Dragon Pattern Roll Set

The big rabbits piled up by the crowd were seriously affected by the people walking on the road in the state capital, so they were ordered by Bao Zheng to shovel them down.

So early in the morning, a large group of yamen servants were shoveling snow rabbits at the door.

Zhan Zhao only took a short nap last night, and had all kinds of strange dreams, all of which were quarreling with Xue Baigui and Qin Lisheng at Baigui Villa.As for why it was a quarrel instead of a fight, Zhan Weiwei couldn't explain clearly, but it was true that he didn't sleep well, so that the two dark circles under his eyes were clearly visible.

Bai Yutang's room is right next to Zhan Zhao's. Last night, he heard the cat tossing and turning on the bed. Sure enough, when he went out, he bumped into Zhan Zhao with two dark circles under his eyes, like a bamboo bear, yawning and rubbing his neck. ——A look on my face that I haven't woken up.

Bai Yutang looked him up and down, "Are you having a nightmare?"

"Almost..." Zhan Zhao yawned and stretched a lot, when he heard a "stab" sound from behind him.

Zhan Zhao blinked and turned around...

I saw Xiao Wu behind me, and I didn't know if it was making trouble on purpose, or if it wanted to say good morning to Zhan Zhao, but I saw it tugging at the back of Zhan Zhao's clothes...

Zhan Zhao stared at his half in Xiao Wu's mouth for a while, his face wrinkled into a bun, "Are you here again?!"

Xiao Wu shook his big head, shook off the back swing, rubbed against Zhan Zhao twice like a big cat, hooked his tail, and brought up the half of the back swing.

Bai Yutang stomped hard enough to hold back the "poof" from his lips. It is estimated that Zhan Zhao's monthly salary will not only support Xiao Wu, but also buy a lot of clothes, and two of them will be torn in a blink of an eye.

Zhan Zhao took a deep breath, rolled up his arms, rolled up his sleeves, and turned his head to catch Xiao Wu, "You're overwhelmed! You tore two of my shirts, so I'll pay you! If you don't pay, I'll kill you!"

So, everyone in Kaifeng who was a little sleepy because of drinking and not getting enough sleep last night saw Zhan Zhao chasing Xiao Wu around in the yard.

"The spirit is so good." Gongsun yawned.

Outside the courtyard, Zhao Pu came in carrying Xiaosi who was eating a rice dumpling.

The fourth son has been used to being carried by Zhao Pu recently, sitting high and looking far away, the scenery from above is unique.

After a hasty breakfast, everyone was busy with their own affairs.

Master Bao continued to provide disaster relief, Zhao Pu led his troops to distribute supplies, Gongsun's autopsy was added to treat patients who came here admiringly, leaving behind Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang, and the most idle youngest son.

The fourth son was wrapped in a white sheepskin jacket and a hat with rabbit ears, sitting on the back of a black tiger, shaking his little boots with bells, while reading an idle book.

Zhan Zhao sat on a stone bench next to him, reading a dossier, which Zhe Ying and a few shadow guards helped him inquire about, about the activities of Baigui Villa and Pan Laosan in recent years.A generous share, these few are military spies who specialize in inquiring about the enemy's situation, Zhan Zhao always feels that it is overkill to let them take the wind.But having said that, an expert is an expert, reliable, the collection is so detailed, even what the two of them usually like to eat and drink.

Bai Yutang was also sitting at the table, and in his hand was a dossier, which Ziying got from somewhere, the accounts of Baigui Villa, and the property of several headed family members.

Yue Ya'er was sitting by his hand, quickly turning the abacus, as if helping to settle the accounts, and Chen Xing'er reported the number.

"Master, it's all over." Yue Ya'er showed Bai Yutang the final total.

Bai Yutang glanced at it, then compared the accounts in his hand, and frowned.

"How?" Zhan Zhao leaned over.

"I'm sorry." Bai Yutang said, "The actual income of Baigui Villa is far more than their income from selling wood and medicinal materials!"

"Really selling Wangyousan?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "But if it's really like Wang Zhifu said, they are doing such a large-scale Wangyousan business, and it seems that they should be earning more than this."

