delicious little cook

Chapter 549
"Look at your flustered look. It's Chinese New Year, so what's the matter?" Concubine Zhao Xian sat down in front of the dressing table, surrounded by trustworthy old people.

"Grandmother, yesterday the Duke of Ye's mansion sent three people to the yamen to be imprisoned, saying that two of them were colluding with the cook in their mansion to steal Bai Kou's private recipe."

"What's going on?!" Concubine Zhao Xian was stunned for a moment, then became frightened and angry, and waved away all the maids around her.

"We don't know the details. The news spread to the street yesterday because the family members of the three men fought in the prison. As soon as we received the news, we started investigating overnight."

"What did you find out?"

"Zha did some research, but the clues were not consistent. The two outsiders were only hired to work, but their family members didn't know who the employer was. They only said that they gave the family a sum of money and left together. But the strange thing is that the drinking buddy they hang out with most often is called Lin Leren. This person is the brother-in-law of He Jie, the imperial chef. I rushed to see He Jie, but came back drunk for some reason, fell on the street, and now I am lying at home with serious injuries."

After Shi Tianqi finished speaking in one breath, he took a deep breath.

Concubine Zhao Xian rolled her eyes a few times, pulled out a gold hairpin from her hair and threw it on the table.

"Hmph, what a drunken injury, I'm afraid it was seriously injured by someone! This is the hint that Ye Guogong's government suspects Wang Xiaodong, but there is no evidence to connect it, and he has to vent his anger. Such a childish behavior is probably the result of Gu Yun's downfall. His father, Gu Yun'an, is not so impulsive."

"Wang Xiaodong ordered someone to steal Bai Kou's recipe? Is he sick?!" Shi Tianqi covered his mouth in disbelief.

"Probably because he wanted to vent his anger on himself. Didn't Bai Kou save the princess with just one sentence of advice? This made Donggong suspicious of the imperial kitchen and the secretary, but Wang Xiaodong didn't know, he thought After checking that record, it was covered up, and it will be fine in the future, it must be like this, so he put his mind on Bai Kou, trying to make her trouble." Concubine Zhao Xian said, "This guy really can't stay anymore Once the yamen opened the seal to try the case, if the three of them couldn't handle it, they would confess Lin Leren, and Lin Leren would confess He Jie. In the eyes of the sage, the general manager cannot escape the responsibility and lose the existing trust."

"After what happened to the Crown Princess, I didn't intend to keep him, so let's take this opportunity to give up on him."

"Wang Xiaodong has been using this person for so many years and knows too much. I thought I wanted to keep him until the end, but now it seems that the longer I keep him, the more dangerous it is. I have no choice but to keep him, otherwise we will be implicated sooner or later. "

"Grandmother, let's do it quickly. The imperial kitchen and the food supervisor are on the same line. Don't let the saint suspect all the way from Wang Xiaodong to Shao Yiping. If Shao Gonggong is taken down, we will really be beheaded." Broke an arm."

"Okay, you go back and tell your parents, hurry up, you must make Wang Xiaodong speechless before the government finds him."

"Yes, grandmother, I'll go back and tell them."

"Also, what's the relationship between your brother and Gu Yun now? I don't think they seem very close. Otherwise, why doesn't your brother know anything about such a big event around Gu Yun? Could it be during the Chinese New Year? Neither meeting nor communicating?"

"I don't know either. I have various entertainments every day. I don't know what's going on with him."

"Hey, my grandma only has you two grandchildren. Bai Kou has made great achievements one after another, and Ye Guogong and his son are very important in the eyes of saints. Go back and ask your brother to have more snacks, and secretly draw Gu Yun over, so that you can win over him well. Apart from other things, as an older brother, he has to think about your sister, right? It's not like I haven't met Gu Yun in the past few days last winter. His figure and appearance are the ones that girls like, and he wants to marry him if he wants to. We have to start as soon as possible, all the concubines who have daughters of the right age in the palace are thinking about it."

"Ah? Gu Yun married the princess?!"

"Are you nervous? You're not young anymore. You're going to get married next year at the latest. If you get engaged, don't worry."

