Chapter 496 Planting the Seeds of Doubt in Takuya's Heart

Shen Ningning knew that the people sent by Changliu would not really be honest and wait for her to find the so-called tenth princess.

Only half a month had passed, and Xiumu couldn't help it.

He took the initiative to think of a way that any girl who pricked her finger and left a drop of blood could get one or two silver coins, and she must be seventeen or eighteen years old.

When Shen Ningning knew about it, Xiumu had already booked an inn in the capital and started to act secretly.

That day, Xiumu sent someone to invite Shen Ningning to the inn.

More than half of the private rooms on the second floor were booked by him.

"Your Highness, Princess, our gimmick has been established. Recently, there is always a long queue outside the inn. You can take out the jade ring."

Shen Ningning somewhat disagreed with their approach.

But people come for profit, and many people only have one or two silver coins in their eyes. They think that they can get money by just shedding a drop of blood, and they are too happy to wait.

Shen Ningning did not stop it, gave the jade ring out, and sat next to it and watched leisurely.

In the huge private room, the girl's figure was hidden behind the screen, leaning on the soft couch, eating the fresh fruit prepared by Xiumu for her.

The girl took two bites and tasted the flavor.

She looked at Tuoye, who seemed to be a guard, but was actually staring at her.

"Did you buy these fruits on the street?"

"Yes, what's wrong?" Tuoye frowned. What tricks did this princess want to play again?

"Is the shop called Langtun Sweet Water?"

"Yes." Tuoye just felt annoyed by her. Why did she always ask such meaningless questions?

Suddenly, he realized that the Chinese character "Langtun" in Cangyun Kingdom means wolf!

So that was Princess Funing's shop?

Shen Ningning really smiled sweetly: "Thank you for the business. Next time I go, buy me some bayberries. I have to go in the morning, otherwise they will wilt in the afternoon."

Tuoye was upset!

She was really proud.

These fresh fruits are expensive. She bought so many and spent nearly eighty taels.

Tuoye stared at her with a cold look in his eyes. Eat it. Who can eat better than you?

Just then, Shen Ningning saw that he was looking at her all the time: "You want to eat it too? Come, I'll give you a reward."

She grabbed two bayberries with her jade fingers and handed them over.

Tuoye refused coldly: "I won't eat it."

"Eat it. You usually follow Xiumu. Have you ever eaten such good things?"

Hearing this, Tuoye was even more angry.

She really underestimated him.

In the past, he was in Changliu Kingdom, with a noble status, although he had never eaten fresh fruits.

But that was because Changliu was not rich in these.

If there were good ones, didn't his father give them to him at the first time?

Shen Ningning saw that he didn't speak, pretending not to see that he didn't want to pay attention to her.

"Forget it. People who haven't eaten bayberries before don't understand its goodness."

This sentence stimulated Tuoye's aggressive nature.

He took the bayberries, put them in his mouth, and chewed them angrily, as if venting.

Shen Ningning waved her round fan and laughed, her beautiful face was full of the innocence of a girl.

But Tuoye read some sarcasm in her smile.

He was about to say something to her, asking her not to go too far.

However, when he opened his mouth, the two bayberry pits were stuck in his throat.

The foreign body sensation was too strong, he covered his neck, his eyes changed, and he grabbed the teapot and poured it into his mouth.

Shen Ningning was startled and said hurriedly: "It's boiling water."

"Ah——" Tuoye screamed because of the burn, and he roared: "Why didn't you say it earlier."

Shen Ningning innocently: "You didn't ask, you just picked it up and drank it, how can there be such a fierce person, what, choked?"

Tuoye already felt a little difficult to breathe, it was really uncomfortable.

He turned back and forth, Shen Ningning handed him a red fruit: "Eat it, see if you can press the pit down."

Tuoye believed it, took it and gnawed it, and then swallowed it fiercely.

However...

He choked even harder.

Shen Ningning covered her lips with a round fan: "Ah! You rolled your eyes."

Tuoye was extremely uncomfortable, and his mind was still distracted, thinking that this Princess Funing was really playing a prank on him!