"Lao San Pan doesn't own much real estate, and seems to be wholeheartedly trying to make money for Baigui Villa." Yue Ya'er frowned holding a large account book, "So selfless."

"Ghost letter." Zhan Zhao muttered, "He can do good things sows climb trees, he must be weird! Let's find out where all the money has gone."

Bai Yutang nodded.

Zhan Zhao looked at the clues from the investigation of the shadow guards in his hand, "The third Pan's favorite places are the theater and a teahouse, and there is a confidante in Xiaoyan building."

"Lao San Pan going to the theater?" Bai Yutang was curious, would this kind of martial arts practitioner like to go to the theater?

Zhan Zhao rubbed his chin, "Did you change your sex after leaving Kaifeng?"

"How do you say it?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Pan Xu is eager for quick success, and puts all his energy into climbing up, so he won't go to see any theater troupe." Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes slightly, "There should be something wrong with this theater."

"Why don't we go and have a look?" Bai Yutang asked.

Zhan Zhao was taken aback, "Want to watch a play in the theater?"

"I'll go too!" The fourth son was bored, and clapped his hands happily when he heard that he was going to the theater to watch a play.

"Hmm..." Zhan Zhao seemed a little embarrassed.

"What?" Bai Yutang asked him.

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, "Am I following Lord Bao to help the disaster? Everyone is busy. If I go to the theater..."

Bai Yutang understood and nodded. Indeed, acquaintances certainly knew that Zhan Zhao had gone to investigate the case, but the last name of the boss of the Kaizhou government was unknown. If it got out, wouldn't Kaifeng government lose face?

"Then let me go." Bai Yutang said, "Anyway, I'm not from the Kaifeng Mansion, nor from the Zhao Family Army." As he spoke, he lifted the fourth son up, "I'll take him there by the way, and take the children to the theater Well, it's normal."

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a while, then suddenly covered his mouth and laughed.

Bai Yutang looked at him with some puzzlement.

Why is Zhan Zhao laughing?It's normal for Bai Yutang to take his children to the theater... so funny!

However, in the end it was decided that Bai Yutang would take the fourth son to the theater, and Zhan Zhao would go to the inn opposite the opera garden and find a room with a good view to watch over.The premise is that the two have agreed that Bai Yutang is just going to investigate the situation, and try not to startle the enemy. Of course, having the fourth son is the best cover.

The two split up, and Bai Yutang took the fourth son to the last famous opera garden in Yanzhou Prefecture, which is also the one that Pan Laosan often goes to. lively.

The fourth son is not a very lively child, nor is he very naughty, and he will not be very excited when he sees juggling or something, but he will be curious and shy, hiding behind Bai Yutang, and watching again.

Bai Yutang led him into the theater... Fortunately, there were so many people, many of them with children, that no one noticed him.

Zhan Zhao went to a room on the second floor of the opposite inn. He couldn't see the downstairs clearly, but it was facing the window of a private room on the second floor. If Bai Yutang could go upstairs and stay in this room, then he could see clearly .

Zhan Zhao was thinking about it when he heard a "stab".

Leng Leng Leng, turn around...

Xiao Wu held half of his clothes in his mouth and looked up at him.

The corner of Zhan Zhao's mouth twitched... What's wrong with this big cat? !Do you like pulling the back of people's clothes so much? !No, I haven't seen it talk about other people, only about itself!

Zhan Zhao is so angry, he only brought out a few clothes in total, and three of them were scrapped in one go!But this is not the time to chase Xiao Wu and beat it up, Zhan Zhao turned his head and glared at it, "I'll deal with you later!"

After speaking, continue to monitor.

Xiao Wu clawed at the window sill with his front paws, watching the situation outside together with Zhan Zhao, while his tail continued to flick the back of Zhan Zhao's half-broken clothes.

……

Seeing that there seemed to be a private room on the second floor, Bai Yutang went upstairs.

"Oh." At this moment, a man who looked like a buddy stepped forward to stop him, "My lord, only regular customers can enter the upstairs."

