Warm fragrance cloud around

Keep it a secret from Mrs.Could it be related to the relationship between Mr. Zhao and his wife?Lin Junnuan pursed her lips and smiled ambiguously, standing beside her quietly eating melons.

Ah Fu looked around and made sure that no one else was eavesdropping, so he opened his mouth in a low voice.

"The adults did leave by themselves. Before leaving, they told the little ones to cover for him. The little ones dare not disobey."

Cheng Jiangyun frowned and asked, "Why did you leave and where did you go?"

Ah Fu lowered his head and struggled for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Actually, my lord seems to have something on his mind these past few days. He left the study suddenly last night and walked towards the backyard. He came back with a dark face not long after, and told me not to talk to you." Anyone who said they had seen him left the mansion through the side door, looking angry and shaking their hands."

"The person guarding the side door said he had never seen Mr. Zhao, how did he leave?"

"My lord asked the little one to open the porter for a while, and he took the opportunity to go out."

"You didn't ask where he went?"

"I don't dare to ask more about the master's affairs," Ah Fu wrinkled his face bitterly, "I thought the adults just went out to relax, but I didn't expect that he didn't come back all night, and he still hasn't heard from him. Don't dare to hide it any longer, in case my lord... hey!"

"Master Zhao was clearly discussing the case last night, why did he go to the backyard?"

Ah Fu bowed his body and shook his head repeatedly: "I don't know, the adults didn't let the little ones follow."

"Where is Agui, where was he at that time?"

Ah Fu pulled the panic-stricken Ah Gui behind him, and said in a tone of resentment, "Ah Gui didn't come to work last night, and was drinking with someone in the tavern. I was worried that my wife would blame me, so I... told a lie .”

A Gui shrank behind him and hurriedly nodded in agreement. After Ah Fu finished speaking, he lowered his head and rubbed his hands anxiously.

Lin Junnuan blinked, and asked with great interest: "Is your lord's concern related to Madam?"

Ah Fu looked up at her, and then looked in the direction of Cheng Jiangyun, "I don't know too much, but these days, the adults really care about Madam, and ask several times a day, where is Madam, what did Madam do today, Madam Who did you meet today..."

"Then, is there anything unusual about Madam?"

"Of course not!" Ah Fu's voice suddenly rose, his eyes were a little sullen, "Our wife is virtuous and virtuous, and she is considerate of servants. No one can say anything wrong!"

You were worried about your wife blaming me just now, but now you are sympathetic to the servant?Lin Junnuan raised her eyebrows and walked slowly into the small tea room in the study without trying to expose him.

The room is still as it was last night, even the cakes and tea on the table have not been cleared away. The cakes are mung bean cake and jujube cake. There are three teacups in total. The one in the upper seat had half a glass of boiled water left.

"Master Zhao doesn't drink tea?" Lin Junnuan asked Cheng Jiangyun, who was following behind, doubtfully.

Cheng Jiangyun shook his head, "Master Zhao is a tea fanatic and has a lot of research on tea ceremony."

Ah Fu explained next to him: "About two months ago, my lord suddenly stopped drinking tea, and told us to only serve him plain water in the future."

People who are obsessed with tea ceremony suddenly don't drink tea, what is the reason?Lin Junnuan frowned in confusion, and pressed the mung bean cake on the plate with his little finger, "Who prepared these snacks?"

"It was prepared by Madam. In the past, adults loved these two snacks when drinking tea."

The pastry that I liked the most before, but now I feel tired of it, this is also a suspicious point.

Lin Junnuan turned around and continued to check the tea room. Ah Gui pulled Ah Fu and said something, and Ah Fu suddenly became excited, "What did you say? Did you see the adults last night?"

Cheng Jiangyun's tone also became serious, "When and where did you meet?"

Agui lowered his head and didn't dare to look directly at him, "Here, at the entrance of the tavern, the young one had just left the entrance of the tavern, the adults happened to pass by, and he was worried that he would be punished if he was discovered, but the adults didn't seem to see the young ones, Just walked over."

"How did Master Zhao look at that time?" Lin Junnuan asked.

"It seems to be a little...out of mind."

"After that, where did Mr. Zhao go?"

"The little one was worried that the adults would scold him, so he didn't dare to follow him."

Cheng Jiangyun and Lin Junnuan looked at each other, and asked, "Where is the tavern, is it far from the Zhao Mansion?"

"It's not far away. Turn two corners and walk through the alley. It's about one incense stick. It's called Li's Tavern."

Cheng Jiangyun carefully asked about the location and route of the tavern, took Lin Junnuan to greet Mrs. Zhao, and left the Zhao Mansion.

Although Mr. Zhao can't be found in the tavern now, maybe we can find clues from the route he traveled.

***

Li's Tavern is located at the intersection of the avenue and the alley. The location is relatively prosperous, and there are many street vendors next to it. Pedestrians are constantly passing by. Lin Junnuan and Lin Junnuan are not conspicuous in it.

According to Agui's description, Cheng Jiangyun made a few gestures at the intersection and chose a direction, "Master Zhao should have left this way."

This direction is facing a bustling bustling street. However, when Mr. Zhao went out last night, it was not long before the curfew time. Most shops should have closed. What is he looking for here?

The two had no clue, so they could only follow the crowd aimlessly. Lin Junnuan bought a few steaming steamed buns and shared them with Cheng Jiangyun, and settled their lunch simply.

"Speaking of Cheng Shaoqing, does Dali Temple have meal allowances?" Lin Junnuan asked vaguely while biting a steamed stuffed bun.

