It was not surprising that they could not recognize Jiao Niang. After all, the Yan Mansion separated the living area and the residential area with a long corridor.

These people rarely see people from the Yan family, let alone the beautiful young lady who has just married into the family.

The leader saw that Jiao Niang was dressed differently from them, and signaled the people surrounding her to put down their spoons.

The man stood at a safe distance and asked Jiao Niang:

"I'm the kitchen manager of the Yan residence. If you have anything to explain, just tell me."

"I'm Zhang, the new bride of the Yan family. I heard someone say there was a fire in the kitchen, so I came to check it out and then I ran into you guys."

"Are you our new wife?"

The butler confirmed again, turned his head and said a few words to the woman next to him, and the woman ran towards the new house.

The others were all staring at the steward, looking like they only needed to wait for his order to capture the beautiful lady.

After a while, the woman came back and reported to the steward in a low voice...

"Are you sure?" The butler asked doubtfully.

The woman nodded confidently, "I saw it with my own eyes!"

"Capture this man, pretending to be our new wife!"

"Wait!" Jiao Niang shouted, let me explain.

"No need! I just sent someone to check outside the new lady's room. She is sleeping now. We were almost scared by you."

Jiao Niang suddenly thought of Qingwen lying on her bed and sleeping. They must have mistaken Qingwen for themselves.

"Wait a minute, sir. I can prove my identity and then you can decide."

The butler relied on his large number of people to give Jiaoniang a chance to escape, "Then explain a few more words!"

"At yesterday's wedding, An'er was stuck by a foreign object. I know what it was!"

Hearing Jiao Niang's words, the housekeeper's eyes changed!

Currently, the Yan family is holding accountable for which dish, so they put the pressure on the kitchen manager.

The butler immediately pulled Jiao Niang into the kitchen and asked the others to wait outside.

"Madam, I am sorry for offending you just now. Please tell me what it is!"

After the steward knew what happened at the banquet, he kept all the dishes from yesterday intact in the kitchen.

"this!"

Jiao Niang took out a date pit from her pocket!

"Date pits? How is that possible? We always pick out hard objects when cooking, and even remove bones when steaming fish."

Jiao Niang's face darkened. "That makes sense. Why would Yan An, who was eight or nine years old, get choked by a date pit the size of his little finger? Because when he ate it, he never thought it was a fruit pit."

"It seems that someone did it on purpose! Could it be!"

Jiao Niang didn't dare to think further, and calmed down her expression, "Only the two of us know about this matter at present. I will explain to you from Master Yan's side, how did you suddenly become so sure that I am the new wife of the Yan family?"

"I know very little about what happened yesterday, and coupled with the shrimp-whisker bracelet that the eldest lady revealed, it can only be you."

The steward pointed at the shrimp-whisker bracelet that was exposed on Jiaoniang's wrist.

Jiao Niang quickly covered it up, "I didn't expect that he had such a strong observation ability? No wonder he could become the kitchen manager."

The man immediately took out a menu from his waist.

"This is the dish that the eldest young master specifically ordered. It should have been delivered to your room this morning. I didn't expect to run into the eldest lady here."

Look at the cuisine above.

"Isn't this the dish we had at Zuiyanlou that day? Could he be a member of Zuiyanlou as well?" Zhang Jiaonian thought to herself and asked him his name.

"Madam, just call me Steward Geng."

"Okay, Manager Geng! Are you from Zuiyanlou?"

"Madam, you are joking. I just worked as a cook for a few years in the restaurant I just joined."

"The restaurant where you joined the club?"

"Tianxia Restaurant is controlled by Zuiyan Restaurant and Jinzhi Restaurant. Our restaurant in Xingwen County just hangs the Zuiyan Restaurant sign."

"Isn't this a chain store?" Jiao Niang thought to herself.

When the people outside saw Jiao Niang coming out, they all knelt on the ground, and Jiao Niang understood why.

"Just pretend that I didn't come today. I'll go find Patriarch Yan as soon as the sun rises."

"Thank you, Madam!" Chief Steward Geng called from behind. When he saw Jiao Niang walking away, he said to the others in the kitchen:

"Everyone remember! It was the Madam who asked us to continue staying in the Yan Mansion. This is Madam's cuisine. Please be more careful when you cook it!"

"Yes!"

Back in the bridal chamber, Jiao Niang sat by the window and thought about what Manager Geng had said.

"They even shave off fish bones, so how come they can't even find such a big date pit? Could it be that they want to kill someone deliberately?"

"Kill who?"

"Yan Sheng?"

"Serious case?"

"Yan Bailin?"

"Yan Qilin?"

"These are all the younger generations of the Yan family. Is it unnecessary? Are they trying to kill Master Yan?"

Zhang Maolan thought about it again. "Manager Geng stressed that only one jujube was not shaved clean! Did someone do it on purpose? Did An'er just happen to eat that one? Or did they do it after preparing for the verification experiment? It seems that we can only ask the people at the main table to know what happened after they left."

.......

Jiao Niang thought for a long time, and then she felt sleepy again and fell asleep on the table.

"Knock! Knock!" There was a knock on the door.

"Who?" Qingwen asked.

Only then did she notice that Qingwen had gotten up.

"Kitchen Manager Geng is here to deliver the meal."

Qingwen pointed to the dining table and blocked the narrow door for fear that they would discover that Master Yan was not at home.

"Madam, the food is ready, please enjoy."

Qingwen called out to Jiaoniang in a maid's tone.

Jiao Niang asked Qingwen to have dinner with her, but Qingwen shook her head vigorously to refuse.

"The master-servant relationship cannot be crossed! Sleeping in the mistress' bed in the morning is a capital offense."

Jiao Niang recalled that among the people who had just arrived was the servant who came to check in the morning. Could it be that she had discovered him?

"Never mind for now, I'll go find Manager Geng later."

"Qingwen, you must eat this meal! Not only must you eat it, you must eat more!"

"what?"

Before Qingwen could react, Zhang Jiaoniang had already pushed her to the table.

"Look, this table of food is for two people. You were blocking the door just now because you didn't want them to find out that Yan Sheng wasn't at home. If I eat alone, there will definitely be a lot of leftovers. If so many leftovers are seen, the people in the kitchen will definitely report to Master Yan, and then your Young Master Yan will be exposed."

Under Jiaoniang's soft verbal threat, Qingwen picked up the chopsticks tremblingly, but the first bite of every dish was given to Jiaoniang.

Jiao Niang thought to herself, "What a grateful child!", and looked at Qingwen's thin body again, and gave the big piece of meat in the bowl back to her.

Qingwen kept shaking her hands to refuse, but after a few words from Jiaoniang, she finally ate it.

Not long after the meal, someone from the backyard came to the door of the new house with an urgent report.

"Madam, there is a carriage parked in front of the door in the backyard, saying that you should prepare to leave the Yan Mansion."

Jiao Niang then remembered that Yan Lang told her last night that he would move out today.

"Tell that person that I'm not going!"

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