Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

Bai Yutang stared at Zhao Hanyan and asked, "What the hell are you thinking?"

"What the hell idea, I am a smart and wise idea." Zhao Hanyan corrected, "After the crime is confirmed, what will be done? Naturally, it will be reported to the Ministry of Punishment and Kaifeng Mansion. We will simply fool him into escorting the prisoner to Tokyo, saying This is a good way to get promoted, he is definitely willing to do so. And this method of escorting is just a way of deceiving others, and the purpose of Mr. Bao's secret passage can also be fulfilled, "

Bai Yutang thought it was feasible and nodded, "But Mr. Bao, Mr. Gongsun and others will be wronged and imprisoned."

"It's an expedient measure. There is no other way. At worst, let's hurry up." Zhao Hanyan asked Bai Yutang to go to the inn to report the news and ask Mr. Bao for his opinion.

Not long after Bai Yutang left, Lei Buzhi came back with a smile, took the two children's confessions, and said very affirmatively to Zhao Hanyan: "The children were frightened before and did not dare to admit it. After several times of interrogation, no, I finally have the courage to say Come out, those people took them into the car! They are definitely kidnappers! So what should we do next?"

"What can we do? For such a bad thing, it is natural to arrest people and send them to Kaifeng Mansion for careful examination!" Zhao Hanyan said.

Lei Buzhi was stunned, "Send, send to Kaifeng mansion?"

"How can Mr. Bao know how powerful you are if the magistrate of Lei County does not send such a big case to Kaifeng Mansion? Don't you want to go back to Kaifeng Mansion with us to meet Mr. Bao and Shilang Yan?" Zhao Hanyan sighed, "That's a pity, this But it’s a rare opportunity.”

"Go, go, of course." Lei Buzhi hurriedly thanked Zhao Hanyan for his suggestion, and then summoned all the clerks of the county government to go to the inn to fetch people.

"I see that there are not many yamen servants in your county government, so let Brother Bai go to explore the way first. There are a lot of kidnappers, and they dare to speak eloquently. There may be some people from the Jianghu among them, and they have strong martial arts. To prevent arrest When resisting and fleeing, let's control the leader of the thief first, and then go in and get people." Zhao Hanyan explained.

Lei Buzhi nodded again and again, thanking Zhao Hanyan for his thoughtfulness, then smiled and asked Zhao Hanyan to go first, and then the group arrived at the Yuelai Inn in Deping County in a hurry.

The servants who were guarding the inn immediately came to report the situation to Lei Buzhi.

"Did any of them leave during this time?" Lei Buzhi asked.

The Yacha shook his head, "The guards are safe all day and night, but the shopkeeper of the inn is a little unhappy, thinking that we have affected his business in this way."

"Tell him, I will pay him the money for the delayed business when I turn back." Lei Buzhi said this intentionally because there were messengers from Kaifeng Mansion here.

Immediately afterwards, the arrests were carried out, and the government officials stomped upstairs.At this time, Bai Yutang kicked the door and came out of the private room, grabbing with his right hand a young man in his 20s who was tied up all over and gagged. The man was in his [-]s and was dressed in a brocade robe. When he was pushed downstairs, he saw Lei Buzhi Waiting for others, don't forget to stare bitterly.

Then Bao Zheng, Gongsun Ce and others also came out, all of them lowered their heads, looking very low-key and quiet.

Bai Yutang turned his head to Bao Zheng and the others and said, "Everyone come down!"

Everyone followed down.

Zhao Hanyan looked at the kidnapped strange man, and knew that this should be Pang Yu.

Pang Yu still didn't understand the situation, and thought that Bao Zheng and the others were meeting with the Yamen who came to meet them, and if more people escorted him, then his chance of being rescued would be even smaller, so he was very upset and even more hopeless.

Because of being escorted for a long time, Pang Yu was already struggling and tired. Apart from showing anger on his expression, he was very quiet most of the time, and he didn't even bother to hum.

"This is the bandit leader, the rest will be escorted back." Bai Yutang ordered.

Lei Buzhi glanced at Bao Zheng and the others, then at the young man who was sent to him and tied him up, "He's the bandit leader? Why haven't I seen him before!"

"Of course it's him, just look at his clothes. If County Magistrate Lei hadn't seen him before during the interrogation, it would be him even more. Whose boss is easy to see people? Especially those who do bad things, they must try their best." Hide from the officer."

"He's the bandit leader, don't you believe it?" Bai Yutang's eyes blew a cold wind.

Lei Buzhi already believed Zhao Hanyan's words, but now seeing Bai Yutang like this, he didn't dare to refute, and repeatedly agreed to say yes.

When Pang Yu, who was gagged, heard the words of the bandit leader, he realized that he was wrong, so he made a sound of resistance, and eagerly signaled Lei Buzhi with his eyes that he was not a bandit leader.

