Kaifeng Mansion's Little Boss

After Su Yuan returned to the room, she waited for a long time, but Bai Yutang did not catch up to coax her.Could it be that she was too strong in the past, and Bai Yutang felt that she didn't need to be coaxed, as she could get well on her own?Or maybe he's used to being aloof and indifferent, so he can't save himself to coax her?

Su Yuan poked Bai Yuanzi who was sleeping in a fluffy ball with his hand.

After being poked awake by Su Yuan, Bai Yuanzi lazily half-opened his eyes to look at Su Yuan, then continued to sleep with his eyelids down.

Su Yuan poked it twice again, Bai Yuanzi lazily raised his head, looked at Su Yuan dissatisfiedly again, meowed, turned on his back on all fours, and slept with his back to Su Yuan.

When Su Yuan poked it for the third time, Bai Yuanzi flicked his tail in dissatisfaction, got up and moved to sleep in the corner of the bed, far away from Su Yuan.

"As expected of the surname Bai, they all have the same virtue."

Su Yuan laid out a piece of rice paper, rubbed the ink, and started to paint. With Bai Yutang's face in mind, he drew a dog's head.

Su Yuan was really involved in the painting. He felt that the dog's head he sketched was quite joyful. He decided to draw it carefully and draw the dog's eyes more vividly. With a stroke of the pen tip, a thick black horizontal line was drawn directly on the entire dog's face.

Bai Yuanzi woke up at some point, and was running on the table in high spirits, making trouble for her.

"Bai, pay me for the dog's head!"

Su Yuan took a clean pen and poked Bai Yuanzi to 'revenge', Bai Yuanzi immediately stretched out his claws and hit back, the plum blossom-shaped pink flesh pads opened, dancing wildly in the air, having a great time playing.

Outside the door, Bai Yutang was about to knock on the door, but he was stunned when he heard Su Yuan shouting from inside.

Pay her dog's head?What dog head?In addition to making her almost poisoned and murdered, and making her worry about herself all day, he also caused her to lose her dog's head?

Bai Yutang hesitated again and again, instead of knocking on the door, he decided to ask Sun He first.

Naturally, one must be sincere in making an apology. He must first get rid of the dog's head before he can properly make amends to Su Yuan.

"The dog's head?" Sun He was puzzled, "I've never heard the boss mention the dog's head, maybe it's something about the case that I don't know about? Fifth Master, why don't you ask Master Zhan and Brother Wang."

Bai Yutang asked Wang Chao first, but because Wang Chao didn't know about it, Bai Yutang reluctantly went to ask Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao really wanted to help Bai Yutang, but he didn't know what the dog's head meant, "Could it be that she wants to eat the dog's head?"

Bai Yutang lowered his eyes and began to seriously consider this possibility.

"She doesn't eat dog meat."

Gongsun Ce entered the door at this time, handed the case file to Zhan Zhao, and reminded Bai Yutang to be careful, don't send the wrong things at this time, it will easily add fuel to the flames.

"Why don't girls from other families not know, but Miss Su from our family has a temper. If this future husband is not good enough, it's okay to call off the engagement."

After hearing this, Bai Yutang's face became even colder. After saluting and saying goodbye to Gongsun Ce, he left in a hurry.

Zhan Zhao laughed, "Mr. Gongsun, why bother to scare him."

"If you don't change your own way of doing things, he will definitely suffer a lot in the future. There are not many things in the world that can scare Chinchilla, and it is rare to encounter them once. Of course, we must take this opportunity to beat him up." Gongsun Ce smiled faintly, his eyes wide open. There are many deep meanings in it.

Su Yuan hugged Bai Yuanzi and slept for a while on the imperial concubine's couch. When she woke up, she found that it was almost noon.

It's been too long since Bai Yutang hasn't shown up yet.Su Yuan was really angry now, she opened the door unhappily, and planned to settle accounts with Bai Yutang and release her [-] points of anger!

But he didn't expect that when she opened the door, she was facing Bai Yutang's face.

