Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

The four dead and the four murderers all died in different ways, but they have something in common.

Zhao Hanyan was thinking about it when he heard Bai Yutang speak first.

"Golden wood, water and fire?" Bai Yutang raised his eyes and glanced at Yan Shu.

Yan Shu nodded, praising Bai Yutang for not being simple.This young man is not only handsome, but also has a strong martial arts, he is also so intelligent, it is a pity that he does not have an unmarried younger sister, otherwise such a good young man, he would definitely not let him go.

Zhao Hanyan didn't know much about the Five Elements, so after hearing this statement, he thought about it for himself. No.1 The deceased Ziyan Daochang was burned by fire, which belongs to fire; No.2 The deceased Qingxi Daochang drowned in water, which belongs to water; No.3 The deceased Xilin was killed by silver needles, which belongs to gold; No.4 The deceased Baiyun The elders were nailed to death with a wooden awl, belonging to wood.

"Sure enough, it has something to do with gold, wood, water and fire, so there will be a 'soil'?" Zhao Hanyan felt a little headache when he thought that someone would die, and he lost the mood to pick mushrooms.

Yan Shu: "I have asked people to step up their patrols, but it is also possible that under such circumstances, the murderer would not dare to take action."

"He will definitely make a move. If he doesn't make a move, he will be ashamed." Zhao Hanyan was very sure.

Yan Shu asked Zhao Hanyan why in surprise.

He was surprised a little too much today, and it seems that the 'surprises' saved in the previous two years have all been exhausted today.

Zhao Hanyan then gave Yan Shu a brief account of the three cases manipulated by the mastermind behind the scenes. Zhao Hanyan also gave a character analysis of the murderer's self-righteous and elusive "pointing out the country".

Yan Shu listened intently, on the one hand he thought it made sense, on the other hand he found it incredible when he thought about it the other way around.Brother Zhao was able to sum up the characteristics of the murderer from these small things, which makes people feel a little unbelievable. Most of the inductions are guesses?It can be said to be a guess, but Yan Shu really thinks that the murderer should be the kind of person Zhao Hanyan analyzed, and what he said is very reasonable, and there seems to be nothing to refute.

"Under his 'guidance', three cases have been completed, and each one has caused more headaches for the Kaifeng government. He believes that his master is the king who can control the murder. He not only controls the murder, but also makes the government go round and round. .He enjoys it, and he is constantly increasing the difficulty, and one day he will make it difficult for himself."

Zhao Hanyan then took two empty baskets from the Taoist kitchen, and went behind the mountain with Yan Shu and Bai Yutang.

Zhao Hanyan first picked the hazel mushrooms she saw first, and then distributed them to Yan Shu and Bai Yutang, and asked them to pick them like this, but don't make a mistake.

Yan Shu looked at the mushroom carefully.It is as long as a finger, and the top is like a small umbrella, but the tip is smoother and light yellow. The fragrance is very unique, but it also smells of mountain rot.

"Remove the roots when picking, and pick off the sticky leaves so that you don't have to spend time picking them when you go back." Zhao Hanyan instructed again.

"It's my first time picking mushrooms," Yan Shu sighed happily holding two mushrooms. He immediately put the headache case behind him and asked Bai Yutang, "What about you?"

The reason why I asked Bai Yutang was because from Bai Yutang's dignified and dignified appearance, he was probably the same as him.

"I agree with this," Bai Yutang put the mushroom Zhao Hanyan gave him back into the basket, he didn't need to compare the 'appearance'.In these years, he has traveled everywhere in and out of the mountains. He has paid attention to food, but he has suffered even more.

Zhao Hanyan suddenly smiled and sighed: "How did I forget that when you travel in the rivers and lakes, you must have a meal and sleep in the open. You know this wild thing better than anyone else."

"En." Bai Yutang turned his eyes to search for the roots of the tree, and soon found it, picking one after another.

The afterlife is terrifying.

The 29-year-old Yan Shu suddenly felt that he was old and could not compare with others.

Yan Shu hurriedly memorized the appearance of the mushrooms, and went to look for them too, but it seemed that his eyesight was not good. They picked piles after piles, but he couldn't find them for a long time.I finally found two, both of which had already been opened. They were too long and would break when touched.

Yan Shu wanted to write lyrics. When he was melancholy, he liked to write lyrics more.

Zhao Hanyan suddenly pointed to an old tree in front of him, and said to Bai Yutang, "Look at how big that tree is, it's really strange, isn't it a bit hideous?"

Yan Shu followed to look over there, and happened to see a pile of yellow and tender mushrooms growing beside the old tree Zhao Hanyan pointed to, covered with a few leaves, which were well camouflaged.