"You still dare to resist?" Lei Buzhi yelled at Pang Yu, ordered his subordinates to hold him firmly, and scolded him for stealing his child.

Pang Yu whined even louder, looked at Lei Buzhi anxiously and begged, and kept shaking his head.

Bao Zheng, Gongsun Ce, and Zhan Zhao looked at each other, but they didn't say anything.

"It seems that I don't want to plead guilty." Zhao Hanyan sighed, and after Pang Yu was escorted down, she deliberately told Lei Bu, "I heard that kidnappers are all good people, and they are the best at deceiving people. I will definitely make up many reasons in a while. to get rid of the crime."

After the group was escorted to the county government office in Deping County, Lei Buzhi was going to start a trial immediately to get a statement.Naturally, the bandit leader was interrogated first, and he didn't want the bandit leader to call him the son of Grand Master Pang after he removed the gag.

"Huh? You are Grand Master Pang's son? Then I'm still the prime minister!" Lei Buzhi had expected that the bandit leader would shirk his guilt after hearing Zhao Hanyan's words, but he didn't expect him to dare to make up such nonsense!He slapped the gavel hard, telling him to do it honestly.

Pang Yu wanted to identify Bao Zheng, Zhan Zhao and the others, but Bai Yutang slapped him down with a swift palm, making him dizzy.

Lei Buzhi: "What... what does this... mean?"

"Bai Shaoxia hates evil like a vengeful enemy, and he can't bear the sight of these slanderous villains the most. He is impulsive at the moment, and I ask Lei County Magistrate to forgive me." Zhao Hanyan said.

People in the Jianghu probably have this temperament, and there is nothing they can do about it.

Lei Buzhi wants to interrogate the rest.

"Do you still need to interrogate? You already have the testimony of the two children. They were caught right away. Pack up and rest early, and send them to the capital early tomorrow."

Zhao Hanyan yawned and said that he was hungry. He didn't want to spend the whole night on interrogating people.

"If magistrate Lei wants to interrogate, please continue. I'll go have a meal."

"Then..." Lei Buzhi felt that it was not good for him to leave the distinguished guests alone, so he wanted to arrange food for Zhao Hanyan.Zhao Hanyan still insisted on going out to eat by himself.

Lei Bu knew that he would let Zhao Hanyan go by himself, and quickly said that he would accompany him, and he also hoped that Zhao Hanyan could help him with a few words of kindness.

"Thank you very much then." Zhao Hanyan winked at Bai Yutang before asking Bai Yutang if he would go.

Bai Yutang said coldly: "I can't chat with you, so I won't go."

"How about I trouble Young Master Bai to interrogate the prisoner?" Zhao Hanyan said, and left with Lei Buzhi.

Bai Yutang sent away the idlers and others, and wanted to interrogate the 'kidnappers' alone.

"My lord has been wronged!" Bai Yutang saluted Bao Zheng.

"Bai Shaoxia is polite. Bao also wants to thank you and Brother Zhao for your timely action. This escort, there are only me, the guards on display, and Wang Chao Mahan and a dozen other people. It is really inappropriate to reveal our identities." Bao Zheng laughed. Very easy-going, and doesn't mind being a prisoner at all.

"It only takes two days to get from Deping County to the capital, so how about sending more people?" Bai Yutang was still a little puzzled by this.

Gongsun Ce: "Traps are dug on the road, there are ambushes at night, even if you go to the post station, you will encounter drugs, and you will be hard to guard against. When you come back, these things are more and more frequent, and we have no other options. Although we took some risks, But so far it's been safe."

Bai Yutang nodded, and then handed over the prepared dagger and other items to Zhan Zhao and the officials.When they go back, they have to sit in the prison car wrongly, so as to avoid accidents, and give them the dagger for self-defense.

"Brother Bai, please help me bring my Juque sword." Zhan Zhao instructed Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang nodded.

……

Deping County, Wanli Xiangjiu Shop.

After Lei Buzhi warmly invited Zhao Hanyan to take a seat, he called the shopkeeper and asked him to serve all the most expensive dishes here.

"But don't, it's just the two of us. If you order too much, you can't finish it." Zhao Hanyan ordered two signature dishes, one is crispy bones cooked with vinegar, the other is stir-fried meat, and a plate of stir-fried wild vegetables, with a combination of meat and vegetables.When ordering the staple food, Zhao Hanyan specifically asked if it was the cake made from the newly harvested wheat this autumn. After getting an affirmative answer, Zhao Hanyan ordered three sesame seed cakes, and ordered some to take away, ready to eat when he was on his way tomorrow.

After the dishes were complete, Zhao Hanyan took a bite of sesame seed cakes to taste the thick and rich noodle fragrance.

