Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

Zhao Hanyan washed his hands, and rode fast horses to the scene of the crime with the Yacha who sent the news. It was in the alley on the east-west turn of Tayun Lane. This alley was winding, deep and narrow, and could only accommodate two people. walk side by side.

Walking about a hundred steps into the alley, I saw a corpse lying on the ground covered with a bamboo mat, with only a pair of feet exposed.The rain didn't stop, and the bamboo mat made a pattering sound, and the blood flowed continuously along the edge of the bamboo mat, turning the whole road red.And not far from the body, there was a torn coir raincoat piled on the ground. Zhao Hanyan took a special look at it, and there was no blood left in the gap.

Gongsun Ce and Zhan Zhao were standing beside them with umbrellas, muttering to each other.At this time, the Yamen who brought Zhao Hanyan around called for someone to come, and the two of them turned their heads and looked over at the same time.

Zhao Hanyan jumped off the horse. Wearing a coir raincoat, she strode up to the two of them, "What do you want me to do, sir?"

"The deceased, Sun Qiao, do you know him?" Gongsun Ce asked.

"I don't know each other, but I met him face to face. I was at Puwang Tea House about half an hour ago." Zhao Hanyan replied truthfully.

Gongsun Ce turned his head and looked at Zhang Ling who was holding an umbrella over there.

Zhang Ling pointed at Zhao Hanyan with a blank face: "Sun Qiao was chasing you at that time! It was you, you killed Sun Qiao!"

"You are?" Zhao Han looked at Zhang Ling suspiciously.

Zhang Ling was taken aback, and then his face turned even paler with anger, "Please pretend you don't know me, everyone in Kaifeng Mansion doesn't know that my name is Zhang Ling, the younger brother of Concubine Zhang Gui!"

"Are you Concubine Zhang's younger brother?" Zhao Hanyan scrutinized Zhang Ling's appearance carefully, his eyebrows and eyes really resembled Concubine Zhang's.

The little cook's rhetorical question naturally revealed that he really didn't know himself, which made Zhang Ling feel very depressed.He treated the other party as an enemy, and stared at the other party carefully for several days, but he didn't remember who he was from the beginning to the end.Before the game even started, he had already lost, and the loss was due to being ignored.

"After you went to Puwang Tea House to buy some dim sum, Sun Qiao chased you out, did you see Sun Qiao after that?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"I haven't seen it, but I'm curious why he chased me?" Zhao Hanyan turned his head and looked at Zhang Ling with puzzled eyes.

Zhang Ling's face turned from white to red, and he faltered and couldn't speak.

Zhan Zhao realized that something was wrong. Since Zhao Hanyan was not familiar with Zhang Ling and Sun Qiao, why did Sun Qiao chase after Zhao Han when he saw Zhao Han in Puwang Tea House?Zhang Ling's current guilty appearance seems to have something else hidden, and there must be something strange in it.Zhan Zhao heard some people say that Zhang Ling was domineering among the yamen servants in private, but since he saw Zhang Ling and his colleagues having fun together later, he didn't think about it any more.Now it seems that the rumor may be true.

"Speak!" Zhan Zhao was always modest and polite, but now he spoke aggressively, Ruo Liu's eyes were as sharp as swords under his long eyebrows, cutting people to death.

"Yes... It was Sun Qiao who wanted to teach Zhao Han a lesson for me. I wanted to stop him but I didn't. He ran out, but I didn't expect him to end up like this and die so badly." Zhang Ling regretted endlessly, There was a cry in her voice.Apart from Mr. Bao in Kaifeng Mansion, what he fears most is Nan Xia Zhan Zhao.These two will never bow down because of his high status, as long as he makes a mistake, they will never give him any face.

But fortunately, he is clever and knows how to speak, so he should be able to get past it now.Just as Zhang Ling breathed a sigh of relief, she heard Zhao Hanyan ask in her unhurried tone.

"Why does he want to teach me for you? What did you say to him?"

Zhan Zhao's more piercing eyes immediately shot towards Zhang Ling.

