Chapter 25: Chasing the Murderer
The white mist of steam fills the room, and the dim dim sum is even more eerie. Xiao Gu's eyes narrowed slightly, quietly watching this scene, and then quietly took dozens of steps back, deliberately increased his strength, and walked towards the dim sum room again.
With a squeak, the black lacquered wooden door was pushed open, and Mother Qin walked out, her face calm and calm, and she couldn't see any clues.
Xiao Gu walked up to her stupidly and complained urgently: "They laughed at Chu Lan and wanted to drink her happy wine." β
Hearing her reckless words, Mother Qin's eyes flashed, and her brows furrowed deeply, "Who are they?" β
"It's Yuxia'er, they'......"
Xiao Gu flattened his mouth and almost cried.
Mother Qin's brows furrowed even deeper, and she was about to speak, but she heard someone laughing not far away: "Xiao Nizi is still shy!" β
Before the person arrived, the sharp and loud voice echoed in the ears.
Liu's waist was wrapped in an ayapa, and there were also two peonies the size of a wine cup on their heads, and they swayed to the front, with a weird smile on their faces, "Your Sister Chulan is going to marry a golden beetle son-in-law!" What is there to hide from such a happy eventβ"
"Sister Liu!"
Mother Qin's face was frosty, and she lightly interrupted her words, "My dim sum here is ready, please go and give it to Steward Wu, Chu Lan's matter, and ask him to be forgiving and forgiving, raise your noble hand!" β
Liu everyone's family touched a soft nail, gritted their teeth secretly, and said with a forced smile: "This is just a trivial matter, why do you order the sister of the Qin family?" I'll be sure to bring your words. β
Mother Qin entered the house and put the begonia cake in the steamer into the food box, and everyone Liu carefully carried it, and complimented her mouth: "This begonia cake is sweet but not greasy, and only you have done it extraordinarily authentically, sister." β
Mother Qin stared at her departing back, an imperceptible sneer appeared on her lips, and when she came back to her senses, she realized that Xiao Gu was still standing stupidly.
"Mother Qin, in the end, Sister Chulan ...... she"
"You don't have to pay attention to her business, it's fine......"
Mother Qin's voice was a little hoarse, obviously she didn't want to talk about it, her eyes flashed, and she casually remembered that Xiao Gu and Chu Lan were also of the same age, "Life flies so fast, and you are almost eighteen in a blink of an eye, right?" β
Without waiting for Xiao Gu to agree, she turned around and entered the dim sum room, and only a sentence floated behind her, "You should also wash yourself and make your head and face flat." β
Xiao Gu heard the deep meaning of her words, thought about it a little, and already understood five or six points, she sneered in her heart, and left with a stupid look on her face.
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Liu carried the food box and pouted and entered Steward Wu's room.
Steward Wu is also at the end of the big kitchen, and no one dares to disturb his purity.
Liu's family is familiar with the way, and as soon as they entered the door, they simply sat in front of the brazier and roasted for a while, and then said coquettishly: "You dead ghost, the old lady is busy for you, so you don't feel distressed at all?" β
Steward Wu raised his head from the abacus and the small kitchen tent, pouted his goatee and laughed extraordinarily, "It's so tired that you have a pair of snow-white feet......
He got up from his seat, took off Liu's embroidered shoes, and kneading and playing with the pair of snow-white hooves in his hands.
Everyone Liu groaned, and glanced at him with silky eyes, "The old lady is busy with your saddle before and after the horse, just to please that Mrs. Lin - although she is the first chef here, after all, she also works under you, and you just respect her for three points, but let me rush to match her idiot nephew to protect the media?" β
Liu everyone's talk about this is very unpleasant - her own youngest son can't talk about family affairs, although Chu Lan is a rough girl, but she is also diligent and honest can handle it at will, she just had some intentions, and was assigned by Steward Wu to help Lin Pozi, which is even more uncomfortable than taking a piece of meat from her!
"You women just have long hair and short knowledge!"
Steward Wu snorted coldly and said, "Let's nest in this smoky kitchen, and we can fish for oil and water."
