Dragon Pattern Roll Set

In the middle of the night, there were many lonely graves near Qingzhu Mountain, and the "atmosphere" was so good that it was a mess.

Holding a shovel in one hand and Bai Yutang in the other, Zhan Zhao ran to "digging the grave" in a grand manner.

Bai Yutang has been introspecting himself all the way, he has raised this cat so well, he is full of energy so he is playing tricks in different ways, who is to blame for this?

There are indeed many graves at the foot of Qingzhu Mountain, several shadow guards spread out to search, and soon found Yan Feng'er's tombstone.

The shadow guards rolled up their arms and sleeves and wanted to dig.

Pang Yu ran over with a basket and quickly waved his hands, "Oh, I said, you Jianghu people are not particular at all!"

While talking, Pang Yu lit a incense candle, sprinkled some paper money, and bowed to Yan Feng'er's grave, muttering, "Feng'er, Feng'er, I'm Pang Yu... I think it's because we met each other... One, don't blame me for disturbing... We also want to find out the cause of your death, if you were really killed, I will avenge you, so don't blame..."

After Pang Yu finished tossing, he felt that he had a bottom line in his heart, so he asked everyone to dig up the soil from the grave.

Several shadow guards dug with all their might, and quickly dug out the coffin.

After glancing at the coffin, Gongsun asked, "Why is it a coffin with a thin mouth?"

Pang Yu also felt angry, "No way, who arranged for her aftermath! Feng'er was very beautiful when she was alive! Besides, how much money did she make for Haotianlou! She was given to her in a thin-skinned coffin. Buried? Why don’t you just take a cold blanket and get rid of it!”

Everyone also felt a little strange.

The shadow guards pried open the coffin, and when the lid was lifted, everyone looked inside... and saw that the coffin was empty and there was no corpse.

"Huh?!" Pang Yu blinked, and asked Pang Fu, who stretched his neck to watch the excitement, "Are you sure she's dead?"

Pang Fu also scratched his head, "I heard from the maid in Haotian Building! Everyone in Haotian Building knows that Yan Feng'er is dead!"

"Look at the tombstone, this is indeed her grave." Bao Yan pointed to the tombstone, "It shouldn't be wrong."

"What about the corpse?" Zhan Zhao wondered.

Holding the lantern, Gongsun inspected the inside of the coffin, shook his head, and said, "No one has ever been let go in this coffin! It was an empty coffin when it was buried!"

"So..." Bai Yutang felt a little better. Although he stepped on the mud, he didn't need to look at the carrion corpse. "Is Yan Feng'er not dead, or is the dead body unburied?"

Everyone is also puzzled.

"If he is not dead, where is he?" Zhao Pu frowned, "There is something strange here."

……

Outside the gate of the imperial city of Kaifeng Mansion, Zou Liang rode in all the way in, looking very hurried.

Zhao Pu stationed the soldiers and horses he brought with him outside the imperial city. Zou Liang and Ouyang Shaozheng would go to see them the next day. The soldiers still had to drill, which was the tradition of the Zhao family army.

In addition, in order to prevent the ghost-masked men from coming out to disturb the law and order in Kaifeng, these soldiers and horses were divided into groups to patrol the imperial city, and the results of the patrols had to be reported one by one.

After Zou Liang finished his work, he hurried back to Kaifeng Mansion. He had just entered the city gate and ran a short distance, when he saw a red figure jumping out from a medicine shop in front.

Zou Liang smiled slightly, and he could tell that it was Lin Yehuo just by looking at his figure. Behind him was Su Qing, who was carrying a shield and carrying large bags in his hands.

Lin Yehuo didn't know what he bought, but he seemed in a good mood, striding away with his sleeves flung, his long black hair swaying, looking from behind, he looked lively and coquettish.

The corners of Zou Liang's mouth twitched again, he smiled faintly, and urged the horse to run over.

When I got close, I heard Su Qing complaining, "You are going to Taixue to study and not to do business, why buy so many supplements?"

Lin Yehuo touched his face and gave him a blank look, "What do you know, you have learned a lot! The books smell musty after being left out for a long time, so you can't lose the incense! And after sitting for a long time, your legs will get thicker, so I need to buy some A better cushion! Also, there are bugs in the book, what should I do if they bite me? I need to apply ointment. The most important thing is that I am so tired from studying! I need to eat more supplements to make my skin better! I also need to buy more hay to soak in the bath to save on sticking It smells like ink."