Immediately, Yan Shu regained his energy and hurried to pick them. He cleaned the leaves and broke off the mushrooms one by one. He carefully placed them in the basket, and looked up to find that there were also under the roots of the tree in front of him. He continued happily.

Bai Yutang walked up to Zhao Hanyan with a basket of mushrooms in his hand. Seeing that Zhao Hanyan was smiling at Yan Shu over there, he couldn't help asking her, "On purpose?"

"Don't you think the way he picks mushrooms is very interesting, and when he can't pick them, he's a bit 'sad spring and autumn'." Zhao Hanyan whispered to Bai Yutang.

"What about me?" Bai Yutang felt that it was time to test their brotherhood.

"You? No!" Zhao Hanyan said.

Bai Yutang's originally probing gaze at Zhao Hanyan was immediately frosted.

Zhao Hanyan felt something was wrong, and after confirming the look in Bai Yutang's eyes, he chuckled, "I mean, when you encounter this kind of thing, you will definitely not be as sentimental as he is. Are you sentimental about the past?"

"No." Bai Yutang suddenly felt that he was too busy, so why bother to compare this, "I'm done picking, and yours is almost done, but you still have to continue?"

"I also said to talk about the case when picking mushrooms, but I don't know that everyone has to disperse when picking mushrooms, so where is the right place to talk." Yan Shu lamented that he really lacked experience in this area.

"Anyway, we've already finished talking before picking." Zhao Hanyan carried the heavy mushrooms in the basket, feeling that Ziyan Mountain is really a rich and good mountain, and said, "I want to visit the residence of Elder Baiyun."

"Didn't you just look at the residence?" Yan Shu was puzzled.

"The thatched hut on the mountain, where Elder Baiyun retreated." Bai Yutang and Yan Shu explained.

Yan Shu hurriedly asked Zhao Hanyan to lead the way, and he wanted to see it too.

The three of them carried the baskets and walked to the small waterfall. When they looked up, they saw a thatched hut on a small cliff with a cover three to four meters high.A foot away to the west of the thatched cottage is a small waterfall, only two or three meters wide.To the east of the thatched hut, there is a man-made stone step, about the width of which can accommodate three people walking side by side.

The back of the thatched cottage is close to the mountain. There is nothing there. There is a yard about ten feet square in front. There is a table in the yard, a few pots of orchids, and a shelf for drying herbs. Greyed out, not used for a long time.

Zhao Hanyan and others then entered the thatched hut. The layout of the room was one bedroom and one hall. There was an alchemy furnace in the center of the hall, which was similar to the one in Ziyandao's long courtyard. There was no soot in the furnace, and it was brand new.It looks like a new alchemy furnace has been left here for a long time and it's just ash.There are also three tea tables and four grand master chairs, all placed against the west wall, and the Sanqing Tianzun and the Jade Emperor are hung on the north wall.There is an altar in front of the portrait, on which are two pots of orchids.

Further inside is the bedroom, which is also very simple, with a sandalwood canopy bed, a wardrobe, Arhat couch, small table, bedding, incense burner and so on.

"Elder Baiyun really is cultivating, simple and simple." After looking around, Yan Shu couldn't help sighing.

Zhao Hanyan opened the closet and looked through it. It was just a few pieces of clothing, and then looked through other wooden cabinets. They were all ordinary objects. There were very few things, so he didn't see anything else.

Bai Yutang saw that Zhao Hanyan was puzzled, and asked her what was wrong.

Zhao Hanyan: "Looking at this room, do you feel any shortcomings?"

"What?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Popularity, if you live here all year round, you shouldn't just have these things. There is not even a bowl, chopsticks, stove, basin, bamboo pole for drying clothes... This seems like a place for people to live in, but the things are too simple. Yes." Zhao Hanyan continued, "I remember the Taoist priests in the temple said that Elder Baiyun didn't like to be disturbed when he was practicing, and even if Taoist Ziyan died, Taoist Qingxi would not allow anyone to come to him. If you don’t cook, what do you live on?”

"Maybe I'm really cultivating immortals, and I'm not eating fireworks." Yan Shu said.

Yan Shu didn't understand how a cultivator lived, but the continuous murders in Ziyan Temple were enough to show that things were not simple, so what he saw now must be abnormal.

Zhao Hanyan almost forgot that in ancient times, many people believed in cultivating immortals.She thinks she has enough reasons to be suspicious, but in their view, that may not be the case.

Zhao Hanyan quickly changed his words, "I mean, Taoist Zi Yan said that he suffered some kind of thunder disaster, but in the end he was only burned to death. The so-called cultivation of immortals by Elder Baiyun is probably a cover. I don't think he I live here often. Besides, looking at the width of the stone steps outside the thatched hut, three people can walk side by side, and it’s just a thatched hut, so why bother to make such a wide step?”

