Dragon Pattern Roll Set

The next morning, just after dawn, Zhan Zhao heard a loud "bang" coming from outside the house in his sleep, and Zhan's guard jumped up from the bed in shock.

On the opposite bed, Bai Yutang was also startled, sat up, turned around, and saw Zhan Zhao jumping up and hitting the top of the bed, then fell back, rolling on the bed with his forehead covered.

Fifth Master hurriedly got out of bed and went over, opened his hand and took a look. Fortunately, his cat's forehead was hard, so he hit a red mark.

Zhan Zhao also knocked himself awake, and asked, "What happened?"

Bai Yutang shrugged, and it sounded like something had exploded.

The two hurriedly got out of bed and ran to open the door...Looking into the yard.Seeing that the opposite courtyard door was also opened at this time, Zhao Pu poked his head out, and Lin Yehuo rubbed his eyes while opening the window, and the shadow guards squatted on the roof to look down.

Zhan Zhao and the others noticed that there was a huge hole in the middle of the originally flat courtyard in front of Meow Meow Building.

Everyone subconsciously looked up at the sky, thinking what did something fall and smash into such a big hole?

I went out to the yard and stood by the pit and looked in... There was nothing in the pit, just a depression about half a person deep.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other—what's the matter? !

Zhao Pu scratched his head, "What size field mouse is this?"

Bai Yutang glanced at Zhao Pu.

Zhao Pu spread his hands at him, that means—otherwise, why would there be such a big hole for no reason.

"There is no mud around!" Lin Yehuo squatted by the pit and looked at it, "It seems that a piece has sunk, it's not a big rat."

"It just sank suddenly." Hei Ying said, he and Bai Ying were near the roof, nothing fell down at all, and a big hole suddenly appeared on the ground.

Zhan Zhao thought about it, and was about to jump into the pit.

Bai Yutang hurriedly grabbed him, "What are you doing?!"

"Go down and have a look." Zhan Zhao pointed down, "Maybe there really is a big mouse."

Bai Yutang was speechless, raised his hand and threw a black jade flying locust stone down.

I saw that the stone stopped after hitting the bottom of the pit a few times, and fell in the middle of the pit.

Gongsun tilted his head, "It's not very deep, and there's no hole underneath."

Bai Yutang turned his head, but saw that Zhan Zhao was not looking at the bottom of the pit, but was looking at him seriously.

Seeing Zhan Zhao looking at him up and down, Fifth Master was puzzled, so he stretched out his hand and patted his blushing forehead.

Zhan Zhao rubbed his forehead and raised his head to ask Bai Yutang, "You're only wearing an underwear, where is the black jade locust stone hidden? Could it be that you sleep with it in your pocket at night, won't you panic?"

Bai Yutang pinched his chin and turned around to let him look at the bottom of the pit, saying to himself that there is such a big pit in front of you for no reason, and you still care about where the stone is hidden.

"Could it be caused by internal force?" Zou Liang asked.

Lin Yehuo folded his arms, "Could it be that the great monk farted... oops."

As soon as Huofeng finished speaking, someone patted him on the head, thinking that Master Wusha had returned, he turned around in fright.

It's just that there is no Master Wusha behind Lin Yehuo, so when he lowered his head, he saw Xiao Liangzi with his hips akimbo, his face upturned, whitening him.

Lin Yehuo reached out and lifted him up.

Xiao Liangzi probed into the big hole.

At this time, the fourth son also came out, grabbed Gongsun's leg, and looked at the hole curiously.

"If it wasn't for Kaifeng Mansion, I would have thought it was a sand whirlpool." Xiao Liangzi said.

Lin Yehuo also nodded, and asked, "Will there be such a loud sound when a sand whirlpool occurs?"

Xiao Liangzi thought for a while, "Sometimes there will be."

"What is Shaxuan?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

"It's more common in deserts and Gobi." Ouyang Shaozheng said, "It's when a piece of the ground collapses suddenly, so that the sand, gravel and soil above it sinks."

"But this kind of thing is only limited to deserts, or places with many holes in the ground." Zou Liang shook his head, "This kind of thing shouldn't happen in Kaifeng, unless..."

"Unless what?" Everyone looked at him.

Zou Liang looked at Bai Yutang.

Everyone looked back at Bai Yutang in puzzlement—what kind of riddle are you two playing?

Bai Yutang understood why Zou Liang was looking at him, so he said, "If someone is digging a tunnel somewhere else and accidentally digs an underground water vein, it may cause a collapse here."

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, "So that's what happened..."

Bai Yutang said, "Sometimes my second brother accidentally digs the wrong road, which also caused the ground to subside."

Zhan Zhao showed doubts, "Is there someone digging a tunnel nearby?"

"It's really not necessarily nearby." Bai Yutang shook his head, "Sometimes you dig a tunnel a few streets away, but the one that collapses is another place beyond the reach, but apart from earthquakes, like the underground of Kaifeng City. In some cases, only random digging of tunnels will cause the ground to subside.”

Zhan Zhao frowned, "There are quite a few underground tunnels in Kaifeng City, all of which have blueprints, and random digging requires approval from the palace, right?"

