"That old bastard Huang Wenbai!" Having gotten the answer he wanted, the old man Dugu went berserk, his eyes wide with rage, gritting his teeth as he said, "I'm going to tear him to pieces!"
Hu Mingmei said calmly, "I need your help!"
Although the old man was excited, her descendants were still here, and he wanted to ask her more questions, so he didn't immediately leave. After hearing Hu Mingmei's words, he paused for a moment, then calmed down. "Help you with what? Help you kill Huang Wenbai? No problem!"
What he wants most right now is to avenge her.
"You're just a cook, you can't kill him!" Hu Mingmei said calmly, revealing without hesitation that the old man Dugu was a weakling.
Old Man Dugu choked, looking at Hu Mingmei's expression, and unexpectedly saw a resemblance to that person's expression in it. He refrained from refuting, "What do you need me to do? Jingwen is a princess after all. Doesn't the royal family care if she dies?"
"Which royal family member is in charge?" Hu Mingmei retorted.
Although Hu Jingwen was a princess, she was still a married daughter. Moreover, the Hu family was now very powerful. Although she held a low-ranking official position, money could make the devil turn the millstone. At that time, Huang Wenbai quickly dealt with the servant who poisoned her. Before the royal family could even get angry, she was buried.
"What do you want me to do?" Old Man Dugu asked, his face ashen, shielding himself from the chill that filled his chest.
“The place you stayed at last night is my wife’s house. She’s opening a restaurant, so why don’t you go and help her out?” Hu Mingmei said. Although she didn’t explicitly say what kind of help, he understood that Hu Mingmei wanted him to be a cook.
"When my grandmother passed away, she said that if I ever needed anything, I could bring the jade pendant to you, and you would help me. I wonder if that promise still stands?" Hu Mingmei asked, looking at the old man Dugu with a half-smile.
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