But having worked as a housekeeper his entire life, he knew what questions to ask and what questions not to ask.
Even with a thousand doubts in his heart, he stood with his head bowed and showed no sign of it.
"Grandpa has passed away. Butler Xu, what are your plans now?" Chi Baiyi asked casually.
Xu Zhiming was a child that Grandpa Chi's father adopted from an orphanage.
When Grandpa Chi’s father adopted Xu Zhiming from the orphanage, Xu Zhiming was only ten years old.
Old Master Chi's father had always been grooming Xu Zhiming to be the head steward of the Chi family, providing him with education, teaching him knowledge, and instructing him in the ways of the upper class.
Xu Zhiming was also very promising; he had excellent grades during his school years.
With the financial support of Mr. Chi's father, he also studied abroad.
After returning, Xu Zhiming became the head housekeeper of the Chi family and managed the entire Chi family very well.
Hearing Chi Baiyi's question, Xu Zhiming smiled sadly and said, "My whole life has been given to me by my parents. Now that my great-great-grandfather has passed away, I have completed the mission that my parents gave me. I am almost seventy years old, and I may follow in his footsteps one day. I don't want to pursue anything for the rest of my life. I just want to bask in the sun, listen to the rain, appreciate the flowers, and live a peaceful old age."
"Has Steward Xu chosen a place for you to retire?" Chi Baiyi asked.
Xu Zhiming smiled and said, "My great-grandfather treated me very well when he was alive, and he gave me money to buy a house. I have already bought a house in the suburbs for retirement. The scenery there is beautiful, the air is fresh, and it is close to the hospital, so life is quite convenient."
Chi Baiyi nodded: "That's good."
He asked, "Does Steward Xu have any instructions for me?"
“You are so outstanding, what could I possibly ask of you? My great-grandfather often said that you are far more outstanding than he was in his youth, and he was very proud of you.” Xu Zhiming smiled kindly.
Chi Baiyi's expression remained unchanged; in fact, it grew even colder.
Xu Zhiming was filled with doubt, not understanding the meaning behind Chi Baiyi's change of expression.
"You really don't have anything to tell me?" Chi Baiyi's sharp black eyes looked at Xu Zhiming.
Xu Zhiming was completely confused and shook his head: "No."
“But Steward Xu, you seem to have quite a problem with me,” Chi Baiyi said quietly.
Xu Zhiming was taken aback, as if he had realized something, and quickly said, "Young Master, is it because of Chi Boyou's old employees at United Company that you have some misunderstanding about me? I assure you, I have not colluded with Chi Boyou."
Chi Baiyi's expression remained unchanged: "Since you don't admit it, let's go through it one by one."
Chi Baiyi paused, her gaze sweeping over Xu Zhiming becoming increasingly sharp and oppressive.
"You know Cui Yi and Lin Heng, right?"
Xu Zhiming was utterly confused: "Who are these two? I don't recognize them!"
Chi Baiyi threw a stack of documents at Xu Zhiming's feet. The documents contained transfer information.
"On November 3rd of last year and March of this year, you transferred money to these two people using your bank account in country K. You don't know these two people, so why did you transfer money to them?"
Xu Zhiming looked down in surprise at the documents lying at his feet, but didn't pick them up.
"I really don't know these two people! This... this is definitely someone framing me!" Xu Zhiming shouted.
"You created this anonymous chat room, didn't you?" Chi Baiyi picked up another stack of documents and threw them at Xu Zhiming's feet.
This stack of documents contains screenshots of chat content from a chat room.
"Cui Yi and Lin Heng are also in this anonymous chat room. Their usernames in the chat room are number 771 and number 884, respectively. Your username in the chat room is 'Boss'. We have already found the IP address where you logged into the chat room."
"Young Master, I'm innocent! I don't know anything about what you're saying. How could I possibly create an anonymous chat room? Why would I do that?" Xu Zhiming denied it outright.
"Naturally, it's aimed at me," Chi Baiyi said calmly.
“If you think that by denying these things, you can truly have nothing to do with them, then what about these?” Chi Baiyi said, tossing another stack of documents to Xu Zhiming’s feet.
This stack of documents contains various pieces of evidence showing that Xu Zhiming secretly contacted key members of the Chi Group, including evidence that Xu Zhiming bribed key members of the Chi Group to pass on confidential information about the Chi Group to him.
Xu Zhiming glanced at the documents at his feet, and his expression changed.
A sinister glint flashed quickly in his eyes.
Chi Baiyi did not miss any emotional changes on Xu Zhiming's face.
"Butler Xu, you've really kept this a secret. Even Grandpa doesn't know what you've been doing behind the scenes," Chi Baiyi said coldly.
Xu Zhiming lowered his eyes, staring at the documents at his feet, seemingly lost in thought.
"You've orchestrated such a grand scheme, creating anonymous chat rooms, funding those people to do bad things, and bribing key members of the Chi Group. You must have been planning this for a long time."
Xu Zhiming remained in the same position, his expression unreadable.
“Grandpa treated you so well, and our Chi family has also treated you quite well, yet you only want to repay kindness with enmity,” Chi Baiyi said.
His words seemed to provoke Xu Zhiming, who burst into mocking laughter.
Chi Cheese stared in shock at everything before her.
The Grandpa Xu in front of her was no longer the kind and amiable Grandpa Xu she knew, but a Grandpa Xu with a ferocious face and sinister eyes, like a vengeful ghost.
"Your Chi family has been good to me? I'm repaying kindness with enmity? This is the funniest joke I've ever heard!" Xu Zhiming's laughter faded as his face suddenly turned incredibly gloomy.
"Your Chi family has never treated me as an equal! You took me out of the orphanage just so you could make me a servant in your Chi family for life! You sent me to school and supported my studies abroad just so I could be a better servant in the Chi family! Everything you've done has been to raise me as an inferior person in your Chi family!! And you still have the nerve to say that your Chi family has been good to me?!"
Chi Baiyi looked at him calmly, without any emotional fluctuation.
"If you truly consider me an equal, you should do what Chi Chen did and let me join the Chi Group, so I can truly become a member of your Chi family!"
"But in reality, you're always wary of me, and you just want me to be a servant in your Chi family! Every time you come over to discuss the Chi Group with the old man, he won't let me near the study. As soon as I enter the study, he stops talking! He treats me like a thief. Is that considered being good to me?!"
"When I was in school, my grades were even better than the old man's. I'm much more capable than Chi Chen! That good-for-nothing Chi Chen can get into the Chi Group, but I can only be a servant in your Chi family!"
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