I am imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion

Judging from the state of the deceased's entire body, there were no obvious fatal wounds. Because no head was found, the cause of death cannot be determined yet.

Without knowing the fatal injuries and the means of committing the crime, it is difficult to judge the murderer's motive and method of killing, which adds a lot of difficulty to handling the case.

Wang Zhao and others searched the whole city carefully, but still did not find the head of the deceased.

Yuan Feng's family lives in Suizhou, this time he went to Beijing to rush for the exam, and has been living in Yang Erniang's house.This Yang Erniang runs an inn, because the inn didn't have a special name, everyone called her inn "Yang Erniang's house".The inn of Yang Erniang's family is specially for scholars who are coming to Beijing to study or catch exams. The price is cheap and clean.Her family's inn is often full, and if you want to stay, you have to make a reservation in advance and wait for the queue.

It is said that the reason why the price of her inn is so beautiful is that Yang Erniang wants her three sons to study well, so she does not ask for more money, but only hopes that candidates can occasionally give her three sons some advice on their studies. two.

Yuan Feng lived in Room No. [-] of Yang Erniang's house, Dingzi, and lived with another candidate who also took the imperial examination.

After Wang Zhao found Yuan Feng's residence, he immediately brought the candidates who lived in the same room as Yuan Feng to Kaifeng Mansion for interrogation.

Cui Tao saw that the scholar who came to answer the conversation was not very good-looking, his skin was sallow, with two rabbit teeth exposed, he was not tall and very thin, and the robe could not even support him.Cui Tao didn't notice anything at first, but when Wang Zhao introduced this person's name, Cui Tao became ten times more energetic, and looked at the scholar's eyes back and forth several times, so that Han Qi even noticed Cui Tao's strangeness, deliberately He glanced at Cui Tao.

"Jinshi, Ouyang Xiu." Cui Tao felt Han Qi's gaze, and explained to Han Qi excitedly.

Of course Han Qi knew that the candidate was called Ouyang Xiu. Wang Zhao had already said it just now, and he heard it very clearly.

"Look at him, he is a decent person." Cui Tao continued to explain.

Han Qi took another look at Ouyang Xiu, and even though he came to Kaifeng Mansion, his posture remained the same, showing a bit of self-confidence and arrogance, and a bit of sharp edge, compared with ordinary candidates, he was indeed quite good.

Ouyang Xiu still didn't know what happened to Yuan Feng, but he only knew that the people from Kaifeng Mansion called him here because of Yuan Feng.

Yuan Feng and him are from the same hometown and close friends. They took the scientific examination and high school together this spring.Ouyang Xiu was very happy to pass the exam together with him. In the future, he will have such a close friend as his colleague in the officialdom.

Along the way, Ouyang Xiu asked Wang Zhao the reason three times, but Wang Zhao didn't reveal it.Ouyang Xiu lost his temper. Now that he entered the Kaifeng mansion, his complexion was not good, but his manner was still polite and he could not be faulted.

Seeing the unparalleled handsome man in the scarlet official robe in the hall, Ouyang Xiu vaguely felt that he should know something, but because he was worried about Yuan Feng at the moment, he couldn't think of it.Looking at this handsome official, there is also a young servant dressed in light blue men's clothing, who looks so beautiful that he looks like a woman, and his voice is also like a woman.

Weird!

Ouyang Xiu sighed in his heart.

"This is official Han Tui of our Kaifeng Mansion, who is in charge of Yuan Feng's case." Wang Zhao introduced.

It was only then that Ouyang Xiu suddenly realized who this Korean pusher was. Those who participated in the scientific examination would not know the top three in Ding Maoke!Ouyang Xiu hurriedly saluted Han Qi again, his attitude was much more sincere than before.

Cui Tao immediately went to make tea and asked Ouyang Xiu to sit down and talk.

Ouyang Xiu was stunned for a moment, and looked at Han Qi hesitantly, but saw that he had no intention of refuting. Fang knew that this "little servant" might not be simple, but he could make Han Tuiguan indulge him so much.

"Brother Yuan and I have known each other since we were young, and we often discuss articles together. I failed in the first two scientific examinations, thanks to his comfort and encouragement. Now we are participating in Chunwei together and high school together. It is the happiest time, but I don't know that he committed a crime. What's the matter, the labor official Han Tui asked personally?"

