It was like taking a digestive stroll after a meal.
They wandered casually through the somewhat dim manor.
On the way from the inner courtyard to the main building of the manor, they first passed an independent little house—the kitchen.
Wen Duo glanced over twice.
He discovered that Officer Lin had indeed been mistaken. There should have been an apricot tree outside the kitchen, though it was only a sapling growing in the flowerbed.
Several cooks were preparing the servants' meals inside when a haughty maid strode in.
Wen Duo noticed that the people appearing in these manor scenes could not see them at all... This was merely a memory of the past.
Boss Luo stopped there.
Wen Duo knew there was something the Young Master wanted him to see, so he began observing carefully.
"Is the young lady's lunch ready?"
"It's ready. It's right here!"
The cook brought out a food box and said with a grin.
The maid was rather impatient. She opened the food box, glanced inside, and immediately looked displeased. "Why is it this sort of thing again?"
The cook said awkwardly, "The master will be returning from leave in a few days. The steward said we should let the young lady eat better these days..."
"Isn't there still a few days before he returns?" The maid frowned.
As she spoke, the maid took the food out of the box... Wen Duo had sharp eyes and saw that it was Spirit Food. He was curious about what the maid intended to do next. This was clearly an act of abusing her authority over her mistress.
"I'll keep these. They'd just be wasted on that useless thing. We might as well benefit from them. These two dishes are mine; the rest can be divided among the kitchen