He fell to the ground, rolling back and forth, and directly knocked down the screen.

Frightened a bunch of girls outside who came to "donate blood and get money" screamed in unison.

Xiu Mu's face changed, and he nervously stepped forward to help the third prince up.

Shen Ningning covered her mouth and nose with a fan, and her dark eyes kept watching Xiu Mu's movements.

He was just a guard, and Xiu Mu, an old minister, was so nervous and concerned?

Tuoye lay on the ground panting, muttering: "Down, down..."

Unexpectedly, after falling like this, he really swallowed the two fruit cores in his throat.

He was sweating profusely, and Xiu Mu also breathed a sigh of relief.

"What happened?" Xiu Mu asked hurriedly.

Tuoye had no time to answer after surviving the disaster, not to mention that he was choked by a fruit pit, which was really embarrassing.

Shen Ningning said calmly: "I felt sorry for him, so I handed him two bayberries. Who knew that you, a guard, looked tall and strong, but had a throat as thin as a needle. Two fruit pits almost choked him to death."

The girls present sighed.

They whispered to each other-

"You are so strong, but your throat is so thin, doesn't it mean you speak like a sissy?"

"It's far worse than my husband. When my husband opens his mouth, it sounds like a yak."

Everyone laughed.

Tuoye felt ashamed and was helped to stand up by Xiumu.

His cold and vengeful eyes swept across Shen Ningning's face.

She actually embarrassed him so much, wait and see, he won't let her off easily.

The screen was lifted up by Xiumu's attendants, and the long line of "donating blood" outside never stopped.

Shen Ningning leaned against the windowsill bored.

Tuoye seemed to be afraid of her. Even if he was standing by and couldn't leave, he would definitely stand far away.

Shen Ningning snorted with red lips: "A guilty conscience is the only thing to be afraid of."

Her voice was too soft, and Tuoye didn't hear her speak, but he felt that what happened just now was too weird.

He just cursed Funing in his heart, thinking about eating her to death.

Unexpectedly, the next second, he was stuck?

Could it be that God really favored this girl, and he couldn't say a bad word about her in his heart.

At this moment, Xiumu's puzzled voice came from outside the screen: "Madam, this is the fourth girl you brought. Do you have so many daughters?"

"Yes, yes," the woman said in a rural accent: "There is not much else in the family, but there are many children. What's the matter? Can't I get the money?"

Xiumu frowned: "But your four daughters are the same age and look different. It's unlikely that they are not your children."

The woman became fierce, put her hands on her waist, pointed at Xiumu's head and cursed.

"You old man, why are you so troublesome? You don't care if they are my daughters. You want blood, I want silver, isn't it over after giving it to me?"

Xiumu stopped the guards around him from taking the woman down.

He still kept a smiling expression: "But if you don't tell the truth, how do we know that they are really eighteen or nineteen years old, or you brought people here to make up the number rashly?"

The woman seemed to be guilty, her domineering look suddenly disappeared, and her eyes also dodged.

Xiumu smiled grimly: "If you lied, you have to return the silver."

"Return your head, I don't want it anymore, daughter, let's go." She dragged her so-called daughter and turned around and ran away in shame.

Xiumu looked at the people who were still queuing and said loudly: "If there is someone in the same situation as her, there is no need to step forward. Otherwise, even if you take the silver, we will find a way to get it back. We are all ordinary people who live a decent life. It would be bad if my guards don't know the severity of the attack."

His knocking and intimidation really scared away some guilty liars.

Shen Ningning shook the fan gently behind the screen, and she looked at Tuoye beside her.

Sure enough, he saw him frowning and listening attentively to the news outside.

Shen Ningning's black eyes turned.

She said in a clear voice: "I thought Mr. Xiumu was just pretending to find the tenth princess, but I didn't expect that he was so serious about finding the tenth princess. It's admirable."

Takuye's doubts were completely ignited by her words.

Hidemu told him that the jade ring was fake, how could he find his sister?

If it was fake, why was Xiumu so serious?

Something was wrong, was Xiumu lying to him?