Kaifeng Cat and Mouse Detective Manuscript

"That man is my father?" Xu Li put down the steamed bun, took out a handkerchief from his bosom and wiped his fingers while saying, "This island was also discovered by my father. I have been on this island since I was born." .”

"Then how did those Dongying people come here?" Shen Liren was curious. Xu Su's reputation as the number one pirate in the East China Sea was not for nothing. It's just that this person only robbed some merchant ships and didn't take lives. Until the accident 20 years ago die.

"He,? I haven't actually seen him before. I just heard that my mother said before she died that she was killed by Chen Yaonian, the prefect of the East China Sea." Xu Li threw down the veil, his face was indifferent, and no expression could be seen.

"Killed by the government?"

Zhan Zhao said,? He didn't know Xu Su well, but according to what Shen Liren said, he was the number one thief in the East China Sea? His death should be recorded in the file.

"Not by the government, but by Chen Yaonian," Xu Li shook his head, while Zhan Zhao and Shen Liren listened to him continue.

"Chen Yaonian and my father were old acquaintances back then. He was not the magistrate back then. My father told Chen Yaonian after he discovered this island. Who knew that he took a fancy to the wealth on the island? He secretly harmed my father. At that time I He was young, so he escaped a catastrophe. Also," Xu Li drank his saliva and continued, "Chen Yaonian is the man Zhan Nanxia you saw at the bottom of the cliff in the morning, and he has turned his back."

"Inverted?!" Zhan Zhao and Shen Liren looked at Xu Li at the same time.

"So you are in a catastrophe! Before he came here, he planted explosives in the Whale Watching Pavilion, and invited the East China Sea Jiedu Envoy to go there, and was going to blow up all the officials under his hands who were facing the court."

The East China Sea Jiedu Envoy is the commander in chief of the East China Sea Army. If what Xu Li said is true, then Chen Yao has rebelled. In order to prevent his officials from reporting to the court, he chose to kill them before they found out.

"Wait! What does this have to do with us?" Shen Liren interrupted, Chen Yao's rebellion is also a matter of the imperial court, and it has nothing to do with these gangsters.

"Hey, why do you think you are here?" Xu Li chuckled, stood up from the ground, went to the door and crossed his arms, "The people of Dongying and Chen Yaonian believe that there are treasures and legends that can be found under this island. , I plan to imprison you in this meeting, and rely on your skills to open the underground stone gate. By the way, they should have released that walking corpse that is neither human nor ghost in the East China Sea. That thing appeared downstairs in Qianxiang to see if you can Deal with a few."

"How did Miss Xu know so clearly?"

When Zhan Zhao heard her say that the explosives were planted in the Wangjing Pavilion, he already believed it half a dozen times, but he doubted how Xu Li knew it all.

"Grandma, I have been hiding next to Chen Yaonian on the island for 20 years. I don't know what he is doing? But believe it or not, let me check the time..." Xu Li walked out the door and glanced at the sky, "I guess There is still an hour, except for the two of you, everyone else will be trapped."

"Could it be that there is really a treasure in the ground? Also, there is also that monster on this island, oh—the walking corpse?" Shen Liren asked with a twitch of his mouth.

"Is there a treasure coming to them? It's just a rumor. My father found a roll of parchment on the island that year. There was a rumor about the treasure in the book, but it was actually false. Why did I know it? Because Chen Yaonian only read Half of it was cut, and the other half was torn up when I was a child. Walking dead, you will know when the time comes."

"Wait, what does this treasure have to do with the legend of the Dongpu people that their ancestors buried a large amount of treasure?" Shen Liren got up from the ground, thinking while rubbing his chin.

"People from Dongying? Treasures? I don't know." Xu Li shook his head. "You guys have finished all that can be said, and people from Dongying are about to act. I have to go to the cliff." Xu Li didn't say to go to the cliff. While doing something, after she left, Zhan Zhao and Shen Liren also quickly left the courtyard and walked towards the place where the meeting started.

But they didn't expect to meet Chen Yaonian, Aoki and a pair of Dongying warriors before reaching the front yard.

