Dragon Pattern Roll Set

In winter, the weather starts to turn cold. .

There have been no cases in Kaifeng Mansion recently. Although there are still many unsolved unsolved cases in the dragon pattern scroll, Zhao Zhen did not send Lord Bao and Grand Master Pang to go on a tour with a brigade, but let them spend the New Year in Kaifeng Mansion.

On the one hand, because Mrs. Bao came from afar, Mrs. Bao and his wife get together less and leave more, and it’s rare that his wife’s son is in Kaifeng mansion, so Zhao Zhen wants this minister of the Great Song Dynasty to take a break, spend time with his family, and enjoy the family relationship happy.

On the other hand, Xiangxiang has already started to learn to speak, and she especially likes her grandfather Pang Taishi.This period is very critical for children. If the grand master is away for a while now, then Xiangxiang may not remember him if he hasn't seen him for a long time, and he should not kiss him in the future.Zhao Zhen couldn't bear to see the grand master worrying all day long, so he asked him to stay and enjoy the family relationship...

The grand master has actually been quite successful for a while, and his son Pang Yu became obedient, and he made up lessons with Bao Yan every day to prepare for entering the grand master's school next year.Secondly, Concubine Pang and Zhao Zhen are very affectionate, Xiangxiang is healthy and well-behaved.The grand master is fine, playing chess and drinking tea with Yin Hou Tianzun, chatting about antiques, it is very speculative, even the people in Kaifeng have changed a lot about him, it can be said that they are proud of themselves.

Because there is no case, everyone is free, Ouyang Shaozheng will take care of the affairs of the military camp, Zhao Pu teaches Xiao Liang to practice kung fu every day, and has nothing to do to tease the fourth son and Gongsun.In addition to practicing soldiers and horses every day, Zou Liang only had to provoke Lin Yehuo.He Yihang and Long Qiaoguang were in Black Wind City, and nothing major happened, they were just training soldiers and preparing for the winter.

Lin Yehuo didn't go back to Huofeng Hall except for pinching Zou Liang. Anyway, he, the hall master, went back to make trouble, and he was at ease in Kaifeng mansion.There are so many capable people in Kaifeng Mansion, and Huofeng is a bit too busy. For example, he studied beauty with Hong Jiuniang today, went to Xishan to soak in hot springs tomorrow, and went to Tianxiang Pavilion to study incense with a group of refined guests the day after tomorrow. To be able to chat with Mrs. Bao about herbal diet... In short, in Zou Liang's words, every day is smug!

Su Qing was working hard, mainly because the hall master was too unreliable, so this deputy hall master had a job in his eyes, so he has been helping Zou Liang with military affairs, so capable that Zou Liang wanted to find Zhao Pu to serve as his lieutenant general.For this reason, Lin Yehuo often grabbed Suqing, saying that he had rebelled, that he had no distinction between friend and foe, and had taken refuge in the mute.

Su Qing said, "Zou Liang paid me my wages, otherwise, where do you think the money you used to smear came from? It was all given by Zou Liang!"

Lin Yehuo narrowed his eyes and looked at him for a long time, then kicked him out, "Hurry up and do coolie for that dumb man, make a lot of money! I still have a lot of things I want to buy, sir!"

Suqing raised her forehead, how hard was she to lose every time she guessed a boxing game, and she wanted to stay and serve this unreliable hall master? !

Naturally, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang are also busy.In comparison, Zhan Zhao spends more time in Bai Yutang.

Zhanwei didn't have anything to do every day except go shopping as usual... no, he patrolled the streets.Mr. Bao has always been very protective of him, and doesn't arrange for him to do anything, all of which are done by Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, Wang Chao, Ma Han and other yamen servants.

However, Zhan Zhao is not completely idle. At first, he thought that Kaifeng Mansion had no food to develop, and he had tried everything that could be eaten. However, the appearance of chef Guo Tian made Zhan Zhao find a new goal, which is Taste all of Guo Tian's craftsmanship.

