When Zhanzhao and the others returned to Kaifeng Mansion, it was almost dark.
As soon as I entered the door, I smelled a fragrance, which was still very "simple".
Zhao Pu sniffed, "What is this braised soy sauce?"
” "I'm so hungry" the little fourth son rubbed his stomach, and Xigulu carried him and ran inside.
When they ran into the courtyard, they saw that two large tables had been set up, and many people were there, sitting and preparing to eat.
The dining table is very simple, and there are two large basins in it, which are basins, and there is a bucket next to them.
"Wow" Zhanzhao's eyes lit up, "heroic feeling" Zhao Pu also raised his eyebrows, "Isn't that a rice bucket, I haven't seen it for a long time?"
At this moment, there were two dishes in the two large basins on the table, a clear soup fish head, a braised fish tail, and the wooden barrel was filled with rice.
Gongsun took the little fourth son and said to Zhao Pu, "Just now the palace sent several big fish, and the kitchen lady made them." ” Ouyang knocked on the bowl with chopsticks, "It looks like rice in the barracks" Everyone sat down and took the rice bowl and prepared to eat, and the fifth master looked at the basin and the barrel and sighed.
Zhan Zhao looked at him, "Don't dislike food" Bai Yutang looked at the sky, "I'm not disgusted with food. ” Zhan Zhao waited for him next.
The fifth master shook his head and looked at the basin and bucket, "I dislike the tableware." ” Bai Yutang didn't finish speaking, and suddenly touched his head.
Zhan Zhao took the rice bowl and bit the fishtail and looked back, and saw that Tianzun didn't know where to come out, so he stood behind Bai Yutang, dragging Bai Yutang's hair in his hand.
Everyone else looked at it curiously, and the old man's face was so stinky Zhan Zhao put down his job bowl to help Bai Yutang grab his hair, and said to Tianzun, "Don't drag it, old man, it's over if you're so handsome and bald."
The little fourth son ran to pull Tianzun away to eat, which was regarded as saving Bai Yutang.
The fifth master rubbed his head.
Tianzun sat down and glared at Bai Yutang with a teacup.
Bai Yutang knew that he had made him angry, and he was thinking about how to remedy it.
As if he remembered something, Yin Hou took out the box with the ring and handed it to Zhanzhao.
Zhan Zhao opened it and saw a red jade ring inside, shaped like a fishtail.
"It's a fishtail again," Zhanzhao frowned.
"What a fishtail" When everyone heard the sound and turned around, they saw Master Bao walking in.
Zhan Zhao and the others beckoned him to come over and eat together.
Bao Yan was also curious, "Dad, why did you enter the palace in an official robe?"
Master Bao sighed, "Don't mention it, it's also an evil sect." ” As he spoke, Lord Bao told him about the theft of the palace treasury.
"Fishtail ring" Everyone looked at each other, and Zhanzhao held the ring and asked Master Bao, "Is this it?"
Master Bao shook his head, "The tribute record is not a red jade. ” "There are still many styles that don't work" "It's a set."
Yin Hou said, "It is estimated that it is also Cui Hai's work, maybe there are red jade, jasper, white jade, topaz, jadeite and so on." ” Tianzun looked at the ring with disgust, "What are you doing with it?"
Looking at the sky, "Didn't you give it to me?"
Tianzun was dissatisfied, "That's because it looks like a fishtail" "Speaking of fishtails" Bao Yan and Pang Yu talked about the case of the palace maid's suicide five years ago that Lin Fuzi said about flipping through the book in Taixue just now.
Zhan Zhao frowned, "The palace maid committed suicide and drew a fishtail array" "According to the legend of the fishtail crossing."
Gongsun thought about it, "Will the palace maid kill herself because her lover treats her badly?"
"There aren't too many reasons for a person to commit suicide."
Zhan Zhao shook his head, "In addition to the sudden big blow, most of it is an emotional problem. ” "It's such a coincidence, two palace maids died by Peacock Lake" Bai Yutang felt that something was wrong.
Everyone bowed their heads and continued to eat, the kitchen lady was a thief, and the fish given by the emperor was also fat and tender, and it was really on the same as the fish tail recently.
After eating, Zhanzhao took a cup of tea, took the details of the people entering and leaving the palace given by the two masters, and Bai Yutang began to flip through one by one, and the two of them were looking for someone surnamed Cui.
