"Well, I'm not looking for you. Master, please wash up first and go to the Yamen for duty later." Aunt Yin hurriedly replied.
Zhou Mu silently went to the well, fetched water for himself, washed up, changed into a set of clothes and went out.
Aunt Yin took two steamed buns and chased them out, but Zhou Mu didn't pick them up and got on the carriage.
In desperation, Nanny Yin handed the breakfast to Qi Zhiyuan.
Qi Zhiyuan has been with Zhou Mu for many years, and has never seen his master look so decadent. Obviously when he came to see him last night, the master was still in high spirits, looking forward to his date with Miss Gu on the 20th.
Why is it that after one night, the young master seems to have been robbed of his life?
Until Zhou Mu entered the official office, Qi Zhiyuan failed to deliver breakfast to Zhou Mu.
Zhou Mu was also absent-minded while handling official duties. Other colleagues saw this, and Xu Yanqing happened to want to come over to check the records of Jixiang Building. He saw Zhou Mu's haggard look and fixed his eyes.
"Master Zhou, didn't you rest last night?" Xu Yanqing found it difficult to ask.
In fact, in the past few days that he has known Zhou Mu, Zhou Mu has always been alienated from others, with the message of staying away from strangers. This is the first time he has seen such a decadent side of Zhou Mu.
He is obviously such a clean person with such outstanding temperament.
Zhou Mucai and Gu Xiyan were engaged, shouldn't they be in high spirits?
That was the person he couldn't touch no matter how much he thought about it.
"It's okay." Zhou Mu's eyes were fixed on Xu Yanqing's face with scrutiny.
He suddenly thought that if he broke off the engagement with Gu Xiyan, Xu Yanqing would definitely marry her. He could feel that Xu Yanqing liked Gu Xiyan very much.
If Xu Yanqing marries Gu Xiyan, Gu Xiyan will have a complete and happy marriage, and at least she won't need to be a widow.
But he couldn't imagine her happily laughing in the arms of other men, and he wasn't that open-minded. He could push her into the arms of other men when he liked Gu Xiyan so much...
Xu Yanqing's scalp was numb due to Zhou Mu's cold eyes. People who didn't know better thought that he had stolen Zhou Mu's woman. Otherwise, how could Zhou Mu slow down him with his knife-like eyes?
In fact, it was Zhou Mu who stole Gu Xiyan, and this person had the nerve to gouge him with such cannibalistic eyes.
"I, I'm here to check some information and I'll be leaving soon." After Xu Yanqing finished speaking, he deliberately avoided Zhou Mu's sharp gaze.
But no matter how hard he dodges, Zhou Mu's cold gaze is still with him.
When he found the records of Jixiang Building, he hurriedly walked away from Zhou Mu's sight.
Damn it, he was actually a little scared of Zhou Mu, even though Zhou Mu seemed harmless.
It took him a while to shake off his thoughts, check the records of Jixiang Building, and found that the shopkeeper who made the registration was indeed Wu Tong.
Moreover, this information is ten years old and has not been changed recently.
In other words, the shopkeeper of Jixianglou has been Wu Tong since the establishment of the restaurant.
But his intuition told him that Gu Xiyan and Wu Tong must be closely connected. He even thought about whether Gu Xiyan was the real person in charge of Jixiang Tower.
When he first met Gu Xiyan, he saw Wu Tong's humble and respectful look towards Gu Xiyan. At that time, he didn't quite understand why Wu Tong respected Gu Xiyan so much.
But wouldn’t it make sense if the waiter salutes the shopkeeper?
The food festival in Jixianglou was so successful this time. It made about 300,000 taels in two days, right? Without Gu Xiyan, a key figure in this, many prices would not have been affordable.
He also went to some diners to ask how the pastry business started. It turned out that Gu Xiyan and the Liu sisters were involved in the business, and within half an hour, hundreds of boxes of the palace's secret pastries were sold out.
Just because of Gu Xiyan, a key figure, Jixianglou earned a full 20,000 taels from selling pastries.
So if Gu Xiyan was excluded, who would buy a box of fifty taels of pastries? Without Gu Xiyan's deliberate stimulation, would Princess Yongjia spend one hundred thousand taels to bid for a dish?
On the other side, Zhou Mu realized what he was doing after Xu Yanqing left. He looked for his colleague who was looking through the information and asked, "What information did Mr. Xu take away just now?"
"Jixianglou's records." The colleague answered truthfully.
Zhou Mu's eyes were half-squinted.
Xu Yanqing is also checking Jixiang Tower, which shows that he also suspects that there is someone behind Wu Tong.
In the past two days, he had watched the whole process of the Jixiang Building bidding process. The key player was Gu Xiyan. He suspected that the relationship between Gu Xiyan and Wu Tong was not simple and that he was deliberately helping Wu Tong to build momentum.
Therefore, he checked the records of Jixiang Building and Wu Tong's life experience early in the morning, and found that Wu Tong and Gu Xiyan were not related in any way. The registered shopkeeper of Jixiang Building was also Wu Tong, or ten.
Registration records from years ago are not recent revisions.
He had doubts, and Xu Yanqing also had doubts, otherwise he wouldn't have gone out of his way to check Jixiang Tower.
It's impossible that Gu Xiyan is the mastermind behind Jixiang Tower.
Zhou Mu felt ridiculous when he thought of this possibility. That girl looked so quiet and quiet, how could she be the one leading this food festival?
But there was another voice in his heart that told him that the girl had many secrets. Even on the day before the food festival, she stayed home so late and he caught her.
If the place she went to was Jixiang Tower, and her true destination couldn't be known, wouldn't she have to find an excuse? So she lied and said she went to the Su Mansion to meet Su Mei.
In this way, all the questions seem to be explained.
If it was really what he thought, it meant that Gu Xiyan had made three hundred thousand taels in two days. Such ability was astonishing.
Yes, that day in the carriage, she asked him if he would like the manager behind Jixiang House if she were a beauty. At that time, he replied that it was impossible, and the girl was not happy about it.
Thinking of this, he was probably sure that Gu Xiyan was the person behind Wu Tong's plan.
The colleague endured Zhou Mu's cold face for most of an hour. When he turned around after looking for the file this time, he saw Zhou Mu curling his lips and smiling.
Ever since Zhou Mu joined the government as an official, he has been a beautiful sight no matter where he is. He has an outstanding temperament and is very handsome, but I have never seen Zhou Mu smile.
At this moment, Zhou Mu smiled, like an epiphyllum in full bloom, so beautiful that it was breathtaking.
When the word "beautiful" is applied to a man, it actually fits him very well.
While his colleagues were looking at him intently, Zhou Mu's raised corners of his lips suddenly flattened, and his face turned into ice again. It was so cold that it could frostbite several people. Although he still had the same handsome face, people didn't dare to get close to him.
Zhou Mu also belatedly discovered that no matter how good Gu Xiyan was, he was not the one who deserved to be harmed. She deserved a complete life. If she followed him, what kind of life would she live?
Not being able to consummate a marriage, not being able to be a mother, what woman can endure such a life?
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Wrongful person·Xu San: I was robbed of the woman I like by Zhou Mu, and I still have to be cut out by Zhou Mu’s vicious eyes. Is Zhou Mu seriously ill?
The Big Ill·Zhou Mu: I can still marry Xiyan even though I am ill, so just be jealous!
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Daqian has long since changed his ways. Haha, you guys are throwing money at Daqian.
