Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

When Bai Yutang put down his chopsticks, he was so aggressive that he surprised Zhao Hanyan and shopkeeper Xue who were sitting next to him.

Because Zhao Hanyan understood Bai Yutang's temperament, he knew that the reason he was upset at the moment was because the fish didn't suit his appetite.He is also very partial to red carp, and he will probably be even more angry at the cook for wasting ingredients.

Shopkeeper Xue didn't know what Bai Yutang was doing for, so he stood up a little nervously, but he made an apology for the unknown reason first.This person's name is like a thunder, and he knows that he is not easy to mess with.

Looking at shopkeeper Xue's attitude towards Bai Yutang, Zhao Hanyan was even more sure that he is a person who knows everything about the world.

"Do shopkeeper Xue usually like to wear a black gauze straw hat?" Zhao Hanyan asked.

Shopkeeper Xue was still a little startled, when he suddenly heard Zhao Hanyan's question, he was stunned for a moment, moved his eyeballs, and then he realized it, and answered Zhao Hanyan with an apologetic smile.

"Yes, I usually like to wear it. This is a habit I have developed since I was a child. My hometown is very windy and sandy in spring and autumn. Everyone has to wear this. Otherwise, the sand will make holes in the face after blowing for a few days. Later I I came out, but I also developed this habit, and now many people say that my face is pretty good, and I guess it is thanks to this habit.”

"It seems that I will also wear a hat like this in the future to protect my face." Out of a girl's instinct, Zhao Hanyan sighed while holding his cheek.

Then she found that Bai Yutang was looking at her, and Zhao Hanyan persuaded him to wear it too, because he looks more beautiful and needs more maintenance.

Bai Yutang thought Zhao Hanyan was joking, ignored him and continued drinking tea.

"Yes, yes, the two poor masters are rare and handsome young men. It's good to take care of your skin. Just like me, there are not many people who do business with my appearance. It's easier for others to look at me more pleasing to the eye. I have an impression of me. I will cater more, and the business is better than others." Shopkeeper Xue quickly shared his own experience.

Bai Yutang didn't want to spoil the chat atmosphere that the little cook deliberately created, so he just snorted coldly in his heart, otherwise he would definitely say that shopkeeper Xue is "a shameless person who still has the nerve to talk about the importance of face".Why doesn't this person die, it's annoying to hear.

Bai Yutang took another sip of tea to maintain his patience.

"Shopkeeper, here comes a distinguished guest!" The waiter hurriedly came over to call for someone, motioning for shopkeeper Xue to look at the three guests who were going upstairs in brocade.

"Hey, this is a regular customer of Sanchunlou coming to join us."

Shopkeeper Xue got up quickly and asked Zhao Hanyan and Bai Yutang if they had any other orders.

"Go and do your work, don't worry about us."

Zhao Hanyan saw that shopkeeper Xue had left, and asked Bai Yutang what he thought.

"Go first."

Bai Yutang got up and walked out.

Zhao Hanyan followed, and then followed Bai Yutang to the Zhuangyuan Building.

After Bai Yutang sat down in the private room, Xiao Er served freshly brewed Longjing tea.The teas in Zhuangyuanlou are all exquisite and expensive, basically the best among folk teas.At present, a bowl of this kind of Longjing tea costs one tael of silver.

Bai Yutang drank a bowl of tea in one gulp, rinsed his mouth and spit it into the basin, ordered Xiao Erduan to go away, and then went to drink the second bowl of tea.

"It's troublesome to keep people like shopkeeper Xue. It's best to kill him with a knife." Finally, his mouth was relieved, the fishy smell was gone, and Bai Yutang opened his mouth to express his opinion to Zhao Hanyan.

Zhao Hanyan couldn't help feeling that Bai Yutang was really a very delicate little mouse.

Seeing Zhao Hanyan lost in thought, Bai Yutang waved his hands in front of her again.

"You tend to be distracted recently."

Zhao Hanyan blinked, "I imagined the scene of you killing people without blinking an eye, forget it, it's not like you don't know your current identity."

"I expected you to say this again." Bai Yutang had no surprise on his face, "Otherwise, I will resign from this position."

