Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

Zhao Hanyan paused, and looked at Bai Yutang with a smile.

Bai Yutang was stunned, wondering why Zhao Hanyan's mood suddenly changed, since her face was stretched so long just now.

After Zhao Hanyan happily picked up the bowls, he hummed a tune and squatted by the kitchen stove, cleaning the bowls.

Bai Yutang followed, and asked her with a smile what she was humming. It was very nice, but he had never heard the tune before.

"Blind humming." Zhao Hanyan wiped his hands, then raised his hands and looked at them. In the past two months, he has done a lot of rough work and his hands have become rougher a lot.

Bai Yutang looked sideways at Zhao Hanyan's slender hands, and couldn't help sighing, "Your hands are pretty too."

Also, obviously there is another kind of affirmation, premised on good looks.

"I found that you are very talkative today, and you don't have the poisonous mouth you used to have. This made me think carefully about the reason," Zhao Hanyan leaned against the door frame of the kitchen with the corner of his mouth curled up, looking at Bai Yutang with a half-smile, " Say, did you steal honey when you woke up in the morning?"

"Nonsense." Bai Yutang was listening to Zhao Hanyan's words in a serious manner, but found that the other party was joking with him again.

Zhao Hanyan laughed.

Bai Yutang also smiled at first, but then the smile gradually faded, and the look in Zhao Hanyan's eyes was a little strange, and there was also a bit of probing meaning.

Zhao Hanyan yawned and waved goodbye to Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang nodded, sent Zhao Hanyan away coldly, stayed where he was for a while, and then went back to his room to rest.

After Duan Silian heard that the suspension bridge was repaired, he wanted to leave Ziyan Temple several times, but was stopped by the guards, even if he revealed the identity of the Prince of Dali.Duan Silian was so angry that he jumped a little bit, he had to go back earlier to prepare for the palace banquet, so as to make a good impression in front of the Emperor Song, so that the courtship could be completed smoothly.But it happened that something was delayed or someone blocked the way, which made Duan Silian extremely annoyed.

After sending his subordinates to communicate with Yan Shu several times to no avail, Duan Silian didn't care about the pretensions of the prince, and went directly to Yan Shu's room, making Yan Shu agree to send him out of Ziyan Temple.

Yan Shu was writing lyrics, trying to resolve the loss of his good fortune.

Duan Silian broke in suddenly, which interrupted Yan Shu's thoughts, who were in the process of creating.Originally, he was in a bad mood that had nothing to be resolved, and the other party was very rude, which made Yan Shu's impression of Duan Silian plummet from ordinary and indifferent to disgust.

"May I ask Mr. Yan, why do you not allow me to leave Ziyan Temple, and what crime have I committed to be controlled by your government?"

Yan Shu looked at Duan Silian for a long time without answering.

Duan Silian's eyes widened with anger, and he scolded him to answer himself quickly.

"Excuse me, are you..." Yan Shu blinked his extremely handsome phoenix eyes, showing a bewildered face.

At this time, Yuan Ming, Yan Shu's entourage, bowed his head respectfully and apologized.

"My lord came too hastily. The villain will not have time to report in the future. Please forgive me. My lord, this is the Da, Li, Wang, Lord that the villain mentioned to you before."

Even though he was apologetic, Yuan Ming's tone of voice was still unhurried, steady, slow, and somewhat melodious.

To ordinary people, these words may be nothing, but to Duan Silian who is in anger, this is clearly deliberate, it is something that made him mad with anger, and he endured it to the extreme.

"It turned out to be Young Prince Duan, I'm disrespectful and disrespectful, I didn't expect it." Only then did Yan Shu stand up and cup his hands over Duan Silian.

For people who have been in officialdom for a long time, every word they say often reveals a deep meaning, and Yan Shu is no exception.For example, the phrase "I didn't expect" just now was intended to satirize Duan Silian, as the prince of Dali, to break into other people's room rashly.A well-mannered gentleman would not do such a thing, and would be severely ridiculed.

Duan Silian blushed, his internal organs were smoking with anger.

"Master Yan, I have sent people to tell you several times that I am leaving Ziyan Temple, but you have not responded to me. Now that I am here, you pretend not to know me, and once again disrespected me. If it is 'unexpected', it must be because I did not Think about it."

Yan Shu smiled, stretched out his hand to signal Duan Silian that you are welcome, and sat down to drink tea before talking.

Duan Silian didn't have the heart to drink tea, so he just shook his face, sat down with a cold snort, and asked Yan Shu to give him a good word, whether he could let him leave Ziyan Temple.

