On top of the palace feast, a skinned wild cat appeared.

There are no cats in the palace, these cats run in from the outside, the palace is very large, and there are many hiding places for them.

The panic did not last long, and when the ministers found out that it was nothing more than a skinned wild cat, they slowly quieted down, while Emperor Li Yan glared at everyone with a pair of eyes, he felt that this was a shame, a shame for his challenge to imperial power.

There is someone who dares to disturb his palace banquet, and he will definitely not let this person have a good time.

After the ministers quieted down, they already felt afraid, but the fear now was different from their previous fear. Now their fear comes from Emperor Li Yan.

Li Yan glared at the ministers with a pair of eyes, and said angrily: "What's going on? ”

The ministers knew what was going on, they were just here to go to the banquet, many ministers were trembling and didn't say a word, at this time, Li Deyu stood up and said: "Your Majesty, there must be a conspiracy in this matter, it's better to send someone to investigate." ”

Emperor Li Yan bowed slightly, and then asked, "Who is willing to take charge of the investigation?" ”

The ministers looked at each other, but no one was willing to stand up and investigate, because this matter was too strange to investigate, and it was not easy to investigate, and at this time, Gonggong Xi whispered in the emperor's ear, and the emperor's face changed slightly, and then he looked at Su Wuming and said, "Su Aiqing, this matter will be left to you to investigate." ”

Earlier today, a skinned but long-dead wild cat was found in the garden of the harem, and now there is another skinned wild cat here, so it is not difficult to understand, this is the same thing, what Father-in-law Xi said in the emperor's ear just now should be this, since Su Wuming has already intervened, it is not easy to excuse himself, and he got up and said: "Obey!" ”

Because of the matter of skinning the wild cat, the palace banquet could not continue, but the emperor did not forget the fact that Su Wuming was the winner, he looked at Su Wuming and said: "Su Aiqing, what do you want, just say it, as long as I can give it, I will not be stingy." ”

At this time, it is really difficult for Su Wuming to ask for something, everyone has desires in their hearts, and they have their own things that they are passionate about, but some of these things are difficult to say, for example, everyone has a desire for beauty in their hearts, but can this desire be said on such an occasion? Can Su Wuming say that he wants beauties, many, many beauties?

Of course not.

And power is not something that Su Wuming can want, if you want power on such an occasion, Emperor Li Yan may give it to you for the sake of face, but you have already left a bad impression in his mind, therefore, he can give you power, and he can also take back the power in your hands, and when you take it back, it may even kill you.

I can't ask for a lot of things I want, which is really a tangled thing.

And Su Wuming didn't want Lang Fei to have such an opportunity, so after thinking about it, Su Wuming said: "Weichen doesn't know what he wants for the time being, I don't know if Weichen can think about it?" ”

Li Yan nodded: "Okay, wait until you think about it before you speak." ”

After Li Yan said this, he left surrounded by eunuchs, and this palace banquet ended under such circumstances, many ministers left one after another, Miss Hua Rou was a little lost, she thought that Su Wuming would ask for her, after all, Su Wuming was at a loss that day, and he obviously liked her.

The whole hall quickly quieted down, and in the end only Su Wuming and a few eunuchs remained, Su Wuming watched those princes and ministers leave one after another, but he didn't see Cheshire, he knew that Cheshire was invited, and if he received an invitation from the palace, he would have to take a big risk if he dared not come, but judging from today's situation, Cheshire did not come, maybe it was his luck.

It was already dark, and there were lights everywhere in the palace, and Su Wuming, under the guidance of several eunuchs, arrived at the imperial dining room, which was where the imperial kitchen cooked, and today's stewed chicken came out of here, in this case, the skinned wild cat must have been put into the plate in this place.

To investigate what happened at the palace banquet, it is necessary to start here.

The imperial dining room is very large, and it is much noisier than Su Wuming imagined, even if the palace banquet is over now, there are at least dozens of imperial chefs busy here, according to Su Wuming's understanding, the entire imperial dining room has to have people day and night, because those imperial concubines may want to eat something at any time, so they must be ready at all times.

There are as many as hundreds of imperial chefs in the imperial dining room, and so many imperial chefs come from all over the world, so no matter what the emperor or the concubine wants to eat, there are chefs who can cook it.

This is a very large deposit, and from the moment Su Wuming entered the imperial dining room, he felt that this matter was more difficult than he imagined, because in this chaotic situation, it was simply impossible to find out the person who had stolen the cat's corpse.

