Dragon Pattern Roll Set

At noon, the mighty patrol team came to the gate of Kaifeng Mansion.

The guards opened the door to welcome Master Bao's team.

There are spectators on both sides, it is not too chaotic, after all, the people of Kaifeng have seen the world, and besides... if the order is disturbed in broad daylight, or people are bumped into and the shops are damaged, there will be lawsuits.

The fourth son leaned on the car window and opened his eyes wide to look hard.

Gongsun tugged at his clothes from behind to prevent him from getting excited and rolling out of the car like a winter melon.

Zhao Pu was still yawning in Gongsun's carriage.

Gongsun looked at him with his chin in his hand, and remembered what the fourth son said that day, "Jiujiu is like a lazy lion."

Gongsun looked at it and laughed, Zhao Pu looks like an invincible general on the battlefield, but he is just... a lazy lion.

As he was watching, Zhao Pu suddenly opened one eye and looked at Gongsun, "Bookworm, peep at me!"

The corner of Gongsun's mouth twitched, he gave him a white look, and pulled the fourth son over to hug him, "Are there many people?"

"many!"

The fourth son took advantage of the situation and got into Gongsun's arms and rubbed his chest.

"Is it lively?"

"lively!"

……

Gongsun said every sentence to amuse the little four, and he squeezed and kneaded it a few times, and the little four giggled.

Zhao Pu looked at it with his chin in his hand, thinking that being a father is actually quite interesting, every day there is a dumpling by his side, rubbing it for nothing, he is obedient and well-behaved...

I was in a daze when I felt the carriage stopped.

Ouyang probed in, "My lord, the palace is here."

"Oh." Zhao Pu got up and jumped out of the car window without leaving the door. He turned around and said to Gongsun, "I'll go back first. Where are you going to eat later?"

Gongsun shook his head blankly.

"Then you tell Zhan Zhao and the others, wait for me, I have a good place to go!" After Zhao Pu finished speaking, he disappeared in a flash.

The fourth son and Gongsun glanced at each other—the feeling of a local snake!

The carriage moved forward again, and the street became more and more lively. This time, Gongsun couldn't help looking out - Kaifeng was different, the houses were taller, there were more pedestrians, and there were many shops, which was very lively.

Gongsun was nervous, and grabbed the fourth son's belt, "Fourth son, there are so many people here, you have to follow daddy closely, don't get lost."

The fourth son also frowned - this problem seems to be very serious.

"Don't be afraid, I can't lose it."

While speaking, a blue figure came in with a "whoosh".

Zhan Zhao held a greased paper bag in his hand, opened it and it contained special Kaifeng snacks, and handed it to the fourth son to eat, "Sissy son, fill up your stomach first, I guess it will take a while to eat, and Zhao Pu will treat you later."

The fourth son stretched out his hand to eat the pastry, and at the same time stuffed a piece into his mouth for Gongsun.

Gongsun asked Zhan Zhao, "Where's Bai Yutang?"

"I'm going home to put my luggage first." Zhan Zhao clicked his tongue twice, "Xingkong Island really has strong financial resources. I only now know that the mansion and half of the mountain in Kaifeng Chengdong are owned by Xingkong Island."

The fourth son was surprised, "Is Baibai so rich?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, "That's right, it's not ordinary people who are rich, and we'll take care of the rich in the future!"

"Eating a big family?" The fourth son tilted his head, and Gongsun stuffed him with a piece of pastry, telling him to stop talking nonsense, and asked Zhan Zhao, "Where's your cousin?"

……

Speaking of which, apart from Zhao Pu, Bai Yutang and the fourth son, the others didn't know exactly who Yinhou was from Zhan Zhao.

Although Gongsun and Mr. Bao were not stupid, they didn't ask if there was anything to do with their family affairs, and just said "cousin" to avoid trouble for Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao also frowned when he heard that, "I don't know, I met him when we left Tianshan that day, and said that we met an acquaintance, let us leave, don't worry about him."

