Wife is an enemy general

001.

After having a simple meal at the Qin residence at night, Master Qin sent two sets of clothes of good material to him in the early morning of the next day.

Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan are usually not that particular about these things, but now the people they are going to meet are not ordinary people, so naturally they have to catch them.

What Master Qin meant was that at least these two people couldn't just go there casually.

After Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan thanked Master Qin for his kindness, they changed their clothes early, and after rejecting two people who came to buy tribute ducks after hearing the news, they were found downstairs in the inn The person received it outside the restaurant that had been there once before.

Come here again, it is still very lively as before.

It was almost noon, and there was a faint aroma of vegetables and wine in the air. Just standing outside this door made people's index fingers wide open.

When they arrived in front of the door, the guide did not take the two of them directly through the main entrance, but took a detour and entered through the side door.

The place they went this time was not the private room upstairs, but a private courtyard behind the restaurant.

Compared with the noise in front, this place is extraordinarily quiet.Listening to the one or two voices coming from time to time, Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan, who were already in the small courtyard, felt as if they had passed away.

The two were invited to sit down at the stone table in the small courtyard, and the servant who came with them brought two more cups of tea, and then retreated.

The small courtyard is not particularly big, but in a place like Anfu, it is already considered extraordinarily unique.

The two stood up in the gazebo and walked for a while. After seeing no one else, they reached the stone table again.

Seeing that there was no one around, Zhong Xiuyuan thought that the man had invited them here on purpose, and wanted to show them off here. He was frowning when a person walked over from a distance.

It was a man who looked very easy-going, probably in his forties, with gray hair, quick steps, and looked very energetic.

This person is probably on the same level as Master Qin, with a smile on his face, making it impossible to guess what he is thinking.

"This is probably Boss Li, right?" After the man entered the gazebo, he took a look at the two of them, and clasped his fists at Li Mu calmly.

Li Mu also got up and clasped fists with him, "Exactly, I don't know..."

"Ah, you are welcome to sit and sit. My surname is Shen. You can call me Lao Shen." The man was very accommodating, and after letting the two sit down, he sat down himself, "I am the shopkeeper of this restaurant. Well, the two of you are willing to show your face here, it really makes me look good."

After introducing himself, he looked at Zhong Xiuyuan next to him, "Is this Boss Li's friend?"

Li Mu nodded, and Zhong Xiuyuan nodded along with him, "My surname is Li."

After the three of them got to know each other, Boss Shen said again: "I didn't know that Boss Li was walking around this Amphora recently, so I'm being rude."

"Where is it?" Li Mu raised his hand to drink tea, not saying much.

If it wasn't for the matter of the tribute duck, even if this person met him face to face, he would not have said hello much, but now he is being polite.

"I've heard before that, Boss Li, you are a good breeder of ducks. Didn't Anfu have a batch of ducks with white spots on their backs before?" Boss Shen didn't directly talk about the tribute ducks, "I I heard that the duck was also made by Boss Li."

"There is such a thing." Li Mu was a little surprised, he didn't expect that this person really knew him.

"To be honest, most of Boss Li's batch of ducks have entered my place." Boss Shen smiled.

Li Mu only raises these two kinds of ducks in total, one is ordinary ducks, and he will raise a large batch every two or three months on weekdays, and then transport them here to sell to several restaurants nearby.

There is another kind of duck with white spots on the back. Most of the time, he only raises it when the weather is extremely cold. When it is bred, it is sent to the shop owner who bought the ducklings before, and let him resell it on his behalf.

Compared with ordinary ducks, the price of this kind of duck with white spots on the back is higher. Like the shops they often cooperate with on weekdays, they generally don't choose this kind of duck with a high price.

So Li Mu is really not sure where this batch of ducks with white spots on their backs went.

Hearing Boss Shen's words now, Li Mu understood somewhat. He stood up and hugged Boss Shen again, "It seems that it's thanks to Boss Shen for taking care of me. I'm here to say thank you."

This kind of duck with white spots on the back has better meat quality than ordinary ducks. Some delicious dishes need such tender meat to make more delicious taste.

Ordinary restaurant owners generally don't pay too much attention to the cost of dishes, but this kind of slightly famous restaurant is different.

