Kaifeng mansion's first drama

Seeing this, Zheng felt distressed, and hurriedly asked Pang Yuanying if there was anything wrong.

"It's all right, don't worry, mother." Pang Yuanying smiled at Zheng Shi.

Pang Ji snorted, patted the table and said, "What's the matter, why are you here to see guests like this! Come down quickly, change into clean clothes, and see your uncle again."

"Of order." After Pang Yuanying agreed, she turned her eyes to look at Fan Zhongyan and his wife, smiled at them, and then turned and left.

Pang Ji gritted his teeth in his heart, feeling very disappointed in his son.On the face, he had to hold back his apology, and explained to Fan Zhongyan that his son was too focused on handling the case, and asked Fan Zhongyan to forgive him.

Fan Zhongyan hurriedly smiled and said it was okay.He praised Pang Yuanying for being loyal to his duties at a young age, and he was not at all like a dude like other princes and brothers in Beijing.

"Brother Xian is too self-effacing. He told me in a letter earlier that this kid is naughty. I don't think so. Brother Maoxian is so sensible, Brother Xian should be at ease."

Peace of mind you ghost!Pang Ji cursed in his heart.But looking back at Fan Zhongyan's expression, he really didn't mind, and Pang Ji felt relieved a lot.Today's meeting, it is guaranteed to be successful.

Fan Miaomiao, who was standing behind Fan Zhongyan, moved slightly nervously towards her mother.

After a long wait, Pang Ji secretly sent someone to remind Pang Yuanying three times with his eyes.Pang Yuanying finally changed into clean clothes and greeted Fan Zhongyan and his wife again.

"This is a new tea from an old tree that my junior got a few days ago. A hundred-year-old tea tree on Mount Emei has been dead for three years, and now it has sprouted new buds. I just picked this batch for me. The tea is fragrant and mellow. It's sweet and sweet. Please uncle and aunt to taste it!" Pang Yuanying offered tea with a smile, and then some refreshments.

Pang Yuanying's attitude suddenly changed drastically, and Pang Ji was relieved a lot by taking the initiative to offer tea.Forgive him for his good performance at the moment, so don't worry about the blood on his neck before.

"Brother Fan is lucky, I didn't even know he had this tea." Grand Master Pang sighed with a smile.

The young man's brows are clear, his lips are painted with fat, and his appearance is extremely upright, just looking at it makes people feel happy.Fan Zhongyan liked it before, but Fan Zhongyan doesn't like Pang Yuanying's present tea offering very much.

Since this tea is so rare, how can he keep it privately after he gets it as a junior, of course he should take it all out to honor his elders.It can be seen that this child is really as rumored, used to being pampered in the mansion, and doesn't know the meaning of "Your Majesty" at all.Besides, it took him so long to bathe and change clothes, and the Grand Master's Mansion was not short of manpower, completely ignoring the feelings of the elders waiting here.

If this child can't even do 'filial piety' and 'respect', let alone abide by other rules.So how could he marry his well-behaved and docile daughter to him with peace of mind.

Fan Zhongyan was already a little displeased, and at this time Pang Yuanying still tried to please and praise him in different ways, which made him feel even more that Pang Yuanying was a young man who only knew how to show off, and only talked about himself instead of doing practical things.

Fan Zhongyan's eyes turned cold, but his wife became more and more optimistic about Pang Yuanying.

"Let the two children go for a walk, how about we talk about us?" Zheng proposed.

Fan Zhongyan wanted to refuse, but because of his friendship with Pang Ji for many years, he had no choice but to agree temporarily.

So Pang Yuanying and Fan Miaomiao, surrounded by many maids and women, walked around the garden cautiously and keeping a distance.

"This orchid is so beautiful." Fan Miaomiao said.

"I don't like orchids." Pang Yuanying added.

"My father especially likes bamboo and lotus. He said that a man should be like them. A gentleman is like an orchid. Bamboo has integrity and is spotless." After Fan Miaomiao finished speaking, she looked Pang Yuanying up and down with probing eyes.

"It's just flowers and bamboo." Pang Yuanying bent down and broke off two orchids, "If you like it so much, I'll give it to you."

"The flowers bloomed just right, it's a pity to lose them." Fan Miaomiao lowered her eyes, slightly bowed to Pang Yuanying, and left with the excuse of feeling unwell.

"May I ask the doctor to show you?" Pang Yuanying looked at Fan Miaomiao's back and raised her voice.

Fan Miaomiao walked even faster.

Pang Yuanying threw away the orchid in her hand, smiled, and lamented that Fan Miaomiao was a good girl, and she would definitely find her happiness.

