Chapter 409 Mushroom Stewed Chicken and Chicken Soup Noodles (1)

Wen Mingtang left empty-handed yesterday, but came back with a basket full of vegetables.

Although it was not strange for Master Wen to buy vegetables, looking at the basket full of vegetables, Tang Yuan and Ah Bing came over to help take the basket from her hand, and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Master Wen, did you buy this?" Too much?"

Although the vegetables and meat are stored more in winter than usual, if you buy too much, they will not be fresh. Especially in Wen Mingtang's basket, there are fish and meat, and his home does not have an ice cellar like the public kitchen. If it is not eaten in time, it will be too late. It will go bad in two days.

The basket was taken over by the two of them. Wen Mingtang relaxed his arms, shook his sore arms, and said, "I didn't buy too much. Lin Shaoqing and the others are going out later today. It will probably be midnight when they finish their work. Then There were not many restaurants open in the city at that time, so he wanted to ask me to stay with them and have a midnight snack to fill my stomach."

When Tang Yuan and A Bing heard this, they immediately realized: "That's right! Although there is no curfew in the city now, it's just like when we went to a noodle shop to eat kidney noodles. The restaurants where we usually eat in the middle of the night are closed, and there are only pubs, Places such as brothels are still open, and the food in these places does not taste good to serious diners."

Wen Mingtang nodded and saw the glutinous rice dumplings in the box looking down at the vegetables in the basket, and murmured: "It's time to make more delicious food for them. They are working hard on the case. Mr. Zhao's case may not be the same." My father's case is related, and I can only solve the case if I have enough energy, so that Mr. Zhao and my father... can rest in peace." As he spoke, he couldn't help but wipe his eyes with his sleeves.

Lao Yuan's sympathy and money are one thing, but what is more important is the group of thieves who killed Lao Yuan. Tangyuan has never forgotten this from beginning to end.

Only by catching that group of thieves can Lao Yuan's spirit in heaven be truly comforted.

Patting Tangyuan's shoulder, Wen Mingtang sighed.

These days, she sighs a lot. When things don't go as planned, she can't help but sigh.

She just sighed, but couldn't help but shake her head: Last year was actually the smoothest year for her since she came to Da Rong. It was only at the end of the year that bad things happened.

Compared with when things happened every three days in Ye Ting, troubles were commonplace. Even with the bad things at the end of the year, this year was far better than when I was in Ye Ting.

But when she was in Yeting, she rarely sighed. Wen Mingtang joked to himself that it was probably because last year had gone so well for so long that he was starting to get used to it!

It was just noon. Looking at the vegetables in the vegetable basket, Wen Mingtang figured that after lunch there would be evening food. After the evening food, he would start preparing Lin Fei and others' supper.

It was still too early to prove that it was true, so Wen Mingtang grabbed a handful of melon seeds on the table and admired the only blooming wintersweet in the yard of Tangyuan's house, while eating melon seeds to pass the time.

For Wen Mingtang, who had nothing to do at this time, time seemed to move very slowly, but to Lin Fei and others, time seemed to fly by, and there was never enough time.

After confirming that Zhao Mengzhuo's fall was most likely intentional, and thinking about what he did before he fell, the first thing Lin Fei did was to go to the Dali Temple prison.

Many powerful people were arrested in the last beauty lantern case. Jiang Chengzu, the young owner of the Qian Lantern Shop who helped these powerful people to make altars, should have lost his head in the first wave. But after entering the palace, Zhao Mengzhuo brought Jiang Chengzu back again, and said that without his order, no one could interrogate Jiang Chengzu.

Now that Zhao Mengzhuo is dead, Lin Fei, the young minister of Dali Temple, as the largest official in the entire yamen, took the first step and walked to the prison to meet Jiang Chengzu.

Originally, he wanted to get something out of Jiang Chengzu's mouth, but he failed. Jiang Chengzu just squatted in the corner of the stone bed in the prison and said: "If it weren't for Mr. Zhao, even Lin Shaoqing wouldn't be able to do it! Otherwise, Lin Shaoqing, you can't do it!" Enter the palace and come again after receiving His Majesty’s decree!”

Although Jiang Chengzu now had a stubble in his beard and messy hair, and did not look like a handsome young man before he was imprisoned, when he said these words, his eyes were extremely firm and he murmured: "I only recognize your Majesty's imperial edict, and nothing else." Did not say."

Only recognize His Majesty's imperial edict... Lin Fei read the words from Jiang Chengzu's mouth. It had been two days since Zhao Mengzhuo's accident. If the Holy Emperor had intended for him to take over the case about Jiang Chengzu investigated by Zhao Mengzhuo, he would have summoned him to the palace long ago. Instead of waiting until there is no news yet.

Obviously, His Majesty did not want him to interfere with the secrets or cases that Jiang Chengzu used to save his life.

In that case...why?

Seeing Jiang Chengzu huddled in the corner muttering with his back turned to him, and only recognizing Zhao Mengzhuo but not him, and His Majesty's reaction...

Sometimes, attitude itself represents something.

Lin Fei looked at Jiang Chengzu who was muttering to himself. After a moment of pause, he suddenly said: "Does this matter involve members of my Lin family?"

The secret that Jiang Chengzu could use to save his life must be crucial.

No matter how much your Majesty trusts him, if the matter involves someone from the Lin family, he will definitely not be allowed to take over.

Seeing Jiang Chengzu's figure visibly stagnant with his back turned to him, Lin Fei understood, turned around and strode out of the prison.

Zhao Mengzhuo died in Zhaixing Tower, and Chang Shi and others who were present at the time of death were very close to his grandfather. Obviously, if it was as he guessed, most of the Lin family involved was his grandfather.

Thinking about the business of General Yuanqing that my grandfather took over, and the sudden disaster that happened to the Wen family... The secret of this matter really needs to be traced, and maybe... it will even go back to Wen Xuance's case back then.

When generals are out, military orders may be accepted or rejected. Despite a seemingly absurd imperial edict, General Yuan and Qing did not hesitate to draw his sword and kill himself. On the other hand, Zhongshu Ling, who had always been quite eloquent, was extremely dull when faced with the difficulty of life and death, except for a dull explanation. There was nothing else, and in the end he died suffering the infamy of being criticized by thousands of people.

The reactions of these two people were obviously a little strange.

At first, he only thought that Wen Xuance's case was strange. The evidence was conclusive and irrefutable, but the corresponding reactions of the victim and the murderer were unusual.

After checking for so many days, nothing was found.

Perhaps, he started investigating in the wrong direction. He should not be investigating the case itself, but the people, General Yuanqing and Wen Xuance.

The investigation should start with the living relatives of these two people. General Yuan now only has some members of the Yuan clan who had almost no contact with him when he was alive, so there is nothing to investigate; on the other hand, there are still no living relatives of the Wen family. There are two girls: one is Wen Xiutang from the previous class, and the other is his biological daughter - Wen Mingtang.

Any fool knows which one is closer, a niece or a biological daughter.

Lin Fei took a breath: Master Wen was targeted everywhere in Ye Ting and after leaving the palace. He only thought it was because of this case or there was something hidden, but he also thought it was a problem with the case itself.

At this time, because of Zhao Mengzhuo's fall, he realized that the problem in the case lay in the people - the people who hid the secrets, and Wen Mingtang...

As Wen Xuance's biological daughter, she seemed to be at the center of this secret, a living target.