Uncle Detective Di Renjie, I build a crime-solving team

Chapter 43 Dinner at Dayou's House, Simple Lu Dayou

In Xiaolianzi Mountain, there is Xiaolianzi Village!

Lu Dayou prepared dinner and brought it to the table.

They were two bowls of wild vegetables, which tasted raw and hard to swallow, but in this special period in the mountains, they were a rare delicacy.

"Come."

"My family is poor and we don't have much to eat. You two just need to make do with what you have here."

As Lu Dayou spoke, he placed the bowls and chopsticks next to Di Renjie and Hu Jinghui.

After putting away the dishes and chopsticks, Lu Dayou turned and went to the inner room.

Li Er, who was lying on the kang, had his life saved by Di Renjie's skillful use of acupuncture in the afternoon.

But he still needed someone to look after him all the time, so Lu Xiaofeng stayed by his bedside and never left. As his brother, he also had to go and check on him.

Hu Jinghui fiddled with the wild vegetables in the bowl, wondering: "Hey, sir, what is this?"

Di Renjie replied calmly, "Wild vegetables."

"food?"

Without answering, Di Renjie just nodded.

"Is this what they eat?" Hu Jinghui asked with a little surprise.

"Don't you and I know the current situation in Youzhou? People's lives are so difficult that they can only eat this." Di Renjie sighed, "Jinghui, you have been in the court for a long time and don't know the suffering of the people. You see, what doesn't look like food to us is actually their food!"

Hu Jinghui felt ashamed and sighed.

He is not a descendant of royal family.

He is 36 years old this year, but he was still a baby in the sixth year of Yonghui, which was 655.

That year, his aunt Queen Wang was deposed due to events in the palace. In order to consolidate her position, the ruthless Wu Zetian cut off Queen Wang's hands and feet.

Another person who suffered the same torture was Concubine Xiao Shufei, Xiaomei's aunt.

It’s just that Xiaomei was not born at that time. She was not born until 13 years later.

Kui Wenzhong was only 10 years old 15 years ago, and he is 25 years old this year.

Among this group of friends, Hu Jinghui is the oldest and has suffered the most.

He pretended not to know about this wild vegetable, wasn't it just to confuse Di Renjie?

"I can't believe ordinary people actually eat this, it's really..."

"Oh, eat, eat."

Di Renjie sighed again, picked up a piece of wild vegetable with chopsticks, and put it in his mouth to chew.

As soon as it entered his mouth, Di Renjie's face changed.

This wild vegetable... is really hard to swallow. To say that it is raw and hard to swallow is hard to describe. It is dry, astringent and unpalatable.

The taste is not much better than that of Guanyin soil.

Lu Dayou, who had just taken a look at Li Er, went straight to the table and sat down without even finishing picking up the wild vegetables.

Di Renjie asked in confusion: "Hey, Dayou, why don't you eat?"

"I'm not hungry." Lu Dayou stretched out his sleeves and sat on the bench.

Di Renjie frowned and put down his bowl and chopsticks.

Not hungry?

These days, poor families only eat two meals a day!

The mid-afternoon meal is called breakfast, and the mid-afternoon meal is called dinner.

If you are hungry at other times, you can only eat something casually, which is called a snack, and then wait for the official meal time.

Judging from the situation at Lu Dayou's home, it is obvious that they are not a wealthy family. How can they not be hungry if they don't eat?

Feeling suspicious, Di Renjie stood up, walked to the kitchen, and lifted the lid of the big pot on the stove.

All that was left under the lid was clear soup.

A few wild vegetable leaves were floating in the soup.

"What a simple mountain man!" Di Renjie was so sad that he put the lid on the pot.

Not only did Lu Dayou not take his money, but he also gave the little food he had left to him and Hu Jinghui during their difficult times.

But Lu Dayou didn't eat a single bite.

"Sir, don't worry about me, just eat."

Lu Dayou called out from the table.

Di Renjie looked around and soon saw the bowl and chopsticks on the stove. He took the bowl and chopsticks back and moved the wild vegetables in his bowl into the empty bowl.

"What are you doing, sir?"

Lu Dayou quickly stood up and wanted to stop Di Renjie.

Since they were guests coming from afar, he had nothing to offer them.

When Di Renjie started to eat the first piece of vegetables with his chopsticks, Hu Jinghui stood up with the bowl in his hand and scraped out most of the wild vegetables in the bowl.

"It's great, eat!"

Di Renjie placed the bowl in front of Lu Dayou and then sat back.

"Eh."

Lu Dayou was really hungry, and seeing that Di Renjie didn't seem to be pretending, he sat down and stuffed some wild vegetables into his mouth.

While watching Lu Dayou eating, Di Renjie asked:

"Dayou, is this patient in the room your relative?"

Lu Dayou swallowed the wild vegetables in his mouth and said:

"Sir, my parents passed away early. Over the years, I only have my sister Xiaofeng to rely on. I don't have any other relatives."

"The person lying in the room, I don't even know who he is."

Di Renjie became even more confused:

"Who's that in there?"

Lu Dayou quickly put the wild vegetables into his mouth, chewed them quickly, and then swallowed them into his stomach to soothe his stomach.

After swallowing all the wild vegetables in his mouth, he began to talk about the origin of the patient inside.

"I got up very early this morning, thinking that I could go to the mountains and hunt some wild animals to improve my food."

"But when I was halfway to the Qingshigouzi, I saw this man lying on the side of the road. I reached out to check and found that he was still breathing and not dead, so I carried him back home."

The mountain people of that era were truly simple.

When Lu Dayou encountered this man who had no relatives and was bleeding from the mouth and nose, he not only did not run away quickly, but instead carried the man back home.

I didn't even consider how this person got injured to such an extent.

"So that's what's going on." Di Renjie nodded thoughtfully.

Li Yuanfang went out once last night.

When he got up, he noticed medicine residue in the bowl and saw a poisonous snake in the house.

Today, I saw that this patient was poisoned by a snake.

Li Yuanfang, ah Li Yuanfang, it seems I need to pay more attention to you.

"In the inn, you were able to deceive both me and Cunxi at the same time. Your intelligence is really not low."

"I want to see what role you play at the end of the case!"

The suspect in Di Renjie's mind has been locked on Li Yuanfang.

Lu Dayou, who was eating, complimented:

"Sir, you are amazing. You brought a dying man back to life."

Di Renjie waved his hand politely: