Dragon Pattern Roll Set

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went to Fuxian Tower before noon.

Fuxian Tower is also a very famous place in Kaifeng. It is between the Qin Building and the Brothel Building.

Fuxian Tower is a business run by people from Jianghu, and the owner is Song Fusheng, the master of Fuxian Hall. Although Zhan Zhao and the others have no friendship with him, they have no grudges.Fuxiantang is a very common Jianghu sect. The current Jianghu sects not only need kung fu but also have money and people, especially the emerging sects, most of them are doing business.

The main hall of Fuxiantang is in Hangzhou Mansion, away from Fengyuan, so Song Fusheng should not sit here.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked to the gate of Fuxian Tower.

After all, Kaifeng is an imperial city, and the Son of Heaven does not care whether you are a piano building or a brothel, you have to have some style, so there are no messy people in front of the building except for the resplendent door frames and signboards.

Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang, "Have you been here?"

Bai Yutang shook his head.

Zhan Zhao crossed his arms and looked around, "It's on the same street as Baifu!"

Bai Yutang laughed, "This street is long, and the Baifu is far away."

Zhan Zhao patted him, "Aren't you romantic in the legend?"

Bai Yutang looked up at the sky, "It's said that you're still a hunchback."

Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes.

The two of them entered the gate of Fuxian Building, and a clerk came out to greet them. He raised his eyes and was stunned for a moment. He invited the two of them inside, and at the same time winked at the other clerks behind him.

A clerk ran upstairs in a hurry.

After a while, a decent middle-aged man in gray clothes ran down from upstairs, "Your honored guest!"

The clerk hurriedly told Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "This is from our shopkeeper Liu."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded.

After all, Fuxianlou is a big business, and all the employees here are ghosts. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang will never come to listen to the piano, not to mention that Zhan Zhao is still wearing an official uniform, and he is probably here to investigate some cases. What should be done at this time is to call the shopkeeper quickly, and then don't say anything unnecessary.

The shopkeeper politely led Zhan Zhaohe Bai Yutang upstairs to talk in a place where there were few people.

Of course, there were still many guests in the lobby on the ground floor, all of whom looked at the two curiously.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang observed a little, and found a strange place - most of the guests in Fuxian Building were scholars, many of them were wearing student robes, and most of them were from Qiankun Academy.

Zhan Zhao curiously asked Shopkeeper Liu, "Do the students from Qiankun Academy come here often?"

The shopkeeper smiled and nodded, "Yes, I come here often because it's close."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other, the shopkeeper seemed to be an old Jianghu, he didn't have a single extra word, it might be difficult to ask anything.

Shopkeeper Liu led the two of them to a private room on the second floor, and asked the waiter to serve tea, so he invited the two to sit down and asked, "Are you listening to the piano?"

Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, pointed to the seat opposite, and signaled the shopkeeper to also sit down.

The shopkeeper sat down.

Zhan Zhao said, "I want to ask the shopkeeper about someone."

The shopkeeper nodded.

"Is there a girl named Yuan'er in your Fuxian Building?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Yes, there are two girls named Yuaner in my building, one is Zhu Yuaner, the other is Shen Yuanyuan, which one are you looking for?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, who knows what Yuan'er's surname is, so Zhan Zhao said, "Yao Shanshui's confidante."

"Oh, that's Zhu Yuan'er, we call her Xiao Yuan'er here." Shopkeeper Liu said, and asked, "May I ask, what do you two want her for?"

Zhan Zhao said, "Recent investigations have found some clues related to this girl, so I want to ask her a few words alone."

The shopkeeper nodded, knowing that Zhan Zhao wanted to see Zhu Yuan'er alone, so he got up, "Wait a minute, I'll call her."

When the person left, the two drank tea while waiting.

Bai Yutang picked up the teacup and smelled it, then put it down, "It's good tea."

Zhan Zhao rested his chin and looked at the guests coming in and out of Fuxian Building downstairs, and asked Bai Yutang, "I have a question for you."

Bai Yutang looked at him with raised eyebrows.

"There are many good shops and people on this street, but why don't Pang Yu and the others come here?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "I found out when I was patrolling the street before, isn't this area belonging to the east of the city? The city is actually quite lively, but the offspring of those officials seldom come here. Pang Yu is relieved now. The places I saw him often go to play in the past are Tianxiang Garden, Yifeng Pavilion and the like. I have never seen him come here. East of the city."

