Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

She even forgot something as simple as wrapping the fish in flour before frying, and was splashed with oil. This did not conform to the murderer's bold and cautious style.

"This girl named Qiao'er can't even do a good job of frying fish, how can she complete several murder cases almost perfectly." Gongsun Ce expressed the same thought as Zhao Hanyan.

Bao Zheng nodded, and then asked Grandma Sun if that Qiaoer girl had been away for a long time in the past two months.

"No, I've been helping in the back kitchen all the time."

"In this way, she will not be able to complete the two cases in Chenzhou, and it is even more impossible." Bao Zheng added.

One, the cook could not travel far away at will; the details of the two and four cases showed that the murderer had a certain relationship with these people. They are all accurately aware of the possibility of being drugged, or the deceased willingly chooses to go to the appointment alone.It is really difficult for Qiaoer to meet these requirements as a cook.

"But why is this drug in her room? A coincidence?" Wang Chao asked.

"It's not possible." Zhao Hanyan said, "The incident in the Random House has a lot to do with Ying Tianyang's death."

Gongsun Ce agreed: "The hanging ropes in the criminal building just corresponded to the way of death of Ying Tianyang and Feng Zhixin. And the knots are the same as those at the scene of the deceased. The murderer must have something to do with Shuran Zhai, and it has a deep relationship."

Zhao Hanyan re-checked the list, and his gaze was finally at the end of the list. He was stunned for a while, and then looked forward again.

"There are three directors in Random Zhai, one major and two mates. Now the chief manager Narcissus and one deputy manager Jiao Yun are both arrested, what about the other one?"

"The other one is called Jin Shuilian, who happened to be away when she was out on errands." Gongsun Ce explained, "That's why we keep people in the house."

Zhao Hanyan thought for a while, then turned to ask the cook, Mrs. Sun, who was still kneeling on the ground, "What is the relationship between Qiaoer and Jinshuilian?"

"Not good." Grandma Sun shook her head immediately, "There is no one in this house who has a good relationship with that bitch. She is the old thief Ying's lackey. She often runs out to help the old thief find girls. She also thinks of many new tricks. , make some strange instruments of torture to torture those girls, so as to please the old thief and the friends he brought. Don’t look at her as the vice-president, but the weight of power and words is greater than that of the chief executive. The reason why Not a big one, that's because she has to go out often and can't manage the affairs of the house."

Another cook said awkwardly: "But one time Qiao'er's hands were scalded by oil, and I saw Jinshuilian taking medicine and applying it to her."

"There is such a thing?" Grandma Sun couldn't believe it.

"Then what other relationship do they have?" Zhao Hanyan asked again.

Grandma Sun shook her head, and the other two cooks also shook their heads.

"Qiao'er was only sent to the casual house three years ago, and Jinshuilian has been in the house for ten years. There should be no relationship between the two of them before." After finishing speaking, Grandma Sun suddenly remembered something, "By the way, before I've heard from the chief manager that Qiao'er looks a bit like Jin Shuilian's younger sister."

"Jin Shuilian has a younger sister? What about his younger sister?" Zhan Zhao immediately took out the roster to look for it.

"Her sister died a long time ago. She and Jin Shuilian went to the casual fasting together. Her sister couldn't bear it for a year and committed suicide by throwing herself into a well. That's why we said that she had no conscience, and her sister died in such a thing. Turning around but cold-heartedly going out to harm so many girls from good families, it's really not a thing! Bah!"

When Grandma Sun mentioned Jinshuilian, her facial features were distorted with anger, and she felt an indescribable hatred for her.She had no choice, she was unlucky, she became a servant of Ying Tianyang's family, and unfortunately she was chosen to be the cook of Random House.She just cooks, and it's nothing, but the Jinshuilian gang always helps the girls brought back from outside by the old thief, all of them are as beautiful as flowers, and they are all clean, soft and unopened flower bones, but when they turn their heads, they are just like that. An old man has been ruined by usurpation!

Grandma Sun was so angry that she cursed and shouted to die, "Even if I'm fighting for the girls who are free to fast today, I'm willing to testify! Take off the dummy skin of that old thief! Let everyone in the world know about him! He's not a humble gentleman at all, he's a beast that's worse than a pig or a dog!"

Bao Zheng was very angry about what he heard and saw before him, and he was very ashamed that he was an official in the same dynasty as Ying Tianyang and respected him as his predecessor.But the current case must be solved according to the rules, and emotional witnesses cannot be brought into court.Bao Zheng slapped the gavel hard, and ordered people to temporarily take Mrs. Sun and others down.Immediately he interrogated the nursing home and those young girls who were called 'beauties' in the random room.These people don't know much about Random Zhai. One side is foolishly guarding, while the other side is confused and forced to be locked up.However, from the process of interrogating them, I probably learned that the random fast originated.