Guo Tian really regards Zhan Zhao as the world's number one foodie, and thinks this baby has a very "taste"!So, every time he researched any new dish, he would eat it for him. In addition, Bai Yutang collected all kinds of rare ingredients everywhere. Therefore, the food of everyone in Kaifeng Mansion was so good that Zhao Zhen wanted to come to eat. Concubine Pang looked forward to her every day. Brother Pang Yu brought her all kinds of delicious food.

For this reason, the fourth son often rubbed his chubby belly and sighed, thinking that losing weight in Kaifeng Mansion was an impossible task!

Bai Yutang is a little busier than Zhan Zhao, and Fifth Master's life is currently mainly focused on three things, the first thing is to feed the cat.The second thing is to prevent Tianzun from getting into trouble.The third thing is to help his brothers take care of the business in Kaifeng.In fact, there are still a lot of business in Kaifeng on the empty island. Of course, the fifth master is only responsible for counting the money, and other people take care of everything else.

When it comes to counting money, an interesting thing happened.

One day not long ago, Zhan Zhao couldn't find Bai Yutang when he was eating, so he asked Bai Fu, Bai Fu said that the day for the rice shop and the cloth shop to settle the payment had come, and the fifth master probably would not come back until dark.

Zhan Zhao was afraid that Bai Yutang would be hungry, so he took a food box and went to the Bai Mansion to look for him.

After entering the door, Chen Xing'er and Yue Ya'er told Zhan Zhao, "The young master is in the big warehouse in Xikuayuan."

Zhan Zhao was curious, "What is he doing?"

Yue Ya'er stuck out her tongue, "It's counting money."

Zhan Zhao was quite puzzled, the money should be counted in the cashier or the study, why go to the warehouse to count?

So, the guard Zhan pushed open the door of the warehouse with the food box on his shoulders, and heard a "crash".

When Guard Zhan understood, he saw a hand stretched out from a mountain of silver ingots in front of him.

Zhan Zhao was startled, and after a while, he saw Bai Yutang struggling to get out of the silver mountain, panting, "I'm crushed to death!"

Shocked, Zhan Zhao pulled the silver away to rescue Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang glanced back at the collapsed silver mountain, sighed, "We have to weigh it again..."

Zhan Zhao folded his arms and raised his face, saw that the granary that was originally used to pile rice was full of silver and gold, so he asked Bai Yutang, "Is this the income of the empty island this year?"

Bai Yutang shook his head, "This is just the income from Kaifeng's rice shop and cloth workshop. It's about [-]% of all business income in Kaifeng. I'm going to be busy these days. However, the main income of Xingkong Island still comes from the Jiangnan area, the side of Suhu Lake. Much, much more than here.”

"Oh... [-]%." Guard Zhan nodded calmly touching his chin, then turned his face away, and shook Bai Yutang's collar with both hands, "Damn it! You local tyrant!"

From then on, Zhan Zhao felt that Bai Yutang was not a prodigal at all, or that he should be more prodigal, so as to facilitate the circulation of money.

However, no matter whether there is a case or not in Kaifeng Mansion, there is one person who is always busy, and that is Gongsun Ce, Mr. Gongsun.

"Miraculous doctor" is another way of saying "can't rest". Kaifeng may have no crimes, but no one will get sick. The pharmacy opened in Kaifeng prefecture receives many people every day. This pharmacy is a philanthropy. People who can't afford the consultation fees and medicines, but since Gongsun came, everyone comes here to see a doctor, no matter whether they have money or not.

Gongsun works nimbly and quickly. Every morning, he usually dispenses medicine, teaches the fourth son medical skills, and occasionally goes to the imperial school for a class, or enters the palace to check the health of Zhao Zhen and the ladies in the harem.Every afternoon I go to see a doctor...

Originally, Gongsun went to the pharmacy every day, but a few days ago, Gongsun suddenly told Bao Zheng that he wanted to hire two doctors to take turns, and he would not go to the pharmacy for a while.

