Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

"Best friend, good brother?" Bai Yutang read what Zhao Hanyan said just now.

"Good brothers don't know how to hold hands." Zhao Hanyan looked at him angrily.

"Between good brothers, this kind of jade pendant will not be given casually, especially to 'good brothers' who have only met twice." Bai Yutang said slowly.

Zhao Hanyan understood, and smiled helplessly: "Okay, you did this on purpose? I said I knew it, and I will figure it out myself later."

"It's fine if you don't go to see him. There's nothing else to figure out. Could it be that you like men?" Bai Yutang stared at Zhao Hanyan as if enlightened, with a smile in the corner of his eyes, "Then if you really like men, you can consider me." Look, at least I am in better health than Pang Sangong."

Zhao Hanyan's face suddenly turned red.What is good health?What was he thinking about?implying what?

Facing Bai Yutang's eye-catching handsome face, Zhao Hanyan had a lot of thoughts, and some indescribable images suddenly appeared in his mind.

Not only blushed, but also hot.Zhao Hanyan put his arms on the table, pretending to hold his forehead, but actually wanted to cover his face with his whole arm.She turned her head to the side, looked away, and laughed awkwardly.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Then let me explain it again." Bai Yutang said patiently.He sat upright in his original position, staring at Zhao Hanyan with piercing eyes.

"No need! I got it." Zhao Hanyan hurriedly stopped him.

At first he thought that Bai Yutang's pulling her hand was just to use practical actions to remind her that the relationship with Pang Sangong was not normal.But now how does she feel that Bai Yutang is the abnormal one.

Zhao Hanyan's mind was a little messed up, with thousands of thoughts jumbled together. After a while, her mind went blank, and only one question was left.Could it be that Bai Yutang fell in love with her?

Zhao Hanyan turned his eyeballs, glanced sideways slightly, his eyes brushed past his sleeves, and took a sneak peek at Bai Yutang.Finding that the other party was staring at him with full attention, Zhao Hanyan quickly turned his eyes back, facing Bai Yutang sideways and pretending to scratch his head.

Bai Yutang likes her?

Zhao Hanyan asked himself another question in his heart, and he could obviously feel his body floating a little, a little jumping for joy.But her feeling of lightness quickly fell from the sky.

But she is a man now, does Bai Yutang mean that he likes men?Zhao Hanyan pondered the possibility of Bai Yutang finding out that he was a woman. With his straightforward personality, if he found out that he was a woman, he would have asked directly.For example, last time he suspected that his identity was not simple, so he questioned himself directly.But just said that sentence, he obviously did not express this gender issue.

Zhao Han's cigarette butt was getting bigger, and what should have been happy was now only troublesome, and he felt like he was shooting himself in the foot with a stone.Why did she disguise herself as a man in the first place!But if she didn't disguise herself as a man, she probably wouldn't be able to appear in Kaifeng Mansion, nor would she know Bai Yutang.

"you--"

Bai Yutang observed that Zhao Hanyan's complexion was getting worse and worse, and was about to ask her.Zhao Hanyan stood up, and Bai Yutang was startled. Before he could say anything, he saw Zhao Hanyan holding his stomach and screaming for pain, and ran away in a hurry.

Zhao Hanyan never came back, Bai Yutang wondered if he had frightened her by being too explicit, so he went to see her, but saw Xiuzhu coming out of the house with a basin to fetch water.

When Xiuzhu saw Bai Yutang, she hurriedly smiled and asked if Bai Yutang was looking for Zhao Hanyan.

Bai Yutang agreed, "Just as I was talking, she suddenly had a stomachache, so I came to see how she is doing."

"It's not good. She said it's hard, and it's better to be alone. This will drive me out too. Shaoxia Bai can come back another day." Xiuzhu suggested.

Bai Yutang glanced at the door, nodded, turned around and left.

Xiuzhu took the basin and followed slowly to the gate of the courtyard, confirmed that Bai Yutang had gone far, then turned around and ran back to the house quickly, closing the door.

