Kaifeng Mansion's Little Boss

"Where did you go so late? Did you secretly go to see the oiran Furong like Wang Chao and the others?"

"I went to the prime minister's mansion." After Bai Yutang told him frankly, he asked Su Yuan, "What do you need from me?"

"I want to ask Master Wu for help, but I haven't seen him come back for a long time, so I went to find Bai Fu by myself." Su Yuan asked Bai Yutang what he was doing at the Prime Minister's Mansion, "Avenge me?"

Bai Yutang agreed, "It counts."

"I just had a conflict with Xianglishi today, and she had an accident that night, so it's easy for people to think of you."

Su Yuan was not worried about what happened this time, but worried that if Bai Yutang encountered similar things in the future, if he was so impulsive, he would bring danger to himself.

"will not."

After Bai Yutang returned to Su Yuan with a cool voice, a lonesome and indifferent face was facing Su Yuan. Although his appearance was not ordinary, it was a little alienated.

Su Yuan suddenly felt that there was nothing to say. Even if you talked as long as the water mat, the other party only answered you with two or three words, and even the best enthusiasm would be dampened.

Su Yuan said goodbye, turned around to leave, but was stopped by Bai Yutang.

"Waiting for me so long at night is why you said this?" Bai Yutang said with a bit of resentment, "You don't even say you miss me."

"Why do I miss you? I can see you every day." Su Yuan replied casually.

Immediately, she saw Bai Yutang looking at her dissatisfiedly with cold eyes.

It was only then that Su Yuan came to realize that the reason Bai Yutang put on a cold face at first was because he didn't hear the love words he was expecting and had an opinion.

Bai Yutang heard Su Yuan's casual tone, and immediately withdrew his arm blocking Su Yuan, "You go."

There was clearly an element of anger in the voice.

"If I really leave, Fifth Master will be so angry that he won't be able to sleep all night?" Su Yuan sighed in her heart that Bai Yutang was a child, but she still grabbed Bai Yutang's skirt and coaxed him, "Okay, I think is you!"

Bai Yutang snorted softly, "Coax me?"

"Then do you want to listen?" Su Yuan asked.

"Let's just listen." Bai Yutang's mouth was filled with uncontrollable joy, but his face was still stern.He pulled Su Yuan into the house and handed Su Yuan a bag of Fengyumei.

When Su Yuan was unpacking Feng Yumei, he heard Bai Yutang explain that he was not as impulsive as she thought, and that he went to the Prime Minister's mansion this time to clean up the mess for her.

"Huh?" Su Yuan exclaimed when he saw Feng Yumei.It was difficult to determine whether Su Yuan was moved by Bai Yutang's explanation, or was amazed by Feng Yumei's specialness.

"The seller is an old man over [-] years old. He only comes out a few times a month. It's not easy to come across it. Today is a coincidence." Bai Yutang believed that Su Yuan was amazed because of the food.

Su Yuan ignored Feng Yumei and asked Bai Yutang, "How to clean up the mess?"

"I added some ecstasy grass to the incense burner in Xiangli's room."

Bai Yutang then briefly explained to Su Yuan the effect of the Ecstasy Grass.

The ecstasy grass can stimulate people to vent their depression, and it is mostly used by doctors to treat heart diseases.The price of this medicine is very expensive, only wealthy people can afford it, and there are not many people suffering from heart disease, so the effect of the Ecstasy Grass is rarely known to the world.Nowadays, only a few quack doctors who are good at curing heart diseases have the secret medicine containing the ecstasy grass, but even if they have the formula, they may not be able to get the medicine.The source of this medicine comes from Miaojiang, and you have to find the right person to buy it. A plant of grass costs 200 taels of silver.

"Adding this medicine to her will help cure her heart disease, and it will do no harm to her body."

"It cost 200 taels!" Su Yuan felt distressed.

Bai Yutang corrected: "It's 400 taels, and two plants were placed."

"Then I'll be doubly distressed."

Su Yuan then put a Yumei plum into his mouth, said "hmm" twice, and praised the taste of Fengyumei, which is slightly cool in the mouth, and it is the refreshing taste of mint. Afterwards, he tasted the fragrance of roses. The sweet and sour taste of the honey pickled plums also came out.

"When making this rain plum, first wrap the plum with rose petals, then soak it in honey, and then add mint."

Bai Yutang just explained, and took one and put it in his mouth.He doesn't really like this kind of candied sweets, but he likes the feeling of eating the same food as Su Yuan.

Su Yuan waited for Bai Yutang to finish eating the one in his mouth, and offered one to his mouth.

