Kaifeng mansion's first drama

"There is nothing wrong with accusing me of a crime. Since you have determined that I am guilty, it makes no difference whether I say it or not." Pang Yuanqing lowered his eyes again, and this time he did not look at Pang Yuanying again.

"I didn't find you guilty, I just followed the evidence and arrested you according to the rules. Don't frame me, you are innocent in my heart, as white as a piece of paper." Pang Yuanying immediately explained.

Pang Yuanqing sneered, he didn't think Pang Yuanying's words were sincere, but he was still relieved,

"Slick tongue! If you believe it, how can you allow others to take me."

"Just believe in you, I am not afraid that they will take you. Just like when I was taken into the prison of Kaifeng Mansion, I was wronged. After all, I will find out and release it naturally. I know your innocence, since the evidence now points to you , Everyone still doubts, why don’t you just invite you here and explain the matter clearly, how wonderful! How straightforward!” Pang Yuanying shrugged innocently while talking, and complained that Pang Yuanqing didn’t understand her painstaking efforts and good intentions.

Only then did Pang Yuanqing look up at Pang Yuanying again, and asked him if he really thought so.Seeing that Pang Yuanying immediately nodded in agreement with himself, Pang Yuanqing's complexion became better.

Taishi Pang watched the conversation between the two children, and naturally questioned the authenticity of Pang Yuanying's words.However, since Pang Yuanqing believed it, it was hard for him to say anything else, and he had to watch it first before talking.

Pang Yuanying smiled with a good temper, leading Pang Yuanqing to prove his innocence.

"Actually, there is nothing to explain. I haven't been to the General's Mansion for a long time, and I don't know anything about the pigeon house. As for the guards, it's just like what my uncle said. As for the maid Chunyue, he made a mistake, and I sent someone to sell her away." .If you don’t believe me, I can ask my subordinates to come down and confront.”

"As for Li Fa, Li Yushi happened to be related to the Sanchong Pavilion case, but you were in contact with Li Fa at that time." Gongsun Ce interjected.

"Li Fa can testify that I am from the Sanchong Pavilion?" Pang Yuanqing asked back.

Gongsun Ce looked at Bao Zheng.

Bao Zheng: "We still need to verify this matter. If Mr. Qing really has nothing to do with this case, Mr. Bao will definitely investigate and return Mr. Qing's innocence."

Pang Yuanqing nodded slightly, responding politely to Bao Zheng.

Bao Zheng knew that with Pang Yuanqing's temperament, he would probably not have another confession, so he specially arranged for his subordinates to prepare a room for Pang Yuanqing to live in temporarily.The environment is of course better than a prison, but until the matter is clarified, they cannot go out.

"You let Mr. Qing be wronged." Bao Zheng said politely.

Pang Yuanqing twitched the corner of his mouth sarcastically, then cupped his hands to say goodbye to Bao Zheng, turned around and bowed heavily to Grand Master Pang.Before leaving, he gave Pang Yuanying a meaningful look, as if to say: If you dare to trick me this time, you will be my favorite!

Grand Master Pang immediately shouted Pang Yuanying away and spoke to him alone.

After Grand Master Pang took his seat, he drank tea, calmed down a little, and looked at his son standing in front of him with his head bowed and looking honest, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Pang Yuanying shrank her neck and waited for a while, but she didn't see Grand Master Pang throwing fire, so she thought the storm was over and she relaxed a little.All of a sudden, Grand Master Pang let out a roar of 'bastard', which made Pang Yuanying jump.

"Father? You don't doubt his identity? Before he came to the Grand Master's Mansion, you saw what he looked like? Once it really happened as Mr. Bao said, the real cousin was dropped by someone on the way to Beijing. It was replaced by the son of the owner of the Sanchong Pavilion. He secretly killed people like hemp and plotted against us..."

"Your cousin has the shadow of your second uncle, there can be no fault." Grand Master Pang scolded Pang Yuanying for acting recklessly, and didn't know to discuss it with him before arresting him.

"Father arranged for me to go to Kaifeng Mansion for training, because he hoped that I could handle things independently. If I rely on you for everything, wouldn't I violate your original intention and commit a crime of unfilial piety." Pang Yuanying softened his tone on purpose, This trick really worked well for Grand Master Pang, and made Grand Master Pang calm down a lot of anger immediately.

"I don't see you being smart in serious business, but now, you are smart in front of me." Grand Master Pang snorted coldly, warning Pang Yuanying that he must not let Pang Yuanqing get into trouble in Kaifeng Mansion, "He is your second uncle's only blood."

"If he is innocent, I will definitely send him out. If he is guilty, I will definitely not be able to save him, and I will not save him." Pang Yuanying replied comprehensively.

Grand Master Pang heard that Pang Yuanying's tone was unreasonably harsh, and he didn't give himself face, so his beard shook in anger.

