Dali Temple Small Dining Room

  Chapter 362 Pork Stew Vermicelli (4)

  Even though it was almost noon, Wen Mingtang still felt that the day was very glaring, making it hard for people to keep their eyes open.

  Squinting his eyes subconsciously, his mind was still in chaos, but Wen Mingtang's face was calm: this was an instinct developed during the years in Ye Ting.

  The nurse in charge who took advantage to make things difficult for her and the housemates are often used to watching people order food, bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and naturally bullying the panic-stricken maid is even more ruthless.

  She heard herself say to Du Lingmou: "Since it is a reminder to me, how can I know that Master Du is not?"

Seeing Du Lingmou's increasingly ugly face, Wen Mingtang turned his words into a sharp knife and pierced Du Lingmou's heart as he said earlier: "My father is dead, and Master Du has become a Zhongshuling. Now a few years have passed, Master Du's position has not even been moved, so it can be seen that his talents are not so outstanding, how can he know if he can hold this life-threatening talisman?"

The sunlight passed through the sparse tree branches and cast mottled light and shadows on Du Lingmou's face. Du Lingmou's face was bright and dark, and Wen Mingtang clearly saw his lips tremble, as if he wanted to say something, but he did not say anything in the end. , only glanced at her, turned around and strode towards the carriage not far away.

  Wen Mingtang watched Du Lingmou's "aggressive" attack, turned around and left inexplicably, and stopped suddenly when he was stepping on the stool to get on the carriage.

  Du Lingmou, who was dressed in an unremarkable gray robe, stood on the repaired carriage and turned to look at her: "It's better to lose the reminder earlier!"

   As he spoke, he opened the curtain and entered the carriage without waiting for her reaction.

  The driver raised his whip, and the carriage drove away.

  Old Yuan came across this scene when he was carrying Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan out of the yamen. The dust raised by the carriage was splashed, and several people ate a mouthful of ashes, naturally their expressions were not good.

   Looking at Wen Mingtang standing alone under the tree, he immediately went up to greet her, and then asked, "Where's that one?"

  Wen Mingtang pointed to the carriage that was leaving with a cloud of dust, and said, "Here, let's go!"

  Liu Yuan moved his lips, although he didn't make a sound, but judging by the shape of his mouth, he seemed to be cursing "Mother".

  Bai Zhu asked Wen Mingtang: "He didn't make things difficult for you, did he?"

   "How could it be possible not to make things difficult?" Liu Yuanfei rolled his eyes at Bai Zhu, and said, "They all ran to the Yamen on purpose, probably to say something harsh."

  Wen Mingtang nodded, and glanced at the middle-aged Confucian scholars who came here to talk from the nearby yamen. The movement here attracted many people to look here.

  She coughed and said the content of the cruel words: "He asked me to leave Chang'an!"

  Liu Yuan said "Oh" and said: "Don't pay attention to him! Master Wen is staying well in the official kitchen of our Dali Temple Yamen. What are you doing when you leave?"

Wen Mingtang nodded, and said: "That's what I said, and he didn't arrange where to go. I'm a weak woman who doesn't know the place, where should I go?" Before they could speak again, he waved his hand at them and said, "Let's go out of the city earlier, I'm going back to the Yamen."

   After finishing speaking, he walked quickly to the Yamen.

  Seeing this situation, the few people didn't delay any longer, got into Lao Yuan's carriage, planed their horseshoes, and galloped out of the city.

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  Wen Mingtang, who returned to the yamen, did not go back to the public kitchen to meet Tang Yuan and A Bing, but went to the room where he was staying.

   After entering the room, Wen Mingtang went to the bed and squatted down, reached out and touched the bottom of the bed. After touching for a while, he found a gray bag from under the bed.

  It's not a big burden, and with Wen Mingtang's current stature, it's even a little pitiful to carry it on his body.

   This is not surprising, after all, the burden is not hers, it was carried by the eight-year-old original owner when she entered the palace.

Unpacking the package, apart from two close-fitting clothes that no longer fit well at this time, there is only Wen Xuance's birthday present to her. When grinding, it was used by the original owner.

   These things, when the house was stolen for the first time in the palace, she looked through it carefully. Langhao has been dismantled from the inside to the outside, the seams and pockets of the clothes have been turned over, and they have been soaked in the potion, there is nothing special about it.

   These are ordinary things that cannot be more ordinary, not special. Moreover, judging from Wen Xuance's disinterest in the original owner and his lack of teaching, Wen Mingtang did not think that Wen Xuance would hand over such an important thing to the eight-year-old original owner for safekeeping.

  A girl who has never been disciplined, whose aptitude is unknown, and who has no strength to restrain a chicken, what ability does she have to protect important things?

  This can be seen from the fact that the original owner was drowned in the laundry lake by the palace servants of Ye Ting shortly after entering the palace.

  Neither she nor the original owner disliked Wen Xuance, but no matter how much they disliked, they had to admit that Wen Xuance was a smart person, so how could he be so stupid?

   Really important things should be handed over to the elder brother of the original owner—the only son Wen Xuance had carefully taught and placed high hopes on. Unfortunately, as a male, her brother could not escape, and died with Wen Xuance back then.

  If that’s the case...it’s not pleasant to say, it’s more likely to leave it to Xunzhou than to her.

  Wen Mingtang stared down at the bundles for a while, then walked out of the Yamen of Dali Temple with the bundles in his arms. When he came to the tree where he had just talked to Du Lingmou, she took out the flint.

  When Huo Miao licked the objects in the bag, he noticed that several eyes fell on him. Maybe it was a random look out of curiosity, or maybe it was for other reasons.

  Wen Mingtang didn't look back at who was looking at him, he just stared at the bag, and turned back to the Yamen after the bag was burned to ashes.

Behind Dali Temple is the Guozijian, and it is not uncommon for those naughty students to set fire to their textbooks and homework. It is said that this is not something worthy of attention, but some people said goodbye to the speaker immediately after Wen Mingtang left. , and before he could take off his official robe, he hurried to inform his good colleagues about this scene.

   "I saw with my own eyes that after Du Lingmou left, Wen Xuance's daughter took out the baggage she brought from Wen's house and burned it."

The colleague who was informed was not surprised when he heard the words, and said: "No matter how you don't teach, Wen Xuance's daughter will not be a fool. Since Du Lingmou said that this is a reminder, it is naturally safest to burn it in front of people." .”

  When the word "in front of people" was mentioned, the man deliberately emphasized his tone.

  The person who came to tell the news suddenly changed his face: "Could it be that she..."

   "You also said that she didn't even raise her head, so how could she know it's you?" The colleague who was told rubbed the teacup in his hand and said softly, "Does she have eyes in her back?"

As soon as these words came out, the person on the opposite side was relieved, paused, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, took a sip, and said: "Du Lingmou's words are true, Wen Xuance's daughter is indeed a cunning of."

The person who was rubbing the teacup deeply thought of this: "Don't look at her who is spinning around the stove all day long, but she is not stupid. Du Lingmou will not hesitate to go to war for this, and it must be a very important thing to find her. The princess of Liyang Waiting for people to be very ruthless, she must have guessed that someone would follow her, so she simply burned everything in front of people!"

Having said that, the person who spoke paused for a moment, but shook his head immediately, and said, "If I had put it before, I would have believed her, but it's a pity now..." The person snorted lightly, and said with a sneer, "Perhaps like Du Lingmou As the saying goes, the things are just not on her body, but she may not know where the things have gone.

  (end of this chapter)