Ouyang Xiu got up immediately and begged Han Qi to reveal the truth.

"But there was another conflict because of yesterday's arrest of a son-in-law? He is a restrained person. If he was not provoked, he would never cause trouble. I hope that Han Tuiguan will be considerate and don't punish him severely. He is poor. After studying for more than ten years, it is rare to pass the exam, it would be a pity if some trivial matters delay your future career."

"It wasn't him who caused the trouble, but I suspected that a dismembered corpse might be him." Han Qi asked Ouyang Xiu, did he know if there were any other features on Yuan Feng's body other than the butterfly tattoo on his left arm.

When Ouyang Xiu heard that the dismembered corpse had a butterfly tattoo on the left upper arm and was still headless, he was so shocked that he didn't speak for a while.

After he came back to his senses, he hurriedly said to Han Qi: "He has a butterfly tattoo on his left arm. I asked him about it. It's from his ancestors. The grandsons of Yuan's parents will have this tattoo on their bodies. As for him In other places, I remember that there seems to be a black mole on the back, and there is nothing special about it. But I can recognize his hands. We often discuss calligraphy and painting together, and we are familiar with them after watching them for a long time. But if I want to talk about the characteristics in detail, I say not come out."

Cui Tao then took Ouyang Xiu to the morgue to recognize his hand.

On the way there, Ouyang Xiu noticed that all the government servants passing by would greet this handsome 'little servant' with respect.In front of Han Qi just now, everyone else was rigid, but he was the only one who dared to interrupt casually.Let's say he has a noble status, but he was standing instead of sitting just now, and now he personally took him to such an unlucky place as the mortuary.

After arriving at the morgue, Cui Tao asked Ouyang Xiu to get ready before lifting the straw mat.After all, a headless and dismembered corpse looks a bit scary at first glance, and ordinary scholars will definitely not be able to accept it.

Ouyang Xiu took a dark breath and nodded.

Cui Tao lifted the straw mat and asked Ouyang Xiu to check it.

Ouyang Xiu had the urge to turn his head at the first sight, but he resisted it, and then looked at the hands of the corpse.Then he quickly turned his back and closed his eyes.

"It's his hand." Ouyang Xiu was so sad that he had to hold back his emotions, and said to Cui Tao in a hoarse voice.

Cui Tao covered the corpse, washed her hands with the pomelo leaf water prepared by Wang Siniang, and then left the mortuary room, walking in front of Ouyang Xiu who was calming down in the courtyard.

"Could it be a coincidence?" Ouyang Xiu still had a glimmer of hope, and eagerly explained to Cui Tao, "Maybe there just happened to be a person, brother Yuan, who had very similar hands and the same tattoo on his arm. There is also a mole..."

Ouyang Xiu stopped talking while he was talking, because he knew that it was impossible for three coincidences to happen at the same time.That dismembered body was indeed his good friend Yuan Feng!

"His father brought him up alone, and taught him to read. It was not easy. Because of our similar backgrounds, we got along quite well. Our relationship is closer than brothers." Ouyang Xiu looked up at the sky, forcing himself not to As for shedding tears in front of outsiders.He sighed again and again, somewhat unable to accept the situation in front of him.

After Ouyang Xiu paused for a while, he suddenly surrendered to Cui Tao, begging him to find out the murderer, so as to comfort Yuan Feng who died of injustice under Jiuquan.

"Well, I'll try my best." Cui Tao was infected by Ouyang Xiu's emotions, she agreed in a deep voice, and advised Ouyang Xiu not to be too sad.

Afterwards, Ouyang Xiu briefly described what he knew about Yuan Feng's whereabouts yesterday.

"After the list was released, he was caught by the list. His clothes were torn, and he hurried back to his room to change. I just came back from my teacher's house at that time, and I half-joked that he didn't know what to do. Why don't you choose one to have a look? They are all good. He is not yet married. But he refuses. He misses his cousin in Suizhou very much. He said that in the past, his uncle and aunt’s family thought he was poor, but now that he has achieved success in the scientific examination, his aunt and uncle will no longer despise him. up.

