treacherous world

"Is it Qiu Langxing who sold pens to those talented men who committed suicide?" Bao Yan looked at the banknotes, "Why? Does this person have any background?"

Everyone simply ordered a table of good food in the private room of Taibaiju, and sat down to discuss while eating.

When the food was in their mouths, everyone subconsciously looked at Zhan Zhao when they heard Bao Yan's words.

Zhan Zhao sighed softly, "Speaking of which, I don't know him very well either...but I have played with him since childhood, so I don't think there is anything wrong with him."

"It might just be a coincidence." Pang Yu shrugged, "If you like to gamble, you might have many different bank notes."

"Gambling..." Zhan Zhao immediately remembered, "Yes! That kid Qiu Langxing likes to gamble very much, and every time he gambles, he will win."

Bai Yutang thought for a while, then looked aside, and saw that the old man was concentrating on his food.

"Could it be that... the person who sold pens to those scholars, gambled money with Qiu Langxing, and then lost all the money to him?"

Everyone looked at Bai Yutang, "It's not impossible."

"what!"

When everyone said this, Pang Yu suddenly yelled and slapped the table.

Bao Yan almost choked to death on a fish ball, looking at him, "Why are you so surprised?"

"If that's the case, I know where to find that person!"

Bai Yutang glanced at the old man again, saw Qi Siren nodded, and continued to eat the next dish.

Zhan Zhao picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of duck meat for the younger brother beside him, and asked, "Longxing Casino, right?"

"Oh? Brother Zhan, would you like this?" Pang Yu asked Zhan Zhao very interestedly.

Zhan Zhao laughed, "I'm in charge of the law and order of Kaifeng Mansion. Where there is a gambling house, I naturally know the rules of the gambling house."

"That's true." Pang Yu nodded.

"Is there any difference in that casino?" Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao.

"Oh, it's really special! Longxin Gambling House was opened by Shen Longxing. In all gambling houses in the world, gamblers gamble with dealers, so nine out of ten bets lose. It’s still unavoidable to spit it out!” Zhan Zhao explained to everyone, “However, this Longxing Gambling House is for gamblers to gamble with gamblers. Gambling funds of more than 500 taels can enter the door, and a gamble requires 100 taels to the casino, no matter whether you win or lose, so there are only masters."

"Oh..." Bao Yan suddenly realized, "So, it is indeed possible to gamble in that gambling house."

"Shen Longxing, are you the owner of Tianlong Villa?" Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao.

"Yes."

Bai Yutang frowned and said nothing.

Zhan Zhao raised his lips, "Why, is there a festival?"

Bai Yutang laughed, "I have nothing to do with him, but Dong Xu has a problem with him."

"I know!" Pang Yu clapped his hands, "Dong Xu must have seduced the wife of Lord Shen!"

Zhan Zhao frowned, and asked Bai Yutang, "No way, Shen Longxing's son is in his 20s!"

Bai Yutang rubbed his nose in embarrassment, "Of course it's impossible for a bad wife... Aren't those aunts and wives used to hook up?"

Zhan Zhao sighed, "It's really not easy for Dong Xu to live to this day."

Bai Yutang was also helpless.

"As for Longxing Casino, we can only provide one clue, because the suspicion of Qiu Langxing can't be completely ruled out, right?" Bao Yan just finished speaking, and saw a person coming from the window, squatting on the window sill, " It really is here."

When everyone looked at it, they saw that it was Ziying. He waved to everyone as a greeting, and said to the downstairs, "here!"

Not long after, everyone heard footsteps downstairs.

"Ah!" The fourth son suddenly seemed to remember something, threw the chopsticks and got into Zhan Zhao's arms.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other, then looked down at the fourth son who was hiding. Not long after, they heard the door being kicked open with a "bang".

"Little four!" Gongsun rushed in hastily.

The fourth son poked his head out from Zhan Zhao's creaking hole, "Daddy."

"Did you eat sweets?"

The fourth son wiped the powdered sugar from the corner of his mouth, and hid behind Zhan Zhao's arm.

"What's the matter?" Zhan Zhao asked while hiding the fourth son, thinking why Gongsun was so fierce, he wouldn't let him eat any candies.

"He can't eat candy today, and he had a toothache last night." Gongsun came over and sat down, "reached out to grab the fourth son, and the fourth son was stuffed by Zhan Zhao to Bai Yutang."

Bai Yutang hid the fourth son behind his back, and said to Gongsun, "Zhan Zhao bought the candied haws for him. The fourth son is very good, and said he can't eat candy."

