treacherous world

Bai Yutang hurried back to Kaifeng mansion, at this time, everyone was in Abbot Xuanbei's room.Zhao Zhen sat across from Abbot Xuan Bei, Bao Zheng and others were all on the side.

When Bai Yutang walked in, the great monk lowered his head, closed his eyes and clenched his teeth.

Zhao Zhen asked him lightly, "You still don't say?"

The monk shook his head vigorously, "Please the emperor grant the poor monk a death."

Zhao Zhen laughed dryly, "You are not afraid of death, why would I kill you?" After speaking, he stood up and looked at Bao Zheng, "Bao Qing, I leave it to you, if you find anything, tell me."

Bao Zheng nodded.

Immediately, Zhao Zhen came out, saw Bai Yutang came back, thought for a while, but didn't ask him anything, just led the people away in a hurry.

Zhan Zhao tugged at Bai Yutang, and asked in a low voice, "What romantic debt? Be honest!"

Bai Yutang was a little helpless, so he told the story of Xie Jiutian back then.After Zhan Zhao listened to him, he looked at him with a clear face, "It's the same as I thought, let me tell you, Luo Yuan is just too young, if she is three or four years older, she must be like Mrs. Luo Xin." Same! Can't you restrain yourself?"

Bai Yutang laughed, "Then what about you, what would you have done if you were you at the time? Don't save yourself from death?"

"Uh, what about this..." Zhan Zhao thought for a long time, "Anyway, there will be a better way."

Bai Yutang shook his head.

At this moment, everyone in the room came out, and Pang Ji tugged on Bao Zheng's sleeve, "Oh, why didn't you ask me about Lao Bao? This monk is a key person!"

Bao Zheng nodded, "It is indeed a key person, but what can we do if we don't tell him after we ask?"

"You are the prefect of Kaifeng, you ask me?" Pang Ji blew his beard and stared, "People are bitter insects, you can't beat them, you won't torture them?"

Bao Zheng frowned, "He's not even afraid of death, what's the use of beating him? Didn't you see that he was seriously injured? If you beat him to death, you go tell the emperor?"

"I..." Pang Ji was speechless, and he opened his mouth dryly.

Bao Zheng curled his lips and pointed to his head, "Do you know if you want to be outsmarted?!"

Pang Ji sighed and walked away awkwardly.

Bao Zheng still has a lot of things to deal with, let everyone think of a way, how to tell this monk to speak, in addition, don't relax and stare at Mrs. Luo Xin, I always feel that the jade recognition conference is getting closer, and the more Come with danger.So, a lot of people in the yard thought of a way.

And Gongsun has been in a daze since he came out of Wu Zuo's room. Zhao Pu had already noticed that something was wrong with him. He thought he was not feeling well, so he asked, "Do you want to go to sleep for a while?"

Gongsun shook his head and said, "No... I suspect that Abbot Xuanbei is not the original Abbot Xuanbei!"

"what?"

Everyone looks at Gongsun.

Gongsun explained, "The real abbot Xuanbei should be around 60 years old, but the ring marks on the head of this abbot Xuanbei only look like 20 years old!"

"Can you see this?" Everyone was curious.

Gongsun smiled, "I often accompany the concubine to study Buddhism. There are no less than dozens of eminent monks in my family. The old monk has practiced for five or sixty years, and the ring marks will turn brownish-yellow, and the color is getting lighter and lighter! The new monk is so bright red. Ranging from brown to red... The ring mark of Abbot Xuan Bei looks like it's at most 60 years old!"

Everyone looked at each other.

"Then... what about the one who died in the well?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Gongsun smiled slightly, "The other party was only 30 or [-] years old when he died. Based on his age, he shouldn't be Abbot Xuanbei either!"

Everyone frowned—where did the real abbot Xuan Bei go?There is no reason to change the abbot, and the heavy monk didn't find out!

"Alas..." Pang Yu sighed, "There is no way to investigate this matter. Think about it, the monk tattooed on his arm is the woman of the late emperor! It is likely that there is adultery or something. In order to preserve the reputation of the royal family, we must It's for him to die. We'd better know as little as possible!"