At dusk, whoever revealed the news of his unengaged marriage, people from Wan Shilang's residence invited him to visit the residence, but those people's attitudes were not very good, and they accused him of lying and deceiving them when he was on the list.He had no choice but to refuse, so he had to accept the invitation. "

Ouyang Xiu went on to say that he hadn't seen Yuan Feng since then, and he didn't see anyone coming back all night, so he thought Yuan Feng had to stay at Wan Shilang's mansion for some reason.

"Could it be that someone else was killed in Wan Shilang's house..."

"You can't catch a son-in-law under the list, but you don't have to kill people." Wang Zhao shook his head, feeling that he didn't feel like it.

Li Yuan followed suit and said, "I don't think so either. It's too unworthy to kill people for this matter, and it's so obvious."

"That's not good, but you can't think that they don't do evil because of their high status." Ouyang Xiu immediately retorted, "On the contrary, the higher the status, the easier it is for a person to be arrogant and treat human life like nothing. Examples abound from ancient times to the present. Brother Yuan lied to the stewards of Wan Shilang's mansion before, and lied to them that he was married. It's not impossible to kill someone with pain."

After listening to Ouyang Xiu's analysis, Wang Zhao and others looked at Cui Tao at the same time.

Ouyang Xiu didn't understand why everyone was looking at that 'little servant', so he followed suit.

Cui Tao coughed, and told Ouyang Xiu about her chance encounter with Yuan Feng yesterday, "If you want to tell a lie, I was the one who told it first, so I can't blame him."

Ouyang sighed, and said to Cui Tao: "Mr. Lang also wanted to help him out of good intentions at that time."

When Wang Zhao heard this, he hurriedly corrected Ouyang Xiu that Cui Tao was a woman.

Ouyang Xiu was stunned. At first he heard that Cui Tao's voice sounded like a woman's, so he was a little skeptical, but after going out of the mortuary just now, he calmly faced the corpse as Cui Tao did, so he thought that women couldn't do that. , I thought her voice was unique, different from ordinary men.

Ouyang Xiu hurriedly apologized, but he couldn't help being surprised, how could there be such a woman in Kaifeng Mansion.But right now, he didn't have time to study the reason in detail, the most important thing was to find out the murderer who killed his brother.

"In general, the motives for killing can be divided into three types: desire for profit, desire for sex and desire for attack. The situation in Yuan Feng's family is not good. He is only a scholar who has just graduated from high school, and he has not yet become an official. Sexual desire cannot be considered , and does not involve any power interests, then the only remaining motive is the desire to attack."

Cui Tao felt that the direction of the investigation should focus on vendetta killings, or cases where the murderer committed passionate killings due to momentary contradictions and coincidences.

After Cui Tao's summary, everyone's thinking became much clearer.

Wang Zhao: "Speaking of which, Wan Shilang's motivation is not small." Because there is no interest or sex involved, it also belongs to the third situation.

Ouyang Xiu was amazed by Cui Tao's analysis of the case, and seemed to understand why she would work in Kaifeng Mansion as a woman.He then saluted Han Qi again, and made an excited speech, asking Han Qi to defy power and investigate the case impartially and thoroughly, so that his good brother can rest in peace under the nine springs.

Han Qi saw Ouyang Xiu's uprightness when he spoke, and understood his temper somewhat, and nodded lightly in agreement with his words.

Ouyang Xiu heaved a sigh of relief, thanked him again, and bowed to Cui Tao again, saying that he would bother her too.

"Don't worry, I will try my best!" Cui Tao hurriedly assured Ouyang Xiu.

Han Qi glanced at Cui Tao again, then shifted his eyes to Ouyang Xiu's face, then picked up the teacup on the table, and took a sip of tea.

"Let me go to Wan Shilang's mansion to inquire. If they are really furious and murder because of Yuan Feng's lies, they will be hard to hide their anger when they see me." Cui Tao offered to propose.

Seeing that Cui Tao was determined to leave, Han Qi asked Wang Zhao to take into account Cui Tao's safety, and to come back and inform him immediately if there was any situation.

"Brother Yuan and I have the closest relationship. I know many things about him. Maybe I can help during the investigation." Ouyang Xiu also wanted to do his part, eager to know the murderer of his brother, " Han Tuiguan, can I go with you?"

"I can't." Han Qi's tone was not salty, and he refused flatly.