"Meal supplement? What?" Cheng Jiangyun frowned puzzled.

"The subsidy for three meals a day, you have to eat when you go out on business, right? We can't let us pay for the meal by ourselves, can we?"

She swallowed a big mouthful of buns in one gulp, almost choking, and hurried to the nearby porridge shop to order two more bowls of bean porridge.

"There are also transportation expenses, clothing expenses, will these be reimbursed?" After taking a sip of porridge, she continued to find nothing to say.

Cheng Jiangyun couldn't help but straightened his expression in an instant, "No, nothing."

"Then my salary..." Lin Jun looked at him eagerly.

"Are you short of money?"

Lin Junnuan wiped his nose, "Hey, money, of course the more the better."

Cheng Jiangyun casually untied the purse from her waist and put it in her hand, "Since you are asked to assist me in investigating the case, your expenses will of course be mine, take it."

This is... what do you mean?Lin Junnuan was holding the purse with a dazed expression on his face, when he suddenly saw a slightly familiar figure approaching from the opposite side, he put the purse in his arms quickly, and turned to hide behind Cheng Jiangyun, "Shaoqing, help me block it!" .”

Cheng Jiangyun narrowed his eyes and looked forward, his eyes fixed on a young man in an ultramarine robe, "Do you know him?"

Lin Junnuan lowered her head and whispered, "My aunt's nephew, my mother let me see it." The young man was exactly the former Xu Yinian.

"Look at each other?" Cheng Jiangyun frowned, "What are you looking at?"

Lin Junnuan huddled behind him, watched Xu Yinian leaving with a few books, and then walked out with confidence, "What else can we see, of course it's a blind date."

"Blind date? You?" Cheng Jiangyun stared at her face, seemingly unbelievable.

Lin Junnuan sighed, "My mother thought I was too old and wanted to marry me off early, so she dragged me to see her."

Cheng Jiangyun grinned, feeling a little dry in his mouth, "Then what do you think of him?"

Lin Junnuan gnawed on the steamed stuffed bun, and said casually: "He looks pretty good, and his character and talent are also good. I heard that this year Qiu Wei is going to end this year, and he is expected to win Jieyuan. My mother is very satisfied with him."

Cheng Jiangyun slightly clenched the hand by his side.

"It's a pity that we are not in the same way as me," Lin Junnuan wrinkled his face exaggeratedly, "I get a headache when I read books."

Cheng Shaoqing's heart fluttered suddenly fell to the ground, coughed, and said in a deep voice: "Marriage is a matter of life, you really need to carefully consider it, and you can't make a decision blindly. You are right to think so."

"That's right," Lin Junnuan smiled softly, "This Mr. Xu also said he met me before, I didn't at all... Ah, I remembered!"

She suddenly covered her mouth and laughed loudly, "It turned out to be him, hahaha!"

Cheng Jiangyun paused slightly, "What happened to him?"

"He is right, we have indeed met, haha," Lin Junnuan couldn't hold back the smile on his face, "but the Miss Lin he saw is not me!"

She smiled and explained to Cheng Jiangyun.About five years ago, maybe six years ago?Anyway, at about that time, she pretended to be her younger brother Lin Junheng, tricked Ah Hua into wearing women's clothes, and pretended to be Miss Lin, and sneaked into Chengyi Bo's mansion together, wanting to give Ah Hua a taste of the new sauced duck tongue made by the cook. I've seen a serious little fat man, I heard that he came to play with his aunt at the mansion, could it be Xu Yinian?

If that time was what Xu Yinian referred to as a "fate", then the Miss Lin he had been thinking about all this time was clearly Ahua. Thinking of this, Lin Junnuan couldn't help but bend over with a smile.

Cheng Jiangyun also thought it was funny, and coughed twice to remind her to pay attention to her image. Suddenly, she saw a familiar figure from the corner of her eyes, her expression immediately became serious, and she embraced Lin Junnuan by her side.

"Shh, keep your voice down, look over there."

Lin Junnuan looked over with his hand, and there was a middle-aged man standing at the intersection in front of him, looking around in a panic.

"That is?"

Cheng Jiangyun tightened his lips: "It's Mr. Zhao."

Master Zhao?Lin Junnuan looked over in disbelief. This person had a messy bun, and his brown robe was also crumpled. There were large yellow-brown stains on his back, and the shoes on his feet were full of mud. He might be Dali Temple Minister Zhao grown ups?

"Is there something wrong? How did Mr. Zhao become like this?"

Cheng Jiangyun shook his head slightly, and said in a low voice, "Follow first, don't disturb him."

Without any explanation, he ran away from home suddenly, disappeared for a whole day, and now reappeared in the downtown area with this appearance. This is really not in line with Dali Siqing's usual style of behavior. What happened to Mr. Zhao?Before finding out the truth, they couldn't approach rashly, otherwise he might escape without a trace again.

The "Master Zhao" in front of him hesitated for a long time by the side of the road, but he didn't know what he saw, his eyes widened suddenly, and he ran to the distance as if fleeing, and Cheng Jiangyun and the two hurried to catch up.

Although Cheng Jiangyun's physical fitness is good, he knelt in the temple for a long time a few days ago, and he has not fully recovered yet. He was panting all the way, and Lin Junnuan was so tired that he was sweating profusely. Running aimlessly, from the street to the end of the street, crossing the streets and alleys, even running out of the city gate, to a remote barren mountain outside the city.