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

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang soaked in the book for an entire afternoon. They were dizzy and didn't come up with any clues. Su Liran had nothing to do, so he stayed with them all the time. Every time Zhan Zhao read a medical book, he So he handed over another book without any hassle. Every time Zhan Zhao glanced at the thickness of the book, he immediately put the thick one in Bai Yutang's pile, and kept the thin one for himself.

Bai Yutang saw that Zhan Zhao handed over another medical book as thick as a brick, and finally couldn't help but said, "Cat, you!"

Zhan Zhao blinked innocently: "Zeyan, what's wrong?"

Bai Yutang: "...No, it's nothing, are you hungry?"

Zhan Zhao turned to look at Su Liran: "Are the brothers from the Su family tired? Do you want to take a break and have something to eat?"

Su Liran saw that Bai Yutang obviously wanted to say something, and because he was used to Zhan Zhao deliberately changing the subject, he said with a smile, "I'm really hungry, where are you two?"

Zhan Zhao said with a smirk, "That's just right, Yutang is also hungry, let's go eat something first!"

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao helplessly: "..."

Su Liran suppressed a smile: "Ahem...I have to go and see if Dani and Su Gui have eaten...cough..."

Zhan Zhao waved his hand: "Don't worry, the kitchen aunt is the most kind to children. She has to feed five meals a day, and she will definitely not starve Da Ni. Su Gui will never be hungry if she follows Da Ni. Let's solve our own problems first." !"

So under the leadership of Zhan Zhao, the three of them walked towards the kitchen of Kaifeng Mansion together. It happened that the cook, Aunt Wang, was cleaning the kitchen. " looked into the kitchen with a curious expression, while Zhan Zhao walked into the kitchen unceremoniously. Before he could say anything, Aunt Wang dragged a rag on her hip and said aggressively, "Every time you leave freshly prepared meals, you don't eat them. , I’ll be hungry when I’m done packing up? There’s no food this time, so I’ll find my own way!”

Zhan Zhao laughed and said, "No trouble, just add some green onion to the egg noodles, and Aunt Wang is the best!"

"Is it alright to know aunt now? You don't come every time I ask you to eat?"

Zhan Zhao said: "Auntie, I was wrong! Next time I won't dare!"

Aunt Wang shook her head, she couldn't bear to let these guys go hungry, she asked angrily, "Is one bowl enough?"

Zhan Zhao hurriedly said: "Three bowls! The eggs are half-cooked!" After speaking, he ran out...

Aunt Wang was a little speechless and turned around to take a big spoon: "This melon boy is making an inch!"

After Zhan Zhao ran out, he glanced at Bai Yutang, and was about to say something, when he suddenly turned around and asked Su Liran, "Does Brother Su eat bamboo shoots?"

Su Liran didn't react for a while: "En?"

"The mouse brought some sour bamboo shoots pickled by Sunken Island from the south of the Yangtze River. It's a must with Aunt Wang's egg noodles. Would you like some?"

Bai Yutang said: "It's rare that you, a petty cat, are willing to take out the sour bamboo shoots to entertain people. I thought you hid them so well that you wanted to eat them alone."

Zhan Zhao cleared his throat, and said dissatisfiedly, "Hey, hey, when have I ever been stingy? Wait, don't get so close, keep a sword's distance, rat!"

Su Liran couldn't help laughing.

As a result, when Aunt Wang's egg noodles were on the table, I found that the stone table was already filled with various snacks and cold dishes, such as drunk crab, sour bamboo shoots, bad chicken feet, cashew nuts...

Aunt Wang put the egg noodles with ham and lean meat on the stone table, and said, "You kid, you have hidden a lot of good things. It seems that next time you don't need to cook them for you."

"How can it be, Aunt Wang's craftsmanship, I dare not say that the Song Dynasty, even the whole capital, is first-class. If I can't eat it, I will have no strength to handle the case..."

"Sweet mouth!" Aunt Wang walked into the kitchen contentedly, and put another bowl of peanuts on the table for the three of them, "Just call Auntie to clean up after eating!"

Zhan Zhao smiled and nodded.

After Aunt Wang left, Bai Yutang looked at the dishes on the table: "Mao'er, who did you learn your flattering skills from?"

Zhan Zhao chewed peanuts: "Master Bao."

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao with a puzzled face...

"Master Bao often flatters Aunt Wang, because he is always hungry in the middle of the night, and he has to drag Aunt Wang up to help him cook supper, so he has to flatter her, otherwise he will be hungry."

Bai Yutang tried his best to think about the scene described by Zhan Zhao, and felt that it was really an incredible thing.

Su Liran said with difficulty: "...Kaifeng Mansion really follows my thinking...well, it's not the same..."

Zhan Zhao said: "Don't think about it, both of you, eat quickly, the noodles will become mushy if they are cold."

Bai Yutang: "Some wine is missing."

Zhan Zhao kicked him over, "I'm on duty, and my salary will be deducted for drinking."

Bai Yutang picked up the chopsticks: "Do you still care about the little money?"

Zhan Zhao took a sip of the noodle soup and looked at Bai Yutang dissatisfied: "Of course I care."

Bai Yutang picked out the noodles, took another breath and said indifferently: "It's said that it's a stingy cat, it's true."

Zhan Zhao: "..."

