Kaifeng Cat and Mouse Detective Manuscript

"It seems to be the entourage of Elder Li?"

Bai Yutang recalled the scene just now, the man had never moved around beside the coffin, his presence was minimal, he could only be the follower who came up at the beginning.

"Elder Li? Go out and have a look first." Zhan Zhao glanced around, the three elders and Yu Shaotian had already chased them out, leaving only the servant and the shivering maid in the yard.But his arm was so sore that he couldn't hold the sword for the time being, and it felt really uncomfortable to put it in his left hand. Bai Yutang saw him staring at the sword, and grabbed it directly from left to right, holding it with Zhanlu.

"How about the arm?"

Bai Yutang grabbed Zhan Zhao's wrist, rolled up the dark red sleeves, revealing his muscular arms, and further up, the skin on the outside of the arms had turned dark purple.

"Nothing", Zhan Zhao shook his head, saying nothing, but his right arm trembled slightly, which must have been in severe pain.

When the two caught up with the Tongtianmeng, the sneak attacker had already reached the top of a mountain on the other side of the river, with a cliff behind.

"Jumping off a cliff again?" Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao followed behind. Seeing Yu Shaotian come forward to negotiate with that person, they couldn't help complaining to Zhan Zhao, "Cat, do you know what is written in the script?"

"how to write?"

Mr. Zhan has always been upright and serious. Except for official documents and Confucius, he has never been very attached to the interpretation of other scripts in his daily life. Naturally, he doesn't know the meaning of Bai Yutang's words.

"It's said that after the hero jumps off the cliff, he usually picks up the elixir, practices martial arts, and then comes back to find someone to take revenge..." Bai Yutang said it with relish, and he almost set up a stage to perform directly.

"But there's a gravel road down here, you can see it when you look down." Zhan Zhao rolled his eyes and said.

"..." Bai Yutang was speechless, and decided to turn his attention to Yu Shaotian's group of people.

"Who are you, why did you attack Mr. Zhan?"

The assassin stood at the outermost edge of the cliff, unarmed, but under the siege of the crowd, he showed no signs of timidity, as if he had expected it long ago, which made Zhan Zhao a little puzzled.

Yu Shaotian stepped forward step by step with the support of his entourage, approaching slowly, looking very gentle.

"Me? Of course I don't want you to find out the murderer!" The man laughed, and continued to take a few steps back without panicking.

"The murderer! You know who it is!" Elder Li asked urgently.

"Of course I know, but you will never know." After finishing speaking, he glanced at everyone and jumped off the cliff. The people on the side were caught off guard. They didn't expect this person to jump off the cliff without any resistance, and they all raised their necks Look towards the bottom of the cliff.

"His grandma! You guys, go down and drag his stone body up!" Elder Li ordered a few followers to go down the mountain along the path, and then went around to check.

"Huh? Is this the end?" Bai Yutang held two swords in his arms, looking like he was watching a show, not enjoying himself.Zhan Zhao walked up to Elder Li, and because his right hand was inconvenient, he hung straight by his side, put one hand on his chest and waist, nodded to Elder Li and said, "Elder Li should no longer doubt that Elder Xu's death is still related to Bai Yutang. Why?"

"Looks like the watchman made a mistake last night, I'm sorry!" Elder Li was much older than Zhan Zhao, and couldn't help but apologize to Zhan Zhao, so he had to put all the responsibility on the watchman.

"So, if there is nothing to do, Zhan and Bai Yutang will leave first, Elder Li, the young leader."

"Master Zhan, walk slowly," Yu Shaotian said.

...............

"Don't move, watch the wound carefully."

"It's just a skin trauma and it's not a problem."

"Hey! I call you a cat!" Bai Yutang put down the medicine bottle, and lightly pressed his middle finger on Zhan Zhao's purple-blue arm.

"..." Zhan Zhao frowned and snorted.

"Look at you, you still say it's not in the way, and it's not bandaged outside, no one will see it, don't worry, I guarantee that you will not diminish your Nanxia majesty."

"I didn't mean that..." Zhan Zhao retorted.

"I know, I really don't know what you and I are still insisting on..." Seeing that Zhan Zhao no longer struggled, Bai Yutang took the cotton cloth that had been cut aside and carefully dipped it in the liquid medicine, rubbed it off little by little, and then slowly wrapped it up with white gauze .

"It's done!" Bai Yutang rolled up his sleeves, snapped his fingers, picked up the remaining potion and put it back on the desk for use tomorrow.

"Cuckoo..."

"What's the sound?" Zhan Zhao heard a suspected pigeon sound coming from outside the window when he was arranging the sleeve arrows.

"Pigeon?" Bai Yutang raised his head to identify it, and quickly walked to the window to set up a bamboo window, and a snow-white carrier pigeon flew in from outside.

"A carrier pigeon from Kaifeng Mansion?" Zhan Zhao looked at the letter tube on the pigeon's leg, looking very familiar.

"Could it be that Mr. Gongsun or Mr. Bao found something in Jinshui Town?" Bai Yutang unwrapped the string with one hand, and a small letter tube fell into the palm of his hand. Seeing that his mission had been delivered, the white pigeon flew out with a whimper of wings.

"What is written?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Bai Yutang unplugged it, and slowly unfolded the piece of rice paper, which was no bigger than a palm, "It's Mrs. Bao. She said that Mr. Gongsun has already returned with the ancient books, and Chao Mahan also left early in the morning."

"Is there a question about ancient books?"

"No", Bai Yutang shook his head, and handed the note to Zhan Zhao, who took it, glanced at it, and slowly tore it up.

"You and I changed Jiansui in the morning. Although Elder Li and his gang don't know about it, Yu Shaotian must have warned us. What do you plan to do next?"

In the farce in the morning, the watchman had chosen Jiansui correctly, but before Bai Yutang and the others came out, Zhan Zhao thought that the starlight in the manor was dim last night, and the only weapon that could be identified was the gray tassel on Zhanlu.So early this morning, Zhan Zhao took two swords and exchanged swordsui.Yu Shaotian had the guts to frame Bai Yutang, but he didn't have the guts to say Zhan Zhao's murderous words.

"The attendant who opened the coffin and wounded me should have been planned by Yu Shaotian. The next step is to wait for Wang Chao and his wife to arrive. Yu Yufei's funeral will take three days at the latest. If he travels faster, he can make it in time."

"There is no news about Tang Yu so far, and I don't know which mountain he went to," Bai Yutang sighed.

Just after lunch, Bai Yutang could hear the voices of people in the front yard gradually, presumably they were people who came to mourn the funeral, Zhan Zhao didn't like to provoke such excitement, so he hid in the room early.

"Cat..."

Bai Yutang was lying on the bed, wiping Zhanlu, but he felt extremely bored after a while, and when his eyes caught sight of the wall, he couldn't help leaning over and knocking a few times.

There is only one wall between him and Zhan Zhao's room, and the bed is on the same side. After he made a few clangs, Zhan Zhao just heard it there.

Not long after, when Bai Yutang was about to turn over and go to sleep, there was a clanging sound from the next door followed by an inaudible "Come here".