Master Bao naturally agreed.

Everyone thought, maybe Gongsun was too tired and wanted to take a rest, or to accompany the fourth son?

But when Zhao Pu was about to take the two of them out for an outing while Gongsun was resting, he found that Gongsun was still very busy... Not only he was busy, but the fourth son also started to prepare. Woolen cloth.

Tonight, the weather seems to be warming up a little bit.

Gongsun and the fourth son took out many wooden boxes and placed them in the yard. They also took several buckets of potion that Gongsun had just prepared, and took a small brush to clean the wooden boxes with the potion.

When Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang came back after eating, they saw Xiao Wu sitting at the gate of the courtyard, looking at the situation inside with his head tilted.

"What's the smell?" Zhan Zhao felt that the smell of medicine was both fragrant and stinky, so he looked into the yard.

"Gongsun?" Zhan Zhao asked curiously, "What are you doing?"

Gongsun smiled and said, "Oh...prepare the house for the winter."

Zhan Zhao blinked, and Bai Yutang looked at the palm-sized box in Xiao Sizi's hand—whose house is this?

"Nerdy!"

At this time, I saw Zhao Pu walking in, followed by several shadow guards, each holding a bucket, a shovel, and a net bag for catching butterflies.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other—what kind of attire is this?

Gongsun looked everyone up and down, nodded in satisfaction, and took out a stack of blueprints for Zhe Ying, who took the lead.

Zhe Ying took the drawings and gave one to the rest of the shadow guards, and then everyone went out with their things.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had already run to the yard, to Gongsun's side, looking curiously at the blueprint he gave.

I saw some symbols and a few bugs on the blueprint.

As soon as Bai Yutang saw the bug, he silently decided to turn around and leave, but just as he turned around, his arm was grabbed by Zhan Zhao.

While pulling Bai Yutang, Zhan Zhao asked Gongsun curiously, "Gongsun, you let Zhe Ying and the others catch bugs?"

Gongsun smiled and said, "This year the weather has been hot and cold, and there is still enough rain. I went to the forest in the morning to look for it, and many bugs have grown!"

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao nodded, continued to hold Bai Yutang who was about to leave, and asked, "Why did you arrest him?"

Gongsun and the fourth son continued to prepare the box, saying, "At this time of year, the bug eggs just come down, I marked the forest just now, and asked the shadow guards to dig up all the mud from the place I marked. , I want to raise Gu."

"Like Gu?!" Everyone around was shocked.

Zhao Pu was just curious about why Gongsun asked the shadow guard to dig the mud to catch bugs, but now he was shocked when he heard it.

At this moment, Pang Yu, Baoyan, Lin Yehuo, and Zou Liang all just came back, and they all leaned over and asked, "What about raising Gu?"

Pang Yu was startled, "Wow, Gongsun, aren't all Gu insects poisonous?"

Gongsun waved his hand, "Who said that! Gu worms depend on who raises them. All the Gu worms I raise can cure diseases and save people! They are also very useful."

"Are there Gu worms in the woods near Kaifeng?" Bao Yan, who is more common sense, asked Gongsun curiously, "I thought the Gu worms all grew in the southwestern part of Yunnan and Guizhou."

Gongsun smiled and shook his head, "In fact, Gu worms are not born monsters, they are all nurtured. Raising worms is very fun, much more interesting than raising cats and dogs. Think about it, no matter how you do with cats and dogs, it will There is only one head and four legs, right? But worms are different! They can grow several heads!"

When everyone heard this, the corners of their mouths twitched. Zhan Zhao glanced at Bai Yutang. Sure enough, Fifth Master's face was so ugly!so interesting!

As soon as Gongsun talked about Gu worms, the enthusiastic smile on his face made everyone feel a little chilled, but the genius doctor naturally had the plan of a genius doctor, didn't the Empress Gu just save the life of the eldest princess!The key depends on who owns the Gu worm.