Bai Yutang was stunned for a moment, before he opened his mouth and lightly bit the Yuyumei in Su Yuan's hand.When Su Yuan's fingertips brushed the corner of his mouth lightly, it only brought a slight itch for a short time, but the heat on his cheeks caused by it was hard to dissipate for a long time.

Bai Yutang closed his eyes and coughed twice, and drank another half cup of herbal tea.

Su Yuan was very curious about the effect of this ecstasy grass, so the next morning, she sneaked to the Prime Minister's mansion to guard it.

Because the hiding place was a little far away, she couldn't see the specific situation in the room, but she could hear the quarrel between Xiang Lishi and Du Yan from inside the room, followed by the sound of porcelain breaking.The maidservant walked out in a panic, and then invited Du Shen and Du Yi brothers to help persuade them to make peace.

In the end, Du Yan walked away, and Xiangli cried bitterly in the room.

"To be honest, Madam Rong, Madam couldn't control her temper this morning. How could Madam really tell the master what's in her heart? It's too late!

The madam had already told the master about Miss Su's rudeness and disrespect yesterday, and she brought it up again this morning and slandered her girl severely. "

The master is not an ordinary man, he is the prime minister of a country, he has a thorough understanding of people and things, and he is very self-determined.Besides, the master told his wife earlier that the fourth son's marriage can't be settled. He also praised Miss Su as a heroine, and he has always had a good impression of Miss Su.

Now that Madam is slandering others with vicious words, how can she not annoy Master?I really don't know how my wife, who has always been able to hold herself and endure, is so impulsive today.That unruliness and savagery were even more vulgar than the servants of them seemed.

The mother-in-law was puzzled in her heart while comforting Xiangli with good words, reminding her not to lose her temper like before.

"Why should I endure it? I'm the only one in this family who wants to accommodate this and take care of that. Who ever thought about my feelings? I just want to say what's in my heart and let them know how hard it is for me." Xiangli said slowly Taking a deep breath slowly, weeping uncontrollably, "I've endured it for too long."

Xiangli felt that he felt much relieved after venting in this way.But thinking about the follow-up matters, she felt a headache, how should she explain to Du Yan?How should I face the two sons who have seen her playful?

"Mother." Du Yi went and came back again, and brought a bowl of shock soup to Xiangli.

Seeing that the youngest son not only didn't get scared away, but also came to serve her specially, Xiangli was very relieved, and it turned out that the youngest son was the closest to her heart.

After Xianglishi drank the Jingjing soup, Du Yi cautiously asked Xianglishi if he could calm down.

"It's much better." Xiangli took Du Yi's hand and praised him as a good boy.

"Mother, Miss Su is not the kind of person you think. She has a pattern that many women don't have. She is both wise and brave. She has solved so many major cases in Kaifeng Mansion, and now she has been personally appointed as an official by His Majesty. Powerful. In terms of ability, the son is inferior to her, and the son is not worthy of her. Even if the marriage can't be done and the son is stubborn, don't take your anger out on her. What's wrong with her?" Du Yi said in a gentle tone Explain to Xiang Lishi.

Ever since Xiangli heard Du Yi's words 'she has a style that many women don't have', she couldn't help but think of Su Yuan's ridicule of her in Daxiangguo Temple.

The anger in Xiangli's heart suddenly rose and burned violently.She could hardly hear what Du Yi said later, she just felt that her head was buzzing, and the anger was about to break through her celestial spirit.

Snapped!

Xiang Lishi slammed the bowl in his hand.

Du Yi was taken aback, and looked at Xiang Lishi in a daze.

Xiangli said angrily: "I have raised you for 18 years, but it is not as important as the girl you have known outside for a few months. Every word is Miss Su, who is smart, courageous, and well-organized. As for your mother, I am vicious, with a small pattern, and only Guarding the palm-sized housekeeper in the back house to settle accounts, raise children, and be blamed by the children who have worked so hard to raise them later!"

"Get lost!" Xiangli blushed angrily and pointed at the door.

Du Yi was astonished, "Mother—"

Du Yi had never seen Xiang Lishi lose his temper with her like this, and he looked at Xiang Lishi with eyes as if he had never known her before, very strange.

Sensing Du Yi's eyes, Xiangli felt even more heartbroken, and scolded Du Yi to leave quickly.

After Du Yi left, Xiangli broke down and cried again.

