"No problem, please wait for a mont. I will send in your orders right away."
The waiter briskly brought the list of their orders into the kitchen, leaving the four maidservants to explore the room and its contents.
Not to ntion when they were in the Prince’s Mansion, even if it were in the palace, they could follow their master to go around and gather experience from it.
The truth was that a tastefully decorated place like this was rare to co by.
"Master, what kind of a person do you think the owner of the Furong Restaurant is like?"
As Baiji looked around the place, she could not help but sing praises about it.
Although it was not exactly lavishly furnished, every item in the room was apparently carefully picked.
She, though uneducated, found every item interesting.
"I can’t say what kind of person he or she is, but I can safely say that he or she is definitely a sophisticated person."
Lin ngya comnted indifferently while she leaned on the window and looked out into the street below with people going to and flow.
Furong Restaurant was at the turning of a cross-road junction.
At the angle where she was, she had a good view of the building surrounding the area.
This was rich n’s area as she could see the various courtyards of the mansions.
The view was not at all boring.
The weather was fine just a mont ago, but in the twinkling of an eye, dark clouds were looming and the rain was impending.
Lin ngya continued leaning on the window until she saw streaks of rain start to beat on the greenish-grey roof. In an instant, the sight of the world before her eyes beca obscured and simultaneously her mood was dampened.
"Here cos your ’boiled crispy at’, ’seven connections elbows’, and a pot of honey fragrant tea. Please enjoy!"
The waiter was swift in serving them the dishes they ordered.
"Boiled crispy at" was prepared using the clean water from the hills outside the city. Apart from so spices, there were no other additional ingredients. For this reason, the at, which was prepared in this manner, was crispy on the outside and soft on this inside, so much so that it lted in the mouth.
The "seven connections elbows" was even more interesting. The dish derived its na from the fact that the at on the elbow was connected to the bones at seven places.
Once it got picked up by the chopsticks, the at separated from the bones the mont it was given a shake.
Out of curiosity, the lasses gently shook their chopsticks after picking a piece of the at and imdiately, the bone fell out of at, clean and smooth.
"Wow! It’s truly ’seven connections elbows’! How did they achieve this?"
Baizhi exclaid in great pleasure, as she began to stuff her mouth with the at.
The other three lasses shot her envious looks as they witnessed her hearty appetite.
However, they were careful not to take on Baizhi’s fervent invitation.
"Look at the perfect knife skills. It looks like the person was extrely sharp and precise with the way he cut the at."
They were completely unaware of when Lin ngya had walked up to their back. At that instant, she picked up the bones from the table using a pair of chopsticks.
"I told you, Miss. I had the feeling that the chef here was an amazing chef."
Of course, Baizhi would keep singing praises as long as she had food to eat.
However, Lin ngya seed to have discovered a great finding.
Logically, the chef must have used the knife to slice part of the at off the bone before cooking it.
Even as a dical research student, she might not have mastered such sharp and precise knife skills.
The bone was free of any remnant at remaining on it.
Who exactly was the chef?
Lin ngya’s curiosity towards the chef of Furong Restaurant was sparked.
Just when she was about to send for the waiter, the noise of hard-knocking sounded from outside the room.
"Who’s that outside the door?" cried Baishao.
The noise did not seem like it was coming from Furong Restaurant’s waiter.
"Are you lonely, the five beautiful ladies? I have brought along my servants to keep you accompany. How do you like that?"
A frivolous voice sounded from outside, followed by a burst of laughter.
Lin ngya frowned. Why were there even ruffians in such a tasteful restaurant?
Shaking her head, Lin ngya indicated for Baisu, who was about to dash out, to ignore the group of people outside.
As long as the door was shut, it was impossible for whoever was outside to barge in.
"Yo, looks like the beautiful ladies don’t know how to appreciate favors! n, break open the door."
Imdiately, the sound of people trying to break the door ensued.
The commotion upstairs had obviously alard the waiter who instantly ran upstairs. Smiling, the waiter said, "Sir, the room is occupied by a noblewoman and her company. I can totally understand your appreciation of beautiful won. However, you would be tarnishing your good na if you offend the lady."
"Who do you think you are? Get lost!"
It sounded like the man gave the waiter a kick because what followed was the sound of the waiter’s groaning.
"What a blind dog. Master, let teach him a lesson!"
Having heard all the offensive words, Baisu was fuming.
The wooden door was almost coming off by now. Lin ngya nodded, and Baiji and Baishao opened the doors simultaneously.
"I wonder which family this young master is from. Please co in to have so tea since you’re here."
Lin ngya was still seated on the head seat. At this mont, she had gracefully lifted the cup to her lips and took a sip of the fragrant tea.
Why did this tea taste like—
Before she could figure out the familiar taste of the tea, a young frivolous man in green entered the room.
"At least this lady knew how to appreciate . Let return you this favor. My surna is Du. You may call Mr. Du or Sir Du. Whatever suits you."
