Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

Grand Master Pang looked at Zheng Shi in surprise: "You will spoil him like this!"

"Qingfeng has been with Yu'er for the past two years, and he hasn't learned anything well. It's because I raised this child uprightly that I can't get used to him. When he dies, he dies. When he dies, he kills harm for the people. You Just don't let my concubine know, it doesn't matter." Zheng once again emphasized to Grand Master Pang that this matter is not important, implying that he doesn't have to worry about it, but let Grand Master Pang take care of the follow-up matters and don't cause trouble for Pang Yanqing.

Grand Master Pang looked at Zheng Shi speechlessly: "You don't want me to take care of it, but you want me to handle the follow-up troubles for him."

"You killed a small number of people?" Zheng's face suddenly turned cold, and she looked at Grand Master Pang seriously, "I have never asked too much about Mr. Lang in these years. As I said earlier, I don't care about anything. If you can make do with it, if you can’t do anything about your son, you’ll already be dead!"

"Okay, okay, just listen to you. I didn't say I don't care. You don't know what I want to say? I'm just worried that the child will go astray in the future and end up hurting himself." Taishi Pang was very helpless.But after thinking about it, he was just complaining, Yan Qing's child was too stubborn, he had always had nothing to do with him, and in the end he just got used to it.

"Let's talk about it. With his clear temperament, he will definitely not cause you trouble. He is a hundred times smarter than the boss." When the eldest son Pang Yu was mentioned again, Zheng's chest couldn't help but feel stuffy, and his eyes flashed. tears.

Taishi Pang hurriedly comforted Zheng Shi, seeing that she was not well, he lost patience, and left with the excuse that he had business to do.

Mrs. Zheng didn't blame him either, knowing that although he didn't say anything, he was actually more sad than anyone else in his heart.

"Ma'am, Wangchen is here." The servant girl replied.

Zheng Shi allowed people to come in, and saw Wangchen holding a three-inch long square brocade box.When Mrs. Zheng heard that it was sent by her son, her gloomy mood was immediately relieved.

She took it over with a smile, opened it and saw that there was a wooden figurine the size of a palm in the brocade box, which was carved lifelike.The little wooden figurine is a woman with a benevolent face and smiling almond eyes. There is a crescent-shaped flower hairpin in her bun that is very eye-catching. The woman's hands are folded in front of her chest. There is still a jade bracelet hanging on the wrist of her left hand, but not on her right.

Zheng Shi looked familiar at the little wooden man's face, but after looking at the hairpin, he became more convinced, and glanced at the only jade bracelet on his left wrist.Zheng smiled until her eyes narrowed, and the unhappiness caused by thinking about Pang Yu's death just now disappeared without a trace.

"Young master spent three months carving this, and at first he broke his hand. In those few days, he was afraid of being discovered by his wife, so he dared not come to see you." Wangchen explained.

"The work is exquisite. If I didn't mention it, I would have thought it was made by that powerful craftsman. Look at this face, it is very smooth to the touch. The hairpins and bracelets I often wear are all carved on it meticulously. This skirt is also the same. The embroidered petals on the top are not missing a single petal. He really put his heart into it." Zheng was very moved, her eyes were red, and she felt that this child was so sensible and filial, which made her both happy and distressed. He was obviously in poor health, but he spent all his energy doing it. This coaxes her.

"Madam, please don't cry. The young master did this to please the madam. The young master said that Mrs. Neng Bo will be satisfied with a smile." Wangyou said hastily.

Zheng smiled and said yes, wiped his eyes with a handkerchief, and then asked Wangyou how Pang Yanqing was doing recently, what was unusual, or he was talking about who was there.

"Young Master has been looking for jade materials recently, and I am thinking that Young Master wants to play with carving jade, but there is no one who is talking about it."

"Still often go to the observation deck on the fifth floor?" Zheng asked.

"I still often go to the fifth floor, but I don't look at the observation tower like before. I always stand by the west window to watch." Wangchen replied with an icon.

Zheng raised her eyebrows in confusion: "West?"

Wangchen added: "It's the direction of Kaifeng Mansion."