Bao Yan looked at him, "You are quite good at learning your father's knowledge of being wise and protecting one's life."

"Tsk." Pang Yu shook his head, "You really don't understand my brother-in-law."

Everyone was taken aback, was Pang Yu talking about Zhao Zhen?

Pang Yu shook his head, went to sit aside on the ponytail, and continued to work on the things he was busy with these days.

"Oh." Bao Yan pushed him and asked, "What have you been doing these days?"

Pang Yu grinned, "Make a rotating octagonal bell for Xiangxiang and hang it on the bedside!"

"Why?" Bao Yan didn't quite understand.

"If a little baby lies down without anything moving to look at, I'm afraid her eyes won't look good! In addition, an octagonal bell is hung, and a rope is tied to her arms or feet. She can move and move. After pressing it, she will watch the sound. Oh, the ringing bells are fun, fun, fun!"

Everyone looked at him in surprise, "How do you know?"

"I've seen people use it before!" Pang Yu smiled, "I learned the craft on purpose!"

Seeing that he was very happy, Bao Yan said, "Can't you let the servants do this kind of thing? Why do you do it yourself?"

"Cut, you don't understand!" Pang Yu pouted, "Some things are interesting only if you do them yourself! When she grows up, when she sees the octagonal bell, she remembers that her uncle helped her do it bit by bit. ? I didn't hurt her for nothing, did I?"

Pang Yu just said it casually, but Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang, Zhao Pu and Gongsun were all taken aback.The four of them looked at each other, and they all suddenly realized.

Seeing everyone's expressions, Xiao Baofu was puzzled, "What's wrong?"

Zhao Pu looked at the other three people, "Some things are interesting only if you do them yourself!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also laughed, and Gongsun looked at Pang Yu who was busy making octagonal bells, "An Lehou."

"Huh?" Pang Yu looked up at the crowd.

Seeing Gongsun smiling at him, "Can I ask you a favor?"

Pang Yu opened his mouth wide, and felt a cold wind blowing from behind, swallowed... It's over, being so polite must be a bad thing!

Sure enough, half an hour later, Pang Yu was dressed like a dandy in a fancy dress, looking at the crowd with a mournful face, "Why are you wearing this?"

Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, "Please help!"

"What help?" Pang Yu was nervous.

"Make a big fuss in the Qin Pavilion and pester Mrs. Xin!" As soon as Zhan Zhao said that, everyone saw that Pang Yu opened his mouth wide, and his jaw almost fell off.

"Wh... what?!" Pang Yu turned around and was about to run, but Zhao Puti slipped the back of his neck and grabbed him by the collar, "Don't go, only you can do this job!"

"I don't!" Pang Yu was so anxious that he was about to cry, "I don't want to die, she is the woman my brother-in-law likes."

Zhan Zhao and the others all laughed, and said that they still knew your brother-in-law, but it was far behind, "This effect is what I want!"

"I don't want it, I have three generations of the Pang family!" Pang Yu struggled, but Bai Yutang said calmly, "This method can save your sister and your niece."

……

As soon as the words fell, Pang Yu became quiet, and turned to look at the crowd, "What do you mean?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang smiled slightly, "We want you to pester Mrs. Luo Xin every day, so that she can't escape at all, and can't go out alone!"

"Uh..." Pang Yu scratched his head.

"Don't worry." Zhao Pu said, "I will have eight shadow guards watching you for twelve hours a day! As long as you see her, you will make a fuss, there will be no danger!"

Pang Yu frowned slightly, sat at the stone table and looked at the crowd, and asked after a while, "You mean, Mrs. Luo Xin wants to harm my sister and Xiangxiang?"

Everyone nodded.

"Because you want to snatch the imperial concubine's seat?" Pang Yu continued to ask.

Everyone thought about it, and smiled noncommittally—naturally it was not that simple.

Pang Yu frowned, "My brother-in-law won't behead me, will he?"

"You will be punished for flirting with a good woman, but an infatuated man is not against the law!" Gongsun smiled slightly, "What we want you to do is to force Mrs. Luo Xin so that she will not have a moment of peace!"

