Dragon Pattern Roll Set

In the evening, Lao Gao's files were piled up in the courtyard of the White Mansion. Gongsun carefully searched for clues about the "hidden weapon of the Wang family" 20 years ago.

Although the magistrate of Xizhou Prefecture was overly enthusiastic, the files were organized very clearly, and he also took care to protect them so that they were not eaten by insects. Gongsun still admired him for this.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were waiting at the side, while the fourth son was lying on top of the pile of files, flipping through them with relish.

"Is your surname Wang?" Gongsun seemed to have found a related volume, so he asked Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang.

Both nodded.

"Hmm..." Gongsun flipped through the pages, "It's probably this volume."

Zhan Zhao took it over, frowning slightly, "Remnant scroll?"

"A lot of pages have been torn off." Gongsun had already noticed something suspicious, "All the files here are clean and clear, but this one has several pages torn off."

Zhan Zhao took a closer look, it was a genealogy book, and the thick stack was full of names.

"So thick?" Zhan Zhao was surprised.

"The Wang family is a prominent local family, very prosperous in the early years." Bao Zheng walked over, "But then the family became weaker and weaker, until Wang Youcheng's generation was wiped out."

"Wang Youcheng..." Bai Yutang murmured to himself, "Wang Youcheng has achieved nothing?"

"I've heard this saying before." Zhan Zhao also remembered, "Wang Youcheng is not unknown in the world, but it seems that he is famous not because he can make hidden weapons, but because he is afraid of his wife."

Bai Yutang nodded slightly - it seemed that he had heard similar rumors.

"What's there to say about being afraid of your wife?" Gongsun didn't quite understand, "There are so many people who are afraid of his wife in the world, why do you say that he can't accomplish anything?"

"This is a bit special." Zhan Zhao said, "There are many people in the Jianghu who are afraid of their wives, but Wang Youcheng is not only afraid of his wife, but also relies on his wife."

Zhao Pu listened very interestingly, "What do you mean by relying on your wife? Is it someone who eats soft food?"

"Wang Youcheng is said to be very honest by nature. Although the weapons he makes are exquisitely crafted, they are hardly lethal. They can be used as decorations but not as weapons. His ancestors have been masters of concealed weapons for generations. In his generation, the business has almost collapsed and become a The laughing stock of the world." Bai Yutang said, "Fortunately, he married a powerful wife."

"Oh..." Ouyang Shaozheng understood, "Could it be that his wife is better at making weapons than him?"

"No." Zhan Zhao shook his head, "His wife is not good at making weapons, but has a vicious personality and is very insidious. She added poison to Wang Youcheng's hidden weapons, or set up some insidious traps to increase the lethality of Wang Youcheng's hidden weapons several times. Grade."

"So famous... You said you haven't heard of it before?" Ouyang was curious.

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "But I really haven't heard of the fact that he participated in the assassination and was exterminated later!"

Bai Yutang also nodded, Wang Youcheng's low position in the arena is nothing more than a joke, he really doesn't have any more fame, and it's a bit strange why the news of stabbing and killing the family hasn't spread!

Zhan Zhao went through the files of Wang Youcheng's case in detail, and said in surprise, "It seems that all the content related to Wang Youcheng's wife was torn away."

Bai Yutang took the file and flipped through it, "Even his wife's surname and genealogy were torn away."

Bao Zheng asked someone to come to the magistrate of Xizhou and asked him why the file was damaged. The wormholes have been filled, and I have not found any book that is missing so many pages.

The magistrate's implication was that this file was torn up within half a year.

This is strange, why did you tear up the content of Wang Youcheng's wife?Could there be some mystery in it?In addition to the case of today's mountain faction, is it really because of the grievances of the past, as the blue fox said?

Bao Zheng immediately sent someone to investigate the clues of the Wang family in detail.

……

In the evening, Bian Tianshan sent someone down to look for Bai Yutang.

"Tomorrow's martial arts competition?" Bai Yutang was a little puzzled when he heard the purpose of the young disciple of the Tianshan School, "It's a martial arts competition, why do you want me?"

The little apprentice said in a low voice, "Sect Leader Lu Feng said that the Tianshan Sect has been seriously injured recently, and someone may trouble us, so I want to invite Grand Master Uncle to sit in the guard."

Bai Yutang frowned and said nothing.

Zhan Zhao heard it from the side, and was very curious, "No matter how you say it, the Tianshan sect is the number one sect in the martial arts world. After losing a few of the top ten masters, there are still more than half left. Who is so bold to provoke?"

The little apprentice seemed hesitant.

Bai Yutang saw some clues, so he said, "Be clear."

