treacherous world

The noise on the roof naturally caught the attention of Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang. Judging from the internal strength, the person who came should be a master.

Just as Zhan Zhao wanted to get up, Bai Yutang stretched out his hand to push him down, pulled the quilt over and signaled him to continue sleeping, by the way, threw the little tiger that crawled on his lap into his arms, and walked out of the room with a knife.

Zhan Zhao lay on the bed and frowned—he was really treated as a patient!This mouse.

When he arrived at the compound, Bai Yutang looked up at the roof to the west, and his expression turned serious, because the moment he raised his head, a few dead leaves fluttered and fell in front of him, just before the fallen leaves fell to the ground, " With a bang, the fallen leaves spread their wings and flew up. It turned out to be a butterfly.

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, and laughter came from the roof, "The majestic Bai Yutang has fallen into the position of doing odd jobs in Kaifeng Mansion. This person will definitely change."

On the roof, a man in black suddenly appeared.

This person is about 20 years old, with a sharp look, thin eyebrows, fine eyes and an aquiline nose, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth.It's just that he only showed the left half of his face outside, and the mask on the right half of his face was made of leather.This is Dead Leaf's habit. It is said that the other side of his face has severe burns or birthmarks. In short, he has always seen people with half of his face. Is it really this person... But why did he appear in Kaifeng Mansion?The previous case of kidnapping officials from the Western Regions really had something to do with him?

Zhan Zhao heard it clearly in the room, and came up in one breath, saying that Bai Yutang was doing odd jobs? !He hurriedly put on his clothes and ran outside holding the giant que.As soon as he opened the door, before he could take a step outside, Bai Yutang said sternly, "Put on the quilt!"

Zhan Zhao flattened his mouth... His imposing manner was reduced by half, this rat is too disrespectful!

Seeing that he was about to be at the door, Bai Yutang frowned even more, "Go back and lie down!"

Zhan Zhao squinted his eyes at him, depressed—I am the guard of Kaifeng Mansion!

Unexpectedly, Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows and stared back - you belong to me, why are you arguing, go back to sleep!

Zhan Zhao had no choice but to step back a little, feeling that his aura was suppressed, the rat became more and more arrogant!

"Hehe." Seeing that the two of them were still looking at each other, Bai Yutang obviously didn't take himself seriously as before, so he gave a dry laugh and squatted on the roof to look at Zhan Zhao, who was half-receding and half-moving towards the door, " Oh...you are the Zhan Zhao who made Bai Yutang abandon the Jianghu? It's not too bad."

Zhan Zhao glanced at him and was not angry, "Much stronger than you."

Dead Leaf had long heard that Zhan Zhao had a good temper, but unexpectedly, she choked, "He has a good temper, he's even more difficult to get along with than Bai Yutang."

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, has this dead leaf changed its nature?I didn't talk so much before. I usually fight when we meet. If I lose, I go back to practice. Why are you talking so much now?

Zhan Zhao was still aggrieved by what withered leaf said to slander Bai Yutang just now, but Bai Yutang didn't let him come out to have a blast, so he could only look at the withered leaf coldly, and said to himself——you are looking for death.

"Hey, what a scary look." Withered Leaf gestured to Zhan Zhao with a half-smile, "I hate people who use swords the most."

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows slightly, "Why? Same name and surname?"

Withered Ye froze for a moment, then turned his head, Zhan Zhao turned a corner and called him "cheap", and was taken aback—Zhan Zhao is really the gentle and refined person that the rumors say?

Bai Yutang also wondered, this cat is usually docile, but occasionally has a black belly, loves to laugh when he drinks too much, and sleeps drunk, so he can croak when he is sick.

Dead Leaf stood up, obviously he didn't want to make a move or make trouble at this time, and said to Bai Yutang, "I'm not coming to say hello, anyway, we will meet later." After finishing speaking, his eyes changed slightly, and the smile on his face With a bit of weirdness and cruelty, "Hey, Bai Wu, I will cut off your head one day." After finishing speaking, in a flash... over the wall and left.

Bai Yutang didn't chase after him either, but when he turned around, he saw Zhan Zhao standing behind the threshold, grinding his teeth with half of his body stretched out, and he wanted to laugh, "Mao'er, he is this kind of person, what do you care about with him?"

Zhan Zhao pointed at him, "He's talking nonsense, why don't you beat him up?!"

Bai Yutang laughed, "Don't you always tell me not to fight with others..."

