Dragon Pattern Roll Set

Bing Wu was arrested, but the case is still full of fog.

Zhan Zhao and others arrived at the palace first, and their purpose was to explore the Palace of the Four Seas, but there was some confusion in the palace right now.

The guards strengthened their defenses, and the Eighth Prince was very nervous about Zhao Zhen's safety.

Zhao Pu's Dadan is also in a state of desperation at this time.

After those spiders were taken down, Dadan's followers all regained consciousness, one or two were in a chaotic state, they didn't know what they did when they were controlled, and they didn't even know what happened in the three days before being controlled .

Gongsun checked their bodies. It turned out that the spider controlling them had a certain degree of toxicity, which would paralyze people's nerves and cause some memory loss.It's easy to heal them, but that part of the lost memory won't come back...

Fortunately, Zhao Zhen was reasonable and knew that Dadan did not intend to do this, but Dadan himself was very sorry, feeling that he had caused trouble to Zhao Pu and almost caused a catastrophe.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao asked Master Wusha who was still in the palace, besides being able to control people, would this spider allow people who don't know martial arts to have martial arts?

Master Wusha shook his head. The Spider King was really good at using poisonous spiders to control people back then, but he still practiced martial arts by himself. It is impossible to conjure martial arts out of thin air after being poisoned.

So... Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other and thought of someone.

According to the clues given by Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, Zhao Zhen asked the guards to arrest two people, one of whom was Yuanwai Chen who lied about losing a million taels of silver, which almost caused internal fighting in the Imperial City Army.The other is Xu Ren, a civil servant who secretly instigated Chen Yuanwai and was controlled by Bingzhu, and also Master Huang's disciple.

Xu Ren's spider had been removed, and he felt as if he had just woken up from a dream.

Chen Yuanwai had long been terrified. He heard that Zhao Zhen was assassinated in the palace, and he felt that his family would probably be ruined.

Before Zhao Zhen could ask, Chen Yuanwai confessed—it turned out that he was being blackmailed, and the lives of his whole family were in the hands of a mysterious person, who instigated him to have dinner with several guards of the Imperial City Army in a teahouse, and lied about it. The robbery case, and the one who kept in touch with him was Xu Ren.

Everyone asked him who the mysterious man was, and Chen Yuanwai said that he only saw a figure in the carriage from a distance, and knew that Xu Ren called him my lord, but he didn't know anything else.

And looking at Xu Ren again, at this moment the civil servant was patting his forehead, as if he was thinking about something.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang clearly sensed his internal strength, this person knows martial arts, and his martial arts are not weak.

So, everyone's attention was on Xu Ren - he needed to be controlled by a poisonous spider, which meant that he was not from Bingwu's side, so why did he hide his knowledge of martial arts and become a civil servant?Moreover, this person is Master Huang's favorite student, does it have anything to do with Master Huang's death?

"Who are you?" Nangong Ji asked Xu Ren, "What is the purpose of infiltrating the palace?"

Xu Ren suddenly laughed, shook his head helplessly, and said, "Lord Nangong, do you still remember the lantern cakes you ate when you were young?"

Nangong was slightly taken aback, staring at Xu Ren, "You..."

Zhao Zhen was also surprised, "Lantern cake?"

Bai Yutang frowned, wondering why he had moved from the case to the snack, and turned to look at Zhan Zhao... Sure enough, Zhan Zhao's expression was clearly—lantern cake?I haven't eaten it!Sounds good...

At this time, Zhao Pu came in from outside. He also heard Xu Ren's words, and frowned, "Lantern cake? Is it the kind of cake that Qi Ge made when I was a child?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at Zhao Pu.

Zhao Pudao, "Qige's cakes are very delicious, because she is a lantern maker. She always makes cakes in the middle of the night and delivers them with lanterns. There are many kinds of cakes, so we collectively call her cakes lantern cakes."

"Every time Qige made pastries, the guards would finish them off." Nangong also recalled some childhood events, "Because the taste is so good."

Zhao Pu tilted his head to look at Xu Ren. After a long time, he touched his chin, "Huh? You seem familiar..."

Xu Ren stretched out his hand, lifted his front hair, and put it on his head, exposing his forehead.Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang found a black mole the size of a grain of rice on the left side of his forehead.

"Ah!" Zhao Pu and Nangong yelled at the same time, and Zhao Zhen looked at them with some puzzlement.

"You are the little cook in the imperial dining room." Nangong asked.

Zhao Pu nodded at the side, Zhao Zhen was still bewildered, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were puzzled—what's the situation?

Nangong explained, "In the past, there was a chef named Xu Cheng in the Imperial Dining Room, and he had a child with him as his assistant. He was his grandson and an apprentice."