There are a lot of opportunities, but there are very few opportunities to show your face. Now that the second lady is in charge, if someone can say a few kind words for me in front of her and find an errand to go out, then he is rich and powerful! β
Thinking of the appearance of those guys who used to call brothers and brothers, Steward Wu couldn't help but snort coldly: "The so-called seven-rank official in front of the prime minister, if I, Wu, get the opportunity, relying on the big tree of the Hou Mansion, I can create a foundation in just a few years......"
He was so anxious that he began to take off Liu's clothes, pinched Xue Feng and said with a smile: "As soon as your short-lived tuberculosis ghost husband dies, I will marry you, and the husband and wife will be with you halfway......"
The middle-aged woman was rubbed hot by him, shook her head with a smile, and expressed her disbelief, "How many times have you heard this sweet old lady, that's itβbut although that Mrs. Lin was the eldest maid of the second lady, she fell into this greasy and dirty place, which shows that she is stupid." What can she do for you? β
"You don't understand that, do you? She is a real shrewd person, when the second lady chose a good room for the second master, who was not tempted by the first and second class maids? Although Mrs. Lin was a few years older, she didn't want to wade into this troubled water, so she simply asked the second lady to come to the kitchen voluntarily. She has done a good job of stir-fried meat in one hand, and the second lady has loved this for so many years, and she has to call her to the upper room to talk for a long time every year, and there are many rewards of gold and silver. β
Steward Wu snorted and continued: "Actually, she is the eyes and ears of the second lady in this big kitchen, although I usually respect her, but I don't have much contact, this time I ask her to speak kindly, I can only solve my nephew's lifelong affairs for her - that girl named Chulan is quite honest, right?" Will she give in if she marries her to an idiot? β
Everyone Liu sneered, "She was bought from outside, and she is helpless in this mansion, so she can't make any waves?" The vixen surnamed Qin actually pretended to intercede for herβtsk, she thought that giving you some pastries would make you change your mind......"
When she said this, she was jealous and pinched the man's thigh fiercely, "What kind of pastries has she sent you these days-have you gotten involved with her?" β
Steward Wu shouted again and again, "This is a shadowless thing, where is her coquettish posture in my eyes!" It was a long time ago to take Chu Lan to ration Lin Pozi's idiot nephew, where can a few plates of pastries be bought? Besides, I don't like to eat any begonia cake, every time I borrow flowers to offer Buddha to Lin Pozi, you don't know the way! β
Everyone Liu covered their mouths and smiled: "It's true, Mrs. Lin loves to eat this begonia cake, sweet and hot." β
The two lingered for a while.
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Xiao Gu returned to the charcoal room, and as soon as he pushed the door open, he realized that things were not good-
Chu Lan trembled with her hands, and was struggling to hold the axe, wiping it on her neck.
"Stop!"
Xiao Gu rushed over and snatched it down, and the sharp blade still brought a bloody mark on her snow-white neck!
"Are you crazy?!"
Chu Lan sobbed, her eyes swollen, full of despair and confusion, "They're going to match me to a foolish idiot!" β
She thought of Yu Xia'er's sarcasm, and then remembered the appearance of seeing the fool drooling from a distance, and felt sick in her heart, "It's better for me to die than this!" β
"Don't worry, with Mother Qin here, I won't let you suffer."
Xiao Gu said with certainty.
"She's a good person, but she can't protect herself, how can she protect me?"
Chu Lan cried more and more sadly.
Xiao Gu looked at her blankly, but the smile on her lips was slightly blooming, with warmth and softness-
Silly Chulan, you are really worried...... Mother Qin, she may be patient!
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On a watch day, the moon is dark and the wind is high.
The residence of the mother and chef of the meat and food room, Mrs. Lin, is full of snoring.
The door was silently opened, and someone quietly walked in with a bright axe.
Someone came to rudely lift Mrs. Lin from the bed, and her mysterious voice seemed to be close to far, like a person and a ghost-
"Wake up!"
Mrs. Lin was woken up and was about to jump up, but she found that her whole body was weak and weak, and even her voice was as low as a mosquito's cry -
"Sister of the Qin family, what are you going to do?!"
What answered her was a sneer, full of resentment, "I just want you to answer truthfully - my young lady, how did she die back then!" β