Taobuhuan took Jianjia to the Liji snack shop mentioned in the Maigulou information as planned.

This tea shop was opened on the side of the road where people came and went, and the guests who sat down were business travelers who came to rest their feet.

Either it was Lifu who was unloading goods by the nearby river, or even a little Taoist priest was drinking Ge Tang.

The proprietress is a charming young widow who has been managing the shop alone for many years, and a five or six-year-old boy sensiblely helps deliver things at the snack shop.

Tao Buhuan asked the proprietress to order fried white sausage, soap cake and lotus root, but the proprietress persuaded her to continue ordering: "The snacks in this small shop are large, and the two girls are enough to eat them, and it would be a waste to order any more. "

Tao Buhuan smiled and asked Jian Jia: "Is this enough? Is there anything else you want?"

People who have been away from their hometown for a long time often miss the food in their hometown most, and Tao Buhuan understands this feeling.

Just like what she used to miss when she was in Youzhou was the sweet-scented osmanthus cake in Gyeonggi, she never forgets it.

Jian Jia bit her lower lip and whispered, "This is enough."

She didn't know if the girl in front of her who called herself "Jiang Qi" brought her here for some other purpose, and if she already knew about her relationship with Sun Wei.

At this moment, her heart was beating like a drum, bang bang, she had completely ignored the taste of the country, she just wanted to know what she wanted to do earlier.

Asking the proprietress to prepare, Tao Buhuan asked casually while holding the chopsticks in one hand, "Do you know Mr. Sun Wei?"

Jian Jia was taken aback, and pursed her lips even tighter.

Tao Buchang tapped the edge of the empty bowl with his chopsticks, and continued to ask: "Yang Nie's body will be examined by him, Mr. Jiang does not want to alarm the local government because of this matter.

But you also need to get Yang Nie's inspection documents. I wonder if you can get them? "

"I can try." After a long time, Jian Jia muttered.

Tao Buchang's heart brightened: Although Jian Jia did not confess her relationship with Sun Wei.

But at least he was willing to ask Sun Wei for the inquest documents in person. With Sun Wei coming forward, it would be easier to find out the cause of Yang Nie's death.

Thinking of this, Tao Buchang has a big appetite.But suddenly Jiang Youba's voice came out, and her serious tone lingered in her ears: We will investigate separately, you will investigate Jian Jia, and I will investigate Sun Wei to check whether there are discrepancies in the two confessions.

No matter what the plan, my approach is not to follow the rules.

The proprietress smiled and served a few dishes to eat. "Two take it easy..."

"Thank you..." Tao Buhuan saw Jian Jia not moving his chopsticks for a long time, so he personally picked up a piece of lotus root for her, and told her, "This may be the most serious meal today. Master Jiang won't eat or drink when he gets busy. , I’m sure you’ll be hungry if you follow her. Eat something quickly, and we’ll go find Sun Wei after eating.”

The lady proprietress of the snack shop was a little free at the moment, she wiped her hands, and frowned as she stared at the table of the two girls.

One of them, a girl with a round face in light-colored clothes, seemed to have seen it somewhere, but she couldn't remember for a while, where exactly had she seen it?

The little Taoist at the next table touched the silver taels on his body, and his complexion gradually turned pale.

"Miss Boss, I lost my money."

"Master Xiaodao, I'm running a small business here, you can't renege on your debts." The proprietress came over and said worriedly.

The little Taoist was full of embarrassment, and touched his package again: "I don't know when it was stolen..."

As he spoke, he gritted his teeth and handed the package to the proprietress, "I still have a Taoist robe here, so it will be offset against the meal fee."

The proprietress quickly pushed back: "I am not a pawn shop here, and I will not accept your clothes."

The little Taoist was anxious and helpless, and there was nothing he could do for a while.

"How much money he ate, let me pay for him." Tao Buchang said.

The little Taoist priest and the proprietress turned their heads to look at the peach, but the proprietress was well-informed, and such things often happened in snack shops.

So he reacted quickly and went to Tao Buhuan to settle the meal payment of the little Taoist with her.

The little Taoist came over in a daze, saluted and said: "Girl, I will definitely pay you back the money I owe you, and please leave your name and address, so I can pay you back."

Tao Buchang got up and said: "Master Xiao Dao, isn't it impolite for you to ask my boudoir's name and address like this? Shouldn't a cultivator be pure-hearted and ascetic?"

The little Taoist stammered: "I...I didn't mean that."

Seeing him, Tao Buhuan blushed anxiously, smiled and said, "I'm a foreigner, if you want to pay back the money, just go to the biggest inn in the city and give it back to a guest named Jiang."

After saying that Tao did not change, he took Jian Jia and left.

The little Taoist was left alone in the snack shop for a long time, and he reluctantly left after the two shadows completely disappeared at the intersection.

Turning into an alley, the little Taoist took off his hat and stroked his hair. After putting it back together, he said to himself in wonder, "It's strange, I'm clearly pretending to be very good, why did Sister Tao find it was me? Turn around Be sure to ask carefully where I have exposed my flaws."

According to the explanation just now, Sister Tao didn't want him to follow her, but let him follow Jiang Youbo.

Since Jiang Youpan was kidnapped on the way to handle the case last time, Sister Tao was worried about her safety.

So he sent himself to her side to guard as a thug.Since this is Sister Tao's arrangement, I can only listen to her.