"It's different this time!" Zhan Zhao lowered his head, put on his shoes, and was about to step out of the room, but Bai Yutang pushed him into the room and closed the door, "It's windy at the door, you just happen to want to take medicine!"

"Can't swallow this breath!" Zhan Zhao was still a little angry, Bai Yutang laughed, stretched out his hand and patted his head, "It's the dead leaves that can't swallow this breath."

"How to say?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "He said you were doing odd jobs!"

"You still call him cheap." Bai Yutang put down the knife, pulled Zhan Zhao to the side of the bed, stuffed the quilt into the quilt, "don't pay attention to him."

Zhan Zhao saw Bai Yutang wandering around after covering himself with a quilt, he seemed a little hungry, as if he was staring at the dishes on the table, wondering if he should heat it up, or order another table.

Zhan Zhao felt a little sorry, he still cared about what the dead leaf said just now, and dared to say that Bai Yutang was a handyman, and he was too anxious to put on his shoes just now, don't let him see that kid again, he won't be able to forgive him next time.

Nestled in the quilt, Zhan Zhao was full of anger that Dead Ye said that Bai Yutang was a "handyman", but he didn't notice that Dead Ye mentioned him in passing.

Bai Yutang felt that hot dishes might be a bit difficult, and if he poured kerosene on them again, the kitchen might burn down, so he might as well buy them.

Just as he was thinking, there was another sound from the roof.Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao raised their faces and frowned—who is this time?

The man did not stay on the roof, but turned over and landed in front of the door, knocking lightly.

"Master Zhan? Bai Wuye."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were stunned for a moment, their voices were quite familiar.

Bai Yutang went to open the door, only to see a person standing at the door, one of Zhao Zhen's most trusted shadow guards - Nangong Ji.

Nan Gongji entered the room, reached out and took out a roll of yellow handwriting to Zhan Zhao, and said in a low voice, "Master Zhan, there has been some trouble in Kaifeng these days, the emperor asked me to entrust you with a secret investigation, and the specific matters will wait for Master Bao to come back." Later, we will talk about it in detail.”

"Oh." Zhan Zhao took the handwriting, Nangong Ji turned around and left.

Bai Yutang closed the door again, feeling that most of the shadow guards came and went like the wind, and when he turned around, he saw that Zhan Zhao was already reading the manuscript.

The more Zhan Zhao looked at it, the more he frowned. Bai Yutang felt that something might be serious, "Mao'er, go to sleep first, we'll talk about it when you recover from your illness."

Zhan Zhao nodded, and handed the letter to Bai Yutang, "Look."

Bai Yutang took it over, Zhao Zhen wrote very briefly, mainly talking about the imperial tomb being stolen, but nothing was lost.But the person who did it was skillful and seemed to be prepared.Zhao Zhen wanted to know what they took from the imperial mausoleum, or what their purpose was.

"The imperial tomb..." Bai Yutang frowned, "The tomb of the late emperor?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, resting his chin with one hand, "This matter, if you don't take the treasure, it's not considered a tomb robbery. Then what is the purpose of breaking into the imperial tomb?"

After finishing speaking, Zhan Zhao rubbed his stomach, and stretched out his hand to hold Bai Yutang, "I'm hungry again."

"I happen to be a little hungry too, so I'll go and order some more food." Just as Bai Yutang was about to go out, Zhan Zhao grabbed his arm, raised the corners of his mouth, and said with a smile, "I just want noodles, egg noodles. "

Bai Yutang was helpless, "Then I'll buy you egg noodles."

"Don't buy the kind." Taking advantage of his illness, Zhan Zhao asked to eat noodles made by himself.

Bai Yutang had no choice but to do nothing, so he finally nodded, "Okay, I'll do it..."

"I'll go too." Zhan Zhao inexplicably wanted to watch Bai Yutang cook, so he wanted to get out of bed wrapped in a quilt.

Bai Yutang glared at him, "Go back and lie down!"

"I've been lying down for a whole day." Zhan Zhao surrounded the quilt, hugged Xiaohu and walked out, while waving to Bai Yutang, "Come on, I'm starving to death."

Bai Yutang had no choice but to be dragged into the kitchen by Zhan Zhao. He stretched out his hand to touch his forehead. As expected, his fever had subsided. Seeing that Zhan Zhao was alive and well, Bai Yutang asked casually, "Cat, you're all right, why don't you do it? You cook delicious."

