Chapter 40 Who dares to touch her

Pei Xia pouted and reluctantly took out a stack of banknotes, and the waiter's eyes widened.

It turns out that she is not a poor ghost!

"Take it!" Pei Xia threw the banknotes on the counter, and the waiter picked them up with a smile.

Su He raised the remaining banknotes in his hand and waved them, "I can give you all of these."

The waiter's eyes lit up and he was about to take them, but Su He took them back.

"What are the conditions? I don't believe you will give them to me

for nothing." Pei Xia rolled his eyes at him: "You have a brain."

"You!"

Su He raised his eyes: "Who sets the price of dishes in the restaurant?"

A portion of stir-fried yellow beef costs nine taels of silver.

A portion of crystal pork elbow costs twelve taels of silver.

A serving of Dongpo pork also costs nine taels of silver.

Only a serving of bland egg drop soup is cheaper, but it costs two taels of silver.

Su He remembered that when her mother first handed over a few shops to her, the prices were very affordable, the efficiency was always good, and there had never been any problems.

Why has it increased so much now?

"Of course the price is set by our boss!" The waiter rubbed his hands and wanted the banknotes.

"What's the boss's name?"

"Our boss's surname is Lu... Why should I tell you his name? What on earth are you doing here?" The waiter began to be alert.

Pei Xia slapped the counter, glanced around, and said faintly: "Lu? Does he have the deed to this restaurant?"

"Why should we ask about the boss's business? I think you are here to cause trouble?"

The waiter stared at Su He suspiciously, looked him up and down with his rat eyes, and glanced at the burly man behind him. Taking advantage of the fact that there are few people in the restaurant at this moment, knock the two people unconscious and take the banknotes, and you can also sell them to the next yard for a large sum of money!

Pei Xia noticed that the waiter's eyes were not friendly, and immediately protected Su He. The next second, the stick fell on her head and she fainted on the spot.

"Pei Xia!"

Su He hugged her, who was paralyzed and fainted, and raised his head to question: "Did Lu Yanxiu arrange for you to do this?"

Who else could be the boss surnamed Lu?

In broad daylight, aren't you afraid of being discovered?

The waiter leaned against the counter, curled his lips and didn't answer, and asked the big men to quickly knock Su He out and carry her away, so as not to let other customers find out.

"Who dares to touch her?"

A cold voice sounded from outside.

Two teams filed in from outside, and Lu Huaihe walked in slowly in his official uniform, narrowed his eyes, and personally walked up to Su He to help her up.

Su He was slightly stunned. Seeing his indifferent expression, he hesitated and said, "Why are you here..."

"To handle some official business, they didn't bully you, did they?"

Su He hugged Pei Xia, "She was injured and fainted."

Lu Huaihe's cold eyes stayed on the waiter for a moment.

"Come on, ask the doctor to take a look."

"Yes!"

The waiter saw that this nobleman was wearing the official uniform of the Dali Temple and was coming with great momentum. He immediately lost his momentum and explained hurriedly, "My lord, I didn't break the law!"

"Really?"

Qingyun threw the missing person notice in front of him. On it was a portrait of a girl who had been missing for five days.

Hearing what he said, Su He's mind flashed with a flash of lightning.

I suddenly understood that the boss Lu mentioned by the waiter was not Lu Yanxiu at all, because he disdained to put his name on Su He's shop.

Earlier, Liu had proposed to hand over the shop in the mansion to Lu Zhili, but the profit of the shop in Lu's mansion was very low, and he couldn't even pay the wages, so he had to sell it at a low price.

According to Liu's style of doing things, if his own shop was gone, he would definitely find a way somewhere else. The name of the Zhaixing Restaurant was Lu Zhili!

In his previous life, Lu Zhili often did not return home because he was studying in the Imperial College. Every time he returned to the mansion, he just asked Su He for money, and just said that he was managing social relationships, and no one in the mansion was suspicious.

At that time, Su He often sent people to visit the Imperial College after listening to what Lu Yanxiu said. Only once did she go there in person when she had time, but she found that Lu Zhili was trading something with his classmates.

Su He once asked him privately what was going on.

Lu Zhili replied, "My classmates knew that Zhaixing Restaurant was your territory, and they wanted to get some advantage when they got together to play, so I had to do them a favor privately... Sister-in-law, you won't be angry, right?"

Su He smiled and said, "It's okay, classmates should keep in touch with each other, so that they can help you in the future."

Now thinking back, why did they have to be so sneaky when they were trading? There must be something fishy going on!

"The person disappeared in your restaurant. This is the third incident this month. Are you still trying to make excuses?"

Qingyun asked sharply.

This is the third girl missing in Beijing, and the youngest one, who has not yet reached the age of marriage.

The waiter denied it flatly: "There are so many people coming and going in the restaurant, we can't assign a follower to guard everyone, right? Besides, the girl is not very old, it is estimated that she was playing around, and it is not certain that she ran away..."

Qingyun had never seen such a shameless person.

"The Dali Temple is investigating the case, and there will be no shortage of witnesses and evidence." Lu Huaihe said lightly.

"Come on, handcuff her and take her away."

With an order, the waiter and several burly men were tied up and taken out of the restaurant. The already scarce customers fled even more, and the meal was not paid.

Lu Huaihe glanced at Su He and saw that she was kneeling on the ground, holding Pei Xia in her arms, and was being examined by the doctor.

"She will wake up soon, don't worry."

Su He said, "Thank you, sir."

The poor old doctor invited by the subordinate left with a hunched back and unsteady legs.

The subordinate scratched his head helplessly, "He is the only clinic on this street."

"Why are you here?" Lu Huaihe raised his eyebrows and asked Su He slowly.

"There's something wrong with the shop's account. Let me take a look."

Lu Huaihe tilted his head slightly, leaned on the table, and became interested when he saw Su He answering seriously, "Is this restaurant yours?"

"Yes."

"Your shop is in trouble."

Su He had already heard the general situation from their conversation just now. Recently, there have been three cases of missing girls in Beijing, which has caused panic among the people. Since Lu Huaihe and his team have found this, it must be related to Lu Zhili.

Su He said, "It's necessary to investigate and seal, Lord Lu just needs to do things according to the rules."

"A few days ago, a girl escaped and claimed that she was knocked unconscious and locked up in the Zhaixing Restaurant. After investigation, the hidden profits behind this restaurant soon emerged." Lu Huaihe stared at her eyes while speaking, and when he saw that there was no hidden abnormality in her expression, he was sure that she didn't know about it.

"Kidnapped the girl and took her to a secret trading place for the children of noble families to play with."

Su He took a breath of cool air.

"Is it Lu Zhili?"

"Did you guess it?"

Su He couldn't help but feel that the boy was really scary.

Of course he was scary.

In his previous life, Lu Zhili could disregard his own safety and make up such a lie in front of the emperor to frame the Su family, which indirectly led to the tragic death of all the members of the Su family.

It was not until Lu Zhili became the new Minister of Rites that Su He realized his ill intentions.