delicious little cook

Chapter 754 Too Coincidentally Like a Fake

Bai Kou shook her body, raised her head with a guilty conscience, and smiled obsequiously.

"How do I clean it up?"

"Are you scared now? Wasn't it quite arrogant just now?"

"No, it was an instinctive reaction just now." Bai Kou pouted slightly, looking pure and innocent.

Seeing her like this, Gu Yun gritted his teeth secretly, and when he was about to teach her a lesson, there was a sound of footsteps from the corridor outside, it was the girls who came back carrying the two boxes of books.

Bai Kou blinked, grinned, pushed Shizi away, grabbed the tray in his hand, put on his shoes and left.

Gu Yun was very depressed and went back to the original place to read, ignoring the syrup made for him on the other table.

Bai Kou followed to the study room and directed the maids to put the two bookcases in the corner between the bookshelves. The outside of the bookcases was not locked, but when you opened the lid, you could only see the normal subset of classics and history. There are several or even dozens of books in a set, and the covers of many of them are yellowed and loose. I don’t know where the King Cheng found so many old books, but they do meet the requirements of ventilated preservation. Good reason.

Seeing that the box was put away, Bai Kou did not forget to tell the girls not to touch it randomly. These old books are the first or out-of-print editions that cannot be bought now. They may even be annotated and annotated by university scholars. They are not generally valuable. Once it is damaged a little, I don't know where to find the same one to compensate Cheng Wang.

When the girls heard this, they confirmed that the box was safe, and they walked away and didn't dare to touch it. They had better tidy up the second floor and put it upstairs for peace of mind, otherwise they would have to be careful of water entering the box during daily cleaning.

Everyone quickly exited the study room. Bai Kou went back to her room, took two small locks, and went back to lock the bookcase. By the way, she found the silver jewelry hidden in the box and the lockpicking tool lent to Tong Mingli. She couldn't take out the jewellery, so she only took the small tools, and planned to go to the street tomorrow to buy some more complicated high-end locks to lock the door on the second floor.

Bai Kou went back to the ear room and said something to the prince. Gu Yun responded indifferently with a stinky face. Bai Kou ignored him and only ordered Qing Lan to wait on her. She went to the second floor behind to check on the third girl. They checked their cleaning progress, and then went to the small kitchen to wash their hands and cook. It’s rare to have time to cook again. Today’s good things are worth eating to celebrate.

The Zhongming Courtyard was as peaceful and peaceful as ever. At the same time, Tong Mingli was also arranging dinner in the kitchen in Liang Dashi’s Mansion. Liang Zhongshan spent the night outside last night, so he will come back early today. Tong Mingli just wanted to cook some of his favorite dishes. and pretended to be ignorant of the chaos that was about to erupt.

The proprietress of Jinyufang sent someone to pick up Lan Zhu with a note early in the morning, but they couldn't wait for anyone to come, so they had to send someone to inquire again, only to find out that Lan Zhu had been picked up at that time, but since no one was seen , then of course something went wrong.

Ruoyu was lost yesterday, and Lanzhu was lost again today. The proprietress was so frightened that she had to write another urgent letter to be sent to the Imperial Academy to Liang Zhongshan. Otherwise, it would be too dangerous to send such a letter directly to the Imperial Academy, so the sender designed it as a secret signal to indicate that Jinyufang was in an emergency, so that it would not attract attention and Liang Zhongshan would not ignore the letter disguised as an ordinary letter. special letter.

Liang Zhongshan became anxious after reading the letter. He lost two of his powerful arms in a single night, but last night he had a drink outside. Otherwise, he would have missed it if he was at home when the proprietress delivered the letter this morning, but he regretted it. It was late, so Liang Zhongshan had to find another man to find Ruoyu and Lanzhu, and then spent the whole day in the Imperial Academy.

Finally, when it was time to be on duty, Liang Zhongshan went home immediately, went into his main room to ask the young lady, and when he learned that dinner was being prepared in the kitchen, he immediately turned around to the small courtyard where the maids lived, and went straight to Lan Zhu's room.

The door of the room is not locked, but it is closed. On the big table under the window is the package delivered by the person at the back door during the day. The room is clean and tidy, and the bed is flat. The quilt and sheets are not wrinkled. on the ground, the padlock is locked.

Liang Zhongshan pulled the box but did not open it, but picked up the box again, it was not too heavy, it was only the weight of the box itself, and there was no sound inside, Liang Zhongshan knew that the box contained Lanzhu's private money, it was impossible So light and no sound.

The bad premonition that had been entrenched in his heart for a day burned Liang Zhongshan's head hot. He threw down the box and rushed to the dowry on the table. After opening all the drawers, they were all empty, not a single earring was left.

Liang Zhongshan supported the table to gather his mind, turned around and walked towards the screen in the corner, and when he opened it to see the empty closet, his eyes turned black and his feet went limp.

