treacherous world

When everyone returned to Kaifeng Mansion, it was already dawn, Mr. Bao went to court early, and everyone went back to their rooms, ready to sleep for a while.

Zhan Zhao lifted the quilt, and saw that the big tiger and the little tiger were all under the quilt, as if they were warming the bed, he was a little puzzled, "Why do you think they like sleeping here so much?"

Bai Yutang smiled, "Are you their king? This is called being courteous."

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a while before he understood, squinting his eyes to look at Bai Yutang, this rat...

Just as I was about to fall asleep, I heard lively voices coming from the door.

"Meow meow for nothing!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, then quickly jumped onto the bed, covered them with the quilt, and pretended to be asleep.

After a while, the door was pushed open.

The fourth son poked his head in to have a look, and Xiao Liang followed behind, whispering, "Jin'er, they're still sleeping!"

"Well, when can we get up?" the fourth son asked in a low voice, "won't you go to Faguang Temple together?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other—Faguang Temple?Really ask Abbot Xuan Bei to purify his body?

"Let them both continue to sleep, Big Brother Zhan and Big Brother Bai have worked hard all night!" Xiao Liang patted the fourth son, "Let's go with Grandma Huang."

"Oh." The fourth son was a little disappointed, but there was nothing he could do, he closed the door gently, and walked out of the yard with Xiao Liang.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhaocai got their heads out from under the quilt.

Zhan Zhao sighed softly, "We're not being kind."

Bai Yutang was more interested in Faguang Temple, "He went to Faguang Temple with the Empress Dowager?"

"Grandma Huang should be talking about the Empress Dowager." Zhan Zhao also nodded.

"What are you going to do? Ask Abbot Xuan Bei to collect vixen?" Bai Yutang said casually, both of them were stunned, and then covered their heads and quilts together - luckily they didn't agree to go together just now!

The two of them slept with their heads covered in the dark, and they didn't feel full until the sun was high at noon.

Bai Yutang felt a soft, fluffy little cushion patting his face, opened his eyes and saw Zhan Zhao holding Xiaohu, and was patting his face with its soft fleshy cushion.

Seeing Bai Yutang open his eyes, Xiaohu jumped off the bed with a "meow", and walked out together with Dahu who was stretching beside the bed.

Zhan Zhao got up to get dressed, and asked Bai Yutang, "How did you sleep?"

"Huh?" Bai Yutang sat up and rubbed his neck, feeling a little sore.Sure enough, sleeping is more comfortable at night, and I can't wake up during the day.

"When the two left the room, they saw that Bao Yan and Pang Yu had also woken up. Bao Yan was washing his face and rinsing his mouth, and Pang Yu was feeding bugs to his birds.

Everyone was feeling hungry and wanted to go out to have a big meal at noon, but they heard someone rushing in from outside, "It's terrible, something happened!"

Bao Yan saw that it was Little Bao Fu, and frowned, "What are you talking about? What happened?"

"Master!" Bao Fu ran over, "I was passing outside just now, and I heard that the Queen Mother killed Abbot Xuan Bei!"

"What?" Everyone was taken aback for a moment, and then they wanted to laugh.Pang Yu reached out and patted Xiao Bao Fu on the head, "Bao Fu, it's fine to talk about it in the room, don't go out and shout, be careful of losing your head!"

"No!" Bao Fu jumped up anxiously, "It's true that many people outside are spreading the word, and you all know that today is a good day to worship Bodhisattvas. Faguang Temple is full of people. Everyone just watched Abbot Xuanbei run from the inner hall. came out, covered in blood, and the Queen Mother followed behind, holding a bloody knife in her hand."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang frowned, and hurried out.

As soon as the two arrived at the door, they saw the direction of the imperial palace in the distance. Hei Xiao galloped towards Zhao Pu and Gongsun, and when he saw them, he immediately winked.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang understood it, guessed it was true, and rushed to Faguang Temple immediately.

In Faguang Temple, several guards who specialize in protecting the Empress Dowager were guarding the gate, and many Kaifeng people who came to worship Buddha were also looking in at the gate.

