Half River Autumn Moon and River Spring [Rat and Cat]

After Zhan Zhao finished speaking, everyone gave up their guesses about the two of them, and didn't pay much attention to what Dani said. After the medicine was ready for Dani to take, they left Tong'an hall together.

On the way out, Zhan Zhao asked Dani: "Da Ni, where do you live? Shall we take you home?"

Dani looked at Zhan Zhao, then suddenly turned around and threw himself on Su Liran who was hugging him all the time, crying loudly: "Da Ni has no home!"

Zhan Zhao frowned, and realized that he had asked the wrong question, and hurriedly said, "Don't cry, Da Ni, uh, that..."

In the end, he didn't say anything about it for a long time. There was no way, even though he was indeed smart enough, Zhan Zhao had absolutely nothing to do with comforting people.

"Da Ni, how old are you?" Su Liran patted Dani's head lightly, and asked with a light smile.

"Me?" Dani thought for a while while sobbing, "I'm eleven this year!"

"Oh? It's so big!" Su Liran laughed out loud, "Then why are you still crying like a child who hasn't grown up yet?"

Dani wiped away his tears, his face was filthy: "Dani didn't cry!"

Su Gui ran to Su Liran's side, stretched out his hand and said, "My lord, are you tired of hugging? Shall I hug?"

It was only then that Da Ni realized that he had been hugged by Su Liran, and hurriedly said, "Brother Su, please let me down, Da Ni is already much better, and he can walk by himself!"

Su Liran put Dani on the ground, took him by the hand, and led him away: "If you feel unwell, just say, Su Gui, we have to change restaurants, so we can't go to Babaolou, cough... "

It was only then that Su Gui had an epiphany as if thinking of something: "Yes, Mr. Gongsun said that there is something wrong with the sweet-scented osmanthus tree there... Then I'll go back and get my luggage first, son, which one do you plan to change to?"

"I haven't thought about it yet."

"If you don't mind..." Gongsun said suddenly, "Why don't you go to our Kaifeng mansion first, you and Dani's illness needs to be recuperated, and it happens that Kaifeng mansion also has those medicines. Help find a good family to take care of, so you can rest assured."

Su Liran was stunned and said, "Live in the yamen?"

Zhan Zhao explained: "Kaifeng Mansion also has guest rooms. Although it's not as good as the kind of restaurants that burn money and show off, it's actually pretty good."

Su Liran paused for a moment and then smiled again, his red eyes flashed coquettishly, coughing and said: "Master Zhan said so, Su really dare not go to those restaurants that burn money and show off."

Su Gui cleverly said: "Then I'll go back to get my luggage first, son, you go with them first, and I'll meet you after I get my luggage!"

Su Liran nodded, and Su Gui ran away.

Seeing Su Gui running away, Gongsun suddenly yelled "No", everyone looked at him, and Gongsun frowned and said, "I forgot the purpose of coming out today. Started and went back..."

Having said that, he dragged a group of people to another Ruolantang to buy a lot of medicinal materials before returning to Kaifeng Mansion satisfied. Ruolantang is also one of the best medicinal herb shops in the capital. Not bad, the owner of the store is a thin and gentle man, surnamed Du Minglan, it seems that someone from Kaifeng Mansion came to buy medicine, and he also gave Gongsun a lot of medicine, which made Gongsun wipe away all his previous displeasure. After sweeping away a batch of medicine, several people went back home.

Along the way, Gongsun chatted with Su Liran very enthusiastically. Both of them were very knowledgeable and proficient in many languages. Gongsun started casually, but Su Liran was able to quickly continue. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were listening at the side, unable to take up the conversation at all. Most of the things they talked about, Zhan Bai had never even heard of it. , can only look at each other, thinking that Gongsun has met a bosom friend.

However, no one expected that that night, a horrific tragedy happened in the Ruolan Hall, which had been calm and peaceful all the time. Because of this, the whole capital city was gradually covered with a shocking blood-colored mist...

Zhan Zhao was still hazy for a while when he was woken up from his sleep. He didn't sleep well all night, which caused Bai Yutang to make a fuss. Ken, the two started to quarrel, but Bai Yutang said, "Didn't you ask me to keep a sword distance from you?"

"so?"

"So I'll keep a sword distance from you," Bai Yutang leaned slightly towards Zhan Zhao, "It won't work if you're farther away..."

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment, and said with a speechless expression: "Bai Yutang, you dignified Chinmouse actually took advantage of the loopholes in your words?"

Bai Yutang smiled and said: "I've been with you black-hearted cat for a long time... Ah, yes, although you insist on keeping a distance of one sword, but if you cross the distance of one sword, I don't mind at all." Don't mind, cat."

After Bai Yutang finished speaking, he shrank pitifully to a corner of Zhan Zhao's bed, deliberately leaving a big space for the youngest, and then patted the bed: "Cat, come and rest soon."

Then, Zhan Da, who had always been extremely docile, became angry in an instant...

The two made Kaifeng mansion into a mess again, and finally it was peaceful. Not long after falling asleep, Zhan Zhao vaguely heard someone shouting: "Master Zhan, Master Zhan, something happened, hurry... hurry up!" Wake up..."