Boss Shen smiled when he heard the words, and after saying something unnecessary, he said: "I heard that the duck buyer said that all the ducks come from you, and he kept telling me that the neighborhood can be raised for a living. You are the only one who owns this thing, I wanted to meet Boss Li at that time, but I never had the chance."

Li Mu listened quietly, this person could speak, and what he said made people feel comfortable.

After chatting for a while, Boss Shen sent someone to prepare lunch, and kept saying that he would let the two of them try the skills of his chef.

Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan were chatting in the stone pavilion. On the other side of Anfu, in another mansion, a man who was holding a painting in his hand and carefully observing was suddenly knocked on the door. Interrupt thoughts.

He frowned and looked at the servant standing at the door with some displeasure, "Didn't I say, don't disturb me when I'm in the study?"

"Master, someone from Master Qin's side sent a message..." The servant was scolded, but he was used to it.

Once the person in front of him got into the study, he would be unable to yell no matter what, and the scolding would be light.

"The one surnamed Qin? What can he do? Let him wait, I'm not free now." The man looked down at the painting in his hand again.

After a while, he suddenly came back to his senses, and suddenly looked up at the servant who had turned and left. He put down the words in his hand, and strode out after him.

"Stop!" Ma Yi quickly followed the servant, and after stopping him, he said a little excitedly, "Master Qin you're talking about is that Qin in Anfuli?"

The servant was taken aback by his appearance, and replied after a long while: "Yes, it is the master, the one you asked us to pay attention to earlier."

Hearing this, Ma Yi clenched his fist with his right hand and punched the palm of his left hand, his whole body became excited, "Go and invite people in!"

After finishing speaking, he walked towards the lobby quickly as if he couldn't wait, "Where is the person? I'll ask myself."

"Master..." Before the servant could answer, Ma Yi quickly ran towards the lobby, and in the blink of an eye, there was only one clothes left at the corner.

Ma Yi came to the lobby quickly, and when he saw the servants of the Qin Mansion waiting beside him, he quickly stepped forward and asked loudly, "Is the man surnamed Li here?"

The servant who came to deliver the letter had never seen such a posture before, and he was taken aback by him, he took a step back and leaned against the wall, and then said: "Yes, Master Qin asked me to deliver a letter to you, saying that Li Mu came to Anfu gone."

Seeing Ma Yi, who was different from the seriousness in the rumors, the servant couldn't help but take a second look.

Among the rumors from the outside world, Ma Yi has always been a little unreasonable, but why is he a surprised person?

"Okay, finally let me catch you." After getting the answer he wanted from the servant's mouth, Ma Yi became even more excited in an instant.

He paced quickly in the main room, his eyes were red with excitement, and his mouth was constantly babbling, as if he was already in a state of magic.

"Master, master?" The servant who followed Ma Yi was very disturbed seeing Ma Yi's restless appearance.

He hurried to the side and poured a cup of tea to scare Ma Yi. The tea was handed to Ma Yi, but Ma Yi put down the teacup again. He had no time to drink tea now.

Ever since he was tricked by Li Mu before, he had been thinking about this all the way back.

On the way back, he thought a lot, and finally told Master Qin to tell him immediately after Li Mu arrived in Anfu.

After that, he put this matter behind him and devoted himself to helping Qian Qian solve the matter at hand.

Later, he was busy and forgot about it. He didn't expect that Li Mu bumped into his hand now.

"Master, what happened?" The servant called the butler, who also looked at Ma Yi nervously. He basically watched Ma Yi grow up. Over the years, he has never seen Ma Yi like this Crazy look.

"It's the one from before... Forget it, you won't understand even if I tell you." Ma Yi didn't know where to start.

Does it mean that he was cheated by Li Mu for a painting, or that he asked for wine in a shameless manner, but was tricked by Li Mu again?

"If something happens, master, you can tell us, maybe we can help you think of a solution." The old housekeeper was worried, and their master must not have been irritated.

Ma Yi didn't speak, he kept pacing back and forth in the room, always worrying about how he should take revenge on Li Mu, so as to relieve his hatred.

The previous mountain was Li Mu's territory, and he had no choice but to be tricked by Li Mu, but now this is his territory, Li Mu dared to come here, so wait to be tricked by him, and be punished by him!