"If the young master of the Triple Pavilion really lived under the old man's nose for many years without being discovered, the old man's decades of life will be in vain! Get your cousin out as soon as possible, he is not the person you are looking for!"

After Grand Master Pang left with a flick of his sleeve, Bai Yutang came over and patted Pang Yuanying on the shoulder to express his comfort.

"What do you think of my father's vision? He doesn't believe that my cousin is fake. Do you think I should believe it or not?" Pang Yuanying looked at Bai Yutang in confusion.

Bai Yutang thought about it carefully, then shook his head to express his ignorance, "The Sanchong Pavilion has always been cunning and treacherous, and the Pavilion Master is the most. With the ability of the Pavilion Master of the Sanchong Pavilion, his face will never be easily exposed, and he must be able to deceive The eyes of the vast majority of people. It is right for you to be cautious in doing things, so as not to slip through the net."

Pang Yuanying nodded.

"The dovecote is an important place for the Sanchong Pavilion to pass on news. Logically speaking, they shouldn't take the risk of setting it up in a place they can't control. If General Pang's mansion is not their territory, they just planted a few spies there. Isn’t it too hasty to set up such an important pigeon house there?” Gongsun Ce then analyzed his inner thoughts and told everyone, “With the cautious temperament of the owner of the Sanchong Pavilion, he must be ready for the next move. It does not rule out that we caught the right person, and he tried to get rid of the crime by continuing to pretend."

"If you're cautious, it's too obvious to use the general's mansion as a pigeon house, and it will directly implicate Pang Yuanqing." Zhan Zhao felt that there was something strange about it.

"Based on his age, Pang Yuanqing must not be the owner of the Sanchong Pavilion that we want to arrest. He was only eight years old ten years ago, and he would not be able to do those murderous and vicious things. He is most likely to be the son of the pavilion owner, or the third. The cabinet carefully selected the spies who were placed in the official family, so that the Sanchong Pavilion could plan big things in the future."

Everyone continued to discuss, and still felt that there were many possibilities, and it was difficult to draw a unique conclusion.

"To put it bluntly, there is still a lack of hard evidence." Pang Yuanying sighed.

"Now that we have clues, we're not afraid that we won't be able to find out. Don't be too anxious." Bao Zheng said, "There are Jiang Wenliang and others in Bazhou who can be tried. General Di has arrested the traitor in Bazhou, and there will be news in a few days. Everyone The more critical it is, the more stable it is."

Everyone agreed to Bao Zheng's words.

At this time, a small official sent word that a boss Wang asked to see him, saying that he had something important to hand over to Mr. Bao, about Mao Sheng, the inspector of the right army.

Zhan Zhao and Gongsun Ce immediately met the king, and after verifying his identity and situation, they brought him to see Bao Zheng.

Boss Wang had been helped by Mao Sheng and had saved his life.Because of the speculative chat, the two gradually became close friends.This time Boss Wang came back from doing business and heard that Mao Sheng committed suicide by taking poison, so he came here specially to deliver a letter that Mao Sheng had ordered before his death.

"About half a year ago, Mao Sheng came to me and told me that if he had any accidents in the future, he asked me to deliver this letter to Mr. Bao." Boss Wang explained.

Bao Zheng saw that the letter had been sealed with wax, and asked Boss Wang if he knew the contents of the letter.

"How dare you look at the entrustment of life and friendship." Boss Wang left afterward.

After Bao Zheng browsed the contents of the letter, he passed the letter to Gongsun Ce.Gongsun Ce carefully identified the handwriting on the letter, nodded to Bao Zheng, and confirmed that the handwriting was from Mao Sheng.

In the letter, Mao Sheng sincerely apologized to Bao Zheng, explaining how he had to become a spy of Sanchong Pavilion.Sanchongge threatened the lives of his wife and children to force him to submit.He knew that sooner or later he would be exposed and lost his life, so he prepared this letter of apology in advance, and secretly informed Bao Zheng of the clues he knew about the Sanchong Pavilion.

In the letter, Mao Sheng revealed that once he met his connector, he quietly followed him to the Temple of the City God, where he met another man with a respectful attitude, and called him the master of the pavilion.Then he followed this person and saw him enter the Grand Master's Mansion with his own eyes, and this man was none other than Master Qing of the Grand Master's Mansion.

"Sure enough, as we deliberated before, Pang Yuanqing inherited the position of pavilion master. No wonder in recent years, Sanchong Pavilion has focused on the court and become more ambitious. It is because of the change of owner." Gongsun Ce asked.

Bao Zheng frowned fiercely.

Pang Yuanying couldn't bear it anymore, and asked Pang Yuanqing for verification with Mao Sheng's letter.

"You are the owner of the triple pavilion?"

