Thousands of years

Zhan Zhao rolled his eyes, approached him with a malicious smile and said, "Master Zhan won't tell me, and you don't know how to start a fire, either?"

Zhan Zhao glared at her, and replied, "Nonsense." Turning around, he strode to the stove, lifted his robe and squatted down, took out the fire bag, and started to light the fire, and soon the fire was lit, Zhan Zhao tilted his head and smiled smugly Look at Lin Ruoqing.

Lin Ruoqing walked over slowly stirring eggs with chopsticks, with a smile on her lips: "Master Zhan is capable, even lighting a fire." There was a sound of tsk-tsk in her mouth: "It's really unreasonable, Mr. Zhan is handsome and capable, why is he so handsome? What do you think of a stupid and stupid girl like me?"

Zhan Zhao straightened up, poked her forehead lightly with his index finger, and said with a light smile, "I just like silly girls."

Lin Ruoqing's smiling shoulders kept shaking, and she almost spilled the eggs in the bowl. A bowl of fried rice with eggs was cooked, and it was already midnight.Lin Ruoqing sat at the table and watched Zhan Zhao eat without blinking her eyes, and suddenly said in a very soft voice: "Zhan Zhao, you have to remember to go home early, otherwise I won't Make a fire and starve to death."

The movement of Zhan Zhao's hands stopped, his heart trembled suddenly, his eyes blurred, he turned his head and suppressed his tears, and choked up, "Okay, I remember."

In a small room, the flickering candlelight casts a circle of soft light, and the two sit facing each other. If they can stay with the one they love, even for a moment is good.

From that day on, no matter how late Zhan Zhao came back, as long as he saw the orange light shining from the small courtyard, the tiredness of the day would disappear, and an inexplicable panic would well up in his heart, fearing that the light would end. One day it will disappear from his life.

The matter seems to be far from over. The case of Mr. Du has not yet found any clues, and Mr. Wang, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, suddenly died of madness at his home.

In a few days, two officials of the imperial court died strangely. The current emperor was extremely furious and ordered Kaifeng Mansion to solve the case as soon as possible.As a result, everyone in Kaifeng Mansion became more and more busy. Not only Zhan Zhao, but even Mr. Gongsun searched medical books and sorted out evidence every day, hoping to find clues as soon as possible.

Lin Ruoqing didn't know anything about the case, forcing her to help would only add to the chaos, so every day she could only help Xiaojuan and the others cook some food for everyone in Kaifeng Mansion, or help starch and wash clothes.

After Zhan Zhao returned home late at night, he still had to go to Mr. Bao's study to discuss the case, and he often didn't rest until late at night. He had no time to look for Lin Ruoqing, so he asked Xiaojuan to send her a message, asking her to go to bed earlier, so don't wait for him.

Lin Ruoqing knew that his official business was important, so she could only suppress her full of thoughts. In her free time, she sat alone at the stone table beside the corridor and was in a daze. The withered and yellow leaves fell in her hair from time to time, but she didn't even notice it.

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That night, after returning home, Zhan Zhao came to the study as usual, reported to Mr. Bao one by one the clues he checked during the day, and discussed the case with Gongsun Ce and the other three.

Zhan Zhao took the lead and said: "Based on the investigations in the past few days, my subordinates found that there is no suspicious person in the family of Mr. Wang and Mr. Du. Since the two of them have the same poison, this subordinate will start from the similarities between the two of them." , Through the investigation, the subordinates really discovered a common hobby of the two of them." When Zhan Zhao said this, he paused for a while, and looked at the two in front of him with a slight smile on his face.

"Oh? What is it?" Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce asked in unison.

"Both of them love to drink tea and wine. Whenever there is a new type of tea or wine in the capital, these two adults will definitely inquire and taste it. If they taste it well, they will buy it home." Zhan Zhao continued.

"But we have checked all the entrances of these two adults' homes and found no trace of poisoning." Bao Zheng was still puzzled.

"Then there is only one possibility, that is, these two adults came into contact with the poisoned thing outside and did not bring it home." Zhan Zhao calmly analyzed, "I have asked their family members about it. For more than a month, these two adults often go to the two restaurants Feilaige and Mingyuelou that have recently opened on Mahang Street. According to the investigation of the subordinates, these two restaurants are luxuriously decorated and the business is booming. , the price is expensive, and it is not affordable for ordinary people. Most of the people who go there are dignitaries, and according to the outside world, these two restaurants are opened by court officials. All the meals, tea, wine and snacks are made by themselves. Never takeout."

"There is such a thing." Bao Zheng said with a twisted beard, "In this way, these two restaurants are very suspicious."

"By the way, my lord, the students have searched medical books these few days and found that the poison taken by Mr. Wang and Mr. Du contains blood dream grass. After a long time, the poison will permeate people's skin texture, confuse people's mind, and eventually cause people to go mad and die. Before dying, they will have hallucinations and cannot feel the pain of the poison." Gongsun Ce said what he had learned in the past few days. .

