Kaifeng Mansion's Little Boss

"What is the purpose of Taoist priest to go to that alley this morning? Why do you still have to go out after you have calculated that you will be calamity today?" Su Yuan continued to question Taoist Wang Chuan.

After hesitating for a moment, Taoist Wangchuan said to Su Yuan: "Pindao is going out today to find someone at the Manfu Inn, and he took that alley just to take a shortcut."

Su Yuan: "Who is the name of the person the Taoist priest is looking for, and what room is he staying in at the Manfu Inn?"

Daoist Wang Chuan shook his head, indicating that he was not at the inn at all.

"When Pindao received the news this morning, he immediately rushed to the Manfu Inn, but there was no one there, so he realized that it was a fake news.

The person Pindao is looking for is Pindao's younger brother. His Taoist name is Wangxi, also known as Wusangzi, and his layman's name is Linxi. "

Master Wang Chuan took out a note from his sleeve and handed it to Bai Yutang, "When I opened the door this morning, Pindao found this note."

The content on the note reads: The person you are looking for is in the Manfu Inn.

"The Taoist priest suddenly accepted such a note, and he didn't doubt its origin at all?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Daoist Wang Chuan: "Five days ago, Pindao spent money to hire people from Wanshilou to help find the person. They said they would inform Pindao of the information they found at any time. When Pindao received this note this morning, he thought It was the people from Wanshilou who sent the news."

Zhan Zhao asked Taoist Wang Chuan about the situation of his junior.

After listening to his introduction, everyone even suspected that Taoist Wang Chuan was lying.

Daoist Wang Chuan: "Junior brother is six years younger than Pindao. Back then we worshiped together under the name of Daoist Sikong in the Ice Cave of Qingcheng Mountain. Before the master left, the younger brother suddenly left a book and went down the mountain and disappeared. The master was very worried that the younger brother was away. Due to the situation, I asked Pindao to find my junior brother. So these years, Pindao has been looking for my junior brother."

"That is to say, when the Taoist priest was 15 years old, his junior brother who was only nine years old disappeared. It has been a full 25 years, and the Taoist priest is still looking for his junior brother, and he has never given up?" Zhan Zhao was surprised. Unbelievable, he asked Priest Wang Chuan, "Didn't the Priest think that if he went down the mountain at such a young age, he might have been in danger outside and passed away?"

"Pindao will do divination for him every year. The younger brother is still alive, and he is not far from the poor way. The master's order cannot be violated. If the poor way promises to find him, he must be found. Do it to the master under the nine springs." An explanation." Daoist Wang Chuan said firmly.

Su Yuan, Bai Yutang, Zhan Zhao and the others looked at each other, each wanting to know how much they would believe in this matter.

Su Yuan then asked Taoist Master Wangchuan about his younger brother's life experience, who still knows the existence of this Taoist Master Wangxi, and where is his possible residence.

Daoist Wang Chuan shook his head, indicating that he didn't even know.

"Could it be that apart from the late Daoist Sikong, only Daoist Wangchuan knew of his existence?" Bai Yutang asked.

Daoist Wang Chuan: "In the early years, there were three hermits practicing near the Ice Cave. Two of them went down the mountain within two or three years after persisting in the cave. There is a hermit named Lianpeng, but now it has been 25 years, and Pindao is not sure if this hermit is still there."

Qingcheng Mountain is a resort for practitioners. In addition to the Dao Temple, there are also many small Taoist temples, as well as hermits or Taoist priests who live in seclusion in deep mountain caves.

The master of Daoist Wang Chuan belonged to the latter group. The Frost Cave has a relatively long history, starting from the Tang Dynasty, and the patriarch was also worshiped by the medicine king Sun Simiao before he entered the Taoist sect.Therefore, in addition to the Taoism itself, their lineage of practice and inheritance is also particularly powerful in medicine and health preservation.

"Pindao knows, because there is no evidence from others, these words of Pindao sound like lies, but everything that Pindao said is true." Taoist Wang Chuan asked Su Yuan to go to the Manfu Inn to verify that he was indeed there this morning. I have been to Manfu Inn to find someone.

"But this doesn't prove anything. It can be said that it was a special arrangement by the Taoist priest before the murder." Su Yuan said.

Wang Daochang sighed: "If the poor Taoist really intends to kill someone, why would he make himself so suspicious. And the first thing to avoid is not to use the whisk to kill someone."

Su Yuan suggested that Taoist Wang Chuan and Zhan Zhao compete in martial arts.

