Chai Yan, led by Hai Wenbin and his son, walked through the corridor and through the courtyard to a warehouse.
"Here, please open the door." Hai Wenbin's father called loudly.
Immediately, the housekeeper who was following behind ran over, took out the key and unlocked the warehouse door.
Watching the butler slowly opening the door to the warehouse, Chai Yan couldn't help but feel secretly excited.
When the door of the warehouse was fully opened, Hai Wenbin's father said: "Sir, the smell in the warehouse is strong. I will ask someone to move the eggs out..."
"Don't bother, I'll go in and take a look." Chai Yan couldn't wait any longer and walked directly to the warehouse.
After entering the warehouse, under the guidance of Hai Wenbin's father, Chai Yan finally found Tudou in the deepest corner.
In front of Chai Yan, there were a total of seven or eight baskets filled with potatoes.
Chai Yan couldn't help but stepped forward and picked up one, touched and looked at it again, and said to himself excitedly: "Grandma, I finally found you!"
Hai Wenbin saw that Chai Yan liked it very much, so he stepped forward and asked: "Master Wudesi, how should I eat this food to make it most delicious?"
Chai Yan said with a smile: "Eat it steamed, stewed, stir-fried, it's all delicious!"
"Really?" Hai Wenbin was very confused. He picked up a potato and looked at it again and again. He couldn't imagine that this thing was so delicious.
After a while, Hai Wenbin suddenly thought of something. Could it be said that this is Mr. Wu Desi's special preference?
Chai Yan put down the potatoes and turned to Hai Wenbin's father: "Are all the potatoes here?"
"Yes, sir, they are all here." Hai Wenbin's father replied.
Chai Yan immediately asked: "How much is the total, I want it all!"
Hai Wenbin's father hurriedly waved his hands and shook his head, saying hurriedly: "You can't do it, you can't do it. If you like these worthless things, you can just take them. How dare you accept money?"
Chai Yan was stunned for a moment, then asked: "Aren't potatoes valuable?"
Hai Wenbin's father said: "To be honest with you, these potatoes were paid by an overseas merchant to the villain. The villain originally sold them in a shop in Tingzhou for a while, but the sales were very poor and the local people didn't like to eat them.
, then the villain took back all the remaining potatoes and put them at home for an occasional meal..."
Chai Yan asked: "Is that overseas merchant still in Tingzhou? If I need more potatoes, can you help me buy them?"
Hai Wenbin's father smiled awkwardly and said, "Sir, I can send people to Tingzhou to inquire about that merchant, but there is a problem. The imperial court does not allow overseas merchant ships to dock at will. If you want to dock,
The transaction must have a permission document issued by the court, I'm afraid..."
Chai Yan immediately said: "You don't have to worry about this. Just contact the merchant to buy potatoes. As long as you can get in touch, I will take care of the permission documents!"
"I understand, little man!" Hai Wenbin's father immediately agreed.
While Chai Yan and Hai Wenbin were talking, Hang Baiqiu, Cheng Jiu and Guan Maochun came to the warehouse.
Hang Baiqiu was very curious when he saw the potatoes. He picked one up, looked at it, and asked, "Is this the ground egg you are talking about?"
Chai Yan nodded and said: "Yes, this is Didan, but I am used to calling it potato."
"Is this delicious?" Hang Baiqiu squeezed the potatoes in his hand and felt very novel.
Chai Yan immediately said: "Of course it's delicious! There are so many ways to make potatoes, mashed potatoes, shredded potatoes, potato cakes, potato stewed beef, potato braised pork ribs... Oh my god, there are so many ways you can't
Believe it!"
Hang Baiqiu said in surprise: "No, this little thing with a humble appearance can have so many ways to eat it?"
Cheng Jiu and Guan Maochun were also very surprised after hearing this, and couldn't help but pick up the potatoes and look at them again and again.