In the courtyard, the great monk Xuanbei and the abbot were lying on the ground, and the fourth son was pressing the wound on his lower abdomen with a white cloth, his hands were already covered with blood.

The Empress Dowager stood aside dumbfounded, with a knife on the ground.

Xiao Liang was looking around on the roof, and when he saw Gongsun and the others coming from a distance, he called out, "Master is here, Jin'er, how is the abbot?"

"Let Daddy come quickly!" Seeing that the abbot seemed to be dying, the fourth son yelled at Xiao Liang.

When Zhao Pu arrived at the foot of the mountain, he led Gongsun Yiyue up the mountain. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also arrived and went up together.

The people at the gate of the courtyard automatically divided into two sides. Gongsun hurried in and went to Abbot Xuanbei to check. He saw that the monk was wounded in a vital point and bleeding profusely. He frowned and gave him an injection to stop the bleeding.

"Queen Dowager." Zhao Pu approached the Empress Dowager and asked, "What's wrong?"

The queen mother had a gloomy face, "The Ai family has been framed, let's save the abbot first."

Zhao Pu knew it well, and Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also looked at each other. At this time, there was a commotion down the mountain, saying that Bao Zheng had arrived.

Zhan Zhao pulled the fourth son and Xiao Liang aside to inquire, and Bai Yutang walked into the wing room, looking at the crime scene just now, looking for clues.

"What happened?" Zhan Zhao asked the two little ones.

The fourth son wiped the blood from his hands with a handkerchief. Xiao Liang told Zhan Zhao that they came to Faguang Temple early in the morning with the queen mother and a few shadow guard uncles. Ask Abbot Xuanbei.

They were fine when they were offering incense, and Abbot Xuanbei accompanied them. Afterwards, the two entered the inner room of Maitreya Hall and closed the door for a detailed discussion. The Empress Dowager didn't let anyone follow in. Xiao Liang and the fourth son were playing in the courtyard. Several shadow guards guarded all around.

But after a while, I heard the Queen Mother yelling, and then saw the door being pushed open. Abbot Xuanbei stumbled out of the room clutching his wound, and the Queen Mother followed with a knife in his hand.

At that time, there were many people who asked for lottery and lottery in the courtyard, and there were devout men and women who came to offer incense outside, and they all witnessed all this.

"Didn't you see any suspicious people?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Xiao Liang shook his head.

Another shadow guard came over and said in a low voice, "The Queen Mother is weak, Abbot Xuanbei is healthy and can do kung fu, it cannot be done by the Queen Mother! In addition, we are guarding around, and no one enters, so it can be seen that the man has long been Ambushed in Maitreya Hall!"

At this time, Gongsun ordered the shadow guards to carry Abbot Xuan Bei, who had stopped learning, into the inner room for treatment, and shouted, "Little four, water!"

"Alas!" The fourth son hurried to fetch water from the well, and ran into the house with Xiao Liang to help Gongsun.Zhan Zhao walked into the Maitreya Hall and looked for Bai Yutang who was inspecting it.

At this time, Bao Zheng had already gone up the mountain.

He just received the news that someone might target the queen mother this time, and this matter is not easy to handle.

"Queen..." Bao Zheng was about to speak.

The queen mother waved her hand lightly, "Aijia followed Abbot Xuanbei into the hall, before he sat down, a man in black suddenly rushed out from the inside, stabbed the abbot, put the knife in Aijia's hand, and ran away from behind Abbot Xuan Bei didn’t know why, instead of calling for help, he rushed out of the hall in the opposite direction, and Ai’s family had to follow.” The Queen Mother said, shaking her head, “That’s the truth.”

Bao Zheng nodded, "Queen Mother, this matter needs to be investigated urgently, but..."

"Is it business?" The queen mother smiled, "The Ai family knows, Bao Qing, you don't have to be polite."

Bao Zheng sighed and waved his hands to his subordinates, Wang Chao Ma Han looked at each other, and came over, Zhao Pu personally accompanied the Queen Mother back to Kaifeng, waiting for the incident to be clarified.