Gongsun narrowed his eyes to look at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao stared at Bai Yutang with his eyes wide open——You rat, you framed me!

Bai Yutang signaled Zhan Zhao to look at the poor fourth son with his eyes, Zhan Zhao took a deep breath, turned his face to smile at Gongsun, "Yeah... I bought it for him, don't you know he can't eat candy. "

Gongsun looked up at the sky, knowing that the two were protecting the fourth son, he stretched out his hand to pinch the cheek of the fourth son, "You, luckily you didn't eat that bunch of candied haws just now!"

Zhan Zhao was stunned.

The fourth son also touched his head. Just now, in order to save the injured old man, he did give the candied haws that Zhan Zhao gave to the child next to him, but how did dad know?

"It's very evil this morning. I have treated sixteen children!" Gongsun said seriously, "All the children were poisoned by a certain kind of poison. Although the amount was small, they all vomited and diarrhea! I couldn't find the root cause, but just now The kid whose grandpa fell fainted also started to get sick when he entered Kaifeng Mansion, I just found out that he was holding a bunch of candied haws in his hand, let me have a test..."

As he spoke, Gongsun reached out and took out a white cloth bag from his bosom, opened it for everyone to see, and saw two hawthorns cut open.

"The sugar coating on the outside is not poisonous, but the poison is inside the hawthorn. Look at the color of the hawthorn." Gongsun pointed at the hawthorn for everyone to see.

"The color seems to be yellower than ordinary hawthorns!" Bao Yan also leaned over and stared at it.

Gongsun took out a silver needle and inserted it into the hawthorn meat. After a while, he pulled it out and showed it to everyone, only to see a thin layer of black on the tip of the needle.

"Who is so wicked!" Zhan Zhao immediately became anxious, "How many children will be poisoned by harming children like this? It's really heart-wrenching!"

"That candied haws seller has a problem!" Pang Yu was also annoyed, "Who did the kids in Kaifeng Mansion provoke to be so poisonous?!"

"Don't worry!" Gongsun waved his hand, "Listen to me!"

Everyone stopped talking, waiting for Gongsun to explain in detail.

"I asked Zhao Pu to find all the poisoned children, and found that they all ate candied haws. Then, according to the place they said they bought candied haws, I arrested the person who sold them." Gongsun drank his saliva, "Guess what?"

Everyone shook their heads.

"I caught a dozen of them!" Gongsun couldn't laugh or cry, "I checked all their candied haws! I found that almost all the hawthorns were poisonous, but the candied haws sellers didn't know about it. So the candied haws sellers took us to find the hawthorns they bought." The place is at the head of an orchard on the western outskirts of the city. These hawthorns were freshly picked by the fruit farmers this morning, and they did not know that they were poisonous. They took me to see the hawthorn trees, and I found that several of them were poisonous. There is a small stream flowing near these trees, I checked the stream and found that the poison is in the stream!"

Zhan Zhao and others couldn't help frowning, "Someone poisoned the stream?"

Gongsun waved his hand again, "Actually, the stream water contains very little poison, which has no effect on people at all. It's just that the hawthorn tree absorbs water every day and stores a lot of poison in the fruit, which makes people poisoned."

"Then these poisons were not intentionally placed, but the stream water was unintentionally brought out from somewhere?" Bao Yan asked.

"I think so too. It may be that someone upstream has used the stream water to clean the poison refining vessel or something else, so the diluted venom was brought out by the stream water!"

Everyone nodded, thinking it was very possible.

"What kind of poison is that?" Bai Yutang asked.

"That's the point." Gongsun said, "This poison is called Bi'an."

"The other shore?" Everyone heard it for the first time, and the name of the poison was quite poetic.

"Bian'an is a kind of poison and a kind of medicinal material. It is extracted from the root ball of the Bi'an flower." Gongsun said, and took out another paper bag, which contained the ghost champion that Dong Xu had given to Bai Yutang before. The writing brush, and Liu Ming's murder weapon when he committed suicide in the morning, has a writing brush with the word "Cen".

"I've checked it." Gongsun looked at the crowd, "There are a lot of Bi'an on the pens used by these great talents! It may be that the pen barrel and bristle have been soaked in Bi'an venom. When writing, the poison It was inhaled by someone, which caused those scholars to have hallucinations, and then they committed suicide!"

"So it's really poisonous?" Zhan Zhao frowned, finally got some clues, it can be said that the sky net is restored, I really don't know whether to thank those hawthorn trees, or whether the fourth son is a lucky star.

