treacherous world

Tang Shitou ate a delicious meal at Bai Yutang's house, but he heard that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had cooked rice. The key is that Zhan Zhao didn't refute it at all. Even if he stayed still, he knew it was true, so more depressed.

Seeing that he was made to cry by himself, the fourth son went over to pat him on the back to comfort him.

Tang Shitou was still in a bad mood. The fourth son said that he would introduce Miss Shitou to him. Tang Shitou became a little interested and asked the fourth son, "Is Miss Shitou beautiful?"

"Yeah!" Xiaosi nodded naturally, the stone inside the clawed civet is a great beauty, "Jiujiu said that the stone belongs to pearls, round jade, rich breasts and fat buttocks..."

Before he finished speaking, Pang Yu was startled behind him, Bao Yan jumped on his feet and said, "What did the Ninth Prince do, teaching children such obscene words!"

Tang Shitou wrinkled his nose lightly, "Then...does she have a sweetheart?"

"Yes." The fourth son nodded, "Scissors is her husband."

Tang Shitou sighed, "I wish I had climbed up earlier, all the beauties in the world have been snatched away."

Pang Yu wanted to laugh while listening, and asked him, "Oh, did you give up so soon?"

"Give up what?" Tang Shitou didn't quite understand.

"Give up the girl of your dreams." Pang Yu said, pointing his head back.

In the courtyard of the Bai Mansion, a large area of ​​crabapples blooming beautifully. Zhan Zhao was sitting on the fence, and Bai Yutang was leaning against the fence. The two of them were chatting with each other with teacups in their hands.At this time, there was plenty of sunlight in the courtyard of the White Mansion, and the flowers were blooming well. The two of them, one blue and the other white, matched as well as the blue sky and white clouds.

Tang Shitou saw it, looked down at his dirty outfit, and sighed again.

Seeing that Tang Shitou was sad, Bao Yan and Pang Yu were just about to say a few words to comfort him, when Tang Shitou suddenly raised his head, "To be a man, you have to be able to take care of yourself, since brother Zhan has found his own happiness, Then I'm relieved too!" As he spoke, he stood up abruptly and rushed to Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao.

Tang Shitou said to Bai Yutang very seriously, "You must take good care of Brother Zhan, if one day you empathize with someone else, I won't let you go!"

Bai Yutang was stunned for a long time, then nodded, "Oh..."

"Brother Zhan!" Tang Shitou said to Zhan Zhao again with a sad face, "Then I don't like you anymore! If he moves on in the future, if I haven't fallen in love with someone else, remember to come to me when the time comes. ah!"

Zhan Zhao opened his mouth, smiled and patted him on the shoulder for a while, "No way."

Bai Yutang glanced at Zhan Zhao in surprise, lowered his head and drank tea with a smile, in a good mood.

Tang Shitou looked at Bai Yutang, hesitant to speak.

"What do you want to say?" Bai Yutang is in a very good mood now, and doesn't care about this peach blossom at all...

"Damn you, you're good at it." Tang Shitou said.

The fourth son asked Tang Shitou in puzzlement, "You don't like Meow Meow anymore, why do you still say that Baibai is a nuisance?"

"If you were a rival in love that day, you will be a rival in love for life. To be a man, you have to distinguish between what you love and what you hate, and I will never forget it!" Tang Shitou finished, and then looked Bai Yutang up and down, "But a man can talk about things according to facts! Your kung fu is still better than mine OK."

"Tangtang, you are so masculine!" The fourth son has always admired the kind of heroic man, and hugged his thigh, "The fourth son must be like you!"

Bao Yan and Pang Yu almost burst out laughing.

After Tang Shitou washed and changed his clothes, everyone returned to Kaifeng Mansion. On the way, they saw more and more warriors gathered in Kaifeng Mansion.

Tang Shitou deserves to be a person who can afford it, or he has lived in the deep mountains for too long, so he is relatively naive, and he was quickly attracted by the excitement of Kaifeng Mansion. Can't hold him back.

After the incense in the Zhuangyuan Temple stopped burning, those candidates who were insane and murdered became gentle and casual, and the law and order in Kaifeng improved significantly.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked behind, looking at Bao Yan and Pang Yu, the fourth son and Tang Shitou happily shopping in the front, even the four of them ate candied haws together.

Bai Yutang suddenly laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Zhan Zhao looked at him.

"It's nothing." Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao, "Will I be trapped on an empty island after a while?"

