Kaifeng Monster

Chapter 10 Gnats (1)
There are two people surnamed Zhao in Kaifeng Mansion.

One is the school lieutenant and the other is the Yachai.

The school lieutenant needs no introduction, so is Zhao Hu.

The original name of the Yachai was Zhao Da. Before Bao Zheng took office in Kaifeng Mansion, Zhao Da had already worked as a Yayachai in the Kaifeng Mansion.

There is a reason why it is called "original name".

Back then, the four captains were majestic kings of the mountain. In order to follow Mr. Bao, they dismissed the brothers in the village and packed up their beds in Kaifeng.Accustomed to robbing houses in the green forests and grass, suddenly a few people need to change their positions to think about catching thieves and robbing houses at the same time, it has to be a process of getting used to it?
How to adapt to the psychological gap, everyone has their own method.For example, Zhang Long, who learned how to play a good chess game during this period; another example, Wang Chao, who quietly threw himself into a romantic relationship. Open, means that you don't care about forever, only care about once owned.

As for Zhao Hu, his method of coping with loneliness is different from the above. He is obsessed with "Lian Zong".

According to the interpretation of the modern authoritative tool encyclopedia, Lianzong means: in feudal society, people with the same surname who have no clan relationship are considered as family members.

To put it bluntly, just relying on the same surname Zhao 500 years ago, I will recognize a family in this life.

Zhao Hu's motives are also understandable. When you first come to the emperor's capital, where you are unfamiliar, everyone yearns for the love and care of relatives and friends, doesn't it?Those who have relatives and friends rely on relatives and friends, those without relatives and friends create relatives and friends.

Unexpectedly, people with the surname Zhao in Kaifeng Mansion were so scarce. After asking all over the place, only Zhao Day could be found.

In fact, this is completely wrong in Zhao Hu's target area. There may not be many people with the surname Zhao in Kaifeng, but there are clusters of clusters in the palace...

Off topic, let’s get down to business.

But it is said that Zhao Hu found Zhao Da, and Zhao Da was very happy when he mentioned his own meaning: first, Zhao Hu is a school lieutenant, with a higher rank than him; second, Zhao Hu is honest and straightforward, and Zhao Da is really willing Befriend him.

In terms of age, Zhao Hu is several years older than Zhao Da, and Zhao Da has to call Zhao Hu "big brother".

As a result, Zhao Da felt that his name was awkward. He was obviously not the head of the house, so what was he called? No, he changed his name.

Zhao Hu is very sorry, there is only one sect, how can it be troublesome to change his name, don't change it, it's good to be called Zhao Dating.

They fought and fought, but there was no result.It happened that Ma Han was by his side that day, and he came up with an idea: "Then don't use the word 'big', and add another word. Your elder brother is a tiger, and you are a cat, Big Cat Zhao."

As soon as Zhao Hu heard this, his face fell down. How can there be such an editor, who uses a cat as his name...

In fact, Ma Han was just talking casually, but he didn't expect to arouse Zhao Hu's anger, and he was extremely embarrassed at the moment.Zhao Da had a sincere heart, and when he saw that Ma Han would not come down, he hurried up to persuade him to make peace.

"The name Zhao Damao is very good. A cat has a tiger face. The elder brother is a tiger. I am a little tiger. Isn't the little tiger a cat? This name is good. I will be called Zhao Damao from now on. Don't try to persuade me. Whoever advises me, I am in a hurry."

Things were so vaguely settled.

Zhao Damao had been called by this name for two days, and something happened again.

Zhan Zhaoyao performed martial arts in the martial arts building, and the sage Long Yan was very happy, and when he opened his golden mouth, he bestowed the title of "Royal Cat".

Kaifeng Mansion was full of joy, but Zhao Damao was so worried that he didn't sleep well for several days.

The Zhanwei is a cat, can he still be called "cat"?He is also called "Big Cat", and it is clear that he wants to overwhelm the guards, no, he has to change his name...

What to change?It can't be called a mouse...

Just as I was thinking about it, I heard bricks and tiles being thrown and crackling outside. After I went out to inquire, I found out that a man named Chinchilla came to the door for the name of Royal Cat.

