She looked at the meal in front of him and explained: "Mr. Mu, don't get me wrong, I didn't barge in on purpose. It was you who ordered me to make these meals"
Mu Jingchen glanced at the meal in front of him and suddenly remembered something.
He is a person who has long lost his sense of taste. It is rare that he can taste the food cooked in the kitchen this morning.
This is the first time, except for the food cooked by Huangfu Liyue, that someone else has cooked something that suits his taste and allowed him to taste it.
So, he asked the servant to have the chef make dinner and bring it over.
¡°I didn¡¯t expect that these meals were made by this woman.
His eyes narrowed slightly, with a hint of danger in his eyes.
"Who allowed you to enter the kitchen?"
The woman explained softly: "Mr. Mu, I just don't know how to repay you and Uncle Quan, so I did some servant work without permission. I'm sorry for making you unhappy again."
She looked at him sincerely, her clear eyes apologetic, like a child who had done something wrong.
Mu Jingchen frowned slightly and uttered a word from his thin lips.
"roll."
Although his voice was soft, it carried a timid and intimidating force.
The woman lowered her head and said again: "I'm sorry."
Then, she turned around and walked out.
Mu Jingchen stared at the meal in front of him and shouted at the door: "Come here."
Lin Ze pushed open the door and entered.
"Mr. Mu."
¡°Take these meals for testing.¡±
Lin Ze looked at the exquisite meal and was stunned.
"Mr. Mu, do you suspect that she poisoned you?"
Mu Jingchen¡¯s face was expressionless and he did not answer his question.
"Did you find what I asked you to check?"
"I found it out. Mr. Quan left Country Z a few days ago and went to Country E."
Mu Jingchen¡¯s eyes moved around and finally stopped at Lin Ze.
"Did he bring this woman from Country E?"
"Yes, I have also checked the background of this woman. She is from E Country. Her name is Shao Qinglian. Her parents are dead and she is homeless. It is consistent with what Mr. Quan said."
Mu Jingchen doesn't care about this.
"Why does she look so similar to Liyue?"
Lin Ze thought deeply for a moment, then shook his head.
"I don't know. According to the results of my investigation, it should be just a coincidence."
"coincide?"
Mu Jingchen raised his eyebrows.
Is there such a coincidence in the world?
Lin Ze immediately said: "Mr. Mu, if you are worried, I will continue to have people investigate further."
Mu Jingchen raised his hand.
"There's no need to check, just send her away."
He will not leave a hidden danger around, even if there is no problem with her identity.
Lin Ze hesitated for a moment and said weakly: "Mr. Mu, this is not good, after all, this is the guest brought back by Mr. Quan, and apart from her resemblance to his wife, she has not made any mistakes"
As soon as he said these words, Mu Jingchen's eyes shot straight at him like cold knives.
Lin Ze immediately stopped talking and said quickly: "Mr. Mu, I'll do it right away!"
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Downstairs.
Lin Ze was preparing to follow Mr. Mu¡¯s instructions and drive Shao Qinglian away.
When he got downstairs, Shao Qinglian was already holding a package and waiting for him in the hall.
"Lin Ze, this is for you."
Lin Ze blankly took the package in her hand and raised his hand to open it.
When he saw what was in the package, he was stunned.
"this¡¡"
Lying in the package was a pair of old shoes.
However, these old shoes have been washed clean, and even the dry and cracked soles have been glued back.
Lin Ze recognized them at a glance, these were his shoes.
Although he is not short of money, he has no requirements for food and clothing. He will not pay attention to a pair of worn-out leather shoes.
Shao Qinglian raised a sweet smile on his lips.
"Lin Ze, I saw that the soles of your shoes were dry and cracked, so I took it upon myself to help you deal with it. You don't mind it, right?"
Lin Ze¡¯s face turned slightly red.
He is a big man. If his shoes are dirty or cracked, he just throws them away.
The work of washing shoes,Even though his mother did it for him when he was a child, no one else would help him pay attention to it.
For a moment, the words he wanted to drive her away were stuck in his throat.
"Why are you thinking about washing my shoes? Don't you think they're dirty?"
Shao Qinglian smiled harmlessly, his eyes curved into crescent moons.
"As long as you don't mind my clumsiness, don't get me wrong. I'm just doing this to thank you for helping me this morning."
Lin Ze then remembered that when she was mopping the floor in the morning, she accidentally slipped and he happened to pass by and helped her.
¡°You don¡¯t need to keep this in mind at all.¡±
¡°I just don¡¯t want to owe a favor.¡±
Lin Ze held the shoes in his hand and looked at the sweet smile on her face, hesitating.
Although Shao Qinglian looked very similar to his wife, he could tell at a glance that they were two people with completely different personalities.
Madam is a bit cold, but Shao Qinglian is as gentle as water, like a warm sun in winter, making people feel extremely comfortable.
Seeing Lin Ze hesitate to speak, Shao Qinglian blinked his eyes and asked proactively: "Do you have something to tell me?"
Lin Ze glanced upstairs, then took a deep breath and said politely: "There are many men in the Quan family, so it's inconvenient for you to live here."
Shao Qinglian¡¯s warm smile stayed on his face.
Then, she blinked her eyes, and there were a little tears in her eyes.
"I understand, Lin Ze, please tell Mr. Mu to thank him for taking care of you these days."
She bowed to Lin Ze and then left the hall.
Seeing her being so decisive, Lin Ze suddenly felt guilty.
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ten minutes later.
Quan Zhengrong broke into Mu Jingchen's room and asked, "Jingchen, why did you drive Qing Lian away?"
Mu Jingchen was flipping through a collection of books without even raising his head.
"If the adoptive father wants to take her in, there are many hotels in Jiangcheng."
Quan Zhengrong walked up to him and said reproachfully: "As a girl, what kind of protection can she have when staying in a hotel?"
Mu Jingchen¡¯s face was expressionless.
"The Quan family has many bodyguards. I don't mind if my adoptive father transfers ten or eight of them."
Seeing that he had made up his mind, Quan Zhengrong said angrily: "Jingchen, what do you mean? Now that my foster father has accepted a guest, he still has to look at your face?"
Mu Jingchen stopped flipping through the book and raised his eyes to look at his adoptive father.
"Father, there are some things that would be meaningless if we said them openly."
Quan Zhengrong looked directly into his eyes.
"What do you want to say?"
Mu Jingchen threw the book in his hand on the table, stood up and said, "My foster father found a woman who looks so similar to Liyue. What does he want?"
The two of them looked at each other with cold eyes.
Quan Zhengrong looked confused: "What are you talking about?"
Mu Jingchen had already guessed his adoptive father's reaction.
He took out his cell phone, flipped through Liyue's photos, and placed them in front of his adoptive father.
"Father, don't tell me, you don't know what Liyue looks like."
Quan Zhengrong stared at Huangfu Liyue¡¯s photo on the screen with a surprised look on his face. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com