As soon as Liu Yuan and Wei Fu followed Jin Yanxiu into the house, they were dazzled by the colorful things in the room.

The taste of this prostitute named Jin Yanxiu was really unique and powerful, which was difficult for ordinary people to understand. After rubbing their dazzled eyes, they took a long time to adapt to the house in front of them.

Jin Yanxiu happily went to look for something under the bed as soon as she entered the door. After rubbing for a while, she successfully dragged out a wooden box.

Then, Jin Yanxiu held the wooden box and put it on the table in front of them. She opened the box and found that it was empty except for a white porcelain jar.

Jin Yanxiu picked up the white porcelain jar and handed it to the two of them, saying, “Here, this is the tea that Su Gōngzi gave me a few years ago. Your Highness Prince Yu often comes to drink it!”

Liu Yuan and Wei Fu took it and opened the jar. Wei Fu, who knew a little about tea, immediately poured out some tea leaves. After carefully looking at it for a while, Wei Fu said suspiciously, “It’s just ordinary Biluochun!”

What good things had Prince Yu not seen? What good tea had he not drunk? Why did he come to this prostitute named Jin Yanxiu to drink tea?

Wei Fu looked at the can of tea in his hand, which he could not see anything special about, and could not help asking Jin Yanxiu: “Your Highness Prince Yu came here just to drink tea, nothing else?”

Jin Yanxiu nodded, pointed to the seat where the two of them were sitting, and said: “Your Highness just sits here, drinking tea!”

Seeing Jin Yanxiu’s innocent face, Liu Yuan and Wei Fu exchanged glances: If what Jin Yanxiu said was all true, then they were short-sighted and did not find anything unusual; if what Jin Yanxiu said was all lies… then the prostitute in front of them would have to be taken back for interrogation.

Just thinking about this, Wei Fu, who put the can of tea back into Jin Yanxiu’s box, suddenly said “Huh?” and said, “What is this?”

What did you find? Liu Yuan hurriedly stood up after hearing this but bumped his head with Jin Yanxiu who also leaned over. Rubbing his head, Liu Yuan glanced at Jin Yanxiu who was standing beside him. Jin Yanxiu spread her hands and said, “My Lord, I haven’t noticed this before. I’m curious!”

What Wei Fu discovered was that in the corner of the box where the white porcelain jar was placed, there was a place that felt particularly rough, as if there was some pattern painted on it. Because it was in the corner, it would be difficult to find unless you reached in and touched it.

However, if the box was turned upside down and exposed to sunlight, the pattern engraved on the box could be faintly seen.

“The pattern is strange and regular, like some totem.” Wei Fu said.

At this moment, Jin Yanxiu on the side suddenly exclaimed “Ah”, slapped her head, and said, “I thought this thing looked familiar! Su Gōngzi used to have a wooden sign hanging around his waist, and this thing was painted on the sign!” At this point, Jin Yanxiu stared at the pattern carefully for a moment, then nodded and said, “That’s it! It belonged to Su Gōngzi, no wonder it’s in the box that Su Gōngzi gave me!”

In this way, this box must be taken back! However, it was Jin Yanxiu’s thing after all. Seeing that the two were about to take it away, she quickly stretched out her hand to stop them: “His Royal Highness Prince Yu likes to drink tea, so I told you to take it. If His Royal Highness doesn’t come to drink tea in the future, my Madam will kick me out!”

Upon hearing this, Liu Yuan looked at Wei Fu, stuffed the can of tea in the box back into Jin Yanxiu’s hands, and said: “We only want the box, and the tea will be returned to you!”

Seeing Jin Yanxiu’s happy look after taking the tea, Liu Yuan couldn’t help but twitch his mouth. When he returned to the Dali Temple and talked about this with Lin Fei, he was still saying: “The prostitute named Jin Yanxiu happily took the tea and returned the box to us like this.”

Lin Fei, who was concentrating on tracing the totem on the box, asked the two people: “Is there anything wrong with this prostitute?”

Involved in such a complicated case and related to people like Prince Yu, Jin Yanxiu was still alive and well. This luck was really too good.

“We also think that this prostitute is luckier, but she doesn’t look very smart. The Madam and other prostitutes in the brothel can vouch for it. She didn’t stop us when we took the box away. She was really happy holding the can of tea, thinking that Prince Yu came here to drink tea.” Liu Yuan paused here, “At present, there is really no evidence related to her in this case, and we can’t bring her back by force.”

Lin Fei said “hmm”, without comment, and continued to concentrate on tracing the totem on the box. When the last stroke fell, he looked at the strange totem for a while, and handed the paper with the totem to Liu Yuan, saying: “Go ask the Goguryeo people if they have seen this totem.”

Liu Yuan immediately agreed and took it. When he walked out of the corridor, a unique fragrance rushed into his nose. The overbearing taste was not inferior to the aroma of tea eggs, but it was completely different from the tea and sauce aroma of tea eggs.

Liu Yuan searched his stomach for half a day and finally found a word to describe it: Master Wen said that this is called “braised”, and what rushed into his nose was the tempting aroma of braised.

Since she was making marinated dishes, it should be something that can be eaten by hand! Liu Yuan touched his stomach, which had long been made hungry by the aroma of the marinade, and quickly walked towards the public kitchen.

As soon as he entered the public kitchen, he saw the “braised dishes” lined up in order.

Ah Bing was introducing the “braised dishes” to several Dali temple workers who came smelling the smell: “This is duck neck, duck wings, collarbone, duck feet, duck legs…”

Looking at the “braised duck” introduced by Ah Bing, Liu Yuan felt that the saliva in his mouth was secreted more and more. Thinking of the taste of the roast duck before, he immediately became very interested in the “duck brother” in another way in front of him.

So, without thinking, he said to Ji Caimai who was counting on the abacus beside him: “Ji Caimai, I have to go out to do some work in a hurry. Considering our friendship, can you please take two first…”

Before he could finish his words, he saw Ji Caimai knocking on the wooden board with the price written on it behind him and interrupted him: “No matter how close our friendship is, you have to pay.”

Liu Yuan snorted when he heard the words, turned back, and took two steps with great backbone, but immediately turned back, took out the money from his sleeve pocket, and slapped it heavily in front of Ji Caimai: “I’m not doing this for your face, Old Ji, but because Master Wen works so hard to cook, and I’m afraid it will be wasted…”

“Okay, stop talking nonsense. Aren’t you in a hurry to go out to do some work?” Ji Caimai counted Liu Yuan’s money, nodded to Ah Bing, and said, “What do you want?”

Liu Yuan glanced around and said, “I want a duck leg. It’s meaty!” He was short of money, and he still had to save money to marry a wife, so it would be more cost-effective to get a duck piece with more meat.

Ji Caimai nodded, but when Ah Bing was wrapping the duck legs, he specially wrapped two pieces of cut duck neck for Liu Yuan and said with a smile: “I’ll give them to you to try!”

Was he so easy to talk to? Liu Yuan looked at Ji Caimai suspiciously, but took them without hesitation, turned around, and ran, fearing that if he ran too slowly, Ji Caimai would regret it and take it back.

Ever since Old Ji sat behind the window with the abacus and looked like a “shopkeeper”, he had become stingier. It was really rare to be able to give out two pieces of cut duck necks like today.

Liu Yuan ran out of the Dali Temple. He was originally ready to open his mouth to gnaw on the duck legs. When he saw the two pieces of duck necks, he suddenly became interested for some reason. After thinking about it, he actually picked up the duck neck and gnawed it.

(End of this chapter)

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