The little apprentice told Bai Yutang, "I don't know what's going on these days. A lot of enemies from the Tianshan faction have come here. It seems that they want to take advantage of this crisis and join forces to harm the Tianshan faction. In addition, there are also many masters who are among the best in the martial arts world." The faction came, as if they wanted to see the Tianshan faction defeated and take away the throne of the world's number one sect. The head of Lu Feng said that the situation was more critical, and he was afraid that something big would happen. Qianqiu's achievements will be destroyed in his hands."

Bai Yutang felt a toothache when he heard it, "What kind of achievements are there, isn't it just a school, and it's not about saving the common people."

Zhao Pu listened happily.

The little apprentice was embarrassed, "Grand Master Uncle, but if you lose, you will lose the face of Tianzun."

Bai Yutang frowned, thinking of these rivers and lakes battles made him annoyed.

Zhan Zhao gently touched him with his arm—do you think the murderer is there?

Bai Yutang was slightly taken aback.

"When will the martial arts competition start tomorrow?" Bai Yutang asked.

The little apprentice breathed a sigh of relief, "Tomorrow morning it will start. It was originally just a martial arts competition of our own, and there are very few people watching the ceremony, but whether those sects will come to provoke them, and when they will come, we don't know the specifics."

Bai Yutang signaled that he knew, and sent the little apprentice back.

At this time, Zhao Pu leaned against the table and said to himself, "Would it be better to go to Bishuitan to catch the unicorn, or to watch people compete in martial arts..."

Gongsun glanced at him, "Are you still thinking about that Qilin?"

"That's it." Zhao Pu stroked his chin.

"But the scale knife has been proven to be just a hidden weapon. The unicorn may not exist, it may be a big fish." Gongsun poured cold water on him.

"Tsk tsk." Zhao Pu shook his head, which seemed to mean - no way!There must be something in the water!

Gongsun and the fourth son looked at each other, Zhao Pu looked mysterious, as if he was planning something.

Bai Yutang suddenly asked Zhan Zhao in a low voice, "In the Demon Palace, who is the best at water?"

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, "That's a lot, but I should be the best..." At this point, he suddenly paused.

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows - which senior of yours?You don't even look like you can swim!

Zhan Zhao is frustrated - can this be seen?

Bai Yutang laughed - since ancient times, cats can't drink water!

Zhan Zhao was taken aback for a moment—a cat?

Bai Yutang was also puzzled, but Zhan Zhao was indeed given the title of Royal Cat, and the nickname "Cat" is quite appropriate...

Thinking of this, Bai Yutang silently glanced at Zhan Zhao—the cat...

Zhan Zhao's eyes narrowed—you dare to call out!

"Daddy, what is Baihuxing?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were looking at each other, when the fourth son suddenly spoke and asked Gongsun a question.

Gongsun frowned slightly, "Where did you learn it from?"

The fourth son raised his hand and raised the book he was reading, "It's written here, Chen's convict wife, the reincarnation of the white tiger star, the death of the husband's family, the pig cage soaking it..."

Gongsun was stunned, and tilted his head to look at what the fourth son was holding in his hand. That's right, he was looking at a file rather than a local chronicle or folklore.

"... What kind of case is this judged by the yamen, and Baihuxing is used as a crime?" Zhao Pu took the file and read it carefully, because it is to investigate the case of Wangmen, so the files here are all from 20 years ago. This record is about an old woman suing her daughter-in-law as Bai Huxing, who killed her son and almost half of the village... In the end, the yamen really sentenced her to death by soaking in a pig cage.

"Ridiculous." After reading the dossier that Zhao Pu handed over, Bao Zheng frowned, "How could there be such a ridiculous heavy sentence?"

Bao Zheng called the Xizhou magistrate to question him severely, but the old magistrate still remembered the incident and was very helpless, "Lord Bao, it's not that the officials punished you randomly. In fact, this village woman was first drowned in a pig cage by the neighbors in the village. Now, they cut it first and then played it, and they came to me to report that this woman is the reincarnation of Baihuxing, if she doesn't drown, the whole village will be killed."

Bao Zheng felt more and more absurd when he heard this, "You didn't punish severely?"

"My lord..." the magistrate lowered his voice a little, "My lord didn't read the whole case file. In fact, this woman had married three husbands before, all within one year. She killed her husband and his family, and then the whole village was hit by a catastrophe, either a plague or a drought. The waterlogging caused the entire village to die.”

"It might just be a coincidence." Bai Yutang said slowly, "What does it have to do with a woman?"

"There were already signs of plague in that village at that time, but after the woman was drowned, the disease disappeared overnight." The magistrate said seriously, "This case is very difficult to judge, or the whole village should be imprisoned for murder. Put it in prison, or suppress the case... At that time, the government was not stable, so I reported it to the higher-level state government, and was ordered to revise the file, and made the following punishment."

