Su Xi chewed on the potato chips and looked at the game figurine's serious and cold face. She was overjoyed and felt that her game figurine was very cute.

However, if Prince Ning's Mansion wanted to frame someone else, wasn't the cost too low?

Just based on the testimony of a few servants, the Second Young Master was able to lead a large group of people into the Chai Courtyard without asking any questions?

It was too much!

This kind of thing must have happened before.

And this time, Lu Wenxiu suffered a huge loss because of her game figurine. He was slapped in the face on the spot and would definitely bear a grudge. She didn't know how he would find trouble with her game figurine next.

Su Xi looked at the game figurine's dirty knees and knew that something unpleasant must have happened when she wasn't online this evening. He might have been punished to kneel.

But she couldn't possibly play online 24/7!

So, was there any way to prevent Lu Wenxiu and those servants from entering the Chai Courtyard?

Otherwise, the framing incident would definitely happen again.

Su Xi thought about it and opened the shop to see if there was anything she could buy.

Following her thoughts, the system immediately popped up a list of products.

From left to right at the top, there were: "Secret Protection Peerless Expert", "Secret Protection Martial Arts Expert", "Secret Protection Imperial Bodyguard", "Secret Protection Imperial Bodyguard", "Secret Protection Ordinary Bodyguard", "Secret Protection Imperial Bodyguard", "Secret Protection Imperial Bodyguard", and "Secret Protection Imperial Bodyguard".

Su Xi's eyes lit up and she excitedly rubbed her hands.

This was good. She bought a game figurine for her. If Lu Wenxiu dared to provoke her again, she would directly beat him to the ground.

But when Su Xi glanced at the price below …

"…"

She almost fainted.

"What the hell? Why is the price so high?

The Secret Protection Imperial Bodyguard is 10000000 gold coins, and even the Secret Protection Imperial Bodyguard is 100000 gold coins?! "

The Secret Protection Imperial Bodyguard was 100,000 yuan. Of course, Su Xi couldn't spend 100,000 yuan for a game.

Even a weakling without the strength to truss a chicken would cost a thousand RMB. What's the point of buying it?

She already said that it was a Secret Protection Imperial Bodyguard. Why would she drag the game figurine down?

"Unscrupulous merchants. The charging system is insane," Su Xi said angrily.

The System said coldly, "Shut up if you can't afford it."

Su Xi, "…"

After that, there were also some items that could be bought for the little people in the game, such as silver longswords and poisons, but Su Xi couldn't afford them.

Of course, even if she did not consider the price, she felt that she did not need these for the time being.

According to her game character's current situation, if a guard suddenly appeared beside her or a bag of poison suddenly appeared in her hand, would she want to be sent to the Supreme Court for investigation?

Su Xi scrolled down the frame and found that there were still some skills in the skill exchange column such as "Knowledge of Heaven and Earth", "Zither Skills", "Sword Skills", "Equestrian Archery", "Painting Skills", and so on.

She should be able to improve her gaming skills by spending money on the game.

But now, these skills were all grayed out and locked.

It should be because the current plot and worldview had not progressed to that stage, so he could not exchange for it for the time being.

Su Xi could only give up.

The System prompted: [You need to find a backer for the main character.]

Su Xi suddenly realized something.

Currently, the plot outside of Prince Ning Fu had not been unlocked, so no one knew that her game character's real identity was a prince, and it had not risen to the level of power struggle.

Now, her game character was just a concubine's son who had a hard time surviving in Prince Ning Fu. If she wanted to avoid being bullied by Lu Wenxiu and Lady Ning again and again, she indeed needed a backer more powerful than Lady Ning.

Thinking of this, a message popped up on the screen.

"Please accept the main mission (Beginner): Obtain the appreciation of Prince Ning Fu's Old Madam."

The previous character introductions did not mention this old madam, and so far in the plot, the old madam had not appeared.

Su Xi could not help but feel a little confused. How could she help the game character obtain the old madam's appreciation?

She did not even know her preferences, identity, or background.

She simply did not know where to start.

Su Xi opened Prince Ning Fu's map and found that the old madam's Mei Peaceful Court was behind the main hall, next to the back of the mountain. The entire courtyard was one-third the size of Prince Ning Fu's, the size of a firewood courtyard for a few hundred children!

Just by looking at the living area, she could tell that the old madam was a person of importance!

Su Xi rubbed her palms and asked: "Can you unlock the old madam's Mei Peaceful Court?"