Su Wuming found the imperial chef who made zuò stewed chicken, he was a middle-aged man with a very fat body, his hands were white and flawless, and he saluted again and again after seeing Su Wuming, but in his eyes, there were obvious traces of horror.

Come to think of it, he had already heard about what happened at the palace banquet.

Su Wuming didn't say much nonsense, and asked directly: "You made that stewed chicken?" ”

The imperial chef nodded repeatedly: "Exactly!" ”

"How many people can touch that dish during the whole process of making zuò?"

The imperial chef looked embarrassed and said, "Braised chicken is not a very unique dish, and because the process of making zuò is relatively long, and there are many zuò, so the people in the entire imperial dining room have the opportunity to get close to this dish." ”

After hearing this answer, Su Wuming frowned slightly, but he didn't give up, because according to his inspection of the cat corpse, the cat should have just died about a day, maybe it was the one that was killed last night, although the cat corpse was full of blood, but the blood had dried up, but although the cat corpse was dry, it was not wet, or there was no trace of steaming, that is, the cat corpse was replaced when it was served on the table.

In this case, it is easy to be discovered, so there must be an excellent time.

With this restriction, it is not so difficult to find the suspect.

So at this time, Su Wuming continued to ask: "Who was on the plate at that time?" ”

The imperial chef looked slightly shocked, but he still hurriedly said the person who served the plate, there were two people in total, they were the two apprentices of the imperial kitchen, they were about twenty years old, one of them was called Zhang Yang, and the other was called Zhang Jiao, and they were two brothers.

These two people haven't been blessed yet, and when they came to see Su Wuming, they were without exception a little afraid.

Su Wuming asked the two of them to tell the two of them what happened when they were serving, including who they met during the plating.

The two of them told the story of the time, but after listening to the narration of the two of them, Su Wuming was a little incredulous, because the two of them said that when they were serving, although there were other cooks walking back and forth in the kitchen, no one had touched their stewed chicken, and they were also loading them one by one, there would never be anything wrong, and it was impossible for them to put the cat corpse on the plate.

If no one does anything when the plate is served, it will be a little unreasonable, just when Su Wuming was worried about this, Zhang Jiao suddenly said: "This dish is stewed chicken, even after the chicken is plated, it needs to be covered and simmered for a while. ”

Zhang Jiao's words relieved Su Wuming's urgent need, so he hurriedly asked people to call the palace maids who served the plates, it can be said that this is his last hope, if there is no suspect among these palace maids, then this matter is really difficult to do, because in the process of stewing, it is difficult to find that person suspicious.

The palace maids were called one after another, there were as many as twenty people in total, and twenty palace maids stood together, as if it was a beautiful landscape, in this late spring and early summer night, it could arouse the desire of men.

The twenty palace maids looked at each other, and there was a lot of panic and fear in their hearts.

Su Wuming glanced at them, and then asked, "Who brought the cat corpse to Lord Cao?" Su Wuming felt that there were so many stewed chickens, why did they give it to Cao Man, some people may be dissatisfied with Cao Man, but now that they want to investigate carefully, it seems that it is a little too late, so it is better to ask directly.

Everyone looked at each other, and then a palace maid walked out of the crowd, she bowed slightly, and saluted: "It's a slave!" ”

"What's your name?"

"Satsuki."

"What do you usually do?"

"The slave maid and these sisters all work in the imperial dining room, usually washing vegetables and burning firewood, and then serving dishes."

"When you served the stewed chicken today, did you think it was strange there?"

Xiao Yue glanced up at Su Wuming slightly, and then quickly lowered her head: "I don't think it's strange, we are all going to serve the stewed chicken one after another!" When Xiao Yue said this, she had already secretly muttered in her heart that she was so unlucky a hundred times today, but even so, she still lowered her eyebrows, because this was the posture that their palace maid should have.

Su Wuming frowned slightly, and said, "How many are you?" ”

"The last one!"

"Didn't anything happen at the end?"

"No, after getting that dish, the slave followed the other sisters into the main hall!"

After hearing this answer, Su Wuming was a little disappointed, if this is the case, then there is nothing suspicious in the process of serving the plate, and the time to replace the stewed chicken with a cat corpse must be the period when the stewed chicken is stewed after it is put on the plate, but during this period of time, the entire imperial dining room is very chaotic, and there is no suspect to be found, let alone the murderer.