When Xiao Yun heard the news and rushed to the pigeon cage, his aunt and Baituan'er both stopped talking. They suddenly changed from fighting beasts to quiet little rabbits. They pricked up their ears and listened carefully to the conversation between Xiao Yun and Chen Yuling. At this time, Xiao Yun was followed closely behind by a big dog with dark fur and a big red floral cloth tied around its neck. Chen Yuling saw them climbing up from the mountain and waved to them happily.

"Xiao Yun! Why is Dahei with you?"

"The Liuli tribe sent me to monitor me!" Xiao Yun replied, turning over and jumping to the big Behind Hei, he patted its dog's butt, causing Da Hei to shake his head and show his fangs.

"Hey," Xiao Yun quickly retracted his hand and sighed indifferently: "Xianbao and Hua Mu is suspicious of me. In this case, they all would be suspicious of letting Xianzhi send a beast to monitor me. That’s right, I am not from the Liuli clan, but from the Puduo protector and the Bingya clan.” /p>

Then he frowned again: "But, how come you were caught in the act?"

Chen Yuling quickly reached out to Xiao Yun and motioned for him to come closer. But Xiao Yun didn't cooperate at all, so it took a lot of effort for her to pinch the corner of his clothes with two fingers. Those two fingers turned into trembling chicken feet, almost cramping, so Xiao Yun followed her instructions and slowly moved closer.

"Don't tell me, thanks to us going to the cliff every day to investigate, we discovered the weirdness in it."

"What's weird?"

"There is another space inside the stone wall of the cliff path, but I don't know where the entrance is." Chen Yuling told Xiao Yun what she and her aunt had discovered in detail: "You can check again. I have searched through the entire Liuli and still can't find Sang He." , except for that mysterious space. Don’t they know that there is a cave inside?”

“I have been in and out of Liuli for so many years, but I have never heard of a space in the cliff path. Can't reach the entrance?" Xiao Yun touched his nose and said, "Maybe we have to ask Xian Zhi for help. His fire fox can dig into any nook and cranny."

"Don't go to Xian Zhi!" "The scolding of Master Baitun'er suddenly came from the other side of the cell.

"Why aren't you allowed to go to Xianzhi?"

"Don't worry about why." Baitang'er tried his best to lower his voice, but maybe his trachea was thicker than others. Several times, the voice was still like rumbling thunder: "Don't go to find out that secret. Don't let Xian Zhi know even a little bit, otherwise it will drag him into the quagmire of disputes!"

"What? "Secret?"

"You can only find out the secret in the kitchen!"

Baitang'er is right, it can only be found in the kitchen. It's a secret, and it takes a careful cook to notice it. Baituan'er is considered the most attentive cook in the world. He takes food seriously and seasonings carefully. From quantity to quality, the food for the entire Liuli family was carefully considered and carefully arranged by him. Therefore, in the Liuli clan, how many people up and down and how many mouthfuls of food they eat cannot escape his calculations. Therefore, many secrets cannot be hidden from him.

There are only 289 people in the Liuli clan now, but they consume food for 290 people every month. Others can't see this small difference, but Baituan'er is like a fat rat who is alert and vigilant, and he knows it very well. This extra food is given to the people hiding in that mysterious space, and it remains the same for twenty years. The person who eats this food is Xianzhi's biological mother, the bearded protector sister Wei Yueni.

If someone hadn't provoked trouble, Xianzhi might not have known all his life that his mother had been imprisoned in a cliff nearby. He was not a lonely child without a father and a mother. Her mother, Wei Yueni, was a daughter of the Liuli Dharma Protector lineage, but she fell in love with Ning Luo, a member of the Bird Controlling lineage, and got married despite everyone's opposition. Everyone objected because they followed the ancestral teachings that when Wei Yueni gave birth to Xianzhi, she, as the protector sister of the Liuli clan, would be executed immediately. But the guardian lineage is arrogant, and Wei Yueni is even more arrogant. For the sake of love, she is not afraid of anything, and does whatever she wants.

After Wei Yueni gave birth to Xian Zhi, Protector Wei knelt before the old patriarch to plead for mercy. Protector Wei had already grown a big beard when he was young, like a brave lion. He was blowing his beard and staring. His words were pleading, but his expression was threatening: "Lock her up secretly, I just want to keep her." Save her life."

