Kaifeng Cat and Mouse Detective Manuscript

Qianxiang Building is located on the coast of the East China Sea, not in the city.It’s not too far away from the inn where Zhan Zhao and the others stayed, but it needs to be crossed by water.It's useless for Ren Xingluo to go with a child, so Zhan Zhaoming didn't call him, and walked to the pier with Bai Yutang at dawn.

The sea is windy, looking out through the fog, there is a black circular wall standing on the top of Yading on the coast dozens of miles away, that is Qianxiang Building.The passenger ship was moving very fast, and it was about to land in less than half an hour. They were the only two people who came down from the Qianxiang Building.

There are two thick and long iron chains on the shore of the disembarkation,? Plated dead from the rock, all the way up,? Connected to the wall of Qianxiang Building.There are two ways to go up to the Qianxiang Tower. Those who are good at martial arts can go directly to this iron chain, and those with poor martial arts can go around the mountain road obediently.

"Cat, let's go. Shen Liren might still be lying on the bed at this moment."

Bai Yutang's hair was blown wildly by the sea breeze, and he ate a mouthful of hair as soon as he opened his mouth.Zhan Zhao's fingers caught the gap between the chains and pulled them hard, and the chains, which had been slightly shaken by the wind, swayed even more now.The two held a rope each, and pushed upward at the same time. Two figures, one blue and one white, jumped from the rock to the center of the iron chain like arrows flying off the string, and the hem of their clothes rustled in the wind.

When they were less than [-] meters away from the top of the cliff, two black shadows suddenly jumped out of the wall above, one of them took out an unknown object from his arms, and quickly threw it at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao Juque stepped forward, and a long spark was struck when the iron objects collided. The man took the opportunity to throw it again. Zhan Zhao hooked his feet on the iron chain, lowered his body, and after half a circle in the air, he held it in his hands. With the help of the chain, he swung it forward, and the whole person flew towards the cliff.

The black shadow on the wall also came down, took the long sword from the attendant behind him, stabbed steadily at Zhan Zhao who had just landed after the sword whistle, the speed was so fast that Zhan Zhao had no time to pull out the giant gate.

Bai Yutang flew onto the fence, leaned over to the attendant who had just handed him the sword, and said, "Shui Shi, did the owner of your house know that we've arrived in the East China Sea?"

"I only found out yesterday afternoon." Ning Shuishi smiled shyly and answered honestly.

The two people under the wall were fighting fiercely, Bai Yutang watched them fight from the top of the cliff to the iron chain, and then back up from the iron chain, it must have passed a hundred moves.Shen Liren is not a martial idiot, he used to love to fight with Bai Yutang, but after he met Zhan Zhao, he had to compete with him when he met him. His Qingshuang sword is well-known in the world, so after all these years, he has never been defeated. Downwind a few times.

"As soon as you click, Shen Liren!"

Seeing that the sun had already risen and the two of them were still in sight, Bai Yutang took out a stone from his sleeve, aimed at Shen Liren's forearm, and hit it slightly hard.

"I said what is this called, Bai Yutang, you have a daughter-in-law and you forgot your brother, no, it shouldn't be a daughter-in-law."

Shen Liren stopped after dodging the stone, and teased while throwing the sword to Ning Shui.

"Brother Shen is joking."

Zhan Zhao was not surprised that Shen Liren knew about the relationship between the two of them. Qianxianglou always knew what others didn't know, and knew what others didn't know, and the two of them were out, and they didn't deliberately hide it from others.

After the two stopped, they should talk about business. After the three of them entered Qianxiang Building, Ning Shuishi held his sword and left, and Bai Yutang went to the study with ease.Before Zhan Zhao could speak, Shen Liren closed the door and asked, "But you came here for the post from the Dongying people?"

Zhan Zhao said: "Exactly. Ai Hu said a few days ago that anyone who is famous in the Jianghu will receive an invitation card. Although I don't know how many people will come. But Dongying people are so laborious, it always feels a bit weird."

"Actually, I was the first to receive the post." Shen Liren went to the bookshelf, rummaged through it and answered, "After that, Ouyang Chun and Zhihua, after receiving it, I also sent people to sea to investigate the details."

"What can be found?" Bai Yutang asked.

"No, that group of people is very clean. They are Dongying warriors. It's just that a totem was found."

"What totem?" Zhan Zhao was curious.

"Wait, I had someone print the sample picture... hey," Shen Liren put one hand on his hip, flipped from the left to the right of the bookshelf, and checked all the boxes on it, "Where did you put it?"

Bai Yutang was not in a hurry, and followed him to rummage through boxes and cabinets alone, while drinking tea with Zhan Zhao at the table.

After a lot of trouble and couldn't find it, Shen Liren opened the window, stuck his head out and shouted: "Water hour!"

"Lord." As soon as the words fell, Ning Shuishi jumped out of the courtyard and stopped in front of the window.

