. He didn't know women, and he didn't know himself either. So, he would say something like that. Oh god. Since he was doomed to come back, why couldn't he be back two days earlier? Now, he had to deal with the mess he had left behind.
"Nonsense, I was just thinking that she saved your life and I thought it would be better for her to find a job in the royal family than to go back to farming. Who knew she wouldn't appreciate it?" Mu Shaoling once again felt that he was very clever and that he could make it up like this.
Cupping the lid of a teacup and fiddling with the tea leaves, Su Yi looked back at him, "How is being a slave better than being a free citizen? Besides, how do you know that she will be farming for the rest of her life? Her husband is going to take the provincial examination this month. Maybe she will be the wife of an official when her husband gets merit in the examination. Isn't it better to have two little girls to serve her than to serve others?"
Mu Shaoling smiled, "Do you really think the examination is that easy? What is her husband's name? I could give him a hand. Won't it be easier for him than doing it on his own?"
Hearing that, Su Yi thought it made sense.
In her opinion, connections were also a kind of capital. When one could take shortcuts, there was no need to be too pedantic. People should know how to be flexible.
She then mentioned, "Her husband's surname is Wu. I guess his full name is Wu Xiyuan."
"What?!" Mu Shaoling was very surprised and exclaimed directly.
Su Yi was also taken aback by his reaction, "What's wrong? Do you know her husband?"
Mu Shaoling didn't know how to explain it to her. How could he not know the name Wu Xiyuan? The name was like a thunderbolt.
At that time, Wu Xiyuan had won his father's eyes. And later, he was leaned on by the new emperor and joined the cabinet at a young age.
Just when everyone thought he had a bright future and would become the prime minister sooner or later, he died suddenly of overwork? And he died two years earlier than he did.
Perhaps because of what happened to Wu Xiyuan, Mu Shaoling did not stay up all night on official business after he came back to his life this time.
It was a rare opportunity that God gave him another chance to come back and fulfill his dream, and he didn't want to tire himself out at a young age.
He shook his head, "It just sounds a little familiar. And I don't know where I've heard of it before."
Su Yi held her chin with a speechless look, "Could there be a duplication of the name?"
Mu Shaoling shook his head and changed the subject, "I can't remember either, what did you just say, Miss Cui beat up Miss Su's man?"
"Right, I almost forgot, I'm here to help her get justice! If Miss Cui doesn't want this marriage, she can just refuse. But, she actually found a group of punks to beat someone up. If Wu Xiyuan hadn't been so lucky, he would have lost his life."
Wu Xiyuan was dumb for several years. Every official in the court at the time knew that. But in his last life, he heard that Wu Xiyuan recovered at twenty years old. How old was he this year?
Mu Shaoling roughly calculated, and then a flash of surprise in his eyes. 'He is only... seventeen or eighteen years old?'
What did Yi just say? He was going to attend the provincial examination this year. Could it be that he has already recovered?
In this life, the destiny of Wu Xiyuan and Su Yi had changed a lot. And the one who had connections with both of them was Su Jiuyue.
He vaguely felt that this Su Jiuyue should be the key to the change in their fate. Although he had a bunch of ways to break the Cui Family, Mu Shaoling asked, "Does Su Jiuyue have any proof? How does she know that Mrs. Cui beat up her husband?"
Su Yi glared at him with his beautiful eyes, and there was some dissatisfied look in her eyes, "Of course, there is evidence. Why are you subconsciously defending Mrs. Cui? Could it be that you actually like her?"
Her tone rose slightly. Even a fool would know that she might not be very happy.
Mu Shaoling couldn't figure out how his perfectly normal question had turned into a defense of Mrs. Cui. He subconsciously defended himself, "Don't talk nonsense! If you hadn't mentioned her, I would have completely forgotten about her."
Only then did Su Yi change her sitting position to a comfortable one. And her attitude was much more relaxed.
"Jiuyue said she found a witness. It was just that the person was worried about retaliation after testifying. That was why she wanted to ask us for help."
If it was in his last life, Mu Shaoling might have thought they were worried for no reason because he hadn't been exposed to this. But in his previous life, during those years when he fought with the Hu people, the other side actually dared to withhold his military food. When he asked people to trace it, they all took sides at various levels and could not catch any clues at all.
If he, a prince with military power, was still like this, wouldn't the rest of the people have no way to appeal?