Kaifeng Cat and Mouse Detective Manuscript

The shopkeeper just came out of the warehouse, ordered the waiters to wipe the table quickly, and saw his young owner and Mr. Zhan walking out the door hand in hand, seemed a little inappropriate?Can't tell what's wrong.

"Cat cat cat cat cat?"

Today, Bai Yutang talked a lot. Many times he followed Zhan Zhao after meowing a few times and then grinning smirkly. Zhan Zhao was in the front and had to answer.Before Zhao Hu went out, he happened to meet Bai Yutang who was laughing happily. He rubbed his eyes in fright, thinking that Bai Wuye had been caught by something.

Mr. Bao still needs to reply. The two of them thought of Liu Fuyan's letters in the morning, so they discussed going together.In addition to dealing with official documents, Mr. Bao usually plays chess with Mr. Gongsun. There have been many disasters in the past two days. Zhan Zhao guessed that he must be in the study because of his temperament.Sure enough, when the two entered the yard side by side, they saw the little boy next to Mr. Gongsun squatting on the floor grabbing stones.

With a kick from Bai Yutang's toe, a small cobblestone rolled to the boy's hand, knocking away the other two stones on the ground.

"Brother Zhan,? Brother Bai!" The little boy grabbed hold of each hand, put it away firmly, got up, and wiped his dusty paws on the corner of his clothes.

"What are you doing? Is it convenient to go in?"

Zhan Zhao glanced at the door, and the voices of Mr. Bao and Mr. Gongsun could be heard vaguely from inside. They must be discussing the case. They couldn't rush in to disturb them, so they asked the book boy slowly.

"Convenient and convenient!"

The little boy walked up the steps quickly, turning his head while walking, "My lord received a letter from Lord Yan last night, and I was very worried. I also planned to go to the palace to ask the officials to send more people if there is no news in the afternoon. Big Brother and Big Brother Bai are fine."

The little boy knocked a few times, and Mr. Gongsun said inside, "Please come in." The little boy opened the door and retreated to the side, and then carefully closed it after Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang entered.

"It turned out to be Zhanwei."

Lord Bao put down the notebook in his hand, raised his hand to signal Zhan Zhao that Bai Yutang didn't need to be too polite, and then asked carefully about last night's events, and Zhan Zhao answered them in detail, then took out Liu Fuyan's letter, but hid it in Qiushuangyuan thing.

"Is that true?! Where is Liu Fuyan now?"

Master Bao and Gongsun opened the envelope. The case mentioned in the letter was that the scholar named Lou Qing killed his brother and wife, and colluded with the local county magistrate to hide the truth. In the end, he gained both fame and fortune.

"My lord, Liu Fuyan is not in good health and can't move around at will, so write down the case and hand it over to my subordinates and brother Bai so that my lord can find out the grievance."

"The letter said that Lou Qing killed someone and hid his bones in a cave, and he happened to come to Kaifeng to do business at this time. My lord, why don't you send someone to Lou Qing's hometown to investigate immediately." Mr. Gongsun thought for a while.

"My subordinates also feel the same way. Since Lou Qing came to Kaifeng to do business, he will definitely not leave immediately. Let's send someone to investigate first, so as not to startle the enemy and let him destroy the evidence." Zhan Zhao agreed with Gongsun Ce's suggestion.

"This is definitely a good strategy." Master Bao put away the letter and asked the boy outside to call Chao Mahan to investigate the evidence. Zhan Zhao is not in charge of this matter for the time being, and he just has a few days to spare.

Bai Yutang stayed in Zhan Zhao's room after entering the courtyard.Perhaps because of the opening of the window paper, the relationship between the two of them is even more boring than before.

The lotus planted in the mansion grew many lotus pods, and Ren Xingluo picked more than a dozen of them early and put them in Zhan Zhao's room.The white lotus seeds were wrapped in a dark green coat, Bai Yutang pulled one, and it became two halves with the touch of a finger.This kind of free-range lotus seeds are not big, and they are not as sweet as the ones bought outside. Bai Yutang threw a few into his mouth and swallowed them, then put the lotus pod aside, then grabbed the remaining few and ran outside.

Bai Yutang had his legs crossed, and Zhan Zhao was separated from him by a mahogany table. The sun was shining brightly outside, so he only opened half the window.On the side of the table was an unknown weed, which seemed to be brought over by Ren Xingxiao.

"Cat, open your mouth."

Bai Yutang's fingers slowly climbed up Zhan Zhao's sleeve, and then he took off the book in his hand and threw it on the table. A jade-like lotus seed appeared near Zhan Zhao's mouth.

"That kid Ren Xingluo picked it up, I guess he didn't eat it himself." Bai Yutang fed a few seeds one after another before giving up, and then saw Zhan Zhao holding a cup of herbal tea in the blink of an eye.

The saying that the spring is sleepy, the autumn is exhausted, the summer naps, and the sleepless winter in March is really true.Zhan Zhao was very boring on weekdays, but at this time Ren Xingxiao didn't know where to go, it was too hot outside, Bai Yutang didn't want to go out, so he simply stretched his waist and moved the mahogany table aside, it was limp and boneless Leaning sideways on the bamboo pillow, I slowly fell asleep.

"Yutang, Yutang..." Zhan Zhao finally woke him up.

"What's the matter?" Bai Yutang put on his shoes and got up, he moved his nose and smelled a slightly pungent fragrance coming from the yard.

"The restaurant sent a few boxes of shrimp. I don't know what to use to cook them. It doesn't look like the Central Plains style."