It seems that it is not safe to call him a mouse, Zhao Damao was so shocked that his face turned pale.

Later, I still consulted Mr. Gongsun and changed the name to "Zhao Xiaoda".

Fortunately, the case of Xiaobaicai happened in the late Qing Dynasty instead of the early Song Dynasty, otherwise, if Zhao Xiaoda knew that he had the same name as the bitter master Ge Xiaoda, he would be depressed again.

The protagonist of the story about gnats is Zhao Xiaoda.

Speaking of which, it was already late autumn, when Zhao Hu came back from investigating the case that day, when he passed by the gatehouse, he saw Zhao Xiaoda hiding in a corner of the gatehouse, his posture was extremely awkward, and when he looked carefully, Zhao Xiaoda stretched out his hand from the back neckline. Go in, scratch left and right, face flushed.

"What about scratching?" Zhao Hu responded.

"Yeah." Zhao Xiaoda didn't raise his head, "It's right on the back of the vest, the top can't reach it, and the bottom can't reach it either, it's choking."

"Let me take a look." As the elder brother, Zhao Hu is obliged.

When I took off the clothes, I saw that it was just an ordinary red pimple, and I knew it was bitten by a mosquito.

"The humidity in the room is too heavy. It's cold in autumn, and there are still mosquitoes?" Zhao Hu wondered.

"It wasn't just bitten by a mosquito," Zhao Xiaoda explained, "I've been bitten for a while."

"Then I'll go back and ask Mr. Gongsun for some medicine." Zhao Hu put down the opened clothes, "Don't keep scratching it, the more you scratch it, the more itchy."

Before leaving, I asked one more question: "When did you get bitten?"

Zhao Xiaoda's answer almost made Zhao Hu faint: "I have bitten it for fifteen or sixteen years."

"I really don't understand," Zhan Zhao looked at Zhao Hu, "Zhao Xiaoda was bitten by a mosquito, what does it have to do with Duanmucui?"

"It's getting serious." Seeing that Zhan Zhao didn't understand, Zhao Hu became anxious, "Brother Zhan, don't you think this is strange? What kind of mosquito bites can last for fifteen or sixteen years?"

Zhan Zhao is noncommittal.

"Brother Zhan, there must be mystery in this." Zhao Hu tried to persuade Zhan Zhao further, "If there is a strange thing, we should tell me sister Duanmu, right? Didn't sister Duanmu say that Xihualiu mainly accepts ghosts from the world?"

Zhan Zhao finally spoke: "If Zhao Xiaoda's bag was bitten by a ghost, I have no problem with you going to find Duanmucui, but now I was bitten by a mosquito..."

He patted Zhao Hu on the shoulder: "Today I was bitten by a mosquito and went to her, and another day I was stung by a spider or a wasp. Do I have to go to her? Duanmucui has business to do, so don't use these things to make her mess up." .”

Zhan Zhao's words are so clear, what else can Zhao Hu say?
Seeing that Zhao Hu was listless, Wang Chao and Ma Han gave him advice.

"Don't be discouraged by Brother Zhan's words. Brother Zhan is Brother Zhan, and Sister Duanmu is Sister Duanmu. If Brother Zhan disagrees, it doesn't mean that Sister Duanmu disagrees, right?"

As soon as the dynasty opened his mouth, he classified Zhan Zhao, who had worked together for a long time and lived and died together, into the "he" category, and Duanmucui into the "me" side.

"But," Zhao Hu still hesitated, "Brother Zhan said that Sister Duanmu is very busy..."

"Sister Duanmu is the master of Xihualiu. If there is anything to do, she will send her disciples to do it. Where can she be so busy?" Ma Han analyzed clearly. The pot is to play with Wu Taigong's shovel, how can you really be so busy?"

"It's really you." Zhao Hu was impressed by Ma Han's observation ability.

Say Duanmucui is not busy, sometimes she is really busy until dark; say she is busy, she is so free that she will go to the Ganges to find sand.

For example, now, Duanmucui is laying on the ground with her chin in her hands, looking at the blue and white porcelain bowl, which is very busy.