Zhao Hanyan was covering the quilt, lying on the couch, when she saw Xiuzhu enter the door, a pair of dark eyes appeared from the head of the quilt, carefully looked in the direction of the door, and when she confirmed that Xiuzhu was the only one coming, Zhao Hanyan breathed a sigh of relief and sat down. Get up, throw away the quilt on your body.

Seeing this, Xiuzhu approached her princess even more curiously and asked what happened.

"fine."

"Did Shaoxia Bai bully you?" Xiuzhu asked.

"It's okay to say."

"It's nothing to be so blushing!" Xiuzhu firmly refused to believe it, and then asked Zhao Hanyan if Bai Yutang had taken advantage of her.If so, Xiuzhu rolled up her sleeves and was about to hit someone.

"Are you beating Bai Yutang? Have you eaten the bear heart and leopard gall just now?" Zhao Hanyan asked amusedly.

Xiuzhu pursed her lips and clenched her snow-white fists, even if she couldn't beat her, she always maintained her momentum, vowing to protect the young master to the death.

"Don't think about it." Zhao Hanyan explained, "The blushing is because I have worn too much today and drank hot tea, and I am stuffy."

"Then I'll fetch hot water and wait for you to take a bath." Xiuzhu turned around and left.

Only Zhao Hanyan was left in the room, very quiet, and Bai Yutang's words echoed in his mind very clearly, like a curse that could not be avoided, no matter how much he forced himself to be distracted.

Zhao Hanyan yelled, covered his head with the quilt, and rolled back and forth on the bed.

……

Seven days later, the yamen who went to work in Xinlin County brought back an old couple who were Miss Zhang's biological parents.

After Miss Zhang was abducted four years ago, the old couple searched around and did not report to the police, but the news could not be hidden from the neighbors.So the Yacha was ordered to go to Xinlin County to ask about a girl who had lost her legs and disabled, and it was easy to ask his family.

Miss Zhang's father is Zhang Yongmu, and the family is a carpenter handed down from the family.His wife, Mengshi, was seriously ill when she was pregnant with Miss Zhang. In the end, she survived, but she didn't expect that when she finally gave birth, the child was born without legs.Any ordinary person who encounters such a thing will feel sad.Less than three days after Ms. Zhang was born, someone from a neighbor suggested that they throw the baby away.But in the end it was her own blood, the flesh and blood born in October, and Meng was very reluctant, crying and begging Zhang Yongmu to keep the child. This care lasted for 16 years. When the girl came to marry, there was no one. Come to propose marriage.

Zhang Yongmu and his wife were getting older, and their son had grown up, so they began to plan for a marriage. The woman thought that there was a disabled old girl in his family who was holding her back, so the negotiation failed several times.The couple became more and more worried about this matter, and they became more and more disgusted with the eldest daughter.Later, someone came to ask Zhang Yongmu to make a wheelchair. After the wheelchair was ready, Ms. Zhang tried it out. The day before delivery, Ms. Zhang disappeared.After the couple inquired with their neighbors, they found out that their daughter had escaped from the house in a wheelchair.In a fit of anger, Zhang Yongmu forbade anyone to look for Miss Zhang, and asked her to come back by herself. After two or three days passed, there was no news of anyone, and when he went to look for her again, she was nowhere to be found.

As they wished, the eldest daughter really disappeared, and no longer dragged them back.Zhang Yongmu and his wife felt a sense of relief. They lived their lives as usual, their son got married, and their grandchildren also had grandchildren. The life at home is better than before.But as time went by, Meng became more and more likely to think of her lost eldest daughter and feel sorry for her.Whenever I think about it, I can't help crying.After seeing his wife like this, Zhang Yongmu gradually became infected and felt ashamed of his eldest daughter.

"Her bad body is not what I want, I gave it to you! But I disliked her and failed to take good care of her. I am not worthy of being a mother." Meng cried so much that her veil was soaked, her chest heaved up and down , Regret endlessly.

Zhao Hanyan and Zhan Zhao glanced at each other.Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows to signal her to come, no one in Kaifeng Mansion can compare to her in this respect.

Zhao Hanyan handed the two handkerchiefs he had prepared to Meng Shi and Zhang Yongsheng, and asked them to drink some tea and try to calm down their emotions.