"If Taoist Master Wangchuan can win against Zhan Weiwei, let's first talk about the reason of the Taoist priest. The Taoist priest can not go to jail for the time being, and live in the wing of Kaifeng Mansion until the investigation of the case is over."

Wang Chao and the others were very surprised after hearing Su Yuan's decision. Isn't this considered bending the law for personal gain?Daoist Wang Chuan is obviously very suspected of killing someone!

But they thought so in their hearts, but they didn't dare to say it out of their mouths, because they wanted to eat all kinds of delicacies in the future, and besides, Bai Yutang, the cold noodle king, was by her side, so he was someone who couldn't afford to offend.

Chao Chao and the others looked at Zhan Zhao, expecting him to raise objections.

Zhan Zhao immediately put down the Juque Sword in his hand, took the Fuchen belonging to the Kaifeng Mansion, and cupped his hands to signal to Taoist Wangchuan to ask him for advice.

"It's really a competition!" Chao Chao was a little surprised, he didn't expect Zhan Zhao to cooperate with Su Yuan's proposal so much.

Zhan Zhao saw that Taoist Wang Chuan didn't intend to move, and said to him, "If Taoist priest doesn't compete now, when he goes back to the prison in Kaifeng Mansion, he might have to fight."

"It's more than just stretching your fists. Seven or eight people are in the same prison, eating, drinking and teasing together, and you have to throw away your shame." Bai Yutang added.

Everyone understands the implication of these words. Living in that prison not only has to endure the harsh environment and harassment from fellow prisoners, but also lacks any privacy.Because there is no separate hut in the prison for people to use.

Daoist Wangchuan is handsome and unrestrained, with a blunt and fairy-like demeanor, if one enters there one can imagine what it will be like.

Daoist Wang Chuan didn't want to compete with Zhan Zhao, but after hearing these words, he had no choice but to surrender, and asked Zhan Zhao for advice.

The hatchbacks competed in the open space in front of the hall, using whisks as weapons.Zhan Zhao moves quickly and skillfully.Priest Wang Chuan mostly avoids giving way, it seems that he doesn't want to win.

"Is there something wrong with our way of interrogating prisoners?" Wang Chao asked Su Yuan tactfully, "I don't really have any objections, but I'm afraid Master Bao and Mr. Gongsun will punish us if they find out later."

"I'll take care of things, don't worry." Su Yuan asked Wang Chao, who he thinks is better in martial arts, Daoist Wang Chuan or Zhan Zhao.

"Nan Xia's name is not false, it is naturally our Master Zhan!" Wang Chao said quite proudly.

Su Yuan looked at Bai Yutang again with a questioning look.Seeing that Bai Yutang also nodded, he knew that his judgment should be correct.

Although Taoist Wang Chuan didn't make any moves, he seemed to give way to Zhan Zhao.But judging from the speed and strength of his blocking moves, he probably couldn't beat Zhan Zhao.

Although Zhan Zhao made clever moves at the beginning, he didn't try his best.Daoist Wang Chuan is trying his best to resist Zhan Zhao, so it can be seen that if the fight continues like this, Daoist Wang Chuan will definitely lose due to the slowing down of strength and speed.

"Do you think he is deliberately hiding his strength?" Su Yuan handed two salt and pepper almonds to Bai Yutang, "Why don't Fifth Master come and test it out?"

Bai Yutang directly put two almonds into his mouth and ate them.

Su Yuan: "..."

That was what she used as a 'hidden weapon' for Bai Yutang to surprise Daoist Wangchuan.

Sun He came over with a plate of dim sum. As soon as she got close to Su Yuan, she saw Bai Yutang reaching for a piece of dim sum.She thought Bai Yutang liked this, so she hurriedly sent the whole plate over.

But Bai Yutang broke the dim sum into two pieces, and shot them out successively at the back of the head and the back of Taoist Wangchuan.

Surprised, Sun He immediately took the tray of dim sum back and held it in his arms.

Daoist Wang Chuan felt a sneak attack behind him, and immediately turned sideways and then turned to dodge.

After seeing it, Bai Yutang said to Su Yuan, "That's it."

The implication is that Taoist Wang Chuan did not hide his strength, and his level was as he had seen.

"This plate of dim sum cost me three or two taels of silver. It's only eight yuan in total. What a waste to throw away." Sun He was very worried about Bai Yutang's behavior of throwing dim sum. The handful of almonds in the boss's hand.

Su Yuan took a piece of dim sum to taste, and praised the taste.