"Insert one here, another one here, and another one here." The blue-and-white porcelain bowl inserted the hair-thin candles one by one, and looked up at Duanmucui expectantly, "How about it, what shape is it?" ?”

Duanmucui squinted her eyes and looked at it for a long time: "It's like a ghost drawing talisman, who can tell what the word is."

The blue and white porcelain bowl was discouraged: "Isn't it the word 'waner'? I inserted it according to what you wrote on the ground. How could I not see what the word is?"

"How do I know?" Duanmu Cuibai glanced at the blue-and-white porcelain bowl, "I've done such a bad job of painting gourds and ladles, you're stupid and you still don't admit it."

The blue and white porcelain bowl stared back at Duanmucui angrily, and Duanmucui casually pointed to the sky: "The sun is going down soon, hurry up."

By the time the plugging seemed to be done, the sky had already darkened.The blue and white porcelain bowl pulled Duanmucui's strand of hair hanging down: "Click on it, click on it and have a look."

Duanmu Cui hummed, stretched out his hand, and snapped his fingers in mid-air.

On the heads of those candles, small flames really burst out, and the crooked words "Bowl" clearly disappeared in the fading twilight.

"It's a good look." The blue and white porcelain bowl folded her hands on her chest, her face full of intoxication.

Bored, Duanmu Cui got up from the ground, patted the dust off his clothes and went into the house to cook.She is so boring that she actually spent the whole afternoon making blue and white porcelain bowls...

Suddenly, the blue and white porcelain bowl screamed like a duck being trampled on its neck.

Duanmucui was startled, and hurried out to look, and saw Zhao Hu standing on the ground with a face of embarrassment, holding Gui Suzhai's dim sum bag in both hands, and the foot in front of him could not be lifted or not .

The place he stepped on should have the word "wan'er" on it.

Duanmu Cui let out a long sigh.

Sure enough, after the first panic and anger, the blue and white porcelain bowl burst into grief and cried loudly: "I arranged a candlelight dinner all afternoon, how can I explain to Wan'er..."

"Sister Duan, Duanmu..." Zhao Hu felt guilty, "I...I..."

"Come in and talk." Duanmucui let Zhao Hu into the room.

Outside the house, the blue and white porcelain bowl let out mournful sounds; inside the house, Duanmu Cui was careless, and Zhao Hu was sitting on pins and needles.

"That..." Zhao Hu said with difficulty, "I didn't want to bother Sister Duanmu..."

"Oh……"

"Brother Zhan said nothing to let me come, and said that sister Duanmu would definitely not agree, and said that sister Duanmu would think I was troublesome..."

"Oh...huh?" Duanmu Cuiyuan opened his eyes and raised his head, "What do I definitely not agree to? How does he know that I will definitely not agree?"

"That's what I said too. You brother Zhan is not Sister Duanmu, so how do you know that Sister Duanmu must not agree?" Zhao Hu hit the snake with the stick, and immediately began to recount Zhao Xiaoda's incident with more details.During the period, the blue and white porcelain bowl saw that no one paid attention to his mourning, so he moved the scene of crying from outside to inside, walked around Zhao Hu's official boots and cried, and picked up the hem of Zhao Hu's official robe several times to blow his nose.

"Speaking of which, I just want to tell Sister Duanmu about such a strange thing." Zhao Hu pretended to be sad and indignant, "I didn't intend to bother Sister Duanmu, but Brother Zhan..."

"I see." Duanmucui behaved as he wished, "Since he said so, I still want to go and see this Zhao Xiaoda to find out the truth of the matter. You go back first, tomorrow I will go to Kaifeng Mansion."

Zhao Hu was overjoyed and walked away.The blue and white porcelain bowl saw that the perpetrator was about to abscond, how could he give up?Taking a deep breath and preparing to raise her voice again, Duanmucui lowered her head and said viciously: "If you keep talking, I will tell you about the fact that you and Xiaodie went to the riverside to watch the stars last night."

The blue and white porcelain bowl was taken aback, and he was relieved when he lifted it up.Duanmucui snorted and sent Zhao Hu out.

The blue-and-white porcelain bowl watched the two leave helplessly, making sure that Duanmucui would not hear it again, put his hands on his hips, held his head high, and said loudly: "This is a scandal, an absolute scandal."