"What are you going to do?" Zhan Zhao took the sweet cake that the fourth son ran back to pass to them, and asked Bai Yutang while biting, "Is it a festival? Didn't you agree to go to Xiaoyao Island to celebrate the birthday of the fourth son during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Just go Trapped Island."

"Well, the second brother said that he wanted to raise some big dogs on the empty island, and bought some mastiffs from the Western Regions. They have just been weaned and are said to be very cute." As soon as Bai Yutang finished speaking, Zhan Zhao immediately cheered up, "Okay Ah! I also wanted to get some mastiffs in Kaifeng Mansion, firstly to watch the house, and secondly, they are very useful when catching criminals.

"Then ask Second Brother to buy a few more, white ones." Bai Yutang replied.

"Yes, white looks good..." Zhan Zhao felt something was wrong after he finished speaking, and when he turned around, he saw Bai Yutang maintaining a smile.

Bao Yan and Pang Yu in the front turned their heads, and saw the two walking and chatting in a relaxed manner, with a relaxed expression, and they matched as they looked.

Pang Yu rubbed Bao Yan with his shoulder, "Seeing that there are no buns, that's a perfect match."

"That's true!" Bao Yan nodded, "I used to think that it was inappropriate for two men to fall in love, but it's acceptable if they cherish each other like Brother Zhan and Brother Bai."

"Tsk tsk." Pang Yu put his hand on Bao Yan's shoulder, "I said, little mantou, you are too nerdy, otherwise, my master will take you to see the world, how about we go shopping in the brothel at night? Find some beautiful Sister to accompany?"

"Ah bah!" Bao Yan kicked Pang Yu, "I won't go to that kind of place with you."

Bao Yan kicked over, of course Pang Yu wanted to dodge, he jumped back and bumped into a cart that happened to be passing behind him.The cart was a one-wheeled cart, and the cart was pushed by a middle-aged man. The cart was full of straw, and it seemed that it was sent to feed the horses.Even the car and grass were knocked over by Pang Yu, and Pang Yu also fell on his back.

Seeing that something was wrong, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang hurried over to help.

Pang Yu covered his head and face with straw, and there was only one thought in his mind—is a bloody disaster coming?

At first, I thought that my head would hit the ground first and I would fall half to death, but I didn't expect that when I landed, I felt that my back was not so hard, as if someone had helped me.

"Pang Yu!" Bao Yan was also frightened, and hurried over to pull the straw.But when I grabbed it, my hands felt sticky, and when I looked up, my hands were covered in blood.

"Ah!" Bao Yan yelled loudly, he had finished his words, shed so much blood that Pang Yu would be seriously injured if he didn't die, his own attack was too severe.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were also shocked when they saw the blood in Bao Yan's hand, logically speaking it shouldn't be so.

Bai Yutang stretched out his hand to push the straw away, but he felt that he had caught something soft and could move...

He looked down and saw several chubby maggots twisting and wriggling in his hand.

Bai Yutang froze for a moment, jumped up to the side, grabbed the kettle from the herbal tea shop, and poured herbal tea on his hand.

Tang Shitou saw blood and maggots in the pile of straw, and clicked his tongue twice, "Are there maggots?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the youngest son beside him ran over, "How could it be possible to grow maggots so quickly!" As he said, he ran up to pull the straw, and he didn't care when he saw the maggots moving around. Bai Yutang frowned and said, "Maggots are not dirty! Fat maggots eat dirty things from wounds, and daddy uses them to save people."

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows at Bai Yutang, who was beside him with a livid face. Bai Yutang shook his hands in embarrassment, but the itchy feeling just now was still there. Don't crawl into his sleeves?As soon as I thought about it, I immediately felt itchy all over.

"Wow!"

When everyone was worried about Pang Yu, he suddenly jumped up. "what is this!"

Seeing that he was still so full of breath when speaking, he should be fine, and everyone heaved a sigh of relief.

But looking at Pang Yu again, he pointed to the pile of dry straw on the ground, and there was a dead body lying in it.

It was the corpse of an adult man in his 20s. He was wearing an ordinary gray cloth robe. His whole body was blue. in the blood.

"Why is there a dead person?" Bao Yan saw Pang Yu jumping and patting the maggots on his body, and asked, "You didn't, did you? The blood on your body..."

"It's not mine." Pang Yu shook his head, "That man's, isn't it just a bloody disaster, really bad luck."

