Dragon Pattern Roll Set

After the case of the fishtail pillow was closed, the next day, Zhan Zhao woke up early in the morning and couldn't find Bai Yutang. When he ran into Xiao Si who was feeding the mute in the yard, he asked him, "Where's the mouse?"

The fourth son said, "Bai went back to the Bai Mansion before daylight, and today we have to settle accounts."

Zhan Zhao feels a little guilty, and decides not to bother that mouse to get down to business.

"Maomao, how are you preparing for the cat competition?" The fourth son picked up a bun on the table, broke it in half and fed it to the mute.

"Oh...it's annoying." Zhan Zhao saw that there was a plate of dried fish on the table that hadn't been touched, and looked around curiously, "Where are the big tigers, little tigers, and flowery lilies?"

"I don't know!" The fourth son shook his head, "I didn't see it early this morning, and they were earlier than the mute every day."

Zhan Zhao folded his arms and looked around. Xiao Wu and Yao Yao were also having breakfast, but the kittens who used to come and go in the yard were not there... But he didn't think much about it, he probably went out to play. Alright.

The fourth son gave the remaining buns to the mute, clapped his hands, and asked Zhan Zhao, "Maomao, did you hear any strange noises last night?"

Zhan Zhao was slightly taken aback, "It's a strange voice."

The fourth son pouted and scratched his cheeks, "I seem to have heard the cries of mice last night. There hasn't been a rat noise in Kaifeng Mansion for a long time."

Zhan Zhao looked up at the sky, stretched out his hand and rubbed his head, "Who said there are no rats in Kaifeng Mansion? There are rats in Kaifeng Mansion every day, okay?"

The fourth son tilted his head, "Really? There are so many cats and rats?"

"It's just that some mice are not afraid of cats at all..." Zhan Wei pouted.

Before he finished speaking, someone interrupted, "Master Zhan, have you heard about the rat spirit?"

Zhan Zhao was taken aback for a moment, and raised his head together with the fourth son, only to see Cui'er and Xiaoyu walking in carrying breakfast.

Zhan Zhao was a little puzzled, "Mouse spirit?"

Xiaoyu nodded, "Recently there are rumors in Kaifeng that some people saw rat spirits at night!"

Zhan Zhao opened his eyes wide, "Really a rat spirit?"

The fourth son raised his face and asked, "Did you see Bai Bai?"

Zhan Zhao pinched the cheeks of Xiaosi, "Little Si, you have to know that the mouse spirit is just a nickname for that mouse. The mouse is certainly not a mouse spirit at a glance. When you wait for the day when it is said that the white dragon horse in Kaifeng Mansion has become a spirit, then I guess I saw him."

……

"Ah..."

Bai Yutang, who was looking at the ledger, suddenly sneezed.

Bai Fu looked up at him, "Master, do you have a cold?"

Bai Yutang rubbed his nose and shook his head.

At this time, a little maid came in with tea and put it by Bai Yutang's hand.

Chen Xing'er, who was putting money aside, suddenly asked, "Cai'er, why are your eye circles so red?"

Yue Ya'er also ran over to grab the maid who was about to go out, "What's the matter with your eyes swollen from crying? Someone bullied you?"

Bai Yutang raised his head and took a look, in front of him was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old maid, who seemed to be called Cai'er, pure and white, but her eyes were swollen like walnuts.

Bai Fu asked, "Did something happen at home? Do you want help?"

Cai'er shook her head.

Chen Xing'er folded her arms and rolled up her sleeves, "Who bullied you? I'll beat him up for you."

Cai Er suddenly seemed to be talking about something sad, covering her face and saying, "The amber is gone! Someone stole it!"

Chen Xing'er was also taken aback by Yue Ya'er.

"What amber?" Bai Fu asked, "Is it expensive? You can report it to the government."

Bai Yutang also nodded.

"No..." Cai'er wiped away her tears and said, "The lake is my cat."

Both Chen Xing'er and Yue Ya'er blinked, "The cat..."

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, "The cat was stolen?"

Cai'er nodded, and said that Amber was a tiger-striped kitten she had raised since she was a child, and she had always been with her, usually living in the yard where the maids lived in the backyard of the White Mansion.

"Did Amber run out to play by herself?" Chen Xing'er asked.