"Yufeng, who are you looking for to resign, don't be joking." Zhao Hanyan's original intention was to let Bai Yutang accept his fate, but he didn't want Bai Yutang's next sentence to directly stimulate her into a shiver.

"Go to the palace tonight and ask the emperor to resign."

"Can't go." Zhao Hanyan stopped immediately.

Zhao Hanyan didn't know whether Bai Yutang's kung fu was advanced enough to come and go to the palace freely, but seeing how blandly Bai Yutang said, he must have confidence in himself.It doesn't matter if you enter the palace, it's troublesome if you let him see Zhao Zhen.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhao Hanyan, obviously asking why she couldn't go.

"Your trespassing into the palace will definitely frighten the Holy Majesty, so how can he listen to your request and of course treat you as an assassin. Besides, you have resigned from office, how can you stay in Kaifeng Mansion and not want to eat my cooking? "

The first sentence Bai Yutang didn't care about, but the latter sentence made his heart hurt.Bai Yutang obeyed and let Zhao Hanyan arrange it according to his own ideas.

"Shopkeeper Xue is very cunning, and it takes a lot of time to deal with this kind of person in a serious way. Since you want to play with him slowly, it's up to you." After Bai Yutang finished speaking, he glanced at the knife in his hand.In fact, he can kill people without resigning from office, just don't let people know.

Bai Yutang's heartfelt voice: In this way, he can not only eat delicious food from the little cook, but also kill whoever he wants.

Although Zhao Hanyan didn't hear the reason, she only heard the words in Bai Yutang's mind about "eating", but she could guess what Bai Yutang meant. He definitely wanted to keep the fourth-rank guards and do secret things , thinking that killing people without being known will do.

"You are not allowed to think about anything." Zhao Hanyan stared at Bai Yutang, "You have to promise me that you will not kill people behind our backs."

Bai Yutang looked back at Zhao Hanyan expressionlessly, but his eyes were already full of surprise.How did the little cook just guess what he was thinking?This mind-watching ability is too powerful.

"You promise me!" Seeing Bai Yutang's cold silence, Zhao Hanyan tugged his sleeve.

"Okay." Bai Yutang's expression softened immediately.

Zhao Hanyan smiled: "Just promise, I believe that what you promise to do will never break the promise."

"Really," Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows to remind Zhao Hanyan, "Have you ever heard of viciousness? If you don't keep your promise, you are one of 'yin'."

Zhao Hanyan was stunned for a moment, and it made sense to think about it.Bai Yutang is vicious and vicious, and he is smart, so he must know how to be flexible. If he doesn't want to, a promise probably won't hold him back.She really thought of Bai Yutang as a gentleman before.

Bai Yutang went on to say: "But I will definitely not break the promise I made to you, don't worry."

"Then I'll just ask for this one thing, and I don't want you to promise in the future." Zhao Hanyan giggled, and finally let go of his worries, but he also knew that he would accept it as soon as it was good.

Seeing Zhao Hanyan's smile, Bai Yutang suddenly thought of the sweet and delicious osmanthus cake she made.

After the two finished their tea, they went back to Kaifeng mansion together.

When the guard at the door saw the two of them, he hurriedly said, "You guys are back. They sent someone to Wangyou Pavilion to look for you, but they didn't see anyone. There is a case outside the city. Zhan Huwei and Mr. Gongsun have already set off, so I specially left a message for Zhao Hurry over after Brother and Young Master Bai come back."

After Bai Yutang heard the words, he immediately went to lead the horse.

Zhao Hanyan continued to ask the boy where the crime happened and what happened.

"Just near the water gate on the Caihe River, a female corpse was found."

A short distance to the south of the city is Caihe, which is the moat of Tokyo City.

Zhao Hanyan then rode a horse and Bai Yutang to the scene of the crime.

When the two of them arrived, Gongsun Ce was washing his hands, and it seemed that a preliminary autopsy should have been carried out.

The deceased was about fifteen or sixteen years old. He was wearing a green dress and a skirt. He was lying on the bank of the river not far from the water gate on the Caihe River. There were a few tall grasses around him. If you didn't look closely, you probably wouldn't find the body here. .

"A few children came to play by the river and found the corpse by accident." Zhan Zhao and Zhao Hanyan introduced the situation.