Zhao Pu also nodded, "I saw you playing with Qi Ge when I was a child, did she learn her skills from you?"

Xu Ren smiled miserably and nodded.

"Qi Ge knew that the Empress Dowager ordered the people in the imperial dining room to put less sugar in the emperor's desserts, but the emperor also likes to eat sweet things, so he secretly made some cakes, saying that they were for the guards, but there was always a portion reserved for the emperor alone. Yes. The Ninth Prince always walks around at night, and when he is hungry, he goes to the imperial dining room to find something to eat, and Qige will make a special one for him. The prince likes to eat salty food, so she asked me how to make salty snacks..." Xu Ren raised his head and looked at Zhao Zhen, "She was like my own sister, she died for no reason. I want to find out and avenge her."

Looking at Xu Ren's expression, Zhao Zhen remembered the thing that Qige asked him to go to Furong Garden before he died, but he missed it, inexplicably, very guilty.

Zhao Pu asked Xu Ren, "Did you replace Qige's ashes?"

Xu Ren nodded, "Qi Ge died but someone ordered to be cremated. I felt something was wrong. I was too young, and my grandfather was old, so he took me back to my hometown. I learned Kung Fu but was a civil servant. I just wanted to sneak into The palace investigates to find out the real cause of Qige's death."

"How do you know that Qi Ge's death is strange?" Zhao Zhen asked.

"The day before Qige died, she was absent-minded. I thought it was because the Ninth Prince was going to the border and didn't take him there, so she was unhappy." Xu Ren continued, "I did something for her that day. I went to see her and wanted to comfort her, but I saw her packing up her things, and when I walked in, she was startled, as if she was afraid of something."

Zhao Zhen and Zhao Pu looked at each other - pack up?

"I originally thought she was crazy enough to go to the border with the Ninth Prince quietly, so I wanted to persuade her." Xu Ren continued, "But she spoke incoherently, saying that she had to leave and could no longer stay in the palace. It's not going to end well..."

Zhao Zhen was puzzled, "Why won't it end well?"

"I don't know, I didn't pay much attention at the time." Xu Ren said, looked up at Zhao Pu and Zhao Zhen, and finally said helplessly, "With all due respect, I spent more time with Qige than anyone else since I was a child. Qige doesn't like Lord Nine... To be exact, it's not that kind of liking. He does like the emperor and the prince, but it's almost like liking me. It's a brother-sister relationship. She will treat everyone who treats her well. That's all. She has been following the Ninth Prince, and seems to want to escape from the palace... She always gives me the feeling that she is hiding a secret."

"Where are Qige's ashes?" Zhao Zhen asked.

"I put it away." Xu Ren replied.

Zhao Pu asked him to tell the shadow guards the address, and Ziying and Zheying took people to pick it up.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao listened to the whole process and understood Xu Ren's background, but there were a few things that both of them were more concerned about.

Zhan Zhao asked, "You are good at martial arts, why do you want to get mixed up with civil servants to find out the truth?"

"Because only civil servants have the opportunity to enter the Spring Hall." Xu Ren replied.

"Chuntang Pavilion..." Zhao Zhen frowned slightly.

"Where is Chuntang Pavilion?" Zhan Zhao was curious.

Zhao Zhen said, "It's the Royal Book Collection Pavilion, which is different from the Longtu Pavilion. It contains the private collections of the emperors of all dynasties, as well as historical materials..."

"Don't Longtu Pavilion also have historical materials?" Bai Yutang was puzzled, thinking that there is something good to hide in historical books.

Zhao Zhen smiled slightly, shook his head and sighed——Sure enough, Jianghu people are simpler.

Zhan Zhao squinted his eyes and winked at Bai Yutang, Shark leaned close to Bai Yutang's ear, and sent him a message in Zhan Zhao's voice and tone, "Half of the Longtu Pavilion is made up, right? That's the truth."

Bai Yutang was stunned for a moment, and then coughed lightly, but he also understood that there might be historical materials of the Eagle Dynasty that were erased in it.

"Chuntang Pavilion needs civil servants to repair books every year, so I just want to get in." Xu Ren said, "Qi Ge has always been very concerned about Chuntang Pavilion."

"What does she care about?" Zhao Pu asked.

"I heard her mention that she wanted to go to the Chuntang Pavilion, and she was very curious about the historian who went in." Xu Ren shook his head as he spoke, as if he had a headache, and rubbed his neck with his hands, "I seem to have forgotten something... ..."

Everyone frowned, probably, Xu Ren discovered something before he was controlled by Bingwu.

"Hiss..." Xu Ren frowned suddenly, "I remember a man in white...the last thing I saw was a man in white. His face couldn't be seen clearly, his hair was about shoulders, gray..."