Chai Yan said with joy on his face: "Cheng Jiu, Maochun, I'll give you an important task. I'll find a car and transport all these baskets of potatoes to the boat. If there's one missing, I'll take it out on you!"
Cheng Jiu and Guan Maochun immediately raised their hands and responded in unison: "Yes, sir."
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After burning incense, with the help of the Hai family, Cheng Jiu and Guan Maochun took a cart of potatoes and returned to the official ship first.
Chai Yan and Hang Baiqiu originally wanted to go back together, but after the efforts of Yuan Zhixian and the Hai family and his son to persuade them to stay, they agreed to stay for a dinner.
For this reason, the Hai family specially arranged dinner at the most upscale restaurant in the city, Yulou.
In a private room on the upper floor of Yu Tower, Chai Yan and Hang Baiqiu were sitting in the upper seats, and the rest were seated according to their status.
In addition to Yuan Zhixian and the Hai family father and son, Hua Dianshi, the local county magistrate and the chief registrar were also present.
During the break before the banquet started, Chai Yan asked: "Hua Dianshi, can you find anything out from the mouths of the four kidnappers?"
Hua Dianshi said seriously: "Sir, those little thieves are as timid as rats. The subordinates only tortured them a little, and they all were recruited!"
"Oh? What did you say?" Chai Yan asked with interest.
Hua Dianshi said: "Those few thieves are not locals. They came to our Liuju County about half a month ago. Because they were too poor and had no money to spend, they made up a crooked idea to kidnap someone.
A young man from a rich family came to extort money. After a few days, they found out that the Hai family was the richest, so they made a crooked idea about Young Master Hai..."
"Damn it!" Hai Wenbin's father couldn't help but made an angry voice.
Hua Dianshi continued: "Just yesterday, the four of them finally waited for the opportunity for Master Hai and his friends to go out on a cruise out of the city, so they secretly boarded the boat at night and kidnapped Master Hai, put him into a box, and then secretly transported him back to the city.
Hidden in the Lu family’s old house..."
Speaking of this, Magistrate Yuan then answered: "But they never expected that Mr. Chai was a god who came down to earth and directly found their hiding place, killed them all, and successfully rescued Young Master Hai!"
After saying that, Magistrate Yuan handed over to Chai Yan and said with admiration: "I really admire Mr. Chai's ability to solve cases!"
Others present also rushed to compliment him.
"Thank you, thank you..."
Chai Yan smiled slightly, then changed the subject and said: "Oh my, why am I so hungry suddenly..."
Upon hearing this, Zhixian Yuan hurriedly stood up and walked to the door, urging: "What's going on? Why haven't you served the food for so long?"
The waiter outside was so frightened that he quickly nodded and bowed to apologize, and then ran off to order the food.
Soon, the shopkeeper of Yulou led a few waiters over to pass the dishes.
"I'm sorry to keep you all waiting for so long..."
Shopkeeper Yu Lou first expressed his apology, and then began to put the dishes on the table one by one.
When one of the dishes was put on the table, Hai Wenbin suddenly became excited: "Master Chai, you must try this dish. It is Yulou's unique and famous dish, one of the eight delicacies, orangutan lips!
"
"Oh, it's actually an orangutan lip!" Chai Yan was immediately surprised and couldn't help but look at the dish a few more times.
Hang Baiqiu had never heard of this dish, so he quietly asked Chai Yan: "What kind of dish is orangutan lip?"
Chai Yan said seriously: "An orangutan is an orangutan's orangutan, and its lips are the lips of its lips. What kind of food do you think it is?"
"What? Orangutan's lips?" Hang Baiqiu exclaimed in shock: "Can those be eaten too?"
"Ha ha ha ha......"
As soon as these words came out, a burst of joyful laughter broke out in the private room.
Hang Baiqiu was immediately embarrassed, and in a fit of anger, he stepped on Chai Yan hard under the table, causing Chai Yan to grin in pain...