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Everyone Yaoxiangge has gained a lot, and at the same time, they feel a headache, do they have to think of a way to cancel tomorrow's trip to Haotianlou, or simply don't eat sauce pig's trotters? But it is provided by others, and even the silver needles can't be tried with the addition of herbs, maybe it's not just pig's trotters that are poisonous, so everyone has to count on going to the eighth prince to discuss Zhao Pu.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also went back to Kaifeng Mansion to discuss with Master Bao.

As soon as I entered the courtyard of Mr. Bao, I saw Mr. Bao and Mrs. Bao drinking tea, as if discussing something.

Seeing Zhanzhao and Bai Yutang coming in with Gongsun and Xiao Sizi, he beckoned to them and asked them to sit down and drink tea together.

After everyone finished talking about the clues of Yaoxiang Pavilion's investigation, Master Bao also fell into confusion after reading Si Tong's letter.

"It's weird." Master Bao frowned and pondered, "Wang Feng actually joined forces with the people of Yaoxiang Pavilion to give so many medicines to the guests of Haotian Tower......

Mrs. Bao also looked at the account book, "Strange, it is not the nobles of the palace who were poisoned, some people with knowledge and a little bit of wealth, poisoning either makes people temporarily lose their minds or makes people lose their memories or what, what is the picture?" ”

While they were discussing, Master Pang also came, and while walking inside, he said, "Old Bao, I found out something." ”

Master Bao asked him to sit down, didn't let him speak first, and showed him Si Tongxin.

After reading it, Taishi raised his eyebrows, "Oh, it's almost the same as the old man's investigation, I asked six acquaintances, and some people know that the Criminal Department of the Dao Dao is a little strange recently, and there are more and more prisoners in the prison who are dying inexplicably, and most of them are felons who have no family, which makes people in the prison panic and say that there are ghosts eating people." In addition, some prisoners at the border gate suddenly disappeared, and when they were investigated, they only said that they had died of illness halfway through. ”

After the master finished speaking, Bao Zheng looked at him for a long time, and spoke, "I said ......"

Master Pang raised his hand, "Don't rush, do you dare to come to see you so much!" I've really got some other questions. ”

Everyone looked at the Taishi curiously, and said in their hearts, "Have you heard any important clues?"

"Tsk." Taishi smacked his lips before he spoke, "This is the matter...... Involved in some people's private affairs, if it is not to solve the case, it is not easy to say it behind your back. ”

Everyone made him happy.

Bao Zheng smiled, "Just say it." ”

"That's right." The Taishi held a cup of tea and whispered, "Actually, although Wang Feng and the princess are married, they are political marriages. ”

Master Bao looked at the mysterious Pang Ji with some amusement, "Wang Feng is just the son of the prime minister, and he is younger than the princess, let alone the early retirement of Prime Minister Wang, even if he is in the court, is the power half as big as you?" Looking for Wang Feng's political marriage, it is better to recruit you directly as a colt. ”

"Phew!" Pang Ji asked Master Bao to pause and stomp his feet, "Oops! Political marriage is good, but the ugly thing is that the princess fell in love with Wang Feng back then, and she snatched love with a knife! ”

Everyone was slightly stunned.

"What does it mean to snatch love with a knife?" Zhan Zhao was curious, "Did Wang Feng have a lover?" ”

"Yes, a civilian woman, she makes umbrellas at home, and she looks very good, but unfortunately she is a mute." Taishi said, "It is said that when Wang Feng was still studying at □ time, he was drenched in soup on the road when it rained, so he ran to the eaves of the girl's shop to hide from the rain." Probably to save money, I would rather hide than buy an umbrella, so the girl saw it and came to borrow an umbrella for him. ”

Everyone raised their eyebrows - the Taishi is enough, he can really hear anything.

