I am imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion

Xiao Aci, the king of Xiping County, is the eldest son of Xiao Xiaomu, the uncle of the Liao Kingdom. He was raised in the palace since he was a child, and was especially loved by the Liao Lord.Xiao Aci was only here to make fun of the Great Song Dynasty this time, to see the customs of the Great Song Dynasty, so he was only counted as an ordinary member of the mission, but his status was the most noble in the mission.

The main envoy of the Liao Kingdom Mission is Yeludouer, the young general Yeludouer, the concubine of the deceased King Nanyuan of the Liao Kingdom.A group of hundreds of people, from officials to servants, are all men.

Han Qi came to deal with the Liao mission's problems at the beginning, because of Yeludou'er's accident.

According to eyewitnesses, about an hour and a half ago, a group of people claiming to be from Kaifeng Prefecture came to the official residence of the mission to invite Yelu Douer away. The deputy envoy and three entourages also left with Yelu Douer.Because it was almost time for dinner, Xiao Aci didn't wait for Yeludou'er to wait for others to come back, but also thought that perhaps Kaifeng Mansion hosted a banquet in honor of Yeludou'er.Xiao Aci was a little displeased, there was Da Song delicacies to eat, and he didn't come to inform him?

When Xiao Aci was getting angry, the mansion suddenly received a threatening letter, claiming that Yeludou'er is now in their hands, and as long as Kaifeng Mansion is willing to make a deal, they will hand over Yeludouer and others intact.

The person who sent the letter was an eight-year-old girl, but she got ten coins from a strange man and came to deliver the letter obediently.Xiao Aci suspected that the little girl was in the same gang as the thief, and in a fit of rage, he directly detained her.Now that the little girl's parents heard the news, the couple knelt in front of the mansion, begging the government to release their innocent daughter.

When Cui Tao arrived at the mansion on horseback, he saw the couple kneeling in front of the mansion, weeping uncontrollably.The wife leaned against her husband helplessly, as if she was about to faint.

The husband and wife noticed Cui Tao's arrival. After the wife was stunned for a while, she looked at Cui Tao, and suddenly realized something, and hurriedly grabbed her husband.

"She should be Mrs. Cui from Kaifeng Mansion, Mrs. Cui who solves the case and solves the case!"

The husband also reacted.

The couple didn't even have time to get up, so they hurriedly knelt and crawled towards Cui Tao's direction, begging Cui Tao to help them and save their poor daughter.

"Taozi is just a child, she doesn't understand anything, it's the bad guys who tricked her!"

Han Zong had just got off his horse, when he heard the woman's cry, he was shocked, frowned and asked, "What did you call your daughter just now?"

"Tao, Taozi." The woman was stunned for a moment, "My daughter's single name is 'Tao', so everyone in the family calls her Taozi."

Cui Tao's boudoir name is seldom rumored, outsiders always call her "Mrs. Cui" or "Cui Qiniang", so the woman does not know that Cui Tao's boudoir name also has "Peach".

Han Zong didn't like this feeling very much, it was obviously a warning and provocation, someone was targeting Cui Tao.

"Last name?" Cui Tao asked.

"My surname is Li." The woman replied in a daze, carefully asking if she had said something wrong.

Cui Tao sneered in her heart.That's a pity, I didn't find the same name and surname, so I can't bear it.Just relying on this to scare her?A little tender.

Cui Tao ordered Li Cai to help the husband and wife up, telling them not to kneel down, and not to wait at the door.If the child is rescued, he will be escorted home. "If you are crying and making noise here, it will easily anger Liao envoys. Their temper is not very good at the moment, so it is not appropriate to add fuel to the flames."

The couple couldn't think about this, and when Cui Tao patiently explained the reason to them, they nodded in agreement.Shuangshuang begged Cui Tao with tears in her eyes, begging her to bring out their daughter. The couple had only one daughter because of their poor relationship with children.

Cui Tao nodded and asked Li Cai to send them back.

Zhang Changte came to pick Cui Tao into the mansion, and explained to her what happened to Xiao Aci just now.

"After Liulang arrived here, he learned about the disappearance of the chief envoy, deputy envoy and others, and immediately dispatched people to conduct related investigations. The king of Xiping County was angry. He not only urged him repeatedly, but also sent a letter to the palace to ask for an explanation, so that the Kaifeng mansion and the Song Dynasty The imperial court must give him an explanation."

