Zhao Ning was sitting on the main seat in the main room with a sullen face, when he saw the two came back, he just stood up and greeted with a forced smile: "You are back."

Li Baolu noticed something was wrong with the atmosphere, she blinked, and was about to ask, when Gu Jingyun said, "I'm hungry."

Li Baolu immediately threw aside the sad and melancholy Zhao Ning, stuffed things into Gu Jingyun's arms, and hurried to the kitchen, "I'll make you dinner."

When I got to the kitchen, I realized that there was nothing to cook. The cook was looking at the sumptuous dishes on the stove with a sad face, but she saw Li Baolu rushing up to please her, "Mrs. Gu, you came at a good time. Come and see how many dishes there are. What should I do, this weather can't stay overnight."

Li Baolu was surprised, "Why are there so many meals?"

"Hey, my son asked me to prepare lunch, afternoon tea and dinner yesterday. Who knew that those guests didn't have dinner here at all, and left soon after the afternoon tea was finished."

Generally speaking, one hour after afternoon tea is dinner time.

There is only the cook in the kitchen, so naturally she has to start preparing early, so when the guests have afternoon tea, she has already prepared several big dishes on the stove, and when they leave, the few big dishes are already half done, making her want to It's too late to stop.

Fortunately, other side dishes have not yet started, and those vegetables and meat can be hoisted into the well to keep fresh, but these ingredients have been processed or have been cooked, but there is no way.

In such hot weather, if you can't finish eating tonight, you can only waste it.

The cook was born in poverty, and seeing that these meals were going to be wasted, her heart ached to the point of bleeding.

Li Baolu was very happy, "Brother Jing Yun and I have been hungry for a whole day, and they won't eat us, so quickly take the food out."

He asked again, "Has your young master eaten?"

"No," the cook grumbled, "As soon as those people left, you sat in the main room angrily and didn't say a word, but Shunxin was in a hurry."

"Eat something delicious and you will feel better."

Li Baolu brought things into the main room with the cook, Zhao Ning was in a much better mood, and was enjoying Gu Jingyun's painting with great interest, and finally looked at the Qiongzhou sunrise picture with bright eyes, "Brother Gu, this painting of yours How much do you plan to sell?"

"One hundred thousand taels!" Li Baolu brought in the food and said with a smile, "If you can afford it, I'll sell it to you."

Zhao Ning almost vomited blood, "If you want to sell me, just say so."

"You're right, I want to keep this painting for myself, but if someone can afford one hundred thousand taels, I'll sell it."

"Even famous ancient paintings are not worth the money."

"Yes, but in my heart it is a priceless treasure." Li Baolu set the table and chopsticks and waved to the two, "Come and have dinner."

Zhao Ning really put his heart into entertaining the guests. Although there were only a few big dishes and some side dishes cooked by the cook, they were still very rich.

Li Baolu is a carnivore, and she only aimed at meat, Gu Jingyun kept adding vegetarian dishes to her, and Li Baolu would not refuse anyone who came, and ate them all.

After seeing it, Zhao Ning felt that his appetite improved a lot, so he barely ate a bowl of rice.

Gu Jingyun ate one bowl, um, Li Baolu was better than them, she ate two bowls because she was growing up.

Zhao Ning felt that she was just wasting food.

Li Baolu couldn't help being angry, and when he finished eating and drinking water to digest his food, he happily asked him, "Come on, what happened today that made you angry and sad, let me have fun by telling it."

Zhao Ning was taken aback, apparently not expecting Li Baolu to be so ruthless, he looked at Gu Jingyun in a daze and asked, "What kind of hatred do I have with my siblings?"

"Yes," Gu Jingyun said with a serious face, "Just now you disliked her for eating too much."

Zhao Ning choked, and defended himself: "I'm praising my siblings for their appetite."

Gu Jingyun glanced at him and said, "You'd better tell her sad things and let her have fun."

Seeing that the young couple were in unison, Zhao Ning couldn't help vomiting blood, and said angrily: "They asked me if I had a good teacher to teach me during this period, and I told the truth that I did, but because Brother Gu had said something earlier, don't publicize this matter before Qiu Wei. Go out, so I politely declined their request to see a good teacher, but they immediately turned against each other."

Zhao Ning knew why Gu Jingyun wanted to hide it, because there were too many people participating in Qiu Wei.

If they knew that Gu Jingyun had this ability, not to mention harming him, they would at least pester him for advice. It would definitely take up a lot of Gu Jingyun's time and energy. How could he study for the exam?

In previous years, how many students had been blamed or died for the dispute over Qiu Wei?

These ordinary students have no one to plan, but Gu Jingyun and other top students are different. Are there not many cases where they lose everything in one careless move?

Zhao Ning turned to Gu Jingyun and said: "It's also my fault that I didn't know how to restrain myself during this period of time, and people noticed it. My whereabouts can be checked. If they are interested, it will not be difficult for them to guess that you are teaching me, so before entering the examination room, you must be careful."

The corners of Gu Jingyun's mouth curled up slightly, "Thank you Brother Zhao for reminding me, I will be careful."

Zhao Ning left guiltily and went back to the house. He had a falling out with some of his best students today, and he was really in a bad mood, so he decided not to participate in the debate tonight.