After the two of them calmed down a little, Zhao Hanyan reminded them to get ready and listen to her next explanation.The two nodded. When the Kaifeng government officials found them earlier, they already knew that the child had committed a crime and went to jail, so they knew at this moment that it would not be a good thing.

Zhao Hanyan told Zhang Yongmu and Meng Shi about Miss Zhang's previous situation in Zhang's mansion and how she poisoned people's lives.

"48 lives? My God!" Meng covered her mouth that opened in surprise.

"There are more than 48, there are three corpses found by the Caihe River, and another girl in her early teens was thrown on the side of the road." Zhao Hanyan explained, "Although the two did not give a detailed confession, we preliminarily deduce that the four Human life should have been ordered to be killed by her two advocates."

"Evil! Disaster, we have a disaster, why do we still come to see her!" Zhang Yongmu was so angry that his cheeks turned purple, he slapped the table and scolded, but even though he was cursing, tears still glistened in his eyes , very regretful.

After hearing about Miss Zhang's experience, Zhao Hanyan is actually not too surprised why such a girl has developed into the current result.From childhood to adulthood, he has suffered all kinds of human feelings, including strange eyes from outsiders, and the dislike of his own relatives.

May I ask what kind of psychology a child will have if he is rejected by the closest person around him?At this time, if a person appears who seems to be kind to her, giving her the so-called love, support and warmth, this is like the only straw that can put her out of the fire, she will grasp it tightly, and grasp it with great gratitude , and then in order to protect this dependence, she can sacrifice all costs, even killing people.

"Miss Zhang is a murderer and a heinous crime. She deserves to die and pay the price for what she has done. But there are also your faults. If you had treated her a little more kindly back then, would she have come to this day?"

Zhang Yongmu and Meng Shi looked at each other, then both lowered their heads guiltily, and stopped cursing.

"I know that you and your wife must have felt guilty towards her, so you came all the way to see her for the last time. Since it's the last time, you should help her more, and it's also considered as sending her for the last time. Don't accuse and abuse her. Can you?" Zhao Hanyan tried to guide.

Zhang Yongmu grabbed Meng Shi's hand, and they both nodded to Zhao Hanyan at the same time.

"Don't leave regrets, tell her everything you want to say. If you can persuade her to confess to the mastermind behind the scenes and repent of her actions, it will be considered a merit, and she will be good to her in the end." Zhao Hanyan sighed.

Zhang Yongmu and his wife agreed with sobs, and then they went to the prison under the guidance of Zhao Hanyan.

Before that, Zhan Zhao had already ordered Miss Zhang and Miss Lv to be detained separately, the purpose was to avoid being disturbed when Zhang Yongmu and his wife comforted Miss Zhang.

Zhang Yongmu and his wife wanted to support each other and walked slowly to Miss Zhang's prison door.

Miss Zhang was lying with her back to them, and she didn't move when she heard footsteps, thinking that someone from the government office was going to interrogate her again.

"Don't bother, I won't say anything more."

After the voice fell for a long time, no one spoke behind him, and there was no sound of opening the cell door, and then there seemed to be faint sobs.

Miss Zhang frowned and sat up puzzled.

"Qianqian." Meng Shi shook her hands, grabbed the cell door, and shouted chokingly.

Miss Zhang's body froze suddenly, she turned her head slowly, saw Zhang Yongmu and Mrs. Meng outside the prison door, her gaze was fixed, and she didn't return to her senses for a long time.

"Qianqian, it's me, you don't recognize me?" Meng cried and knelt on the ground.Zhang Yongmu rushed to help her, but Meng Shi couldn't stand up anymore, and the couple leaned together and cried.

Miss Zhang frowned, grabbed the straw on the ground fiercely, turned her head away, and stopped looking at them.

"Why are you here?"

Meng Shi hurriedly explained that the Yacha had found them, and they decided to come to Kaifeng Mansion to see what happened to her.

Miss Zhang sneered, "At the beginning I wished that I would disappear, but now I am here again. I am almost a dead person, and I am still a murderer. I have embarrassed you, so why come!"