Cai'er shook her head, "It comes back to sleep next to my bed every night, and it hasn't come back for two days!"

After speaking, Cai'er continued to cry.

Chen Xing'er pulled her out and helped her find a cat.

Bai Yutang heard Cai'er walking outside and saying, "Little Xing and Fat Tiger are gone, and the cats in the yard are lost one by one. People on the street say... they were eaten by rat spirits."

After Cai'er left, everyone in the room was silent for a while, Yue Ya'er suddenly asked Bai Yutang, "Master, are you a rat?"

Bai Yutang looked at his servant girl speechlessly, what does that mean - why are you looking at me?

"Recently there are indeed rumors of rat spirits." On the side, the old accountant who helped settle the accounts also shook his head, "A few days ago, my granddaughter's cat disappeared, just like that girl, she has been crying for two days. No food."

"Is it a very expensive cat?" Bai Yutang was curious.

"It's just a little Sanhua." The accountant was also puzzled, "Recently, the neighbors have lost a lot of kittens. What can I steal from this cat?"

Fifth Master touched his chin lightly, stealing the cat...

At noon, Zhan Zhao came back from outside the mansion, yawning as he walked... When there was a case, he was so busy that he was so busy without a case, but Bai Yutang was not here, and it was not easy to disturb him to settle accounts, so boring...

Entering the door, I saw a lot of people in the yard, the maids and servants were all there, Xiaosi and Xiaoliangzi were also there, and a few maids rummaged through the grass, "Big tiger and little tiger! Hualihu!"

Zhan Zhao walked in and asked Gongsun, "Have you found it yet?"

Gongsun shook his head.

"No." Little Four pointed to the three bowls that were still full, "I didn't eat breakfast or lunch."

Zhan Zhao felt that something was wrong, these three cats were always sneaking around in front of him, it would be understandable if the big tiger and the little tiger ran out to play naughtily, but even the fat ones couldn’t walk. Can you climb over the wall and get out?

In the end, Zhan Zhao and the fourth son found the stable together.

There are several horses in the stable.

Zhan Zhao yelled a few times, and then heard a "meow", the voice was weak.

Everyone followed the sound, which came from Duoduo's stable.

Zhan Zhao walked to the door of Duoduo's stable, opened the door and took a look...and saw a large pile of straw in the corner of the stable.

Zhan Zhao went over and opened the straw to have a look, all right... There is a litter of kittens inside, it seems that they were born not long ago, and their eyes are still open.

Zhan Zhao to see a lot.

Duoduo blinked his big eyes.

Zhan Zhao is powerless, it seems that some cat came to give birth, Duoduo not only lent it a litter, but also helped watch the cat when it went out to look for food.

"It's a black cat." Xiao Liangzi squatted by the cat's nest and looked at the clumps of black kittens.

At this time, there was a "meow" from the roof, and a chubby black cat jumped down, lazily walked to the side of the cat's nest, lay down to feed the kittens, and glanced at the people at the door.Duoduo sniffed it, and the black cat stretched lazily, rubbing its tail against Duoduo's nose.

Zhan Zhao suddenly reached out and grabbed its tail.

Zhan Zhao pulled a small piece of fishing net from the black cat's tail.

Zhan Zhao took a look at the piece of fishing net, "It doesn't look like it's used to catch fish."

"Many people have lost cats recently..." Gongsun asked, "Could it be that someone is catching cats?!"

Zhan Zhao looked surprised, "Why are you catching cats?"

Just as he was thinking, he heard footsteps. At the door, Wang Chao ran in with a letter in his hand, "Master Zhan, I have your letter."

Zhan Zhao took it over, "A letter?"

Glancing at the envelope, Zhan Zhao almost sprayed it, only to see that there was only one signature on the envelope - Cat and Rat Killer Fairy!

Everyone opened their mouths wide and looked at the envelope—that's amazing!Is this mouse raised by Bai Yutang's family? !

Zhan Zhao had a premonition that the direction of this matter would make people speechless, so he took out the letter paper in the envelope and opened it, and Zhan's guard looked at the sky thoroughly, and it really wasn't the most outrageous, only more outrageous...

Gongsun and others circulated letters one after another.

