Kaifeng Cat and Mouse Detective Manuscript

"No one in Changping County knows about the past of the two Lou Qing brothers?" Zhan Zhao took the letter from Lord Bao, frowned slightly, and read it carefully line by line with eyes like torches.What is written on it is the confession obtained by Wang Chao and Ma Han since the previous month.

"I don't know? I don't think I'll say anything." Bai Yutang sneered and said in a contemptuous tone. He walked from the table to Ma Han with his hands behind his back, tapped his fingers on the fan bone, raised his jaw slightly, and said "lou If Qing is in collusion with the local county magistrate, treat his brother as an accidental death, how many ordinary people know about it. Thieves, I think we should catch him first."

"Yutang is right,? Most likely I can't find much useful things from Changping County. I heard that Lou Qing is staying at the Yuelai Inn at the end of Yuqian Street these days, so it wouldn't take much trouble to invite him directly." Zhan Zhao agreed, ?The eyes shifted from the letter to the room that was still noisy, and there were endless shouts and exclamations. Then he retreated to the chair and sat upright to see how Mr. Bao would deal with it.

"So, come here!" Master Bao looked at the letters lined up in a row, and his voice was stern, and the two dynasty and Ma Han immediately stood up straight, waiting for orders.

"Go to Yuelai Inn immediately, arrest Lou Qing and bring him to justice!"

After Wang Chao and Ma Han left with the official messenger, Mr. Bao still had to wait for Gongsun Ce to finish the bone examination. In addition to the child in the room, Mr. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also sat aside and waited for them to come out.

After about a cup of tea, He Lian opened the door, and saw that the neat hairpin was scratched by the child, and there were scratches on her face, and the other three maids behind her were divided They cooperated to grab the children's arms and thighs and carried them out, all of them came back from a fight.

"How can this child be so aggressive?"

Bai Yutang leaned back, stretched his legs up on the bamboo chair and sighed, the white paper fan was slowly opened and flapped, and the two strands of long hair on his forehead were shaking around.

Mr. Bao frightened the child before, and it was not easy to come forward now, so he turned to Zhan Zhao after committing the crime.The servant girls obviously didn't want to continue holding her, and they didn't dare to let go of her directly, for fear that she would go crazy and hurt others in public.Zhan Zhao had no choice but to bite the bullet and clamp the child's armpit, and hugged him to his lap, while firmly pressing down those clenched hands, while listening to He Lian's explanation.

"My lord, there are more than 40 scars on this child's body. From the chest to the calf, none of them are intact. It looks like it has been around for a long time." He Lian bent down to answer. pity.

After hearing this, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao both had ugly expressions on their faces. People in the Jianghu have always advocated hurting others and not their own children. No matter how much hatred there is, few wives and children will touch them. Zhan Zhao is only more than ten years old when he holds this. Someone actually made such a murderous move.

After He Lian left, Lord Bao began to think about where to put the child. According to her fighting strength, if she were to be guarded by a woman, she would be beaten away within an hour. For a man... Zhan Zhao is a good choice. Although men and women are not close to each other, Mr. Bao is very relieved of his behavior.

So I immediately made up my mind, stood up from behind the table and prepared to walk to Zhan Zhao, but when I looked up, I saw the children who kept playing on him, thought about it, sat back down, and said embarrassedly: "Guard Zhan, this The mansion was just thinking, this child is currently unattended in Kaifeng mansion, why not put it with you first, and then let He Lian go over to watch it with him."

"Ah?!" As soon as the words were finished, Bai Yutang uttered a voice of surprise, and stood up with his fan together, "No, Zhan Zhao is a man, and he doesn't fit in with etiquette."

"Bai Shaoxia's words are wrong." Master Bao smiled slightly, showing two rows of white teeth, "Zhan protects an honest gentleman and fosters children in his hands. Only 1 children in this house can rest assured."

Bai Yutang: ...

In the end, still no match for Mr. Bao's eloquence, Zhan Zhao resigned to his fate and carried the child who was like a little leopard on his shoulders and took him away.It will take some time for Mr. Gongsun, and it is estimated that there will be results later.

The two walked from the conference hall to the small courtyard, receiving the baptism of the eyes of most people in Kaifeng Mansion along the way.Back in the house, Ren Xingluo also stared dumbfounded at the skinny and vicious little girl in front of him, thinking that his master picked it up from some trash can again out of kindness.

Left and Right Ren Xingxiao was about the same age as her, and Zhan Zhao had never brought up a child before, thinking that the two children might change the girl's temper when they were together, so he let the child go in Xingxiao's room, let He Lian accompany him, and he and Bai Yutang walked lightly as if he had dropped a big package and went back to the room.

It's a pity that the two of them didn't relax for a while, Ren Xingluo howled earth-shatteringly like being bitten by a dog, and then knocked on the door of Zhan Zhao's room.

"Don't go! Don't bring him in!"

When Zhan Zhao was about to stay on the bed, Bai Yutang quickly pressed his left leg with his eyes and raised his eyebrows to prevent him from leaving.

"Xing Xiao is also a child, so don't let anything happen, we both don't know."

What Zhan Zhao thought of in a blink of an eye was that although the child had a bad temper, most of it was caused by the previous environment. If the two of them ignored her, or even disliked her, what would be the difference from the person who beat her back then?

"Forget it, fifth master will be raising a child today, let's go."

Although Bai Yutang didn't want to provoke him, he still waved him to open the door after seeing the scorching sun outside.If they really let the two of them mess around, they might suffer from heat stroke before the building clears the customs and enters.

When Zhan Zhao opened the door, he saw Ren Xingluo's calf was tightly hugged by the child, and his body was lying on the scorching hot ground without moving, no matter how much he pulled and hugged him, he couldn't get up.