Only the couple were left in the yard.

Li Baolu sat cross-legged on a chair relaxedly, stared at Gu Jingyun and asked, "You did it on purpose, you didn't remind Zhao Ning on purpose. Why is that?"

"There are still five days before Qiu Wei, the exam is nine days, and the results will be released in three days, a total of seventeen days. The transmission of information has always been slow. We have to give others some time to react, otherwise it will be too boring."

Gu Jingyun's goal is not the students in Guangzhou, but those students who have the ability to compete with him for the top spot.

For example, Xu Jiuyan and Qi Lekang, who he has long been famous for.

Since he had heard of their fame long ago, how could he fall behind?

Opponents need to know each other to be interesting.

In the past, she had no choice but to keep a low profile in order to avoid the Gu family, but now what is there to be afraid of?

Gu Jingyun straightened his back in arrogance, his eyes were shining brightly, looking at Li Baolu as brightly as stars.

Li Baolu couldn't help but sat up straight, nodded and said: "Okay, young man, go forward boldly, and I will support you behind you."

Gu Jingyun couldn't help but tap her nose lightly.

But Li Baolu was obviously not joking. When she had breakfast the next day, she put down the chopsticks in the hands of Gu Jingyun and Zhao Ning, and looked at the mustard and fermented soybeans on the table in silence.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Ning picked up the chopsticks that had fallen on the table, and followed Li Baolu's gaze to look at the food on the table.

Li Baolu picked up a piece of tempeh and bit it lightly. It tasted like it was made of soybeans, but it wasn't soybeans.

"It's mixed with croton."

Zhao Ning looked at her with a mysterious face, and said in disbelief: "Isn't croton more expensive than soybeans? Who is so stupid to use crotons to disguise themselves as soybeans to make tempeh?"

Li Baolu looked at him quietly.

"..." Zhao Ning said tremblingly, "So you mean someone drugged me at my house?"

"Call the cook and ask." Li Baolu looked aside and said in a daze, "Go and call the cook."

Shunxin hurriedly ran to the kitchen, the cook was having breakfast, and there was fermented soybeans mixed with mustard greens on the table.

Shun Xin's face darkened, and after calling her up, she also served the side dish.

Li Baolu checked the tempeh on the plate, nodded and said, "There are also crotons in it."

She looked at the dumbfounded cook and asked, "Did you make these tempeh yourself, or did you buy them?"

The cook was stunned, and immediately knelt down with a "plop", and said anxiously: "It wasn't made by my mother-in-law, but I bought it when I went to the vegetable market this morning. There is not much left from the tempeh I made, and I can't make it right now. Eat, when I went out to buy vegetables this morning, I saw someone selling side dishes, so I went up and picked some, in addition to fermented soybeans, mustard, and sauerkraut were bought there. I bought more, I, I didn't know that croton was mixed in it, and croton is much more expensive than soybeans, I only heard that there are pebbles in tempeh, who would mix croton in it?"

The cook was trembling, she was hired by Zhao Ning in Guangzhou, and she had been working here for a year.

Zhao Ning is a very good employer. She never beats or scolds her. The wages are high and the food is also generous. She doesn't have to worry about other tasks except the kitchen. She wants to work for a long time. , how could it harm the master's family?

Zhao Ning also didn't believe that the cook would harm him, and hurriedly said, "She has been with me for a year, and she wouldn't poison me on purpose, maybe it was an accident."

"It's not for you, it's for you, for me, for Brother Jing Yun." Li Baolu's face sank like water, "and fermented soy beans are not expensive, and Shun Xin and the cook will also eat them. When the time comes, the whole house will have diarrhea , what would you think?"

"Yes, is it a matter of season?" Zhao Ning asked with some doubts.

"Yes, so you will go to the doctor, but you will not suspect that you have eaten something wrong, because everyone has diarrhea."

Li Baolu's complexion was ugly. Guangzhou is hot and humid. Diarrhea is normal in this weather. If it is not serious, take two medicines and it will be fine.

But if it has been bad, they will definitely suspect that they have dysentery.

Dysentery is a deadly medicine.

Since the other party can sell side dishes with crotons into Zhao's residence, it is natural that the doctor they see can make a diagnosis that is beneficial to them.

"There are still five days before entering the examination room." Li Baolu said.

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of Zhao Ning, Shun Xin and the cook all changed, only Gu Jingyun remained as usual.

Zhao Ning murmured: "Who, who wants to harm me like this, no, it is harming us."

Zhao Ning is not stupid, and he understood after a little thought, "They know Brother Gu is teaching me..."

He clenched his fists tightly, "They, how can they be so despicable?" Zhao Ning stood up with a "huh" and said, "Let's report to the authorities."

"Do you have evidence?" Gu Jingyun didn't stop him, but just asked, "Can you find the vendor who sells side dishes today? Can you find the problematic soybean meal after you find him?"

Zhao Ning's face was ashen, and he pursed his lips tightly in silence.

Gu Jingyun smiled and said: "You don't have to worry, after the autumn is over, there are still five days before the autumn, we can always find someone, it doesn't matter whether we can get evidence, as long as we know who did it."

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