"Lock her up in secret?"

"You and I will keep her in custody, so no one else will know. Why can't you trust me? ?”

Xianbao’s father also had an obvious temperament, speaking slowly and acting awkwardly, perhaps even more so than Xianbao. He was cautious in front of the powerful protector. Since the two lines of the Liuli clan leader can exchange each other, the guardian line can be a strong backing of power, or it can be a sharp spear that betrays the enemy. Under such pressure, the old patriarch had no other choice. So they found a hidden and sunken cliff cave with a hollow interior and a narrow exit, and secretly imprisoned Wei Yueni there. Everyone in the Liuli tribe thought that Wei Yueni had escaped. Xianzhi's father, Ning Luo, also abandoned his children and responsibilities, deprived himself of his magic power, and went out of the fox forest to look for Wei Yueni. There was no news for twenty years.

This matter was forbidden by the old patriarch, especially to Xianzhi. He only told him that his mother was an ordinary person unknown to the outside world, and his father died of illness early in his life.

But this secret cannot escape the eyes of Bai Ton'er. Bai Ton'er often brings food to Wei Yueni in the dead of night when thick fog is everywhere. Since the death of the old patriarch, only he and Guardian Wei knew this secret. Baitan'er also knew that Wei Dabeard had long wanted to change ownership. Xian Bao's weakness and inaction are really not worthy of Wei Da Beard's strong and radical temperament. And Wei Yueni has suffered for so many years, and only the Xianzhi lineage can allow her to come out with justice. Baitun'er didn't know how Wei Dabeard would muddy the waters, but he was afraid that he would push the innocent Xianzhi to the forefront.

"Do you know where the entrance is?" Chen Yuling asked.

Baituan'er shook his head slowly, and the flesh on his neck was squeezed and twisted like a dozen fat worms: "I won't tell you."

Chen Yuling was quiet for a while, recalling what Baituan'er said, "Secrets that can only be discovered in the kitchen." Her eyes bulged, and many details went through her head, and she asked again: "Chef, You said before that no one knows better than you how many people in this clan eat."

"Yeah"

Chen Yuling's head suddenly opened. Guang, I thought of a good idea. Applying what she learned now, she immediately hooked Xiao Yun with her finger, twisted his ear, and whispered to him: "Go to the kitchen and watch for two or three days to see if anyone has received extra food these days. If so, try to follow him." Then she took off the Jiu Tu knot on her wrist and said, "If you follow him, use this position to avoid being discovered."

Xiao Yun pointed. The dog behind said: "With this guy following me, how can I operate?"

"Isn't there another one of my own who is doing nothing in the fox forest?"

"You said Is it...Yu Liansha? After the dinner, the Liuli people were busy setting up outreach. Although they didn't let Yu Liansha go, few people paid attention to him."

"If Sang He is found. , the truth will come to light, and Shasha’s suspicion will be cleared.”

Xiao Yun reluctantly took away Chen Yuling’s Jiuyu knot, and his mouth was longer than a pig’s nose. He felt that it was too disrespectful for Chen Yuling to take off and wear such a priceless thing, but on second thought he cursed in his heart: "It's none of my business."

Xiao Yun told Yu the whole story. Lian Sha explained it three times. He was also taught five times to use a hundred tons as an excuse to go to the kitchen to investigate openly. Because Yu Liansha is tall and tall, and as beautiful as a young girl. Xiao Yun has always had a discrimination against appearance that is contrary to ordinary people. He feels that the better-looking people are, the dumber their minds are. Only ordinary-looking people like himself can have high IQs. How could he look at Yu Liansha and think that he was just a sissy vase, suitable for wearing a long vermilion skirt with beads, just like his arrogant sister? So he spent a lot of time explaining the whole thing. In fact, he also spent a lot of effort to understand Chen Yuling's intention.

In fact, Yu Liansha is quite smart and a competent actor.

On the first day he came to the kitchen, he saw a short man holding a shovel and stirring in the pot. She wore a dirty apron, half-crotch pants, and a pair of wooden clogs. The boiling oil and water in the pot occasionally splashed onto her rough, calloused and black-stained hands. She also used her hands to wipe her own snot, which made the areas around her mouth and nose sparkling, and she couldn't tell whether it was snot or oil and water. If it weren't for the messy ponytail on her head, no one would have known that she was a girl.

