delicious little cook

Chapter 33 Bloody gossip ten years ago

"Auntie, did you remember something sad?"

"Have you ever seen a big oven in the kitchen yard?"

"I've seen it. I cleaned it today and saw it. It's a mess, full of cobwebs."

"Before Wengu Mountain, there was a manager named Mao. He was the best at using this oven. He baked a variety of dim sum dishes, especially small dim sum. There was no child who didn't like it. At that time, my family was young, and the family encountered a crisis. It is difficult to eat, and the children often cry because of hunger, and Mr. Mao will give me some ugly snacks from time to time, and ask me to take them home to feed the children.”

"The old butler is a kind and nice man."

"A kind and good man can't hold back an ambitious subordinate who secretly stabs a knife."

"How did Director Wen get people away?"

"Boss Mao bought some auxiliary materials for making dim sum at Yirenfang, bought them from the warehouse, and put some in the kitchen in a fixed amount, and gave them back when they were used up."

"Then?" Bai Kou felt a bad premonition.

"Then one day, Director Mao baked the third young master's favorite dessert. Not long after, the third young master vomited blood and fell to the ground. At that time, the three masters were all working in other places. After all, she is getting old, but the eldest lady is pregnant with the sixth young master, and she has a fetal gas in a hurry. Oh, it is a mess in the mansion. Several imperial doctors have been invited to save the little one, and take care of it here. Big one, it alarmed all the saints in the palace, the empress dowager, the emperor, and the empress all sent servants over to inquire."

Bai Kou could completely imagine the scene of a messy mess, and couldn't help but his facial muscles cramped, "Who is that who would not hesitate to use his grandson as a stepping stone for the sake of being superior?"

"At that time, the third young master was only a child of four or five years old, and he was not yet old enough to be a grandson, but the elder was the son, and the eldest son of the son was so precious. The servants in the palace brought There are a lot of good things, but whether they are big or small, nothing can be poured into them, and there are almost two funerals in the mansion."

"Isn't Director Mao going to die because of this?"

"Anyway, I haven't seen him since that day. I don't know whether it's dead or alive. Moreover, it's not just Director Mao who is implicated, because it's not just poisoning, but the whole bag of dried fruits mixed with poisoned dried fruits. So the warehouse was the second to suffer, and then the shop selling the ingredients in Yirenfang, the merchant went bankrupt, and the whole family disappeared."

"Even the businessman has been implicated?"

"Because besides the leftovers from the kitchen, there is also a bag of poisonous ones in the warehouse, so it must have gone to the merchant."

"How does Auntie know that this has something to do with that person?"

"I didn't know it at first, but when the guards ransacked the kitchen, I once saw a bag of dried fruit that smelled weird and had an indescribably sweet smell. It didn't take long to hear that it was from the Poison was detected in the bag of dried fruit, and the sweet and greasy taste is the poison that replaces the blood."

"Well, it's a normal process to cook dried fruit with chrysanthemum. Who would have thought that chrysanthemum is poison. It is usually wrapped in snacks and baked in an oven to stimulate a nice sweet smell. Aroma. Hey, the third young master used to eat sweets?"

"He hasn't eaten since this incident, and the oven has been left unused."

"Uh, auntie, let's digress, let's not talk about the third young master, how did you find out that you have something to do with that?"

"It's the smell of dried fruit. Not a few months after the poisoning incident, someone found traces of rats in the kitchen, so of course they quickly put rat poison around. Then I smelled that smell again, and saw The man was pouring dried fruit in front of the mousetrap. I even went up to him and asked him why he used such a good dried fruit. He said that mice are picky eaters, and they would not be fooled if they didn’t order something good. Moreover, the dried fruit was mixed before and was not used up. It's worth wasting."

"Same fragrance, same dried fruit?"

Third Aunt Nie nodded, and drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, "It's exactly the same."

Bai Kou took the glass for a refill and put it in the hands of Third Aunt Nie, "Auntie never mentioned this to anyone?"

"How can I mention it? How dare I mention it? The matter is over, the wife and the young master are both safe and sound, and the sixth young master was born in good health. Why should I mention this unfortunate incident?"

"That's true. And there is no evidence to prove that the dried fruit my aunt saw twice was mixed with the same batch of potion."

"That's right, I regret it when I think about it. Why didn't I get a few pieces of the poisonous dried fruit on my hand when they ransacked the kitchen, so that there is a comparison."

"Auntie, don't think about it. It has nothing to do with you. No one would think of it. Looking back now, I think that the smell of dried fruit is particularly suspicious, but there are so many tasteless and colorless poisons in the world. The chaos at that time Who can deal with things calmly in the scene, only thinking that if something happens to the masters, there will be a few buried with them."

"Yes." Third Aunt Nie sighed again and again, but with Bai Kou's relief, she finally let go of her heart.

"Thank you auntie for reminding me of this, I will be careful."

"Since that guy took the position of manager, he has taken away all the people who didn't get along with him. Now all the people under his command have some relationship with him. You newcomers, he has been eyeing him for a long time. He keeps his eyes on you every day. Looking at those good-looking ones, I sent away some of his favorites after this competition, and I heard him regretting while smoking. Listen to my aunt's advice, seize this opportunity, don't come back, this kitchen The personnel affairs here have been rotten for a long time, maybe one day the master will start to rectify it, why should you interfere in it and damage your reputation."

Bai Kou didn't say a word, just nodded silently, and didn't tell Third Aunt Nie that the third young master knew a thing or two about this mess in the kitchen. A chance to clean up.

Unexpectedly, Wengu Mountain is connected to the third master, and now he regards the kitchen as a harem. After all, this reputation is not good, and it will damage the face of the Duke's mansion, especially the face of Yunying's unmarried ladies in the mansion. That is a big deal !
It’s just that the third master, Ding You, is at home now, and it’s not good for the eldest lady to take the initiative to find trouble in the kitchen in front of him, not to mention giving the elder’s face without looking at his face. If you want to clean up the filth in the kitchen, you need another one who is more upright. reason.

And there must be a valid reason.

Lu Doudou is still in the East Kitchen, and if the eldest lady wants to take care of the face of the whole family, she must at least take care of Doudou's face, and she can't let her reputation as an innocent little girl be degraded here.

Bai Kou thanked Third Aunt Nie again, said good night to each other, and went back to the yard to rest along the path.

(End of this chapter)