Seeing this, the mothers-in-law and maids all advised Xiang Lishi why bother.Speak so harshly, but it's easy to hurt the Fourth Young Master.The Fourth Young Master has always had a gentle temper, and he keeps any uncomfortable things in his heart, and he was able to tell Xiangli before.Now that it is like this, the fourth young master might not dare to get close to Xiangli in the future.

When Du Yan came down to court today, he opened his mouth when he saw Bao Zheng, not knowing what to say.

Bao Zheng looked at Du Yan's state and knew that he was going to talk about the 'quarreling' between Su Yuan and Xiangli's family at Daxiangguo Temple yesterday.Du Yan took the initiative to talk to him, which was much better than not talking about the situation.

"The child is young and frivolous, outspoken, there are many ignorant places, I hope Du Xiang will forgive me." Bao Zheng apologized first.

"You've really upset this old man. It's this old man who should apologize. Ma'am has become a little irritable in the past two days because something happened at home." Du Yan's words were equivalent to an apology in disguise.

Originally, yesterday Du Yan heard Xiangli's story that she met Su Yuan at the Daxiangguo Temple, saying that Su Yuan was a bit arrogant because he refused to marry the prime minister's house, and contradicted her several times. Du Yan didn't think much about it at the time, he really took it Su Yuan was young and frivolous, not sensible anymore.

Later, after thinking about it, he summoned the servants who accompanied Lishi, the Prime Minister at that time, to inquire.Knowing that Xiangli was caressing, Su Yuan refuted it. He felt that the two sides would be evened out, and let it go if things went wrong.

Who would have thought that this morning, Xiangli's family would keep nagging him about Xiangguo Temple, and even commented on Su Yuan with bad words.Du Yan retorted that this was not good, and Xiangli's mood became even worse, mocking him openly and secretly for speaking to outsiders.

Only then did Du Yan understand what it was like to be in the Su Garden of Daxiangguo Temple yesterday.He could understand why Su Yuan could not help but refute Xiangli's identity regardless of Xiangli's identity.This woman is unreasonable and unreasonable, it is really annoying, I have never seen her so aggressive before.Don't expect the demeanor of the prime minister's wife, but fortunately she is at home, if she is outside, she may make the prime minister's house lose face.

After Du Yan returned home, he was even angrier when he heard that Mrs. Xiangli had scolded Du Yi in the morning.The servants were ordered to declare that Xiangli was ill and should not go out for half a year.

After Xiang Lishi vented completely, he calmed down completely.She knew that she made the matter a bit big, so she came to apologize to Du Yan, but Du Yan turned her back.

"After listening to Madam's heartfelt words, Master said, you should reflect on what you have done wrong to Madam these years, so that Madam thinks that Master has ignored the relationship between husband and wife for many years, and only focuses on outsiders." On behalf of Du Yan, the mother-in-law asked Xiangli Spread the word.

"Master is right, it's all because I judged a gentleman's belly with the heart of a villain. You go and tell the master, and I will make a good apology to him."

After Xiangli waited for a while, he still got the result that Du Yan couldn't see him.

Feeling sad and lost, Xiangli listened to the comfort of the people around her, so she wrote a letter of repentance, reflected on her previous calculations and vicious thoughts, and sincerely apologized to Du Yan.

……

After Su Yuan returned to Kaifeng Mansion from the Prime Minister's Mansion, he deliberately went to praise Bai Yutang, feeling that the Ecstasy Grass was very effective, and the 400 taels was well worth it.

"How do you know it works well?" Bai Yutang glanced at Su Yuan.

Su Yuan touched his nose, and said to Bai Yutang with a smirk, "Master Bao said that Du Xiang's attitude is very good today."

Bai Yutang hesitated for a while, then nodded, "That should have worked."

Su Yuan put a plum in his mouth, and was about to feed another to Bai Yutang, when he heard footsteps in the distance.She hesitated, and stuffed the second one into her mouth.

Bai Yutang felt that Su Yuan wanted to feed him, his heart beat faster, and wanted to bow his head to greet him, but he found that Su Yuan suddenly ate the plum for him.At first he thought that Su Yuan was deliberately teasing him, but then he heard footsteps, and saw the little official running to inform him of the murder.

"Let's go now." Su Yuan wrapped Fengyumei well, seeing Bai Yutang was distracted, she stretched out her hand and shook it in front of his eyes.

Bai Yutang blinked his eyes and looked at Su Yuan.

"Leaving?" Su Yuan asked Bai Yutang what he was thinking about.

"I'm thinking of you." Bai Yutang looked at Su Yuan probingly.

"That's all for what you said last night. People overheard you being careful in broad daylight." Su Yuan looked around, reminded Bai Yutang in a low voice, and then Cui him to leave quickly, there is a case waiting for them to investigate.