"Wang Feng will always go from now on, that girl can't speak, but she writes quite well, and the two of them get better and better, and it is said that they have made a private agreement for life." Taishi continued, "Wang Feng is good at painting, and he is good at painting flowers and birds, and the princess at that time was not like Zhao Lan and the others who could go to Taixue to study. The princess loves to paint and wants to ask a painter to teach, so the emperor asked her to choose among many paintings, pick out what she likes, and let the painter enter the palace to teach her. It was such a coincidence that the princess fell in love with Wang Feng's painting at a glance, and it was a great honor to teach the princess to be a painter for the royal family, and it was also a beautiful difference, so Wang Feng went to the palace. came and went, Wang Feng didn't pay attention to himself, but the princess took a fancy to him, so she told the emperor. At that time, the emperor, that is, the first emperor, was actually the princess's brother, the two had a very good relationship, and when he heard that the royal sister had a liking, he specially invited Wang Chengxiang to bring Wang Feng to the banquet. But Wang Feng had a good relationship with the dumb girl at that time, and the second elder of the girl's family had already taken Wang Feng as a quasi-son-in-law, you think, this is the son of the prime minister's family, although he is not a pro, but his own ordinary people are still a dumb girl, which is considered to be a high climb, and the second elder still feels that the girl is blessed again. was originally happy, but who knew that not long after the Dao, the emperor really gave marriage. ”

Everyone frowned, this is a stick to beat the mandarin ducks, did the emperor ask before he made the decree.

"Wang Feng is a dead eye." Taishi said slowly, "When the holy decree came down, the prime minister was overjoyed, Wang Feng recruited a horse is equivalent to flying in the future, and the future is unlimited!" But he happily told Wang Feng, but he refused. ”

Everyone raised their eyebrows, and they couldn't help but have a good impression of Wang Feng, who was going to poison them.

"Wang Feng is unwilling to live or die, so he wants to marry a dumb girl." Taishi sighed, "This kid was also a lover when he was young, the prime minister said that he just didn't want to, and he was ready to elope with the dumb sister, you think, the holy decree has been issued, and if you don't get married, it is tantamount to resisting the decree, and you want to kill your head." Besides, don't want to be dumb, this is because I don't want the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty to be mixed, which means that the future is also ruined, and then I heard that the dumb girl hanged herself in order not to affect Ailang. ”

"Dead?!" Everyone was amazed.

"What can be done?" Taishi stretched out his hands helplessly, "That girl can't watch Wang Feng resist the decree in order to marry her, right?" Being a concubine can't even be a concubine, which means that there is no hope of holding on, and it is estimated that the temperament is also quite strong, not in this life, and waiting for the next life. ”

Everyone was a little speechless.

Bai Yutang looked at the Taishi and asked, "Is that girl really self-conscious?" ”

Zhanzhao frowned, "You doubt ......"

Bai Yutang said, "Wang Feng dared to resist for her, which means that he is not afraid of death, and it is reasonable for his lover to follow him to martyrdom." ”

Everyone touched their chins and looked at Taishi.

The Taishi giggled and said, "There were different opinions about this matter at the time, and the umbrella shop was closed the next day after the girl's death, and no one knew where the girl's parents went." Many people said that the princess knew about this and sent someone to give the family a lot of money, telling them to take their daughters as far as they could. Some people also say that the emperor sent the shadow guard to drive away the family overnight or simply slaughtered it, in short, all kinds of rumors...... But then Wang Feng obediently married the princess, and he didn't see him have another woman with the princess for so many years, and he was very low-key, the only strange thing is that from then on, Wang Feng no longer had contact with his father-in-law, Prime Minister Wang...... So many people said that Prime Minister Wang killed the girl. ”

When Taishi said this, he saw Master Bao shaking his head again and again, "Impossible, it is impossible for Prime Minister Wang Cheng's personality to embarrass a dumb girl." ”

"I believe that, too." Taishi nodded, "And Wang Feng is his righteous son after all, and it is impossible for him to do this with his own son, and the old man has not even stepped on an ant...... I always feel that he has a black cauldron on his back. ”

Wang Qi also said. Zhan Zhao said, "His grandfather doesn't like to mention Wang Feng very much, and he will lose his temper when he hears Hao Tianlou. ”

Master Bao nodded, "It seems that the dumb girl back then may be a clue." ”

Saying that, Master Bao said to Zhan Zhao, "Zhan Guard, you go to check the umbrella shop tomorrow to see if there are any clues." ”

Zhan Zhao nodded, winking at Bai Yutang, that means - tomorrow we will skip class when we are busy with official business!

Bai Yutang immediately nodded—that must.

Everyone continued to talk about the case, and Master Bao noticed that Mrs. Bao kept looking at the sheepskin drawings that were taken out of the Yaoxiang Pavilion and used people to make alchemy.

Seeing that she could see her spirit, Master Bao patted her gently, "Madam? ”

"Huh?" Mrs. Bao looked up and finally came back to her senses.