"Naturally." Zhao Pu also nodded, "After all, it is the imperial city, what if someone digs into the palace to assassinate?"

Ouyang was helpless, "I'll ask Nangong to find someone to go down to the sewer to have a look."

Everyone looked up and saw that it was almost dawn, and there was no sleepiness. There was a hole at the gate, which was awkward no matter how you looked at it.

When it was getting brighter again, everyone gathered for breakfast, Bai Xia and Bai Mutian gathered around the pit and had a look around.

Master Bao also got up, Zhan Zhao wanted to enter the palace today to inquire about the Xia Mansion and the haunting, so he planned to enter the palace with Master Bao.

Bai Xia readily agreed to Gongsun's request to go to the Taixue to give a lecture on spices, the younger four and his group of children also wanted to go, and Bai Mutian also wanted to visit.Bai Yutang sent Bai Xia there for a while, and then waited for Zhan Zhao at Taixue, and Zhan Zhao came to join him when he left the palace.

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Not to mention Bai Xia and the others who went to Taixue to "disaster" the students, but Zhan Zhao who followed Mr. Bao into the palace.

Before going to court, all civil and military officials would gather in Qinwang Hall to chat for a while.

It was rare for Zhan Zhao to come with Mr. Bao, and a group of old men were very happy to see him, chatting with him.Although most of the officials in the court were not warriors, many people knew about the recent incident of Gaohe village head Bian Shengjin washing his hands, so they asked one after another, and they heard that there was a murder case.

Zhan Zhao chatted with those officials for a while, took a chance, found Grand Master Pang and the Eighth Prince, and asked them if they knew the Xia Mansion in Yaojia Village.

Both the Eight Kings and the Grand Master shook their heads.

The Grand Master stroked his beard, "Is there a Xia Mansion in Yao Family Village? I've never heard of it."

The Eighth Prince asked Zhan Zhao why he asked this, and Zhan Zhao told what happened to several Shaolin monks.

The Eighth Prince was taken aback, "You guys should be careful when you walk in the rivers and lakes to fight for righteousness, this is so scary!"

The grand master also shook his head, "In these days, even eminent Shaolin monks are bewitched by ghosts..."

While chatting, a eunuch came to summon all the civil and military officials to go to court.

Master Bao came in from the outside, followed by Eunuch Liu, and waved to Zhan Zhao.

Show the past.

Master Bao said, "I asked Eunuch Liu to find some old people in the palace who may be familiar with Yaojia Village, you go and ask."

Zhan Zhao nodded.

Master Bao went to court, and Zhan Zhao and Eunuch Liu left Qinwang Palace and walked towards the imperial garden.

Eunuch Liu is very good at kung fu, he has been following the queen mother all the time, and he is also familiar with Zhan Zhao, so he asked him in detail about the Shaolin eminent monk's collision with ghosts that night.

Zhan Zhao asked, "Are you trustworthy?"

"What do you believe?" Eunuch Liu asked Zhan Zhao back with a smile, "Could it be possible that Mr. Zhan believes that the masters are bewitched by ghosts?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head.

Mr. Liu said, "There are only two possibilities for this situation to occur. One is that those masters have been drugged. The other is that they met a master with extremely high internal strength who is proficient in the technique of soul-hunting."

"Father-in-law is familiar with the art of conjuring souls?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Eunuch Liu smiled and waved his hands, "What is my little ability? Isn't your grandfather the most powerful soul-hunting technique in the world?"

Zhan Zhao smiled, his grandfather is indeed a master of the inner strength of the mind method school, but he seldom uses the soul-absorbing technique.

"Master Zhiyun is not an ordinary expert." Liu Gonggong said, "If even he can be easily controlled, then he is not an ordinary person, so... this old servant feels that the possibility of poisoning is more likely."

Zhan Zhao also agreed that Gongsun had inspected several masters before, and hadn't found anything wrong yet, so further inspections were needed.

Eunuch Liu took Zhan Zhao to ask several elderly court ladies from Yaojia Village, but none of them had heard of Xia Mansion.A cook from the imperial dining room, who grew up near the mountains and forests of Yaojia Village, said that there was no Xia Mansion in the mountains of Yaojia Village.

Zhan Zhao found nothing, and felt even more puzzled - what happened to the dilapidated house on the mountain without Xia Mansion?

When I went out of the palace with Eunuch Liu, I happened to pass by the greenhouse.

Zhan Zhao pointed to the greenhouse in the distance, and asked Eunuch Liu if he could go in and have a look.

The father-in-law asked someone to open the door and took Zhan Zhao in.

There are many strange flowers and plants in the flower room in the palace, Zhan Zhao really found a kapok tree, and stood in front of the tree, looking up.

"Lord Zhan, this flower is the same color as your official robe." Eunuch Liu also walked over and grabbed a milky white kitten, which was peanuts that slipped in while they opened the door.

Zhan Zhao took the peanut bag in his hand, stared at the kapoks and said to himself, "It's not the same, maybe it's not the same variety."

Eunuch Liu was puzzled, "What is not a breed?"

