treacherous world

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang landed near the Wuli Pavilion, a human-snake monk in the pavilion was caught by the shadow guards, and the other ten people knelt in a row, as if they were letting Zhao Pu down.

Several shadow guards looked at each other, all looking at Zhao Pu, waiting for him to get mad.

Zhan Zhao hooked his fingers at Bai Yutang, and waited aside, not interfering with Zhao Pu's handling of military affairs.

"Get up." Zhao Pu went to the Wuliting and sat down. Seeing the ten people still kneeling, he sighed, "Get up, I have something to ask."

The ten people looked at each other, stood up, walked to the pavilion and stood there.

Zhao Pu scanned the crowd and found that they were all in good health, "Did you leave the barracks three years ago?"

Several people looked at Zhao Pu in surprise, remembering it.

Zhao Pu tapped his chin with his index finger, looked at the first three, "You were originally stationed in the northwest, and you were fined for delaying the military plane." Then he looked at the next two, "You two are from the Pioneer Battalion." The last five, "You five One is from the Hunan Army in the south, and was incorporated into the Zhao Family Army later, and came here with Wang You."

Zhan Zhao raised an eyebrow at Bai Yutang - did you see it?

Bai Yutang also nodded - good memory.

The ten soldiers never thought that Zhao Pu still remembered them, and they were all ashamed.

"What happened after leaving the barracks? Why did you end up working your life in the human market?" Zhao Pu continued to ask, without any blame, "What about other people like you? What do you rely on for a living?"

Among the ten people, there was the oldest one who stood up and answered Zhao Pu's words.It turned out that when they left the barracks, Zhao Pu would give them some silver taels so that they would have a place to settle down in the future, and those who had families went home.And there is another group who have no relatives and no reason, and they don't want to farm honestly, so they just waste their martial arts and just wander outside.Over time, on the one hand, he was forced by life, and on the other hand, he was eager for success. In the end, he could only work hard to make a living, and after several twists and turns, he fell into the market.

Zhao Pu nodded, "Where are the others?"

"They're all about the same, and they went their separate ways." The soldier replied, "The people in the Kaifeng area all belong to one organization. There are a lot of people and snakes, and the demand is also high. We all gathered here after hearing about it."

Zhao Pu nodded, and said to Zhe Ying, "Take them back to Kaifeng Mansion to see if there are any people they know who died before, and then ask. Also, find all the soldiers who were lost outside, and post the list to recruit them. The soldiers and horses who were driven out of the barracks in violation of discipline gathered in the training ground near the imperial mausoleum on the outskirts of the city."

"Yes!" Zhe Ying led the people away, Zhao Pu seemed to be interested, turned around and left as well.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were left to watch the snake-headed monk.

The monk looked at the two nervously, "Well, my lord, the young one also uses other people's money to do things for others..."

"So who do you work for, I'm very interested to know." Zhan Zhao smiled, reached out and took off the monk's hat, and found some hair, "Oh... so it's still a fake monk."

"Small, really small..."

"Don't make the big ones small." Zhan Zhao knocked him on the head with the giant que, "Kaifeng zombies have been raging in the city for the past few days, and those zombies are people who are sold by your people, please be honest, otherwise, I can feed you to zombies!"

"Don't!" The human snake shook his head quickly, "I really don't know what's going on, the scholar said he needed manpower, so I gave it to him, who knew that those manpower would not come after they went out! What happened later? Zombies..."

"Scholar again?" Zhan Zhao frowned, thinking that the scholar has provoked whom these years, so he asked, "What are the teachers and students like? Tell me carefully!"

"I... can't tell. I'm just an ordinary scholar. He's quite refined. He seems to know kung fu. He's very generous." The man and snake spoke incoherently.

"Who are you working for?" Zhan Zhao asked him.

"I..." The human snake hesitated.

"Cat." Bai Yutang suddenly reached out and pointed to the man's shoes.

He may be in a hurry to come out at night, or because he thinks that the robe is so long that no one will notice if he is in the dark, so he is not wearing monk shoes.

On the shoe, there is a pattern - a clawless flying dragon.

"Are you from Tianlong Villa?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "Could it be that Tianlong Villa organized a human market to buy and sell people in Kaifeng?"

"Master Zhan, it's none of my business!" The fake monk repeatedly begged for mercy, "Don't say that I said it, my family's lives are in danger!"

Seeing that man and snake crying, Zhan Zhao frowned—what the hell is going on in Tianlong Villa?

The harvest was not bad all night, and the two returned to the Kaifeng mansion with the man and the snake. Bao Zheng went to the court overnight for trial, and asked everyone to go back to rest.

Both the people and the snakes confessed. It turned out that Tianlong Villa organized a human market to secretly buy and sell people. It has been a while.He didn't know the exact details, because of his humble status, he just obeyed orders in many things.

He only knew that Tianlong Villa was not an ordinary Jianghu sect, what was going on behind the scenes, and the leader was Shen Bo'e, the young owner of Tianlong Villa.