"This case is very difficult. The young prince must have guessed it. It is very important to keep it secret. Otherwise, I will not let people inform everyone. No one is allowed to leave until the case is solved." Yan Shu sighed, "It is related to the overall situation of the court, and more It may be related to those two words, if this matter touches the dragon scale of the Holy One, it will be difficult for everyone. It is actually for the good of everyone, especially for the little prince, it is a great good thing."

"You're so clever and flirtatious, you're fooling me." How could Duan Silian accept Yan Shu's hypocritical statement, he is not a fool!

"Then please go, little prince," Yan Shu still said with a decent smile, "Young prince has a noble status, so Yan will definitely not stop you if you want to leave. But after the young prince left, there was an accident in this case, someone sent a letter, As a result, a large number of remaining official banks cannot be found, giving life to the rebels, what do you think His Majesty will think when he hears this?"

"What are you talking about? This is your responsibility, it has nothing to do with me." Duan Silian sneered.

"Since ancient times, rebellious officials and thieves have colluded with other countries to mess up the government. There are few rebellions." Yan Shu also sneered, but still respectfully stretched out his hand to signal, and told Yuan Ming to respect the young prince's decision to leave Ziyan temple.

"Yes, my lord!" Yuan Ming immediately said to Duan Silian, "This subordinate will send the prince down the mountain."

Duan Silian could tell that if he left at this time, if there was any mistake in leaking the news, Yan Shu would definitely put the shit on him in front of the Song Emperor.Not to mention being wronged, if he is still suspected of colluding with the traitors of the Song Dynasty and having a conspiracy, then he will have no chance in front of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.

Duan Silian hated him so much, he wished he could strangle Yan Shu to death, but he had nothing to do with him, and he chose to listen to him, obediently stay in Ziyan Temple, and could not leave.

Duan Silian, who left in anger, was about to explode with anger.Yan Shu's face was calm and unaffected.After Duan Silian left, he felt sad first, but he couldn't get back the feeling of writing lyrics before.Apparently when he confronted Duan Silian just now, he was able to vent his unhappiness, so that now he doesn't have the slightest bit of unhappiness, no worries to trigger, and his feeling of writing lyrics is gone.

Unfortunately, this Duan Silian came at a really bad time.

Yan Shu crumpled up the half-written words on the table, got up and went to sleep.

After Yuan Ming finished serving his master, he picked up the waste paper on the table and took it to the kitchen to burn it.When he got to the kitchen, he saw Zhao Hanyan was making something with a jar.

"Why haven't you rested yet?" Zhao Hanyan asked with a smile after seeing Yuan Ming.

Yuan Ming hurriedly saluted, then raised the ball of paper in his hand, "It will rest after burning."

"What, can I see it?" After Zhao Hanyan pickled the eggplant for tomorrow morning, he washed his hands and leaned over.

Yuan Ming smiled, "It's just my family's unfinished words, and it should be burned according to the custom."

"Wow, words." Zhao Hanyan stretched out his hand and said that he could burn it for him.

Yuan Ming shook his head, "Brother Zhao, if you like your words, you can just ask for it, and he will give it to you. But the unfinished work, my lord always doesn't like to be seen by others, saying that it's like a naked girl, shameful."

"Pfft." Zhao Hanyan smiled and nodded to Yuan Ming, "Well, you should do your work first, I'll be back."

Yuan Ming nodded, watched Zhao Hanyan go, burned the waste words, and then went too.

……

After the ugly hour and before dawn, it is the time when people sleep the deepest and deepest at night.

In the silent night, the slight autumn wind blows the leaves rustling, and the rest is peaceful.

Suddenly, the boy screamed across the night sky, followed by a struggling cry of "Let me go".

After half a stick of incense, everyone gathered in Donglin's room.Taoist Donglin closed his eyes, lay motionless on the couch, but was breathing, and fell into a coma for the time being.

The soldier was holding the Taoist boy who was guarding the door. He was about ten years old, but his face was distorted at this time, struggling and screaming, trying to break free from the soldier's shackles.On the ground beside Dong Lin's bed was a small pot of thickened yellow mud, which seemed to be the last 'soil' in the Five Elements Case.

Zhao Hanyan, Bai Yutang, and Yan Shu have been waiting for the murderer to make a move. It is natural to think that night is the best time for the murderer to do it, so the soldiers and yamen servants have already been ordered to lie dormant everywhere, in order to be able to catch the key in time. The murderer.Now the person is finally caught, but he is a child, only this is unexpected.