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao talked about the fact that there was a piece of kapok petal on the muddy floor where the old woman was.

Eunuch Liu frowned slightly, and said, "This kapok was brought over from Zhangzhou area. It is different from the local ones, and the petals are bigger."

Zhan Zhao looked at Eunuch Liu and asked, "Does Eunuch know something?"

Eunuch Liu was taken aback and looked at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao said, "After you heard the kapok petals appeared in the forest, you looked a little uncomfortable."

Eunuch Liu smiled and nodded, "Master Zhan is really good at observing."

Zhan Zhao kindled a little hope of finding clues, "What does father-in-law know? But it doesn't matter."

Eunuch Liu gave a soft "tsk", then dragged Zhan Zhao to a place where there was no one in the flower house, and whispered, "Master Zhan, when you mentioned kapok, this old slave suddenly remembered a legend he heard when he was a child."

Zhan Zhao squints—a clue or a legend?

Eunuch Liu continued, "Master Zhan, have you ever heard of tree spirits?"

Zhan Zhao frowned, "The age of the tree? Does it mean how old the tree is?"

Eunuch Liu made Zhan Zhao laugh angrily, and the nervous anger just now eased up a bit.

"There is a saying that flowers, plants, and plants are all spiritual." Mr. Liu said, "When I was young, I was walking in the rivers and lakes. Some old people often told me not to kill people by the trees that can bloom blood-colored flowers. This kind of tree is the most spiritual and The one that attracts the most resentful spirits."

Zhan Zhao's cat eyes widened, "A tree beckons spirits?"

Eunuch Liu looked at Zhan Zhao, who was holding peanuts, each of them had a feline face, it was so funny to watch.

Suppressing a smile, the old man told Zhan Zhao in detail, "The legend I heard when I was a child was that a group of bandits ransacked a village and left after killing all the villagers. There are many kapok trees planted in this village. It is said that After that looting, blood flowed in the village, and the kapok bloomed beautifully that year. In the second year, those bandits, along with their families, all died in a terrible way. And in the place where they happened, They all found kapok petals... but there are no kapok trees nearby."

"It shouldn't be that the kapok tree has become a spirit." Zhan Zhao frowned, "Is it because someone took revenge and therefore raised suspicion? Survivors from the village back then?"

"But this kind of thing didn't happen once or twice." Eunuch Liu shook his head, "It happened many times! There is an old saying that the kapok becomes a grievance."

Zhan Zhao heard it strangely, "But aren't most flowers in the world red?"

Eunuch Liu smiled, "Master Zhan, I don't mean to believe this statement, but it's still the same sentence, kapok is mostly in the south, and people in the Central Plains and the north have never heard of this statement, so I say..."

"So if someone uses this method to pretend to be a ghost, that person is from the south, where there is a lot of kapok?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Eunuch Liu nodded, "Or, leaving that piece of kapok petals is not for people like you and me who don't understand, but for... people who understand!"

"For example, the person who planted a lot of kapok in the yard?" Zhan Zhao asked casually.

Eunuch Liu raised his eyebrows slightly, "It's very possible."

Zhan Zhao sighed, and after talking for a long time, he still got involved with Gao Hezhai.

"That's right." Eunuch Liu said again, "This old slave heard that Mr. Nangong and General Ouyang had someone check the tunnels this morning, saying that a piece of land in Kaifeng Mansion collapsed last night?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, and asked, "Does your father-in-law have any clues?"

Eunuch Liu smiled, "If there was no Xia Mansion in Yaojia Village, then the ruins of the Xia Mansion were forged recently! How can we transport such a large amount of waste wood and bricks without being discovered?"

Zhan Zhao clapped his hands lightly, "Tunnel?! We can go there and look for a tunnel, and then we will know whether this desolate house is fake or not."

Eunuch Liu nodded, left Zhan Zhao, and went back to the Queen Mother.

Looking at the old man's back, Zhan Zhao sighed with emotion——Sure enough, Jiang is old and spicy, this old man's kung fu is so good that people are so good.

Thinking of this, Zhan Zhao suddenly ran up, "Grandfather, please stay."

Eunuch Liu stopped and looked back at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao asked, "Eunuch, do you think someone will kill someone because of an invitation?"

Eunuch Liu was taken aback, "Invitation card?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, and talked about the case that happened in the inn that day, hoping to hear this shrewd old man's unique opinion.

Eunuch Liu thought for a while and asked Zhan Zhao, "Master Zhan, is that invitation for you?"

Zhan Zhao nodded.

"And that dead Bian Qing has the corner of an invitation card in his hand?"

Zhan Zhao followed suit and nodded.

"Then does he want to grab the invitation back from that person? Or does that person want to grab the invitation from him?"

When the old man asked a word, Zhan Zhao was in a daze, and then thought carefully, "That's right...there is a difference!"

Seeing that Zhan Zhao has regained his consciousness, the old man let him go.

Zhan Zhao stood in the imperial garden and nodded in circles, "That's right... Is it the murderer who snatched the invitation from Bian Qing, or did Bian Qing snatch the invitation from the murderer? This question seems unimportant, but think about it carefully." , but it is quite the key!"