When Ma Yi was a teenager, he had been studying hard to gain fame, and later became an official, and he was always busy dealing with official affairs. Now he was suddenly asked to think of a way to punish others, he really couldn't think of it.

What's more, those ordinary methods couldn't relieve him at all.

"Master, it's already time for lunch, why don't we think about it after we finish eating?" The butler, whose forehead was covered with cold sweat, reminded.

Ma Yi's state lasted almost half an hour.

Not only did he pace back and forth, but he always muttered to himself in a low voice, his face turned red and then pale, and the housekeeper even wanted to call the doctor at this moment.

"Eat? Yes, eat! You go and call me the man surnamed Li, and say that I want to treat him to dinner!" Ma Yi blushed as if thinking of something, and his eyes sparkled with excitement.

The cold sweat on the butler's forehead became heavier. Is their master really out of his mind?

"I don't know who this surname is Li?" The housekeeper wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Seeing this, the servants who were waiting at the side hurried forward and whispered in the butler's ear, telling the butler everything that happened before.

After hearing this, the butler felt a little relieved, as long as Ma Yi wasn't out of his mind.

He waved his hand and asked the man to go to the person Ma Yi said, and he found Ma Yi again, "Master, this meal..."

Ma Yi's eyes were turning left and right at the moment, and his mind was full of bad ideas.

"Go and ask the kitchen staff to prepare a hearty lunch, and then ask someone to go to the pharmacy and buy me half a catty of crotons." Ma Yi said.

002.

Ma Yi's personality is a bit stubborn and rigorous, and all the methods he can think of are in the middle of the law.

"Crotou?" The butler didn't know what Ma Yi was going to do.

"When Li Mu comes, you can put this croton in the wine and vegetables. I want to see if he will cry and beg me today!" When Ma Yi thought of Li Mu kneeling down and begging him with tears all over his face, his whole body shuddered. People are so excited.

The butler's face was a little distorted, but he was really relieved at the moment after knowing that his master was not out of his mind.

He hurriedly went to the side to call the servants, and after preparing according to Ma Yi's instructions, he went to the kitchen to give instructions.

Soon, it was noon.

At the invitation of Boss Shen, Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan were standing up, about to follow Boss Shen to the back room for dinner, when a waiter came running outside.

After the waiter in the shop whispered something in Boss Shen's ear, he looked at Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan next to him.

"What?" Zhong Xiuyuan vaguely heard the shop waiter mention them just now.

"A person outside said they were looking for two people." Boss Shen said.

When talking about this matter, he glared at the waiter next to him. It wasn't long before Li Mu was invited here by him, why did someone come to make trouble?

The waiter in the shop was talking, not because he didn't know that he couldn't come to disturb him at this time, but because he really couldn't afford to mess with the people outside.

"Who is it?" Zhong Xiuyuan was a little surprised.

Since when did they know so many people here in Anfu?This one after another, endlessly.

"It's from Mr. Ma's side." The waiter said.

Hearing what the waiter said, even Boss Shen, who was at the side who was blaming him, couldn't help showing a bit of surprise on his face.

Lord Ma?

Among them in Anfu, there is only one person who can be called Mrs. Ma, and that is Ma Yi, who is in charge of taxes.

Ma Yi's official position is in the imperial court, which is important and light.

To put it mildly, he is just a tax collector, but to put it more seriously, when these merchants are popping up frequently, even if these individuals offend local officials, they dare not offend him easily.

Boss Shen turned his head and looked at Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan in surprise. Before that, he really didn't know that these two actually knew Mr. Ma Yima.

After he heard that someone was selling tribute ducks in Anfu, he immediately sent someone to investigate the specific situation. After finding out about Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan, he sent someone to inquire about their information.

But in the information he got, both of them were just ordinary people, except for the fact that Li Mu had been a soldier, which was a little surprising, there was nothing special about them at all.

Why did such a Mr. Ma appear all of a sudden?

"Did you say what it is?" Li Mu's face froze when he heard the words Mr. Ma, and Zhong Xiuyuan who was on the side heard the words, and there was an unbearable smile on the corner of his mouth.

