Kaifeng Mansion's Little Boss

Ever since he ran into Wang Yu at Daxiangguo Temple, Su Yuan had some scruples about Wang Yu's appearance.

The first reason why Su Yuan was wary of her was purely out of personal prejudice.Wang Yu is too white, even though she herself explained that she is born white and cannot be tanned, Su Yuan doesn't quite believe it.Normal martial arts practitioners, even Caucasians, will not be so pale after daily exercise and sun exposure.

Her whiteness is like the skin color of someone who has been hiding in the dark for a long time.For example, if she practices martial arts at night, then this is almost the same as herself.

Su Yuan didn't think she was a normal person, so if Wang Yu was like her, there was a high possibility that she was not a normal person either.

Another point is too much of a coincidence.

Wang Yu dared to scold the dignitaries angrily because of trivial things like queuing up. Later, when she and Sun He left Daxiangguo Temple, they met Wang Yu again, and they happened to be on the same road when they returned.

Later, Su Yuan learned that Wang Yu was the daughter of Wang Minqing and his wife at the breakfast stall, so Su Yuan's guard against her was slightly lowered.Because after all, he is the child of someone he is familiar with, and he has some basic knowledge, so he will naturally feel that maybe he is worrying too much.

But today, the sudden death of Wang Minqing and his wife brought about another coincidence, which made Su Yuan feel that Wang Yu's doubts were getting worse.

According to the law, Su Yuan cannot convict Wang Yu, but in her heart, Wang Yu has already been classified as abnormal by her.

She told Wang Yu the story of the rabbit and the wolf, but she was actually satirizing Wang Yu. It is best to examine the situation clearly and not make a wrong choice.However, Wang Yu still chose to join Kaifeng Mansion.

Then there was a knock on the door.

Su Yuan opened the door, and saw Mrs. Zhang came to her with two pumpkins.

"Grow them at home, and give Miss Su two."

"Pumpkins are so tender at this time of year."

Su Yuan accepted it with a smile, thank you Mrs. Zhang.

"By the way, I heard that the couple who sold glutinous rice in that alley were killed this morning?" Mrs. Zhang asked.

Su Yuan nodded in agreement.

"Oh, this is so tragic! The couple had already suffered a lot. They had three children who all died, and now they even lost their lives."

Mrs. Zhang laments that she and Wang Minqing's wife, Mrs. Zhang, can still be considered relatives, but it's a little far away after the five clothes.She and Mrs. Zhang can chat quite well, but they don't have many opportunities to meet each other.After all, she has to cook and work for others herself, and she is busy from morning to night all day long, so she has no time to meet friends.

"They still have a daughter who has been back for half a month." Su Yuan briefly explained Wang Yu's situation to Mrs. Zhang.

"Ah, so there is another daughter! She only told me that her three sons died miserably. They all looked fine when they were born, but gradually they suffered from insufficiency, and their bodies became weaker and weaker. It's useless to ask the doctor to look at it."

Mrs. Zhang sighed again and again, feeling that what they parents are most afraid of is that their children get sick, and white-haired people send black-haired people.

"The world is impermanent, so you must enjoy it as soon as possible when you should enjoy it now, and you can't live too frugally."

Su Yuan gave Mrs. Zhang a small jar of salt and pepper almonds that she had newly made, and asked Mrs. Zhang to take it back for the children to eat.

Mrs. Zhang said with a shy smile: "I came to give away two pumpkins, and I got better things to go back. My deal is really worth it!"

After saying thanks, Mrs. Zhang went happily.

……

Wang Yu listed a total of 16 people, half of which she said she didn't know who they were, but she just offered to help when she saw injustice.After the lesson, she left without asking her identity, but if someone asked who she was, she would give her name, Bianjing Wangyu.

"It's impossible for a family that can afford tens of thousands of taels of cash to be unobtrusive."

Sun He has followed Su Yuan for so long, and he knows a little bit about how to solve the case.She asked Wang Yu to exclude the ordinary people and pick out the most wealthy and prestigious people among them.

