Chapter 146 Tea Eggs (2)

After listening to the corner for a long time, Wen Mingtang walked straight towards the alley.

Mostly for the passage of nobles' cars and horses, the lanes were built wider than ordinary lanes. The lane is very shallow. If you look up, you can see the tall vermilion gate of the house at the end of the lane. The stone lions standing on both sides of the gate look at it with wide eyes and are very majestic.

Although it was broad daylight, the door of the nobleman's house was still closed. Wen Mingtang walked around, and it was impossible to see what was going on inside the house through the thick stone wall. He only walked around briefly and walked out again. .

Back at the entrance of the alley, when I was about to buy some necessary ingredients, I heard a familiar voice coming from behind me.

"Master Wen?"

The slightly surprised voice made Wen Mingtang stiffen. He turned around and looked over. Not far behind him, he saw Lin Fei and Wei Fu standing at the door of a mansion. Before the steward of the mansion could leave, the three of them were looking towards him. She looked over here.

The steward seemed a little surprised, but he was a discerning man after all. He turned around and returned to the mansion without asking any more questions. After the door of the mansion was closed with a bang, only Wen Mingtang, Lin Fei and Wei Fu were left in the empty alley. People.

Wei Fu glanced at Lin Fei, coughed slightly, and asked, "Why is Master Wen here?"

Wen Mingtang was silent for a moment, looked at Lin Fei's confused face, weighed it briefly, and chose to tell the truth: "I found an excuse to buy ingredients and go out and do some personal things of my own."

After saying this, the expression on Wei Fu's face was even more subtle. He subconsciously raised his head and glanced at Lin Fei beside him, paused, and said with a strange expression: "Master Wen is not in Dali Temple, but the smell of the pot of tea eggs is... You are so domineering, we would have thought you were here, but for Lin Shaoqing..."

It was obviously just an ordinary egg, but the aroma of the pot of tea eggs made the whole Dali Temple get excited. As people sat there, they wanted to go over and take a look at the pot of tea eggs. .

He also smelled the smell, and just when he was sighing, "Master Wen has made snacks again today," Lin Fei came over and said to him in the unique fragrance of tea, spices, and sauces: "Go." See if anyone is still in the public kitchen!"

At that time, he instinctively retorted: "Is Lin Shaoqing worrying too much? Although I haven't seen anyone, I can smell the smell. If Master Wen's people are not here, where does this smell come from?"

Lin Fei shook his head and didn't say much. He just asked him to go to the public kitchen and take a look.

Although Wei Fu didn't know why at that time, he still left. Then, he saw Tangyuan and A Bing sitting next to the stove where tea eggs were simmering over low heat.

The two and a half-year-old children couldn't help but reach out to the tea eggs that were about to move all over the Dali Temple in the pot hook, wanting to take one to taste it first.

After a visit to the public kitchen, except for catching two "little mice" trying to steal food, Wen Mingtang, who was supposed to be cooking there, didn't even see anyone.

Watching this scene, Wei Fu was in awe, dumbfounded: I really don’t know whether to admire Wen Mingtang’s good craftsmanship, but he can still make this pot of delicious food when no one else is around; or whether he should admire Wen Mingtang for borrowing a pot of delicious food to serve as a “proof of presence” for himself "The ability!"

Knowing that Wen Mingtang's person was not there, Lin Fei was not surprised. Not only that, he nodded and said with a "really so" look on his face: "I knew she couldn't sit still!"

After saying this, he took him out of Dali Temple and came to Zhengyangfang to find a familiar official from the court. After asking about King Yu this morning, he came out and bumped into Wen Mingtang.

Now that she was caught, Wen Mingtang stopped telling lies. She came to Zhengyangfang to check out the situation in the name of buying ingredients.

It was just unexpected that Lin Fei was staring at her so closely that he even came to find her!

One didn't lie, and the other didn't waste time pursuing the case.

After a pause, Lin Fei spoke first: "What did you find out?"

Wen Mingtang said: "I just listened to the people on the street chatting for a while, and I knew that there were dragons and crouching tigers hiding in this alley. There was a wealthy widow, a powerful princess, and an unlucky cuckold whose family had failed. Prince Consort.”

Of course, there are more than just these people in the alley, there may be others.

"Prince Yu has a reputation for being romantic. If she were an ordinary woman, she would not need to cover up in every possible way, and she would not go out alone without the people around her." Wen Mingtang said, "I don't know why I have to cover up like this this time."

If it's the golden princess... if she says anything unpleasant, all the neighbors will know about it. I guess the princess's affairs are no longer a secret. The prince-in-law can't do anything to her, so why bother to cover it up?

King Yu didn't have a Princess Yu who could stop him from messing around. The two of them just looked at each other and put the hat on the prince's consort openly. The prince... had already worn so many hats. I don't care about this anymore.

This is especially true for the rich Widow Wu, who seems to have no need to cover up.

Apart from these two people, I haven't heard from the neighbors that there are any other people in this alley who are like these two people who would do something like the husband of the night.

Wen Mingtang was a bit slow to inquire about the information himself, but now... Wen Mingtang looked at Lin Fei in front of him: With this person here, he must be ready to inquire about who lives in this alley!

Lin Fei's answer did not disappoint her, and he said: "The family we just came out is Mr. Du, who has become an official. He has lived here since he became an official. He spent his days growing vegetables and flowers. His wife has passed away long ago. His children are not around, and there is not a single woman in the whole house from top to bottom. The incident involving Prince Yu this morning should not have much to do with him.

"Mr. Du doesn't know much about these things, but he also mentioned Princess Chao'an and Widow Wu," Lin Fei said. "In addition, he also mentioned several other families in this alley, including merchants and officials. How to Du Du in private? Of course, Sir, I don’t know. But from the looks of it, they all seem to be pretty good. Recently, the men are all at home and rarely stay out overnight."

Since the man was at home, it was naturally unlikely that King Yu would go in and fool around. in this way……

"The third room from the left lives in Mr. Jin, the head of the Ministry of Household Affairs. He has been out on business recently. Since his two children are still in their infancy, he left his wife in the capital and did not take her out of Chang'an." Lin Fei said, "That Mrs. Jin is beautiful and gentle. When Mr. Du talks about it, he looks dignified."

oh? Is that so? While specifically mentioning that Mrs. Jin's husband was not in Beijing and her two children were still in infancy, he also said that Mrs. Jin was "a dignified person." As expected, he is an old man who has been immersed in the officialdom for most of his life. Mr. Du, who has become an official, knows how to use puns!