Kaifeng Mansion's Little Boss

Sun He arrived first along with Su Yuan, but the yamen servants led by them were left behind.

Sun He immediately jumped off the horse and went to push the gate of Baifu, but it couldn't be opened.She hurriedly knocked on the door and shouted twice, and while waiting for someone to respond, she felt a wind blowing behind her, as if something was unusual.

Sun He looked back and saw two horses parked at the door, but Su Yuan was nowhere to be seen.

Before Sun He could think about Su Yuan's whereabouts, he heard the door open.

He thought it would be someone from the White Mansion who would answer the door, but Sun He looked back, and after the two doors opened, it was Su Yuan's face that leaked out.

Sun He was surprised, and saw Su Yuan turn around and head towards the mansion quickly.She also followed immediately, and couldn't help but secretly sighed in her heart that her boss's martial arts speed was unrivaled.

The last time I accompanied her to practice martial arts by the river, the boss's kung fu and physical strength had already left her speechless. It turned out that he hadn't fully revealed his real kung fu at that time, and he still had reservations.

The layout of the Baifu is the same as that of many big families. When you enter the door, there is a screen wall, and you have to bypass the screen wall to see the situation in the courtyard.

When Sun He passed Zhaobi and caught up with Su Yuan, he was immediately shocked by the scene in the courtyard.

There are six tables in the banquet in the courtyard, and there are many familiar people from the rivers and lakes, as well as officials from the Liucao of Kaifeng Prefecture. Now they are all lying on the table or lying beside the table, motionless.

And in the aisle in the middle, three young men in blue cloth fell to the ground, all of whom were hit by throwing knives in the back of their heads.There were wooden trays and broken wine jugs near them. It seemed that the identity of these three people was the servants serving the wine.

Sun He covered his mouth in shock at this scene, and froze all over for a moment, unable to move.Could it be that these people are all dead?

Su Yuan didn't stop. After confirming the three dead servants, he randomly selected two guests to check the situation. They were breathing and their pulse was stable. These guests should have fainted from drugs.

She then went to the main hall. There were two banquet tables in the hall. The main table should be where Bao Zheng, Gongsun Ce, Zhan Zhao, Dynasty, etc., and the Five Rats ate, and the other table had Yan Chasan and others related to Bai Yutang. Good officials and people in the world.

Now the people at Yan Chasan's table are still there, and they have fainted just like the situation outside.The main table was empty and no one was there. Only a small portion of the food and drinks on the table was eaten, and four stools were overturned. This situation must not be a normal departure.

The butler Bai Fu fell on the ground not far from the main table, and a glass of broken wine was near him.

Bai Fu is a servant, and it is reasonable to serve the guests in charge of the banquet, but his status in the Bai family is different from others.Judging from the situation, it should be that everyone wanted him to drink together, and Bai Fu passed out after drinking the cup of wine.

It seems the problem is the wine.

Su Yuan looked at the two large wine jars placed by the east wall. These two jars of wine were placed in the main hall for formal banquets, which seemed a bit abrupt.One of the altars was unsealed, leaving only the bottom of the altar. The wine has a mellow aroma, and it smells like a good wine that has been aged for many years.

This wine looks like it was brought out on purpose, ready to be drunk on a special occasion.

Su Yuan sniffed the leftover wine in the jug on the table, and it had the same smell as the wine in the altar.

At this time, those yamen servants who were left behind by Su Yuan and Sun He finally arrived.

When riding horses, the servants were astonished that Ms. Su and Ms. Sun were so good at riding that they were so much faster than them.After arriving at the White House, their surprise was replaced by greater shock when they saw the scene in the courtyard.

What the hell is going on here?Why did all the feasters fall down?Still dead?

Su Yuan pointed at Bai Fu, and ordered the yamen servants to call for doctors immediately, and invite a few more, in short, find a way to wake up the fainted people as soon as possible.

Su Yuan then ordered the remaining yamen servants to search the scene and other places in the White Mansion for clues, and not to let go of any suspicious places.

The yamen servants quickly found the servant of the Baifu who had been knocked out or killed in hidden places such as behind trees and walls.