"That's the Marquis of Ankang I met in Zhengzhou. He searched for people's fat and robbed women from good families. Many local people complained about him. That day when he was walking the street with his dog, he saw a woman with a good look, so he wanted to flirt with her." , the woman ran away, so he set his dog to chase the woman. I kicked his dog to death, beat him hard, and warned him that if he dared to bully the people like this again, I would kill him next time head."

"You beat Lord Hou, and you still dare to report your name?"

"At that time, I felt that what I was doing was open-minded, and there was nothing to be afraid of. Don't people in the Jianghu always 'change their names and surnames'!" Wang Yu knocked himself on the head, sighing that he was stupid and angry He patted the table, "But I never thought he would pay to kill my parents!"

"You killed his dog, but he came to kill your parents... This dog must have done it on purpose! No, you are definitely not safe. I will tell the boss right now, and ask the boss to ask Mr. Bao to send someone to protect you .” Sun He immediately took Wang Yu back to see Su Yuan.

The two did not find her in Su Yuan's room.

"Miss Su went out?" Wang Yu asked curiously.

"It should be in the kitchen." Sun He explained to Wang Yu that Su Yuan likes to cook, and every dish he cooks is very delicious.

"I believe." Wang Yu promised, recalling the taste of that bowl of plain noodles, it was the best noodles she had ever eaten in her life.

The two went to the kitchen, and sure enough, they saw Su Yuan in the kitchen.

Su Yuan washed the pumpkin and was peeling the pumpkin with a kitchen knife. The knife was even and the peeling was quick, which made people dazzled.

"This is amazing knife skills! Could it be that Su Judici is a master of martial arts?" Wang Yu exclaimed.

Su Yuan pointed to Mrs. Zhang, "She is stronger than me, so she must be a martial arts master."

Wang Yu glanced at Mrs. Zhang over there, and from her figure and movements, she knew that she must be an ordinary woman who was not good at martial arts, but she seemed to be really good at cutting vegetables with a knife.

"My boss doesn't know martial arts, but his brain is as smart as a hundred people who know martial arts!" Sun He hurriedly covered for Su Yuan.

Su Yuan took a half-dried pear and stuffed it into Sun He's mouth as a reward.

Sun He sighed that it was delicious, and took a few more pieces of dried pears from the curtain. While eating, he explained Wang Yu's situation to Su Yuan, and asked her to report to Lord Bao as soon as possible, and send someone to protect Wang Yu in time. .

"Actually, I can protect myself with my own kung fu, so I don't need to bother others." Wang Yu explained.

"How can I do that? You are an important witness in the case. I'll talk about it after dinner." Su Yuan asked Wang Yu where to live at night, and suggested that she live with Sun He. take care of.

"Okay, I'll take care of you!" Sun He patted Wang Yu's shoulder.

Wang Yu hurriedly thanked Sun He.

"Boss, what shall we have for dinner tonight?" Sun He continued to ask.

"Stir-fried goose with pumpkin." After Su Yuan cut up a large pot of pumpkin, he took slices of preserved goose.

"Eh? Fried goose meat, this is the first time I've heard of it." Sun He wanted to ask again, but was dismissed by Su Yuan.

"Miss Wang must be filial and vegetarian, don't say this in front of others." Su Yuan looked at Wang Yu, reassuring her that she would instruct the kitchen to prepare additional vegetarian food for her.

Wang Yu took a look at the pot of cut pumpkins, and said thank you to Su Yuan, then followed Sun He away.

Before leaving, Sun He took most of the half-dried dried pears, and even gave half to Wang Yu, telling her that it was very delicious.

"The pears are full of trees in the backyard of Kaifeng Mansion. They are sour and astringent, and the insects don't eat them. My boss and I picked up several baskets, washed and sliced ​​them to dry. Unexpectedly, as the boss said, the sour pears dried up in the sun. On the contrary, it’s delicious. It’s sweet and sour, and there’s a bite.”

Wang Yu wanted to refuse, but after listening to Sun He's introduction, he reached out to take it and ate it with Sun He.

"I know you are sad, and I don't know how to persuade you, but the dead cannot be brought back to life, we living people must live well. When I am sad, I will eat to make myself as happy as possible. Anyway, people only have Only by living can you have hope, and you will have the opportunity to take revenge." Sun He racked his brains to think of these few words to comfort Wang Yu, but he didn't know if it would be useful.

