In April, peach blossoms are everywhere in the city.

In Kaifeng Prefecture, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, a small spring test was held, and the papers were handed over to Longtu Pavilion. This paper was not for selecting talented men and good ministers, but for selecting talented people who are familiar with ancient and modern characters, are patient and careful, and can organize and repair scattered ancient books and files.

The two old ministers corrected the test papers, two people who were very busy recently.

Speaking of Kaifeng City, from the royal family to the common people, everyone knew that there were two people in the court who were incompatible with each other. One was the famous corrupt official Pang Ji, and the other was the famous honest official Bao Zheng.

Bao Zheng and Pang Ji have been in the same dynasty for twenty years. The two are of similar age and have similar ranks, but their personalities are in conflict and their horoscopes are not in line with each other.

But one is the emperor's father-in-law, and the other is the ruling of the current dynasty, and no one is allowed to give in.

Speaking of which, their evil relationship has something to do with Renzong to some extent.

Zhao Zhen, the seemingly kind young emperor, actually had some bad tastes. For example, once the court is in peace, he likes to be happy with the two old ministers. That's right, the border has been smooth recently, there is nothing wrong with the court, and there is no disaster or grievance. So Renzong suddenly had a whim and said that he would sort out the unsolved case files in Longtu Pavilion in the past three years and study them.

So, Bao Zheng, the Grand Secretary of Longtu Pavilion, had sweaty at that time, and stepped forward and started a comment, "Your Majesty, there are many files in Longtu Pavilion, so why not choose some students from the Imperial College to organize them?"

"Oh!" Master Pang stretched out the tone and started the class, "Your Majesty, where can the students of the Imperial Academy tell whether there is a unsolved case or not, and you still need Bao Xiangye to take action personally!"

Bao Zheng squinted his eyes and looked at Master Pang, thinking to himself, you fat man, take the opportunity to make a fuss!

Master Pang looked at him and narrowed his eyes. His whole face was as tight as an inkstone, and he was a little cautious. However, when he saw Bao Zheng falling into the well, if he didn't throw the stone down, he wouldn't have Pang Ji.

Zhao Zhen touched his chin leisurely and said, "The Grand Master said it is reasonable, so why don't Bao Qing organize it yourself."

Grand Master Pang raised his lips and grinned. Before he could even smile completely on his face, he heard Bao Zheng say, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid I'm not enough, I want to ask Grand Master to help you share half of it."

The corners of the Taishi's mouth froze, and after hearing Zhao Zhen's brisk "Accurate" sound, it completely collapsed.

The little eunuch said "retreat the court"

The ministers looked behind him as Bao Zheng and Pang Ji walked out of the palace gate while pinching each other's arms.

"Heizi, why are you dragging me into the water?"

"Isn't you going to take care of you for your blessing?"

After being trapped in Longtu Pavilion for three days and three nights and being bitten by bookworms, the two adults decided to stop fighting and actively save themselves, so this spring test was created.

In the end, the students who passed the exam were all from the Imperial College. It took ten students a little less than half a month, and the unsolved cases in the past three years were full of things, and the rest had to be sorted out.

On that day, Zhao Zhen walked around with his hands behind his back, reached out and pulled out a roll, and asked Bao Zheng while looking, "Bao Qing, is the guard Zhan idle?"

Bao Zheng raised his face and thought about it...

Zhan Zhao, who was eating wontons in Taibaiju, suddenly sneezes.

"I'm idle." Grand Master Pang came over and interrupted, "I said Lao Bao, you are really capable, where can I find so capable Zhan Zhao? As soon as he arrived in Kaifeng, all the old cases and unsolved cases were solved, especially those about the people of the Jianghu. In the past, a small sect made you worried, but now it's fine..."

Master Pang didn't see Lord Bao winking at him. Unfortunately, Mr. Bao's facial expressions were submerged in black. Old Pang was a little dazzled when he was old and could not see clearly.

"Has Bao Qing and the Grand Master been idle recently?" Zhao Zhen said, Grand Master Pang was honest, and he rolled his eyes fiercely - that white...

"Is this unsolved case in this cabinet..." Zhao Zhen pointed from the first row to the last row, reached out and patted Bao Zhengyou and patted Pang Ji, "Two, how about going on a tour?"

Bao Zheng and Pang Ji opened their mouths wide.

Lord Bao hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, I am busy with things in Kaifeng Prefecture..."

"Aren't you idle lately? If you have something to do, I will send someone to pick you up." Zhao Zhen blocked Lord Bao for a speechless voice, and then glanced at Master Pang again.

