Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

"Yes, the two names are very similar." Zhao Hanyan said, "He is probably imitating Beixia, thinking that killing himself is a chivalrous act."

Zhan Zhao felt that Zhao Hanyan's words were not unreasonable, "Now that he is confirmed to be the murderer, we should have arrested him first, lest he continue to commit crimes. It's just that the evidence is not enough. I have already spied on him while he was away. I didn't find any useful clues. If the adult means that this person is stubborn and refuses to confess, he will be tortured to extort a confession. It is a bad plan. It is best to get some evidence for retrial. I don't know what is good about Brother Zhao Way?"

"He kills people neatly, and he is a very clean person. It may be difficult to find criminal evidence in his residence." Zhao Hanyan walked to the porch and sat down, thinking with his chin in his hand.

Seeing this, Zhan Zhao also sat down, originally waiting for the answer, but when he looked sideways at Zhao Hanyan, he found that she was thinking seriously with her slightly raised nose, which was quite interesting.

"By the way, I almost forgot one important thing. Have you checked Sun Qiao's body carefully? Is there anything missing? For example, a waist card?" Zhao Hanyan asked.

Zhan Zhao: "Mr. Gongsun thought about this at the time, and checked that the knives, waist tags, etc. were all there, and nothing was missing. I guess it might be because Sun Qiao's resistance made him panic at the time, and he forgot to take things because he was in a hurry to escape. .”

"Maybe he took something you don't know. Sun Qiao was wearing an official uniform when he died. He knew Sun Qiao's identity and dared to kill him, so he wouldn't leave without taking things because he was in a hurry. There must be something on Sun Qiao. He took it away." Zhao Hanyan blamed himself, "I blame my poor brain for forgetting such an important thing."

"I don't blame you. You are a cook. You shouldn't be responsible for these things. It's my fault." Zhan Zhao corrected with a smile.

"Father-in-law died shortly after her sister disappeared. It sounds strange. Considering that the case of Killing Pig Alley is not Ou Dachun's first murder, I think this place can be investigated carefully, and his wife from his hometown is also a breakthrough."

Zhan Zhao wrote them down one by one, and then asked Zhao Hanyan: "You are very talented in solving cases. If you really only like to cook, I won't say anything, but when you have a case, you will observe, ponder, and think carefully. , it doesn't look like you don't like this, so why don't you do it?"

Zhao Hanyan was stunned, and looked at Zhan Zhao suspiciously, "Really?"

Although he asked this question, Zhao Hanyan already had an answer in his heart.She behaved exactly as Zhan Zhao said, observing, thinking and analyzing with great interest... She seemed to enjoy doing these things, and this was the truest reaction in her natural state.Perhaps it was because her parents forced her to choose to study medicine, and she simply resisted the 'patriarchal system' in order to prove herself.She hates all parenting arrangements, and even psychology is probably her favorite, which she classifies as a 'dislike'.

Now that I think about it, cooking is indeed her interest, and psychology also fascinates her.Zhao Hanyan began to doubt himself, and suddenly found that he couldn't tell which one he liked better.

Seeing that Zhao Hanyan was in a daze, Zhan Zhao knew that this incident seemed to have touched her, so he didn't ask any more questions, and left politely.

Xiuzhu walked over slowly, and called Zhao Hanyan softly, "It's getting late, should you rest earlier?"

"Go, go back to sleep." Zhao Hanyan decided not to think about it, got up happily, and took Xiuzhu back to the room.

……

As soon as it was dawn the next day, Zhan Zhao and Gongsun Ce were about to re-examine Sun Qiao's body to check if there was anything missing, when the gatekeeper sent a letter.

After Gongsun Ce received the letter, he squeezed it with his hands and felt that something was wrong inside. When he tore open the letter, he found an amulet wrapped in red cloth that was one inch square.

Gongsun Ce called Zhang Ling over and asked him if he looked familiar.

