The first snow is just a blink of an eye, time flies, and before you know it, it’s New Year time.
Xu Tianze strolled along the streets of Zhoushan City, looking at the people coming and going, with a smile on his face. This city, which had been experiencing a siege crisis not long ago, has now radiated dazzling brilliance.
"Sir, this is the latest pastry from Diezhai. It's sweet but not greasy, and has the fragrance of plum blossoms. Would you like to try it?" Xichen walked over from the opposite side of Xu Tianze, holding a lot of bags in his hands.
"What? Are you going to rob Diezhai again?" Xu Tianze took the pastries handed to him by Xichen with a smile.
I didn't realize Xichen was so fond of sweets before. It was only after coming to Zhoushan City that Xichen became particularly fond of pastries. Whenever Diezhai had new products, he was the one who ran the most diligently.
When he heard yesterday that Die Zhai had new products, he went to Die Zhai and ordered a lot of cakes and pastries. In other words, Die Zhai is now all his, otherwise he really couldn't afford it.
"This pastry is soft and sticky, why can't it shut up the young master?" Xichen's ears turned red, and he gave the pastries to Jiang Ti and Xue Wei, then glared at Xu Tianze.
Anyway, it’s nothing serious. His master is not a person who pays much attention to rules. He can still tolerate such a little willfulness.
"You just rely on the fact that I spoil you." Xu Tianze smiled helplessly. Although his tone was helpless, anyone could see the doting in his eyes.
Xu Tianze took another piece of cake from Xichen. His attention was on Xichen just now, so he naturally didn't notice the style of the cake. Now after taking it, he discovered the pattern on the cake.
A butterfly flies away, plum blossoms fall in the corner, and on the other side of the pastry is a butterfly landing on a dandelion.
Xu Tianze was stunned for a moment, with a nostalgic smile on his lips. This small piece of cake had quite a few metaphors on it, and one could tell the owner's intentions at a glance.
This is something he had never instructed before. Ever since Die Zhai came into his hands, he just said that everything should remain the same. So it is easy to imagine who did this.
"The style of this pastry has remained the same for several years. The only change every year is the taste and pattern in the corner of the pastry." Xue Wei saw Xu Tianze looking at the pastry in his hand with a dazed look in his eyes.
He still remembered that in the beginning, Diezhai's pastries only won in taste. There were countless shopkeepers or pastry chefs who suggested that their prince make some patterns on the pastries.
Even the simplest pattern is better than nothing. After all, adding icing on the cake can sometimes bring a lot of benefits.
But his prince never bothered to do such a thing. He said that as long as the pastries taste good, everything else is irrelevant.
Until one day, his prince suddenly drew a blueprint himself and asked that all the cakes in Die Zhai should have patterns on them. At that time, all the shopkeepers and pastry chefs in Die Zhai cried with joy.
They thought their prince had finally come to their senses. Later, when they learned that their master liked dandelions, Xue Wei realized that it was not his prince who had come to his senses, but another owner of the pastry had appeared.
After all, when his prince first hid his identity, the name he used was Butterfly. This small piece of cake expressed his prince's heartfelt love.
"This guy always spends time on things like this, waiting for me to discover it myself." Xu Tianze's eyes flushed red, and his tone was filled with complaints. "But he doesn't even think about what would happen if I discovered it after a very, very long time like an idiot?"
Just like now, when he discovered that the person who treated him with utmost care was no longer there, all his emotions turned into regret and remorse, as well as a longing that had nowhere to be vented.
No matter what the reason was, it was meaningless for him not to notice the change in the style of Die Zhai's pastries. Others said that he, Xu Tianze, was extremely intelligent and full of conspiracies.
But only he himself knows that he is just an ordinary stupid person. If it weren't for the chess game of those three old foxes, he would just be a mediocre and ordinary person.
Just like now, even the surprise prepared by my beloved one takes a long time to discover, and in the end I can only be left with regrets in my heart.
"Mom, look, is that Xu Tianze? The one who kills without blinking an eye and even plots against his own nephew... Hmm..."
"Please spare my life, sir. I am an ignorant child. Please forgive my sins." A peasant woman covered her child's mouth tightly, knelt down and kowtowed continuously.
Xu Tianze's sentimental mood was interrupted by this sudden accident. He looked coldly at the peasant woman who kept kowtowing, and glanced at the frightened and angry crowd that surrounded him.
Only then did he remember what kind of person he was in Zhoushan City. A person like him was actually strolling around the streets openly. For a moment, Xu Tianze laughed at himself.
However, Xu Tianze's smile was seen by others as an angry laugh. For a moment, the people around him all took a step back, and then, as if they had just realized what was happening, they knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
"How dare you! You..." Xichen was furious, but he shut up halfway through his words as if he had thought of something.
Jiang Ti, who was about to speak, looked at Xichen in confusion, and was about to scold him, but was stopped by Xu Tianze.
Xu Tianze stood there silently, watching the people around him kowtow continuously with cold eyes. It was not until the peasant woman who was leading the kowtow felt dizzy that Xu Tianze walked forward.
"I, Xu Tianze, have never been threatened by anyone, nor do I care about my reputation. Since you dare to do this, I think you are prepared to bring disaster upon yourself and your family." Xu Tianze kicked the woman in the chest.
The woman was kicked so hard that she fell backwards onto the ground. The child beside her was so frightened that he stood there in a daze.
When the people around saw this, they were like puppets frozen in time, not knowing whether to continue kowtowing or stop.
But Xu Tianze was unaffected. He pinched the child's face, examined it carefully, and a wicked smile played on his lips: "He's good-looking, but it's a pity that he has another mother who can't make sense. He should just be thrown into the dungeon and starve to death."
"Sir, please spare his life. He is still a child. Please spare him." When the peasant woman heard this, she quickly got up and continued to kowtow, not daring to stop at all.
Jiang Ti felt a little reluctant when he saw this, but when he thought that the person who did this was his master, then his master must have his reasons. He absolutely could not hold his master back at this time, so he had to turn his head away.
As for Xichen and Xuewei, facing such a scene, they were much calmer and composed, and there was even a glimmer of enlightenment in their eyes.
What about the group of people around who kowtowed together? Even those who took the lead were like this. Their own lives were the most important. Who would dare to speak out at this stage?
"It's difficult for a child of a few years old to speak complete sentences, but he spoke the words just now very fluently." Xu Tianze didn't even look at the woman who was kowtowing. He just moved his hand that was pinching her face down gradually to her neck.
"What do you think you're collecting this money for? It's the money that will save your entire family's lives!"
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