When Zhan Zhao said this, Bai Yutang felt that it was true, but he hadn't paid much attention to it.

Just as he was thinking about how to answer, he heard a charming voice from outside, "People who can play in the city will naturally not come to the east of the city. If you have money in the east of the city, you can come, but in the city, you can't live without money." Yes. Just like Qiankun Academy and Taixue, the former can get in if you have money, but the latter is useless only if you have money! But those who are capable can get in even without money, so the former one is much more expensive than the latter one !"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked towards the door, thinking that this girl is eloquent.

Before he saw anyone, he smelled a delicate fragrance first, Bai Yutang identified it, it was a high-quality incense fragrance, not a fragrance of powder.

At this time, I saw a petite girl in a pale pink dress, walking in slowly with a fancy round fan in her hand.

Behind her were two servant girls, one holding a pipa and the other holding a qin.

The girl looked to be in her twenties, charming and charming, with a bit of a bookish air, she didn't look like an ordinary singing girl Qin Ji at all.Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also discovered this when they went upstairs just now. The girls in Fuxian Tower are indeed not the appearance and temperament of the girls in the Land of Fireworks. Master Wang said that the girls here are all performers and not their bodies, so that is probably the case.

After Zhu Yuan'er came in, she wished all blessings to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, sat down opposite them, looked at them with her chin in her hand, and said, "Oh, I saw a real person! Just now shopkeeper Liu called At that time, the girls in the building were almost jealous to death."

Zhan Zhao laughed, "I'm an official, so finding you may not be a good thing."

Zhu Yuan'er spread her hands, "What am I afraid of, I'm just an ordinary woman, alas... Did my friend get into trouble?"

"You mean Yao Shanshui?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Zhu Yuan'er shook the round fan lightly and nodded, "Who else, let's say, has he provoked the wife and concubine of some important person again?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other—it seemed that Yao Shanshui was quite worrying.

Zhan Zhao looked at the round fan in Zhu Yuaner's hand, it seemed to be embroidered with high-quality silk, and the pattern was a picture of a lady.

So Zhan Zhao asked, "Does Miss Zhu have many round fans?"

Zhu Yuaner froze for a moment, then nodded.

A maid behind her was helping to light incense, she interjected, "My young lady loves round fans the most, there are thousands of them in total."

"Did you buy all the fans?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Most of them are gifts from customers, and Shanshui gave me a lot." Zhu Yuaner was curious, "Is the fan related to the two of you looking for me?"

Zhan Zhao said, "Among the girls' many fans, is there any strange one? For example, the design is made by ghosts and goblins?"

Zhu Yuaner was stunned for a moment, she held her chin and thought for a while, "I don't remember this either..." Then she said to the two servant girls, "Go and carry the box where I put the fan."

The maid nodded and ran out.

After a while, the servant girl came back, followed by four servants, who brought two big boxes and put them in the house.

The maids opened the box.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang couldn't help frowning - how many fans must there be here.

Zhu Yuan'er opened the food box, served some snacks, and asked the two maids to take out the fans, and showed Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang one by one.

So, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had no choice but to drink tea, eat snacks, and watch the round fan.

This Miss Zhu doesn't know what she likes, she has too many fans to look at, and there are all kinds of paintings, some of which are kind of like that, in the words of the master of the academy, "immoral", Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang are quite embarrassing .

Finally, a fan appeared in front of Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, and they both pointed at the same time—this one!

The maid handed the fan to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang took a closer look - that's right!On the fan is the portrait of the three-headed Jintuo!It is exactly the same as the huge golden sculpture dug out of Xishan!

Zhan Zhao asked Zhu Yuaner, "Where did this fan come from?"

Zhu Yuaner took it over and looked at it, and said, "Oh... this fan is a gift from a guest."

"What kind of guest?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Zhu Yuaner seemed distressed, and said, "I don't know his name, so he came to drink once, and chatted with me after listening to me playing the piano. Then he came again the next day and said yes Hearing that I collect tuanfans, he gave me this one, saying that he painted it himself."

Bai Yutang looked at the pattern on the fan, "The painting is quite good, it seems that he is a literati."

