Meng Huaili suddenly lost her husband, which can be regarded as the second widow. Compared with her previous husband, Ni Zhongkun, who is dying now, can be described as true love, needless to say, sad. In this situation, I'm afraid I can't ask anything.

Han Daring wanted to go to the back kitchen and visit the cook, driver, maid, gardener and other subordinates, Bai Chongwei originally wanted Meng Huaizhi to accompany him, but Meng Huaizhi felt that with the main family, he was afraid that the subordinates would not dare to speak, so he only asked Bai Chongwei to accompany him.

Besides, there are still couples surnamed Pei at home, and they can't leave people there and no one entertains them, so Meng Huaiyi and Zheng Hao accompanied Meng Huaili, and Meng Huaizhi and his eldest brother Meng Huairen entertained the couple surnamed Pei together.

Walking through the corridor next to the restaurant and turning a corner, Han Da'er and Bai Chongwei came to the back kitchen.

At this time, the bald fat man who was picking his head in the corridor earlier was talking with three or four maids, and there was an old woman sitting with a cigarette pouch next to him, foaming at the mouth and talking about the rights and wrongs of the second aunt, seeing Han Daring and Bai Chongwei coming, the old mother coughed, and several people immediately stopped talking.

This fat man's bald head is named Wang Tietou, who is the cook in the family, and the other three maids are Xiao Tao, who specializes in taking care of Old Man Meng, and Xiao Mei and Xiao Ju, who are responsible for serving tea and pouring water, and cleaning. That old mother is the dowry girl of Mrs. Meng's long house in the past, surnamed Feng. When she got older, the Meng family called her Mama Feng up and down.

Everyone in the Meng family knew Bai Chongwei, and Xiao Tao hurriedly asked:

"Does Young Master Bai want to drink tea or ......?"

Bai Chongwei said:

"I just died, this is the inspector of the police department, I have something to ask you......"

"Recognize! Know! Jinmen Detective, Han Touer's name, that's like thunder! ”

When Wang Tietou saw Han Dada'er coming, he was extremely enthusiastic and attentive, put on a smile, and quickly wiped a stool with the apron on his body, and invited Han Da'er to sit.

Xiaomei next to her hurriedly said:

"Hey! Don't your dirty apron wipe the stool, and the more you wipe it, the dirtier it gets! ”

As she spoke, Xiaomei and Xiaoju took out their handrolls, carefully wiped the two stools, and moved them to Han Da'er and Bai Chongwei.

Bai Chongwei didn't sit down, just stood by the window and lit a cigarette.

Han Dadao sat down with a smile and said:

"You guys sit down too, let's just talk casually!"

Wang Tietou was embarrassed to sit, but after hearing Han Daring say this, he moved a few benches and sat down, Han Daring was already tall, and he sat taller than ordinary people, these people didn't dare to sit on an equal footing with the deputy master, so they moved a small bench, who knows, sitting down seemed that Han Daring was taller, and he could only tilt his head and talk back to the mountain race.

Xiao Tao, who was specially serving Old Man Meng, did not sit down, but turned around to make tea on the side. Feng's mother kept sitting against the wall, without any expression, and filled another bag of cigarettes, and continued to smoke without saying a word.

Before Han Daring could start asking, Wang Tietou preemptively said:

"Han Tou'er, we have all heard of your name, and we all say that you are the reincarnation of the Imperial History of the Heavenly Survey, specializing in catching demons and evil spirits that plague the world. Last time I heard from the book, you solved the water ghost case, and it was all amazing......"

This Wang Tietou, whose mouth is competing with a machine gun, has been asking Han Daring about the cases he has solved before, and Bai Chongwei is next to him so much that his ears are about to explode, and he stopped in a loud voice:

"Shut up! But it's killing me......"

Wang Tietou was silent, but he glanced at Bai Chongwei.

Han Daring said:

"I want to know about the cases I solved before, and I'll tell you about them later, but now, I want to hear what you think about the murder that just happened!"

When it came to the murder, several people were dumbfounded.

Wang Tietou said:

"What can you think of that, don't you give it all!"

Han Daring said:

"If you have any ideas, just say it, it doesn't matter, the Meng family is not here. What do you think of Ni Zhongkun? What is the relationship between his family and him? ”

Before Wang Tietou could speak, Xiaomei muttered:

"If we are subordinates, we know how to work hard, and we don't know anything else!"

Xiao Ju also nodded and echoed.

Han Daring said:

"Say whatever you know, when I came in just now, didn't it be quite lively when I heard what you said?"

Xiaomei Dao:

"We just talked nonsense, and we didn't say anything!"

At this time, Wang Tietou couldn't hold it anymore and said:

"Hey! Han Tou'er has nothing to be afraid of here, I just feel ......"