Ouyang Xiu was embarrassed, but he also knew that his request was not reasonable.However, he thought that Han Tuiguan's attitude towards him was still friendly, and when he refused, he would at least be polite, but he didn't expect that he only replied with such a clean word. It seems that something has changed suddenly?

"I'll do the rough work of investigating the case. Brother Ouyang is a person who serves the court and makes a fuss, so you really don't have to worry about it." Cui Tao assured Ouyang Xiu that she would do her best to find the murderer.

Ouyang Xiu was grateful for the promise, and thanked Cui Tao again.

After Cui Tao left with Wang Zhao and Li Cai, Ouyang Xiu originally wanted to stay and chat with Han Qi. He has admired this talented Han Bangsong for a long time, and he still wanted to stay and wait for Cui Tao to investigate. message back.

But before he could open his mouth, the attendant beside Han Qi told him politely that if there was any situation, he would go to Yang Erniang's house to look for him, and trouble him not to travel far in the near future and cooperate.

Ouyang Xiu agreed, so he had no choice but to leave.Before leaving, he took a look at Han Qi who was busy with official duties over there, and when he said goodbye to him politely, he only responded with a faint 'um', his attitude was not bad, and he still looked gentle and refined.But Ouyang Xiu always felt that something was wrong, what was wrong?

Housekeeper Zhou of Wan Mansion heard that someone was coming from Kaifeng Mansion, so he came to greet him. When he saw Cui Tao's face, he remembered the matter of catching his son-in-law yesterday, and stared round in surprise.

"It's you!"

After learning of Cui Tao's identity, Housekeeper Zhou looked Cui Tao up and down unhappily, and still remembered her revenge for begging for two hundred coins, so he asked what's the matter with a blank face.

"Yuan Feng died and was dismembered. According to insiders, he was invited away by people from your residence before his death, so I came here to inquire about yesterday's situation." Cui Tao said in a business-like tone.

Steward Zhou was first surprised by the news of Yuan Feng's death, and then heard Cui Tao questioning them, he was extremely upset: "What's the meaning of this? Could it be that we suspect that the people from the Minister's Mansion killed him?"

"It's just asking about the process as usual. Steward Zhou, don't be angry. You have a clear conscience. Why are you angry?" Cui Tao found that Steward Zhou was quite tempered, so he wanted to stimulate him to see how he reacted emotionally.

Butler Zhou snorted coldly, "You can say it, but before you say it, you have to make it clear that you helped Yuan Feng lie about our Shilang's Mansion and Hou's Mansion, so what?"

"Then how can it be called cheating? That's called saving face! You can't say in front of so many people that they didn't like your servant's house, right? Making excuses is just a tactful rejection to save face for each other. For this matter It's not appropriate to be serious, and it's even more inappropriate for Housekeeper Zhou to be angry and blame me. We are all human and have brains, so we should understand that all of this is my kindness?"

Cui Tao's words are simply deadly.

"You—" Steward Zhou glared at Cui Tao angrily, pointed at the tip of her nose and wanted to refute her, but found that her crooked reasoning was quite 'reasonable', so he could only curse, "You are so impudent!"

"It's far less rude than just attacking without saying a word, tearing people's clothes."

"You you you—" Zhou Butler was furious.

"I made it clear, now it's Steward Zhou's turn to speak." Seeing that Steward Zhou was very upset, Cui Tao changed his tone and said to him, "He was young, and he was dismembered the second day after high school. How miserable. If Steward Zhou feels sorry for him, please explain what happened yesterday."

Steward Zhou finally sighed, and felt that Yuan Feng was a pity, "We invited someone here yesterday. My family Alang was angry because of his lying, and blamed him. But seeing his sincere apology, he made it clear again. At that time, I had no choice but to hear that he was infatuated with his cousin. Naturally, it was unreasonable to forcibly destroy his marriage. It's not that my third wife can't get married, and arresting him is just to see if it's suitable, and it's not certain. Marriage will be arranged."

Steward Zhou immediately told Cui Tao that their master, Wan Shilang, had kept Yuan Feng for dinner, and Yuan Feng left afterward.

"When I left, the sun had just set, and many servants in the mansion saw it, and they were alive and kicking."