Zhan Zhao wasn't worried about what would happen to Yin Hou, it wasn't the first day he had seen the dragon, but he was a little worried because he was getting old after all.

At this time, Grand Master Pang's team also left the crowd, and the carriage turned to the Grand Master's Mansion nearby. Before leaving, they did not forget to wave to Gongsun and their carriage.

The fourth son lay down in front of the window and waved goodbye to Grand Master Pang.

Gongsun suddenly asked Zhan Zhao very curiously, "I heard that Grand Master Pang is notoriously bad, so he was nicknamed Old Crab. His lawless son Pang Yu is known as Little Crab. It's okay."

Zhan Zhao tutted twice and waved his hands, "Sir, don't be preconceived. How could Grand Master Pang outside be the same as Grand Master Pang in Kaifeng?"

Gongsun expressed his incomprehension.

"The real bad guys these days are so bad that people can't see it. You are a genius doctor. It's harmless to have a good relationship with you. I'm good at kung fu, and I can save his life at critical times. Zhao Pu is a high-ranking man and Bai Yutang is also a human In the dragon and phoenix, the Grand Master naturally has no time to curry favor, so why offend him. Besides, we have no conflict of interest with him, so we can just laugh when we meet, but if there is any serious matter, then the Grand Master will be wiped out for himself... But don't worry, he has weaknesses."

"What weakness?" Gongsun was curious.

"Lord Bao." Zhan Zhao smiled and nodded at Gongsun, "Don't worry, I have appraised the whole of Kaifeng, and Master Bao is the worst! The grand master is obedient!"

Gongsun sighed softly, "Actually, everything else is fine, but I'm afraid I won't be able to handle things like fighting between officials and officials."

Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, and squatted beside Gongsun and patted him lightly on the shoulder, "Sir, you only care about treating patients and saving people, and don't care about other things. It doesn't matter even if you are outspoken and offend people. The Kaifeng mansion is surrounded by adults, and Wu has me. Anyone will be hurt." Not you and the fourth son."

Gongsun looked at Zhan Zhao with a smile, he really deserved to be a hero, and he made a promise casually, but it was very reassuring to hear.

Gongsun shook his fist at Zhan Zhao, "Thank you, brother Zhan first."

Zhan Zhao shook his fist at him, "Be polite."

Zhan Zhao picked up the fourth son and shook it, "Sir, how about living opposite me? I live in one of the two rooms in my yard, and there are quite a few cats in the yard!"

When the fourth son heard that he could live with Zhan Zhao, he clapped his hands happily.

Gongsun was naturally happy too. Being neighbors with Zhan Zhao must be a lot of fun every day.

The mighty team finally stopped in front of Kaifeng Mansion.

Gongsun got out of the carriage and looked up - he was shocked.

The fourth son opened his mouth wide, "Wow, Kaifeng Mansion is so big?"

Gongsun admired secretly in his heart, he thought it was only a little bigger than an ordinary yamen, but he didn't expect it to be so big.

The yamen servants and soldiers returned to their respective positions. As soon as Zhan Zhao got out of the car with his fourth son in his arms, he saw a group of servants running out of the gate to help carry things, followed by a dozen young maids.

Zhan Zhao carried the fourth son in his arms, entered the gate of the mansion with Gongsun, and introduced to Gongsun, "The front is facing north and south is the yamen lobby of Kaifeng Mansion, and the back is the office shed, where the yamen servants are on duty on weekdays. The courtyard is where the yamen servants live, the playground over there is used for military training, and there is a small military camp over there, and Kaifeng Mansion has five hundred elite soldiers stationed there."

Zhan Zhao pointed to the west side again, "The kitchen and storeroom are over there, and the family members' residences are mainly in the back. The maids also live there, so we basically don't go there very often."

Gongsun nodded, and sighed once again... that's right, there are so many people, it's not big enough!

