delicious little cook

Chapter 539
The guards moved their knuckles, grinning and tearing off the cloth towels from the mouths of the two men. Just as they were about to beat them up to warm up, the two men hurriedly begged for mercy loudly.

"Spare me, spare me! Don't hit me! Don't hit me!"

"We say! We say! We all say!"

"We are just collecting money to do things for others, don't fight, don't fight, we can say anything!"

The two men had their hands tied behind their backs, and they could only kowtow to the ground frequently. They knew that they had been completely exposed, and they would die if they were sent to the government. The jailer was bribed to let them contract the epidemic in prison, and the two brothers would die quietly before the Shangyuan Festival was over, and they didn't even have to bother with interrogation.

"Tell me, the exact address of the hut you went to yesterday." Bai Kou didn't bother to listen to their begging for mercy, and just asked questions.

"We say we say, please spare our lives, we say anything."

"Don't try to make up an address for us to make a trip for nothing. There is evidence hidden in the hut. If the thing is found, it will prove that you are telling the truth. If it is lost, we will send you on board and sail to a secluded place. I stripped off my clothes, tied up stones and sank into the river.”

"Ah?! Is there any evidence?!" These two people really didn't expect that Mengmei's hands and feet were weak at that time, and she still had the strength to hide the evidence.

"You think you're doing it without anyone noticing it? Stop talking nonsense and talk quickly! My patience has a limit!"

"If we all say it, can you let us go?"

"As long as it is verified that your confessions are all true, I will go to the people behind you to settle accounts, and there is no need to waste time on you."

The two thought that this was their promise to spare them, so they were so determined that they told the address of the hut they went to yesterday. Bai Kou hurriedly copied it in his notepad, along with the style of the hairpin described by Mengmei. Together with the hidden location, give it to the chief guard and send someone to find it tomorrow morning.

"Tell me, who ordered you to set up a trap to trouble me? Why did you two go to Wengu Mountain first?"

"The instigator is my neighbor in the same neighborhood, named Lin Leren. We often drink together, and we are familiar with each other. He gave us a lot of money, so we agreed. He also said that you and Wen Gushan have a bad relationship. Well, these plans were all arranged by him, and he asked us to convince Wen Gushan first, but he didn't expect that Wen Gushan hated you so much, he believed that our brothers wanted to steal your recipes and open a restaurant, and he was determined to give it to you. You have a lesson."

"What's Lin Leren's background?"

"He seems to have said that he has a relative who works in the imperial kitchen, and even bragged to us that he had eaten the imperial kitchen."

"Tell me Lin Leren's address and the places he often goes to. As long as I find him and prove that what you are telling the truth, I will not embarrass you. Before that, I will wrong you for a few days."

The two of them hurriedly shared the address, because they were both drinking buddies, so they also mentioned several places where they often went to drink. That Lin Leren just did some casual work with that relative who was the imperial cook, and the money he earned was not only enough to support his family Living is enough for him to drink in restaurants every day.

After the confession was finished, the guard waved his hand and asked his subordinates to take him away and temporarily imprison him. There are still a few secret places in such a large Duke Ye mansion.

Bai Kou handed over the address he had just copied to the head of the guard. This is the end of today's business. Once Lin Leren is verified, there is no need for those two people to stay.

The chief guard waited for his subordinates to leave, and confirmed to Shizi and Bai Kou what had happened to Mengmei, saying that only the guards knew about it so far, and promised not to leak a word.

Asking the guards to keep an eye on Wen Gushan may cause them to discover this fact, so as long as they keep it secret, they can’t force too much. If it really spreads, Bai Kou, the supervisor of the East Kitchen, will also lose face Guang, as for the owner of the wine stall, whether he will spread it like gossip is out of his control.

After breaking up with the chief guard, Gu Yun took Bai Kou's hand and walked slowly back to the Zhongming Courtyard. What the two of them confided gave Gu Yun and Bai Kou a bad premonition.

"It seems that this matter has finally implicated Yu Kitchen." Gu Yun wrapped Bai Kou's hand in his palm, not showing a single finger.

"You can only say that after checking Lin Leren."

"But what if Wang Xiaodong is really behind the scenes?"

"A mere head chef of the seventh-rank imperial chef, he is not the only one who can play tricks in this world, but there must be someone behind him to give advice."

"Are you referring to the information that those two people said that you and Wen Gushan were at odds? Indeed, this needs to be investigated in detail in advance. It seems that the surrounding area of ​​our mansion is not peaceful."

"It's not surprising. After the servant girl's reputation rises, it will inevitably attract some curious investigations."

"But there is still one thing that doesn't make sense. Wang Xiaodong is an important chess piece to control the imperial kitchen. How could he be pushed out so easily to confront you?"

"Maybe it's because there are alternative chess pieces, so I plan to give up this one."

"Are you sure? After so many years of careful use, just throw it away?"

"Otherwise, why is someone related to the imperial kitchen acting as the middleman? If it's not a means of throwing pawns to save the car, it doesn't make sense."

"Maybe it's the suspicious points we mentioned to Marquis Fuyang. They also discovered it themselves. They were annoyed that Wang Xiaodong and Shao Yiping did something stupid, but in the choice of abandonment, they finally chose to abandon Wang Xiaodong and protect Shao Yiping?"

"It's possible that Shao Yiping is the eunuch in charge of the food supervisor after all. Under Wang Xiaodong's control, the imperial kitchen is probably a nest of pawns that can be controlled at will, so the head chef can be changed, but the eunuch in charge cannot be changed. He has no one of his own. Eunuch Xi has a great say in this kind of personnel transfer. If he says a word, the sage will play it. The supervisor of food is the bridge connecting the harem and the imperial kitchen. If there is any disturbance, it must be No matter the price, we must protect Shao Yiping."

"If you want to put it that way, I hope to kill Shao Yiping and cut off the bridge between them."

"Then let's wait and see who will be unlucky in the end. No matter who steps down, they must be captured as soon as possible. They know too much inside information. It would be good if they can dig up some confessions."

"This difficulty is really not small. Even if you are really taken down, you will go to jail directly, and there is no chance for us to kidnap people."

"Oh, what a pity, you might die right there if you enter the prison."

"Don't think too much, we haven't reached that point yet, we'll think of a way to see if we can copy a statement."

"It will be too late by then, and no one can guarantee whether they will be silenced."

"Okay, okay, don't worry about these problems anymore, it's freezing outside, let's go back quickly to warm up."

Gu Yun held Bai Kou's hand tightly, the two of them shivered at the same time, and hurried back to the Zhongming Courtyard.

It's really cold outside.

(End of this chapter)