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In the afternoon of that day, the news that Zhan Zhao and others were ordered to study at the Imperial Academy spread. Please use it to visit this site.

In fact, only Kaifeng Prefecture and the Imperial Academy know about the Ghost Face Man and Yin-Yang Palace. The Master of the Imperial Academy ordered all students not to go out and talk nonsense. Therefore, in Kaifeng Prefecture, the current affairs about the Ghost Face Man have not spread.

So, the people of Kaifeng Prefecture were curious. Why did Zhao Zhen issue an order to ask Zhan Zhao and the others to study? It was so interesting!

In the afternoon, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were the first to arrive at the academy. Of course, they were not here to get the four treasures of the study or to get the student robes, but to check out the case of Liang Youdao's suicide.

Liang Youdao's body had been taken down by teachers and students who rushed in to rescue him, and a white silk ribbon hung above the beam.

Zhan Zhaohe Bai Yutang looked at Liang Youdao, who was lying on the door panel and covered with white cloth, and couldn't help frowning - a gentle master.

Gongsun checked the silk stool from Fangliang and the stool that was lying beside him, then found Liang Youdao's body, and finally stood up and shook his head, "There are no signs of him killing him."

"So, it was indeed suicide?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Gongsun nodded, "That's right."

As a classmate of Lord Bao and the Eighth Prince, Master Liang is not young anymore.

Zhan Zhao looked at it with his arms in his arms, a little puzzled - at this age, he should have seen through everything and opened it, why would he commit suicide if he couldn't think so hard?

Bai Yutang found a piece of white paper pressed with paperweight by the desk, waved to Zhan Zhao, "Maoer."

Zhan Zhao walked to the desk and looked down.

I saw that there was nothing written on the blank paper, but there was ground ink in the inkstone. Although it had been dried, the brush was placed next to the inkstone, as if it was ready to write something. What Zhan Zhao even more concerned was that next to the empty blank paper, there was an envelope written on it, which read - Xiren personally opened.

Zhan Zhao picked up the envelope and frowned slightly. Looking at the situation on the desk, it seemed that Liang Youdao was going to write a letter to Lord Bao. The envelope was written, the ink was polished, and the pen was moistened, but suddenly he put it down, then climbed onto the stool and hung the beam to commit suicide, and died.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, and it felt so strange.

"Gongsun." Zhan Zhao saw that Gongsun was tilting his head and seemed puzzled, so he asked, "Did Liang Youdao really commit suicide?"

Gongsun did not jump up like before and said that anyone questioned his medical skills, because he felt something was wrong now, so he climbed onto the stool, looked at it carefully again, and adjusted the body to check it for a long time, frowned and raised his head, "It's really suicide, and look at his fingers."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked over and squatted down to see that there were some dried ink marks on Liang Youdao's right finger.

Bai Yutang took the brush that had also dried ink and showed it to Zhan Zhao and Gongsun, and saw a long ink mark on the pen holder. It disappeared when it reached the middle end of the pen holder, as if it was blocked by fingers.

Zhan Zhao thought for a while and said, "Liang Youdao seemed to be hesitating with a pen for a while, so the ink flowed down the pen holder and touched his fingers."

"So, the reasonable explanation is." Gongsun Dao, "Liang Youdao originally wanted to write a letter to Lord Bao and then commit suicide, but after writing the envelope, hesitated for a while, but in the end he did not write that letter, he committed suicide by hanging Liang?"

"Or..." Bai Yutang looked at the desktop, "The letter I had written was taken away by someone, leaving a piece of white paper and an envelope?"

Zhan Zhao and Gongsun both frowned - it was not impossible!

With full of doubts, everyone took Liang Youdao's body back to Kaifeng Mansion, and Gongsun examined him and the little gangster Adong who died yesterday.

Zhan Zhao went to Mr. Bao’s study and briefly explained the matter. Mr. Bao was holding the envelope in a daze.

When Zhan Zhao returned to the door of the coroner's room, Gongsun stood outside the coroner's room, tilting his head, holding a green vegetable leaf in his hand with tweezers and squinting his eyes, asking the aunt who was cooking in the kitchen.

