Chapter Twenty-Six: Fish Balls (Part II)
Lin Yuxiao likes food, but it is not cost-effective to bother himself just for a meal, he simply wants to leave, and he doesn't believe that the Mengzhou City Hotel is closed!
"Don't worry! I invite you to dinner and ask you to help are two different things, and I won't blame you if you don't help me after eating! Du Shaonan hurriedly stopped him and didn't let him go, "The Han family is an outsider, can I have no friends for outsiders?" ”
"That's just as well." Lin Yuxiao smiled and sat back in his seat.
"As long as you help me taste the dishes of this restaurant and whether there is anything that needs to be improved, you will do me a great favor." Du Shaonan immediately instructed Du Quanxiao to let the kitchen serve the food.
There are not many dishes, a can of simmered duck soup, a plate of cold shrimp noodles, a plate of scrambled eggs with leeks, a plate of chestnut pickled cabbage heart, a bowl of fish balls, and a pot of rice wine.
The wine and food are also home-cooked, Lin Yuxiao picked up the chopsticks and ate them, Du Shaonan stopped his chopsticks and said something else: "A few days ago, the Yang family waited in vain, and the murderer didn't come at all, this is the first time after the strange case in Mengzhou, and it is rumored on the market that the murderer is afraid of Lord Qincha." ”
"Well, this duck soup is good." The soup is followed by the dishes, and Lin Yuxiao commented in order.
"My grandmother liked to drink this simmered duck soup, and if it weren't for that, I wouldn't have wanted this restaurant." Du Shaonan is a filial child, "The Yang family has been saved, right?" And then which one should it be? The Liu family is last in line, right? However, the Liu family is the most worry-free, and Lord Yue will definitely keep an eye on it. ”
"The powder skin is good, and the vinegar is a little less." Lin Yuxiao commented on the second course.
"Oh, I made a note of it." Du Shaonan responded, and then said, "Because you still have to go to the Yang family that day, I don't have time to ask in detail, how did Yue Linfeng explain to you the reason why he chased Miss Liu out of the city later?" ”
"He said that he was afraid that the murderer would change his target, after all, the Liu family was also one of the targets of the murderer, and it was really dangerous for Miss Liu to go out alone." Lin Yuxiao recalled Yue Linfeng's words, "No, that's it." ”
"It's a reason, I asked Qian Bao, and he also said that Miss Liu's brainlessness is as famous as her face, but if you want to say that Miss Liu can cook, he won't believe it if she kills him, I said that I saw her cooking in Zhang's house with my own eyes, and her cooking skills are not bad, and he was so surprised that he heard that the demons and monsters came to Mengzhou!" Du Shaonan said very seriously.
"I feel like leeks are a little old......" Lin Yuxiao only frowned at this.
"Yu Xiao, Yue Linfeng likes Miss Liu, right?" Du Shaonan did not allow him to avoid it.
"Since I came to Mengzhou, no, to be precise, since he met Miss Liu, he has been angry at me five times, and every time it was for Miss Liu, and I didn't actually say that Miss Liujia was not." Lin Yuxiao took a sip of the wine glass, and Du Shaonan had already discovered that he was not hiding it.
He realized that something was wrong, but he didn't expect it to be like this...... Du Shaonan muttered: "I remember that you have known each other for sixteen years, and he has not been angry with you once in sixteen years......
"Well, that's why I don't like you to mention Miss Liu." Lin Yuxiao has his reason.
"If I don't mention it, I won't continue? Yue Linfeng walked around the house? Didn't you see people chase them out of the city? Du Shaonan was very serious, "Yu Xiao, this Miss Liu is unusual, I have been checking on her for the past few days, she is a native of Mengzhou, she was raised as a boy by Mrs. Liu since she was a child, and she knows martial arts, but whenever the weather is good, she will go out to cause trouble, but it is a few days before the strange case in Mengzhou that she closed her door, if she doesn't go out after the crime, she can still talk about the past, Master Liu is afraid that she will come out to provoke the attention of the murderer, but she is honest in advance, aren't you surprised? ”
"You don't suspect she's a murderer, do you? I've seen her, and the way she walks proves that she has practiced, but it's not high, and she can't kill people invisibly. Lin Yuxiao began to taste the fish balls as he spoke, and he used a spoon to separate one of the fish balls, only to find that there was a filling inside.
"Wrapped fish balls, fish soup paste wrapped in pork filling, and the bone broth is cooked, you can't see it from the outside, right?" Du Shaonan pointed to the fish balls, "People are actually the same as this fish balls, do you know what is under the skin?" ”
"Sounds a little reasonable," Lin Yuxiao thought for a while, "But I haven't tried to make meatballs from human flesh, or ......."
"Rain flute! I'm eating! This time, Du Shaonan didn't let him mention it, and when he paid attention to the table again, "You...... You actually ate it all!? "Two people eat, he swallows it alone!
"It's not that you don't understand my eating habits," Lin Yuxiao was not embarrassed at all, "Besides, how can you open a restaurant and think that guests can eat?" ”
"You can't eat it, it's scary to eat......" Anyway, Du Shaonan would rather be hungry than dare to call for food again, "After I said so much, don't you think Miss Liu is suspicious?" Don't worry that Yue Linfeng will have a trap when he contacts her? ”
"Don't worry, Senior Brother Yue has the ability to protect himself, if he is really caught or controlled by others, he must be willing, and I don't need to do much." Lin Yuxiao smiled and was very calm.
