Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

Feeling the beating of Zhao Hanyan's pulse through the warm skin on his wrist, Bai Yutang felt his whole body tremble.

Bai Yutang looked down at his feet to be sure that he hadn't fallen down, it was just an illusion brought about by dizziness.

At this moment, Zhao Hanyan sensed that something was wrong with Bai Yutang, so he immediately withdrew his hand and looked at him suspiciously and warily.

"What... are you pulling me for?"

But Bai Yutang seemed to be out of his body, standing there motionless, and did not respond to Zhao Hanyan's words.

"You're so weird today, you're a little dazed after drinking." Zhao Hanyan waved his hands in front of Bai Yutang, and said in a serious tone, "This young man Bai, do you want me to help you summon your soul?"

"Yes!" Bai Yutang agreed with a smile after regaining consciousness, and looked at Zhao Hanyan with joy in his eyes.It happened that he had lost his soul, and he really needed someone in front of him to help her revive her soul.

Zhao Hanyan immediately reached out and snapped his fingers in front of Bai Yutang, who blinked his eyes.

"Look, Hun'er is back!" Zhao Hanyan joked, and asked Bai Yutang strangely what happened just now.

"It's okay." Bai Yutang avoided Zhao Hanyan's gaze, moved his eyeballs slightly, and then said to Zhao Hanyan, "It's something that has been lingering in my mind, and I suddenly want to talk to you, after all, I am better at understanding people."

"Then tell me quickly." Zhao Hanyan urged with interest.

"But I suddenly figured it out right now, please worry about it for me." After Bai Yutang said, before Zhao Hanyan could respond, he hurriedly said goodbye and hurried back to his small courtyard.

People enter and close the door in the blink of an eye, and the whole process is very fast.

Zhao Hanyan was still trying to persuade Bai Yutang to speak out his thoughts, and the two of them discussed it together, but when she realized it, Bai Yutang was no longer in sight.

It's hard to call it a chinchilla, and it can slip faster than a mouse.Zhao Hanyan regained consciousness and thought that since Bai Yutang didn't want to talk, why should she force her, so she went back to her room to rest first.

The next day, Zhao Hanyan woke up, got dressed and made the bed. Xiuzhu hadn't come yet, and the genius outside the window had just dawned. He probably got up early.Zhao Hanyan planned to go to the kitchen to work first, and then go to Sansi Hall to find Master Bao and the others.

Zhao Hanyan pushed open the door, stretched, turned around and closed the door after coming out, walked briskly down the stone steps, and took only three steps, and caught a glimpse of a white shadow from the corner of the eye.Zhao Hanyan stopped in his tracks, turned his head to look over, and found that Bai Yutang was leaning against the wall of the west wing with a knife in his arms.

Zhao Hanyan looked around, confirmed that there was no one else, and asked Bai Yutang in surprise, "Why are you here? Find Chun?"

The West Wing Room is exactly where Chun Qu went.

"Wait for you." Bai Yutang moved to Zhao Hanyan's side with a knife in his hand, "Let's go."

"where to?"

"You can go wherever you want." Bai Yutang replied neatly.

"I'm going to the kitchen to cook, so it's possible that Bai Shaoxia, who is holding a big knife, is also planning to follow me to the kitchen to cook?" Zhao Hanyan was surprised, "You have to practice martial arts at this time in the morning, right?"

"You can go to the kitchen to practice, and you can have breakfast just after practice."

Zhao Hanyan suddenly understood that it turned out that Bai Yutang was there for food. He must have felt hungry after practicing martial arts in the morning, so he ran to her and found him waiting at the door before he got up.

Foodie, foodie!

Zhao Hanyan simply agreed and graciously let Bai Yutang go with her.

"Follow my brother and have meat to eat!" Zhao Hanyan said as he walked.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhao Hanyan's back, and his eyes fell on her waist. Although it was covered by a coarse cloth robe, if you pay attention to distinguish, you can still see that her waist is very thin.Thinking about being with her for the past two months, I didn't notice it at all, I was a bit too stupid.

Bai Yutang slandered Zhao Hanyan's so-called "brother" in his heart, so his mind was naturally full of other things, and he didn't even think about eating.As far as his current mental state is concerned, he can kill a hundred enemies even without eating for three days, and he is very energetic.

After Zhao Hanyan cooked the porridge, he made spring rolls and fried green onion pancakes.Afraid that Bai Yutang would be hungry, Zhao Hanyan called Bai Yutang to eat the first scallion pancake when he baked it, and specially added eggs and ham slices to the pancake.Brush some sweet noodle sauce on it, put some chopped sour radish on it, roll it up and wrap it in oiled paper for him to eat.