"From what the servant said, it seems that he wants to invite the two of you to the mansion for a gathering." The shop waiter hurriedly said: "It is said that a banquet has been prepared in the mansion, please come over."

If it wasn't because he belonged to Ma Yi, he definitely wouldn't have come in to interrupt Boss Shen's business at this time.

banquet?

The smile on Zhong Xiuyuan's face became wider and wider. According to Ma Yi's character, this banquet might be a Hongmen banquet.

Zhong Xiuyuan shook his head helplessly, but thinking about how Li Mu tossed this person before, the other party wanted to find ways to toss this person back, this does not seem to be a strange and incomprehensible thing.

Zhong Xiuyuan was in a good mood, but the smile on Boss Shen's face opposite him couldn't hold back.

The person invited by Mr. Ma is naturally the most important thing on Mr. Ma's side, and it is naturally impossible to stay with him for a long time, but his purpose of entertaining Li Mu today has not been achieved.

Moreover, judging from the current situation, this matter may be troublesome.

If there is really a powerful force behind Li Mu that he has never been able to detect, then his tribute duck may be hard to get.

"Go and tell him, I have something to do, so don't go." Li Mu refused without thinking about it.

What Zhong Xiuyuan can think of, of course he can think of it.

This Ma Yi was cheated of a painting by him before, and he dismissed it with half a jug of water, and now he took the initiative to invite him to the house for a banquet. If he said that he didn't have any intentions to beat Li Mu to death, he couldn't do it.

"This..." Boss Shen was slightly startled.

He had already stood up, and wanted to send the two of them away, and strive for a chance to meet next time, but he didn't expect that he was already on the verge of talking, but he heard that Li Mu rejected Ma Yi's invitation.

The shop waiter was also a little surprised. Although he didn't know the details, he still knew Ma Yi's identity as Anfu.

Seeing that the two were not moving, Zhong Xiu had no choice but to say again: "It's nothing, just tell him that!"

Li Mu didn't speak, but the old god was sitting on the stool, drinking the tea in his hand.

He doesn't want to see this person.

"Then repay it like this!" Boss Shen sat down again in shock.

He was already very surprised that Boss Ma sent someone to invite him. Now, seeing Li Mu's appearance, he still doesn't buy Master Ma's account at all.

Looking at the words of Zhong Xiuyuan next to Li Mu, one can even see some familiarity...

Who are this Li Mu and this Zhong Xiuyuan?

"Since Boss Li is free, please come here." Boss Shen cleared away his suspicion and surprise, and led Li Mu and Zhong Xiu to the banquet table he had prepared.

He had already sat in the gazebo with Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan and chatted politely for a while. Originally, he had prepared drinks and drank three rounds before telling the story about the tribute duck. Now it seems that he Still have to think about it carefully.

The restaurant under Boss Shen's name is really good. Li Mu was very impressed when he came here before, and he read it for a long time after he went back.

Now, as soon as he entered the room, he smelled the aroma of vegetables on the table, and immediately moved the glutton in his stomach and regained his energy.

Zhong Xiuyuan, who followed him into the door, saw Li Mu's eyes shining, and shook his head slightly, with a bit of doting and helplessness in his eyes.

I really don't know if this person is here to discuss business or to eat?

Zhong Xiuyuan even had some doubts. Could it be that the reason why this person didn't refuse Boss Shen's invitation was because he was thinking about his family's food and drink?

If this was the case, it would probably make Boss Wang's people who were rejected by Li Mu very angry.

It can be seen that Boss Shen is very concerned about this matter, and the food and wine on the table are all good.

Li Mu looked at the table full of food and drink, with a hint of satisfaction in his eyes.

Boss Shen kept toasting and talking at the dinner table. When he vaguely realized that Li Mu didn't seem to speak much because Zhong Xiuyuan was talking to him, he realized that Li Mu had already taken advantage of Zhong Xiuyuan's time to talk to him, and secretly took the I tasted all the food and wine.

"Hahaha..." Boss Shen shook his head helplessly, then laughed loudly, "I did the wrong thing, let's talk after we finish eating."

When other people talk about things with him, they will praise his restaurant, which is nothing more than good taste and prosperous business. Now seeing Li Mu like this, he feels that it is very useful, at least better than those empty words Used too much.

