"Alright, Steward Gu, don't forget what we're here for." Boss Yang stopped.

"I'd like to taste what the good food she cooks!"

As he spoke, the three of them took a bite of food and ate it quietly.

"The smell ...... It's like walking in a fairyland, and it's no wonder that so many guests come to eat it." Boss Yang generally eats and is full of praise.

"What nonsense! Whose majesty wilt thou destroy, and whose ambition thou hast grown?" Wang replied to him, but this was just lip service, and she had to admit that Zhang Zezhen's dish was very good, especially the fragrance of the dish was not lost at all.

Steward Gu on the side frowned, which attracted the attention of the other two.

"What's wrong? Butler Gu?" Boss Yang asked.

"It seems that Jinyulou is going to have a competition with Hua Ruoyu again!" Steward Gu sighed, "Hurry up!" I must inform my lord of this immediately."

The three of them quickly finished their meal and then went back to their stores.

Only Steward Gu rushed back to Gu's mansion.

Gu Changqing was drinking tea in the hall at this time, lecturing to Gu Yu, and when he saw Steward Gu coming back in a hurry, he asked his son to go back to the room first.

"What's wrong? Steward Gu, are you in such a hurry?"

"Master, Hua Ruoyu has reopened, and within a day, it has robbed us of customers."

"Poof!" Gu Changqing took a sip of tea and sprayed it on Steward Gu's face, and said angrily, "What!"

Steward Gu wiped the water from his face and stood in place, not daring to speak.

"What about Wang? What is she doing? Don't you know how to figure it out?"

"There's nothing she can do, and besides, Zhang Zezhen opened suddenly today, without any warning before." Steward Gu said weakly.

"How could there be no warning! She has to buy vegetables, she has to buy spices, where does all this come from? Don't you know anything?"

"I heard from the vendor that the vegetables were grown by her family, and as for the seasonings, it seems that someone else sent them, and no one knows who it is."

"A bunch of useless things!"

"By the way, master, we also went to try Zhang Zezhen's craftsmanship."

"How?"

"It's delicious!"

"Rubbish! Tell Wang that he must make dishes that are better than Zhang Zezhen, otherwise he will get out of Jinyu Building!"

"Yes, sir."

"Also, go check the specific source of Zhang Zezhen's dishes and seasonings, and then find a way to block me!"

"Got it, sir."

At this moment, Gu Jin walked into the hall.

"My daughter knows who bought the seasoning for Zhang Zezhen, and I went shopping this morning and happened to meet it."

"Who is it?"

"Father, don't worry, please let me go to Huihui myself."

"Oh? Do you know him?"

"Yes!"

"Okay, then it's hard for my daughter to go. Why are you still stunned? Why don't you hurry up and escort the young lady over with you!"

"Yes! Sir."

After lunch, the flow of customers gradually decreased, everyone was finally relieved from their busy things, and Zhang Zezhen could finally sit down and rest.

"Auntie, we're back!"

Seeing Da Lang and Xu Yue enter the door, Zhang Zezhen smiled and said, "Hungry, Da Lang, let the second uncle serve you rice."

"Okay! Uncle Xu Yue, what are you eating?"

"I'll eat whatever Da Lang eats."

Da Lang nodded, and jumped up to find the second uncle.

"How? Is there any movement over there in Jinyu Tower?"

"Well, I saw Steward Gu go to Gu Changqing, and he should already know about today's events."

"It's okay, the one who should come will always come, and there is no need to worry too much."

"What's next for you?"

"To be honest, I don't know! Now I can only have a hard time with Gu Changqing

hard, you can really defeat him."

"Don't worry, I'll always be on your side."

Seeing Xu Yue by her side, Zhang Zezhen was also a lot relieved.

At this time, a familiar figure walked into Hua Ruoyu.

When Zhang Zezhen saw her, he exclaimed in surprise: "Gu Jin!"

"Miss Zhang, don't come unharmed!" Gu Jin replied to her politely.

Zhang Zezhen had a bad premonition, but she still pretended to be calm and said, "What are you doing?"

"I'm not here to find you, I'm here to find Xu Gongzi."

Zhang Zezhen looked at Xu Yue, and Xu Yue looked at Gu Jin with a confused expression, "Looking for me? Do we know each other?"

"Xu Gongzi is really a noble person who forgets things, have you forgotten the happy time when we studied together before?" Gu Jin said aggrievedly.

Xu Yue is still frantically recalling in her brain, this is the lady that A-Niang found for herself? Zhang Zezhen was not jealous, but watched the excitement from the sidelines.

also joked from time to time: "Gongzi Xu, everyone Gu Jin has come to the door, how can you pretend that you don't know people? That's unkind!"

"Shut up! Don't talk nonsense!" Xu Yue looked at Zhang Zezhen with a sinister smile on his face, and was very angry.

"Ao, I remember, Miss Gu, but it's been too long since I went to school, and I've forgotten about it a long time ago! What's more, I already have a fiancée now, so it's inconvenient to remember those inconsequential things."

"Fiancée? That's not what Mrs. Xu told me, saying that you have broken off your engagement with Miss Zhang."

"That's just a little awkward between me and Auntie, that's why she did it."

Zhang Zezhen listened to the conversation between the two and knew that it was Xu Zhao's who was making an obstruction, for fear that her son would have anything to do with him.

