Chapter 1434 - 1433: Second Aunt Leng Takes Action

Chapter 1434: Chapter 1433: Second Aunt Leng Takes Action

Chapter 1433: Second Aunt Leng Makes a Move

"I’ll check again thoroughly," Second Uncle Leng said.

"I’ll check all the milking equipment," Eldest Aunt Leng said.

Grandpa Leng added, "This matter shouldn’t be investigated by just one person, the whole family needs to be mobilized. Think back over this past month and see who has been most suspicious?"

That night, after everyone had gone to bed, a shadow quietly slipped into the kitchen. Using the dim light from the street lamp outside, she opened the cupboard and found a bowl on the top layer.

She felt the handle of the porcelain bowl to ensure she hadn’t picked the wrong one, then took the bowl and closed the cupboard door, ready to leave with it.

However, with a "snap," the kitchen light turned on, illuminating Second Aunt Leng’s pale face.

Second Aunt Leng only hesitated for a second before trying to smash the bowl in her hand. However, before she could do so, her hand was caught by Uncle Leng. The handle-and-lid porcelain bowl also ended up in Uncle Leng’s hand.

"What are you doing?"

"I, I didn’t, I just needed a bowl to use," Second Aunt Leng said in panic.

The noise from the kitchen had already awoken several servants sleeping downstairs, who were astonished when they saw the scene and looked at Second Aunt Leng in surprise.

Uncle Leng looked down at the bowl in his hand—a handle-and-lid porcelain bowl with small animals painted both inside and outside on the lid.

"A bowl? If I remember correctly, this bowl is the special porcelain bowl Zilong uses to heat sheep milk," Uncle Leng said, examining the porcelain bowl repeatedly.

"I, I grabbed the wrong one, I really just wanted to borrow it temporarily. I’ll go back to sleep now."

Second Aunt Leng only wanted to take Zilong’s handle-and-lid porcelain bowl and hadn’t done anything else, so Uncle Leng had no grounds to stop her from leaving. Thus, she managed to walk away.

Uncle Leng’s eyes were dark: just now, his sister-in-law was obviously intending to take the handle-and-lid porcelain bowl away.

He glanced at a few servants: "It’s nothing, go back to rest."

The servants quickly bid farewell and skulked back to their rooms—this matter seemed somewhat eerie.

Uncle Leng took the porcelain bowl back to his room.

Upon returning from Mengyu, Zilong had been isolated for rest, but the sheep milk appeared to still be in use on the surface yet was not actually consumed. This handle-and-lid porcelain bowl was used only for heating the sheep milk and had always been left in the kitchen.

Previously, this porcelain bowl had naturally also been checked, but at that time the milk had been poured away, and the bowl had been rinsed with tap water, so nothing toxic had been found.

Still, what was Lin Xiang planning to do with this porcelain bowl?

Uncle Leng examined the handle-and-lid porcelain bowl carefully.

Since Zilong was the only one who needed to drink sheep milk, others—even if they wanted milk—would drink cow milk. Heating sheep milk requires slow heat transfer, so an iron pot wasn’t used, and other containers were too big to heat evenly. This handle-and-lid porcelain bowl was just the right size and had a small handle for easy holding, so it was used.

This bowl was bought by Uncle Leng for his son, and it should have been fine.

Yet, why would Lin Xiang want to take an already proven non-toxic bowl? Why steal it in the middle of the night when everyone was asleep?

Suddenly, Uncle Leng noticed something unusual about the bowl’s lid. After inspecting it carefully, he finally confirmed that the lid was not the original lid for the porcelain bowl but had been replaced.

It was clear Lin Xiang wanted to steal not the bowl itself, but the replaced lid.

Uncle Leng’s eyes turned cold, disregarding the delay, and he took the lid directly to the examination center where he found a technician to inspect the porcelain bowl lid overnight.

"Young Master, this porcelain bowl lid is not toxic."

"Impossible! Check it again."

Another test was done, and the result was still non-toxic.

If it wasn’t toxic, why did Lin Xiang want to steal the lid?