Lanzhu keeps all the most important things in his hands. Once those medicines and documentary evidence are taken out, they can be directly convicted. Lanzhu is missing now, and her things are gone, but the locks that should be locked are well locked. In the morning, I went out empty-handed again, so it was impossible to bring anything with me. It was weird how so many things disappeared. Although he had never been in Lanzhu’s room, he knew roughly how many things there were. can take it away.

Liang Zhongshan struggled to push the screen back to its original position, and went out into the courtyard a little bit in a daze. The warm and cold night wind blew, which cooled his feverish head a little, and he quickly went to the main room to inquire. The girls there.

"Did the young mistress send anything out today?"

"Yes, a few days ago, it was decided to send incense offerings to Shao's mansion today, and the young lady will go out to offer incense tomorrow morning. Master, did you forget?" These girls moved the food boxes to the car with their own hands. , and received a reward, so naturally I remember it clearly.

"How many food boxes did Young Mistress send out?"

"There are quite a lot of them, big and heavy, but they are all ordered in the morning. The young lady's calculations are accurate, and there is no waste."

"Before sending the food box out, what else did the young lady do?"

"I didn't do anything. After breakfast, the young mistress went to the old lady's house to help with the housework. We cleaned the main room. Not long after she came back, the kitchen brought the snacks. After everyone made preparations, they sent them out."

The girls' answers were reasonable and without any flaws. Liang Zhongshan's head got dizzy when he heard that. Judging from the girls' descriptions, there was not enough time for Tong Mingli to act privately while avoiding the eyes of his subordinates. , and the preparation of offerings for going to Yuanhe Gongshangxiang on February [-] has been decided long ago, so it is unreasonable to say that this matter itself is a calculation.

However, if you want to send out all the things in Lanzhu's room at once, it is most likely to put them in a large number of food boxes.

Ruoyu and her coachman girl disappeared from yesterday afternoon to evening. This morning, after Lanzhu was picked up by Jinyufang, she disappeared together with the coachman. Jinyufang didn't know about it, but Tong Mingli also disappeared. There are a large number of food boxes sent to friends' homes to prepare for tomorrow's incense.

How is it so coincidental?

"The snacks from the kitchen are really packed into food boxes, isn't it too much?"

"It's all packed, sir, the quantity is just right, it's packed full, and it's quite heavy in your hand." The girls felt very strange, "Master, what are you doing so carefully?"

"It's nothing, I'll just ask, the young mistress is going to offer incense tomorrow, and I just asked her to make a wish for me."

"The young mistress went to offer incense to ask for a son, what is the master asking for?" the girls laughed and laughed.

"Of course it's for the future."

Liang Zhongshan smiled at the maids, turned around with a cold face, lifted his legs out of the main room and went back to his current temporary residence to rest. As soon as he entered the room, he went to the bathroom to relieve his hand, seeing that he had blood in his urine again, he couldn't help being even more irritable , has had blood in the urine for several days. At first, it was only due to the strong anger in spring, but it was followed by frequent urination, urgency, low back pain and easy fatigue. Liang Zhongshan didn't study for nothing. He thought it was necessary for him to ask the imperial physician to take a look .

But thinking of the missing Ruoyu and Lanzhu again, Liang Zhongshan felt that it was more important to find them first. Now it seems that they must have been kidnapped by someone. Ruoyu came out of the guest's house at normal time yesterday, and then I never returned to Jinyufang, but the proprietress received a note from the guest. By the time the proprietress finished her work and found something was wrong, it was too late to react.

That note was obviously a tactic to delay time, and then intercepted the person halfway. I am afraid that Lanzhu's disappearance today was the same method.

With a population of one million in the capital, it is as difficult as heaven to find two women who have been deliberately hidden!
There are also those medicines and documentary evidence, I don't know whose hands they fell into!

Liang Zhongshan pulled up his trousers, washed his hands and went back to the bedroom to sit down. After a while, he stood up and paced back and forth, passing through his mind several times like a sieve for those who might oppose him.

Liang Zhongshan couldn't help but get so nervous, Lanzhu is his man, this is an open identity, but the real identity of Ruoyu and the entire Jinyufang is a secret, and the person who can kidnap these two women at the same time obviously knows this, It cut off his two most powerful arms in one fell swoop.

Two women were abducted at the same time, and on the same day Lanzhu's items were mysteriously missing, and in the same period of time, only Tong Mingli sent out a large food box.

The more Liang Zhongshan thought about it, the more he felt that the disappearance of the item must be a combination of inside and outside. He would not disappear in the morning and would not disappear in the evening. Lan Zhu went out and was captured, and everything in her room was wiped out. Only family members have the opportunity start.

Thinking of this, Liang Zhongshan became more and more suspicious of Tong Mingli.

The timing was too coincidental.

Although there is something unreasonable, this coincidence is too artificially designed.

so similar.

(End of this chapter)