Chapter 35: Dow's Conspiracy
Walking to the backyard, Zhu Nian instructed Red Candle to quickly return to Zhu Mansion to summon He Dachuan, while he waited for Ling Wu in the backyard. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Red Candle nodded, and trotted all the way out of Tianxiang Pavilion.
Ling Wu finally settled down to cook, but Uncle Meng's arrival disturbed his mind again.
Uncle Meng only told him that the eldest lady was looking for him, but did not tell him the reason, so along the way, Ling Wu thought of hundreds of possibilities and explanations for finding him.
In the end, he felt that he had prepared everything and hurried to the backyard.
Seeing Zhu Nian, Ling Wu bent down slightly and saluted: "Miss." ”
"Hmm." Zhu Nian sat on a stone bench, leisurely observing his fingernails.
After about a stick of incense, Zhu Nian still didn't say a word, nor did he raise his head to look at Ling Wu.
Ling Wu couldn't stand still, and secretly swallowed his saliva, he thought about many possible situations, but he didn't expect Zhu Nian to ignore him at all.
This made his calm heart beat the drum all the time.
"Miss," Ling Wu decided to break the awkward atmosphere, "I wonder what you are looking for Ling Wu?" ”
"Well, it's nothing special," Zhu Nian finally looked up at Ling Wu, "I just want to hear your opinion on the problem of ingredients not being fresh recently." ”
"Huh?" Ling Wuyi didn't react, and his heart was in a mess.
"Ling Wu is just an inexperienced little cook, why did the eldest lady come to ask me?" Ling Wu asked with some weakness.
"Well, it's because you're young, and your mind is definitely more active than the other cooks." Zhu Nian said.
Ling Wu lowered his head and snickered: It turns out that Zhu Nian still doesn't know!
Just as he was secretly happy, Zhu Nian said again: "However, the bigger reason is that I heard Uncle Meng say that the purchase of ingredients in the near future is handled by you." ”
Ling Wu's eyes flashed, and he raised his head suddenly: "Miss, what do you mean by this?" ”
"It's not interesting, I just want to figure out what went wrong."
Ling Wu gritted his teeth secretly, his brain was running rapidly, he wanted to find a way to clear his suspicions.
"Miss, I can guarantee that there will be absolutely no problems here, and Uncle Meng is an old man from Tianxiang Pavilion, and he has a lot of experience, so there will be no problems." Ling Wu said.
"What do you mean?" Zhu Nian's face was expressionless, and she roughly guessed what Ling Wu wanted to say next.
"So Ling Wu thinks that there is a problem with Shi Yuxuan, and I suspect that they have deceived us and made it shoddy." Ling Wu didn't have a red ear and a heartbeat when he told a lie.
"But our Tianxiang Pavilion and Shi Yuxuan have been cooperating for more than ten years, and there has been no problem, how could they suddenly do such a thing recently?" Zhu Nian continued to ask.
Of course, Ling Wu couldn't explain ...... something that came out of nowhere, "Ling Wu didn't know either." ”
Zhu Nian's face was angry, and he said coldly: "Since this is the case, you need to go to Shi Yuxuan to investigate." If it's really them who are doing it, then we'll go to them and claim it, and then switch suppliers! ”
Ling Wu was a little nervous, if the eldest lady really went to Shiyuxuan, wouldn't he be exposed!
In fact, the truth of this matter is: Ling Wu changed the factory where the ingredients were purchased half a month ago, and then forged the original documents, so that Uncle Meng thought that the supplier was still in the same place, so as to get the price difference and fill his pocket.
And the manipulator behind all this is Ling Wu's distant aunt Tao Yueshan.
"Miss, leave this matter to me, I promise to do it well, and it can be regarded as making up for it!" Ling Wu said with both hands clenched into fists towards Zhu Nian.
Zhu Nian glanced at Ling Wu from the corner of his eye, and then smiled contemptuously: "No need, this matter is very important, I will do it myself, you don't have to worry about it." ”
"Miss, I'm ......"
"That's it!" Zhu Nian interrupted Ling Wu's words and sent him away, "There's nothing to do with you here, so let's step back first!" ”
Ling Wu hesitated for a moment, then frowned and saluted Zhu Nian, then retreated.
When He Dachuan came, he passed by Ling Wu, who was absent-minded and hurried.
He Dachuan was bumped by Ling Wu, but he didn't hear the apology, so he frowned and glanced at Ling Wu behind him before getting up and entering the backyard of Tianxiang Pavilion.
"Miss, you're looking for me!" He Dachuan came to Zhu Nian's side and said.
