Kaifeng Cat and Mouse Detective Manuscript

"Cuckoo~"

Just after dawn, a high-pitched crowing of a rooster woke up the people on the bed.

"Cat~"

Bai Yutang turned over and put the quilt over his head. After a while, seeing that there was no sound in the room, a carp sat up straight, blinked a few times before putting on his shoes and getting up.Zhan Zhao's giant que was placed on the table, side by side with Zhan Lu, with two parcels next to it.

The window was opened, and the scent of rice wafted in. Bai Yutang put on his clothes and lay down on the window to look down. In the backyard, four horses were wagging their tails and grazing. Ergouzi and the boy who carried the water last night were lighting a fire to cook Congee, the proprietress was not seen, probably because Liu Kairou beat her up last night.

"Yutang."

With a creak behind him, the door was pushed open, Bai Yutang turned around, and saw Zhan Zhao coming in with a bowl of porridge and a few pancakes.

"What about Tang Yu and the others?"

Bai Yutang sat on the chair, poured the porridge water, tore the cake and soaked it in.

"Drink downstairs, wait until the horses are fed before leaving." Zhan Zhao propped his chin and waited for Bai Yutang to finish eating.

"I seem to have inhaled the smoke last night, and my brain is a little swollen." Bai Yutang said while eating.

"Brained? Smell this." Zhan Zhao took out a medicine bottle from his pocket and put it on the table.

"What is it?" Bai Yutang put down his chopsticks, opened it, and a cool smell rushed straight into his forehead. "Cough, cough, cough." I couldn't help but sneezed several times.

"What's the effect? ​​Mr. Gongsun formulated the cooling ointment. I heard that Zhuanzhi refreshes the mind. I haven't used it yet. Come and rub it on."

After finishing speaking, Zhan Zhao put his fingers into the mouth of the bottle, dabbed a little on Bai Yutang's nose.

"Don't, don't! Mr. Gongsun is really! Any medicine can be prepared!"

Bai Yutang shrank back, trying to avoid Zhan Zhao's claws, if this ointment was applied, he would be inseparable from the smell for a whole day.Zhan Zhao's hand was fast, and before Bai Yutang raised his hand to cover it, he touched his nose, and then wiped his fingers with a table cloth.

When the group left after eating and drinking, the boy who helped Er Gouzi cook stood at the door and stared at Bai Yutang with bright eyes.

"Child, what's your name?" That gaze was so eye-catching that Bai Yutang couldn't ignore it even if he wanted to.

"I... My name is Ren Xingluo!" Seeing Bai Yutang's questioning, Ren Xingluo immediately stood up straight, his dirty little face serious.

"Who are you, the proprietress?"

"I don't know, I was picked up. Can you take me away! I can cook for you!"

"This... a cat..." Bai Yutang was taken aback when he heard that, but after thinking about it, he didn't think it was strange. Judging by the child's appearance, the proprietress probably abused him a lot.

Zhan Zhao looked at the child, and then at Bai Yutang, "My child, we may not be able to take you with us when we go to Jiuhua for business."

"Ah? Oh..." Upon hearing this, Ren Xingluo suddenly lost face, wiped his eyes with his hand, and turned to leave.

"However." Just as the child moved his feet, Zhan Zhao said again, "You can wait for us here for a while, and we will come to find you after Jiuhua's errands are finished."

"Really!" Ren Xingluo's eyes lit up again.

"Really," Zhan Zhao nodded, "But before we have something to say, I want you to be my apprentice. Can you agree?"

"Apprentice? Do you practice martial arts? Can I practice martial arts?!"

"Hey, little guy, you got lucky today." Tang Yu lay on the horse and smiled, "The two in front of you are Nan Xia Zhan Zhao, and the other is Chinchilla Bai Yutang, a leading figure in the Central Plains martial arts."

"Oh?" Ren Xingluo patted his head, but didn't understand Tang Yu's words.

"Tell him that he doesn't understand now, but this little guy is in good shape, suitable for practicing light kung fu, and he is on the right track after following Zhan Zhao." Yan Nanfei said when he saw this.

"It's getting late, little guy, I'll give you time to think about it. I'll come back with him in half a month at most."

Ren Xingluo nodded repeatedly, watching Zhan Zhao and his party walk away.

Once you enter the border of Jiuhua, you will not be far from the Tongtian League.

Tongtianmeng is on the top of the mountain, especially like a toubob who occupies the mountain as king. There is a river in front of the mountain, connected by a chain bridge. Generally speaking, there should be someone guarding the gate, but Tongtianmeng is very quiet now.Tang Yu was worried that the four of them riding across the cable bridge would directly collapse the plank, so they got off their horses one by one and led them over.

Yan Nanfei walked in front, Tang Yu Bai Yutang followed, and Zhan Zhao followed.Although the bridge deck was not high, it swayed back and forth when the wind blew, causing the horses to trample in shock. Fortunately, all four of them had martial arts skills, so they were not thrown into the river.

After crossing the bridge, there is a long mountain road. Tongtianmeng is built next to the mountain, and it looks very imposing from the bottom.

"Cat!"

Zhan Zhao was about to mount his horse when he heard Bai Yutang exclaim.

"how?"

"Wait, look there!" Bai Yutang pointed at a pile of grass under the bridge on his horseback, Zhan Zhao hadn't gotten on his horse yet, so he didn't see anything unusual, Tang Yuyan Nanfei also looked over there.

"It seems to be night clothes?" Yan Nanfei couldn't see clearly through the cloak.

"I'll go over and have a look." Zhan Zhao jumped up, stepped on with light kung fu, and landed by the river.

He picked up a black dress, searched the grass carefully, and left after seeing nothing else.

