Looking at the red eyes and tired expressions of the two people, Su Shi said with relief: "It will take more than an hour to go back and forth. You should take a rest first. You have been pursuing this matter for ten years, so there is no need to rush. For a while.”
Although Zhou Jin looked haggard, he still shook his head stubbornly and said, "I can't sleep."
Su Zhou also said calmly: "In the past, when we were marching and fighting, it was common to stay up for three days and three nights. You don't have to worry about me."
Seeing this, Su Shi stopped trying to persuade them. He stretched and said, "Are you hungry? I'll ask the kitchen to prepare some food. I'm almost starving to death."
Su Zhou looked at him in surprise: "Can you still eat it?"
"Why can't you eat?" Su Shi said with a grimace, "I drank too much last night and didn't even take a few bites of the food. My stomach is almost empty now."
Seeing Su Shi's unconcerned expression, Su Zhou couldn't help but ask: "Now that all the clues have been cut off, aren't you worried?"
Su Shi called out, and Lin Mo immediately appeared at the door. Looking at Lin Mo's powerful body, he couldn't help complaining: "Why are the young masters in other mansions so beautiful and considerate?" I am a maidservant, but the one who serves me is a warrior with strong limbs and simple mind."
At this time, Lin Mo cupped his fists and said, "Second Young Master, what are your orders?"
"I'm hungry."
Lin Mo hesitated for a moment and replied: "The breakfast may have to wait a while. Chef Li may have just gotten up at this time."
Su Shi sighed and asked, "Is there anything I can fill my stomach now?"
Lin Mo thought for a while and replied again: "I'm afraid there won't be any more. There were no leftovers from yesterday."
Su Shi covered his face and said, "Besides the leftovers, aren't there any snacks, fruits or the like?"
Lin Mo immediately said: "Master, please wait a moment, I will go and ask immediately."
After Lin Mo left, Su Shi couldn't help but sigh to Su Zhou: "Do you believe it? By the time Lin Mo came back, I would have starved to death."
Seeing Su Shi's helpless look, Zhou Jin finally relaxed a lot. She couldn't help but ask, "Why?"
"Because he will definitely come back empty-handed."
Zhou Jin was confused and asked: "Don't you have snacks and fruits in the house?"
"How could it not be?"
"Then why did he come back empty-handed?"
Su Shi sighed again: "Because he will definitely come back and ask me what snacks and fruits I want to eat."
At this time Zhou Jin also called out the door: "Lan'er."
A delicate maid immediately replied: "Yes."
After answering, the maid hurriedly walked out, and soon came back with a food box, placed it in front of Zhou Jin, saluted the three of them, and then retreated.
Zhou Jin pointed to the food box and said with a smile: "There are some honey cakes and five-spice cakes in here. You should fill your stomach first."
Su Shi pondered: "This Lan'er is quite smart..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhou Jin rolled his eyes at him, then flatly refused: "Don't even think about it."
Su Shi opened the food box, picked up a piece of honey pastry and put it into his mouth. After eating it together, the hunger finally disappeared a little bit.
Then he said: "I don't really want her to serve me, I just want to borrow her for a while."
"Borrow it for a while?" Zhou Jin looked at him doubtfully.
Su Shi sighed: "I just want Miss Lan'er to train the people in the general's mansion. Even if they can't be empathetic, they can at least understand what I say."
Zhou Jin smiled and said, "If you can help me find out about this matter, it's not too much to ask."
At this time, Su Shi picked up another piece of dense pastry and ate it. After eating, he smiled and said, "This dense pastry tastes good. Was it made by the royal chef in the palace?"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Jin's face turned red and she couldn't help but glare at him.
Su Shi was stunned and looked at her in disbelief: "Did you do it yourself?"
Before he finished speaking, Su Zhou scolded: "Why don't you get down to business."
Su Shi glanced at his elder brother dissatisfied and said, "What I just said was business."
Seeing that Su Shi was still quibbling, Su Zhou was about to get angry when Su Shi said to Zhou Jin: "Since you made this honey cake with your own hands, you should know that it is not easy to make such a delicious honey cake. I believe it will never taste like this the first time you make it.”
Although he didn't understand why Su Shi suddenly talked about making honey cake, Zhou Jin still nodded and said, "The first time I made honey cake, the honey cake was fried like a piece of black carbon."
Su Shi continued: "Although I don't know how to make honey cake, I also know that to make this delicious honey cake, the proportion of ingredients, the intensity of kneading, the control of oil temperature, and the frying time are all important. deciding factor.”
"If there is a problem with one of the factors, you will never be able to make such a delicious honey crisp. But if these factors are perfectly controlled, it will be easy to make a delicious honey crisp."
Zhou Jin and Su Zhou looked at Su Shi blankly because they had no idea what he wanted to say.
Zhou Jin couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Although I admit that what you said makes sense, I don't see how a piece of honey cake has anything to do with what we want to investigate."
Su Shi said calmly: "The same is true for Cui Peng's death."
Zhou Jin and Su Zhou stood up suddenly, with expressions of shock and disbelief on their faces, and then said in unison: "What did you say?"
Su Shi said calmly: "Cui Peng's death was indeed an accident, but if a person can control all the factors that led to the accident in his own hands, I think it is not difficult for him to create such an accident."
This inference was beyond their understanding, so in the eyes of Zhou Jin and Su Zhou, Su Shi's words were too absurd, weird and unbelievable, and they could not accept it at all.
Su Zhou instinctively shouted: "Impossible."
Su Jin asked, "Why is it impossible?"
Su Zhou couldn't help but sneered: "You said Cui Peng's accident was caused by man-made things. Could it be that this person can still control the river water..."
Before he could finish his sentence, he was already stunned on the spot.
Although people cannot control the rise and fall of the river, there are rules to follow. Even when marching and fighting, they will check the weather, arrange their troops according to the weather conditions, or use the power of nature to deal with the enemy.
So it's not surprising that someone can predict the rise and fall of river water.
Zhou Jin also figured this out, but she couldn't help but ask: "Where is the escort car? Could this person still control the escort car to cross the bridge at that time?"
If the groom had not been trying to avoid the carriage, he would have walked in the middle of the bridge. Therefore, if the carriage had not appeared, or if the carriage had appeared a quarter of an hour earlier or later, Cui Peng would not have died.
Su Shi sighed: "I know you must have many questions. After I read the report, it will become clear whether Cui Peng's death was a real accident or a man-made accident."
