delicious little cook

Chapter 750 Careful Cooperation
The mad proprietress was walking back and forth in her room cursing people, she was worried about Ruoyu, afraid that she would be in accident, after all, even the coachman and the attendant girl didn't come back, maybe they encountered difficulties on the way.

The cronies around persuaded her all night, and seeing that the proprietress finally calmed down, they hurriedly reminded her to write a letter to Mr. Xiaoliang. If Ruoyu didn't come back tomorrow morning, they should send someone to deliver the letter as soon as possible, and ask Mr. Xiaoliang to come forward.

After hearing this, the proprietress quickly laid out a pen and paper and wrote a short note, telling someone to run errands, and after breakfast time tomorrow, if Ruoyu didn't come back, she would deliver the letter.

All these arrangements were seen by the lurking person, and when the people in the house dispersed, he immediately slipped outside to find his partner who was hiding and explained carefully.

Several hours later, this uneasy night finally passed, after breakfast time, Ruoyu still did not come back, the proprietress didn't wait any longer, and sent someone to Liang Dashi's mansion immediately with a letter.

The messenger came out from the back door of the music workshop with his car. It was the morning market time. The cross streets in the workshop were already full of people. At that time, two trucks traveling towards each other collided, and some goods were scattered on the two trucks. The drivers grabbed each other by the collar and yelled and cursed. It seemed that a fight might start at any time.

Seeing the excitement here, the common people hula-la surrounded and blocked the avenue in front of the square gate tightly. Marquis Wu hurriedly came to persuade the fight.

Seeing that the dispute would not be resolved for a while, the messenger who wanted to leave the workshop had no choice but to take a detour and planned to go out through another gate, while the guards behind the car waited for him to detour into a remote path, and one of them jumped He jumped onto the shaft of the carriage, covered the man's mouth and rolled into the carriage together. His partner quickly took over the driver's position, drove the carriage around the alley, and met another arranged carriage. The fainted messenger moved over, and at the same time he got the letter on his body.

Then the car went out from another gate, without further delay on the way, it went straight to the back gate of Liang Dashi's Mansion, where the people in Jinyu Square sent letters, and the servants at the back gate took the letters and delivered them directly In Lanzhu's hand.

Because it was a letter from Jinyufang, Lan Zhu opened it and read it. After reading it, she was surprised that something was wrong. Ruoyu went out for a night and did not return. This has never happened before. Regular customers know the rules of Jinyufang. Deliberately delaying time affects Lefang's business.

After thinking about it, Lan Zhu couldn't sit still, changed her clothes in a hurry, but left without locking the door.

At this time, the breakfast time was long past, and Tong Mingli was helping her mother-in-law with housework, while the other maids were cleaning up in the main room, and her two confidant maids stayed in the room to rest on the grounds that they were not feeling well, and watched with their own eyes. Not long after Lanzhu received the letter, he left.

The two girls have been waiting nervously since last night. Seeing that the opportunity finally came, they immediately took several super-large empty food boxes from their own room and moved them to Lanzhu's room. She really helped them a lot by not locking the door. But it also means that she has letters and parcels to receive today, so that the people at the back door can send them directly into her room.

But right now, I don’t care about the package that was delivered at an unknown time. The two girls worked together to remove the screen first, and filled the box in the closet with three food boxes, but the outer layer was intentionally left empty. All the contents of the dowry box were taken out, wrapped in cloth and put into a food box, and the box itself was left untouched.

As for the eight-treasure box with a lock on the head of the bed, Bai Kou kindly provided a set of small tools for locksmiths to open the lock. Fortunately, Lanzhu didn't use a high-end lock with a complicated structure. The girl took the small tool and poked it left and right The lock was picked relatively smoothly, and it was filled with Lanzhu's private money, which was also wrapped in cloth and put into the food box.

The closet, wardrobe and suitcase were also checked carefully to confirm that there was nothing hidden. The two maids panted and moved the oversized food boxes that were full back to their house, and moved Lan Zhu's house. The places they moved in the house were carefully restored to their original state, closed the door, sat in their own room and waited until the main room was cleaned and there was no one for a short time, then quickly moved the big food box to the lady's bedroom and hid it behind the curtain.

While the girls were busy, Lanzhu had already left the back door, got into the carriage of Jinyufang and left the door.

Lanzhu thought she was going back to the music workshop, but she didn't know that there was an aroma burner under the seat that was emitting smoke all the time. It didn't take long for her consciousness to gradually dim, and she fell asleep little by little, while the driver was just confirming After Lanzhu passed out, he immediately changed his way to the house with a cellar.

Tong Mingli assisted with the housework step by step, and the cooks also helped her make plain offerings for tomorrow's incense and sent them to the main room. Tong Mingli then sent someone out to order the car to be prepared, and because it was an offering, not too much was allowed. She only asked her two confidants to put the snacks into other empty food boxes, and assigned different errands to other people.

When they left the house and there were only three masters and servants left in the house, first move out the hidden food boxes, and fill the top layer that was purposely vacated with food, so that no matter which cover is lifted, it will be seen at first glance. , I will only think that these super-large food boxes are full of food, and then fill up the rest of the empty food boxes.

The place where the sisters of the Pomegranate Society agreed to offer incense is Yuanhe Palace. The Liang Mansion is far away from there, but Shao Xinwei's grandfather lives in the adjacent square. She has already told her grandfather that she will go there in the afternoon and will be there tomorrow. Waiting for the sisters to reunite, so Tong Mingli's request to send the snacks to the Shao Mansion before noon is completely reasonable. She can go out directly after breakfast tomorrow morning. Naturally, she, the vice president, must arrive early, and she can't go late and call the sisters wait for her.

Tong Mingli took a closer look at the last and found that the weight of the food boxes was different. The ones that only contained food were obviously lighter, so they quickly changed them. Fortunately, they were all super-large food boxes of the same size, and it would not be a problem to change the trays in the middle layers In this way, the weight of each food box is about the same. No one of the girls who came in to carry the food boxes noticed anything unusual in it. The only food box with money and jewelry was carried by Tong Mingli's confidant girl, although those belongings were used. It was wrapped in several layers of cloth, but it was more reassuring to carry it by themselves, they didn't want to make any abnormal noises to arouse suspicion.

The coachman is Tong Mingli's accompanying servant. He has always been in charge of liaising with the outside world for his lady. He is the one who delivers letters and things. He has already been ordered to go to Chengjun Prince's Mansion first to take some things to Shao's Mansion for the princess. He also received a reward in advance, and he was full of joy to complete this errand.

A large number of super-large food boxes filled a car, but the girls all knew the reason for making so many offerings, so no one talked about it.

Watching the coachman set off, the two confidants heaved a sigh of relief and called everyone to go back to receive the reward. Tomorrow, February [-], they will buy some new things for themselves.

As soon as they heard that there was a bounty to take, the girls immediately forgot about the offerings, and walked back and forth happily discussing what they were going to buy.

Seeing them coming back, Tong Mingli generously rewarded them with the reason of the custom on February [-], and all the maids thanked them happily and left.

And those two confidant girls are also dreaming of getting rid of Lanzhu, and they have a sweet dream of being replaced by the two of them. Otherwise, with Lanzhu standing in front of them, they will always be just girls, and they will not be able to climb to the seat of the housekeeper.

The conflict of interests between the male and female masters and their subordinates has always been like this, so Tong Mingli can easily persuade them to help. If they succeed, it will be in their own interest.

When Tong Mingli's coachman rushed to Tianshuifang Chengjun Prince's Mansion, Bai Kou had already arrived at the house rented by the old owner of Wangjianglou.

Ruoyu was locked up in the cellar for the whole night, for her safety, only the oil lamp was lit and no charcoal basin was placed, otherwise it would be a waste of effort in case of smoke poisoning, so Ruoyu was cold and hungry that night, The guards were just keeping an eye on her on the ground, they were not in a hurry to ask for a confession, so they had to do it like this, and they would speak obediently when she was powerless to resist.

Bai Kou went down to the cellar with a lantern and looked at her. In the deepest part of the cellar, Ruoyu was kneeling on a broken mat with disheveled hair. An iron chain was tied to his right ankle. It is locked with a hundred catties of heavy stones used by people.

Even though Ruoyu has been learning the piano since she was a child, she has some strength in her hands, but she can't move the hundred-jin stone lock, so she can only sit on the mat in despair, and the long mat of iron chains only allows her to walk to the toilet for convenience, except The reason for dropping her hairpins was to prevent her from using those things to pry open the lock on the chain. It was absolutely impossible to escape with the stone lock. Even if she could escape to the ground, there would still be so many guards.

"Good morning, Miss Ruoyu, please take care of me when we meet for the first time."

Ruoyu raised his head weakly, under the dim light of oil lamps and lanterns, he really couldn't see the face of the person opposite him clearly, but he heard the voice was a very young girl, and he had some understanding in his heart.

"I don't know you, but I guess I know who you are."

Ruoyu sneered.

"Bai Kou, shopkeeper Bai, steward Bai."

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