treacherous world

Sleeping during the day is always uneasy, the two of them have high internal strength, and when they fall asleep, the sounds outside seem to be getting louder and louder, it may be already noon.

At this time, when the door was pushed open with a "creak", someone ran in, climbed onto the bed and sat beside Zhan Zhao.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Zhan Zhao knew it was the fourth son, and stretched out his arms to hug him.

Sure enough, the fourth son giggled.

Zhan Zhao opened his eyes and looked at him, "Are you back? Are you not going to the palace?"

"Let's go later, there are monsters in the palace, the haunting is so scary!" Xiao Si pouted and whispered.

Bai Yutang also woke up at this time, turned over, looked at the fourth son, "Is that the female ghost in white?"

"Yes!" The fourth son nodded earnestly, "Banban Chen is terrified!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were taken aback when they heard this, and then sat up in a "huh", "Chen Banban is also one of the oldest in the palace, and he has served the late emperor, so he should know more about the previous dynasty! Especially It's about the personal relationship between the first emperor and Yue He, and now it's about Zhao Zhen's safety, why hasn't he mentioned it?"

Suspicious in their hearts, Zhan Zhao pushed Bai Yutang, "Oh, you know him very well, you are also his savior, go ask!"

Bai Yutang shook his head lightly, "I think Zhao Zhen knows so much, part of it was told to him by the old man... But, Zhao Zhen didn't mention him at all!"

Zhan Zhao frowned, "Yeah...why?"

"I've always felt suspicious. If Yue and his wife really committed suicide by jumping into the well, why didn't the first emperor go to retrieve her body? If the love was really deep, let alone falling into the well, the flames would also rush in! How could it be possible for her to be exposed to the dry well for so long?"

"Indeed, it sounds like the former emperor didn't care about her at all... Then why do you want to hide her in the golden house?" Zhan Zhao said, frowning, "Could it be just to listen to the piano?"

"How is it possible, even the princess was born!" Bai Yutang reminded, "Mother and daughter are both dead, but there is no grand burial, nor is it entered in the imperial tomb!"

Zhan Zhao suddenly opened his mouth, leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Guess, could it be something embarrassing for the royal family?"

Bai Yutang squinted his eyes at him, and found it funny that he wanted to say something but couldn't say it, "Cat, what do you want to say?"

Zhan Zhao was a little embarrassed, and patted his head.

The fourth son was teasing Xiaohu, and said, "Jiujiu was talking about this with Daddy just now!"

The two were taken aback, looking at the fourth son, "What did they say?"

"Jiujiu said that Huanghuang's father wore a hat, and then Daddy beat him." The fourth son blinked, "Daddy also said that you must never say it in front of Huanghuang! But what's the use of wearing a hat? I also wear hats in winter of."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, it seemed that Zhao Zhen was hiding some things from that year!Could it be that there was something strange about the deaths of Yue Yue, his wife and the princess, not because of the melancholy of losing a daughter, but because of Hong Xing's affair?

Thinking of this, both of them thought of the tattoo on Abbot Xuanbei's arm, Yue and Madam, they were not obsessed to the extreme, and they would not do such a behavior, would they?Could it be... that Abbot Xuan Bei was the lover of Yue and his wife back then?

If that's the case, then the old monk is amazing - he put a big green hat on the late emperor!

"So, is it possible that Princess Princess was also born to Abbot Xuan Bei, so she was murdered?" Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao waved his hand, "Don't be so direct, be reserved!"

Bai Yutang looked at him dumbfounded, "Are you excited when you hear the secret history of the palace?"

"No way." Zhan Zhao's face was serious, but the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up.

Bai Yutang sighed, indeed, all cats are afraid that the world will not be chaotic!

"But Yue and Madam live in the palace, so it's not easy to see her, isn't it? Let alone having an affair." Zhan Zhao reminded, "Could it be someone who was close to the late emperor?"

"Anyway, it's definitely not a eunuch." Bai Yutang said seriously, and Zhan Zhao rolled his eyes, "It's probably a guard or something!"

"Chen Banban will definitely not say it because of the face of the late emperor, but there must be people who know who the guards next to the late emperor disappeared inexplicably later! Maybe there are some gossips or something."

Thinking of this, the two said together, "Eighth Prince!"

The fourth son was rubbing the little tiger's belly. When he heard it, he raised his head and said, "The eighth son is going to the imperial mausoleum today."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were taken aback, and asked him, "Little Si, how do you know?"

"He just said that." The fourth son replied, "Go with Grandma Huang, go to worship, let Huang Huang change his mind!"

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang felt that the Empress Dowager probably wanted to pay homage to her ancestors so that she could resolve the recent incidents in the palace.For a while, Zhao Zhen fell in love with Qin Ji, and for a while, he was haunted by ghosts, such as the ghosts of the former emperor's concubines.

The fourth son was still sitting on the bed with his arms around Xiaohu, wondering why everyone was so busy recently, so busy that they didn't have time to kiss and hug each other!Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Bai Yutang get up, and something slipped down from the quilt, which seemed to be golden.