Wang Yu nodded, thanked Sun He, and ate another piece of dried pear. "Actually, I understand the truth, but I just didn't recover so quickly. Give me some time, and I will definitely get better."

There are two dishes for dinner, steamed lamb chops and fried goose with pumpkin. The staple food can be steamed buns with shepherd's purse, sesame seed cakes and mung bean porridge.The lamb chops are eaten with salt and pepper, fragrant but not greasy.Pumpkin goose is refreshing and crispy, mild and nourishing.

When Su Yuan delivered dinner to Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce, both of them felt that it was rare to see young pumpkins being used for stir-frying. Most of the pumpkins they ate in the past were cooked and stewed.

"Compared with overripe pumpkins, this kind of tender pumpkin has more fragrance and crisper taste." Su Yuan explained.

The weather is still very hot now, hot dishes are served, it is better to eat them after a little cooling.

Su Yuan took advantage of this time to tell them about Wang Yu's situation.

"Marquis Ankang?" Bao Zheng sighed, "This man is the nephew of the princess of Dongping County. When he was in Beijing a few years ago, he had a reputation as a dandy. I didn't expect him to be so evil in Zhengzhou?"

Gongsun Ce responded, "If Miss Wang's words are true, I should send someone to investigate."

Bao Zheng lamented that if these nobles restrained themselves like the eight sage kings and convinced others with virtue, the common people in this world would probably have less suffering.

Su Yuan talked about Wang Yu's desire to join the Kaifeng Mansion, "I don't know if I was worrying too much, but I always feel that what happened to her was too coincidental."

After discussing with Bao Zheng, Gongsun Ce and Bao Zheng felt that they should observe first, and not convict people casually without evidence.And if Wang Yu was really suspicious, it would be more appropriate to observe him in front of his eyes.

"I told her that it's okay to come to Kaifeng Mansion to be a yamen servant, but if you succeed in becoming an official servant, you must avoid suspicion of her parents' case and not intervene. In addition, we sent someone to protect him, which is equivalent to monitoring and observing her situation."

Su Yuan nodded, Bao Zheng also agreed with Gongsun Ce's proposal, and felt that Gongsun Ce's method was very feasible.

After supper, Su Yuan went back to her room with Sun He, intending to convey these words to Wang Yu.

As soon as they entered the door, they saw Wang Yu weeping at the food on the table without touching a bite of the food.

"What's wrong with you? You just said that you will get better gradually, why don't you want to eat right now, and still cry like this." Sun He persuaded her.

Wang Yuhong looked at them with wide eyes: "When I was alone, I couldn't help but miss my parents. A little official came to tell me just now that my parents' bodies could be taken away, so I won't be staying here tonight. I have to go home and make funeral arrangements for my parents."

"That's fine, we will accompany you." Sun He said hastily.

Su Yuan turned to look at Sun He.

Sun He immediately understood, and hurriedly changed his words: "I mean, I will accompany you. Boss still has some business to deal with today, so let's go!"

When the two passed in front of Su Yuan, Wang Yu looked at Su Yuan pitifully with tears in his eyes.

Su Yuan understood the meaning in Wang Yu's eyes, and she also wanted her to accompany her.

"You guys should go to bed early when you're done with your work." Su Yuan expressed his concern lightly, and then stopped talking.

Wang Yu obediently nodded in agreement, and followed Sun He away.

"I feel that Miss Su doesn't like me very much?" Wang Yu asked Sun He after leaving the Kaifeng Mansion.

Sun He laughed, "That's good enough for you. You don't know how indifferent she was to me when I first met her. That's bad. I stayed because of my shamelessness."

Wang Yu nodded, and stopped talking.

Sun He accompanied Wang Yu to buy the coffin, place the corpse, and decorate the mourning hall.After finishing these things, it was already late at night, so Wang Yu gave Sun He the east wing to live in, and she lived in the west wing.

"That won't work, let's sleep together, it's safer." Sun He was worried that there would be ghostly assassins who would hurt Wang Yu.

