110, Questioning (1 more)
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No one ever anticipated that just because of a request made by Li Hengyi, Yuanbao came to pass the message, and Xie Zhinuan, feeling the heat of leisure, intended to refuse, but in the end, it surprisingly led to the affairs of Yuanji Restaurant.
The silly girl knelt down softly.
Xie Zhinuan closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and said again, “Even if I was willing to cook for him, with his extraordinary background, he would fear me tampering with his food. Knowing that I wanted to buy someone, he planted you three by my side, so even if I didn’t purchase you that day, there would have been others, right?”
Tears welled up in the silly girl’s eyes, but she just nodded slightly.
She didn’t dare to make a sound, for if she did, she would burst into tears.
Why has it turned out this way?
Why couldn’t the deception last longer? As long as the lady harbored no ill will, they could still be her servants, rather than suddenly, the lady knowing everything.
“You, you’re really something, really good, excellent!” Xie Zhinuan voiced lowly and heavily.
She gently placed the pouch and sewing materials into the basket, her gaze deep, “That well water, after you drank it, tell me all the benefits it brought you!”
“My lady…” the silly girl exclaimed in surprise, “We won’t tell, not a single word, we’ll even keep it a secret for you, so that no outsider knows!”
“I don’t want to know that, my question isn’t about that!”
Xie Zhinuan spoke with a heavy tone, her patience exhausted.
“After drinking the well water, it can rapidly enhance one’s Inner Strength, make one’s limbs more agile, the mind clearer, and even chronic ailments can be cured without medicine!” The silly girl spoke and then lowered her head, daring not to speak anymore.
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Xie Zhinuan thought back to the words left in the space that day and looked at the silly girl, “Since you come from an extraordinary background, return to your master’s side. I can’t keep you here anymore!”
“My lady, please don’t, don’t send us away!” The silly girl cried out in alarm.
Aunt Chen and grandma Chen heard the crying and hurried over, “What’s going on here?”
Xie Zhinuan snorted coldly, putting on quite the act.
If it hadn’t been for her sudden suspicion today, just bluffing casually, she would never have realized that the three people by her side were spies.
The silly girl looked at grandma Chen and shook her head, then lowered her gaze again.
Grandma Chen immediately understood-they were exposed.
She sighed and said, “My lady, listen to my explanation!”
“No need to explain, there’s no need at all, you’ve schemed so well, with such skill, treating me like a fool-how admirable!” Xie Zhinuan took a deep breath, “I was thinking of giving you silver as pay for these days of service, but now I won’t give you a penny. Take your indenture contracts, go back to where you came from. My temple is too small to accommodate such great buddhas as yourselves!”
She went into the room, took the three servants’ indenture contracts from the drawer, threw them onto the silly girl, and called out for Dahuang and Routuan.
Turning to Aunt Chen and grandma Chen standing aside, she said, “I hope by the time I return, you’ve already left; don’t make it too ugly!”
As she opened the front door, Yuanbao immediately whispered, “Miss Xie, listen to me, it was me…”
“No need to speak anymore, take your people and go. You people of power truly lack meaning. You want me to cook for you, yet fear I would poison the food, and send people to watch me…” Xie Zhinuan grew angrier as she spoke.
Luckily, she never took more items out of her space.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t even know how she’d died.
“…” Yuanbao was stupefied.
She, she actually knew everything.
“Miss Xie, please let me explain!” Yuanbao quickly spoke up.
“What’s there to explain? To explain how you schemed against Yuanji, how you schemed to owe me a favor, and then sent people to watch over me? Yuanbao, ask yourself, if you were in my shoes, would you still be able to listen calmly to someone’s explanation?” Xie Zhinuan countered.
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Chapter 112