Mrs. Zheng didn't know that Princess Pingkang is now the cook of Kaifeng Mansion, so she couldn't figure it out at this moment, her brows were tightly frowned, and she was completely puzzled.But Wangchen knew in his heart that no matter which side his young master looked at, it meant the same thing.

……

Zhang House.

Zhao Hanyan and Bai Yutang began to search Miss Zhang's residence. The floor in the hall was very clean, not even dust, let alone paper balls.Zhao Hanyan checked the vase, the window sill and the outside of the window by the way, and then went to the bedroom, but couldn't find it.Going to the ear room, there is a sandalwood table next to the window. On the left side of the table is a chessboard and chess basket, and on the right side is a pen, ink, paper and inkstone.There is also a white porcelain painting jar beside the sandalwood table, but there are no paintings in it, they are all written on rice paper, which is full of wrinkles.

This rice paper was twisted into a ball before and then unfolded again, which is why it is like this.

"This should be when the government officials in Kaifeng Mansion were searching this morning, they opened the paper balls one by one to check for clues." Zhao Hanyan pondered.

Bai Yutang nodded, and said again: "When I visited last night, they were playing chess here."

Zhao Hanyan looked at the opened balls of paper again, and found that the words inside were all correct.Occasionally there are two other sentences, all of which are dialogues such as "you lose" and "three cups of fines". It seems that the two people are playing chess and making a pair to compare winning and losing. There is nothing special about the content. place.

But when Zhao Hanyan took out all the paper in the vat, he found a piece of yellow paper the size of a fingernail at the bottom of the vat. Zhao Hanyan was about to take it out to see it, but was stopped by Bai Yutang.

"Be careful, it's poisonous." After Bai Yutang said, he took out the paper ball with a silk handkerchief, and slowly flattened the paper ball for Zhao Hanyan to see.

Zhao Hanyan fanned the yellow paper with his hand, inhaled the smell, then turned to ask Bai Yutang if he smelled it.

"Fried fish flavor." Bai Yutang said.

Zhao Hanyan pointed to the two spots of oil on the paper, "This is the evidence that the poison was placed in the food box."

"Well, it must be placed on the first layer. The fried food is oily and has a fishy smell." Zhao Hanyan took a clean rice paper, poured the yellow paper on the white veil onto the rice paper, and wrapped it tightly. Three layers, "so that it does not lose its flavor."

Bai Yutang praised Zhao Hanyan for his intelligence.

The two then returned to Kaifeng Mansion, and saw Wang Chao welcoming them as soon as they entered the door.

"Mr. Gongsun is questioning Shopkeeper Xue in Sansitang, but Shopkeeper Xue doesn't admit anything. At first, Mr. Li lied that Miss Zhang and Miss Lu Er both recognized him. Shopkeeper Xue didn't change his expression at all, and he just said that he was wronged. He was willing to confront the two girls. After listening to Mr. Gongsun's threats, he became even more angry, saying that the Kaifeng government was unreasonable, and if he was to be tortured to extract a confession, he would prove his will by death. I believe that the law of heaven is clear, and someone will prove his innocence after his death.

But who dares to let him die, our Kaifeng Mansion is in an extraordinary period, how many people are staring at us.If we make a mistake, we adults are afraid that we will all be killed by Grand Master Pang.I think this shopkeeper Xue is really powerful, he seems to know our plan, he is sure that we have no evidence, he speaks without fear, and he is very "righteous and seated". "

"I see." Zhao Hanyan agreed.Shopkeeper Xue's reactions had been expected, so it wasn't surprising.

Wang Chao hurriedly asked Zhao Hanyan and Bai Yutang if they had found the poisoned paper, and if they had any evidence that could directly testify against shopkeeper Xue.

Wang Chao looked at Zhao Hanyan with special hope, and begged Zhao Hanyan and Bai Yutang to tell him some good news.

Zhao Hanyan nodded, "I found something."

"One point is enough!" Wang Chao sighed with great contentment, and asked Zhao Hanyan and Bai Yutang to hurry to Sansi Hall to support Mr. Gongsun.

In the Sansi Hall, Gongsun Ce and Shopkeeper Xue were speechless, and they stared at each other.

