treacherous world

Zhan Zhao and Xiao Liang stood in the yard and blew the cool breeze for a while, but it was completely cool before they lingered back to the house.

Quietly pushed the door open and walked in, a faint candle was still burning on the table.

Xiao Liang was very happy, since they settled in Xiaoyao Island, they slept in separate rooms, the fourth son shared a room with him, and Zhao Pu shared a room with Gongsun.

Sometimes Xiao Liang would practice until late at night, and the fourth son would wait for him with a light every day, and often fell asleep on the stone or something.

The two tiptoed into the house.

Seeing that Bai Yutang and the fourth son had already fallen asleep on the big bed, the fourth son hugged the little tiger and leaned against the big tiger, leaning against Bai Yutang's arm, covered with his little quilt.

Zhan Zhao looked around, leaned over to measure the width left by the bed, and wondered if he could squeeze in.At this time, Xiao Liang looked at the little bed, stretched out his hand... and took the little four away.

"Alas!" Zhan Zhao just wanted to cry, so he quickly covered his mouth, watched helplessly as Xiao Liang carried the drowsy fourth son to the crib, then got in and covered himself with a quilt, and fell asleep.

Zhan Zhao originally thought that it would be better if he and Bai Yutang had the younger brother, but now the younger brother was taken back by Xiao Liang, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and lie down. The strange thing is——Bai Yutang didn't wake up.

Bai Yutang was very tall, let alone climbed onto the bed alone, even if a mosquito flew by, he would definitely know it, so Zhan Zhao was very careful, and after he lay down, he looked carefully at his expression.

Unexpectedly, Bai Yutang seemed to be fast asleep. Zhan Zhao raised his head and looked at the clean and fluffy Rock-Scissors on the ground. Could it be that he was tired from bathing the two little guys?

Confused, Zhan Zhao saw Bai Yutang's face by the faint light of the candle, leaned over to take a closer look, and Zhan's guard secretly clicked twice, it's so beautiful!Compared with him, all those talented and beautiful men in the Jianghu stand aside!

Anyway, he didn't feel sleepy, so Zhan Zhao put his chin on Bai Yutang's face and looked carefully at Bai Yutang's face for an unknown amount of time. Zhan Zhao slowly moved his eyes down and saw Bai Yutang's hand.

Once again, Zhan Zhao secretly "tsk tsk" twice, Zhan Zhao sighed with emotion—as expected of a nobleman's hand, the fingers are considered thin, the phalanges are clearly visible, and the fingers are very long. Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and placed it next to him.

Just as the hand dropped, suddenly, Bai Yutang moved, and stretched his hand forward naturally, just in time to put it on Zhan Zhao's hand.

... Zhan Zhao looked up, Bai Yutang's eyes were still closed, asleep?

Even if he was killed, he would not believe that the man was still asleep.

After a while, the hands were still folded like that.Looking at his hands, Zhan Zhao blinked, thinking that he should be sleepy.So he got into the quilt, and simply covered his head with the quilt and fell asleep.

I don't know when the candle went out. Anyway, the hands of the two separated later... No one saw, and the two were fast asleep. Anyway, neither of them remembered to pull their hands back.

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In the early morning of the next day, Xiao Liang got up early to practice kung fu, only to find that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were gone on the opposite bed, and the quilt was folded neatly, probably already up.

Wake up the drowsy little fourth son, and they both agreed that if Xiao Liang gets up early, the little fourth son will also get up early and go out to exercise his hands and feet, otherwise it will be bad for his health.

When the two came out of the house, they saw Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao washing their faces by the well in the yard. Their movements were similar, and they seemed to be in a good mood.There was an old locust tree by the well, and two orioles made a nest somewhere in the tree, chirping happily early in the morning.

The fourth son stretched his waist, the weather is fine today, suitable for going out to play.The two also went to the well to wash, and the fourth son asked Zhan Zhao, "Is Meow going out to do some errands today?"