Bai Yutang was holding a mahogany tray, and on the tray were a large bowl of stewed bone soup with three delicacies, a plate of crispy radishes, and a plate of pancakes.

The bone soup was steaming, and two bones came out of the fresh soup. The meat on it was thick, and there were some white and yellow tendons. The tendons were so soft that they looked like they were ready to bite The taste will definitely be soft and fragrant.

Su Yuan hasn't had lunch yet, and she already eats it, but now smelling the delicious smell of bone soup, she was almost too greedy to restrain her angry face.

"What are you doing here?" Su Yuan secretly swallowed when she turned and entered the room with her back to Bai Yutang.

"I'll bring you lunch." Bai Yutang put the food on the table and went out immediately.

Su Yuan turned her head to look at Bai Yutang's leaving back in surprise, is this the end of the matter?I'm afraid this man is in trouble! ! !

Bai Yutang quickly turned back.

Su Yuan's mood has been fluctuated by Bai Yutang's tossing, and now he is almost numb and loses his temper.

With an indifferent face, she calmed down and waited to see what strange operation Bai Yutang would do next.

Bai Yutang walked up to Su Yuan, and handed Su Yuan the things hidden behind him.

When Su Yuan saw the things Bai Yutang sent, he was so surprised that he almost dropped his eyes.

Men apologized for coaxing women by sending flowers or gold and silver jewelry, but Bai Yutang actually gave her a tiger head pillow sewn with cloth.

No, it’s not a tiger’s head if you look closely, it’s——

"Dog head?" Su Yuan asked.

"Ah."

Bai Yutang took out another Jade Dog from his sleeve and put it on the table.

This is the best jadeite dog he found after running all morning. Although it is only the size of a palm, it is carved lifelike.

"I don't know what kind of dog head you are talking about. If it is not this kind, you tell me what kind it is. As long as it is in this world, I will find a way to get it for you."

Bai Yutang waited for a while, and saw that Su Yuan still had an indifferent face, with her head lowered, staring blankly at the dog's headrest in her hand.

Bai Yutang asked Su Yuan softly, "Don't be angry with me, okay?"

Su Yuan covered his mouth with his hands, and his shoulders began to shake non-stop.

Seeing that Su Yuan was crying aggrievedly, Bai Yutang was so disturbed that he quickly hugged her and apologized to her seriously: "It's all my fault, I didn't tell you in advance before going out, and I shouldn't have left the Kaifeng mansion. According to the rules, I didn’t go to have my face checked on time. Because of my negligence, you were almost deceived by the fake me and drank the deadly poisonous tea.”

When Bai Yutang spoke, his voice was hoarse and a little choked.It was hard for him to imagine what would happen to Su Yuan if he drank the cup of poisonous tea sent by the fake Bai Yutang and died——

"Hahaha..." Su Yuan couldn't hold back anymore, and finally laughed out loud. She laughed until her eyes were filled with tears, and she thumped Bai Yutang's shoulder.

Bai Yutang froze, staring at Su Yuan blankly.

"Did you hear me say 'Bai, give me back the dog's head'?" Su Yuan confirmed to Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang should be.

"Hahaha... No wonder you gave me these things!"

Su Yuan looked at the dog head pillow and thought for a long time before finally realizing what was going on, but it made her laugh like crazy!

She really couldn't help it anymore, but if she could hold back her laughter, she must teach Bai Yutang a lesson for a while.

Bai Yutang: "Didn't you say that to me?" Judging from Su Yuan's current reaction, that sentence seems to have nothing to do with him.

Su Yuan nodded and pointed to the table case.

Bai Yutang took a look, and there was a painting of a dog's head on the table that had been ruined with a brushstroke.Then who is the so-called "surnamed Bai" in her mouth?

"Meow!"

Bai Yuanzi jumped off the Arhat couch and came to rub Bai Yutang's leg.

Bai Yutang understood completely, then he slowly turned his eyes and looked at Su Yuan in embarrassment.