Everyone nodded, and decided to go back to the room to soak their feet and go to bed early, but Gongsun muttered to himself, "Some Gu worms couldn't be raised before, but now they should be able to be raised."

The fourth son also nodded, "Yeah!"

Everyone who had gone out couldn't help being curious, stopped and turned around and asked, "Why couldn't I raise it before?"

Gongsunshen smiled mysteriously and said, "Oh, the conditions were not enough before, but now, the resources are more abundant."

As he said that, he pursed his lips and smiled at the fourth son. This smile seemed to have a lot of connotation.

Everyone looked at each other—a bad feeling...

……

In the dead of night, the shadow guards came back.

The shadow guards were very capable, they dug up the mud that Gongsun asked for, and put it in the yard. In addition, they also caught all the bugs that Gongsun told them to catch, and put them in several glass jars.

That night, the fourth son got into Zhao Pu's bed with his pillow in his arms.

Zhao Pu was puzzled, "Where's your father?"

The fourth son yawned, and said, "Daddy needs to raise Gu at night, and Gu worms need to be raised at night, so it should be bad after dawn."

After speaking, he patted the pillow and lay down to sleep.

Zhao Pu also lay down, and looked at the little four who was hugging his arms to look for an angle to lean on, "Why did you come under my bed? I have to teach Xiao Liangzi kung fu tomorrow morning, and he has to get up early, or you can go to Zhan Zhao's place." ?”

The fourth son waved his hand, "I have to get up early tomorrow morning."

Zhao Pu stared at him. It's been cold recently, and the fourth son is afraid of the cold and likes to stay in bed. "Why do you get up early?"

"I want to take over from daddy." The fourth son said, "Daddy is so busy that he will take care of it tomorrow morning. He needs to catch up on sleep. I have to feed the bugs tomorrow morning, so I have to get up early."

The corner of Zhao Pu's mouth twitched, "Feed the bugs? How?"

The fourth son covered Zhao Pu's mouth with his small hand, which meant—go to sleep quickly!

Zhao Pu had no choice but to adjust his posture, and let the fourth son fall asleep with his arms under his head.That night, Zhao Pu had a dream, dreaming that Gongsun had turned into a chubby bug, twisting and twisting in front of him.

At night, Tianzun and Yinhou were invited by Zhao Zhen to taste tea in the palace. There happened to be rare tea products from the south, and they also sent several ancient paintings. Zhao Zhen knew that Tianzun and Yinhou both liked tea and paintings, so After busying with government affairs, I made an appointment with the two of them to drink tea and appreciate paintings next month.It just so happened that several good-looking white plum blossoms in the garden also bloomed. The three of them also studied plum blossoms, Tianzun painted for a while, Yin Hou played a game of chess with Zhao Zhen, and the two old men did not return to Kaifeng Mansion until midnight .

As soon as they entered the yard, the two saw a dimly lit small lamp in the dark yard.Gongsun was sitting in the yard, with several stoves beside him. There were a lot of things in front of him, such as boxes, caskets, glass bottles, wooden buckets, iron buckets, bronze tripods... everything.

I saw Gongsun holding a box and didn't know why, as if he was playing with mud, and he was laughing while playing.

The corner of Tianzun's mouth hid behind Yin Hou, and asked, "What's the situation with Gongsun kid?"

Yin Hou saw a lot of strange people in the Demon Palace, but how should I describe Gongsun's expression at this moment... In short, it's better not to get close to him.

Yin Hou tugged Tianzun and went back to the room.

When they arrived in their yard, they saw the lights on in the rooms of Showa and Bai Yutang across the street, and they looked at each other—are you still asleep?

Walking over, he saw that the door was not closed tightly, and gently pushed it open, and saw Bai Yutang was making the bed, and Zhan Zhao was yawning on Xiao Wu's back.

"Still asleep?" Yin Hou asked.