The house was originally bought by Ying Tianyang 15 years ago, and only one concubine was kept privately. Later, someone presented beauties to him, and it became two, then three, four... and finally more and more.Ying Tianyang also became more and more dissatisfied because he had too much to eat, and he sought more and more exciting tricks, and he learned from the harem in managing the house.

After that, Bao Zheng interrogated Chief Executive Narcissus and Deputy Chief Executive Jiao Yun. Both of them were in their late fifties, with gloomy faces. After entering the hall and knelt down, their eyes stared blankly at the front, and their whole body was stiff. The stones are generally motionless, no matter what Bao Zheng said, they don't make a sound.

Seeing this, Zhan Zhao went to Zhao Hanyan's side and asked her opinion in a low voice, wondering if she would have any good ways to deal with such silent witnesses.

"Ying Tianyang has been an official for dozens of years. He has already been familiar with the intrigues in the officialdom, and he must be well versed in the way of employing people. He will definitely not hand over such secret matters to someone who can open his mouth casually. The mouth of the chief executive is afraid. It's not easy to pry."

Bai Yutang was listening, and sneered, "I don't believe it."

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang, but didn't say anything.Bai Yutang knows what tricks he knows best, cutting out tongues and eyes, chopping off arms and legs, as long as it can not kill people and force people to survive, he can use them.There is nothing a gentleman can do, what a chivalrous person would not do, he is a person who can do anything to achieve his goal.Fortunately, his heart is not bad, and he only helps good people, otherwise, he might really be the toughest bully to deal with.

Bai Yutang didn't wait for the response of "try it", he raised his head boredly, glanced at Narcissus, the chief executive who was kneeling in the center of the hall, sighed bored, and quietly walked out of the hall.

Seeing this, Zhao Hanyan also retreated, "Do you want to go?"

"Yeah." Bai Yutang was a little surprised to see Zhao Hanyan coming out, with a pretty smile on his lips, "Do you want to give it away?"

Zhao Hanyan didn't want to give it away at first, but felt that Bai Yutang helped find important clues, and she gave him bitter vegetable juice, so she should thank him.But now that Bai Yutang said so, Zhao Hanyan didn't refute, so he sent him out as promised.Bai Yutang wanted to go through the back door, but Zhao Hanyan was surprised that he would not climb over the wall, so he sent him to the back door.

"Leave a message for the cat. I want to use my master's words to ask for it early, but I'm late." Bai Yutang said, smiled at Zhao Hanyan, waved his hand, and walked away.He actually went through the back door, didn't climb over the wall, and didn't go to the room.

After sending Bai Yutang away, Zhao Hanyan felt that he was close to the kitchen anyway, and felt a little thirsty, so he went to the kitchen and cut a piece of watermelon to eat.Xiuzhu was picking vegetables, and when she saw Zhao Hanyan coming back, she said excitedly, "Chun Lai Chun Qu has already bought a big goose."

Zhao Hanyan turned around and saw that it was true, there were already two cleaned up fat geese in the basin.

"Clean the fur." ​​Zhao Hanyan noticed at a glance that there were some small hairs on the goose's neck and wing roots that had not been cleaned.

Xiuzhu came to see it, and promised quickly.

"The young master's case is over? Have you found the murderer?"

"It's not that easy." Zhao Hanyan sat down, took another piece of watermelon and ate it.After a while, Chunlaichun went to his brothers and brought back a pot of tofu.

"Why do you buy so many?"

"I didn't buy it. Aunt Li gave it to me. Yesterday's tofu was sold and the leftovers sank to the bottom of the well to cool. If I sell it again today, it won't last long before it goes bad. Just as our brother was passing by, she gave us some." Chunlai explained road.

"This Mrs. Li is really a nice person." After Zhao Hanyan finished speaking, he reached out to pick up a piece of tofu, crushed it, took another piece, and continued to crush it.

Chunlai and Chunwang were stunned, "It's going to be broken, but it's not broken yet, so we can eat something before it's too late. Why is it crushed!"

"I'll make tofu balls for you to eat, go soak some mushrooms."

"Tofu balls? It sounds delicious!" Chunlai immediately agreed to fetch the dried mushrooms and throw them into the water to foam.