"But Xu Guanren also said so, did he also lie?"

"This ......," Xu Yue didn't know how to answer for a while.

"Okay, Gongzi Xu, it's not difficult for me to be for you, I came to you today, I just want to catch up with you, I don't know if you can go out with me for a walk alone?"

"It's inconvenient." Xu Yue didn't think about it, so he rejected her directly.

This made Gu Jin's face a little unbearable, after all, he came to him in a low manner, and he was already very sincere, but he didn't expect Xu Yue to refuse himself again and again.

"Xu Yue, marriage is the order of your parents, the words of the matchmaker, what can you refuse to refuse? Aren't you afraid of being spurned as an unfaithful and unfilial person?"

"Thanks to Miss Gu's reminder, Xu Yue must inform her parents of her marriage with Zhang Zezhen in order to achieve their fulfillment."

Zhang Zezhen, as an "outsider", naturally wants to stand on Xu Yue's side.

"Xu Gongzi, look at you, Gu Jin came to you, but he just talked about the old days, and he didn't talk about marriage, so you went out for a walk with others, why not? Send her for me."

Xu Yue looked angry and stared at Zhang Zezhen, as if to say to shut up quickly.

Zhang Zezhen pretended not to see it, and said to Gu Jin, "Gu Jin, you say, am I right?"

"What Miss Zhang said is very true."

"Miss Gu, don't listen to her, she forgot to take medicine today, and her brain is not very good."

As soon as Zhang Zezhen heard this, she was dissatisfied, who took the medicine, you didn't take the medicine! However, she still forced a smile and said, "Miss Gu, don't mind, I really didn't take the medicine today, mainly because Xu Gongzi took the wrong medicine."

Xu Yue turned to Zhang Zezhen, and the two looked at each other, their eyes seemed to be shining, and a smell of gunpowder came to their nostrils.

Gu Jin looked at the flirting and scolding of the two, and suddenly found that she was a little redundant, no matter how cheeky she was, she was also the daughter of the Gu family, how could she be so angry.

"That's it! You two don't have to act here! Since Xu Gongzi is unwilling, then forget it, I can only inform my father and mother of this matter and ask them to decide."

"Then there's Miss Laogu!" Xu Yue said politely.

"Humph!" Gu Jin saw that Xu Yue didn't have the slightest intention of going out with him, so he turned around and left.

XU Yue,

You wait for me! I still don't believe it, I'm a dignified Miss Gu family, is it better than a fat girl?

Seeing Gu Jin leaving, Xu Yue angrily criticized Zhang Zezhen: "What do you want to do? Do you want to push me into the fire pit?"

"Hahaha, Gongzi Xu, why are you like this? People Gu Jin is so sincere, but you are so ruthless, this is not good."

"What's so bad? I don't know her!"

"Huh? No, how did I hear that you two knew each other before?"

"That's all when I was a kid, I've long forgotten it, and I don't think she's like that."

"Could it be that you two are childhood sweethearts?"

"More nonsense! Be careful that I don't care about you in the future!"

"Don't be angry, look at you, you look aggrieved, as if I bullied you."

"Humph!" Xu Yue put his hands on his shoulders, looking unconvinced.

"By the way, you said that Gu Jin looks different now than before? And what did she look like before?"

"I really can't remember this, but I know that she is definitely not as beautiful as she is now, and she used to have darker skin, and she was quite fat, and she is not very savvy, so boys will always play tricks on her."

"Really? Gu Jin still has this history? Tell me about it and make me happy."

"Why are you like this? Are you so happy to see the shortcomings of others?"

"Of course! Who will compare the strengths of others to their own?"

This sentence made Xu Yue speechless.

"That's fine! I'll tell you the story of when I was a child, don't tell me, she used to be really ......."

"What is it? Tell me, don't sell it!"

"Ugly!"

"Ugly?" Zhang Zezhen almost laughed out loud, "Are you kidding me? I see that Gu Changqing and his wife are all good-looking, why is Gu Jin ugly? Are you misremembering?"

"No, their family is patriarchal, Gu Changqing only hopes that his wife will give birth to a son, and he rarely asks about his daughter, although he sends it to a private school to study, it is also for her to marry better in the future and bring benefits to the Gu family."

"But when I was doing things with Gu Changqing, I thought he was okay with Gu Jin."

"I don't know what happened later, but during the private school, she was really not treated by her parents, and at that time, the Gu Mansion was not as beautiful as it is now, don't look at the fact that there are many boys in the academy, but everyone agrees that Gu Jin is stupid and ugly."

"Hahaha!"

"However, she is also quite pitiful, she often cries alone in the corner, no one takes her anywhere to play, and within two years, she stopped reading, and I haven't seen her since."

"I see, no wonder you're not interested!"

"You're talking nonsense again! I already have someone in my heart! How can there be room for a second woman?"

Seeing Xu Yue's arrogance hurriedly, she also blushed a little.

Xu Yue was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said, "I'm hungry, where did Da Lang get the food?"

"Dalang? Where's my food?"

"It's coming! Uncle Xu." It turned out that he had been hiding in the back kitchen, for fear of disturbing the conversation between the two.

Gu Jin ran home angrily, "Dad, my daughter has been bullied, do you care?"

Seeing his daughter like this, Gu Changqing said coldly, "Didn't you go to find someone who delivered the spices? Why did you come back like this?"