Gongsun Ce then heard the hasty and brisk steps coming from outside the door, and he felt confident. Looking at shopkeeper Xue, he seemed to be a little bit 'hypocritical'.

Zhao Hanyan, Bai Yutang, and Wang Chao then entered the hall.

Shopkeeper Xue turned his head and glanced at Zhao Hanyan, but remained silent.

Gongsun Ce went to get some tea and seemed to be in no hurry to ask questions.

Zhao Hanyan looked at Shopkeeper Xue standing in the center of the ground, and asked Gongsun Ce: "He is also destined to be related to our Kaifeng mansion, can you give me a stool?"

"Give a stool?" Wang Chao sighed in surprise, and then realized that this might be some kind of tactic of the little cook, and hurriedly added, "I'll do it!"

Wang Chao hurriedly moved a bench and placed it behind Shopkeeper Xue.

"Please sit down!"

Because shopkeeper Xue was treated like this, he couldn't guess what kind of medicine they were selling in the gourd.He didn't sit down immediately, but looked at Gongsun Ce.

After Gongsun Ce finished his tea, he reached out his hand to signal shopkeeper Xue: "Kaifeng mansion is not a place where torture is used to extract confessions. Don't worry shopkeeper Xue, as long as you are innocent, we will definitely not do anything to you."

Shopkeeper Xue hesitated, then sat on the bench.

"Last night in Wangyou Pavilion, there was a little girl who went to Zhang's mansion to deliver meals. Can Shopkeeper Xue admit this?"

"recognize."

Zhao Hanyan showed shopkeeper Xue the yellow paper bag he had just picked up.

"Do you smell it? Do you see the oil spots on it?" Zhao Hanyan asked the Yacha to show the shopkeeper Xue the food box from Wangyou Pavilion last night.

Shopkeeper Xue looked at it, and slowly explained: "I didn't know about this last night. I wasn't in Wangyou Pavilion last night. It was the waiter who took over the work and delivered the food according to the order. The food money is recorded in the account, and when I came back in the morning, I saw the account book and found out that Zhang's house had ordered dinner."

Zhao Hanyan: "Since shopkeeper Xue doesn't know, then we have to thoroughly investigate Wangyou Pavilion. First seal it up, then arrest people and interrogate them one by one. Please explain clearly where shopkeeper Xue was last night. You should know that even if this matter You didn't directly participate, it was your subordinates who did the work, and you couldn't escape being involved in what happened in your Wangyou Pavilion."

"I settled the accounts at Sanchun Building last night. All the guys in Sanchun Building can prove it for me, and there are many guests there." Shopkeeper Xue then said to Zhao Hanyan, "Please do a thorough investigation and return my innocence. I am indeed innocent. Yes, it's just that I'm unlucky, and I've always been involved in some strange cases recently."

As usual, Gongsun Ce asked shopkeeper Xue if he had anything to say, and shopkeeper Xue shook his head.

Gongsun Ce felt that with the situation of shopkeeper Xue, he would not be able to ask any more questions.Wherever the evidence shows that he is a person, he will talk about that step, and he will definitely not say more.

"Why don't you let shopkeeper Xue rest in the prison and calm down, maybe you can think of some details to help us solve the case." Zhao Hanyan suggested.

Gongsun immediately asked someone to take shopkeeper Xue away, and then ordered Ren Dynasty and others to bring everyone from Wangyou Pavilion back for interrogation.

After the dynasty finished interrogating these people, it reported the situation to everyone.

"The waiter said that after the kitchen dishes were ready, they were put in the food box. He didn't even look at them and sent them directly to Zhang's mansion. The eight dishes in the food box were made by three cooks together. The same thing will be put inside. The top two fried foods are made by a chef surnamed Wei, and the pastry has been prepared a long time ago, and finally put in by the cook surnamed Wang. When the last layer was installed, the two The cooks were all by the food box, and didn't see anything else in the first layer of the food box."

Zhao Hanyan later took the food and went to question the waiter and the three cooks again. From their voices, it can be basically judged that their confessions are true.