After rearranging his luggage, the boy Ah Chong put his luggage on his back, and continued to disguise himself as a Taoist priest and headed straight to the largest inn in the city.

Jian Jia didn't suspect the episode brought by the Taoist that happened halfway.She led the way and took Taobuhuan directly to a bungalow. This is a small house with a single family, surrounded by children running around.

Although they were running around and jumping around, they refused to get close to this place, because their parents said that the people who lived here were little devils from Yama who ate children.

Therefore, Sun Wei's front door is always deserted, and he has no communication with the neighbors around him.

Seeing that Jian Jia was too late to knock on the door, Tao Buchang simply stepped forward and knocked on the wooden door a few times.

Although there is still a door, it is dilapidated and has several cracks. People outside can see the movement inside through the cracks.

But Tao would not do such unskilled work. If she came here alone today, she could have kicked open this seemingly empty door, but in order to avoid causing Jianjia to panic, she could only knock on it honestly door and others.

No one came to answer the door, knocked a few more times and waited for a while.

Still no answer.

Tao Buhuan said to Jian Jia: "You wait at the door, I'll go around and ask."

Of course she didn't go to ask those neighbors, but went around to an alley next to the small one-story house, jumped up the low wall and pulled the wall pier to look into the yard.

There was no one in the yard, only a small dilapidated one-story house with a few clothes hanging out to dry.

Tao Buhuan thought about it and wanted to sneak in, but when he was hesitating, he heard a voice behind him saying coldly: "Come down for me."

Of course, Tao Buhuan could recognize the voice. He landed honestly and walked towards Jiang Youpan with a smile: "I'll find the way for you. There's no one inside."

Jiang Yousi put on a serious face: "Didn't it mean that you interrogate Jian Jia, I'll ask Sun Wei, why did you bring Jian Jia here?"

Tao Buhuan didn't feel guilty at all: "Jian Jia herself said that she wanted to come and have a chat with Sun Wei, but I couldn't stop her at all."

"Let's go..." Jiang Yousi glanced at Tao up and down without changing his eyes, and the corners of his mouth slightly curled up.

When the two came to Jian Jia, Jian Jia covered her mouth in surprise and said, "Miss Jiang, your front..."

Tao Buhuan still remembered that he was called "Jiang Qi" at the moment, and looked down at his clothes, only to see that the front of the pink lotus-colored dress was covered with white dust, just like a dough ball wrapped in half of the dough.

She sort of understood why Jiang Yousi, who hadn't smiled for thousands of years, was smiling when he saw her just now.

While dusting off his body, he stared at Jiang Youbo, keeping today's embarrassment firmly in his heart.

The three of them were helpless facing the dilapidated wooden door, and Tao Buhuan suggested kicking it open, but Jian Jia said it was inappropriate.

Tao Buchang suggested that he fly in and open the door for the two of them. Jiang Yousi said that this was really illegal.

Tao didn't change her arms and simply stood aside, watching these two people coldly and letting the two people who looked down on heretics find their own way in.

"How many of you are standing in front of my house looking for me?" During the stalemate, a young male voice suddenly came from behind.

Tao Buhuan had already noticed that this person was approaching, but pretended not to know in a fit of anger.

Hearing this, she turned her head and looked at this man. He was in his early twenties, with a fair face, and he was fairly upright. He was wearing a literati headscarf and a light-colored loose shirt. He was carrying some food wrapped in lotus leaves. .

He was dignified, refined and elegant, not at all like a coward who dealt with dead bodies all day long in the county government.

In all likelihood, this person is Wuzuo Sun Wei.

The small courtyard that Sun Wei rents is usually empty of people, let alone female guests.

At this time, two beautiful female guests and a man with extraordinary temperament were suddenly squeezed in. It was a bit crowded and made the neighbors feel curious.

Sun Wei simply moved a few chairs and placed them in the courtyard, served hot tea, and placed the preserved fruit and lotus root he had just bought to entertain the guests.

He sat on the east side, facing Jiang Youpan, and two female guests sat on the left and right respectively.

Tao Buhuan moved his ears, and heard people on the wall and by the door, picking up the stones on the ground and popping them out, then heard a few calls of "Ah Ya Ou Yo", and the few people lying on the wall and the door eavesdropping all scattered and fled. open.

Jiang Yousi knew that Tao would be serious if he didn't change hands, and he was not worried that she would accidentally hurt someone.

He just glanced at her indifferently, and then focused all his attention on Sun Wei.

Sun Wei was full of apology: "I came back a bit late today from duty, and I didn't know there was a distinguished guest visiting, so I'm really sorry.

The neighbors may have misunderstood my business, seeing that I was visited by people, so they were a little curious, please don't take offense. "

Tao Buhuan saw that the lotus root on the table looked almost the same as the one he ate in Li Ji's Widow's Recipe, so he reached out to taste it, and it sure tasted the same.

She thought to herself that Sun Wei was a single man who didn't even have anyone to visit, so why did he buy these preserved fruits and snacks?Did he already know that Jian Jia would come today?

Jiang Youpan also noticed this detail, and asked, "Sun Yuzuo, did you buy these preserved fruit snacks from Li Ji?"

"Indeed, their food is delicious, and I'm used to it."

"I'm curious, preserved fruit snacks are too sweet, and usually men don't buy them.

Unless you have a female family member or——you have already expected that there will be a female guest at home, so you bought it for her. "

Jiang Yousi changed the subject and asked, "This Miss Jianjia is your friend, are you going to keep pretending that you don't know her?"

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