"Grandpa, Tianzun, you are back." Zhan Zhao yawned and called out, pointing to Bai Yutang and said, "I was asleep, but he woke up suddenly in the middle of the night. It must be that there were bugs crawling up on the bed. In the middle of the night, I changed the bed." bedding."

Tianzun couldn't laugh or cry, his apprentice's obsession with cleanliness happened again. He remembered that when Bai Yutang was a child, once in the middle of the night, he suddenly got up and said that a bat flew into the house and needed to be cleaned... So Tianzun was taken away by his apprentice in the middle of the night. He was dragged out of the bed and cleaned up with him.

"There won't be any bugs, right?" Yin Hou asked, "Didn't Gongsun put a pill in each of your rooms, saying that you have raised some Gu worms, can they repel them?"

Before Yin Hou could finish his sentence, he saw Zhan Zhao pointing his finger up and yelling at him, "Hush!"

Looking at Bai Yutang again, he turned his head silently - indeed there were bugs!

Bai Yutang grabbed Zhan Zhao, "Cat, let's clean up!"

Zhan Zhao looked up at the sky, rubbing his arms around Xiao Wu, "Wow! I'm so sleepy!"

Tianzun and Yin Hou glanced at each other, and quickly slipped away.

So, that night, everyone heard the sound of "bang bang bang" coming from Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's room.

Zhan Zhao's yard is next to Bao Zheng's house, so Mrs. Bao lay on the bed and heard that the next door was very busy, so she curiously asked Bao Zheng beside her, "Sir, what are you doing?"

Master Bao smiled, pressed the corner of the quilt on Madam's shoulders, and said, "Young people are more energetic, huh huh."

But in fact, at this moment, Bai Yutang was patting the quilt with a clap, and Zhan Zhao was lying on Xiao Wu's back and refused to get up, refusing to participate in the cleaning!

……

Early the next morning, Zhao Pu, who had been dreaming about a big bug all night, finally dreamed that he was hit by a limp bug and woke up suddenly.

He opened his eyes and looked... Zhao Pu looked at the sky, and saw the little four who slept on his arm yesterday, who had crawled onto his stomach at some point, and was yawning on his chest, as if he had just woken up.

"Are you awake?" Zhao Pu squeezed the cheeks of the fourth son.

The fourth son got up in a daze, sat on Zhao Pu's stomach and continued to yawn with his face up, apparently still very sleepy.

"Go back to sleep if you're sleepy." Zhao Pu poked him in the stomach.

"Hmm..." Little Four stretched his waist, "I'm going to pick up Dad's shift, so I'll go to bed at night."

Zhao Pu had no choice but to get up and change the clothes for the fourth son. In fact, he was also a little curious—that bookworm really played with bugs all night, right?I don't know what it's like to play.

……

In Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's courtyard, Yin Hou and Tianzun were getting older and slept less. They went to bed late last night, but got up early this morning to exercise in the courtyard.

Tianzun was stretching, when the door of the opposite room opened, Zhan Zhao came out with two big dark circles under his eyes, followed by Xiao Wu who was also not awake, yawning and stretching his buttocks.

Tianzun and Zhan Zhao were startled when they met face to face, "Oh, what's going on?"

Zhan Zhao's eyes were so sleepy that he couldn't keep his eyes open, and he sat on the stone bench in the yard in a daze.

When Yin Hou came out, he also found it a little funny. When he walked to the door of Zhan Zhao's room, he was also shocked. He saw that Zhan Zhao's room was as clean as if it had just been polished. It was snow white, and even the table was covered with a white tablecloth.

Look again, on the snow-white bed, Bai Yutang is obviously also paralyzed from exhaustion, leaning on the bed and sleeping.

Yin Hou had no choice but to come out and poke Zhan Zhao, "My dear grandson, go to sleep if you are sleepy, there is no case to investigate anyway."

Zhan Zhao looked at Yin Hou helplessly, "I want to sleep too, but I'm hungry..."

