"Lu Mu? Did you hear me clearly? Don't you want to accept this?" Xu Yuehuai asked Lu Mu.
Lu Mu quickly came to his senses and knelt down on the ground in front of Xu Yuehuai.
"Thank you for trusting me, shopkeeper. I am more than willing to accept this task!"
"From now on, I, Lu Mu, am willing to serve you faithfully and help you manage the entire department!"
That's not just a management department, but also a department that handles all matters related to the entire Shikoku Tenxianglou branch.
That's something that's closely related to the entire Four Kingdoms! A single move can have far-reaching consequences!
It has to be someone who is completely trustworthy and very capable to be able to support this.
Xu Yuehuai had her eye on Lu Mu, something she had discussed with Qi Guze long ago.
Qi Guze looked at this kid and thought he seemed a bit dull and silly, but at times he was also very clever, loyal, and ambitious.
If given a little power, he will definitely be able to make good use of it and handle the things arranged by Xu Yuehuai and the others very well.
Xu Yuehuai then had Lu Mu manage some personnel, which was considered an experiment.
As a result, Lu Mu did everything exceptionally well, even exceeding Xu Yuehuai's expectations.
Therefore, Xu Yuehuai gave Lu Mu more freedom to act and granted him more authority.
Lu Mu then selected many people and created their Tianxianglou headquarters management department, taking them to learn management matters.
Xu Yuehuai also arranged for the ten people who won the bid to open branches of Tianshanglou in different places.
On the King's side of the Mingyue Kingdom, the little princess has fully recovered, is lively and energetic, and has no problems at all. She is making a fuss in the palace, wanting to see Xu Yuehuai.
Only then did he arrange for someone to come and summon Xu Yuehuai into the palace.
Qi Guze was worried about Xu Yuehuai's safety, so he went along with her.
Because of the huge fire that broke out in the west of the city some time ago, the capital has been relatively quiet lately, and no other assassinations have occurred.
Xu Yuehuai followed Qi Guze and the others into the palace to meet the King of Mingyue Kingdom.
But at that very moment, something happened at the Tianxianglou branch.
"What a tragedy! My son was so young, and you, Tianxianglou, killed him! You owe my son a debt of gratitude!"
"My son died such a tragic death!"
"Give me back my son's life!"
An old woman was holding her son, who was lying motionless on the ground, and was crying out in pain.
More and more people gathered outside the Tianxianglou branch.
"What happened? Old Wang's son was perfectly fine yesterday, how could he be dead today?"
"Didn't you hear that woman crying and screaming? Her son was killed by Tianxianglou!"
"I knew Tianxiang Tower was trying to kill the people of our Mingyue Kingdom. All that hype was just to lure us into spending money here. They've not only stolen our money, but they're also trying to harm us in secret!"
"But none of you listened and insisted on coming to Tianxiang Restaurant to spend your money. Now look what's happened, you've really driven us crazy!"
Those people made wild guesses, but they all took it for granted that the blame should be placed on the Tian Shang Lou branch.
At this time, neither Xu Yuehuai nor Qi Guze were there.
While Zhou Wan was busy taking care of Tie Xiong, Zhang Ting asked someone to come and talk to her, but was scolded by the others.
"You are a traitor! You are clearly a citizen of our Mingyue Kingdom, yet you choose to side with outsiders! You are utterly shameless!"
"Since you're helping outsiders bully our own people, you might as well get out of the Dark Moon Kingdom and go back to your Great Zhou Kingdom!"
"Yes, get out of here! Don't stay in our country!"
These people were clearly making veiled accusations, and it's unclear whether some of them were hired. They somehow produced some rotten vegetable leaves and started throwing them at the Tian Shang Lou branch.
The hidden guards, seeing these ordinary people, couldn't bring themselves to harm them. As long as they didn't cause any deaths, they couldn't come out to stop them.
Ah Fu was originally in disguise; he couldn't let others discover his identity, and he couldn't very well stand out and drive.
Jiang Shichen was just a child, a little kid. When he faced those adults, he was no match for them in terms of presence. He casually said a few words and was immediately shut down by them.
"What I said is true. My grandmother would never harm you. The food made at Tianxianglou is made with the finest ingredients. It will never cause anyone to die!"
"Someone must be trying to harm our Tianxiang Restaurant, that's why they orchestrated this!"
"You must never trust anyone else!"
"Our Tianxiang Restaurant is innocent!"
Upon hearing this, the old woman cried out even louder.
She glared at Jiang Shichen with venomous eyes, "What are you talking about? Are you saying I'm deceiving people?"
"My son is dead now, why would I lie to people?"
"I don't even want to live anymore!"
"My son was killed by your Tianxiang Restaurant! Are you trying to shirk responsibility? What will happen to my son's life? Who will pay for his death?"
"I might as well just smash my head against the wall and die here today, so I can go with my son!"
As the old woman spoke, she suddenly stood up and hurriedly rammed into a red pillar next to the Tianxiang Tower's title.
Just as she was about to crash into the pillar, suddenly, a person rushed over from the side and blocked the old woman's path.
The old woman bumped into the man, lost her footing, and fell to the ground with a cry of pain. She quickly clutched her leg and continued to wail.
Even though the old woman wasn't in mortal danger, people around who witnessed this scene pointed at the person who was blocking the way and scolded him.
"What are you doing? Can't you save someone properly? Why did you push them down?"
"Didn't you see how old she is? I think you're trying to secretly kill her!"
"I never intended to save her; I just didn't want her to die outside your Tianxiang Tower."
"Once she returns severely injured, you might even kill her to silence her!"
The person who just stopped the person was Lu Mu. Hearing the commotion outside, he quickly put down what he was doing and rushed over, only to stumble upon the scene just now.
Hearing the people around him talking like that, he immediately sensed something was wrong. These people must have been secretly sent by someone to try and harm Tianxianglou.
"Bullshit! Don't you dare slander me here!"
"If I didn't want to save her, I would have just let her get run over and killed! It would have saved me all this trouble!"
Lu Mu roared back, and those people were stunned and remained silent for a long time.
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