Ye Lan didn't expect that the third brother would bring such a big official to dinner, and she was so frightened that she was in a hurry.

Qin Dachuan and the others didn't expect that they had just eaten halfway through when Lord Shaoqing actually came, and hurriedly came over to salute, "My lord-"

"It's worth it, you are free."

"Yes, sir."

Yip Kee restaurant is not large, there are no private rooms, only the lobby, there are seven or eight tables in it, due to the high building, part of the partition is made into a fake second floor, which is equivalent to the modern LOFT (it means under the roof, the attic where things are stored)

Yeats saw that Yelan and Ade were so frightened that they didn't know what to do, so they had to invite people to the second floor, a rest place she left for herself, sometimes when the case was late, she didn't bother to go home and disturb everyone, so she went to the attic of Ye Kee to take a simple rest.

Winter comes less, too cold, this shop was in the early winter last year, and I haven't come to live in summer, but Yeats estimates that when the window is opened, the evening breeze will blow, and it must be quite cool.

Yeats led the man upstairs, "Sir, you sit down for a while, and I'll go down and prepare some ingredients and sauces." ”

Pei Jingning walked around with the light in his hand, a small room, simple, a bed against the west wall, a bookcase in the south window, a small square table in the middle, and two chairs, there is a kitchen by the north wall, and a small bookshelf is placed on the side of the cook, up and down, and there are a lot of books.

He glanced at Yeats, a little lady with such outstanding ability, it seemed that these books were indispensable.

Yeats didn't know what Lord Shaoqing was thinking, seeing that he was interested in the room, he smiled, "Then my lord, you take a look first, I'll go down and prepare, and I'll come up immediately." ”

"Hmm." Pei Jingning nodded.

After Yeats left, he beckoned, and Bai Lang hurriedly approached, "My lord—"

"Bring up the charcoal fire."

"Yes, sir."

Yeats to the kitchen.

Ye Lan hurriedly stepped forward, "Three...... The third brother ......, "Her heart is still very panicked."

Yeats smiled at the two, "Help prepare some vegetables, mutton, and a hundred pages...... Anyway, you have eaten pots at home, so you will prepare them according to the ingredients at home. ”

"Okay."

With the goal in mind, Ye Lan and Ade didn't panic anymore, and hurriedly took the chef to get busy.

Yeats personally adjusted the sauce, and just after it was ready, when he was about to see how Ye Lan prepared their side dishes, Qin Dachuan came from the lobby.

Yeats thought he was going back after eating, but he stopped talking.

"What's wrong?"

Qin Dachuan looked upstairs and then at the door.

Yeats washed his hands and came out of the kitchen, "Uncle Qin, what's the matter?" ”

Qin Dachuan didn't say a word, and led people to the door of the restaurant, Xiao Er, who ran to the hall, was stopping a woman who was covering her mouth and crying, as soon as she saw Yeats, her eyes full of tears lit up, as if she had found a life-saving star.

"Sister-in-law, this is ......"

The woman burst into tears, but suppressed herself and did not cry, "My lord...... Save my seedlings! ”

The night was dark, and the wind was cold outside, Yeats quickly helped his sister-in-law into the lobby and moved a stool for her to sit down.

"Sister-in-law, if you do this again, I won't help."

The woman was so frightened that she sat down on the stool, "Please, please, please......," and she grabbed Yeats's hand.

"Say, I'm listening!" Yeats spoke softly, comforting the grieving woman.

The woman slowed down for a while before she could control her emotions, "My Miao'er is missing, and I haven't found it for three days and three nights. ”

This is the normal procedure of the yamen, "Then have you asked your relatives and friends to help you find it?" "When a loved one goes missing, it mainly depends on relatives and friends in the first time.

"Please, the people in the whole alley have helped me find it, but I haven't even found Miao'er's shadow, and if I don't find it, I'm afraid...... I'm afraid Miao'er ......"

"How old is your daughter?"

"Four."

This age is the favorite age of traffickers, it is easy to coax and have no memory, so it is best to deceive.

"Have any strangers entered the alley lately?"

The woman shook her head, "All the neighbors have asked, and no strangers have ever come, not even the small candy sellers who usually walk the streets." ”

Yeats frowned and looked at Qin Dachuan.

He stepped forward, "His man knows me, and he found me after a day of inquiry today, and wanted to ask me to help find his daughter." With that, he looked out the door.

Only then did Yeats notice that there was a young man squatting on the side of the door, facing the street, with his back bent like a little old man, very old.

Dali Temple is really not the place to find people.

Yeats thought for a moment, "Wait a minute. He turned, "Lan'er—"

"Third brother?"

"Give ......"

Qin Dachuan said: "The husband's surname is Hua, and the sister-in-law's surname is Ding." ”

"Give Brother Hua and sister-in-law a bowl of hot mutton noodles."

"Okay."

Hua Ding's could eat there, and grabbed Yeats, who was leaving, "Lord Ye, I heard that you solve the case like a god, please, help us catch the traffickers and get my Miao'er back." ”

Yeats smiled, "I'll go upstairs and find a bigger official than me, and ask him to assign people to find your Miao'er." ”

Hua Ding knelt down with a thud and kowtowed, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, ......"

Yeats went upstairs, apologetically, "Your Excellency, ......"

The noise downstairs was so loud that Pei Jingning had already heard it, and asked Bai Lang to find the deputy commander of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, "Just say what I said, find a four-year-old girl." ”

"Yes, sir."

Yeats said, "My lord, I'll go down with the white guards and draw a few portraits for him." ”

Pei Jingning nodded.

After going downstairs, Yeats asked Hua Ding to tell her what her daughter looked like, drew a few pictures for the little girl, and handed them to the white guard: "If it is not enough, please ask the people of the Terracotta Division to help draw a few more." ”

"Yes." Bai Lang walked out of the restaurant with a knife.

The Hua family and his wife saw the big official's move, and finally felt that they saw hope, and the mutton noodles brought by Ding Lan were also eaten under Yeats's persuasion, and they were arranged properly before Yeats went upstairs.

When I went upstairs, I asked someone to put the hot pot on it.

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting."

Pei Jingning leaned on the long bench with a back against the east wall, holding the water note in his hand and watching it with relish, when he heard Yeats's voice, he turned his head, his eyebrows and eyes softened, "Do you like to watch these?" He turned the cover to himself and looked at the title.

Yeats smiled slightly, "In our line of work, from astronomy to geography, we have to understand everything." ”

"The river is also related to solving the case?" Pei Shaoqing felt strange.

"Of course." Yeats set the dishes and chopsticks and adjusted the sauces, "For example, one day a body was found in a mountain stream, how to determine how long the deceased had been dead, whether it was found at the scene of the crime or washed downstream by the water......"

“……”

Looking at the little lady under the lamp, the more you look at it, the more beautiful it becomes.

Yeats continued, "Different rivers have different water temperatures, different degrees of corrosiveness to the formation of corpses, different heights of mountains, and different speeds of water rushing down......

(End of chapter)