Zhan Zhao looks at Bai Yutang—do you know such a person?

Bai Yutang thought for a while, Xiao Liangzi once mentioned that when he was practicing, he saw a white shadow drifting past, this person was silent, and he appeared at the time when Kaifeng Mansion was haunted, would it matter?

Although Bingwu has extreme cold internal energy, the spider spirit who controls the "ghost" not only has extreme cold internal energy, but also some kung fu of Tianzun and Master Wusha... Could it be that person?

"Are you Master Huang's disciple?" Zhao Zhen asked, "Does he know your identity?"

Xu Ren shook his head, "Master Huang is a good man. I became an official through him. I try not to involve irrelevant people."

"Then Master Huang died, did you know about it?" Zhan Zhao asked suddenly.

"What..." Xu Ren looked startled, then seemed to think of something, holding his head, "Master Huang is dead... dead."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other. It seemed that Master Huang's death had greatly stimulated Xu Ren. Even if he was in a state of amnesia, he might still remember some.

Sure enough, Xu Ren suddenly raised his head, "Chuntang Pavilion!"

Everyone looked at each other—couldn't the clue be in Chuntang Pavilion?

Zhao Zhen stroked his chin, "Chun Tang Pavilion..."

Thinking of this, Zhao Zhen stretched out his hand to Eunuch Chen, as if he wanted something.

Eunuch Chen understood, and ran to the back of the screen. After a while, he seemed to have opened some kind of cabinet and brought a key.The key was exquisitely crafted, and Bai Yutang could tell at a glance that it was the thing to open and lock the lock.

Zhao Zhen handed the key to Zhan Zhao, and said, "I occasionally go to Chuntang Pavilion to look at historical materials, but so far I haven't found anything unusual."

Zhan Zhao took the key and glanced at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang heard Shark whisper in his ear, "It's over, will you be silenced if you know too much about the secret history of the palace?"

Bai Yutang couldn't laugh or cry, the shark is really easy to use, and the cat is really handy.

Zhao Pu raised his eyebrows at the two of them, what does that mean - turn over the book and bring Gongsun!

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded, and when they left the study, they ran into Gongsun who hurried over.Gongsun had just checked Bingwu's injuries, and then dealt with the spider poison, a shadow guard told him that Qige's ashes had been found, so the busy Gongsun Cha ran over without taking a drink of water.

Seeing Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, Gongsun hurriedly asked, "Where is the fourth son?"

Zhan Zhao told him that the fourth son was taken away by Yin Hou, and went to dinner and theater with Tianzun, Yi Yi, and Lu Linger, and that Yin Hou wanted to borrow the fourth son to raise him for a few days.

Gongsun naturally agreed, seeing Zhan Zhao dragging him away, he thought they were taking him to have his ashes checked, so he hurriedly followed, but unexpectedly, he arrived at Chuntang Pavilion.

"Chun Tang Pavilion!" Gongsun was excited.

Zhan Zhao laughed, "You never came in?"

"No, I asked Zhao Pu, but Zhao Pu said that this kind of place should not be entered, and the more you know, the sooner you will die." Gongsun imitated Zhao Pu's usual tone.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang told him about Xu Ren.

Mr. Gongsun touched his chin, "Xu Ren doesn't know what's in Chuntang Pavilion?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded.

"It doesn't matter!" Gongsun rolled up his arms and sleeves, "Turn through every book, and you can always find clues."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other—as expected, Gongsun still had to help with the problem of reading.

Bai Yutang took out the key, and before opening the lock, Fifth Master frowned and looked at the keyhole.

Zhan Zhao leaned over to look, "What's wrong?"

Gongsun also came up to watch.

Standing on tiptoe, Bai Yutang noticed that Shark's expression and behavior had become more and more like Zhan Zhao's and Xiaosi's.

Bai Yutang pointed to a small gap in the keyhole, and said, "Someone tried to pry the lock open."

Zhan Zhao was startled, "Has anyone ever sneaked in?"

"It must have been opened." Bai Yutang took out the key. "This kind of lock is very difficult to open. To prevent theft, once someone picks the lock, the lock head will be locked. The person who opened the lock is not very experienced, so the inside of the lock hole I gave up without touching the mechanism. Of course, it is also possible that someone was holding the key to open the lock, drunk or trembling, failed several times, and accidentally knocked off a piece of the keyhole."

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao and Gongsun both nodded, and Shark stood behind everyone and tilted his head.

Bai Yutang turned the key a few times in his hand, and then the lock opened with a "click".

A burst of book smell hits my face.

The reactions of the three were different, Zhan Zhao sneezed on his back, and Bai Yutang sneezed from one side - musty smell!Gongsun took a deep breath—wow!The smell of books!

