Dragon Pattern Roll Set

Zhan Zhao and the others survived the catastrophe. They got up from the ground and patted the snow on their bodies, and checked each other. No one was injured.

Zhao Pu pulled the Yunzhong Knife out of the rock, and there was a cold light, the blade was not injured at all, but the horizontal row on the wall continued from the top of the mountain, and he couldn't help but admire, "Good knife!"

Bai Yutang took the knife and put it back into the scabbard, looking around.

"Should someone come down to rescue us soon?" Gongsun asked.

"It will probably take a while to get the rope down." Zhao Pu touched his body, but he didn't bring the rattle arrow for communication.

Gongsun picked up the fourth son and felt it around, and there was only a bag of pine nut candy in his purse.

Everyone looked at each other.

"It's a bit difficult to go up the mountain." Zhan Zhao raised his face and looked up. He couldn't see the top at all, and there were cliffs all around, and there were many places where it was cold and freezing. creepy.

"It may not be that someone will come to rescue us." Zhao Pu said suddenly.

Everyone looked at each other...

"If that person really wants us dead." Zhan Zhao said coldly, "It might blow up the entire mountain..."

"The place where we were standing just now is a hill protruding outside. If it blows up, we won't be able to tell the direction at all. Even if those yamen servants went to call someone, the surrounding terrain is steep and it's not so easy to find."

"Actually, that's not the point."

Gongsun spoke suddenly, and everyone looked back at him.

Gongsun pointed to the dark sky and said, "It will snow soon!"

Everyone looked up at the same time, if it snowed heavily like this, it would be strange if there was no cover and they would not be buried alive.

"Ouch..."

Just when everyone was at a loss, Xiao Wu suddenly called out.

When everyone looked at it, they saw that it had already stood by the edge of the woods, and turned around to wag its tail at everyone.

Little Fourth stretched out his hand and pointed, "Follow Little Five, maybe he knows the way!"

"Are you sure?" Gongsun asked the fourth son.

The fourth son looked around at the crowd, what does that mean - do you know the way?Who knows who is the king of beasts?

Everyone felt that Xiao Wu was more likely to know Lu than all of them.

So, stepping on the soft snow, he followed Xiao Wu into the forest.

After entering the woods, I saw Xiao Wu walking quite leisurely, turning east and then west.

"It seems to know the way." Zhao Pu asked.

Zhan Zhao also nodded, "It seems like I'm walking with certainty."

Afterwards, Zhao Pu held the fourth son in his arms, held Gongsun with one hand, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked behind, followed Xiao Wu, walking, walking...

I don't know how long I walked, but there were large flakes of snow falling.

Zhan Zhao and the others followed Xiao Wu into an endless pine forest.

Pine Sea is different from other forests. After the pine needles are frozen by ice and snow, it looks like a blossoming ice flower, and I don’t know if it’s because of the species of the pine itself. This large area of ​​ice pine forest looks unexpectedly It is between cyan and purple, coupled with fluttering snowflakes, the scene is extraordinarily beautiful.

The fourth son had dozed off at first, but now he woke up from his doze, opened his mouth wide, looked around, and stretched out his hand to catch the falling snowflakes.

Zhan Xiaowu seemed to be in a good mood. After walking a few steps, he stretched out his claws to pick up the pine flowers, and when a large handful of white snow fell, he shook his head, leaving a large string of plum blossom marks on the ground.

Zhao Pu and Gongsun were behind, and saw Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, one red and one white, a black tiger, walking between the white snow and the cedar.

Gongsun glanced at Zhao Pu.

Zhao Pu smiled without speaking, just like a painting...

After walking for a while, the road suddenly turned... A rift appeared in front of him, Xiao Wu stepped on the steps and went down... Yes, there are steps!There are even railings on both sides of the steps.

Everyone looked at each other.

The fourth son pointed to the front and said, "Look, Daddy, the ice waterfall!"

Looking in the direction of Xiao Sizi's finger, you can see almost an entire waterfall on the cliff in front of you. The beauty of the instant solidification of the water flow is amazing.

Under the icefall, there is a yard full of plum blossoms... The red plum blossoms are in full bloom, with black branches and red flowers dotted with a piece of white snow. Deep in the plum forest, there is a hut.

This is a stone house with a thatched roof and a thick layer of snow. It is very simple, but it is built firmly.

Xiao Wu jumped down briskly, passed through the plum forest, and walked towards the house.

Zhan Zhao just wanted to follow in, but was stopped by Bai Yutang, "You can't go like this."

Everyone was stunned and looked at him.