“…… Let's talk about the Han family, just say that you don't have to leave in a hurry! Seeing Lin Yuxiao sitting with a cup and tasting rice wine, Du Shaonan dared to continue, "I don't know about the second master Han, but the old lady Han has no praise for this son, he is greedy for life and afraid of death, Mengzhou After the death of four rich businessmen, the murderer targeted him, according to his family, he was ready to spend money to save his life, but no one knows why he died......"
This matter can be counted in the strange case of Mengzhou, Lin Yuxiao can't hear it: "It's possible to be reluctant to pay when the matter comes, after all, when the murderer asks for all the property of the family, it is reasonable to be reluctant." ”
"Others will be reluctant, but the second master will not, because all the property of the second master of Han in Mengzhou is less than two-tenths of the Han family's property, the old lady of the Han family has three sons, the eldest son was born to the Yuan match, and after the death of the Yuan match, he married the stepfamily and gave birth to the second son, and then a favorite concubine added a younger son, the ancestral home of the stepfamily is Mengzhou, and the second master Han lives in Mengzhou, in order to have maternal relatives to take care of the business, but think about it, he used to protect two-tenths of the property?"
No, the second master is not bankrupt because of eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling, the old lady Han will not bear to let his children and grandchildren be beggars, it is estimated that he will score two tenths, if the second master protects his wealth and does not want to die, it is for the half-brother "sacrifice", he died The old lady Han will not say that he is greedy for life and afraid of death, and the temperament of the second master is only afraid that he is usually not "noble".
"The old lady can stand it with one less son, but he found out that the heirloom of the Han family was actually stolen by the stepfamily to the second son, and it was gone this time, so he begged me here." Du Shaonan told the story in the end.
"The heirloom of the Han family you are talking about will not be a pair of jade unicorns, two inches high, white and flawless, lifelike, carved from two identical whole pieces of jade?" Lin Yuxiao said as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
"Sure enough, I'm looking for you." Du Shaonan nodded.
"Right for what? Xuanzong gave it to the Han family, the treasure of Jiangnan Zhenjiang is only passed on to the eldest son of the Yuan match, even if the eldest son dies at birth, the Yuan match can not be regarded as the eldest son if he has another son, the court will take back the jade unicorn, let alone the second son born to the stepfamily, the surname Han can't look at the baby should accept the guilt himself, it is useless to ask for anyone! ”
The jade unicorn is for the Han family but not only for the Han family, because the jade unicorn is the treasure of Zhenjiang in Jiangnan, Qin Tian supervised the calculation that only the richest and most expensive people are worthy of collection, and the most expensive person in Jiangnan is the governor or prince, but the unicorn has the particularity of serving the king, and the emperor does not dare to hand over the unicorn to those who have the ability to go further, so he can only hand it over to the merchants, and it is also called to make Jiangnan richer and more prosperous.
The unicorn is a benevolent beast, and the Han family has been the richest man for four generations since they became convinced, and it stands to reason that they should respect the treasure of the imperial gift as if they were gods, but when they lost it, they found out that Lin Yuxiao thought that they should honestly confess their guilt.
"Ordinary people don't know the preciousness of the pair of jade unicorns, Mrs. Han asked all the jewelry shops in Jiangnan to pay attention to it secretly, but unfortunately no one has been found to sell it, he begged me just to hope that Lord Qincha will solve the case and seize the stolen goods in the future, and secretly return the jade unicorn to the Han family with one eye and one eye closed, and this matter will pass." Du Shaonan said with a smile.
"Passed? And then who will he give the jade unicorn to? Favored concubines? "Lin Yuxiao hasn't asked Old Lady Han about the sin of neglecting the jade qilin, if the old man really values the jade qilin more than his life, can his second son take it to Mengzhou? Now that I've lost it, I realize that the gift of the royal gift is connected to the whole family's life, and it's too late!
"Don't you understand? Cover it up? Du Shaonan tried to work harder.
Lin Yuxiao stood up: "I don't care how much you receive from others, I will only handle this matter impartially." He bowed his hand and left, but he added, "I will prepare a generous gift for the old lady's birthday banquet." "He'll take today's meal into account.
Du Shaonan didn't stop him this time, he sat at the table and sank like water for a long time without moving, Du Quanzhong and Du Quanxiao looked at each other, the two finally mustered up the courage to step forward, Du Quanzhong first persuaded in a low voice: "Young master, if you want to be angry, don't get along with your own body, eat something......"
"Eat! Of course eat! Du Shaonan came back to his senses at this time, so that he would not lose himself, "Let the kitchen return the four things just now, put less vinegar in the flour skin, and fry the leeks a little more tenderly......"
"Yes!" Du Quanzhong agreed, hurriedly went to the kitchen, stared at the cook, and did it quickly.
Du Shaonan has to wait for a while to eat, Lin Yuxiao ate everything he could eat, including a pot of wine, before he walked away, Du Shaonan was not angry, but he was a little more afraid than angry, but unfortunately he had to maintain a friendly relationship with the other party, because the other party's surname was Lin.
"Yue Linfeng...... Do you know Jeon Hyo? Yue Linfeng actually lost his temper at Yu Xiao, and it was for a woman, less than a month after coming to Mengzhou to meet Liu Yiyi, he actually lost his temper at Yu Xiao five times! Du Shaonan said that his mood and tone were very complicated, he was not worth it for Lin Yuxiao, and he felt that this was really a good opportunity.
"Huh!?" If it weren't for the young master himself, Du Quanxiao wouldn't believe it at all, and Yue Linfeng would lose his temper at Lin Gongzi?