Dali Temple Small Dining Room

  Chapter 371 New Year's Day Dessert (7)

When he opened his eyes again the next day and came to the public kitchen, Wen Mingtang was still in charge of the public kitchen alone, and his uneasiness grew stronger. The guards and officials in Dali Temple didn't know what happened in Xianyang. Lin Fei, who never left the kitchen, didn't send Zhao You to pick up food all day yesterday, so Wen Mingtang didn't even have a chance to inquire about the news.

  If it weren't for the fact that he still needs to work in the public kitchen for a few more days, he wouldn't be able to leave. I'm afraid Wen Mingtang would have rushed to Xianyang to inquire about the situation yesterday.

  The Dali Temple was still quiet, except that someone turned over her room, nothing happened.

  The jailer named Tong Zhang really brought a basket of eggs and some dried beans to find Wen Mingtang. After lunch, Wen Mingtang marinated the eggs and dried beans.

  Until all this was done, Wen Mingtang couldn't sit still any longer, and when he was about to leave Dali Temple to search for someone, Ji Caimai finally rushed back.

  Seeing that Ji Caimai, who is still considered to be exquisite on weekdays, is dressed in dust and dust, with bloodshot eyes, she knows that the past two days are not going to be good.

  Wen Mingtang opened his mouth, wanting to ask Ji Caimai what happened, but his mouth was blocked, and he couldn't ask anything.

  Finally, Ji Caimai nodded to her, and said, "Let's give away the snack box first!"

  Adults are no better than children. They cry when they want, and laugh when they want. Even if they feel sad, they have to cheer up and do what is at hand first.

Wen Mingtang naturally understood this truth, and didn't ask Ji Caimai why he only came back alone. Why didn't his nephew, Tangyuan, A Bing, and Liu Yuan, who had gone to Xianyang earlier, come back? The handyman moved out together, and then Ji Caimai sent them to the other party's house one by one according to the predetermined list.

  Wen Mingtang also took a trip with the two handymen, and sent them to Yu Jijiu in the Imperial College.

  After the students were on vacation, the Guozijian was quite empty. The school where people used to come and go was empty, but the courtyard where Yu Jijiu was in was quite lively.

  When Wen Mingtang walked in with the handyman carrying the New Year's Day dessert box, he saw Yu Jijiu and his famous friends were painting in front of a square stone table in the middle of the courtyard.

   Among them are Wang and his favorite student Xunzhou.

  Wang He is not good at painting, so Yu Jijiu, who is also not good at painting, is looking down at the people painting.

  Seeing from a distance that there are a lot of red painting materials on the stone table, and looking at the bright lanterns, firecrackers and other folk objects on the painting paper, I think that everyone is painting paintings related to the New Year.

  Xun Zhou, who was fishing behind Wang He, raised his head when he heard the noise, and when he saw Wen Mingtang, his face flashed with joy, and he opened his mouth and mouthed "Sister Mingtang".

  Wen Mingtang made the same mouth gestures at him, and after calling out "Senior Brother Xun", Yu Jijiu from that room saw them, smiled and pointed to the empty stone table beside him, and said, "Put it there!"

   Several people walked over, put down the New Year's Day snack box, and then took the list, walked to Yu Jijiu and handed the list to Yu Jijiu to see.

Yu Jijiu glanced at the New Year's Day dessert boxes, and seeing that there were no problems with the number of boxes, he nodded "Yes", and then said to Wang He who was looking up here: "I ordered a few boxes of snacks, and each person will take one box home today. "

Wang He snorted when he heard the words, and said disapprovingly, "I don't like dim sum." After saying this, he immediately turned to Xun Zhou and said, "Remember to take a box with you when you go back later, don't forget! "

   Xun Zhou nodded in response: he has long been used to his teacher's incompetence.

  Because the new year was approaching, Yu Jijiu also gave Wen Mingtang and Wen Mingtang a string of auspicious coins for each of the two handymen, and then smiled and said to them: "Everything goes well in the New Year!"

