Chapter 401 Assorted Golden Rice (2)
This conclusion... Lin Fei took a deep breath, picked up the cold tea cup on the table and took a sip, waiting for Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan to come back and reply.
The two of them just went to Zhao Mengzhuo's house. Although they wanted to appease Zhao Mengzhuo's family, they also wanted to record the confessions of Mrs. Zhao and others. This was a routine matter and also to make it easier to find the truth about Zhao Mengzhuo's fall.
There was a slight coolness in the tea in his mouth, and when he swallowed it from his throat into his belly, although it was cold, the coolness also dispelled the uneasiness and anxiety in his heart.
After sitting for a while, he really couldn't sit still anymore. Lin Fei got up and walked out. Zhao Youzheng, who was guarding outside the house, stood there with his head lowered. Although he was guarding outside his house as usual, he was not as usual. I was idle counting ants or looking at the sky in a daze, but when I saw him coming out, I immediately looked over with unconcealable anger and sorrow in my eyes.
Before Zhao You could speak, Lin Fei shook his head and said, "Let's wait until Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan come back."
Hearing this, Zhao You pursed his lips and responded.
Lin Fei looked at his exhausted expression, paused, and then said, "Go and have a rest. You haven't rested since yesterday."
Zhao You clenched his fist and replied: "Lin Shaoqing, I'm not sleepy yet..."
Before he finished speaking, Lin Fei interrupted: "To catch the murderer, you need to be mentally alert! The murderer himself is weak. If he paid to hire a powerful desperado or he was very skilled, you are like this Look, how can we catch the murderer?"
This statement makes sense. Zhao You's originally clenched fist loosened. After a long pause, he lowered his head and murmured: "Subordinate..."
"This is an order." Lin Fei said, pointing to the house where Zhao You stayed in Dali Temple, and said, "Go and have a rest!"
Only then did Zhao You respond, turned around and left.
Looking at Zhao You's back as he turned away, Lin Fei couldn't help but take a deep breath again: If this conclusion is true, who in the entire Dali Temple can accept it? Not to mention the Dali Temple, even the pedestrians who witnessed it all with their own eyes would doubt the results obtained by the Dali Temple.
By then, the entire Dali Temple will be engulfed in verbal and verbal criticism throughout Chang'an City. How can the world understand that they clearly saw Zhao Mengzhuo being pushed down from the Star-Zhaing Tower, but Dali Temple said otherwise?
The common people said that the minister of Dali Temple died in vain and left the tea to cool down. As soon as he died, the entire Dali Temple condoned and tolerated the murderer, and a result was completely different from what everyone had seen.
Hearing is false, seeing is believing, but this time, this seeing... Across the tall building of Zhaixinglou, it is like looking at the moon across a mountain, it may not be true.
Feeling unreasonably irritable in his heart, Lin Fei touched his belly which made a slight "ventriloquism". He didn't eat much in the evening, and he was busy all the time, so he was already hungry.
It wasn't that Master Xing's evening meal was not done well, but that he had come to that conclusion at that time, which he couldn't accept. Where can I take care of eating? I just took a few quick bites to get through it.
Now, Ping An, who had sent Mu Shi back home, was ordered by Zhao You, who usually helped run errands, to go back and rest. As a result...
Lin Fei subconsciously walked in the direction of the public kitchen of Dali Temple. When he reached the public kitchen of Dali Temple and faced two huge and ruthless iron locks, he realized that it was still during the annual vacation. The public chef was Not open.
On a normal day, it would not be impossible to be accommodating, but thinking about the internal affairs yamen that was being tormented by Concubine Jing's people, Lin Fei shook his head and gave up the idea. When he turned around, he prepared to go out of the yamen to find a restaurant to buy some food. When I was eating a meal to cushion my stomach, I bumped into the concierge who was passing by the palace.
When the concierge saw it was him, he hurriedly leaned over to salute. Lin Fei waved his hand, and after taking two steps, he heard the concierge behind him tentatively ask: "Does Lin Shaoqing want to find Master Wen to cook?"
Although he didn't have much dealings with Lin Fei and Wen Mingtang, the concierge who stayed in the Yamen daily had seen Lin Shaoqing late in handling cases several times and came to see Master Wen for food.
Seeing Lin Shaoqing appear in the locked kitchen, he couldn't help but ask. Seeing Lin Fei nodding, the concierge pointed to the direction of the back office dormitory and said, "I just saw Master Wen with me." General Liang was tinkering in the yard, chopping vegetables, cooking, etc. She took a small stove and bought a bundle of firewood from others, saying she was going to make golden rice..."
When Lin Fei said to the concierge, "I saw Master Wen," he raised his eyebrows in surprise: He thought she was at Tang Yuan's place and hadn't returned to Dali Temple! When he heard the concierge talking about "broken gold rice", he nodded immediately, and without waiting for the concierge to finish speaking, he strode towards the courtyard of the Yamen accommodation house.
Before reaching the courtyard of Wen Mingtang's accommodation, he could already smell an alluring fragrance.
Following the alluring smoke of fireworks, Lin Fei, who had a somewhat solemn face at first, subconsciously curved the corners of his lips, then quickened his pace and quickly walked into Wen Mingtang's courtyard.
But they saw that Wen Mingtang and Liang Hongjin were spreading a piece of cloth in the yard at this time. The cloth was lined up and filled with things. The formation was exactly the same as the formations used by people in the same city when they went out for spring outings.
The only difference is that the common people's cloth is filled with fruit snacks, while hers is filled with pots, pans and cut and prepared ingredients.
At a glance, there are diced mushrooms, diced carrots, diced bacon, chopped green onions, etc., quite neatly, as if there is a ready-made small "kitchen" in the yard.
This kitchen is also really "small". The stove is just a small stove, which is similar to the small stove that ordinary people use to make tea, but it has been slightly modified. A small "stove hole" was made under the stove. Liang Hongjin was carefully breaking the dry firewood she bought and throwing it inside.
To be fair, Lin Fei has never seen a small tea-making stove that is so "simple": even the stovetop where the pot is placed looks slightly uneven, and it is all up to Master Wen to carry the pot through a thick cloth and use it to cook tea. Hands and Liang female generals fight together to control the heat.
Let's call it "simple"... A closer look shows that it is very particular. There is even a handle on the stove. When you don't want to turn on the fire, you can just carry it with your hands and go.
This stove... Lin Fei's eyes paused on the handle for a moment, and he couldn't help but ask Wen Mingtang: "Where did this thing come from?"
Liang Hongjin and Wen Mingtang, who were busy lighting the fire while the other was loading oil into the pot for frying eggs, were startled by his sudden sound.
Then... as if by instinct, Liang Hongjin, who was lighting the fire, threw aside the broken dry wood in her hand, picked up the thick cloth placed aside, and went to pick up the handle with Wen Mingtang.
This instinctive reaction made Lin Fei's slightly curled lips straighten out. He guessed where the stove came from.
It was not uncommon for her to be punished and starved for no apparent reason in the palace, let alone Du Lingmou's special greeting to her? I thought I was out of desperation and made a small stove for emergencies.
Lin Fei looked at the two people on the other side who had come to their senses and breathed a sigh of relief. As if something was blocking their hearts, they felt inexplicably uncomfortable and...reluctant.