"It's no wonder there isn't a single servant at the door. It turns out that they were all killed or knocked out."

Sun He still couldn't recover from the shock, so she caught up with Su Yuan and expressed her doubts.

"But it's not right. The banquet should have started at noon. Looking at the food and wine on the table, something happened soon after eating. It's just that the guests who were stunned didn't move. Why didn't there be a servant who was stunned for so long?" wake up?"

Su Yuan went straight to the stable, and saw more than [-] young men beside the stable, all of them fainted on a clearing near the north wall.These Xiaosi didn't seem to come from a family, and some of them still had riding whips around their waists, so they should be coachmen.

This scene looks like someone used force to gather these people here.Fortunately, these people just fainted, and there was no danger of their lives.

"I was fed the drug." Su Yuan replied to Sun He at this time, "Those who escaped too late to stop or suspected of yelling were thrown away and killed by throwing knives. Those who reacted late or were obedient were all fed the drug." medicine."

Sun He understood, "So that's how it is."

"There are too many people, they can't kill them at all. Moreover, killing blood will stain the clothes, making it inconvenient for them to escape immediately after a quick battle. And if they leave more lives, they will have a lot of mouths to talk about. This incident If it gets out, it will inevitably cause an uproar in Beijing and cause panic."

The two fourth-rank guards with knives who were appointed by the emperor, the five rats who are famous in the world, and Bao Zheng, who protects the safety of the capital and repeatedly solves strange cases, were all kidnapped and taken away.If this kind of news spread outside, who would not panic or be afraid?

If there is another organization called 'Ghost Seeing Sorrow' claiming responsibility for this incident, it will definitely become famous and everyone will be terrified.

Similar to a case that can cause panic in the whole city, Su Yuan just encountered a case not long ago, which is the light ball case.

Su Yuan immediately thought that if the doctor is not alive, he can be regarded as a dead man like Su Youcai, who chose to commit suicide after being arrested in Kaifeng Mansion.

Maybe the light ball case has something to do with ghosts.

Thinking about this, Su Yuan suddenly thought of a detail.

When Ding Sanlang was captured and interrogated, he once said that he chose to commit crimes on the Innate Day to celebrate the birthday of his most respected person.Although he said this sentence half-jokingly at the time, and later denied it, Su Yuan felt that it was somewhat true.

The last time I went to the Eight Princes' Mansion, I brought back a Taoist boy who was guilty of theft.This Daotong once confessed that Taoist Master Wangchuan has a special feature, that is, he will chant scriptures all night on the day of Xiantian Festival, saying that it is to pray for the country.

Su Yuan sent the yamen servants to invite Daoist Wang Chuan to come over immediately, it happened that he was very knowledgeable in medicine and could also help diagnose and treat those fainting guests.

"Master Bao and Mr. Gongsun's carriage is not here, but the coachman is." The yamen servant found out about this situation and immediately reported it to Su Yuan.

Su Yuan also noticed this, and looking at the order of the carriages parked near the stable, there was a large space between the two carriages, and it seemed that at least two more carriages were missing.

If this group of people succeeded, they would drive the carriage directly out of the city.After such a long time, they could walk at least twenty or thirty miles away from Tokyo City.

It is not easy to catch up, not to mention that it is not known in which direction they are fleeing.

According to the characteristics of Bao Zheng's carriage, the servants of Su Yuan went to the city gates to inquire about the situation, to see if Bao Zheng's carriage left the city, and which city gate it left from.

The yamen servant agreed and left quickly.

With such a big case, suddenly there are villains in Tokyo city, and so many adults in Kaifeng Mansion are arrested in a grandiose manner, the servants are actually very panic and fear in their hearts.

Originally, once this kind of emotion arises, they are easy to be stunned, their minds become a mess, they panic like headless chickens, not knowing what to do next.

But now Miss Su is supporting the scene. She is a girl who surveys the scene calmly and calmly, ordering everyone to do things in an orderly manner.All the yamen servants were infected, how could they be inferior to their daughter's family as men, so they gradually entered the state, investigating the case as orderly as before.