"Where are you two going?" Chen Yaonian stepped forward with his hands behind his back, with a smile on his face.

"Collude with foreign thieves to plot rebellion, what should be the crime?"

Zhan Zhao glanced at him faintly, not angry but pretentious, then the giant que was unsheathed, and the black blade raised in front of Chen Yaonian, and slowly held it in front of his chest, as long as he stabbed forward, he could kill him.

"Treason? Bah, the old man just took back my world!" Chen Yaonian said so, but slowly stepped back a few steps, hid behind the green wood and spit on the ground, and said to the samurai beside him, "Zhao Zhen that What does the little emperor know, you guys, why don't you take them down!"

"According to you?" Shen Liren stepped forward quickly and drew out his sword.

"Be careful that they use poison." With Shen Liren's Liezi last night, Zhan Zhao was only worried that they would not do well in the front and spread poison secretly.

Zhan Zhao and Shen Liren's martial arts are comparable. In the early years, they were wandering in the rivers and lakes and licked blood on the tip of their swords. Dealing with these warriors was no more than a piece of cake. In a short while, more than 50 Dongying people were already half in the end.Chen Yao Nian retreated to the house early, and looked out of the window, Qing Mu remained calm, Zhan Zhao and Shen Liren had never fought against him, and after killing all the warriors, they looked at each other, not daring to underestimate the enemy.

"As expected of Nanxia and Lord Shen, let me learn your Central Plains martial arts." Aoki watched coldly all the people around him go to the end, and finally held the handle of the knife with one hand and the scabbard with the other, and rushed forward after speaking, The moment he flew into the air, the long knife slashed at Zhan Zhao's chest.Zhan Zhao dodged back quickly, and Shen Liren stabbed from behind. Aoki gradually lost the upper hand after two hits. Just when Zhan Zhao wondered why Aoki and this group of people were so easy to deal with, there was the sound of running footsteps not far away.

"Oops!" Shen Liren glanced at the source of the sound when Zhan Zhao was fighting with Qingmu, and a dozen walking corpses who were neither human nor ghost, just like Shen Liren locked in a water prison, were rushing towards him.

"Zhan Zhao! Run!"

It's okay for them to deal with one or two of these things, and a dozen or so will definitely seek death if they fight hard. Could it be that this Qingmu is not afraid even if he is at a disadvantage, so he has already made up his mind.

Zhan Zhao faced this thing for the first time, and was shocked when he saw the face during the day.This group of things was shorter than humans, and they were all in pitch black. They ran forward like blind beasts, as if they didn't know the pain.Before he had time to think about it, Zhan Zhao and Shen Liren both jumped up the wall, and before they got down, they saw a pile of these things outside.

"Why aren't they afraid?"

Shen Liren turned his head and looked back, Aoki was standing among a group of monsters with a smile on his face. The group of walking corpses did not attack him, but stopped when he put his fingers to his lips and blew a whistle.

"Next, let's take a step ahead and enjoy the two of you." Qing Mu said, after saying this, the walking corpses inside and outside moved again, attacking the wall where Zhan Zhao and Shen Liren were standing.The two jumped down quickly, stepping on the top of the monster's head to the beach, and these things immediately turned around.

"It's over, it's over, why are we going to jump into the sea?!"

Shen Liren raised his sword and retreated slowly. He and Zhan Zhao had already stood on the last rock. In front of them were at least thirty walking corpses, and behind them was the vast sea.

"Go ahead for a while, you won't be able to beat jumping into the sea."

Zhan Zhao doesn't know how to swim, and he won't escape from the sea unless it is absolutely necessary, and these monsters don't know whether they are afraid of water or not.

"All right, all right, don't let me stop the single pass of the three generations of the Shen family."

Shen Liren murmured a few words, swiped his long sword, and followed Zhan Zhao to stab the shoulder of the walking corpse who was approaching.Then several walking corpses stepped forward, Zhan Zhao held the sword in one hand, threw his body into the air, kicked his long legs on top of their heads, kicked the monsters flying, and hit the group behind, but this did not actually hurt them .

