Dragon Pattern Roll Set

In the afternoon of that day, news spread that Zhan Zhao and others were ordered to study in the Imperial Academy.

In fact, only people from Kaifeng Mansion and Taixue know about the ghost-masked man and Yin-Yang Temple.The master of Taixue ordered all the students not to go out and talk nonsense, so in today's Kaifeng mansion, there is no news about the ghost-masked man.

Ever since, the people of Kaifeng Mansion were very curious, why did Zhao Zhen order Zhan Zhao and the others to study?It was so much fun!

In the afternoon, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang arrived at the academy first. Of course, they were not here to pick up the Four Treasures of the Study or the student robes, but to check on Liang Youdao's suicide case.

Liang Youdao's body had been taken down by the teachers and students who rushed in to rescue him, and a white silk sash was hanging above the beam.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at Liang Youdao, who was lying on the door panel with his body covered by a white cloth, and couldn't help frowning—a gentle and gentle wife.

Gongsun inspected the silk tape and the stool lying aside from the beam, and then inspected Liang Youdao's body. Finally, he stood up and shook his head, "There is no trace of homicide."

"So, did he commit suicide?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Gongsun nodded, "That's right."

As a classmate of Master Bao and the Eighth Prince, Master Liang is not too young.

Zhan Zhao folded his arms and looked at it, a little puzzled - at this age, he should see through everything, why is he so overwhelmed and wants to commit suicide?

Bai Yutang found a piece of white paper pressed by a paperweight by the desk, and beckoned to Zhan Zhao, "Cat."

Zhan Zhao walked to the desk and looked down.

I saw that nothing was written on the white paper, but there was ground ink in the inkstone. Although it had dried, the brush was standing beside the inkstone, as if it was ready to write.What made Zhan Zhao even more concerned was that beside the empty white paper, there was an envelope that had already been written, on which was written——by Xiren himself.

Zhan Zhao picked up the envelope and frowned slightly. Looking at the situation on the desk, it seemed that Liang Youdao was about to write a letter to Mr. Bao. He climbed up the stool and hanged himself from the beam, and died.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, feeling very strange.

"Gongsun." Seeing Gongsun tilting his head, Zhan Zhao asked, "Did Liang Youdao really commit suicide?"

This time, Gongsun didn't jump up like before and say that someone questioned his medical skills, because he himself felt that something was wrong at the moment, so he climbed up on the stool, looked at it carefully, and turned the corpse over for inspection. After a long time, he frowned and raised his head, "He really committed suicide, and look at his fingers."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked over and squatted down to look, and saw some dried-up ink stains on the fingers of Liang Youdao's right hand.

Bai Yutang showed Zhan Zhao and Gongsun the ink brush that had also dried up, and saw a long ink stain on the pen barrel, which disappeared when it reached the middle of the pen barrel, as if it was blocked by a finger.

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, and said, "Liang Youdao seems to have hesitated for a while holding the pen, so some ink flowed down the barrel of the pen and got onto his fingers."

"So, the reasonable explanation is." Gongsun said, "Liang Youdao originally wanted to write a letter to Mr. Bao and then commit suicide, but after he finished the envelope, he hesitated for a while, and in the end he didn't write the letter, but committed suicide by hanging himself. gone?"

"Or..." Bai Yutang looked at the desktop, "The letter that was originally written was taken away, leaving a blank sheet of paper and an envelope?"

Both Zhan Zhao and Gongsun frowned - it's not impossible!

Full of doubts, everyone brought Liang Youdao's body back to Kaifeng Mansion, and Gongsun carried out an autopsy on him and the little ruffian A Dong who died yesterday.

Zhan Zhao went to Mr. Bao's study and briefly explained the matter. Mr. Bao was in a daze with the envelope.

When Zhan Zhao returned to the door of Wu Zuo's room, Gongsun was standing outside Wu Zuo's room, tilting his head, squinting his eyes with a green vegetable leaf in his hand, asking about the lady who was cooking in the kitchen.

The aunt bluffed and said, "This is not a leek or a green onion, this is a garlic leaf!"

"Garlic leaves..." Gongsun frowned, "No wonder there is a smell."

Zhan Zhao walked over and asked, "What's the matter, Gongsun?"

"Oh." Gongsun said, "A Dong has something strange in his stomach."

"What?" Zhan Zhao was curious,

"Garlic leaves and squid." Gongsun said.

