Chapter 194 You Don't Even Look Down on One Hundred Taels
Mu Nanzhao said, "Don't worry, I didn't get this result by spying on you."
He looked away, with a nonchalant expression, and said,
"Your great grandfather had bad intentions many times in the past. You sent his most precious youngest son into exile, but then he just stayed quiet and did nothing. Isn't that abnormal?"
"I'll ask Master Liu to keep an eye on his family's movements."
After saying that, his expression suddenly looked a little guilty and he glanced sideways at Hu Xixi.
Gu Xixi narrowed her eyes, "So you already knew what Master Gu did in private, and you also knew about the conspiracy between Master Gu and Master Gu, and that they would gather a group of people to cause trouble in the village today?"
Mu Nanzhao's eyes wandered, "... Yeah."
Gu Xixi smiled, "You knew it in advance but didn't tell me. It must be that you didn't forget, but kept it as a surprise for me, right?"
Mu Nanzhao turned around and saw Gu Xixi's expression.
The sweeter her smile was at this moment, the colder he felt down his spine.
“Not really…”
Gu Xixi's smile widened, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth. "Why is that?"
Mu Nanzhao turned his head and looked aside, refusing to look at Gu Xixi, "..."
He didn't say it when they first met yesterday because she actually quarreled with him over An Qinghe, and then when he saw her being close to An Qinghe, he didn't want to say a word out of anger.
Is this a valid reason?!
After that, I was delayed by other things and didn’t have time to talk about it.
When he remembered to say it this morning, Gu Xixi had already left, and then everyone knew what had happened.
So, Gu Xixi stared at Mu Nanzhao, while Mu Nanzhao stared elsewhere.
The two remained silent for a moment.
Mu Nanzhao couldn't hold it in any longer and said, "I wanted to remind you this morning, but you had already left."
Gu Xixi frowned. That’s it?
Mu Nanzhao turned his head and looked at her. "Anyway, what I said is the truth. It's up to you whether you believe it or not."
Gu Xixi thought, the truth is the truth, but it is definitely not the whole truth.
But she had already talked about the matter of the adopted child and was too lazy to ask further questions.
"I just wanted to thank you formally. Thanks to your help today, An Qinghe got his adopted child back in time, otherwise I would have suffered a lot."
"Today's chaos will definitely not be resolved so quickly or so well."
"Thank you." Gu Xixi bowed and looked up at Mu Nanzhao.
"You helped me a lot. In exchange, I should give you a thank you gift. But what do you want?"
Although Mu Nanzhao knew that Gu Xixi didn't like to owe others.
But he just didn't like the way she insisted on being impartial and drawing a line between them.
So he said expressionlessly, "Then you want silver, one hundred or two hundred taels is fine."
Gu Xixi frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "My money is basically invested in the wheat fields and the Pinellia fruit trees. I don't have much cash on hand for the time being."
"How about this," she looked up at him, "I'll write you an IOU,"
"When you have finished your big business, my summer wheat will have been sold. I will pay the banknotes in advance and you can send someone to pick them up."
Mu Nanzhao didn't really want the money, so he deliberately mentioned a large sum, but Gu Xixi took it seriously.
He gritted his teeth, half smiling, "Boss Gu is really rich."
Gu Xixi sighed and complained about being poor as usual, "How can I be considered rich now?"
"I have to wait until all the Pinellia trees have successfully produced fruit before I can really breathe a sigh of relief."
"So..." She smiled awkwardly, "I can only give you one hundred taels of silver."
Mu Nanzhao was simply furious about this "one hundred taels of silver".
In Gu Xixi's eyes, he helped her just for money? !
Is he the kind of person who cares about a mere one hundred taels of silver?
Does he need this money?
Mu Nanzhao said with a dark face, "No need, keep the flowers for yourself!"
After he said that, he turned around and ran away.
Gu Xixi continued to say from behind, "Hey, don't you think it's too little?"
"But when you return to Beijing... your hometown, there will definitely be places where you need money. It will never hurt to have more money!"
Mu Nanzhao walked quickly into the west room and slammed the door.
If he was a step later, he was afraid that he would lose control of his emotions and lose face.
After all, he was the only one who made others collapse, and no one had ever been able to make his emotions fluctuate so drastically!
Gu Xixi shook her head and walked towards the main room.
I thought to myself, what a person who has been pampered since childhood, he doesn't even look down on a huge sum of money like one hundred taels of silver.
But she is still in a good mood now.
Uncle Gu and Uncle Gu II suffered the consequences of their own actions and lost the support of their clan.
Both families have some businesses, especially Uncle Gu's.
They would certainly be reluctant to take any revenge that would result in their losing all.
So from now on, these two families can only live in the village with their heads down.
I can't say that the problem is solved once and for all, but at least in the short term, even if they want to do something bad, they won't be able to cause any big waves.
Gu Xixi has a lot of things she wants to do, and she doesn't want to waste her time on guarding against villains.
And today I have established a relationship with the local Gu family.
Having a backer makes it more convenient to move around and do things.
What is more important are connections, information, and land.
If Gu Xixi wants to expand her planting in the future and realize her dream of expanding her agricultural territory, both people and fields will be indispensable.
More and more people are wholeheartedly following her to work together. On a small scale, they can get rich together, and on a large scale, it can form local agricultural industrialization.
In the future, we will go a step further and add characteristic agriculture.
…
Gu Xixi was immersed in her own vision of the future.
She was smiling when she caught a glimpse of something outside the door.
But when she walked to the position facing the door, she saw a figure running away in panic.
"Old bachelor?"
Gu Xixi frowned in confusion. Thinking about the trouble caused by Gu Youfu and others today, she seemed to see the old bachelor among the crowd watching the fun.
At that time, the old bachelor did not come out to support Gu Youfu.
What is he doing here now?
It was late at night, and Gu Xixi was still fiddling with the insect repellent.
In early summer, the mountain village is quite cool except when the sun is shining directly at noon.
But the number of insects has obviously increased.
Gu Xixi had to prepare more insecticides, which were all naturally extracted ingredients and naturally could not compare to chemical agents. In order to achieve the best effect, she could only increase the purity and concentration, which was really time-consuming.
A mosquito buzzed by.
Just as Gu Xixi was about to raise her eyes to look for him, she saw Xiaohua leap up from the table and slap his front paws on the window frame.
When Xiaohua turned around and sat down to lick her fur, Gu Xixi saw a dead mosquito stuck to the window frame.
Fortunately, there was no blood in the mosquito's stomach.
Gu Xixi stroked the cat's head with a smile, "Xiaohua is really amazing."
However, I'll make some mosquito repellent tomorrow.
He Jinglan leaned on the bed with her head tilted, the popular reading book in her hand fell to the ground, and she had fallen asleep.
Gu Xixi carefully pulled the mosquito net tight and tiptoed out the door.
Maybe because the work was so strenuous, she was hungry.
The lights in the kitchen were off. Gu Xixi lifted the door curtain and bumped into a person who was about to come out.
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