"There is a garden in the back," Zhan Zhao introduced, "There is a small building in the garden, which is a library, and inside is Mr. Bao's private collection of books, there are many of them!"

Gongsun's eyes lit up.

"Then behind the garden is Master Bao's study, behind the study is the master's bedroom, next to the yard where we live, and Zhang Long Zhaohu Dynasty Ma Han's, there are some guard rooms behind the study, there are also guards in Kaifeng Mansion at night They will patrol, but there are not many people, and they work in three shifts." Zhan Zhao said, jumping up and pointing to the back, "there is a back door at the end, and the house outside the back door also belongs to Kaifeng Mansion, and there are ancestral halls, porridge shops, and charity halls ,pharmacy……"

The fourth son and Gongsun listened with their faces up and their mouths open.

"There are cells and places for temporary detention of prisoners in the back. There are garrisons all around. There is also a relatively large dungeon for serious offenders. It is connected to the sky prison in Kaifeng City at the back, and finally you reach the mountain forest. On the mountain is mining. The quarry, where prisoners will work, and there is a paddock behind the forest. However, the paddock does not belong to Kaifeng Mansion. Military generals or young princes in the court like to go hunting in the paddock. There are roe deer, roe deer and the like, but there are no wild animals. .”

Gongsun nodded frequently—the scale of Kaifeng Mansion is really big enough.

While speaking, a middle-aged man in his 50s came over to salute Zhan Zhao, "Master Zhan."

Zhan Zhao returned the gift and introduced to Gongsun, "This is Bao Fu. Uncle Fu has been with Master Bao for more than 30 years. He is the housekeeper of Kaifeng Mansion. For things other than official duties, you can just ask him." After introducing Gongsun and the fourth son, Bao Fu hurriedly saluted, and took the two little maids who were staring at the fourth son and holding their faces, to clean up the house for the grandson and grandpa.

Looking at his back, Gongsun always felt that he was shrewd, rivaling Bai Fu, the housekeeper next to Bai Yutang.

"By the way, there are four gates in total in Kaifeng Mansion. The one on the south is the gate of the yamen, which is rarely used. The west gate is facing the busiest street in Kaifeng Mansion. There is a room at the gate that is empty. My lord was still worrying about it before. What would you like to order, this time there is a pharmacy, and you can go to the doctor if you have nothing to do." After Zhan Zhao introduced it to Gongsun, he took one big and one small into the garden.

There are no exotic flowers and plants in the garden, it is just an ordinary yard, but the trees are well planted. The plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum are very elegant, which shows that someone has taken good care of it.

"Master Bao likes to take care of flowers and plants in the yard when he is thinking, so the heavier the better." Zhan Zhao smiled a little embarrassedly, "But when I am thinking, I like to pick a few flowers and leaves, so Master Bao Forbid me to enter the garden empty-handed."

Gongsun and the fourth son looked at each other and smiled, and heard a "meow".

The two looked up at the wall, startled.

I saw a lot of cats lying on the fence, on the rockery, on the tree trunks, of various breeds, some were lazily taking a nap, and some were wagging their tails.

"There are so many cats." The fourth son wondered.

Zhan Zhao was a little helpless, "Oh, I don't know if I was born to attract cats. Anyway, wherever I live, I usually attract a few cats. There were only two or three, but the kitchen aunt and the little maids brought food. Hey, maybe those cats go out and spread the word, you can see that they attract so many."

As he said that, Zhan Zhao did not forget to remind the fourth son, "Little maids will bathe cats, but it's better not to hug them, and be careful of attracting bugs."

"Don't be afraid." Gongsun patted the small pouch on the waist of Xiao Sizi, "Bring some herbs, and you won't get any bugs. I'll write a prescription later, and everyone will bring some with you, so you won't be afraid of bugs."

Zhan Zhao was naturally happy. Having a doctor is different. It is great that Gongsun lives in Kaifeng. This is a genius doctor, even more impressive than the palace doctor.