"Meilin is an institution, someone has set up a trap here." Bai Yutang reminded.

"Then Xiao Wu..." Before Zhan Zhao finished speaking, he saw Xiao Wu had already run to the front of the hut, looking back.

Everyone squinted at Bai Yutang—are you sure there is a trap?

Bai Yutang raised a piece of black jade locust rock and flew into the forest. Suddenly, he heard a "click", and a dozen arrows shot out, filling the area around the black jade locust rock.

Everyone glanced at Bai Yutang again, and the fourth son blinked, "Little Wu knows how to break the mechanism!"

Zhan Zhao thought for a while and asked him, "Which Xiao Wu are you talking about?"

After a moment of silence, everyone let out another "poof".

Zhan Zhao squinted his eyes and looked at Bai Yutang, as if he had avenged the "Fat Swallow" just now.

"How do you know it's a formation, you know it?" Gongsun asked Bai Yutang curiously.

"This is a very common formation." Bai Yutang replied, "It's used to prevent thieves."

Zhao Pu looked at the circle of arrows, "This thief is really miserable... Besides, the thief is in the deep mountains and old forests, where did he come from?"

"Ow."

Xiao Wu yelled again, as if urging them to hurry up.

Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang, "Then how do we get there?"

"Just follow Xiao Wu's footsteps." Bai Yutang said, taking the lead down the steps and walking into the forest.

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand to embrace the fourth son in Zhao Pu's hand, and Zhao Pu held Gongsun, and each of them took care of one, in case something happened, Zhao Pu couldn't take care of two alone.

But following Xiao Wu's footsteps, everyone passed through the plum blossom forest smoothly and came to the front of the hut.

"Is anyone there?" Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang knocked on the door and no one answered.In fact, there is no need to knock on the door. All of them have profound internal skills, and they don't feel the presence of other people here at all.

Bai Yutang gently pushed the door open and looked inside.

Zhan Zhao also looked with his head, surprised, "Huh?"

"What did you see?" Zhao Pu and Gongsun hurried over.

The room is very tidy, there are many mahogany products hanging on the wall, there are many charms on the table, and the bookshelves are full of books.

Bai Yutang pushed open the door and walked in.

A thick layer of dust has accumulated in the room. It seems that no one has lived in it for a long time, but there are a few footprints on the ground, and the things on the table seem to have been turned over.

"Look." Zhan Zhao picked up a mahogany token and showed it to Bai Yutang.

Everyone frowned—it was something that the dead little Taoist priest had brought with him. When Tianmu appeared a few times before, the things fell all over the floor.

Look at Xiao Wu who entered the house again—could this be where the little Taoist priest and Xiao Wu lived before?

"It's not like that." Gongsun shook his head, "That little Taoist should be from the south."

"Southern people..." Zhan Zhao stroked his chin.

"By the way, there is one more thing." Gongsun seemed to remember something, "During the autopsy on the Taoist priest's body, I found that the black tiger tattoo on his chest was painted on."

Everyone was stunned, "Did you draw it?"

"That's right!" Gongsun nodded, "Also, he has a lot of bank notes on him, which come from different banks in different states and cities."

"Could he be a Taoist priest who goes around doing things for others to make money? Exorcising demons everywhere, so the money comes from different banks." Zhan Zhao asked, "With a black tiger painted on his body, is he pretending to be the Maoshan School?"

Bai Yutang frowned and thought for a while, "Then why is Xiao Wu with him?"

"Everyone is dead, so there's no way to ask questions, but the person living here should be an outsider." Gongsun said, pulling out a few books from the bookshelf and opening them for everyone to read. "They're all in Sanskrit. Most of them are five-element spells and six-path reincarnation."

Zhao Pu flipped through it and asked Gongsun, "Can you understand?"

Gongsun nodded, "They are all fragments of scrolls that you don't usually see."

"Maybe only Xiao Wu knows what's going on...Where is Xiao Wu?" Zhan Zhao turned around, but Xiao Wu had disappeared. When he went out, he saw Xiao Wu was digging a hole in the yard.

"Dig the hole again. Could it be that there is thunder here too?" Zhao Pu moved over curiously, and saw Xiao Wu digging out something.

Zhao Pu picked up a shovel by the fence in the corner of the courtyard and helped Xiao Wu dig it up. After a while, a jar was dug out.

Zhao Pu carried the jar up, opened it, and saw several small jars inside.

"Eh?" Zhao Pu opened the mud seal of one of the jars, and a scent of wine came over his face.

"Wow, it smells so good!" Zhao Pu sniffed it.