"No—you are our daughter! Qianqian, mother regrets what she said to you back then, but mother cares about you in her heart. Life is difficult, and sometimes she is tired, and she speaks without choice. You are not here All these years, I haven’t had a good night’s sleep.” Meng burst into tears, “It’s all because of me that you’re here today, and it’s all because I didn’t take good care of you. God should punish me, let me go Death is my fault, my fault, I deserve to die!"

After Meng said that, seeing her daughter still turned her back to her, she didn't want to pay attention to her.She has disabled legs and a thin body, supporting the ground with two thin arms, which made her extremely worried.

Mengshi cried and slapped her own mouth, hating herself to the core.

When Ms. Zhang heard the sound of Meng's slap, she turned her head in surprise, and saw her sitting on the ground without any image, and slapped her face fiercely. flushed.Miss Zhang couldn't help but blushed, and scolded her angrily: "What are you doing, are you crazy! My business has nothing to do with you, and whether I die or not has nothing to do with you, just pretend you never gave birth to this woman ! Go! Go!"

Meng clung to the prison door tightly, put her face against the crack of the prison door, and squeezed in with all her strength, "I won't leave, Qianqian Niang was sorry for you before, this time I will stay here and pay off all the debts, worthy of you Die together."

"My child, we are the ones who are sorry for you. Your mother is right. It is our fault that you can have today." Zhang Yongmu sighed and wept, but his expression of emotion was not as strong as Meng's, and he just supported himself His wife bowed her head and looked remorseful and regretful.

"Let you go, why don't you go." Miss Zhang's voice became hoarse, and then she couldn't bear it anymore, and burst into tears.

Seeing that Miss Zhang was crying hard, Mrs. Meng stretched out her hand to grab her, calling her baby name non-stop.

Miss Zhang finally turned around and crawled towards Mrs. Meng and Mrs. Zhang Yongmu little by little.

Seeing this, Zhao Hanyan signaled the jailer to open the cell door.

Meng rushed to her daughter's side, hugged her tightly and cried, and Zhang Yongmu also hugged their mother and daughter together.

Zhao Hanyan gave the jailer a few words, and then left the prison with Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao: "Will Miss Zhang confess after this?"

"I can't tell, but she definitely has feelings for her parents. As for whether to listen to persuasion or not, it depends on her own understanding." Zhao Hanyan ordered the servants to prepare some food and wine for them, so that their family of three would be more time to get along.

"If she can testify, and Qu Changle's testimony is added, then the case can basically be finalized, and there is no chance of reversal. This is the most comforting way." Zhan Zhao sighed.

Zhao Hanyan asked Zhan Zhao in surprise, "Is Qu Changle okay?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, "It's almost there, but until it's finalized, don't spread the news. Your Excellency has exhausted his thoughts on him, and this last step is all that's left. Don't make any accidents and fall short."

"Well, I won't talk nonsense, just wait for the good news." Zhao Hanyan sighed, "It's hard enough to overthrow a minister of the Ministry of Rites."

"That's the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, an important minister in the court, so naturally." Zhan Zhao explained, turning his eyes and seeing a white figure coming from the east, Zhan Zhao hurriedly said that he still had something to do, and said goodbye to Zhao Hanyan.

Zhao Hanyan always felt that Zhan Zhao talked less with her these days, except for talking about the case and meeting with her, he didn't even make jokes.Zhao Hanyan was about to ask him today if he was thinking too much, but before he could say anything, he saw him leave again.

Seeing Zhao Hanyan looking at Zhan Zhao's back, Bai Yutang smiled and asked her what was wrong.

Zhao Hanyan told Bai Yutang the truth.

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, glanced at Zhao Hanyan guilty, and then explained: "It may be my fault."

"What's your fault?" Zhao Hanyan asked puzzled.

"Remember my previous competition?"

Zhao Hanyan nodded, and immediately realized, "You...forbid Brother Zhan to gossip with me?"

Bai Yutang nodded and praised Zhao Hanyan for being smart.

"Fuck your cleverness, that's disrespecting me." Zhao Hanyan glared at Bai Yutang, turned around and left.