"Where is the upstream of the stream?" Bai Yutang asked.

"This is what you want to investigate." Gongsun put away his things, "I only know that the other shore flower is very beautiful, and its rhizome can be used as medicine, but it is also highly poisonous. After drying, it can be used with other medicines to cure the stomach. It can be used alone and ingested in small quantities. It will make people suffer from vomiting and diarrhea, and it will cause hallucinations when used in large quantities, and the actions will not follow their own orders, and it is extremely poisonous!"

"That is to say, to refine this poison, you need a lot of Bana flowers, right?" Zhan Zhao asked suddenly.

Gongsun nodded.

"Hehe." At this moment, Qi Siren, who had been silent all this time, suddenly laughed.

Everyone was puzzled.

I heard Bai Yutang say unhurriedly, "The reason why Tianlong Villa is called Tianlong Villa is because the villa is located on a hillside, and the slope is full of red and white flowers of the other shore. It looks like a giant dragon in the sky, hence the name. And as far as I know, Tianlong Villa is indeed located in the western suburbs outside Kaifeng City, and the orchard at the foot of the mountain also belongs to the villa."

"Come on, little four, eat a steamed stuffed bun." Pang Yu suddenly took a crab roe bun to flatter the little four, "Go back later, how about guessing the test questions for your little mantou brother? You can definitely guess it! If you won the number one prize, let him treat you to steamed buns."

"Hey!" Bao Yan thumped Pang Yu angrily, "Don't teach children bad!"

"Wow, don't attack me, I'm doing it for your own good!" Pang Yu rubbed his arms and pointed at the fourth son while aligning with the four blades, "Old god, are you related to the fourth son by blood? They are so amazing...but That's right, your name is Qi Sile, and he is called Xiao Sizi, both have four!"

"Haha!" The old man twirled his beard and laughed loudly, and nodded to the fourth son, "I've said it all, this kid is rich and powerful, a rare blessing in the world!"

"It seems that we are going to Tianlong Mountain Villa for a walk?" Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang.

"Will it scare the snake?" Gongsun was a little worried, "Zhao Pu left a lot of shadow guards there to watch secretly, we'd better test it out."

"Indeed, if the other party destroys the evidence, there is nothing we can do about it." Bai Yutang thought for a while, then suddenly smiled, "It seems that Dong Xu has to act!"

"Why do you ask him?" Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang.

"Go find him a good friend." Bai Yutang smirked at Zhan Zhao, "It's convenient to know all over the world, but Shen Longxing has a bad temper, we have to help that lecherous scholar!"

Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Then there will be a good show tonight!"

After discussing it with everyone, they approached Dong Xu and told him that Dong Xu wanted to find out the murderer of the Ximen medicine, so he agreed without hesitation.

"Go back to Kaifeng Mansion to discuss with the adults first." Zhan Zhao said, patted Pang Yu and Bao Yan who were excited, "By the way, I will send you two back too."

"I also want to watch the excitement." Pang Yu loved to watch this kind of "thieves, women, adulterers, prostitutes, dogs and men" the most in his life, and he was anxious not to let him go.

Zhan Zhao patted him on the shoulder, "Young Master, don't forget that two days ago you tested bloody..."

"Hey!" Pang Yu raised his hand to stop Zhan Zhao from finishing, "Okay, I'm not going anywhere, let's go home and study with Mantou!"

Bao Yan rolled his eyes at him, "Your home seems to be in the Grand Master's Mansion!"

Pang Yu scratched his head, "Oh, sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes, are brothers all over the world! Your family is my family, and my father is your father."

"Ah bah!" Bao Yan urged him hard, inside Kaifeng Mansion and Grand Master's Mansion, Bao Zheng and Pang Ji sneezed loudly unconsciously, his whole body felt cold and covered in goose skin.

After a full meal, everyone left Taibai Residence and returned to Kaifeng Mansion, but they encountered excitement on the way, and saw many people gathered around to watch the excitement.

"What happened?" Zhan Zhao looked up.

Seeing Ziying and Zheying in the crowd, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang squeezed in and patted them, "Hey, what are you two looking at?"

"Ouyang is fighting with someone!" Ziying looked excited.

"Ouyang Shaozheng?" Zhan Zhao was curious, "With whom?"

"One scholar, several Jianghu people." Ziying pointed.

"Hey, are you brothers? There are so many people beating one and you don't help?" Zhan Zhao rolled up his sleeves and wanted to go in to "maintain law and order".

After squeezing into the crowd, I realized that it was a one-on-one fight, not a gang fight.