"That's all he said?" Cui Tao interjected.

Zhang Chang nodded, "The original words are more ugly, the tone is very aggressive, but the content is the same."

He didn't urge Kaifeng Mansion to search for Yeludou'er as soon as possible, but just wanted to be held accountable.It seems that the Prince of Xiping really doesn't care about the safety of Yeludou'er and others.

"After he finished spreading the fire, he went back to the room and drove away all the followers. He locked himself in the room and said he wanted to be quiet. After struggling in the room for a while, he calmed down. It took only a stick of incense to go back and forth. His entourage knocked on the door and asked, but no one answered, so he went in to check and found that the room was empty and no one was there."

Zhang Chang told Cui Tao that the defense outside the house is indeed as Li Yuan said before, with five steps and one post.Because they are afraid that some thieves will target the Liao mission, and Xiao Aci is the most honorable person in the mission. Now everyone is afraid that something will happen to him, so they protect him very carefully and the guards are very strict.

Zhang Chang couldn't understand how Xiao Aci suddenly disappeared out of thin air under such circumstances.

"We have checked the inside and outside of the house, up, down, left, and right. There is no place to hide, and there is no secret room or tunnel."

"Where is Han Tuiguan?" Cui Tao asked.

"Look at my brain, I forgot to report the most important thing to Mrs. Cui. The king of Xiping County sent a letter of accountability to the palace, and Liu Lang must enter the palace to explain the case in detail."

The higher-ups will inevitably question and exert pressure, and all aspects must be dealt with, and if this matter is not handled well, I am afraid that the relationship between the two countries will become bad, which will cause very big troubles.If the Chanyuan alliance that the late emperor and the Liao Kingdom forged with great difficulty were ruined in this case, no matter who is innocent or not, as long as anyone involved is involved, he will definitely be held accountable and scolded as a sinner.

If the Kaifeng government can't solve this case, rescue people in time, and give a reasonable explanation, the label of "incompetent" will be firmly held, and those who are responsible for solving the case will naturally not do well fruit to eat.

Of course, this case is sudden and the situation is complicated. It is very likely that no one can solve this situation, and it is difficult to deal with such a crisis.But the higher-ups will not study whether it is fair to the incumbent when encountering a major incident. They only need the incumbent to solve the problem.If you are to blame, you can only blame your bad luck, bad luck, but at such a bad time, you are in this position and got involved in this case.

Cui Tao arrived at the residence of the Prince of Xiping, and after walking around the house, he saw several Liao envoys' entourage rushing in.Because of the same rank, these attendants all wore the same clothes and gray blanket hats.They babbled a lot of Khitan, from the tone of their voices and their expressions, they could feel that they were very angry, as if they were asking for responsibility.

Cui Tao couldn't understand what they were saying, so she turned a deaf ear and continued wandering around the house, checking the window sills for signs of being trampled on, and the broken utensils on the ground.Cui Tao found an overturned gouache box on the ground. Most of the gouache was spilled on the ground, but there were traces of being scratched on the gouache.

Cui Tao confirmed it to Zhang Chang and Li Yuan. After the incident, they learned that the king of Xiping was missing, and they took special care to protect the scene and try not to destroy any places where there might be clues.Therefore, no one else has touched this gouache, and the scratches can only be left by the king of Xiping County or the person who hijacked him.

"I see that there are a lot of broken things on the floor of this house, so when you entered the house to investigate, you should pay attention to your steps." Cui Tao sighed.

Li Yuan agreed, "But there is no other way."

Seeing that Cui Tao and the others ignored them, the few attaches of the mission who came to ask for responsibility screamed angrily.One of them specially ran to summon the chief translator to translate their words, and asked Cui Tao, Zhang Chang and others how the case was investigated and how they were found.

"Our chief envoy and deputy envoy have disappeared, and you haven't found any clues. Now even our Xiping County King can disappear under your protection. I think this is your Da Song's conspiracy, just to plot against us The Liao mission wants to start a war. Then we will report the matter to the lord of the country as you wish, and ask him to send troops to denounce it, and ask Da Song for an explanation." The translator Chu Mingjie translated.

While Cui Tao was listening, these attendants watched with anger and disdain.After listening, under the expectant eyes of these attendants, she curled her lips, raised her eyebrows, nodded, and then went back to check the snacks on the sandalwood table.

The four plates of pastries seemed neatly arranged, as if they had not been touched, but judging from the capacity of the plates, the number should have decreased.

