"I'll buy the information, but whether I'll give you a 30% stake depends on whether the information you provide is worth the price."
Mrs. Liang wasn't entirely sure when she said this. After all, information is something that only remains secret can be bargained with the buyer. Once it's revealed, it's worthless.
However, to her surprise, Yu Zizhen had no intention of bargaining with her at all.
"Don't worry, it's definitely worth the money." After saying this, Yu Zizhen told Mrs. Liang all the information he had obtained through the system.
After saying what he needed to say, Yu Zizhen stood up with a smile. "It's difficult to investigate starting from the clues, but now you have the answer I revealed in advance, so working backwards shouldn't be too difficult, right?"
Without waiting for Mrs. Liang to say anything else, Yu Zizhen, who was in a hurry, walked out and said, "I'm waiting for good news from Mrs. Liang."
It was not until Yu Zizhen walked out of the private room and closed the door that Mrs. Liang woke up from her dream and realized belatedly that she had not had time to ask Yu Zizhen's name and contact information.
However, it was too late to look for him now. The young man, whose name and origin were unknown, slipped away so quickly that it seemed as if he had disappeared out of thin air.
Mrs. Liang, full of thoughts, sat back in her original seat, her eyes empty as she began to digest what Yu Zizhen had said.
The maids and old nanny who looked after her were all hers. Seeing Mrs. Liang's appearance and hearing what Yu Zizhen said, the two servants couldn't help but show a complex expression of anger and worry on their faces.
They cursed the Ji family members countless times in their hearts, but before Mrs. Liang spoke, no one dared to make a noise and disturb her.
"Go and invite the master and the young lady." After a long time, Mrs. Liang spoke in a hoarse voice.
The maid responded and was about to turn around and leave when Mrs. Liang changed her mind and said, "Forget it, I'll go find them over there."
Ji Haoyang and Ji Yinghui are now in the perfume making room in the backyard of the shop. Compared with the private room in the front shop, that is the real confidential place in Ji's perfume shop where no one is allowed to enter.
Mrs. Liang took several deep breaths until her complexion and expression returned to normal. Then she took her trusted servants to find Ji Haoyang and Ji Yinghui.
Ji Haoyang and Ji Yinghui were currently mixing spices, one according to the recipe passed down by their ancestors, while the other was trying out new combinations of spices.
Seeing Mrs. Liang coming, Ji Haoyang's long-time servant Yuanbao, who was guarding outside the perfumery room, immediately knocked on the door.
After getting a response, he said to Ji Haoyang: "Master, the mistress is here."
Ji Haoyang was stunned. Usually, Mrs. Liang was very conscious about not coming here. What happened today?
He motioned his daughter to put down the spices in her hand, "Your mother must have something important to ask us."
When Ji Yinghui heard this, a look of worry appeared on her face. She washed her hands and left the perfume room with Ji Haoyang.
There was a small compartment outside the perfumery room for people to rest. The father and daughter met Mrs. Liang, and the family of three went directly into the small compartment at Mrs. Liang's signal.
"Mammy, you and Yuanbao stay outside." After saying this, Mrs. Liang entered the small compartment with the help of her maid.
Ji Haoyang glanced at his wife and asked, "What happened?"
Mrs. Liang took a deep breath, and after the maid closed the door and left, she whispered to Ji Haoyang and Ji Yinghui about Yu Zizhen's visit to her today to "discuss a big deal."
Ji Haoyang's first reaction was, "This is impossible! That person must have made it up to deliberately alienate us from our tribe!"
"Dad." Ji Yinghui wasn't as optimistic as her father. With a pale face, she said to her parents, "Actually, my grandfather also suspected that my brothers and sisters were murdered."
Ji Haoyang was struck by lightning. He turned stiffly to look at his daughter, "When did this happen?"
Ji Yinghui's eyes were slightly red. "That was the month when my grandfather asked me if I was willing to stay home and inherit the family business, and I said yes."
"Originally, my grandfather planned to choose an auspicious day to officially record my name in the family tree, and then hold a grand banquet to announce the event to relatives and friends."
"But before he could pick a suitable day to open the ancestral hall and worship his ancestors, my uncle and his family brought several children from the clan to find my grandfather, saying that they wanted to adopt the children from the clan into our family."
At that time, Old Master Ji's health was already very poor, and his image of being smart and capable was fading in the hearts of the clan members. Instead, he was replaced by a new image of being old, frail, and easy to bully.
Old Master Ji couldn't help but feel suspicious because of his clansmen's talk of "adoption" and their unintentional toughness and greed.
But he was already on his last legs, and it was already difficult for him to arrange his own affairs without alerting his clansmen. How could he spare more energy and manpower to quietly investigate such an old matter?
In the absence of any concrete evidence, Old Master Ji naturally could not just say that his family members had bad intentions.
He said that his son's personality was such that he couldn't guard against anything, and he might even alert the enemy and make the other party desperate.
But he couldn't just say nothing, so after much thought, he told Ji Yinghui, who was by his side almost every day because she was learning how to make perfume, about his suspicions about his tribesmen.
He told Ji Yinghui that he would have people continue to investigate those old events. If one day, the trusted servants he sent out did find evidence that the Ji family members had evil intentions, she would immediately tell Mrs. Liang about his suspicions about the Ji family members.
At that time, Old Master Ji had never imagined that those people would be so cruel as to directly attack Mrs. Liang and Ji Haoyang.
He had thought that since they had mentioned adoption, they would only focus on the adoption for at least the next three to five years. However, he had not expected that they would want to directly get involved in the Ji family's spice shop not long after he was buried.
If Yu Zizhen had not intervened for the sake of points, the fate of the three members of the Ji family would probably have soon followed the plot of the original book.
"Damn it! How can these people be so heartless!" Ji Haoyang didn't trust Yu Zizhen, the stranger who suddenly appeared, but he had an almost blind admiration and trust in his own father. As soon as Ji Yinghui brought up Old Master Ji, Ji Haoyang immediately believed that the clansmen had bad intentions.
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