Chapter 143 She is really in the Dali Temple
Chapter 143 She is really in the Dali Temple
"Tomorrow, secretly check the information of everyone in Dingyuxuan. The more detailed the better." Yan Mobai ordered.
Chi Feng accepted the order: "Yes!"
"Has there been any news from the people who are monitoring Prince Kang's Mansion?" Yan Mobai asked.
Prince Kang asked for an imperial decree to defer his imprisonment for three months, saying that it was for the purpose of healing the wound on his face. He knew that the real purpose was to capture Ning Miao within three months and turn the tide.
Therefore, Ning Miao is in great danger.
Chi Feng shook his head: "There is no useful information. It is only said that Prince Kang's Mansion has increased its efforts to find Ning Pan, but to no avail."
Yan Mobai's eyes turned cold: "Send more secret guards to follow them."
"Yes!"
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next day
In the Dali Temple office, Yan Mobai sat at the table, concentrating on reviewing official documents.
Chi Feng came in with a booklet in his hand.
"Sir, this is the situation of all the people in Dingyuxuan."
Upon hearing this, Yan Mobai immediately put the brush in his hand on the inkstone, reached out to take it and opened it.
Chi Feng introduced, "There are fifteen people in total, including Nie Huan, five masters, a shopkeeper, an accountant, four shop assistants, a cook and a nanny, and two thugs to protect the shop."
"The detailed information of the fifteen people is all there, including their names, where they are from, where they live, their personal situations, and their family situations have all been carefully investigated."
Yan Mobai listened to Chi Feng's report while looking closely.
The first page is Nie Huan.
Next came the other four masters.
Next is Shopkeeper Liu.
Yan Mobai's eyes paused slightly on the page where Manager Liu was reading.
Manager Liu's wife, Xu, was responsible for washing and cutting vegetables in the kitchen of Dali Temple.
Dali Temple?
Dali Temple.
Yan Mobai raised his eyes with a slightly narrowed eyelid.
Seeing this, Chi Feng hurriedly asked, "My Lord, have you found anything?"
Yan Mobai said nothing, seemingly in deep thought.
Then he said, "Let's have lunch at the Dali Temple today. We won't be going back to the Marquis' Mansion."
Lan Ying just came back from a mission and heard this.
He stepped forward and reported the situation of the mission to Yan Mobai.
Yan Mobai nodded, took out a secret letter from the drawer and handed it to him: "Send it to His Royal Highness Prince Ning."
Finally, he pointed to a pile of reviewed documents on the table and told Chi Feng, "Send it to Zhang Zhubu."
The two were ordered to leave.
As soon as the two of them left, Yan Mobai couldn't wait to get up and prepare to go to the kitchen.
Dali Temple, he should have thought of Dali Temple earlier.
As the saying goes, the darkest place is under the lamp. It is actually the hardest for him to discover what is under his nose.
Then the Dali Temple is his territory, and King Kang’s people cannot easily enter, so it is the safest place.
But just as he strode to the door, he suddenly stopped.
No.
Don't go there rashly.
I don’t know what the specific situation is yet.
Let's calmly figure out everything first.
It's not meal time now, and going there would be inappropriate and would easily alert the enemy.
She is too perceptive. If she runs away before we find her, it would be a waste of time.
Let's go at lunch time.
He returned to the table and sat down, picking up the Ding Yuxuan personnel book again and studying it carefully.
After checking all fifteen people, he did not find any other suspicious persons, and his target was still Manager Liu.
If Nie Huan gave the information to Shopkeeper Liu, Shopkeeper Liu would go home and give it to his wife, who would then take it to the Dali Temple and give it to Ning Miao...
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Lan Ying walked out of the Dali Temple with the secret letter in his pocket. Then he remembered that he had bought a bag of candied fruit from the time-honored Tianyuntang when he was on a mission just now, so he turned back to the kitchen.
In the dining room, he found Ning Miao wiping the table.
"Aunt Zhou, this is for you. It's the preserves from Tianyuntang."
Ning Miao didn't expect him to do this. She bowed and waved her hands to express her gratitude, but she couldn't accept it.
Lan Ying forced it into her hand.
"Why are you being so polite to me? I bought this especially for you. Thank you for saving me that day."
"Your Excellency will have lunch at the Dali Temple today. I was planning to give it to you then, but I have to go out on a mission now. I don't know if I can be back for lunch."
"If I keep it on me, the sugar will melt, so I'll come over and give it to you first."
Before he could finish his words, he had already run away: "I'm going to get busy."
Ning Miao stood there holding the bag of candied fruit, with a buzzing sound in his ears.
Will you have lunch at the Dali Temple today?
Yan Mobai wants to come to the kitchen to eat?
No, I can't meet him.
Although she had changed her appearance, he was too sensitive and it was best not to meet him.
She immediately put the candied fruit into her sleeve pocket, quickly wiped the tables and chairs, and went to find Manager Liao.
I plan to take an hour or two off on the grounds of feeling unwell.
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Yan Mobai had never felt that time passed so slowly.
In one morning, he looked at the clepsydra countless times and found that it seemed to have stopped.
Finally, it's lunch time.
"Snap" he closed the document in his hand almost on time, stood up, and called Chi Feng: "Let's go to lunch."
Seeing him walking out with big strides, looking very hungry, Chi Feng quickly put down the work in his hands and followed him.
"Sir, do you suspect that she is in the kitchen?" Chi Feng asked.
We usually eat at the Marquis' Mansion, but today we suddenly changed to the Dali Temple.
Besides, his master is not a person who would indulge in food, and definitely not a person who can't resist being hungry. But today he kept checking the time clock, as if he was waiting for lunch.
Yan Mobai didn't reply to Chi Feng, but asked him: "Have you ever heard of the darkest place under the lamp?"
Chi Feng nodded: "Yeah."
As a member of the Dali Temple, I have naturally heard of this term, and the perpetrators of many cases have taken advantage of this.
"Is she really in the Dali Temple?"
There was a hint of excitement in Yan Mobai's eyes: "Maybe."
Chi Feng was shocked.
No way?
"Have you hired any new people in the kitchen recently?" Yan Mobai asked.
"I will ask later."
Yan Mobai frowned slightly and shook his head: "Don't ask for now. She is not an ordinary person. Don't alert the enemy, in case she runs away before we find her."
After saying that, he added with a sigh, "If she runs away, I may never find her again."
Chi Feng looked at him, feeling indescribable in his heart.
He nodded to show that he understood.
The master and servant walked towards the kitchen together. As they walked, Yan Mobai's pace slowed down.
Chi Feng didn't know whether he was nervous or afraid, afraid that he would be happy for nothing, or maybe he was trying to prevent them from going too early and arousing suspicion.
There are probably several reasons.
He neither asked nor said much, and just slowed down his pace as well.
Because of all the delay, by the time they arrived at the dining room, quite a few people were already sitting there.
The women in the kitchen were serving food to the table.
Seeing Yan Mobai coming, everyone stood up.
"grown ups."
"grown ups."
Yan Mobai raised his hand, motioning for everyone to sit down. His expression remained calm, and his eyes swept calmly over the women who were serving the dishes.
He thought that if she wanted to hide in such a public place, she would definitely not use her real appearance, but would definitely dress up in disguise.
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