Kaifeng Bistro

Chapter 84 Sudden News

"Brother Zhifeng, what are you doing?" Waking up early the next morning, Shangshang walked into the kitchen sleepily, looked at the paper spread all over the floor, and asked wonderingly.

"Come on, come and help, be careful not to step on it." Tan Zhifeng waved to him.

Changshang groaned, and walked carefully along the narrow path left by the stove, he squatted down and looked at Tan Zhifeng curiously, Tan Zhifeng touched his head, and asked, "Is Ling'er awake? How is he?"

"Wake up." Changshang went to Tan Zhifeng's side and said, "He's much better. Let me help him get something to eat."

"Okay, I'll make him a bowl of lily noodles, and you can bake these steamed cakes for me." Tan Zhifeng pointed to the large plate of thinly sliced ​​steamed cakes from last night, and began to look for the lily that had been dried a few days ago root.After he took it out, he couldn't help but smiled and said: "If Brother Bai was here, he would definitely say: 'This is very nourishing! It would be even better if we could wait until mid-spring.' It's a pity, he can't taste it. It's the first bowl of lily soup cake I made this year."

Changshang rarely sees Tan Zhifeng sighing in front of him.He couldn't help but asked worriedly: "Bai...Brother Bai went to Dali Temple? Where is Dali Temple?"

"The Kaifeng Mansion is in charge of Kaifeng's criminal prison. If the officials of the Kaifeng Mansion commit a crime, Dali Temple will have to come forward." Yi Yi came out and cleaned his hands in the wooden basin, and began to help Shangshang put the steamed cakes Smear honey: "I'm afraid even Master Bao won't be able to intervene in this matter, right?"

"Let me tell you what's going on with the three of you. Why are you still baking steamed buns in a leisurely manner?" Zhuo Zhuo pushed Yi Yi who was by the door, and anxiously pulled Tan Zhifeng and said, "I'm talking about you, That dragon..."

"Xu Gan." Tan Zhifeng hurriedly corrected her: "Yesterday, I discussed with Xu Gan, we will still call him Xu Gan, no matter whether he is in front of or behind, and Master Wen Hui is the same. Now that the enemy and us are unknown, we cannot let others know their true identities. "

"Okay, where did Xu Gan go? Where's Zhan Zhao? Why don't they think of a way to solve the case and save Bai Yutang!" Zhuo Zhuo stomped his foot, and she crushed a piece of steamed cake that Chang Chang had just baked.

"Brother Zhifeng, take a look..." Shangshang frowned and stood up: "Zhaozhuo will only be a disservice, so don't let her into the kitchen in the future!"

"Then we have to do business, and everyone has to eat." Tan Zhifeng came over to clean up the mess, and then said to Zhuo Zhuo: "As for Xu Gan, he has gone to the south of the city."

"Go...to the south of the city?" Zhuo Zhuo waited in bewilderment for Tan Zhifeng to ask, "Where are you going?"

"Brain is a good thing, but it's a pity that not everyone has it." Yi Yi was pushed by Zhuo Zhuo just now, and now he taunted her without losing the opportunity.Then, he stopped talking to Zhuo Zhuo, and got busy with Shang Shang.

Tan Zhifeng crushed the lily root into fine powder, sifted through it carefully, and then started kneading the dough.Zhuo Zhuo leaned beside Tan Zhifeng in doubt and asked, "What's going on? Why did Xu Gan go to the south of the city?"

"I don't know." Tan Zhifeng stopped and turned to look at the two of them: "But I think our tavern must continue to open. Don't you find it? From the beginning to the present, many things happened in the Around us..."

"That's right!" Zhuo Zhuo suddenly realized: "Who took away Bai Yutang's saber that day? I never took that saber to the front, so it couldn't be stolen from outside, it must be... definitely It’s a certain guest! By the way, Zhifeng, do you think it’s Chen Qing? I always feel that he still looks preoccupied all day long, Zhifeng, this Chen Qing hasn’t given up on you, has he?!”

"Even if he doesn't give up on Zhifeng, then he shouldn't kill A Yuan!" Yi Yi scoffed at Zhuo Zhuo's words: "It's almost the same for him to stab Xu Yan with a knife. On the premise of knowing the wind relationship!"

"This..." Zhuo Zhuo's face was reddened by the words, but he still couldn't help retorting, "This...not necessarily, in case, in case he is confused, he knows that Xu Gan and this A Yuan are close, and he wants to kill A Yuan , to stimulate Xu Gan, yes, it is possible!"

"He is a scholar, no matter what he is, he will not be as confused as you!" Yi Yi threw another sentence to Zhuo Zhuo without hesitation.He placed the last piece of steamed cake, flicked his sleeves and went to the front to clean up the tent.

"This nasty Yi Yi! Always so self-righteous!" Zhuo Zhuo shouted behind him with his hips akimbo, "Zhifeng, judge."