Su Yuan waved to him, and Bai Yutang walked over immediately.

Su Yuan sniffed Bai Yutang's clothes, and there was a smell of oily fumes and food only in the kitchen.When Bai Yutang hugged her just now, she could vaguely smell it, because she covered her mouth and smiled, she didn't confirm it, but now she can confirm it.

Su Yuan glanced at Bai Yutang's hand, there was a place on the back of the hand that was obviously hot.

Su Yuan pointed to the bowl of boiled bone soup with three delicacies on the table, "You made it yourself?"

"En." Bai Yutang hugged Su Yuan, kissed her on the cheek, and whispered into Su Yuan's ear, "This time I was wrong, I will make amends, will you forgive me?"

Su Yuan pushed him away, and sat down at the table seriously, "Then I have to taste the taste first, if the taste is not good enough, it means that you didn't pay attention and wanted to muddle things, then it's hard to forgive you, maybe it's a marriage—"

"Please taste!" Bai Yutang immediately brought the spoon in front of Su Yuan, interrupting her just in time, not wanting Su Yuan to continue talking.

As soon as the soup entered the mouth, there was no cloudy smell, and Su Yuan knew that the bones must have been blanched first to remove the bloody smell.

The bone broth is rich, which means it has been boiled for a long time, at least two hours, which is probably the time since Bai Yutang came back in the morning.

The soup is full of savory flavor, it can be seen that the soup base is well made, and he has a heart to ask the cook for advice.

Because he heard her say 'dog head', he didn't have time to spare while cooking the bone soup, so he went to the embroiderer to make a dog head pillow, and he went to find a good-looking emerald dog. Carefully.

After such a comprehensive analysis, Bai Yutang's apology was very sincere.

Su Yuan went to break open the wide coke cake again, and saw that there were [-] to [-] layers inside, and the skin was crispy, but some places were overheated and slightly mushy, but overall it was not bad.

Su Yuan deliberately showed Bai Yutang the scorched part of the cake, "It should be named after it, it's burnt cake."

"I've made two of the best pancakes. Unexpectedly, making pancakes is more difficult than making bone soup. If the heat is too high, the outside will be burnt and the center will be uncooked; if the heat is too low, it will be hard and not brittle."

Bai Yutang lamented that cooking is not easy, deeply understands Su Yuan's hard work in cooking, and asked Su Yuan not to cook in the future.

"You're not good at this, so naturally you find it hard. I told you earlier that I do it because I like it, and I don't find it hard at all." Su Yuan asked Bai Yutang, "Have you eaten since you came back?"

Bai Yutang shook his head, his phoenix eyes, which were always sharp like the eyes of an eagle, were now looking at Su Yuan like Bai Yuanzi.

Su Yuan broke off a piece of wide burnt cake, dipped it in bone broth, and brought it to Bai Yutang's mouth to feed him.

Bai Yutang immediately opened his mouth obediently.

Su Yuan brought another pair of bowls and chopsticks, and ate with Bai Yutang.

After the meal, Su Yuan asked Bai Yutang: "Do you think the food you cook tastes special?"

Bai Yutang: "Not as fragrant as yours."

"Okay, I can still talk about love."

After Su Yuan poured a cup of tea for Bai Yutang, he asked him where he went yesterday and why he didn't come back at night.

"I bought the news at Wanshilou. When I learned that someone went to Guijianchou to buy Zhu Yuanwai's life in Suanzao County, I immediately rushed to Zhu Yuanwai's house to guard. But I took one person back. This person is a notorious quack killer. I wanted to join Gui Jianchou, so I was assigned to take this task as an assessment, so I don't know much about Gui Jianchou.

From now on, it seems that these should all be set up by Xu Yin, who intentionally lured me away, and then pretended to be me and sneaked into the Kaifeng Mansion, intending to send Fourth Brother Jiang to the Empress Dowager's boat to be captured and convicted, and then to kill you. " Bai Yutang analyzed.