After Fan Zhongyan's family of three left, Grand Master Pang became angry with Pang Yuanying.First she scolded him for being impolite when meeting customers with blood in the first place, and then asked him what stupid thing he did when he was alone with Fan Miaomiao.

"Send flowers." Pang Yuanying said.

"She is a well-educated, up-to-date, respectful, chaste, and quiet daughter of everyone. How dare you give away flowers so abruptly? You've lost all the face of my grand master's residence!" Grand Master Pang roared.

Pang Yuanying curled her lips, "Father, my son doesn't think we can talk to her. She thinks orchids are beautiful, but I don't think so. I wronged myself to give her orchids, and she was unhappy when I broke them. My son knows my father's painstaking efforts. So I tried my best to please her and Fan Shibo."

"You—" Grand Master Pang was so angry that he was speechless for a while.

Mrs. Zheng hurriedly consoled her, and whispered to Grand Master Pang: "I can't talk anymore after looking at it. I also think that the orchid is too much to see. It's nothing to look at. It's just a living person insisting on it. Everyone has different ideas. I'm afraid it will be troublesome to get along as a family in the future. Besides, your classmate's attitude doesn't seem like he likes our son. Husband, this is wrong. Why should our son of the Taishifu have to curry favor with your classmate's family? .Could it be that his official position is higher than that of your husband?"

Grand Master Pang was very reasonable when he heard his wife's words, and he became more angry.

"Mr. Fan is concerned about the country and the people, and his son admires him. But the son thinks that it is good for his father to be friends with him, and there is no need to involve the in-laws. He said that the in-laws can bring the relationship between the two families closer, but they can't get along. Instead, they secretly care about each other. It's better to just be friends." Pang Yuanying took advantage of the victory and pursued.

Pang Ji glared at Pang Yuanying sharply, "Don't pretend that I don't know, you just didn't like him and did this on purpose!"

"I don't like it." Pang Yuanying moved closer to Pang Ji and whispered, "Father, it's a big deal if you don't like it. If you don't like it, you can't get hard. Where are you going to ask your grandson?"

After speaking, Pang Yuanying ran away.

Grand Master Pang was so angry that his face was flushed red, and he insisted that someone bring Pang Yuanying back and beat him up.

Seeing this, Mrs. Zheng tried to comfort her, Grand Master Pang pushed her away, and said angrily: "This evil person is spoiled too much, I will beat him to pieces today, so that he can learn a lesson."

"Husband, what he said is right! This man is no better than a woman. If you really don't like it, you really can't have children. It's not rough." Zheng was very unhappy when Grand Master Pang pushed her, she pulled her face down, and let it go. He said harsh words.

"You—" Grand Master Pang glared at Mrs. Zheng angrily.His wife wanted to be gentle and virtuous, but now she was infected by her son!

Mrs. Zheng glanced back at Grand Master Pang, then got up and left. She planned to complain to her mother-in-law.In the end, after only two steps, Grand Master Pang grabbed him.

"Forget it, don't be angry."

Grand Master Pang expected what Zheng Shi was going to do, so he immediately softened his words.He tried his best to persuade himself that he wanted to open up. He was too late to open up because he was too addicted to reading.Maybe the kid let him do that, even though he didn't read.

Pang Yuanying ran back to Kaifeng mansion in a flash.It happened that Zhan Zhao came back after lunch, saw Pang Yuanying and asked him how he looked.

Pang Yuanying rolled his eyes, "How could Mr. Gongsun know about what I saw?"

Could it be that his grand master had publicized this matter long ago?

Pang Yuanying was afraid that too many people would know about it and it would affect her family's reputation, so she hurriedly went to Gongsun Ce to ask about it.

"Mr. Gongsun, did my father even tell you about such trivial things as my acquaintance?"

Gongsun Ce laughed, "Your father just sent a letter to tell you that there is a happy event at home, calling you to go back."

"Then how does the gentleman know that I went back to see each other?" Pang Yuanying was puzzled.

"When Mr. Fan went to your house, he was followed by a carriage with elegant curtains, mostly used by female relatives. He and your father are old friends, and he brought the female relatives to your house as soon as he returned to Beijing. You are just unmarried, so don't talk about this What are you talking about?" Gongsun Ce explained.

Pang Yuanying nodded, admiring Gongsun Ce's unparalleled wisdom.

"No, sir, how did you know what kind of carriage Mr. Fan brought to my house?" Pang Yuanying frowned and stared at Gongsun Ce, "Could it be that sir sent someone to monitor the Grand Master's Mansion?"