The meals in the official residence are all provided by Da Song, how can the wealthy Da Song be stingy on three plates of dim sum?The pastry is not full on the plate, but there is an empty circle?Especially the plate with sweet-scented osmanthus cake is the least.

"When was this snack delivered?" Cui Tao asked.

The maid who was in charge of serving was hurriedly called back and told that the snacks in this room were replaced here before King Xiping returned to his room.

"Is the quantity correct?" While Cui Tao was speaking, she wiped the table with her fingertips, and a few white snack residues stuck to her fingertips.

The servant girl carefully looked at the plates of dim sum, "It seems that there are a few less."

Seeing this, Li Yuan and the others felt a little anxious.Madam Cui likes to eat, they all know it, but in this situation, she still cares about how many dim sums the king of Xiping County of Liao Kingdom eats?At a critical moment, it is important to find someone to solve the case!

As soon as Li Yuan thought this way, the entourage of the Liao Kingdom Mission on the other side raised the same question.The translator translated it and 'rebuked' Cui Tao on his behalf.

Cui Tao still ignored what they said, took the plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cake to his nose, smelled it, and sighed that it was delicious.

"I didn't expect that your mansion has such a good cook!" Cui Tao said with emotion to the maid.

The servant girl had sensed that the atmosphere in the room was dangerous, so she agreed embarrassingly, but she tightened her neck and dared not make a sound.

"You—" Xiao Shagou, one of the attache of the mission, suddenly rushed up to Cui Tao, pointed at the tip of Cui Tao's nose, and cursed in not-so-fluent Chinese, "How dare you ignore the geese, how dare you! !"

"'We'." Cui Tao corrected the attendant's pronunciation.

Xiao Shagou was even angrier, "The goose will make you regret it!"

"What do I regret? Regret that I didn't humbly beg your forgiveness?" Cui Tao asked.

Xiao Shagou looked at Cui Tao, his expression was not so angry, obviously they thought Cui Tao should do this, begging their forgiveness.

"Then I beg, can you forgive me?" Cui Tao opened her clear eyes and looked curiously at the attendant.

Xiao Shagou immediately said it was absolutely impossible.

"So, what regrets do I have? Instead of groveling and trying to coax you into not being able to forgive me, I might as well save my energy, live a decent life, and spend my time investigating cases and solving problems."

After Cui Tao finished explaining, she asked Xiao Shagou and other entourages how long they planned to chatter.

"My Song Dynasty is a country of etiquette, and I can tolerate your foul language, but you and I blocked the way and misled me to investigate the case. I would think it was because of your internal strife, or deliberately cooperating with internal and external parties to frame the case in order to provoke war. us."

Xiao Shagou and the others were surprised, they didn't expect that Cui Tao didn't understand Khitan language, so he could hear them scolding them in Khitan language.Because the translator just translated the non-dirty words they said, he didn't translate those dirty words.

"Your blood-red mouth is spitting people, but the geese are not!" After Xiao Shagou defended, he called Cui Tao shameless in Khitan language. In order to shirk responsibility, he actually blamed them. .

"Really?" Cui Tao sneered.

"Of course not, what do you mean?" Xiao Shagou blinked his eyes, and asked Cui Tao loudly, "You want to apologize with your life for what you said!"

Xiao Shagou suggested to Zhang Chang that Cui Tao should be taken back to Kaifeng Mansion as a criminal and punished according to the most severe punishment in the Song Dynasty.

Cui Tao raised the corner of her mouth and laughed, and flicked off the dim sum crumbs sticking to her fingertips, "The goose can really apologise, roast goose, roast goose, crispy goose...you can choose."

Xiao Shagou pondered for a while in a daze before realizing that Cui Tao's 'goose' was a real goose, and he jumped up in anger.He almost wanted to make a move against Cui Tao, but Kaifeng Mansion was crowded with many people, and those yamen servants were all staring at him, threatening him with their eyes.

Cui Tao checked the bed, but it was neat and clean, and found nothing special.Cui Tao went to check the closet again, and saw a wrinkled robe in the closet.And in a pile of new clothes, I found a set of women's clothes wrapped in it, which was already showing old colors, and then I found a brand new red tube top in a robe.

Xiao Shagou and the others couldn't move their hands, so they moved their mouths.Now he was even more irritable, yelling, scolding Zhang Chang, Li Yuan and others for their inaction, and actually allowed a woman to be arrogant here, humiliating these noble Khitans.