Bai Yutang glanced at him, the clerk was taken aback, thinking that this young man is so handsome.

"What counts as a frequent visitor?" Bai Yutang asked.

"It's just that I've watched a year's worth of plays, five cents a play..." Before the clerk finished speaking, Bai Yutang handed him a silver ticket, "Have you watched a year's worth of plays?"

"Uh..." The clerk held the bank note with eyes shining, and let it go upstairs, "That's enough, please go upstairs." He yelled at the clerk upstairs, "Regular customer, I want a private room!"

The guy upstairs agreed and came out to pick it up immediately.

The steps of the stairs were quite high, almost reaching the fourth son's knees, he struggled to get up, Bai Yutang stretched out his arms to pick him up, went upstairs, and at the same time looked at the noisy crowd downstairs who were watching the theater and juggling.When I went upstairs, I realized that the bottom is so big, and the number of people is more than [-]...

Bai Yutang couldn't help but frowned——do the people in this prefecture like to go to theaters so much?

After going up to the second floor, a clerk graciously led Bai Yutang to an elegant small room, brought him refreshments, and told him that he could see from both sides of the window, that he could see from the east and the west.

Bai Yutang nodded, and the clerk went out, helped him close the door, went to push open the rear window... looked up, and sure enough, he saw Zhan Zhao lying on the bedside with Heihu, and seeing the window opened, Zhan Zhao smiled at him beckoning.

Bai Yutang looked at him and then at Heihu—of course it was from his own family!His demeanor is like that!

The fourth son took out a small pouch from his pocket and put it on the table.

At first, Bai Yutang wondered what was inside the bulging little purse, but the fourth son opened the purse and took out a curtain, opened it, and there was a row of silver needles inside, which were the silver needles that Gongsun usually used for acupuncture.

Zhan Zhao squinted his eyes and saw that the fourth son in the opposite room was sitting and messing with something. Although it was facing each other, but after all, it was across the street, so he couldn't hear the people talking clearly and couldn't see clearly. Zhan Zhao was in a hurry. .

"Little Si, what are you doing?" Bai Yutang was a little puzzled.

The fourth son narrowed his eyes, "Daddy said you have to be careful when you go out!" After speaking, he picked up a silver needle and poked it inside the tea cake to confirm that it was not poisonous. He put away the silver needle and grabbed two pieces of sweet-scented osmanthus cake. Giving one to himself and one to Bai Yutang, he ran to the window to watch him somersaulting.

Zhan Zhao was frowning and looking around, when suddenly he saw Bai Yutang raised his hand, as if he had thrown something at him, a white thing flew towards him, Zhan Zhao instinctively reached out to catch it, and looked down... a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake.

Zhan Zhao was a little speechless, gestured to Bai Yutang with an osmanthus cake in his mouth—be serious!

Bai Yutang shook his head, stood in the room, and looked around the surrounding environment first, it wasn't too high-end, but it was not bad for a small place like Baozhou Prefecture.

When he got to the east window, there was an opera being sung below, and he couldn't understand some local operas in the area of ​​Yanzhou.

Going to the other side, I saw many people playing juggling downstairs outside the window.

The fourth son looked at it with his face in his hands, and after eating a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake, he felt bored, raised his face to look at Bai Yutang, pouted and said, "It's boring."

Bai Yutang could understand what Xiao Sizi said was boring—it was no different from ordinary juggling troupes. There were many theaters in Kaifeng that sang local operas from all over the country, and famous troupes came here with new tricks. Xiao Sizi had seen them all. This kind of third-rate stuff is naturally boring.

The fourth son tilted his head, as if he had discovered something, ran to move a small bench, leaned half of his body out of the window to look around, startled Bai Yutang, quickly stretched out his hand to drag him back, and said to himself If he fell down and made something bad, Gongsun must fight him.

Not only Bai Yutang was taken aback, but Zhan Zhao was also taken aback, wondering at the same time—did he find something?

Heihu looked at him, and saw that he was impatient and unable to exert his strength, rubbing his head against him, which meant - let's play!