Aunt Wang's cooking skills are really good, the three of them ate with great joy, and finally got full, Zhan Zhao was about to move his body, when someone ran over, saw Zhan Zhao, and hurriedly said: "Master Zhan, what is that?" , The clerk at the pharmacy said, there is something important to tell you about the case..."

Zhan Zhao stood in front of the visitor: "Where is the person? Take me to see!"

A few people followed the messenger out of the courtyard, and saw the clerk from the Tong'an Hall earlier standing tremblingly in front of the Kaifeng mansion with a bitter expression on his face. It's just a general breath.

Zhan Zhao habitually glanced at Bai Yutang beside him, and Bai Yutang shook his head, indicating that he couldn't figure out what information this guy would say, but it was obvious that this guy was very nervous.

Zhan Zhao let out a sigh of relief, and invited the guy in. In order not to make him too nervous, he chose to sit next to the stone table in the courtyard, and poured him a cup of tea to calm him down.

"By the way, what's your name?"

The guy was holding the teacup, his hands trembling slightly: "Little man, little man, his name is Tong Huai'an."

"Brother Huai'an, what information do you want to tell us?"

Tong Huai'an looked around, and said with some trepidation: "That's right, Mr. Zhan, in the morning, didn't you ask me, 'Is the order of the drawers of the medicine bucket the same as the ones you placed before'?"

Zhan Zhao stroked his chin and nodded, "Didn't you say that you didn't change the order?"

Tong Huai'an looked ashamed: "No, no, that's right, I took a closer look later and found that a drawer had been replaced..."

Zhan Zhao was stunned: "What? Which one?"

"That's right, it's the opened drawer. It was originally placed on the left side of him. Now the left and right sides have been adjusted, because they are adjacent to each other! So, we didn't find out that he was replaced at first. After I got the location, I hurried back to the adults and said that the location has not changed..."

Zhan Zhao thought for a while and asked, "You mean, the position of the drawer that was opened alone was changed? I remember that the drawer contained angelica, peony root, and rhizoma chuanxiong, right?"

Tong Huai'an quickly nodded: "Master Zhan, we really didn't deliberately hide it from the report, that, this... won't punish us, will it?"

Zhan Zhao patted Tong Huai'an on the shoulder: "I didn't hide it deliberately, nothing will happen, you are too nervous, little brother?"

Tong Huaian let out a long sigh of relief, and said: "They still said that they should not ask you to report this matter again, so as not to be scolded by you, and it's just that the order is wrong, there is no problem...but the more I think about it, the more I don't like it. Well, even though it's a trivial matter, I still have to come and report to Mr. Zhan."

"Well, you did the right thing." Zhan Zhao paused, and then asked, "But are you sure that the order of the drawers hasn't been changed before your boss's accident? Could it be that someone of you accidentally changed it?" ?”

Tong Huai'an shook his head with certainty: "No, no, I've asked all the people in the store before I came here, and everyone said they haven't changed it."

"Could it be that your boss changed it himself?"

"That won't be the case. My boss is very particular about details, especially the medicine cabinet. It must be put back to the original place. He said that only by placing it in the same position can we ensure the accuracy of the medicine. In the past, we made mistakes, and he often talked about it. " Speaking of this, Tong Huai'an suddenly sighed, "Our boss was really a good person before he was alive, and we don't know who offended him, so why did he end up like this, alas!"

Zhan Zhao nodded and said, "I will definitely find out the truth and give your boss justice."

"Of course we believe in Kaifeng Mansion, and we also believe in Mr. Zhan!"

……

After Tong Huai'an left, Zhan Zhao picked up a branch, drew 49 grids on the ground in the shape of a medicine cabinet, then crossed the opened drawer, and circled the grid on his left. up.

Bai Yutang and Su Liran both stood up, but Zhan Zhao stared at the picture on the ground in a daze.

"According to Tong Huai'an, the person who switched the positions of the drawers should be the murderer, but why did the murderer switch the positions of the two drawers and open this drawer specifically? What is the purpose?"

"In the drawer are Angelica, Paeoniae Alba, Rhizoma Chuanxiong..."

"Danggui..." Su Liran thought for a while and said, "Cough, I remember that there is another name for Danggui, 'Xi Danggui'. In the past, people often called it 'Danggui Xi'..."

Zhan Zhao frowned: "Danggui West?"

"Hmm, what's up?"

"No, it just occurred to me that the murderer purposely opened the drawer of the medicine cabinet to tell us that 'angelia' means death?" Zhan Zhao pursed his lips when he said this, "But If this is the case, what is the purpose of deliberately changing the position of the drawer and filling the entire row with body parts?"

After hearing Zhan Zhao's words, Su Liran couldn't help frowning and said, "Arranging corpses to fill a whole row?"

Zhan Zhao was stunned, and then remembered that Su Liran hadn't been to the crime scene before, so he didn't know what happened. After thinking about it, he picked up a branch and drew a whole horizontal line on the grid in the middle: "En, The murderer dismembered the victim's body, and then filled the medicine drawers in this row with his body parts, what does Brother Su think the murderer's intention is?"

Su Liran looked seriously at the horizontal line that Zhan Zhao drew, and shook his head after a while.

Zhan Zhao sighed, looked at the grid on the ground, took a few steps back, then smacked his lips and said, "I always feel like I've seen similar shapes somewhere..."