Open the door and enter, the room is rather dark, with natural lighting, fire prevention, anti-theft and mouse-repelling design.

There is a roster on a table at the door, with dates and names signed on it. It seems that there are not many people who have the right to enter this temple, only some officials who are responsible for writing history books.

When Gongsun entered the door, he rushed to the bookshelf. There were more books in the attic than expected, and most of them were ancient books, as well as bamboo slips. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang could see Gongsun's excited expression from a long distance away.

Bai Yutang flipped through the roster on the table, and beckoned to Zhan Zhao who was looking around.

Zhan Zhao leaned over and saw Bai Yutang pointing to the name of the last official who entered the Chuntang Pavilion on the roster.

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, "Is it Master Huang's signature?"

Bai Yutang nodded, "Master Huang visited Chuntang Pavilion about three days before his death." As he said, Bai Yutang turned a few pages forward, "I also came here ten days ago, half a month ago Come...do you come so often?"

"Could it be because of the spring exam questions?" Gongsun asked while flipping through a volume of ancient books.

"This kind of questions won't come out in the spring exam, right... Is Master Huang a historian?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Hmm... He seems to be compiling a set of history books. Speaking of which, I have also met his grandson, Huang Shuye who passed away not long ago." Gongsun said to himself, "I met him when I was in Taixue. Once, he was assisting Master Huang in compiling this set of history books and geographical records, so he asked me some questions."

"What exactly did he edit?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"It's a set about architecture... very difficult, and there are a lot of drawings. I was preparing to go on tour at the time, so I didn't look at it very carefully."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went over immediately, "Think carefully!"

Gongsun tilted his head and thought for a while, then began to look for some related books, took them out and put them on the table.

"Cough cough..."

Bai Yutang was choked by the raised dust and coughed.Zhan Zhao blinked... Then, Jiaojiao ran out to find a brush and broom, and began to clean the Chuntang Pavilion.

Gongsun looked up, saw the brushes and brooms flying all over the sky, rubbed his eyes, and decided to continue reading.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were flipping through the books on the table when they felt someone poke their shoulders.

Zhan Zhao looked up, and saw that Shark was holding something in his hand, and handed it to the two of them.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at it, and saw that what Jiaoxie was holding was a playing card.This piece of paper seems to be rough paper made of tree bark, very hard, with red patterns rubbed around it, it is red plum, and two characters are written in the beautiful willow script in the middle of the card - Yuelou.

Zhan Zhao blinked, "Huh? I seem to have seen this brand before."

Bai Yutang also felt familiar.

Gongsun was taking out the book, saw it at a glance, and said, "Oh, this is the deck of Yuelou Opera Garden."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at Gongsun, "Deck?"

"You two don't usually go to the theater to watch plays. These are the tickets for the Yuelou Theater. They come out in sets every time. There are plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum tickets, flowers, birds, insects and fish... Anyway, the patterns are different. Qi Si Zhang can watch the big drama at the end of the year, and the little Si Zhang doesn’t know how much he has collected.”

"Why is this card here?" Zhan Zhao wondered.

Shark pointed to the ground, and saw that the corner of the table on the side was removed. It was moved when Shark was sweeping the floor. Looking at the traces of dust on the ground, this card, which was about the size of Pai Gow, was pressed under the corner of the table at that time. .

"Who brought it in?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Bai Yutang shook the table and said, "The table is uneven, it seems to be used to pad the corners of the table."

"This play card should be from last month." Gongsun said, "The youngest son likes to accept this ticket, and the eldest girl and daughter-in-law of Yuelou will keep it for him every time he is not in Kaifeng. A set of red plums, this should be one of them, and a set of lotus flowers will be released this month."

"My master and the others are going to the Moon Tower to see a play today?" Bai Yutang asked.

Gongsun nodded.

"The only ones who can enter here are elderly masters?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "I heard that the plays in Yuelou are all for young people."

"That's right!" Gongsun nodded, "It's all for young people to watch, especially the old scholars who can enter the Chuntang Pavilion are usually staid. They rarely watch this kind of romance or comedy? How can the dignity of a teacher survive? Students should laugh at them for being old and disrespectful."

"When does Yuelou start?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Gongsun looked at the sky, "The show started with the lights on, very lively."

Zhan Zhao took the sign and patted Bai Yutang, "Let's read the book quickly, and look for it in the theater after finishing."

Bai Yutang pointed to the Four Seas Palace in the distance, what does that mean—Where is the Four Seas Palace?

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, and asked the guards to find Zhao Pu to accompany Gongsun to read, and pulled Bai Yutang by himself, "Just go now!"