[Rat cat] The legend of Lou Xiaochong

The sun was setting to the west, and a small carriage was running on the road going west from Zhongmou County.The driver was a strong man, dressed in black and short jacket, dressed in the usual Jianghu style; the curtains of the carriage were nailed shut, so they would never fly away no matter how the wind blows while running.Passers-by on the road saw something good, and laughed in their hearts: it must be the daughter-in-law of some family, and the guards are strict.

In fact, there were no female relatives in the car, only two men, one old and one young.The old man was at least half a hundred years old, with a dry and thin face wrinkled like an orange peel, and he was shaking his head and humming a ditty, and kept beating the beat on the car seat.The boy opposite him was in his late twenties, seemed a little tired, leaning half-shrunk against a corner of the carriage, covering his eyes with his sleeves and dozing off.

"Xiao Chong? The sun hasn't set yet, why are you sleeping?" The old man, Xu Shi, sang boringly by himself, leaned over and knocked on the opposite car seat to call the boy to get up.

The boy turned around twice, annoyed by his noise, and finally got up and sat there blankly—couldn't it be Lou Xiaochong.

"Young people should be a little bit more energetic!" The old man hummed a few more tunes, laughing at him, "I've done a good thing today, are you happy, tell me about it with Grandpa Gao?"

Lou Xiaochong turned his head to look at the carvings on the wall inside the car, looked at them for a while, and then suddenly said: "I don't understand, I don't think it's a good thing."

"Hey, how else can you say that you are still young?" The old man sighed twice, "Grandpa Gao asked you, why are you so obsessed with putting together the one named Zhan and the one named Bai?"

"Why?" Lou Xiaochong felt strange, "What is there to ask? The two of them are together."

The old man who claimed to be Grandpa Gao clapped his palms and smiled: "Xiao Chong, Xiao Chong, when it comes to mechanical arithmetic, you are this—" He thumbed up, "If you want to talk about people's hearts and morals, you can—hahahaha."

Lou Xiaochong frowned: "I said earlier that I don't understand these things, so just say what you mean."

"Hehe, Xiao Chong, do you know what the two of you are going to do as a pair?" The old man took out a folding fan and slowly unfolded it, as if to study whose original work the landscape on it was. Usually, it wasn't until Lou Xiaochong was about to jump up impatiently that he beckoned him to come closer, and whispered a lot of words in his ear.

Looking at the old man suspiciously, Lou Xiaochong sat back on his seat, hugged his knees and thought for a while, finally shook his head and said, "I don't believe it, what you said is disgusting."

"That's right!" The old man shook his fan, "So Grandpa Gao said this trip that you don't want to ask and talk too much, just watch from the sidelines—just to do something really good and prevent those things from happening Disgusting!" After speaking, he looked at Lou Xiaochong whose face was wrinkled and couldn't figure it out, and chuckled in his heart——

I don’t know how this silly boy grew up. If he is said to be stupid, he knows so many of the most profound mechanism diagrams. If he is said to be smart, he is even easier to deceive than a schoolboy who has just started. Tsk tsk, could it be that the prince’s sincerity has moved God? To give such a little guy to help Daye?The only thing is, this child was born out of thin air and no one saw it, maybe he didn't know the way, but he ran to the East China Sea together and made a big circle, and it was enough to know a few people from the rivers and lakes. Coincidentally, he was called Met a so-called "Zhan Guard of Kaifeng Mansion"!However, it's hard to say that this is not a good thing. A silly boy who has this kind of advantage may be a good cut to deal with Bao Zheng's line.Well, speaking of that young man surnamed Zhan is not easy to be fooled, if he hadn't made arrangements early and acted carefully, he might have missed the clues and got out today.

Not to mention where the carriage went, but Zhan Zhao stopped Bai Yutang, and just after a few words of warning not to take human lives lightly, the young man Bai was so angry that he put away his knife, threw his sleeves and left.

Zhan Zhao looked at the two stunned people in the room, and sighed secretly, sure enough, Bai Yutang's temperament was not as good as that of an official, and today he just asked him to help listen to the corner of the song, how could he use a knife so well.Fortunately, so far, the situation is still within the expected range of Mr. Bao and Mr. Gongsun. He even frightened and stabilized him, and then went to the Zhongmu County Yamen to inform him, and he went back to Kaifeng. On the edge of the stone outside the county, I saw Bai Yutang leaning against a tree with his hands folded and waiting.

When Bai Yutang saw Zhan Zhao approaching, he snorted coldly, got on his horse and left without saying a word.With his concentration, he ran three points faster on the way back to Kaifeng than when he came here, and he didn't even miss dinner.

Although he knew that Bai Yutang was angry, Zhan Zhao had to go to his family first to explain the situation of this day's investigation.After a while, Zhan Zhao went out of the study and went to the cook, Aunt Zhang, to ask for an extra dinner, but at this time, Bai Yutang could not be found, probably because he didn't like the simple food in Kaifeng Mansion, so he went to his elder brother's restaurant to eat it?

Bai Yutang reappeared in the middle of the moon, lying on Zhan Zhao's roof drinking.It was said to be drinking, but in fact the wine jar was thrown aside and tilted, and the mud was not even opened.