The people on the street naturally also noticed the situation, and they all screamed and watched. Zhan Zhao grabbed the driver who was about to escape, "Take me back to Kaifeng Mansion and explain it to me?"

The coachman waved his hands in panic, pointing at his mouth.

When Zhan Zhao opened his mouth, his tongue seemed disabled... So he was dumb!

The mute hurriedly took out a piece of silver from his pocket, pointed to the back, and gestured.

Tang Shitou frowned, "He's dumb!"

"He said that someone gave him a silver coin and told him to take this cart of straw to Kaifeng Mansion." Bai Yutang said suddenly.

Zhan Zhao looked at him in surprise, "Do you understand what he said?"

"Yes." Bai Yutang nodded, "My sister-in-law has taken in a lot of deaf-mute people to work on Xingkong Island, I can probably understand."

Tang Shitou looked at Bai Yutang very concerned, lowered his head, and sighed again.

"Little Si." Pang Yu saw that the little Sizi stretched out his hand to touch the dead man's neck, the dirt was full of bugs and blood, and he was a little bit reluctant to let go of a beautiful fat baby in it, so he quickly said, "Don't do it, wait a while." Leave it to the officials, you can see that his face is green, he must have been dead for a long time."

"Yes." Bao Yan also nodded.

The fourth son raised his face and looked at the crowd in puzzlement, "He looks like he has been dead for a long time, but why is he still bleeding?"

Everyone was stunned.

Bai Yutang squatted down, checked the consistency of the blood, and found that he could still rub it away. If he had been dead for several days, the blood would have solidified long ago, which is really strange.

At this time, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu in the distance had received the news and brought Gongsun here.

When Gongsun arrived at the corpse, he was stupefied, "It's gone wrong."

"Is that so, Daddy?" The fourth son was holding a chubby white maggot that was wriggling in his hand, "Look, the maggot seems to have grown for two or three days, but the blood is still bleeding!"

Gongsun squatted down to catch the maggots, crushed them into a big yellow and white mass.

Zhan Zhao could almost hear Bai Yutang's nausea beside him.

Gongsun raised his head, "These maggots have grown for at least three days, but the corpse has indeed been dead for a long time, which means..."

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows, "The blood is not from this dead man, there are other dead or seriously injured."

"What does the person who gave you the car look like, and where did he give it to you?" Bai Yutang asked the mute, "Tell me in detail!"

The mute began to gesture, and Bai Yutang helped explain, "He said that in the alley ahead, the person who gave him something was a scholar, he couldn't see clearly, and he was wearing a bamboo hat.

Zhan Zhao waited until he found no one in the alley, so he asked someone to bring the rock-scissors over.

Soon, rock-paper-scissors came, and they searched for it, smelling the smell of blood and carts.

In the evening, the crowd stopped outside the west gate of Kaifeng, on a small hillside around Sanlidi.Stone and Scissors climbed up the mountain, stood at the gate of a dilapidated small temple, and looked back at the crowd.

Scissors has always been very obedient, wagging his tail at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, signaling - here!

The stone scratched it and looked around, stepping on a little mouse running past.

"What's in the mouse's mouth?"

Bai Yutang happened to see it, and asked with a frown. Everyone grinned when they saw it—it was a human finger.

"Go into the temple and have a look!" Zhan Zhao gave an order, and all the yamen servants arrived at the entrance of the ruined temple. Seeing that the doors and windows were closed, they wanted to push them open, but there were many wooden boards nailed to the door.

Zhao Hu raised his leg and kicked over, and the door opened with a "bang"... Everyone immediately stepped back, covering their noses.

Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang and the others could already smell the smell of blood from a long distance away, as well as the smell of rotting corpses.Quickly walked over and looked inside, Bai Yutang held his forehead, it seemed that he didn't have to eat for three days.

I saw corpses lying all over the ground in the ruined temple. Of course, there were also white maggots and blood all over the ground. Many government officials couldn't bear it, so they vomited aside.

Gongsun took out a handkerchief, covered his mouth and nose, and walked in, "He's been dead for at least three days, there may be some wounded still alive, go in and have a look!"

Zhan Zhao also followed, and pointed to the apse of the temple to Bai Yutang who followed Houtu, "Be careful when I'm in front of you."

Bai Yutang nodded and split up.

Tang Shitou suddenly asked, "Brother Zhan doesn't seem to like Bai Yutang very much... No, is he a nuisance?"

"Huh?" Bao Yan and Pang Yu turned their heads at the same time.