Bai Yutang looked at Su Yuan's back, sizing up her figure and pace; at the same time, he followed her without chaotic rhythm.

The location of the case surprised Su Yuan and Bai Yutang, and the two victims also surprised them.

"The deceased, Wang Minqing and Mrs. Zhang, set up a stall selling breakfast, and this stall was in their own home. The most famous dish in his home is 馉饳, and many government servants in our Kaifeng mansion had breakfast here." Zhao Chao introduced the two Basic information of the deceased.

Of course, Su Yuan and Bai Yutang knew about this place. It was Bai Yutang who brought Su Yuan here to eat glutinous rice dumplings before, and it was only then that Su Yuan knew that there was such a delicious breakfast stall hidden in the alley near Kaifeng Mansion.

Wang Minqing and Mrs. Zhang died next to the stove that had not been extinguished. Both of them had their necks twisted to death. There were obvious red and swollen marks on the neck. The marks almost circled the neck, and the area was relatively wide. due to.An empty wooden box was thrown beside the two, and three copper coins were scattered on the ground beside the box.

Su Yuan knew this box, it was the box used by Wang Minqing and Mrs. Zhang to collect money when they were doing business.Sometimes the husband and wife are busy, and the guests will throw the money in the box by themselves.

"On the surface, it looks like robbery and murder." Bai Yutang said.

Su Yuan thought of the girl Wang Yu met yesterday, who claimed to be the couple's daughter.Su Yuan looked around and did not see Wang Yu, so he asked Wang Chao.

"The husband and wife have a daughter who returned from Mount Emei half a month ago. But she is not at home at the moment, she must have gone out. This place is close to the Fengfu, and a neighbor reported the incident as soon as the incident happened, so we arrived. When I arrived, Mrs. Zhang was still breathing weakly, but her neck was broken, and there was no way to save her, so she could only watch her die."

Wang Chao glanced at Zhang's body, sighed, and sighed miserably.The couple's fate was also bad. They had two children over the years, both sons, and they both died when they were three or four years old.Later, in the breakfast business, life finally improved a bit, but met with a fatal disaster.

I really didn't expect the robbers to be so daring. This place is so close to the Fengfu, and they dare to strike.

"The neighbor who witnessed was Xu Yi. Less than half a stick of incense, he saw three young men about 20 years old who were about to take away the money in the money box. When Xu Yi saw this scene at first, he wondered He thought that the three men were stealing money while the couple closed the stall and had no time to look around. So he yelled from a distance, trying to remind Wang Minqing and his wife. The three men ran away immediately after hearing the sound. Waiting for Xu Yi After running here, he found that Wang Minqing and his wife were lying on the ground dead, so he immediately ran to Kaifeng Mansion to report the crime."

"Why did the officials surround this place? What happened?" A clear female voice came from outside the courtyard.

A white-skinned woman aged seventeen or eighteen was blocked by the guards at the scene.

Su Yuan recognized Wang Yu by hearing the voice, and ordered the yamen servant to let her in.

Wang Yu was carrying a basket of fresh vegetables in one hand, and two fat carp hanging from wicker in the other.

After she entered the hospital, she saw Su Yuan first, and was about to ask her what happened, when she saw the dead bodies of Wang Minqing and his wife on the ground.She blinked her eyes before she came back to her senses, tremblingly dropped the fish and vegetable basket in her hand, rushed to Wang Minqing and Mrs. Zhang's side like crazy, crying and asking what happened to them.

After crying for a while, Wang Yu suddenly calmed down.She got up and wiped her tears with her sleeve, and asked Su Yuan who killed her parents.

Su Yuan told Wang Yu the general situation of the case.

Wang Yu picked up the kitchen knife on the cutting board and was about to rush out.

The yamen servants all stopped Wang Yu when they saw this.

"Don't stop."

Wang Yu is emotional now, she is very good at martial arts, if she is forced to stop, there will be conflicts, but it will easily hurt the yamen servants.And hurting the officials and yamen servants, Wang Yu will not have good fruit to eat.

Wang Yu was stunned for a moment, seeing that no one was stopping her, she wanted to continue rushing out.

"How do you chase after them? Do you know what those three people look like? Besides, although the three of them were witnessed to rob your family's money, they may not necessarily be the murderers who killed your parents. Are you going to take revenge so hastily?" Su Yuan asked.

Wang Yuhong turned her head with eyes wide open, and questioned Su Yuan in confusion: "Why do you say that the three of them may not be murderers?"