Zhuo Zhuo and Chang Chang looked in the direction of Tan Zhifeng, only to find him standing there in a daze, looking thoughtful.

"What you said really makes sense..." Tan Zhifeng had just spoken halfway, when suddenly the door outside slammed, and the three people in the room were startled.

"Oh my God, it's Chen Qing..." Zhuo Zhuo shivered: "Could it be that he knows that I'm talking about him behind my back?!" She cautiously hid behind Tan Zhifeng, but Tan Zhifeng replied in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, definitely not him."

"Mr. Chen, what are you doing when you get up early in the morning?" Yi Yi said angrily, "We haven't opened yet."

"I know, I know." Chen Qing looked visibly panicked: "I... Is Zhifeng there? I want to find Zhifeng."

"Continue to help me knead the dough." Tan Zhifeng handed the dough to Zhuo Zhuo, wiped his hands and went out: "Zijin, what happened?"

"I..." Chen Qing looked around in a daze, and sat down at a table after a long time.Tan Zhifeng brought tea, sat across from him, and asked softly, "What's going on?"

"Well, yes..." Chen Qing took a sip of hot tea, breathed a long sigh of relief, as if he had finally made up his mind, and said, "I... I want to leave Kaifeng, you, I mean you, Including your elder brother, Xu Gan, Zhifeng, I know they are very important to you, I just want to say, you also go with me!"

"Mr. Chen," Yi Yi sat down, stared at Chen Qing for a while, and asked him, "Just based on your few words, let Zhifeng and us leave with you? Do you think you should Can you explain things more clearly?"

"Okay..." Chen Qing looked up at Tan Zhifeng, then at Yi Yi, and then he took out a small bamboo tube from his bosom.He hesitated for a while, and finally handed the bamboo tube to Tan Zhifeng.

"This is?" Zhuo Zhuo also ran over, she and Yi Yi looked at the small piece of bamboo on the table in wonder, "What is this for?"

A flash of surprise flashed in Tan Zhifeng's heart, and the hand he stretched out couldn't help trembling, "Are you sure, we can see what's inside?"

"Look." Chen Qing said, "Actually, I received it once before..." As he spoke, he took out another similar bamboo tube and put it on the table. "I... I didn't tell anyone at the time, I didn't know that things would really happen, I was afraid, I was afraid that others would arrest me as a spy, but now, I really don't know what to do Zhifeng..." He paused, looking at Tan Zhifeng with sincerity in his eyes: "I don't know why, I trust you very much, I... I told you that my mother and I once hated her, I also hated my father, but, after I talked with you that time, I, whenever I think of them, I hate them a lot less. My mother used to work hard to raise me, and neither is my father. So heinous, they, they all want to do their best to protect me, they don't owe me a lot..."

"What are you trying to say? What does this have to do with leaving here?" Zhuo Zhuo couldn't help picking up the bamboo tube on the table, "What the hell is this?"

She fiddled with it in her hand for a while, but found nothing.Tan Zhifeng took the faded piece of bamboo from her hand, groped for a while, and found a very small gap, then he held a piece tightly and turned it gently, and the bamboo tube opened with a snap, revealing the twig inside. A thin piece of paper.

"Hey, Zhifeng, how do you know..." Zhuo Zhuo widened his eyes in surprise.

"In the past, I used this to pass on military information." Tan Zhifeng thought to himself, this is the benefit of being reincarnated with Ying Long again and again.Although those years are too far away and most of his memories are blurred, it seems that those things he has not forgotten can still be used to some extent.

Chen Qing looked at him with half expectation and half worry, and motioned him to unfold the note and read it.Tan Zhifeng opened it and saw that the font on it was very beautiful, and it should have been written by a woman. He read it carefully, and the more he looked, the more uneasy he felt. At the end, he fell into complete silence.

Zhuo Zhuo took the paper from Tan Zhifeng's hand, and read it together with Yi Yi.Halfway through, they both froze.Zhuo Zhuo murmured: "What? Could it be that we will be defeated again? Chen Qing, who the hell wrote this to you?"

"I can't open the door today." Yi Yi stood up with a sullen face, and whispered in Zhifeng's ear, "This is not a trivial matter, we have to notify Zhan Zhao and the others immediately!"

"No..." Tan Zhifeng came back to his senses, and replied decisively: "Today, the door must be opened as usual."

"What?" Zhuo Zhuo, Yi Yi, and Chen Qing all looked at him nervously.Chen Qing took his hand and said to him: "Zhifeng, I know that running away at this time is definitely not a righteous act, but my mother will not lie to me, she told me so last year, Li Yuanhao is very powerful, he is well prepared, and he is bound to win I didn't believe it at first, but what happened later was just like what she said in her letter. Not only did we fail repeatedly, but tens of thousands of soldiers died at the border. If Saibei falls again this time, he will definitely march straight in. At that time, whether the official family will take the gentry to the south like the Jin Yuan Emperor once did, leaving us common people to suffer, I, I really have no confidence at all..."