Only this time, because they were worried about the safety of Mr. Bao and others, everyone was very angry and angry, and they were even more anxious to solve the case as soon as possible.

Not long after, Judge Zhou and Taoist Master Wang Chuan rushed to the White Mansion.

When Judge Zhou saw this scene, he swayed and tried to stabilize himself, but his eyes were still uncontrollably rounded by shock.

After he coughed twice anxiously, he asked Su Yuan, "Why did such a big thing happen?"

Su Yuan simply told Judge Zhou what she knew.

"Do you suspect that this matter has something to do with Wang Yu?"

Judge Zhou was even more surprised when he heard that the person Su Yuan suspected was the daughter of Wang Minqing and his wife.What's going on in this world, people who look normal are actually so scary.

"Today, because I have to stay in Kaifeng Mansion on duty, I still sigh that I don't have the opportunity to come to Bai Mansion to eat your engagement wine. I didn't expect that I escaped a catastrophe."

Judging from the grade of the hijacked Kaifeng mansion official, he, the old judge, must be qualified.

"Tell me, what can I, an old man, do? You can order it down quickly, and you don't have to be polite to me."

Although old judge Zhou was of higher rank than Su Yuan, he knew that his brain was far less intelligent than Su Yuan's.In such an emergency, just listen to Su Yuan's deployment.

"I'm in charge of finding people. I'll tell you where the old judge needs help. But the most important thing is to ask the old judge to guard the Kaifeng mansion, and to greet the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Forbidden Army in advance. Take care of the safety of the capital, and don't let the thieves have a chance to attack the west." Su Yuan said.

Judge Zhou froze for a moment: "Are you worried that they will do other things?"

"It's not wrong to be more thoughtful and take precautions. Now that such a big case has come out, everyone's eyes are focused on this case. I'm afraid that because of this, other places will be ignored, and another panic will arise. If something happened, it would be even worse.”

Judge Zhou nodded and agreed, reassuring Su Yuan that he would join the book and unite with the soldiers and horses of the whole city to put Tokyo under martial law, and a curfew would be enforced in extraordinary times.Night markets, Wazi and other activities were cancelled, and no one was allowed to go out at night.

All yamen must report any arrangements in the near future, and check the dangers in advance.The light ball case of the Ministry of Rites is a lesson for the past, and the crisis that Kaifeng Mansion is now facing will surely wake up all yamen.

"But I don't understand. What is their purpose in taking Mr. Bao? Just to create panic?"

Su Yuan asked Elder Judge Zhou: "What was the purpose of those men in black to assassinate you?"

Judge Zhou immediately understood, "Are they taking revenge on the Kaifeng government?"

Su Yuan nodded.

Judge Zhou was surprised and said, "Just because the Kaifeng Mansion arrested those three ghostly assassins and wanted to raid Dong Er's Bun Shop. They made such a big case to take revenge on the Kaifeng Mansion?"

Su Yuan asked Mr. Zhou to wait a moment.

When she saw Daoist Wang Chuan arrived, she immediately called people to her and asked, "What's so special about Innate Festival for Daoist?"

Daoist Wang Chuan was stunned for a moment, then looked back at Su Yuan in puzzlement.

"To tell the truth, the Taoist priest, the Taoist boy we captured from you before confessed that the priest would chant sutras all night every time during the Xiantian Festival, praying for the country."

Daoist Wang Chuan immediately denied the idea of ​​praying for the country, "Innate Day is Lin Xi's birthday. Although I know that his horoscope may be fake, I still practice divination and calculation on this day, and I can't sleep all night."

Su Yuan heard that he was more frank, so he simply asked another question buried in his heart, "The Taoist priest pays respects every night, why does it take so long?"

Daoist Wang Chuan was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect a girl in Su Yuan to ask such words so frankly.But thinking about the current scene, she must be very eager to solve the case, and she can't have so many scruples.

"Because Pindao was young and lacking in cultivation, I was very eager to fulfill Master's entrustment and find him as soon as possible. Because I always had a feeling that my junior brother was nearby, I was even more anxious to find him. The longer I searched, the more I couldn't find him. , the more impatient, even a little crazy.