"I'm better at martial arts than you. If something happens, I'll call you immediately. But I'm afraid that thieves will use things like misty smoke. If you and I are in the same room, we will both suffer."

Sun He thought that what Wang Yu said was also reasonable, so he slept in the east wing as Wang Yu said.

After Wang Yu washed and washed, she sat down at the table.She took out a handkerchief from an old sleeve pocket and held it in her palm.After looking at it for a long time, she suddenly laughed, put the handkerchief to her nose, and took a deep breath.

When going to sleep at night, Wang Yu put the veil next to the pillow, and fell asleep facing the veil.

……

Although it was late at night, Su Yuan didn't sleep. There were melon seeds, almonds, dried pears, salted plum meat, etc. on the table.

She and Bai Yutang sat across the table, and they chatted while eating.

After they finalized the specific matters on the day of their engagement, they talked about the case.

"Fifth Master said that Su Youcai's way of killing himself is a bit like that of a dead man. Some gangster murder organizations will train this kind of assassin, including ghosts. But Su Youcai is old. If you stay in Su's house all the time, you can't be regarded as an assassin, at most, you can only be regarded as a secret agent.

Is there a possibility that Su Youcai was originally an assassin of ghosts and sorrows, but he was arranged by Su Jinjing's side in his early years to assist Su Jinjing.

In those burned ledgers, there may be evidence related to Gui Jianchou.Because Su Youcai is an assassin, he is well-trained and has a cautious habit of doing things, that's why he carries poison with him, and he also has a 'organ' that will burn the evidence books if something happens to him.

After hearing the news of Su Youcai's death, Gui Jianchou deliberately fabricated rumors about Su Youcai and Su Jinjing in order to avoid suspicion of Su Youcai's death.

Gui Jianchou is very familiar with Kaifeng Mansion's habit of handling cases, and knows that after we learn of this rumor, we will definitely review Su Youcai's room, so he made a fake love poem and hid it in Su Youcai's room. "

Based on Su Youcai's identity as an assassin or a dead man, it is impossible to determine which organization he came from.Because there are more than one rivers and lakes organizations that train murderous assassins, and even some powerful people will train such dead men.

The case of Gui Jianchou plotting against Taoist Wangchuan this time shows that Gui Jianchou is very familiar with Kaifeng Mansion's habit of solving crimes.As for the matter of Su Youcai's love poems, someone who was familiar with the investigation habits of the Kaifeng mansion deliberately spread rumors to lure people from the Kaifeng mansion to find the love poems.

This commonality made Su Yuan connect the Su family with Gui Jianchou.

"These ghostly people evacuated Dong Er's Bun Shop out of caution, just like Su Youcai left phosphorous powder in the study. In fact, they didn't think we would find them, otherwise they would plan this The case is meaningless." Bai Yutang analyzed.

Su Yuan agreed with Bai Yutang's words, and concluded: "Although they understand the habits of Kaifeng Prefecture in handling cases, they don't understand it very well. They underestimated us somewhat."

Bai Yutang stared at Su Yuan: "I underestimated your existence."

"I don't have such a great ability, it's everyone working together."

Su Yuan asked Bai Yutang if he had any connections in the rivers and lakes, so that he could find the trace of Gui Jianchou.

"Yes, later Zhan Zhao and I went our separate ways to investigate."

Bai Yutang told Su Yuan to go to bed early. Although Guijianchou is a murderous organization and somewhat mysterious, as long as they mess around in the rivers and lakes, they will leave traces. It will be a matter of time before they are found out.

"Then you go to bed early too." Su Yuan smiled at Bai Yutang and sent him away.

When Bai Yutang walked outside the door, he turned his head twice to look at Su Yuan.

Su Yuan wanted to close the door every time, but was interrupted by him, and said half-jokingly: "If you don't leave, I'm going to meditate here."

Bai Yutang chuckled before leaving completely.

……

The sixteenth day of the next month was a good day for Su Yuan and Bai Yutang to get engaged.

The other four of the five rats, Lu Fang, the Tianshu, Han Zhang, the Xu Qing, the Chuanshan Mouse, and Jiang Ping, the Fanjiang Mouse, all gathered in Tokyo City to congratulate them on their engagement.

