The cooking color is delicious, general, don't bite me

Chapter 239 Who is the mastermind behind the scenes?

After Xiaodonggua practiced the sword, she was going to take a bath in the hot spring in the villa. The servant came over and called him, saying that Meng Fuling had something to look for him.

He went to Meng Fuling's room and saw her reading the letter with a worried expression on her face, "Mother, are you looking for me?"

Meng Fuling looked up at him, and handed him the letter in his hand, "A batch of poisonous rice noodles appeared in the granary of the restaurant in Jingdu City, and the people in Beijing are spreading the news that the rice noodles made by our Tianyuan Restaurant are poisonous, and eating them will kill you." dead."

In recent years, because the golden plaque of "the best chef in the world" bestowed by the emperor to Meng Fuling was hung in the Tianyuan restaurant in the capital city, it has gradually become the top restaurant in all places, and it is said that it is the leader of all Tianyuan restaurants and food shops. The foundation is not too much.

If something like this happens in a restaurant in the capital city, it will be spread to ten or ten to a hundred, and the reputation of the industry will be affected. Businessmen are most concerned about reputation, so it will be difficult to do business for a long time.

"Someone must have done it on purpose!" Xiao Donggua frowned, knowing it after a little thought.

People are afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being strong. Whether it is Tianyuan Restaurant, Food Shop, or Wangyou Island, their reputation has spread all over the world, and the money they have earned is inexhaustible, which naturally attracts many jealous people.

"Yeah!" Meng Fuling nodded, "Leave this matter to you."

Xiao Donggua is now 17 years old, and he has the soul of a former prince. Needless to say, he has been able to take charge of things on his own a few years ago, and has helped Meng Fuling a lot in business.

Meng Fuling gradually let go, and now she plans to hand over the matter to Xiaodonggua. After the matter is settled, she and Qi Xuan will go sightseeing in the mountains and rivers.

"Okay!" Little Winter Melon didn't refuse, wondering who might be behind the scenes.

Xiao Donggua was about to pack her luggage, when Meng Fuling said again: "Little Donggua, I have sent a letter to Yaowanggu to ask Xiaoji Wing to meet you in the capital city."

"What? Mother, you know that I've been avoiding her, and you still let me see her?" Little Winter Melon couldn't help but wailed when he heard the name of Little Chicken Wing.

If you want to say who the little winter melon is most afraid of, it is definitely the little chicken wing!
Why?This matter has to start from the wedding of Meng Fuling and Qi Xuan back then. At that time, Xiaoji Wing saw such a special wedding and wanted to be a bride at a young age.

And Xiaoji Wing's favorite boy since he was a child is the little winter melon, so he set his goal on the little winter melon.

That is, since then, the little chicken wings have started the long way to catch up with the little winter melon.

Meng Fuling likes chicken wings, and has no objection to a relationship between chicken wings and winter melon. The problem is that although winter melon likes chicken wings, it's not a relationship between a man and a woman.

Therefore, Little Winter Melon has been hiding from Little Chicken Wing. Fortunately, Little Chicken Wing was cultivated by Yi Qianzhong as his heir, so he rarely had time to go out of Medicine King Valley.

Little Chicken Wing took over the position of Gu Master the year before last. Speaking of which, she is extremely accomplished in both martial arts and medical skills, and now she has achieved success in both.

After Yi Qianzhong threw Yaowanggu to Xiaojiwing, he moved directly to Wangyou Island to have fun.

"Little chicken wings are not only highly skilled in medicine, but also proficient in poison techniques. They can help you find the source of the poison." Meng Fuling smiled, how could she not understand Xiaowagua's thoughts?
"But—" Little Winter Melon didn't want to see Little Chicken Wing's sad face after being rejected by him, although every time she recovered quickly, she simply became more and more frustrated.

Meng Fuling interrupted Xiaodonggua, "No, but a woman's youth is limited, and it's not a solution to waste the little chicken wings. If you really don't like her, you have to let her give up as soon as possible, and find another good relationship. Don't miss her." lifelong."

Over the years, Meng Fuling thought that the little winter melon would be moved by the little chicken wings and accepted the little chicken wings, so she stood on the sidelines and planned to let nature take its course.

As a result, not only was Little Winter Melon not attracted to Little Chicken Wing, but she avoided her even more frequently.

"I've said it many times, Little Chicken Wing doesn't listen to persuasion at all." Xiao Donggua didn't want to delay Little Chicken Wing either, but Little Chicken Wing was different from ordinary women, the more he persuaded her, the more she did the opposite.

