Chapter 647 [Hidden danger](1/2)
Dragon pattern collection
Roll nineteen fish tail pillow
【Hidden danger】
There were many soldiers and horses stationed at the entrance of the Liao Kingdom’s Inn. When Zhan Zhaohe Baiyutang arrived, Ouyang happened to be there too.
Huo Qilin was tying his ears and listening to several envoys chattering and complaining. It seemed that not only were the fired last night, but also the stones and rotten eggs were thrown away.
Ouyang sent out the envoys and shook his head and waved to Zhan Zhao and the others.
Zhan Showa Bai Yutang went over and asked, "What's the situation?"
Ouyang spread his hands and said, "It's the same thing. Maybe some of them were sacrificed by their family members who participated in the battle against Liao. Every time there were many people who threw stones and rotten eggs. Occasionally, some of them set fires with bad tempers, but at most they threw a torch or something. Yesterday's one was a little bit bizarre."
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang followed Ouyang to the arson point to see.
I saw that the entire eastern courtyard of the Liao Kingdom’s Inn was burned down, and it seemed that the fire was quite big.
"Is anyone killed?" Zhan Zhao asked.
"That's not."
"Where are those cats?" Zhan Zhao felt it was necessary to care about his kind.
Ouyang shook his head and said, "The cats are fine, they are all in the West Crossing Courtyard."
"The East Cross Courtyard is used to present birthday gifts." Ouyang said.
"Birthday gift?" Zhan Zhao was surprised, "Has it been burned?"
"Not." Ouyang had no choice but to open a charred wooden box for Zhan Zhao to see, and saw a large lump of gold inside.
"Is it a gold jewelry?" Zhan Zhao asked.
"It should be a gilded jade, which is said to be quite precious, but the gold has melted." Ouyang took out a gold nugget that looked like a lump, "It seems that the jade is inside."
Zhan Zhao looked at the golden lump and felt it was a pity.
Bai Yutang looked around and found a question, "Did the fire rise from this box that holds birthday gifts?"
Ouyang snapped his fingers and signaled Bai Yutang to be right!
Zhan Zhao also looked at the four outsides. Indeed, the fire burned from the middle to the two sides.
"Is the purpose of burning the birthday ceremony?" Zhan Zhao asked.
Ouyang nodded, "The box was sprinkled with tinea oil, and you see it's all burned to charcoal."
"In other words, the person who sets the fire has to sneak into the inn to do it?" Zhan Zhao asked.
Ouyang spread his hands, "The problem lies here. The Liao Kingdom Inn is strictly guarded, so they brought a lot of soldiers to protect themselves. There are guards of the Imperial City Army outside the entire inn, and there are many patrols and shifts. There is no reason why someone pours turtle oil and sets fire without anyone discovering it! How can you get the best light skills to enter and exit freely?"
"It's very suspicious! It feels a bit like the previous case of the stolen ring in the palace! The birthday ceremony of the Deer King Villa was stolen." Zhan Zhao shook the golden lump and asked, "Is there really jade inside?"
Ouyang called an envoy of the Liao Kingdom and asked him what was inside the gold ornament. He said there was an egg-sized piece of jade carving, which was very exquisite.
"If the size of an egg is large, isn't it?" Ouyang asked Bai Yutang.
Bai Yutang shook the golden lump and shook his head, "The weight is wrong."
Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes. When Bai Yutang put down, the envoy was about to say something when he suddenly heard a "swish" sound and something flashed.
The envoy didn't understand what was going on. Zhan Zhao carried Juque behind his back, stretched out a finger and poked the golden lump. Then he heard a "click" sound, and the golden lump cracked.
The envoy gasped and looked at it again... where was there jade inside, only a black egg-sized stone.
The envoy gasped again, this one was bigger than the one just now.
Ouyang raised his eyebrows, "The jade was stolen, and the gold was melted into a fire?"
"This is the feeling that someone is collecting jade. Are they all the jade from the Cui family back then?" Bai Yutang asked the envoy, "Where did the jade in it come from?
The envoy said that it was their king's private possession, and it seemed that they were from the Central Plains. The reason they sent it as a birthday gift was because they heard that the empress dowager and the emperor liked jade.
Zhan Zhao frowned, "This time many birthday gifts sent by many families are jade."
"I heard the news before, saying that the royal family hoped that the jade was sent this time!" The envoy of the Liao Kingdom replied.
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other - Is there such a thing? Zhao Zhen doesn't like jade very much.
Ouyang frowned, "It feels like someone was deliberately making a sound of wind."
"What does that egg look like?" Zhan Zhao asked, "Is there a fish tail on it?"
"That's a wave... But being said like this is indeed a bit like a fish tail." The envoy thought about it, took a pen and drew it roughly. When everyone saw it, what... the pattern of the fish tail crossing!
Zhan Zhao looked at the envoy with disgust, "Do your king know what this picture means?"
The envoy tilted his head and asked innocently, "Isn't it as blessed as the East China Sea?"
Zhan Zhao was amused and crying.