Su Qing gritted her teeth and followed, thinking to herself, just do it!I've never seen a leader like you.Thinking about it, Su Qing felt helpless for herself, everyone was busy with serious business in Huofengtang... Although Huofengtang didn't have any serious business every day, it was he who wanted to accompany this bastard hall master to wander around.Zou Liang was busy with business today, and no one taught him a lesson.

Just as he was thinking, he heard the sound of horseshoes.

Lin Yehuo reached out and touched his nose—the sound of the horseshoe sounds so familiar!

Sure enough, looking back...

Su Qing's expression became more cheerful - Zou Liang rode a horse and had already arrived.

"What did you buy?" Zou Liang asked.

Lin Yehuo narrowed his eyes and looked at his horse, and hooked his fingers at him, "Come down."

Zou Liang was puzzled, "Why?"

Lin Yehuo raised his eyebrows, "Give me a ride for a while!"

Zou Liang frowned, "Why give you a ride?"

"I haven't ridden a horse for a long time, and I'm in good shape." Lin Yehuo grabbed the horse's reins and wanted to snatch the horse from him.

Zou Liang stretched out his hand to pull him, "Then you come up."

"The premise for me to go up is that you come down first!" Lin Yehuo curled his lips, meaning - who will ride with you!

Suqing ignored the two of them all the time, she had already walked quickly with her things, and said to herself, hurry back to Kaifeng, put down her things and go back to her room to sleep!

It's just that he was walking, and a gust of wind passed by, along with the night wind, bringing a bloody smell, which was quite strong.

Su Qing was stunned for a moment, and stood there to identify it carefully—it really smelled like blood!

Lin Yehuo and Zou Liang made the horse unbearable, and carried the two of them forward. When they reached Suqing's side... suddenly, the horse's hooves stopped.

Lin Yehuo was still holding the horse's reins, but he didn't notice that it stopped suddenly and staggered. Zou Liang was also a little puzzled, and saw his horse started pacing, seeming a little anxious.

Zou Liang was riding a black horse. This horse was picked up by Zou Liang. I don't know what breed it is, but it seems that it is not accepted by the horse herd. Like Zou Liang, it walks alone.

Zou Liang rode it to fight north and south. This horse never barks, it seems to be dumb, and its figure is thin, but it is extremely fast and has a very spiritual spirit. In short, Zou Liang is very fond of it.

The horse was called Chuqi, because when Zou Liang picked it up, it happened to be the seventh day of the first lunar month, and Lin Yehuo called it Bodan because this horse was as boring as Zou Liang.

Most of the war horses could sense danger, especially the smell of blood. Chu Qi paced and shook his head, looking a little uneasy.

At this time, Zou Liang and Lin Yehuo also noticed something unusual. Lin Yehuo touched his nose, walked to Suqing's side, and stared at a deep alley with him. The smell of blood came from inside. And judging by the intensity of the taste, there should be a lot of blood.

"Then where is it?" Lin Yehuo asked Zou Liang, "The butcher's shop?"

Zou Liang frowned and narrowed his eyes slightly, "It's human blood."

"Can you smell this?!" Lin Yehuo and Su Qing were both curious.

Zou Liang gave them both a blank look, then walked into the alley.

Lin Yehuo and Suqing also followed in.

The light in the deep dark alley was extremely dim, Zou Liang stopped after walking a few steps, and stopped Lin Yehuo who was coming up.

"Why?" Lin Yehuo asked.

"I seem to have stepped on something." Zou Liang said in a low voice.

"What?" Lin Yehuo was quite beautiful, "Shit?"

Zou Liang frowned, "Like water..." As he spoke, he took out a torch and blew it on to illuminate the ground.

Lin Yehuo also squatted down, and following the light from the fire fold, he could see that Zou Liang's feet were indeed stepping on a puddle of water, but... the color of the water was a little darker, and it felt a little stickier.

"Blood!" Lin Yehuo raised his head as he spoke...and saw a face in front of him, a distorted, woman's face, with eyes fixed on him.There is messy hair around the pale face.Placed on the ground in a strange pose.