"When I came here, I noticed that your wheat grows very well, and the soil and fertilizer can support the crops, so the taste of this flour is stronger than that of other places. It is also the best to use this kind of flour to make biscuits."

Lei Buzhi sighed with a smile: "I didn't expect that there would be so much talk about a piece of biscuits. Brother Zhao seems to be very particular about eating?"

"A bit."

Zhao Hanyan picked up his chopsticks and put a piece of vinegar-cooked crispy bone in his mouth. The crispy bone was full of sweet and sour taste, soft and crisp, and it made a crunching sound when it was bitten into pieces.This kind of crispy bone with meat is particularly refreshing to eat, as if riding a horse galloping through the rolling mountains, and the sound of the hooves of the horse is like the sound of the crispy bone, which is the most refreshing soundtrack when traveling to the peak.

Zhao Hanyan nodded while eating, sighing that the pork bone meat is not ordinary, it is firm, full of flavor, and full of meaty fragrance.

"The guest officer really knows the goods. We use all the pigs from Wang Laoer's family in Xigou Village. His pigs are raised on a big hillside. They run fast and the meat grows slowly, but they are also more Delicious." The shopkeeper likes to chat with people who know the goods.

"Wang Laoer's house in Xigou Village?" Zhao Hanyan remembered it, and picked up another piece of mixed meat to taste, which was also good.Square diced meat, some with skin on the surface, some with muscle, each one is covered with reddish-brown bad juice, just looking at it is very attractive.

Because of the shape of the diced meat and the hanging color, Zhao Hanyan couldn't tell which part the ingredients belonged to, so he asked the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper Fang said with a smile: "Simply speaking, this mixed beating meat is mixed with pork trotters. Slice the trotters, beat them with the back of a knife a few times, then cut them into cubes, soak them in water, and mix them with bad oil. They are not greasy and refreshing. .Is that the case objectively?"

Zhao Hanyan smiled and said, "Yes."

If the crispy bones cooked with vinegar are sour, sweet and delicious, it belongs to the excitement with a relatively strong taste. This dish of mixed hammer meat is a light and refreshing joy, each with its own strengths, which makes people linger.Unexpectedly, in such a remote Deping County, there is such a good taste shop, which makes people reluctant to leave.

"I just said that his shop is delicious, Brother Zhao, believe me now." Lei Buzhi sighed happily, picked up a piece of vinegar-cooked pork ribs with his chopsticks, and chewed them crisply while thinking carefully.

Lei Bu knew from his heart: This little fur kid really likes to eat, I knew he was so easy to fool, so why was I so worried before.Seeing that he is young and inexperienced, he must be easy to fool.If I get two delicious meat buns to feed her later, she will be coaxed into confusion, and she will be at my mercy.

After Zhao Hanyan heard Lei Buzhi's voice, he rolled his eyes hard in his heart, and his good mood for eating vegetables was ruined by him.This person really has a lot of heart, it's better to eat with everyone in Kaifeng Mansion purely and cleanly.

Zhao Hanyan took a breath, put down his chopsticks, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of water.

"Why don't you eat?" Lei Buzhi saw Zhao Hanyan put down his chopsticks just after eating two yuan, and looked at her very puzzled.

Zhao Hanyan asked Lei Bu to know where freshly ground wheat flour was sold in Deping County, and she wanted to bring some back.

"It's not easy, I'll send someone to get it for you." Lei Buzhi said bluntly.

"Magistrate Lei bought noodles for me in person, that would be embarrassing, I'll just go by myself." Zhao Hanyan smiled politely, his eyes crescent-shaped.

Lei Buzhi was stunned, when did he say he would buy noodles for her himself?This hairy boy surnamed Zhao is so young that his ears are hard to use?But Lei Buzhi couldn't say that he didn't say that at this moment, he still asked someone to do something.Lei Buzhi hurriedly said it was okay, so he got up and took someone to buy it.

Zhao Hanyan handed him the money, "One bag is enough."

"This?" Lei Buzhi felt slightly embarrassed after receiving the money.This is the first time someone has sent him money to buy noodles, making him seem like a waiter in the shop.

"I know that magistrate Lei is not short of money, but this is the rule of our Kaifeng mansion, please accommodate me." Zhao Hanyan said.

Lei Buzhi had no choice but to take the money and take the people there.

Zhao Hanyan finally sent people away, and he could have a quiet meal, so hurry up and eat raw dishes.

After a stick of incense, Zhao Hanyan swept all the dishes on the table, settled the bill with the shopkeeper, took the food ordered earlier, and planned to leave with the food box.

"If County Magistrate Lei comes back, tell him that I'm going back to the county office first." Zhao Hanyan told the housekeeper, and was about to leave, when he heard two men eating at the other end talking about the child's disappearance six years ago.