……

In the main hall, Bai Yutang turned around and said, "Cat, there is one thing I can't understand!"

"Do you think that Abbot Xuan Bei has deep internal strength and kung fu, so why can't he guard against sneak attacks?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Bai Yutang nodded, "Who in the world doesn't know that Abbot Xuan Bei is not bad at martial arts? It is impossible for such a master to be seriously injured by the Queen Mother! Even if it is a surprise attack, he can still press his own acupuncture points to stop the bleeding and wait for death. How could he just let the blood out like that?" Wait to die."

"Well, things are getting weirder and weirder!"

Just when I was at a loss, I heard someone shouting outside, "Let me in! I saw it!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked out, and saw a chubby black girl arguing with several shadow guards at the gate of the courtyard, "Let me in, I saw it!"

Zhan Zhao nodded to the guards, and they let the girl inside.

Bai Yutang didn't know him, but Zhan Zhao did. He saw it at the Qin Appreciation Conference that day. It was Temuli's younger sister, Temuyan.

"Miss Temu." Zhan Zhao bowed to her politely and asked, "What did you see?"

Temuyan scratched her head and pointed to the back mountain, "I just came here with my brother, and he said he wanted me to ask for a marriage lottery, so I ran away. I was thirsty when I got to the back mountain, and I saw a well. Beautiful, I wanted to drink some water, but I didn't expect a 'rub', a man jumped out of the well, the one in black clothes covered his face. I yelled, and the man ran away when he saw me, it was a woman!"

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were taken aback, "Is it a woman?"

"That's not it!" Te Muyan nodded with certainty, "Although her face is covered, she has breasts and buttocks, and her eyes are quite good-looking, so she must be a woman!"

"Ahem." Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang coughed, this girl really doesn't shy away from anything.

"Do you remember where that well is?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Remember, remember!" Te Muyan waved at the two of them, "I'll take you there!"

As soon as the three of them went out, they ran into Temuri who came to look for his sister, "Oh, where have you been! You disappeared in a blink of an eye."

"Brother Temu." Zhan Zhao and Temuli hand in hand.

"His name is Temuli, not Temuxiong!" Temuyan came up to correct him, and both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang wanted to laugh.

"Oh..." Temuri shook his head, "You two are laughing, my sister is so stupid."

"You're so stupid, I'll take you to see it!" Temuyan said, and led the crowd to the slope of the back mountain, and sure enough, they found a well.

At first glance, the well is full of water, not a dry well, but upon closer inspection, the water surface seems to be some distance away from the bottom of the well.

Zhan Zhao supported the wall of the well and went down a little bit. When he got to the bottom, he jumped in and landed on a flat ground. He waved to the top, "There is a ground, the same kind of canal as before!"

Bai Yutang also followed, and Te Muyan also wanted to follow, but was grabbed by her brother, "Oh, wait, do you know who those two are?"

Te Muyan blinked and blinked, "Uh...the one in the red dress is Brother Nine's friend. I introduced it the other day. Who is that beauty in the white dress?"

"Tsk, you should be more reserved!" Temuri said, "These two, one named Zhan Zhao and the other named Bai Yutang, are both good men. Have you taken a fancy to them?"

"You're here again!" Te Muyan pouted.

"I don't care, anyway, my mother told me, this time you have to marry me no matter what!" After finishing speaking, he gave her a look, "Do you know about reserve? Reserve!"

"Oh." Te Muyan nodded, and then jumped into the well.

Temuri couldn't stop it even if he wanted to, and secretly said——Oops!

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were about to get a torch to light up, when they heard a loud "plop", and water splashed Lao Gao.

The two stared blankly at Temuyan, who fell directly into the water, and Temuli, who was above the well, stroked his forehead and sighed.

Te Muyan would not easily come up from the water, rub his face with his hands, raise his face and sneezed loudly.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang hurried over to pull the girl up, thinking, this is too stunned.

