Chapter Seventy-Six: One Step Late
"Then you should go back quickly," Qiao Xi Yajiao urged with a smile, "If you don't go back, Lingtang's breakfast will be finished."
"Oh, really!" Lin Yaozhu looked at the rising sun, stomped her feet and said, "Then I won't tell you yet, and I'll talk to you another day when you're not busy." After that, Lin Yaozhu turned her head to the little maid on the side and said, "What are you doing in a daze? Go and ask Lin Chang to drive the car over!"
When the little maid heard this, she didn't say a word, and hurriedly ran away.
"My girl, I've changed more than a dozen, and none of them can compare to your Chunling!" Lin Yaozhu said with a smile.
"The maid who grew up with you, I remember her name is Yumei? Where did she go?" Hearing Lin Yaozhu say that the maid was not good, Qiao Xiya couldn't help but ask about Lin Yaozhu's personal maid since childhood.
"Let her go to Longquan Temple outside the city early this morning to burn incense for me and repay my wishes." Lin Yaozhu smiled, "Come on, I'll go back first, or my mother will curse again." Lin Yaozhu said, got into the carriage, "See you later."
"See you later." Qiao Xiya said with a smile.
"Girl, let's go." Chunling's voice pulled back Qiao Xiya's gaze at Lin Yaozhu's carriage.
"Chunling, you can also buy a honey lotus seed cake later." Qiao Xiya smiled and looked at Chunling.
"Okay!" Chunling responded quickly, and helped Qiao Xiya squeeze through the bustling crowd and walked in the direction of the carriage at the intersection.
"Let's go! Let's go out of the water!" The panicked sound made the already crowded crowd even more confused.
"Let's go!" An ominous premonition hit Qiao Xiya's heart, and she struggled to push away the people running in a panic in front of her, beckoning Chunling to squeeze quickly in the direction of the carriage.
The crowded crowd rushed towards Qiao Xiya, Qiao Xiya and Chunling went up, and were pushed by the crowd and almost fell.
"Girl, beware!" Qiao San, who was standing in the carriage, saw Qiao Xiya and Chunling, who were squeezed into difficulty, snorted urgently, stepped on the horse's back, turned over on the roof, and arrived near Qiao Xiya in three or five steps.
Qiao Xiya looked at the crowd of people on the street in shock, and realized that if it wasn't for Qiao San's timely rescue, she and Chunling would have been pushed to the ground a long time ago, and then trampled to death.
"Thank you, Third Master Qiao, for saving your life." Qiao Xiya bowed to Qiao Sanyingying.
"The girl is serious." Qiao San hurriedly turned sideways and dodged this worship.
"What day is it? Why are there so many people on West Street?" Chunling couldn't help but complain.
"yes, why are there so many people?" Qiao Xiya was stunned.
"Girl, look!" Qiao San pointed his finger and shouted not far away.
Qiao Xiya looked up, only to see thick smoke billowing out, the flames grew when they saw the wind, and instantly ignited a room, and the cries and shouts in the sea of fire were one together.
"Hurry, hurry!" Wu Houfu of Jin'an City West Street hurriedly ran towards the house of fire with a bucket of water, while the officers and soldiers stationed at the West Gate took a step forward to disperse the crowd and forcibly gave way to a passage.
Thanks to Wu Houfu's efforts, the fire was quickly brought under control, and the house that had been burned first had been reduced to ashes by this time. Qiao San took Qiao Xiya and Chunling down from the roof, stepped on the muddy street, and walked to the house that burned first.
Qiao Xiya looked at the room next to her that had been affected by the fire, and after a little contemplation, she lifted the corner of her skirt and stepped into the fire scene.
"Hey, what's the matter with you girl!" At that time, there were Wu Houfu's team members who scolded.
"Dali Temple handles the case, and the idle people stand back!" Chunling held the Dali Temple waist card that Qiao Xiya had stored in her hand and suppressed all the voices around her.
"A girl, still handling cases in Dali Temple." Immediately, there was a ridicule, the sound was not loud or small, and it just happened to fall on Qiao Xiya's ears.
"Hurry up and find clues." Qiao Xiya's gentle voice stopped Chunling's small universe that was about to explode.
"Girl, look!" A strangely shaped object in the ashes caught Chunling's attention.
Qiao Xiya walked over, picked it up from the mud, and wiped the mud off it with a silk handkerchief
Ba, a piece of gold that had been burned and deformed was presented in front of Qiao Xiya, and the gold was also inlaid with a few gemstones.
"Collect gold silk eight treasure glass bead flowers." Even though it had been deformed, Qiao Xiya still recognized the piece of jewelry that flowed out of the palace.
"Look again and see if there's anything else." Qiao Xiya took Zhuhua in her arms and ordered the two to continue searching.
After about a cup of tea, the two men never found any more valuable clues.
"Mistress Joe!" Huo Changhua, the guard of the West City Gate, came to Qiao Xiya with his fists clenched, "I just learned that you came to handle the case in person, I don't know if there is anything that can be done by the lowly position?"
"Lord Huo." Qiao Xiya was shallowly blessed, and Huo Changhua turned to one side and let this gift go. "Please invite the brothers who were on patrol two days ago, I have something to ask them."
"Well said, well said." Huo Changhua agreed again and again, and hurriedly sent the soldiers who followed him to quickly go back to recruit people, and then smiled at Qiao Xiya, "Master Qiao, although the fire has been extinguished here, it is still a little dangerous, why don't you move to Fengze Garden for questioning?"
Qiao Xiya followed Huo Changhua's false hand and looked, but saw that Feng Zeyuan was just across the street, not far from the scene they were exploring.
"Anyway, on the way here, I heard a friend mention that the honey lotus seed cake in Fengze Garden is delicious, so Master Huo should go with me to taste it." Qiao Xiya nodded.
"How about you sitting here?" Hu Rongfa, the owner of Fengze Garden, had already figured out the identities of the people in front of him when he was joining in the fun, and he also knew the purpose of their coming to Fengze Garden, seeing Qiao Xiya and others walking towards his Fengze Garden, Hu Rongfa stepped into the door first, quickly wiped a table next to the door, and led everyone to sit down.
"A plate of honey lotus seed cake, a pot of biluochun." Qiao Xiya was very satisfied with Hu Rongfa's arrangement.
"How do you know I have honey lotus seed cake here?" Seeing that Qiao Xiya didn't have an official stand, Hu Rongfa couldn't help but want to say a few more words, "It's also a coincidence, if you come a day early or a day late, I don't have honey lotus seed cake here." qδ
"Boss, what do you mean by that?" Qiao Xiya felt that Hu Rongfa's words were very interesting.
"I'll tell you the truth, our shop hasn't made this lotus seed cake for a long time, and I don't know whose girl it is, who will come to slam my door before dawn this morning, and I must make lotus seed cake for her, as much as you want." Hu Rongfa saw that Qiao Xiya was not disgusted, so he happily explained, "As soon as I thought about the reason why I was afraid of money in this business, I got up and did it, just two servings in one pot, the girl took one copy, and I kept one here."
"Then it is destined to be a blessing to my mouth." Qiao Xiya smiled softly.