Zhan Zhao is using a wooden hairpin to hold his hair, coiling it around the top of his head.Although there was no sun at dusk, the ground was still very hot.Bai Yutang straightened his messy hair, took a handful of water and sprinkled it on his face, soaking through his clothes, and instantly became cool.

"Master, Uncle Bai, are you all right?!"

Ren Xingluo had already set the table and chopsticks, and his appetite increased just by looking at the food in front of him.The first thing Bai Yutang saw when he went out was the big red palmed prawns on the stone table, with lotus leaves under it, and the table was packed to the brim.Zhan Zhao took a sip and immediately frowned at the spiciness. Seeing his expression, Bai Yutang didn't dare to do anything. He only tried the soup and let it go.Otherwise, Ren Xingluo pulled the shrimp's head with both hands, then peeled off the hard shell and dipped it in the soup, eating quickly, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were left dumbfounded, why didn't they know that their little apprentice could eat spicy food so much? !

In the end, he ate the whole table of prawns by himself, and the result was that Ren Xingxiao ran to the toilet no less than three times with his stomach in his arms.

"Hahaha!"

Bai Yutang sat in front of the window boredly and laughed loudly, but Zhan Zhao couldn't see it, went to the pharmacy to fry a bowl of dark stuff with unknown formula and poured it down for Ren Xingluo.This situation lasted until the next day, when Zhan Zhao passed by the front yard, he found that the little book boy beside Gongsun Ce was also very Ren Xingxiao.

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The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and Zhanzhao doesn't like to go out unless there is something to do. He either squeezes into the room with Bai Yutang or helps Mr. Bao with business.

Wang Chao was returning from staring at the sun that day, and when he saw Zhan Zhao, he gave him two invitation cards in his hand.

"What is this?" Zhan Zhao asked while tearing it apart.The invitations are quite exquisite, and the price is not bad just by looking at the paper.

"When I just came back, I saw someone sneaking around the door. I thought I was going to report the crime, but I didn't expect to ask in the past that he was here to deliver posts to you and Brother Bai, so I brought them back by the way." Wang Chao drank a few glasses Herbal tea, wipe off the wet sweat on the forehead.

Zhan Zhao opened it and saw that there were a few lines of words clearly explaining the purpose of his visit, it turned out that Lou Qing sent someone to send it over.

"Thank you for your hard work." Zhan Zhao put away the invitation, bid farewell to Wang Chao and went back to the yard.

Bai Yutang lay paralyzed on the bed in a big character shape, his hair was all tied up and scattered aside, he abandoned the toga with long sleeves, and obediently put on a round-neck robe.There was a bowl of ice cubes on hand, it probably took too long to take it out, and it had almost melted, and the window was half opened to let in air.The bed had already been covered with a bamboo mat, and the pillow was also a jade pillow brought back from Sunken Island, with a hollow in the middle that could be filled with water. Bai Yutang stuck his cheek on it, motionless.

The distance from the front yard to their small yard is only a few hundred meters. Unfortunately, the sun is too strong, and it seems to be hot in the early summer. After walking a few steps, you will be sweating all over your body.It wasn't that cool inside the house either, and both of them were more afraid of the heat. In previous years, Bai Yutang would go back to Xingkong Island to escape the summer heat for a period of time in July and August. Looking at the weather now, I'm afraid he would have to leave early.

Zhan Zhao put his palm on Bai Yutang's icy cold face with vicious amusement, and took a gulp of ice water.

"Dead cat!" Bai Yutang frowned, put his palm on the pillow, then put his head on it, and continued to lie on his side comfortably.

"Lou Qing handed over the post."

Zhan Zhao took out the invitation card with one hand, put it on the table slowly, and then opened Bai Yutang's fan again and again.

"Lou Qing? Lou Qing." Bai Yutang muttered a few times, sat up all of a sudden, touched a post and looked at it carefully, "Please let us go to Jiuxian Tower to repay the favor of helping each other that day? Heh, he If we knew that we met him with the intention of finding out his old background, I'm afraid he would have run faster than a rabbit." Bai Yutang shook his head while saying, and then asked, "How is the person looking for Mr. Bao?"

"Yesterday, I received a message from Fei Ge and found the place, but the body is still looking for it. I won't be in a hurry for a while."

The time set on the invitation was tomorrow evening, and the two asked Xiao Tong to reply to the letter, expressing that they would definitely be there.

Ren Xingluo took back two bottles of snow-soaked plum blossom wine from the kitchen aunt. The Bai Yutang was exactly like the altar. The body of the altar was icy cold, and there were many drops of water on the outside. It should have just been taken out of the ice kiln.Ren Xingluo was young, and Zhan Zhao never gave him alcohol, so he could only hold his own lychee ice water and drink it vigorously to dissipate the heat in his body.

Most of the ice used in Kaifeng mansion in summer is given by the government, and it is stored in Baiji restaurant in winter.Plum blossom wine is made from the petals of plum blossoms in winter, which are picked and sealed with wax, and then taken out in summer, and made with wine and ice cubes. Drinking it is not only ice-cold, but also has a scent.

The ice in the altar hadn't completely melted, and there was a ding ding dong dong when it was poured into the bowl, and the petals floated on it, giving off a faint air-conditioning.And the food is good, if you drink too much, you might get stomach upset, after a few bowls, Zhan Zhao put away the remaining jar and the ice water in Ren Xingluo's hand and didn't touch it again.

"Cat, you are becoming more and more like a mother."

Bai Yutang had one leg arched and the other leg crossed on the bed, and his usually loose hair was tied up at this time, and he waved his fan to watch Zhan Zhao leap out with the wine jar in hand.