treacherous world

A skeleton of a pregnant sea mermaid... Although Zhan Zhao couldn't see it, it felt weird just by imagining it.

"Does this kind of shark really exist?" Xiao Liang also found it inconceivable.

Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao, "What do you think? Do you take the bones back?"

Zhan Zhao hesitated, "But...the people in the yamen don't seem to want to bring up the matter of the sea mermaid."

"Did you find that the mud is very new?" Bai Yutang asked, "Someone should have buried it just now."

"Really?" Zhan Zhao smiled and moved closer, "I didn't find it."

Bai Yutang was taken aback for a moment, and then remembered that Zhan Zhao's eyesight was inconvenient, and he was a little embarrassed.

"How to deal with this corpse?" Xiao Liang asked, "There is more, could it be a fight?"

"It's possible." Bai Yutang knelt down to look at the skeleton, "Maybe it's a combination of a human's upper body and a fish's lower body."

"Hide it." Zhan Zhao suggested.

……

Afterwards, Bai Yutang went to buy a thin coffin to hide the body in, and got two yamen servants to carry it back to the yamen, and ordered him to guard it strictly.

The yamen servants asked what was in the coffin, but Bai Yutang only said that it was a secret, and that they were investigating another case related to this, so they were not allowed to ask more questions, let alone peek at it.

The suppressors naturally shut up and did not ask, and put this matter aside for the time being.

After finishing the work, Zhan Zhao and others came to a restaurant in the market, asked for a private room, and sat down to discuss.

"This time seems to involve an old case." Zhan Zhao said, "Yesterday there was a walking fish, today there is a sea mermaid, and the horse belly and the monster with a mermaid and a fish body you saw in the ancestral hall... there are quite a lot of fish." ah."

Bai Yutang was playing with a white porcelain cup in his hand, trying to connect the many clues discovered after that, but it was still unsuccessful.

"Little Liangzi, little fourth son." Zhan Zhao called over Xiao Liang and little fourth son who were playing chess at the small coffee table.

The two children looked up at Zhan Zhao, waiting for his orders.

"Sit down, both of you, and talk about the strange things these days."

Bai Yutang knew that he and Zhan Zhao might be fascinated by the authorities and missed the clue. Xiao Liang and Xiao Sizi are two children, so maybe they can discover something else.

"Strange thing..." Xiao Liang scratched his head, "Brother Zhan, this whole thing is quite weird."

"What's weird?" That's what Zhan Zhao wanted to hear, so let him explain in detail.

"Hmm... just now, the sea mermaid and the horse belly murderer poisoned people with dead rats? How could a person swallow a dead rat?"

"Yeah." Little Si nodded beside him.

Afterwards, the two children talked about the weirdness of Qushan County. After hearing this, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang thought it was just weird, but they couldn't find any clues.

While worrying, I heard the sound of gongs and drums downstairs... and Liang Bao's voice, "Master Zhan! Master Zhan, come out quickly!"

Bai Yutang frowned, Zhan Zhao pushed him, "Oh, I'm calling you."

Bai Yutang had no choice but to open the window and look down, and saw Liang Bao leading a group of yamen servants all over the street looking for him, shaking his head, flicking his wrist, and threw out the porcelain cup in his hand.

The porcelain cup was impartial and hit Liang Bao on the shoulder.

Liang Bao looked up... and rushed over quickly.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, "It seems that something happened."

Zhan Zhao nodded and said nothing, in such a hurry to find someone, something must have happened.

"It's amazing, Mr. Zhan!" Liang Bao rushed into the door and pulled Bai Yutang's sleeve.

Bai Yutang avoided it calmly, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"That... a weird person came and said he wanted you to see her, otherwise she would kill all the people in my yamen, and now more than half of the yamen servants have had their acupuncture points tapped."

Bai Yutang slightly raised his eyebrows and asked, "Who?"

"I don't know, it's a girl, she's pretty." Liang Bao said, rubbing his teeth, "That...is not too young, must be in her thirties?"

Bai Yutang leaned against the window and listened, his face expressionless, and he didn't know whether he heard it or not.

"Master Zhan?" Liang Bao reminded.

Bai Yutang glanced back at him, "Go back and tell her that I'll have dinner here and wait half an hour at most."

"Uh……"

Liang Bao barely managed to catch his breath, "But... if she starts to kill, how many innocent servants will die."

Bai Yutang remained calm, "I will avenge you."

"This..." Liang Bao stomped his feet anxiously, "Master Zhan, you can't say that."

Bai Yutang smiled lightly, and when Liang Bao looked dizzy at the smile, he heard him say, "Even if they are government servants, they may not all be innocent, don't you think so?"

... Liang Bao frowned slightly, but immediately recovered the anxious expression just now, pretended not to hear, and said, "Then...Master Zhan, I'll call her quickly." After speaking, he turned around and ran away.