"Brother Zhan, let's jump into the sea as soon as possible to keep safe, this group of things can't be dealt with."

Shen Liren drew out his long sword and looked at the things in front of him with responsible eyes.

"You jump first, I'll finish later."

Zhan Zhao nodded, since Shen Liren knows how to swim, he has a better chance of jumping off.

"Nonsense, after what you say, let's dance together." Shen Liren said while chopping up the walking corpse, "If you have an accident because of me, Yutang must not demolish my Thousand Elephant Building."

"Zhan doesn't know how to swim." Zhan Zhao replied, the sword rose and fell to cut off the finger of a walking corpse, but he didn't feel nervous.

"If you don't leave, I won't leave either. Let's stay here together and let Yutang burn more paper money next year, which is better than being scolded to death by him in the future." Shen Liren clicked his tongue and didn't intend to leave.

There are more and more walking corpses around, I don’t know how many Aoki put on the island, but these things are still obedient, and they don’t go where there are no one, so Zhan Zhao and Shen Liren are suffering, and they are the only ones to deal with on the island at present two.Moreover, Ouyang Chun and the others were not seen during such a big commotion here, so they might be trapped.

The two stood in a stalemate with the group of things under the rock for more than half an hour. Under the wind and the scorching sun at noon, their strength gradually became exhausted. Shen Li was out of breath. He pushed the walking corpse that was about to climb down and bent Supporting his thigh, he thought, "Where did Bai Yutang go?"

"He went to another island to look for you, and he will be back soon." Zhan Zhao replied, chopping off the black claw on his toe.

"See if we are lucky enough, I have no strength."

Shen Liren's medicine hadn't worn off yesterday, and now he was dizzy and his eyes were blurry after too much activity.

The waves behind him were afraid to hit the beach and swept away many walking corpses, but most of them continued to climb up the rocks tirelessly.

Just when the two of them were about to resign themselves to their fate, a scream came from behind.Zhan Zhao turned his head, not far away was a flat boat approaching against the wind, on board was Xu Li who had left earlier!

"Hey! Jump down quickly, these things can't swim!"

Xu Li stopped not far away, stood on the boat and shouted.

"Brother Zhan, God will not kill me! Let's go!"

Shen Liren was overjoyed, Xu Li came at the right time.With their long swords drawn, the two of them leaped off the rock with light kung fu, stepped on a few waves on the sea surface, and then flew to the stern of the boat. The sudden weight almost caused the bamboo boat to overturn directly. Fortunately, Zhan Zhao jumped to the other side in time to stabilize .

"Miss Xu, why are you here?"

Zhan Zhao turned around and watched the group of walking corpses run desperately into the sea and asked after being swept away by the waves.

"Hey, I blew up the inside of that cliff. By the way, your companions are probably coming soon. Auntie and I went over in time, and a.fire.cannon woke them up. But we have to leave quickly, these two islands It's sinking."

Xu Li rowed the boat towards the cliff where Zhan Zhao had passed in the morning.

"The island has sunk? What do you mean?" Shen Liren exclaimed.

"If it sinks, it will sink. I don't know so much. It's fine if I can escape!"

Xu Li often lives at sea, with the help of the wind, the three of them ran aground and ran to the bombed cave. At this time, it was already in chaos. Aoki and Dongying people fought with Ouyang Chun and his party Zhan Zhao looked at the sun and it was the time he had made an appointment with Bai Yutang, but he was not there.

"Brother Shen, I'll go back to Xunyutang in the courtyard, I will leave it to you to wait here."

Zhan Zhao already had a bad premonition in his heart. It stands to reason that if Bai Yutang goes back, he will be able to see the situation here at first sight. Could it be that...he didn't come back?

"rest assured."

Shen Liren gestured to him, Xu Li took out a pair of gunpowder from somewhere, and rushed towards Ouyang Chun and the others with him.

The yard is very quiet now, the maids grabbed the packages and ran out, Zhan Zhao jumped back to the yard where they stayed, but there was no one there.Bai Yutang didn't come back, Zhan Zhao's expression tensed up, he turned around and walked out, only to see a sneaky figure among a bunch of servants.