"What's wrong with this drawing?" Master Bao asked.

"Oh......" Mrs. Bao smiled and asked Master Bao, "Do you remember that Chen Erlang in the broken temple before?" ”

Master Bao was slightly stunned and nodded, "Oh...... Is that god talking crazy beggar Chen Erlang? ”

Mrs. Bao nodded.

"What Chen Erlang?" Zhan Zhao was curious.

Mrs. Bao said, "There is a ruined temple near our house, and there is a beggar in it, crazy, his name is Chen Erlang, and he always likes to follow Xianggong and say that he is safe around him." ”

Everyone was stunned, and then they couldn't laugh or cry, it was really safe to be with Master Bao.

"This man is crazy and stupid, helpless." Bao Dadao, "But often follow me, but can chat a few words, I prepare a copy for him when I eat, and when I go to Taixue to study, I will let my wife call the housekeeper to take care of me, and I beg when I am a teenager, and I am also a poor person." ”

Mrs. Bao nodded, "I often ask the housekeeper to deliver food to Chen Erlang, and once, he suddenly asked the housekeeper to bring a letter and told me not to go out on this day, something will happen." That day, I wanted to go to the incense, but I didn't go after listening to him, but I didn't know that there was a sudden rainstorm that afternoon, and the flash flood washed away a lot of people who went to the incense, and I escaped because I listened to him. ”

"So godly?" Gongsun was surprised, "Does he know how to look at the weather, or can he tell fortunes?" ”

Mrs. Bao shook her head and said, "I don't know, but later, there was also a time when I was traveling with Yun'er, and he suddenly followed me and said that he would follow me all the way and help me block the evil spirit." I didn't understand what was going on, but I didn't ask him...... Later, when Yun'er and I came out of the shop, he suddenly dragged us, and who knew that a large wooden beam fell from the roof of the road...... It turned out that the roof was repaired above. ”

Master Bao looked at his lady in surprise, "Madam, why did you never mention it?" ”

"Chen Erlang said that he wouldn't tell you." Yun'er, the little maid on the side, interjected, "I said that I was afraid that you would overturn the vinegar jar." ”

Everyone laughed silently, and Lord Bao touched his chin a little embarrassed, puzzled, "Then he's not crazy?" ”

"Crazy." The maid nodded, "I often talk to myself like crazy, I guess it's been a while, but he saved his wife four or five times before and after, right?" ”

Mrs. Bao nodded, "It should be said five times." ”

"That's a nobleman." Master Bao was curious, "Chen Er is still in his hometown and the temple is broken?" ”

Mrs. Bao shook her head, "The next time she told me to be careful of fire prevention, the people left, and that night there was thunder, and the firewood room was on fire, because the water dragon car had already been prepared, so the house was fine." Before he left, he told me, you invited him to eat for five years, and he saved me five times, which is considered to be paid off. ”

Everyone looked at Bao Zheng in surprise, what does that mean - you invited a beggar to eat for five years?

Master Bao touched his chin, "I knew that I would invite him to eat for a few more years." ”

Everyone is funny, and the legend says that kindness is rewarded.

"What does Chen Erlang have to do with this case?" Bai Yutang was curious.

"Oh, this pod." Mrs. Bao pointed to the incense burner on the parchment paper that was used to burn people's hearts and alchemy incense, "I remember that day Yun'er came to me and said that Chen Erlang was crazy and asked me for five hundred taels of silver. ”

The girl called Yun'er on the side nodded, "Yes, Chen Erlang's mansion stopped me outside the door and said that I would send a message, saying that I wanted five hundred taels of silver." ”

The crowd then asked Mrs. Bao, "You gave it?" ”

Mrs. Bao nodded, "I asked Yun'er to take five hundred taels of silver tickets to him." ”

The corners of everyone's mouths twitched - this couple is a good match, one invites someone to eat for five years for no reason, and the other casually gives five hundred taels.

Later, Mrs. Bao asked Yun'er to say.

Yun'er said, "I thought it was strange that I gave him silver, and I said that Chen Erlang didn't go to gamble, right?" followed him with Xia'er all the way. ”

Saying that, the maid named Xia'er also helped, "We found out that he didn't go to the gambling house or the kiln hall, but went to the iron shop!" He took out a drawing and gave it to the blacksmith and said to help him make an incense burner. After reading the drawings, the blacksmith said that it was difficult to do, Chen Erlang gave him five hundred taels of silver and asked him to do it well, the blacksmith can't earn five hundred taels a year, don't push it all the time, concentrate on helping him do it. ”

As she spoke, the two girls stretched out their hands and pointed to the drawing, "It's the same as this!" ”

Everyone was amazed.