After Liang Bao left, Bai Yutang turned around and asked Zhan Zhao, "How is it?"

"I can't see it, but I can feel that Liang Bao was very surprised when he heard that he might not be innocent." Zhan Zhao shook his head, "It seems to be a little scared."

"It's really not that simple in Qushan County." Bai Yutang reached for the cup on the table again, and then he heard Zhan Zhao ask, "Guess, who is the person who wants to see you?"

"He should be meeting you." Bai Yutang poured another cup of tea, "It's not me."

Zhan Zhao leaned against the table and rested his chin with one hand, "Shall we take a gamble?"

"How to bet?"

"I guess, that person is the lord of the Er Yue Palace. Guess he's a completely irrelevant person." Zhan Zhao tapped the table lightly with his fingers, "The one who loses invites lunch, what do you think?"

"I bet you helped me out." Bai Yutang filled Zhan Zhao's cup of tea, "You cat is too domineering, not humble at all."

Zhan Zhao reached out to touch the cup, but Bai Yutang's hand didn't move away... The warm tea in the pot spilled on Zhan Zhao's fingers.

"It was an accident." Bai Yutang said, holding up Zhan Zhao's hand lightly, took a piece of handkerchief to wipe the water droplets on his hand, and wiped it with his fingers one by one... The hand was just right, neither light nor heavy, Neither slow nor urgent, nor clear.

Zhan Zhao only felt that through the thin veil, Bai Yutang's fingertips were warm...slightly itchy.

Xiao Liang wanted to take a drink from his cup on the table, but Xiao Si hugged him.

Xiao Liang was startled, and looked at the fourth son with a blushing face, wondering what Jin'er was doing?

The fourth son pouted at him to silence him!Don't go there!Feeling just right now do not bother!

No matter how slowly he wiped, Zhan Zhao only had five fingers on one hand, and finally wiped the last one clean. Bai Yutang picked up the full cup of tea, helped Zhan Zhao drink half of it, and handed it back to him.

Zhan Zhao held the teacup in a daze, Bai Yutang did take a sip just now, I don't know which side he sipped...

The room was quiet, and when everyone was silent for reasons they couldn't explain clearly, they heard Shi Shi yawn.

Only then did everyone come to their senses. At the same time, they heard the sound of "creaking" wooden shoes on the stairs, as if someone was coming up.

"Hmm." Zhan Zhao lightly touched the bridge of his tall nose, "I may have guessed wrong."

"Draw a conclusion so early?" Bai Yutang still walked to the window and leaned against the window frame, looking downstairs.

I saw an exquisite sedan chair parked in front of the restaurant. The roof of the sedan chair was red, and there was a picture of a crouching black dragon. The two carrying the sedan chair were strong men in black clothes.

Bai Yutang slightly raised his eyebrows, the black dragon with a red background...is this a member of the Red Dragon Sect?

At this moment, there were three long knocks and two short knocks on the door.

It is impolite to knock on the door like this, it means that the other party will not be responsible for any troubles when the door is opened, and it also threatens that if the door is not opened, there will definitely be three troubles and two troubles.

Zhan Zhao shook his head with a smile, "It seems that I really guessed wrong. It's not the third class, but the lower class."

As soon as the words fell, the door was pushed open with a bang, and a gust of wind brought in... the wooden windows behind Bai Yutang creaked and shook.

The fourth son was pulled aside by Xiao Liang, and sat behind Shitou.

Looking at the door again, there was a woman in black gauze and a red headdress standing there, about 30 years old, with gorgeous makeup, beautiful appearance, but with an evil spirit.

"Oh?"

The woman looked Zhan Zhao who was sitting at the table up and down, and Bai Yutang who was drinking tea by the window without even looking at her, as if he was relieved, "I thought it was someone pretending, but it turned out to be Really, that was too much for me."

Bai Yutang turned his head and glanced at her.

The woman immediately caressed her cheek with one hand, and said with a smile, "Fifth Bai is too generous. Looking at people like this, is it because you want his heart?"

Bai Yutang was a little confused, took a sip of tea and said to Zhan Zhao, "It seems that they are indeed looking for you."

Zhan Zhao raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and asked, "Is the girl from Chilongmen?"

"Mm." This woman is obviously a coquettish appearance, but she wants to hold a piece of handkerchief to lightly cover the corners of her mouth, pretending to be shy, raised her foot to step into the threshold and said in a low voice, "Little girl, her surname is Hong, and her name is Hong Niang. "

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were both taken aback when they heard this—Hong Niang is one of the three masters of the Chilongmen, but this woman has a bad reputation and is a female thief who picks flowers upside down.