Gongsun also took it and smelled it, and took out a silver needle to test it, "It's not poisonous, it's probably the old wine buried by the master."

Bai Yutang has a lot of research on wine, upon smelling it, he said, "Rice wine."

"It seems good." Zhao Pu took a sip from a small jar, smacked his lips, and nodded to everyone, "Good wine! I've never had such a good wine!"

Everyone also took a jar to drink, and it really... mellow and rich, with endless aftertaste, one sip will leave a fragrance on the lips and teeth, the wine is not very strong, it is very delicious.

"Good wine." Bai Yutang also admired.

Xiao Wu wagged his tail to watch the crowd drink, and continued digging.

Zhan Zhao was curious, "Is there still wine?"

Sure enough, Xiao Wu dug out another jar, it was a white porcelain jar, everyone was slightly taken aback—urn ashes!

Zhao Pu curled his lips, "Oh, bad luck, why is the wine jar buried on top of the ashes jar?"

"It doesn't matter if they were not buried together." Gongsun finally opened the jar and looked, and there was indeed a jar of ashes inside.

Xiao Wu continued digging.

Zhan Zhao smiled, "Xiao Wu, what else is down here?"

After a while, Xiao Wu dug out a box, held it in his mouth, and gave it to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao reached out to take the box, and saw that it was a mahogany box with exquisite workmanship.It is cold here all year round and there is frozen soil everywhere, so the box has not been eaten by insects.

Open the box, inside there is a piece of white silk with words written all over it.

Gongsun opened it, looked at it, and read the words on it to everyone.

Silk is a letter. The person who wrote the letter called himself Zhong Lin, a descendant of Maoshan Taoist priests, who conquered demons and caught monsters.When I arrived in the area of ​​Yanzhou Prefecture, I heard that there was a snow demon in the mountains, so I went into the mountains to look for them.Unexpectedly, he fell off a cliff, and the black tiger left by his master fell to his death, leaving only a newborn cub.

Seeing this, everyone subconsciously looked at Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu continued to rub Zhan Zhao, Zhan Zhao felt that the tiger was more clingy than a cat, but the others only thought that Xiao Wu really liked Zhan Zhao, the kind of like...

Gongsun continued to read.

After Zhong Lin fell off the cliff, he accidentally discovered the plum blossom forest in the ice waterfall. In the forest, lived a lonely woman.

This woman is called Lu Yao, she was born with white hair, so she is a white girl.In the year she was born, a plague broke out in the capital of Baozhou. A Taoist said that she was a monster and wanted to burn her to death.In order to protect her, Lu Yao's mother took her to the mountains and lived in seclusion.Later, Lu Yao's mother died, and she had never seen anyone other than her mother in her life, so she dared not leave the mountain.When it was snowing heavily, there was nothing to eat nearby, so she would quietly go to the woods to find something to eat. Sometimes when she met Orion, she was dressed in white, which scared Orion into thinking that he had run into a snow demon.

Everyone understood... So that's what happened to the Snow Demon.

Zhong Lin was injured and temporarily stayed in the house.

Lu Yao is kind-hearted and timid, so she takes good care of him.It was cold winter, she ran out in the snow to find food for him, she would rather be hungry.Zhong Lin has been with her for a long time, and the two gradually develop feelings for each other. For Lu Yao, Zhong Lin settled down here, and the two lived peacefully together.

Zhong Lin acted cautiously, he found that there were actually a lot of herbs in the mountains, so he often picked some herbs, or hunted some prey, and went to the state capital to exchange money and buy some things back.

During this period, Lu Yao and Xiaohu lived together and had a companion.This period of living together was the happiest time for Lu Yao and Zhong Lin.Zhong Lin said that Lu Yao is very simple and easy to be satisfied, if you buy her a cheap hair flower, she will be happy and lively for several days.

But one day, Zhong Lin fell ill, apparently from the cold, Lu Yao left Heihu to look after Zhong Lin, and went to the mountains to gather herbs for him, and never came back.

After Zhong Lin woke up, he took the black tiger out to search, and found Lu Yao's body deep in the forest. Lu Yao was bitten to death.

At that time, Zhong Lin thought that Lu Yao was bitten to death by wild animals, but there were no wild animals in this mountain. Later, he found that the wound on Lu Yao's neck was strange, and there were bloody human footprints all around.

Zhong Lin was distraught, and after cremating Lu Yao's body and burying it in the courtyard, he began to search for Lu Yao's murderer.

At the same time, he heard the legend about Tianmu...

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, "Does Zhong Lin think that Tianmu killed Lu Yao?"