"That's it." Zhan Zhao clasped his fists and said to Bao Zheng: "My lord, I think these two restaurants are suspicious, and I request to go and have a look tomorrow."

"We don't know the details of the suspect, so it's probably inappropriate to go there so rashly. Besides, these are two restaurants. If they collude with each other, it's impossible for the guards to investigate the two at the same time. In this way, I'm afraid it will scare the snake." Bao Zheng said Doubt in mind.

"Don't worry, my lord. This subordinate has already thought about it. During the day, this subordinate can pretend to be an ordinary customer and sneak in, and do some investigation first, and the rest can be investigated late at night." Zhan Zhao said calmly.

"Alternatively, Guard Zhan doesn't have to go alone, he can ask someone to help." Gongsun Ce said with a smile, a flash of light flashed in his eyes.

"What do you mean sir?" Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Bai Yutang and Bai Shaoxia should still be in the capital, right? You two can go to these two restaurants at the same time." Gongsun Ce said.

"This..." Zhan Zhao hesitated, he knew Bai Yutang's temperament, if he went to tell him, the white mouse would not know how to accept his love in the future?

Seeming to see Zhan Zhao's embarrassment, Bao Zheng said, "Why don't I tell him this?"

"My lord, there's no need, I'll just go and find him after dawn." Zhan Zhao's gaze was still clear and firm, as if he had never hesitated before.

At this moment, a very slight sound came from outside the window, Zhan Zhao's eyes froze, and he shouted: "Who is it?" Then he jumped out, the giant que was unsheathed with a clang, drawing a bright arc in the middle of the night, just about to Putting the neck of the person outside the window, "Zhan Zhao." This familiar call made Zhan Zhao's sword stop in mid-air, and he put the sword back into its sheath, looking at the thin figure in the dark, with anger gradually appearing in his eyes, He said in a low voice, "It's so late, what are you doing here?"

"I...I couldn't sleep, so I went out for a walk, and saw that the lights here were still on, so I came over to have a look." Feeling Zhan Zhao's anger, Lin Ruoqing said anxiously, not daring to look into his eyes.

Zhan Zhao opened his mouth, and wanted to say something more, when Gongsun Ce's voice came from the door: "It's Miss Lin, come and sit in the room."

"No need, Mr. Gongsun. You are busy, I'm going to sleep." Lin Ruoqing glanced at Zhan Zhao next to her with great attachment, turned her head and left reluctantly.Seeing her like that, Zhan Zhao's heart softened, and he called softly, "Ruoqing."

Lin Ruoqing paused, turned around, and smiled at him, but Zhan Zhao was agitated by that smile, and said in a low voice, "I'll see you when I find time." Lin Ruoqing tapped lightly. Nodding, turned around and left, Zhan Zhao looked at her thin and slender back in the dark, feeling mixed emotions in his heart for a moment, she must have missed herself before coming, but she was destined to be disappointed.

Seeing this situation, Gongsun Ce stepped forward and said, "Miss Lin has helped a lot these days, and everyone in the house praises the food she cooks is delicious."

Zhan Zhao opened his mouth, and finally said in a difficult voice: "Let her do whatever she wants. With her restless temperament, it is rare to be able to stay in the mansion without going out. If she is not allowed to do anything If you do it, she will feel very uncomfortable." Gongsun Ce on the side sighed deeply.

After dawn, Zhan Zhao found Bai Yutang through the members of the Minglan Sect. Zhan Zhao said something about the future, and as expected, Bai Yutang made a lot of sarcastic remarks, and even the future father-in-law didn't like people in the government.But who would have thought that Zhan Zhao laughed at him for being so afraid of his father-in-law before he got married, the white mouse jumped up, and kept saying that it was because Zhan Zhao had saved him when he was in the Western Regions, so he gave him a favor and looked at Bai Yutang. With Huaying on his shoulders and his back swaying away, Zhan Zhao finally showed a smug smile on his lips.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went to investigate the case, but Lin Ruoqing stayed up almost all night in Kaifeng Mansion, having nightmares again and again. The next day, she didn't get up until Xiaojuan brought her breakfast with big dark circles under her eyes, and told Xiaojuan Juan puts the food on the table, and she will eat it after washing up.

Waiting for Xiaojuan to leave, Lin Ruoqing sat down on the bed again, staring at the ground expressionlessly, motionless.She is in fear, unspeakable fear, this fear has tortured her for two days and two nights, and more than 20 days have passed since the last poisoning, she is afraid of the feeling that tortured her so much that she would feel worse than death, she wants to Zhan Zhao was by her side to accompany her, but he was too busy to be seen. Last night she couldn't help but went to the front yard to look for him, but how could she open her mouth to let him accompany her?She looked at the empty room and put her hand on her heart. The feeling forced her to almost suffocate. She panted heavily, trying to make herself feel better, but there was nothing she could do.

When Xiaojuan stepped into the small courtyard again, she heard screams that were barely human. She was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that Zhan Zhao had told her that if Miss Lin became poisoned, she would notify him as soon as possible, but he