After a long time, Pindao cultivated his body and mind, improved his cultivation, and finally eliminated this demon, but he still developed a habit. If he didn't go to look for it every day, he couldn't sleep. "

Daoist Wang Chuan is not good at telling outsiders about this kind of secret hobby, he has been doing it secretly, thinking that no one knows about it.Unexpectedly, looking at the young age, that Daotong had already discovered the clue.

Su Yuan believed the words of Daoist Wangchuan.Because Su Fangming was apprenticed to him when he was young, and his actions at that time were immature.So Su Fangming's impression of Daoist Wangchuan was completely different from Du Yi's.

Su Yuan nodded, thanked Taoist Wang Chuan for his answer, and she would not ask any further questions that have nothing to do with the current case.

There were already doctors invited by the yamen servants to administer needles to Bai Fu and the others, but they still failed to wake up the fainted people.

Upon seeing this, Daoist Wang Chuan immediately went over to help.

Su Yuan continued the previous conversation with Judge Zhou.

"The reason why I asked Master Wang Chuan about Xiantian Jie just now is because I suspect that the light ball case is also related to ghosts."

The old judge Zhou suddenly realized, "Yes, Lin Xi's birthday is on the Xiantian Festival, which is the commonality."

Su Yuan then told Judge Zhou that she still suspected that Su Jinjing had something to do with Gui Jianchou.

"If my conjecture is true, then Gui Jianchou has had two cases of enmity with the Kaifeng government.

In the light ball case, due to the obstruction of the Kaifeng government, Ding Sanlang failed to celebrate Lin Xi's birthday but died. At the same time, it also failed a tragedy that created panic in Tokyo.

As for the case of Su Jinjing, because of the arrest and punishment of Su Jinjing by the Kaifeng government, Gui Jianchou had to burn the evidence, which cut off the Su family's source of income. "

In the light ball case, Ding Sanlang spent huge sums of money to prepare the flesh and blood worms. He spent a lot of effort in carefully planning such a major event.

Lin Xi was probably also looking forward to this birthday ceremony, but in the end, not only did he fail to see his admirer's success, but he also died tragically under the dog's head of Kaifeng Mansion.

Ding Sanlang, who is so capable and loyal, must have some weight in Lin Xi's heart.His death will definitely have an impact on Lin Xi, and it is very likely that Lin Xi will hold grudges or be afraid of going to Kaifeng Mansion because of this, and regard Kaifeng Mansion as a trouble or a roadblock.

Afterwards, the case of the Su family happened again, and the Kaifeng government directly cut off Gui Jianchou's source of income, making it impossible for Gui Jianchou to continue to obtain the wealth of the Su family through Su Youcai and Su Jinjing, which made Lin Xi even more likely to be angered.

The death of Wang Minqing and his wife is probably the plan of ghosts and sorrows to kill two birds with one stone.On the one hand, he framed Taoist Wang Chuan who had been following Lin Xi; on the other hand, he justified Wang Yu's identity, silenced the witnesses, and gave Wang Yu the opportunity to break into the Kaifeng mansion and take revenge on the Kaifeng mansion from the inside.

Later, the situation should have changed, and they had a better way to retaliate against Kaifeng Mansion, so Wang Yu temporarily changed his mind and stopped sneaking into Kaifeng Mansion.Instead, they chose to take advantage of the opportunity of Su Yuan and Bai Yutang's engagement, and they caught Kaifeng Mansion by surprise.

"Of course, more than half of these are my guesses. For example, there are one or two things in common between the Su family and the Lantern Ball case and the Ghost Sorrow case. They are not solid evidence, and they are not solid enough."

Judge Zhou lamented that Su Yuan was being modest.

"These ghosts are elusive and well-trained. Their actions can leave very few traces. You can find out the connection between cases from the subtleties. It is because you have insight into the subtleties and see the subtleties. It is not an unreasonable speculation. Everything makes sense.

