The mansion of the Meng family is far less majestic and solemn than the Red Fort, and the three-story Chinese and Western combined buildings have a bit of the feeling of Qingwangfu, but there is less majesty and more tranquility, and the taste of the study is carried from a distance.

There is no high gate building at the courtyard gate, and the blue-gray exterior wall is full of green vine leaves, which looks particularly green and verdant in the sun, giving people a sense of calm but full of vitality.

Bai Chongwei hummed the doorbell a few times, and then someone from the Meng family came to open the door, and when he saw that Bai Chongwei was coming, he hurriedly invited him in. Han Dada'er also followed Bai Chongwei into the Meng family's house.

Walking into the courtyard, you can see that the scenery in the courtyard is leisurely, the trees are verdant, the grass is green, although it is not as big as the Red Fort Courtyard, but it is also wide and stretched, and there is a kind of tranquility and comfort of paradise.

There is an open space in the courtyard, paved with blue-gray patterned floor tiles, and under a large tree in the courtyard, there is a wisteria rocking chair and two small bamboo benches. In the middle of the courtyard is a round white lacquered rattan table and four white rattan chairs.

There was a young man sitting on a white rattan chair, with a folded paper on the rattan table, and the young man was holding a fountain pen in his hand, and he was gently touching the end of the pen against his chin, as if thinking about how to put the pen down. This young man is seventeen or eighteen years old, with a rectangular face, wearing a pair of glasses, slightly weak, but handsome, and a little beautiful chin.

Bai Chongwei whispered to Han Da'er:

"This is the son of the Mengzi family, Mencius Chao!"

The young man looked ahead, but seemed to be concentrating on his thoughts. His face suddenly brightened, as if he had thought of something, and then he lowered his head and wrote the manuscript paper. Bai Chongwei and Han Da'er didn't even notice when they passed through the courtyard.

The Meng family led Bai and Han through the courtyard and into the Meng family's mansion.

This is a two-and-a-half-storey brick and wood structure building, in the form of a concave shape and half surrounding the courtyard, the outer eaves are equipped with columns, the overall building is simple and bright, the eaves of the porch are paved with dark red tiles, and the western style is a little Chinese style.

The overall gray brushed stone wall, in addition to the main gate, is also equipped with a glass side door, which leads directly to the courtyard. The door glass is also engraved with Western floral motifs carved by Belgian craftsmanship. With a row of glass windows facing the sun, it makes people feel warm and comfortable.

The main body of the building is two-storey, and the east side has a half-story bulge above the two-storey building, half of which is a glass flower room with a lot of green plants and colorful flowers, and the glass flower room leads directly to the roof platform on the second floor. There is a lattice wooden frame hanging on the outer wall, which is full of green vines.

As soon as Bai Chongwei and Han Dada'er walked into the main entrance of the mansion, they saw a tall and thin young man walking towards them. This man was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a rectangular face, a high nose and thin lips, bright eyes, and a slight beauty groove on his chin.

This man walks with the wind, his movements are powerful, and he has a sense of ability. It's just that there is a little sadness between the eyebrows, but it is not easy to notice if you don't look carefully. As soon as he saw Bai Chongwei, he immediately smiled and walked over to say hello.

Han Daring whispered behind Bai Chongwei:

"This is Meng Huaizhi!"

Bai Chongwei said:

"Have you seen him?"

"I haven't seen it, but his appearance is somewhat similar to the young man Mencius in the courtyard, I just speculate based on his age and temperament."

Han Daring's guess was right, this person was Bai Chongwei's classmate, Meng Huaizhi, the second son of the Meng family.

Bai Chongwei introduced to Han Da'er:

"This is my classmate and friend, Meng Huaizhi!"

Then he turned his head and introduced to Meng Huaizhi:

"This is our famous detective in Tianjin, Brother Han Zhigang Han, or my savior, if it weren't for him before, I would have become the medicine primer of the Sanyang Sect! I specifically asked him to help you! ”

Meng Huaizhi hurriedly looked full of joy, with reverent eyes, stretched out his hands to shake hands with Han Da'er, and couldn't help but say:

"I've admired the daimyo for a long time! Thunder! Today is really a blessing, Brother Han, please come inside! ”

As he spoke, he hurriedly stretched out his hand and invited the two into the living room on the first floor.