"Wow!" Lin Yehuo yelled, squatting and pointing in front, "Female head!"

Zou Liang took out a loud arrow for communication from his arms, which was also a firework used by the barracks to illuminate at night, raised his hand and threw it into the air...

With the whistling sound of piercing through the sky, the arrow exploded in the sky, and in an instant, the surroundings also brightened up.

With this short-lived light, the three of them saw the situation in the alley, and couldn't help...they all opened their mouths!

I saw that in this short alley, there were several corpses of women lying here and there, all of them died with their heads separated, which was extremely bloody and tragic.And blood was everywhere around the narrow alley and on the ground, no wonder the smell of blood could be smelled from far away.

"Is there writing on the wall?" Su Qing asked, pointing to the opposite wall.

Zou Liangyelin looked up at Yehuo, and saw that this was a dead-end alley, and the wall at the end was not far away. There were some blood words written on the wall, which was the Soul Eater Ballad.

Lin Yehuo opened his mouth, and then started jumping, "Ah! Kaifeng is so disgusting and bloody!"

Zou Liang dragged him out of the alley without a word.

Su Qing also put the big and small bags at the entrance of the alley, and at this moment, someone ran over from a distance, it was Zhan Zhao and others.

……

Zhan Zhao and the others dug the grave but did not find Yan Feng'er's body. Seeing Zou Liang's contact arrow, everyone rushed over and saw the scene in front of them.

Zhan Zhao couldn't help frowning when he saw the corpses all over the floor—this is going crazy!

Bai Yutang also frowned, for a Jianghu person, he felt that the method was too cruel.

However, Pang Yu was the one who reacted the most. He saw the young master jumping up suddenly, pointing at the head in front and shouting, "Ah! Isn't this Wan'er from Yaoxiang Pavilion!"

Everyone looked at him.

"Yaoxiang Pavilion?" This time Zhan Zhao knew where it was, "The Yaoxiang Pavilion in the west of the city?"

"Yes!" Pang Yu felt unbelievable, "Why did you die here!"

Bao Yan folded his arms and asked him, "Sister Yao again?"

"Oh, no, it's cooking!" Pang Yu stomped his feet.

"Cook?" Bao Yan raised his eyebrows.

Gongsun walked over and inspected the corpse, and said, "They are all beautiful women in their twenties, they don't look like cooks."

"Yaoxiang Pavilion is for private cooking!" Pang Yu sighed helplessly, "These girls are super good at cooking, they are sweet, they can sing and dance, they only cook one table of banquets every day, and basically only entertain princes and nobles. I have eaten a few times before. This time, the ham and tofu made by Wan'er are amazing! If she is going to die, who will kill this weak woman?!"

"Who do you think the murderer is?" Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang shrugged and gestured to the writing on the opposite wall, "The murderer seems to be afraid that we won't know who he is."

Zhan Zhao also sneered, that ballad is really a Soul Eater ballad... If it appears, blood will flow into rivers.

"Aside from Wan'er, are the other women from Yaoxiang Pavilion?" Zhan Zhao asked Pang Yu.

Seeing the blood all over the floor, Pang Yu didn't dare to go over to look, so he looked around. Gongsun was doing an autopsy, so he held up his head to show him.

Pang Yu stepped back in fright, grinning, "I don't know, I haven't been there for a long time."

"It should be all of them." Gongsun took off the waist badge from the waist of the corpse, with the words "Yaoxiang Pavilion" on it, and every girl had one around her waist.

Zhan Zhao took a waist badge and looked at it.

"There's another man here." Gongsun went to the innermost part and found the body of a man who was crushed underneath.

Zhe Ying and Zi Ying went to help him remove the headless female corpse that was pressing on the man's body, and suddenly, the man moved.

Gongsun was taken aback, stretched out his hand to pat the man's body, and heard the man scream, begging for mercy, "Don't kill me, don't kill me! I won't say anything..."

Everyone was shocked - alive!

Zhan Zhao jumped over and stretched out his hand to pull the man up from the pool of blood.

The man was covered in blood all over his face and his hair was disheveled, but he could be seen to be quite old, probably in his fifties. Although the clothes were dirty, it could be seen that the fabric was exquisite.

Standing still, I feel inexplicably, this person looks familiar, where have I seen it?