Bai Yutang took away the remaining almonds from Su Yuan's hand, and dismissed the dim sum.

Sun He suddenly had an epiphany, looking at the snack in her hand, she couldn't eat it anymore, she was too tired, because she already felt so sweet right now.

As everyone expected, the competition ended with the defeat of Daoist Wangchuan.And Zhan Zhao's final move to kill Taoist Wang Chuan was to wrap his whisk around his neck.

Daoist Wang Chuan cupped his hands, lamenting that he was defeated by Zhan Zhao, and he was convinced by the defeat.

"Although Su Judiciary detains Pingdao according to the law, there is no need to make an exception for Pingdao." Dao Wangchuan said.

"Nonsense, if you lose, you will naturally be imprisoned. Why didn't you say this before you lost." Wang Chao felt that Taoist Wangchen was pretending to be chic.

"The Taoist priest didn't intend to win before the competition, why did he agree to the competition?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Daoist Wang Chuan gave a wry smile, "Pindao sees that all the officials are very curious about the level of martial arts in the poor way. If the poor way does not respond, it would be rude. As for where to live in prison, the poor way has nothing to ask for, just let nature take its course." stop."

"It's admirable that the Taoist priest doesn't have the slightest sense of utilitarianism." Su Yuan praised.

Daoist Wang Chuan bowed calmly, "Since fate deserves such a calamity, let it be."

After Taoist Wang Chuan was detained, Zhan Zhao asked Su Yuan what he thought.

Su Yuan asked back: "Then do you think the Taoist priest's younger brother exists?"

Zhan Zhao: "If you go to Shuzhou to seek evidence, it will take half a year to go back and forth. Besides, after 25 years, the hermit named Lianpeng will probably be gone long ago."

Wang Chao sneered and said, "I'm sure he's not here. It's been 25 years, or he died of illness, or died of old age, or moved down the mountain. There are too many possibilities. Where can I find proof. I think he said these things to deliberately confuse everyone. Nothing can prove his innocence, they are all lies."

Ma Han was puzzled: "This case clearly shows that he is the most suspected, and he refuses to admit it. He just needs to be interrogated with torture. I don't understand why Miss Su, Master Zhan and Master Bai Wu still gave him a little face. I just asked that guy about it." It's not like the usual interrogation of prisoners."

"That's because he probably isn't the murderer." Bai Yutang said calmly.

"Ah?" Wang Chao, Ma Han and others were surprised in unison, "Why?"

"Could it be because of what Daoist Wang Chuan said, because it was too obvious that he was holding a whisk, so he wasn't the murderer?"

Zhao Hu felt that if it was this kind of reasoning, it would be too unreasonable.Because some murderers are rampant enough to dare to leave openly after killing someone.

"Actually, they are all suspected, but you have to try to find out who is the murderer. However, in comparison, I also think that the possibility of Taoist Wang Chuan being the murderer is relatively low. The reason why I am not in a hurry to prove is that I want to take this opportunity to detain more people." After a while, ask more questions from him. He may not be the murderer of Wang Minqing and his wife, but it is no accident that he appeared in that alley."

Su Yuan felt that Taoist Wang Chuan still had something to hide from them.

"Try it? How do you try it?" Chao Chao was full of doubts and urgently needed to be cleared up.

"Find two people with good skills, and put them in prison with Mao Gao, Yuan Ming, and Kong Dayu, and test their martial arts." Su Yuan said.

Wang Chao was even more surprised: "Aren't these three just stealing money?"

"What do you believe in what they say?" Bai Yutang asked back.

Wang Chao was thoughtful, wanting to understand something.He decided to disguise himself and bring someone to test the three of them himself.

Su Yuan first went to the Manfu Inn to verify, and learned that Taoist Wangchuan had indeed come here to look for people in the morning, mentioned Lin Xi's name, described him as thin lips and phoenix eyes, walking like the wind, and the whole person looked very different.

"Can you describe this person's height, fat or thin?" Su Yuan asked again.

The waiter at Manfu Inn shook his head and said no.

"Not long after this incident, the villain remembers it very clearly. The Taoist priest only described these three points of the man, thin lips and phoenix eyes, walking like the wind, the whole person looks very different."

"Got it, go get busy."

After Su Yuan left the Manfu Inn, he walked into the alley and found the witness Xu Yi.

"Do you have any questions, sir?"

When Kaifeng Mansion inspected the site just now, Xu Yi had already described what he saw in detail three times.He didn't understand why another official came to ask him now.