There were hundreds of tons of food in the kitchen, and everyone was in a hurry. Everyone kept exclaiming.

"Second Chef! Where did you put the salt?"

"Second Chef! That's the meat I cut for stew. Why did you fry it?"

The man was the second chef. She didn't answer any of them. She looked at the dishes being stir-fried calmly, which contained some green vegetables. And fried golden bugs. But her head was already covered with beads of sweat.

Yu Liansha walked around several large pots, brushed against several pots, leaned over the shoulder of the second chef and said naturally: "Yesterday I went to Weifeng to visit Chen Yuling, and your chef Baitoner happened to be there. She was squatting next to him. He asked me to come to the kitchen to try your new dishes and report to him later."

The second chef immediately put it down when he heard the word "hundred tons". With the spatula in his hand, he looked at Yu Liansha with squinted eyes, as if he was looking at a cunning bastard. She slowly scooped up a plate of vegetables from the pot. Yu Liansha noticed that the dishes were so full that they covered the second chef's snot-covered thumb. But he was a considerate and warm man. When the second chef threw the plate in front of him, he bent down and smelled it pretending to be intoxicated, and gave it a thumbs up.

According to Xiao Yun, Baitan'er is very picky about the dishes and is always dissatisfied with the second chef's skills, always scolding her for making the wrong dishes here and that. The second chef was always disliked and criticized by Baitang'er, and she was always depressed and resigned to self-destruction. Therefore, as long as anyone praised her for doing a good job, she would be like a child who was encouraged, and she would lick her heart and soul.

Lian Sha picked up a chopstick and put it in his mouth. He knew that the Liuli people liked to fry all kinds of insects, and the food they served for guests was different from what they ate themselves. He wrapped his tongue around the vegetables and insects, squirming back and forth in his mouth, greeting the second chef's mother in his heart. The emotions of the mouth are performed vividly and richly.

"Hmm... um... the dishes you cook are not as rich in layers as those made by Chef Baiton'er."

The second chef immediately squinted his eyes again, and even Shayi In the language, she naturally understands this difference.

Lian Sha glanced at the second chef. In fact, the bugs were not that hard to swallow. Just try to imagine them as pork. He picked up another chopstick.

"Hmm... But, you have expressed this simple layer carefully and appropriately, and you can better show the simplicity of the food. It is delicious!"

2 The chef's squinted eyes widened, revealing a childlike glint.

Cooking is an art, and everyone has their own preferences and aesthetics. Most people will admire the chef's style, but few people like the taste of the second chef. To put it simply, the things made by the second chef are not as popular as those made by Baituan'er. But the second chef doesn't think so. She insists that her dishes are niche and elegant, and it's hard to find a confidant. It's a pity that she thought too much and pushed herself too high. Instead, she forgot that her duty as a canteen chef was to make the food comfortable for most people.

Yu Liansha went to the back kitchen to taste the food for several days. The second chef became more and more active, first sharing his latest new dishes, and gradually cooking his previous creations for him. Yu Liansha doesn't know how to cook, so he just made a few random sentences and didn't know how to comment, not to mention he really can't get used to eating bugs. However, his acting skills were superb. He only had to show admiration and say nothing, and the second chef thought it was a tacit understanding between close friends.

In the next few days, Yu Liansha spent most of the time in the kitchen with the second chef. Gradually, I became familiar with Dunzi, pastry, purchasing and so on. Only then did I realize that the kitchen is not only a place full of delicious food, but also a gathering place for gossip and secrets. Those gossips are the most popular food, and they are passed around with the coming and going of dishes. What Chen Yuling wanted to investigate was actually easy to find out.

"With so many sweet snacks, I found that everyone still fulfilled their duties and never saw you eating secretly in the kitchen." One day, Yu Liansha was tasting the pastry chef's peanut cake. He said jokingly. There are no bugs in desserts. Yu Liansha feels that tasting desserts is the most relaxing time for him, and he can maximize his acting skills.

The people in the kitchen burst into laughter: "How dare you steal it? Master Baitun'er's eyes are as bright as a mouse's. He will catch you for every bowl that is too much or too little."

"Are you so sharp-eyed?"

