The carriage stopped outside the first silk and satin shop. Xie Mingze stepped down on the low stool brought by the chamberlain. The prince lifted the curtain and fell on Xie Mingze's exquisite, pale and beautiful face. When the sun shone, it became even more transparent and white, which made people pity.

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The prince was reluctant to leave for a moment.

"Your Highness, otherwise... you should go back to the palace first." Xie Mingze lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes trembling slightly, but he was afraid of delaying his important business, so he tried his best to suppress his reluctance.

The prince's Adam's apple twitched: "It's inconvenient for me to show up. You go there first. If you are bullied, tell Fu Sheng."

Fusheng, the chamberlain on the side, responded respectfully: "I will definitely protect my wife."

After Xie Mingze received a satisfactory promise, he looked at him gratefully, turned around, and went to the battlefield.

Yesterday, the eldest son got married, and the mistress, Mrs. Sun, sent someone to deliver the news, telling the shopkeepers in the shop to be tight-lipped. If they couldn't save the shop, they would get out.

The shopkeeper had been waiting early, and when he saw the eldest young master, he immediately winked at the waiter in the shop.

These shopkeepers have been carefully selected by the Sun family over the years. They have been in the Xie family for more than ten years. Although the eldest son does not appear often, he knows Xie Mingze.

At this moment, I just pretended that I didn’t know him.

Xie Mingze was followed by the waiter, but his face still showed the panic of visiting such a place for the first time. He held the land deed and came to the counter. The shopkeeper had already turned his back, pretending not to know.

The waiter stepped forward and said, "Master, do you want to buy silk and satin? Or make ready-made clothes? Our shop is a famous silk and satin shop in Kyoto. We have everything. Do you want to use it for yourself or for your wife?"

Xie Mingze took a deep breath: "I am the owner of this shop. Let me tell you, starting from this month, all the profits and profits of the shop will be handed over to me. There are also account books from previous years. I want to take a look."

"Huh? You said you are the boss, do you have any evidence?" The waiter looked him up and down and pretended he didn't know him.

The shopkeeper said that even if he found trouble afterwards, he would give him ten taels of silver to let him leave.

This is not a small amount of money, it is enough for him for half a year.

They just sent away the unfavored eldest son. Even if the eldest son became the prince's concubine, it was said that the ninth prince was unconscious, so he probably wouldn't be able to care about the new wife.

They have the support of their mistress, and the eldest son is a clay man, so isn’t that what they want?

Xie Mingze handed over the land deed and unfolded: "This is it."

The waiter took advantage of him and snatched it away: "Really?" Then he handed it to the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper would give him a piece of land outside the city that he had prepared under the counter. This was what the mistress had already prepared.

It's been arranged.

As a result, the shopkeeper's hand was grabbed by the waiter when he was about to change it.

The shopkeeper felt guilty and frightened: "What are you doing?"

Fu Sheng said with a calm face: "What are you doing, shopkeeper?" He squeezed his hand and took it out. The shopkeeper was in pain, and before he could put down the broken land deeds, two of them were exposed on the table.

Fusheng was a chamberlain and could follow the prince everywhere. Naturally, he had excellent internal strength and martial arts.

It is easy to detect the small actions of an ordinary shopkeeper.

When Xie Mingze saw it, a look of surprise appeared on his face at the right time: "Hey, why did one suddenly turn into two? Okay, it's so magical."

Fusheng looked at him with pity: No wonder His Highness wanted to follow him. With this intelligence, if he just walked there, he would probably have all been replaced by poor land outside the city, the kind that no one would want even if he sold it.

The carriage was parked outside. The prince kept lifting the curtain to look this way. Seeing the situation in front of the counter, he couldn't help but get off the carriage.

As he walked down, his noble aura made passers-by take a few glances, but because the prince was wearing regular clothes, no one recognized him.

"What's going on?" The prince frowned.

Fusheng explained: "This man took advantage of his wife's innocence and read the land deed of the shop to exchange the land deed of the shop for a worthless half-acre of thin farmland outside the city." This difference is huge.

The prince's face darkened. Although he disdained the use of this kind of privacy method in the back house, he knew a lot about it. He looked at the shopkeeper who had changed his face expressionlessly: "Who instigated you?"

The shopkeeper opened his eyes with a guilty conscience, pretending to be a fierce threat: "No, I don't know what the young master said? I just want to see the land deed to confirm, why can't I do it? Why are you dragging me? If you do this again, I will repay you. Official."

Fusheng: "Bold! Who gave you the courage to be bold in front of me?"

However, the prince gave the shopkeeper a cold look and told him to ask for mercy: "Then report it to the official, privately exchange the master's land deed, and lock it up for sale for three months."

The shopkeeper's face changed: "You, who do you think you are? You just shut it down when you say it?"

Fusheng sneered and took out a token from his arms.

When the shopkeeper saw the sign that said the servant of the East Palace, the servant called the man in front of him again. The shopkeeper's legs went weak and he knelt on the ground: "This slave deserves death. I don't know..."

There were still guests in the silk shop, and the waiter scolded: "Shut up."

The customers didn’t know why, so they all stood not far away in the shop and stared: “What’s going on?”