"Cat, do you still remember the assassin we talked about last time at Langhu Mountain?" Bai Yutang took the cloth and rubbed it up and down, and said.

"You mean, the clothes are the same as theirs?"

"Um,"

Bai Yutang nodded, "My brother is in the fabric business, and I have seen a lot of them with him. Although the clothes look ordinary, they are all mixed with silver threads. They look the same as ordinary satin, but they feel a little irritating to the touch. , is exactly the same as the clothes of the assassin from Langhu Mountain before. But this is strange, didn’t the assassin travel thousands of miles from Kaifeng to Jiuhua to find Tongtianmeng?”

Bai Yutang threw down his night clothes, and tapped his temples with a sword.

"Will you find out soon after coming to Tongtianmeng?" Tang Yu replied, "I think this place is very deserted, and it doesn't look like the style of a famous school. Could it be that something happened recently?"

"Let's go! Go up and take a look. Regardless of his relationship with the Tianmeng, in short, it must be related to the Jinshui Town case!" Bai Yutang rode forward, Zhan Zhao glanced at the night clothes on the ground, and followed closely behind.

"Dong dong dong..."

The gate of the Tongtian League is closed.

"Is there anyone in there? Kaifeng Mansion Zhanzhao received Master Bao's order to investigate the case." Bai Yutang dismounted first and knocked on the door, taking Master Bao's name.

Although there are two official martial arts schools, most of the time, the martial arts industry still has to rely on the officialdom. If you rashly take the reputation of Nanxia and Chinchilla, you may just close the door and ignore it, but it is different with Mr. Bao, Mr. Bao is upright. His reputation is not only known by the common people, but also admired by many heroes, no matter whether it is black or white, he must give some face.

"I'm coming!"

After a long time, when Bai Yutang was getting impatient and ready to turn over the wall to check, he finally heard the sound of footsteps inside.

The door was opened, and a young man in his 20s first looked outside. Seeing Zhan Zhao and the others leaning against the wall, he immediately stepped forward: "This is Mr. Zhan Zhaozhan, I'm really sorry, what happened to my lord a few days ago Unexpectedly, most people in the door are not allowed to enter at this time, so just now the young one went to report to the young leader and made the adults wait for a long time."

"It's okay." Zhan Zhao has a good temper, even after waiting for a long time, he still asked with a smile, "You said President Yu had an accident, what accident?"

"This... please come in and talk, my lord, my young leader is already waiting in the hall."

After the young man led Zhan Zhao and his party through the door, the door was tightly closed again.

I didn't know Zhan Zhao, the young leader of the Tianmeng League, so I turned around and asked Bai Yutang, but Bai Yutang didn't understand either.

Yan Nanfei thought for a while, and said, "Yu Yufei's son is called Yu Shaotian. Although he is the leader of the Young Alliance, he does not know martial arts. He has been behind the scenes for many years to give advice to the Tongtian Alliance. There are very few rumors about him in the world, and I will go to him as well." I met once when I was born."

Before the four of them had discussed anything, they had already arrived at the hall. There were three of them sitting in the hall. The man at the top of Zhanzhao Temple was only twenty-nine years old, with delicate features, and dressed as a Confucian scholar. He must be Yu Shaotian.Standing by the side were two old men, one on the left and one on the right, with gray hair and unrecognizable identities.

Seeing Zhan Zhao enter the hall, the three of them got up quickly, Yu Shaotian said: "Just now I heard from the doorman that Mr. Zhan brought Mr. Bao's warrant to come over to investigate the case. I don't know what case to investigate?"

"Young League Master, you are welcome," Zhan Zhao raised his hand in a salute, "To be honest, Mr. Bao received a letter from Xiangzhou a few days ago, saying that hundreds of people in Jinshui Town were all poisoned. Bai Yu and I Tang went together and found a hidden weapon."As he spoke, Zhan Zhao took out the dart found in the forest of Jinshui Town from his belt.

"I also heard from Brother Yan that this dart belongs to the Tongtian League, so the four of us are here to disturb you."

"This..." The old man on Yu Shaotian's right took over the dart and gave Yu Shaotian a look.

"It is indeed a hidden weapon of the Tongtian League. It's just that this dart is only used by me, my father, and a few elders, but in the past month, no one has left Jiuhua, let alone the border of Xiangzhou." Yu Shaotian frowned, Touching the dart, he shook his head at Zhan Zhao.

"Really?" Bai Yutang answered, his tone was skeptical.

"This really didn't lie to Mr. Zhan and the three heroes," Yu Shaotian invited Zhan Zhao and the others to take a seat, and asked someone to bring tea.

"My father was injured, and everyone in the League knows about it. Mr. Zhan doesn't believe it, so he can ask any servant."

"Naturally, we didn't doubt the words of the young leader, but if the leader Yu had an accident, I don't know what kind of accident it was, would it be convenient for us to visit?" Zhan Zhao put down his teacup and asked.

"What happened to my father is not a big deal. It's just that people are old. Whether they are walking or going out, they are always prone to bumps. A few days ago, he was discussing with the elders in the door. He did not expect to hurt his chest, which resulted in an old disease." Yu Yu Shaotian looks gentle and gentle, and he doesn't rush when he speaks. "It's said that the muscles and bones have been hurt for a hundred days. No, I've been lying down all the time. However, Mr. Zhan and Fifth Master Bai may not be able to go there until evening. My father has not been sleeping well recently, and he can only fall asleep at noon."

"That's okay, leader Yu is getting old, we can't disturb him, and if he wakes up tomorrow, please send someone to call us."

"That should be the case." Yu Shaotian nodded, "The four of you have traveled a lot today, why don't you go and rest first."

After Zhan Zhao and the others left, Yu Shaotian slowly faded his smile, and walked to the backyard with the two old men beside him.