"Chen Yao Nian."

Zhan Zhao yelled and raised his sword, Chen Yaonian was taken aback by the sound, and then turned back with a bloodless face wrapped in his arms.

"You can't kill me! I am the official of the imperial court!"

Chen Yaonian raised his hands in front of him, and tremblingly opened his mouth when Zhan Zhao lifted his collar.

"Of course Zhan won't kill you, but will hand you back to Dali Temple for disposal."

With a disgusted expression on his face, Zhan Zhao grabbed Chen Yaonian's collar and jumped all the way to the beach, stopping by the suspension bridge.

"You just wait here." Zhan Zhao tapped Chen Yaonian's acupoints, threw him on the rocks, turned over the suspension bridge and heard Xu Li yelling, "You can't go up! The suspension bridge is going to be destroyed!"

Zhan Zhao turned around, Ouyang Chun and Shen Liren were rushing over here, Xu Li was lying on the tree, shouting this way.

The drawbridge is going to be destroyed?Zhan Zhao's heart moved, but he didn't want to back down, but speeded up. Ouyang Chun saw that he was running faster, and scolded his mother directly behind.

"No, maybe Yutang didn't come back."

Shen Liren's mind turned for a while, remembering that not long ago Zhan Zhao said that Bai Yutang went to another island to look for him, and he probably didn't come back at this time.

"Is that kid not here?"

Ouyang Chun was also shocked when he heard the words, just now the girl Xu Li said that a group of Dongying people ran to the small island, and there was a boat hidden there for them to escape. will detonate.

The wind was blowing under Zhan Zhao's feet, and when he was halfway running, he could smell an unusual smell and the sound of an explosion in the distance. When he stopped, he saw a large ship with its sails raised, and it had already left the shore.

Ouyang Chun and Shen Liren took advantage of this time to catch up. Seeing that the suspension bridge was in turmoil, the iron chains fell into the water one by one, and the three of them were in the middle of the sea. If they didn't go back, they might be affected by gunpowder. buried here.

"Go back quickly, wait for the boat to come." Ouyang Chun was about to grab Zhan Zhao's arm, but he escaped, Shen Liren glanced at the two, and went with Ouyang Chun like Zhan Zhaogong.

"Let go, don't force Zhan to use force."

Zhan Zhao looked coldly at the two people who grabbed his shoulders, and pressed the thumb of his right hand on the handle of Juque.

"Ask you to seek death? Brother Ouyang, hurry up!"

The sound of the explosion was getting closer, and a stone splashed onto Shen Liren's face, drawing a bloody gash from the corner of his eye to his chin.

Ouyang Chun raised his hand to touch his acupoints, but he backed away to dodge it. When Zhan Zhao used his arms to break free, Shen Liren unexpectedly took out a slap of powder from his cuff and sprinkled it on Zhan Zhao's face. Taking advantage of the moment when he closed his eyes, Ouyang Chun raised his hand and hit him on the neck. Zhan Zhao knew acupuncture points, so he could only be taken away by knocking him out.

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Two days later, inside Qianxiang Building.

Ren Xingluo heard a few noises in a daze, and when he raised his head from the table to look at the bed, he was knocked out by Ouyang Chun's heavy hand, and Zhan Zhao, who had been in a coma for two days, was lifting the quilt and getting up on the bed .

"Thousand Elephant Building?!"

Zhan Zhao put on his shoes, clutched his still aching neck, went around the screen and looked out the window. There was no one else outside except the two maids who were sweeping the floor.

"Where are the people from Yutang?" Without Bai Yutang, the whole courtyard was silent.

"Ah, Uncle Bai...he..."

Ren Xingluo paused with the hand holding the cup, half of the water in the pot spilled on the table, his expression collapsed, he didn't know how to answer, and he didn't speak out after moving his mouth for a long time.

"He's missing."

A female voice outside the door took Ren Xingluo's words, it was Xu Li.

"What do you mean?"

Zhan Zhao raised his head abruptly, his eyes were not friendly.