The fourth son put Xiaohu down, stretched out his hand to grab a handful of the quilt, and took out a golden decoration with cranes and peacock feathers carved on it.

When Bai Yutang saw that it was the Liu Heling, he didn't say much, and let the fourth son play while he went to change clothes.

"Huh?" The fourth son held the gold medal up to the light and looked at it, rubbing his head, "It looks familiar, where did you see it?"

At this time, Xiao Liang who was anxious to find him outside ran in, "Jin'er, you are here!"

The fourth son raised his head, saw Xiao Liang and waved to him, "Little Liang, have you seen this?"

Zhan Zhao hurriedly asked, "Little Si, have you seen this?"

Bai Yutang also turned around.

"I seem to have seen it before!" The fourth son frowned, "But I can't remember it!"

Xiao Liang ran in, took a look at the Liu Heling in his hand, and smiled, "Oh... I said it looks so familiar, do you still remember that day, we secretly went to see the treasure house where the jade is hidden in the Jade Appreciation Conference? "

"Yeah." Little Four scratched his head, "Is that the room that Little Baozi didn't know, Jiujiu let us sneak in to see?"

"Hidden Jade Pavilion?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "There are heavy guards there, and all the beautiful jades that are going to be exhibited are put there together, so as to prevent theft! Did you see Liu Heling inside?"

Seeing that the fourth son was still confused, Xiao Liang poked his cheek, "Didn't we sneak in and open the boxes one by one?"

"Yes." The fourth son finally remembered, and clapped his hands, "There is an identical piece! But that one is jade, and this one is gold."

"Well, that piece of jade looks very valuable." Xiao Liang held Liu Heling in his hand and looked at it, "The stamps on it are all the same, so it must be made by the same craftsman."

"Really?" Zhan Zhao was pleasantly surprised.

"Whose family is that jade?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Well, the word 'Xue' is written on the box." Xiao Liang thought for a while and asked the fourth son, "Is that right, Jin'er?"

"That's right, it's a Xue character!" The fourth son also nodded.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, and they knew it well... There was no one whose surname was Xue who participated in the Jade Appreciation Conference, and who was able to enter the Cangyu Pavilion—only Beilu General Xue Yixing.

"Do you still remember?" Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang, "There seems to be something wrong with Xue Yixing recently!"

Bai Yutang nodded, he naturally remembered.

"If it's the same thing as Liu Heling, that is to say, it's related to the secret treasure back then, and it's also related to this case." Zhan Zhao sat on the edge of the bed and rubbed his chin, "but Xue Yixing is Weng Guogong's son-in-law. ...Does this jade belong to him? Or does it belong to his father-in-law?"

As he was thinking about it, he heard Bai Yutang say, "Go and try it out and you'll know."

"How to test?" Zhan Zhao became interested.

"Ask Xue Yiling?" Bai Yutang suggested, "She also seems to be the straight-talking type."

Zhan Zhao stared at Bai Yutang covetously, "Are you going to hook up with other girls again? Be careful that the world of prostitution will become the world of obscenity!"

Bai Yutang made him laugh, and reached out to pat Zhan Zhao's shoulder, "Who said I'll go? You go, I'll take care of you."

Zhan Zhao opened his mouth wide. "Huh?" But Bai Yutang's words sounded a little sour.

Looking at Xiao Sizi beside him, he narrowed his eyes.

"Xue Yiling looks a lot more innocent than her brother, why don't you just ask her what jade artifacts she brought out during the Jade Appreciation Conference." Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, emphasizing, "I let you talk, but I didn't let you get close to others."

"It's really sour." Zhan Zhao couldn't laugh or cry, "I think, let's go and see that jade pendant first to be serious! Don't be too serious."

Bai Yutang thought so, so he washed up with Zhan Zhao, and wanted to enter the palace.

But it was better to come early than coincidentally. The two had just washed their faces and prepared to go to the palace after dinner, when they heard a commotion outside.Not long after, Pang Yu ran in with his head in his arms, yelling, "Oh, the hag has beaten someone!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other—what hag?

When Pang Yu came in, he hid behind Zhan Zhao. Looking again, he saw Xue Yiling chasing after him, holding a gnawed bean paste bun in one hand and a broom in the other, chasing and beating Pang Yu.

Just now she wanted to wait for Xue Yixing to come back for dinner, but there was no one there, so she was so hungry that she went to the kitchen to fill her stomach with the steamed stuffed bun.It happened to be seen by Pang Yu and Bao Yan who were looking for food in the kitchen.Pang Yu was the first to laugh at her for being fat, and Xue Yi got angry, so he chased him with a broom in the yard and started fighting.

Bao Yan came in behind, tsk tut and shook his head, lamenting that women nowadays are too irritable!I don't care about all the knowledge and reason!Pang Yu was really right when he said the hag.

"Ahem." Bai Yutang coughed suddenly, looked at Zhan Zhao, "The timing is good."

Seeing what he meant, Zhan Zhao asked Pang Yu and Bao Yan, "Have you eaten yet? We're going to Taibaiju, do you want to go together?"

"Okay, I'm hungry." Pang Yu probed and said, "Let's go to Taibaiju to eat something good, and ignore this crazy girl."