Cui Tao asked the boy guarding the gate where he was going after he left.I learned that going east is the way back to Yang Erniang's house.Cui Tao borrowed brush and ink from the Shilang's mansion, so he drew a portrait of Yuan Feng, and asked Wang Zhao to take the portrait and ask along the way back to Yang Erniang's house from the Shilang's mansion.

Seeing that the portraits drawn by Cui Tao were different from the ordinary ones, Zhou Steward saw that he used the thinnest brush to draw the thinnest lines, yet he drew a portrait that was indistinguishable from a human face. Marvel at her painting talent.

"My A-Lang also loves painting. If my A-Lang sees Mrs. Cui's painting, he will be pleasantly surprised." The "A-Lang" mentioned by Steward Zhou refers to Wan Shilang. When he sent Cui Tao away, his attitude was no longer Back to the original, very respectful and sincere.

"Are there any guests at home?" Wan Erlang asked as he got off the carriage and saw Steward Zhou talking to a very handsome young man.Another luxurious carriage following Wan Erlang's carriage also stopped, and Han Zong got off the carriage immediately.When he saw Cui Taohu, he immediately paced over.

"Investigate the case?" Han Zong asked.

"Hey, you guys still know each other?" Wan Erlang asked Han Zong in surprise.

Han Zong nodded.

"That's really destined." Wan Erlang sighed with a smile.

Cui Tao saluted silently and said goodbye.

"This is the ideal person I told you about." Han Zong said generously to Wan Erlang.

Wan Erlang was taken aback, then looked at Cui Tao, "Is she a woman?"

Han Zong agreed, then turned to Cui Tao and said, "Yesterday the list was released, and I won the Jinshi."

"Congratulations." Cui Tao was unimpressed by Han Zong's introduction, and then said goodbye again and left.

Han Zong immediately bid farewell to Wan Erlang, followed Cui Tao and said, "Investigate Yuan Feng's case? I can help."

"You know again?" Cui Tao replied, leaving faster.Cui Tao came here on horseback, but she didn't ride a horse at this moment, but walked quickly towards the east.

Han Zong naturally continued to follow, and took the initiative to explain to Cui Tao: "Of course I know, I know all the people who took the scientific examination together. I also know where he went after he came to Wanfu yesterday."

Cui Tao knew that Han Zong had something to say, she didn't stop talking to him just now, she pretended to ignore him, just to let him save some nonsense and get down to business.This experience is based on the summary of the Jiaoshi case.

It is impossible for Cui Tao to let go of Han Zong. Regarding her past, Han Zong is the key.

"Then I'll be fine, please tell me, how about I treat you to something delicious in return?" Cui Tao stopped suddenly and asked Han Zong with a good-natured smile.

Han Zong immediately told Cui Tao that after Yuan Feng left Shi Lang's mansion last night, he was invited by Qin Hou's mansion again.

It made sense for Cui Tao to think about it. Since Wan Shilang's mansion could hear about Yuan Feng, Qinhou's mansion would naturally know about it too.But this happens to be the work of the front and rear feet, which is a bit subtle.

Cui Tao returned to Wan Shilang's mansion, and asked Steward Zhou how he got the news that Yuan Feng was not engaged.

"There is a man named Uncle Ouyang Yong, who came to tell us that he is not engaged at all." Zhou Guanjia said.

Uncle Ouyang Yong?Isn't this Ouyang Xiu?

Cui Tao then asked Steward Zhou what Ouyang Xiu he saw looked like.

"He's tall and strong, and his complexion is a bit dark. I didn't pay much attention to his specific appearance. When he spoke, he kept bowing his hands humbly." Zhou Butler recalled.

It definitely can't be Ouyang Xiu, not only his appearance is completely inconsistent, but also his attitude towards people is completely inconsistent.Ouyang Xiu didn't let go of his arrogance even when he met Han Qi, a fifth-rank official, and his posture was neither humble nor overbearing, let alone a domestic servant who had no rank at all.

At this time, Wang Zhaona also found out the news. On the way back to Yang Erniang's house, a street vendor who witnessed Qin Hou's mansion intercepted Yuan Feng halfway.

Cui Tao then planned to go to Qinhou Mansion to ask Steward Zheng about his situation.