"It's not quite the same." Mrs. Bao was more careful and waved her hand gently, "When he left to say goodbye with me, he held this medicine tripod, which really looks like an incense burner, much smaller than this, about two feet tall, and he held it in his arms." I asked him curiously what it was for, and he said that he was used for refining medicine, and he had collected all the medicinal materials, and he was leaving, and he would come to see me and ...... when he had time in the future," he said, and glanced at Bao Zheng, "and the pillow children." ”

Mr. Bao was happy, and said in his heart that Chen Erlang was only a few years older than himself, so he called himself a child, and he looked at it only sixteen or seventeen.

"It's smaller than this......" Zhanzhao took the drawing and looked at it.

At that time, Yun'er said a lot. As she spoke, Mrs. Bao looked at Yun'er again.

Yun'er flattened her mouth, "I told Chen Erlang, such a small stove of one hundred taels is enough, you give the blacksmith so much money, you can be as tall as one person." ”

Everyone subconsciously looked at the picture, how tall a person was, it was the same as on the picture.

He replied to me in a dazzle. Yun'er learned to look like this, and waved her sleeves, "Oh, Tong Yan Wuji, this thing, small is refining medicine, big is refining medicine, if you are unfortunate to see big in the future, hurry up and tell your uncle that someone has done something to kill people." ”

"Small refining medicine and big refining medicine ......" Everyone was confused when they heard it - what is the difference?

"He said at the time there was a difference." Mrs. Bao shook her head and said, "If I heard me right, he said yes, the small is refining medicine, and the big is refining demons." ”

Everyone raised their eyebrows, "Demon refining?!" ”

"How do you practice demons?" Gongsun hugged the napping little fourth son, with a puzzled look - the first time he heard of it.

At this time, I heard a voice ask Mrs. Bao, "Girl, how old does that Chen Erlang look like?" ”

Everyone turned their faces...... I saw Tianzun holding a skewer, and I don't know when he stood behind Bai Yutang.

After entering the door of Kaifeng Mansion just now, Tianzun asked Bai Yutang for pocket money to go out to eat barbecue at the opposite door, Bai Yutang gave him money, and seeing that his mouth was full of oil at this time, it was estimated that he ate very well.

"Sixteen or seventeen......" Lord Bao and Mrs. Bao said in unison, and then, Lord Bao suddenly sat up straight, "Uh......"

Mrs. Bao also covered her mouth lightly, "Yes, we saw him when we were thirteen or fourteen, and he was sixteen or seventeen." ”

Bao Zheng also felt that something was wrong, "When I grow up in five years, he will still be sixteen or seventeen." ”

"I was twenty when he left." Mrs. Bao frowned, "He's still sixteen or seventeen...... It's just dirty, and no one ever notices him. ”

Taishi Pang could afford goosebumps when he heard it, "Oops...... Is this a ghost or something about you two and you? Where did anyone live for more than ten years or sixteen or seventeen? ”

"More than that." Tianzun smiled, "That person has lived for more than a hundred, or sixteen or seventeen." ”

"Master, do you know him?" Bai Yutang asked Tianzun.

Tianzun bit the skewers, looked at Mrs. Bao, and sighed, "He actually saved your life?" ”

"More than once!" Mrs. Bao nodded.

"Oh, are you old and confused?" Tianzun seemed puzzled, "Or is your brain not bright?" ”

Bai Yutang patted Tianzun's arm, which meant to be more direct.

"That kid's name is Ghost Chen." Tianzun raised his eyebrows, "It's that Feng Shui Turtle apprentice, he is good at kung fu, but he is not old because of his deep internal strength, but because he has his own alchemy and research on the art of rejuvenation." ”

Everyone was shocked again, the feng shui turtle said that it should be Ji Changtian's grandfather Ji Run, Ji Run's successor?

Master Pang's focus is different, "Rejuvenation technique?!" As he spoke, he touched his chubby chin.