Gongsun Ce coughed, "This is a small exchange between your father and Mr. Bao, you don't have to worry about it."

"Don't worry about it? How is this possible. Why are you monitoring the Grand Master's Mansion? Do you know that this is very impolite and immoral, I want to go home and tell my father!" Pang Yuanying immediately expressed his position.

"Go." Gongsun Ce was not threatened at all, but smiled.

Pang Yuanying moved a few steps towards the door, reminding Gongsun Ce that he was really going back to file a complaint.

"If you can persuade your father to understand that it is not good to monitor people, I will report back to Master Bao and give you a credit." Gongsun Ce said.

Pang Yuanying understood, it must be Grand Master Pang who sent someone to monitor the Kaifeng mansion first, and Bao Zheng returned the gift.This matter is indeed a small discussion between Pang Ji and Bao Zheng, whoever gets involved is stupid.

Pang Yuanying yawned, shouted that she was sleepy and wanted to sleep, and was about to say goodbye to Gongsun Ce.

"Ask me this specifically, because I am worried about the reputation of other girls? She is a good boy." Gongsun Ce reassured Pang Yuanying that he did not tell outsiders about this.

Pang Yuanying saluted and thanked Gongsun Ce.

Pang Yuanying almost stayed up for two nights in a row, and when he went out and was exposed to the sun, he really felt sleepy, and rushed to the bed when he returned to his room.After he lay down, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. When he first entered the door, he seemed to see a white shadow by the window.

Pang Yuanying turned her head to look at the window, and saw Bai Yutang.

Pang Yuanying sat up, "Why didn't you knock on the door?"

"Knock on the door, you're not here."

"Is something wrong?"

"Give me two talisman papers, I'll use them in the house." Bai Yutang said.

"Is there a ghost in your house? Come, come, I'll go with you!" Pang Yuanying immediately put on his cloth bag, took out his precious mirror, and followed to Bai Yutang's room.

Pang Yuanying ordered the rhino horn, took out a bottle of cow's tears and put it on the table.He first took a look around the room with a precious mirror, and saw nothing, so he dripped his eyes with cow's tears and looked around.

Bai Yutang watched Pang Yuanying toss coldly.

"What do you think is wrong?" Pang Yuanying still couldn't find anything, so he could only ask Bai Yutang how he felt.

Bai Yutang pointed to the east window.

Pang Yuanying immediately took a mirror to take a picture, "There seems to be nothing here."

Bai Yutang took out a talisman paper from Pang Yuanying's hand, and directly pasted the talisman paper on the window paper with the hole.

"No way, just for this, you don't have any paper, won't you ask someone to do it for you?"

"Trouble, it's better than just sticking this talisman paper."

Bai Yutang lay down on the couch.

It seems that he was in a hurry to sleep, so he found it too troublesome to find someone to fix it.

Pang Yuanying looked around Bai Yutang's room, but there was really no paper.

"Then you can leave it alone, go to bed and find someone to fix it, but it's just torturing me."

Bai Yutang: "It's too noisy."

Pang Yuanying didn't understand what Bai Yutang was talking about.He snorted, and wanted to tear off the talisman to express his dissatisfaction with Bai Yutang for tossing himself in vain.Suddenly there was a gust of wind, and the wind blew the window, making a whining sound, as if someone was crying.

Pang Yuanying was stunned for a moment, then pasted the talisman paper back, tore it off, and pasted it back again.

"Noisy." Bai Yutang looked at him with dissatisfaction in his eyes.

Pang Yuanying stared blankly at Bai Yutang, turned around and ran away.He called Qing Feng and went straight to the stable.When the two rode out of the city on horseback, they found that Bai Yutang followed him on horseback.

"Go to Zichen Temple?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Yes, but it's fine for the two of us to go, this matter is uncertain, why bother to trouble Bai Shaoxia for a trip." Pang Yuanying said politely.The main reason is that with Bai Yutang following along the way, Pang Yuanying felt that the atmosphere was uncomfortable.

"Master Bao has instructed me to monitor you in this case," Bai Yutang said.

Pang Yuanying was stunned for a moment, not believing that Bao Zheng would give such instructions.Bao Heizi has a dark belly, so how can he speak so that people can catch him, even if he wanted to, he would not let Bai Yutang speak out so blatantly.

"The original words were just asking you to solve the case with me, right?" Pang Yuanying asked tentatively.

Bai Yutang: "One meaning."

Pang Yuanying corrected: "This is not a meaning."

"One meaning." Bai Yutang insisted.

"No."

"Yes." Bai Yutang stared at Pang Yuanying coldly with phoenix eyes, and raised the knife.

