Asked the servants to send other food boxes to several other servants in the other rooms, and Hu Shifa himself came to Zong Jiyuan's side with a very refined food box that was said to be "specially prepared for the master".

"Master, the villain has brought you dinner."

"Oh? Thank you, Young Master Hu, for bothering you,"

Zong Jiyuan put down the pen in his hand, opened the food box, took out the same food from it and placed it on the table, looked up at him and smiled at him, and asked with concern,

"What about you, have you had dinner?"

"Oh, me, I haven't ...... yet"

As soon as he saw Zong Jiyuan's beautiful smile, Hu Shifa's face turned red again, and he was at a loss.

As the time of contact with him continued to increase, Zong Jiyuan really felt more and more that although this Young Master Hu was confused, he was sometimes quite cute, so he said,

"Really? Then don't be hungry, you might as well come and eat with me, I won't be able to eat so much anyway. ”

"Huh?"

Hu Shi asked in a daze and a little flustered,

"Is this really okay?"

"What's not to do,"

Zong Jiyuan said with a smile on his face,

"Don't forget, you are the young master of this family, now that you are the master and I am the guest, how can you not have dinner with the guest as the master?"

"That's right......"

With such an expression, Hu Shifa sat down opposite Zong Jiyuan, and when he saw that the other party had already started eating, he carefully picked up the chopsticks and ate a few bites.

Seeing that he was still very restrained, Zong Jiyuan had no choice but to think about the topic and talk to him.

"Young Master Hu, after all, such a big case has happened in your house now, as people in the official mansion, we have to investigate, and when we really find out, we will definitely leave immediately, so you don't have to have any big burden for this."

"No, no, no,"

Originally, these words were comforting him and reassuring him, but after Hu Shifa heard it, not only did he not "rest assured", but on the contrary, he was a little anxious, and said continuously,

"The villain doesn't want you to leave early, but he's afraid that the hospitality will not be good...... Actually, Master Grandmaster, you probably don't know that this small study is where the villain lived when he was a child, when his mother was still alive, and after she died, I didn't live here anymore......"

"I see......"

It sounded like he meant、This is a place that once left him with pleasant memories,And the grandmaster of the county government can choose to stay here,Hu Shifa He felt deeply honored。 Knowing what the other party wanted to express, Zong Jiyuan couldn't help but smile again,

"Then thank you Young Master Hu for your kindness. By the way, I still have a few questions that I haven't been able to figure out, can Master Hu tell me a thing or two? ”

"If the master has something to say, just say hello, as long as I know, I will definitely not have anything to hide."

Hu Shifa glared at his eyes and said.

Zong Jiyuan thought for a while, looked at him again and asked,

"You're twenty-three years old, aren't you? It stands to reason that he should have taken over the family's property three years ago, but why is the second lady still in charge now? ”

"This, because of buying and selling, she has been taking care of it for the past ten years, and those people who come and go say that they only do business with her, and the villain is ......"

Hu Shifa was a little embarrassed.

Got it -

In fact, Zong Jiyuan had already thought that it must be that this second lady had always deliberately controlled the family business of the Hu Mansion, and just caught up with such a playful young master Hu, although he had already guessed the reason, he had to ask, but he wanted to figure out other things.

"Ahh

Sighing lightly, Zong Jiyuan deliberately said in a bitter tone,

"You, it's time to do your job, and you have to grow up in the future."

"Yes, yes, master, what you taught you is."

Hu Shifa nodded again and again with shame on his face.

Zong Jiyuan pointed to the food box with chopsticks, motioned for him to chat while eating, and then asked,

"Although you don't care about the family's business, you will always know who the people you have business dealings with are, right?"

"I don't know ...... this."

Hu Shifa's appearance looked even more embarrassed,

"By the way, my housekeeper Hu Wei should know, I can go and ask him!"

"You, you're really a big young master,"

Zong Jiyuan couldn't help but sigh again, but this time it was really from the heart, and after a pause, he asked again,

"When the second lady brought those girls to this house, did she just say that she was giving you a wife and a concubine?"

"yes,"

The other party's softer and softer tone made Hu Shifa also relax, nodded and said,

"I've always believed her story, who would have thought that there would be so many scary things."

"So, the girls who come here are all adults, right? Are there any minors, let's say eleven or twelve? ”

Soyoshi asked casually.

But after hearing her words, Hu Shifa opened his mouth wide in surprise, and said after a while,

"How so?! No matter how stupid and unreasonable I am, I won't do something like that! ”

"I didn't mean you,"

Zong Jiyuan was amused by his appearance, waved his hand and said,

"I mean, the second lady, obviously, said that it was for you to marry a wife and take a concubine, this is just a pretense, one is to please and appease you, and the other is to please and appease you, and the other is for her own unsightly interests, so it is inevitable that there will be more inhumane things happening here."

"That's ......"

Hu Shifa really thought about it seriously, and suddenly patted his head and said,

"Oh, yes! One time I came back from outside and met her receiving a guest. At that time, I walked by and overheard a few words of their conversation, and it seemed that this was really possible. ”

"Really? What did they say? ”

Zong Jiyuan's eyes widened with interest and asked.

Looking at the way she stared at herself, Hu Shifa was suddenly excited, and hurriedly said,

"And the woman said, 'Where can I go up and find such a small one, and now I have managed to get it with great difficulty with the use of that stupid boy.'" Master, you see, could this be the kind of things you are talking about? ”

That's for sure, and when she says "silly boy", she means you-

Listening to him repeat the words of others who belittle him, he was able to say it with a smile, Zong Jiyuan couldn't bear it so that he didn't laugh on the spot, but he felt that this was indeed a very important clue, so he asked again,

"This should be it, but do you know the name of that guest?"

"I want to think about ......"

Hu Shifa thought about it carefully, and finally his eyes lit up and said,

"By the way, that woman seems to call him something, Master Ming!"