At this moment, in the courtyard of Xie Mansion, Xiao Musheng suddenly stopped, Chen Ce was about to ask, but when he saw him raise his right hand, he tacitly shut up, and at the same time, he also grabbed Lu He and signaled him not to speak yet.

"Xiao Gongzi, what doubts do you have? The old slave will know everything, and he will say everything. Steward Xiao had a smirk on his face.

Xiao Musheng didn't have time to think about Steward Xiao's attitude at this moment, so he pointed to the courtyard not far away and asked, "That courtyard is the East Kitchen of the Mansion?" ”

Steward Xiao looked in the direction he was pointing and replied, "Yes." ”

He couldn't grasp Xiao Musheng's intentions, so he couldn't say too much, and after replying to those two words, seeing that Xiao Musheng no longer spoke, he stood a little embarrassed, turned sideways again, and couldn't help rubbing his hands.

"Steward Xiao......"

At this time, Xiao Musheng suddenly spoke, and when Steward Xiao heard this, he hurriedly turned around, looked at him and asked, "Here, what does Xiao Gongzi command?" ”

"Don't dare." Speaking of this, Xiao Musheng looked around and saw that the people in the house were busy, so he said, "We want to walk around the courtyard by ourselves, and if Steward Xiao has other things, he can go and do it himself." ”

After being a housekeeper for so many years, he naturally has the ability to see, although he still wants to continue to talk to these people, but in order not to increase his unhappiness, he said: "Xiao Gongzi's meaning is understood by the old slave, so I won't disturb the Yaxing of several sons...... The old slave retired. ”

In the end, he glanced at Xiao Musheng and the others, and saw that they had no intention of retaining them at all, so he returned to the gate of the mansion unwillingly and continued to receive new guests.

Seeing Steward Xiao walking away, Chen Ce hurriedly asked, "Ziqing, what's going on?" ”

According to etiquette, they should visit the head of the Xie Mansion first at this moment, if it is really as Xiao Musheng just said, it would be rude to wander around by themselves without informing the master of the mansion.

Xiao Musheng frowned slightly, and only said: "It's too late, I'll talk to you later, follow me to the East Kitchen first." ”

"Eh, you're ......"

Seeing that Xiao Musheng ran in the direction of the people's east kitchen after speaking, and even lost his former composure, Chen Ce and Lu He glanced at each other, and had to follow him helplessly.

At this time, the people in the east kitchen were busy: some were chopping vegetables in front of the cutting board, and some were staring intently at the fire on the five stoves; Some people slaughter chickens and ducks in the yard; Others brought water and poured it into the jar......

In addition, everyone in the east kitchen took a cloth to cover their mouth and nose, so no one noticed that there were more people in the kitchen.

The man was dressed in the same clothes as the cook, but his movements were extremely awkward, and he crept to a pot and lifted the wooden lid with his left hand.

At this moment, the meat is stewed in the pot, and the moment the lid is opened, the fragrance wafts out.

He glanced left and right again, and seeing that no one was paying attention, he took out a small porcelain vase with a red stopper from his waist with his right hand.

With one hand, he unplugged the porcelain vase, opened the porcelain vase, and was about to pour the contents of the porcelain vase into the pot......

But in the next second, his hand holding the porcelain vase was suddenly grabbed, and he looked in the direction to see that it was a jade-faced boy who stopped him.

The man was stunned for a moment, and wanted to break free of his right hand, but his strength was obviously incomparable, so he rolled his eyes, and suddenly said in a pretended delicate voice: "Childe, you scratched me, the slave family just wants to put some salt in the soup, why do you bother the slave family?" ”

Xiao Musheng's face was calm, and he snatched the porcelain bottle in his hand with his other hand, only glanced at it, and then asked, "Are you sure this is salt?" ”

Chen Ce followed, and when he heard Xiao Musheng's words, he took the porcelain vase, just smelled it, judged it, and said, "It's Bashu (1) powder." ”

Seeing this, Lu He immediately took a hemp rope from the servant in charge of the fire, and before the person who gave the medicine could react, he directly tied him up.

Xiao Musheng let go of his hand, took another handkerchief, and wiped his hand twice.

Seeing that he was trapped, the man hurriedly said to the people in the East Kitchen: "How can the slave family know what kind of bashu powder? Today, the guests were invited to a banquet in the house, but these people came to the East Kitchen to make trouble, why are you all stunned, why don't you arrest them quickly! ”

But as soon as he finished speaking, a cook behind him suddenly asked: "This East Chef is obviously just a cook girl, where did you come from?" ”

As she spoke, she hurriedly stepped forward and tore off the cloth that the man was covering his mouth and nose, and everyone realized that the person in front of her was a cook, and it was clearly a man.

Chen Ce also suddenly realized, no wonder there were always a few twists in this person's movements.

Seeing that the man wanted to shout again, Chen Ce frowned slightly, and felt noisy in his heart, so he picked up the handkerchief that Xiao Musheng had used to wipe his hands and directly blocked the mouth of the person who was drugged.

"The following is a guest invited to the banquet by Xie Mansion this time, and I accidentally found that this person acted sneakily, and his body shape and movements were not like ordinary cooks, so he followed......"

Xiao Musheng thought about the wording and explained: "Then I found out that this person wanted to put bashu powder in the soup you prepared for the banquet, and now that everyone has obtained the stolen goods, it depends on your mansion how to deal with it." ”

Dongchu Kuguan (2) surnamed Ding, white and fat, laughed like a Maitreya Buddha, he happened to hear Xiao Musheng's words when he came, so he looked at the person who was drugged.

He still knows this man!

So, as soon as Ding Kuguan thought about it, he knew that this matter was not simple.

He pushed away the people in front of him with both hands, and finally squeezed in front of Xiao Musheng, first saluted in a non-standard manner, and asked: "The little surname is Ding, who is in charge of the affairs of the East Kitchen, what is the name of the son?" ”

"Under the surname Xiao." Xiao Musheng smiled and replied.

Ding Yuguan didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, although he didn't know these people, no matter how he said that they were all guests invited by the master's family, and it was not something he could easily offend.

Thinking of this, he said with some hesitation: "Young Master Xiao, I will report this matter to the head of the family, however, please keep this matter secret, and after it is dealt with, Xie Fu will give everyone a satisfactory answer." ”

This was originally a private matter of their Xie Mansion, but because Xiao Musheng and others discovered and stopped it, and Bashu Fan almost made them victims, they were bound to give them an explanation.

Xiao Musheng nodded, and then whispered: "I can understand and agree, but there are many people in the East Kitchen, can Ding Yuguan guarantee that they won't talk nonsense?" ”

Ding Yuguan touched his head a little embarrassed, then turned around and said viciously to the people in the East Kitchen: "You all listen to me, don't discuss this matter in private today, let alone tell others, if anyone is disobedient, then the deed of sale will be ......."

Some of the words are up to the end!

But Xiao Musheng still guessed that this Ding Kuguan should be threatening these people with a deed of sale.

But I have to say that the effect is very obvious.

After hearing Ding Yuguan's words, the people in the East Kitchen hurriedly agreed, for fear that they would be sold if they were one step too late......