The System said: [Unlocking the old madam's Mei Peaceful Court requires accumulating more than 30 points, and you currently only have 7 points.]

Su Xi was speechless: "…"

Okay.

Su Xi could not think of a way to complete the main mission for now. She was about to switch the screen to see what the game character was doing.

Suddenly, a call popped up on her phone. The screen showed "Auntie".

She quickly turned off the game and picked up the phone.

"Hello, Auntie." Su Xi was curled up in her blanket. Her feet were a little cold, so she could not help but curl up into a ball.

She thought that her auntie was calling to show her concern because she was hospitalized for a fracture. Thus, before her auntie could speak, she quickly laughed and said: "Auntie, my leg is fine. It's just that I broke it during the sports competition. The doctor said that I can go back to class after resting for a while."

Unexpectedly, her auntie hesitated for a moment and said: "Xixi, I'm relieved that you're fine. However, when you have time, can you help me urge your parents to return the 100,000 yuan to me as soon as possible? It's almost the New Year, and I'm in a hurry to pay your cousin's school fees for the new semester …"

"100,000 yuan?" Su Xi was a little confused. When did her parents borrow money from her auntie? How come she did not know at all?

"That's right. Originally, we agreed to let your parents return the money next spring, but Auntie has an urgent matter that requires the money."

Her auntie's tone was awkward.

Su Xi was also a little embarrassed. After all, being chased for debt was not something to be proud of.

She bit her lip and said: "Okay, don't worry, Auntie. I'll ask."

After hanging up, Su Xi held the phone in a daze for a while.

Did something happen to her parents' factory? Why did they suddenly borrow money?

Although Su Xi's family was not rich, they did not have to worry about food and clothing. Since she was a child, her parents had never let her worry about money. Although they did not give her the most pocket money among her classmates, it was definitely not a small amount.

She also went to all kinds of tutoring classes and interest classes that she liked.

Therefore, when Su Xi suddenly heard that her parents had borrowed money from her auntie, she could not help but feel a little flustered. She was afraid that something had happened.

She could not hide this matter, so she quickly called her father.

"Why are you still awake so late?" Her father stood up and said: "Your mother is already asleep."

Su Xi said: "Auntie just called me and asked me to urge you to return the money before the end of the year."

Su Xi's father frowned immediately: "She can just tell us about this. Why did she ask a child like you?"

Su Xi asked: "Dad, why didn't I know that you guys borrowed money?"

Su Xi's father hesitated for a while before explaining.

Actually, it was not a big deal. It was just that the factory had some problems at the end of the year, and there was a cash flow problem.

The husband and wife originally had about a hundred thousand yuan in savings, but they were very unlucky last month when their equipment broke and took out eighty thousand yuan.

Then, this month, Su Xi was hospitalized for a fracture. Although the medical expenses could be reimbursed, the hospitalization fees added up to about twenty thousand yuan.

With all these things happening at once, they suddenly became very tight on money. Therefore, they borrowed a hundred thousand yuan from their auntie at the last minute to make ends meet.

"Originally, your auntie promised that we would return the money immediately after the end of the year and the start of spring next year when your mother and I received our salaries. However, who would have thought that she would start asking us to repay the money after lending it to us for less than half a month?" Su Xi's father sighed awkwardly.

It was indeed a matter of course to repay a debt.

However, when their family was still relatively well-off, they had lent tens of thousands to their auntie's family and had never asked them to repay it.

Su Xi suddenly felt a little guilty and worried, not knowing what to say.

Because of her unlucky constitution, she had been going to the hospital every two to three days since she was young.

This time, when she was hospitalized, she did a lot of tests and directly threw twenty thousand yuan to the hospital.

She thought that her parents still had savings, so she didn't pay much attention to it. However, she didn't expect that her parents were also facing difficulties at the end of the year.

"Don't worry. Who doesn't have difficult times? It will be better in spring next year." Su Xi's father coughed twice.

Su Xi was a little anxious. "Dad, are you talking on the phone in the living room without a coat again?

What if you catch a cold? "

Su Xi's father comforted her and said, "You too. Go to sleep quickly and don't think about it. I'll go to your auntie's place to settle it. At most, we'll pay more interest."

"If there's no other way, I'll go find a friend to lend the money to your auntie first. I'll return it to my friend in spring next year.

Xixi, this is not something you should be worried about. "

Her auntie probably regretted lending the money to their family and felt that it was not worth it to pay less interest, so she started asking them to repay the debt.