The content of the letter is: A person who claims to be a cat and rat fairy said that since the arrival of Zhan Zhao, the number of cats in Kaifeng city has increased sharply, while the number of rats has become less and less. The immortal wants to seek justice for the innocent rats who died in vain.He claimed to have caught a thousand cats and hid them in Qingfeng Temple on Qingyang Mountain!At noon tomorrow, Ling Zhanzhao will bring 1000 taels of gold to Qingfeng Temple to pay for the redemption of the cat, and apologize to the mice all over the world, otherwise, he will burn the thousand kittens to death!

Zhan Wei scratched his head - indeed, there is only one cute mouse in the world...

In the afternoon, when Bai Yutang and Zhao Pu came back from their work, they met at the door and entered the room together, feeling annoyed and weird.

In the yard in front of Miaomiao Building, everyone gathered together to discuss, and Tianzun and Yin Hou were still circulating a letter.

A few students from Taixue also came to discuss together, and they could vaguely hear "rat spirit" or something.

Bai Yutang searched around, and saw Zhan Zhao leaning on a stone table in the corner of the yard, scratching his head.

The fourth son was sitting next to him, and there was a fat black cat squatting on the table. The fourth son fed it dried fish and said to it, "Go back to the stable to sleep after eating, and don't go out for a few days. Not safe."

Bai Yutang went to the table and sat down, and asked Zhan Zhao, "What happened?"

Zhan Zhao held his head in both hands without looking up, and stretched out his hand to wave to the distance.

At this time, Lin Yehuo, who was holding the letter paper, ran over, handed the letter paper to Bai Yutang, and asked, "Did you really do this?"

Bai Yutang was confused, he and Zhao Pu looked down at the letter...

After reading it, the corner of the Ninth Prince's mouth twitched, "Who is so boring?"

The fourth son was very nervous, "Jiujiu, is that mouse fairy really going to burn Hualiliu and big tigers to death?"

Zhao Pu couldn't laugh or cry, "If he burns dry, catch him and come back to light the wax!"

Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao, "What are you going to do?"

Zhan Zhao raised his head with a mournful face, indicating that Zhao Pu's proposal was good, "Catch it back and light some wax..."

Bai Yutang nodded, suddenly seemed to think of something, and asked, "Isn't there a cat race at noon tomorrow?"

……

The fifth master spoke, and the scene was silent.

Zhan Zhao suddenly raised his head, "That's right!"

Everyone saw that Zhan Zhao's displeased expression just now was replaced by a smile.

Gongsun asked, "You want to take advantage of this to save the cats instead of going to the cat race?"

Zhan Zhao was serious, "The cat's life is at stake..."

"Yeah, the cat's life is at stake." Bai Yutang reminded him, "If you don't go to the cat race meeting, it's a crime of deceiving the emperor. You are taking care of your own cat's life."

Zhan Zhao's face collapsed again, "It's such a coincidence that it happened in one day...how about discussing with the mouse fairy for another day?"

Zhao Pu suddenly asked, "Could it be such a coincidence that they happen to be on the same day?"

Everyone looked at him.

Fifth Master frowned slightly, "Do you think someone deliberately picked this day?"

"If Zhan Zhao participates in the cat competition, the foreign race will lose." Zhao Pu said, "So they will try to lure him away so that he can't participate in the competition?"

"This is indeed a problem!" Gongsun said, "If you don't go to the cat race meeting, you will be guilty of deceiving the emperor, but if you don't save those kittens, you will be resented by the people of Kaifeng City... The emperor can't die a thousand times because of a game." The life of a kitten... so if you choose one of the two, you can only give up the game."

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At this time, in the palace, after listening to Nangong's report, Zhao Zhen slapped the table, and Xiao Xiangxiang, who was sitting on the table, jumped up and looked up at her father Huanghuang.

Zhao Zhen gritted his teeth, "Dare to play dirty with me! Come, someone! Pass the decree to Zhan Zhao, let him not only win the cat competition, but also save the lives of all the kittens in Qingfeng Temple, and keep the rat alive." Fine, I want to punish myself!"

……

In the evening, Kaifeng Mansion.

Holding the letter in one hand and the gleaming imperial decree in the other, Zhan Zhao lay on the stone table and beat his head—Master Cat really fell into the hands of rat spirits in his life!

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