Not to mention, after Zhan Zhao finished drinking a cup of tea, the fifth master held down the page he saw and handed it to him.
Zhan Zhao saw Bai Yutang pointing to a name Cui Xin, who entered the palace four and a half years ago, a stone carving craftsman, and entered the palace to repair the stone walls of the palace.
The two glanced at each other, and it happened that the career time was in line with it Zhan Zhao went to the palace and asked the official in charge of the palace repair to inquire about it.
Fortunately, there are clear records of every renovation in the palace, and the craftsmen who can enter the palace are also very clear in their investigations, so Zhanzhao quickly found the clue of "Cui Xin".
Cui Xin should be twenty-seven or eighteen years old this year, less than thirty, four and a half years ago, he did enter the palace to repair the stone wall, and his name has not appeared again since then.
There is only one address of Cui Xin on the list, in the suburbs of Kaifeng Beicheng, Shenjia Village.
That night, Zhanzhao and Bai Yutang made an appointment with Gongsun and Zhao Pu, and the four of them went to Shenjia Village to find this Cui Xin.
The mood of the four people is a little contradictory, on the one hand, they want to find Cui Xin, so they can prove that the nameless corpse is not Cui Xin, after all, it is a pity to die in their twenties.
But on the other hand, if Cui Xin can't be found, then the possibility that he is the nameless corpse is very great Shenjia Village is not far away, and it didn't take long for everyone to come to the entrance of the village.
Looking down from the slope of the mountain, Shenjia Village is still quite rich, with good fields and fish ponds, and houses are also well built, with green willows.
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Although it was night, many people in the village were outside, drinking tea and chatting, and the children were chasing and running, which was very lively.
Zhan Zhao and the others walked along the main road in the village.
A few old people who were playing chess on the side of the road looked over.
The people of the village exchanged heads "Is this the Zhan of Kaifeng Mansion?"
"Oh, why did you come to the village?"
"Who's in trouble?"
Soon, the small village was "boiling" because of the arrival of Zhan Zhao and others, and the residents who were "idle" after eating their meals all ran out to watch.
When Zhanzhao and the others arrived at the address to record, the door of Cui Xin's hut was already three floors inside and three floors outside, and many people had gathered.
As soon as Zhan Zhao and the others arrived at Cui Xin's house, they felt that they might have found the wrong one, because there were dogs and flowers in the small courtyard, there were a few unfinished stone carvings, and the lights were also lit in the room.
Zhao Pu hugged his arms, "Did you get the wrong person?"
Zhanzhao was also in a conflicted mood, and reached out and patted the courtyard door.
After a while, I saw the door open, and a fat doll of seven or eight years old was holding a rice bowl in his hand.
Zhan Zhao asked, "Is Cui Xin there?"
The child turned back, "Daddy" "Ahh There was a voice in the room that someone was answering, and it sounded like they were eating.
"Someone is looking for you," the child said, and went back to eat.
Then, I saw the door open, and a young man wiped his hands and ran out, "Who is ordering things this month, and I have to wait until next month" Zhan Zhao and the others observed carefully, and saw that a young man of twenty-seven or eighteen ran out, dressed neatly, with a lot of gray-white soil on his clothes, and he looked a little similar to the little fat baby.
"Are you Cui Xin," Zhanzhao asked.
"Uh, yes."
Cui Xin nodded, obviously knowing Zhan Zhao, knowing that it was an official errand, and he shouldn't have come to talk about business, so he walked to the door and asked, "Lord Zhan" Zhan Zhao nodded.
"Uh, I'm looking for something," Cui Xin looked puzzled.
Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang.
The fifth master raised his eyebrows, and it seemed that eighty percent of them were wrong.
Zhao Pu and Gongsun also sighed.
Zhan Zhao thought for a while and asked, "Can you go in and talk?"
"Oh" Cui Xin hurriedly let people in, shouting, "At home, make tea, there are distinguished guests here." ” As soon as Zhan Zhao and the others heard that there were female dependents in the house, they didn't go in and sat in the courtyard.
After a while, Cui Xin's daughter-in-law and the chubby son just now ran out with a tray, followed by a four or five-year-old girl, including the daughter-in-law, the family was chubby and round-faced, and they were very blessed.