This person seemed to have been stimulated by something. He struggled desperately, waving his hands and feet and kept asking for help. What he said was, "Zhongyuan! Zhongyuan, I didn't mean it! It's none of my business, I was forced..."

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly - Zhong Yuan? !

"Si Tong?"

At this time, Zhao Pu suddenly called out.

The man was taken aback when he heard the voice, and he seemed to be awake.

Zhan Zhao also recognized it at this time, no wonder the eyes are familiar, he has seen it before, and he is one of the few officials who have more dealings with, Si Tong, the servant of the Ministry of punishment.

"Master Si?" Zhan Zhao was speechless, "Why are you here?"

Gongsun took out a jar, opened it and shook it in front of the man's nose, and a strong pungent smell came out.

Si Tong coughed twice, wiped his face, looked down, and screamed in fright, "Blood! I don't want to die, it's none of my business!"

The shadow guard at the side handed him a handkerchief, and Gongsun couldn't help reminding him, "I can't die, it's not your blood."

When Si Tong heard this, he came back to his senses, looked around, caught sight of Zhan Zhao, and suddenly grabbed him, "Zhan...Zhan Guard! Zhan Guard, help me!"

Zhan Zhao looked at the panicked servant of the Ministry of Justice, then at the corpses all over the floor, and pulled him out.

Si Tong's feet were weak, and he needed the support of two shadow guards to walk steadily.

Bai Yutang folded his arms and watched from the side, then asked Bao Yan, "Isn't the servant of the Ministry of Punishment quite a big official?"

"Yeah." Bao Yan nodded, "It's the third grade."

But at this moment, this third-rank Dayuan was in a terrible state.

After finally recovering from the trembling hands and feet, Si Tong wiped his face tremblingly, looked up and saw Zhao Pu, and opened his mouth wide, "Wang... lord!"

Zhao Pu frowned and pointed behind him, "What's going on?"

As soon as Si Tong turned his head, at this time, the officials of Kaifeng Mansion had arrived, and Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and others lit up the alley with lanterns.

After seeing clearly at a glance, Si Tong rolled his eyes and almost lost his anger. Gongsun hurriedly smelled the medicine for him, frowning—this man is so timid!

After a lot of effort, Si Tong managed to catch his breath, his face whiter than paper.

Gongsun counted the number of people and said, "Four corpses and four heads, all four are women, three are young, and one is older, over 40 years old."

As he spoke, Gongsun held up his head for everyone to see.

"Oh!" Si Tong closed his eyes again in fright, and Pang Yu jumped up again, "It's Liu Yaoxiang, the proprietress of Yaoxiang Pavilion! She used to make dim sum in the palace!"

Zhan Zhao patted the servant of the Ministry of Punishment who was only concerned with fear, "Master Si, would you like to explain?"

"I... I don't know anything. Originally, I booked a seat at Yaoxiang Pavilion for a banquet, but halfway through eating, my eyes suddenly went dark. When I woke up, I was here!"

Everyone is looking at him, what does that mean - you can say something like black eyes, but it's just that black eyes, why are you so frightened?

"Then what did you call 'Zhong Yuan?' and 'You were forced to ignore your business'?" Bai Yutang asked him.

"Uh...I...I'm probably confused!" Si Tong's flustered expression eased a little, coughed a few times, and stumbled to explain, although it sounded more like a cover-up.

Zhan Zhao frowned and looked at him, "Master Si Tong, have you ever studied in Taixue?"

Si Tong was taken aback for a moment, then laughed twice, and said, "Uh...no, I haven't read it."

"Then do you know Qu Zhongyuan?" Zhan Zhao asked again.

"I don't know!" Si Tong quickly shook his head, emphatically, "I don't know."

Everyone frowned and looked at the Minister of the Ministry of Justice who was terrified and trying to lie at the same time.

On the side, the drowsy little fourth son who was sitting in Tianzun's arms couldn't help but said - this person is such a deceitful liar!Even he could see that he was lying.

Si Tong seemed to be in a hurry to get away, and everyone didn't stop him. Zhan Zhao asked Wang Chao Mahan to send him back to change. Zhao Pu winked at Qing Ying and Chi Ying, which meant—keep an eye on him!See what the hell he's up to.

The two shadow guards followed.