Hearing Boss Shen's words, Li Mu immediately half-closed his eyes, showing a contented expression like a cat in the mid-afternoon sun.

On Li Mu's side, Ma Yi, who had eaten and drank in a good mood, walked back and forth in his yard countless times, and after hearing the servant's reply, his face was as black as coal.

"What do you mean he has something to do?" Ma Yi slapped the table with his palm.

This Li Mu actually dared not to come for him!

The servant lowered his head timidly, "I found the inn where he lived, and asked the people in the inn. After learning that he had gone to the restaurant, I went to the restaurant to find someone, but the person who went in said that he There is a banquet inside."

"He dares to let me go when there is a banquet?" Ma Yi was very angry. If he wanted to invite someone here in Anfu, no one would dare not come.

Li Mu is the first!

After yelling angrily, Ma Yi took another look at the big meal that had been prepared by the side, and his face immediately became even more ugly.

He has everything ready, does Li Mu dare to come?

"Please again, if he dares to refuse you again, he will directly tie you up here." Ma Yi roared, he is going to feed him today, and he will also feed him the soup made by these crotons.

Ma Yi was jumping with anger in his mansion, but Li Mu patted his swollen stomach contentedly after eating the large table in front of him, hiccupped, and looked at Boss Shen on the opposite side.

"Boss Li, I know that people don't say dark words. I came to you because of the tribute duck. I believe you should have guessed it." Boss Shen said.

Li Mu nodded, "Then I believe you, Boss Shen, should know about the situation here."

Boss Shen was able to find out that he had brought a batch of duck eggs and his relationship with Master Qin. Presumably he would not have known that he had brought a total of five ducks.

"Yes, of course I know that." Boss Shen was also unambiguous. He has dealt with Li Mu here for so long, and now he can see that it is the best way for him to get along with Li Mu who speaks directly. Way.

Li Mu didn't say a word, just looked at Boss Shen, waiting for his next words.

He was already full at the moment, and after talking for so long, his mouth was already parched, and he felt drowsy.

"I want to know how many tribute ducks you can sell in the next batch, Boss Li?" Boss Shen said.

"To be honest, even if it's the next batch, I won't have many tribute ducks on hand. If it's less, there may be only fifty or sixty." Li Mu said, "The worst is that I may not be able to feed any of them."

He himself is not sure about the tribute duck. If he is unlucky and gets all of them involved, maybe there will only be a dozen or so female ducks left, and everything will have to start all over again.

This time he was lucky, thirty eggs fed about half of the food.

But ten years earlier, those people were more careful than him in raising Jingui, but the survival rate was much lower than him. This also made Li Mu have to think about how much luck was involved in raising these ducks before.

003.

Hearing Li Mu's words, Boss Shen's face was a bit solemn.

Tribute ducks are a rare thing, and they are rarely seen on weekdays. He originally thought that if Li Mu had ducks in his hand, he could spend a lot of money to buy them all.

Hearing these uncertain words now, he hesitated a little, but it didn't shake his mind to buy this tribute duck, but he was a little uneasy about the possibility that Li Mu said.

"Then how about this? Boss Li, if you have ducks for sale in the next batch, how about letting me know?" Boss Shen is also a smart person.

He knew that under the current situation, Li Mu would definitely not promise him anything, so he pressed Li Mu to agree to other conditions.

"That's fine." Li Mu nodded, he had also shunned other people like this before.

While talking, Li Mu glanced at the empty dishes on the table, thought for a while and added in a good mood, "But whether you can buy this duck or not depends on you."

Li Mu didn't think about raising the price, but if someone else offered a higher price, he would of course be willing to sell it more expensive, and of course he would be willing to earn more.

After all, they are all in business, and no one will have trouble with money.

Boss Shen naturally understands such a simple truth.

It would be fine if there was a contract between them, but now there is nothing between them, it's just a meal.

"Then this matter is settled like this." Boss Shen said with a smile.

Li Mu nodded, got up and prepared to bid farewell to Boss Shen and go home to sleep.

But Boss Shen said again: "There is one more thing, and I have to trouble you, Boss Li."

"Huh?" Li Mu was puzzled.