Zhang Ling glanced at it, suddenly remembered something, nodded and said: "It seems that his mother went to the temple last month to burn incense and prayed for him for a safe talisman."

Gongsun Ce handed the amulet to Zhao Hu and ordered him to confirm with Sun Qiao's mother immediately.After two sticks of incense, Zhao Hu brought back the confirmed news that the amulet belonged to Sun Qiao.

Since then, Gongsun Ce has interrogated the two gatekeepers, and they all said that the letter fell from the crack when the door was opened in the morning.Since there was no signature on the blank envelope, I thought it was strange, so I sent it quickly.

At this time, Zhan Zhao also came back from the inn.

Gongsun Ce: "How is it?"

"The government servants monitoring Ou Dachun all stared at the front and rear doors without blinking, and there was no movement all night." Zhan Zhao frowned.

"That's strange. If he is at home, who sent this letter?" Zhao Long was beside him, puzzled after hearing the words, "Could it be that the murderer wasn't him?"

"Maybe there is a helper." Zhan Zhao guessed, "Your Excellency went to court early in the morning and won't come back for a while, since my husband and I have no idea, why don't you ask Little Brother Zhao to see if he has any other ideas. "

"It's not good to bother Little Brother Zhao all the time because of the case." Gongsun Ce agreed, but asked Zhan Zhao to ask someone in the kitchen.

Zhan Zhao agreed, and went to the kitchen to look for Zhao Hanyan, but he didn't see Zhao Hanyan, only his maid, Xiuzhu, and Chunqu Chunlai brothers were busy in front of and behind the stove.

Seeing Zhan Zhao, the three of them quickly put down their work.Zhan Zhao smiled and motioned for Lai Wang and the others to continue, and only called Xiuzhu for questioning.

"Where's your son? He doesn't cook in the morning?"

"I just made steamed buns and put them in the pot. After receiving a letter, I went out to chase someone." Xiuzhu looked in the direction of the back door while speaking.

letter! ?

Zhan Zhao immediately became vigilant, and before Xiuzhu finished speaking, he grabbed the knife in his hand and chased after her.

After going out the back door, Zhan Zhao looked around and saw Zhao Hanyan holding a letter standing at the west end of the street ten feet away from him.Apart from the two of them, there was no one else on the street.

Zhao Hanyan turned to look at Zhan Zhao, at this time a ray of morning light from the east happened to shine on Zhao Hanyan's cheeks, and a faint smile under the smudge of the warm sun was so sweet to people's hearts.This reminded Zhan Zhao of eating fried rice dumplings last night, the red bean filling was sweet and sandy, it almost melted people's hearts.

"How did you come?"

Zhan Zhao came back to his senses. He knew that Zhao Hanyan could laugh, but he was fine, but he still asked, "I heard that you received a letter, and I was a little worried. Let's take a look. Are you okay?"

"well."

Zhao Hanyan lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, forming an arc-shaped shadow under her eyes, matched with her smiling red cheeks, there was an indescribable beauty.

"I received a letter of challenge."

Zhan Zhao took the letter and opened it to see that there was a line written crookedly on the letter paper: You are not worthy to be the cook of Kaifeng Mansion, compete with me, please leave if you lose.

"Who is it?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Zhao Hanyan shook his head, "No one was caught."

Zhan Zhao originally thought that the letter had something to do with the murderer, but now it is definitely not the case, and he naturally relaxed after tensing up just now. "Who did you offend, and gave you a letter of war?"

"I don't think it's the person I offended," said Zhao Hanyan, who had lived in the deep palace for a long time. How could someone target her, "I think this person is more likely to be related to your Kaifeng mansion. The letter deliberately emphasized that' Cook of Kaifeng Mansion'."

"Really?" Zhan Zhao glanced at the letter again, "Maybe, but I can't figure out who it is right now."

"No hurry, he said he wants to compete with me, and he will show up sooner or later," Zhao Hanyan said unhurriedly, "I'll just wait."