Pang Yu lowered his head and thought for a while, then slapped his thigh for the last time, "It's up to me!" After speaking, he looked at the crowd nervously, "You won't hurt me, will you?"

"No." Zhan Zhao and the others nodded, "Mistakes are bound to happen in the midst of being busy, and now we don't have much time to leave the Jade Appreciation Conference. Once we are busy and messed up, troubles are bound to happen! This is the best way to do it when there is no other way. , forcing the dog to jump over the wall, and then he can know which wall is the shortest."

"That's it." Pang Yu touched his head and nodded, "Okay, but I have one condition."

"Speak!" Zhao Pu laughed.

Pang Yu was silent for a while, then pointed at Bao Yan, "He wants to make trouble with me!"

Everyone was taken aback, but Bai Yutang nodded, "That's a good idea, two people making a fight is more interesting than one!"

"Hey." Pang Yu put his hand on Bao Yan's shoulder, who was stunned, "The case of your fifth sister is inextricably linked with this case now. If you want to have an autumn trial, you can do your best!"

Bao Yan was stunned for a long time, then squinted his eyes and asked, "You mean, you put on a bad face and I have a bad face, and we make a fuss that makes Mrs. Luo Xin unable to do things, and then one by one messes up and one by one stops it, so we won't fall into trouble." Tongue?"

Everyone nodded in satisfaction—as expected of Mr. Bao's son, he is smart enough!

After Pang Yu and Bao Yan studied the countermeasures, they went out to make a big fuss in Luoxin Pavilion. Yingweimen was responsible for keeping an eye on him to see where Mrs. Luoxin was.

Once they saw the person, the two went up, Pang Yu showed his hospitality, Bao Yan stopped, Zhan Zhao and others continued to discuss countermeasures in Kaifeng.

"Bastard!"

In one afternoon, Bao Yan and Pang Yu quarreled twice in Luoxin Pavilion, but Zhao Zhen didn't come after returning to the palace today.

"What does Pang Yu want?" Mrs. Luo Xin flipped the table in the room.

"Sister." A woman in white tugged Mrs. Luo Xin, "I'll kill him!"

"No!" Luo Xin stopped, "He lives in Kaifeng Mansion now, if he dies here, Bao Zheng will definitely investigate, if he finds something, our previous efforts will not be wasted!"

"But seeing that we can act tonight, why are they making such a fuss?" The woman stomped her foot.

"Something's wrong." Mrs. Luo Xin sat at the table, "It's impossible for Pang Yu not to know about my relationship with the emperor, why is he still so bold?"

"Sister!" the woman said dissatisfiedly, "I think that Pang Yu doesn't like you, but wants to make you look bad. Think about it, he must be worried that you will compete with his sister! To be honest, if Taishi Pang's family didn't Concubine Pang has long since fallen. Once Concubine Pang falls out of favor, wouldn’t it be the lives of their father and son?!”

Mrs. Luo Xin lowered her head and frowned, "I have to think of an idea!"

"Then tonight..."

"Cancel it for now, don't worry!" Luo Xin shook her head worriedly, "I always feel that something is wrong!"

……

It was getting dark soon, the moon and stars were sparse, in the courtyard of Kaifeng Mansion.

"Oh, I'm so exhausted." Pang Yu lay on the bed, "I used to rob men and women every day. I haven't done this for a long time. How come I'm so tired after doing it once today!"

Bao Yan rubbed his ankle, "You still said, I'm tired too?!"

During the day, Pang Yu went to make trouble, and at night, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were in charge of leading a few shadow guards to guard Luoxin Pavilion and Yajingdian, and Zhao Pu strengthened the guards in the palace.The two parties took turns, using the most "stupid" method to stare at Luo Xin.

But Bao Zheng and Pang Ji persuaded Abbot Xuan Bei every day to let him speak as soon as possible.

In this way, for three days, Mrs. Luo Xin never left the Qin Pavilion.

At this time, she was already extremely anxious!

"Why hasn't Zhao Zhen come for three days?" Mrs. Luo Xin frowned.

"Sister, you don't know. Zhao Zhen is too busy looking at beauties to choose concubines these days."

