Chapter 135: Difficulty in Advancement
Ye Lanzhou had gotten up early today, and the palace kitchen hadn't prepared anything yet, so she left on an empty stomach. Wanhelou was a restaurant, and proper food usually only served in the evenings. It was still daybreak, and Ye Lanzhou knew there wasn't much to eat, so she decided to return to the palace.
As soon as he said the words "return to the palace", Lin Yan brought his men upstairs, carrying two large food boxes and placing the dishes inside on the table one by one.
Ye Lanzhou took a quick look and saw pickled goose feet, crab meat tofu, cucumber wrapped in straw, almond cheese...
There were a few others whose names she couldn't remember.
"There weren't many people in Wanhelou this morning, and the kitchen hadn't started cooking. These were ordered from the restaurant at the corner of the street the day before." Lin Yan said as his men set the table. Ye Lanzhou took this opportunity to secretly glance at Xie Chengyan.
He meant to treat her to a meal.
Xie Chengyan lifted his robe and sat down, saying to Lin Yan, "Thank you for your hard work."
Lin Yan smiled, as if he had realized something. After he arranged the dishes, he took his people away.
After everyone left, the aroma on the table made Ye Lanzhou even hungrier, but she still felt that Xie Chengyan was very strange, so she pretended not to be interested. Xie Chengyan stretched out his hand and motioned her to sit down, but she didn't sit down.
He said: "No reward without merit."
"How come you haven't done anything? Isn't this scene today your achievement?" Xie Chengyan pulled out a jar of wine from somewhere and asked, "How can you drink?"
Ye Lanzhou nodded: "Not bad."
Xie Chengyan poured two glasses of wine, placed one in front of Ye Lanzhou and kept the other in front of himself. Seeing that she didn't move, he said, "Ye Lanzhou, I told you, you and I don't have to be enemies. Killing you won't benefit me."
He took a bite of the food and said, "Besides, I'm eating with you, are you still afraid that I'll poison it?"
After saying that, he put the food he had picked up into his mouth and took a bite. Seeing him swallow it, Ye Lanzhou gradually let down her guard. That was right. After all, he still needed her to treat his eyes and the "dragon fetus" in her belly. Besides, he was really hungry now. So he sat down and ate a good meal.
Ye Lanzhou didn't have a big appetite, but Xie Chengyan chose a good restaurant, and the food on the table was so delicious that no one could walk away.
Halfway through the meal, Xie Chengyan suddenly said, "These days, the Dali Temple has been investigating your family's marriage."
Ye Lanzhou was still chewing a goose paw. After hearing this, he chewed his food and swallowed it before asking, "What did you find out?"
Xie Chengyan shook his head: "Few people in the Central Plains know about witchcraft. The Dali Temple is now saying that they have seen ghosts."
Speaking of this, he himself found it unreasonable. The Dali Temple was the institution in charge of criminal cases in Yin State. Such absurd rumors came from here. I don't know how the Dali Temple Minister managed his subordinates.
But on second thought, it was a good thing that they couldn't find Ye Lanzhou.
He had seen Ye Lanzhou's abilities before. He had set up such a scheme in broad daylight with just a few moves, and even the Dali Temple was helpless. Such talents were rare, and fortunately, they were in his hands now.
Otherwise, you won't be able to move forward.
"Ye Zhixing believed what the Dali Temple said, and since Ye Er was already married, he didn't want her to be buried in the ancestral tomb." Xie Chengyan took a sip of wine. The sweet wine went down his throat, and his originally cold body gradually warmed up. He continued, "After Madam Ye found out, she fell ill and could not get up."
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