long moon smiles in the sky

Chapter 103 Strange, strange corpses and strange things

In the past few days, Xingkong Island has been very lively. On the one hand, it is the birthday of Lu Fangda, the head of the family. On the other hand, this year’s fish harvest is excellent. Dragon boat rowing and lion dancing are full of gongs and drums every day.

Bai Yutang specially asked someone to get two large baskets of high-quality seafood, chilled them in ice, and quickly sent them to Kaifeng Mansion for Zhan Zhao.I know this cat is greedy for seafood... It's a pity that I can't take it home to raise, otherwise I will feed it with fish, shrimp and crab shells every day, and it will make him meow.

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Zhan Zhao is eating seafood beside the stone table in the courtyard... People in Kaifeng Mansion have been eating seafood for three days.

Zhan Zhao took a big crab with pliers, clicked it, peeled off the shell, and pulled out a large piece of plump, snow-white tender meat, dipped it in the vinegar prepared by the kitchen lady, opened his mouth...to bite.

"Yeah." Zhan Zhao smiled happily and nodded, looking up at the blue sky of Kaifeng, where a few birds flew happily.

Zhan Zhao picked up the glass and took a sip of the wine, then sighed - it would be great if the mouse was here, we can eat together.

Finally, when Lu Fang's birthday passed, Bai Yutang packed his bags and prepared to go to Kaifeng Mansion. He pretended to do business, but who didn't know that he was going to the cat's den?

Mrs. Lu found Bai Yutang, gave him a bill and stuffed him with a stack of bank notes, asking him to help him buy some things.

Bai Yutang took the list and looked at it, and saw that most of them were Zhuchai, pendants, earrings, etc. He raised his eyes to look at his sister-in-law, and asked in puzzlement, "Sister-in-law, why do you buy so many jewelry? I don't see you wearing them very often. ah."

Aunt Lu smiled mysteriously and said, "I prepared it for my future daughter-in-law."

Bai Yutang couldn't help the corners of his mouth twitching - Lu Zhen just turned one year old!Isn't it too early to prepare a bride price for a foreign daughter-in-law?

Mrs. Lu waved her hand to him, and said, "Oh, if I tell you to buy it, you can buy it. Remember, buy something that looks good."

"Yeah." Bai Yutang put away the bill and bank notes, bid farewell to his brother, and stepped back to the wind.

Huifeng wandered around in the stable for the past few days, and it seemed that he was anxious about Xiaoyue.

Bai Yutang kicked it lightly with his heel, and said, "Let's go, go to Kaifeng Mansion to find Xiaoyue."

When Huifeng heard it, his mane exploded, and with a long hiss, he spread his hooves and galloped away... to Kaifeng Mansion.

Bai Yutang grabbed it, "Oh, jump into the sea, get on board!"

Returning to the wind, he was so excited that he quickly jumped onto the boat and stomped on the boat, as if telling the boatmen to go faster.

Compared with the hustle and bustle of the empty island, Kaifeng mansion is quite leisurely these days.

Zhan Zhao walks around the mansion with the giant que all day long, or takes the listless Xiaoyue for a walk in the street.

When he arrived at the gate of the city, Zhan Zhao grabbed Xiaoyue who was about to rush out, and said helplessly, "Oh, so what if you rush to Songjiang Mansion? Could it be that you went to Sinking Island?

Xiaoyue looked at Zhan Zhao, and flicked him with her tail, just enough to hit his ass—it's all your fault. The return wind has forgotten me as the master."

While talking, I saw a yamen servant hurried over and said, "Master Zhan, my lord wants you to go back."

"What's wrong?" Zhan Zhao managed to pull himself together, and said to himself, don't say that someone from the owner's cat disappeared, or someone from the west's puppy disappeared.

"He's dead." The yamen servant said.

"Great!" Zhan Zhao blurted out, and the corner of the yamen servant's mouth twitched.

Zhan Zhao quickly waved his hands, "No, no...I mean, there is finally a case." As he walked back with the yamen servant, he asked, "How dead is it?"

"Just one... but it looks a little strange!" the yamen servant replied.

"Oh?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "How strange?"

"It seems to be bitten to death by some animal." The man said, "But there are no ferocious beasts near Kaifeng."

"Bite to death?" Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, hurried back to Kaifeng mansion, ran to the yard, saw two corpses parked on the ground, and asked curiously, "Huh? Didn't you say one died?"

Gongsun was inspecting the corpse, and Bao Zheng said, "There is another one that was just discovered and brought over."

Zhan Zhao nodded, leaned over, squatted next to the corpses to watch... and found that the corpses were covered with bloody bite marks, as if they were bitten by some ferocious beast, so he asked Gongsun, "Sir, what kind of bites are there?" ?”

Gongsun stroked his chin lightly and said, "Hmm...it looks like a wolf or a big dog."

"Wolf?" Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, and thought for a while, "Are there wolves around Kaifeng Mansion?"

Everyone shook their heads - probably not.

"This is evil." Gongsun said, "The corpse was found nearby, and it was fresh. It didn't look like it had been dead for a long time, and it didn't look like it was brought over from another place... Inside Kaifeng, when will it come out?" A wolf? And judging by his scars, the one who bit him probably wasn't a wolf, there must have been two or three."

"That's right." Zhan Zhao looked at it and said, "The two deceased were both strong middle-aged men, so it's impossible for them to be bitten to death by a wolf."

"Huh?" While speaking, Zhan Zhao noticed the dead man's hand, stretched out his hand, and picked up their hands to have a look.

"What did you find?" Gongsun asked.

"Oh, this is a gambler." As he said that, Zhan Zhao went to look at the other one, and said, "This is the same, these two people must be addicted to gambling, find some people from the casino to see, maybe they can recognize each other .”

