Chi Tao took the jade pendant out of his sleeve: "Look at this jade pendant." She said that day in Jizhou Yuelaiyi, Achu was almost humiliated, how she knocked Qiao Yulang unconscious, and how Achu wanted to vent her anger but accidentally kicked Yu Pei, the original story.

"You mean, this jade pendant is Qiao Yulang's?"

"Yes. Moreover, this jade pendant was received by the owner of the jewelry store from a pawnshop called Qianyunzhai. ”

"Since it's a pawnshop, there are people who go to it."

Chi Tao nodded, and the two looked at each other with sparkling eyes: "As long as you hold the person who is this jade pendant, you will find out the mastermind behind the scenes!" ”

Originally, because the clue had been broken, Xie Yao was busy for a few days and didn't figure it out, such as a big pie falling on his head today, he excitedly hammered Chi Tao's shoulder: "It's really yours!" What a blessing! ”

Chi Tao jumped away and frowned: "The gentleman moves, don't do it!" ”

Xie Yao laughed, much more comfortable, deliberately salivated, and teased her like a playboy: "If I wanted to do it, you would have been carried into my house a long time ago!" He suddenly discovered the fun of this possibility, and looked Chi Tao up and down: "Hey, don't say it, although you are thin, small and inconspicuous, you can't stand a good cooking skill, my mother also said that she likes you, why don't you go home with me?" ”

Before the words fell, Xie Yao hadn't seen Chi Tao's figure clearly, and he saw a figure in front of him like lightning, and the palm wind had already swept over.

Xie Yao didn't have time to think about it, instinctively shot out to protect his head and chest, and shook his upper body over Chi Tao's attack.

Chi Tao took advantage of the situation to step on a strange triangular footwork, and instantly came behind Xie Yao, grabbed Xie Yao's arms and buckled them firmly behind the chair.

Chi Tao said idly in Xie Yao's ear: "I'm a person like you, and I have an equal relationship, it's just that you spend money to buy the food I make." But it's not your family's minions, and it's not someone you can buy back with money. If you talk nonsense...... "She smiled coldly, and her hands were strengthened, "do you think I poisoned your food, or poisoned it, or poisoned it?"

Xie Yao smiled bitterly: "Hey, I was wrong, Miss Chi Er, Miss Chi Er, let me go." ”

Chi Tao let go of his hand with a smile, Xie Yao moved his arm, and muttered, "I didn't say anything...... What kind of kung fu are you? I've never seen it. ”

"I'll tell you when you find out about the jade pendant."

Xie Yao let out an "oh" and touched his head: "Listen to the rain!" ”

Tingyu, who was sleepy against the wall outside, woke up smartly, trotted in, and nodded with a smile: "Childe, what are you ordering?" ”

"Give this to Hei San, and let him go to a pawnshop called Qianyunzhai to find out where this jade pendant came from. Come here tomorrow for dinner time."

Hearing the rain, he was stunned, and his eyes involuntarily glanced at Chi Tao: "Here?" ”

Chi Tao stood aside indifferently with his arms crossed, and Xie Yao frowned: "Don't go yet." ”

Hearing that the rain slipped away, Xie Yao turned his head and smiled at Chi Tao: "There are some capable people under the black third hand, and they will definitely be able to find out the details." ”

"If you have one more person to eat, you have to add money."

“…… Let's just add one more......"

In the afternoon of the next day, Chi Tao returned home early from Chunning Snow and prepared dinner for Xie Yao.

She really felt that her monthly salary of 20 taels and 30 taels of food ingredients was too easy, so easy that she couldn't help it, so she rushed to the back street early and bought a lot of fruits, vegetables, meat, and fresh food to go home.

It is the time of September, the summer heat has passed, although there are still heat waves in the air from time to time, but it is much drier, and there is a faint sense of autumn high and refreshing.

Chi Tao held a large basket, filled with a few huge and full lotus flowers, a gills still in a piece of fresh mandarin fish, a dozen or so slaughtered quails, three or four autumn cucumbers and some bright red and fragrant peaches, although the heart of the jade pendant, but also felt that the weather was pleasant all of a sudden.

Chi Tao hummed a small song into the stove room, rolled up his sleeves to remove the scales and cut the mandarin fish, and lifted the tail to remove the clean meat, cut it into small pieces, and mix it with seasonings to marinate.

Then wash the quail, cut off the head, tail and claws, mix the powder, salt and sauce with water, mix well, and spread evenly on the inside and outside of the quail.

Chi Tao went to the room to practice a big character for an hour, felt that the index finger and middle finger were a little sore, just put down the brush, rubbed the fingers, looked at the drip, felt that the time was almost up, so he came to the stove room, first burned a pot of hot oil, pondered the fire, put the quail one by one into it and fried it until golden, the outside was charred and the inside was tender, the fragrance hit people, and then fished out and put it on the fence to control the oil.

Then remove the lotus pod and cut off the bottom, fill it with mandarin fish meat, and then cover the bottom of the lotus pod as it is and put it on the steamer.

As soon as they arrived in Shenzheng, Chi Xing, Shao Cheng and A Chu came back from the spring snow with a smile, and Chi Tao first steamed a few lotus pods, filled some fried quails, and filled three bowls of green and thick porridge with japonica rice, and gave them to the three of them first. Achu grabbed the fried quails, eating his hands and face full of oil, Shao Cheng also ate a few quails in a row, only Chi Xing Siwen was a little, holding a lotus fish bun and eating it in small bites.

