"The pastry is poisonous." Jian Yu's face changed drastically, and he grabbed the little girl who was delivering the pastry: "Who are you?"
The little girl was so scared that her legs were limp and she sat on the ground.
"I, I, I don't know anything. The dim sum was sent by Mr. Chen." The little girl stammered. Fortunately, the yard was lively at this time and no one paid attention to the death of a cat.
"Go to the yamen to transfer people." Jian Yu ordered Lin Yi, and then said to the little girl: "Take me to the kitchen."
The little maid was already slumped on the ground and shivering, not as if she was about to run away. The maid and the others met several times today and ran back and forth to serve tea and water for a day.
Jian Yu didn't want to disturb others' weddings, so he didn't take the misunderstandings of small fuss during the day to heart, and he laughed and passed.
But this time it was different, it was a fatal matter. And the mind was so delicate that if it weren't for this cat, Bai Yue would be lying on the ground coldly now.
"I know where the kitchen is." Bai Yue didn't even need the little girl to lead the way, rubbed his arms and walked out.
It's so scary. Someone wants to kill himself, and his goal is clear. No wonder he only did one bite of that snack. He was afraid of implicating others. What kind of grudge is this? Isn't it just to eat more of your lion's head? As for it?
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Several people hurried to the kitchen with their little maid who could no longer walk.
The kitchen was over, and there were only a few servants who were cleaned up. Xu Feiyang walked in and put them down without saying a word: "Where is the chef named Chen?"
The servant shivered and pointed to the room with the lights. He must be very puzzled at this moment.
I came to find the chef with such murderous intent, could it be that I had eaten my stomach?
Shen Ye pushed open the half-closed kitchen door, suddenly stopped and whispered: "The cook is dead."
On the kitchen floor, a gray-haired old man lay on his back, with blood stains on his mouth and nose, and a plate on the table.
"Don't touch the corpse, let's see." Bai Yue walked over from behind Shen Ye and squatted down.
The little maid was about to be scared to death, but now she saw a corpse and was almost frightened. She opened her mouth and was about to shout, but Xu Feiyang covered her mouth.
"Shut up, don't shout." Xu Feiyang whispered.
The little maid looked at Xu Feiyang in front of her. The man who was jumping up and down at the dinner table just now suddenly had murderous aura, which scared her to nod in tears.
Xu Feiyang slowly let go of his hand, and the little maid quickly reached out to cover it, and then slowly shrank back a little, making him feel as low as possible.
Jian Yu said without looking back: "Xu Feiyang went outside to wait for Lin Yi. All those who attended the wedding banquet today are not allowed to leave."
Xu Feiyang responded and was about to go, Bai Yue said, "Wait a minute."
Xu Feiyang stopped quickly.
Bai Yue said: "Don't alarm too many people. He is likely to commit suicide."
"suicide?"
"Yes, and I just died, the body was still warm." Bai Yue looked at the deceased's mouth, picked up the hand of the body, with a little bit of debris on it.
"This person is Mr. Chen, who calls himself an imperial chef. On the surface, he died of food poisoning. The poison in the snacks he gave me should be the same, because his symptoms are the same as that cat."
"The dessert crumbs on his hand were a very thin layer and there was no abnormality in the position. It can be seen that he was sober and voluntarily, and he put the dessert into his mouth. He was not forced into it."
Chen Ye’s first thought was: “Do you know him?”
Bai Yue shook her head. She really didn't know her. Moreover, when she came to the kitchen to chat with him for a while, Old Chen did not show that he knew her.
In other words, not only does she not know her now, but she should not know her before.
Since you don’t know each other, how can you die?
The little maid huddled in the corner of the wall suddenly said, "I, I remembered it."
Everyone looked at her together, and the little maid stammered and said, "I, when I took the snack from Mr. Chen, he said something."
"explain."
"He said this is the last dish and he never has to cook anymore."
"Then what?"
"Then I left with a snack."