Since it was nothing serious, Zhan Zhao didn't worry about Zhao Hanyan's letter, and quickly told her how they received the letter just now, and what happened to Ou Dachun last night.

"We suspect that Ou Dachun has accomplices."

"It's unlikely to have an accomplice. He looks easy-going on the surface, but he is withdrawn in his bones and loves to be clean. He probably doesn't like to get too close to others. He doesn't even bring his wife and children with him. How can he tolerate it?" Another person is doing secret things with him, so that they are inseparable from each other? Unless there will be someone who is similar to him and loves cleanliness, this possibility is very slim, and I prefer to think that he sent the letter himself." Zhao Hanyan analyzed.

"But the people who watched him last night really didn't see him going out, unless..." Zhan Zhao frowned, "Is there a secret way?"

"What business are the two shops next to the butcher shop doing?" Zhao Hanyan asked.

"One is a liquor store, and the other is a shoe store."

"Check the shoe store carefully." Zhao Hanyan said.

Zhan Zhao originally wanted to ask why it must be a shoe shop, but he realized that the leather used for making shoes in the shoe shop is most likely from the butcher shop, and the two sides are more likely to be related.

Zhan Zhao bowed his hands to Zhao Hanyan, "Brother Zhao has exquisite seven orifices, and his intelligence is unparalleled, which is admirable."

"Thank you!"

To be praised by the famous Nan Xia Zhan Zhao, Zhao Hanyan has a sense of accomplishment. After a little satisfaction, he should cook or cook.Practice the basic skills of traditional dishes early, and study a few dishes that are famous all over the country. That is the real sense of accomplishment.

After saying goodbye to Zhan Zhao, Zhao Hanyan went back to work in the kitchen full of energy.

The next day, Zhan Zhao and others finally learned from Ou Dachun's wife that Ou Dachun's father-in-law did not die of an ordinary illness, but died suddenly overnight.At that time, Ou Dachun's wife was pregnant, and she had never seen the corpse with her own eyes. At that time, Ou Dachun explained to his wife that Qiu Hai had suffered a stroke and died.He also said that for the good of her and the child in her stomach, she was not asked to see her father's body.

Because Ou Dachun's wife was pregnant during the filial piety period, if she wanted to keep the child, she had to pay the government to change the original marriage into a normal marriage.The Qiu family is the only daughter, and Ou Dachun has legitimately inherited all of Qiu Hai's property, and then took the money to the capital to do business.Although Ou Dachun never lost money to his wife and children in the following days, he never went home again, and never saw their wives and children again.

After Zhan Zhao, Gongsun Ce and others heard these reports, they became even more suspicious of the cause of Qiu Hai's death, and immediately took people to dig Qiu Hai's grave and re-examined the autopsy.The group arrived in Fangyuan County. After digging the grave and opening the coffin, several knife marks were clearly visible on the neck bone of the corpse. It was quite certain that Qiu Hai died of cutting his throat with a sharp weapon.

Zhan Zhao then led people to arrest Ou Dachun, and found a secret passage leading to the dry well in the backyard of the butcher shop in the cellar of the shoe shop.After questioning the shoe store's shopkeeper, I found out that this shoe store was also opened by Ou Dachun.

"One month before your father's death, Ou Dachun's younger sister suddenly disappeared. Is there something else hidden in it?" Bao Zheng patted the gavel and asked the Qiu family who was also Ou Dachun's wife.

Qiu burst into tears and said: "My lord, I really don't know about it. That day my husband suddenly told me that his sister was missing. I knew that they were brothers and sisters. I wanted to ask more people to find them, but he said no, and told me not to." Take care of it."

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The setting of the heroine's previous life: she was born in a medical family, and was forced by her parents to study medicine. At that time, she had a simple personality and wanted to resist her parents to prove herself, so she felt that she didn't like psychology, so she changed to cooking while studying abroad.