"This Marquis of Qin is an instant firecracker, and he has the most violent temper." Han Zong hurriedly explained to Cui Tao.

Cui Tao looked back at Han Zong: "I forgot to ask you, how did you know about Yuan Feng going to Qinhou's Mansion?"

Han Zong smiled and said, "I already told you."

Cui Tao still looked at him puzzled.

"I also won the Jinshi, and I don't have a marriage contract." Han Zong explained.

Cui Tao understands that Han Zong is also the target of "husband-in-law", and he should be very sought-after.Seeing how aggressive Qinhou Mansion and Wan Shilang Mansion are in robbing people, they will naturally not let go of Han Zong, who has a more outstanding family background and appearance.But because Han Zong came from a powerful family, they should only invite him politely.

In this way, Han Zong followed Wan Erlang to Wan Shilang's mansion just now, and it was probably for this reason that Han Zong was invited.

"I have met that Uncle Ouyang Yong mentioned by Steward Zhou just now, and I admire his mother very much. I heard that his father died young and his family was in a bad situation. He couldn't even afford paper, but his mother used di grass stalks as a Pen, writing on the sand, I just taught Uncle Ouyang Yong word by word to get the result now.” Han Zong lamented that Ouyang Xiu’s mother is comparable to Meng’s mother, and a woman with such perseverance and integrity is extremely admirable.

Cui Tao nodded again and again, she agrees with Han Zong very much on this point.It is difficult for a poor family to produce a noble son, especially in the ancient era when the class was solidified.It is really amazing to be able to go against the current in adversity, and the godson won the No.14 in the three-year national exam.

"It's better if I accompany you to Lord Qinhou's house, they will give me some kind of face anyway." Han Zong said.

"I can handle it."

Cui Tao didn't want to accept Han Zong's favor. He always appeared at delicate moments, which made people suspicious.And one thing is for sure, there must be a secret behind Han Zong's ignorance.Out of the instinct of "appreciating all the strange people", Cui Tao did not want to have a human relationship with a person like Han Zong at all.

"I insist on this, you don't have to appreciate it." Han Zong seemed to see through Cui Tao's intention to avoid him.

"Okay." Since the other party said that, Cui Tao would definitely not appreciate it, so he agreed without any burden.

When they arrived at the Marquis of Qin's Mansion, Steward Zheng was very angry when he saw Cui Tao, even though he heard that Cui Tao was from Kaifeng, he ignored him.He made a fuss about this and wanted to file a complaint with Lord Qin Hou. At that time, Lord Qin Hou would definitely settle the score with Kaifeng Mansion.Later, it was because of Han Zong's reconciliation that Steward Zheng was willing to cooperate with the investigation.

"Uncle Ouyang Yong? He was the one who came to our house yesterday to tell us that we were cheated by Yuan Feng. Lord Qin Hou was very angry and ordered us to invite him here immediately to scold him severely." Zheng Guanjia said, "Later It was Wu Niangzi who came forward to persuade him to save him from suffering."

Wu Niangzi is the fifth daughter of Lord Qin Hou. According to Han Zong, now the Qin Hou Mansion wants to choose a husband's family for her.

Cui Tao heard Steward Zheng's description of Ouyang Xiu's appearance, and knew it was a fake, and he met the same person as Steward Zhou of Wan Shilang's Mansion, and he didn't see clearly the appearance of this person.It seemed that this person was well prepared. Not only was he well aware of Yuan Feng's refusal on the day the announcement was made, but he also knew of Yuan Feng's past, knowing that Yuan Feng had never been engaged.What exactly is this person doing this for?Is he the murderer?

"Uncle Ouyang Yong is also a Jinshi in this subject. Although he is a bit ugly, he is rare to be young. Why is no one arresting him?" Wang Zhao saw that the "husband-in-law" is so popular now, he wondered why the two families didn't know about Ouyang Xiu. what kind.

"He was arrested a long time ago." Han Zong explained that Ouyang Xiu was taken a step ahead by the old minister Xu Yan, and he agreed to be his son-in-law after the high school examination.

"It's better to make an appointment in advance." Cui Tao agreed.

At this moment, Han Zong raised his eyebrows suddenly, and said to Cui Tao, "It's time to treat me to something delicious."