Te Muyan was covered in water when he came up, crying with a sad face, "It's bad luck, there is a dead person in the water!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were taken aback, and asked her together, "What?"

Te Muyan pointed to the water, "There is a dead person in it, I just saw it."

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, the water wasn't that deep, Temuri from above heard it, so he went to the bamboo forest to cut off a long bamboo pole, and threw it down the well.

Zhan Zhao poked a few times in the water with the moso bamboo, and after a while, he really picked up a skeleton.

The corpse has long since rotted away, leaving only the bones.Zhan Zhao fiddled with it a few more times, caught something heavy, frowned and lifted it up vigorously...a burden was pulled up, Bai Yutang caught it with a knife and put it on the ground.

Te Muyan was on the side, and stretched out his hand to open the bundle to take a look, "Oh my god."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also frowned, seeing that it was a bundle of gold and silver jewelry.

Bai Yutang knelt down, picked up one of the gold ornaments for Zhan Zhao to show, and took out the bracelet he picked up on the roof of Shanyin County yesterday from his bosom, and compared the two—it turned out to be the same artifact !

"who!"

At this time, Temuri's cry came from the well.

"Brother!" Te Muyan hurried up, followed by Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang.

Temuri chased to the edge of the bamboo forest, shaking his head, "Damn it in broad daylight!"

"What the hell?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both asked.

"A white shadow, floating away!" Temuri patted his head, wondering if he was stupid seeing such a thing.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang asked him to call the guards of Kaifeng Mansion to come here and salvage it carefully again. They returned to the well and walked forward along the underground waterway. At the end, there appeared an upward step.

After the two went up, they pushed away a stone slab covering the ground and went out to see that they were behind a screen in Maitreya Hall!

Walking around the screen, walking out of the house, and returning to the courtyard just now, both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang couldn't help frowning, it turned out to be a secret passage, the assassin probably entered through this secret passage, and then went out without anyone noticing !

At this time, Gongsun next door came out, wiped his hands, and frowned.

Seeing his expression, both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang asked, "What happened to the great monk?"

Gongsun shook his head, "Abbot Xuan Bei is fine...he was saved."

The two nodded—that's good.It can be seen that Gongsun was still frowning, so he asked, "What's wrong?"

"Hmm..." Gongsun suddenly asked, "What is Abbot Xuanbei's background?"

"Abandoned at the entrance of Faguang Temple since childhood, he was taken in by the previous abbot." Zhan Zhao replied, abbot Xuan Bei is also considered to be highly respected, and everyone in the world knows that he is a person who often accompanies the Buddha.

"But..." Gongsun was a little puzzled, "Why does the great monk have a tattoo on his body? It's a woman?"

Zhan Zhao and Gongsun were taken aback, and opened their mouths.

Gongsun couldn't understand, so he let the two of them enter the house with him.

Abbot Xuanbei was lying on a big bed at this time, because the treatment clothes were open, and on his right arm, there was a silhouette of a woman tattooed.The woman was exquisite and charming, and she was holding a guqin in her hand.

Zhan Zhao sighed, "These days...even monks are not romantic."

Bai Yutang stared at the tattoo.

Zhan Zhao frowned, "Why, you know the beauty with the tattoo?"

Bai Yutang was helpless, "No, I'm looking at that piano..."

"Qin?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

Gongsun smiled, "Brother Bai has good eyesight, that's Zhang Guqin." Then he asked Zhan Zhao, "Brother Zhan, doesn't that look familiar?"

Zhan Zhao stroked his chin and looked carefully, "Ah! That day Mrs. Luo Xin played the piano?"

"But this person is not like Mrs. Luo Xin." Bai Yutang shook his head, "And this tattoo doesn't look new, it should be a few years old."

"This painting may be the real owner of that old Zhang Qin." Gongsun smiled slightly and winked at the two of them.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were startled—is it Yue and his wife? !

Zhan Zhao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he leaned over to Bai Yutang and said, "Secret History of the Palace!"

Bai Yutang looked up at the sky.