In short, when it comes to small chicken wings, the small winter melon has a headache!
"You just use a big dose of food, so that the long-term pain of the little chicken wings is worse than the short-term pain!" Meng Fuling said.

She felt sorry for Xiaoji Wing, but no matter how distressed she was, she couldn't disregard Xiao Donggua's wishes and force him to marry Xiao Jiwing, forcibly tying them together, which resulted in only a bitter couple.

"Fresh?" Little Winter Gua froze for a moment, then Fang nodded.

After Xiaodonggua left, Qi Xuan came out from behind the screen and hugged Meng Fuling.

"Don't expect this kid to make any surprises, and then don't be self-defeating." Qi Xuan raised his hand and played with Meng Fuling's hair, a little disapproving.

"What else? I can't just sit and watch Little Chicken Wing spend his youth year after year for Little Winter Melon, and never get his response." Meng Fuling is also very helpless!
"Little wax gourd is really getting better and better. I have been dealing with the little chicken wings for so many years. It's time to cut the mess quickly." Qi Xuan said contemptuously.

Meng Fuling turned her head and said with a half smile but not a smile: "Tsk tsk, it sounds like you are very experienced, why don't you teach me some tricks?"

Qi Xuan was very uncomfortable being laughed at by Meng Fuling, "Fuling, lady, my body and mind belong to you, if I really have experience, I also learned it from you."

Meng Fuling was speechless, this guy became more and more glib, fortunately, only to her.

"Fuling, have you passed your happy life yet?" Qi Xuan leaned close to Meng Fuling's ear, his hands restless.

Meng Fuling nodded, blushing slightly, and pushed him, "I'm not in the mood to solve the restaurant matter."

"You still can't believe the ability of Little Winter Melon?" After Qi Xuan finished speaking, without allowing Meng Fuling to object, he picked her up and walked to the bed in the inner room.

******
Little Winter Melon hurried to Tianyuan Restaurant in the capital city, but at this time, the restaurant was temporarily closed.

The shopkeeper is still Shi Wenle. He received the news that Xiaodonggua was coming, and he was waiting for Xiaodonggua in the restaurant early.

This meeting Xiaodonggua came, the worried look on his face has not faded, although Xiaodonggua's ability is also very good, but this time the matter is not trivial, Shi Wenle worried that he would not be able to handle it well.

However, Shi Wenle never dared to express his thoughts.

"Shopkeeper Shi, take me to the granary." Xiaodonggua asked Shi Wenle to take him to the granary before taking a breath.

"Shaodong's family, many doctors have been invited to look at it, but none of them can see what kind of poison it is." Shi Wenle said.

After Xiaodonggua heard this, he didn't react at all. He thought, it's strange that ordinary doctors can see it. If it's an ordinary poison, the people behind the scenes probably wouldn't use it to harm Tianyuan Restaurant.

After entering the granary, the object of entry is naturally a bag of rice grains. Xiaodonggua asked people to open a bag of rice at will, and found that the rice was black.

"Young master, this batch of rice noodles is new." Shi Wenle said worriedly.

Shi Wenle knew that this was not going to work, but before his boss arrived, he did not dare to take the initiative to dispose of the rice noodles.

In fact, Shi Wenle suppressed the news at first, and even ordered people to buy new rice noodles for use in the restaurant, but the news leaked out too quickly.

Although the restaurant mainly serves delicious dishes, no one dares to go to the restaurant to eat, because they are afraid that they will lose their lives if they eat the dishes.

"I can't let it go! I have to burn it as soon as possible!" Little Winter Melon wiped his sleeves and wrapped his hands, then carefully picked up a grain of poisonous rice and looked at it carefully, but he couldn't see why.

At this time, he actually felt that the little chicken wings were also useful. She was trained in both medicine and poison, and she could definitely tell the poison from mere rice noodles.

"Yes! The villain also has the same intention, but where and how to burn?" Shi Wenle said.

There is too much rice and noodles, if you don't find an open place to burn it, it will be bad if it burns houses, after all, there are dense houses in Beijing.

Xiaodonggua thought for a while, the largest and most open place in Beijing is the open space behind the imperial palace.

However, it is not available for ordinary people, let alone burning things.

Before Xiaodonggua could make up his mind, Shi Wenle said, "Young Master, why don't you go outside the city?"

Little Winter Melon shook her head, and asked someone to take a bowl and save some poisonous rice noodles. When the little chicken wings came, she could tell them apart, and the rest of the rice noodles were ready to be burned.