"Hehe." Hong Niang looked at Zhan Zhao, "I met Northern Xia Ouyang Chun before, and I thought Zhan Zhao, a southern knight who was as famous as him, must be like him, a powerful and reckless man. So Zhan Hao followed When I mentioned you, I didn't pay much attention to it, if I had known that you were such a handsome person, alas... I missed so many opportunities in vain. "

Hong Niang's words were full of mystery, clearly implying that Zhan Zhao knew Zhan Hao.

Zhan Zhao's heart moved when he first heard his elder brother's name... However, Zhan Zhao knows Zhan Zhao very well. Although his elder brother doesn't know martial arts, he has a very careful mind and hates warriors.Especially the low-level sect of Chilongmen, his elder brother will definitely not mess with it... Could it be that Zhanhao is in their hands?

Zhan Zhao remained calm and asked Hong Niang, "What do you want from me?"

"Oh... I don't mean any harm." Hong Niang waved her hand lightly, "I just heard that a handsome Mr. Zhan came to the yamen, dressed in white, with eyes that could seduce people's souls away. But I clearly remember Mr. Zhan must be blind, so he felt that this Zhan Zhao must be fake, so he went to the yamen to have a look."

Zhan Zhao's doubts arose in his heart, what is the origin of this Hong Niang, and what is the relationship with Zhan Hao, even his own eye injury is clear.

"What do you want to say?" Bai Yutang didn't like Hong Niang's coquettish and coquettish appearance, so he asked.

Hong Niang covered her face and smiled again, "I'm just here to give Zhan Hao a message."

"My elder brother has something for you to bring?" Zhan Zhao frowned.

"Yeah." Hong Niang nodded, "He told you not to look for him anymore."

After hearing this, Zhan Zhao sneered, "Why should I trust you?"

"As for the story, I brought it with me. It's up to you whether you believe it or not... Besides, even if you look for it, you may not be able to find it! Zhan Hao is not as simple as you think..."

Hong Niang's words suddenly stopped at this point, she quickly covered her mouth and patted her chest, "Oh...it's so dangerous, I almost lost my mouth."

Zhan Zhao just felt strange, what happened to the elder brother?Did he hide on purpose, or was he coerced?

"Farewell." Hong Niang turned to leave, but seeing that Zhan Zhao had no intention of stopping her, Bai Yutang did not stop her either.But Hong Niang stopped at the door and turned around, "By the way, your elder brother said, if you have any questions, you can ask them. He told me an answer, saying that he can answer all your questions."

Zhan Zhao was taken aback for a moment, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "Why did Big Brother blind me?"

"Oh." Hong Niang covered her face and smiled again, "Zhan Hao said, do you think that he has liked you as a younger brother since he was a child?"

Zhan Zhao was puzzled, and nodded—the elder brother really loved him.

"He asked me to tell you, in fact, you have been the person he hated the most since he was a child, and what he doesn't want to see the most are your eyes."

Zhan Zhao froze for a moment, although he felt that the words were not very credible, but he was still depressed, how could the eldest brother say such words.

Bai Yutang gave Hong Niang a cold look.

Hong Niang covered her mouth and laughed tremblingly, "Your elder brother, I also told you to keep an eye on your favorite, be careful of being robbed...haha." After finishing speaking, she turned around and left with a smile.

Xiao Liang held his breath, went to close the door, and muttered, "This man is really annoying."

"That's right!" The fourth son also nodded, and ran to Zhan Zhao's side and said, "Meow, don't believe her, she's talking nonsense!"

Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, nodded, and stretched out his hand to gently stroke Xiaosi's head.

Bai Yutang frowned and looked out the window, Hong Niang went straight out of the restaurant, looked up before getting into the sedan chair, smiled at him, boarded the sedan chair and left.

Bai Yutang turned back from the window and walked up to Zhan Zhao, "What do you think?"

Zhan Zhao said nothing.

"Don't be too attached to her words." Bai Yutang whispered, "She should have more lies than the truth."

Zhan Zhao was silent for a long time, then suddenly raised his head, and said seriously, "But when I was dreaming...you were indeed captured by a female hooligan."

……

Bai Yutang managed to catch his breath, looked at Zhan Zhao again, and saw that he was smiling but not smiling, he was actually teasing himself.

Bai Yutang thought for a while and suddenly laughed, raised his leg and stepped on the stool beside Zhan Zhao, put his elbow on his knee and reached out to gently pick his chin, "I was caught by a female hooligan. Someone snatched it, is there any direct contact?"

……

This time it was Zhan Zhao's turn to catch his breath, and in the end he had no choice but to slap Bai Yutang's hand off with a smile, and went to get a cup for tea.

The smile on Zhan Zhao's face fooled Xiao Liang, who was dissatisfied with Hong Niang, and also fooled Xiao Sizi, who was worried about his wild thoughts, but not Bai Yutang, who thought there was something wrong with Zhan Hao.

Zhan Zhao had mixed feelings in his mind at this time, and this weird thing seemed to be developing in an even weirder direction.