Yan Shu nodded in agreement.

Bai Yutang looked around the room for a week, looking for something, his gaze finally settled on the leg on the east side of the alchemy furnace. "This pill furnace has three legs, but this one is the brightest."

"Is there a mechanism?" Zhao Hanyan came over curiously, this was the first time she had seen such a thing.

Bai Yutang touched it, and then nodded to Zhao Hanyan after confirming it. Then he held Danlu's leg with his whole right hand, twisted it left and right, and turned it inward with a click.Then there was the sound of rubbing stone bricks, and everyone looked at the ground at the same time, and saw a stone brick under the alchemy furnace was sinking.At this time, Bai Yutang turned the leg of Danlu to his head, and there was another click, and the sinking of the stone slab stopped.It sank to a height of about three feet, and the sinking stone slab was suspended by iron chains.It can be seen that there are stone steps leading to the depths, but the depths are dark, and it is not clear what is inside.

Then they called someone, raised a torch, and went into the cave to find out.

After entering, there is a corridor more than half a foot high, which is as wide as two people. Everyone has to bend down and lower their heads to walk down. It is about seven or eight feet down the road, and the road is wider. It is a natural cave formed by the rocks. , much wider than the artificially carved passage just now, but the winding and irregular, people can walk upright, but pay attention to your feet, because the high and low are not smooth, and it is easy to slip when walking down the slope, so you need to pay extra attention careful.

Everyone held the torches and continued to walk down for about a stick of incense, and they came to an open place with light shooting down from above.It seems that the place where the light leaked above should be a fault in Banya.

When I continued to walk in, the soles of my feet began to get wet, and I heard the faint sound of rushing water.As we walked, it became more open and flat, and the stream became wider and wider, and finally converged into a puddle about three feet wide.Because the light in the pit is not good, the water in the pool looks dark and bottomless.

Where the river sees light, some moss and grass grow.

"It turns out that Ziyan Mountain is a place with an empty stomach." Yan Shu looked at the environment here, "A good place isolated from the world."

Zhao Hanyan looked at the direction of the river's flow, and it should eventually converge to the bottom of the mountain and join the small river outside the mountain.The soldiers then found the passage leading to the bottom of the mountain, and Yan Shu ordered them to explore the way first.Soon afterward, the soldiers came back and forth, and the tunnel led to the bottom of the mountain in the north of Ziyan Mountain.

"The north side of Ziyan Mountain is a cliff. I'm afraid no one would have thought that there would be a way out of the mountain." Yan Shu sighed, and then saw that Zhao Hanyan and Bai Yutang were not by his side. Looking back, he found that they were in a pool What to say.

Yan Shu hurried over and asked them what questions they had.

"Yinhe." Zhao Hanyan looked at Yan Shu with her black and white eyes, and pointed to the pool, "Look what's under there?"

The Milky Way, silver hidden at the bottom of the river, originally meant this.

Yan Shu thought it made sense, and immediately sent people into the water to investigate.In the end, as they expected, when the soldiers swam up, they grabbed a handful of silver in their hands, and said that the bottom of the water was covered with silver ingots.

Then a government officer came to report that they found the bones near the exit of the cave at the bottom of the mountain. It is estimated that a wild dog smelled the smell and dug the bones out of the soil.When the soldiers first discovered it, they suspected that it was not an ordinary animal bone, so they dug a few more times with wooden sticks, and they saw the skeleton, so they hurried over to report it.

Yan Shu asked them to bring tools and continue digging, and report after confirming the final number of bones.The same is true for the silver at the bottom of the pool. First salvage to confirm the quantity.

The three of them then came out of the cave and walked back carrying mushroom baskets.

"The discovery of Yinhe should be kept a secret for the time being. Don't mention it when you go back." Yan Shu suggested.

Yan Shu's intention is probably not to let the murderer know that they have discovered the secret of Yinhe, or they can wait to catch the murderer.

Of course Zhao Hanyan and Bai Yutang both understood.But Zhao Hanyan felt that this kind of thing can be hidden from ordinary people, but it can't be hidden from sensitive people, especially the murderer who is nervous when he sees officials and family members with a guilty conscience.

But whether it is to scare the snake out of the grass or wait for the rabbit, it is the way to catch the murderer.

And wait.

After Zhao Hanyan went back, he poured the mushrooms into the water, then put in the flour and kneaded them gently, so that the mushrooms that were difficult to wash would be easy to clean.

The Taoist priest in charge of cooking helped kill the chicken, cleaned it up according to Zhao Hanyan's request, and chopped it into small pieces suitable for eating.

Zhao Hanyan took the money from the purse and gave it to them. Not only did he pay the chicken money, but also left some money as their wages for their help.