Su Xi replied with an "okay" and hung up the phone. She pulled the blanket tightly, but still had a lot on her mind.

She could imagine that if they didn't repay the money, her auntie would definitely tell everyone during the New Year that their family owed her a lot of money.

Her auntie wouldn't give her parents any face.

However, where could Su Xi's father find a friend to borrow such a large sum of money?

Sigh.

When she thought of this, Su Xi felt that if she hadn't been hospitalized, at least her parents wouldn't be so strapped for cash.

Since she had nothing to do, why not ask her classmates to help them with their homework and earn some money?

However, that would be like throwing a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood.

She was no longer in the mood to play games. She threw her phone under her pillow and turned on airplane mode. With a heavy heart, she went straight to sleep.

At the same time, Lu Huan packed up the food boxes and returned to the house with a cold and solemn expression.

After what happened tonight, Lu Wenxiu was so ashamed and angry that she probably wouldn't come looking for trouble with him for a while.

The noisy servants around him also quieted down. Finally, it was late at night.

It was snowing heavily outside the house. As usual, Lu Huan wrung his robe dry and hung it up. Then, he blew out the candlelight, lay on the bed, and covered himself with the blanket.

However, he reached out and felt around. He pinched the dagger that he had placed in a crack in the wall and pressed it under his body. He was more vigilant than before.

From this position, he could see the repaired roof.

Because some of the tiles had been blown away by the strong wind and the accumulated snow was too heavy, a small part of the roof had collapsed.

Two days ago, Lu Huan found some straw and stones from outside and repaired it.

However, he clearly remembered that he didn't finish repairing it because of his fever that night. There were still some gaps left, and he planned to climb up and repair it when the weather cleared up. But now …

There wasn't a single gap in that area. It was far more clean and neat than his repair!

It wasn't an illusion.

All the strange things that had happened in the past few days weren't an illusion.

As a result, now that the roof had been repaired, the wooden door had been filled with straw, the blanket had become thicker, and the cold wind was howling outside the house, there was actually a trace of warmth in the house that hadn't been there for a long time.

… What exactly was going on?

Lu Huan's expression was cold. Naturally, he didn't believe in supernatural powers. He thought that someone must be behind this.

However, Prince Ning Fu didn't just have countless servants. There were also hundreds of diners, scholars, and guards who were good at martial arts. It wasn't easy to guess who was behind this.

For the time being, Lu Huan couldn't tell whether the other party had good intentions or bad intentions.

Based on the series of strange events so far, it seemed that the other party had not done anything harmful to him yet. But in any case, Lu Huan could not let his guard down.

He had been in Prince Ning Fu for fourteen years, and he knew very well that he couldn't pin his hopes on any good intentions. It simply didn't exist.

Goose feather-like snow covered the entire firewood courtyard. The rice bran and steamed buns in the food box didn't move at all.

Everything was silent.

In the darkness, Lu Huan frowned and tightly gripped his dagger. He closed his eyes, half asleep and half awake. He didn't relax his vigilance for the entire night.

The next day, Lu Huan woke up before the rooster crowed as usual. He had endured the typhoid fever for three days, and it had finally been completely eradicated from his body. The feeling of heaviness in his head had finally disappeared.

Although his face was still somewhat pale, Lu Huan exhaled heavily. He got up and went down the mountain to fetch some water.

Before he left, he quietly left a small gap that only he could detect between the wooden door and the window.

He also sprinkled a few beans on the roof, all over the firewood courtyard, and beside the bed. It was also a small trace that only he could detect.

If someone else snuck in, he would be able to detect it. He would even be able to roughly estimate the size of the other party's footprints.

He didn't know who it was, or what their goal was.

Perhaps it was a new trap.

A trace of coldness appeared in Lu Huan's dark eyes. He had to find the person as soon as possible.

Lu Jia had probably been taught a harsh lesson by Lu Wenxiu. He was stumbling as he walked while covering his butt. Lu Yi, on the other hand, was covering his face. When he removed his hand, a clear red handprint could be seen.

The two of them had always liked to cause trouble for Lu Huan, but after being taught a lesson, they became much more well-behaved. They didn't dare to rashly go to Lu Huan's firewood door or kitchen. As soon as they got close, it was as if they had seen a ghost. They showed a terrified expression and quickened their steps to leave.

Lu Huan didn't have the time to care about what happened to them. He worked with the servants in Prince Ning Fu. He had to carry water and chop firewood, so he didn't return to his courtyard until the sun had set.