The whole Kaifeng mansion gave Gongsun the feeling of grandeur, simplicity but not simplicity, elegance, cleanliness, orderliness, and strong human touch.

Gongsun's imagination of Kaifeng should be a cold yamen, so he never understood why Zhan Zhao, who is so cheerful and cheerful, can live there. It turned out to be far from that, except for the yamen lobby in front, and a big mansion behind.It can be seen that Mr. Bao is very kind on weekdays, and those maids are very lively, but they are also very polite. They are really worthy of the talent of the prime minister.

After Gongsun tidied up and saluted roughly, he turned around and saw that the fourth son had disappeared, and there was a chattering sound in the yard.

Gongsun went to the door and took a look, he saw more than a dozen beautiful young maids forming a circle, looking at the youngest son in the circle.

The fourth son has grown up so much, and he didn't see so many women all at once. He held a large handful of snacks given to him by the maids, and looked quite shy.

Gongsun couldn't laugh or cry, it seemed that no matter how busy he was, the fourth son would have someone to play with him.

Just after noon, Zhao Pu sent someone to invite him, saying that he would have dinner at the Diju Building opposite the Prince's Mansion.

Gongsun rubbed his chin, "The name sounds so beating..."

"Diju Building is actually a name, because it is facing the palace." Zhan Zhao said with a smile, "The crabs there are good."

Gongsun wanted to laugh, Zhan Zhao is not only a hero but also a foodie, he seems to know what is delicious, but it's also strange, he doesn't look fat after eating like this, could it be because he is too active?

Bao Zheng and the others went on tour this time and solved several major cases. After returning to Kaifeng, there were no outstanding cases, so everyone was very relaxed.

But Lord Bao seemed to have something on his mind, so he didn't go to dinner with Zhan Zhao and the others. He ate a couple of bites in a hurry, made an appointment with Grand Master Pang, and went to find the Eighth Prince, and brought Tong Dabao with him, probably related to the case of Empress Peach Blossom.

Zhan Zhao felt that the case was outrageous, so he didn't want to ask more questions.

When he arrived at the gate of the Emperor's Residence, Zhan Zhao scanned around first—there was no white horse!

Everyone went upstairs, and in the private room on the third floor, Zhao Putuo was listless, yawning with his face scrunched up.

Zhan Zhao, Gongsun, and the fourth son entered the door, and he was a little puzzled when he saw this scene.

The fourth son climbed up the stool and asked Zhao Pu, "What's the matter with you, Jiujiu?"

Zhao Pu looked up at the sky, "It's better to go outside, it's clean..." He said, and asked Zhan Zhao, "Do you still have a bed in Kaifeng Mansion? I'm going to stay overnight."

Zhan Zhao frowned when he heard that, he can't live in such a big palace, why live in Kaifeng mansion?

Ouyang Shaozheng blinked at Zhan Zhao, and whispered——I was read by the empress dowager!

Zhan Zhao is clear, since ancient times, every hero has been afraid of his mother.

The fourth son was curious and asked Zhao Pu, "Jiujiu, why does your mother miss you?"

Ouyang smirked, "It's not just those few words, hurry up to get married, hurry up to have a baby, and hurry up to look like a person."

The fourth son was puzzled, "Isn't Jiu Jiu a human being now?"

Zhao Pu curled his lips, shook his head and said to the fourth son, "In this world, there is an enemy that can never be defeated!"

The fourth son opened his eyes wide.

"Mom!" Zhao Pu said earnestly, "You can't fight but you can hide!"

Gongsun laughed, "You are so old, it is the right thing to start a family, what are you hiding, you are not filial!"

The corner of Zhao Pu's mouth twitched.

The fourth son blinked, "Jiujiu wants to marry someone?"

"puff……"

Ouyang Shaozheng took a sip of tea, Zhan Zhao carefully studied the recipes on the wall, and glanced at the main road outside the window from time to time——Bai Yutang is still not here?

Zhao Pu looked at the fourth son with a funny face.

