Chapter 8 What is hidden?

When Cui Liu saw Xu Yuan not speaking, her confusion deepened.

"Madam, do you know the identity of the man in the carriage?"

Xu Yuan shook her head, "I can't say I know him, but I have made some special discoveries."

In addition to the small mole, when the man grabbed her wrist, she also saw the jade pendant that fell from his body.

If it was just a jade pendant, it would not be surprising.

But before she got married, as the legitimate daughter of the Duke's Mansion, she had attended many banquets and had seen the jade pendant at a palace banquet.

It was a royal thing.

Judging from the other party's age, he was only in his early twenties and had royal things, so he might be a prince.

It was a pity that she didn't know much about the royal family in her previous life. She only heard rumors about many things and didn't have much intersection.

But frost poison is not common. If the other party is really a prince, who did he offend to be poisoned so severely.

Xu Yuan felt that she was worrying too much. At the moment, her own affairs had not been resolved, but she cared about someone she had only met once.

What's more, the man's subordinates helped them, and she saved the man's life.

In a sense, it can be regarded as repaying the help. As for what happens next, it has nothing to do with her.

She has more important things to do at the moment.

"Cui Liu, is the list of dowry that I brought with me when I married into the Marquis' Mansion still there?"

Faced with Xu Yuan's sudden inquiry, Cui Liu was obviously stunned for a few seconds, nodded, and replied to her, "They are all still there. I was worried that they would be lost, so I put them away at the time."

"Madam, what have you discovered by asking these questions now?" Cui Liu asked Xu Yuan with confusion.

Xu Yuan nodded lightly. Fortunately, Cui Liu was by her side in the past two years, and she did a lot of things without omissions.

Thinking of the last life, she took all the false accusations to protect herself, and was finally beaten to death, Xu Yuan felt heartbroken.

"Cui Liu, go find the list, and then go to the warehouse to see what's missing."

In the past, she thought Shen Yun'an was a self-disciplined and polite man, and she never had any doubts about him. When she heard that he was in trouble, she did everything she could to help him through it.

At the critical moment he mentioned, she even took out her dowry. It was not until later that she knew that the difficulties Shen Yun'an mentioned were just because Lu Rou wanted to buy expensive jewelry.

He was unwilling to use his salary, so he wanted to take her dowry.

In addition, her mother-in-law regarded her dowry as her own from the beginning and was eyeing it covetously.

In this life, don't think of taking anything that belongs to her from her.

An hour passed quickly, and the sleeping baby cried loudly.

Until the moment she heard the sound, Xu Yuan's heart was completely settled, even though she knew medical skills and knew that the child was fine.

But she still felt uneasy until she saw the child wake up.

Fortunately... Xu Yuan held the child in her arms with a gentle look.

"Child, mother is here."

The baby in her arms seemed to understand Xu Yuan's words, and fell asleep again after crying.

Xu Yuan smiled gently, and just when she was about to put the child back on the bed, she heard hurried footsteps coming from outside.

Hearing this movement, Xu Yuan's face instantly turned cold. She was very familiar with this footsteps. It was Shen Yun'an's mother, her mother-in-law.

In the past, Shen Yun'an always told her that his father left when he was a child, and it was not easy for his mother to raise him to this day.

Because of this, she treated this mother-in-law with special respect. Even if there was any conflict on weekdays, she would choose to give in at the critical moment.

Unexpectedly, it was because of her concession that these people thought she was easy to bully, and even the servants in the mansion were the same.

The incidents of the previous life seemed to emerge in front of her. While she was thinking, Mrs. Shen had already walked in with the help of the maid.

When she came in, she didn't look at Xu Yuan but looked around the room, as if looking for something.

The maid who helped her in saw the child on the bed first and said excitedly, "Old lady, look, the little master is there."

"My dear grandson!" Old Lady Shen followed the maid's line of sight, her eyes lit up, and she was about to walk towards the bed.

But when Old Lady Shen and the maid approached, Xu Yuan blocked them first.

The moment she saw Xu Yuan, Old Lady Shen's face instantly sank, her eyes were full of displeasure, and her tone was full of reprimands, "Xu, what are you doing!"

"Why are you blocking me from seeing Yao'er?"

"Yao'er?"

Xu Yuan sneered. She forgot that this name was calculated by a master before the child was born by Shen Yun'an and Old Lady Shen.

It means to bring honor to the ancestors. At that time, she felt it was inappropriate, but she was persuaded and persuaded, and her mother-in-law agreed to it after crying and making a fuss.

Now it's really ridiculous to think about it.

In this life, she didn't want to have any contact with that child, let alone use that so-called name.

"Mother-in-law, who is the Yao'er you are talking about?" Xu Yuan asked Old Lady Shen, and then pretended to sigh, "Could it be that the Marquis has other children outside?"

Upon hearing this, Old Lady Shen's expression suddenly changed, and her tone also rose a few degrees, and she accused Xu Yuan.

"Xu, what nonsense are you talking about! Yun An is devoted to you, and for your sake, he can even put aside the affairs of his own mother. Now that you say such things, do you still have a conscience?"

When Old Lady Shen said this, there was still a bit of guilt in her voice, trying to cover it up with anger.

Xu Yuan saw everything.

The maid who came with her also echoed what Old Lady Shen said, "Madam, you are really wronging the Marquis by saying that. Over the past two years, the Marquis has been very good to you, and even we servants have seen it clearly."

Xu Yuan looked at the maid who was talking, and she remembered that this person was called Chun'er. At the beginning, she served beside her mother-in-law. She had always had a crush on Shen Yun'an. On the surface, she didn't dare to do anything in front of her, but she repeatedly pointed out her faults in private.

Until Lu Rou came in, he went straight to Lu Rou.

I didn't expect that he would dare to come to her today.

Xu Yuan curled his lips, with more contempt in his eyes, and raised his hand to slap her.

The atmosphere in the room was instantly quiet. Although only Old Lady Shen and Chun'er entered the room, there were some other maids outside.

After hearing the slap, they secretly looked into the room, but what they saw was not Xu Yuan being punished by Old Lady Shen.