Pang Yuanying immediately changed her words: "Yes, yes, it is what you say."

Bai Yutang hung the saber on the horse's back.

Pang Yuanying: "..."

Bai Yutang was the first to arrive at the thornbush, checked the surrounding environment, but found no one else.

After Pang Yuanying arrived, he took a long wooden stick and fiddled with the thorn bushes near the corpse, as if he was looking for something seriously.

"What are you looking for?" Bai Yutang asked.

Instead, Pang Yuanying asked Bai Yutang if he felt anything strange when he was chasing someone last night.

"There is a smell of smoke, but it doesn't seem strange that there is a smell of incense candles everywhere in Zichenguan." Bai Yutang thought about it again, "The other party seems to be running very fast, and it seems that he will not be caught by his feet. tripped by the rocks and grass."

"Yes, I was also surprised last night. How could the murderer run so fast that he could surpass the two masters of the rivers and lakes. At first I suspected that the light was not a human being, but was using some clever means to attract people, but then fell off the cliff When I heard someone's cry, I temporarily dispelled my doubts.

But now that I think about it, since the murderer knows carpentry, it doesn't seem difficult to make something that sounds like a human voice. "

Bai Yutang surveyed the surrounding environment, it was full of thorns and there was nowhere to set foot.He asked Pang Yuanying for a rope, tied a stone at one end, hung the rope on a branch of a tree, borrowed the power of the rope, climbed up the tree, and looked around from a high place.

"I didn't see anything special. If you suspect that the real culprit is someone else, and this person is still in Zichen Temple, it is very likely that the thing you mentioned has been picked up by him." Bai Yutang said.

"Not necessarily. If the murderer wasn't Lu Zhe, someone else could have been Chang Yin and Taoist Zhang. Both of them knew the situation of the thorn bushes under the cliff. When doing it, try to make it inconspicuous. Anyway, as long as there is a small hole, under the action of the wind, it will make a sound, and it doesn’t need to be too loud.” Pang Yuanying recalled the long cry he heard last night, “It must be It is necessary to keep the wind entering from one direction to maintain such a long cry. Then it must be ensured that the sounding object cannot change direction during the falling process, so it must fall with a heavy object, such as a stone, which is as big as a palm. enough."

There are a lot of stones in the thornbush, so choosing a stone will not look abrupt, and it should be nearby and not too far away.

"Is this one?" The bamboo stick in Bai Yutang's hand pointed to a stone stuck in the thorns. The surface was smooth and relatively clean, which was a little different from the dirty stones around.

Pang Yuanying hurriedly came over to have a look, the thorns on the stone were hung with a ring of gray rattan skin as thick as a little finger, which was very strong and could be used to tie things, and it almost blended with the color of the thorns.

Bai Yutang cut off the surrounding thorns with a knife.Pang Yuanying carefully took out the stone. Under the stone, there were broken pottery fragments of brownish gray, which were similar in color to the soil.Pang Yuanying took out chopsticks from the cloth bag, spread the white handkerchief on the ground, and picked out the broken pottery piece by piece with chopsticks.

Pang Yuanying pieced together the fragments, and it can be roughly seen that it is in the shape of a whistle, but it is different from ordinary whistles. There are three gaps in the design that make sound.But I can't piece together what it looks like, because some parts have been broken too much.

The three of them then went to the Taoist temple for interrogation. Both Daoshi Zhang and Chang Yin pleaded not guilty, and they complained endlessly.

Pang Yuanying decided not to explain for the time being, and first ordered his subordinates to escort Zhang Daoshi and Chang Yin back to Kaifeng Mansion.Then order people to count all the remaining people in the Taoist temple, and temporarily monitor and imprison them in the temple.Pang Yuanying and Bai Yutang led people to further search the Taoist temple, and found a secret road leading down the mountain in the dry well behind Changyin House.

Before leaving, Pang Yuanying thought of something and went to the back mountain again.

On the Kaifeng mansion side, Gongsun Ce has invited people from Song Guogong's mansion to come to Kaifeng mansion to identify the corpse.The other party identified Lu Zhe as a Taoist priest who lived in Song Guogong's mansion.

"Then this matter is strange. If Lu Zhe and the daughter of the Song family have entanglements and practice imps, what does it have to do with Zhang Daoshi and Chang Yin? If this is the case, the criminal motives of Zhang Daoshi or Chang Yin do not seem to be valid." Gongsun's strategy is puzzled.

"People in Song Guogong's mansion are lying, and the murderer is Taoist Zhang." Pang Yuanying said.