This sentence is very similar to the last words at the end of life.
Bai Yue’s memory replayed, and suddenly remembered a sentence.
Jian Yu said: "Would he not know that the material is poisonous, and it is hard to make this snack. I made two of them, and I will enjoy one by myself. Who knows that I will poison myself to death?"
"There is this possibility, but I think he should know who I am." Bai Yue suddenly said: "When we were chatting before, he said something. He said that a friend he knew looked a bit like. ”
Mr. Chen is an imperial chef and does not rely on cooking for others to survive. He is also responsible for his face when he invites him to the inn. He is only responsible for a specialty dish, which is braised lion head, so he is quite leisurely.
He obviously also heard about the daytime events, so when Bai Yuelai came, he chatted with interest several times.
"I didn't think much about it at the time, but now I think he didn't say this for no reason." Bai Yue thought about the situation at that time carefully: "I think he knew who I was, and then he took the blame. And, I'm dead He didn't want to live anymore, so he also took poison together and committed suicide."
But Bai Yue is not a big shot, so how can he get such a distant enemy?
Bai Yue looked at Jian Yu: "Since he is an imperial chef, you have seen him in the palace before?"
Jian Yu smiled bitterly: "Look at his age, I might not have been born when I was in the palace. Besides, I don't know the imperial chef now."
Not to mention the imperial kitchen, Jian Yu may not be able to recognize the whole person in Jian Mansion’s kitchen. A gentleman stays away from the kitchen. Jian Yu said before that he had entered the kitchen for the first time, which was really not a pretentious person.
Xu Feiyang and the people from the yamen came soon, and the people died. They also involved officials from the court. Although they were doing weddings, they couldn't take care of it. However, Jian Yu greeted him and tried to be gentler and not disturb the newlyweds. couple.
The servants and the people who were drinking wedding banquets in the kitchen should ask them one by one. If there is any suspicion or someone familiar with Mr. Chen, take them away alone. In the kitchen, because Bai Yue and Jian Yu are there, others will not be able to interfere. Get started.
The information of the deceased was sent over quickly. Chen Zaixing had lived in the town for 34 years and claimed to be the imperial chef in the capital. Although no one can confirm it, his cooking skills are indeed good.
Chen Zaixing is also very kind. If someone in the town has any happy events and invites you with kind words, he will most likely be willing to come to cook one or two dishes for him. The people in the town respect him very much and dare not give him a good word. Be a normal chef.
No one knows more about the others. Although Chen Zaixing has a lot of contact with his neighbors on weekdays, he rarely talks about the things he had in the palace before. Everyone only thinks that those are secret matters in the palace, not for safety, so they don’t think it’s strange.
Bai Yue looked at the corpse that had already begun to become stiff and suddenly looked back at Jian Yu.
Jian Yu felt a little embarrassed when he was seen: "Look at what I do, I really don't know him."
"I didn't say you knew each other." Bai Yue said: "Brother Xu, go and find Senior Shi. He may know the identity of Chen Zaixing."
Everyone didn't understand why Bai Yue suddenly thought of Shi Wentian.
Bai Yue explained: "Every line has its own requirements. Senior Shi can make so many good things from the ground and live well. He must be a bold, careful and cautious person."
This is true in theory, but when everyone thinks of what Shi Wentian did just now, they just think they are crazy and nervous.
Bai Yue said again: "He has kept his proud collection here for half his life. If I were to do this, I would have investigated all the people in this town clearly in advance, and it was clear."
That's true, Xu Feiyang went there immediately.
Bai Yue asked everyone to retreat first and summoned Jian Yu: "I thought about what Chen Zaixing said, "He said I look like someone he had met before. Who can I look like?
”
Jian Yu suddenly felt shocked.
Who else can you be like, like your father, like your mother, like your grandparents, grandparents, and grandparents.
Jian Yu said: "I remember the first thing grandpa said when he saw you, saying, "You look very similar to your grandpa."