Pang Yuanqing had a gloomy face. After listening to Pang Yuanying's questioning, he glanced at Mao Sheng's letter and asked, "Is the words of the dead so credible? I don't know Mao Sheng at all, and I don't know about Sanchongge."

"Then why is there so much evidence pointing to you?" Pang Yuanying retorted.

"I don't know, maybe someone deliberately tried to divert your attention." Pang Yuanqing asked Pang Yuanying whether he believed him or not.

Pang Yuanying was stunned for a moment, and ran out without saying a word.

Bai Yutang followed Pang Yuanying to General Pang's mansion.

"What else is there to investigate? I heard that Mao Sheng's letter testifies that your cousin is the murderer?"

After Pang Yuanqing entered the general's mansion, he dyed the wings of the pigeons in the cage of the pigeon house with cinnabar, and then ordered people to take them out of the city and let them fly.

In the evening, Pang Yuanqing came to the pigeon house again, and it was empty.

In the evening, when Pang Yuanying came back, she found that Jiang Ping was sitting in her room, flipping through the secret book of practice written by Taoist Zhang in private.On it were some magic tricks summed up by Taoist Zhang himself. After Zhang Taoshi's case was over, Pang Yuanying kept this booklet for research.

"There is a very interesting name called 'If you can't bear the child, you can't catch the wolf'. If you can bear the child, you will be able to change your luck against the sky. The purple energy is here? I think it's almost like a devil possessing it. You can watch such evil things, what will you do if you bring my Yutang back home?"

Jiang Ping hooked Bai Yutang's shoulders to 'protect' him, but Bai Yutang pushed him away with a look of disgust.

On the fifteenth day of the next day, Mrs. Taishi will go to the temple to offer incense.Zheng specifically asked Pang Yuanying to accompany her.

"I used to be your cousin, come here with me." Zheng sighed.

Pang Yuanying knew what his mother meant, and assured him that as long as Pang Yuanqing was innocent, he would definitely send him home safely.

"Mother naturally believes in you."

After Mrs. Zheng offered incense, she took Pang Yuanqing to meet the host.On the way, I heard that Mrs. Song Guogong was also here, so I went to the guest room to find her and make a companion with her.Not wanting that the people of Song Guogong's mansion were not in the room, Mrs. Zheng went by herself.Pang Yuanying was bored waiting outside, so she wandered around. Later, she heard crying faintly, and followed the sound to a remote small hall, where she heard a woman crying loudly, shouting sorry for her daughter.

Seeing that there were people guarding outside the hall, Pang Yuanying hid behind a tree. After a while, Mrs. Song Guogong came out of the hall with red eyes.After the people left, Pang Yuanying entered the hall, and the enshrined on the case was the spirit tablet of Wang Jingwan, the eldest lady of the Duke's Mansion.

After Zheng's ceremony to the Buddha, he met with Mrs. Song Guogong.When Pang Yuanying saw her at this time, she already had a dignified appearance, not at all the embarrassment she had when she cried bitterly to pay homage to her daughter.

Coincidentally, Wang Ziyun also came with his mother. After seeing Pang Yuanying, he was very excited and asked him to talk in private.

"I have to thank you for the matter of Xianwan last time."

"Come on, you don't have to keep doing this, it's too polite." Pang Yuanying asked Wang Ziyun how the past two days were, and whether he was still grounded by his father.

"Don't mention it, I just took advantage of today to come out to breathe."

"It stands to reason that you are your father's youngest son, so you should be favored." Pang Yuanying responded with sympathy.

Wang Ziyun: "You are really right. Dad loves me the most, but it was before I was ten years old. Later, it didn't work. He taught us brothers harshly and treated us equally! Fortunately, my father has not been close to women these years. , Get rid of all those concubines, otherwise you will add younger brothers and sisters to suffer, how pitiful it is."

"If you make a mistake, just ask your mother to intercede, that's what I do." Pang Yuanying said for help.

"Come on, sometimes they can't say a word for ten days and a half months. That's fine, don't talk anymore, I won't make my mother anxious, see you later." Wang Ziyun waved to Pang Yuanying and said goodbye.

After returning to Beijing, Pang Yuanying went to the general's mansion and saw that the pigeon house was still empty.

On the third day, news came from Bazhou that Jiang Wenliang confessed and confessed his identity as Sanchongge.At the same time, he also admitted that the "prince" he talked about with Zhou Ziyu in Bazhou back then was referring to Li Yushi.

"Then can you tell who the pavilion master is?" Zhan Zhao asked hastily.

Gongsun Ce read the letter in surprise: "The owner of the pavilion is the son, Li Yushi? Unexpectedly, the real boss pretended to be a buddy!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard the words, and immediately realized that something was wrong.Bao Zheng immediately ordered Zhan Zhao to go to Dali Temple to bring him back.