Yin Hou and Tianzun were about to ask Zhan Zhao what he would like to eat in the morning, when they heard Chen Xing'er screaming from outside.

Everyone was stunned, Zhan Zhao woke up from his doze, Pang Yu, who was washing his face, choked his nose, and Mrs. Bao, who was combing Mrs. Bao's hair, took the comb and looked out, "What's wrong?"

When everyone followed the sound, they saw Chen Xing'er standing at the gate of the courtyard holding a cup of ginseng tea, looking at the courtyard with his mouth wide open.

Everyone walked behind her and looked in, and they all gasped.

In the yard, Gongsun was dozing off on the soft couch. Judging from the state of the candlesticks beside him, it was obvious that Gongsun had been busy all night.

Looking at the yard again, there are at least five or six hundred wooden boxes, two or three hundred copper boxes, more than 100 glass bottles, and a few particularly large jars and medicine tripods lined up in rows all over the yard. Everything is neat and the yard is full.

Bai Yutang who was awakened by the exclamation and came over to take a look subconsciously took a step back, "Could it be all bugs?!"

Zhan Zhao stroked his chin, "Are there a thousand pieces here?"

"Exactly one thousand."

At this moment, from behind the crowd, the little Sizi, who was eating a rice dumpling, came in.

Trembling, Chen Xing'er gave him the ginseng tea and said, "Bring it to your father, he stayed up all night last night, look at the dark circles under his eyes!"

The fourth son thanked Gongsun with a smile, and then walked to Gongsun.

Chen Xing'er felt someone poke her shoulder, and when she turned around, Tianzun pointed at Zhan Zhao's dark circles and Bai Yutang's at her.

Chen Xing'er covered her mouth, and hurried to make ginseng tea for the two of them.

The fourth son shook Gongsun awake. After Gongsun drank the ginseng tea, he went to sleep, and the next thing... was left to the fourth son.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were holding ginseng tea, while the others were having breakfast, they looked at Gongsun, who was sitting on the soft couch eating rice dumplings while shaking his legs, looking at the little four in those boxes, wondering what he was going to do next ?

"Jin'er."

At this time, Xiao Liangzi came, carrying a small wooden bucket with a bucket of candies in it.These candies are usually fed to the horses in the stables. Horses like to eat sugar, so there are a lot of them in the stables.

The fourth son just finished eating the rice dumplings, wiped his hands, picked up a jar and poured some water, and melted the sugar piece by piece into the jar, until everyone felt it was sweet and their throats were itchy.

Xiao Sizi stirred the sticky syrup with a chopstick, opened those boxes and jars one by one, and put a spoonful of syrup into each one.

Everyone saw it clearly this time, and saw that the box was full of fluffy mud, but no bugs were seen.

"Little four." Zhan Zhao was curious, "What is this for?"

"Feed the bugs." Little Four said, "Chong Chong likes to eat sugar."

Everyone silently looked at each other again - Chongchong...

Seeing that everyone was still standing at the gate of the courtyard, the fourth son waved his chubby little hands and said, "Today is for feeding and basking in the sun. You won't be able to use it for these two days. You will be able to use it in a few days..."

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and Bai Yutang asked, "Why do you need us?"

"Uh..." The fourth son was taken aback for a moment, as if he had slipped his tongue, but the little guy raised his face, pretending that he hadn't said anything, and he was going to fool him like that.

Everyone inexplicably had a bad premonition, thinking of Gongsun's secretive appearance yesterday, saying, "I didn't dare to raise it before, but now I have the conditions and resources, and I can finally raise it"... Probably not, what Gongsun wants to do is terrible thing?

"Cat." Bai Yutang suddenly patted Zhan Zhao, "I have to count silver these two days, and I will temporarily live in Baifu. I will return to Kaifeng Mansion in a few days." After speaking, he turned around and wanted to run.

Zhan Zhao and Tianzun grabbed Bai Yutang with one arm, what does that mean—want to slip away?no way!