The purchaser came over with a smile on his face, his eyebrows turning into little crescent moons with joy: "Not long ago, Baituan'er told me," he said after clearing his mind He pressed his chest with his hand and deliberately imitated Baituan'er's thick voice: "Guardian Wei usually eats enough food for two people, but he actually ate enough food for three people these days! You, reduce the amount of meat purchased and increase it. Some cheap coarse grains, otherwise the winter reserves will be used up!”

The kitchen was full of laughter. Yu Liansha was also speechless, but in his eyes these people were all blurred into staggering gourds, and in his mind Wei Dabeard's terrifying lion face emerged, and it turned out to be him.

Lian Sha never went to the kitchen again. He didn’t want to stuff a lot of inexplicable bugs into his stomach. He was not a bird. The second chef couldn't figure out why Yu Liansha suddenly ignored Liuli's kitchen. He always went to his place to inquire about his welfare, and would often cook one or two dishes for Liansha and ask him to review them. Before, Yu Liansha only regarded the second chef as a wild boy cooking. He didn't feel embarrassed until the second chef broke into his room at any time. Moreover, he often went out to observe the cliff path and figure out how to follow Wei Wei. Big beard. He became nervous when he heard the knock on the door. Sure enough, as soon as he opened the door, the second chef stood in front of him with a smile on his face. He instantly felt his scalp numb, and he was covered with a dog-skin plaster. Finally, he loosened his knuckles, took the second chef's hand, and said in as gentle a tone as possible: "You are a girl, it's not good for you to run around here all day."

The second chef wiped the hand. The hair stuck to his face nodded and ran away. But of course she'll come back again.

She thought it was because the dishes she had cooked recently were not good and she had disappointed her confidant. It is said that people who have been insecure since childhood will be very persistent if they identify a close friend. In a cold relationship, they will only ask themselves to please the other person blindly. The second chef is such a persistent existence. She started acting like a thief, sneaking trays of insects into Lian Sha's house while he was away. They went back and forth several times, but Yu Liansha couldn't do anything to her.

The second chef is like a thief, and Xiao Yun is more like a thief. In order to avoid the eyes of the Liuli people, Xiao Yun took a lunch break and came to Yu Lian's sand room. Dahei followed closely, looking around at the door, observing his actions carefully, and Xiao Yun was so angry that he closed the door heavily. In the absence of anyone, he could only put the Jiutu Knot under Yu Liansha's pillow and leave a letter explaining the function of the Jiutu Knot in detail. He also left a sentence: "Things are not easy to handle. Brother, please wait and think about it." , good luck! "

Tracking Wei Dabeard is certainly not an easy task.

Xiao Yun thought about it with his toes, but he didn't know how to put the Jiutu knot on Wei Dabeard's body. Just leave this problem to Yu Liansha. The moment he opened the door to Liansha's room and walked out, he felt relieved and felt as light as a bird. He called out and planned to fly to Xianzhi's place to drink some tea.

There is a crooked pavilion outside the guest room where Yu Liansha lives, as if someone had beaten it with a huge hammer and made it tilted. It is supported by more than a dozen thick pillars, but it looks like it will step down at any time. As soon as Xiao Yun's figure turned the right angle of the corridor pavilion, he almost bumped into the second chef. The plate held by the second chef almost fell to the floor. She thought it was Yu Liansha, so she took a sharp breath and her heart pounded. In fact, Xiao Yun's heart was beating louder than hers.

The second chef laughed stiffly and said, "I will take a shortcut from here to...to..."

Before the second chef could finish making up the lie, Xiao Yun had already hurriedly replied: "Go, go. I need to pee." Then he rubbed his nose hard twice, quickened his pace and disappeared at the tail of the corridor. He didn't know whether he meant he had an urgent need to urinate and had come to the guest room to borrow the toilet, or whether he was in an urgent need to urinate and had to rush to solve the problem. The second chef didn't intend to think more about it.

She hid between the thick pillars and walked forward. When she came to Yu Liansha's side window, she glanced around and found no one, so she jumped in from the window. She wanted to put down the dishes and leave, but Xiao Yun put the letter directly on the dining table. As soon as the second chef put the dishes on the table, he caught a glimpse of the letter lying there with his heart open, like a coquettish fat white man waving at her, seducing her into a dilemma. This was so easy to get. Even if she didn't want to read it, the words were clearly printed in front of her eyes: "Jiu Tu Jie, under your pillow..."