"This way of eating is similar to last time's pancake, but it seems a little different. I'll try it first." After Bai Yutang sighed, he took a bite of the fried golden and crispy pancake. , the inner noodles are soft and have a strong noodle fragrance. It is delicious when served with fried eggs and ham.

Bai Yutang admired the delicious food, looked at Zhao Hanyan who was still busy with a smile, hesitated, and asked her, "How old are you this year?"

"Don't you know my age, why do you ask again all of a sudden?"

"Listen again." Bai Yutang focused on Zhao Hanyan.

"sixteen."

"When is your birthday?"

Zhao Hanyan was busy rolling the cakes into the pan, and while spreading the cakes in the pan, he instructed Laiwang to lighten the fire, so that he had time to raise his head and ask Bai Yutang why he asked her birthday again.

"After eating so many good things you made, I still don't know your birthday. It's a bit unreasonable." Bai Yutang told Zhao Hanyan frankly that he wanted to give her a gift on her birthday.

"Then it will be next year, my birthday is on the third day of March." Zhao Hanyan said to Bai Yutang with a smile, "It's a long time, so prepare well."

Bai Yutang agreed, and then asked Zhao Hanyan to continue making pancakes while he went to practice martial arts.

Zhao Hanyan agreed, watched Bai Yutang go, and was busy with her work, without thinking about her.

After Bai Yutang walked far away, he looked back to make sure that no one was following him, so he climbed over the wall and turned to the stable.

After arriving at Zhuangyuan Building, Bai Yutang went straight to Room [-], ignoring shopkeeper Liu who was talking warmly with him, and grabbed Jiang Ping from the bed.

"Ah—" Jiang Ping was snoring in his sleep, when Bai Yutang pulled him so hard, his neck was tightened, and the snoring turned into a grunt, much like the sound of a sleeping pig being suddenly woken up.

Jiang Ping was so angry that he wanted to stab someone with a knife, but when he saw Bai Yutang, his anger was half gone, and he stared helplessly.

"What are you doing!" Jiang Ping tore off Bai Yutang's hand grabbing his collar, and rolled his eyes.

"Last time you were asked to check on Yan Shu, did you check?"

"Check it out," Jiang Ping realized that he was in the wrong, and hurriedly wanted to tell Bai Yutang about Yan Shu's situation.

But Bai Yutang didn't listen, "I know everyone well, so I still need your few words?"

"Oh."

Jiang Ping scratched his head, and suddenly realized something was wrong, Bai Yutang looked at him with cold eyes, which made him feel like he was walking in the ice when he was originally under the warm blanket.

"You, what do you want to do?"

Jiang Ping hugged himself with both arms, Bai Yutang's eyes were all too familiar to him, it was a sign that he was going to order him around again.

Bai Yutang: "If such a small matter is not done well, you should make amends and help me investigate two people. You can't wait, and you will give me news tomorrow."

"Tomorrow? Two more people, do you think I'm a god!" Jiang Ping protested, "Five days."

Bai Yutang looked at him indifferently.

"Three days! No less."

Bai Yutang still didn't speak.

Jiang Ping glanced at him with a guilty conscience, smacked his lips, and made up his mind: "Two days! Just two days! If you're embarrassing me, I'll go back to the empty island and ask my elder brother to comment! You're the fifth child to sue you. The youngest one rides on the fourth child to shit every day."

"Okay, just two days." Bai Yutang said, "They should be from the royal family, a man and a woman. The man is around twenty, with a blunt handwriting, an extraordinary appearance, a steady conversation, and even more talent and learning. The woman's sixteenth birthday On the third day of March, she is a little taller than ordinary women, and she looks—”

"What does it look like?" Jiang Ping asked with interest. It was rare for the fifth child to mention women on his own initiative.

"Extremely beautiful." After Bai Yutang was stunned for a while, he swallowed these two words.

"Extremely beautiful? How beautiful is it? Wait, have you seen this 'extremely beautiful'?"

Jiang Ping and Bai Yutang had been together for too long. He had never seen Bai Yutang look so shy, and when he mentioned this woman, his cheeks turned red, and it was definitely not easy to use the word "extremely beautiful" to describe her.

"Don't ask nonsense, hurry up and investigate." Bai Yutang urged him to leave.

How could Jiang Ping miss this good opportunity to tease Bai Yutang, he jumped in front of Bai Yutang and blocked his way with his hand.