And these two speculations just fully explained the motive of Gui Jianchou's revenge on Kaifeng Mansion.Unexpectedly, this Gui Jianchou and our Kaifeng mansion have long had a deep grudge.

And the most shocking thing is that we didn't realize it until today, and we were caught off guard by them! "

After Bai Fu, the head of the Wangchuan Road in that side, fed the medicine, he successfully woke up Bai Fu.After Bai Fu had a good meal and vomited, he came to his senses completely.

Bai Fu scanned the situation in front of him and saw Su Yuan.Before he could get up in time, he immediately crawled towards Su Yuan.

The yamen servant and Taoist Wang Chuan hurriedly helped Bai Fu up.

"Miss Su, it's bad, the wine has been drugged!"

Bai Fu hurriedly looked at the main table, and seeing that the seats on the table were all empty, he hurriedly asked everyone where Mr. Bao and his Fifth Lord Bai went?

Hearing from the yamen servants that everyone was missing, Bai Fu stomped his feet anxiously.

"Don't worry, tell me the situation slowly." Su Yuan said to Bai Fu in a calm voice.

Seeing that Su Yuan was so calm, Bai Fu gradually calmed down, and told Su Yuan that there was something wrong with the jar of wine placed by the wall.

"At that time, the fifth master waited for Mr. Bao and the others to have a banquet. After everyone sat down to drink for a while, Uncle Lu and fourth master Jiang suddenly said that they had brought two jars of century-old gold plate dew. The wine is so rare that he is not willing to drink it himself.

Now he specially transported these two jars of wine from Xingkong Island, just to celebrate Fifth Master's engagement.I want to unseal the aged wine at this banquet and share it with everyone.

Then the villain led someone to unseal the wine and poured a glass for each guest.When toast.Fifth master and the others also called the villain.

Unexpectedly, after drinking the wine, the head is as heavy as a thousand catties. I don't know if I try to open my eyelids to stay awake, but I don't remember anything the next moment. When I wake up again, this scene is now. "

Bai Fu glanced at the sky outside and felt shocked, it turned out that it was going to be dark at this moment.Didn't he faint all afternoon?

The guests drank the medicine given by Taoist Wang Chuan and became sober one after another. Their confessions were similar to those of Bai Fu, all because they passed out quickly after drinking the wine.

The boys and servants at the stable side woke up one after another.

These domestic servants said that while they were waiting near the carriage, a group of men in Tsing Yi suddenly sneaked in from the back door.These people in Tsing Yi quickly dealt with the janitors of the Bai Mansion, threatened them with knives, forced them to the foot of the wall, and forced each of them to take a sip of the wine in the water bag, after which they fell unconscious.

After being inquired by the yamen servants, it was learned that besides Mr. Bao's carriage, a total of four other carriages were missing.

Su Yuan ordered the servants to record the characteristics of the four carriages, and then went to each city gate to inquire according to the characteristics of the four carriages, and at the same time noted that the driver might be wearing Tsing Yi.

At this time, the yamen servant who had been sent to inquire about the whereabouts of Mr. Bao's carriage came back.

The yamen servant told Su Yuan that Mr. Bao's carriage was leaving from Xinzheng Gate.

Soon after, another yamen servant reported back, and the other four carriages left from Nanxun, Xinsong, Xinfengqiu and Suanzaomen respectively.

At present, they have sent five teams to follow the carriage according to the characteristics of the carriage.

Judge Zhou sighed, "I'll see if there's any news about the five-liang carriage."

"Why?" Su Yuan asked.

"Obviously they are trying to make a fuss and use these five conspicuous carriages to attract our attention. They must have used another inconspicuous carriage to transport people quietly. It has been such a long time now, and now we don't even have the exact direction to track down I found it, I'm really worried about Mr. Bao and the others—"

Judge Zhou was very worried.

At this time, a boy raised his hand in a sly manner, indicating that he knew a little about the situation.

"The villain is the servant next to Mr. Yan, and he understands lip language. Before they forced the villain to drink, the villain saw the leading man ordering his subordinates in a low voice. According to his mouth shape, the villain could tell What he said was to urge them to hurry up and transport people to Xinzheng Gate."