He returned to the courtyard, put down the pile of firewood, and went around to check.

However, the house was empty today. There was nothing out of the ordinary. There was nothing extra, and nothing had been moved or repaired.

The traces that he had specially set up were also untouched.

Did the other party not act rashly because they realized that he had set up something?

Or was it just because they didn't make a move today?

Lu Huan naturally didn't let down his guard. He set up traces for three consecutive days.

However, just like today, there was nothing out of the ordinary for the next three days.

Lu Huan let out a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, Su Xi was so worried because of her aunt's phone call that she couldn't care less about the game.

She called a few of her close friends and asked them if they knew where she could earn money by doing homework for them.

"What are you doing? Why are you suddenly short of money?"

Gu Qin slipped out to the corridor and video-chatted with Su Xi after class. "My brother's training school needs a tutor, but you have to come to his house to tutor him. Your leg can't move right now."

Su Xi asked, "Is there any online tutor?"

Huo Jingchuan passed by the corridor and grinned as he leaned over and said, "Su Xixi, if you can rely on your looks, why do you have to rely on your talent?

The people who are chasing you are lining up to the high school across the street. Why don't I help you post on the school forum? Five hundred yuan for a date. Money can be earned quickly. "

This guy had always been indecent. Su Xi replied, "Get lost."

After hanging up, Su Xi frowned and buried her face in the pillow.

For a second-year high school student, money really wasn't easy to earn.

100,000 yuan was a huge sum. Su Xi didn't expect to be able to help her parents much. However, she looked at the cast on her leg and felt that she was a "wastrel" who had to go to the hospital every two to three days.

Although they didn't know why Su Xi wanted to borrow money, Gu Qin and Huo Jingchuan felt that her family might have encountered some trouble. If she didn't say anything, they couldn't ask too much. However, since they were childhood friends, how could they sit by and do nothing?

Thus, they called a few of their close friends over.

Gu Qin said, "Let's discuss. How about we get some for Su Xi?

We'll get as much as we can. "

On the other side, Su Xi didn't know that her friends were discussing about lending her money.

Because Father Su and Mother Su were a little busy, they didn't come today. She hopped to the hospital cafeteria alone with her crutches and finished her meal. Then, she returned to the ward alone to do her homework.

After finishing her homework, she couldn't help but glance at the game app on her phone.

She hadn't been online for a whole day. She didn't know how her game avatar was doing. Was it hungry or cold? She actually missed it a little.

However, she didn't have money to spend. It was better to study hard and improve every day.

It was just a game. She couldn't be addicted to it.

Su Xi shook her head and tried to push the urge to open the game to the back of her mind. She took the textbook and continued reading.

However, at this moment, a message popped up from the system.

"Go buy a lottery ticket now."

Su Xi glanced at her phone and was a little confused, "Buy a lottery ticket?

Why would I buy a lottery ticket? "

The system said, "I said before that when you accumulate 10 points, you can exchange for your first koi fish. You're almost there. Are you sure you want to fail now?"

"I don't believe it."

Su Xi didn't believe in any koi fish. The system's mouth was a liar. It must be a gimmick made up by the game developers.

Moreover, how could you win a lottery just because you wanted to?

The probability of that was even lower than her getting into Tsinghua University!

Instead of hoping to win a lottery ticket, it was better to hope that her house would suddenly be demolished.

The system suddenly said, "You won't die if you try. All poor people have the same idea."

Su Xi, "…"

F * ck, let's talk nicely. Can this stupid system not attack me?!

Perhaps it was because she hadn't played the game for a whole day that her heart was itching. Su Xi couldn't control herself and opened the familiar "Path of the Emperor: The Sickly Prince Loves You" app. When the nurse came in, she blinked her eyes and asked her to go to the convenience store downstairs to buy some fruit and a lottery ticket for her.

Su Xi's hair was black and her skin was white. She looked obedient and harmless. Even the nurse couldn't resist her.

The nurse was very nice and quickly helped her buy it.

Su Xi got a two-dollar lottery ticket. Since she wouldn't die if she tried, she stuffed it into her pocket. Then, she chewed on an apple and entered the game interface.

It was daytime again in the game. Snow was falling from the sky, the wooden house was empty, and her game character wasn't there.

Su Xi was a little depressed. Damn Prince Ning Fu. Why did he oppress her character all day? She finally went online, but her character wasn't there.

As for the other places, Su Xi didn't know where her character was. Naturally, she couldn't find it.

In the upper right corner, there were 37 gold coins and 7 points.