Cui Xin looked very nervous, although he knew that Zhanzhao would not be a bad person, but it should not be a good thing for the government to come to the door for no reason Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, so that he didn't have to be nervous, and asked him, "Brother Cui entered the palace to repair the stone wall more than four years ago."
"Uh" Cui Xin was slightly stunned, "More than four years" Zhan Zhao and the others saw that he reacted quite a lot, and they were also a little puzzled.
Cui Xin looked nervous, "Did you lose something or did you get into trouble?"
Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "what" Cui Xin cried with a sad face and said, "What kind of Zhan adult, is this matter very big, I won't have to go to court?"
Zhan Zhao and the others were confused.
Gongsun asked curiously, "What are you talking about?"
Cui Xin looked at everyone and seemed puzzled, "You didn't come to investigate that incident."
"Which thing" Bai Yutang couldn't understand.
"Uh" Cui Xin looked at everyone and asked, "I asked someone to enter the palace for me."
Zhan Zhao and the others were shocked, and their hearts that sank in an instant came up again, and asked, "It wasn't you who entered the palace to repair the walls that day."
Cui Xin nodded, nervous, "I was very happy to enter the palace to repair the stone wall, but it was such a coincidence, my mother happened to give birth to her second child that day, but this was an errand in the palace and I couldn't help but go, so I found a friend for me."
I still have my name, but the wages belong to him, and the work in the palace is quite a lot at a time. ” "You find someone to replace you, so you don't take any more errands in the palace after that, because you're afraid of being recognized," Gongsun asked.
"But isn't it" Cui Xin looked helpless, "What is that called, is it the crime of deception, I didn't mean it." ” Zhan Zhao signaled that he didn't need to be nervous, and then asked, "Who is the person who entered the palace in your place?"
"A friend of mine."
Cui Xin said, "I used to do some jade carving in a jade shop in the city, and he also helped there, and he was very chatty, and he was a good person." ” "So it was actually him who entered the palace that time," Zhan Zhao asked, "What about the others?"
Cui Xin was helpless, "I haven't seen it again" Zhanzhao frowned, "I haven't seen it" "Hmm" Cui Xin was helpless, "After my daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby, I went to look for him in the shop two days later, but the shopkeeper had to say that he hadn't come to work for two days, and then I saw him for a long time, and I was also very worried at that time."
But after a long time, I still didn't see him show up, so I wondered if he was in a hurry to leave, or ran away to avoid debts after taking the money, and I was also worried about the first half of the year, but in a blink of an eye, many years passed, and nothing happened, and I almost forgot about it. ” Zhan Zhao nodded and looked at Bai Yutang.
Bai Yutang has a tacit understanding with Zhao Pu and Gongsun, and he thinks that he is the one no matter how he listens.
Zhanzhao asked Cui Xin, "What's the name of that friend of yours?"
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"He has the same surname as me, his name is Cui Cheng, and he was a family about five hundred years ago, so let's talk" Cui Xin said, looking at everyone again, not sure about the first question, "Is there something wrong with him?"
Zhan Zhao asked rhetorically, "You intuitively feel that something will happen to him" Cui Xin sighed softly, "Actually, I thought about a lot of possibilities about him after that, and I always felt that he didn't seem to be such an unexplained person, and I wondered if something happened to him."
The crowd looked at each other.
Zhan Zhao finally took out the picture from his sleeve pocket, and before showing it to him, Zhan Zhao also asked, "Brother Cui hasn't been to the city recently?"
Cui Xin shook his head, "I've been busy until now after the New Year."
As he spoke, he pointed to a few stone sculptures on the side, "Business is very good." ” Zhan Zhao looked at Gongsun.
Gongsun held his chin and looked at Cui Xin for a while, and finally nodded to Zhanzhao, which meant that according to his observation, Cui Xin may indeed be a descendant of the Cui family, and his chin has common characteristics.
Everyone admired Cui Xin's craftsmanship again, and couldn't help but sigh, sure enough, the Cui family was born to carve things Zhan Zhao spread out the picture and put it in front of Cui Xin's eyes, and asked, "Cui Cheng you are talking about, is it him?"
Cui Xin looked down at the portrait, stunned, and then nodded, "That's right, he is a little thinner, and then there is a mole on the left side of his face" Cui Xin saw the words written next to him, "Come to Kaifeng Mansion to claim the body" or something, and opened his mouth wide, "He" Zhan Zhao said, "Your friend should have passed away. ” Cui Xin was stunned there with the portrait, for a long time, and asked, "Did he die that day because I asked him to take over?"
