Chapter 379 New Year’s Eve Dinner (2)
Although because of Lao Yuan’s incident, he really didn’t have the heart to celebrate this year, but when Jicai bought some food to express his condolences to Lao Yuan at noon, he also brought a lot of food. Zhao You also made a special trip to Dali Temple to buy Wen Mingtang’s food. Pickles, cured meats and various sauces were brought over.
Therefore, this New Year’s Eve dinner is not easy to prepare.
There were two ready-made cold dishes brought from her: the smoked fish that was stewed, fried and marinated with the New Year's herring pieces distributed by Dali Temple last night, and the sour and spicy pickles from the pickle jar.
Then take two cucumbers from the ingredients bought by Ji Caimai, smash them with a knife, add minced garlic, chili pepper, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and salt and mix them to make a refreshing cold dish.
In addition to the cold dish, Wen Mingtang also made a mouthwatering chicken.
After preparing the cold dishes, the only thing left to prepare is the hot dishes: Wen Mingtang prepared a platter of pearl dumplings, squirrel fish heads, preserved meats, and a pot of bone soup as the base, including mushrooms, egg dumplings, large bones, cabbage, fungus, and pork belly. Stewed three fresh mushrooms and egg dumplings.
Although there are a lot of dishes prepared at first glance, the portions of each dish are not that large, so you will have a rich meal during the New Year’s Eve dinner!
In the kitchen, Wen Mingtang, who "performed his duties", prepared with ease. Outside the courtyard, everyone in Dali Temple quickly found the person who had done the dirty work.
Candles that have been coated with medicine are mixed with candles that have not been coated with medicine. It must take some effort to apply medicine to so many candles. Therefore, if the person who bought the candle does not apply medicine, then the person who applies medicine will He must have stayed at the candle for a long time.
Yesterday, someone happened to knock over the candle tray, and then he spent a lot of time cleaning it up here.
The woman who was pulled out looked at everyone with her eyebrows raised high, her hands on her hips, her eyes glaring and snoring, and she was someone who was not easy to mess with at first glance.
"Oh, I was the one who knocked over the candle tray and cleaned it up?" The woman sneered and pointed at everyone, raised her finger to the warm-hearted neighbors, and said, "You didn't help clean it up? You didn't do enough to clean it up? Did you give the medicine? Or did you say that you didn’t work hard enough to help buy the candles? You can just buy the candles and apply the medicine before sending them over!"
This arrogant person is obviously someone who won’t shed tears until he sees the coffin!
Seeing that the woman wanted to drag others into the water, Lin Fei glanced at Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu, shook his head, and said that his presence was not really needed here, and walked out.
Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu, who were "entrusted with important tasks" after being glanced at by Shang Feng, looked a little strange. They looked at the woman and paused for a moment without speaking.
In the eyes of the woman, this move meant that she had nothing to do with her. She suddenly became proud and sneered, "What's the matter? The adults are speechless and can't show off their authority?"
Liu Yuan, Bai and Zhu were silent for a while: It's not that they were speechless, but compared with the cases they came into contact with every day, this matter really left people speechless.
Looking at the woman who was stepping on people with her arms akimbo and scolding people, the two of them sighed and waved their hands. Seeing this, the officer turned around and walked out. When he came back, he led a man who looked like a shopkeeper.
As soon as the shopkeeper saw the woman with arms akimbo, he immediately pointed at the woman with arms akimbo and shouted: "That's her! She bought medicine from me yesterday, and she even got her fingerprints on it!" After that, He raised the account book in his hand, turned to one of the pages, pointed to the fingerprint, and said, "Here, this is it!"
The woman who was trying to be aggressive with her hands on her hips was shocked when she saw the shopkeeper taking out the account book, and subconsciously blurted out: "How do you remember me when you do so many businesses in one day?"
The shopkeeper rolled his eyes angrily and said, "You buy this kind of medicine and you don't give me the medicine prescribed by the doctor. Although this medicine is not harmful to people, how can I know what you are going to do? Otherwise, why would you leave the money when you buy the medicine?" Leave your fingerprints?"
Everyone: "..."
The woman who was exposed didn't take it seriously when she heard the words. Instead, she rolled her eyelids and looked like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water: "I wiped it on as soon as I wiped it. This medicine is not a poison that can harm people! I just Seeing my sweet niece grieving after losing her father, I was afraid that she would have something pent up in her heart, so I just let her vent it out."
This is not a poison. It is of little use to those who are open-minded and have nothing in mind. But for those who are thoughtful, sniffing it can easily draw out the accumulated emotions in their hearts.
Therefore, after knowing what kind of medicine it was, everyone also understood why only Wen Mingtang was affected by it.
What happened to Master Wen... Hey, I'm afraid it reminds me of old things from the past.
Tang Yuan, on the other hand, didn't think deeply at all, and he had taken tranquilizers, so he didn't have any reaction.
This medicine is indeed not harmful, and is even used to relieve knots in one's heart. This woman also relied on this to try her luck.
For most people, this medicine is useless. If you meet someone with deep thoughts, it may not be miraculous.
As for this result... This woman's "luck" was indeed good. She met Master Wen, who was in trouble and had the most thoughtful thoughts. However, this good "luck" only stopped at "not bad". Then she met them and... The whole story was clarified.
"The one who went crazy in the mourning hall was also thinking too deeply. I somehow helped her express her feelings, otherwise she would have become seriously ill." The woman moved her toes, even though she took a step back. , but he still put his hands on his hips and shouted, "I'm just helping her to treat her illness, I've never harmed her!"
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but roll their eyes: they have seen shameless people, but it is really rare to be so shameless! This woman has absolutely no idea why the word "law" means nothing?
"The rope is not a harmful thing. It becomes a murder weapon when it is used to strangle the neck. The broken porcelain fragments are not a harmful thing. It becomes a murder weapon when it is used to cut the wrists. The same is true for sharp edges such as knives and swords. "Bai Zhu looked at the woman, took a deep breath, and said, "This medicine was originally used to treat diseases, not poison, but your original intention of buying this medicine and applying it on the candle was to harm people. People, this has also become a murder weapon. Do you know if it was someone else who encountered this situation at that time, and if word spread, whether it was the victim or the deceased, how much trouble would it cause? "
The words were well-founded and everyone nodded. A few officers didn't want to talk nonsense and were about to step forward to catch the woman. However, the woman started to struggle and yelled: "What do you want to do? I have never harmed anyone. , why do you want to harm me?"
"Why do I want to hurt you?" The pale glutinous rice dumpling in the corner beside him repeated the woman's words. He looked up at the woman and shed tears. "This is what I want to ask the second aunt too? Why do I want to hurt you?" I?"
Tangyuan looked at the woman, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and asked the woman: "My second uncle left early. When my father was here in the past, I saw my second aunt alone with my second cousin, so I helped my second aunt a lot." During the holidays, we are the only ones who give gifts and never receive any gifts in return. If you need help at home, my father never refuses. Why is that? Why do you want to harm me? Why do you want to harm my father? "
The little girl, dressed in mourning clothes, asked with tearful eyes, which made everyone present feel quite intolerable, but...the woman was not included among the unbearable people.
"Bah!" The woman was not touched at all by Tang Yuan's question. Instead, she took a sip, raised her finger and pointed at the glutinous rice balls and cursed: "You are a poor girl with arms turned outwards. You want to destroy the Yuan family's house." You have the nerve to accuse me of harming you if you change your surname?"