After Bao Zheng heard it, he had a general understanding. Although he felt helpless, after all, it has been so long, and it doesn't matter now. It's just that there is a thorn in his heart, and he is not very comfortable. This village woman is too pitiful. Remarriage, white tiger star, dipping in a pig cage...how rough life is.

The fourth son still didn't understand what the "White Tiger Star" was, so he went to Gongsun's side, "Daddy..."

Gongsun stuffed his mouth with a piece of orange pulp, "It's a bad word, so don't say it in the future."

"Hmm." The fourth son nodded while chewing on the orange pulp, and looked back at Zhao Pu.

Zhao Putting his chin, he didn't seem to agree with Gongsun's way of teaching children, but he didn't say much.

It was getting dark quickly, and Zhan Zhao was lying alone in the room, staring up at the roof in a daze.

Just staying there, I heard a low "humming" sound.

Zhan Zhao sat up and saw a golden beetle parked on the candlestick beside the bed.

Zhan Zhao leaned over to have a look, and frowned—it wasn't the one he let go earlier in the morning, whose was it?Could it be Aunt Lan's?

Feeling weird, Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand to hold the bug up and looked at it, and saw a pair of black wings under the golden shell...

Startled, Zhan Zhao jumped up, put on his coat and rushed out of the room, first looked around in the yard, found nothing unusual, then ran up the wall, the bug was flying up from behind him, Zhan Zhao Then he quickly chased out.

And at this time, by coincidence, Bai Yutang couldn't fall asleep either, and was staring at the starry sky in the yard in a daze, when he saw Zhan Zhao jumping over the wall and leaving the yard in a flash, he felt a little strange.

Bai Yutang hesitated, should he follow?

While thinking, he had already jumped onto the wall... Under the dark night, the street was full of fog, Zhan Zhao quickly ran in the direction of Bishui Mountain, and then went up the mountain.

Bai Yutang frowned slightly - Zhan Zhao didn't know the way, what was he doing up to Tianshan Mountain in the middle of the night?

After thinking about it, he still chased him out, not to follow him, but thinking, don't get lost in the mountains for a while.

Bai Yutang was far away, but he didn't see that Zhan Zhao was not running around alone, but a golden-shelled worm was leading the way.In fact, he was also quite puzzled, the bug took him all the way up the mountain, and kept running, the direction seemed to be towards the clear water pool... How did that person appear in the clear water pool of the Tianshan sect in the middle of the night?

The place where the bug stopped was really on a tree opposite the clear water pool.

At this time, Zhan Zhao had already seen two people sitting in the gazebo not far away.

One was wearing a blue dress, very conspicuous, it was the blue fox I saw this morning, while the other, tall and thin, dressed in black, was sitting next to the blue fox, holding his chin with one hand and looking in his direction.

Even though the man was sitting in a dark corner of the pavilion that was not illuminated by the moonlight in the night, his eyes were still very clear. Without extreme internal strength, it was impossible to do it...

Zhan Zhao didn't say anything, and rushed towards the pavilion directly.

The man in black laughed heartily, and opened his hands to catch it, but Zhan Zhao didn't throw his arms full, but ran behind him and grabbed his ears, "What are you doing here!"

The man in black was grabbed by both ears and bared his teeth, "It hurts, it hurts!"

Zhan Zhao let go of his hand and squinted at him, "Why are you here?"

The man in black flattened his mouth, "It's not called people."

Zhan Zhao made a gesture to strangle him, but the man in black grabbed his wrist, touched it, and frowned, "You're thin! Bao Zheng won't feed you?"

"I don't know how full I am!" Zhan Zhao withdrew his hand, and casually grabbed the man in black's hair for a look, then put it down and sat beside him, "Go home at dawn, don't stay here."

"Why?" The man in black was dissatisfied.

"It's in the way." Zhan Zhao grabbed the teacup in front of him to drink tea.

"Why do you despise your grandfather!" The man in black leaned his head on Zhan Zhao's arm, rubbing his arms pitifully against his arm.

By the moonlight, we can see that this "grandpa" not only has no gray hair, no wrinkles or crow's feet, but black hair like a waterfall, and a clean and handsome face. No matter how you look at it, he is only in his 30s.It's just that he looks quite sinister and domineering, especially those falcon eyes, which are sharp and deep...Of course, they are still relatively soft at this time.

Zhan Zhao reached out and pushed his face away, "Sit down!"

The man in black sat down, and looked at Zhan Zhao with a hey smile, his eyes full of connotation.

Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "What are you laughing at?"

"Oh." The corners of the man in black's mouth twitched, "The boy in white who ran with you just took a look and left."

Zhan Zhao was slightly taken aback, and looked towards the mountain road—the one in white clothes?If Qinggong can keep up with him without being discovered, then Bai Yutang is the only one, but he should stay far away to avoid being discovered.

"Who is it?" The man in black asked kindly, "You're good at it."