Zhao Hanyan nodded, and saw that the clothes of the corpse were dry, there was no swelling on the face, and there were no strangle marks on the neck, so he asked Gongsun Ce if he could find out the cause of death.

"Death by suffocation." Gongsun Ce said.

Zhao Hanyan observed the mouth and nose of the deceased again, there was no sign of blueness, and then he looked at the wrists, both hands were wearing white jade bracelets, and there were no signs of bruising from binding and grasping.

"As for how it caused the suffocation to death, further investigation is needed." Seeing Zhao Hanyan's puzzled expression after observing the corpse, Gongsun Ce took the initiative to explain to her.I couldn't help sighing in my heart that the little cook is amazing, and he can be regarded as a half-cook.

Zhao Hanyan's eyes fell on the lavender skirt of the deceased.The skirt is relatively long, and one side has the shape of legs, which also reveals the feet wearing shoes. The other half of the skirt is relatively hollow, and the feet are not visible.

"There's one place you might want to look at."

Gongsun Ce turned around and avoided the other people, and then lifted the skirt of the dead woman.Zhao Hanyan saw a normal leg, and a 'short leg' that was as thin as an arm, and the length was less than the knee of the other leg.This is obviously a deformed leg, and it also has a 'foot', but it is very small, only half the size of a human fist, and it only looks like a foot, but there are no five toes subdivided.

Anyone who saw such a deformed leg was surprised, and then horrified by what they saw.

"The scene is very clean. This should be the place where the corpses were dumped. There are not many clues." Gongsun Ce sent someone to collect the corpses.

"The soles of the shoes are hardly worn, but the cloth on the uppers is not brand new. After wearing them for a few days, the soles are very clean. There is also a skirt, which is obviously too long, but the hem of the skirt is not stained by rubbing against the ground. The mutton fat jade bracelets on both hands are worth no less than a thousand taels. The material of this dress is also high-quality brocade. Usually at home, there should be someone to wait on her." Zhao Hanyan said.

"The person who can wear such clothes must be the daughter of a family in Tokyo, but I have never heard of such a situation, but if there is, I will not spread it." Gongsun Ce sighed.

"I don't think it's like a daughter, but more like a concubine killed by a wealthy family because of dislike." Zhao Hanyan said.

After saying this, Gongsun Ce, Bai Yutang and others all looked at Zhao Hanyan at the same time, wondering how she could judge that the girl's identity was not rich or noble.

"If you were a noble daughter, you wouldn't throw the corpse here casually. It's too easy to find out your identity. If the person's origin is unknown and you kill him casually, you probably don't have to think too much when throwing the corpse. Just throw it away casually. It doesn't matter if you throw it at the root of the imperial city." Zhao Hanyan analyzed from the perspective of the murderer.

"A concubine?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "If a wealthy family chooses a concubine to warm the bed, it is natural to choose a concubine with healthy limbs and a beautiful appearance. How could you choose such...? This is not reasonable."

"It's really unreasonable, but this case just happens to be 'very reasonable'. Not everyone in this world likes healthy people. If some people like to admire the full moon, there are also some people who like the waning moon." Zhao Hanyan wanted everyone to understand , and explained with examples.

"Willing Moon? Does it mean that there will be men who would like a woman with an unhealthy body like the deceased?" Gongsun Ce frowned and twisted his beard. After solving cases for so many years, he thinks he has seen and seen any kind of murderer. There are many people with strange hobbies, but this is the first time he has heard of the hobbies that the little cook said just now.

"Could it be that the murderer was so excited to kill, and he was too flustered after killing, so he just dumped the body here?" Ma Han thought for a while, and put forward a different idea.

"It's possible, but I don't think there's any way to kill people on the spur of the moment. Seeing how the deceased died of suffocation, there were no scars on his body caused by struggling and binding. It was either drugged or some other ingenious method. It doesn't matter which one it is. , The murderer has obviously used his brain. Now that he has thought about it, it is a premeditated murder, which does not meet the situation of killing by mistake on a whim." Zhao Hanyan explained.

Ma Han blinked and thought for a while, then nodded in conviction, "That's right."