Zhan Zhao blinked, "Garlic leaves and squid? What dish? Stir-fried squid with garlic leaves?"

"Is there such a dish?" Gongsun asked.

"Hmm... I guess there are heavy mouthfuls, and it will smell fishy, ​​so it depends on which cook does it." Zhan Zhao said, leaned over to smell it, and then rubbed his nose thoughtfully.

"What's wrong?" Gongsun was curious.

"I can't tell, the smell is so familiar, I seem to have smelled it there before." Zhan Zhao stroked his chin, "At least it's a clue."

Gongsun then went back to do the autopsy, Zhan Zhao turned around twice, and wanted to find Bai Yutang to find out where A Dong had been before he died, but after turning around a few times, he found that Bai Yutang had disappeared.

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled, he found the outside of the yard from the yard, and bumped into Chen Xing'er and Yue Ya'er who were doing laundry while humming a little tune.

Zhan Zhao asked, Yue Ya'er was helpless, saying that just now the clerk from Taibaiju came to say that Tianzun seemed to have gotten into trouble, and the young master probably ran to prepare to lose money.

Zhan Zhao was curious, "What trouble did Tianzun get into?"

Yue Ya'er spread her hands, "I don't know about that." Seeing that Zhan Zhao was a little worried, Chen Xing'er waved his hand, "Master Zhan, this happens often, it's okay, the young master will take care of it."

After finishing speaking, the two girls were busy again. After much deliberation, Zhan Zhao went out and walked all the way in the direction of Taibai Residence.

After walking a few steps, Zhan Zhao suddenly turned his head, as if someone was staring at him, but after feeling it again, that prying gaze seemed to disappear.Zhan Zhao frowned, and continued walking... Was someone staring at him?Or is someone staring at Kaifeng Mansion?

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Speaking of which, what trouble did Tianzun get into?

Just now when Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao returned to Kaifeng Mansion, Zhan Zhao went to Mr. Bao's study, and as soon as Bai Yutang sat down to drink, a young man who was very familiar with Taibaiju came to Bai Yutang, saying that they saw Tianzun At the door of a tea shop near Taibai Residence, I was stopped by many people. Those people didn't look like local ruffians, they were ordinary people. They didn't know what happened and seemed to be having some disputes.

Bai Yutang ran out in a hurry... It would be better if the people blocking Tianzun were local ruffians, at worst Tianzun would beat them up, but if they were ordinary people who didn't know kung fu at all, it would be troublesome, Tianzun didn't know how to deal with it.

Sure enough, when Bai Yutang ran to the gate of Taibai Residence, he saw many people surrounded him. Tianzun was sitting on the roof holding his knees and sulking, while many people below pointed and pointed, and some of them were still cursing.

Bai Yutang just frowned, jumped onto the roof, and gave the scolding crowd a warning look... probably because the look was too intimidating, the young people who spoke rudely all shut up.

Most people in Kaifeng Mansion knew Bai Yutang. Of course, Tianzun was relatively low-key, and people were often away from Kaifeng, so most people still didn't know him.

Seeing Bai Yutang coming, many onlookers whispered - that means, why is Fifth Master Bai here.

Bai Yutang walked up to Tianzun, knelt down to look at him.

I saw Tianzun holding his knees unhappy.

"What's wrong?" Bai Yutang asked.

Tianzun glanced down.

Bai Yutang walked to the eaves.

I saw that the roof where Tianzun is located is indeed the roof of a tea shop, and the people below should be tea drinkers and tea shop assistants.And the ones who clashed with Tianzun seemed to be a group of people, like passing merchants. The leader was quite gentle, like a Confucian merchant, but his subordinates were less polite. Among them were a few vicious men with swords.

The clerk at the tea shop hurriedly stopped a few merchants who were still dissatisfied, and asked Bai Yutang with a smile, "Oh my fifth master, isn't it possible that he is a close friend of that foreigner's son?"

Bai Yutang was stunned for a moment before he realized that Tianzun was a son of a foreign race, probably because of his gray hair at such a young age.

"He is my master." Bai Yutang said coldly.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then looked at each other in blank dismay. Everyone in the world knows some martial arts, or if they don't know martial arts but have heard about Jianghu, who doesn't know that Bai Yutang's master is the number one Heavenly Venerable in the world, but the old man should be over 100 years old. , why are you so young...