Judge Zhou immediately asked the boy how many people knew that he could speak with lips.

The servant scratched his head, "Everyone in the house knows that the lord promoted me as a personal servant just because of my ability."

Elder Judge Zhou asked where the leading man was standing at that time, and it happened to be facing the direction of the young man. He was suspected of deliberately letting the young man watch his mouth shape, and Mr. Bao's carriage happened to be heading for Xinzheng Gate.

"Leaving such an obvious clue is clearly intended to play tricks on our Kaifeng mansion." Elder Zhou said angrily, "This means that we are treated like idiots when we see that there is no one in our Kaifeng mansion."

Su Yuan laughed, "I like their arrogance."

Old judge Zhou was stunned, and only now came to his senses.Su Yuan's betrothed person disappeared, but she was very calm throughout the whole process, she didn't see any sadness, and she was actually smiling at this moment.

"Could it be that you were driven crazy by this incident?" Elder Judge Zhou asked Su Yuan cautiously.

"In the case of the murder of Wang Minqing and his wife, Gui Jianchou was somewhat conceited. We felt that we would not be able to see through the three assassins who pretended to be robbers to testify.

Now they beat Kaifeng Mansion by surprise, and it was considered a 'victory', so they started to commit the old problem of conceit again. "

Judge Zhou was surprised and asked Su Yuan to explain in detail.

"I don't have time to explain." Su Yuan asked Bai Fu if there were any weapons at home.

"Yes, yes, yes." Bai Fu immediately took Su Yuan to his fifth master's weapon arsenal, where all kinds of weapons were available.

Su Yuan saw the seven-foot broadsword hanging on the south wall at a glance.

Bai Fu followed Su Yuan's gaze, and opened his mouth half-opened in surprise: "This knife is big and heavy, and ordinary people can't handle it. Who is Miss Su choosing for it?"

As far as he knew, among the remaining people in Kaifeng Mansion, there seemed to be no such expert.

Su Yuan jumped up, took down the sword, and ordered Sun He to take a crossbow and various hidden weapons and follow her.

Bai Fu's half-open mouth was now fully open.

What did he just see?Miss Su actually knows martial arts?And looking at her skill just now, and the posture of holding a big knife, I feel that her kung fu is not inferior to that of his fifth master.

After Sun He swept away the hidden weapons in the house, seeing that Bai Fu was still in a daze, he sighed helplessly.She used to be like this too, she was stunned by the boss.

Su Yuan took Sun He and was about to ride away immediately, Bai Fu and old judge Zhou all chased after him.

Judge Zhou blinked hard several times before he was sure that he was not dazzled.

"It's almost dark today, where are you going with such a big knife?"

"Xinzheng Gate," Su Yuan told the old judge Zhou, "send a group of people back to Zhengzhou. Other places can't be ignored, so I ask you to preside over it."

Why did Su Yuan insist on going to Xinzheng Gate?

Judge Zhou suddenly understood what Su Yuan meant when he said that Gui Jianchou was "conceited".Gui Jianchou is very familiar with the case-handling habits of the Kaifeng Mansion. Could it be that he did the opposite and came up with a trick?With the normal way of solving the case, the more impossible it is, the more likely it is.The more Judge Zhou thinks about it now, the more reasonable he is.

"Then you can't go by yourself, I'll send a few yamen servants with good martial arts to follow you now." Time was running out, and old judge Zhou couldn't ask more about Su Yuan's situation, it was important to find Gu to save people first.

"They can't keep up with me, so she's not bad at riding."

Su Yuan glanced at Sun He, then put on his sword and rode his horse galloping.

Sun He was praised for his good riding skills, so he glanced proudly at old judge Zhou, reassuring him that her boss is the best, and then rode his horse to follow.

Judge Zhou and Bai Fu both couldn't recover from the shock for a long time.

"Do you know what's going on?" Elder Judge Zhou turned his head and asked Bai Fu.

Bai Fu kept shaking his head with a blank face.He also pinched himself to make sure he wasn't fainting, but conscious.