   Several people hurriedly returned to Yu Jijiu for a few words of congratulations before leaving the Imperial College.

  The harmony in Yu Jijiu's courtyard was not brought back to Dali Temple, but Wen Mingtang was busy preparing dinner again when he returned to Dali Temple.

After the evening meal, Ji Caimai handed over the public kitchen to the cleaning staff, and Ji Caimai called Wen Mingtang to the public kitchen's yard. Seeing Wen Mingtang's faintly speculative expression, Ji Caimai sighed and said nothing nonsense. Said: "The two temple ministers are fine, something happened to Lao Yuan...he left."

  Wen Mingtang felt a "thump" in her heart, but the two days of waiting, plus the inexplicable uneasiness on the day of Tangyuan, did not make her feel too surprised, but an inexplicable sense of sadness welled up in her heart.

   Tangyuan’s mother fell ill shortly after giving birth to Tangyuan, and went away after a few years.

  Since then, Lao Yuan has not continued the string. It's not that no one is a matchmaker for Lao Yuan. He has his own house in Chang'an, and there are several acres of Susukida outside the city. Although he is not considered rich, it is not impossible to marry someone like Lao Yuan if he wants to remarry.

I have never heard the word "dead wife" mentioned by Lao Yuan on weekdays, but staying alone for so many years is far better than some outsiders talking about their dead wife. They look affectionate, but they start to continue before the funeral The people are much better.

  Whether he is a father or a husband, Lao Yuan has done an excellent job.

   Now that something happened so suddenly, Wen Mingtang regretted Lao Yuan's departure, but couldn't help but worry about the glutinous rice balls. Wen Mingtang is a man of two lives, and he is an adult in his shell, so it is better.

  But when the original owner entered the palace at the beginning of the year, the memory of hiding under the covers and crying secretly in the middle of the night was still in front of her eyes.

  Wen Mingtang sighed, and asked Ji Caimai: "What exactly happened? Lin Shaoqing once said that at noon on the day they left the glutinous rice balls, Xianyang even sent a letter saying that everything went well."

"It happened not long after the letter was sent. The group of them stayed in the Xianyang County Yamen. The Xianyang County Yamen and other local government offices did not open fire, and all three meals were brought in from outside." Ji Caimai said, "They were going to ask for food. I left after eating that lunch, but the person who came to deliver the lunch actually..."

  …

  …

  The Yamen of Xianyang County was burnt to a mess.

Many people were outside the county yamen, looking at the yamen where half of the wall was burned down, they were full of emotion: "In broad daylight, those masked villains trapped the adults in the yamen like this, intending to burn them to death. It's really hateful!"

"Isn't it?" Someone answered the call, sighed, and said greedily, "I was still doing accounts in the shop, but when I heard someone screaming outside, I came out and saw that there was a person with a bucket trying to put out the fire. Knocked down to the ground by those villains, the yamen is on fire!"

"It's not that the gangsters did it secretly, but the murder of the court officials!" The people who were emotional at the beginning talked about the situation that day, and they still had lingering fears. In the middle, just as the group of bodyguards and a few young officials came out of the yamen where half of the wall had collapsed, the sentimental commoners hurriedly pointed at the group of people and said, "Here, that team of bodyguards saw that something was wrong, so I immediately raised the case." When the knife came up, the people in the yamen were able to rush out..."

The bodyguards mentioned by the people were talking to Lin Fei, Liu Yuan, and Bai Zhu about the passage here: "Originally, I would not go to Xianyang on that day, but the employer added money. I was in a hurry to get some new year goods, so I arrived in Xianyang." Speaking of this, he couldn't help sighing, "It's a coincidence that I happened to encounter such evil deeds, so the sky can't bear to see the evil ones so rampant!"

  Lin Fei nodded in response, but then asked the bodyguards in front of him: "How many of you dare to ask, who is the employer of this bodyguard?"

  (end of this chapter)