"Hmm." Zhu Nian said, "You help me follow Ling Wu and see where he is going and what he has done." ”
Zhu Nian always felt that Ling Wu would not sit still, and after the conversation just now, he would definitely do something.
"Is that the man who just went out?" He Dachuan asked.
"Well, exactly!" Zhu Nian nodded.
"Yes, Okawa is going to follow him." After speaking, He Dachuan hurriedly left the backyard.
Zhu Nian half-narrowed his eyes: Tao, I want to see what tricks you want to play this time!
Ling Wu left the backyard and was going to go back to the kitchen to continue working, but when he stepped on the first step, he was stunned.
He thought to himself: No, I have to go to my aunt quickly, I must not sit still!
Ling Wu withdrew one of his raised legs, glanced towards the backyard, and seeing that Zhu Nian didn't follow, he hurriedly turned around and left Tianxiang Pavilion and secretly went to Zhu Mansion.
But what he didn't know was that He Dachuan had been secretly following not far behind him.
Ling Wu came to the gate of the Zhu Mansion and talked to one of the guards for a few words, and was taken into the mansion by Steward Tang, who rushed over.
Entering Shi'an Garden, Ling Wu knelt heavily in front of Tao: "Auntie! ”
"What's the matter with me?" Dow was sitting leisurely at the wooden table, letting a young maidservant dye her Kodan, "Didn't I tell you that as long as you can do things for me with peace of mind, I will definitely give you the money to treat your mother." ”
When Tao said "mother" son, Ling Wu's eyes flashed with a color of grief.
"Auntie, something is wrong!" Ling Wu sorted out his mood and said.
"What's the matter?" Tao still didn't take Ling Wu's words to heart.
"Miss, she ......" Ling Wu lowered her head and continued, "She has already found that the ingredients have been changed!" ”
"What!" There was finally a trace of fluctuation on Tao's face, she felt bored in her heart, and directly swept away the handmaiden's hand: "Stay and go!" ”
"This morning, the eldest lady suddenly came to our back kitchen and found that the ingredients had been replaced with inferior products. She also specifically approached me to inquire about the situation. Ling Wu explained.
"She's looking for you?" Dow grasped the key point, "What did you say to her?" ”
"I said it must have been Shi Yuxuan's side that deceived Tianxiang Pavilion." Ling Wu continued: "She wants to go to Shiyuxuan to find out the truth, I took the initiative to apply to go, but she said that she would do it herself!" ”
Tao frowned and paced back and forth in the room: "This girl has really become a lot smarter!" ”
"I was afraid that my aunt would be implicated in the revelation, so I hurried over and reported the matter to you." Ling Wu said.
Tao stood still, slightly hooking the corners of his lips: "Ling Wu, you did a good job this time, fortunately you told me about this in time." ”
"So what should I do next?" Ling Wu had no idea in his heart.
Tao's eyes quickly rolled a few times, then looked at Ling Wu and said, "Don't go back to Tianxiang Pavilion yet, go out to hide in the near future, don't show up...... Don't even give me a confession! ”
Tao turned around, turned his back to Ling Wu and said, "You go back first." ”
"Yes, Auntie!" Ling Wu nodded at Tao and turned to leave Shi'an Yuan.
A black shadow flashed and disappeared from the big tree in Shi'an Garden, and He Dachuan followed Ling Wu who had left.
When he watched Ling Wu enter a separate courtyard and didn't come out for a long time, he turned around and left here, leaving for Tianxiang Pavilion to find Zhu Nian.
"Miss, Ling Wu just went to Shi'an Yuan to find Tao, and now he is in a courtyard." He Dachuan said with Zhu Nian.
"Oh? He went to Se'an Garden? Zhu Nian raised his eyebrows.
"Yes." Then, He Dachuan told Zhu Nian everything he heard outside Shi'an Garden.
Zhu Nian pursed his lips and his eyes were half-narrowed: This matter really has something to do with Tao!
It's just that...... What is her purpose? If she fights with herself for Tianxiang Pavilion and collapses Tianxiang Pavilion, she won't be able to get any benefit from it?
The method of "killing 10,000 enemies and damaging 3,000 yourself", Zhu Nian believes that Tao is absolutely unwilling to do.
Zhu Nian couldn't understand all this, so she simply didn't think about it anymore, she looked at He Dachuan and said, "I'll go back to Zhuyuan, you go and arrest Ling Wu for me, and I will interrogate him personally!" ”
"Yes!" He Dachuan replied.
Then the two left Tianxiang Pavilion together, Zhu Nian returned to Zhu Mansion, and He Dachuan went to the courtyard where Ling Wu lived.