Chapter 327 Fish-flavored eggplant stew (2)

  Bai Zhu stretched out his hands to the multi-treasure stand, picked up one from the pile of blue, purple, and blue Chengmu inkstones, and looked at Zhang Wulin in that compartment.

  Liu Yuan glanced at the Chengni inkstone that Bai Zhu held up in his hand, and subconsciously picked up the one on the case that Zhang Wulin left on the cruise ship for comparison.

  The patterns of the full moon and clouds are almost exactly the same, the only difference is that Bai Zhu is holding a blue clay inkstone in his hand.

Zhang Wulin glanced at the blue clay inkstone with crab shells in Bai Zhu's hands, lowered his eyelids slightly, and said: "The craftsman made a mistake when firing, and confused the blueprint I gave you, so I used the one on hand for private use." And show it to others." After a pause, before the two of them could speak, Zhang Wulin said again, "Your Excellency knows that Chengni inkstones are very valuable, and the customers who come to my place to buy inkstones are very particular, and they will not want to be treated like this." It is a grindstone that people enjoy and have tried. Since it is inconvenient for people to try new inkstones at will, I can only use this one for my own use."

Liu Yuan glanced at the Chengni inkstone in his hand, which obviously showed traces of use, and Bai Zhu looked at each other: When they first saw this Chengni inkstone and found it was an old inkstone, the two of them prepared to confront Zhang Wulin. It's hard. Zhang Wulin's explanation seems to make sense.

   Glancing at Zhang Wulin, who was drooping, Liu Yuan's gaze fell behind Zhang Wulin: It was the table used by Zhang Wulin, the owner of the Four Treasures Shop of the Study, on which there were tea cups, food boxes and other things.

Glancing at the jade handle on the case, and pausing on Zhang Wulin's pen, ink, paper and inkstone and Zhang Wulin's handwriting, Liu Yuan asked, "How is your calligraphy and painting?" He glanced at Zhang Wulin's body dark brocade robe.

  Although Zhang Wulin, the shop owner of the Four Treasures of the Study, doesn't look rude, he really has nothing to do with gentleness. Looking at the few jade wrenches on his fingers, he is no different from an ordinary businessman's owner.

  His handwriting on the accounting paper is also plain. Although the four treasures of the study in the shop are all famous products, the pens, inks, papers and inkstones on his case are all ordinary things.

   These are enough to prove that Zhang Wulin is not a person who is obsessed with this kind of business, but is just an outsider who makes money.

  Such words...it doesn't make sense.

Liu Yuan looked around for a while, then looked back at Bai Zhu, and Bai Zhu in that room also noticed the problem. After Zhang Wulin answered "calligraphy and painting are mediocre, lacking some talent", he pointed to the pen and ink that can be seen everywhere on Zhang Wulin's case. Utensils, said: "You are not too particular about yourself."

   Zhang Wulin paused for a while, thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "The talent is mediocre, so let's not waste the treasures."

  The people in Dali Temple, who are not particular about him, can find out after a little research, and it is useless to conceal it, but why are these two people asking these questions?

  After hearing this answer, Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan exchanged glances, paused, and continued to ask Zhang Wulin: "Do you know Hu Siming and Liu Sanqing?"

  Zhang Wulin hesitated for a while, and said: "Hu Siming doesn't recognize it. Liu Sanqing knows that he is in the stone gambling business, but he is not familiar with it."

  Liu Sanqing is a businessman, and those who can board the cruise ship of the Chamber of Commerce are naturally famous in the Chamber of Commerce. Liu Sanqing's business is special, not common in Chang'an City, many merchants in the chamber of commerce know about Liu Sanqing.

  As for Hu Siming... Zhang Wulin and other businessmen who also have one or two servants at home, since he doesn't need to do things like buying vegetables and cooking by himself, it's not surprising that he doesn't know him.

  Wu Lin's answer to this question was as frank as Liu Sanqing's, but...after the two of them left the Four Treasures of the Study, Liu Yuan immediately called Bai Zhu and said, "Zhang Wulin is lying!"

Bai Zhu nodded, and he also found the problem, so he said: "Cinnabar red and eel yellow are the most valuable Chengni inkstones, but they accidentally burned the patterns heavily. In this way, even if you keep it for yourself, you should keep the one with the green crab shell, instead of directly keeping the more precious cinnabar red inkstone."

  So, Zhang Wulin lied.

  Why lie about things like this? Is there anything special about this cinnabar red Yuanyuecheng mud inkstone? The two were a little puzzled. All the evidence in this case so far was trivial and messy. It seemed that they were all trivial matters that were irrelevant, and they couldn't be connected at all.

  After eating evening food, Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan still didn't leave, so they made another trip to the prison and asked Hu Siming.

  Hu Siming still looked like he didn't know what to ask. Seeing this, the two felt headaches while holding their foreheads.

  After coming out of the prison, the two chatted while walking, and when they passed the public kitchen yard, a burst of rich and peculiar fragrance wafted out from the public kitchen yard.

The two paused, and Liu Yuan was the first to react. He subconsciously looked up at the moon that had climbed up the treetops above his head, and then turned his head, and said to Bai Zhu: "The public chef actually cooks a small stove?" His tone was a little suppressed. Surprised.

  Bai Zhu sniffed, smelling the lingering fragrance in his nose, nodded and said: "It is indeed a small fire."

Liu Yuan gave two "tsk tsk", reacted, and winked at Bai Zhu with a smile: "I didn't expect the two children, Tangyuan and A Bing, to learn how to make a small stove, and I don't know what they make so delicious..." The words continued Before he finished speaking, he suddenly fell silent, realizing that something was wrong.

  Master Tang Yuan and Master A Bing are really hardworking and studious. Even if Master Wen is not around occasionally, the dishes are still good.

  But the two of them are still just "apprentices" so far, and they are far from being teachers. They can only cook the dishes taught by Master Wen, and they are far from being able to develop new dishes by themselves.

  This strong and unique fragrance has never been smelled before, and it is obviously a new dish.

   "Master Wen is back?"

   "Master Wen is back?"

  Two voices sounded almost at the same time.

  Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu looked at each other, and when they realized it, they immediately raised their feet and walked towards the courtyard of the public kitchen.

  At this time, Tangyuan and A Bing in the public kitchen were also exclaiming "wow" in unison.

   Not long ago, Master Wen took the leftover eggplant and a little minced meat from Mu Shi and said that he would make a meat and vegetable dish to meet Mu Shi.

These two ingredients are very common. Although Master Wen is good at cooking, he often uses the most common and visible ingredients to make the best dishes. Is it a pity that the two of them didn't eat tofu stew with chopped pepper fish head?

  The moment the thick casserole lid was lifted, the rich salty aroma locked in the casserole immediately spread in all directions.

The sliced ​​eggplant strips lay neatly in the casserole, each one was full of the rich soup, the eggplant strips were shiny, and the eggplant meat was also dyed dark brown by the sauce, soaked in the red oil soup In the juice, the surrounding red oil soup is very viscous and is slowly bubbling. Wen Mingtang sprinkled a handful of green onions to add a touch of color to the whole fish-flavored eggplant pot, and then wrapped the casserole with a thick cloth Put it in front of the two, smiled and said: "Come and taste this fish-flavored eggplant stew, see if it's inferior to that big meat dish?"

  (end of this chapter)