Zhang Ling's face turned from red to purple, he opened his mouth, and after thinking for a long time, he stuttered and said, "It may be that Zhao Han disrespected me when he went to deliver the evidence last time, and was seen by Sun Qiao. Let's be sorry."

It's such a time, but he's still justifying himself!Zhan Zhao glanced at Zhang Ling in disgust, and was too lazy to say his second sentence.Everyone knows who the little cook is after getting along these days. He has always been easy-going and not too busy, and only loves to cook.If Zhang Ling hadn't provoked Zhao Han, Zhao Han would never have provoked him.Moreover, Zhang Ling has been keeping his mouth shut all the time because he is relying on the identity of Concubine Zhang's younger brother, and he is afraid that he is putting on airs.

"Don't forget how your father sponsored the official position of the sixth-rank school lieutenant that you asked for. Mr. Bao never allows any special case for people of any status." Gongsun Ce has been watching coldly from the sidelines, and finally couldn't help but speak. Remind 'Zhang Ling.

Mr. Gongsun is usually the most easy-going, he doesn't talk much about others, but when he starts to scold others, he will be severely hit.Zhang Ling bowed his head awkwardly, not daring to say anything more.Their Zhang family was not a wealthy family at all, the reason why his eldest sister was selected as a noble concubine was all due to her beauty and intelligence.Moreover, after the eldest sister became a noble concubine, she repeatedly asked her family members not to use her name as a dominance, let alone try to seek high officials and rich salary based on her status.

Zhang Ling wanted to win, so he swore to be down-to-earth, and step by step he became a high-ranking official to show her elder sister, so he came under the command of Master Bao, who is famous for his stern face and selflessness.Now he has only stayed in Kaifeng Mansion for half a year, if something like this happened, Master Bao told his father or eldest sister later, he must be unable to eat and walk around.

Zhang Ling was so frightened that his legs went limp, and he hurriedly apologized to Gongsun Ce and Zhan Zhao with a crying voice, "It's all my fault for my narrow-mindedness, it's my fault."

"You paid for the wrong person." Zhan Zhao was still dissatisfied with Zhang Ling's performance. Why did he only apologize to him and Mr. Gongsun, but left the person who should have apologized the most?

Only then did Zhang Ling salute Zhao Hanyan in embarrassment, "Sorry, I offended you before."

"It's okay." Zhao Hanyan replied immediately without saying anything, as if he didn't care about Zhang Ling's actions against her at all.

Once again, Zhang Ling felt that he was being ignored. He was obviously one year older than the little cook, but the other party acted as if he was treating him like an ignorant child playing around, and didn't take it seriously at all.This feeling made him feel even more humiliated and ashamed.

Zhao Hanyan: "However, I advise you to behave better. It is not easy for Concubine Zhang to have the status she has today."

"You—" Zhang Ling was about to get annoyed, but Gongsun Ce and Zhan Zhao stared at him, and honestly lowered his eyes and dared not speak again.

"Let's talk about the case. After I left the Puwang Teahouse, I went to the back street of the teahouse to deliver snacks to the little girl. I have never met Sun Qiao. And I think the way Sun Qiao died is the same as the previous two cases. How could it be my fault? hand." Zhao Hanyan ignored Zhang Ling and said to Gongsun Ce and Zhan Zhao.

The two nodded at the same time.

"Although the rain destroyed the traces of the struggle at the scene, judging from the removed coir raincoat, the murderer failed to kill Sun Qiao accurately this time."

"Indeed, it was stabbed in the abdomen, then the neck." Gongsun Ce squatted down, uncovered the bamboo mat, and let Zhao Hanyan see Sun Qiao's body, "There is a small wound on the nail, it should be when Sun Qiao tore the murderer's coir raincoat." cause."

Zhao Hanyan's eyes lingered on the corpse, "The knife is still in the waist, the murderer attacked suddenly, and it was too late to draw the knife."

Gongsun Ce nodded.