"Wait." Bai Yutang grabbed and was about to eat a pear and go down to Huo Tianzun, "Then do you know what is going on with this medicine tripod of Lu Dao?" ”

Tianzun glanced at the drawings and shook his head, "I don't know what to do, but it must be used for bad things, those two turtle masters and apprentices are not things, it's really strange that they can save people, maybe Ghost Chen has learned well?" ”

"Chen Erlang doesn't look like a bad person." Mrs. Bao said, "His eyes are not bad. ”

Tianzun touched his chin, "Then I guess I have learned well, after all, I am so old." ”

"How did Zhilu Dao find him?" Bai Yutang asked Tianzun.

Tianzun crossed his arms and shook his head, "It's difficult." ”

Mrs. Bao also said, "If you do the math, it was before Yan'er was born, and I haven't seen Chen Erlang for more than ten years." ”

Finally, there was a little clue and it was gone, and everyone stared at the drawing-refining medicine and demon refining......

……

"Dumb, are there bugs?"

On the outskirts of Kaifeng Mansion, in a dense forest next to the official road, Zou Liang took a few shadow guards to ambush there, and Lin Yehuo stood beside Zou Liang, scratching his calves, "There are mosquitoes biting me!" ”

Zou Liang looked at him speechlessly, "I told you not to come, go home and sleep." ”

Lin Yehuo squinted at him, what did it mean - the dog bites Lu Dongbin and doesn't know the hearts of good people!

At this time, there was movement outside. Zou Liang hurriedly covered Lin Yehuo's mouth and hid behind the trunk......

After a while, I saw several people passing by, and a group of officials escorted these people wearing shackles and shackles to walk along the road. Zou Liang glanced at several shadow guards, and several shadow guards immediately dispersed and followed secretly.

Zou Liang and Lin Yehuo also followed from afar.

Just now, Zou Liang quietly went to Si Tong, who was rummaging through the cabinets, in a cold sweat, because he clearly remembered that he hid the letter under the bed, but he couldn't find it.

As soon as Zou Liang said that the letter had arrived in the hands of Master Bao, Si Tong was relieved, in fact, he was afraid that the letter would be obtained by Wang Fengren.

Zou Liang told him that he would make up for the merits to help Kaifeng Mansion investigate the case, and Si Tong was very cooperative.

Coincidentally, someone came to report that Gonggong Ning had sent a family member to deliver the letter.

Si Tong said that every time Gonggong Ning needed a death row prisoner, this family sent a letter, and a batch of felons had just been sent in the past few days, more than a dozen thieves, all of whom were sentenced very heavily.

Zou Liang took refuge behind the screen, and saw the messenger come in and give Si Tong a note.

Si Tong picked it up and looked at it, and saw that it was written on it, to be male, twenty-six or seventeen years old, in good health, let the official messenger escort him to the western suburbs cell at night, and when he passed Jiufengling in the middle of the night, the official messenger left, and then the matter would not be taken care of.

After Si Tong read the letter, he burned the note in front of the family, and the family left.

Zou Liang walked out.

Si Tong said, "Every time I do something, I want to leave no evidence." ”

Zou Liang nodded, feeling that it was just right, and asked Si Tong to do what he asked, and he just followed to see what use these death row prisoners were for.

That night, Zou Liang squatted in the forest, and Lin Yehuo also followed him to make trouble, but he didn't expect that there were many mosquitoes in the field, which bit him and scratched his ears and cheeks.

The vicinity of Jiufeng Ridge was very deserted, and the prisoners were also a little puzzled, and asked those officials - where is this going?

The officials did not speak, but told them to go on.

Zou Liang and the shadow guards did not chase after them when they arrived near Jiufeng Ridge, waiting for the periphery, because they felt that there was an ambush inside, and they were afraid of startling the snake.

Zou Liang was waiting for the ambush man in the ridge to make a move, and suddenly he felt that he heard something else, but he listened carefully and it was gone, and he was puzzled, Lin Yehuo reached out and gently tugged at his sleeve.

Zou Liang looked at him.

Lin Yehuo said, "In addition to us, there are people following. ”

Zou Liang frowned, and sure enough, "But the breath is very gone." ”

Lin Ye nodded, "That person's kung fu is very strange, the breath is there for a while, and there is no breath for a while, and it clearly distinguishes a point, and suddenly disappears." ”

Zou Liang nodded, indicating that he also felt it, colleagues, both of them thought of the "ghost-faced man" that Zhanzhao said, and the black-clothed and white-faced ghost that they had lost too much...... So who is it now? Or is it that the ghost-faced man and the black-clothed ghost are the same person?