"It's not up to me to decide." Shi Tianqi twitched a bit, and quickly cheered up again, "Don't talk about it, grandma, I'd better go home immediately and deal with Wang Xiaodong's matter first."

"Okay, go back quickly, do it cleanly, and don't leave any clues that will be traced."

"understood."

Shi Tianqi left in a hurry, Concubine Zhao Xian sat quietly for a moment to sort out her thoughts, and then sent someone to quietly inquire about the saint, paying attention to who came to the palace to see him in the past few days.

Of course, Lin Leren's inexplicable serious injury cannot be caused by Lord Ye Gu Yun'an, but if he really suspects that Wang Xiaodong is instigating behind his back, this Lord Ye must stand up, it is impossible for Gu Yun to face a seventh-rank official of the court, Just like when they tore down Zhou Hongshou and Wang Chen'an years ago, it must be the result of the cooperation between father and son.

Neither of these two things went smoothly. Thanks to myself, I even instructed Wang Chenan to marry Bai Rui so that Bai Kou could be controlled. I never thought that Zhou Hongshou's family did such a stupid thing back then, and they haven't seen it wise for so many years. He dared to make matters worse, dragging Gu Yun and Gu Yun'an into it forcefully, and finally made them go to prison by themselves.

On Shi Tianqi's way home, the sage finished his lunch break, had tea in the bedroom, and went to sit in the imperial study as usual. During the Chinese New Year, ministers, clans or foreign envoys came to see him every day.

The crown prince and Marquis Fuyang, who had been waiting outside the imperial study for a long time, saw the saint coming, saluted and greeted him, and entered the room with him. Eunuch Xi, who deliberately fell behind, signaled the little eunuch outside to close the door.

In just one stick of incense time, the sage read all the written documents. The confession and investigation of Duke Ye’s mansion were all solid evidence. The suspect was detained in the prison of Yingtian Mansion and waited for interrogation in the next year. Although there was no real evidence to question Wang Xiaodong It was the behind-the-scenes instigation to steal Bai Kou's recipes, but based on the improvement of the princess's physical condition in the past month, it is enough to prove that in the past few months, the imperial kitchen deliberately treated the princess poorly in terms of diet, intending to make her body unable to bear the burden of pregnancy , to destroy her health and life, and murder the royal heirs, and the food records that were not suspicious in the previous investigation have naturally been tampered with, and the eunuch Shao Yiping, the eunuch in charge of the food supervisor, is likely to be involved.

The sage threw down the paper, his face sank like water, his eyes like a fierce light.

"Yu Kitchen, Wang Xiaodong, Superintendent of Food, Shao Yiping, you are so bold, so bold!"

"Father, those three suspects are important witnesses. The environment in the prison is harsh. Should we first bring them out and put them in another place?" the prince suggested.

"Where are you taking it? Locked up in your city defense camp?" The sage glared at the prince with suppressed anger, "What power does the city defense camp have to detain civilians? The yamen seal does not try the case, but you can first ask the suspect for a confession, you hurry to Yingtian Mansion Ask the head of the torture room to bring up the suspects, ask the confession again, summon all the names mentioned in the testimony, do it overnight, and don't delay the time. Wang Xiaodong is just the head chef of the seventh-rank imperial chef, and he has no direct interest in murdering the princess. There must be something behind him. The behind-the-scenes instigation, act quickly, don't be late, he was silenced."

"Yes, royal father, my son is going right now." The prince saluted with fists cupped and hurriedly retreated.

Then the sage whispered a few words to Eunuch Xi, and Eunuch Xi immediately made some arrangements, sending his own cronies to keep an eye on Shao Yiping secretly.

The Sishan Supervisor belongs to the inner court, and the imperial kitchen belongs to the outer court. If Shao Yiping and Wang Xiaodong are really in the same group, colluding internally and externally, it is really audacious.

Marquis Fuyang originally wanted to resign as well, but the sage left him to talk, he had to look like a Chinese New Year, and he had to smile when it was time to celebrate.

(End of this chapter)