"Choose a concubine?" Luo Xin sneered, "Sure enough, the Zhao family doesn't have a good man!"

"Then shall we still act?" The woman in white said impatiently, "I think Zhao Zhen likes the new and dislikes the old. I guess he will forget about you in a few days, and then all previous efforts will be for naught!"

Luo Xin pondered for a while, "No matter what tonight, I have to get things done!"

"Yeah!" The woman in white walked away happily.

That night...

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang once again camped on the roof near Luoxin Pavilion.

In the past few days, the two of them have been upside down day and night, Bai Yutang is a bit lazy, but Zhan Zhao has a cat nature, when it is dark, his eyes are very bright, and he pulls the sleepy Bai Yutang beside him. , "Rat, watch out!"

Bai Yutang lacked interest, "This method is indeed a good one, because one day it will succeed, and the other party will definitely be unable to stand it. But it is also a stupid method. If the other party is not in a hurry, we might have to stay for a year Half a load."

"Shh!"

Just as he was talking, Zhan Zhao suddenly covered his mouth with his hand, signaling——look!

Zhan Zhao followed the direction of his finger and forgot about the past, and saw a few people floating out from the window of Luoxin Pavilion, Mrs. Luoxin's boudoir.

At first glance, these people seem to have extraordinary lightness skills, and they are all women!

"That seems to be Fifth Sister." Bai Yutang pointed to one of them and said, "The back looks very similar."

Zhan Zhao nodded, "Where are they going?"

"The direction doesn't look like the imperial palace!" Bai Yutang was also puzzled.

After two steps, I found that the direction of the black shadow was - Faguang Temple!

The two looked at each other, and Bai Yutang pulled Zhan Zhao lightly, "Mao'er, there doesn't seem to be Mrs. Luo Xin here!"

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, "Could it be that they split up?"

At this time, I only saw the back door of Luoxin Pavilion open, Mrs. Luoxin came out slowly, got on the sedan chair, and the bearer carried the sedan chair to the street of Kaifeng Mansion at night.

"Different directions!" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were a little embarrassed.

At this time, Zhe Ying and Zi Ying made gestures to the two of them, indicating that...they went to Faguang Temple and asked them to follow Mrs. Luo Xin.

The two of them understood, and followed Mrs. Luo Xin's sedan chair, and found that she was not going to the palace either.

Bai Yutang was slightly taken aback, and whispered to Zhan Zhao next to him, "She seems to be going to Lu Tiexin's iron head!"

Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "Why did she go to Iron Master?"

Bai Yutang shook his head, just as he was about to speak, he heard the sound of horseshoes on the street.

The sound was weird, as if the horse's hoof was wrapped in cotton cloth, and it was hard to tell if you didn't listen carefully.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other. They had seen each other a lot in the rivers and lakes. This is a trick bandits and bandits often use when they attack convoys... Is there a horse team coming?

Just as he was wondering, he saw Mrs. Luo Xin's sedan chair turning into an alley not far in front of Tie Zhangmen.

After a while, several tall horses appeared in the mist of Kaifeng night.

Immediately, several people were tall and strong. The one in the front was stubble-faced, tough and capable, holding a long saber in his hand. After entering the yard, he got off his horse and knelt down in front of Mrs. Luo Xin, "My lord!"

"All ready?" Luo Xin asked coldly, at this moment, she seemed to have changed.

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang couldn't help frowning, which side of this woman is her true face?

"Yes!" The big man nodded, looking very respectful.

"Lu Tiexin is inside, but it's a pity that Luo Qingshan's scoundrel escaped to Kaifeng Mansion." Luo Xin smiled, "Leave him alone for now, you go and get Lu Tiexin's head first, and put this in his home!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang took a closer look under the moonlight, and saw that what Mrs. Luo Xin gave was a burden, which looked heavy.

The man took the burden and took the people away.

Zhan Zhao didn't know the big guy, so he turned to ask Bai Yutang, but he saw that he was puzzled and looked at the big man who was running towards the iron master in the distance in shock.

Sighing lightly, Zhan Zhao smiled, "Could he be...Xie Jiutian?"

Bai Yutang nodded helplessly, "That's him."