Xiuzhu was also holding a big goose, using her slender fingers to pull out the small hairs one by one, blaming Chun for being careless at work and not tidying up the goose.

Zhan Zhao came over at this time, and asked Zhao Hanyan with a smile why he didn't go back.

"I'll just read the testimony after you finish the interrogation, so I won't delay the cooking." In fact, Zhao Hanyan felt that he wouldn't be able to ask any questions. The two supervisors saw that they had been trained by Ying Tianyang for a long time. In the past, they absolutely obeyed. Simply speaking, they lost their personality, just like two dogs that have been raised for many years. In their eyes, they only recognize Ying Tianyang as their master, and they only obey his orders. The object to bite.How can we communicate?Can't communicate at all, there are racial barriers.

"Don't think you can ask?" Zhan Zhao saw through Zhao Hanyan's thoughts at a glance.

Zhao Hanyan crushed another piece of tofu in the basin with a 'poof' sound. Zhan Zhao was attracted by the sound and looked over.

"Then you said that if these two people are handed over to Bai Yutang for interrogation, will there be any results?"

"I don't know the means he used, and I can't guarantee it." Zhao Hanyan said.

Half an hour later, news came from Sansi Hall that Mr. Bao had finished the interrogation, and even tortured the two stewards out of desperation, but the two stewards remained silent and refused to confess.Later, when the two of them learned that Ying Tianyang was dead, they became even more lifeless. Their faces were full of hopelessness, and they even wanted to commit suicide.

After Zhan Zhao heard this, he shook his head and sighed, "These two are really stunned, they don't look like humans."

"How many of those high-ranking officials and aristocrats' families treat their servants like human beings, they are all raised like dogs!" Xiuzhu said smoothly.

Zhan Zhao looked at her suspiciously. Being able to say such a thing, it sounded like he had or seen someone else have such an experience.But it's not a good idea to go to brother Zhao's house. Where did Xiuzhu get her 'knowledge' as a maid?

"My neighbor, Aunt Zhang, is a maid who was released from the compound of the deep house. She used to teach Xiuzhu to play nets, and Xiuzhu often heard Aunt Zhang tell her about these things. Xiuzhu will come back and tell me after listening to it, to fight for others. .” Zhao Hanyan hastily explained.

Xiuzhu also realized that she seemed to have slipped her mouth, and hurriedly nodded in agreement with Zhao Hanyan's words, in order to save it in time.

After Zhan Zhao heard the explanation, he didn't do what he thought. He still cared more about the case. He frowned and lamented the complexity of the case, and the truth involved was darker than he imagined, which was disgusting.

"Yes." Zhao Hanyan agreed while crushing all the tofu in the basin, adding salt, wine, pepper and other things.

"Lord Bao suspects that the murderer was the missing Jinshuilian. I asked about her height, and it matches your description. She is still beautiful, has been abused, and has the opportunity to travel far. As her deputy manager, there must be a way to let her Feng Zhixin and Ying Tianyang met her alone." Zhan Zhao was a little addicted to seeing Zhao Hanyan's hand moving back and forth among the white tofu, so he lowered his eyes and didn't look at Zhao Hanyan when he was talking.

Zhao Hanyan looked up at Zhan Zhao and nodded, "I think it's her too, but where is she now, do you have any clues?"

"When I left three days ago, I said I was going to the countryside to find a girl, but no one knew exactly where."

"Then we have no choice but to wait." Zhao Hanyan said, "I have always been curious, when the murderer committed crimes in Chenzhou, what method did the murderer use to make all the servants in the mansion fall unconscious at the same time? "

"If you count the days, Zhao Hu and the others will be back soon, and I hope he can bring you your answer." Zhan Zhao sighed, "This case is really exhausting, so remember to make some meat for us tonight."

"Here, big goose." Zhao Hanyan gestured to Zhan Zhao.

"Excellent." Zhan Zhao sighed.

Boom!Boom!Boom!

There were three hasty knocks on the back door of Kaifeng Mansion. The sound was so loud that even the kitchen could hear it.

Chun went to open the door immediately, and saw a tall, thin man delivering a letter.

"To the cook." The moment the man stuffed the letter into Chun Qu's hand, he turned and ran away.

Zhao Hanyan took the letter, opened it, and there was a line of crooked words written on it: "A showdown will be held in three days."

"The handwriting looks familiar." Zhan Zhao didn't remember it for a while.

"You've seen it, the last time he sent a letter, it was the one that said he wanted to compete with me, and told me to get out of Kaifeng Mansion if I lost."

Zhan Zhao realized, "So it's that fellow! I'll help you catch him right now!"