Gongsun nodded, "There were a lot of dead people at that time, and the situation was similar to Lu Yao's. The wounds were weird. Zhong Lin tried his best to catch Tianmu, but he couldn't do what he wanted."

"Why can't we do what we want?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

"Zhong Lin became seriously ill because of excessive grief, overwork and typhoid fever." Gongsun said, "This letter should have been written by him half a year ago, and he may have just passed away. He said he felt It gradually failed, but the investigation of Tianmu made progress, and he found that Tianmu was just a cover, and there was something else hidden! And there was a big secret hidden in this state capital! He wrote all the clues in a dossier, hidden in In the drawer at the base of the shrine under the table."

Gongsun said, sighing, "He finally wrote that he will die in a cave in the back mountain. Heihu is very human and well-behaved, and he should bring someone who is destined to find the wine he buried and Lu Yao's ashes There is also this letter. This wine was originally drunk when he was buried and prepared to marry Lu Yao, but unfortunately there is no chance, so please someone who is destined to drink it. In addition, he has a last wish, hoping to cremate his body, and then marry Lu Yao. Lu Yao's ashes were put together and buried in a beautiful place outside the forest, preferably a lively place. Lu Yao has never been out of the forest in her life. Her biggest wish is to go to the market .”

After Gongsun finished reading the letter, the fourth son sniffled, thinking that these two people are really pitiful.

Zhan Zhao put away the letter and the box, looked at Xiao Wu, patted him on the head, and asked, "You don't think so, following that little Taoist priest is to make the little Taoist priest a destined person, to help your master fulfill his wish?"

Everyone was helpless, the little Taoist might not have understood Xiao Wu's meaning, Xiao Wu couldn't speak after all.

Xiao Wu flicked his tail, as if he wanted to take everyone to the back mountain.

"Wait a minute." Bai Yutang suddenly ran into the room, found the shrine under the table, opened the drawer...but it was empty.

Bai Yutang walked out quickly, "The things have been taken away."

Zhan Zhao frowned.

"Zhong Lin said that Tianmu has other hidden secrets, and that there is a big secret in the Yanzhou government." Zhao Pu frowned, "If the little Taoist entered by accident, or for other reasons, it is likely that some kind of coincidence found that record. The dossier of clues, and it was because of that dossier that he was murdered?"

Gongsun thought about it for a while, "I have carefully checked the Taoist's belongings, and there are no files."

Everyone frowned—they got caught up first.

……

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went to the back mountain with Xiao Wu first, and sure enough, there was a cave next to the ice waterfall. It was very cold in the cave, and there was a corpse lying on a long straw mat. Because it was frozen, it didn't rot.It's the one in blue, but he's in his 30s and looks good.

Zhan Zhao rolled up the corpse with a bamboo mat, and together with Bai Yutang, carried the corpse back to the hut.

Gongsun and the fourth son packed up some books, and Zhao Pu built a table in the yard with the firewood he found in the kitchen.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang put the corpse on the table, and Zhao Pu found some kerosene in the kitchen and lit the table.

Xiao Wu lay quietly on the side, watching Zhong Lin's body being cremated, in the tiger's eyes, there was a kind of peace...

A tiger is a tiger after all, it is not a cat, it does not have the stickiness of a cat, it is not a dog, it does not have the enthusiasm of a dog, it is the king of all beasts.Xiao Wu's expression seemed to be saying goodbye to a deceased friend, and his golden tiger eyes seemed to be able to see through everything.

Zhan Zhao lightly touched Xiao Wu's head to show comfort, and Xiao Wu rubbed his big head against him.

"My lord!"

At this time, Zou Liang's voice came from a distance.

Zhao Pu was startled, "Can you find all of this?"

"It's there!" Zhe Ying's voice also came over.

After a while, I saw a large group of people coming, Zou Liang and Zhe Ying brought many shadow guards and soldiers, Zhao Pu hurriedly reminded them not to step into the Merlin and be bound into a honeycomb.

"My lord, fortunately you know how to use the smoke as a signal!"

Bao Zheng, who was about to follow, heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that everyone was fine.Just now when he heard that everyone fell off the cliff, he was so startled that his head "buzzed", Grand Master Pang couldn't breathe at that time.

When Zhao Pu heard Bao Zheng's words, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he looked at the pyre where people were being burned... That's right, why didn't he remember to use wolf smoke as a signal without the sounding arrow, tsk!

Zhan Zhao showed the letter to Bao Zheng.

Bao Zheng also frowned after reading it—it seems that there is a case in the case.

"The person who wanted us to die." Bai Yutang whispered, "Maybe he didn't want us to find out about that secret."