"Just this little news is not enough, give more."

"The youngest son of the Eight Sage Kings might be a clue." Bai Yutang said.

"The youngest son of the Eight Sage Kings? What does it have to do with the two of them?" Jiang Ping asked.

Bai Yutang shook his head and asked Jiang Ping to investigate by himself. After finishing speaking, he bowed his hands politely to Jiang Ping and said goodbye.

"There is still an urgent case to be investigated in Kaifeng Mansion." Bai Yutang left in a hurry.

Jiang Ping still had a lot of questions that he didn't have time to ask, but Bai Yutang had already run out of the house. He didn't change his clothes, so it was difficult to go out, so he was able to escape successfully.

Jiang Ping rubbed his chin, pondering patiently.

Sixteenth, the third day of March, the royal family, and it's extremely beautiful... Fifth brother's vision is so high!In the past, there were two respected Jianghu seniors, because they had a very good personal relationship with Jiang Ping, and they happened to have daughters who were of the right age to be married at home.The two seniors both fell in love with Bai Yutang, and secretly mentioned it to Jiang Ping twice.Jiang Ping was worried, which one to introduce to Bai Yutang first, after all, the first one must have the advantage, the two seniors had treated him very well, Jiang Ping was worried and entangled.Now it's all right, even the persuasion is rejected impartially, his fifth younger brother has a crush on someone!

Jiang Ping was very happy. Although he didn't confirm the news with Bai Yutang, based on his understanding of Bai Yutang, this girl must be Bai Yutang's favorite.Having been brothers with him for so long, Jiang Ping saw Bai Yutang blush once, but it was still because of blood spattering.

Just thinking about it made his little heart jump for joy. The good brother is going to have a wife, and he is going to have a sister-in-law.In this life, I can't expect that the fifth brother will respect him, but my sister-in-law will definitely be polite. Finally, there is someone who can respect him as "fourth brother" seriously.

Although there are many doubts in his heart, it is something worthy of his celebration after all.Jiang Ping ordered a jug of wine from shopkeeper Liu on purpose, and set off after drinking to help Bai Yutang search people.

……

Kaifeng House.

After Bao Zheng finished his breakfast, he dressed in official robes solemnly, and opened the court to interrogate Miss Zhang and Miss Lu Er.

After Bao Zheng opened his mouth to ask, Miss Zhang asked Bao Zheng if she could atone for her crime after she explained the matter.

"I can't." Bao Zheng simply refused as usual, "48 human lives, you should know how heinous it is with your feet! Even if Bao forgives you, no one in the world will forgive you, even if everyone in the world forgives you The 48 innocent souls who died in vain will not let you go!"

Miss Zhang originally asked this question because she thought that the people in Kaifeng Mansion might just promise to lie to her, so she went down the donkey to testify against shopkeeper Xue.But he didn't expect Bao Zheng to be so straightforward, so he directly refused.

After listening to Bao Zheng's accusation, Miss Zhang didn't know what to say for a while.

"Hurry up and confess your crimes, accumulate some sinful virtues, and suffer even more underground after death." Zhao Hanyan explained, "Have you heard of karma and reincarnation? All karma is predestined by heaven. Although you are evil people in this life, As long as you repent of your crimes before death, you can start all over again in the underworld, and you can also be reincarnated. Otherwise, your soul will be evil, which is a sin, and you will be fried in an oil pan, and you will suffer from being fried all the time, and you will die No, how painful is it?"

Miss Zhang was stunned, "Is there such a saying?"

"It's been there for a long time. You are ignorant and ignorant. If you don't believe me, ask everyone present if this is the case." Zhao Hanyan prepared the 'steps' for Miss Zhang, and said it in a decent way

Miss Zhang bowed her head in silence for a moment and then said: "If you have made an oath, you will not be able to repent even if you die, and I will not betray my master. But if you ask other questions, I will confess if I know the truth. Suffer."

Miss Zhang then confessed to shopkeeper Xue, "Recently there are many gossip and wrongs in the capital, and I have already noticed that something is wrong. On the one hand, I asked the master not to visit us in the house again, and on the other hand, I invited shopkeeper Xue's Wangyou Pavilion to help us. If anyone is targeted by the government If there is any suspicion, we will execute the silence to help the master avoid future troubles."

Ms. Zhang continued to emphasize that all the thoughts about the murder of the servants are all decided by her alone.

Shopkeeper Xue was then brought up to confront Ms. Zhang.