Su Yuan said: "I took the initiative to deliver it to my door. I don't know if he planned to attack me in the first place."

"It must be. Otherwise, why do you think he took a bath when he returned to the room, but there was poisonous powder hidden in his nails after the bath? This is obviously still going to kill someone."

Bai Yutang explained his speculation to Su Yuan in detail.

"Nowadays there are a lot of rumors about you outside, he must know that you are good at observing the subtleties, he is afraid that when you see you, you will notice the flaws in his body, so he immediately took a bath to get rid of the smell on his body, and then changed into a new one. A suit of clothes is going to find you, and then poison you when you are not prepared.

But he didn't expect you to appear suddenly. In order to hide his flaws, he hurriedly threw his clothes into the closet in a panic. Unexpectedly, this made him reveal even bigger flaws. "

"I didn't even think about it. It makes sense to hear what you said." Su Yuan suddenly nodded.

"This is not like you." Bai Yutang stared at Su Yuan.

Su Yuan smiled, "Could it be that you are suspecting that I am a fake?"

Su Yuan took the initiative to bring his face closer and asked Bai Yutang to test it.

"I mean, you've always been thoughtful. In the past, you wouldn't fail to think about these things. Are you distracted by other things?" Bai Yutang grabbed Su Yuan's hand.

Su Yuan laughed again, and lightly tapped Bai Yutang's forehead with his fingertips, "I want to say that I was distracted because I was worried about you, so let's just say it straight, and beat around the bush."

"Is that so?" Bai Yutang asked Su Yuan.

Su Yuan let out a "hmm".

Bai Yutang immediately hugged Su Yuan and kissed her on the lips.

"I swear, I will never do anything to worry you again."

……

In the afternoon, when Su Yuan went out, he found that Wang Chao and the others looked at him with doubts in their eyes.

"Just ask if you have anything to say." Su Yuan told them to stop talking.

Wang Chao smiled and asked Su Yuan, "Did Fifth Master Bai return the dog's head to you?"

Su Yuan: "..."

After finally explaining to them that it was a misunderstanding, Su Yuan turned around and met Zhan Zhao again.

Zhan Zhao told Su Yuan what he knew about the King of Xiangyang, and asked Su Yuan, "I heard that you were reconciled, so he returned the dog's head to you? Could you please tell me what the dog's head is?"

Su Yuan raised his forehead and asked Zhan Zhao how many people knew about the dog head.

"Don't get me wrong, he didn't ask many people. But Mr. Gongsun happened to be there at the time, so he knew it, and Master Bao must have known it too. Dynasty and the others helped him ask a lot of people for advice. So I guess, probably all Everyone in the government knows."

Zhan Zhao's explanation is quite a bit of a joke.

Su Yuan snorted, ignored Zhan Zhao, and turned to go out.

On the way, Su Yuan met several old police officers one after another, and they all asked her about the dog's head.

Su Yuan: "..."

When Bai Yutang woke up from his sleep, Su Yuan urged him to quickly write an announcement to explain what happened to the dog head.The announcement was posted on the big wall of our Kaifeng mansion for everyone to see, saving her from explaining each one.

Bai Yutang complied with his words and quickly finished writing.The words on Su Yuan's viewing notice, painted with silver hooks and iron, are vigorous and beautiful, and it really is worthy of her family's Bai Yutang, both civil and military.

After Su Yuan posted the announcement, he couldn't help but stop and admire it for a while.

Sun He hurried over to deliver a message: "Something happened at King Xiangyang's side, Mr. Bao asked everyone to gather in the front hall."

Su Yuan agreed, but he didn't walk fast, and chatted with Sun He: "You were at the Chrysanthemum Appreciation Conference with the Jiahe County Lord last night, did you hear ghost singing?"

"Not only did I hear it, but I saw it! A female ghost in red!" Sun He explained to Su Yuan, "Because of the case that happened last night, the boss was still worried about Lord Wu, so I didn't dare to bother him with such a trivial matter. "

"Is there really a ghost?" Su Yuan was surprised.