Zhan Zhao and the others also couldn't bear to tell others that they did die in the palace, and they stayed in the dry well for five years.
"Tell me more about your friend."
Zhan Zhao said, "Such as his residence, experience, and so on. ” "I don't know where he lives, I just met at the helper's shop."
Cui Xin put down the portrait to calm down for a while, and then, as if he thought of something, he turned his head and asked his son to fetch the box he had hidden under the pillow.
After a while, the little fat baby took out a wooden box from the house.
Cui Xin put the box on the table and said, "I mainly do stone carving, and I like to carve large things, and he is good at fine work."
On the day my daughter was born, he offered to go to the palace for me, and I felt that he had helped me a lot after I agreed, and I wanted to thank him.
But he thanked me in turn, and gave me something as a gift, saying that it was a memorial for the child, thanks to her birth on this day, which helped him a lot. ” While speaking, Cui Xin opened the box and took out a small fishtail pillow jade pendant.
When Zhan Zhao and the others looked at it, they saw that it was a small jade pendant, and when they saw this jade pendant, everyone was a little speechless in the shape of a fishtail pillow "It's a fishtail pillow again," Zhao Pu frowned and took it, "It's the same as that pillow in the palace and that jade pendant." ” "It feels like a set."
Bai Yutang also nodded.
"Did he say anything when he gave you this?"
asked Gongsun.
Cui Xin shook his head, "He just said that it was a worthless gadget." ” Bai Yutang stretched out his hand to take it and took a look, shaking his head, "Jade is a good jade, although it is small, it is not cheap." ” Cui Xin scratched his head, "How could he die, is he in trouble or what?"
"Did he mention that he was in trouble?"
asked Zhanzhao.
Cui Xin couldn't think of it, he only said that Cui Cheng was very easy-going and friendly, and he really rarely talked about his own affairs, only that he was from the northwest, and he came to Kaifeng to beg for a living, and his father and mother died early or something.
"Does he have a family?"
asked Gongsun, "or a sweetheart" Cui Xin remembered something after being reminded by Gongsun, "He seems to have mentioned it, saying that there is a sweetheart." ” "I didn't say who it was," Zhan Zhao asked.
Cui Xin shook his head, "I asked him which girl he was, and he didn't say." ” Bai Yutang touched his chin lightly, thoughtful.
Zhan Zhao paid attention to his expression and felt that he should have thought of some clues.
Everyone chatted with Cui Xin for a long time, but except for finding out the identity of the deceased, there were few other clues.
Don't pass Cui Xin, Zhanzhao and the others got up and went back to Kaifeng.
Out of Shenjia Village, Gongsun asked, "He may be the Cui family, don't you tell him that there may be relatives of his own family in the Huangshi jade shop?"
Zhao Pu and Bai Yutang also watched Zhanzhao.
"He's doing well now, isn't he?"
Zhan Zhao said, looking at the three of them with complicated expressions, "Do you think that Huangshi jade shop is really fine?"
Bai Yutang didn't speak, and Zhao Pu also hugged his arms and didn't say anything.
Gongsun said, "Although I didn't go to the Huangshi Jade Shop, I always felt that they appeared too coincidentally. ” "I said," Zhao Pu said, "Cui Hai should have been loyal to Li Yu back then, otherwise Tianzun wouldn't even refuse to touch the Cui family's jade pendant." ” Bai Yutang nodded.
"Do you think the possibility of his family's descendants rebelling is high" Zhao Pu was worried about his nephew's Jiang Shan.
"No," Gongsun's eyes widened, "a jade shop rebellion, this is as ridiculous as a butcher shop mutiny."
"That's right," Zhao Pu nodded.
"In fact, the Cui family and the Xu family are somewhat similar in a sense."
Bai Yutang suddenly said, "It's all about letting people destroy the door, before the door was destroyed, they were all big families and craftsmen, and the signboards were also loud." ” Zhan Zhao scratched his head, "It's annoying" Bai Yutang saw that Zhanzhao was irritable, so he said, "When I was looking through the list before, I noticed that on the day Cui Cheng entered the palace to repair the stone wall, there were many people entering the palace. ” Everyone was stunned.