Ren Xingluo felt the big beads of sweat on his forehead, first he stretched out his right foot and stepped into the threshold, and then slowly rubbed his left foot forward on the ground, dragging him into the room.

Before knocking on the door, He Lian went to the kitchen to get a large cup of mung bean soup, which was just cold out of the ice, and just in time to serve it when Ren Xingyu dragged someone into the room.

Bai Yutang saw that the child retreated behind the floor-standing vase as soon as he came in, holding the waist of the vase with both hands, his eyes flicked back and forth, and several nails that were stained with mud at first had already been broken.So she bent down and sat on the ground not far from her. Perhaps the room was quiet and cool. The child shrank in vigilantly and hid his whole body behind the bottle, but he didn't continue to bark his teeth and claws to go crazy. .

"Xing Xiao, bring a pair of scissors here."

Bai Yutang stared at her, sharp-eyed and found some blood dripping from between the nails, but the child didn't think it was dirty, so he stuffed it into his mouth and gnawed it with relish, as if it wasn't his fingers but the delicious food.

"Uncle Baibaibaibai! Think twice! If we kill her, we will go to jail!" Ren Xingluo's legs softened, and the bowl containing the bean soup was put down with a "boom", and he waved his hands back and forth, looking terrified, and was about to rush out the door .

"What are you thinking about! Fifth Master wants to cut her nails!" Bai Yutang turned his head, and a stone landed lightly on Ren Xingxiao's forehead, interrupting the wild thoughts in his mind.

But when Ren Xingluo took the scissors and handed them to Bai Yutang, the child roared again, louder and louder, as if he was going to kill her, and kept beating on the vase, almost knocking it down.Bai Yutang had no choice but to throw a stone at Zhan Zhao, who was watching the excitement, and asked him to coax the child.

It is said that the child in infancy is the most annoying, but now the two of them have realized it. After successfully cutting the child's nails, Bai Yutang finally couldn't help but directly touched her sleeping point, asked He Lian to come and watch, and then followed Zhan Zhao briskly ran to another room.

The other room is Bai Yutang's room, the two of them have been staying together these few days, and they haven't come in here for a long time.

"Phew, it's really troublesome to raise a child." Bai Yutang let out a sigh of relief, laying on the bamboo mat with his collar open, waving the folding fan, and the ice on the bedside was brought in. The room was stuffy and stuffy, like a big steamer.Zhan Zhao took another fan and sat opposite the ice basin to fan him.

"Cat, let's go to Mr. Gongsun's." After lying down for a long time, Bai Yutang was still irritable. He sat up straight away, put his palms in the basin that was mostly iced, wiped his face with ice water, shook his head and brushed away the broken hair. Clipped it to his forehead, and pulled Zhan Zhao out.Instead of being a bun in the room, it's better to find something to do.

Mr. Gongsun's autopsy room is behind the Kaifeng Mansion, separated by Daochang Lane, and walked several hundred meters along the back door.Before the two of them reached the door, they saw the little book boy squatting in the shade by the door, with a snow-white sackcloth around his nose, looking in pain.Bursts of vinegar smell came from the yard, which could be smelled from far away.

"It seems that Mr. Gongsun is almost done."

Zhan Zhao pushed the door open, and saw Master Bao and Gongsun sitting under the eaves. A large pit seven or eight feet long and wide was dug in a dark place in the courtyard. The wall was reddened by charcoal fire, and suddenly cold water entered, there was a sizzling sound, and the smell of vinegar was soaring.After the mature vinegar was poured out, there were several jars of good wine, and the smell of wine and vinegar was indescribably mixed.

After saluting Mr. Bao, the two stood aside to watch. Mr. Gongsun saw that everything was in a hurry, so he hurried to the edge of the pit, stretched his head slightly to look inside, then nodded in satisfaction, and asked the officials to carry the bones wrapped in the bamboo mat. Go into the pit and cover it with planks.

This method is the most commonly used method for a bone test. After an hour is lifted, it will be possible to know whether the person has been severely beaten in his life.

The yard was steaming hot, and Bai Yutang couldn't stay there for a while. Seeing that Mr. Bao and Mr. Gongsun were talking with their heads down, he simply pulled Zhan Zhao's cuff, blinked when he looked over, and made a walking gesture with the middle finger and index finger of his right hand .Zhan Zhao nodded at him, and the two disappeared from the courtyard without anyone noticing, and when they reappeared, they were in the wine cellar.

"Cat, pear blossom white seven years ago."

Bai Yutang went straight to the depths of the cellar, grasped the wooden frame with one hand and exerted a little force to lift his whole body into the air, then took out a black wine jar the size of two palms from the top, the red sticking on it had been broken and could be seen The word "pear blossom".It is powerful and powerful, and the style of writing is unrestrained, and Zhan Zhao can recognize that it is Bai Yutang's handwriting.

"Back when I entered Tokyo, I put the unsealed wine jar in it while the gatekeeper was not paying attention, but I never thought it would never be found." Bai Yutang slapped the jar with his palm, and the dust on the red cover fluttered. Flying down, and then sniffing at the tip of the nose, wondering, "Why does it smell wrong?"

Zhan Zhao took it over, put a little bit of it in his mouth with his little finger, and looked at Bai Yutang with a complicated expression.

"What... what's wrong?" Bai Yutang was worried.

"You may have bought fake wine..." Ordinary Lihuabai will become slightly bitter after being stored for such a long time, and it will be mellow and smooth in the mouth, but this jar is sour and astringent, with an indescribable taste.

Bai Yutang: "........."

When Wu Ye came to Tokyo at the beginning of the year, he didn't know which wine shop that killed thousands of dollars was cheated by him.