Yacha then found a hammer under the wardrobe in Donglin's room.

"It seems that Donglin is the murderer who killed Elder Baiyun." Yan Shu sighed.

Zhao Hanyan nodded, then looked at the doorkeeper and asked him why he wanted to kill Donglin.

"Because I kill him, I can leave the Taoist temple!" Daoist janitor said frankly, "I don't want to stay here. Someone knows the way out and tells me that if I kill someone, I can leave the Taoist temple through the secret way, and I will give you money." A sum of money to live well by myself."

"What's your name?" Zhao Hanyan asked his name.

"I don't have a name. Everyone calls me the gatekeeper. You can call me that too." The gatekeeper replied disgustedly.

The yamen who went to search Daotong's room brought a bag of silver, all of which were silver ingots, and there were a hundred of them.

Zhao Hanyan touched the cloth wrapped in silver. Although it was half-worn, it was made of satin, and it looked like a piece of cloth cut from a piece of clothing for wrapping.

"Who gave this to you? Who is the one who said he would take you away?"

"Ou Sichun." Dao Tong continued to confess that he didn't know what Ou Sichun looked like, because the other party was wearing a mask, so he could only hear a male voice.

It's not for nothing that the janitor chooses to believe in 'Ou Sichun'.

"After he made me dizzy, he took me to the secret passage, and I walked there myself. That place can really leave the Taoist temple. But I don't know where the entrance is. After he showed me the exit, he got me out of it. Halo sent back, tell me, I can only find out if I kill someone!"

Dao Tong then confessed that Ou Sichun also told him the method of killing.When he came, Donglin was already in a coma like now, he just had to stick the reconciled yellow clay on Donglin's face like he used to play with mud, and leave.

The man from Donglin hadn't woken up yet, and was still lying there motionless. It seemed that he had taken a lot of drugs, and he probably wouldn't be able to wake him up in the morning.

"Why do you have to leave the Taoist temple?" Zhao Hanyan asked.

"I was forced to stay here. My parents were taken away by Taoist Master Ziyan. I haven't come back after two years. I want to find my parents!" The doorkeeper mentioned his parents, tears streaming down his face up.

After further questioning, I found out that the three of them went to Ziyan Temple because of their poverty, but within a few days, Daotong's parents disappeared.The explanation given by Taoist Ziyan at the time was that Daotong's parents were determined to go out to earn money, so they entrusted him to help take care of the child, but they didn't tell the child because they were afraid of parting.

Everyone has heard that there is a problem with this matter, and the disappearance of those homeless homeless people still needs to be investigated again.

Zhao Hanyan, Bai Yutang, and Yan Shu were naturally not in the mood to sleep, so they just waited for him to wake up in Donglin's room, and discussed the case around the table.

Yan Shu: "At present, the murder process is clear. The most important thing is to deliberate on the identity of the mastermind behind this case, that is, Ou Sichun, and to find out the whereabouts of those detained people."

"Actually, he's not Ou Sichun. The one named Ou Sichun is a murderer who executes the 'gold, wood, water, fire, earth' method of killing. And the person who instigates the doorkeeper to kill and wears a mask and claims to be Ou Sichun is the mastermind behind the scenes. " Zhao Hanyan corrected.

"What is the basis for this statement?" Yan Shu looked at Zhao Hanyan intently, waiting for an explanation.

"There is a very simple way to distinguish. From the previous three cases, we can know that Ou Jichun directly killed people, while the murderer behind the scenes abetted the murder."

Yan Shu understood, "In this case, the so-called 'Ou Sichun' was actually abetting the murder, and he didn't do anything."

"He wants to instigate more and more difficult murder cases to provoke the Kaifeng government and prove that he is extremely smart. But after Ou Sanchun's case, he has been a little out of his wits. He wants to play a better trick to show the Kaifeng government , it is very likely that we will go out to control the overall situation, and I guess it will be this time. Many murderers commit crimes one after another, very cleverly "following one after another", and using the name "Five Elements" throughout. In fact, from the very beginning, I It's very strange, why the case happened so coincidentally that one person would be killed after killing the other, if it wasn't for someone manipulating the scene, there would be too many accidental factors, it would be difficult to achieve such a coherent 'coincidence'."

"Since the mastermind behind the scenes is in Ziyan Temple, we must not let him go this time, so I personally killed him!"

Bai Yutang's phoenix eyes were flying fiercely, and every sentence was sonorous.He was obviously a handsome young man by appearance, but because of the murderous aura exuding from his whole body, people were terrified and dared not look directly at him.