Li Yuan couldn't help laughing when he heard the chief interpreter's translation say "noble Khitan people". Did all the idiots in this world go to Liao Kingdom?

"Fuck your mother's nobility!" Li Yuan couldn't help cursing, not too loudly.

The translator was stunned for a moment, naturally he couldn't translate the words.

However, Xiao Shagou heard this sentence. Although he could communicate in Chinese simply, the Chinese language for swearing was not within the scope of his mastery. After all, the teacher who taught him the language would not teach him how to swear in Chinese.

But at this moment, Xiao Shagou felt that Li Yuan's words seemed to be scolding them, so he asked the chief translator Li Yuan's meaning.

The translator was very embarrassed, he was from the Song Dynasty, so of course it was impossible to cause trouble to the people in his own country, but it was not easy to offend the people from the Liao Kingdom Mission.

The translator could only explain to Xiao Shagou and the others with a smile that Li Yuan was boasting that their mother was also very noble.

"That's what you really mean?"

Xiao Shagou saw that the chief translator nodded affirmatively, his lips moved silently, as if he was repeating what Li Yuan said just now.

Cui Tao still ignored their words, and walked to the door at this time, and found that the door of the room was pushed inward, and there was a small amount of white powder on the ground behind the door, and then confirmed that it was gouache.

Cui Tao turned her head and asked Li Yuan, "Who shouted that the King of Xiping County was missing at the beginning?"

"They, as well as the attendants of the Xiping County King." Li Yuan glanced at Xiao Shagou and the others, and continued to explain, "They knocked on the door and entered, and immediately called out, and the guards at the door immediately notified we are coming."

"When you brought the yamen servants into the house to check, they were all standing at the door?" Cui Tao asked again.

Li Yuan agreed, wondering what question Cui Tao had.

Cui Tao did not answer Li Yuan's words, but instead asked how the defense situation outside Li Yuan's mansion was.

"The entire perimeter of the mansion is surrounded by people from the Kaifeng mansion. It is also a five-step one post. Anyone who enters or exits must pass the customs inspection. Since the disappearance of the king of Xiping County, no one in the mansion is allowed to go out."

Cui Tao looked at Xiao Shagou and the others, and asked if they were honest.

Xiao Shagou was confident, "What are you explaining? I don't even know what you're talking about!"

"Search." Cui Tao said, "Especially in the room of the few of them, if anyone is found, they will be escorted over immediately, regardless of who they are or what clothes they are wearing."

Li Yuan and the others still didn't understand what Cui Tao meant, but seeing Cui Tao's words were so forceful, they knew about the disappearance of Xiping County King Xiao Aci, and she must have known it well.Li Yuan immediately led people, and followed Cui Tao's instructions.

Sure enough, Mrs. Cui's emboldened matter must have a result.

Li Yuan raided a person from Xiao Aci's room. This person was wearing the clothes of the attache of the mission, but according to the number of people, all the attache had just gathered in the room of Prince Xiping, so there shouldn't be such an extra person. Come.

This person was also wearing a gray blanket hat, but his head was bowed so deeply that people couldn't see his face clearly.

"who are you?"

Seeing that he didn't reply, Li Yuan immediately took off the blanket hat of this fellow with the scabbard.The face that was revealed after that made everyone present feel surprised and expected.

The reason why it was 'expected' was because the attitude shown by Mrs. Cui just now made them have this premonition.But seeing with their own eyes that this person is really Xiao Aci, the king of Xiping County, they were still very surprised and puzzled, why is there someone else here, why is Mrs. Cui so predictable again?

After Xiao Aci's identity was found out, he let out a 'chi' and pursed his lips, looking unhappy.

When Li Yuan brought Xiao Aci to meet Cui Tao, Cui Tao was holding a plate of newly arrived osmanthus cake, eating it gracefully.Seeing Li Yuan coming with a young 'attendant' with sword eyebrows and high nose bridge, Cui Tao immediately clapped her hands and stood up, looking as if she was grandly welcoming Xiao Aci.

Xiao Shagou and other entourages were a little bit guilty because Xiao Aci was found, but when they saw Cui Tao's attitude, they immediately became satisfied.Look at these Song dogs, after all, because they made a big mistake, they are very guilty and scared, so they have to curry favor with them Xiping County King.