Seeing the group of people below opened their mouths wide, Bai Yutang frowned, "Who can explain to me?"

"Uh, that's what happened." A waiter at the tea shop said, "Just now... uh, your master passed by the tea shop and robbed these customers."

Several merchants had pale faces and were quite dissatisfied, but at this time, some good things had been explained to them. The young man in white had a lot of background, and it was Bai Yutang, and the white-haired one who was emotional was the famous Tianzun.

A few of them were also puzzled—is this Tianzun who is number one in martial arts in the world?Why is it like a doormat?Thought it was a fool.

Bai Yutang was confused when he heard that, Tianzun stealing other people's things?

He looked back at Tianzun, and saw that he was still sitting there.

Bai Yutang was a little puzzled, and asked a few merchants, "What did he rob you of?"

One of the businessmen looked very gentle, and seemed to belong to the big shopkeeper, and he bowed his hands to Bai Yutang, "Bai Wuye, I have known you for a long time, we are tea merchants from Hangzhou, and we came to Kaifeng to do tea business. Let's rest our feet. That... the senior walked past us, but suddenly turned back, stretched out his hand and took away the bag we put on the table. The bag contained the money we earned from selling tea, and we asked him for it. He didn’t give it back, and ran to the roof to hide.”

The clerk at the tea shop was also helpless, "We thought it was a robbery of money, and we are going to report to the official!"

Bai Yutang probably understood after listening, so he went to Tianzun and sat down to look at him, and asked, "Master?"

Tianzun took out a burden from behind and handed it to Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang took the bundle and opened it to have a look, only to see that there was a lot of money and banknotes inside.

Bai Yutang looked at Tianzun in puzzlement, Bai Yutang's natural way Tianzun would not steal people's money for no reason, there should be a reason?

Tianzun pointed to his nose, narrowed his eyes, "It's the same taste!"

Bai Yutang was puzzled, "What's the smell?" He also knew that Tianzun, like Zhan Zhao, had a particularly sharp nose.

Tianzun pointed to Yinzi and said, "That ghost-masked man smelled like that last night."

Bai Yutang was slightly taken aback, picked up the bag and smelled it, and there seemed to be a very special fishy smell.

Just as he was wondering, a head leaned over to the side, put his nose close to Yinzi and smelled it, then touched his nose and raised his head, "Hmm...it's a bit like it, I was wondering what it smelled like last night, a smell of garlic leaves and squid fishy smell."

"Yeah!" Tianzun nodded.

Bai Yutang looked at the other side speechlessly, and Zhan Zhao who didn't know when came over was thinking about the smell, and sure enough... his nose was as sensitive as that of Tianzun.

"Boy Pang Yu also has it." Tianzun muttered, "Then the little ruffian you brought in just now also had it."

Bai Yutang finally understands. In the past, Tianzun would at least run away if he got into trouble, and then let himself deal with it. But this time, he squatted on the roof and was scolded and couldn't fight back. He was probably afraid of running away and those merchants left. No leads.

Bai Yutang was a little angry. On the one hand, he felt sorry for Tianzun being scolded for nothing. This person is over 100 years old, and he was scolded by a few brats.But it was a misunderstanding again, and he didn't mean it, so he held his breath and glared at Tianzun, which meant - there was no place to vent his anger!

Tianzun felt that Bai Yutang's expression was quite funny, he wasn't very angry at first, and it was a good thing that he could help.

Zhan Zhao reached out to take the bag of money and jumped off the roof.

Several merchants wanted to reach out to pick it up, Zhan Zhao hid the burden behind his back and asked, "Where did you get this money from?"

Several merchants were furious, "I said, why are your officials in Kaifeng like this? We are serious businessmen!"

Zhan Zhao waved his hand and asked, "Leave that aside, have you eaten fried squid with garlic leaves?"

The businessmen froze for a moment, then looked at each other and nodded.

Zhan Zhao sniffed the bag of silver again, and asked, "Who did you sell the tea to? This silver also smells fishy."

"Sold several, and finally there was a little left, which was sold to the inn where we stayed. The inn did not know where to get a lot of squid a few days ago. We found a big pot and fried it with garlic leaves. We ate it. After several days, there is indeed a smell."

Zhan Zhao smiled and asked him, "Where is that inn?"

"That's far away, near the pier in the west of the city." The merchant pointed back.