The man surnad Du had a pair of beady eyes, making look like a cunning and deceitful man.
There was a ruthless look on his face, which, at this mont, was filled with an extrely repulsive evil grin.
He was not especially big, which might be a result of overexerting himself. As a matter of fact, he looked even more wretched.
Lin ngya did not even lift her gaze to look at Mr. Du, having totally disregarded him.
"Say what you want to say quickly, lest I lose my patience."
Lin ngya did not want to trouble. Today was ant to be a shopping trip with her maidservants. She was not even interested in teaching this ruffian a lesson.
"Haha, what a hot lady! Today, I shall have a taste of your hotness!"
He reached out in an attempt to touch Lin ngya’s face.
With a smirk and a turn of her hand, Lin ngya grabbed the indecent man’s hand, plucked the hairpin from her hair and stuck it into his hand.
"Ouch! You stinky woman!"
The sharp pain shot up from his hand. He was completely unprepared for Lin ngya’s brutal attack.
Without showing any rcy, the jade hairpin had completely pierced through his hand and pinned it onto the tabletop.
"Didn’t anyone inform you that it may cost your life if you take liberties with ?"
Although Lin ngya spoke with a smile on her face, her words set him off perspiring in cold sweat.
"How did she know I had actually been incited by soone else to do this?"
"What do you... you an?"
By now, his forehead was dripping with cold sweat from the pain coming from his hand that had been pinned on the table.
He gritted his teeth to combat the intensive pain while his followers were getting restless.
"The rest of you better behave yourself, otherwise your master’s dog paw would be paired."
Lin ngya spoke coldly. She supposed that these n were used to acting like a tyrant. Nevertheless, they were apparently frightened by this uncanny lady.
Now it seed to them a bad idea to go up against her.
"You... you’ve misunderstood, my eyes must have been blinded by lard for to take liberties with you, Madam."
He seed to have decided not to reveal the mastermind behind this. However, Lin ngya was not ready to let go of the matter.
Baisu, being sharp-witted and alert, would have sensed his furtive eyes.
Lin ngya had exchanged looks with Baisu earlier on but she had an ignorant look in her eyes.
Perhaps soone had found out her whereabouts and sent these ruffians to take advantage of her.
"Get lost. Go back and tell whoever sent you that if anyone dares provoke , he would die a tragic death. Don’t let see you again, otherwise, by then, your life would not be spared."
Lin ngya withdrew her hairpin in one quick motion as the man let out another cry of agony, while the rest of the n gazed at Lin ngya with fear in their eyes.
Gritting their teeth, they were resigned to their misfortune.
"Let’s go!"
Despite knowing that they might provoke the anger of their master, they knew this woman was too formidable for them to trifle with.
"Wait! You’ve broken the things in my restaurant, beaten up my waiter. Worst still, you’ve provoked the lady in my house to anger. Do you think you can simply walk off?"
At the sound of a clear, light voice with a cold tone, Lin ngya’s eyes lit up.
She opened her eyes wide with disbelief as she dashed out of the room to see the young man she was so familiar with.
"Why are you here, Qinghu?"
The man was none other than Qinghu, whom she had sent away to gather information for her. Although she had not seen him for so ti, as usual, he was wearing that sly smile on his face.
"Naughty girl, why did you go places without telling ? I had a hard ti looking for you."
Qinghu was clad in a white coat, which made him look flirtatious.
What remained the sa was the doting look in his eyes.
"Sly fox, who asked you to be gone so for so long? There was no one to co to my aid when I was being bullied."
Sohow, Qinghu was the only one in the world who would stand by her without demanding any explanation from her.
As a result, Lin ngya had instinctively treated him as soone from her parent’s family.
Disregarding the eyes of the people looking on, Qinghu strode up to Lin ngya and scrutinized her from top to bottom.
"Eh? You seed to have lost weight, lass? Did Long Tianhao starve you? Co, serve the best dishes from the restaurant right now. The other custors can wait."
This was how tyrannical Qinghu could be. He would pick Lin ngya over god anyti.
"Alright, boss, just a mont, please."
The waiter who was playing dead, lying on the floor, sprung up imdiately and ran into the kitchen.
"This—"
As Lin ngya pointed at the waiter who ran downstairs, Qinghu was all smiles, as he pushed her back into the room.
"Don’t worry, that guy has nine lives. He won’t die."
The five ladies exchanged puzzled looks as they wondered what had happened.
"When did you co back? Why didn’t you return to the prince’s mansion? How’s the progress on your investigation on the Yues?"
Lin ngya blurted out a series of questions while seated on the heated brick bed.
However, Qinghu had pulled a long face as he looked at Lin ngya with plaintive eyes.
"What a heartless girl! I’ve only just returned and still covered with dust from the journey, barely taken a breath, and there you are with a series of question for ?"
Qinghu tapped his fingers gracefully on the spot between Lin ngya’s brows as he complained.
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