Bai Yutang hurriedly caught up with him and apologized, "It was just a joke, so why don't I apologize to you?"

Zhao Hanyan was not too angry at first, but when he heard that the arrogant Bai Yutang was willing to admit his mistake immediately, his attitude was quite good, so he forgave him.

Zhao Hanyan casually asked Bai Yutang why he asked Zhan Zhao so much.

"Isn't it obvious that you're joking with him? I'd feel uncomfortable if I saw it, so I took the opportunity to make this request." Bai Yutang understood this issue very deeply.He also knew that this was not Zhan Zhao's problem and he shouldn't bully Zhan Zhao, but he just couldn't help it and wanted to monopolize him.

"Why is it uncomfortable?" Zhao Hanyan asked in confusion, at the moment he met Bai Yutang's eyes, he suddenly remembered what he had told her a few days ago, 'If you like a man, you like him'.

After Zhao Hanyan realized this problem, his mind became dull again, and he didn't dare to look Bai Yutang directly in the eyes.

"I thought you knew why."

Bai Yutang looked down at her, his eyes were extremely gentle, his voice was a little hoarse because it was too low, but it was more touching and beautiful!

Zhao Hanyan faced Bai Yutang, lowered his head, smelled the faint plum fragrance from his body, felt that he was in a daze, and really didn't know how to react.

Is she happy?Should she be happy?

She wanted to be happy, but when she thought that Bai Yutang liked herself as a man, her heart was blocked, and she felt depressed like a huge boulder on top of her. She couldn't speak, and even struggled to breathe.

Generally, when encountering such problems that you cannot face yourself, the best way is not to face them.

Zhao Hanyan turned around and hurried back, praying that Bai Yutang would not follow her.

There seemed to be no footsteps behind her.

After Zhao Hanyan rushed back to his room, he turned around and closed the door. After making sure that there was no sign of Bai Yutang outside, he leaned against the door with his whole body relaxed and heaved a sigh of relief.

"I came back quickly, do you want some tea?" Bai Yutang, who was sitting at the table, poured a cup of tea for Zhao Hanyan and motioned for her.

Zhao Hanyan was startled, and then glared at him angrily, "Who let you enter my room silently?"

"Oh? I thought you didn't say anything just now, and you walked back suddenly. You told me that something was inappropriate outside, and I should go to your room to say it. It turned out that I misunderstood, so I apologize to you, okay? ?" Bai Yutang's eyes were gentle, and the corner of his mouth was smiling, which could be called stunning.

Zhao Hanyan's heart couldn't bear being watched by Bai Yutang like this.

"Go...accept your apology, then you can go." Zhao Hanyan muttered.

Bai Yutang got up, walked up to Zhao Hanyan, leaned very close to her, and looked at her.

"What are you, what are you doing?" Zhao Hanyan mustered up the courage to stare back at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang smiled, "You're blocking the door, how can I get out? Or are you saying that you didn't want me to go out in the first place, so you're saying something wrong, huh?"

When Bai Yutang spoke at the end, he had put his hands on the door, bowed slightly, and brought his face very close to Zhao Hanyan's.

Zhao Hanyan blushed uncontrollably, opened his mouth, and opened his mouth again before making a sound: "We can't do this, I, I, I like women!"

"Is that why you avoided me these few days?" Bai Yutang asked again.

"Yes, it was getting better just now, but you are like this again." Zhao Hanyan leaned back, although there was nowhere to move behind, she put her whole body as flat as possible against the door, "We two men, it can't be done. I really If I like women, even if Mr. Pang San is interested in me, I won't think about it, so don't think too much about it, do you understand?"

Bai Yutang shook his head, and when his slender fingers touched Zhao Hanyan's cheek, a glow immediately appeared on Zhao Hanyan's white and tender cheek.Bai Yutang's fingertips gently slid down Zhao Hanyan's cheeks, and pinched it all the way to his chin.

Zhao Hanyan was extremely short of breath, his chest began to heave, and he kept standing and blinking to look away, trying to avoid Bai Yutang as much as possible.

"I don't understand your reaction."

With a stubborn face, Bai Yutang lowered his head and kissed Zhao Hanyan's lips.