After hearing Miss Zhang's confession, shopkeeper Xue looked at her with a particularly fresh look: "Miss, I have never seen who you are, why do you want to wrong me?"

Seeing Shopkeeper Xue's denial, Miss Zhang said angrily, "At this point, you are still in front of Mr. Bao, why do you pretend to be confused?"

"I was just about to say, please don't spread rumors about me, this girl. One, I didn't offend you, and two, I didn't take advantage of you. We have no grudges in recent days, and we have no grudges in the future. You committed crimes and became murderers yourself. Just admit it, but don't take me by the way, I'm not interested in it." Shopkeeper Xue explained.

"My lord, I gave him a box of jewels as a reward!" Miss Zhang saw that she had nothing to talk to shopkeeper Xue about, so she turned her head and said anxiously to Bao Zheng, and counted down what each piece of jewelry was. It's like her private house saved.

"The girl said to give me a box of jewels, where is it? Is there anyone to prove it?" Shopkeeper Xue asked back.

Ms. Zhang anxiously defended: "Who would do such a thing as a murder in the open, so I naturally came to meet you secretly. At that time, I sent my cronies to find you, and tried to ask you whether Wangyou Pavilion is the murderer's pavilion in the Jianghu. You should Yes, the deposit will be delivered, there is nothing to deny. Besides, isn’t the name of your inn just Wangyou Pavilion, who in the world doesn’t know? My lord will send someone to inquire and find out.”

"The name is just a coincidence. You will know if you ask Master Zhao. I have never met you before, please don't make false statements, or I will call that boy to confront you." Shopkeeper Xue insisted on defending.

"I think you are now sure that the 48 servants were all killed by me, and there is no proof of death, so you have a confrontation with me. After all, it is the truth, I will be honest, believe it or not, it depends on Mr. Bao." Miss Zhang was speechless. Instead of arguing with Shopkeeper Xue, I asked Bao Zheng to decide for himself.

After Bao Zheng asked Ms. Zhang and Ms. Lu Er to sign and draw a deposit, he asked shopkeeper Xue if he pleaded guilty.

Shopkeeper Xue shook his head, resolutely expressing that he was wronged.

"Last chance, do you plead guilty?" Bao Zheng looked at shopkeeper Xue seriously, as if looking at a dead body.

Shopkeeper Xue kowtowed respectfully to Bao Zheng: "Caomin don't recognize it."

Bao Zheng slapped the gavel and called out.

Half an hour later, Zhao Hanyan carried a food box and entered the prison in Kaifeng Mansion.

Shopkeeper Xue was sitting cross-legged on the haystack, with his eyes closed, meditating and resting his mind.His two pieces were moving slightly, as if he was muttering something, and he looked like he was meditating in front of the Buddha.

After Zhao Hanyan asked the prison chief to open the cell door, he went in with the food box, took out a plate of dishes from the food box, and brought it to shopkeeper Xue for him to taste.

Shopkeeper Xue had heard the sound of the prison door opening but did not open his eyes. When he heard Zhao Hanyan speak, the familiar voice stimulated him, and he immediately opened his eyes to look at him.

"Why are you here? Are you kidding me?" Shopkeeper Xue immediately saw Zhao Hanyan holding a pot of tamales, and thought she was mocking him. After all, their Sanchunlou tamales are famous in Tokyo.

"Come and invite you to taste the tamales I made, judge and judge, or I'm afraid I won't have a chance in the future?" Zhao Hanyan said and handed the chopsticks to shopkeeper Xue.

Shopkeeper Xue looked at Zhao Hanyan dubiously, Zhao Hanyan took another pair of chopsticks from the food box, ate a piece of meat, and confirmed to Shopkeeper Xue that he had no intention of harming him.

Shopkeeper Xue looked helplessly at Zhao Hanyan for a while, picked up the chopsticks, and put a piece of meat into his mouth.Now that he is in the prison, how can he have any mood to eat.Even just barely gave Zhao Hanyan face.

But after this piece of tamales was in his mouth, he chewed it lightly, it didn't need to be too hard, it melted between his lips and teeth. His appetite suddenly increased greatly.

The shopkeeper Xue was not polite, and continued to eat with chopsticks.

Zhao Hanyan looked at him from the side, and said half-jokingly: "It is said that eating people's mouth is short, you ate my plate of meat, shouldn't you confess truthfully?"

"If you say that the last time Mr. Zhao came to my place to order a table of food, and he didn't pay the bill, he was short of my mouth. Can he ask Mr. Zhao to let me out?"