"Uh..." Zhan Zhao hesitated for a moment, and immediately glanced at Lan Fox, who shrugged slightly - indicating that he hadn't told him about Bai Yutang.

Zhan Zhao immediately smiled perfunctorily, "Oh, a friend."

"Friend? What's your name?"

The man in black was still staring and asking, Zhan Zhao waved his hand and changed the subject, "What are you doing in Tianshan?"

The other party smiled slightly, "Aren't you looking for the old limelight? He's gone out and isn't at home, and the day lily is cold when he runs here. I haven't seen you for a long time, so I came here for him."

Zhan Zhao frowned, "What's the use of you coming, I'll ask Mr. Feng about something."

"Didn't you just ask about the Wangmen?" The man in black smiled faintly, "I know more than Lao Feng, this matter is complicated."

"You know?!" Zhan Zhao was pleasantly surprised, "Tell me!"

"Okay!" The man in black nodded and agreed, "But I will stay by your side for a few days."

"Why?" Zhan Zhao looked unwilling.

"When I was about to leave the house, Blind Chen said that you will hit the peach blossoms recently, and grandpa will check for you." After the man in black finished speaking, he stood up, "But to avoid trouble for you, don't call me grandpa in public, call me cousin Bar."

"Pfft." Zhan Zhao took a sip of tea, "You're over 100 years old, why are you pretending to be young!"

The man in black swung his sleeves and walked down the hill, waving at Zhan Zhao, "Zhao, I'm hungry, let's go eat some supper!"

Zhan Zhao quickly tugged on Lan Fox's sleeve, "What's going on?"

The blue fox was also helpless, "I don't know, the palace lord suddenly came in the middle of the night, and said to send bugs to find you."

Zhan Zhao is in a hurry, who is the man in black who came?It was none other than the well-known Lord of the Demon Palace, Yin Hou who is known as the number one old devil in the world.

Yinhou, like Tianzun, is a rare genius who has practiced martial arts to the level of magic and immortality. Although they are very old, their appearance is not old, and they are always youthful.

Zhan Zhao is not sure how Tianzun is, but he knows his grandfather's temperament like the palm of his hand, he will go to the Three Treasures Palace for everything, this person will not go down the mountain unless he has a lot of fun.

From childhood to adulthood, Zhan Zhao was the only cute pet of many old devils in the Demon Palace, and his grandfather was the head of all demons, and teasing Zhan Zhao was his only joy and supreme pursuit in life, with endless tricks and tricks.Zhan Zhao's patience and shrewd character are all "teased" by his grandfather.Thinking of the little things in his growth process, Zhan Zhao often feels sad. His grandfather tricked him into doing countless embarrassing things when he was young and ignorant. Now that he thinks about it, the memory is still vivid.

Just looking at Bei Ying as Yin Hou strolled down the mountain, Zhan Zhao knew that he was up to something wrong this time!Be doubly careful.

But at this time in the White Mansion, Xiaosi, who ate too much at night and couldn't sleep, went for a walk in the yard to rub his belly, and saw a white shadow coming in lightly from outside the wall.

The fourth son just wanted to call out "Ah Piao!", but the words that came out of his mouth turned into, "Baibai!"

After climbing over the wall and coming in, it was Bai Yutang who fell in front of the little fourth son.

At this time, Bai Yutang's beautiful brows were slightly frowned. He was different from others. Usually, when people frown, the creases are in the middle of the brows, but Bai Yutang frowned at the arch of the brows. It's not that troublesome, anyway, the fourth son can see that he has something on his mind.

"What's the matter?" The fourth son tugged at Bai Yutang's sleeve, and sat down on the stone stool beside him.

Bai Yutang shook his head slightly, but said nothing.

Seeing that Bai Yutang was preoccupied, the fourth son climbed up on the stool, put his arm around him and asked, "What's the matter?"

Speaking of which, the entire Tianshan faction plus the large group of patrolling troops from Kaifeng Mansion, everyone was afraid of two people, one was Bai Yutang and the other was Zhao Pu.Compared to Zhao Pu, Bai Yutang was a little more terrifying, because he was cold and silent, but the fourth son liked these two people very much, and he didn't care about them at all.

Bai Yutang looked at the movement of the fourth son rubbing his arms around him, and asked in a low voice, "What does this mean?"

"Huh?" The fourth son didn't quite understand.

Bai Yutang pointed at him, "This action."

The fourth son thought for a while before he understood, and smiled, "Dear me!"

Bai Yutang stroked his chin, "Dear..."

"Ordinary people don't do that," Bai Yutang said to himself.

"That's right!" Little Si nodded, "I like Jiang Zi!"

Bai Yutang was taken aback for a moment, looking at the fourth son in a daze, his expression was even more puzzled...Like it?