The two of them should be a local and a foreigner, and the local treats the foreigner to come here for dinner, and this matter was mentioned by the way during the chat.

"There is a pit on the west side of the mountain. When it rains heavily, water will accumulate. It has not been dried for a long time. Children often go there to catch frogs. I heard that the six children just met after breakfast to catch frogs. They lost them. The children couldn't find them. , the parents of the six children filled up the big hole in a fit of anger. But what do you say that people can't find it has anything to do with that hole?"

"It's a vent, it's all the poor man's fault. Do you think these six children were abducted or died?"

"I've never heard of so many children being abducted at once before. Die? Bah, don't mention this, I hope you don't die. The oldest child who is so young is only 14 years old."

The two couldn't help sighing again.

Seeing that Zhao Hanyan did not leave after paying the bill, the shopkeeper sighed as he was listening to the people at the table, "I'm sorry, one of the children who lost their children back then had a relative with my wife. There was only one son in his family who cried miserably. Listen It is said that the child's mother has been in poor health since then, and her mind is not very clear, and she often calls the child's name. I really don't know who is doing such a shameless thing! In this rural place, it is possible to raise the child until half It's so big, it's not easy to run all over the mountain, but if it's gone, it's gone!"

Zhao Hanyan and the shopkeeper Fang nodded, then turned and left.

After returning to the county government office, Zhao Hanyan heard that Lei Buzhi hadn't come back yet, so Zhao Hanyan hurried to meet Bao Zheng and others in the prison, and saw them all sitting on the messy straw, Zhao Hanyan was very sorry.

"We've all suffered more than this. Brother Zhao, don't worry. Hold on to the moment. The most important thing is to get him safely into Beijing." After Bao Zheng finished speaking, he glanced at Pang who was still tied up on the ground. Yu.

Pang Yu's eyes were still closed, and the back of his neck was a little red and swollen, but his breathing was still steady, and his nose would blow the straw in front of him from time to time.It seemed that Bai Yutang's slap on him was enough for him to sleep until tomorrow morning.

Zhao Hanyan left the food box, making Bao Zheng and others wronged to eat here, and it was not easy to stay for too long, so he left the cell.

After Zhao Hanyan came out, he met Lei Buzhi coming back.Lei Buzhi saw her entering the cell, and was surprised that Zhao Hanyan spoke first when he was about to question her.

"I bought some delicious food for those kidnappers."

Lei Buzhi: "Why?"

"Give them both kindness and strength, let them believe that the confession will definitely be beneficial, and then they don't have to worry about them retracting the confession when they go to Kaifeng Mansion. It will be very troublesome if they retract the confession. The magistrate Lei should understand."

Zhao Hanyan's words made Lei Buzhi thank him again and again, admiring Zhao Hanyan's thoughtfulness.

Zhao Hanyan also marveled at his ability to fool people, as if he was 'increasing with each passing day' along with his cooking skills.

The next day, it was just dawn.

Lei Buzhi, Zhao Hanyan and others were about to escort the 'prisoners' to set off, but before they were escorted, for some reason, two prison cars had problems.

Lei Buzhi felt that this was very strange.

Zhao Hanyan asked: "How long has your prison car been useless?"

Lei Buzhi: "This..."

After turning around and asking, I found out that the prison car hadn't been moved for more than a year.

"No wonder there will be problems. There is no way. We can only use the remaining prison cart to escort the leader, and the rest of them can be escorted in a horse-drawn carriage. Anyway, there are many escorts, and there are Bai Shaoxia's guards, so they can't escape." Zhao Hanyan said helplessly. .

Bao Zheng and the others were listening, and they all knew that Zhao Hanyan and Bai Yutang had calculated this before, just to save them from suffering on the road, so it was hard for the two of them to be so hardworking.

"Okay, that's the only way to go." Lei Buzhi followed his advice, but sent the 'bandit leader' Pang Yu into the prison car.

As soon as the carriage went out, a group of common people came to us suddenly, throwing rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves into the prison cart, scolding them severely.

Pang Yu in the prison car just woke up, and before he could struggle, he was buried by a pile of smelly things.Struggling again, his hair was in a mess, his hair stuck to his cheeks with rotten egg liquid, and he couldn't see clearly what he looked like.

Lei Bu panicked, "What's going on?"

"Which Yamen should have leaked the news, causing the common people to vent their anger." Zhao Hanyan said.

Then a group of people set off, and when they reached the intersection of Deping County, they saw a group of people riding horses, all of them were vigorous and aggressive.The leader was dressed in vermilion clothes of a fourth-rank military officer, and he looked handsome, but he was slightly inferior to Zhan Zhao.Knowing that the other party was the county magistrate of Deping County, the military officer got off his horse and gave Lei Buzhi his token.

"The next fourth rank is Zhan Zhao, the guard with a sword."