When the cake was ready, Song Wan Yue packed it and Gu Yi personally carried it back to his house and put it away.
For the jelly and pudding, he kept a small portion and asked Xiao Si to send the rest to the others.
After checking the old man’s pulse, Dr Yao accompanied him for a while and looked out with bated breath. Gu Yi had returned from the capital and said that Song Wan Yue had opened a pastry shop there, specialising in birthday cakes, and he had wanted to eat them then, but Song Wan Yue had been too busy to make them for him.
Xiao Si entered the courtyard.
When Doctor Yao saw it, his eyes lit up, “Is the cake ready?”
“It was done a long time ago, the young master carried it back to his house, this is jelly and pudding, the young master asked me to bring some over to old sir.”
In reply, Xiao Si had already walked inside the house.
When she was in the capital, Song Wangyue had made them once, the old gentleman had eaten them and couldn’t forget them, now he finally had them again and was very happy.
Yao Dafu, however, was not happy, grabbing a pudding, picking up a small spoon and out of breath, scooping a large piece into his mouth, muttering vaguely, “Young master is not afraid of prostrating himself by eating such a large cake all by himself?”
“What did you say?”
Xiao Si only vaguely heard the word “young master”, but did not hear the rest clearly.
Doctor Yao plucked out a fierce glance at him, “I didn’t say anything!”
Thinking that there was nothing good to say, Xiao Si simply stopped asking and went to bring jelly and pudding to Meng and the others.
In the kitchen, Song Wangyue had prepared twelve dishes, most of which Gu Yi loved to eat.
Gu Yi went to the fire with a smile on his face.
Song Wangyue glanced at him and the corners of her mouth also rose slightly.
The food was ready and brought to the dining room. When Dr. Yao and the old man came over, they could smell the fragrance from a long distance, and Dr. Yao’s depressed mood only got better.
Meng and the others were also in a good mood when they smelled the food and ate a lot of it. During this time, they asked Gu Yi about the restaurant, but when they heard him say that it was nothing serious, they did not ask any more questions.
……
Inside the dark and damp prison, the shopkeeper Wei sat leaning against the wall, his eyes slightly closed.
The sound of footsteps came from the other end of the cell and stopped at the door of his cell.
Master Wei opened his eyes.
The head of the cell opened the cell door and looked at him sympathetically for a few moments, “Master Wei, cross the hall!”
The boss subconsciously looked into the cell with only a small window, and it was pitch black outside.
“Don’t look at it ……”
The head of the cell lowered his voice, the restaurant could see that it was a frame-up, but they were too small to help him speak.
“It’s not the lord, it’s the third prince.”
Shopkeeper Wei was dismayed.
The prison head felt even more sympathy for him, but there was nothing he could do, “Come out and follow me.”
Wei got up and walked out with the head of the prison, the light in his eyes brightening and flickering with the flickering of the oil lamp, his hand touching the pills in his sleeve band.
The cell head took him to the door of the torture room and opened the door to let him in.
Inside, the third prince sat with a handkerchief covering his mouth and nose. Seeing him enter, he removed the handkerchief and leaned carelessly against the back of the chair, looking at Wei’s boss.
Wei looked at him calmly
After a long time, the third prince smiled smugly, “You people are also counted as a hundred secrets, to let you be the head of the restaurant, if I had known that you had such a loophole, I wouldn’t have bothered with those efforts in front.”
“What are you saying, I can’t understand.”
Boss Wei opened his mouth, his voice a little hoarse.
Fearing that the Third Prince’s people would poison him, he hadn’t touched a drop of water for most of the day since he had entered.
“Wei Ning, you don’t have to pretend to be stupid, I didn’t go to King Qin’s residence too often back then, I’ve seen you not once or twice!”
I’ve been the owner of the restaurant for more than ten years, and everyone in Qingping County knows about it, and I’ve never left Qingping County. My mother gave me this name when I was born, hoping that I would pass on the family name when I grew up.”
“Pretend! Keep pretending!”
The third prince was five years older than Gu Yi and had indeed been to the Qin Wang Mansion when he was a child, not only him, but also the first and second prince.
But he was still young then, he didn’t give a damn about the underlings of the Qin Wang Mansion, he didn’t even know who Wei Ning was, or the Duke of Qi had told him that he was just swindling!
“The little ones are not pretending, the little ones are really not out of Qingping County, don’t believe me, you can go ask those guests who often go to the restaurant and drink.”
“This prince doesn’t have that kind of spare time.”
When he heard his self-name, the shopkeeper Wei instantly looked up and over, “You, you are the Third Prince? ”
The Third Prince gave a cold snort.
“Wei Ning, if you’re sensible, give me the identity of your master and I can keep you alive, otherwise ……”
He pointed to all the instruments of torture in the room, “All of these, you will experience all of them tonight.”
“Third prince spare your life!”
Shopkeeper Wei knelt down in a poof, cold sweat faintly emerging from his forehead.
The corners of the Third Prince’s mouth curled up, so what if the old man from the Qin Wang Mansion? They are still afraid of death!
“My master’s name is Gu Qian, he is a famous and wealthy master in this Qingping County, with countless family assets, he ……”
The third prince hooked up the corner of the most corner down, “Shut up! ”
Wei shopkeeper closed his mouth in fear, his body shaking violently.
“Wei Ning, I’ll give you one more chance, will you say or not say?”
“Say, say what ……”
Wei’s body was also shaking, and his eyes couldn’t stop looking to the side of the torture device, looking terrified.
The third prince got up, walked to him and squatted his body, staring into his eyes, “Gu Yi is the son of the King of Qin, isn’t he?”
Shopkeeper Wei’s eyes were filled with fear of the torture tools and his teeth were chattering, “You, what are you saying, I, I don’t understand.”
The Third Prince didn’t see anything in his eyes and ran out of patience, rising, “Since you don’t want to eat your punishment in respect of wine, I will satisfy you.”
After saying this, he waved his hand and two guards walked in.
Shopkeeper Wei’s frightened eyes widened, “The matter has not been investigated yet, you cannot torture me!”
“Use torture!”
Several magistrates stood outside the torture room, hearing Boss Wei’s miserable screams, they couldn’t bear it in their hearts, and coincidentally stood a little further away.
One of them whispered that
“This won’t work, if the man is killed, Master Gu won’t be kind enough to let it go, our lord ……”
“What’s the use of telling His Excellency, he can still come to the rescue of Boss Wei?”
“Maybe, if Boss Wei’s really killed, we also have to follow the melon fall.”
“Then, why don’t I go and report to the lord.”
“Go on, go on!”
A magistrate darted off to report.
The county magistrate was sitting in his house sighing and sighing.
The county magistrate’s wife followed suit and sighed, “Tell me, how can you be so unlucky, seeing as it is time for the examination, but ……”
The sound of stomping footsteps appeared in the courtyard.
The county dowager’s heart tightened as he listened, and before he could ask, the butler’s panicked voice rang out in the courtyard, “Master, Master Wei’s people have been tortured by the Third Prince’s men!”