Zhan Zhao pushed its big face to the side—don't make any trouble.

"What did you see?" Bai Yutang asked the fourth son puzzled.

"These people don't watch theater or juggling, what are they doing here?" The fourth son was a little puzzled, "Is there anything else good to watch?"

Bai Yutang carried his youngest son, looked around, and frowned slightly—there were so many people downstairs, it was more lively than going to the market, just to see some third-rate troupe and jugglers?unreasonable.What's more, if you observe carefully, you will find that this group of people actually came and went, and then changed to another group in a blink of an eye. pole.

This side is watching seriously, and Zhan Zhao on the other side is grinding his teeth - what are you looking at? !

"Baibai." The fourth son suddenly patted Bai Yutang, pointed to the plates held by the waiters below and asked, "That walnut cake looks so expensive, isn't it delicious?"

Bai Yutang looked again, and saw a few waiters holding a tray with pieces of walnut cake on the plate, passing by, if anyone wanted one, he would give him a piece, and the man paid a few tens of pennies , Take away a piece of walnut cake.I didn't see them eating it, but they put it away. In a blink of an eye, the man left quickly, with walnut cake in his arms.

The fourth son narrowed his eyes, "That cake... so expensive."

Bai Yutang looked at him and asked, "Is a piece of walnut cake worth tens of pennies?"

The fourth son opened his mouth wide and looked up at him, "It's only five cents to watch a show!"

Bai Yutang blinked, "Then?"

The fourth son opened his mouth a little more, "A catty of walnut cake is only two or three pennies!"

"Really?" Bai Yutang touched his chin, as if it was the first time he had heard of it.

The fourth son stared at him for a while, "Do you know how much a pound of eggs cost?"

Bai Yutang nodded, "I know."

"How much?" Little Four squinted his eyes and asked.

Bai Yutang rubbed his chin, looked out embarrassedly, "This walnut cake is expensive..."

The fourth son pointed at him, "Pretend!"

Bai Yutang was helpless.

"How much is a grapefruit?" Little Four continued to ask.

Bai Yutang coughed.

"How much is a bucket of rice?"

Bai Yutang continued to cough.

"How much is a catty of salt?"

... Bai Yutang was still coughing, and the fourth son stretched out his hand to feel his pulse, and squinted at him—he didn't have a cold at all!Not knowing is not knowing.

Zhan Zhao on the opposite side is in a hurry, there are ten thousand kittens tickling in my heart, what do freshman novels do?Bai Yutang looked embarrassed, and the little fourth son looked serious... What the hell?

Hei Hu tilted his head to look at Zhan Zhao—his master is impatient!

……

Bai Yutang was silent for a while, "Isn't it strange?"

The fourth son raised his face, "I'm four and a half years old, I know it all, this is common sense in life!"

Bai Yutang scratched his head, speechless.

The fourth son patted him on the arm, and said seriously, "Bai Bai, you are easy to be tricked and sold when you go out!"

Bai Yutang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he thought that you little fat man was tricked into selling you.

The fourth son was very serious, and wanted to teach Bai Yutang some basic knowledge, so Bai Yutang stuffed a few pieces of snacks into his mouth, so that he would eat and have no time to talk.After that, Bai Yutang stood by the window, looking at the people below...

Zhan Zhao lay on the window and felt thirsty, so he got angry, grabbed the teapot and drank some water, and kept waving to the other side.

Bai Yutang saw it and looked towards him.

Zhan Zhao pointed at himself, trying to put on a puzzled expression.

Bai Yutang waved his hand, motioning him to wait.

Zhan Zhaowangtian—I can’t understand at all, where did the previous mind reading and telepathy go?

Bai Yutang observed for a long time. Although there was a lot of noise below, he could still hear some customers saying, "Do you have walnut cake?" The clerk would ask, "Yes, expensive or cheap?"

Customers will say, "The most expensive, the best."

Then the kind of guy who sells walnut cakes on a plate will come over, give money in one hand, and take cakes in the other, and those who take walnut cakes will basically leave.