"oops."

As soon as the words fell, Zhan Zhao found a chair in the kitchen and sat down, covering his forehead, "I'm so dizzy..."

Bai Yutang was speechless, and stretched out his hand to touch his forehead, "Obviously the fever has subsided."

Zhan Zhao grinned, "Still dizzy."

Bai Yutang had no choice but to roll up his sleeves, walked to the messy stove, reached into the jar to grab the flour.

Zhan Zhao felt that Bai Yutang's embarrassed look was very interesting, and after watching it for a while, he realized——I haven't been here for a long time, why does the kitchen in Kaifeng Mansion look different from the previous one?Taking a closer look, Zhan Zhao broke out in a sweat. Half of the kitchen wall was scorched black. There was flour all over the floor, straw and firewood everywhere. The soy sauce jar and cooking wine bottle should have been intact, but they were broken all over the place. , and there are patches of white on the ground, are those salt?

The more Zhan Zhao looked at it, the more frightened he became. If the kitchen lady came back suddenly...then she would be in trouble.

"Cat." At this moment, Bai Yutang looked back at Zhan Zhao helplessly, "Why don't you go back and lie down for a while?"

"It's okay, you are busy with your work, I will watch." Zhan Zhao looked at it with a smile on his chin, "Yutang, you don't need so much flour."

Bai Yutang didn't know how to do these things in the first place, and Zhan Zhao watched from behind, his mind was as blank as flour.Zhan Zhao laughed viciously, this laughter finally caused Bai Yutang to look back at him with great resentment, Zhan Zhao didn't seem to be sick at all, he was alive and well.

Zhan Zhao is naturally healed. With a body like his, after taking two bowls of medicine, and Bai Yutang taking care of him for two days, he is too healed. Now he is full of energy.

"Yutang, don't you put an egg in the noodles?" Zhan Zhao was wrapped in a quilt and crossed his legs, with the little tiger on his knees and the big tiger on the table.

Bai Yutang looked back at him, "Didn't you put the eggs in when you boiled the noodles?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, "But put one when kneading the noodles, the noodles are more delicious."

Bai Yutang was silent for a while, looked at the flour, imagined the egg again, and had a question, how to put the two things together?Won't the egg flow out?

"Speaking of it." Zhan Zhao looked into the cabinet, "There are no more eggs."

Bai Yutang replied indifferently, "Well, I bought two outside this morning."

Zhan Zhao was silent for a moment, "You mean, you went out and bought two eggs?"

"Yeah." Bai Yutang nodded, taking it for granted.

"How much silver did you give to others?"

"One or two..." Bai Yutang shook his head to indicate that he didn't remember.

Zhan Zhao's eyelids twitched, "Actually, there are reed chickens in the backyard, do you want to touch one?"

Bai Yutang's face turned livid immediately—chicken coop? !

Zhan Zhao stood up with a smile, "I'll go with you."

"No, I'll go by myself..."

"Don't, I'll teach you how to steal eggs." Zhan Zhao continued to pull Bai Yutang away evil-heartedly, and the big and small tigers followed happily.

Bai Yutang glanced back, and found three cats, one big, two small, with very similar facial expressions behind him.

As soon as he walked to the backyard, Bai Yutang breathed a sigh of relief, the chicken coop was quite clean, a few reed chickens were sleeping in the same coop, and the big rooster was sleeping at the door all the time.The rooster's name is Big Red, because it has a big red comb and a big red cheek, which is very fierce.This rooster has been raised for many years. It is a crowing rooster in Kaifeng, and everyone in Kaifeng knows it.

Seeing that someone was coming, Dahong raised her eyes and opened her eyelids to take a look. Seeing that it was Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang, she didn't move and continued to squint.

Bai Yutang coughed lightly, Dahong was blocking the road, how could he get in?

"Oh." Zhan Zhao tugged at Bai Yutang's sleeve, pointed to the chicken coop, "The hen is inside."

Bai Yutang hesitated for a moment, then looked into the chicken coop.

Zhan Zhao squatted and pointed at the hen's belly, "Under the belly."

Bai Yutang hesitated for a moment, then raised his foot and walked over.

I walked to the side of the chicken coop and looked inside. The hens are still sleeping, and there are eggs under their bellies?

Just as he was about to reach out, there was a bad "evil wind" behind him, Bai Yutang quickly dodged, and saw Big Red rushing over with fluttering wings, the hair on his neck was ruffling and clucking, the hens also woke up, clucking their necks.