The Grand Master could only swallow his saliva- he had no excuses because he was very idle with his fingers.

"Let's start with this volume." Zhao Zhen stuffed the file he had just pulled out into Bao Zheng's hand, turned around and stood up, and returned to the palace with satisfaction.

Left Lord Bao and Master Pang stared at each other, and sighed together.

...

When he returned to the palace, the guard Zhan saw the yamen runners packing their luggage one after another. The long patrol team held high and the fair and honest signs were very grand.

Head-on, I saw Bao Zheng and Pang Ji walking out side by side.

Master Pang saw the red figure in front of him at a glance.

Zhan Zhao has only recently entered Kaifeng. I wonder why Bao Zheng fooled him, but this famous young man helped investigate the case.

Pang Ji had a very good and bad impression of this tall and handsome young man.

It's great because he gives people the feeling that he is good, and it's hard for someone to dislike such a person. The word "likable" accounts for the first impression he gives.

It is extremely bad because Pang Ji has lived for so long and seen so much. He knows best that this kind of mild non-pool thing is much harder than that of an indifferent pool.

Usually, the more humble a person is, the more arrogant he is in his bones; the more he loves to laugh, the less he will turn his face back.

Zhan Zhao was able to make a name for himself in the world at a young age, so he must be not a good person... Besides, this young man had a casual feeling that seemed to be able to accommodate both the good and the evil. He couldn't figure out whether he was a potted plant in the greenhouse or a vine outside the mountain wall. Of course, the most difficult thing was that he was from Bao Zheng.

"Shan Guard." Pang Ji was very polite to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao raised his lips slightly, his big eyes could bend into a crescent moon, giving the Grand Master a smile he used most to treat people.

The Grand Master covered his heart. No one smiled at him so sincerely for a long time. At least he really looked very sincere.

"Sir, are you going out?" Zhan Zhao asked Bao Zheng, his eyes looking at the file in Bao Zheng's hand.

"Yes, guard Zhan, you can prepare too. We will leave to patrol the unsolved case at night."

When Zhan Zhao heard the "unanctuary", he seemed quite interested. He raised his hand to take the file and raised it gently...

The file brush opened with a sound, and the other end of the scroll fell to the other hand, and the hands shook, and the rolled out!

After Zhan Zhao's action, Bao Zheng heard a commotion behind him. He looked back and saw all kinds of maids from all over Kaifeng Fuli. Just looking at the shape of his mouth, he knew that he was talking about the word "handsome".

Bao Zheng coughed, turned around and saw that Master Pang also opened his mouth wide.

Bao Zheng pushed him - I'll keep going! Don't stare at my pure boy!

Master Pang waved his hand straight. He was not because the little girl felt that Zhan Zhao was so handsome that the sky was dark, but was surprised by the change in his expression.

Zhan Zhao was very serious. After reading the file silently, he looked up and said, "The dead head case? The broken swords were all destroyed, like a revenge killing in the world..."

"There are clues to guard Zhan?" Pang Ji leaned over and approached him, "This case is quite bloody."

"Slashing multiple heads with one knife is a practice of armed fighting in the world. Those who die are all from the Broken Sword Sect, and even the head of the sect was cut off. The one who killed people is definitely a master of swords." Zhan Zhao put away the scroll and tapped his chin gently. "There are many swordsmen in the world, but not many of them can have such swordsmanship. They can count them with one hand, and they are almost all famous knights, so they should not do such things."

"Who is it?" Bao Zheng didn't know much about the world.

"If you talk about using a knife, the most powerful person should be the Tianzun, but he is a martial arts saint and has been retiring in the world for many years, so it shouldn't be him. In addition, if someone's suspicion should be ruled out."

"Who?" Bao Zheng and Pang Ji asked together.

"Ninth Prince Zhao Pu." Zhan Zhao made a head-cutting move, "He did a lot of this on the battlefield, but Zhao Pu's sword technique has certain characteristics. The demon sword he used was huge and could not be so agile. He cut several times at close range..." While talking, Zhan Zhao Juqueyi, the Grand Master, before he understood what was going on, he saw the sword spike in front of him swaying... The brim of the hat sitting on the stone lamp fell down with a click.

Master Pang's mouth twitched.

Zhan Zhao nodded and said to himself, "It should be a knife about the same size as a sword."

"So thin?" Grand Master Pang was surprised. The swords in his mind were all the golden wire ring swords, the Qinglong Yanyue sword, and Zhao Pu's Xinting Hou who was so big that he could kill Xiong.