Wait until Yu Liansha comes back from outside , he was stunned when he saw the letter and the bowl of food, both of which were placed nakedly on his table at the same time. Both Xiao Yun and the second chef have been here?

As usual, Yu Liansha dumped the plate of worms into the trash can. After reading the letter, he quickly rummaged under his pillow and stayed there. He picked up the Jiu Tu Knot and carefully put it into his inner pocket. Then he felt a chill on his back, and with the creak of the door, a cool breeze rushed in. He turned his head in fright and met the cold eyes of the second chef.

"Ah... ha." Lian Sha thought, it was that look again. When they first met, it was like scanning a loser. This time, it was more like discovering a suspect.

The second chef walked to the table, took the plate, and glanced at the edge of the plate. The letter was no longer there. Then she turned around and looked at Yu Liansha seriously, and asked very seriously: "How is the food?"

"Uh, oh, very good, very good! At first taste, the taste is light and the main flavor is I don’t know. But the true meaning is revealed after tasting it.”

“Nonsense! The raw materials are not fresh, and there is so much salt and spicy. It’s a test of the ability to cover up the fishy smell. It tastes bland? The truth is revealed, are you trying to ridicule me for not being able to taste it?" Yu Liansha thought, it must not be because of this dish. Typical female logic is illogical. When you like someone, you can interpret anything you say as a confidant. When you don't like someone, everything you say is wrong. Yu Liansha's face dropped.

"Did you read the letter on my desk?"

"Why are you so embarrassed? I can help you."

"You can help Me?”

The second chef raised his eyes and raised his eyebrows: “I can help you. Just don’t throw the dishes I worked so hard into the trash can!” /p>

The second chef picked up the corner of her clothes and wiped the tall plate on her hand casually. The chili oil stains and slimy worm carcasses on the plate all stuck to her clothes. She was already dirty. The clothes appear thicker and more flavorful. Then she ran outside the door again, reached into the sewer next to the pavilion, and picked up a pile of black mud with a gurgling sound. When she ran back to Yu Liansha's room, Yu Liansha had to take a few steps back. He had never seen a girl sloppier than the second chef.

"Just use this." The second chef raised the plate and turned it over, pointing its hollow high foot at Lian Sha's nose.

Except for wine glasses, almost all glassware has hollow high legs, pursuing a light and flying posture. When placed on the table, it looks like a crane standing alone with its legs raised. The method the second chef came up with is very simple: embed the Jiutu knot into the high-leg gap at the bottom of the plate, and then paste it with mud.

"It's too obvious for you! There's a big piece of mud underneath, and it's all exposed when you turn it over." Lian Sha sneered at the second chef's method.

"Hey, you underestimate me!"

The second chef took out a small silk handkerchief from his arms. The silk handkerchief was as thin as a cicada's wings. Soft and light, transparent and smooth, with a pink lotus embroidered on it, it looks like it has just been fished out of a holy pond, swaying with gentle waves. This is a silk handkerchief that only delicate women carry with them. It should be paired with a pair of jade hands and black hair. But it was caught under the messy hair of the second chef, and in the hands of the second chef who was holding a knife and spatula, it really didn't match the thick and rough calluses of the hands.

The second chef pounced on his silk pa and found a stool to sit down on.

She glanced at Yu Liansha proudly, as if to say, be careful. Her right hand formed a lotus flower, and she gently picked up the silk handkerchief between the two fingers of her left hand. She silently recited a mantra in her mouth, and a shallow stream of light suddenly appeared around the silk handkerchief. At this time, although the second chef's hands were ugly, his movements were extremely elegant. Her face also shone brightly under the reflection, and the snot and grease stains were all covered up in the hazy light. The second chef has changed. Although her eyebrows have not changed much and she is still not good-looking, the slowly moving light band around her makes her look like a fairy who is beyond the ordinary world.

Yu Liansha was mesmerized by what he saw. He felt that the light lingering among the silk handkerchiefs were erasers and brushes. They erased the real illusions and painted more illusory scenes. The second chef stuffed the silk handkerchief into the lotus knot indicated by his right hand, and then swept it across the bottom of the clay bowl. The silk handkerchief slipped into the high foot and clung tightly to it. All the brilliance followed the silk handkerchief and disappeared inside.

