Chapter 15: Discovery

When he was uncertain, another smell was sent to Master Lin's nose by the wind, with the aroma of meat in the sweet and sour, which was the cherry meat he was most familiar with.

Chef Lin snorted desperately: this dish is very authentic, and it seems that there is an extra tomato in it, which increases the sour taste, and removes some of the sweetness, which will be more palatable.

Is there a better cook in the Peerless Pavilion than he is at making cherry meat? Why has he never seen it?

Master Lin felt that his heart was beating suddenly, and when he looked up, he saw a wisp of cooking smoke wafting from the north, which was the direction of Yuyin Mountain House. Without giving it any thought, he headed north, his pride tinged more than curiosity. After coming to the Pavilion for so many years, he has been doing one thing every day, and that is to cook this cherry meat. In order to better cater to the tastes of his guests, he constantly improves it, from the ingredients to the recipes. He thought that the cherry meat from his hands was impeccable, at least, no one in the world could make better cherry meat than him.

However, the person who cooks now not only cooks a more perfect dish of cherry meat, but he is also very good at other dishes, which can be said to be at ease, because just for a while, Master Lin smelled the smell of crab food and roast pigeon.

Who is he? Why do you usually hide it and cook one dish after another in the middle of the night?

When he walked towards Yuyin Mountain House, Master Lin's mind kept crossing the figures of famous chefs in Wubi Pavilion, but he ruled them out one by one, he knew their craftsmanship too well, so he knew that the master of stir-frying must not be them.

There was a stir-frying sound in my ears, and the sound came from the stove room in Yuyin Mountain House, which is rarely used in ordinary times, and is specially used to cook food for the distinguished guests who come to Yuyin Mountain House. Chef Lin still remembers that three years ago, an unnamed distinguished guest came to Wubi Pavilion to dine, and the dining place was Yuyin Mountain House. On that day, Wubi Pavilion cleared the table for him, and several of their chefs were called by Aunt Rong to the stove room to cook for this guest.

He didn't know who the guest was at that time, but he remembered that there were soldiers in armor inside and outside the courtyard of Yuyin Mountain House, and dozens of figures who looked like eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, holding food plates and tea in and out. Later, when a few of their cooks were chatting? guessed that this person must be a relative of the emperor? That's why there's such pomp. Aunt Rong was very disdainful when she heard their discussion, and only said, "I have seen a lot of the emperor's relatives?" Need the Infinite Pavilion to clear the field for him alone? There is only one in the world. ”

Only then did he know that it was the emperor who came that day? The real emperor in the Forbidden City wearing a dragon robe.

Since then, Yuyin Mountain House has never received guests? He understands? The tables, chairs, and plates used by the emperor are to be enshrined in good life, and they must no longer be used by other ordinary people.

But today, why did the courtyard door of Yuyin Mountain House open again?

The stir-fry inside is now suddenly gone? Like sucked away by the darkness? The leaves of the plane tree above the head are rustling, and the Yuyin Mountain House, as the name suggests, is surrounded by ancient trees, covered by the shade of the trees all year round? From a distance, the entire pavilion seems to be trapped in a verdant barrier? Poetic and picturesque, just in time.

But now? Standing outside the courtyard of Yuyin Mountain House, the fallen leaves are falling? Falling on Master Lin's shoulders? But it made him feel a sense of slaughter.

He suddenly remembered Zhao Zimai's words: In the Yuyin Mountain House last night? Someone is missing.

Disappearances are not uncommon to Master Lin, who has been working in the Infinite Pavilion for many years, although it cannot be said that it is frequent, but he has heard of it three or four times in the past few years. Often, they were still working yesterday, but they disappeared the next day, and people from the government couldn't find out when they came over. He has never taken this matter to heart, not to mention, Aunt Rong has repeatedly told him not to publicize this kind of thing everywhere, which is not good for the Wubi Pavilion and everyone who eats by the Wubi Pavilion. So when I heard Zhao Zimai talk about Zifu's disappearance today, he didn't care about it, and he didn't think much about it at all.

"Severed Finger...... There was also a pool of blood...... ...... in the Shade Lodge"

A half-withered leaf fell and smashed on Master Lin's shoulder, and he shuddered: This seems to be the first time that blood and stumps have been found in the Wubi Pavilion, and the previous disappearances have not been able to prove that these people are missing in the Wubi Pavilion, but this time, Zifu, it seems to be different. Many people can prove that he came to the Wubi Pavilion last night, and even Zhao Zimai said that he saw Zifu outside the Wubi Pavilion last night, but he never returned, leaving only a finger and a pool of blood.

Thinking of this, Master Lin suddenly regretted a little, he shouldn't have been so reckless, and came to Yuyin Mountain House alone in the middle of the night when there was no one. He swallowed nervously, his feet moving a few inches back, and he decided that he wanted to go back, and he didn't want to know who was cooking in there now.

Thinking so, Master Lin took a few steps back, but at this moment, he heard the door of the stove room "creak" and was pushed open. Someone came out of it, with a light and slow footsteps, and he should be carrying a plate full of delicacies, so he had to be careful not to break the plate by mistake.

Curiosity was aroused again, because Master Lin saw a shadow lying next to the rockery in the courtyard, the shadow was stretched long by the moonlight, but he could still identify who the person was. Because of that unique headdress, he had only seen it today, in the Infinite Pavilion.

How could it be him? This thought first crossed his mind, but soon, it was replaced by another thought: of course it was him, who could pocket all the famous dishes of the Wubi Pavilion, and there would be no one else except him. But why did he cook so many dishes in the middle of the night? Through the identification of smells and the number of times he walked from the stove room to the Yuyin Mountain House repeatedly, Master Lin estimated that there should be no less than twenty dishes on the table, which were by no means made for him to eat, so who was he cooking food for?

Just thinking about it, the footsteps in the courtyard suddenly came this way, Master Lin was shocked, turned around and hid behind the plane tree behind him, he knew that the person in the courtyard must not want to be found out what he did, otherwise, he would not choose to do it secretly in the dead of night.

Sure enough, the familiar figure appeared at the gate of the courtyard, and he flashed less than five feet in front of him, and walked around the courtyard towards the back.

Behind the Yuyin Mountain House, isn't it the back door of the Wubi Pavilion? That back door that never opened, what was he going to do there?