"I also told you, Boss Li, that the ducks with white spots on the back that you raised before are used in several stores here. I know that you, Boss Li, have been sending them to several stores in Anfu. Duck, if Boss Li is convenient for you, can you send some over next time?" Boss Shen said.

"I can give you the price according to what I bought from these stores, just for convenience, otherwise I have to go out to buy it every month, and it will be troublesome." He said again.

Boss Shen didn't do it just for convenience, he was clearly trying to sell Li Mu's favor.

Li Mu understood immediately, and he did not refuse, "Of course."

He understands Boss Shen's desire to win over, and he doesn't mind accepting the favor.After all, he's not just doing this tribute duck business, he will also have other businesses in the future.

After making an agreement with Li Mu, Boss Shen personally sent Li Mu to the side door. On the way, he told Li Mu another thing, "I don't know Boss Li, do you know that the palace has recently started to choose tributes again."

Daning has been at war for the past few years, many things have been ruined, and everyone is living in poverty. Naturally, the palace has to restrain itself, but now that the situation has stabilized, the matter of tributes and grains has to be dealt with again. Bring it up.

There is fierce competition for tribute rice and tribute grain. Grain merchants from all sides want to win this good job, and other things except staple food are relatively calm.

But no matter how calm the sea is, there are still many turbulent undercurrents here.

Chickens, ducks and fish are all particular, not to mention fish, if there are no accidents in chickens and ducks, Li Mu's tribute duck is the best choice.

In the past, it was because the tribute duck had disappeared, but now the tribute duck has been born again. If Li Mu wants to become a tribute duck again, it shouldn't be a problem.

"Mr. Li, if you are interested recently, you can go and find out more about it." Boss Shen reminded, "Although there is no news outside, the people above have already come down and have been looking around to find suitable ingredients."

Li Mu really didn't hear anything about this matter before, but now that Boss Shen said so, he couldn't help thinking about it.

"I heard that, Boss Li, you still have two tribute ducks left in your hand? Can you part with the other and let me see the strange ones?" Boss Shen said again.

This tribute duck has been widely rumored, but there are very few people who have actually seen it.

Li Mu, who was about to leave, listened to Boss Shen's words, showing a bit of resignation on his face, the expression flashed by, and soon disappeared without a trace.

"Of course, the price is easy to negotiate." Boss Shen said again with a smile.

Looking at the smiling Boss Shen in front of him, Li Mu thought he had taken advantage of it, only to realize that he had been fooled.

He originally thought that Boss Shen was just trying to sell his favor so that it would be convenient for him to buy ducks next time, so he bought his duck with the white spot on the back and told him about the tribute. in the back.

"One is fine." Boss Shen smiled.

This person has already said so much, Li Mu couldn't refuse anymore, so after thinking about it, he reluctantly agreed.

After thanking Boss Shen, the two went out.

The two of them left on the front foot, and the servants sent by Ma Yi rushed over on the back foot.

He found the waiter in the store and asked about the situation of Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan, and he became anxious immediately after learning that the two had left.

After noon, Ma Yi sat at the dining table, one foot kept shaking, "How long has this person been gone? Why hasn't he come back?" He was a little impatient waiting.

"Master, why don't you eat something first?" The butler could see that Ma Yi was anxious, but he hadn't been there for long, and even if he was really tied up, it would take time to tie him up.

"Don't eat!" Ma Yi's face was dark, and he looked eagerly at the gate.

Seeing the servant rushing in from the door, he immediately stood up nervously, "What's the matter?"

While talking, he stretched his neck and looked around, looking for Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan who were tied back by the servants, but he didn't see anyone after looking for a long time.

"Where are people?" Ma Yi asked.

"... If you go back to the master, they are not in the inn anymore, let's go!" The servant said after he recovered his breath.

He ran back and forth, and when he returned, there was no one in the restaurant.

He asked the waiter there, and after knowing that the two had left, he immediately ran to the inn to find someone, but he didn't know if it was because he ran too fast, or the two didn't plan to go back to the inn at all, so he I searched around the inn and saw no one.

There was no one in the inn, and he was afraid that Ma Yi would be in a hurry, so he came back to report the situation.

"Why are you so stupid? Don't you know you are waiting in the inn?" Ma Yi was in a hurry. How could this person be so stupid?

