Chapter 362 Pork Meat Stewed Vermicelli (4)

Even though it was almost noon, Wen Mingtang still felt that the sun was so dazzling that it was hard to keep his eyes open.

Subconsciously he squinted his eyes, his mind was still in chaos, but Wen Mingtang's face was calm: this was an instinct developed during the years he stayed in Yeting.

The housekeeper who took advantage of her to make things difficult for her and her fellow palace maids were often used to watching others serve food and bullied the weak but feared the strong. When faced with the panicked palace maid, they naturally bullied her even more harshly.

She heard herself saying to Du Lingmou: "Since it is a reminder to me, how can I know that it is not a talisman to Master Du?"

Seeing Du Lingmou's increasingly ugly expression, Wen Mingtang's words turned into sharp knives and pierced Du Lingmou's heart as he had said before: "My father died, and Mr. Du became the Zhongshu Ling. Now a few years have passed. Mr. Du's position has not even moved, and it can be seen that he is not very outstanding in terms of talent, who knows whether he can grasp this life-saving talisman?"

The sunlight passed through the sparse tree branches and cast mottled light and shadow on Du Lingmou's face. Du Lingmou's face was bright and dark. Wen Mingtang could clearly see that his lips trembled, as if he wanted to say something. He did this again and again, but in the end he didn't say anything. , only glanced at her, turned around and strode towards the carriage not far away.

Wen Mingtang looked at Du Lingmou's "menacing" approach, then turned around and left inexplicably, and suddenly stopped again when he was stepping on the footstool of the carriage.

Du Lingmou, who was wearing an unremarkable gray robe, stood on the repaired carriage and turned to look at her: "It would be better to lose the reminder earlier!"

With that said, without waiting for her to react, he opened the curtain and entered the carriage.

The driver whipped his whip and the carriage sped away.

Lao Yuan was driving Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan out of the Yamen when they happened to see this scene. The carriage kicked up dust, and several people took a mouthful of ashes, so naturally they looked unhappy.

When he looked at Wen Mingtang standing alone under the tree, he immediately stepped forward to say hello to her, and then asked, "Who is that?"

Wen Mingtang pointed to the carriage that was driving away with the raised dust, and said: "Here, let's go!"

Liu Yuan's lips moved. Although he didn't make a sound, looking at the shape of his mouth, he seemed to have cursed "Mother."

Bai Zhu asked Wen Mingtang: "He didn't make things difficult for you, right?"

"How is it possible not to make things difficult?" Liu Yuanfei rolled his eyes at Bai Zhu and said, "They all came to the Yamen specifically. I guess they said harsh words or something."

Wen Mingtang nodded and glanced at the middle-aged Confucian scholars who came to talk from the nearby yamen. The movement here attracted many people to look here.

She coughed and said the harsh words: "He asked me to leave Chang'an!"

Liu Yuan said "Oh" and said: "Don't pay attention to him! Master Wen is staying well in the public kitchen of our Dali Temple Yamen. What are you doing after leaving?"

Wen Mingtang nodded and said: "That's what I said, and he didn't arrange a place to go. I am a weak woman who is unfamiliar with the place. Where should I go?" After saying that, before they could speak again, he waved his hands towards them and said, "You guys should leave the city early, I'm going back to the Yamen."

After saying that, he walked quickly to the Yamen.

Seeing this situation, the few people no longer delayed, got on Lao Yuan's carriage, hoofed their horses, and galloped out of the city.

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When Wen Mingtang returned to the Yamen, he did not go back to the public kitchen to see Tangyuan and A Bing, but went directly to the house where he stayed.

After entering the room, Wen Mingtang walked to the bed and squatted down, reaching under the bed. After touching for a while, he pulled out a gray bundle from under the bed.

The baggage is not big, and it is even a little pitiful to carry it on Wen Mingtang's current body.

This is not surprising, after all, the burden is not hers, but the original owner who was eight years old when he entered the palace.

After opening the bag, apart from two pieces of close-fitting clothes that no longer fit, there was only the birthday gift given to her by Wen Xuance. The small golden peanut left by Wen's mother had been criticized when she first entered the palace. When polished, it was used by the original owner.

She had gone through these things carefully the first time her house was burglarized in the palace. The wolf hair has been dismantled from the inside out. The seams and pockets of the clothes have been turned over and soaked in potion. There is nothing special about it.

These are all ordinary things, nothing special. Moreover, judging from Wen Xuance's lack of concern for the original owner and his lack of teaching, Wen Mingtang did not think that Wen Xuance would entrust such an important thing to the eight-year-old original owner for safekeeping.

How can a girl who has never been disciplined, whose qualifications are unknown, and who has no ability to tie a chicken, have the ability to protect something important?

This can be seen from the fact that not long after the original owner entered the palace, he was drowned in the laundry lake by the palace servants of Yeting.

Neither she nor the original owner liked Wen Xuance, but no matter how much they disliked him, they had to admit that Wen Xuance was a smart man, so how could he be so stupid?

If something really important should be given to the original owner's brother - the only son who Wen Xuance had taught carefully and had high hopes for, it was a pity that her brother, as a male, could not escape, and he died together with Wen Xuance.

In this case... To put it bluntly, it is more likely to be handed over to Xunzhou than to her.

After Wen Mingtang lowered her eyes and stared at the baggage for a moment, she walked out of the Dali Temple Yamen with the baggage in her arms. When she came to the tree where she had just talked to Du Lingmou, she took out the flint.

When the flames licked the objects in the bag, he noticed that several eyes fell on him, perhaps for a casual look out of curiosity, or perhaps for other reasons.

Wen Mingtang didn't look back to see who was looking at him. He just stared at the baggage. After the baggage burned to ashes, he turned back to the Yamen.

Behind the Dali Temple is the Imperial College. It is not uncommon for those naughty students to set fire to their textbooks and homework. Normally, this is not something worth paying attention to, but someone happened to say goodbye to the speaker immediately after Wen Mingtang left. , and later, without taking off his official robe, he hurried to inform his close colleagues of this scene.

"I saw with my own eyes that after Du Lingmou left, Wen Xuance's daughter took out the baggage she had brought from the Wen family and burned it."

The colleague who was informed was not surprised when he heard this and said: "No matter how undisciplined, Wen Xuance's daughter will not be stupid. Since Du Lingmou said it was a reminder, naturally it is safest to burn it in front of people. .”

When the words "in front of people" were mentioned, the man deliberately emphasized his tone.

The person who came to inform suddenly changed his face when he heard this: "Is it possible that she..."

"You also said that she didn't even raise her head, so how could she know it was you?" The colleague who was informed stroked the tea cup in his hand and smacked lightly, "Does it mean there are eyes in her back?"

As soon as these words came out, the person opposite him breathed a sigh of relief, paused, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, took a breath, and said: "What Du Lingmou said is true. Wen Xuance's daughter is indeed a cunning person." of."

The man who was stroking the teacup was convinced of this: "Don't look at her wandering around the stove all day long, but she is not stupid. Du Lingmou did not hesitate to go to war for this, and came to the door, it must be something extremely important. Princess Liyang The other person was very ruthless, so she must have guessed that someone was watching her, so she simply burned everything in front of them!"

At this point, the speaker paused, then shook his head and said, "If it had been before, I would have believed her, but it's a pity that now..." The man snorted lightly and sneered, "Maybe if Du Lingmou said that the things were just not on her body, but she might not know where they went.