"The poison is placed on the first floor. Compared with the bottom two floors, there is actually a higher risk of exposure. If it is a cook or a waiter, they should have enough time to hide the medicine in a deeper place below. I The person who wanted to put the medicine must have waited for the dishes to be loaded, and then hurriedly stuffed them in while no one was paying attention."

Zhao Hanyan just speculated, and then asked the waiter if he had left the food box after taking it, and the waiter firmly said no.

"Think again." Zhao Hanyan told him not to worry.

"It seems that there is a person, because I accidentally bumped into him, and he asked me to shine his shoes, so I temporarily put down the food box." The waiter in the shop just thought about it, and told Zhao Hanyan that the identity of that person was the Minister of Rites, Qu. Rongfa's son Qu Changle.

"So shopkeeper Xue is really innocent?" Bai Yutang frowned.

"Shopkeeper Xue appears in too many coincidences. In fact, he is unlikely to be innocent." Zhao Hanyan suddenly thought of something, and said to Bai Yutang, "There is another possibility. He is really innocent, but he is deliberately creating these coincidences to make people feel innocent." We've got our eyes on him."

"It's unlikely, who would be idle and accuse himself of suspicion?" Wang Chao didn't believe it.

"The so-called 'striking from the east to the west'." Gongsun Ce frowned.

Bai Yutang spoke coldly and participated in the discussion: "If you find out what his purpose is, then everything will be clear."

"It's very risky to do this, and it's easy for him to fall into it, and be mistaken for the murderer and die. If it's done on purpose, there must be a big secret behind this shopkeeper Xue." Gongsun Ce rubbed his temples, although the matter of poisoning is now A suspect appeared, but it still made him frown, fearing that there might be some uncertainties, "Qu Changle is the son of the Minister of Rites. Put shopkeeper Xue in prison, and try to find out more about his reality."

Gongsun Ce then asked how to trick Miss Zhang and Miss Lu.

"What kind of character will the 'masters' of the two girls be, and how will they communicate with them?"

"This person himself is a powerful person, so they are placed in such a big house and let them live a prosperous life. There is no doubt that the girls respect and worship the 'master' very much. In their eyes, the 'master' dominates everything and bestows Simply speaking, the master is to them what the emperor is to us. In their eyes, the "master" is omnipotent, and it is normal to send someone to the prison to contact them. The contact itself will not arouse their suspicion But if the identity of the messenger is wrong, it will arouse their suspicion."

"Is this still a matter of identity?" Wang Chao asked in surprise.

"Of course, it's better for the messenger to be someone with a little status in Kaifeng Mansion. For example, the head of the prison, such as Judge Shi, this will make it easier for them to believe, but if it is a servant who sweeps the floor or a prisoner who just arrived next door, it will make them feel sick. Doubtful." Zhao Hanyan explained.

Wang Chao was stunned, feeling that he had gained knowledge again.

Zhao Hanyan: "Judging from the behavior of this 'master', it can be inferred that he is a bold but meticulous, talented and attractive man. To put it simply: talented, conceited, one-sided, compliant Chang. If you use the temper of the 'master' to send messages to the two girls, you must follow these four points."

Gongsun Ce promised to keep these four points in mind, and thank Zhao Hanyan for his help in analysis.

Wang Chao was already dumbfounded, even though he already knew that the little cook had a good way of reading people's hearts, but after hearing what he said, he would still be as amazed as if he heard it for the first time.Now in his eyes, Zhao Hanyan is just like the shining golden Buddha, which makes him have the urge to kneel down and worship.It's a pity that Ma Han and Zhang Long are not here, otherwise they will definitely be as amazed as him.

At this time, not only Zhao Hanyan was staring at Zhao Hanyan, but someone else was staring at him longer than him, and he couldn't even blink his eyes.

After hearing Zhao Hanyan's farewell to Gongsun Ce, Bai Yutang set his eyes on Zhao Hanyan's bowing hands.He really wanted to hold that white and slender wrist again and prove one thing.

Bai Yutang followed Zhao Hanyan away from Sansitang, and followed her to the kitchen.

The air-dried ramen that Su Yuerong made before is ready, and each strand is very thin.