"There are two kinds of knives that are very thin and powerful but amazing." Zhan Zhao rubbed his nose, "One is a Fusang knife."

"Then the one who committed the crime may be the Fusang people?" The Grand Master remembered that he had seen some Fusang warriors use similar knives before, and they were very fierce.

"It doesn't look like it." Zhan Zhao shook his head, raised his hand and shook Juque again...

Master Pang didn't see clearly what was going on, and only saw Minghuangdan's thing flashing in front of him. The pitiful stone lamp behind him was cut in half, and the half on his head slid down.

On the other side, Zhan Zhao still knocked it down with a scroll, "Often the Fusang knife is cut up and down. A single knife technique is about fast speed and arrogance. The knife technique for cutting the head here is exquisite and smooth, and there are many horizontal knife techniques... You should know that the most difficult thing in knife technique is the horizontal knife, that is, it cannot rely on the upper and lower leverage force, and it is difficult to grasp. Then the knife must be fast, and the internal force needs to be very deep."

"Shan Guard." Bao Zheng saw Zhan Zhao evaluate the murderer as a master, and asked, "Do you have any suspects who do you think are possible?"

Zhan Zhao thought about it, but finally shook his head, "It's unlikely that it's him."

"Even if he is not the suspect, is his sword skills excellent? Maybe he can know who the murderer is?" Master Pang asked tentatively.

"This is possible. I am not very familiar with the knife." Zhan Zhao nodded and said slowly, "The second type of knife that is so thin, long and amazing, is the nemesis of the Fusang sword, Miao Dao."

"Miao Dao?" Bao Zheng was stunned, "Maybe the one who committed the crime was Miao people."

"Tsk tsk." Zhan Zhao stretched out a slender finger and gently shook it, and turned around casually. Bao Zheng heard a commotion behind him again, and he held his forehead helplessly. Since Zhan Zhao came to Kaifeng, the girls all seemed to eat immortal pills, with dragon spirits and tigers, and like wolves and tigers.

Grand Master Pang suddenly thought of the feat of Zhan Zhao's move to the palace coach after lying down a group of great inner guards, and capturing the palace from the empress dowager to the little maid Fangxin... Could this be the real reason why Zhao Zhen drove them out of the palace to handle the case?

Thinking of this, Pang Ji and Bao Zheng looked at each other silently - this time it was really unfair!

"The Miao Dao is the most fierce and cruel thing in the knife. It is produced in the seedlings and is named after it looks like a seedling. The knife is three feet and eight inches long, one foot and two inches long, and the total length is five feet. It can be cut into iron like mud, with one hand, both hands, and hands, and the knife method is very varied." Zhan Zhao looked at the corpse wounds depicted on the file and nodded to Bao Zheng, "It looks very much like the one made by the Miao Dao."

"I've talked for a long time..." Pang Ji couldn't help asking, "Who is the suspect of guard Zhan?"

"Oh, it's not a suspect, this person can't afford to offend him." Zhan Zhao waved his hand repeatedly, his head shaking like a rattle. "This person is a famous ghost-sad, evil-satisfied person, and the monster turns around and runs away when he sees it. If it's not necessary, don't provoke it!"

Bao Zheng looked at Zhan Zhao suspiciously. Zhan Zhao has always been very angry. He has never seen him, so why does it seem difficult to talk about this person?

"Shan Guard, it's okay to listen to it, maybe it's not him." The more Mr. Pang heard it, the more curious he became.

Zhan Zhao thought for a while and said, "Because the Miao knife is too difficult to control, people who play the knife are very easy to hurt or even kill themselves, so fewer and fewer people use Miao knife. However, Miao knife is too long and easy to break and is difficult to cast. After several famous sword casting masters passed away, there are basically no good Miao knife... The only remaining, best and strongest Miao knife in the world is the one in the hands of that person - Yunzhong Dao."

"Dao in the cloud?" Master Pang touched his chin. He liked to collect antiques, but he had never heard of them.

"The sword in the cloud is extremely famous." Zhan Zhao said, "It is said that the ghost forging master Ye Zhi used thousands of ghost-headed swords with thousands of years of black iron and dragon blood forged. He was extremely tough and evil. He was an ominous thing. The murderous aura of Zhao Pu was not inferior to that of the Xinting Hou. Compared to the birth of the Xinting Hou's generals, it was even more evil."

"What is the ghost-headed knife?" Pang Ji and Bao Zheng asked together.

Zhan Zhao looked at them and shook his head, "It's the kind of big sword that the executioner uses to kill his head. The one he threw away when he hit the gap is the ghost-headed sword."
To be continued...