Kaifeng Cat and Mouse Detective Manuscript

Behind the rockery in the direction of the little finger, a gray-clothed figure trotted along the wall, crossed the threshold, and finally disappeared behind the door.That man was tall and thin, Zhan Zhao noticed his face just now, it was the man Abi had said he had a tryst with Si Nianying.Just,? Why are you here at this time?Could it be that he came here on purpose when he heard that Si Nianying was dead.

"Go and see where he goes."

Zhan Zhao didn't think much about it, he jumped forward a few steps to the top of the rockery, grabbed the stones with his arms, climbed up the wall with all his strength, and then climbed up to the roof.Bai Yutang followed closely behind. Both of them were hidden behind the tiles, with only their heads sticking out. After watching the man leave the Sifu through the back door, he looked around at the bridge, and then approached the street forward.

"Cat,? Chase or not?"

Bai Yutang straightened up a little, asked?

"You chase after it,? I'll go to the mourning hall to take another look."

Since this person dared to enter and leave the Sifu during the day, he must be very familiar with the guards here, but looking at his face, he didn't see any sadness at all? It didn't look like his beloved woman had died.The two of them might as well split up into two groups, one to go to investigate, the other to inquire about the details in the mansion.

"Row."

Bai Yutang jumped down from the top of the wall, and after exchanging gestures with Zhan Zhao, he turned into a white shadow and flew out of the hospital.Zhan Zhao walked quickly towards the main hall.

The mourning hall was set up yesterday, because the deceased was young, there was no one else except two children who burned papers before the mourning.Master Si and Mrs. Si must have suffered too much, so they were not in the main hall at this time. Only Si Quyin and the housekeeper were busy in the huge Si mansion.

Zhan Zhao looked at the busy servants, turned sideways to avoid the maid who was carrying the flower pot, and stepped up the steps in two or three steps, preparing to wait for Si Quyin, who was instructing the servants to play with fruit candles, to finish his work.

The atmosphere in the hall was dull, Zhan Zhao stopped in front of the fence with his hands behind his hands and couldn't help sighing, how a girl like a flower died for no reason like this, but the world is impermanent.

"Master Zhan, have you found any clues?"

After a while, footsteps and the voice of the housekeeper came from behind. Zhan Zhao turned around, shook his head apologetically, and said, "There is no clue in Miss's room."

"Hey, I just hope that Detective Liu and the others will have some news."

Butler Si turned his head to look at the people in the hall and Si Quyin who was standing motionless in the center, couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and took out a handkerchief to wipe the corners of his eyes.

"By the way, there are men outside the mansion who often go in and out of the mansion."

Zhan Zhao waited for him to stabilize and asked.

"A man outside the house?"

Steward Si patted his beard, walked slowly to the stone steps of the mourning hall, and recalled, "Yes," Steward Si lingered for a while and stopped on the trail.

"What?"

Zhan Zhao walked up to him and asked.

"There are about three men who often come to work."

"Can you explain the specific appearance of the three?"

Zhan Zhao intuited that one of these three people was the one Bai Yutang chased after.

"Well, I didn't pay much attention to it. I only know that two of them have been here for a long time, about 30 years old, and one came last year. I remember this one clearly. He is a young man in his twenties, surnamed Liu."

"More than 20?"

Zhan Zhao raised his eyes, and he was sure that this was the person out of ten. Then he asked the housekeeper, "Does the youngest one know the address?"

"The address... I remember well that it should be in the north of Zhenbei, near Yizhuang."

"Yizhuang?"

Zhan Zhao suddenly realized that many people in Yizhuang burned paper money every day. Bai Yutang said yesterday that he smelled yellow paper on the man, and it must have been contaminated by living next to him every day.

"I understand, thank you, Steward Si."

Knowing the identity of this person is also a clue. After Zhan Zhao thanked Steward Si, he immediately left the Si mansion and walked along the bridge to the north of the town.

There are two Yizhuang villages in Yingzhou Town, and Zhan Zhao knew the approximate location after asking a little on the street, and based on the time, Bai Yutang should have followed the man to the residence by this time.

There are few people in Zhenbei, and it looks a bit desolate compared to other places. Most of them are homeless beggars.Zhan Zhao stood under the tree with his sword in his hand, and looked towards Yizhuang, there were three or four houses on that side, and he didn't know which one was the place where the man lived.At this time, the sun was shining brightly, and there were almost no pedestrians outside, Zhan Zhao thought for a while, and walked directly to the nearest house, but before he climbed over the wall, he was patted on the shoulder.

"Who!"

Zhan Zhao Juque turned half a circle in the palm of his hand, and kicked back with his left foot.

"Dead cat!"

Bai Yutang dodged quickly, Zhan Lu's sword tipped to somersault in the air and landed on Zhan Zhao's left.

"Yutang? I thought..." Zhan Zhao pursed his lips in embarrassment, and smiled at Bai Yutang. No matter how long it took, he couldn't change his instinct to fight back when someone suddenly touched him.

"Which little thief do you think it is?"

Bai Yutang didn't care so much, he raised his hand and pulled the hair tie that fell on his chest behind his back, and led Zhan Zhao to sneak along the wall and walk to the back of the house, stopping behind a clump of grass.

"It's the one in front."

Bai Yutang's eyes pointed to an earthen house a hundred meters away. There was a window facing Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, but it was half-closed, so he couldn't see clearly what was going on inside.

"What happened first?"

Zhan Zhao turned his head slightly, pushed aside the blades of grass, stared at the window and asked.