After Zhao Hanyan arrived in the kitchen, he let the Laiwang water boil, put the fine noodles into the pot, and kept stirring them with long bamboo chopsticks.Then pick out the fine noodles, put them in cold water for a while, filter the water and put them on a plate.

Zhao Hanyan brought a pot of shrimp, rolled up his sleeves and carefully wrapped each shrimp with noodles.After wrapping up two plates of shrimp, Zhao Hanyan realized something, and looked at Bai Yutang who was watching him quietly.He was surprised today, he came to the kitchen with him and didn't talk, she didn't ask what it was when she made such a new thing, let alone asked for help.

Zhao Hanyan: "Do you have something on your mind?"

Bai Yutang moved his eyelids, moved away from Zhao Hanyan, and looked elsewhere, "In a daze, thinking about the case."

For a moment, he was really thinking about the case, thinking about how the little cook focused on analyzing the character of the murderer, which was eye-catching and admirable, so his answer was not a lie.

"It's difficult, isn't it?" Zhao Hanyan sighed while entwining the shrimp, "So I suddenly wanted to make this dish for everyone to eat."

Only then did Bai Yutang notice the things in Zhao Hanyan's hand, and saw that she had wrapped two coils.I couldn't help but question myself in my heart, why did I stare at him for so long?

"What are you doing, it's fresh, noodles wrapped around shrimp?"

"Yes, it's called noodle shrimp." Zhao Hanyan replied.

Bai Yutang originally wanted to ask if it would taste good, but then he thought that there is nothing bad about the food prepared by the little cook, so why bother to ask nonsense.

"Then have you figured out your case?" Zhao Hanyan asked.

"The temperament of the 'master' you analyzed sounds very similar to Qu Rongfa, Minister of the Ministry of Officials. I met him by chance a year ago, in the Zhuangyuan Building, with two other ministers, but he walked away. In the center, there is a lot of chatting and laughing, with a good way of speaking, and it can be seen that the person is very arrogant. Although this person was promoted by Grand Master Pang, he was promoted quickly, and he has the current position. But if this person does not have some talent, how can he be admitted to Grand Master Pang? eyes?" Bai Yutang expressed his opinion.

Zhao Hanyan nodded after listening carefully, "It's probably him."

"I used to speak very rigorously, so how can you be sure about what I just said this time?" Bai Yutang asked with a smile, hoping to hear Zhao Hanyan say something that would make him happy.

"Pang Yanqing also said it was him." Zhao Hanyan said honestly.

Bai Yutang frowned, "You haven't met him a few times, but you trust him very much. Maybe he's not a bad guy, but aren't you being too careless?"

After Zhao Hanyan coughed twice, he explained to Bai Yutang, "Maybe it's because I met him in the temple when I was young, and we talked for a long time. He has been different since he was a child, and when I meet him again, I can feel that he hasn't changed much. , It’s just that he is stronger than before, at that time he was really fragile, as brittle as an egg skin, he is not bad.”

Bai Yutang nodded, washed his hands by the way, and helped Zhao Hanyan wrap the shrimp.The noodles are a bit slippery, and it takes some patience and work to ensure that the shrimp body is well wrapped by the noodles.

"Anyway, you have to wait, and you can calm your mind by doing this job. When you focus on this, you won't be too anxious about this case. Besides, no matter how big the case is, everyone must have something to eat, otherwise Have the stamina to continue the case."

After Yan Shu came out of the narrow passage, he was anxious to say hello to the two of them, but saw that the two handsome young men were too busy looking at him.Yan Shu waited politely, hoping that they would find out on their own initiative.In the end, I found that the two of them became more and more involved in chatting, completely ignoring him.

It's time to remind them of their own existence.

"What delicious food are you doing here?"

When Zhao Hanyan saw Yan Shu, he was pleasantly surprised: "Why is Lord Yan here?"

"I smelled that you were going to cook delicious food, so I came here specially for the banquet. By the way, I will tell you one thing, Zheng Qingfeng is dead."

"Who is Zheng Qingfeng?" Zhao Hanyan asked puzzled.

"Pang Taishi's nephew, this guy is only a little less asshole and cruel than Pang Yu. It just so happened that he died in Wutong County outside the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture, so this matter is under the jurisdiction of our Criminal Department."