Ouyang patted the envoy's shoulder and nodded, "Oh, I'm relieved if the Liao King hasn't seen him for a while!"
Leaving Ouyang and the envoys to continue to tease their children, Zhan Zhaohe Bai Yutang left the inn and returned to Kaifeng Prefecture.
When he was out, he saw several palace maids holding food in. Zhan Zhao looked back.
Bai Yutang saw that it was almost noon, and thought Zhan Zhao was hungry, so he asked, "Maoer, do you want to go to have a meal?"
Zhan Zhao finally withdrew his gaze and asked Bai Yutang very seriously, "Yutang, have you found that every jade lost has something in common?"
Bai Yutang thought for a while and said, "It's all because of the strict guards that God lost something without knowing it?"
Zhan Zhao nodded, "Not only, there are also the same group of people entering and leaving the places where the accident happens, but they will not be suspected!"
Bai Yutang was slightly stunned, then frowned and asked, "You mean, there are palace maids in every place?"
Zhan Zhao nodded, "The maids in the inn and other courtyards were selected from the palace maids, and many of them came directly from the palace. In the palace, even in some remote places, the entry and exit of the palace maids would not arouse people's suspicion... If there is a good skill among these palace maids..."
Bai Yutang nodded, "If you say so, it is indeed..."
Zhan Zhao turned around and asked him to find a way to get a list of palace maids who were in the inn last night.
After the arrangement, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang ran to Taibaiju for dinner. On the second floor, the four little sons, Xigulu, Tianzun and Yin Hou were all there.
Zhan Zhao ran upstairs and asked Xiao Sizi first, "Little Sizi, have your father and the others entered the palace?"
Xiao Sizi nodded, "Dad and Jiujiu have entered the palace."
Zhan Zhao was relieved. He had discussed with Zhao Pu and Gongsun yesterday. Zhao Pu and his friends went to the palace first to prepare. After a while, he and Bai Yutang had dinner and went over to set up a plan to see if they could lead the snake out of the hole.
The little Sizi shook his legs and was very happy. Zhan Zhao saw that he was in a good mood and wondered, "Your father and Jiujiu have entered the palace, why don't you go?"
The little four son smiled.
Xigulu interrupted, saying, "Zhan Daguo, Xiaoliangzhi is back today!"
Zhan Zhao thought about it, by the way! It’s true that Xiao Liangzi is coming, and the Wolf King Castle must have a birthday gift. I guess Xiao Liang, the little prince, will come directly on behalf of his father to celebrate his birthday. Lin Yehuo hasn’t seen him for a while. I don’t know if the Devil City will give a gift. The little fourth son is looking forward to the stars and the moon these days, but he has been looking forward to his little Liangzi back.
Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao, "Wolf King Castle and Devil City won't also send jade artifacts?"
Zhan Zhao touched his chin, "I don't know if there is a fish tail?"
Both Yin Hou and Tianzun asked Zhan Zhao how the case of Bai Yutang was investigated, so Zhan Zhao told him about the matter.
Bai Yutang asked Tianzun and Yin Hou, "What's so special about this Cui family's jadeware? Apart from being particularly valuable?"
Tianzun and Yin Hou looked at each other and shook their heads. They had never heard of anything special.
"But since it is a jade craftsman who is exclusive to the royal family, will he carve any secrets of the dynasty and other things in the jade?" Zhan Zhao asked.
"It's not accurate," said Tianzun Liangsi. "Li Bing, that guy is the most sensible. Maybe he really made some secrets hidden in the jade."
"What's the secret?" Zhan Zhao was curious, "Is it a treasure?"
Xiao Sizi and Xigulu both chewed the balls and looked up - treasure?
"Treasures are not like Li Bing's style, right?" Tianzun laughed and said casually, "You said he got a map to Wanzhuang Palace and I said I still believe it..."
The Heavenly Lord was joking, but Yin Hou didn't laugh and stared at the Heavenly Lord.
When Tianzun drank the soup and saw that it was a cold thing, he went to look at Yin Hou. Yin Hou frowned and stared at him.
"What are you doing?" Tianzun blinked.
Hou Yin put down his cup and asked the Tianzun, "The Demon King did give Li Bing the scroll of the Wan Curse Palace back then, right?"
The Heavenly Lord raised his eyebrows, "Yes! Didn't you stay?"
Yin Hou frowned.
Tianzun said, "It's useless to have a scroll. The Nine Dragon Wheels and Pans were thrown into the sea."
"This is...and there is no guide..." Yin Hou murmured to himself.
Tianzun knocked on the wine glass in front of Yin Hou with chopsticks, "Don't be suspicious, the Wancurd Palace has collapsed."
Mr. Yin glanced at Tianzun again and nodded, as if he was relieved, but Zhan Zhao could see that his grandfather was still a little doubtful.
Just then, Xiao Sizi suddenly asked, "Dragon wheel & plate, are nine dragons biting heads and tails together? "
Hou Yin and the Heavenly Lord looked at each other and opened their mouths wide.
To be continued...