"Hmm..." Zhan Zhao thought for a while, "I don't have anything to do during the day, and I'm going to the Qin Appreciation Conference at night." Then, he nodded to Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang, "You two will go at night too."

"Is it all right during the day?" The fourth son began to ponder, and asked the two to go out to play.

Bai Yutang washed his face, shook his head, "I'm free in the morning, I'm going to mourn in the afternoon."

"Ah!" The fourth son opened his eyes wide, Xiao Liang also asked, "Did anyone pass away?"

"Well, not very familiar." Bai Yutang said helplessly.

Zhan Zhao was a little worried for him. In the afternoon, he went to the Iron Head Sect by himself. He didn't know if there would be any troubles. He always felt that it was a bit weird for him to post a post.

Everyone was chatting here, when they saw the door of the Library Pavilion not far away, Pang Yu, Bao Yan, and the confused Bao Fu came out.

Everyone has two dark circles under their eyes, and they have been up all night just by looking at them.

The three of them rushed to the well and splashed the cool well water on their faces to wake up well.

Pang Yu washed his face and greeted the little girl who came over to deliver breakfast, "Xiaoyu, make me a cup of strong tea. It should be very strong. Do you have white tea in Kaifeng Mansion? I like that."

Seeing him like that, the little girl covered her mouth and ran away happily.

Although Bao Yan looked sleepy, he was still full of thoughts. After washing his face, he saw Pang Yu half-dead by the side, so he patted him, "Oh, aren't you famous for drinking and drinking? Why can't you stay up all night?" ?”

"Staying up all night drinking and spending the night reading are two different things, okay? Young master, I haven't stayed up late to read a book since I was born!" Pang Yu rubbed his sore neck, "Hiss...what the hell, I can't find a place for a whole night." did not find."

When Xiaobao Fu washed his face, he had already fallen asleep leaning against the well.

Zhan Zhao thought it was funny, and asked Bao Yan, "Second Young Master, what are you looking for for a night?"

Bao Yan took out the blood book in his arms and showed it to Zhan Zhao, "We are looking for Wufen Village, I think it might be a place name."

Xiao Liang couldn't help frowning when he saw it, "Wufen Village? Is there such an inauspicious name?"

"Hmm..." Zhan Zhao rubbed his chin, "This kind of guess is not the real place name, but an alias."

"Alias?" Bao Yan was puzzled.

Zhan Zhao handed the letter to Bai Yutang to read.

Bai Yutang looked at it and nodded, "Indeed, for example, a place was originally called Wujia Village, and most of the people in the village were people with the surname Wu. But there are too many Wujia Villages, and many people can't tell which one is which. Some of the characteristics of the village are often used to give nicknames. For example, some Wujia villages have a mountain in the west, so they are called Xishan Wujia villages. Some villages make a living by hunting and reselling roe deer, so they are called Wujia roe deer village.

"Oh!" Bao Yan is a nerd, and Pang Yu is a playboy. The two of them have never heard of these things in the Jianghu, and they both feel that they have learned a lot.

"The five graves village, does it mean that there are no graves in this village?" Bao Yan asked.

"Hey, which village doesn't have five graves?" Pang Yu waved his hand, "Every village will die, and it's normal to have five graves!"

"But as I said before, the unjust ghost!" Zhan Zhao thought for a while, "Maybe this Wufen Village is involved in some unjust case, so it is called Wufen Village."

"Even this kind of village exists?" Bao Yan listened strangely.

Zhan Zhao nodded, "For example, there used to be a place on the rivers and lakes called Heroes Ridge. The terrain there was dangerous, and there was a natural stone forest on the mountain, similar to plum blossom piles. It was a good place for masters to compete in martial arts, so people often went there to compete... But There are more people who compete in martial arts, and there are also more people who died. There are often many bones under the stone forest, so Hero Ridge is on the rivers and lakes, and it is also called Bone Ridge or Skeleton Ridge.”

