Kaifeng mansion's first drama

Bao Zheng carefully looked at the style of the amulet, it seemed to be the same as the ones that Pang Yuanying gave to everyone before.

"You actually took it?" Bao Zheng laughed, "I didn't expect you to be so awkward. You didn't want it when it was given to you."

"Just in case, I'm worried about the safety of your lord." When Zhan Zhao has troubles in his heart, he will definitely put on a straight face.

Bao Zheng saw through Zhan Zhao, so he didn't say much.He wasn't hypocritical, and he took the amulet and entered the east courtyard of the Cuixiang Building.

This Cuixianglou was originally the most famous brothel in the period of the first emperor, but because of three cases of hanging prostitutes in succession, it gradually declined and closed down.Afterwards, this place was repeatedly rumored to be haunted. Some people heard a woman singing inside in the middle of the night, and some saw ghosts. In addition, the house itself looked a little gloomy. This gradually became a famous haunted house in Tokyo.

After Bao Zheng and Zhan Zhao came to the main room of the east courtyard, there was a dry well in the northeast corner of the courtyard wall. Looking down from above, the inside was dark and seemed to have no bottom.Zhan Zhao prepared a fire bag and fastened it around his waist, and fastened one end of the prepared rope to the tree, and dropped a palm-sized stone into the well on the other end.Zhan Zhao then judged the depth based on the length of the rope that fell into the well.

"About three feet deep."

Bao Zheng nodded.

Zhan Zhao grabbed the rope and went down the well.Not long after, the rope was tightened again, and Zhan Zhao came up.

Bao Zheng noticed that he was still holding another rope about two fingers thick. It seemed that this was the rope used by the criminal to transport the female corpse when he committed the crime.

"He guessed right, a stone fell down the well." Zhan Zhao replied, "But the well is only three feet deep, how can we put all the thick ropes more than ten feet long into the well?"

Bao Zheng pointed to Zhan Zhao to look at the potter's wheel used to fetch water on the well, "The rope should go around the potter's wheel a few times, and the other end should be loosened, and the stone will fall quickly, causing the potter's wheel to rotate quickly. With the remaining force of the potter's wheel turning, the Take back the extra rope and bring it all into the well."

Zhan Zhao nodded in admiration, as expected of Mr. Bao, he saw through the murderer's tricks at a glance.

"Find out which half-immortals and alchemists in the city may have practiced magic arts recently, and then find out which newly buried graves have been dug, and find out the identities of the four corpses. The dead are the most important, and we still need to find out about them as soon as possible. The identity, let them go to the ground earlier."

Zhan Zhao agreed, and then under Bao Zheng's guidance, he went up the tree to check.In the end, the two confirmed that the murderer's starting point for fixing the rope was on the towering locust tree of the family opposite the Cuixiang Building.Zhan Zhao found traces of rope friction on the trunk of the locust tree, and a few long hairs of a woman were caught in the gaps in the rough bark, which should have been caused by the murderer scratching the woman's body when he carried the book on his back.

"Whose house is this?"

After Zhan Zhao jumped down from the tree, he walked around to the front door of this family and knocked, but no one answered for a long while.

Bao Zheng asked Zhan Zhao to go into the house to have a look.

After half a stick of incense, Zhan Zhao told Bao Zheng: "There are everything in the house, but no one is there. Judging by the dust on the table, no one has lived in it for at least two months."

Zhan Zhao then went to inquire with the neighbors, and only then learned that the family's old father passed away in the country, so he planned to move the whole family back to his hometown for resettlement.The house was sold two months ago, and it was sold together with the furniture in the house, but I don't know who it was sold to.

"As long as he is willing to keep it a secret, he will pay half the price more, so he will not tell us who it is. Alas, this is a relationship that is often exchanged on weekdays. After all, it is not as important as real money." The woman next door sighed and sighed. , happily looked at the handsome official in front of him, and asked him if he was engaged. Her family happened to have a beautiful little daughter waiting in her boudoir.

After Zhan Zhao replied that there was no, he didn't expect this woman to keep talking about how good her daughter is, no matter how stupid a person is, he would know what this woman meant.Zhan Zhao immediately refused politely, turned around and left.The woman chased him out, blocking Zhan Zhao's path, and kept asking him about his age and his monthly salary.

Bao Zheng watched the excitement for a long time, and Fang asked to help: "Although he is not engaged, there is a man from the Grand Master's House, and he has been staring at him these two days."

"Grand Master's Mansion—"

As an ordinary person, the woman would not believe this at all.But the appearance of the official in front of her is so good, even if someone tells her that the princess has taken a fancy to him, the woman doesn't think it's strange.What a pity, it's too late to blame her for meeting her and fighting for her too late!

Since this didn't work, the woman changed her target and went to look at Bao Zheng instead, and suddenly found that he was also a good person.

Although this man is different from the handsome man in red and white, the black is a bit darker, but his facial features are not ugly, and the more he looks at him, the more attractive he is. The advantage is that he has a good temperament.He looks like an upright gentleman, isn't a woman marrying just to be nice to him?It's not bad to find such a gentleman who is full of righteousness.But seeing that he is older, he should have gotten married earlier.

But if he lost his wife, the woman would barely see him, so she repeated the question she had just asked Zhan Zhao and asked Bao Zheng.Because Bao Zheng was wearing casual clothes, the woman didn't think much of it at first, Bao Zheng just smiled and didn't answer the woman's question.The woman finally felt strange, and finally realized that there was a crescent moon on the man's forehead.

"You...you are Master Bao?"

"In the future, Kaifeng Mansion will handle the case, and I will trouble you to cooperate more." Bao Zheng said casually, got on his horse, and galloped away with Zhan Zhao.

The woman was stunned for a long time, and realized that Mr. Bao was actually reminding herself gently, don't ask too many questions, and delay the Kaifeng government official's handling of the case.The woman felt ashamed that she had lost such a big man in front of Mr. Bao, if the neighbors knew about it, they would laugh at her.The woman quickly covered her face and ran into the house in shame.

"Thank you sir for helping me out." Zhan Zhao said with a suppressed smile, "I didn't expect my lord to help me make up nonsense, but in the end I was targeted by that woman."

Bao Zheng really didn't expect that he would be targeted by that woman, "But everything I said is true, where did I make it up?"

"The one in Grand Master's Mansion—" Zhan Zhao said halfway, seeing Bao Zheng looking at him with a smile, he suddenly choked.

Just now Master Bao did not say that it was a woman, firstly he was indeed not engaged, and there was indeed someone in the Second Taishi's residence who was watching him, that is Pang Yuanying.So what Mr. Bao said is true, but it is easy to misunderstand the listeners.

"My lord didn't make it up, but it's better than making it up." Zhan Zhao admitted helplessly.

"Pang Maoxian is very smart." Bao Zheng sighed, "But if a smart person has a wrong mind, he will be more dangerous. Please help me keep an eye on him in the future."

Zhan Zhao solemnly agrees.

When the two entered the mansion, they were silent and did not speak.When they were finally about to go back to their rooms, Bao Zheng suddenly told Zhan Zhao, "Be smarter, don't be tricked by him. He will definitely come to Kaifeng mansion again tonight."