The aunt said nonchalantly, "This is not leeks or onions, this is garlic leaves!"

"Garlic leaves..." Gongsun frowned, "No wonder there was a smell."

Zhan Zhao walked over and asked, "What's wrong with Gongsun?"

"Oh." Gongsun said, "There is something strange in Adong's stomach."

"What?" Zhan Zhao was curious,

"Garlic leaves and squid." Gongsun Dao.

Zhan Zhao blinked, "Garlic leaves and squid? What dish? Are squid fried with garlic leaves?"

"Is there such a dish?" Gongsun asked.

"Well... I guess there are heavy mouths, it feels very fishy, ​​it depends on which chef will start." Zhan Zhao said, leaned over and smelled it, then rubbed his nose, thinking about it.

"What's wrong?" Gongsun was curious.

"I can't say it, the taste is so familiar, it seems to have smelled it there." Zhan Zhao touched his chin, "After all, it's a clue."

Gongsun then went back for the autopsy. Zhan Zhao walked around twice and wanted to find Bai Yutang to check where Adong had been before his death. However, after walking around for a few times, he found that Bai Yutang was missing.

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao wondered. He found outside the yard and ran into Chen Xing'er and Yue Ya'er who were humming a little song to wash clothes.

Zhan Zhao asked, Yueyaer had no choice but to say that the Taibaiju guy just now said that Tianzun seemed to have been in trouble, and the young master probably went to prepare to pay the money.

Zhan Zhao was curious, "What trouble did the Heavenly Lord cause?"

Yueyaer spread her hands, "I don't know this." Seeing that Zhan Zhao was a little worried, Chen Xing'er waved her hand, "Sir Zhan, this matter is often happening. It's okay, the young master will solve it."

After saying that, the two girls were busy again. Zhan Zhao thought about it, but he went out and walked all the way to Taibaiju.

After taking a few steps, Zhan Zhao suddenly turned around. It seemed that someone was staring at him, but he felt it again. The peeping gaze seemed to disappear. Zhan Zhao frowned and continued to move forward... Is someone staring at him? Or is someone staring at Kaifeng Mansion?

...

Speaking of which, what trouble did the Heavenly Lord cause?

Just now, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao had just returned to Kaifeng Prefecture. Zhan Zhao went to Bao Lord Bao’s study. Bai Yutang sat down and drank a sip of water. A servant who was very familiar with Taibaiju ran to find Bai Yutang, saying that they saw the Tianzun being stopped by many people at the entrance of a tea shop near Taibaiju. Those people did not look like gangsters, but ordinary people, and they didn’t know what happened. It seemed that there was some dispute.

Bai Yutang hurried out... It would be better if the person who stopped Tianzun was a gangster, at least Tianzun could beat them up, but if it was a commoner who could not do anything, it would be troublesome, and Tianzun didn't know how to deal with it.

Sure enough, when Bai Yutang ran to the entrance of Taibaiju, he saw many people surrounding him. Tianzun sat alone on the roof, holding his knees and sulking. Many people below pointed and pointed, and a few were still cursing.

Bai Yutang frowned, jumped onto the roof, and looked at the cursing people with warnings... Perhaps because this look was too intimidating, several young people who spoke rudely shut up.

Most people in Kaifeng Prefecture know Bai Yutang. Of course, Tianzun is relatively low-key, and everyone is often not in Kaifeng, so most people still don’t know him.

Seeing Bai Yutang coming, many onlookers whispered - that's the meaning, why did Bai Wuye come?

Bai Yutang walked to the side of the Heavenly Lord and squatted down to look at him.

I saw the Tianzun holding his knees unhappy.

"What's wrong?" Bai Yutang asked.

Tianzun glanced at the bottom.

Bai Yutang walked to the eaves.