"Um……"

Bai Yutang was watching, when he heard that the fourth son beside him had finally finished chewing the last bite of the walnut cake, and seemed to be about to speak again.

Bai Yutang was afraid that when he opened his mouth, what kind of cake would cost a catty, so he quickly stuffed another piece of cake into his mouth.

Xiaosi wrinkled his nose, took the pastry out of his mouth, and sniffed around, as if smelling something strange.

"What?" Bai Yutang asked him.

"Sweet." The fourth son rubbed his nose, "Hmm... the smell of tobacco."

"Tobacco?" Bai Yutang also paid attention to sniffing, there was indeed a sweet and delicate smell, which seemed to come from the next door.

Bai Yutang walked to the door, gently opened the door, and stepped out. When he reached the door of the next room, he could smell the sweet smell even stronger.

Zhan Zhao almost squatted on the window sill, why both of them ran out of the house?What did you find?

Xiao Wu put his black claws on Zhan Zhao's belt, which means - take it easy and don't fall off!

Bai Yutang looked left and right to see if there was no one there, and lightly poked a hole in the paper door of the next room, peeking inside, and saw a young man in fancy clothes lying on a couch, with two people next to him. With a beautiful woman as his companion, the man is holding a strange lamp, and he is puffing.

Bai Yutang heard the movement below, lowered his head, and saw that the fourth son also crept up to him, stretched out a finger and licked it, then "poof", pierced the paper door, and looked inside.

Bai Yutang looked up at the sky, stretched out his hands, picked up his little brother, and slipped into his own door, the moment the door was closed, a clerk from downstairs came up and knocked on the door next door, "Second Master, your cloud cake is here."

Then, there was a creaking sound, it seemed that one of the women who had been accompanying me came out, closed the door, took the cloud cake, and talked to the guy at the door.

I heard the guy ask, "How is the second master?"

"It's swallowing clouds and fog."

"Master Pan said, this is a distinguished guest, please be careful in serving him!" The man left after finishing speaking.

The girl went in holding the "cloud cake".

Bai Yutang leaned against the door and listened with his ears sideways. Looking down, the fourth son leaned against the door and listened with his ears sideways.

Bai Yutang was a little worried for Gongsun. The child followed them and Zhao Pu all over the world, and learned everything about eavesdropping and peeping.

Zhan Zhao on the opposite side is no longer entangled at this time, leaning on the bed with his chin resting on his chin and watching the big and small ones tossing and turning, thinking that he knew it would be a snack while eating.

Bai Yutang walked back to the table, poured a cup of tea for the fourth son, rubbed his chin to get angry.

After reading it correctly, I saw Zhan Zhao and Xiao Wu laying bored by the window, with the same expression, tilting their heads in confusion and boredom, probably not understanding what they were doing, after all, they couldn't hear the sound.

Bai Yutang grabbed a snack box on the table and threw it over.

Zhan Zhao catches the box and eats snacks—now telepathy works again?

Bai Yutang thought for a while, got up and opened the door, just in time a waiter passed by, "Yo, sir, what do you want?"

"I want the best Yunpian Cake." Bai Yutang said in a rather low voice.

Little Sizi blinked - oh, the best cloud cake!Sure enough, there are good things to eat for nothing.

Upstairs opposite, Zhan Zhao, with a snack in his mouth, was using the skill Yin Hou had taught him to improve his ear power, and he almost choked on the snack when he heard the words floating in the wind——Why does Baiyutang want cloud cakes?Could it be that if you stay with yourself for too long, you become a foodie?Or does the fourth son want to eat cloud cake?He remembered that Bai Yutang didn't like sweet things.Thinking of this, Zhan Zhao couldn't help shaking his head—this boring man!I don't like sweet or spicy food, I don't like vegetables or food, but I like drinking.

The clerk was slightly stunned, and then smiled, "Oh, there is in the eight-treasure snack box that Yun Pian Cake sent in before, do you want more?"

Bai Yutang glanced at him, "I don't know if it's true that Lao Pan said there are good things here, but it's true that the guy doesn't know how to do things."