"Let's go." Just now that it was getting late, Cui Tao took Han Zong to the Zhouqiao Night Market, ordered a bunch of five-spice hairy eggs, and told the aunt who sold the hairy eggs that he wanted to choose the one that was full of hair and would come out quickly. shell, already has the embryonic form of a chick.

Cui Tao then handed Han Zong a bunch of five spiced eggs.

A man from a family like him should not be used to seeing or eating this.

"Give you!"

Han Zong glanced at the thing in Cui Tao's hand, smiled, took it without hesitation, and thanked her.

"I invite you to eat five chickens at once. Is it enough for me?" Cui Tao asked proudly, but it depends on when Han Zong 'collapses'.

Han Zong smiled, opened his mouth and took a bite, then nodded to Cui Tao, expressing that it was delicious.

Cui Tao looked at Han Zongzhen and ate all five eggs, and smiled at him, "It seems that I guessed right, you really like this."

"Yes." Han Zong agreed.

"It's getting late, I have to go back to Kaifeng mansion, thank you for today." Cui Tao said goodbye to Han Zong, and then strode away.

Han Zong looked at Cui Tao's back calmly, and he didn't retch until she disappeared completely.Seeing this, the entourage hurriedly called him in a low voice, wanting to help him.

Han Zong walked quickly to the wall, vomited while supporting the wall, took the water from his attendant to rinse his mouth, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and threw the valuable silk handkerchief on the ground.

"Erlang, why bother?" Seeing this, the attendant couldn't help feeling distressed.

"What she gave is poison, and I can take it."

When Han Zong's carriage left, Cui Tao emerged from the alley behind, and quickly packed the veil that Han Zong had thrown away with his own small sack for evidence.Then take it back to Kaifeng Mansion, and compare it with the lotus handkerchief found on the woman in Xuanyi.

With the same knitting density and the same degree of luster, the materials used for the two handkerchiefs are the same.The only difference is that Han Zong uses a plain white handkerchief without lotus embroidery.

When Han Qi came to find Cui Tao, he saw her sitting at the table, staring at the two handkerchiefs in a daze.

After learning that the other handkerchief was from Han Zong, Han Qi said, "Coincidence is more clever."

Cui Tao understood what Han Qi meant, even though she felt it was subtle, it was at most a 'coincidence', after all, it was just a 'coincidence', and there was no other evidence to clearly explain what the problem was.

"But his affection for me seems genuine."

When Cui Tao came back from the detour, he saw Han Zong vomited spiced hairy eggs, and he was quite embarrassed at that moment, a character who had come from an unrestrained nature.

When you don't give up your own interests and preferences, being nice to someone is a superficial liking.If you are willing to give up, you will use your affection.Obviously, Han Zong belongs to the latter category.

Han Qi stared at Cui Tao and asked what her plan was.

"In fact, there is one thing that has always puzzled me. Various inferences have proved that someone from the Cui family has a relationship with the Dizang Pavilion. This person calculated and arranged for me to be hijacked in Qingfu Temple, which made me have a relationship with the Dizang Pavilion for the past three years. connection.

After Han Tuiguan posted my portrait, people from Dizang Pavilion secretly watched me and wanted to kill me.But in the end, it wasn't Di Zang Pavilion who directly sent someone to attack me. The person from Cui's family hired Tianji Pavilion to attack me. "

Cui Tao asked Han Qi again, recently, she was still secretly sending people to protect her, but now, as before, she would occasionally find unknown and suspicious people monitoring Kaifeng Mansion or following her.

"Recently there are none." Han Qi thought for a while.

"When I met the woman in Xuanyi at the Town God's Temple, she told me that the owner of the Dizang Pavilion said that if I pretended to have lost my memory, it would still be useful and I could survive; but she didn't say how I should deal with it if I really lost my memory. But the woman in Xuanyi My own judgment is that if I lose my memory, I deserve to die.

Since she is a loyal lackey of the owner of the Dizang Pavilion, her thoughts should reflect her master's thoughts to some extent. "

Han Qi frowned, and speculated: "The Pavilion Master of Di Zang originally wanted you to die, but for some reason, he was willing to reluctantly accept you without amnesia. But if you really lose your memory, she still can't make up her mind, so There was no explicit order."