"If you go back to the master, I have already asked someone to help guard it. I just came back to ask if you still want to hire someone?" That servant was not really stupid.

"Of course please!" Ma Yi heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that someone was guarding him.

"But..." The servant looked at the sumptuous meal behind Ma Yi and hesitated to speak.

"But what?" Ma Yi asked.

"But my lord, it's already afternoon, if you ask for something to eat at this time, they may have already..."

When he went to invite him for the first time, Li Mu and Zhong Xiuyuan were already preparing to eat. He just went again, and he reckoned that both of them had already finished eating and were full.

Ma Yi, who had originally been thinking about kidnapping Li Mu, was instantly stunned when he heard this.

He looked back at the table of meals he had prepared, and then looked up at the sky, and suddenly his breath was choked in his throat, unable to swallow or spit it out.

He tossed and tossed here for a long time, and he was still hungry after waiting for a noon, but Li Mu was lucky, he was full, full of food, and left.

Seeing this, the butler saw that Ma Yi was going to get angry again, so he quickly took the bowl next to him, filled it with a bowl of soup, and handed it over, "Sir, calm down, since we can't invite you at noon, why don't we invite you at night?"

Ma Yi took the soup bowl, raised his head and drank it all in one gulp.

He almost vomited blood from Li Muqi.

"Besides, we didn't prepare at noon, so we went to invite people temporarily. It's normal for accidents. If we change the invitation at night, we can have more time to prepare." The housekeeper comforted.

Hearing the housekeeper's words, Ma Yi felt quite reasonable.

He scooped up another bowl of soup for himself and swallowed it whole.Padding his hungry, rumbling stomach, he turned around and said, "Then you go and prepare now, I will definitely ask him, Li Mu, to beg me here tonight!"

He didn't believe it, he couldn't cure Li Mu.

"Yes!" Hearing Ma Yi's words, the butler quickly smiled and asked the people next to him to come up and take away the food on the table, and said: "Then I will let the servants arrange another meal that is no problem for you, sir." , let the master you--"

Halfway through the speech, the butler's expression suddenly became very strange.

Ma Yi was stunned for a moment before he came back to his senses. He looked down at the third bowl of soup in his hand, which was about to bottom out.

"Old, master..." The housekeeper looked at Ma Yi, whose expression became very strange, with anxiety.

According to what Ma Yi said, he used nearly half a catty of crotons to boil this pot of soup.

"You—" Ma Yi raised his finger and pointed to the butler next to him. Just as he was about to speak, his stomach gurgled.

He didn't care about anything else, and hurried to the hut clutching his stomach.

The housekeeper chased after him, his face turning blue and white.

If half a catty of croton goes down, the average person may become dehydrated.

On the way, Zhong Xiuyuan looked amusedly at Li Mu who had been frowning since he left Boss Shen's place.

"Don't you have one left?" Zhong Xiuyuan said softly.

Although Li Mu never said it, Zhong Xiuyuan knew that the man kept the duck for no purpose at all, purely because he was greedy!

Think about it, people all over the world say that this food is delicious, that it is rare, that it is expensive, how could Li Mu, who has a glutton in his stomach, let go of this opportunity to feast on his food? !

So after coming out of the first place to buy ducks, Li Mu has been thinking about this duck...

Li Mu glanced at Zhong Xiuyuan angrily, but said nothing.

He only had five ducks in total, and after selling three ducks, he was left with two. Now that it's all right, only one duck is left!

If this food is really delicious, wouldn't he die before he has eaten it?Thinking about it, Li Mu felt unwilling.

"Okay, don't be angry." Zhong Xiuyuan comforted this person, he was really afraid that this person would not think about going back to Boss Shen to get the duck back, it would be a joke.

What's more, other people who have this thing on hand are eager to sell it for how expensive it is, and only this person immediately thinks about his stomach and mouth when he hears that it is delicious. Even if he bought it, he would still be unhappy and sulking.

Li Mu glanced at Zhong Xiuyuan who was comforting him, he was already thinking about what to do with the duck.

Although his stomach is only full now, he has already started to growl now.

"Didn't you say that when you go back, you want to go to Qingmu Guan's house to see the situation?" Zhong Xiuyuan quickly changed the subject, "Now the things here are all done.