"Don't look at me like that!" Xu Li covered his face with his cuffs and moved to the table, and put a long sword in front of him. It was Zhan Lu from Bai Yutang, "Lord Shen asked me to give it to you. I brought you ashore, and before I had time to get there, the island shook violently, and then Master Shen was about to row over, but found that the island was sinking a little bit, and when he got there, there was no one on the island."

"...No..." Zhan Zhao's fingers on the window frame gradually turned white, and he spit out a word.

"Chen Yaonian, Qing Mu and the others were escorted back to Kaifeng by Bei Xia and Zhi Ye first. They have been away for more than a day, and the people from Piao Qian Xiang Lou are still searching at sea and along the way." Xu Li continued.

Ren Xingluo breathed a sigh of relief when he saw someone come to the rescue, put the pot back, and took a handkerchief to wipe the water.

"Bai Yutang..."

After a long time, Zhan Zhao turned around from the window and walked back to the bed, as if talking to himself, the screen blocked his figure, so he couldn't see his expression clearly.

"That's all, I'll go first." Xu Li saw that Zhan Zhao was not interested in listening any longer, so she waved her hand and left, complaining about Shen Liren in her heart, no wonder he didn't dare to come over, just now when she said that Bai Yutang was missing, Zhan Zhao gave him a look It's like watching ants.

The wooden door closed with a "click", and Zhan Zhao turned his head to look at the wooden cabinet beside the bed, on which were a white belt and a silver bell, and said to Ren Xingluo, "You go out first." Then he picked up the black rope and tied it to the Between the wrists, the expression is neither sad nor happy.

Ren Xingluo didn't dare to say much, but he was worried that Zhan Zhao was alone in the room. Just as he was hesitating, Shen Liren waved to him from the window.Ren Xingluo thought he was in a hurry, so he said "yes" and went out.

"Uncle Shen, what's wrong?"

Ren Xingluo closed the door carefully, and walked aside with Shen Liren.

Shen Liren's eyes were red, his chin had a blue beard, and his black clothes were also crumpled. He asked, "How is Brother Zhan?"

"Just woke up, but..."

Ren Xingluo pursed his lips, not knowing how to say it.

Shen Liren also guessed that Zhan Zhao must have asked about Bai Yutang, just now Xu Li came out of the courtyard and shrugged at him, probably the situation is not good.

After the small island sank, Bai Yutang disappeared. At that time, Qianxianglou, Ouyang Chun, and the Ding brothers searched for a whole day and night, but there was no one there except Zhanlu who was half driven into the reef.The sea was vast, and Shen Liren dared not say whether Bai Yutang survived or not.

"By the way, this is a letter from Kaifeng Mansion, and it's for your master."

Shen Liren sighed, and looked into the courtyard with his hands behind his back, remembering his purpose of coming here.

In the morning, when Ning Shui saw a bird fluttering outside the wall, Shen Liren also spent a lot of time on the empty island, so he naturally recognized that it belonged to Bai Yutang and the others. After he took it down and took a look, he realized that it was Kaifeng Letters from the government.

Ren Xingluo took the finger-thick note, thanked Shen Liren, and then pushed open the wooden door again. At first, Zhan Zhao held Bai Yutang's saber and slowly rubbed it in his hand.

"Master?"

Ren Xingluo didn't dare to interrupt rashly, so he could only hold the door frame and ask softly.

"What?" Zhan Zhao raised his head and asked.

Ren Xingluo: "A letter from Kaifeng Mansion."

"bring here."

Zhan Zhao put Zhan Lu aside, spread his fingers slightly on the table, waited for Ren Xingluo to hand it over, and unfolded it to see that it was sent by Master Bao.

The letter stated that the officials of the East China Sea had already known about it, and they were investigating it, and because Zhan Zhao was the first insider, they asked him to return to Kaifeng to help.

"Donghai... Aoki..."

Zhan Zhao put his hands on his forehead, closed his eyes tightly, and kept thinking about the scene when Bai Yutang left at noon that day and when the suspension bridge exploded.

——"We will meet in two hours."

——"Okay, meet up in two hours"

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