Because neither of the two parties had parents, Bai Yutang, the eldest of the five rats, Lu Fang, came forward to ask the matchmaker to make an appointment and a betrothal gift list to Kaifeng Mansion.

On Su Yuan's side, Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce acted as elders on their behalf, and sent them back to the Bai family to make a list of the dowry and dowry according to the custom.

Su Yuan originally prepared a dowry list for herself, which was the money she had saved during this period.Because she knew that Bai Yutang didn't mind, so she didn't take this matter to heart.

Unexpectedly, when she handed over the dowry list to Bao Zheng, Bao Zheng leisurely took out a gift list from his sleeve and put it together.Gongsun Ce then also took out a list and added it.

Both Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce said that they didn't have many things, and they wanted to express their feelings so that Su Yuan would not be disgusted.

Su Yuanyou learned from the housekeeper of the Bao family that Bao Zheng was saving money on food and expenses before she even got married, and silently saved up a dowry for her.Su Yuan's nose was sour, and he quickly bowed deeply to the two of them to thank them.

Of course, Su Fangming couldn't miss Su Yuan's great joy, he brought Su Xi to congratulate him, and told Su Yuan that Mrs. Li also missed her, but he was afraid that her presence on this occasion would make Su Yuan feel uncomfortable, so he didn't come.

Su Fangming handed over the two gift slips to Su Yuan.

"My mother and I prepared this for you. Although I have many, they are not as thoughtful as my mother's. She has been preparing for 17 years, and every year she adds a few things to it. They are all her private houses, and they are not recorded in the Su family. Even I don't know."

Su Yuan glanced at the contents of the two gift lists, feeling that these are too precious.

Su Fangming smiled lightly, "You are not allowed to refuse."

"Yes, don't refuse, this is what the Su family owes you, so you should take it." Su Xi stroked her swollen belly, and urged Su Yuan in a sonorous tone to take it.

It was after the fact that Su Fangming and Li's slowly disclosed that Su Xi fully understood what Su Jinjing did back then.Especially when she heard that Su Jinjing had made up his mind not to have the child in her womb, and wanted to hurt her child like he did to Su Yuan back then.Su Xi empathizes very much, and feels sorry for Su Yuan's sufferings over the years.

Su Yuan didn't intend to refuse, but there were so many people at the moment, she always wanted to be polite.

After she received the gift list, she thanked Su Fangming first, and then said: "Thank her for me, and I will take Fifth Master Bai to see her someday."

"That's great, Mom must be happy." Su Xixi clapped his hands happily, and then said "Ouch", feeling that the child in his stomach kicked him.

"If you have good legs, you are lively and healthy, you will be born alive and well. If you learn martial arts, you may be a master of martial arts."

Su Yuan sighed casually, but Su Xi listened seriously.

"Okay, let his uncle teach him martial arts later." Su Xie happily said.

"What uncle—"

It didn't take long for Su Yuan to realize that the person Su Xi was referring to was Bai Yutang, and she couldn't help feeling a little hot, she was really not used to this name.

There was an engagement banquet at Bai Yutang, and Bao Zheng waited until the fun was over here, and then ran to the other side to eat the banquet.

On the contrary, Su Yuan, as a woman, had to avoid taboos and was not allowed to go.But she also eats a lot here. There are several cooks arranged by Bai Yutang to cook authentic Zhejiang cuisine, Shu cuisine, Anhui cuisine and Shandong cuisine. They are all cuisines that Su Yuan can't often taste in Tokyo. Fresh and natural like it.In addition, there are Yaoguanglou and Xianrenlou dishes and snacks as supplements, which can be described as extremely rich and delicious.

"Our table is definitely more delicious than the banquet over there. Fifth Master Bai has arranged all the delicious food here. The guests at the other end may only eat ordinary dishes and drink ordinary drinks. Alcohol." Sun He sighed triumphantly.

Su Xi smiled and said: "It's enough for them to have fun, let's have fun!"

Su Fangming also agreed, and began to toast Su Yuan.All in all, everyone enjoyed the meal very much.

After sending everyone away, it was almost dark.