Pang Yuanying: "Isn't Li Yushi in Kaifeng Mansion?"

"After the confession, he will be handed over to Dali Temple for disposal as usual." Gongsun Ce replied.

Not long after, Zhan Zhao sent Ma Han to report, "The day before yesterday, the emperor sent Li Yushi to Fuzhou, and he left Beijing yesterday. Zhan's guards have already led people to chase after him."

"I hope there will be no accidents." Gongsun Ce said worriedly.

Pang Yuanying immediately went to Yushi's mansion and found that there were many pigeons in the southeast corner of the backyard of Yushi's mansion, and all of them had traces of being dyed red on their wings.Pang Yuanying immediately noticed that the floor tiles here were all newly laid.Lift the floor tiles and look again, there are a lot of pigeon droppings in the soil.This imperial censor's mansion is the real location of the dovecote.

The six pigeons used to locate the general's mansion before were deliberately faked.

Raising six pigeons is actually not difficult. The general's mansion is empty and there are no people there, so it is very suitable and not eye-catching.

If you encounter danger in the future, you only need to catch the six matured pigeons and put them away in Yushi's mansion, and take them away when Kaifeng mansion searches.Then wait for Kaifeng Mansion to use these six pigeons to locate the fake pigeon house, and the matter will be done.

It seems that Sanchong Pavilion has long been prepared for the problem of the pigeon house, and it will play this second hand in times of crisis.

"It seems that your cousin was really wronged." Bai Yutang sighed at the thieves in the triple pavilion.

News came from Kaifeng Mansion that the soldiers and horses escorting Li Yushi were hijacked halfway.

All the officers and soldiers escorted died, and Li Yushi was missing.

"The pigeons used to determine the location of the dovecote were found from Yushi's mansion, and he deliberately set us up to divert our attention to Pang Yuanqing, giving him a chance to escape."

Pang Yuanying re-examined the evidence collected from Yushifu, and one thing caught his attention.

When searching the house before, in the dark compartment of Li Yushi's study, I found a wooden box containing a stack of prescriptions.There are more than 50 sheets of paper used to write the prescriptions, and the prescriptions are also slightly different. With wolfberry, yam, Codonopsis and so on.

"No matter how you look at it, these are just prescriptions, and they shouldn't be of much use to the case."

Bai Yutang recognized one of the yellowed papers as the lotus paper that was once popular 30 years ago.

Lotus paper was a unique and secret product of a paper workshop in Yizhou at that time. It is said that it was specially made from lotus flowers and animal skins.Half a year later, due to the sudden death of the paper maker, this kind of paper has never been produced again, and the price of lotus paper has risen in the market, and it has become a treasure.

"It means that this recipe started 30 years ago." Pang Yuanying asked suddenly, "How old is Li Yushi's youngest child?"

"The youngest is a six-year-old daughter born to my concubine Liu. There is also an eight-year-old son born to my concubine Sun." Bai Yutang continued to answer from memory.

Pang Yuanying went to see Li Yushi's concubine Liu Shi.

"Li Yushi is dead, tell me the truth, who is your daughter's father?"

Mrs. Liu looked at Pang Yuanying puzzled, not understanding the meaning of his question, "My lord, I live in the backyard of Li's mansion as a woman, and I don't walk out of the gate, and there are many maids and women around me. Who else can I have children?" Of course it belongs to Li Yushi! My lord, although I am a family member of a guilty minister, I hope you will not insult my innocence!"

As Liu said, she burst into tears of grievance.

Pang Yuanying then asked another concubine, Sun, and got the same result.

Bai Yutang couldn't stand the woman's weeping and crying, so he asked Pang Yuanying strangely, why did he go out of his way to provoke these women.

"Li Yushi lied. The case of the pigeon house is the most direct evidence. Also, he plotted against you before, made things difficult for Mr. Bao, and also targeted me and my father. It is obvious that he has spared no effort to eradicate us. It's like being coerced into doing it."

"So Jiang Wenliang didn't lie, he is the owner of the Sanchong Pavilion?"

"Do you think Jiang Wenliang made a confession too quickly? The owner of the Sanchong Pavilion knew that we would investigate him in Kaifeng, would he have taken precautions? Since ancient times, generals have always charged into positions. There is no reason for the lord to do it himself. Jiang Wenliang is The loyal minions rushing forward, and the one who hides behind him and makes him really serve is the real pavilion master." Pang Yuanying pinched the prescription in her hand, and said to Bai Yutang, "The owner of this prescription is very similar."

"It's a pity that I don't know who it is." Bai Yutang hated the owner of the Sanchong Pavilion for being too cunning, and wondered how many people worked for him.Immediately, he saw Pang Yuanying was in a daze and asked him what was wrong.

Pang Yuanying was dumbfounded: "I seem to know who it is."