"Xiangxiu Zhongji, Zuo Yanqing, the three of you will go to the snake catcher tomorrow and ask who can control the snake, and Lord Huo and I will continue to look for clues on the corpse!"

The people arose and went their separate ways.

Huo Yijun was just about to leave, but was stopped by Jiang Xie.

"You stay for a while, I have something to tell you."

Huo Yijun turned around and sat down again, looking at him suspiciously: "Does Lord Jiang have anything else to order?" ”

"I mean...... Over there in the mortuary, I'll be fine with you, and you can stay here and rest. Jiang Xie spoke in a much lower voice than before, and when he went out to close the door, he asked again, "Are you sugar gourd or sugar fried chestnuts, I can bring them to you when I come back." ”

"Sugar gourd!" Huo Yijun blurted out.

Jiang Xie smiled slightly: "Okay!" ”

After he left, Huo Yijun was actually not idle, Zuo Yanqing went to inquire about the old woman's news, after all, it was limited. And as the young owner of the Huo Family Restaurant, there are some things as long as he can ask them.

Therefore, he instructed Xiao Er to ask the kitchen to make her a snake soup, and then asked the shopkeeper to deliver it in person.

An hour later, the shopkeeper himself came with the snake cup.

He looked at Huo Yijun with a smile: "Little boy be careful, it's very hot, this snake soup is the most supplemental, your body is weak, you really need to drink it, the villain wanted to serve it for you before, but I was afraid that you wouldn't dare to eat it." ”

He placed the snake cup on the table and stood respectfully aside.

Huo Yijun lifted the lid of the cup, looked at the snake soup and snake meat inside, and really didn't have any interest in eating, so she simply closed the lid and looked at the shopkeeper.

"Go close the door."

The smile on the shopkeeper's face froze, and seeing that there was an order, he stepped over and closed the door and quickly turned back, standing in front of Huo Yijun again, with his head down, and he was not as good at talking as just now.

The atmosphere in the room was getting tense.

The shopkeeper rubbed his hands together, his temples were sweating, and this silent confrontation made him the most uncomfortable, as if he was suffering all the time, because he didn't know what the little boy was thinking.

"Don't stop talking, looking at me like this makes my heart furious."

Huo Yijun retracted his gaze, pushed the snake cup to the shopkeeper, and then ordered: "I don't want to drink it now, you pour me a cup of tea." ”

"Good!"

The shopkeeper poured him tea diligently.

After the tea was delivered, Huo Yijun put the teacup in his hand, raised his eyes, looked at him with blazing eyes, and stared at him for a long time.

"Come, tell me, who came up with the idea of eating snake soup? After the introduction of this dish, did the restaurant make money? ”

Huo Yijun finally asked, but the question he asked directly reached the shopkeeper's heart, so that he had no time to react and was caught off guard.

There is a precedent of the pig's eye burst in the Huojia Restaurant before, and the snake soup in the Yuntai Restaurant must have been deliberately done by someone, and the effect achieved is the same.

The shopkeeper took a breath and said: "You are worthy of being a little boy, you are really sharp-eyed and understandable, this dish was indeed added to the menu later, that is because many years ago, the eunuch Yinghui came to Shanyin County to do business, and a cook happened to make a snake soup, which was deeply liked by the eunuch, so the restaurant added this dish to the menu." ”

"On the one hand, it can increase the income of the restaurant and bring new dishes, and on the other hand, it can eliminate people's fears and eliminate the number of snakes. You don't know that you have to get up today to surpass the snake plague, thousands of snakes are on the ground, densely packed, and then thanks to eating snakes, this snake plague can be controlled. ”

When Huo Yijun heard this, his mind drifted to Yingdu again, but he didn't expect to leave there, and he could still hear the experience of Yinghui Eunuch in the early years here.

She had some impressions of the snake plague.

It was probably the tenth year of the emperor's reign, there was a great drought, snakes and rats were overflowing, the people's fertile fields were destroyed, the crops were not harvested, and the imperial court sent several waves, but the fundamental problems were not solved.

In the end, it was the eunuch Yinghui who personally escorted the disaster relief workers to Shanyin County to help Zheng Taishou solve the fundamental problem.

Because the eunuch likes to eat all kinds of strange things.

So he proposed to make snake soup, which can effectively solve the problem of snake flooding, not only solve the problem of snake disaster people not having enough to eat, but also increase the daily income of the restaurant, so the shopkeeper also added this dish.

Huo Yijun asked again: "In addition, the purple lazuli on the transfer officer's ship, do you know where it is usually sent to Shanyin County?" ”

The shopkeeper raised his head violently, he really didn't expect that Huo Yijun even knew this, and even thought of the purple lazuli, he actually thought of this, he must have done a certain amount of work before.

"Little boy, purple lazuli is generally used to smelt metals, it is a resource controlled by the imperial court, and only a few local chambers of commerce can get purple lazuli, are you asking this because you suspect that the Huo family is involved in the distribution of purple lazuli?"

His eyes were cold, and suspicion flashed in his eyes.

"Ben Gongzi didn't mean that, but you have to know clearly that many things are not something you can hide if you want to hide them, so I hope you can tell me where that batch of purple lazuli stones has gone?"

Huo Yijun keenly discovered the existence of purple lazuli in this restaurant, so it was undoubtedly inseparable from the last transfer of the official ship.

The shopkeeper said: "The Purple Lazuli Restaurant was distributed from the Chamber of Commerce, and the rest of the Purple Lazuli was transferred downstream again through the official ship. ”

"So did any of the people escorting the purple stone pass through Shanyin County on the way?"

The shopkeeper nodded and said firmly, "Yes!" And more than one batch! ”