Zhan Zhao rubbed his eyes, before he could ask a question, the person at the door knocked on the door and shouted, "Master Zhan, Du Lan, the boss of Ruo Lantang, was killed, hurry up..."

The man was still banging on the door vigorously, but the door was pulled open at once. Zhan Zhao asked in disbelief while putting on his clothes, "How is it possible, we went there to buy medicine yesterday, you are fine!"

"Oh, it happened last night, tsk tsk tsk, I don't know what the murderer was thinking, not only killed people, but also made the body look like that... Several people who saw it fainted from fear... What a crime !"

Zhan Zhao frowned: "Take me to have a look first."

"I'll go as well."

When Zhan Zhao turned his head, he saw that Bai Yutang was already standing behind him in a clean suit. After nodding his head, the two of them rushed to Ruolan Hall together with a few government servants.

Because it was early in the morning, there were fewer pedestrians on the street, but I didn't expect that there were already many people around the gate of Ruolan Hall. Seeing that Zhan Zhao came with people from the yamen, everyone gave way one after another. Simple, after entering the door, a strong smell of blood came to the nostrils.

Zhan Zhao saw the medicine cabinet in Ruolan Hall at first glance, faint bloodstains seeped out from inside, the originally red paint was soaked in blood, and suddenly became horrifying.

The guys on the side were obviously frightened, and when they saw Zhan Zhao coming, they said tremblingly, "Master Zhan Zhan, you are here, my master died so badly, he was dismembered by someone... , the body parts were put into the medicine bucket... this... this..."

Medicine bucket is jargon, and it refers to the necessary container for medicine shops in the eyes of ordinary people-the medicine cabinet.A bucket, in a common sense, is a medicine drawer. A bucket usually holds more than two types of decoction pieces, that is, medicines, for easy access.A general medicine cabinet has seven rows of buckets up, down, left, and right, so such a medicine bucket is also called a seven-star bucket cabinet, and the medicine bucket in Ruo Lantang is a typical seven-star bucket cabinet.

Zhan Zhao looked at the seven-star chest that was still oozing blood, and found a very strange thing, those bloodstains were all dripping down in a single line from the fourth row of the medicine cabinet, which is the center. Blood, the three rows of medicine buckets at the top are completely free of blood, but the bucket in the third row from the top and the second column from the right is open. Zhan Zhao walked over and found that the bucket contained three kinds of medicine—— — Angelica, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Rhizoma Chuanxiong.

"Has any of you touched this medicine cabinet?"

The guys looked at each other and said: "We opened the market in the morning, and as soon as we entered the door, we saw Yaodouzi bleeding. At that time, we were frightened. At first, we thought something strange had entered Yaodouzi, but Xiao Liu ran away. Going to open it, it turned out to be a bloody human hand inside, and Xiao Liu fainted from fright on the spot!"

"That's right, then we opened all the buckets that were seeping blood, and found that there were human limbs inside, and then we found our boss's torso in the well in the backyard... We dare not delay, and we will find someone right away Report to the officer!"

"Although we have opened the medicine bucket, we know that Mr. Zhan will come to investigate, so we have restored him to its original state, and we have closed all the buckets that were opened. As for the bucket with angelica, we opened it before we came... So, we didn't close it on purpose, and we didn't let irrelevant people in."

"En?" Zhan Zhao turned his head and looked at the guys in surprise, "You guys are very well protected at the scene."

A fellow said: "That's right, Mr. Zhan, we often go to Mr. Gongsun's lectures, and we know what to do and what not to do when something goes wrong..."

It turned out that those lectures that Mr. Gongsun held while he was idle and bored were quite useful!Zhan Zhao thought to himself, and then turned to look at the open medicine drawer: "Could it be that the murderer opened this drawer? There was no time to put the body parts in, or for some other reason?"

"Yutang, what do you think?"

Zhan Zhao asked a question smoothly, but no one answered, he turned his head and saw Bai Yutang looking at the medicine cabinet thoughtfully, after a while, Bai Yutang asked, "Have you changed the order of the drawers? "

"Ah? No, we have kept the scene unchanged!"

Zhan Zhao shook his head: "The mouse is asking if the order of the medicine bucket drawers is the same as the one you placed before."

Only then did the guys understand, and they stepped forward to check it out one after another. After reading it, someone replied: "Well, the order of all the decoction pieces and decoctions is the same as before, and nothing has been changed."

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao: "Did he do it on purpose?"

Zhan Zhao rubbed his chin: "I can only think so, otherwise, the murderer could have put all the body parts in this medicine cabinet, and now he only filled the fourth row, obviously what is his intention? But I What I am more concerned about is why the drawer where the angelica is placed is open, is there any special reason?"

Bai Yutang looked at Yaodou again, and suddenly said, "Don't you think it looks like something?"

"what?"

Bai Yutang gestured a few times in the air: "The shape of the medicine bucket is actually very similar to a chessboard, if there is such a separation in the middle..."

Zhan Zhao followed Bai Yutang's gesticulations, and suddenly realized: "You're talking about——Chu River and Han Realm?"