"Outside the East City." Little Winter Gua thought for a while before saying.

Dongshi is the busiest place in the entire capital city and the place with the most people coming and going.

"Young master, although Dongshi is vast, there are too many people coming and going. If you set fire, you will accidentally hurt someone, or be caught by Jing Zhaoyi?" The city burns rice.

"Don't worry, we will arrange more guards to maintain order. As for Jing Zhaoyi, I will take care of it." Xiao Donggua said in a deep voice.

Although he is not the prince of the past, and it has been so many years, it does not prevent him from dealing with officials and using the hands of officials to do things.

Seeing that Xiaodonggua looked calm, Shi Wenle also breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Xiaodonggua could handle things well, so he felt that his worries were unnecessary.

"Tomorrow at noon, you invite those old diners outside the East Market, and then post a notice that anyone who goes to the East Market to watch the excitement, no matter how big or small, will give a tael of silver according to the person's hair, and let everyone in the capital city come to do it." Witness." Xiaowagua confessed.

Shi Wenle understood it, nodded in agreement, and immediately followed suit.

The next day, there was a sea of ​​people from outside the Dongshi City, and I don't know how many people crowded around on the third floor inside and the third floor outside.

The grain bags on the open space were piled up like a hill, and the guards brought by the little winter melon surrounded them to prevent the onlookers from squeezing past.

Xiao Donggua stood on a chair and said loudly: "It is said that the rice noodles of our Tianyuan restaurant are poisonous. As a businessman, how can we give poisonous rice noodles to everyone? If people are poisoned to death, our restaurant will not only lose its reputation, but also destroy the food." Bearing a murder case, who would shoot himself in the foot? Everyone is here today, just to be a witness and spread a message to see how we deal with these poisonous rice noodles. The sale of these poisonous rice noodles is the integrity of our restaurant."

After hearing this, the common people talked a lot, and they all felt that what Little Winter Melon said made sense. Who would open a restaurant and dare to serve poisonous rice noodles to diners?It was clear that someone deliberately framed Tianyuan Restaurant.

Look again, Shi Wenle has personally led a dozen of his assistants to cut open the grain bag with a knife in his hand, and the rice and noodles, which were dyed black in the white, flowed on the ground from the opening of the bag.

The little winter melon asked someone to pour kerosene on the grain bag, took the torch handed to him by the guard, and threw it directly on the grain bag. As soon as the grain bag touched the fire, it caught fire. stained red.

The fire burned for nearly an hour before it gradually extinguished, but it shocked the entire capital city.

******
Little wax gourd burned the rice noodles, and only after returning home did people call Steward Zhang, who was in charge of purchasing the food, and the escorts to him, and interrogate them in person.

Why do you interrogate after burning?Naturally, he observed their reaction to burning rice noodles, and after seeing it, Xiaowagua really saw the clues.

"Young master, please forgive me! The rice noodles I bought are all good, but I don't know why they are mixed with poison." Manager Zhang knelt down as soon as he came in, and kowtowed to Xiaodonggua for mercy.

"Oh, you mean someone changed it on purpose?" Little Winter Melon asked indifferently.

Manager Zhang also had a thick skin, and he nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, otherwise, how could the good rice noodles be poisoned for no reason."

"Which grain store did you buy the rice noodles from?" Little Winter Melon asked.

"All the food in the restaurant has been in Yong'an Food Store!" Steward Zhang's face turned pale, and there was a hint of guilt in his eyes.

Xiaodonggua ignored him, and sneered, "Master Shi, bring Master Qin from Yong'an Grain."

"Young, Young Master, it's useless for shopkeeper Qin to come!" Steward Zhang trembled, sweating profusely.

"Whether it's useful or not, you'll know when you come." Xiao Donggua used the tea cover to pick up the tea leaves floating in the teacup.

Everyone present was startled, this young master is only in his teens, how could he have a majestic aura that cannot be ignored?

Not long after, shopkeeper Qin from Yong'an Grain Shop came, and at the same time, Shi Wenle showed the poisoned rice noodles that had been saved to shopkeeper Qin for identification.

"Young master, this rice and noodles are very rough, not from our grain store." Shopkeeper Qin looked at the rice noodles carefully and said with certainty.

Since this kind of incident happened in Tianyuan Restaurant, he couldn't sleep or eat, fearing that his food business would be involved.