I saw that the roof where Tianzun was located was indeed the roof of a tea shop. The people below should be guests drinking tea and the tea shop’s shop’s staff. The one who had a conflict with Tianzun seemed to be a group of people, like passing merchants. The answer was the leader, who was very gentle and like a Confucian businessman, but his subordinates were not polite, including a few vicious sword-wielding ones.

The tea shop's staff quickly stopped a few dissatisfied merchants and asked Bai Yutang with a smile, "Oh, Master Fifth, are you a friend who is familiar with the young master of the foreign clan?"

Bai Yutang was stunned for a moment and realized that the Tianzun was a young master of the foreign clan, probably because he was young and had white hair.

"He is my master." Bai Yutang said coldly.

Everyone was stunned and then looked at each other. Anyone in the world who knows some martial arts or knows martial arts but has heard about the world. Who doesn’t know that Bai Yutang’s master is the number one Heavenly Lord in the world? But the old man should be over 100 years old, why are he so young?

Bai Yutang saw a group of people below open their mouths and frowned, "Who will explain it to me?"

"Uh, that's the case." said a tea shop guy, "That...uh, your master passed by the tea shop and snatched the things from these guests."

Several merchants were very dissatisfied with their faces, but at this time, a few good things had been explained to them. The young master in white clothes was very famous, and he was Bai Yutang. The one with white hair was the famous Tianzun.

They were also puzzled - this is the most powerful martial arts master in the world? Why do they look like a silly boy?

Bai Yutang was confused when he heard this. Tianzun stole other people's things?

He looked back at the Heavenly Lord and saw that he was still sitting there.

Bai Yutang was a little confused and asked a few merchants, "What did he steal you?"

One of the merchants looked very gentle, as if they were the shopkeeper, and bowed to Bai Yutang, "Bai Wuye, I have long admired Daming. We are tea merchants from Hangzhou. We went to Kaifeng to do tea business. We just sat down and rested. That... the senior had walked past us, but suddenly turned back and took away the bag we put on the table. The bag was the money we earned from selling tea. We asked him, but he didn't give it to him, so he ran to the roof to hide."

The tea shop's staff was helpless, "We thought we were robbing the money and were about to report to the official!"

After hearing this, Bai Yutang probably understood, so he walked to the side of the Heavenly Lord and sat down and looked at him, and asked, "Master?"

Tianzun took out a bag from behind and handed it to Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang took the bag and opened it and looked at it. He saw that there were white silver and silver notes inside.

Bai Yutang looked at Tianzun in confusion. Bai Yutang's natural way of Tianzun will not rob people of money for no reason. Should there be a reason?

Tianzun pointed to his nose and narrowed his eyes, "The same smell!"

Bai Yutang was puzzled, "What does it taste?" He also knew that Tianzun, like Zhan Zhao, had a very smart nose.

Tianzun pointed to Yinzi and said, "That smell was the ghost-faced man last night."

Bai Yutang was slightly stunned. He picked up the bag and smelled it, and it seemed that there was a very special fishy smell.

He was wondering, and next to him, a head came over, his nose was close to Yinzi and smelled it. Then he touched his nose and raised his head, "Well... it's a bit like, I thought what it smelled last night, a fishy smell of garlic leaves and squid."

"Yeah!" Tianzun nodded.

Bai Yutang looked at the other side speechlessly. Zhan Zhao, who had come over at some time, was thinking about the smell. Sure enough, his nose was as good as the Heavenly Lord.

"Boy Pang Yu also has it." Tianzun muttered, "Then you carried it in just now, and that little gangster."

Bai Yutang understood that in the past, Tianzun would at least escape if he caused trouble, and then let him deal with it. However, this time he would squat on the roof and be scolded and could not fight back. He probably was afraid that the merchants would run away and could not find the clues.

Bai Yutang was a little angry. On the one hand, he felt sorry for Tianzun being scolded for nothing. He was over 100 years old and was scolded by a few brats. But it was a misunderstanding. He didn't mean it, so he held his breath and glared at Tianzun, which meant - he had no place to vent his anger!

Tianzun thought Bai Yutang's expression was quite interesting. He was not very angry at first, so it would be a good thing to be able to help.
To be continued...