Su Yuan squatted down, and used bamboo tweezers to pick out a long white hair-like object from Wang Minqing's palm.

"Because it sounds like the three young men didn't have a murder weapon in their hands."

After Bai Yutang took a look, he immediately felt familiar, "White horsetail, whisk?"

After returning to Kaifeng mansion, Su Yuan asked someone to find a whisk.

She asked Bai Yutang to try if he could wrap a whisk around someone's neck, causing them to break their necks and kill them.

"It's too easy." Bai Yutang waved his hand and wrapped the whisk around Zhao Hu's neck.

Zhao Hu was shocked, and immediately raised his hands and shouted, "Fifth Master, spare your life! You can't avenge yourself publicly! Besides, I am now the younger brother of your future wife. If you kill me, Miss Su will be unhappy."

"What nonsense?" Su Yuan threw a plum into Zhao Hu's mouth.

Zhao Hu chewed it and sighed that it tasted good.

Bai Yutang seriously explained to Su Yuan: "You can break your neck just by pulling it lightly."

Zhao Hu was so frightened that he choked, and swallowed the plum core directly into his mouth.

Only then did Bai Yutang let go of his hand.

Although Zhao Hu knew in his heart that Bai Yutang would definitely not do anything to him, this move still scared him.He deeply felt the disparity between ordinary warriors and talented warriors.

Thinking about the stupid thing he did to provoke Bai Yutang before, he broke out in a cold sweat with fear.And he didn't realize until now that Bai Yutang actually showed mercy to him the last time he provoked Bai Yutang.Today, Bai Yutang's steady and ruthless attack with his fly whisk is his true strength.

I really don't know whether I should be touched at this moment, or should be afraid.

"Looking at the hair on the horse's tail, who do you immediately think of?" Su Yuan asked Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang: "Master Wangchuan."

Ma Han was in charge of checking the periphery of the alley and came back at this time.He excitedly told Su Yuan and Bai Yutang that they had made a big discovery.

"Before the incident, some people witnessed a Taoist priest about 30 years old leaving the alley with a whisk in his hand. I had an idea and asked someone to ask for the portrait of Taoist priest Wangchuan in the mansion. I never thought it was really him."

Zhan Zhao also came back later, and he was in charge of chasing down the three young men who had fled.Zhan Zhao was very familiar with the terrain of Tokyo, so he divided the yamen servants into six teams to take shortcuts, intercepted all the necessary roads, and then blocked the three of them.

"Injustice! The little people just robbed the money and didn't kill anyone!"

The three young men who robbed money were named Mao Gao, Yuan Ming and Kong Dayu.All three confessed that they were idle gangsters who happened to pass by that alley and found the husband and wife lying on the ground lifeless.Seeing that there was money in the money box, they became greedy and wanted to steal the money.

"Do you have evidence to prove that you didn't kill the person?" Su Yuan asked.

Mao Gao, Yuan Ming, and Kong Dayu looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly, expressing that they had no way to prove it.But all three cried and said that they really didn't kill people.

"The little people don't know how their husband and wife died! It's really just passing by, greedy for money."

After discussing with Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, Su Yuan took the three of them into prison for the time being.People invited Taoist Master Wangchuan, they want to see what confession the Taoist Wangchuan has.

"Master Daoist, this whisk, which is almost the same as yours, was held by the deceased. How do you explain it?" Su Yuan asked Daoist Wang Chuan.

After hearing the whole case, Taoist Master Wang Chuan frowned, and asked Su Yuan, Bai Yutang, Zhan Zhao and the others: "Don't you think it's too coincidental? Pindao just happened to walk through that alley, wearing a Taoist robe , holding a whisk in his hand, without any disguise. But after Pindao left, a murder case occurred in that alley, and there was a whisker at the scene of the murder."

"It can't be said to be 'just', when the deceased is struggling to the death, it is normal for the deceased to tear off a whisker hair." Zhan Zhao said.

"Then to develop your mind, if you go to kill people, will it be so obvious?" Daoist Wang Chuan asked again.

"Maybe you did the opposite just to explain it to everyone." Bai Yutang analyzed another possibility.

Daoist Wang Chuan was stunned for a moment, knowing that no matter how he explained, he would not be able to get rid of his suspicion, so he smiled wryly, "I knew it would be unlucky to go out today, so I went out after much hesitation, as expected!"

"Don't tell the fortune, Daoist, tell us the truth, do you know martial arts?" Su Yuan asked the Daoist Wangchuan again with a serious expression.

Daoist Wang Chuan sighed, nodded and said, "Yes."