"Oh." The man immediately smiled, "Look at what this master said, it turns out that he is a friend of Master Pan. You should have said it earlier, and I will serve you the best dim sum." After finishing speaking, he laughed and ran away .

After a while, he came back, carrying a tray with a very delicate porcelain box on it, and a weird lamp beside it, just like what they saw that "Second Master" smoking next door.

Bai Yutang nodded, took it, and threw a piece of silver to the buddy.

The buddy ran away.

Bai Yutang returned to the table and put down the tray.

The fourth son came over and looked at Bai Yutang seriously.

Bai Yutang looked at him, startled - what's wrong with the little guy.

The fourth son said in a muffled voice, "Such a small box of Yunpian cake, you actually gave him such a large ingot of silver, what a prodigal!"

Bai Yutang laughed.

The fourth son continued to despise Bai Yutang, "You also said that Zunzun spends money recklessly, and you spend even more recklessly, and you don't even know how to save a little."

Bai Yutang shook his head, pointed to the porcelain box, "It's not cloud cake."

The fourth son tilted his head.

Bai Yutang opened the box.

I saw that there were not pieces of pure white cloud cakes inside, but a box of black ointment, like an ointment made from boiled medicine, brown and black, it seemed to be soft, but it felt sticky and tenacious.

The fourth son was stunned for a moment, picked up the porcelain box and smelled it, then frowned and put it down, "It's Wangyou San."

"Are you sure?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Yeah, daddy taught me to recognize it." The fourth son nodded, and then looked at the lamp next to him, as if he understood, "Oh, they are selling Wangyou San under the name of selling pastries. Ah, no wonder a piece of pastry is so expensive, and there is medicine hidden in it!"

Bai Yutang nodded, and patted the head of the fourth son—is he quite clever?

From a distance, Zhan Zhao saw Bai Yutang and the fourth son sitting around the table wondering what to study, he couldn't hear clearly, and couldn't exert his strength, so he was sighing helplessly, when suddenly he heard someone from below say, "Mr. , why are you here..."

Zhan Zhao lowered his head and frowned——saw a carriage approaching the door of the troupe, the curtain of the carriage was raised, Pan Xu came down, and the staff hurried out to meet him.

Zhan Zhao frowned, Pan Xu is here, don't bump into Bai Yutang and the fourth son.

After thinking about it, Zhan Zhao kept waving to the second floor opposite.

Bai Yutang and the fourth son were studying the tobacco leaves, but they didn't pay attention to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao is in a hurry.

Boss Pan entered the theater, looked around, and asked the waiter, "Has anyone from Kaifeng Mansion come these two days?"

"No Lord!" said the man, "We are all watching."

"Be careful recently. If you find anything wrong, close the deal." Mr. Pan said as he walked to the second floor.

"Don't worry, Master Pan, we are watching closely."

Bai Yutang raised his head after studying Wangyousan, and saw Zhan Zhao waving at him and pointing to the door.

At this moment, Bai Yutang sensed that someone was coming upstairs, so he stepped behind the door to listen.

Then I heard someone's voice coming from outside the door, "Master Pan, the second master is here, and I'm greeting you according to your instructions."

"Oh." Pan Xu nodded, "You have to be careful, but the rumors are getting tighter recently. After all, Bao Zheng is here. When those regular customers leave later, tell them that it's best to eat at home these two days. Dim sum, don't come outside."

"That's it." The man nodded, and suddenly said, "By the way, you still have a friend here, who can spend a lot of money. Mr. Pan is Mr. Pan, and all you know are high-ranking officials and dignitaries."

……

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, and said inwardly - it's not good!

Sure enough, Pan Xu seemed a little puzzled, "Another friend? Who is it?"

At this moment, if Pan Xu broke in and saw Bai Yutang, it would be like scaring the snake away.But even if Bai Yutang hurried away with the fourth son in his arms, with Pan Xu's shrewdness, he should be able to smell it, and he should be cautious, and he might even accept the deal, which would be a warning anyway.

Bai Yutang looked across and saw that Zhan Zhao was no longer in the room.