"It's scary." The fourth son couldn't help but say.

Xiao Liang dragged him to the table to have breakfast, Xiao Yu also made strong tea, Pang Yu gulped down his stomach, and finally recovered a bit.

Zhan Zhao and the others also sat down at the table, chatting while eating.

Seeing that Gongsun and Zhao Pu didn't come, the fourth son asked Xiaoyu, "Sister, where are Daddy and Jiujiu?"

"The prince and Mr. Gongsun went to the palace early in the morning. The prince seems to be the queen mother who stipulated that he should persuade the emperor for at least one hour every day. The husband went to check the pulse of Concubine Pang and the queen mother. Concubine Pang just gave birth, so she must be careful, otherwise It will leave the root of the disease. The queen mother said that she has been a little angry recently, and her mouth is full of blisters."

Pang Yu shook his head, he had to give his father a medicine soon, his father had blisters on his tongue for the past two days.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded, and looked at each other—these two are really busy, it seems that the fourth son and Xiao Liang are going to be brought to them.

"Then where can we find it?" Bao Yan rested his chin and sighed, while Bao Fu gnawed on the steamed bun. "Let's go ask the master, young master."

"Hey, if you're too embarrassed to ask, I'll ask you." Pang Yu stuffed a bun into his mouth and ran to the front hall, but ran back dejectedly after a while, "It's okay, my father just said Never heard of it! Mr. Bao said it sounds familiar, but he can’t remember anything.”

It was even more difficult for Bao Yan.

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang, "It's like the name of Jianghu, maybe it's not recorded in the book."

"Go and ask Ouyang." Bai Yutang said, "He understands geography."

"Ouyang?" Bao Yan's eyes lit up when he heard it, "Who is it?"

"Oh, fire unicorn Ouyang Shaozheng!" Pang Yu said with a smile, "He may know it, he is a famous geography master."

"However, Ouyang may be much more familiar with the border area than Kaifeng. Let's ask him first. If he doesn't know, then go to Taiyuan College and ask Mr. Chen?" Zhan Zhao suggested.

"Master Chen?" Bao Yan still didn't recognize him.

"Chen Yu, Mr. Chen, the master of the Taiyuan Academy." Zhan Zhao said, "The entire Zhoucheng prefectures, counties and villages of the Song Dynasty are hidden in his head. He is an old pedant."

"Then let's leave after eating!" Bao Yan began to shove the buns, and Pang Yu sighed—can't sleep yet?

After breakfast, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang took Pang Yu and Bao Yan to inquire about the affairs of Wufen Village, but the fourth son and Xiao Liang were unaccompanied, so they followed suit.

Everyone went to find Ouyang first, and sure enough, Ouyang Shaozheng shook his head, "I've never heard of it!" At the same time, he also sighed at the same time-why is Master Bao's son so white!

In the end, they had no choice but to go to Taiyuan College to find the old scholar Chen Fuzi.

Master Chen chatted with Bao Yan a few words, and felt that he deserved to be Bao Zheng's son, and indeed he was also an upright bookworm!

"Five Graves Village?" Master Chen stroked his beard, "Hmm..."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang waited patiently at the side, and saw Mrs. Chen raised his face and slightly closed his eyes, holding his beard lightly with his hands, so that he was still fixed.

After waiting for a long time, he still hadn't moved. The fourth son asked Xiao Liang in a low voice, "Little Liang, is this grandpa asleep?"

Xiao Liang covered his mouth dumbfounded.

"Ah."

After waiting for a long time, the old man hummed again, changed the angle, and continued to meditate.

This time Pang Yu couldn't stand it any longer, "Old man, do you know or don't you know?"

"Hmm..." The old man continued to hum.

Zhan Zhao supported his forehead, Bai Yutang was helpless.

Pang Yu became a little irritable, "I said old man..."

