Kaifeng Bistro

Busily preparing the meal, Tan Zhifeng suddenly remembered something important - Bo's black eye was still at the entrance of the alley, although, after defeating Bo in the ring last time, he noticed that the thing had obviously faded But to be on the safe side, he still wants to tell Zhan Zhao that when he brings people to search the cellar tonight, it's best not to pass by there.

Yiyi and Zhuozhuo were busy collecting bills and entertaining guests, Tan Zhifeng asked Shangshang: "Do you want to go out for a walk?"

"Yamen? I don't want to go." After hearing Tan Zhifeng's destination, Shangshang shrank back against the wall with her lips pursed.

"It's okay, go and see Brother Zhan." Tan Zhifeng comforted him.Only then did Shangshang regain his energy, and left the tavern after Tan Zhifeng.

Kaifeng Fuya is located near Zhouqiao, not far north of Maijiao Lane, west of Junyi Bridge.Tan Zhifeng walked not far along the imperial street, and saw a solemn, vermilion towering gate in the distance. There were two huge stone lions on the left and one right in front of the gate, and the well-known "Drum of Injustice" was erected in Kaifeng. , Changshang curiously wanted to step forward to pat him, but Tan Zhifeng quickly dragged him back.

"What are you doing?!" The two tall guards at the door yelled coldly, "That drum hasn't been used for a long time. If you have a grievance, write a complaint and hand it in!"

"We're not here to sue, we're here to find someone." Tan Zhifeng didn't know if Zhan Zhao was in Kaifeng Mansion, and he was a little anxious. If he couldn't find anyone here, Zhan Zhao would bring his dynasty Ma Han with him. The group of four entered directly from the alley, so what should we do?

He was thinking about whether to spend some money to bribe the two guards, when the voice of Dynasty suddenly came from behind him: "Treasurer Tan!"

Tan Zhifeng looked back and saw that it was Chao Dynasty and another shorter guard. Seeing him, Tan Zhifeng felt more at ease, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet each other with him, and said: "I'm here to find Brother Zhan, but he is here Fuchu?"

"Oh, Lord Zhan, he's here. I'm going to deliver a message for you." Wang Chao said, took a step, and walked in quickly. After taking two steps, he turned back and said to Tan Zhifeng: "I heard You found your brother? Congratulations!"

"What?" Tan Zhifeng and Shangshang asked in unison.Wang Chao was taken aback, and frowned wonderingly: "Master Zhan didn't tell you? It's Xu Gan! Master Zhan checked for a long time that day, and found that Xu Gan was the child that Xu Tiejiang and his wife bought from Ren Yazi. Ren Yazi Yazi was later arrested and imprisoned, and his confessions were checked, but he sold three or four children into Kaifeng at a time, and he couldn't remember the origin of each one, and he died of illness in the prison within two days... It was a case almost 20 years ago, Master Zhan will come out later, you can just ask him."

Tan Zhifeng was stunned at the gate of the government office, and he didn't recover until Zhan Zhao appeared.The voice of Dynasty in his mind kept echoing "Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations"...

When Zhan Zhao, who came out of Kaifeng Mansion, saw Tan Zhifeng's appearance, he thought he was over-excited and couldn't believe it.So, he stepped forward, patted Tan Zhifeng on the shoulder and called him, "Zhifeng..."

Tan Zhifeng came back to his senses, and saw Zhan Zhao showing a warm smile to him, and said, "I wanted to tell you in two days, but it seems that people are not as good as God, so I let you know in advance."

After finishing speaking, he sighed: "Unexpectedly, there is such a coincidence in the world!"

Tan Zhifeng felt the same way, he stammered: "Since you, Brother Zhan, you found out, why do you have to tell me in a few days?"

"This..." Zhan Zhao said: "After all, we haven't found out exactly what happened to Zhang Shanchu's death, so... His suspicion cannot be completely ruled out from Mr. Bao. I'm afraid you know he is your elder brother. Don't worry about him anymore..."

He paused for a while and continued: "In short, it's best to find out the truth of the matter as soon as possible."

Tan Zhifeng didn't have time to digest the fact that he and Xu Gan became brothers, he firmly remembered his purpose of coming to Kaifeng Mansion, and before he forgot, he hurriedly said to Zhan Zhao: "By the way, Brother Zhan, tell me, that Xi... is that , The guy who sneaked into Kaifeng, he knows black magic. After I went back, I thought about it carefully. The night he rode his horse to kill Xu Gan, at the entrance of the alley, he seemed to have drawn some kind of spell or something. Yes, it surprised us all, so don't come in through the alley tonight."

"That's easy." Zhan Zhao nodded, "Your tavern is at the end of Wheatstraw Lane, and we'll go over the wall from the side."

"The cabbage that my mother worked so hard to move in!" Fortunately, it started to snow again that night. There were not many people at first, and they left one after another as soon as Xu Shi passed.

Zhan Zhao brought Wang Chao and Ma Han to Tan Zhifeng's shop. Tan Zhifeng has been in a state of despair since he came back, and Yi Yi and Zhuo Zhuo ignored him. At this moment, they and Zhan Zhao's people opened the cellar door together. Move out the cabbage one by one.

Half an hour later, the cellar was empty, and the voices of Zhan Zhao talking with the other two came from below.

"It seems to be here!" Zhan Zhao's voice sounded dull in the small space: "There is a hidden space."

Tan Zhifeng and the others poked their heads in curiously, and vaguely saw Zhan Zhao prying a small wooden door by the wall with a knife. After a while, the door creaked and opened.