"Please recall carefully, when you saw those three men robbing money, did you ever smell a special smell at that time?" Su Yuan asked.

"Smell." No yamen servant had ever asked him about this, Xu Yi recalled, "I seemed to smell burnt... It was the smell of burning fur. Then I saw the three hooligans stealing I yelled at them, and then I was shocked when I saw the corpse, so I hurried to report to the police, and when I came back, I didn’t smell the smell.”

Su Yuan ordered Xu Yi to go to the Kaifeng mansion again, add this statement to the testimony, and then sign it.

Xu Yi begged embarrassingly: "Master, it's just such a small matter, can you see if I can stop going. I have been delayed all morning from going to work because I testified for this case."

"This is the key evidence, you must go. After completing the testimony, I will give you two hundred coins." Su Yuan said.

"Thank you so much, sir." As soon as Xu Yi heard that there was money to compensate, he immediately actively went to Kaifeng Mansion to testify.

While Su Yuan and Bai Yutang were resting with a cup of tea together, Wang Chao came with a dirty face.

"Miss Su really guessed, those three people know martial arts. What kind of bastards are they three, they are sure to be Jianghu people with their legs!"

Wang Chao first learned the move of Kong Dayu turning his body and sweeping his legs, and then learned Mao Gao's move of turning his neck sideways and grabbing his hand.

Seeing this, Bai Yutang immediately said, "I'm sad."

"Ghosts worry?"

Hearing that the name was a bit familiar, Su Yuan remembered it later.Bai Yutang once told her that Gui Jianchou is one of the murderous organizations in Jianghu, who pay high prices for killing jobs, and the killers will sacrifice their lives to keep the secrets for their employers.

"One of these two moves is called ghost tripping, and the other is called ghost catching people. They are common moves used by assassins who are worried about ghosts." Bai Yutang explained.

"That is to say, these three are quack killers, they killed Wang Minqing and his wife!" Zhao Chao finally came to his senses, and he immediately ordered his subordinates to go to the prison to take the three of them to court.

Just when Bao Zheng came back from his official duties, Su Yuan reported the investigation to Bao Zheng.

"When Xu Yi witnessed the three people stealing money, he smelled the smell of burning fur. I suspect that after the three of them killed Wang Minqing and his wife with the whisk, they threw the whisk into the burning stove and burned it. They probably left a dust whisk in Wang Minqing's hands on purpose to frame the Taoist Master Wangchuan who just passed by. Because they saw someone coming, they pretended to be money robbers and fled, trying to cover up a big crime with a small crime , and framed Daoist Wang Chuan."

"No, no, this is a false accusation! My lord, the little people are wronged. The little people are usually greedy for money and like to gamble, but they never dare to commit murder. Please learn from me!" Kong Dayu, Mao Gao, and Yuan Ming pleaded tremblingly. save.

"Look at who I am!" Wang Chao still didn't wash his face, his hair was hanging down to cover half of his face, and he was wearing dirty gray clothes.

Kong Dayu and the others immediately recognized Dynasty as a 'prisoner' in their same prison.

"When I pretended to have a conflict with you just now, the tricks you three used didn't look like hooligans, but serious martial arts skills." Chao said to expose them.

Su Yuan continued: "Actually, when the three of you confessed, there was a very obvious flaw."

The three of Kong Dayu looked at Su Yuan in puzzlement. They had confronted the testimony dozens of times in secret, what flaws would there be?How could there be a flaw!

"After you called for injustice, you said that you didn't kill the man, and you don't know how Wang Minqing and his wife died. But the necks of Wang Minqing and his wife had obvious red and swollen marks, and the death of their husband and wife can be seen clearly at a glance.

The money box you stole money and discarded is next to the corpse, so there is no situation where you only steal money but don't see the corpse. "

"But we don't know that the cause of death with a red circle around the neck must be a twisted neck." Mao Gao said.

Su Yuan raised his eyebrows: "Who told you that the cause of death of Wang Minqing and his wife was a broken neck?"

When Wu was doing the autopsy, the three of them were still on the way to be arrested by Zhan Zhao.Later, the three of them were brought in for interrogation, but no one told them that the cause of death of Wang Minqing and his wife was that their necks were broken.After that, the three of them were taken into prison, and it was impossible for anyone in the prison to tell.

Mao Gao opened his eyes wide in shock, and then his face became depressed.He knew that because of his slip of the tongue, it was equivalent to directly admitting that Wang Minqing was killed by the three of them.