Zhan Zhao was curious, "What day was that day, so many people entered the palace" "There is a banquet in the palace."
Bai Yutang said, "Many ministers have entered the palace, and" "And," the three of them all looked at Bai Yutang.
"And those courtiers all bring their own daughters."
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Bai Yutang replied.
"Take the girl" Zhao Pu said, "Take the girl to dinner, then you don't need to ask, otherwise the palace will release the wind and the emperor wants to choose a concubine, or the emperor wants to be a matchmaker for which emperor and grandson" "Being a matchmaker" Gongsun is curious.
"For example, today Lord Bao went to tell the emperor that he wanted to prepare a marriage for Bao Yan, and he wanted to be the right person."
Zhao Pudao, "Bao Yan has a bright future, and his character is very good, so he can be said to be the first choice for the sons-in-law of those courtiers who have raised a daughter at home." ” Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both nodded, Xiao Bao Yan is still quite popular "The emperor will definitely release news to the courtiers on the same day, and set up a banquet tomorrow night, and everyone who can see it will bring his daughters and so on."
Zhan Zhao pondered for a moment, "Well, Cui Cheng said that it was just right to enter the palace that day, could it be that his sweetheart was the daughter of a certain courtier."
"He was killed and thrown in the Shaohua Palace, could it be that the murderer was one of the people who entered the palace for a banquet that day," Gongsun asked.
"There are also people in the palace to help" Zhao Pu and the others opened their brains more and more, discussed all the way, and when they returned to Kaifeng Mansion, they had almost finished compiling a big play, and the plot was called a complicated ups and downs.
I just want to think about it, there are no clues or no clues, so I have to go back to my room to rest and check tomorrow.
Late at night, in the meow building.
Zhan Zhao leaned his head against the young man, his feet were on Xiao Wu, and he looked through the roster, looking sleepy, "Five years is not too long, and those officials are basically still there." ” "But those daughters are all married," Bai Yutang asked.
"This was the ladies of the year, and now they have almost become the wives of high-ranking officials and nobles."
Zhan Zhao shook his head slightly.
"What's wrong," Bai Yutang asked Zhanzhao.
Zhan Zhao sighed, with some emotion, "If Cui Cheng really falls in love with a young lady, even if they are in love, they shouldn't be able to be together."
Bai Yutang thought for a while, "It depends, if Bao Yan wants to marry a civilian woman one day, his father and mother should not object; But if Wang Qi wants to marry a civilian woman, Prime Minister Wang Cheng will definitely oppose it; And Pang Yu's words Taishi will definitely tell him that his wife should be the right person, and the concubine can be accepted casually, and he can find the one he likes. ” Zhan Zhao looked up at Bai Yutang, "Are your three analogies still reliable?"
"But the girl is not a son, for many dignitaries, the girl is just a tool to pull the relationship."
Bai Yutang walked over, sat down beside Zhan Zhao, also leaned on his list, and asked, "You know a large group of high-ranking officials here."
Zhan Zhao shook his head, "I don't know any of them, and you also know that I only pay attention to the dishes when I drink and feast." ” Bai Yutang also couldn't cry or laugh, picked up the directory and said to Zhanzhao, "Wait for me for a while."
After that, I went out.
Zhan Zhao couldn't figure out where the mouse went in the middle of the night In the Taishi's Mansion.
The Taishi was just about to go to bed, when he heard Pang Fu come to report that Bai Yutang asked to see him.
The Taishi hurriedly put on his clothes and ran out to meet the guests.
Bai Yutang said that he was disturbed, and handed over the list to the Taishi.
Taishi was a little puzzled.
Bai Yutang pointed to the names of those officials and said, "In this group of people, if the daughter falls in love with the poor boy, the father will kill the poor boy and throw it into the well, which ones?"
Taishi was slightly stunned, then reached out and picked up a cinnabar pen, drew a few circles on the list, and handed it back to Bai Yutang.
Kaifeng Funai.
Zhan Zhao ate half of the supper, and Bai Yutang came back and handed him back the list.
Zhan Zhao opened it and found that several red circles were drawn, so he looked at Bai Yutang in puzzlement.
Bai Yutang winked at him, "The suspect provided by the Taishi." ” Zhan Zhao immediately understood, smiled slightly, and gave Bai Yutang a thumbs up The mouse is clever enough: