bayedsolid Chapter 196 Stand still
Chapter 196 Stand still
He brought the candles into the room, instantly illuminating the dim space.
Luo's father couldn't bear it and advised her to rest early, otherwise she would collapse before Xianyu was found.
I don't know what Luo Nanzhi was thinking at that moment, but she suddenly asked her father.
"Father, do you remember what those people were wearing?"
Father Luo recalled for a moment, "These people seemed to be wearing government civilian clothes, with knives tucked into their waistbands, but their faces weren't menacing, and..."
A conflicted expression suddenly appeared on Luo's father's face.
Luo Nanzhi pressed further, "And what?"
"Moreover, these people seemed to be very careful and respectful towards Xianyu, as if they were afraid of hurting him. Oh right! I suddenly remembered that they had a copper badge on their waist. Luckily, I can read a little, and I recognized the character on the badge. It seemed to be the character 'Lin'!"
"The character 'Lin'?" Luo Nanzhi asked, puzzled, her mind completely blank.
She searched aimlessly for five days, but there was no news from the master. It wasn't until the steward came to urge her to return to work that she asked to ask for a few more days off, but the steward refused.
It turns out that a distinguished guest had been staying at our residence for the past few days. We heard that he was injured and had only just regained consciousness. We had prepared a lot of nourishing soup for him, but he refused to eat anything, saying that the taste was not right.
Seeing that he hadn't eaten properly for the past few days, the prefect was extremely anxious and had to change several chefs in his household to prepare the dishes.
None of them satisfied him, and he even went outside to find a chef to cook for him, but he just couldn't eat anything.
The prefect remembered Luo Nanzhi's culinary skills, but he had been on leave and at home for several days, so he sent his steward to find her.
Luo Nanzhi hadn't had the energy to cook lately, but seeing the manager so anxious that he even had blisters in his mouth made her even more upset.
Luo Nanzhi knew this matter was urgent, so she could only put the search for Xianyu aside for the time being.
The manager also promised her that if the matter was resolved, she would be given a long vacation.
Luo Nanzhi hadn't slept well these past few days because of searching for someone. Even though she was exhausted, her eyes instantly cleared up as soon as she picked up a knife in the kitchen.
It was done in no time.
When the steward noticed that she hadn't cooked any potato dishes today, he asked her why she wasn't cooking potatoes. Luo Nanzhi simply said that they didn't have enough potatoes.
To her surprise, after hearing her words, the steward led her to the backyard of the kitchen.
A pile of potatoes had somehow appeared in the backyard of the kitchen.
Luo Nanzhi was very puzzled. She remembered that when she left, there were very few potatoes left. How could so many suddenly appear?
Before Luo Nanzhi could even ask, the steward urged her to start cooking.
Luo Nanzhi suppressed her confusion and had the potatoes prepared, then cooked a dish with them.
In the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the dishes were taken away by the servants. Luo Nanzhi finished cooking and finally had some free time, but the steward was not in the kitchen at the moment, so she could only ask Chef Zhang.
"I remember there were hardly any potatoes left before I left, how come there are suddenly so many potatoes?"
Chef Zhang replied, "That's true. You've been gone for so many days, you probably don't know that these potatoes were sent in by the prefect."
Luo Nanzhi was surprised, "Prefect?"
In a flash, she seemed to have thought of something.
She recalled the prefect's enigmatic expression that day. The prefect seemed very curious about the potatoes and asked her many questions, including where she had found them, which she answered one by one.
Could it be that the governor sent people to dig potatoes in the wasteland?
But she had a vague feeling that things weren't that simple, yet she couldn't figure out what the governor was up to no matter how hard she tried.
Half an hour later, the steward suddenly appeared in the kitchen again and specifically asked Luo Nanzhi to go to the courtyard.
Although Luo Nanzhi was puzzled, she had no objections and immediately went to the courtyard mentioned by the steward.
Before she even reached the courtyard, she felt an unprecedented sense of oppression.
The courtyard was straight. Rows of guards stood there, their expressions cold and unapproachable.
The courtyard was very quiet; even the prefect could only stand outside the house.
Luo Nanzhi suddenly felt uneasy. It seemed that the person who came to stay at the prefect's mansion was probably an extremely distinguished person.
But when she actually came outside the courtyard and saw the man sitting in a wheelchair, she was clearly taken aback.
My brain felt like it had been struck by something, and I couldn't think straight.
She couldn't help but look at the man's face and exclaim, "Xianyu?!"
How could the person she's been desperately searching for these past few days be here?
When the man in the wheelchair heard Luo Nanzhi call out the name Xianyu to him, he actually frowned his handsome brows.
He stared at her coldly, as if they were strangers.
Not only was Luo Nanzhi in the storybook shocked, but even the book fans outside the storybook exclaimed in shock.
"What's going on? Why is Xianyu at the Prefect's residence?"
"I told you, I was captured by the governor's men."
"It doesn't seem like that, does it? If the governor really captured him, why would he have other chefs cook for him, as if he was afraid of not being able to entertain him well, and then go through all this trouble to have Luo Nanzhi cook the worst dishes for him!"
"What's going on? I never expected Mr. Wuming to write it like this!"
"Didn't you notice the details described in the storybook? Xianyu was sitting, while the prefect stood respectfully beside him. I suddenly remembered the first chapter I read before, when Luo Nanzhi found Xianyu. Xianyu had developed a dissociative identity disorder. Could it be that he's cured now? But after he regained his memory, why is he still looking at Luo Nanzhi so coldly? I can't understand it! I really can't understand it!"
"I feel that this Xianyu's identity is not simple."
"Why are you still calling him Xianyu? Now that he has regained his memories, he no longer has that name!"
It turned out that when the governor was entertaining his guests, he overheard them talking about the heir of Nanyang.
The prince of Nanyang came to Yanzhou to handle a case, but he was attacked by his captors and fell off a cliff. He is still missing. Many people have been sent to search for him at the bottom of the cliff, but they have not been able to find him.
The governor didn't pay attention to this at first, but the potato caught his eye, so he called everyone from the kitchen to the main hall.
It was only then that I discovered that the potato plant was discovered by a man named Luo Nanzhi. It tastes good and is delicious no matter how it is cooked.
He had an idea, so he subtly inquired about the exact location of the potatoes from Luo Nanzhi.
He wanted potatoes so that he could present them to the governor, as such a rare item would surely elevate his official rank.
Unexpectedly, his men discovered the Prince of Nanyang while going to a village in the suburbs.
They held their troops back and, upon returning to their residence, told the prefect about the matter.
After receiving the news, the prefect sent men to bring the Prince of Nanyang back. Not long after, the Prince of Nanyang's men also received the news and hurriedly came to the prefect's residence.