Kaifeng Cat and Mouse Detective Manuscript

"Everyone over here,? Come and stand!"

In front of Kaifeng City, many beggars and disaster victims gathered. Some were injured by trees because they could not find a place to hide due to the heavy rain. Some were homeless, elderly and children with limited mobility.

The officials commanded them to line up and stand on the side. A few sheds were temporarily built on the side, and two doctors sat in each, and then bandaged the wounded.

After the heavy rain, it is easy to see animals that are drowned or buried alive, and an epidemic may occur if one is not careful.The last rain disaster in Kaifeng was two years ago. At that time, many people in the villages outside the city were sick, and there were many casualties. It is estimated that this time the officials had a precedent. When the rain stopped, the officials came out and gathered the people first. Injury diagnosis and treatment, no injury prevention.

Zhan Zhao stood outside the city and watched for a while, and saw that although the city gate was wide open, the vendors who used to come and go doing business did not see it today, presumably because they were worried about another rainstorm.

The drizzle kept hitting his body, Bai Yutang touched his robe, it was already damp.After entering the city, I found that the streets were deserted, and many restaurant signboards fell to the ground, and all the thinner branches were blown off.

"Cat,? I'll go to the store to have a look first."

The Bai family has quite a few stores in Kaifeng, all of which start with "Bai Ji", most of which were bought by Bai Jintang when he was alive, and Bai Yutang didn't often manage them, so they simply put them directly under the name of Xingkong Island.But they were also afraid of getting hurt in the heavy rain, so they went to check with Zhan Zhao first.

The shopkeeper of the restaurant was keeping accounts behind the counter, except for two or three guys who were cleaning the tables, there was no one customer.Bai Yutang pushed the door open and entered, but the waiter didn't even look up thinking it was a guest, and said, "Dajian is staying in the shop?", Bai Yutang didn't answer, went straight to the shopkeeper and knocked on the table.

"Master! What brought you here?!" The shopkeeper hurriedly put down his brush and asked Bai Yutang to take a seat. ?”

"No big ones, my boss, you also know that the rain came suddenly, and there was a lot of goods in the backyard that I didn't have time to clean up. Look, I'm counting!" The shopkeeper winked at the waiter beside him, and pointed to the ledger on the counter.

"Look, it's almost up there."

Bai Yutang took it and looked it over carefully, but luckily it was just something of little value, and told the shopkeeper to pay more attention in the next few days, and left the restaurant with Zhan Zhao.

The two led their horses to Yuqian Street, and saw a bunch of people gathered in front of them, all staring and pointing, not knowing what strange things to see. !

"Could it be that money is falling from the sky?" Bai Yutang laughed and looked up, only to see two figures running one behind the other on the roof across the river. Slip forward along the tiles, like a gentleman on the beam, so uneasy.The one in the back is a bit familiar, with a single sword on his back, dressed as a martial artist, he can't run as fast as the one in front, but he doesn't fall too far.

"Hey, Mao'er, do you know the person behind?" Bai Yutang pointed at the person and said, because it was too far away to see his face clearly, he only felt that he had seen the running movement somewhere before.

"Isn't that Ai Hu?"

Zhan Zhao stared at it for a long time before he said it, but he was the adoptive son of Bei Xia Ouyang Chun and the apprentice of Master Black Demon Fox Zhi!Why did Bai Yutang feel that this person's actions were familiar, because he loves to drink, and every time he runs after drinking, he behaves like this, reckless and reckless, just like his name, like a drunk tiger.

"Why is he here? Is this a thief?"

Bai Yutang wondered, Ai Hu has been active in the south, why is he wandering around Kaifeng today?Seeing him like that, he kept making gestures to the person in front, it must have been stolen.

"I'll go up and have a look."

Zhan Zhao handed Lvzi's reins to Bai Yutang, leaped across the river a few times, and the people around him cheered, flew up to the top of the building along the railing, and chased after Ai Hu. Quickly picked up the tile and threw it forward, hitting the thief's heel.

"Who the hell...Zhan...Zhan Zhao?!"

The little thief's center of gravity was unsteady, he jumped forward, almost fell off the roof, when he stood up straight, he cursed again and again, but seeing that the person who beat him was Zhan Zhao, he immediately shut up.

Taking advantage of his full attention on Zhan Zhao, Ai Hu drew the knife down, the back of the knife cut his calf, with a "click", the thief fell on the roof tiles, and with a wailing sound, he must have broken a bone.

"Run away again and steal your Master Ai's things!"

Ai Hu stepped forward and said viciously, clenched his fist, and hit the thief in the eye socket, then took out the stolen money bag from his arms, no matter how he bared his teeth, he tapped the acupuncture points.

Then he hurriedly said to Zhan Zhao: "Thank you, Brother Zhan, for your help! Brother Zhan, I was going to Kaifeng Mansion to look for you, but I didn't expect to meet you here!"

"Aren't you in the East China Sea with your adoptive father? How did you get to Kaifeng?"

Zhan Zhao smelled the smell of alcohol on Ai Hu's body, it must have been a mistake of drinking, which gave people an opportunity to stage a farce.

"It's a long story at this time..."

"Let's make a long story short," Zhan Zhao mentioned the immobile thief, "follow me downstairs first."