I saw Ouyang Shaozheng fighting with a man dressed as a scholar, and beside him were three injured Jianghu people, all of whom were injured by Huo Qilin.But the one who is facing Ouyang Shaozheng now is none other than Qiu Langxing, who just lost money and is very suspicious.

"Cat." Bai Yutang stood there with a knife in both hands and looked at Zhan Zhao, "Aren't you going to maintain law and order?"

"What's the matter with them?" Zhan Zhao was a little puzzled, the two couldn't fight each other, so why did they start fighting?

"Those people from the rivers and lakes caused troubles and asked Ouyang to bump into them, and they started fighting. The scholar suddenly came to persuade him to fight. Ouyang insisted that he was pretending to be a ghost, and said that he would take him to the Kaifeng mansion to meet the officials, saying that he was related to the fire in the posthouse. !"

As soon as Bai Yutang heard the ghost, he glanced at Zhan Zhao, "Ouyang told you that you saw a ghost at the fire scene that day, right?" Zhan Zhao nodded, "Yeah...why not?"

Bai Yutang thought for a while, then jumped forward.

Ouyang Shaozheng and Qiu Langxing were fighting, after more than 30 moves, they felt that the opponent's skill was not bad.At this moment, a white shadow was seen crossing into the middle.

Ouyang Shaozheng was taken aback... Qiu Langxing was blocked by Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang fought with Qiu Langxing, but he didn't draw his saber, he just pressed on every step of the way.Qiu Langxing was also surprised to see Bai Yutang coming.He originally wanted to stop fighting, but Bai Yutang didn't seem to want to persuade him to fight, nor did he seem to want to subdue him, but to use tricks to force him to fight back.

"Hey, Bai Yutang, why did you grab Lao Tzu's fight?" Ouyang Shaozheng was a little dissatisfied, but was pulled by Zhan Zhao behind him.

When he turned his head, Zhan Zhao shook his head slightly.Ouyang had no choice but to stand there watching, and saw that Zhao Pu also came ahead at some time, watching the two of them unraveling their moves with relish.

After dismantling about thirty moves, Bai Yutang withdrew his moves and stopped fighting him.

Qiu Langxing was in a mess just now, and he used all his housekeeping skills, but he was beaten for a long time, but it didn't hurt, it was as if he hadn't been beaten, he was a little dazed.

Many of the onlookers were Jianghu people, watching the excitement with low hands, and felt that Qiu Langxing's kung fu was really good, and he had matched so many moves with Bai Yutang.Only a few top masters like Zhan Zhao, Zhao Pu, Ouyang knew that... Bai Yutang was feeding Qiu Langxing just now.

The so-called feeding move is to send a move to the opponent at an extremely fast speed, forcing the opponent to use all his strength to defend. The opponent unknowingly uses all his kung fu without knowing what he is fighting.This is the best way to try out the origin of the opponent's martial art and the origin of kung fu.But it's not easy to do it, you have to be a master of kung fu to reach the pinnacle.

"Ha ha."

Zhan Zhao heard Qi Sile laugh beside him, "This kid is really cute. If I met him 15 years ago, I would definitely accept him as an apprentice."

Zhan Zhao smiled, and pointed to the front, "The ready-made good materials are waiting to be cultivated, the old man is willing to teach you."

The old man was taken aback, and looked in the direction of his finger, and saw Zhao Pu beside him, Xiao Liang was looking up and asked him, "Master, was that brother Bai just a trick?"

Zhao Pu was taken aback, Xiao Liang had always been herdsmen, yet he knew such profound things?So he folded his arms and asked him, "How do you know?"

"I read it in the book. Every move of Big Brother Bai is critical to him, but he doesn't kill him. He moves so fast! Thirty moves, none of which are useless!" Xiao Liang asked seriously, "What about that?" Which sect is the scholar's kung fu? I've never seen it before, his inner strength and mind are different from those of the Central Plains martial arts."

Zhao Pu scratched his head, he didn't know the martial arts methods, but he knew that this scholar was definitely not simple, not to mention, if it wasn't for Bai Yutang trying him out, Ouyang might suffer even more.

"The Crazy Faction of the Western Regions." Bai Yutang retreated, seeming to have heard Xiao Liang's question, and helped Zhao Pu answer him.

Chief Qiu Lang sighed and looked at Bai Yutang, "Brother Bai is equally outstanding in literature and martial arts, I've seen it taught."

Zhan Zhao couldn't help but frown—the dementia of the Western Regions is not a well-known and upright sect. When did Qiu Langxing get to know the demented sect and practice evil skills?