"I haven't eaten yet." Seeing Zhan Zhao saying that he was going to eat, Xue Yiling blurted out, "I'll go too."

"Miss Xue is going too?" Bao Yan asked casually, "Where is General Xue?" He could see that Xue Yixing always looked at his younger sister and didn't let her act alone, probably because this girl is more aggressive and easy to get into trouble.

"My brother has gone out." Xue Yiling seemed unhappy, "I haven't seen anyone these two days."

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang——since he mentioned Shanyin County and Wufen Village last time, Xue Yixing became very strange, as if he was preoccupied, and it seemed that he had something to do with him.

"Then let's go together." Zhan Zhao smiled and invited Xue Yiling very politely

Xue Yiling froze for a moment, then nodded happily, "Okay!", his face was still a little red.

Pang Yu squinted at Zhan Zhao, and said to himself——Isn't it?

Bao Yan also looked at Zhan Zhao - he felt a little awkward, but he couldn't explain why.

Bai Yutang didn't express much, touched his nose and walked out.

When Zhan Zhao saw Bai Yutang touching his nose, he also touched his nose subconsciously. Bai Yutang basically didn't have any special habits, and it was rare to see him touch his nose, uh...it means he is not very comfortable now.

A thought suddenly flashed in Zhan Zhao's head, Bai Yutang was angry and didn't know what his expression was, let alone... I have known him for so long, and I have never seen him get angry.

Thinking of this, Zhan Zhao didn't know what he was thinking, so he chatted enthusiastically with Xue Yiling, while peeking at Bai Yutang, sure enough, he was looking elsewhere, seemingly absent-minded, but his expression was obviously worse than before.

Behind him, Pang Yu folded his arms and probed his brain, feeling that something was wrong. Could it be that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had a quarrel?No, with Zhan Zhao's temper, he should be very dumb, he wouldn't be so clever to use this to provoke Bai Yutang.

In this way, everyone left Kaifeng mansion and rushed to Taibai residence.

"Alas!" The more Pang Yu looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and he wanted to ask Bao Yan beside him what this meant, but after shouting for a long time, Bao Yan ignored him, turned his face, and saw that he was puzzled looking behind.

When Pang Yu turned around, he was also surprised - he saw that the fourth son and Xiao Liang had followed up at some point.

Xiao Liang laughed dryly at the side, while the fourth son had a dark face like never before, puffed up his cheeks and looked ahead, aiming at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, as if sulking.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Pang Yu hurried up a step, tugged at Zhan Zhao's sleeve, "Hey, hero, let me take a step to talk."

Everyone was stunned, Xue Yiling looked at the two curiously, and wanted to follow, Bao Yan came up and pointed to Taibaiju not far in front, "Oh, there seems to be a lot of people in Taibaiju today, let's take a seat first!"

"Oh..." Xue Yiling didn't understand, so he went with Bao Yan to quicken his pace and walked away. Bai Yutang glanced back, and Pang Yu led Zhan Zhao into the side alley.At this moment, he felt someone pulling his sleeves, and looked down... Little Si pouted and raised his face, looking at him.

Bai Yutang reached out and touched his head, "It's okay, we planned to ask Xue Yiling about it."

"Oh!" The fourth son suddenly realized, his face was immediately full of smiles, he happily ran back with Xiao Liang, the two of them had to go to the palace after dinner.

Seeing the two little guys walk away, Bai Yutang sighed softly, and said that it was planned to be a cliché from Xue Yiling, but he was a little blocked in his heart, no wonder.

Zhan Zhao asked Pang Yu to pull him into the alley and asked him, "What are you doing?"

"Hero, what do you mean?" Pang Yu looked out, "Are you interested in Miss Xue? That idiot from the Gongsun family is about to bite."

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood, he waved his hand, "How can I do that?"

"Oh...that's the design!" Pang Yu felt relieved, and went out for a stroll without asking any further questions.Zhan Zhao suddenly grabbed him, "Wait, do me a favor!"

"Huh?" Pang Yu was a little nervous, "Help again?"

Zhan Zhao gave a general overview of the situation. His own rhetoric is not suitable, and Pang Yu is fine. Anyway, he is a thick-skinned rascal, and it is easy to trick the real thing.

Pang Yu didn't think it was difficult, so he just dealt with a silly girl and left it to him!

When the two of them left the alley, they saw Bai Yutang walking in front, and looked back, as if he was lazy and not interested.

Zhan Zhao walked up quickly, and looked at Bai Yutang's expression with his hands behind his back, "Brother Bai?"

"Huh?" Bai Yutang looked at him, seeing that he was cheerful and a little annoying, so he asked, "What advice do you have, Brother Zhan?"

Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, "You don't seem to be in a good mood?"

"No." Bai Yutang shook his head, "I'm in a good mood."

"Really." Zhan Zhao nodded, "That's good."

The two talked and laughed, and walked forward side by side, quite a bit of rivalry.

Pang Yu followed behind and looked at the two of them and shook his head—oh, these two are still struggling, young master, let me help you!