Only then did Su Yuan remember to ask Sun He how Wang Yu was doing recently.

"I have passed the assessment, and I will be able to come to Kaifeng Mansion to work as an official soon. However, she heard that even if she became an official, she was a little disappointed that she could not participate in the investigation of her parents' case because of avoiding suspicion.

She is so pitiful. I haven't seen a smile on her face these days since her parents were buried.I invited her to live with me in Kaifeng Mansion the day before yesterday, but she didn't want to either, saying that she wanted to stay in the room where her parents lived for a while longer. "

"Where are the people sent by Kaifeng Mansion to protect her?" Su Yuan asked again.

"Twelve yamen servants rotate, and every four people guard outside her door. They have been following her these days." Sun He said.

Su Yuan felt something was wrong, this Wang Yu wanted to enter Kaifeng Mansion before, why so many days had passed, her parents had been buried, and she had the opportunity to enter Kaifeng Mansion justifiably, but she didn't come.If it was said that she was unable to investigate her parents' case because of avoiding suspicion, Su Yuan would not believe it.

Su Yuan is going out now to check on Wang Yu's situation.

Sun He hurriedly followed behind to stop, nagging Su Yuan to be engaged today, she should not go out.

At this time, the two yamen servants guarding the gate were chatting.

"What time is this? Why haven't Mr. Bao and Mr. Gongsun come back yet?"

"I'm afraid the banquet in the White Mansion is too lively, so I don't want to come back."

Su Yuan was stunned for a moment, then narrowed his eyes, and immediately called for someone to prepare the horse.

"What's the matter? What happened?" Sun He had never seen Su Yuan exuding such a cold and fierce aura, as if he wanted to break through the world and sweep away thousands of troops.

Su Yuan ordered Sun He to send someone to invite the old judge Zhou to come back, and then called all the people in Kaifeng Mansion to stand by.She mounted her horse and rushed to Wang Yu's residence immediately.

Because the distance is relatively close, I got off the horse in a short time.After Su Yuan entered the courtyard, he saw four government servants guarding the door.

"How long has it been since you came out?"

"Miss Wang is not in a good mood today. After eating in the morning, she is locked in the house—"

Without waiting for them to finish speaking, Su Yuan kicked open the door, and one door was kicked to the ground.The four yamen servants were all stunned, staring blankly at the door on the ground, without recalling it for a while.

Su Yuan entered the room and looked around, but saw no one in the room.

The four yamen servants were surprised to find that there was no one in the room, obviously they had been guarding here the whole time and had never left for half a step.

"Finish the report just now." Su Yuan said.

"The subordinates were worried about her during the period, and asked her a few times, and they all responded. She said that she missed her parents too much, was too sad, didn't want to eat or go out, and just wanted to be quiet. The subordinates are all Men, it’s not easy to go in to comfort them, so they can only stay outside the door. Before two incense sticks, the subordinates even asked her, and she was still in the room at that time. "

The houses of ordinary people are made of mud, but they have been trampled down, and there is no loose soil.Su Yuan saw a little loose soil next to a square wooden box under the bed, and asked the yamen servant to move the wooden box, and saw a dark tunnel entrance.

This tunnel must have been dug later. On the day Wang Minqing and his wife died, Kaifeng Mansion searched all the rooms, so it is impossible not to find such an obvious tunnel.

The yamen servant wanted to climb into the tunnel to see where the tunnel led.

"The tunnel dug temporarily must not be far away."

Su Yuan immediately rushed to the opposite East Wing. The door of the East Wing was locked, but Su Yuan still kicked the door violently.

Sure enough, I saw the exit of the tunnel on the house floor, and there was a pile of excavated soil and tools for digging beside the wall.Judging by how dry the soil was, the tunnel should have been dug for several days.

The back window of the East Wing was open, and with Wang Yu's skill, if he went out from here quietly, he would definitely not arouse the notice of the guards.

After a while, Su Yuan rode his horse back to Kaifeng Mansion, ordered people to draw Wang Yu's portrait, and led them to Bai Mansion at high speed.

When Su Yuan arrived, the gate of the Bai Mansion was closed, and there was not even a gatekeeper.