"Yes, the 'variable' that appeared later influenced the decision of the owner of the Dizang Pavilion, and also made the person in the Cui family who was related to the Dizang Pavilion attack me through the Tianji Pavilion instead. In other words, this Because of a 'variable', both of them changed the way they deal with me." Cui Tao concluded.

"Han Zong." Han Qi's eyes moved to the two handkerchiefs on the table.

Cui Tao nodded, seeing that Han Qi had the same thoughts as hers, she probably understood that her thoughts were basically fine.Of course, other possibilities are not ruled out, but this possibility is particularly high, because the timing of Han Zong's appearance is too subtle and coincidental.

"If Han Zong really has feelings for you, he should protect you. Then during the time when he was participating in the scientific examination and going out under his father's order, you happened to have an accident. Could it be that these two people deliberately picked this time to deal with you?" Han Qi Infer from this again.

Cui Tao nodded repeatedly, thinking it made sense.

Therefore, Han Zong must have a deep relationship with Di Zang Pavilion, so that even the owner of Di Zang Pavilion is afraid of him.But as to what the relationship is and why it is so, it is currently unclear.

This is the most puzzling point. As a son of an official family, Han Zong seems to have a clean background, so how could he have anything to do with people from the Jianghu?

"I don't know the inside story, so I naturally feel strange, but after investigating, I will find that it is just that." Han Qi told Cui Tao not to get too entangled in this kind of problem, "wait and see what happens, and the day will come to fruition."

Cui Tao promised that people are easily blinded by the things in front of them and become blind, and blind people are the most likely to be used by the wicked, and she will not give those people a chance.

Zhang Chang entered the door at this time and presented Han Qi with a roll of six-inch wide tiger skin.

Han Qi took it.

Cui Tao looked curiously at the roll of tiger skin in Han Qi's hand, it was in good color.If there is a large piece of it, spread it on a stool and sit on it, it will immediately have the momentum of occupying the mountain as king.

But there seemed to be something curled up inside the leather, Cui Tao couldn't bear to ask Han Qi what it was out of curiosity.

"For you." Han Qi pushed the roll of tiger skin to Cui Tao.

"So good? Why did you suddenly receive a gift?" Cui Tao happily untied the strap on the tiger skin, opened it, and found that it was divided into many small inner pockets, and each inner pocket was correspondingly inserted with copper tweezers from small to large , and the width and thickness are different, which almost meet all the needs of Cui Tao's autopsy.

"This thing is so good, I wanted to get it for a long time, but I forgot." Cui Tao took out a few tweezers and tried it, and it was very smooth and very good.

"As long as you like it." Han Qi replied calmly.

"Officer Han hasn't answered my question yet, why did you suddenly give me a gift?" Cui Tao asked again, her dark eyes stared at Han Qi lively, as if he would not stop until he gave an answer.

"Miss Cui has made outstanding achievements, this reward is nothing." Han Qi said.

"That's not right. If I count meritorious service, Kaifeng Mansion should reward me, and Han Tuiguan should not pay for it privately." Cui Tao looked at Han Qi anxiously, "That's not an excuse."

"Don't want it?" Han Qi looked at the copper tweezers, seeming to take them back.

"Of course I want it." Cui Tao immediately put the things in her arms, and said aggrievedly to Han Qi, "I'm a little embarrassed because I only accept gifts, and I'm thinking about how to repay Han Tuiguan!"

"You have reported back yesterday." After Han Qi finished speaking, he got up and left.

Cui Tao thought about it for a long time, but she couldn't figure out what she gave back to Han Qi yesterday.As for yesterday's all-deer banquet, she didn't give it back to Han Qi, it was prepared by Han Qi in response to her request and rewarded her.And it had to be said that the wise man knew her well.In addition to the fried deer preserves that were prepared, knowing that she loves food and cooking, she also left room for her to develop, which made her very happy yesterday.

So, the only thing she did differently yesterday was probably calling Han Qi 'Han Liulang'.

No way, Han Liulang made him so happy?

Cui Tao didn't believe that Han Qi was such a contented person, but she believed that some smart person deliberately said this to 'calculate' her.This set of tricks against ordinary smart girls may really make them excited and gradually get out of control, but it won't work for her.

But there is a 'calculation', which just shows one thing: long before she teased him yesterday, he was tempted by her?