Gongsun stretched out his hands to pinch the fourth son's face, "You are here again, the man is married, and the woman is married!"

"Oh." The fourth son thought for a while, and asked Zhao Pu very concerned, "Who does Jiujiu want to marry?"

Zhao Putting his chin, curling his lips, "No one is interested."

"Hello." Ouyang Shaozheng bumped Zhao Pu with his elbow, "There will definitely be a lot of marriage proposals at dinner tomorrow, how do you deal with it?"

Zhao Pu's face stretched, "Can't you go?"

"Where are we going to eat tomorrow?" Gongsun was curious.

"By the way, the emperor will invite civil and military officials to a banquet tomorrow. By the way, he will receive the envoy. Everyone will go." Ouyang explained to Gongsun.

Gongsun nodded, thinking that there should be nothing wrong with him, but Zhao Pu's forced marriage should be quite interesting.Zhao Pu picked up the cup and wanted to drink some water, but he saw that the fourth son beside Gongsun was looking at him with squinted eyes, and there was a small pimple between his eyebrows, as if he was dissatisfied.

Zhao Pu thought it was interesting, so he lowered his head to ask him, but the fourth son turned his face away and ignored Zhao Pu.

Zhao Pu was puzzled and stared at him.

The fourth son pouted, obviously angry with Zhao Pu.

Zhao Pu scratched his head—how did he offend him?

What is the little four angry about?Angry at Zhao Pu's sentence - no one is interested!

Ouyang held his chin, "I'm so hungry, can't I have dinner yet?"

Zhan Zhao looked outside, "Bai Yutang hasn't come yet? Has no one notified him?"

"I delivered the letter early in the morning." Zi Ying jumped off the roof, followed by Zhe Ying, and the two seemed to have been watching the roof for a while, "Is there something that's delayed?"

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, "No way, if he didn't come, he would send someone to deliver a letter, wouldn't it be..."

"What's wrong?" Zhao Pu saw that Zhan Zhao suddenly became serious, and thought that something must have happened.

Unexpectedly, Zhan Zhao was silent for a while, and then asked, "Maybe you lost your way?"

Everyone raised their foreheads...

Just as he was wondering, he heard light footsteps at the door, then the door of the private room was pushed open, and Bai Yutang walked in.

As soon as he entered, everyone in the room turned to look at him with a "swipe".

Bai Yutang froze for a moment, looked back at the crowd in confusion, realized that he might be late, and said, "Sorry."

Zhan Zhao held a chopstick in one hand, stared at Bai Yutang up and down, and finally landed on his shoulder, "There is a petal on the shoulder."

Bai Yutang frowned, stretched out his hand to pat it, and a pale pink petal fell off.

Gongsun stared at the petals on the ground, touched his chin, "It's peach blossoms by visual inspection."

"There's mud on the shoes..." Ouyang tutted his head and shook his head, "Are you in a hurry?"

"Yeah." Zhao Pu nodded, "Mud is plaster, and there is almost no such thing in Kaifeng City. You live in the east, but there are mountains in the eastern suburbs... have you gone up the mountain?"

Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes, "In the mountains in the eastern suburbs, there are orchards in the east, and the wild forests in the west are uninhabited. It seems that it hasn't rained in the past few days, and the soft mud is only in the east. Have you gone to someone else's orchard?"

"Since you have peach petals, you should go to the Peach Blossom Forest." Zhao Putting his chin and grinning, "Could it be that Fifth Master Bai also wants to meet Peach Blossom Empress?"

"Are you looking for peach blossoms too?" Ouyang was surprised.

"Isn't that superfluous." Zhan Zhao held a cup of tea and blew and blew, "You don't need to ask for peach blossoms, just show your face and the peach blossoms will bloom."

Bai Yutang went to the table and sat down without a word, looked at everyone, "I really met Peach Blossom Empress."

Everyone was taken aback, and stared at Bai Yutang with a squeak.

Bai Yutang was silent for a moment, then said, "I'm joking."

……

With a faint smile on Bai Yutang's face, Zhan Zhao took a breath -- Bai Yutang was joking!

Ziying tugging at Zheying—has something good happened to Bai Yutang?Millennium facial paralysis is actually a joke!

"Speaking of which, why did you go to the orchard?" Zhan Zhao wondered.

"A strange thing happened." Bai Yutang said, "There is a servant girl in my village. It seems to be called Tao or Xing. I don't know what happened. She disappeared."

"Missing?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "Did he get lost or something happened?"

"I didn't know at first. When I wanted to go out to eat here just now, I saw a few maids crying at the door, so I went to ask." Bai Yutang frowned, "It seems that the girl was just abandoned by a heartless man a month ago. Just depressed, that heartbroken man married a girl from a rich family, and even sewed, he blamed that girl, which made her commit suicide by jumping into the river, but fortunately, the people in the village found out and rescued her in time."

Gongsun shook his head, "There are a lot of heartbreakers these days."

Zhao Pu nodded, "It's a bit wicked."

"Three days ago, that maid suddenly took candle paper money and went out in the middle of the night."

"In the middle of the night?" Gongsun was surprised, "What are you doing with candles and paper money?"

"A maid who knew her well said that she hated that man very much and wanted to take revenge. Before going out that day, she seemed to say that she had a way to deal with that man." Bai Yutang shrugged, "That maid thought she might be going I didn't stop burning incense and cursing in the temple, but she has been away for three days and hasn't come back yet."

"Don't tell me something happened." Ouyang said, "I can't think of going to die with that man, but I was murdered first."

Everyone also felt suspicious, but why did they take the incense stick money to take revenge?

"The guy at the door said that the maid was heading towards the orchard." Bai Yutang said, "I went to the orchard before I came, and I met an old man who was looking at the orchard, and said that I did see a girl enter the orchard that night. Yuanzi, he was startled at first and thought it was a female ghost, but the girl asked him how to get to Peach Blossom Forest."

"It's Peach Blossom again?" Zhan Zhao frowned, why did he not have anything to do with Peach Blossom when he came back?

"I went to the Peach Blossom Forest, but I didn't see anyone, but I picked up something." Bai Yutang took it out and put it on the table, and he saw it was a bracelet of peach pits.

The peach pits are carved into exquisite flower shapes, and it is hard to see what flowers, there are seven in total, and they are worn with a red cotton rope.

"Is it exquisite?" Gongsun took it over and looked at it.

"There are still words." Bai Yutang pointed to the back of Peach Blossom.

Gongsun turned over the peach blossoms one by one, and saw that there were indeed seven words on the back of each peach blossom. Gongsun read it for a while, and read a sentence smoothly——Cao Jianhuo burns the dead body.

"Who is Cao Jian?" Zhan Zhao was curious.

"I went back and asked, and it is said that it is the heartbreaker." Bai Yutang replied.

"The servant girl carved it herself?" Zhan Zhao took a look at the chain, feeling full of resentment, "The fire burns the whole body..."

Zhao Pu said to Ziying and Zheying, "Go and find out about this Cao Jian."

"Yes." Ziying and Zheying left.

Zhao Pu saw that the atmosphere suddenly became serious, and said, "Oh, it's normal for a woman these days to turn her face and cast multiple curses. I don't think there will be any big troubles. Let's eat first."

Bai Yutang nodded and agreed, so everyone put down their minds and ate.

But after eating half of the meal, Ziying and Zheying ran back, and brought a shocking news—it was said that last night, a fire broke out in a house in the south of Kaifeng Prefecture, and the study room collapsed. The uncle was burned to death, and was hit by the hot beams, killing him without a whole body.That person is called Cao Jian!

After hearing this, everyone didn't know how to reply for a while.

After a long time, Zhan Zhao shook his head and said, "I just encountered a peach blossom debt, and this time a peach pit curse came out, who is going to be against Tao Zi?"