Zhan Zhao stared closely at Zhao Hanyan, waiting for her to see something new from the scene, just like what he said in the second murder case.

"The murderer knew Sun Qiao, and it is very likely that he knew every victim. Maybe we can start from this point." Zhao Hanyan said.

"Please explain in detail." Zhan Zhao said.

"Sun Qiao's purpose of chasing me before was to teach me a lesson. He should be ready to bully people, and he is a government servant. The purpose of patrolling the street today was to find the murderer in the coir raincoat. He is taller than ordinary people." In this case, if a stranger talks to him, and it is in such a remote alley, he will never pay attention to it, let alone be unprepared." Zhao Hanyan continued.

Gongsun Ce and Zhan Zhao glanced at each other and agreed with Zhao Hanyan's statement.

"The coir raincoat was torn, the murderer must have blood on his body when he committed the crime, I have already sent Dynasty Mahan Zhang Long and Zhao Hu to lead people to search for it." Zhan Zhao continued.

Then everyone went back to Kaifeng Mansion to wait for the news. Master Bao also came back from the palace at this time and learned about the case.

Not long after, Wang Chao and Zhao Long dragged a young man in white with blood on his cuffs into the door.The man was tall and looked very strong.

"We found a witness who pointed out the direction of his escape, and the subordinates immediately arrested him in a small inn in the west of the city." Zhao Long replied, "This person is Wang Xing'an, the escaped tailor."

Wang Xing'an knelt down tremblingly, crying for grievances, "My lord, Caomin really didn't kill anyone, Caomin just happened to pass by."

"Nonsense, when you were found stealing cloth from Liu Sanshui, the shopkeeper of the tailor shop, you beat people and ran away on the way to see the official, and then you must have killed him because you hated shopkeeper Liu. Today, Sun Qiao is probably unlucky." When you found your suspicion, you killed him, didn't you?" Zhao Hu asked sharply.

"No, no, I didn't. I was really just passing by. I didn't even know who Sun Qiao was. I didn't know him at all. Why did I kill him? As for Shopkeeper Liu, I did have a fight with him, that's He has been deducting my wages all the time, as a last resort. I don’t like shopkeeper Liu, but I will never kill someone for such a small thing! Please learn from Master Bao!” Wang Xing’an hurriedly defended himself, bang bang Kowtow to Bao Zheng.

"It rained early in the morning today, why didn't you wear a coir raincoat when you came out of the inn?" Bao Zheng asked.

"Caomin and the shopkeeper escaped in a hurry. They didn't prepare coir raincoats. They borrowed money from friends to stay in the inn. It was raining today, and I heard that people in Kaifeng were busy patrolling the streets, so I wanted to take this opportunity to go back to the tailor's shop to get them. I hid that little money before." In order to prove his innocence, Wang Xing'an didn't hide any little secrets.

Bao Zheng asked where the money was kept, and asked people to check it out, and ordered Wang Xing'an to be taken away for the time being.

Bao Zheng pondered for a moment, then looked at Zhao Hanyan: "What do you think?"

Zhao Hanyan: "Wang Xing'an should not be the murderer. I was thinking just now that the blood-stained coir raincoat can be washed with some water, but the murderer is too dirty and unwilling to take it. If the clothes are stained with blood, he will take off his clothes even more. But Wang Xing'an Xing'an put on the blood-stained clothes properly."

"In other words, after killing Sun Qiao, the murderer is likely to be walking naked?" Zhan Zhao immediately responded and asked.

Zhao Hanyan nodded.

Zhan Zhao promised that after obtaining Bao Zheng's permission, he would personally take Zhao Hu and others to inquire around Tayun Lane to see if anyone had witnessed someone walking naked in the rain when the crime happened.

Zhao Hanyan wanted to say goodbye.

"Brother Zhao, please stop." Bao Zheng glanced at Zhao Hanyan, then turned to Gongsun Ce, "Mr. Gongsun, please take someone away."

The author has something to say:

Zhao Hanyan: What's the situation?You behaved so well that you were detained by Mr. Bao?