"Do you remember where you put the totem that was reprinted a month ago?"

"This...subordinates don't know." Ning Shui lowered his head, Shen Liren's things were always only known to him, and Ning Shui basically didn't move.

"Brother Zhan, it seems that you are going to..." Shen Liren clicked his mouth a few times, making Ning Shuishi back down.

In the end, before he could finish his sentence, Bai Yutang took out a roll of drawing paper from behind the bookshelf, from the crack in the wall: "I found it."

"Yes! This is it."

Shen Liren patted his head and went back to the table. It had fallen to the bottom of the bookshelf, so he said why he couldn't find it.

The picture scroll was tied with cloth strips, Zhan Zhao gently pulled it, and spread it out on the table. What he saw was a big black fish, elongated in shape, a bit weird in shape, with obvious lines on the abdomen, and huge double fins .

"This is……?"

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang, seeing that he was just like himself, with doubts in his eyes, he didn't see what it was.

Zhan Zhao knows very little about the fish in the sea, except for the common ones, not to mention that the totem is not very detailed.

"It's a whale."

Seeing that the two of them looked up at him from the scroll, Shen Liren replied slowly.

"It is said that even the big ones are thousands of miles long, and their eyes are like bright moon beads..."

Zhan Zhao said that there are many records of whales in ancient books, but there are no portraits, and it is not known what this thing is just based on guesswork.

"I also heard from my elder brother that it is recorded in the book that it caves in the bottom of the sea, when it comes out at the top of the tide, and at the time it goes down, it's called a whale tide. I think it's an exaggeration to say that." Bai Yutang said.

"No, it's really that big." Shen Liren shook his head, pulled out his chair and sat down.

"Could it be that you've seen it?" Bai Yutang glanced at it obliquely, straightening his cuffs.

"I've actually seen it before."

Shen Liren smiled mysteriously at him, raised his teacup and stopped in the air, then remained silent, waiting for Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang to ask questions.

"I believe brother Shen has seen it."

Zhan Zhao thought about it carefully, closed the picture scroll thoughtfully, a smile appeared on his face, and he didn't speak after that.

"Oh? Brother Zhan doesn't think I'm lying."

Shen Liren frowned and drank the tea, feeling excited.

"I heard that brother Shen often went out to sea with the original master when he was young, and often lived at sea for several months. Although whales may be just things in books to me and Yutang, but to brother Shen, maybe."

"That's right, what brother Zhan said is right," Shen Liren clapped his hands together, "The only time I saw a whale was when I was ten years old, and my father and I were outside the Eastern Sea. It’s also as big as my two Thousand Elephant Towers, and this is only the part of it above the water.”

"But..." Bai Yutang clicked on the scroll after he finished speaking. They didn't want to discuss whether there was a whale, "What does this have to do with the scroll and the Japanese people?"

"That's another story to tell."

Shen Liren double-chested, got out of the chair, walked to the chaise longue and lay down, looking like a long story.

"To make a long story short." Bai Yutang threw a dried fruit over, Shen Liren raised his finger, picked it up firmly, and threw it into his mouth.

"In fact, I heard that the ancestors of the Dongying people left by ferry from the Qin Dynasty. Before they went, they buried a large amount of jewels in the East China Sea. I heard that there were whales by the sea at that time, and the place where the jewels were buried was under the whale cave. They came here. This group of Dongying people enshrines the original Qin people."

"You mean they might have come to search for the location of the whale cave to get the treasure?" Zhan Zhao said.

"It's a joke," Bai Yutang sneered, "The water along the East China Sea is only so deep, how could there be whales."

"Never mind whether it's a joke or not, the point is, is this group of Dongying people coming here for this? By the way," Shen Liren got up from the couch, "I have to show you something."

"what?"

"You will know it when you go to see it. Believe me, it is definitely something you have never seen in your life."

Shen Liren didn't say clearly that Bai Yutang knew that this person was secretive, so he didn't ask any more questions, but followed behind him with Zhan Zhao.

Shen Liren opened the study room, nodded towards Ningshui, and a group of people left the yard and walked all the way to the center of Qianxiang Building.I saw Ning Shuishi squatting in front of him, pressing his palms on the ground a few times, and afterimages appeared, and then a bluestone slab was slowly removed from under his hands, revealing a dark hole, allowing two people to go down side by side.

In addition to the cliff-top building, the Thousand Elephant Building also has a basement among the rocks, which often handles some shady things.First of all, the building owner is arrogant. When the Thousand Elephant Tower was established, it was said that the martial arts were all stored underground, and the entrance was right in the middle. Those who had the guts could break in by themselves.

It's just that after Shen Liren took over the position of the landlord, just in case, he quietly removed all the contents inside, and now there is nothing left in the entire basement.

Ning Shuishi walked ahead holding torches all the way, while Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were behind.After the four of them walked a hundred meters, they had already descended to the second basement floor.