He was also very sure that any food he sold to Tianyuan Restaurant was not only non-toxic, but also high-quality, so Shi Wenle sent someone to invite him over, and he came without saying a word.

"Shaodong's family, after finding out that the rice flour was poisonous, I went to Yong'an Food Store to check."

Shi Wenle immediately locked up Guanshi Zhang and others, and then went to Yong'an Food Store to check, but found no rice noodles of the same quality as poisonous rice noodles in Yong'an Food Store.

What does this mean?It shows that Guanshi Zhang's rice noodles were not purchased from Yong'an Grain Store, and he may have replaced them himself.

"Shopkeeper Qin, you are talking nonsense! I bought the rice noodles from your grain shop. Have you been bribed to frame me?" Steward Zhang was furious, and insisted that the rice noodles were bought from Yong'an grain shop.

"Guard Zhang, what you said is so funny! Who would go to great lengths to bribe me and exchange rice noodles just to frame you? Who do you think you are?" Shopkeeper Qin said with a sarcasm.

"You!" Zhang Guanshi was so angry that his face was blue and white, but he couldn't say a word of rebuttal.

Because the shopkeeper Qin's words are correct, who would go to such lengths to frame a small man like Zhang Guanshi?It's not that I'm full.

However, needless to say, the problem must lie with Guanshi Zhang.

Since he killed himself and refused to admit it, he must have gained more benefits than working in Tianyuan Restaurant for a lifetime, and the purpose of this man behind the scenes is obviously to bring down Tianyuan Restaurant.

With such vicious intentions, it goes without saying that it must be a business opponent. When it comes to business opponents, Xiaodonggua thinks of Hengyi Restaurant, which has gradually risen in recent years.

However, after this incident, it's time for the people below to clean up, lest the same thing happen again in the future.

"Qingfeng, drag him out and execute him!" Xiao Donggua became impatient, and Manager Zhang refused to admit it, so it was better to execute him directly.

When Zhang Guanshi heard the sentence, he was terrified, "Young master, please spare me! The little one really didn't..."

Xiaodonggua didn't even look at Guanshi Zhang who was dragged out by the guards.

Immediately there was a burst of screams like slaughtering pigs outside, each sound getting shriller than the last.

Manager Zhang is also a coward. After being beaten more than a dozen times, he finally couldn't help admitting, "I recruited, I recruited, it was the shopkeeper Liu of Hengyi Restaurant who asked me to do this..."

It turned out that Manager Zhang bought good rice noodles at Yong'an Grain Store, and on the way back he exchanged poisonous rice noodles with shopkeeper Liu.

Xiaodonggua suspected that Manager Zhang hooked up with shopkeeper Liu early in the morning, or that Hengyi Restaurant had arranged for him.

"Young master, do you want to report to the officials?" Shi Wenle asked.

"Don't report it for the time being!" Little Winter Melon chewed a sneer on his lips, thinking, wouldn't it be too cheap to report to the official for handling easily?

Therefore, Xiaodonggua ordered Guanshi Zhang and others to be locked up first, and then sent someone to investigate what kind of poison Hengyi Restaurant was planting.

This time the result came out very quickly, but Xiaodonggua didn't expect that the poison came from Yaowanggu. The owner of Hengyi Restaurant, Ling Dafu, spent a lot of money to buy it from people in Yaowanggu. It is said that the drug seller is a young woman.

Xiao Donggua was puzzled by this, who in Yaowang Valley didn't know that Tianyuan Restaurant was owned by Meng Fuling?
Not to mention that Meng Fuling is Yi Qianzhong's adoptive daughter, and Xiaoji Wing is the current owner of Yaowang Valley, who has the guts to help Hengyi Restaurant bring down Tianyuan Restaurant?

This matter is much more complicated when Yaowanggu is involved, Xiaodonggua can only put it aside temporarily, and wait for Xiaojiwing.

******
Seven days later, the little chicken wings finally arrived. As soon as they arrived at Tianyuan Restaurant, they rushed straight to the backyard of the restaurant and Xiaodonggua's room.

Little Winter Melon estimates that Little Chicken Wings may arrive tomorrow, and he is taking a bath in the room.

Suddenly, the door was knocked open, and immediately, a red figure rushed in, "Little wax gourd!"

"Get out!" Xiao Donggua was annoyed, and hurriedly pulled off the white robe that hung on the screen, wrapping her naked body.

hateful!Just by listening to this loud, irritating style, needless to say, Little Winter Melon knew who was coming.