There was no sound, the whole room was silent, no one noticed the gossip heroine Xiao Die curled up in the shadows, staring at the blue and white porcelain bowl hatefully, twisting and twisting a small handkerchief in her hand.

On the second day, Duanmucui arrived as scheduled.

She failed to meet Zhan Zhao.Zhan Zhao was sent to the Eight Princes' Mansion early in the morning by Mr. Bao on business.

Gongsun Ce and the four captains were watching, Zhao Xiaoda was terrified.

On the vest, there is a small bag, look left and right, look up and down, it is very ordinary.

Duanmucui confirmed with Zhao Xiaoda: "From what you say, it's only been for fifteen or sixteen years?"

only?

Zhao Hu looked at Duanmucui adoringly. Sister Duanmu's aura was different. Except for Zhan Zhao who didn't care, everyone in the Kaifeng mansion almost dropped their jaws when they heard about it. Surprised: "It's been biting for fifteen or sixteen years?"

Look at what Sister Ren Duanmu said, people said "only".

Just two words, it shows that Sister Duanmu is so light, she doesn't take it seriously, and she can resolve this disaster without blinking an eyelid.

Zhao Hu admired this so-called master.

After the "diagnosis and treatment", Gongsun Ce and his party sent Duanmucui to the gate of Kaifeng Mansion.

"It's not a big deal." Duan Mucui said lightly, "It just became a strange gnat, hiding in the sting bag, recognizing Zhao Xiaoda as the host, and only sucking the blood of this person. Fortunately, it was only fifteen or sixteen years , it’s not enough yet... Go to the pharmacy to buy a Tianlong, mash it, add half a bowl of water to boil the slurry, and then apply the thick slurry on the sputum. After two hours, the sputum will burst out, and the gnat will naturally Fly out. At that time, remember to slap the gnat to death, so that it will not harm others again."

"Okay, yes, definitely, understand." Zhao Hu nodded his head.

When Duanmucui walked away, Zhao Hu looked at Gongsun Ce with a puzzled face: "Mr. Gongsun, what is Tianlong?"

Gongsun Ce didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You don't know what Tianlong is, and you just said it to Miss Duanmu, and you still understand it?"

Zhao Hu scratched his head and smiled foolishly.

"Tianlong is also called Tianlong gecko. It is dried after the gecko's internal organs are removed. It can be bought in ordinary drugstores." Gongsun Ce said loudly, "This gecko is a sexual eater of mosquitoes. Use Tianlong gecko to deal with the strange gnats. , is a good prescription.”

That night, when Zhan Zhao came back from a business trip, Zhao Hu would inform Zhan Zhao about everything.

"Brother Zhan," Zhao Hu was very complacent, "I'll say this is unusual. As expected, Sister Duanmu's eyes are as bright as a torch, and she saw that it was a mosquito gnat."

The implication is that your guards were too negligent, and it was a big mistake to almost let the monster go.

Zhan Zhao smiled: "Have you given Zhao Xiaoda medicine?"

"I told you about the kitchen. I'm boiling the oatmeal now. When it's ready, let the cook Chen Liu send it to Zhao Xiaoda." Zhao Hu murmured, "This time I've troubled Sister Duanmu again. I must come to thank you another day."

That night, Zhao Hu was on duty to patrol the night, and when he returned home, Zhao Xiaoda had already fallen asleep, and Zhao Hu went back to his room disconcerted, thinking about going to visit again tomorrow morning.

After breakfast on the second day, Zhao Hu excitedly went to visit Zhao Xiaoda again, knocking on the door with his hand and shouting loudly: "Brother, I see you coming."

No one answered the door, no one answered, Zhao Hu waited anxiously, couldn't help knocking the door open vigorously, his face changed suddenly as he saw it, Teng Teng Teng took three steps back, tripped by the threshold and fell outside the door.

Fragments of medicine bowls were scattered on the ground, and Chen Liu, the cook who delivered medicine to Zhao Xiaoda yesterday, was dead on the spot.

And Zhao Xiaoda, nowhere to be found.

This is the first homicide in Kaifeng Mansion.

(End of this chapter)