"Where are you going next?" Zhan Zhao looked at the baggage they were carrying, and then asked.

The merchant felt that Zhan Zhao was like interrogating a prisoner, so he said, "We are going out of the south gate to go back to Hangzhou Mansion! I said, we are the ones who have been robbed of money..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhan Zhao pulled out a bamboo tube from his waist, took out a very thin silver needle from inside, and stabbed a needle in the middle of a merchant.

"Oh!" The merchant jumped up in pain, and just about to yell, Zhan Zhao put the blackened silver needle upright in front of his eyes, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

The businessman touched the middle of the person and opened his mouth wide, "This..."

"Don't thank Heavenly Venerable for saving your life?!" Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows, "What are you scolding him for? Beware of lightning!"

Several businessmen looked at each other, could they be poisoned?

"Uh..." The businessmen are still not quite clear about the situation, but they raised their heads to look at Tianzun who was sitting on the roof squinting his eyes, and then looked at the silver needle in Zhan Zhao's hand in front of him. Clap your hands, "Ah! Could it be that the garlic leaf squid we ate is poisonous?"

Zhan Zhao looked up at the sky, and said in his heart, who cares who poisoned you, if Tianzun hadn't stopped it in time, you would all have died on the way!

While talking, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu came with some yamen servants, Zhan Zhao ordered several merchants to be taken to Kaifeng Mansion to ask Gongsun to detoxify, and on the other hand carefully interrogated his whereabouts.

Bai Yutang looked at Tianzun and asked him, "Have you calmed down? If not, I'll beat them up for you."

Tianzun turned his face away, "Forget it, don't care about children." After finishing speaking, he went down to the roof and walked away with his sleeves swung.

Bai Yutang came down from the roof, frowning.

"Forget it, it was a misunderstanding." Zhan Zhao tugged at Bai Yutang, "When we return to Kaifeng Mansion, let those who scolded Tianzun kowtow a hundred times to make amends."

Bai Yutang was silent for a while, "I can't do without one!"

Zhan Zhao smiled, Tian Zun is really kind-hearted, although he doesn't look very reliable, he is indeed the leader of the Tao, not just being good at kung fu, but the most important thing is being good at heart.

"Where are you going?" Zhan Zhaozheng sighed, and seeing Bai Yutang was about to leave, he grabbed his arm.

Bai Yutang was embarrassed, "Ahem...my master seems to be in a bad mood, I'm going to accompany him..."

Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes and looked at him, "Are you afraid of the smell of garlic and squid all over your body?"

Bai Yutang was told by Zhan Zhao that he was talking about the central matter, with a look on his face - he didn't want to go!It smells so bad!

Zhan Zhao dragged him to the pier in the west of the city, "Let's go together!"

"You go by yourself, I'll wait for you here." Bai Yutang thought to himself that you are a cat, so it's fine to rub your body with fishy smell, why do you want to go by yourself?

The two were confronting each other on the street, when they heard a voice, "Hey, you two should pay attention, there are people jostling on the street."

As soon as the two turned their heads, they saw Pang Yu and Zhao Pu passing by. They should have just entered the palace to "negotiate" with Zhao Zhen...

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang couldn't care less about squid, and asked together, "How is it?"

Pang Yu and Zhao Pu spread their hands together and sighed, "The negotiation failed."

"Do you really want to go to the Imperial College to study for a month?" Bai Yutang asked, "Can I not go?"

"It's not good to openly resist the order." Zhan Zhao did the same, grabbed Pang Yu who was about to go back to Kaifeng Mansion, "Have you eaten garlic leaves and fried squid these days?"

"Wow!" Pang Yu was startled, "What kind of dish is this? It's hard to hear."

Zhan Zhao went over to smell it, but Pang Yu was puzzled, and raised his hand to smell his sleeve.

"A smell of incense." Zhan Zhao looked at Pang Yu with disgust.

Pang Yu blinked, and hurriedly defended, "Don't wrong me, I haven't been to Fireworks and Willow Lane for a long time, this smell came from Pang Fei's room when I went to see Xiangxiang just now."

"Did you go to the west of the city yesterday?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Go." Pang Yu nodded, "Didn't you find a mask for Zhao Lan..."