"Little Winter Melon, you are taking a bath! I came at the right time, so I have a good eye." Little Chicken Wing ran behind the screen as if he couldn't hear the anger in Little Winter Melon's voice, wanting to see the picture of the handsome man coming out of the bath.

"You, a girl who has never been out of the court, are not ashamed to say this!" Little Winter Melon's brain was aching, and if he could, he really wanted to find a place to hide where Little Chicken Wings couldn't find it.

"Why do you have to be ashamed? Can being ashamed be eaten? Are there any beautiful men to look at if you are ashamed?" Little Chicken Wings had already run to the bathtub while speaking.

She hadn't seen Little Winter Melon for almost half a year, and now seeing him just out of the bath, her eyes were amazingly bright.

Little Winter Melon is only wearing a white robe, her slightly wet long hair is tied behind her back with a silver ribbon, and there is still a glint of water on her face.

His long-opened appearance is very similar to Qi Xuan, his eyebrows are like the daisies of distant mountains, a pair of vivid peach blossom eyes, a tall nose, extremely beautiful lips, even his chin is exquisite and moving, and his facial features are all gods masterpiece.

"I want to get dressed, you go out!" Xiao Donggua turned her face and drove her out in a cold voice.

"Why did you drive me out? Are you shy? Tsk tsk, little wax gourd, if you really don't have that kind of thought about me, why don't you dare to let me see it openly? Is it because you're afraid you won't be able to hold it?" Little Chicken Wing smiled His eyes were full of teasing.

"Ridiculous! How could I have thoughts about you?" Little Winter Melon was speechless, and Little Chicken Wing had become thicker and thicker in the past two years, and he was almost unable to resist.

"Since you have no idea, you should change your clothes in front of me! Anyway, I saw you when you were young, and if you watch it again now, you will not lose a piece of meat." Little Chicken Wing laughed.

Little Winter Melon's handsome face has turned dark again, can it be compared to now when I was a child?At that time, he had no autonomy at all, and he would never have thought that Little Chicken Wing would be entangled with him.

He took a deep breath and told himself not to be angry!It's not worth getting angry with Little Chicken Wing, you'll only be half-dead by her anger.

"You should know what mother asked you to do." In order to stop Xiaoji Wing from thinking about such nonsense, Xiao Donggua could only talk to her about business, and emphasized that it was Meng Fuling who asked her to come, not him.

"I know, you miss me!" Little Chicken Wing's eyes flashed, and he said deliberately.

Seeing that Xiaodonggua's face became even uglier, Xiaoji Wing put away his smile and stopped joking, "It's about the poisonous rice noodles!"

"Now you go outside to find the shopkeeper, and ask him to give you the poisonous rice noodles. You can check what kind of poison it is and where it comes from." Xiaodonggua said, he did not say that he had found out that the poison came from Yaowang Valley.

"You enslaved me as soon as I arrived, you really don't know how to pity me." Little Chicken Wing pretended to be wronged.

Xiao Donggua raised his head to meet her bright face and the aggrieved expression she made, feeling a little suffocated, he hurriedly turned his head away.

Little Chicken Wing didn't notice the moment when Little Winter Melon turned his head away, a fleeting look of panic flashed across his face.

She couldn't help but lower her head and suppress the disappointment in her eyes. After so many years, he still doesn't like her, and she suddenly felt a little tired.

Little Chicken Wing paused for a long time, and when he raised his head again, he had recovered his normal expression, and said with a smile, "Then I'll go out first, and I'll look for you later."

The footsteps gradually faded away until they disappeared completely, and Xiao Donggua was sure that Xiaoji Wing had really left. He heaved a sigh of relief and put on his clothes.

He stepped out of the screen, went to the table outside, and poured himself a cup of tea.

"Qingfeng, who did Little Chicken Wing come from?" Little Winter Melon couldn't help asking.

"Master Wan, Miss Xiyue came with Master Wan." Qing Feng replied.

Except for Meng Fuling and Xiaodonggua who still call her Xiaojiwing's nickname, everyone on Wangyou Island calls her Miss Xiyue, which was given by Meng Fuling back then.

"It's that person again." Xiao Donggua felt a little unhappy when she heard Wan Chong's name.

Wan Chong is the son of an elder in Yaowanggu, two years older than Xiaojiwing, every time he sees Xiaodonggua, he has an inexplicable hostility, but Xiaojiwing regards him as his elder brother and never notices.

"Send him away!" Little Winter Melon said coldly.

(End of this chapter)