Tan Zhifeng stood up and boiled water to prepare tea for them, and prepared some supper by the way.Not long after, the three people below climbed up. They were half cold, half excited, and their bodies were trembling slightly.Zhan Zhao walked up to Tan Zhifeng, holding a worn cloth bag in his hand.

"That's it." Zhan Zhao's dark eyes twinkled, "I found it."

Tan Zhifeng brought over the tea and snacks, Zhan Zhao and the other two sat at the table, the cloth bag had already been opened, obviously Zhan Zhao had simply flipped through it when he was down there.Chao Mahan couldn't read very well, so Zhan Zhao called Tan Zhifeng: "Zhifeng, come and help me read and write."

Tan Zhifeng put down the tray, the other two exhaled, and ate the sand cake that Tan Zhifeng brought, Ma Han said one by one: "Shopkeeper, let's have a warm bowl, do you have mutton soup? It's very cold, I need a drink A bowl to get rid of the cold."

Tan Zhifeng was flipping through the two volumes of the manuscript that Zhan Zhao gave him. Zhang Shanchu's handwriting was very beautiful, even a bit graceful.What he held in his hand was the last two chapters of "Tiejiang Wang" that he hadn't had time to give to the bookstore.

When Ma Han yelled, Tan Zhifeng put down his book and went to warm up the mutton soup for them.After thinking for a while, he put the pancakes baked today into the clay oven to heat up, and took them out together.

"He didn't marry an oiran?!" Zhuo Zhuo and Yi Yi flipped through the book Tan Zhifeng put on the table together: "What a waste of my mother's feelings!"

"Hmph, what do you know? It's for the good of Ah Liu. He went to battle to kill the enemy, and he might die one day. Do you understand, do you want a young woman to guard him for the rest of his life?" Yi Yi watched with relish, " Turn quickly, you are really slow to read!"

"What is this?" Turning to the last page, the two said in unison.

There is a thin piece of paper sandwiched between the last two pages of the book. The handwriting seems to be different from the previous ones. The writing is a bit scribbled and hasty.

Zhan Zhao took it and read in a low voice: "The wind blows from the south, blowing the thorny heart..."

"Oh? Wrong." Yi Yi said: "This is the beginning of the oil seller's words."

"What do you mean?" Zhuo Zhuo frowned, "I don't understand."

Zhan Zhao continued to look down, the piece of paper was longer than the paper in the scroll, he looked carefully, the hand holding the edge of the paper unconsciously exerted force, the protruding knuckles looked a little blue.

After reading it, he let out a long and exhausted breath: "That's great..."

Wang Chao and Ma Han stared wide-eyed, and even Tan Zhifeng held his breath nervously behind the counter.

"This is what we're looking for." Zhan Zhao's voice trembled a little: "Xu Yan is right, Zhang Shanchu is really smart, those two soldiers are no longer in Yingchang Mansion, they, not only them, but also Lu Zheng and General Lu also fled back, but the court situation is unknown, they covered General Lu and went back to General Lu’s hometown, Wenshui, Taiyuan, East Road! If nothing happens, they should still be there.”

"That's true?!" Ma Han slapped the table excitedly: "What are we waiting for, go back and report to Mr. Bao!"

"Okay." Zhan Zhao nodded, and put away his things, especially the last piece of paper, which he carefully put into his close-fitting clothes.Wang Chao and Ma Han were very satisfied with the Hubing mutton soup served by Tan Zhifeng. Although they were on a business trip, they went to the cashier to pay the bill before leaving.

Just as Zhan Zhao was about to go out, he suddenly raised his hand and made a silent gesture.He pulled the curtain vigilantly, glanced outside, and stepped back in two steps: "Don't talk anymore. There are people outside."

Tan Zhifeng's first feeling was that Bo came to the door, but when he touched the water droplets on his neck, nothing happened.He breathed a sigh of relief, but he also realized that it might be Bo's annoying yellow snake. The yellow snake has limited mana, but his spiritual power is even more limited. I don't know if he can handle it.

Zhan Zhao gave Wang Chao Ma Han a few instructions, they nodded, picked up the cloth bags, put their shoulders on their shoulders, opened the curtain and walked out: "Oh, it's quite cold today..."

Zhan Zhao said to Tan Zhifeng: "Zhifeng, you go and close the door now, pretend to be closed, don't close the door tightly."

Tan Zhifeng didn't know what was going on, and asked, "Brother Zhan, you..."

"Maybe we can kill two birds with one stone today." Zhan Zhao glanced outside the door out of the corner of his eye. "Don't worry. It's a thief. I'm more than enough to deal with him alone. He's timid. We're going to lure him in. You just have to watch from the sidelines."

Tan Zhifeng looked at Zhuo Zhuo, Zhuo Zhuo yawned and walked towards the door, shouting exaggeratedly: "Ah, it's closed!"

After finishing speaking, she closed the door and ran back to Zhan Zhao: "Is this possible?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, looked back at the burning candles on the counter, and said after a while, "Turn off the lights."

A few people started to blow out the dim lamps in the store without knowing it, and finally only an oil lamp was left in Tan Zhifeng's hand.Tan Zhifeng held it carefully around the pile of cabbage and touched it. Five people gathered together, Zhan Zhao turned his head and blew gently, and the lamp in Tan Zhifeng's hand was also extinguished.

Now, the surroundings are dark, only the faint moonlight cast from the small window in the back kitchen.They sat by the stove and waited anxiously, not knowing who was coming.

Tan Zhifeng knew that they hadn't waited long, but it felt like an hour had passed.Zhuo Zhuo couldn't sit still any longer, and started to kick Yi Yi's feet: "Move away, big fool!"

Yi Yi ignored him, but Zhan Zhao retreated to Tan Zhifeng's side, giving way to Zhuo Zhuo.