"Brother Bai has proved within half a day that both literary talent and martial arts are superior to mine." Qiu Langxing looked at Bai Yutang with a smile, "Congratulations."

Bai Yutang held the knife behind his back, "Will it take half a day?"

Qiu Langxing laughed dryly.

Zhan Zhao walked up a few steps and asked, "Brother Qiu, why are there fights on the street?"

Qiu Langxing looked at the gangsters who had been tied up, then at Ouyang Shaozheng and said, "Oh, I came to try to persuade the fight, but the official insisted that I was pretending to be a ghost, and wanted to arrest me to see the official. You I also know that if he speaks official words, of course I will resist him when he looks fierce."

Zhao Pu moved closer to Ouyang Shaozheng, "What's going on?"

Ouyang opened his mouth, stared at Qiu Langxing carefully for a long time, and felt that he was right, so he pulled Zhan Zhao back, "Here, do you still remember the night when the post house caught fire and I told you that I saw a ghost?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, "You said you saw someone hang himself in the study, and then disappeared after a burst of fire."

"Yes, it's him!" Ouyang Shaozheng pointed at Qiu Langxing, "I'm absolutely right!"

"Heh." Qiu Langxing shook his head, with an expression of disbelief, "I am a living person! This lord is too good at joking!"

"I know you're alive, but it must be you that night! You're either pretending to be a ghost, or the person who set fire, and the last time you have something to do with the case. It's okay if I ask you to ask questions in Kaifeng mansion?"

"A joke." Qiu Langxing sneered, "I said I was not, you said I was one-sided, and you said I was, and you were one-sided. Why should no one believe what I say, but others will believe what you say? Isn't that true?" Just two official words? You are so arrogant, I don't know if I will be tortured if I meet an official with you!"

Ouyang rolled his eyes, and said in his heart that Zhao Pu was right to hate scholars, his lips are so cheap!

"How could the Kaifeng mansion be tortured into a trick?" Bao Yan was displeased.

Qiu Langxing sighed, and cupped his hands towards Zhan Zhao, "Brother Zhan, I still have work to do, and I have to take the autumn exam in a few days, so I won't talk about it, so I leave."

"Alas!" Ouyang Shaozheng wanted to chase after him, but Zhao Pra held his collar, "Forget it, it's hard to explain why a good soldier meets a sour scholar, and a scholar is very lethal!" Before he finished speaking, He just received a blank stare from Gongsun Fei.

"Let's go back to Kaifeng mansion first." Zhao Pu dragged Ouyang back, and the spectators also dispersed.

Zhan Zhao took two steps forward, rubbed Bai Yutang's arm, and asked softly, "What did you take from him just now?"

Bai Yutang looked at him.

Zhan Zhao smirked, "Okay, do you think you can hide it from me?" He said, pointing to his own eyes, "A cat's eyes are for catching mice!"

Bai Yutang had no choice but to stretch out the hand behind his back to Zhan Zhao's eyes, and let him see what was in his palm.

Zhan Zhao saw that it was a piece of red petals.

"It fell from Qiu Langxing's hair when we fought just now," Bai Yutang said.

"It's the petals of the other side flower." Gongsun also saw it.

"Is he also related to Tianlong Villa?" Zhan Zhao frowned.

"Not necessarily." Bai Yutang smiled slightly, "This person has a meticulous mind, so you can't just look at the surface, you have to be careful."

"Yes, yes!" Zhan Zhao nodded earnestly, and reached out to pat Bai Yutang's shoulder, "So, I hate people with too many intestines! I like straight intestines the most! Even if it's cloudy or sunny, it's written in The kind on your face." After finishing speaking, he happily walked forward to discuss the damn thing with Ouyang Shaozheng.

As Bai Yutang walked behind, he felt that his ears were empty and he could not hear other sounds at all, only his heart was pounding.After a long time, I felt the fourth son tugging at the hem of his clothes, "Baibai, your face is so red, are you uncomfortable?"

"Ah?" Bai Yutang came back to his senses, lowered his head and coughed to relieve the embarrassment, raised his eyes, and subconsciously looked at Zhan Zhao in front of him.

Seeing that Zhan Zhao was also looking back, his eyes were intertwined, Zhan Zhao quickly retracted his gaze and pretended not to see it, but Bai Yutang's gaze fell on the red ear of the cat, and he couldn't turn his gaze away.

The fourth son grabbed Bai Yutang's clothes and looked up and smiled, feeling inexplicably that Bai Bai's eyes are brighter and more beautiful today than ever before!