The fourth son was going to roll up his trouser legs and go in to help Gongsun. Hearing this, he turned around and looked at Tang Shitou in puzzlement, "Why? Meow is the best for Baibai!"

"But everyone can see that Bai Yutang, no, the annoying ghost is a pampered nobleman. He seems to be very afraid of getting dirty. You can also see his reaction when he just got maggots! But Brother Zhan still asked him to wear After so many corpses go to the back..."

"What do you know, kid?" Pang Yu glanced at him, "In short... Bai Yutang has a very weird personality, and Zhan Zhao will only be happy if he does that. Don't make random guesses, little boy!"

Both Xiaosi and Bao Yan nodded, "That's right!"

"Cat."

At this time, Bai Yutang's voice came from the backyard, as if he had discovered something, Zhan Zhao hurried over.

At this time, outside, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu commanded the servants to surround the temple and start patrolling the mountain.Everyone moved quickly, and a large number of government servants were well-trained. Tang Shitou's eyes widened, "Wow... are these people from Kaifeng Mansion? They are so proud!"

"That is." Bao Yan felt very proud.

"Daddy, the box!" Seeing that Gongsun was leaving in a hurry and there was a box left outside, the fourth son rolled up his arms and sleeves and ran in with the box.Pang Yu grabbed the back of his neck by the collar, lifted him up, threw him to Bao Yan behind him, and carried the suitcase into the temple.

"That Pang Yu is very brave!" Tang Shitou asked Bao Yan, "I originally thought he was that kind of dude!"

"He doesn't count." Bao Yan helped Pang Yu speak, "He's not bad, as a young master..."

"oops!"

Before Bao Yan praised Pang Yu, Pang Yu didn't know what he stepped on when he went in. He slipped and fell hard on his back, crushing countless maggots to death, and was covered in blood.

"Well, but it's stupid, with uncoordinated hands and feet." Tang Shitou shook his head, Bao Yan and the fourth son looked at each other and frowned—it's worthless!

……

Zhan Zhao went to the backyard and saw Bai Yutang standing there.

"What's wrong?" Zhan Zhao walked over.

Bai Yutang pointed to the forest in the distance.

I saw a person standing in a dark place in the forest.If Bai Yutang didn't point out, Zhan Zhao probably wouldn't have found out, because there was no breath at all.I saw that the man looked somewhat similar to Qiu Langxing, and his behavior now was even more weird, half suspended in the air, looking at the two of them, his eyes unblinking, seeming to be real.

Zhan Zhao thought about it, and asked Bai Yutang, "That night under the apricot tree was he?"

"En." Bai Yutang nodded, at this moment, a gust of mountain wind passed by... I saw the man disappear with the wind along with the leaves blown by the strong wind.

"No more?" Zhan Zhao was taken aback, and Bai Yutang gave him a hand, "It was like this last time."

Zhan Zhao has never seen this kind of light work. In other words, this is not light work at all... Pretending to be a ghost?

The two chased into the woods with the gust of wind, and they had no target, so they had to run along with the wind.

After running two steps, I heard a few "squeaks".

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were taken aback for a moment, it turned out that the stone and the scissors swished in front of them and led them the way.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other and smiled - that's right, the smell will never go away, right? !Also, why do rock and scissors chase?Did they see it too?

"Hiss... Take it easy."

Pang Yu was dragged by Bao Yan to a pool next to the ruined temple, where he sat on a rock. He scratched his elbow when he fell, and the fourth son was washing and bandaging his wound.

Bao Yan and Tang Shitou were waiting at the side, watching intently, when suddenly a gust of wind blew past.

With a "plop", something jumped into the water, and the splash of water splashed all over Pang Yu.

Everyone was stunned, Bao Yan asked, "What?"

"Like a person?" Tang Shitou felt as if someone passed by just now, but this speed...why so fast?

The fourth son stared at the water for a long time, "What did you jump in?"

"puff."

At this moment, Pang Yu opened his mouth, sprayed out a sip of water, and shook the water all over his head and face, "I don't seem to be going well today again! I'm so unlucky!"

The fourth son reached out to wipe the water droplets on his face with a handkerchief. At this time, another gust of wind came from behind, wrapping two figures and two paw civets.

But this time I can see clearly - it is Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang, the stone and the scissors.

Rock-paper-scissors ran to the edge of the pool and started strolling along the river bank.

