Chapter 20: Thieves
I am afraid that the intention of the grain chief is extremely difficult to be seen. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info And the grain chief uses this kind of sarcastic way, I'm afraid that few people can understand.
After all, the state and county officials are the real parent officials, and although the grain chief rules over one side, it is the reason for the seasonal policy, and he does not have the capital to compete with the parent officials.
Tian Tian listened for a while, and when she heard the music gradually getting quieter, she said, "Can we go and have a look, and look at it from a distance." ā
Before she could finish speaking, she suddenly heard a lot of noise from the stove, and even gradually became noisy.
"What's going on?" Duange was surprised: "What could be wrong on the stove?"
"Let's go and have a look," Zhang Zhaohua rolled his eyes, pushed Sister Tian into the house and instructed: "There are a lot of people outside, you just stay in the house and don't come out yet, and we will come back to you later and go to the banquet together." ā
Tian Tian obediently went into the house, because she was dressed too thickly, round like an eggplant, and accidentally fell when she stepped on the threshold, which made Brother Duan laugh uncontrollably.
"Let's not take her with us for the banquet later," Brother Duan discussed with Zhang Zhaohua: "I think she can't walk either, with drag." ā
Zhang Zhaohua had no intention of arguing with him, because there was a group of people under the stove, chattering and chattering to each other, and the two of them relied on their small size and short stature to get in, and they saw the grain chief's wife and Zhang Yue's face pale.
"How could there be a lack of pig arms!" Yue said angrily: "Such a big pig arm, if you can't see it, it's gone?"
Zhang Zhaohua was close enough to hear clearly, and when he heard that he had lost the pig's arm in the meat, he was immediately surprised.
In the sake ceremony, there is a very important part of the sacrifice, and dogs are used as animals to cook in the northeast of the hall. Offering wine with jue, other uses. Five strips of dried meat were used for the guests, and another half was placed horizontally on top of them for sacrifice. The meat of the guest of honor is the thing that is eaten by the host and the guest of honor after the sacrifice is completed, and the meat of the guest is the ridge, flank, shoulder, and lungs, and the meat contained in the host is the spine, flank, arm, and lungs, and the meat contained in the memorial is the spine, flank, gizzard, arm, and lungs. It is moved from the east wall to the west step, and the hall is set up in front of the seat from the west step. These meats are slaughtered and cooked in a special way, the lungs are cut off, and the skin is turned upwards.
What is missing now is the pig's arm in the master's figurine, that is, the pig's trotter, which is a whole leg on the pig's foot, which is the same as other figurines, which are pre-cooked and placed in the east room, but just now the servant woman went in to take a look, but found that the other figurines were there, only one pig's trotter was missing.
The pig prepared for this wine ceremony was transported from the city, and they did not raise pigs in any village in Zhangjia Village, but there were one in the next village, and a pig was killed every three months, and those who wanted to eat meat could buy it.
The wine ceremony on the old wall has finished playing Yale, and there is less than half an hour to serve the meat according to the hour, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen, if you send someone to buy it in a neighboring village, people will not kill the pig in less time, and it is a small pig if you kill it, and the pig's trotters are as big as a bamboo tube, and they can't be presented on the table. If you go to the city, it will take half an hour to speed up, where can you have time?
The Yue clan obviously also realized that today's matter was difficult to get better, and regardless of the situation, he first opened the knife from his servant women and interrogated them one by one, a total of seven or eight kitchen women from the city on this stove were questioned one by one as if they were prisoners, and none of them looked very good.
According to her, her arms were stretched a few days ago, and she wanted to be lazy, and there was no work for her on the stove, so she went to the east room to sit with Wang's mother and chatter.
There was nothing wrong with saying this, because Wang's mother said the same thing, and the cook didn't enter the east room at all, just sat on the chair outside the door and ate melon seeds.
Although this cook woman has a big problem, it cannot be said that other people have no motive and possibility to commit crimes. Because after all, today a small house is bustling with people coming and going, and the population is always moving, and when Wang's mother is called away, it is impossible to keep a good eye on it. However, when it comes to the individual, this is a bit more difficult.
Zhang Zhaohua watched Yue's interrogation coldly on the side, but secretly shook his head in his heart.
The current situation is very unfavorable to say, and there are two specific reasons: First, the master's family has too few hands, and only the Yue family is in charge with two or three servants, and they are busy and the tasks are not properly assigned -- the division of labor is not clear, and the responsibility is not assigned to the individual, resulting in the current phenomenon of prevarication.
The second reason is related to the first, because there are not enough people, they can't control everyone, these invited cooks are invited after all, and the relationship between the Yue family and the subordinates is not superior, and because they are all born in the city, they can't afford to look down on this feast in the countryside, they are nothing more than for the wages, they are not very obedient, and the Yue family has not shown the ability to be shrewd and capable, and there is no manpower to deter, all this is not the same level as the master they served before, and the natural heart is scattered.
In fact, there is such a thing as stealing, Zhang Zhaohua feels that it is not very difficult to solve. If she were to do it, the first thing would be not to interrogate everyone, but to detain all the suspects together. The thief stole a big pig's trotter, such a big thing, where can it be hidden for the time being, it is obvious that these people cannot hide outside, the pig's trotter must still be here, and the various houses are searched, and it is not known which small house can be found.
However, when he thought of this, Zhang Zhaohua felt very confused-
If the thief was one of the seven or eight cooks, who had stolen the pig's trotters, wrapped them up and hid them somewhere, and wanted to take them out after the feast was finished, the logic sounded reasonable at first glance, but it didn't make sense.
Because these kitchen women are mothers-in-law of different families, they are all women who cook well and have a reputation in the county, and there is a certain degree of competition between all of them, and they are pulled by a cart, and they will be pulled back to the county seat by cart after the feast. If the other women in the car saw the pig's trotters that this man had hidden, they would not have talked about it, for they would have said that the cook had unclean hands and feet, and had stolen from the master's house, and that the next time she helped the cook, she would have been able to squeeze out a competitor.
As the saying goes, if you are disloyal a hundred times, Zhang Zhaohua felt that this time the crime was very inexplicable. Because since she is a domestic helper for other people's cooks, she must learn to be honest, just like Fan Matchmaker, most of the people she introduces can be successful, and her business can continue for a long time; The same applies to these cooks. Moreover, according to the unwritten rules, these cooks can not only get their due wages, but also bring back the leftovers, even the offal pigs into the water or something, it is also theirs.
There is really no need to commit a crime, Zhang Zhaohua is puzzled.
So is it possible that the people around the Yue family are guarding and stealing - Zhang Zhaohua feels that this is also impossible, to be honest, the Yue family has made a major mistake this time, and it is impossible to escape punishment, and the grain chief will definitely clean her up. It is only because the grain chief's wife is dough and a little lacking in this aspect of feeding, that the grain chief gave his daughter-in-law Yue's the right to cook, but he didn't expect such a result to be done, Zhang Zhaohua couldn't think about the scene at the wine ceremony, if the grain chief came back to give Yue's heavy punishment, then it must be a heavy punishment for these people around Yue's.
Mother Wang and Mother Zhang would not know these truths, Zhang Zhaohua calculated in his heart, and ruled them out one by one, and he was even more confused.
It's not a cook, it's not a servant, so who is it?