Before he finished speaking, Master Chen stood up suddenly.

Everyone opened their mouths wide - oops, it moved!

I saw Mrs. Chen walking tremblingly in front of a wall.The structure on the wall is similar to that of a pharmacy, with small drawers with only numbers on them.

The old man counted vertically and horizontally, and finally found a grid, opened it, and took out a key.

Zhan Zhao and the others watched his movements with bated breath, feeling a little hard to breathe.

Pang Yu leaned over and asked Zhan Zhao, "Oh, how old is the old man?"

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, "It's more than 90."

Everyone was shocked - no wonder it was so slow!

"Take this." The old man led the two of them to the corridor, and stretched out his hand to the long corridor that was folded back and forth several times. There were locked wooden doors on both sides of the corridor.Find the one with the same number and open it... In that room are the aliases of all the villages for nearly ten years. "

Zhan Zhao and the others opened their mouths wide in shock—can you remember this?

"Over there are classified according to the first word at the beginning, you can search in the grid of 'five'." The old man said, trembling, went back to sit down, picked up a pen and started writing, there were a lot of files on the table The information made everyone stick out their tongues - really worthy of being an old pedant.

Holding the key, I went around in the dossier room of the Taiyuan Academy, and finally found a matching cabin, and opened it...

Everyone thought there would be a musty smell, or a swarm of rats, but there was no such thing!

The files are neatly arranged in rows, and one of the tasks that Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang have to do every day is to help Gongsun sort out the books and dry the books. Seeing this situation, both of them couldn't help feeling, "It's so clean. !"

Bao Yan went in, found the "five" grid, and carefully took out the books inside, "It must be often dried in the sun on weekdays. The pages are clean and complete, without any wormholes."

Everyone took a few volumes and carefully rummaged through them. Even Pang Yu, who was always frizzy, didn't dare to do anything wrong, and flipped through the pages.

After searching quietly for a while, Zhan Zhao suddenly felt Bai Yutang lightly touch his shoulder.

He raised his head, and saw Bai Yutang handing over a volume in his hand, pointing to one of the pages for him to read.

Zhan Zhao took a look and saw a paragraph written on it that night:

On the southwestern outskirts of Kaifeng, there is a mountain forest. There are many small villages in the mountains, some of which have a history of hundreds of years.

Most of the villages are on the Shanyang side, but there is only one mountain that is actually located on the Shanyin side, so this small village is called Shanyin Village.A few years ago, the mountain village was suddenly deserted, and the people in the village moved out collectively overnight.

Because Shanyin Village is located in a remote place, there are very few people coming and going, so many people didn't pay attention at that time, so that they couldn't find out exactly which year the village was abandoned, and what happened that year.

Until one day, a hunter passed by this village and stayed overnight.At night, he saw a woman in white floating in front of him, saying to take him somewhere.The man followed the beauty to the mass grave in Shanyin Village in a daze. On the mass grave, amidst the bones, there were five black tombstones lined up. , Third Sister, Fourth Niang, and Fifth Sister.

The most evil thing is that besides the names of the five tombstones, there is also a large blood-red character - resentment!

The woman in white came behind the tombstone of "Fifth Sister" and suddenly hung in the air, sobbing and crying.

At this time, there was a thunder in the sky, and amidst the lightning and thunder, Orion saw the souls of four other women floating behind the tomb, all of them were white-clothed and black-haired, fluttering with unspeakable evil spirits.

Orion turned pale with fright, and ran away from Shanyin Village.From then on, the head of Shanyin Village reported that someone saw a female ghost haunting her, and said that it was the five sisters.Whenever the night is quiet, there will be gloomy crying sounds from the village, echoing in the valley and it is difficult to leave.

Some passers-by who were walking on the mountain accidentally heard the extremely mournful cry, and were bewitched, fell off the cliff and were smashed to pieces.

Later, some people gradually called this Shanyin Village——Wufen Village.