Han Da'er was also busy:

"Don't dare, don't dare! It's all about love! Please! ”

Saying that, he followed Bai Chongwei and walked into the living room on the first floor.

The Meng family's mansion, as soon as you enter the door, after the entrance is the small hall on the first floor, and the small hall has stairs leading to the second and third floors. Next to the small hall is a corridor, not far from the right hand is the living room, and the corridor is directly opposite the large living room on the first floor.

Han Daring saw from a distance that in the large living room on the first floor, several people were talking, a man and a woman were sitting on the sofa, and a few people were sitting on the opposite side, but they couldn't see their faces from Han Da'er's point of view.

The man and the woman were sitting on the sofa, the man was wearing a gray suit, combing his hair, with a Chinese face, thick eyebrows and thin eyes, a bulging nose and thick lips, a silver pocket watch, and shiny leather shoes. The woman wears a purple silk embroidered cheongsam, with a thin figure, a square face, a deflated nose, red phoenix eyes, permed long curly hair, with emerald rings and earrings, and the fat powder is rubbed heavily.

The two men had sad faces, and the women were sobbing and crying. Of the other men and women, Han Daring only saw the side faces of one or two of them.

Approaching the living room, the subordinate Xiao Tao served two cups of hot tea, and Han Daring saw that in the pale green tea, there were a few fragrant green tea leaves, which were obviously the best tea.

Although Bai Chongweisheng usually lives a Westernized life and loves to drink coffee, he also likes to taste tea, but he usually likes West Lake Longjing the most, whether it is before the rain or before the Ming Dynasty, and he will know if he drinks it last year and this year. However, I don't know much about other tea varieties.

He took a sip of the tea in the cup, looked at the tea leaves in the cup, and asked casually:

"I usually like West Lake Longjing the most, and I really don't know about other teas, is this Junshan Silver Needle?"

"It's a finch tongue!"

Han Dadao said.

In fact, he usually likes to drink jasmine or Longjing and Biluochun, but his father is a connoisseur of tea, so there are many other kinds of famous teas at home.

Peacock Tongue Tea, also known as Meitan Cuiya, is produced in Guizhou, has a unique flavor in green tea, and is named because of its small shape like a peacock's tongue. Junshan Silver Needle Junshan in Dongting Lake in South Yueyang, the shape is as thin as a needle, so it is called Junshan Silver Needle. It belongs to yellow tea. Just look at the appearance, the two kinds of tea are somewhat similar when they are first brewed, and after a long time, one is pale gold in color and the other is indeed green, so it is very easy to distinguish.

Meng Huaizhi praised:

"Brother Han is really knowledgeable!"

Han Daring said:

"It's just that my father likes to taste tea, so I just happen to know a little bit about fur!"

At this time, Bai Chongwei said:

"I rang the doorbell at the door for a long time before someone came to open the door!"

"Hey!" Meng Huaizhi sighed and said:

"Two people came to the house early this morning, saying that they were ...... Say yes to the child's parents! ”

Han Daring said:

"It's the men and women in gray suits and purple cheongsams in the large living room on the first floor!"

Meng Huaizhi said:

"How do you know? Have you seen those two people? ”

Bai Chongwei grinned and said:

"This is Brother Han's ability, as soon as we met just now, he didn't speak, he guessed who you are!"

Meng Huaizhi was slightly shocked when he heard this.

Han Daring said:

"It's just a simple reasoning! The men and women in the large living room, sitting close together on the sofa, the woman's knees almost next to the man's legs, should be very intimate, like a couple.

As far as I know, your brother Meng Huairen was widowed just a few years ago, and that woman has no resemblance to your family's appearance, so it's definitely not your two sisters! It's that simple! ”

Bai Chongwei said:

"How! I'm not looking for the wrong person! With Brother Han here, you will be able to distinguish this matter from your family! ”

Meng Huaizhi's eyes were full of hope, and he said to Han Da'er:

"Then I'll leave everything to Brother Han!"

Han Da'er nodded and asked:

"The purpose of these two people is to pick up the child who calls himself Old Man Meng?"

"yes!"

Meng Huaizhi said.

It turned out that early this morning, the couple came to the door. The couple's family lives in Yueyang, Hunan Province, and the boy who calls himself Master Meng is their only son.

