Kaifeng Cat and Mouse Detective Manuscript

"Yes,? Let's look for it first, there must be clues."

"Solve it early and go to the East China Sea early."

Bai Yutang pinched the bridge of his nose, and followed Zhan Zhao onto the stone bridge.

After Ren Xingluo returned to the inn, he waited anxiously in the lobby, poking his head out from time to time to see if Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had returned. Unfortunately, there was no sign of anyone after waiting all morning.Seeing him staying at the table and not leaving, Xiaoer came forward many times to ask if he wanted to eat. After being asked several times, Ren Xingxiao ordered a few steamed buns. With Xiaoer's contempt on his face, he took a sip of white water and white noodles gnawed up.

Bai Yutang stayed in prison for a while. When he arrived at the inn and smelled the smell of food in the room, he poked Zhan Zhao's arm. He saw Ren Xingxiao leaning his head on a steamed bun and walked straight over. He released Zhan Lu with a "boom". to the table.

"Uncle Bai,? You're back! Where's Master?"

Ren Xingluo raised his head when he heard the sound, put down half of the steamed buns left, and looked around before Bai Yutang could reply.

"there."

Bai Yutang pointed his thumb to the side of the counter, Zhan Zhao was standing next to a waiter talking, and the waiter nodded vigorously, and then took half a tael from Zhan Zhao's hand with joy on his face.

When Zhan Zhao came over, Bai Yutang offered him a cup of tea, and Ren Xingluo said, "Master, how about the Si family?"

"It's nothing serious, you have to stay in the inn for a few more days."

Zhan Zhao shook the tea leaves in the cup a few times and replied.

"It's just fine,? I thought it had something to do with you two again."

Bai Yutang raised his brows, and looked at Zhan Zhao with a smile, "Ren Xingluo was right, didn't he have something to do with them.

After eating and going upstairs, the first thing Bai Yutang did was to get water to be brought up to take a bath. The straw in the cell was abnormally damp, even though he only stayed there for a while, he still felt uncomfortable.Zhan Zhao sat aside and put a few grass mice and cats in a row on the window sill, preparing to expose them to the sun for a few days and take them away.

"Cat, the man I met that night seemed to have an unusual scent on him."

The sound of the water was still, Bai Yutang came out from behind the screen wiping his hair, his waist-length hair dripping water all the way to the step.

"Smell? What smell?"

Zhan Zhao was surprised, it would be understandable to say that a woman has a strong scent, but a man is either in the spice business, or the business he does is prone to odor and needs spices to cover it up.

"It smells a bit like fragrant wood mixed with yellow paper."

Bai Yutang thought about it carefully, he didn't pay much attention that night, the smell on the man's body flashed by, and it was because of the smell of yellow paper that he kept remembering it.

"Yellow paper?"

Zhan Zhao walked from the window sill to the face frame, washed his hands in the basin, took off the veil and dried them, sat on the bed and pondered, "This person either just worshiped someone that day, or he was in a coffin shop or something place to work."

"There are at least a dozen coffin shops in Yingzhou, and it is not certain that it is too difficult to find. Moreover, if the person is the murderer, he might have left long ago."

Bai Yutang dried his hair, put his legs on the soft cushion, picked a melon seed and said.

"Ask the servants of the Si family tomorrow morning, especially Si Nianying's personal maid, there will always be no clues."

Zhan Zhao took the comb from the table, and carefully combed the knotted ends of Bai Yutang's hair.

"I always feel that after being with you, so many murders happened. Hey, could you be influenced by Mr. Bao?"

Bai Yutang suddenly came over, and the melon seed plate was swept aside by him, his hands were folded on his chin, his eyes were in front of Zhan Zhao, and he asked curiously.

"So let's go buy Zhang Talisman to ward off evil spirits after we've settled it."

Zhan Zhao's palm fell on Bai Yutang's face, he gently pushed him back, stretched his legs and collapsed with a smile.

On the second day, the two got up early, and when they arrived at Si's mansion, Inspector Liu was already waiting in the mansion with a few yamen servants, and Si Quyin was dealing with the mourning hall at this time because he was in the middle of Si Quyin's funeral.

A group of people entered the courtyard, but Master Si and Mrs. Si did not come out, and only some servants were busy in the whole mansion.When Detective Liu came here in the morning, he had already agreed that Zhan Zhao would be in charge of this matter, and Si Quyin specially ordered the housekeeper, and the Si family let them check it out, and they must fully cooperate.

"Master Zhan, look at us..."

Detective Liu quickly stood in the middle of the courtyard. The Si family was quite big, and it would take a lot of time to find it without purpose.Zhan Zhao glanced in all directions, actually it doesn't matter if they want to find Detective Liu quickly, he and Bai Yutang already set a target last night.

"You guys go to the pond again to have a look. Brother Bai and I will go to other places."

But it's not easy to let people hang out, and the pond is the first place where the crime happened, so there may be other doubts.

After the yamen servants and others left, only Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang and the housekeeper were left in the courtyard.

"Butler Si, can you take us to the Miss's boudoir to check?"

Zhan Zhao bent down slightly, and said to the housekeeper.

"Convenience, convenience, please come with me, both of you."

Steward Si nodded repeatedly, and led Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang around several corridors, and finally stopped in front of a pleasant courtyard.

"Miss's room is still the same as before, you two just look for what you want to see."