Cui Tao walked up to Xiao Aci, even though Xiao Aci was tall and mighty, a head and a half taller than Cui Tao, it didn't affect Cui Tao tilting his head to look at him at all.

"How old are you?" Cui Tao opened his mouth, and everyone present changed their faces.

Don't look at the few words in this sentence, but the tone is really rich and flavorful.This is clearly the kind of tone used to tease children, and it feels that the object of teasing is not eight years old, but three years old.

Xiao Aci raised his head high, not afraid of being held accountable by Song officials.But at first glance, the person in charge was actually a woman, and she actually talked to him in such a teasing tone, being ridiculed in public like this, her cheeks couldn't help but feel hot with embarrassment.

"Hiding and hiding, adding chaos to chaos, has always been something that children do." Cui Tao's face became serious, and she glanced coldly at Xiao Aci.

Before Xiao Aji could react more, Cui Tao's eyes turned to Xiao Shagou, mocking what he said before.

"Is there really no internal and external cooperation?"

Xiao Shagou guiltily avoided Cui Tao's gaze, "The goose doesn't know what you're talking about."

"He's still wearing the clothes, do you need me to explain?"

There was a small amount of gouache left behind the door, and Prince Xiping got some on his body after overturning the gouache.He was wearing the clothes of his entourage, and hid behind the door. When Xiao Shagou and others pushed the door and came in, he asked Xiao Shagou to cooperate with him to hide, making him a member of the entourage. Everyone was shocked by the disappearance of King Xiping While searching around, he took the opportunity to sneak out of the room, pretending to be missing.

"Who is still in the mood to eat snacks while throwing things when he is angry? So the Prince of Xiping County should not be too angry and sad about the incident with the mission?" Cui Tao said, looking at Xiao Aci who had not spoken since entering the door. .

Xiao Aci twitched the corners of his mouth and laughed, then lifted his robe and sat down comfortably, with one leg raised and resting on the other.

"It's a little sad." Xiao Aci measured the belly of his little finger, "but that's all! They didn't have the ability to protect themselves, they deserve it! But, what happened to the Liao Kingdom mission in your Great Song Dynasty, Should be held accountable or should be held accountable, I don't care whether I am sad or not."

Xiao Aci's Chinese is very fluent, and he even has a bit of Bianjing accent, which shows that he is by no means a fool.

"What is the meaning of the disappearance of the king of Xiping County?" Cui Tao asked back.

"It doesn't mean much. I'm afraid that if it's just Yeludou'er and the others who have an accident, you don't pay attention to it. If you add me, you will naturally be more nervous. Besides, so many people in the mission have accidents, I will inevitably worry about my personal safety. , With such an arrangement, the thieves will think that I am also missing, wouldn't I be able to escape the disaster?" Xiao Aci explained.

"The king of Xiping County is very scheming and self-interested everywhere, and let Da Song take the blame."

Xiao Aci grinned and showed a mouthful of white teeth. He smiled naively and looked at Cui Tao appreciatively, "It's a pity that I'm not as smart as the little lady."

"The king of Xiping County will go to the palace to apologize now, and show the officials that the disappearance of the mission will not affect the diplomatic relations between the two countries. He also believes that the Kaifeng government will successfully solve the case and give Liao an explanation." Cui Tao said.

Xiao Aci was surprised: "I just praised you for being smart, why are you so stupid, little lady? Why should I say such things for you?"

"The king of the county just made a wrong judgment on me, and he was stupid." Cui Tao pointed to the gouache on the ground, looked at the king of Xiping, and asked Xiao Aci how old he was in a tone like asking a child.

Xiao Aci's face changed suddenly, and he stared at Cui Tao coldly.

"Are you going?" Cui Tao asked softly.

When Xiao Aci met Cui Tao's eyes, his face became more and more ugly, he immediately got up, ordered someone to change clothes, and then entered the palace.

After the idlers had dispersed, Xiao Shagou was puzzled and asked why Xiao Aci did this.It's better to wait and see what happens. Once something happens to Yeludou'er and the others, this is indeed an opportunity.Convey it to the king and let the king make his own decision.

"Shut up, my decision cannot be questioned." Xiao A stabbed.

"But the county king obviously didn't—" Xiao Shagou suddenly realized, "Could it be because of that box of gouache? Since ancient times, heroes love beauties, and it's not shameful for a county king to be young and lustful."

How could he be threatened if it was just because of lust for women.

Xiao Aci blushed and cursed: "Shut up! Get out!"