Gu Yanyue's good reputation soon spread to the palace. Yuwen Ran took the opportunity of this incident to praise Gu Yanyue. Even Prime Minister Gu, who never praised Gu Yanyue in normal times, praised Gu Yanyue for the first time in the court today.
On the other side, Gu Yanrou felt the threat from Gu Yanyue. Her hatred grew even stronger. She became irrational and wanted to kill Gu Yanyue directly. However, Yan'er beside her persuaded her, "Master, don't be impulsive. Let's go back to the Prime Minister's Mansion to find Madam. Madam will help you."
Gu Yanrou knew that she couldn't deal with Gu Yanyue alone, so she calmed down at this time. After getting Yu Wenran's permission, she returned to the Gu Mansion.
As soon as she returned home, Gu Yanrou burst into tears and complained about Gu Yanyue's behavior towards her in an exaggerated manner, which made Mrs. Qin very distressed.
"Rou'er, don't worry, mother will definitely vent her anger for you!" Mrs. Qin comforted Gu Yanrou and made plans in her heart.
Mrs. Qin quickly set her sights on Gu Yanyue's restaurant, thinking that Gu Yanyue's restaurant now uses crayfish and wolf tooth potatoes as its signature dishes. If these two dishes are gone, business will definitely be greatly reduced.
She thought for a moment and quickly made a decision, which was to tamper with the peppers in order to cut off Gu Yanyue's business.
Mrs. Qin was determined to prevent Gu Yanyue from doing business, so she hired the most skilled person and arranged for him to secretly sprinkle a kind of insect-attracting powder on the peppers in the warehouse.
Sure enough, not long after, Gu Yanyue received news that there was a problem with the peppers in her warehouse.
"Boss, I don't know what happened, but the peppers in the warehouse are infested with a lot of insects. This batch of peppers has suffered a huge loss, and we may not be able to meet the demand..." Yu An looked serious.
Gu Yanyue next to him said nothing.
This kind of problem shouldn't happen in this season.
"No more talking, let's talk about it when we get to the warehouse."
Looking at the mountain of peppers, with small insects crawling inside, many peppers are rotten. The servants in the house are cleaning the peppers and separating the good ones as soon as possible.
Gu Yanyue carefully checked the warehouse and found nothing unusual. Finally, Gu Yanyue set his sights on the peppers themselves. He squatted down, picked up the peppers and smelled them. Gu Yanyue vaguely realized that something was wrong.
"Yu An, go find a farmer, preferably one with rich experience."
Yu An hurried to look for him, and he arrived soon after.
"Uncle, please help me see what's wrong with this pepper."
The old man worked very quickly and soon discovered the problem with the peppers. "Manager Gu, there's some extra powder on the peppers. This powder attracts insects very well."
"Old man, are you sure?"
"Absolutely sure." After seeing the old man off, Gu Yanyue quickly asked Yu An to find more manpower to quickly separate the good peppers and wash them with clean water. Otherwise, the medicine powder would still be on the peppers and the bugs would still be there.
The huge amount of work caused Gu Yanyue to lose a lot of money this time. However, the most important thing at the moment is to quickly fill the gap in chili peppers, and the restaurant business still needs to be done.
The person who secretly attacked her was obviously targeting the restaurant. It was because she didn't do business that she really let that person succeed!
"Yu An, the restaurant business continues as normal. You don't have to worry about the chili peppers. I will take care of it." Gu Yanyue looked at Yu An and thought that this young man was indeed inexperienced and was still very panicked at this time.
However, Yu An settled down under Gu Yanyue's arrangement and hurried back to the restaurant to take care of business.
After sending Yu An away, Gu Yanyue felt that she had to go to the countryside again to buy peppers.
After all, we have to fill the gap first, and then find out who is behind the scenes.
Although Gu Yanyue already has a candidate in mind, she will not easily question him without evidence.
However, Gu Yanyue never expected that this time she was a little slower than Gu Yanrou. Before Gu Yanyue arrived in the countryside, Mrs. Qin and Gu Yanrou had already arrived.
Mrs. Qin tried to bribe the people with higher money to raise prices so that Gu Yanyue could not afford to buy peppers, but she was rejected by the people. The mother and daughter were beaten by the villagers because of this incident, which was somewhat embarrassing.
"You ungrateful thing!" Madam Qin led Gu Yanrou into the carriage. Gu Yanrou had been beaten, and there was tomato juice on her body and vegetables in her hair. She was now furious: "Mother! If these unruly people knew who we are, I would make them kneel three times and kowtow nine times to atone for their sins!"
"Rou'er, don't be angry." Mrs. Qin coaxed her daughter.
"What should we do, mother? Can we still deal with Gu Yanyue now?" Gu Yanrou was only worried about whether she could deal with Gu Yanyue.
"Don't worry, mother will take care of it." Aunt Gu's eyes showed more cruelty.
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After Gu Yanyue arrived, the villagers told her the truth about what Gu Yanrou and her daughter had done.
Soon, Gu Yanyue negotiated a business deal with the villagers again. As it was getting dark, Gu Yanyue planned to go back and come back to harvest peppers tomorrow.
The suburbs were very quiet at night and there was no one around. Liu Mei was a little scared, but fortunately Gu Yanyue brought a few masters from the palace, so she was safe at this time.
Gu Yanyue was resting with her eyes closed in the carriage when suddenly she heard the sound of fighting outside.
"Protect the queen!"
Then there was the sound of weapons colliding.
Gu Yanyue frowned. Was he being robbed?
Liu Mei protected Gu Yanyue behind her, and the curtain of the carriage was lifted. "My queen, get off quickly, and leave quickly!"
Under the protection of the guards, Gu Yanyue got off the carriage safely. Only then did she realize that there were quite a few people there, all with their faces covered. After seeing Gu Yanyue, one of the men in black shouted, "Where is Gu Yanyue!"
After saying that, Gu Yanyue saw a man in black coming towards her.
Gu Yanyue managed to dodge it, but the man in black was confused by Gu Yanyue's strange moves, and Gu Yanyue had to barely deal with him.
After all, she is a Sanda champion, so knocking down a few people is not a problem for her.
Fortunately, the palace guards were quite skilled, and these minions were quickly dealt with. Seeing that the situation was not right, a few of them quickly fled. The guards wanted to chase them, but were stopped by Gu Yanyue, "Since they are going to run away, they will commit suicide if we catch them. There is no need to chase them."
After Gu Yanyue finished speaking, she squatted beside a dead man in black, took a look, and her heart suddenly turned cold.
Others may not recognize it, but she can.
These men in black were actually sent by the Gu family!
She suddenly felt a little chilled. It seemed that Gu Yanrou's complaint was successful again, as the killer from the Gu family was able to take action.
Someone told Gu Yanyue a few days ago that when she saw Gu Yanrou returning to the Gu family, she knew that she was in trouble this time.
It seems that the restaurant business was also done by the Gu family.
"Empress, are you okay?" Liu Mei noticed that Gu Yanyue looked unwell and thought that she was frightened, so she stepped forward to ask.
"Return to the palace!" Gu Yanyue said coldly. It seemed that it was time to settle her account with the Gu family.
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