Both Kong Dayu and Yuan Ming were extremely annoyed, and stared at Mao Gao complainingly.

Bao Zheng opened the court immediately and interrogated the three of them whether they were assassins who were haunted by ghosts, and why they killed Wang Minqing and his wife, and framed Taoist Wangchuan.

"Since Mr. Bao already knows our identities, he should understand that it is because someone paid us to do it. The purpose of our murder is Wang Minqing and his wife. It has nothing to do with Taoist Wang Chuan. He is just unlucky and happened to pass by."

"Do you really think this government is easy to fool?" Bao Zheng glared at him with a stern look, and he pointed to the evidence on the table, "According to the Taoist Wang Chuan's account, he has a younger brother named Wang Xi and Wu Wu. Sapin. Do you know what the other name of the medicine Wushuizi is?"

Kong Dayu and the three looked at Bao Zheng in confusion.

"Ghosts are sad." Bao Zheng said.

When Bao Zheng was an official in Dengzhou in his early years, he learned that the local people worshiped a thing called ghosts and sorrows as a fetish.It is said that this thing is worn by boys or hung on the door to avoid ghosts. ①

Later he learned that the so-called "Ghost Seeing Sorrow" is actually another name for Sapindus.

The person Taoist Wang Chuan was looking for was Wu Suizi, and it so happened that the three murderers came from ghosts, and they were suspected of framing Taoist Wang Chuan as the murderer.How can it be said that the two have nothing to do with each other?

Under Bao Zheng's sudden and fierce questioning, Kong Dayu and others all looked flustered, but they still refused to admit it.

"To deal with this kind of quack killer, you must use extreme methods to torture them." Bai Yutang offered to express that he was willing to be responsible for the torture of these two people.

The evidence of these three people's crimes is conclusive, but they will not repent and refuse to confess, I am afraid that there is a bigger secret hidden behind it.How can we allow the criminals to succeed in their conspiracy, this must be investigated.

Bao Zheng considered for a moment, then agreed to Bai Yutang's request.

When Kong Dayu and the other three were taken away by Bai Yutang, Su Yuan met Taoist Wangchuan again.

Su Yuan didn't deliberately forget Daoist Chuan. He lived in the prison for a while, and he was arranged in a single room, and no fellow prisoner harassed him.

Daoist Wang Chuan was shocked when he learned that his charges had been cleared, which was completely beyond his expectation.He thought that his imprisonment this time might kill him.

"It seems that the Taoist priest's divination skills are still not good enough. I can't calculate whether I will be lucky enough to get help from noble people." Su Yuan sighed.

Daoist Wang Chuan looked at Su Yuan, with a long and probing look in his eyes.

"If noble people help, poor people can calculate it, but if evil gods help, it is difficult to calculate. Because in many cases, good and evil are in the mind of evil spirits. It is difficult to calculate things in advance." Wang Chuan explained. road.

"What does the priest think about the life of Guard Bai?" Su Yuan suddenly changed the question.

Daoist Wang Chuan was stunned for a moment, and after asking Su Yuan Bai Yutang's horoscope, he pinched his fingers and made a calculation.

"Su Justice wants to hear the truth?"

"Isn't the Taoist priest only telling the truth? Just like you told Su Jinjing the truth about my order back then, please tell the same truth to me."

"It's not a good death, I won't live to be 25 years old." Dao Wangchuan said.

At this time, only Sun He was with Su Yuan. Normally, when Su Yuan was interrogating, Sun He would not dare to intervene indiscriminately.

This time, she was shocked when she heard the words, and said to Su Yuan who was about to get engaged to Bai Yutang: "This batch of orders is just a reminder, many of them are not allowed."

"Not necessarily because the situation is changing, but this is the result of the calculation at this time." Daoist Wang Chuan's tone was neither sad nor happy, aiming to state the facts.

"How will the situation change?" Su Yuan was asking.

"The turning point may be in the northwest." After pondering for a moment, Taoist Wang Chuan said to Su Yuan.

"You actually knew about Lin Xi's background, right? Who is Lin Xi?" Su Yuan asked suddenly.

Daoist Wang Chuan was stunned, he didn't expect Su Yuan to jump from Bai Yutang to Lin Xi suddenly.

"You tell me with this look, you know." Su Yuan judged.

Daoist Wang Chuan frowned, and looked at Su Yuan with unexpected and puzzled eyes: "Aren't you worried about the fate of Guard Bai?"

"Don't worry, because as long as I'm here, nothing will happen to him."