As he said that, Pang Yu seemed to have remembered something, and rubbed his nose, "Speaking of which, when I passed by the pier yesterday, I bought a mask and stopped for a cup of tea at a tea shop, and I smelled a fishy smell. "

Zhan Zhao stared at Pang Yu for a while, then pulled out a silver needle, pierced Pang Yu's face, and pulled it out... Sure enough, the silver needle also turned black!

"Wow!" The young master jumped three feet high, "Isn't it?!"

Everyone was also puzzled—how could Pang Yu be poisoned after practicing?

"Damn it!" Pang Yu rushed straight to Kaifeng Mansion, clutching his hands, and went to ask Gongsun for help.

Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao curiously, "How many silver needles did Gongsun give you?"

Zhan Zhao took out the bamboo tube and shook it, "One hundred sticks, prick whoever you see!"

The three of them decided to find out the source of the poisoning first, and then go looking for it, so as not to startle the snake, so they went back to Kaifeng together. At this time, the scene in the yard was a bit strange.

Pang Yu was sitting at the stone table, while Gongsun was giving him an injection to detoxify him, and those merchants kowtowed to admit their mistakes under the eaves, and on the roof, Tianzun chased them away with a look of disgust, "I hate it! Don't keep worshiping!"

Zhan Zhao curiously asked the fourth son who was helping them count, "What do you mean?"

The fourth son said, "They are poisoned, and they will die if they don't detoxify within an hour!"

Zhan Zhao was surprised, "So serious? That's really close to death."

The fourth son nodded, "Originally Daddy wanted to detoxify them, but just now Huhu said that they scolded Tianzun in the street, and then Daddy asked them to kowtow to Tianzun a hundred times to admit their mistakes and then detoxify them."

Zhan Zhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and Bai Yutang nodded at the side, which means - this is more or less the same.

Gongsun detoxified Pang Yu, but he was also a little puzzled, "The fried squid with garlic leaves in Ah Dong's stomach is not poisonous, and he is not poisoned either."

"And Pang Yu didn't eat that dish at all." Zhan Zhao wondered, "Then where did they get poisoned?"

In the end, Tianzun was beaten to death by several merchants, and Gongsun stopped torturing them and detoxified them.

All the merchants recalled it together, and found that the only intersection with Pang Yu was that they all drank the herbal tea from the tea shop opposite the inn, and all of them were after noon.

Everyone wondered whether all the herbal teas were poisoned or were the poisons selected?If they are all poisonous, how many people should be poisoned?Isn't it going to mess up?

Just as he was thinking about it, Bao Da and the Eighth Prince came in. The two of them had just stepped into the gate of the courtyard. The businessman who had just drank the antidote suddenly stood up, "Xi Ren?!"

Everyone was stunned.

Master Bao was also taken aback, and the Eighth Prince also came over to have a look.

"The prince is here too!" The merchant ran over.

Duo Luo stretched out his hand to block him, preventing him from getting close to Bawang, but Bawang and Mr. Bao shouted in unison, "Ziyan!"

Everyone looked at each other.

The merchant who was called "Ziyan" was excited, "If I hadn't been poisoned by Ziyan this time, I really wouldn't have seen you two!"

"Are you poisoned?" Master Bao and the Eighth Prince frowned at the same time.

"Thanks to the old man Tianzun for saving his life." Zi Yan said with a smile.

Zhan Zhao asked Bao Zheng, "My lord, this is..."

The expression on Mrs. Bao's face at this time is also a bit complicated, as if he doesn't know whether it is happiness or worry, "Xu Ziyan, my classmate back then, his ancestors were tea merchants in Hangzhou Prefecture. It's..."

Everyone frowned subconsciously—another too learned? !He was still the classmate of Mr. Bao and the others back then, and he was almost poisoned to death!

Master Bao couldn't care less about reminiscing about the past, the celebrity brought a pen and paper, wrote down more than twenty names, and handed them to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao accepted it.

"There were a total of 28 students studying in the same study in my uniform back then. This is the rest." Mr. Bao said, "I have circled the ones in Kaifeng, and I will ignore the others for the time being in other places. Let's check first. In Kaifeng Mansion Is it all right?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, took the paper and went out, and Bai Yutang followed.

By such a coincidence, a yamen servant from outside rushed in, "Master Zhan! The owner of Yuelai Inn, Wang Yueming, is dead."

Zhan Zhao frowned, opened the list Master Bao had just written and looked at it - Wang Yueming's name was impressively listed.