When the people left, Zhan Zhao asked Gongsun who came out after the preliminary autopsy, "How is it?"

"These women should have been killed by people with very strong martial arts skills. They all cut off their heads with one knife, and the method was quite brutal." Gongsun wiped his hands and shook his head, "By the way, I also found a strange thing, that There is indeed a lot of blood on the body of the servant of the Ministry of Punishment, but it was not sprayed on."

"That is to say, when these women were killed, he was not present or was far away?" Zhan Zhao thought for a while, "Then why was he pressed under the corpses?"

Gongsun shrugged, "Then I don't know."

"He also looked very surprised when he saw the corpse." Bai Yutang said, "And he talked a lot when he was flustered!"

"Yeah!" Zhao Pu also nodded, "In addition to emphasizing 'it's none of his business, he also said that he won't tell anyone, so don't kill him'."

The crowd carried the corpse back to Kaifeng. They were here to dig a grave, but unexpectedly they found a murder case.

When he arrived at Lord Bao's study, Zhan Zhao told the story.

Master Bao frowned slightly, "Si Tong really called the name 'Zhong Yuan'?"

Everyone nodded, indicating——everyone heard it.

Master Bao stroked his beard, "It seems like he knows something, but he was warned, so he dare not say anything?"

"Or what sinful things have you done, you can't say it if you want to." Zhan Zhao poked a sentence, and everyone sneered, feeling that he had hit the point.

"Don't worry, I'll let the shadow guard watch him for a while to see how he's doing." Zhao Pu said to Zou Liang, "Catch him tomorrow and let him tell the truth."

Zou Liang nodded, "He looks very timid, it shouldn't be difficult to get him to speak."

Everyone was sweating for Si Tong, so it's better to be honest.

"Si Tong never studied in Taixue before, but he often went in and out of Taixue." Mr. Bao recalled, "More than 20 years ago, he was a steward in charge of sorting out books in the library of Taixue. Bi Yuzan copied the book for a month, which was arranged by Si Tong."

Everyone was stunned.

"How dare he say that he doesn't know Qu Zhongyuan!" Zhan Zhao thought it was outrageous.

"Maybe I'm scared." Master Bao said, "Si Tong is the least courageous, with a weak personality and not particularly smart."

"Then how did he get the title of Minister of Punishment?" Bai Yutang was a little curious.

"That's right." Gongsun also felt puzzled.

"Because..." Lord Bao frowned slightly, and glanced at Zhao Pu.

Everyone was a little curious and also looked at Zhao Pu.

Zhao Pu crossed his arms and said, "Wang Feng recommends it."

Everyone's eyes widened - and it has something to do with Wang Feng?

"This matter also caused the emperor some headaches at the time." Master Bao said, "There are many talents in the imperial court who can take up this position. This Si Tong has nothing special, but Wang Feng strongly recommends it. Wang Feng rarely recommends anyone. Besides, the servant of the Ministry of punishment is not a fat job. He is not big but not big, so the emperor finally accepted his recommendation. Although Si Tong has not made any outstanding achievements in recent years, he has no ambitions and is very stable. Therefore, this position can be regarded as useless.”

"The Ministry of Punishment is poor and not fat." Zhao Pu also felt quite strange, "I don't know what it means to have a servant of the Ministry of Punishment."

Lord Bao nodded, "I'll ask Grand Master Pang to check it out tomorrow, he knows everyone in the Six Departments."

Everyone nodded.

That night, everyone in Kaifeng became very busy because of a horrific murder, especially Gongsun. The corpses in the office room were almost piled up.

Zhan Zhao and the others were too busy to go to sleep until late at night. Early in the morning before dawn, they heard a crisp "Dangdangdang" bell ringing, and the loud voices of Chen Xing'er and Yue Ya'er, "Wake up! Go to school La!"

As soon as everyone heard this sentence, the unified action was to pull the quilt over their heads, and rub the pillows by the way—what kind of thing is this!

Zhan Zhao put his arms around the quilt and looked at Bai Yutang who was washing his face, and asked, "Should we both think of an excuse to ask for leave and not go to school?"

After washing his face, Bai Yutang folded his arms and stared at the Taixue student gown on the table for a long time, then asked earnestly, "The gown is too ugly so you don't want to go to school, what's your reason?"