A gust of wind blew by, and there were more people around him, and the stars in the small half of the sky were blocked.Bai Yutang turned his head and glanced at the guard Zhan who had just jumped onto the eaves: "If you have anything to say, just say it."

Zhan Zhao sighed, and sat next to him, "Brother Bai did his best to help after all, it's because Zhan was too impulsive..."

"No need to apologize." Bai Yutang rolled over and sat up, "I've heard you say sorry so many times, my ears are numb."

The scene was cold for a while, Zhan Zhao originally wanted to ask Bai Yutang, why he suddenly drew his sword and wanted to kill people in such an agitated manner today——Based on his observation of Bai Yutang, although he has a temperament that is as jealous as hatred and daring to love and hate, he is not bloodthirsty A tyrannical person; today I heard a discussion about two clansmen who were imprisoned in the case. Although the people who talked were gossips, they were not thugs who wanted to murder people.

But seeing Bai Yutang's expressionless face, Zhan Zhao couldn't get a word out of his throat.

After a while, the night became cooler, and Bai Yutang finally made a move.He leaned over to grab the wine jar, and slowly opened it along the edge of the mud seal, and looked up at Zhan Zhao: "You still can't drink, right?" I poured myself into the mouth of the jar, and this filling filled most of the jar.

"Brother Bai," Zhan Zhao frowned, and reached out to snatch his wine jar, "Zhan is here to admit his mistake sincerely, you don't need to do that."

"Ha, admit your mistake?" Bai Yutang dropped the wine jar and smiled, "Is there anything wrong with you? What mistake did you make?"

The roof was a slope, and the wine jar was not placed stably, and it was rolling slowly. When Zhan Zhao saw that he was about to get up and chase after him, Bai Yutang grabbed his sleeve and pulled him back: "Master Zhan thought——I, Bai Yutang After being scolded by you for a few words, you will not think about food and drink, and you will be heartbroken, right?"

The wine jar rolled onto the eaves and got caught by a small stone.Seeing that Zhan Zhao was pulled back by him, Bai Yutang sat down obediently, feeling a little better: "I'm not angry at your Kaifeng mansion, I'm an amateur, and I don't want to bother with your Mr. Bao." It’s nothing but just watching such a thing, it’s annoying.”

Is that so?Zhan Zhao let out a smile: "Brother Bai is still inexperienced in the Jianghu world. In fact, such things are not uncommon. Even if they are more bizarre, there are some." Having said this, he couldn't help but cast another glance at The wine jar on the eaves.

According to Zhan Zhao's thinking, with Bai Yutang's temperament, he would definitely follow his lead and ask questions, so he could talk about all the strange cases in the world that he heard from Mr. Gongsun.Unexpectedly, Bai Yutang leaned half a foot closer, stared at him more seriously than ever before, and asked, "Then what do you think?"

"Ah?" Zhan Zhao was taken aback, "What do you think? The case is actually very clear. The two colluded to destroy seven lives. Naturally, they should be executed. People in the clan interfered with the investigation to protect their reputation. There are also provisions for punishment, Master Bao means, after all, there is no serious evil, and it is not appropriate to take care of their faces——Brother Bai, is there anything wrong?"

Bai Yutang shook his head: "Wang Fa or something, as long as you Kaifeng Mansion is in charge, that's not what I'm talking about." He turned his face away as he spoke, and held back his words after a long while: "The owner of the money shop and It is true that the accountant killed his wife and children... But the two of them can reconcile now that Tie Suo has killed them. Maybe no one will be responsible for the overnight feud? Is it possible that in your opinion, since the two of them have that good, then Should everything be abnormal and not understand legal principles and human feelings?"

This, Zhan Zhao didn't think much about it, just as he was about to answer, Bai Yutang flicked his sleeve, slipped a locust rock in his hand, and threw it out with a whoosh, just in time to open the stone on the edge of the eaves, but The wine jar was so excited that it rolled back and he grabbed it and picked it up.

There were only two sips of wine left in the wine jar, Bai Yutang shook it and stuffed it to Zhan Zhao: "It's not enough to quench your thirst, I'll give it to you." He lay down on the roof again, with the knife on his belly and his hands on his pillow look at the stars.

Zhan Zhao took the wine but didn't drink it: "It's getting late, Brother Bai should go to bed earlier."

"Okay, good night." Bai Yutang pulled out a hand and waved it at Zhan Zhao. By the way, he turned over and put the scabbard under his head as a pillow, and changed to a side-lying posture, as if he planned to spend the night like this.

"How can this work?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "The night is cold and cool, not to mention Brother Bai just drank a lot of wine."

What a lot!Bai Yutang gave him a squinting look: "Where Fifth Master likes to sleep, why do you care about me?"

When he asked, Zhan Zhao laughed: "Why?" He pointed to his feet, "This is Zhan's roof."

The author has something to say:

So, it’s all a conspiracy, a conspiracy == [Conspiracy or something, it seems that I wrote it a little more happily

Cough cough, in the final analysis, it’s all JQ ah JQ==