"Hey, I'm so exhausted, much more tired than cooking." The second chef regained his dirty face. She wiped the sweat from her forehead with her fingers that had grabbed the mud, and then handed the tall plate to Yu Liansha. Yu Liansha looked carefully and saw that the lump of mud and the Jiutu knot were gone. Regardless of the material or color, the high soles were completely consistent with the body of the plate. Lian Sha poked the inside of the high foot with his hand, but it didn't feel like touching a pottery plate, it felt like a smooth and soft silk handkerchief.

"Is that okay? As long as you don't touch it, you won't be able to spot it with your eyesight. Who would stab it in the tall legs for nothing? I will use this plate to put dishes in and send them to Protector Wei every day. , you will know where he went with the food."

"Of course!" Lian Sha looked at the second chef as if he had discovered a treasure: "How did you learn that?"

"It's just a cover-up. I seem to have known it since I was a child, but I don't remember where I learned it. You have to help me keep this secret a secret, and you are the first to know."

Later, this plate followed Wei Dabeard for many days, and Xiao Yun echoed it through the Jiuyu Knot in his hand, clearly marking all the places it had been. The plate traveled normally most of the time, traveling back and forth between the kitchen and Protector Wei's room. But every night when the fog comes in, the plate starts to act strangely. It would come out of Protector Wei's room and walk up the cliff in a zigzag path. Then it penetrated the mountain like a bullet, stayed there for half an hour, then climbed down the cliff along the zigzag road, and then returned obediently to Protector Wei's room.

"When Protector Wei brought a plate to the cliff road in the middle of the night, it was definitely not a midnight snack." Xiao Yun gave Chen Yuling the Jiu Tu Jie and sent him back. He was squatting in front of the cage like a gorilla. He patted his chest and spoke, indicating that his analysis was rigorous and his conclusion was true: "It must be to deliver food and drink into the mountain. The location is where you found it last time, a little lower. Moreover, when Protector Wei increased his food intake, he and Sanghe The time of disappearance also matches." Xiao Yun slapped his thigh hard and said excitedly: "The one on the cliff is probably Sang He!"

This slap alerted Bai Ton'er next door. A roar came out of his nose: "Disobedient bastard!"

This time, my aunt did not pick up Baitun'er's words and tease him. Sang He was probably there. Seeing that Sang He's whereabouts were almost clear, she frowned and looked into the distance, her eyes unfocused, as if she was wandering in another time and space. After a while, she didn't seem to understand anything, but foreseeing that the matter would be difficult and complicated, she withdrew her gaze with doubts and cast it on Chen Yuling.

"Thank you for saving me and for trying so hard to find Sang He's whereabouts. I can be considered your master. However, I am a snobbish person and I will not associate with useless people. I hope we can This friendship will be useful in the future."

"Of course it will be useful." Chen Yuling's head turned very quickly, and she suddenly felt that this was a good time to make a deal. She thought of poor Yu Liansha, who had been inexplicably involved in the right and wrong of the forgotten world. Although Yu Liansha's sister was annoying, Chen Yuling could not do it and left her in this terrifying and unknown world. Isn't Tiangenhu a powerful clan even more powerful than the Liuli clan? She didn't know where the courage came from to speak: "If I help you find Sang He, will you help me? Rescue Yutong?"

The aunt opened her eyes wide in surprise and turned her ears. Tilted, as if he heard something wrong. Seeing Chen Yuling's serious face, she couldn't help but giggle. The laughter was filled with ridicule and admiration. The aunt's weird laughter made a big circle in the cage before it came back, followed by a long sigh.

"Uh-huh... the Quicksand Clan are the crazy owls in the desert. Can you really cause trouble just because you are the reincarnation of Puduo? Hahaha, but I will consider it."

My aunt has no time to think about the Quicksand Clan and the Rain Boy who appeared out of nowhere. She felt that her brain had been turned into mush and she could not figure out why Sang He was imprisoned by Protector Wei, and why the Liuli people poisoned and killed five aunts. She almost forgot why she was imprisoned. In this pigeon cage with the cold wind. She closed her eyes and felt that she, who was good at scheming, had been included in a well-thought-out conspiracy. Where in the world is there a group of people in Tiangen Lake who like to play tricks more than them?

Of course, the one who likes to play conspiracy the most is their Tiangen Lake clan leader Sang He.