"Ahem!"

At this time, Feng's mother on the side coughed, picked up a bowl of tea on the table, took a sip, as if there was phlegm in her throat, and cleared her throat.

Wang Tietou glanced at Feng's mother and said:

"You don't have a cough, I dare to say that I'm not afraid, it's a big deal to quit my job, the owner doesn't do it, I do the west, I have the craft and I'm afraid that I won't have anything to eat......"

That Feng's mother sighed, didn't pay attention to it anymore, and just continued to smoke.

Wang Tietou said:

"The second aunt is a little white face who eats soft rice, they all say that he is a little white face, he has no good intentions, he is not false at all, he beat the second lady to marry him, the money made him shake clean, and he also raised a foreign house outside, except for the second miss, everyone knows it.

Later, when I ran out of money, I asked the second lady to come back to cut the old man! Don't usually have five or six people, in front of the Meng family, it seems to be a cat and mouse avoidance, and on the outside, he is a serious master who spends all day drinking and messing around with money, and he is also another face to us, with horizontal eyebrows and eyes, he is really not raised! ”

Han Daring said:

"Then the second aunt is like this, doesn't your second lady know anything about it?"

Wang Tietou said:

"Hey, no one can say it, don't say anything else, even if the old man said it when he was alive, the second lady didn't believe it! But there's no way, people will coax, and the mouth will be wiped with honey, and the sweet second lady will believe that he doesn't believe in others! I don't understand, the second lady is a very good person, why do you find such a piece of material......"

Xiaomei interjected:

"I'm looking for you!"

"What's wrong with me? I'm a hundred times better than that! ”

Wang Tietou said with his chest open.

Han Daring said:

"Who in this family has the worst relationship with the second aunt?"

"Except for the second young lady, I don't want to see him!"

Wang Tietou thought about it a little and said:

"If you want to say that you hate him the most, it's the third young master! You can see it when you eat, think about it, these two people are a loser, the other eats soft rice, they both rely on the old man to feed, and they must be the most pinched by each other! ”

Outside of these words, Wang Tietou seems to look down on Meng Huaixin, the third son of the Meng family, and thinks that this kid is a son of a ruined family.

Han Da'er asked:

"Did anything special happen today?"

Wang Tietou grinned and said:

"What's not special about the recent events? It's all out of the borrowed corpse to return the soul, it's really called marrying a daughter-in-law and playing flags, and the lively ones are out of the circle! ”

"Is there anyone who is in an abnormal mood?"

Xiaomei Dao:

"Today, the second miss received a letter, which seems to be sealed with a photo, which I received and sent to the second miss, and the second miss took it to the room, and after reading it, she seemed to be very excited!"

When Han Daring heard the word "photo", his heart suddenly sank, and he said in his heart, is it a photo again?

Busy asked:

"What about the letter?"

"At the second miss!"

Han Da'er asked again:

"Who came to the kitchen when dinner was prepared today?"

Wang Tietou scratched his bald head and said:

"I patronized the meal and didn't pay attention! Xiao Ju is helping in the kitchen, she should know! ”

Han Daring looked at Xiao Ju. The girl was a little shy and spoke very quietly.

She said timidly:

"Actually...... I didn't pay much attention to it...... It seems that in addition to the eldest young master and the second young master, the eldest lady, the second young lady and the third young master have all been here......"

Han Daring said:

"Second Aunt Ni Zhongkun and Mencius Chao, what about Zheng Hao?"

Xiao Ju recalled for a while and said:

"Young Master Sun and Miss Sun have never come in, and Second Aunt never comes to the kitchen!"

"Ni Zhongkun never comes to the kitchen?"

Han Daring asked.

Xiao Ju said:

"In my memory, only two days before my lord's death, the second aunt entered the kitchen once!"

Han Daring saw a lot of leftovers on the table next to him, as if it was a leftover lunch for the next people, and two of the dishes seemed to be the same as the dishes that everyone ate in the restaurant at noon. It looks like it's been dialed out by doing too much.

Han Daring walked over, used a chopstick, pulled through the leftovers for a while, and asked:

"Your eldest lady and second miss, and the third young master, what are you doing in the kitchen?"

Xiao Ju said:

"The eldest lady came to see how the meal was prepared, and the second lady said that the second aunt loves to eat this cinnamon stuffed meatball, so let's see how the filling of the meatballs is done!

As for the third young master, he was hungry, so come in and let me bring him some snacks to eat! ”

Han Daring said:

"Who has ever been close to the noon dishes?"

Xiao Ju thought for a while and said:

"They've all been close!"