Su Xi pondered for a while.

According to the system, she could obtain points from five aspects: skills, interpersonal relationships, external appearance and environment, physical fitness, and the main quest.

Now, the first main quest (Obtain the appreciation of Prince Ning Fu's wife) hadn't been completed yet. The skills hadn't been unlocked yet. Of course, she could only start by improving the living environment of her character.

Su Xi opened the wooden house and once again realized that the house was really simple.

Although the door and roof were repaired and the wind no longer leaked, this empty house had no tables, chairs, pots, and pans. The bed was hard and looked very cold.

Even the kitchen had charcoal, but her game character's house didn't have any!

Little cabbage, what a bitter life.

Su Xi felt sad. Without thinking, she opened the shop and swiped to the basic items column. She planned to pick out a pot of charcoal.

She didn't expect the system shop to be so rich. There were even many kinds of charcoal. There were seventy to eighty of them on a row of shelves.

The cold system was excited when it saw her start shopping. It immediately recommended enthusiastically, "Dear, look at this gold-plated copper stove with a strange animal pattern. It only costs 999999 gold coins."

Before the message was finished, it was coldly swiped away by Su Xi. "Get out of my way."

She swiped to the end and chose the most common "pot of charcoal". It cost 8 gold coins.

After choosing the charcoal, Su Xi moved up and down on the screen with her finger. She placed the charcoal in a more ventilated corner. It was warmer and less likely to be poisoned by carbon monoxide.

Of course, after she moved, she realized that this was the game world. There was no carbon monoxide!

Was she too immersed in the role?!

The house still lacked tables, chairs, and teacups.

Su Xi bought the cheapest set in the shop. Although it was a simple table made of wood, it was fine as long as it could be used. She believed that Zaizai wouldn't mind.

With such crazy spending, the gold coin balance in the upper right corner was soon left with only 7 gold coins.

Su Xi's heart ached. She searched the shop bitterly to see if there were any cheap items she could pick up.

Her fingers suddenly paused. She found a pair of clean and simple black boots. It was exactly 7 gold coins.

Just nice. Su Xi was delighted. She noticed last night that her little game character had been kneeling somewhere for an entire day. The boots were worn out.

The worn out boots must be very cold. It was just right to change a new pair.

Su Xi happily spent all the gold coins, and then neatly placed the boots beside the bed in the house.

In this way, there were tables, chairs, and charcoal pots in the house. It actually looked a bit more human.

Su Xi asked happily, "I've improved the environment. Can you see how many points I can add?"

The system popped up, "Congratulations on successfully improving the external basic environment. You've received a gold coin reward of + 3 and a point reward of + 1."

Su Xi, "???

Why is there only 1 point reward? "

The system said, "Because your actions are judged as reaping without sowing. The mission is too simple. It's just a simple and crude way of spending gold coins. It's not enough to get more points.

Moreover, the points obtained from improving the environment itself are not many. If you want to get more points, please try to start from interpersonal relationships and the main mission. "

Su Xi, "…"

Just as Su Xi was crazily cursing in her heart, footsteps came from outside. The footsteps paused slightly at the door.

Lu Huan paid attention to the traces outside the door and found that his arrangements were still untouched. Nothing unusual should have happened today.

Therefore, he walked to the corner of the yard, put down the basket on his back, pushed the door open, and walked in.

However, when his casual gaze fell into the room, his pupils abruptly froze.

The doors and windows were obviously untouched, which meant that no one came in through the doors and windows. But …

Why were there so many things in the house out of thin air?!

There was an extra table that could be placed on, and the teapot was moved from the windowsill to the top.

There was an extra chair that could be sat on, and it was wiped clean.

There was also a charcoal pot in the corner. Although it wasn't an expensive stove, it did warm up the air in the house.

Lu Huan was covered in wind and snow. His robes were wrapped in some frost, and his slender and clean wrists were white from the cold. However, when the hot air hit him, it actually melted the coldness of his clothes and gently wrapped around his unconscious skin.

He rarely got warm.

Therefore, when this trace of warmth fell on the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, it was so unfamiliar that it made his eyebrows twitch nervously.

Lu Huan didn't know what to think for a moment. His face was still cold, and when a pair of black boots came into his line of sight, he was even more shocked.

He frowned and quickly walked over to pick up the black boots.

He saw that the stitches were densely packed and the workmanship was rough.

However, it was indeed a clean, new pair of boots that didn't have needles or anything else hidden in them.