"Brother Zhan!" Tang Shitou yelled, Zhan Zhao stood in place and looked around, "Where is he?"

Bai Yutang also asked, "Did you see someone coming?"

When everyone heard this, they pointed to the water at the same time, "Go in."

Zhan Zhao frowned, looked at Bai Yutang, "Have you learned how to swim yet?"

Bai Yutang shook his head.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, the fourth son took off his coat, "I will!" Just as he was about to jump into the water, Pang Yu and Baoyan grabbed the collar and lifted him up, telling him to stand obediently behind and not move!

After a while, Zhan Zhao called the yamen servants, because the situation was unknown, he deliberately asked a few mountain people who were familiar with the geography to ask.

When the mountain people saw the pool of water, they said, "You can't go in here, there are water ghosts!"

"Water ghost?" Everyone was startled, and those yamen servants who were about to go into the water to salvage quickly backed away.

"Don't go into the water, you will drown one by one!" Those mountain people shook their heads, "There used to be a few scholars who failed the exams and couldn't figure out how to rescue them and threw themselves into the river here. Since then, water ghosts have haunted this area abnormally! "

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang—so, that one just now was also a water ghost?

Bai Yutang shook his head helplessly—it's unimaginable that the sky is blue and bright.

But he didn't fully grasp Zhan Zhao and didn't want to let people go down to the pool to take risks, so let's deal with the corpses on the mountain first.

While lighting the lamps, the crowd finally carried all the corpses from the temple down the mountain and transported them into the Wuzuofang of Kaifeng Mansion.

The residents of Kaifeng Mansion happened to be at dinner time, and seeing the government servants carrying so many corpses down the mountain, they all talked a lot, knowing that there was a big case.

When the corpses were all put away and the matter was clarified, when everyone sat down to catch their breath and remembered to eat, the lamps were already on.

Seeing that Bai Yutang had no appetite and even didn't eat dinner, Zhan Zhao quietly ran to the palace and asked the cook from the imperial dining room to help him make a dessert, and it was already midnight when he brought it back with a cup.Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang split up, chatting about mastiffs while eating sweet soup.

Just as he was talking, he saw Pang Yu and Bao Yan at the door, looking in, followed by Tang Shitou.

"Wow!" Pang Yu sniffed it, "Chef Wang is good at stewed snow clams and duck pears! Brother Zhan is so face-saving, I tortured him for a long time and he wouldn't make it for me to eat."

Zhan Zhao smiled embarrassedly, the sweet soup in Bai Yutang's mouth was inexplicably sweet, and he aimed at Zhan Zhao.

"Ahem." Zhan Zhao thought about Wei'er, and gave him a look, "Chef Wang is almost 60 years old!"

Only then did Bai Yutang's complexion turn better, the sour taste in the sweet soup disappeared, and Zhan Zhao looked up to the sky - jealous mouse!

"It's so late, why are you here?" Bai Yutang looked at the three of them.

"Hmm..." Pang Yu hesitated.

Bao Yan said, "Oh, didn't he fall when he entered the temple just now? He dropped the dagger. Just now a yamen servant said he found it. He thought it was something from the temple, so he put it in the room with the corpse."

"Then?" Bai Yutang rejoiced that he had eaten the last bite of dessert, and asked the three of them, "Aren't you allowed to take it back?"

"Rang is Rang." Pang Yu whispered, "But there are twenty corpses in there! It's dark in the middle of the night."

"Tang Shitou said to accompany us, but Pang Yu said it's better to have more people." Bao Yan said, looking at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang.

The two immediately understood and smiled helplessly. It turned out that they were timid and did not dare to go into the room to get things.

"Okay." Zhan Zhao walked out with them.

Pang Yu asked in a low voice, "Don't you hold a sword?"

Zhan Zhao wanted to laugh, but Bai Yutang shook his head, took Zhan Zhao's sword and threw it over, and walked away with them.

When they arrived at Wuzuo's room, everyone saw Pang Yu's dagger on the table at the door.

Pang Yu reached out to take it, and turned around. At the same time, he felt a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye. A certain corpse in the second row behind the right seemed to move...

"You still don't want to leave after taking it?" Bao Yan looked at him puzzled.

"Uh..." Pang Yu looked up, and saw Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang, and Tang Shitou were also looking at the corpse covered in white cloth on the bed. They had just looked at him clearly and seemed to have really moved.

Pang Yu turned his head, and suddenly, with a "huh", the corpse lifted the white cloth and sat up.