"Zhan Wei, how did you find out?" Bao Zheng asked puzzled.

"Hmm..." Zhan Zhao showed Bao Zheng the fingers of the deceased, and said, "My lord, you can see that the skin on the pad of his index finger is thinner than other places. There are calluses on the inside of the little finger and the inside of the thumb, which are caused by years of shaking the cup."

Bao Zheng nodded, and sent Wang Chao Mahan to the gambling house to find a few managers. They recognized them immediately. The two dead, one named Wan Dahua and the other named Mao Qiang, were both from the gambling shop. The regular customers who gambled money almost every day, they were wondering if they didn't come two days ago, and they died unexpectedly.

After hearing this, Gongsun asked, "Do you keep wolfdogs in your gambling shop?"

"Uh, I raised them." Several managers looked at each other, nodded, and said, "All raised, because the gambling house has a lot of money and is afraid of thieves, so they all raised fierce wolf dogs."

"Will you bite?" Zhan Zhao asked.

The officials looked at each other and nodded, "If you get close, you will bite."

Zhan Zhao asked them to look at the wounds on the deceased's body. Several supervisors shook their heads and said, "It was definitely not bitten by a wolf dog."

"Why are you so sure?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Master Zhan, dogs and wolves are different. Although our wolfdogs are fierce, they are all well-fed. They bite people at most, but they won't kill people. Besides, there are a lot of thugs in the gambling houses. Once the dogs bark, they will go directly to take the person down, and they will never watch the dog kill the person... We are all responsible people, and we are doing business under the supervision of Mr. Bao in Kaifeng Prefecture, how dare we take human life carelessly!"

Everyone nodded, Bao Zheng asked, "These two gamblers, how are their personalities? Do you have any family members, and have you had disputes with anyone?"

Several supervisors answered in one go, the two people have similar personalities, they are pretty good in everything, but they like to gamble, and they are addicted to gambling... But in general, they don't usually fight and make trouble, they don't do evil, and they don't like to gamble. It is true that there are a few times, so life is not too tight, and the relatives don't know, the parents probably have, but the daughter-in-law is definitely not... They are still bachelors.

Bao Zheng nodded, and asked people to follow the guards to find the homes of the two deceased, and asked family and friends if they had offended anyone.

Later, Bao Zheng found some local woodcutters and hunters who often went up the mountain in Kaifeng, and asked them, are there any ferocious beasts around Kaifeng Mansion?

The hunters looked at the corpse and said...it was bitten by a wolf or a wolf dog, and it was in a large group.

Bao Zheng was even more puzzled, and asked, "Are there wolves in Kaifeng Mansion?"

Everyone smiled and shook their heads, saying, "Absolutely not!"

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Bai Yutang hurried all the way, and finally, in the evening of this day, he arrived at Yingtian Mansion.

Yingtianfu is also considered a big town store, and it was less than two days away from Fengfeng. Bai Yutang held on to the return wind that was about to jump forward, and said, "Oh, I will be exhausted if you are not tired. Stay for a while." Go later!"

Therefore, Huifeng, who was unwilling to do so, was dragged by Bai Yutang into the largest restaurant in Yingtian Mansion.

This restaurant is quite grand, and Bai Yutang attaches great importance to return air, so generally as long as the restaurant has a courtyard, he will rent it in the courtyard, so that he can keep the return air in front of his eyes.

Huifeng snorted in the yard, looking dissatisfied at Bai Yutang who was eating at the stone table, as if he wanted to quarrel with him.

Bai Yutang took a sip of wine weakly, and said, "You too... you don't have to run from Songjiang Mansion to Yingtian Mansion in one go if you want to see Xiaoyue, aren't you tired?"

Huifeng shakes his head in dissatisfaction - I miss Xiaoyue so much, it's because of you...not living with Zhanmaomao, making people spend their days in lovesickness all day long.

Bai Yutang sighed and shook his head.

At this time, according to Bai Yutang's request, the assistant brought a new bathtub and a lot of hot water. Bai Yutang thought for a while and asked, "Hey, buddy, is there any good place to go in Yingtian Mansion at night?"

"Uh... lord, do you want to go out at night?" the man asked.

"En." Bai Yutang nodded, seeing the shopkeeper's expression changed, he asked, "Can't we go out tonight?"

"Master, it's been a rough night recently. I advise you to rest early, and don't go out even if you hear strange noises." The man said tremblingly.

Bai Yutang couldn't help frowning, and asked, "What strange sound?"

"Hehe." The buddy laughed dryly twice, and said, "It's nothing, so I ran away in a hurry.

After eating, Bai Yutang soaked in the tub and took a nice bath, still pondering what the buddy said just now, what strange sound?

After taking a shower and changing into clean clothes, Bai Yutang originally wanted to go out for a stroll...but Huifeng bit his sleeve and refused to let him go out—you go to bed early!Get up early tomorrow!We arrived at Kaifeng Mansion in one day!I want to see Xiaoyue!

Bai Yutang was caught by Huifeng and couldn't break free. He looked at it weakly, "Oh, you can't do it." Huifeng snorted fiercely——don't waste time!

Bai Yutang shook his head helplessly, turned around and wanted to go back to the room, Huifeng finally let go, but Bai Yutang dodged, jumped onto the roof, and smirked at Huifeng.

The return wind scratched its hooves and snorted—you're dead!

Bai Yutang shook his head, stood on the roof of the restaurant and looked out... When he saw it, he frowned slightly. He stretched out his hand and stroked his chin, wondering why Ying Tianfu had just lighted the lamp... There was only one pedestrian on the street Are they all gone?