Bai Yutang backed away quickly, Zhan Zhao's eyes were quick and his hands were quick, he ran to the side of the chicken coop and took out two eggs, Da Hong saw it, and ran after him.

Da Hong taught it to the kitchen aunt, whoever steals the eggs will throw them out, this is a good move, the big yellow dog at the gate in the yard is also alarmed, the big tiger and the little tiger are so shocked that they run up the wall and run away.

As soon as Zhan Zhao pulled Bai Yutang up, the two of them rushed out of the yard and closed the door, and the yard jumped wildly.

Seeing Zhan Zhao in high spirits, Bai Yutang said, "Aren't you sick? You do that side."

Zhan Zhao blinked, stuffed the egg into Bai Yutang's hand, wrapped his hand in the quilt and stretched out his hand to his forehead, "Oh, dizzy..."

Bai Yutang was so angry that he took a deep breath, shook his head, grabbed Zhan Zhao who was "dizzy", and hurried back to the kitchen.

According to Zhan Zhao's "guidance", Bai Yutang cut the vegetables and patted a few slices of garlic with his nose. The noodles were rolled beautifully. After all, he has deep inner strength, so he just patted the white noodles all over.

In addition, the knife technique is also good, the cut noodles are similar to the drawn dragon's whiskers, and they are neat and smooth.

Zhan Zhao taught him several times. After all, Bai Yutang is smart and has good looks, but he can't tell the difference between sugar and salt, cooking wine and sour vinegar.

When the noodles were about to be cooked, Zhan Zhao stopped him.

Zhan Zhao knew why the noodles just now were made of lump soup, "Wait until the water boils before putting it down!"

Bai Yutang suddenly realized, "So...how does the water look like?"

"It's almost done when it's bubbling."

"How many bubbles?"

"How many……"

"One or two?"

……

After a long silence, Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and rubbed Bai Yutang's handsome face with his flour-covered hands.

Boil the noodles and put them into the pot, then add eggs, lift them up and add seasonings, it is different from the batter just now, and two bowls of beautiful egg noodles are ready.

Bai Yutang took a bite with the chopsticks, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

Seeing that he smiled, Zhan Zhao started eating with a noodle bowl, and nodded in satisfaction, "Mm, not bad."

Seeing Bai Yutang laughing while eating, Zhan Zhao wondered, "So happy?"

After eating the noodles, Bai Yutang nodded, "Well, I know how to cook noodles, so I can support you in the future."

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a while, then rushed forward to rub his face again.

While eating noodles, the two of them heard a lion roar from outside the kitchen, "I'm back! Are Xiao Zhan and Xiao Bai back? Madam came back early to make supper for you guys!"

When the two of them heard this familiar and angry roar, their scalps exploded in shock—the kitchen lady is back!

They glanced at each other, looked at the messy kitchen where the cups and plates were messed up, the two stood up holding the noodle bowls, and slipped away to the back window with a "whoosh".

As soon as he stepped out of the courtyard wall of the kitchen, he heard a scream.

Afterwards, the lady in the kitchen yelled even more angry, "Oh! Who the hell tore down my kitchen! Come on! There are thieves in Kaifeng Mansion! Eggs and flour are gone! Oil and salt The sauce and vinegar have been spilled, is this going to cause a big rat? What about those cats, why don’t those cats catch the rats!”

The yamen servants in Kaifeng Mansion knew that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were tossing about in the kitchen, so they all squinted and said to themselves——isn't it just a big rat egged on by a cat.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went back to the house with the noodle bowls in their hands, finished the noodles, put the noodle bowls into a box and stuffed them under the bed...

Bai Yutang pulled back the quilt and stuffed Zhan Zhao in, winking at him, "Throw the bowl into the river tomorrow, and the body will be destroyed!"

Zhan Zhao pinched his chin and nodded earnestly, "Yes, but you have to wash off your flour first!"

……

That night, the lady in the kitchen ransacked the thief from room to room. After taking a bath, Bai Yutang stood beside the bathtub thinking about how to destroy the body and traces of the batter in the bathtub.

As for Zhan Zhao, he was already fast asleep, so he probably enjoyed his meal, and there was a flattering smile on the corner of his mouth as he fell asleep.In the dream, a beautiful white mouse carried a rolling pin and proudly said to a little black cat, "I can cook noodles, and I can raise you in the future!"