Chapter 322 Sweet-scented osmanthus rice wine
Although it is dim sum, it is actually the staple food at the end of the banquet to fill the stomach. The last staple food dim sum proposed on the menu are bamboo tube rice, steamed buns filled with soup, lotus root powder soup and sweet-scented osmanthus fermented dumplings.
When Lin Fei came over, Wen Mingtang had just made sweet-scented osmanthus wine rice balls, and was transferring them into small round cups. Each cup for each person looked exquisite and convenient to use.
The golden sweet-scented osmanthus blooms in the sweet little **** of the wine koji and Yuxue, yellow and white, the color is fresh and bright, and the two or three red goji berries dotted among them are the finishing touch. At a glance, the soup in the round cup is full of clear water. The transparent luster, although looking elegant, is quite attractive.
Lin Fei just stood aside and didn't lower his head to smell it deliberately. The rich aroma of rice wine mixed with the sweet scent of osmanthus came from the round cup along with the dense heat.
A slightly intoxicating sweetness poured into his nostrils, Lin Fei looked down at the small **** of sweet-scented osmanthus wine brewed in the round cup, his eyes were slightly fixed, and he did not move away, and said to the maidservant who came in to serve the staple food and snacks: "Just Take it to the guest house, Mrs. Lu is not feeling well, she has gone to rest!"
This sentence also means that the banquet ended early. Wen Mingtang handed the prepared sweet-scented osmanthus wine glutinous rice dumpling to the maid, wiped his hands, and glanced at Master Xing who was waiting to prepare a meat dish.
Master Xing stopped what he was doing, and asked Lin Fei: "Second Young Master, what about the remaining meat dishes..."
Lin Fei shook his head and said, "There is no need to go on again."
Master Xing gave a "hmm" when he heard the words, and didn't insist anymore. Instead, he raised the torn bandage on his hand, greeted Wen Mingtang and Lin Fei, and went back to change the dressing.
After Master Xing left, Wen Mingtang breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Lin Fei, kept silent, and asked him, "Lin Shaoqing, does this Master Xing know the guest who came today?"
Lin Fei was noncommittal about this, but just paused, and said: "As soon as the stewed pork meat was served, Mrs. Lu began to retch, because she felt uncomfortable after smelling too much meat."
Lin Fei couldn't explain the reasoning in detail, and Wen Mingtang, the cook, immediately realized it, and said thoughtfully, "I saw that the red yeast rice was put too much, the color is too bright."
But as an ordinary person, Wen Mingtang has no other feelings except that the pork meat is too red. Just thinking about the case that is being handled now, and the market rumors that Liu Yuan and others are always talking about in recent days, coupled with the strange behavior of Lin Fei and Master Xing today, I have a faint guess in my heart.
"Could it be that Mrs. Lu has seen such a murder scene before?" Wen Mingtang thought for a while, and said, "Master Xing came for Mrs. Lu?"
Because of his acquaintance with Liang Hongjin, Wen Mingtang knew quite a lot about the process of Master Xing's becoming the cook of the Hou's mansion. He heard that Master Xing was going to eat "public meals" in the official kitchen of Ganzhiwei. But halfway there, he regretted entering Jingyunhou's mansion.
Perhaps this master Xing entered the Hou's mansion to borrow Mrs. Hou to get close to Mrs. Lu, but he obviously forgot that there is a big Buddha Lin Fei in this house, working under his nose... Wen Mingtang felt that it would be better to be more straightforward and explain the whole story clearly up.
Looking at Lin Fei's actions today, it is obvious that he has already found out about Master Xing's past, but Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu in the yamen don't seem to know about it yet.
The market rumor that Liu Yuan said? Wen Mingtang's face changed slightly when he heard this: "You say people..."
Before he finished speaking, Lin Fei shook his head and said: "That's not true. It's just that someone killed a wealthy businessman and his wife out of greed. It's true. The murderer was the butcher, and the murder weapon was the butcher knife."
Hearing this, Wen Mingtang subconsciously glanced at the knives on the chopping board, his expression was not very good.
Lin Fei glanced at the girl, saw that she was only angry, not afraid, and then continued: "The case did not happen in Chang'an City, but in the nearby Xianyang. There is no such case file in Chang'an City. But because it is close to Chang'an , and because the process of the case was rumored to be bizarre and terrifying, it became an enduring rumor in the market."
Since we know where the case happened, as long as there are records, we can find it. The fact is indeed the case, Lin Fei has borrowed the file of the case from Xianyang County.
"It has been nearly sixty years since this case happened, and the case was solved that year. The murderer was arrested within two days. The witnesses and material evidence are all there, and there is no possibility of wrong judgment." Lin Fei said, "The murdered wealthy businessman and his wife It's not the people in Chang'an City, but the rich merchants passing through here, the murderer is a butcher, the murder weapon is the butcher's knife in the hands of the butcher, as for being arrested so quickly..."
When Lin Fei said this, he paused, looked at the girl, and said, "The rich merchant couple has a daughter who came to Chang'an with the rich merchant couple back then. Because the climate was not acclimatized, she stayed in the rich merchant's rented house to cultivate herself, and she did not take care of her. No one was seen."
"The murderous butcher didn't know that the rich businessman's daughter also came to Chang'an. He thought it was just a rich businessman and his wife, so after killing them, he used a butcher knife to dismember the body in an attempt to destroy the body." Lin Fei glanced at the girl, "The rich businessman The daughter hid under the bed and watched all this happen before her eyes."
Wen Mingtang couldn't help gasping when he heard this: "The rich businessman's daughter..."
"The wealthy businessman's daughter is naturally the most powerful witness in this case," Lin Fei said, "With this witness, the murderer was arrested soon and sentenced to beheading, but..."
It's just that the rich businessman's daughter not only has to bear the pain of losing her parents, but also witnessed her parents being murdered and brutally dismembered by a butcher, so can she live the rest of her life in peace?
Wen Mingtang had a faint guess in his heart, his lips moved, and before she could speak, Lin Fei glanced in the direction of the guest house, and said: "The orphan girl is pregnant, and the wealthy businessman's daughter was taken to the house of her uncle and aunt, where she will stay At the age of marriage, she accidentally fell into the water and was forced to marry her cousin as a flat wife, and then..."
Before Lin Fei finished speaking, Wen Mingtang understood: "Could it be that Mrs. Lu was the rich merchant's daughter?"
Lin Fei nodded, and after talking about Mrs. Lu's past and his friendship with Mrs. Hou in detail, he said: "I found out that Mrs. Lu was the witness back then, and she has been as usual since then. She has never forgotten the events of that year, and the plate of braised pork meat at the banquet just now may have brought back her memories of that day, which is why she showed such a reaction."
Mrs. Lu's past is clear at a glance, so why did Master Xing borrow a plate of braised pork meat to deliberately recall Mrs. Lu's memories and remind her of the past?
Master Guan Xing is of the same age as Mrs. Lu's daughter, Xi Niang, and Mrs. Hou. When the incident happened, he must have not been born yet!
Regarding this, Lin Fei raised his eyelids, and continued: "Although there were all witnesses and material evidence in that case back then, and there was no wrong judgment, how did a wealthy businessman and his wife who passed through Chang'an get involved with a butcher?"
If it is said that the butcher sees his fortune...the wealthy businessman and his wife have traveled all over the world for many years without any accidents, so they must be vigilant. If so, why would a butcher whom they have never met enter the house at will?
(end of this chapter)