"How long ago?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"That was several years ago! It must have been four or five years ago, and that person hasn't been here since."

Zhan Zhao felt strange, "Looking at the number of fans, there should be quite a few people giving girls round fans. This fan was given to you several years ago, but you remember it clearly...is there anything special about that person?"

Zhu Yuan'er smiled slightly, "Of course it's special! Because that's the only student of Taixue!"

Zhan Zhao was taken aback.

Bai Yutang also frowned, "The one who gave you the fan was a student of Taixue?"

Zhu Yuan'er nodded, "Basically there are no students from Taixue in Fuxian Building, so I remember it very clearly."

"Does he have any characteristics?" Zhan Zhao asked Zhu Yuaner to describe the student.

"He looks like an ordinary student, and he looks quite handsome... By the way, he has a Jiangnan accent." Zhu Yuaner recalled, "There were many guests sitting and listening to the piano that day. He looked inconspicuous, and I didn't pay much attention to him. But When he came to give me the fan the next day, he was wearing a Taixue gown, not only I remembered it, but many sisters also remembered it."

Zhan Zhao asked Zhu Yuaner to describe the student in detail, but since it happened four or five years ago, that means the student is no longer studying in Taixue, so I had to ask the masters for a while, wondering if there would be any clue.

Zhan Zhao asked again curiously, "You said before that those who can stay in the city will not come to the east of the city, what do you mean?"

Zhu Yuan'er covered her mouth and laughed, "Master Zhan, don't you know? All major academies are ranked, and the Taixue belongs to the royal family. Those who can study there are already higher than other academies. Don't Seeing that the students in Qiankun Academy spend a lot of money, it is not as important as a poor student who is a Taixue! Who is to say that someone has real talent and learning, unless..."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at her - unless something happened.

Zhu Yuaner smiled, "Didn't you hear that there will be a competition between the four colleges recently! If any academy can win Taixue, it will be different!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other silently, and it was true that she said so... No wonder the masters of Taixue were so nervous.

Zhu Yuaner didn't know much, and she didn't know why the student gave her such a fan.Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang didn't think there was anything special about her... so they stood up and said goodbye.

It was almost noon when we left Fuxian Tower.

Zhan Zhao looked at the sky with his hands behind his back, "It's too bad... I'm going to learn too much."

Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao, "What do you want to teach?"

"Hmm..." Zhan Zhao crossed his arms, "I have a lot to teach them, such as which restaurant's sweet and sour fish is delicious, which restaurant's roast duck is the most delicious..."

Bai Yutang couldn't laugh or cry.

Zhan Zhao looked at him with a smile, "What about you? What are you going to teach them?"

Bai Yutang thought for a while, "Hmm... how to identify fake antiques, how to find lost old people and lost cats, etc..."

Zhan Zhao suppressed a smile and squinted at Bai Yutang.

The two came to Taibai Residence for a stroll, and sure enough, they saw the window of the private room they often went to. The fourth son was looking around, saw the two of them at a glance, and hurriedly waved.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went upstairs, everyone was there, the scene in the private room was lively and chaotic, everyone was discussing what to teach in Taixue while eating.

The moment Zhan Zhao entered the door, he suddenly had an illusion, what illusion?Back to the magic hall illusion.

He remembered that when he first came to Kaifeng, he was the only one who came to Taibaiju to eat, and it was deserted, and then he ate with Bai Yutang, and later, there were more and more people... so that now, Taibaiju is the biggest restaurant. Only the room and the largest table can fit all these people...

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang entered the room and sat down, and told them everything they had investigated about the fan from Zhu Yuaner, and Zhu Yuaner asked them to bring the fan.

Gongsun held the fan and looked at it, "The workmanship is not bad."

"Then why did the student look so much like Jin Shan from the description?" Pang Yu joked aside, "Did the girl meet a kid?"

"Speaking of Jin Shan..." Zhan Zhao asked Gongsun, "Has anyone identified the corpse?"

Gongsun nodded, "I found a few people who had seen Jin Shan to recognize him, Master Lin also went to recognize him, and he said it was right! The one in the coffin is Jin Shan!"

"Then why doesn't his body rot?" Bai Yutang wondered.