"There is definitely something wrong with that kid. Before I came back, I saw that he bought medicinal materials and went back. As a result, he closed the door before I had a chance to go in. I looked outside the window for a while and found nothing. So, I will wait for you to come."

"No chance to go in... Yutang, wait for us..."

Zhan Zhao lowered his head, wondering what he was thinking, then patted Bai Yutang's arm, and whispered a few words in his ear.After hearing this, Bai Yutang's eyes widened, and he smiled mysteriously, and then the two of them leaped to the door with light kung fu one after the other, Bai Yutang stopped in front of the house, and Zhan Zhao squatted on the roof.

"Cough cough..."

Bai Yutang squeezed his throat and leaned sideways against the wall, stretched out his fingers to the door and knocked a few times.

"Who?"

Then, a man's voice came from inside.

"Hello, little brother, passing through here, I want to make an excuse to drink water."

The exit was a vivid female voice, Zhan Zhao covered his mouth, but unfortunately the expression on his face gave way to a smile, Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows at Zhan Zhao after he finished speaking.

The reason why she pretended to be a female voice was because there was such a commotion in the Sifu, this person might be guilty of guilt, and if a man asked, he might not open the door.

"There is no water at home, go elsewhere."

Not long after, there was a response from inside, Bai Yutang puffed his mouth at Zhan Zhao and spread his hands, thinking that this person was quite suspicious.Zhan Zhao pointed to the room, beckoning him to continue, Bai Yutang raised his chin lightly, and said again: "Brother, cold water is fine, please excuse me."

There was no response from inside for a while, Bai Yutang leaned his ear to the crack of the door, but he didn't hear anything, maybe this person won't come to open the door.

"Forget it, let's continue to wait."

Just when Zhan Zhao was about to get off the roof, Bai Yutang suddenly used Qing Gong to hide aside, Zhan Zhao stopped his movements, put his hands on the eaves and looked down, the door opened a crack.

"What about people?"

A figure protruded from inside, the upper body of the man was outside the door and looked around, seeing that there was no figure, he assumed that Bai Yutang had left.When he was about to close the door, Zhan Zhao quickly used the tip of the Juque sword to poke a piece of black tile on the eaves, and the tile fell to the side of the door with a "pop", and it fell apart.

"Why did it suddenly fall?"

The man inside the door rubbed his nose, and without thinking, he walked to the side of the tile and prepared to pick it up. Taking advantage of the moment he went out, Zhan Zhao clasped the edge of the door and did a backflip inside. Make a sound.

Seeing that Zhan Zhao had already entered, Bai Yutang felt relieved, and after the man had picked up the broken tiles, he beat his waist and climbed to the tree behind the house, closing his eyes and taking a nap, waiting for Zhan Zhao to come to fruition.

Because the door was closed and most of the windows were closed, the room was very hot and stuffy, as soon as you entered, you could smell the smell of medicine.

The interior decoration is also simple, Zhan Zhao leaned on the pillar in front of the door, watching the man pour a bowl of dark concoction from the earthen jar on the table in the middle, and then took a wooden spoon from the bamboo cabinet on the side, He walked to the other side with the porcelain bowl.

Zhan Zhao followed the man's footsteps until he entered behind a curtain, looking around, there should be a bed inside the curtain.Zhan Zhao climbed down the pillar, quietly walked outside the curtain, put his fingers on a corner of the curtain and looked inside.

A lamp was lit inside and placed at the head of the bed.And there was nothing but a bed. On the bed lay a famous woman, her hair was loose and her back was facing Zhan Zhao. She couldn't see her face and figure clearly. The man was sitting on the edge of the bed just now, feeding her with a spoon. medicine.

This is strange, Zhan Zhao frowned, this person is not related to Si Nianying, why is there a woman at home?

"Changming, what's going on in the mansion?"

After feeding half a bowl of medicine, the woman asked in a weak voice.

"They reported to the police."

Liu Changming returned and continued to fill a spoonful of concoction and delivered it to the woman's mouth.

In the mansion, to report to the official, to be in charge of the mansion?Zhan Zhao suddenly thought of it.Who is this woman, why did she ask the Sifu?Could it be that Si Nianying's death had something to do with both of them?

"Report to the official? What should I do!"

Hearing Liu Changming's words, the woman became excited, didn't drink the medicine, lifted the quilt and supported the bed to get up.

"Don't worry! It's all right!"

Changming hurriedly put the medicine bowl on the bedside, pressed the woman down, and covered her with the quilt again, "After a while, when you recover from illness, we will go back and tell Master Si clearly."

"Can………"

The more Zhan Zhao listened, the more he couldn't figure it out. If these two were murderers, they wouldn't be able to wait for their illness to be delivered to their door.If it wasn't the murderer, did they know the truth about Si Nianying's death?But Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang didn't stay here for long, so naturally they couldn't wait for the woman to recover from her illness, so they had to find a way to let them explain in advance.

It's a pity that we can't go in directly at this time. Zhan Zhao raised his hand to look at the top, wanting to see who the woman is first. Hearing what she said just now, she must be very familiar with the Sifu. After seeing her face, when the time comes Go back to the Sifu and ask.

It’s just that there is no beam above the bed, and there will be noise if you go up, so you can’t enter from above. If you go underground, Zhan Zhao squats down, puts your arms on the ground and looks in through the curtain, but you can sneak in and hide under the table. It's dark, so the woman won't notice it, she can act only after Liu Changming comes out.