Sun He nodded excitedly, "This time it shouldn't be a fake. We saw that female ghost floating on the water with our own eyes, moving very slowly. Who can do this except a ghost? If it was a human, it would have fallen into the river long ago. It is light work." Even the best players can't do that."

Sun He thought for a while, and asked Su Yuan tentatively: "Can the boss do it?"

"Floating slowly on the water?" Su Yuan shook his head, "It can't be done."

Sun He immediately breathed a sigh of relief, clapped his hands happily and said, "That must be a real ghost!"

"Good ghost, I will take the precious mahogany sword you gave me to meet her later."

When things go wrong, there must be a demon. Su Yuan wondered what the 'demon' behind this incident would be.

When Su Yuan arrived at the front hall, he saw the servant next to King Xiangyang standing in the middle of the hall.Last night, she and Zhan Zhao had just met this servant on the painting boat, surnamed eldest grandson, in his 30s.

The eldest grandson's servant saw that Su Yuan was the last one coming late, and said to Bao Zheng: "It is often said that Mr. Bao is strict under his control. Seeing him today, it seems that there are some discrepancies in the rumors."

"The eldest grandson's servant may not understand the situation. The officials of Kaifeng Mansion perform their own duties and are busy with government affairs all day long. They hardly touch the ground. It is difficult to summon them all overnight. If they all come at once as soon as they are called, it means that they I'm being lazy, I'm just hiding in the mansion." Bao Zheng retorted.

The eldest grandson's servant's expression changed slightly, feeling that Bao Zheng was mocking him, a servant who only works in the mansion and is idle.

"Since the three masters in the mansion have arrived, let's quickly follow our family." The eldest grandson's servant said, "If there is a problem with the prince's safety, no one can bear the responsibility!"

Su Yuan walked out, leaned close to Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao and asked, "What happened?"

"The King of Xiangyang was assassinated and reported to Kaifeng Mansion. We not only need to catch the assassin, but also send experts to protect his safety." Zhan Zhao explained helplessly.

"Nothing good." Bai Yutang said.

King Xiangyang called away the three masters of Kaifeng Mansion, Su Yuan was a little worried about the safety of Kaifeng Mansion.

Bai Yutang said to Su Yuan: "I have already instructed Wang Chao and the others to guard the Kaifeng mansion. In addition, I asked Bai Fu to call the eldest brother and the others to help watch together."

Su Yuan nodded, relieved.

"I think we should also worry about my own safety, maybe we are the ones the King of Xiangyang wants to target." Zhan Zhao said.

Su Yuan: "That's right, we just served Tianxiang Tower last night, and the King of Xiangyang showed his power today. Maybe he will feed us the tea he wanted us to drink last night, and today he will feed us again."

"Then we have to find a way to guard against it! We have already found an excuse to refuse once, and he must be on guard. How can we refuse this time?" Zhan Zhao asked Su Yuan and Bai Yutang to use their smart brains quickly, thinking A good way.

"Instead of being passive, it's better to take the initiative." Bai Yutang said.

Su Yuan nodded immediately, expressing his agreement with Bai Yutang's idea.

"Let's adapt first, and then find an opportunity to take the initiative to attack. Even if we can't kill him, we must let him peel off his skin!"

Su Yuan's proposal was immediately approved by Bai Yutang.

Zhan Zhao: "..."

Why does he feel like he has entered a bandit's den, rather than an official from Kaifeng Mansion performing official duties?

The residence of King Xiangyang is in Xiangzhou, and there is no mansion in the territory.When he returned to Beijing this time, he temporarily lived in Bieyuan, which was not within the capital city, but five miles away from Beijing.

After the three of them arrived in Bieyuan, they first went to meet King Xiangyang.

The king of Xiangyang was sitting at the top, wearing a luxurious black robe, with his left hand resting on the back of the chair, wrapped in white gauze, with blood stains on the gauze, it looked like he was injured.