Gongsun clapped his hands, "I was just about to say this! Jin Shan was indeed hanged to death, but his body was neither rotten nor rotten, not because of ghosts or gods, nor because of poisoning before death, but because he had sea jade gentian in his mouth! "

Everyone was stunned, and the noisy voice just now stopped.

Lin Yehuo's eyes lit up, "The legendary Haiyu gentian?"

"Is that thing really there?" Tianzun and Yin Hou were also surprised.

Zhan Zhao found it strange that everyone seemed to know about it, but he hadn't even heard of it, so he hurriedly asked, "What is that?"

Zhao Pu breathed a sigh of relief, "I thought I was the only one who hadn't heard of it, gentian or something, do you eat it?"

Gongsun said helplessly, "That's a treasure! It's also one of the four legendary medicines! This thing is used to preserve corpses! It's actually a marine medicinal material that grows in the deep sea. It's about the size of a quail egg. It's as hard as a rock. Strange fragrance! There is a kind of sea dragon fish that eats shellfish in the sea, and accidentally eats this precious medicinal material as a shell. Some fishermen caught the sea dragon fish and took it out of its belly, so it was named sea dragon Gall. Sea dragon fish is very rare, and this kind of medicinal material is even rarer. Sea gentian can't be bought with gold. I don't know how many emperors, generals and ministers paid money and people to find this thing everywhere. They just want to be buried with their mouths in their mouths after death. The corpses are thousands of years old Not corrupt."

Zhan Zhao couldn't help feeling emotional, "In addition to that coffin, although the Jin family didn't hold a big funeral, they really preserved Jin Shan's body very well!"

Everyone nodded.

At this time, Bai Yutang asked Gongsun, "If you take out the sea gentian in his mouth, what will happen?"

Gongsun shook his head, "The corpse will rot, but the speed will be slower than that of ordinary corpses."

Bai Yutang nodded, but remained silent.

Seeing doubts on his face, Zhan Zhao asked, "What do you think is wrong?"

Bai Yutang said, "This coffin, together with the sea gentian, has a feeling of preciousness and prudence, but the burial was careless. It's just a random grave, and the tombstone is clearly written on it!"

Everyone felt that Bai Yutang's words made sense.

"Actually, when I was digging yesterday, I also found that something was wrong." Zhe Ying said, "The soil is very soft. Although weeds are overgrown around the grave, the roots of the grass are all broken."

"What do you mean?" Zhao Pu asked.

"I and the more experienced soldiers in the Digging Army felt that this grave is actually a new one, but it's just pretending to be an old one!"

"Did someone let us find Jin Shan's body on purpose?" Zhao Pu asked.

While discussing, I heard the fourth son shout, "Look quickly."

Everyone was puzzled and looked out of the window. They saw a lot of scholars wearing brand-new Taixue student robes in twos and threes on the street. Some locals went out, and firecrackers were set off at home, and the whole street became lively.

Zhan Zhao looked at the time and said, "It's almost time for us to leave. I just happened to ask a few masters from the Imperial Academy for clues about the scholar who gave Yuan'er the round fan back then."

Everyone got up.

At this time, the fourth son was still lying on the window looking down.

Xiao Liangzi went over and patted him, "Jin'er, let's go."

"Hmm..." The fourth son agreed, but was still looking out the window.

Xiao Liang went to hold his hand, took a look at him by the way, and asked, "Who did you see?"

The fourth son pulled Xiao Liang's hand off the stool, and said to him, "Xiao Liangzi, that little brother who was lying in the coffin yesterday, I seemed to see him just now?"

"Huh?!" Xiao Liangzi jumped up, "What?!"

Zhan Zhao, who was walking behind, also looked back at the fourth son, Bai Yutang frowned and looked at Zhan Zhao——was the fourth son saying, did he see Jin Shan?

"That little brother is walking forward with a few books in his imperial robes!" Little Si rubbed his chin, "Didn't he die?"

Zhan Zhao quickly went to the window and glanced down—but there were quite a few students wearing imperial academic robes underneath, so he carefully identified them, but he didn't see anyone like Jin Shan.

Xiao Liang felt terrified and panicked, "Jin'er, did you read it wrong?"

The fourth son tilted his head, "Really? Uh...maybe they look alike."

After finishing speaking, the two children did not suspect him, and ran downstairs hand in hand.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other - it shouldn't be so evil, right?