"what--"

From sixteen or seventy feet away from the river east came the shouts of Yacha, and then Zhao Hu, who was nearby, ran to ask what was wrong.

Every time there is a homicide, Zhao Hu routinely leads people to carry out a wide-ranging search near the crime scene to rule out the possibility of clues left in other places.

The same is true today.

After Zhao Hu ran to the yamen's office to check the situation, he waved to Gongsun Ce and shouted, "Here! There is still a corpse!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and hurried to where Zhao Hu was.

Sure enough, there was another female corpse abandoned in the tall grass by the river, also wearing a skirt, but light yellow.The woman is facing the direction of the river, lying on her side with her left arm on top and her left hand resting on her chest.

Everyone instinctively looks at the woman's feet first, they are all there.

Gongsun Ce then squatted next to the corpse and worked with another assistant to lay the corpse down.After it was leveled, everyone noticed that the other sleeve of the female corpse was very empty, and they all looked at Gongsun Ce in unison.

Gongsun Ce touched the woman's right arm with his hand, and probably found a small and short outline. He frowned and said to Zhao Hanyan and others: "It seems to be the same as the deceased just now."

"Oh my God, the little cook was right." Ma Han sighed, a little unable to believe what he saw.

"Look at them wearing gold and silver, silk and satin, and they are still so young. It's really...unexpected." Wang Chao glanced at the woman's only wrist, which was wearing a gold bracelet and an emerald jade bracelet, and there were two ruby ​​rings on her fingers. It looks more expensive than the previous woman's dress.

Looking at the age again, it was around twenty, a little older than the female deceased before.

The body of the No.2 female deceased also did not have any scars.

After ordering people to collect the corpse, Gongsun Ce ordered Zhao Hu and others to continue searching along the river bank in case there was a third corpse.

Zhao Hanyan, Bai Yutang, Zhan Zhao and others also stood on the shore waiting for the search results.

Half an hour later, after Zhao Hu and the others searched the river banks in both directions, they came to report to Gongsun Ce and confirmed that there were only the two female corpses.

Gongsun Ce breathed a sigh of relief slowly, as did Zhan Zhao, Zhao Hanyan and others.

Then everyone went back to the mansion, and while waiting for Mr. Gongsun's second autopsy results, they discussed the cause of death of the two female victims.

"Why is there no struggle?" Zhao Hu scratched his head, unable to figure it out, and looked at Zhao Hanyan.

Zhao Hanyan sat quietly without speaking.

Zhao Hu had no choice but to ask the smarter Ma Han.

Ma Han scolded Zhao Hu for being stupid, and explained: "He died of suffocation. If the deceased was awake, he would definitely resist. He must have been drugged."

"Then just put poison on it, why not poison it, but suffocate it?" Zhao Hu still didn't understand.

Ma Han couldn't figure it out now, looked at Zhao Hanyan, and then motioned Zhao Hu to ask the little cook.

"You didn't see what the little cook was thinking about, we don't want to disturb you." Zhao Hu whispered.

"Yo, it's not easy. You also have moments of wit."

"Of course I've figured it out. After all, the person sitting next to Little Cook is Young Master Bai." Zhao Hu pursed his lips. In the past, even if Little Cook was in a daze, he would dare to interrupt and ask, but now there is a cold-faced evil star sitting next to her. , he dare not.

Gongsun Ce entered the door at this time.

Everyone stood up and asked how Gongsun Ce's autopsy was going.

"I found this in the sleeve pocket of the first female corpse." Gongsun Ce put a yellow paper ball on the table, and when he looked closely, he could tell that there was white powder sticking to the paper ball.

"Is this drug?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Gongsun Ce nodded.

"In the No. 2 deceased's nose, I found a small piece of papyrus, stuck to the inside of her nose, and it has dried up." Gongsun Ce then showed it to everyone.

"Pasting the face with wet straw paper...could it be an official post?" Zhan Zhao sighed, "There are many tricks."

Paste Jiaguan is to soak toilet paper with water and cover people's faces one by one, causing people to suffocate to death.

Gongsun Ce nodded.

After Ma Han heard this, he felt that his head was going to grow bigger, "The female corpse had drugs in her sleeve, and she was suffocated after being stunned. I don't understand, is this suicide?"