Feng's mother, who had not spoken all this time, suddenly said:

"Although the eldest lady has been in the kitchen, she has only asked a few words, but she has never been close to those dishes! What's the matter, I can't suspect the eldest lady! ”

After saying this, Feng's mother stopped talking and continued to smoke on the side.

Han Daring understood that the eldest lady Meng Huaiyi was born to the Chen family, the wife of the old man Meng's long house, and Feng's mother was the dowry girl of the Chen family, so she naturally spoke to Meng Huaiyi the most.

Xiao Ju thought about it, and nodded and said:

"Hmmm! The eldest lady doesn't seem to have been close to those dishes! ”

At this time, Xiao Tao made two cups of tea and brought them to Han Daring and Bai Chongwei, Han Daring opened the lid and saw that the tea was light green, and gradually turned light yellow after a while, looking a little like a bird's tongue, but it didn't seem to be, so he said:

"Is it the tip of the white hair?"

Xiao Tao nodded yes.

Bai Chongwei said:

"Why don't you make a bird's tongue?"

"The Zhejiang finch tongue that I usually brew has just run out, this is the white hair tip that the third young master bought for the old man earlier, and the second aunt drank this tea when he ate at noon!"

Han Daring remembered that when he was eating at noon, Ni Zhongkun did have a bowl of tea next to his tableware. It turned out that this was Ni Zhongkun's habit, he didn't like to drink soup, and he also drank tea when he ate, so every time he ate, Meng Huaili asked the maid to prepare a bowl of hot tea for Ni Zhongkun.

Bai Chongwei just put the tea bowl to his mouth, but was stopped by Han Daring:

"Wait! Don't drink it yet! ”

Bai Chongwei seemed to instantly understand what Han Da'er meant, and hurriedly said:

"Do you doubt this tea? ……”

"I'm not sure, but don't drink it yet!"

He asked Peach:

"Where do you put all your tea?"

Xiao Tao said towards a cabinet in the back:

"It's all here!"

Han Daring walked over and opened the cupboard, seeing that there were four dark green tea cans inside. One of them is empty, and the other three are one with the West Lake Longjing, the other with the Junshan silver needle, and the other with the tip of the white hair.

Han Da'er asked:

"How many times has this white hair been brewed?"

Little Peach Road:

"I made it once, this is the third young master specially bought for the master, just the day before the old man died, the two tea cans in the back just now are not easy to take, so ...... I'll give you two this! ”

Han Da'er asked:

"You said you brewed once, did you just make a cup for Ni Zhongkun at noon?"

"That's right! This tea was bought by the third young master the day before the old man died, and before he could make tea, the old man passed away, and the tongue was gone at noon, so he made this for the second aunt, but ......" Xiao Tao said.

Han Daring said:

"But what?"

Little Peach Road:

"When I bought this tea, I filled the can, I always felt that this time I opened it, it seemed to be different from the last time, I remember that there were not so many tea leaves last time!"

Han Daring pondered for a moment, then took down the white-haired tea can, opened the tea can, and put it on the table to observe carefully. He noticed that there seemed to be something like flower petals, so he picked out two of them, placed them on a handkerchief and examined them carefully, and then asked:

"Does the third young master usually like to drink tea?"

Xiao Tao shook her head and said:

"I don't like to drink! The third young master loves to drink coffee! ”

Han Daring said:

"Before lunch, who touched the cupboard where the tea was kept!"

Little Peach Road:

"The second lady and the third young master have been close, and there are often snacks and snacks in the cupboard next to them, nuts, walnuts, plums, fruit candy and the like. The second lady seems to want to eat walnuts, and the third young master wants to eat snacks, so they have all touched the cupboard! ”

Bai Chongwei leaned over, looked at the two petals on the handkerchief, and asked:

"What is this? Don't? ……”

Han Da'er shook his head and said:

"I haven't seen it either! I don't know yet! ”

After speaking, he turned his head and called Zhang Biao, who was standing at the door, in, handed him the handkerchief wrapped in petals, and then said:

"Do you know the Pasteur laboratory in the French Concession?"

"Acquaintance!"

"You hurry up and go to the Pasteur laboratory, give this to a laboratory technician named Mei Ruohong, and say that I asked you to go, let him see what this is, and then call me back quickly!"

Zhang Biao nodded in agreement. Bai Chongwei knew that the matter was important, so he asked his driver to drive Zhang Biao on a trip, and with a roar of the engine, the car quickly left the Meng family's mansion and went straight to the French Concession.

Han Da'er said to Xiao Tao:

"If you want to make tea today, just make the two cans in the back, don't move the tip of the white hair for the time being!"

Wang Tietou and Xiao Tao seemed to understand something, and Feng's mother next to her was still smoking while looking out the window, the smoke was filled, and the back kitchen seemed to be covered with a layer of mist.