Shopkeeper Xue's heartfelt voice: I don't know what purpose this cook and clerk sent me to eat.

"Eat quickly, pretend I didn't say anything." Zhao Hanyan said bluntly.

Shopkeeper Xue smiled wryly, "Left and right must also sit in this prison, since there is meat to eat right now, let's eat!"

Shopkeeper Xue continued to eat.

Shopkeeper Xue’s voice: The meat is soft but not rotten, and it tastes good. Compared with Sanchunlou’s, it’s only a little bit better. It’s not greasy, but it’s really skillful to make this kind of meat not greasy.

"I heard that Mr. Bao has sent someone to search your place for the second time. Are you really not afraid that the treasure chest will be found and you will be convicted?"

Shopkeeper Xue smiled, neither saying yes nor no.From the expression alone, Zhao Hanyan couldn't find the answer at all.

Shopkeeper Xue's heartfelt voice: Is this poor man surnamed Zhao really stupid, if he gave me meat, he thought I would let down his guard and tell him where the treasure chest is?

Shopkeeper Xue couldn't help sighing in his heart, Zhao Hanyan was dreaming of a spring and autumn dream.

Shopkeeper Xue’s heartfelt voice: Don’t say it’s just steamed pork, even if he eats me to death with delicacies from mountains and seas, I won’t reveal a word about the secret of hiding the treasure chest in the waste stove pit.

Zhao Hanyan saw that a plate of meat had bottomed out, so he handed him a sesame seed cake, "Isn't it salty to eat so much?"

Shopkeeper Xue looked at Zhao Hanyan helplessly. After all, it is a vegetable, of course it is oil, and the staple food will not be salty if eaten together.When he just ate it, he didn't even know that there were biscuits in the food box.It was only taken out at this time, and shopkeeper Xue suspected that Zhao Hanyan did it on purpose.

"Eat slowly, I'll go back first. I'm still busy investigating the case, after all, there are too few evidences!" Zhao Hanyan took a special look at shopkeeper Xue. He didn't dare to look directly into his eyes, and only looked at the biscuits in his hand.

Zhao Hanyan immediately went to Sansi Hall to ask for orders, and together with Bai Yutang led people to re-search Sanchun Building and Wangyou Pavilion, and then found a treasure chest under the disabled stove in the kitchen of Wangyou Pavilion. .

After the evidence was brought back, Bao Zheng interrogated shopkeeper Xue again.

Shopkeeper Xue was shocked when he saw the treasure chest. He never expected that things would be exposed so quickly!After reacting for a while, he looked at Zhao Hanyan suspiciously, but at this time Master Bao was asking him, and shopkeeper Xue didn't have time to think about it carefully.

Faced with conclusive evidence, shopkeeper Xue had no reason to argue, and immediately admitted frankly that he was indeed hired by Miss Zhang to help solve some troubles, and that the 48 servants should have been sent by shopkeeper Xue to kill them.But because the incident happened suddenly, when his people found out, the people in Kaifeng Mansion were already closely monitoring the Zhang Mansion, and there was no chance to do anything, so he could only send poison to Miss Zhang and let them solve it by themselves.

"Because of the surveillance of the Kaifeng Mansion, it would be risky to do it directly, so I let it go and used Tang's from the tofu shop next door. I had already seen that this woman was interested in me, and of course part of the reason was for money. That night I deliberately Leaving early, I told her about the poisoning, but didn't tell her it was poison, I just told her to believe me, and I would give her 20 taels of gold after the incident, this silly woman really didn't care about it, she was happy Just take a gold ingot and do it."

"How do you communicate with Miss Zhang? Where is Tang now?"

"When I took over the job, I gave a pigeon just in case it was needed. It was prudent to do so, but now I didn't expect to be found out because of the oil on the poison paper and the smell of fish." Xue Xue The shopkeeper raised his lips, "As for Tang, if she feels dangerous, she can go to a place I agreed with her to find someone. She should be dead at this moment, and you may not even find her body in the end."

"Are you really the fearful Wangyou Pavilion in the Jianghu?" Zhao Hanyan became even more puzzled, "If you have countless killers under your command, why did you use the Tang Corporation? I think your answer is very unreasonable."

"Hahaha, so you really think that I have something to do with Wangyou Pavilion in Jianghu? No, I'm a fake, but since Wangyou Pavilion opened, anyone who comes to Wangyou Pavilion in Jianghu to inquire, what to do I also have the guts to take over the business.”

Bai Yutang was puzzled: "Why is this so? Want to die early?"