Koi Fleeing Famine: I Picked Up a Chief Assistant as a Husband

Chapter 48 Provocation
Back in the courtyard, Lu Nanzhi finally couldn't help but asked, "Are you planning to get back together with Miss Ruo?"

Although it is an interrogative sentence, it uses an affirmative tone.

Hearing Lu Nanzhi's determined tone, Shen Lanze's face became a little ugly. He took a few deep breaths to calm down, and said to him, "Do you care that I am with Ruo Shiyu?"

Such rhetorical questions made Lu Nanzhi frown, and he couldn't help but increase his voice and said, "I'm just asking casually."

Shen Lanze frowned, and said with a hint of displeasure in his tone: "Since you don't care, why are you following us? Are you..."

"No, I just passed by unintentionally." Lu Nanzhi interrupted Shen Lanze, hurried back to the room and closed the door, leaning back against the door, feeling a mess in his heart.

She really had no intention of spying on Shen Lanze's life, but she still ran into it. The feeling was very strange and made her a little out of breath, as if something came out of her heart.

"Lu Nanzhi, are you crazy!" Lu Nanzhi patted his head hard, trying to shake off the boredom, but became more sober.

Could it be that she really likes Shen Lanze, that's why she cares so much about him?
No, no, although Shen Lanze is indeed good-looking, how can I like him.

Shen Lanze looked at the closed door, lowered his eyes, turned and returned to the room.

Lu Nanzhi was thinking about whether when he fell in love with Shen Lanze, he suddenly smelled a familiar fragrance. Although the smell was very weak, she could still smell it. This should be when she came into contact with Shen Lanze.

And the taste is exactly the same as that of Lu Qinghe.

"Could it be..." She stood up abruptly, with a bold idea in her mind.

Could it be that the person instigating Lu Qinghe has something to do with Xue Ningtang? Thinking about it this way, many things can be explained.

Xue Ningtang and they both sell rouge, and their own shop is booming, naturally blocking their way, so Xue Ningtang ordered Lu Qinghe to steal the formula.

She hurried to Shen Lanze's room, knocked on the door, but there was no sound inside, Lu Nanzhi thought he was angry, so he opened the door and entered.

It was steaming inside the screen, Lu Nanzhi asked Xue Ningtang anxiously, so he didn't think too much.

After coming to the screen, the scene inside was immediately frozen.

I saw Shen Lanze sitting in the bathtub with his eyes closed, resting his mind, his hands resting on the edge of the wooden barrel, his hair was loose, his long eyelashes were dripping with water, his fair skin, delicate collarbone, and those eight-pack abs were also displayed .

"Ah!!" A piercing scream sounded, and Lu Nanzhi hurriedly turned around covering his face.

In the bathtub, Shen Lanze slowly opened his confused eyes, and looked up at the woman standing with her back to him.

"Why are you here?" His voice was low and hoarse, full of tiredness.

Lu Nanzhi took a deep breath to calm down his excitement, and said slowly, "I, I smell your fragrance. I've smelled this smell from Lu Qinghe before."

"So?" Shen Lanze raised his brows lightly and asked lazily.

Lu Nanzhi continued to speak: "If I'm not mistaken, the person who instigated Lu Qinghe to steal the formula is Xue Ningtang."

Hearing her words, Shen Lanze curled his lips into a smile, with a wicked smile.

wow-

He stood up from the bathtub and walked out, casually picked up the coat hanging on the hanger and put it on his body, walked slowly towards Lu Nanzhi, leaned close to her, with a faint smile on his tightly pursed thin lips.

"What if the fragrance on my body is contaminated when I am with Miss Ruo?"

The warm air sprayed on the back of Lu Nanzhi's neck, making her feel a little itchy, and her heartbeat accelerated inexplicably.

She forced herself to calm down, turned around and looked directly into Shen Lanze's eyes, "Impossible! If the fragrance on the girl's body is the fragrance of medicine, it's not this kind of smell."

She heard that if the girl is not in good health, she has to rely on medicine for many years to maintain it. Presumably this is why she always has a faint medicinal fragrance on her body.

Shen Lanze narrowed his eyes slightly, pursed his thin lips into a line, stared into her eyes for a moment and stood up straight, "Then how can you be sure that the person who ordered Lu Qinghe to steal the formula was Xue Ningtang? This taste?"

"You don't believe me?" Lu Nanzhi didn't know why, but when he heard his words of disbelief, he felt a little uncomfortable.

Shen Lanze shook his head, his expression became extremely serious, and he said in a serious tone: "I'm just reminding you, no matter who instigated this matter, I don't want you to continue to investigate."

Shen Lanze knew Liu Qingyan's identity very well, and she also knew her personality. If he confronted her head-on, it would only be Lu Nanzhi who would suffer.

Lu Nanzhi gritted his teeth, looked at Shen Lanze angrily and asked, "Is it because of Miss Ruo? Because Miss Ruo is familiar with Xue Ningtang, so you don't want me to continue to investigate, right?"

"Even if you find out the truth, what can you do? You can't deal with Xue Ningtang now, and you will put yourself in." Shen Lanze didn't want anything to happen to Lu Nanzhi, and she was not able to protect herself now.

Lu Nanzhi didn't understand his good intentions at all, but felt that he didn't want to involve Ruo Shiyu.

"It's not up to anyone else to control what I want to do." Lu Nanzhi said harshly, and left the room quickly.

Shen Lanze stood where he was, with a haze covering his handsome features.

Back in the room, Lu Nanzhi was restless, his mind was full of what happened in the room just now.

The more she thought about it, the more irritable she felt, and finally decided to ignore Shen Lanze's suggestion and continue to investigate the matter.

Lu Nanzhi felt that only by knowing herself and the enemy could she win every battle, so the next day she went to find Xu Beiting and asked him about Xue Ningtang.

Xu Beiting looked at the person he hadn't seen for a long time, lowered his eyes, and nervously held the cup in his hand.

"Miss Lu, I don't know why you are looking for me?"

"I want to ask you, do you know Xue Ningtang?" Lu Nanzhi was the only one who could ask him.

Anyway, he is considered a native of the capital, and he has opened a shop here for so long, so he should know about Xue Ningtang.

Hearing these three words, Xu Beiting was slightly taken aback, then nodded, "I've heard it a little bit!"

Lu Nanzhi's eyes lit up: "Then do you know how Xueningtang's business is? Who is behind it?"

Seeing her so excited, Xu Beiting became even more puzzled.

But he still replied truthfully: "The business is not bad. Many noble women in the capital use her family's rouge and gouache. As for the owner who is behind this, they don't know, and they have never shown up."

Lu Nanzhi pouted his chin in thought, the owner behind Xue Ningtang must be a woman, a woman can be so powerful in the capital, her strength must not be underestimated.

Xu Beiting frowned and thought for a moment and continued: "Miss Lu, with all due respect, Xue Ningtang is very famous and is the number one Rouge Workshop in the capital. It's better not to provoke her."

After listening to his words, Lu Nanzhi's expression became more and more gloomy, she couldn't help sighing, looked out of the window and said softly: "What if she provoked me first?"

Seeing her appearance, Xu Beiting hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "Miss Lu, do you know why no one bought my shop?"

"Didn't you say that you want the rouge shop to continue to operate, but many people don't want to continue to open the rouge shop. Could there be other reasons?" Lu Nanzhi didn't understand why he suddenly brought up this topic.

Xu Beiting nodded, revealing a helpless smile, of course things are not that simple.

(End of this chapter)