In the 25th year of Guangxu in the former Qing Dynasty, the Qing government opened up Yuezhou as a treaty port, and in the second year of the Republic of China, the county was abolished and Baling County was changed to Yueyang County. In the 11th year of the Republic of China, the Taoist system was abolished, and all counties were directly under Hunan Province. Because Yueyang is a treaty port, it has gradually become rich.

This couple, the man's surname is Pei, his name is Pei Zhizhong, and they are also engaged in business in Yueyang, and their families also have a lot of wealth. His wife, Wu, gave birth to three children, but because the children were weak, the first two children died, and only this child remained.

The child who called himself Old Man Meng is called Pei Run, and he is just six years old this year. Like his two older brothers, who died young, he was born weak. Some time ago, because the national army suppressed the Communist Party, there was a lot of trouble in the area of Dongting Lake, and many people died, so epidemics broke out in some places.

Pei Run was infected with the epidemic, because the child's body was relatively weak, so it didn't take long for medical treatment to be ineffective and died. Some knowledgeable people said that the child who died at a young age should be buried early, but Wu held the child's body all day and night and wept and cried, refusing to be separated from the child so quickly.

The day after the child's death, the sky suddenly changed, the sky was clear, but there was a cloudy wind, and the dark clouds rolled up a thunderstorm, but it did not rain. In the thunder and lightning, Pei Run, a boy who had been dead for a long time, suddenly sat up, opened his eyes and slowly woke up.

Pei Zhizhong and his wife Wu were also startled at first, but then they both cried with joy, but at this time, the child Pei Run, who woke up, suddenly spoke a Tianjin dialect, and said that he was Meng Rui and Meng Bangyan who lived in Tianjin Wei. The strangest thing is that the child's voice has become a little old, completely different from Pei Run's original voice.

Pei Zhizhong and his family thought that the child had hysteria, so they took him to see a doctor, but Pei Run said that he was not sick, and he spoke and behaved like an old man.

Pei Run said that he died of illness in Tianjin Wei, and then somehow borrowed the corpse to return the soul to Pei Run, who had just died.

Pei Zhizhong thought that he was still evil, and wanted to find a Taoist priest to exorcise the child, but the child disappeared early the next morning. The couple searched everywhere and found that there was some money missing from the family, so they guessed that the child had taken the money and went north to Tianjin Wei.

The two heard that Pei Run had talked about his address in Tianjin Wei, so they hurriedly chased along the road, but they didn't catch Pei Run along the way, so they could only come to Tianjin Wei directly to find Meng's house.

This morning, the couple came to Meng's house to look for their son, but Pei Run said that he had nothing to do with the couple, so he just met him hastily and went back to Mr. Meng's study.

Pei Zhizhong's wife, Wu, was heartbroken and wanted to get the child back, so she was discussing with the Meng family in the large living room on the first floor.

Han Daring listened to Meng Huaizhi's narration, groaned slightly, and proposed to gradually Pei Run, the child who called himself Old Man Meng.

Meng Huaizhi nodded in agreement, and then led Bai and Han to the third floor, Old Man Meng's study.

The Meng family's house is a two-story building plus a half-storey, the so-called third floor, which is the half-floor next to the glass flower room on the roof, this half floor has a single bedroom, and a study room, and the glass flower room next to it. After the death of Mr. Meng's last wife, he lived alone in this single bedroom closest to the study.

The three of them came to the third floor and pushed open the door of the study, only to see a five or six-year-old child sitting at a table full of various books. On the small tea table next to it, there was a hot tea and a freshly smoked pipe. The aroma of tea in the room is mixed with the fragrance of tobacco, which does not disperse for a long time.

The child was holding an open thread-bound book in his right hand and a small Kai brush in his left hand, transcribing some words on the paper.

Han Da'er asked in a low voice to Meng Huaizhi:

"Is your father left-handed?"

"Yes!"

Meng Huaizhi nodded.

Then the boy heard someone coming in, and without raising his head, he said:

"Is it the fourth? Haven't the couple surnamed Pei left yet? ”

The voice seemed deep and old, although the guttural voice was a little immature, but it really seemed like an old man's emphasis.

At this time, the child slowly raised his head and saw that in addition to Meng Huaizhi, there were two people standing at the door, one was wearing a light white suit, and the other was indeed a tall and straight man.

When this kid looked up, he looked at Han Dada'er, although this kid was very young, his eyes looked extremely sophisticated, and he couldn't help but be shocked by Han Da'er's heart!