Chi Tao saw the sweetness they used, and his heart was also happy, and he smiled: "Ah Chu eat slowly, although it is delicious, it is fried in the end, be careful to accumulate food at night." ”

Ah Chu's mouth kept stopping, muttering: "I'm tired all day, I don't eat more good food, and I'm hungry again at night......"

Chi Tao pursed her lips and smiled: "I'm still making golden soufflé here, and I'll give you a supper when you're hungry." ”

Achu was satisfied: "Okay, you can step down." ”

Chi Tao smiled and took the stove, mixed a pot of soufflé noodles, made a small round cake of more than an inch, dotted with white sesame seeds, and put it in the oven to bake.

Before the fragrance wafted out, Shao Cheng came in and called her: "Gongzi Xie is here, and he brought someone with him, I haven't seen it." ”

Chi Tao hurriedly steamed the lotus fish buns, and when the golden soufflé was almost ready, he took it out of the oven, and put four bowls of japonica rice porridge, a plate of crispy fried quail, a cage of golden soufflé on the tray, and eight lotus fish buns, and cut a plate of cucumbers, poured sesame oil on them to make a refreshing cold dish, and then went to the front hall.

Listening to the rain looking through the hall, seeing Chi Tao, he smiled and said, "Chi Langjun, what are you doing today, so fragrant?" ”

Chi Tao keenly noticed that Tingyu had replaced her with honorifics.

She didn't ask much, and said with a smile: "I know that you must be useless to eat, so I have prepared one for you." So he put a small plate on the table in the hall, picked up a few fried quails and fish buns, and put down two pieces of golden soufflé and a bowl of porridge: "Eat quickly." ”

Tingyu swallowed his saliva and rubbed his hands: "Then thank you Chi Langjun!" Hurriedly helped Chi Tao open the curtain of the main room.

There were three people inside, two sitting and one standing, Xie Yao's face was cynical, but it looked a little righteous and awe-inspiring.

The guest and host who shared the guest and host with Xie Yao were Mr. Bai, who had helped Chi Tao with the clerkship for opening the store.

The person standing was slightly dark, with an ordinary appearance, wearing the most common green cloth clothes, but Chi Tao turned his eyes and found that he couldn't remember his face.

Chi Tao was surprised, and after setting up the dishes and chopsticks, he deliberately glanced at the man twice.

Xie Yao got up and said, "This is Chi Tao, Chi Xiaolangjun." This Mr. Bai, you have met, is also my teacher. This is the Black Three, a person like my own brother. ”

Mr. Bai wore a white dress today, looking fairy-like, and fanned a feather fan with a smile: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." ”

Hei San hurriedly hugged his fists: "Childe's words are serious, how dare the villain be compared with Childe." ”

Chi Tao saluted Mr. Bai and Hei San respectively: "Mr. Bai is good, the third brother is good." Then he handed the chopsticks to the three of them: "It's past dinner, please eat first, and then talk after eating." ”

After the meal, Chi Tao took Shao Cheng to remove the leftovers, replaced the plate of peach slices, and served another pot of tea, and Shao Cheng went down.

Chi Tao was not polite and sat on the guest seat: "Found out where the jade pendant came from?" ”

Hei San glanced at Xie Yao, Xie Yao nodded, and Hei San said: "This jade pendant is a person named Lu Xiaomu, who died in Qianyuan Zhai." He was originally an idle man in the southern city, and he had no fixed livelihood. However, he has a cousin Lu Shu who is a subordinate to other people's families, and the main family is Wang Qingyang, and I heard that he is very powerful. ”

"This Wang Qingyang is the staff of Duanwangfu." Xie Yao took the fan, "In Duanwang's Mansion, I help deal with some clerical affairs, and I also manage the fields and properties of Duanwang's Mansion, I heard that Duanwang relies on it very much." ”

"You mean, the mastermind behind the matter of the true and false county lord is King Duan?"

Hei San continued: "I sent someone to secretly inquire with Lu Xiaomu's neighbors, and they all said that he has somehow made a lot of money in recent days, the clothes and shoes on his body have been changed with good materials, the wine he drinks is also good, and he also bought silver bracelets for the widow who is good." When others asked him, he couldn't tell where the money came from, only that the elders of the family had died and had left him some money. I walked around Lu Shu's house again, and I heard that Lu Shu had fallen more than a month ago and suffered some injuries to his waist. ”

"That makes sense. More than a month ago, it was the time to dispose of the corpse, if Lu Shu was injured, and he didn't want to show his cowardice in front of the main family, he secretly asked his cousin to do the thing of throwing the corpse for him......"

"I didn't expect Lu Xiaomu to be greedy for money, so he took all the ornaments on the corpse and couldn't wait to go into the pawnshop to change money." Chi Tao felt that he had seen the dawn, and he couldn't help but feel relieved, "It's really a magnificent skynet, negligent but not leaky." Immediately frowned again, "But Duanwang ......"

Xie Yao groaned and gently slapped the fan in the palm of his hand: "King Duan is the emperor's younger brother, although he is not from the queen mother, but his biological mother is the concubine of the former emperor, and she was originally the queen mother's maid. After the death of the princess in childbirth, King Duan has been raised by the Queen Mother. When the emperor ascended the throne at the age of twenty-seven, King Duan was only twelve years old, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the emperor watched grow up. Because of the age difference, he is more favored than other brothers. In recent years, the emperor has been busy with court affairs, King Qi is far away in Yunnan, only Duan Wang Chenghuan is under his knees, and the Queen Mother regards him as her own child. ”