The housekeeper opened the courtyard door and stopped in front of the threshold.

"By the way, the maid in front of your lady is here. If it's convenient, please invite her to come and see her."

Before going in, Bai Yutang suddenly turned around and said.

The place inside the gate is not big, there are three rooms built along the wall, the one in the middle is Si Nianying's residence.Zhan Zhao pulled the horizontal lock on the door, and after a little force, he heard a "click" and opened a crack of the door. The surrounding windows were closed, and the room was dark and dark, so he couldn't see clearly. Bai Yutang pushed open the two windows, Suddenly brightened.

The things in the room were kept neatly, because Si Nianying passed away not long ago, and many things were not packed.Zhan Zhao first searched on the dressing table. Generally, the most important place to put things in a daughter's house is the dressing table, which is easy to check and not easy to be searched by outsiders.

In Si Nianying's room, there were only a bronze mirror and a few hairpins on it, and five delicate cabinets underneath. Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand to pull them, but they didn't open them.

Bai Yutang searched by her bedside, but found nothing after searching.

"Cat, let me come, this cabinet is so tightly locked, there must be something hidden."

All other places have been checked, only the dressing table is still locked, Bai Yutang stood in front, looking at the wooden cabinets like Zhan Zhao, although it is bad to destroy other people's things, but it is a very important moment, so of course we should treat it very seriously.Bai Yutang was also good at tricks anyway, so he handed Zhan Lu to Zhan Zhao, bent over and squatted in front of the cabinet, picked up a slender silver hairpin from the countertop, inserted the tip of the hairpin along the crack of the cabinet, and Pounding hard, within a short while, the lock was broken from the inside and fell to the ground.

"What is this? Jimpa?"

Sure enough, Bai Yutang opened it to take a look, and took out a handkerchief from inside. Zhan Zhao took it and took a look, but it was just like a daughter's household item, nothing special, "Is there anything else?"

"This, the kit."

Bai Yutang took out another bulging brocade bag, weighed it up and down, it seemed to contain a lot of things.

"Double escape?"

Zhan Zhao opened it with his hand and saw a pair of golden bracelets shining in the sunlight.

"Why is it knocking? The sachet is tied behind the elbow, why is it so wide? It wraps around the wrist and jumps off. This thing is hidden so tightly, I'm afraid more than half of it is given by that man."

"Unfortunately, there is nothing else, but based on this, there is almost news."

Zhan Zhao fastened the sachet again, put it back in the cabinet, and closed the doors and windows with Bai Yutang again, ready to look elsewhere.Just as he was leaving the hospital, the butler Si came over with a woman.

"Master Zhan, this is Miss's personal servant girl. Abi, you must answer truthfully whatever Master Zhan asks, are you clear?"

The butler Si pushed the woman named Abi in front of the two of them, and gave them some worried instructions.

"Yes!"

Abi seemed to be very nervous, she lowered her head to avoid under the eyes of the two people, kneading the handkerchief with both hands, bit her lower lip in her mouth, and dodged her eyes, maybe there was a ghost.

"Abi, don't be nervous."

Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, trying to ease the atmosphere, "We just want to ask today, did your young lady often go out or walk in the mansion alone before she was alive?"

"me……"

Abi's expression was tangled, and after opening her mouth a few times, she didn't say anything.

"Abi, if you don't say anything, if your young lady is murdered, then you will have to hate Huang Quan for the rest of your life, and then you want Si Nianying to linger?"

Bai Yutang spoke directly, and every sentence pierced Abi's heart.

"I... yes, miss, she often goes out and doesn't let me follow her."

After listening to Bai Yutang's words, Abi's complexion changed slightly, and finally she struggled a bit before speaking.

"Then do you know what she does when she goes out?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"It's...with a man, the other servants don't know, my lords!" Abi suddenly knelt down, Zhan Zhao hurriedly bent down to help him up, but Abi grabbed his cuffs, "My lord, my young lady has gone, I just ask you not to tell Mrs. Madam about this, lest... lest you become pregnant with Miss's name!"

"Then what else do you know besides being a man?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Miss once painted his portrait, and the servants once looked at it." Abi lowered her head and recalled.

"Where is the portrait? Or maybe you can describe it?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"The portrait has been destroyed by the lady. It looks like..." Abi closed her eyes and recalled in her mind, "About a young man in his 20s, with a handsome appearance, um, there is a mole under his eye. I don't remember much about the others. " Abi pointed her finger under her right eye, close to the root of her nose.

"Thank you, Miss Abi."

After listening to her, Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang probably knew what this person looked like, the rest was not important, the main thing was the mole.It's really not a good idea to tell Master Si and Mrs. Si about this matter as a last resort. After all, the dead are the most important. Si Nianying is no longer alive. If his fiancé finds out about this, there will be another trouble. The time will come. If the whole town knows it, it won't look good.

"Cat, where are we going next?"

Bai Yutang kept turning the Zhanlu while the tassel danced up and down.This habit was acquired from Zhan Zhao, because Zhan Zhao is a veritable sword-turning madman, every time he catches a prisoner, the giant sword can turn flowers in the palm of his hand.

"Go... wait, don't stop, look at the little finger on the right."

Zhan Zhao's voice suddenly dropped, and Bai Yutang was stunned for a moment and continued to walk forward without a trace, looking in the direction of little finger out of the corner of his eye.