"The young master from Yuejing City is naturally incomparable to me."
Qin Mu looked at the direction where Shen Zhixi disappeared, with a bit of hatred in his eyes.
"My Qin family is in decline, and now we only run a small shop. Shen Zhixi will naturally look down on me when she sees the good people. We haven't seen each other for a month, and when we come out, they won't even say anything to me. I'm going to see another man. I want to see what kind of person Mr. Fang is."
"Let's go, follow."
……
Shen Zhixi's carriage drove slowly through the city, heading towards Huxinju Restaurant.
Yuanyang sat with her, hesitated for a long time and finally asked: "Miss, why do you want to meet Mr. Fang? After so long, you finally showed your face, but you didn't say anything to Qin Mu, and you said you wanted to meet him in front of him. If you go to meet another man, he will be very angry. If something breaks out and you are accused of being careless and unfaithful, it will not be good for your reputation."
"Yes." Shen Zhixi nodded repeatedly and said seriously: "I just want him to make trouble."
"Although I have seen his character clearly, in the eyes of Yanzhou people, I am his childhood sweetheart and will soon get married. If we fall out suddenly, we will inevitably be gossiped about. If there are too many rumors, I am afraid that it will affect our Shen family. Business. Therefore, I deliberately make Qin Mu anxious. The more anxious he is, the more likely he is to make mistakes. "
"If the lady said that, then I understand. That scumbag must not let him go."
Shen Zhixi looked at her with a smile and stopped talking.
He turned around to lift the curtain of the carriage, looking at the street scenery with people coming and going with a sharp look in his eyes.
Soon, the carriage arrived.
Shen Zhixi is the richest man in Yanzhou, so almost everyone knows her. The clerk from Huxin Juwai respectfully invited her in. Not long after, Qin Mu also arrived.
Huxinju Restaurant is very unique. There is a large winding lake inside. The wine table is placed in the middle of the lake, covered by a pavilion and surrounded by gauze on the west. It is very artistic.
Mr. Fang's son Fang Shuo arrived first and had been waiting for a long time.
"When did Mr. Fang arrive? How long have you been waiting?" Shen Zhixi sat down opposite Fang Shuo and looked at him with an inexplicable smile.
This Fang Shuo is from Yuejing. He came to Yanzhou to buy powder and aromatherapy a month ago and ordered a large batch of goods.
Shen Zhixi was not laughing at this big business, but at Fang Shuo.
Fang Shuo claimed to be a young master, but in fact Shen Zhixi knew she was a woman when he first met her a month ago.
"Boss Shen, don't worry, I'm early. I've seen the goods I ordered. They are all of good quality. They can be loaded onto the ship tomorrow. It's a very pleasant cooperation this time. I'll come back next time Find Boss Shen..."
Halfway through his words, Fang Shuo suddenly paused.
Shen Zhixi followed his gaze and saw a sneaky figure.
She secretly curled her lips, and Qin Mu couldn't help but follow her.
"Why does that man look familiar to me? Yes, I saw him before when I went to your shop to look at sample products. The shopkeeper said that he grew up with your childhood sweetheart, Boss Shen, and he is about to get engaged, right?"
Hearing this, Shen Zhixi's face changed and he looked distressed.
"What's wrong, Boss Shen, am I right?"
Shen Zhixi sighed and poured a cup of tea, glanced at Qin Mu who was hiding on the other side of the stone pillar and said: "I have never made any engagement with him. In fact, I don't know how this unfounded thing came out. I and Mr. Qin has some friendship, but it is a friendship between the elders in the family. He and I are not like what outsiders say. Moreover, he has a cousin. I see that he and his cousin are very close, and I don’t know why. He is spreading the word between me and him..."
She swallowed the rest of her words and turned them into a wry smile.
"So that's it." Fang Shuo seemed to understand, and asked again: "Then if he doesn't like you, why would he follow you here secretly? I thought he misunderstood you and other men... so he was jealous. "
"Master Fang, be careful. If his cousin finds out about this, I will be the one who ruins their relationship."
When Fang Shuo heard this, he quickly covered his mouth.
What followed was a long silence.
Fang Shuo thought about it for a long time, and finally asked with a stern face: "Could it be that those rumors that you are going to marry Qin Mu were spread by Qin Mu himself? He obviously has his own sweetheart, but he still keeps an eye on you. Let it go, maybe there is another purpose?"
Shen Zhixi didn't answer, but his expression was ugly.
"Boss Shen kept silent because I told him right? The reason why you didn't tell the truth was because you wanted to save face for the two elders?"
Shen Zhixi responded with his eyes, acknowledging that Fang Shuo's words were the truth.
"Bitch man!" Fang Shuo couldn't help but cursed, and looked at Qin Mu again with more disdain, "I've heard about his family's decline. I don't have the ability to make a comeback, but I'm worried about other people's property. .Boss Shen, it’s not easy for a woman to do business, and it’s even harder for a woman to keep her family’s wealth. You can’t be soft-hearted and be deceived by him.”
Shen Zhixi smiled at him and said gently but firmly: "This is natural."
After he finished speaking, Fang Shuo's eyes rolled as if he had some idea.
He stood up slightly, lifted the wooden stool under him and moved to Shen Zhixi, sitting very close to her. Then he picked up vegetables for her with an ambiguous expression and brought them to her bowl, pretending to be intimate from time to time. He put his hand on her arm.
Shen Zhixi understood his intention and was willing to play with him.
The two were talking and laughing, like a couple in love.
This scene was deliberately shown to Qin Mu. As expected, he rolled his eyes angrily and wished he could rush forward to ask for an explanation.
After dinner, I returned home and night fell.
Qin Mu chased Shen's Mansion again, but this time he was a step too slow. He could only watch the door of Shen's Mansion being closed. This time, he did not insist on entering again.
"When I was in Huxinju, I deliberately exposed my position so that they could find me, just to let her know how much I care about her. I've already made it so obvious, don't tell me that she didn't notice me. I see, She already knew it but pretended not to see me, right?"
Qin Mu lifted the car curtain and looked at the closed door of Shen's mansion.
"Shen Zhixi, you want to dump me when you meet someone better? Let me tell you, no way! Just wait and see, I won't make it easy for you."
……
Inside Shenfu.
Shen Zhixi lay down on the imperial concubine's couch in the house with his head propped up and fell asleep. After finishing the accounts all afternoon, his eyes were sore and his head hurt.
"Miss." Yuanyang opened the door and came in, saying to her, "Qin Mu's carriage has left. Shouldn't it be time for us to set off back to the mountain?"
Shen Zhixi slowly opened his eyes, looked at the dancing candlelight on the table opposite and replied: "Yes, it's time to go back. The little blind man is still waiting for me to go back. He can't see and can't get food. At noon, A bowl of porridge can't satisfy you, so you must be hungry now, right?"
"Miss, you don't feel sorry for him, do you?"
"Feeling sorry for a man?" Shen Zhixi sat up and said with a sarcastic smile: "Only fools feel sorry for a man. I just think of him tasting the taste of waiting alone in the dark, and I find it interesting."
"Ask the kitchen to pack some food, and we'll take it back to him."
……
The bamboo house in the mountains looks a bit desolate under the moonlight.
There were no lights in any of the huts, and it was extremely dark.
Tang Zhou stood in front of the window. He could not see his eyes. Only the slightly cooler night breeze reminded him that it was already dark. He was dressed in elegant white, which was incompatible with the darkness around him, which made the desolation that no one could light up the night for him even more intense.
I don't know how long he stood alone in front of the window.