Gradually the surroundings became dark, only the three or two night pearls on the wall showed a little bit of light, Ning Shuishi finally stopped in front of an iron gate.Zhan Zhao turned his head and saw that the door was pitch black and not made of ordinary iron. There were two big locks on the door, and four strong young men were guarding the door.

"Open the door. When it's water, you stay outside."

Shen Liren took the torch from Ning Shuishi and ordered that after the young man opened the iron gate, only the three of them continued to move forward.

Not long after entering, the iron door was locked from the outside again.There is a round pool inside, I don't know the depth.A stone path goes straight from the bottom of the foot, and the surrounding water has something spilled, which smells very bad. Zhan Zhao's sight is attracted by the square iron block at the end of the stone path. Although there is no sound, his intuition tells him that there is something inside.

"What's in there?"

Bai Yutang also clearly felt it.

"It's a strange thing, invulnerable to swords and guns. It took me a lot of effort to catch it when I was in the water."

Shen Liren continued to move forward and stopped in front of the iron block, and then lightly pressed his fingers on the raised mechanism in the middle, and the iron block made a "click", revealing a hole.

"Brother Zhan can go and have a look."

Shen Liren stepped back, handed the torch to Zhan Zhao and said with a smile.

"Wait." Bai Yutang held back Zhan Zhao, and looked at Shen Liren suspiciously, always feeling that this guy had bad intentions.

"Don't worry, nothing can hurt him." Shen Liren looked at Bai Yutang with wide eyes.

"It's okay, I'll go and have a look." Zhan Zhao patted Bai Yutang's arm, and walked forward slowly, with Ju Que at his side already vigilant.

The hole in front of him was only as big as the palm of his hand, and it looked completely dark from the outside. Zhan Zhao pointed the torch outside the hole, but before he stepped forward, he saw a black shaking thing coming out of the hole. Zhan Zhao reacted very quickly He leaned back, and then the hilt of the Juque sword hit the thing, only heard a howl from inside, and the iron block made a "dong dong" sound. If it hadn't been plated to death on the ground, it might have rolled into the pool long ago.

"Shen Liren, what are you doing!"

Bai Yutang was also taken aback, then kicked like Shen Liren and cursed.

"Hey! Don't be angry!" Shen Liren narrowly escaped and walked to Zhan Zhao's side.

Zhan Zhao saw that the black thing had been shot in, and then moved the torch to the opening of the cave. Through the unclear light, there was a tall and thin thing inside, which looked like a person, but his whole body was like a mummified corpse. generally.

"Brother Shen, what's in here?"

"There have been two monsters that look like humans but not humans in the East China Sea so far."

Shen Liren didn't seem to be joking just now, but replied seriously.

"Where did it come from?" Bai Yutang also went over to take a look and asked suspiciously.

"I don't know, but it appeared after the group of Dongying people came over. The first one was in the city. Fortunately, at night, it was seen by the people in the building, and finally burned to death. The other is this one, in the Qianxiang Building Yaxia found out that in order to find out what it was, I didn't kill it immediately and didn't report it to the police, for fear of causing confusion, but waited for you to come over."

Zhan Zhao: "How to determine that it is owned by Dongying people?"

"I found Japanese characters engraved on them."

The monster inside was moving more and more violently. Shen Liren took out a pack of medicine powder from his belt and sprinkled it towards the window. After a while, the howling and beating inside stopped, and the whole water prison returned to calm.

"However, if they came here for the treasure of the past," Bai Yutang hovered in front of the iron block with his hands behind his hands, "there must be officials guarding the coast of the East China Sea, and they will have to work hard to find it, but wouldn't it be more eye-catching if monsters came out?" ? Not to mention putting it at the foot of Qianxiang Tower, do you want to see your strength here?" Bai Yutang looked at Shen Liren and said.

"That's not very clear." Shen Liren spread his hands.

"Not all. If this monster is invulnerable, it is possible that the Dongying people let him out to deal with the government."

Zhan Zhao said, no matter how powerful the officers and soldiers are, they are nothing more than ordinary people. If the Dongying people release this thing when someone stops them in order to find the treasure, they can wipe them out without any effort.

"Then why invite us here? Use us as a cover? This is not right..."

Bai Yutang pondered.It stands to reason that the more people search for treasure, the better it is to avoid people's eyes and ears, instead of attracting everyone.

"I always feel like there's more to it than that."

Zhan Zhao frowned, and had an idea in his heart, but he was still guessing, so he didn't say it.

"So, just in case, we also have to plan, so as not to be stabbed in the back."

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The three discussed the monster with the Dongying people in the water prison for a long time, and it was already sunset when they finally left.

Shen Liren followed them to the city, and met Ouyang Chun and the Ding family brothers, etc. The group chatted in the restaurant and decided to meet the Dongying people before leaving.