Chapter 322 Sweet Osmanthus Wine Rice Balls

Although they are called snacks, they are actually the staple food that fills the stomach at the end of the feast. The last few staple snacks planned on the menu are bamboo tube rice, soup dumplings, lotus root starch soup and sweet-scented osmanthus wine-stuffed dumplings.

When Lin Fei came over, Wen Mingtang had just finished making the sweet-scented osmanthus wine dumplings and was transferring them into small round cups. One cup for each person looked exquisite and easy to use.

The golden sweet-scented osmanthus blooms in the cute little balls of the wine yeast and jade snow. It is yellow and white, fresh and bright in color. The two or three red wolfberries embellished among them are the finishing touch. At a glance, the soup in the round cup is filled with clear water. The transparent luster looks elegant but quite attractive.

Lin Fei just stood aside, without lowering his head to smell it deliberately. The rich aroma of rice wine mixed with the sweet smell of osmanthus came towards him along with the hot steam from the round cup.

A slightly intoxicating sweetness flowed into his nose. Lin Fei lowered his eyes and looked at the sweet-scented osmanthus rice dumplings in the round cup. His eyes were slightly condensed, and he no longer looked away. He opened his mouth and said to the maid who came in to bring the staple food and snacks: "Directly Take it to the guest room, Mrs. Lu is feeling unwell and has to rest!"

This sentence also meant that the banquet ended early. Wen Mingtang handed the prepared sweet-scented osmanthus rice dumplings to the maid, wiped his hands, and glanced at Master Xing who was about 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, "No need to do it again."

Master Xing said "hmm" when he heard this and did not insist anymore. Instead, he raised the somewhat torn bandage on his hand, said hello to 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, was silent, and asked him: "Lin Shaoqing, does this Master Xing know the guests who came today?"

Lin Fei did not comment on this, just paused and said: "As soon as the braised pork meat came, Mrs. Lu started to retching. She said she felt uncomfortable after smelling too much meat."

Lin Fei couldn't explain the reasoning in detail. Wen Mingtang, a cook, immediately realized it and said thoughtfully: "I saw that there was too much red yeast rice. The color is too bright."

However, as an ordinary person, Wen Mingtang had no other feeling except that the color of the pork meat was too red. Just thinking about the case being handled now, as well as the market rumors that Liu Yuan and others have been talking about in recent days, plus the strange behavior of Lin Fei and Master Xing today, I have a vague suspicion in my heart.

"Could it be that Mrs. Lu has seen such murder scenes before?" Wen Mingtang thought for a while and said, "Master Xing is here for Mrs. Lu?"

Because he knew Liang Hongjin, Wen Mingtang knew quite a lot about the process of Master Xing becoming the chef of the Hou Mansion. He heard that Master Xing was planning to join the public kitchen of Qianzhiwei to eat "public meals". But halfway through, he regretted entering the Marquis Jingyun's Mansion.

Perhaps Master Xing entered the Hou Mansion to use Mrs. Hou to get close to Mrs. Lu, but he obviously forgot that there was a giant Buddha named Lin Fei in the house, doing things under his nose... Wen Mingtang thought it would be better to be more straightforward and tell the whole story directly. Clear.

Looking at Lin Fei's actions today, it is obvious that he has found out Master Xing's past, but Liu Yuandong Bai Zhu in the Yamen seems not to know about this yet.

Lin Fei said "Hmm" and said "This matter..." and then stopped. He seemed to be hesitant. He raised his eyelids and looked at the girl's face. After careful consideration, he felt that the girl was not timid. , so after thinking about it, he finally said: "The rumors Liu Yuan mentioned are not groundless!"

The market rumors Liu Yuan mentioned? When Wen Mingtang heard this, his face changed slightly: "You are talking about people..."

Before he finished speaking, Lin Fei shook his head and said: "That's not true. It's just that someone was motivated by wealth and killed a wealthy businessman and his wife. It's true that the murderer was the butcher, and the weapon used belonged to the butcher. knife."

Hearing this, Wen Mingtang subconsciously glanced at the knife on the chopping board, his expression not very good.

Lin Fei glanced at the girl and saw that she was just angry, not afraid, and then continued: "The case did not occur in Chang'an City, but in nearby Xianyang. There is no case file in Chang'an City. However, because it is close to Chang'an , and because the process of the case was rumored to be bizarre and horrific, it became an enduring rumor in the market."

Now that we know where the case occurred, we can find out as long as there are records. This is indeed the case. Lin Fei has borrowed the case files from Xianyang County.

"It has been nearly sixty years since this case occurred, and the case was solved that year. The murderer was arrested in just two days. With all the witnesses and material evidence, there is no possibility of wrongful conviction." Lin Fei said, "The wealthy businessman and his wife were murdered. He was not a person from Chang'an City, but a wealthy businessman passing through this place. The person who killed him was a butcher, and the murder weapon was the butcher's knife. As for being arrested so quickly..."

When Lin Fei said this, he paused, looked at the girl, and said: "The wealthy businessman and his wife had a daughter. She came to Chang'an with the wealthy businessman and his wife. Because she was not acclimatized to the climate, she stayed in the house rented by the wealthy businessman to recuperate. No one was seen.”

"The murderer butcher didn't know that the rich businessman's daughter had also come to Chang'an. He thought it was just the rich businessman and his wife, so after killing them, he used a butcher's knife to cut the bodies into pieces in an attempt to destroy the bodies and eliminate traces of them." Lin Fei said, glancing at the girl, "The rich businessman and his wife My daughter hid under the bed and watched all this happen before her eyes."

Wen Mingtang couldn't help but gasped when he heard this: "The wealthy 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 quickly arrested and sentenced to beheading, but..."

It's just that the daughter of a wealthy businessman not only had to endure the pain of losing her parents, but also witnessed her parents being murdered and their bodies brutally dismembered by a butcher. Can she still live the rest of her life peacefully like this?

Wen Mingtang had a vague guess in her heart and moved her lips. Before she could speak, Lin Fei glanced in the direction of the guest house and said: "The orphan girl is pregnant with wealth. The wealthy businessman's daughter was taken to her uncle and aunt's home to stay there. When he was old enough to get married, he accidentally fell into the water and was forced to marry his cousin as an equal wife. And then..."

Before Lin Fei finished speaking, Wen Mingtang already understood: "Could it be that the daughter of the wealthy businessman back then was Mrs. Lu?"

Lin Fei nodded, and after detailing Mrs. Lu's past and his friendship with Mrs. Hou, he said: "I found out that Mrs. Lu was the witness at that time, and things have been the same since then. I want to come back. She has never forgotten what happened back then, and the plate of braised pork at the banquet just now may have brought back her memories of that day, which is why she reacted like this."

Mrs. Lu’s past is clear at a glance, so why did Master Xing borrow a plate of braised pork to deliberately stir up Mrs. Lu’s memories and remind her of the past?

Judging from Master Xing's age, he is of the same generation as Mrs. Lu's daughter Qian Niang and Mrs. Hou. When what happened that year, he must not have been born yet!

In response, Lin Fei raised his eyelids and continued: "Although the case back then had all the witnesses and material evidence and there was no wrongful conviction, how did a wealthy businessman couple passing through Chang'an get involved with a butcher?"

If the butcher is interested in making money... The wealthy businessman and his wife have traveled all over the country for many years without any incident, so they must be wary. If this is the case, why would they let an unknown butcher enter the house at will?