When Bai Yutang saw Ai Hu, he smiled and said, "I haven't seen Ai Shaoxia for a long time, it seems that he is still as addicted to alcohol as before."

"Brother Bai, stop making fun of me!" Ai Hu said embarrassedly, scratching his hair.

There are not many people who love wine in the Jianghu, among them, Aihu is very famous.A few years ago, Bai Yutang went south with Ai Hu to chase a killer, but he was attracted by someone with alcohol and almost lost his life.From then on, every time Bai Yutang saw him drinking, he couldn't help telling him about it.

Zhan Zhao put the little thief under a tree, and planned to bring him back to the mansion for inspection later.Seeing that Ai Hu was in a daze, he was afraid that his stamina was on the rise, so he hurriedly asked: "You haven't said why you came to Kaifeng this time?"

"Yes! I almost forgot about it!" Ai Hu shook his head, trying to dispel the alcohol, "A group of Dongying people came to the East China Sea last month, and they are holding some kind of conference. Anyway, they want to learn martial arts with the Central Plains martial arts. The time is Two months later, this is their invitation, and my adoptive father asked me to send it to Brother Zhan and Brother Bai."

As he spoke, he took out two large black gold-stamped invitation cards from his cuffs and handed them to the two of them respectively.

"Dongying?" Zhan Zhao took it and took a look. It was written in lower case. One side was inscribed with Central Plains characters, and the other side should be Dongying characters. At the end, Zhan Zhao's name and date were marked. It seemed that he had come prepared.

"Who else did they invite?" Bai Yutang glanced at it briefly, stuffed it into Zhan Zhao's hands, and kept it for him.

"My adoptive father, master, the Ding family's twin heroes, the five-poisonous Tang leader, the Ba Dao Liu family, etc."

"I have a lot of appetite, do you know where those people come from?" Bai Yutang tapped his thumb on the corner of his mouth, leaning against the tree, not paying much attention.

"I don't know for the time being, I only know that they came from overseas." Ai Hu shook his head, put his hands on his waist, and thought for a while, "However, the Qianxiang Building is already being searched, and it is estimated that it will be cleared within half a month."

It takes a month's journey from Kaifeng to Donghai, and Zhan Zhao still has Liu Fuyan's case in his hands, so he can't tell when it will be resolved, so he can only say to Ai Hu: "Thank you for me and your adoptive father, if there is enough time, we will definitely go to the appointment. "

"Okay, Ai Hu has to go to Liu's house in Baidi City tomorrow, Brother Zhan, Brother Bai, let's say goodbye first." Ai Hu nodded, as if they were saying goodbye.

"People from Dongying? There are so many things happening recently." Bai Yutang sighed, pulled up the reins of Wuyun Treading Snow, and picked a young shoot from nowhere and put it in his mouth.The stupid thief was placed face down on the horse by Zhan Zhao, and returned to Kaifeng mansion.

The officials love the people like their sons, and because of the sudden heavy rain, they were very anxious. In the early court, they pulled out the treasury and let Mr. Bao take charge of the resettlement, and asked Yan Chasan to lead people to patrol outside the city, just in case.So as soon as Zhan Zhao changed his clothes, he heard the word from Gongsun Ce's book boy that Mr. Bao had something to discuss.

"My lord." When Zhan Zhao entered the door, he saw Bao Zheng and Mr. Gongsun gathered around the table.

"Guard Zhan, it rained very badly last night. According to the inspection of Kaifeng Mansion, there were many landslides outside the city and roads were blocked. The government discussed with the officials and wanted to invite Guard Zhan and Mr. Yan to go outside the city together to check the disaster situation."

Bao Zheng explained the situation.

"I don't know when Master Yan will leave?"

Zhan Zhao asked, the landslide is of great concern. If it is in a place where there are no people, it will be fine, at most it will block the passage. If it is in a place with dense villages, I am afraid that there will be casualties.Moreover, many people were unwilling to evacuate just because of a heavy rain, so he was asked to go together this time, probably to protect Yan Chasan's safety when necessary.

"This afternoon, the time may be a bit rushed, because Tianjianshi predicts that there will be another rain in the second half of the night tonight."

"Understood, this subordinate will go down and prepare first."

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"Wait, wait, let me think!"

Zhan Zhao opened the door and listened to Ren Xingyu's "Wait, wait" and opened the bamboo curtain to see that the two of them were sitting on the couch uncomfortably. The aroma of lotus.

Bai Yutang twirled the bamboo flute, lay on his side on the pillow and narrowed his eyes slightly.Ren Xingluo was indecisive, and looked at the chessboard intently, looking for a place to move.

"Master!" Ren Xingluo shouted, seeing Zhan Zhao, it was like seeing a savior, "Come and help me break Uncle Bai's situation!"

"Hey!" Bai Yutang slapped the flute on the back of Ren Xingluo's raised hand, pretending to be displeased, "No foreign aid is allowed."

"Looking for master's guidance can be called looking for foreign aid!" Ren Xingluo ignored it, retracted his beaten palm and blinked at Zhan Zhao.

"………Let me see"

Zhan Zhao leaned on the side of the chess table with one hand, and with the other hand, he took the bamboo flute that was constantly turning and disturbing his sight, took it out of Bai Yutang's hand, and put it back on the shelf beside the couch.

"Thieves, please let me know first, if it can't be broken... Well, you can serve me tea and water all day long!"