The Taoist priests hurriedly waved their hands away, but Zhao Hanyan insisted, and they couldn't shirk it, so they had to accept it.

Wild hazel mushrooms are ideal with chicken.The meaty aroma of the chicken permeates into the mushrooms, and the unique freshness of the mushrooms also blends into the chicken soup, so that they enhance each other's flavors and make people want to eat it.

As long as wild mountain delicacies are not too fishy, ​​there is no need for too much seasoning in the way of eating. Any addition of extra seasonings will affect the complete taste of this "delicacy".Therefore, cooking according to the original taste of the ingredients can fully taste the true delicacy of the mountain delicacies.

After the chicken is blanched, put the cooking ingredients into the pot and simmer until the soup is thick and fragrant. After the chicken oil is golden and fragrant, scoop out the upper layer of chicken oil, put the blanched hazel mushrooms into the pot, and Take out the chicken water and oil mixture and stir fry lightly in the pan.This kind of stir-frying method is not considered to use oil, nor is it considered to be oil-free, so that the hazel mushrooms can not only achieve the effect of stir-frying, but also not only not greasy, but also because no other types of oil are added, and the hazel mushrooms can be kept intact. And the purest fragrance of chicken.

When the chicken is stewed fragrant and rotten, add hazel mushrooms, slightly adjust the salt, and stew for a while, so that the taste of hazel mushrooms can completely blend into the chicken soup and chicken, and add salt again to a palatable level. Get out of the pot.

Pale yellow mushrooms, when they are just taken out of the plate, there are steaming chicken soup hanging on them. Take a bite and you can see the white meat inside. The taste is smooth and tender, soft and delicate. Mushroom-flavored soup.

At sunset and dusk, it is the time when people are hungry.

Bai Yutang and Yan Shu sat around the table and discussed the case with each other. What you said and what I said were right, but suddenly they smelled the fragrance.Both of them stopped talking at the same time, and chose to drink tea, but they waited for a long time, but no food came. They were a little anxious, and then they heard footsteps, and then the door opened, and the delicious Hazel Mushroom Chicken was brought up.

It turned out that it was just a distant fragrance, but it already made people salivate.Now the Hazel Mushroom Chicken is in front of you, and the fragrance is even stronger, who can resist it.

When Zhao Hanyan came, even the words of thanks became quick and short, just to get the coveted Chicken Hazel Mushroom into his mouth as quickly as possible.

In order to be impartial, Yan Shu and Bai Yutang actually made the same choice, and put the chicken and mushrooms into their mouths at the same time with the first chopsticks.In an instant, the hungry expectation was finally satisfied, but it was only for a moment, and then it became more and more greedy until the stomach was full.

"It's delicious." Yan Shu reluctantly put down his chopsticks. His clever brain was already bewildered by the deliciousness, and he couldn't think. At this moment, it was difficult to say any gorgeous words of praise, just two simple words - delicious.

After Bai Yutang put down his chopsticks, he didn't speak immediately, he was still thinking about it, but unfortunately his stomach was limited and he couldn't continue to eat more.If possible, he would really like to grow a bottomless stomach, filling it with little brother Zhao's delicacies every day, so that no one else can eat it.

Yan Shu looked at Zhao Hanyan with hesitation in his eyes, wondering whether he should say what was in his heart.

Yan Shu's heartfelt voice: I have eaten good dishes before, and they are delicious, but they are not as full as the ones she cooks.Eating the delicacies cooked by his wonderful hands suddenly feels that it is the most important thing in life.If I ask him how much Kaifeng Mansion spent to invite you to be a cook, I will pay ten times to invite you, is that suitable?

Zhao Hanyan's eyes sparkled. Although he didn't look directly at Yan Shu, he kept looking at him from the corner of his eye, waiting for him to say something about poaching him.

Yan Shu's inner voice: But I'm afraid I won't be able to keep him just by saying I love his food.He was still working as a policeman in Kaifeng Mansion, Master Bao made an exception for him and reused him, he would naturally be grateful for Master Bao's promotion.I see that he is neither humble nor overbearing, and he will never be swayed by money, so it is impossible for him to abandon Bao Zheng and choose me.I'm just stuttering, so I won't mention it, it's not kind to take people's love.

Zhao Hanyan's eyes dimmed, and he picked up the bowl with a straight face.

"Tired from cooking?" Bai Yutang noticed Zhao Hanyan's anomaly at a glance.

"Not tired."

Bai Yutang's heartfelt voice: How can I not be tired, I have to cook for people wherever I go, and I have to do an extra job for nothing.How can I be favored by him again and again, go to the mountains to catch a rabbit in a while, and cook a roasted rabbit tomorrow to reward him.