"The king was having a drink in the octagonal pavilion in the garden today, when suddenly several black-clothed assassins attacked me. They not only injured the king, but also killed two of the king's bodyguards. Afterwards, these assassins retreated without a trace. No trace."

The king of Xiangyang briefly explained the process, and then ordered the eldest grandson's servant to take Su Yuan and the others to the scene, ordering them to find a way to arrest the assassin as soon as possible to protect his safety.

When the three of them arrived at the scene, they saw that there were unfinished wine and dishes in the octagonal gazebo, and there was only one pair of bowls, chopsticks and wine cups on the table.

Appetizers include fried lamb intestines, five-spice beef, bad duck feet, soap paste, fried melons, honey sesame crisps and so on.

Among them, honey mochi crisps are decorated with zong leaves, with white orchids carved from radish in the middle, and six pieces should have been placed symmetrically around them.Now there are two missing pieces of honey moss crisps on the plate, and the vacant positions are just symmetrical, one is facing the direction where Xiangyang King's wine cup and chopsticks are placed, and the other is the opposite direction.

"Your prince was the only one who drank at that time?" Su Yuan asked.

"I've already said this before, it's just our prince." The eldest grandson's servant agreed, and then pointed to the two dead guards on the other side of the gazebo, indicating that they were all killed by assassins.

Zhan Zhaozheng and Bai Yutang were accompanying Fang Wuzuo to examine the corpse.

"The injury is obvious at a glance. Both of them had their throats cut and were killed with one knife." Fang Yu said.

The blood splattered completely on the ground, and the wound on the neck ran across the throat from under the ear on the left side, and rose slightly to the right side. ①

After observing the characteristics of the wound, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao knew how the wound was formed. The murderer should have cut the throat of the deceased with a knife in his right hand.

In broad daylight, there were not many shelters near the octagonal pavilion, so if an assassin appeared, it would definitely arouse the vigilance of the guards.Why did the two guards turn their backs to the assassin so easily?This is not in line with common sense.

Su Yuan asked the eldest grandson's servant how the assassin killed the two guards at that time.

The eldest grandson's servant's eyeballs moved, "I was too flustered and frightened at the time, our family didn't see clearly."

Su Yuan then asked the other attendants at the scene, if any of them could see clearly, all of them shook their heads.

"Then how did your lord get the injury on his hand, someone of you must have seen it clearly?"

"At that time, our family was protecting the prince and walking towards the front yard. Suddenly, an assassin jumped down from the tree, trying to hurt the prince. When the prince was dodging, he was cut by the assassin's knife. Fortunately, the guards beside him blocked the assassin in time. attack, otherwise the prince will be in danger!"

The eldest grandson's servant then told Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao that the assassins had gone north.

"Master Bai and Lord Zhan must bring the assassin to justice and avenge our prince! As for Su Juyi, you are the best in martial arts, so I will trouble you to stay and protect our prince."

When Bai Yutang heard this, he immediately wanted to raise an objection, but was stopped by Su Yuan.

"I think this arrangement is excellent, so I will trouble Guard Bai and Guard Zhan to track down the assassin." Su Yuan winked at Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, telling them to leave immediately, looking for a chance to report the situation to Bao Zheng.

"What are you going to do?" Bai Yutang asked in a low voice.

"Why don't you two leave quickly? If you don't leave, those assassins may go to Dali Kingdom." The eldest grandson's servant urged.

Bai Yutang had no choice but to leave with Zhan Zhao first.

Su Yuan was led to a study by the eldest grandson's servant, and then he left.

Su Yuan pushed open the door of the study without hesitation, and saw a woman with fair complexion standing in the room.

"Miss Su, you are safe here." Wang Yu smiled slightly at Su Yuan.

Su Yuan raised her eyebrows, she was a little surprised by this, but the advantage of her is that she doesn't have many good things to say about her work.So without saying a word, Su Yuan flew out a throwing knife and hit Wang Yu hard.