Xie Mingze spoke at the right time, his voice neither high nor low, just enough to be heard by everyone. He shook his body and looked shocked: "This shop is my biological mother's dowry. Yesterday, when I got married, my father gave me my biological mother's dowry." Leave it to me. The dowry includes these shops, which have been managed by my mother all these years. I have never taken care of the income of the shops, and I have no intention of caring about them. But you, a slave, did not tell your mother and wanted to take advantage of me. When I show you the land deed to prove that I am the owner of the shop, I have to change the land deed to Susukada outside the city. This... you are so brave! The land deed of Susukada actually has my name written on it... What, what's going on? "

In Xie Mingze's words, he didn't even say anything bad about Mr. Xie and Mrs. Sun. He only blamed the shopkeeper for committing the crime without telling the mistress, which was a heinous crime.

But the information revealed in his words made everyone look at each other and let out a silent sigh.

A shopkeeper who acts as a slave can become a mistress? He even has spare money to buy a Susukada and write the eldest son's name on it and change it to a shop?

How brave can he be?

Before, I had only heard that this silk and satin shop was the dowry of the Prime Minister's wife. It turned out that... it was indeed the Prime Minister's wife, but it belonged to the late ex-wife. However, it ended up being occupied by a house filler.

Listen, I haven't given any benefit to my stepson these years.

Doesn’t the Prime Minister’s wife pride herself on treating her step-son and her own children equally, being dignified and virtuous, not to mention seizing the dowry of the one in front of her for personal use? She even cares about her stepson’s dowry, even because her stepson is simple and kind. It's so crooked that I have to use this dirty trick to change it.

If the person next to the young master hadn't discovered this, the young master wouldn't have even cried when he turned around and left.

Replacing the popular shops with Susukada, which no one wants, is really... the most poisonous woman's heart.

With the prince's token, the Ministry of Punishment personally dispatched and took the shopkeeper away.

Xie Mingze finally got into the carriage with the prince, looking lonely and sad.

The prince's voice became softer: "But we still have to go to the next one?"

Xie Mingze shook his head: "I won't go, I'm afraid..."

The prince was worried that if he didn't follow him in the future, those shops wouldn't be able to hold on: "Now that we're out, let's go and have a look together."

Xie Mingze raised his head at the right moment with grateful eyes: "Your Highness..."

The prince was quite pleased: this could be regarded as repaying him for the sacrifice he had made before. He was so simple, so it would be better not to protect him.

So, the next few shops followed the same routine, and the Ministry of Punishment arrested the shopkeepers.

Mr. Hu from the Criminal Department came down here several times and came over in person. When he learned that several things had happened, he felt very bad.

The prince's face was not good-looking, and he did not dare to say anything. He could only look at the handsome young man standing next to him with lonely and sad eyes: "Xie Eldest Young Master, look at this... how should I deal with this?"

Xie Mingze accepted it as soon as possible: "Mother should not know the sinister intentions of these shopkeepers, so there is no need to tell mother how to judge the case."

Mr. Hu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: He has already asked, the sales contracts of these shopkeepers are all in the hands of Sun. How could he not know this? Mr. Xie is too... How did he survive these years?

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You were cheated and you paid for someone else?

The prince obviously also had a headache, and Fusheng, the chamberlain, even looked at the eldest son with pity and said with firm eyes: "..."

The prince couldn't bear to let Xie Mingze know the truth, so he suppressed his anger, thinking that if there was no evidence now, if several shopkeepers insisted that they were the ones who made the decision, there would be nothing they could do to the Sun family. What's more, there was also Mr. Xie, who would have to give face.

But he just let it go, and in the future he was bullied for nothing.

Besides, even if he had this shop, he wouldn't be able to put his ideas into practice.

After thinking about it, the prince made some plans for his future: "Since the shop is the dowry of the former wife, the profits over the years should be included in the dowry. Fusheng, please go to the Xie Mansion in person and inform Mr. Xie about the dowry.

There should also be a share of the income. It is difficult to calculate these years, so the compensation will be based on 10,000 taels per shop. Furthermore, since these shops are all regarded as dowries, the original people in the shops should also be included in the calculation.

, thinking that this is the first time these people have committed a crime, I asked Prime Minister Xie to find the prostitution contracts of these shopkeepers and hand them over to the eldest son."

It was inconvenient for him to directly question Mr. Sun, but he could directly go to Mr. Xie.

With the deed of prostitution in hand, the shopkeepers don't dare to mess around anymore, and since they are all acquaintances of the shop, it will not affect the business and make money, allowing them to atone for their sins.

After the prince finished his instructions and asked Fu Sheng to handle it, Xie Mingze felt uneasy at the right time: "These people are my mother's people. Isn't it good to force them to come over?"

The prince sighed: "You deserve this."

I didn't expect Mrs. Sun to be such a snake-hearted person. No wonder she was so happy to let her stepson get married.

Thinking that he had played a part in it, the prince felt even more guilty.

But given the choice again, he would still choose to save A Li.

He could only apologize to this young man who had fallen in love with him at the beginning, but he would make amends.

Xie Mingze lowered his eyes and expressed gratitude and encouragement at the right time. His eyes were moist and bright: "Your Highness is so kind."

The prince was startled, his heart skipped a beat for no apparent reason, and his mood improved accordingly. The young man was happy and felt that the guilt in his heart was lessened.

Xie Mingze’s curved lips: 50,000 √ Five free labor shopkeepers √ Sun’s reputation - 1 √ Xie Yujiao’s accidental encounter and failure √
Chapter completed!