"This Tianlong Mountain Villa is really suspicious!" Gongsun sat drinking tea in the yard and sighed, "Before, we used to refine people's oil to make poisonous incense, but this time we organized a people's market to openly buy and sell people."

"Didn't Bao Xiang immediately send someone to raid his villa?" Zhao Pu frowned and asked Zhan Zhao, "This sect is not safe except for Kaifeng."

"They made excuses to escape from the Zhuangyuan Temple incident before." Zhan Zhao was not convinced, "This time, there are only witnesses and no conclusive evidence to cover the crime. If you act rashly, you will only scare the snake, and they will escape again! Your lord may be Want to be safe."

"During the conversation between Shen Longxing and his son before, it was true that some major event was being planned." Bai Yutang reminded Zhan Zhao, "The turmoil of this autumn exam has something to do with them."

"I think so too." Bao Yan agreed with Bai Yutang, "There will be a martial arts test the day after tomorrow, so don't make any trouble."

"Little Mantou, do you still have time to worry about others?" Pang Yu suddenly reminded, "Don't forget, the results of the autumn exam will be released tomorrow!"

"Huh?" Bao Yan was startled, "Really?"

"That's right." Zhan Zhao also remembered, "Let's go and see it tomorrow morning!"

"Don't let everyone go! How embarrassing." Bao Yan was so nervous that he was at a loss, "What should I do? I will know the result tomorrow! If I don't do well in the exam, my father will definitely send me back."

"Be more confident, haven't you listened to what the old man said?" Pang Yu reached out and patted Bao Yan's shoulder, "As long as you survive, you will be the champion!"

Bao Yan couldn't listen, he rubbed his face nervously.

It was getting late, and everyone went back to the house to rest.

When Zhao Pu returned to the house, he saw that the fourth son was still asleep, lying on the stone's belly reading medical books, while Xiao Liang was dozing off beside him.

"Little four." Zhao Pu walked over, covered the ears of little four and muttered for a while.

"Ah!" The fourth son stared at Zhao Pu with his eyes wide open and his mouth wide open, surprised and delighted, "Really?"

Zhao Pu shrugged, "I saw it with my own eyes, when did I ever lie to you?"

"Wow!" Little Sizi put on his coat, jumped off the bed, dragged his shoes and ran outside.

"Jin'er?" Xiao Liang didn't know why, so he also chased him out.

What did the little four get so excited about?Naturally, it was Zhao Pu who quietly told him that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had kissed.

"Jin'er, where are you going?" Xiao Liang saw that the fourth son was wearing a coat and ran away, fearing that he would follow up coldly.

"Little Liangzi, just now Jiujiu said that Miaomiao and Baibai kissed each other."

"Really?" Xiao Liang also ran up with great interest, "Who took the initiative?"

"I didn't ask about that." The fourth son smiled, "Let's go and see!"

At this moment, the atmosphere in Zhan Zhao's room became even more strange.

Zhan Zhao sat at the table, looking at Bai Yutang who was leaning on the bed and looking at a map.That was the layout of Tianlong Villa, which was drawn by the two of them from memory when they went in to investigate the case.

Bai Yutang stared at the picture, feeling something was wrong.

Zhan Zhao held his head and thought hard, when did Bai Yutang tell him about his impression of him?Why can't I remember it!

The room was very quiet, and the two of them were thinking about their own things, when they heard slight footsteps at the door.

Bai Yutang put down the drawing and looked at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao glanced at the door, and knew that it must be the fourth son.

"Cat." Bai Yutang leaned on the bed, beckoning to Zhan Zhao, "Come here."

Zhan Zhao asked, "Why are you here?"

"Then wait for the fourth son to come in." Bai Yutang raised the corner of his mouth.

Zhan Zhao knew that the fourth son was excited right now, and he would definitely make a fuss all night when he came in later, so he walked up to Bai Yutang, sat on the bedside and looked at him, "What are you doing?"

Bai Yutang lay down and continued to look at the map, "Look at this topographic map, is there something missing?"

Zhan Zhao leaned over to look at it, but the angle was a bit awkward, so he simply leaned on his chest to look.

The fourth son and Xiao Liang opened the crack of the door, and this is what they saw.

Blocked by the bed curtain far away, the blueprint in Bai Yutang's hand could not be seen, but Zhan Zhao was lying on Bai Yutang's chest.

The fourth son opened his eyes wide and shook Xiao Liang's sleeves, feeling indescribably happy, "Xiao Liangzi, is it time to set up wine again?"

Xiao Liang smiled secretly, stretched out his hand to say "shh" to the fourth son, don't disturb them, and pulled the satisfied fourth son back.

Hearing that the two children had left, Zhan Zhao heaved a sigh of relief, looked up, and saw Bai Yutang looking at him with a half-smile.

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand to pinch his neck, "What did you say about me before?"

Bai Yutang was taken aback for a moment, and then said in a blink of an eye, "Think for yourself."

"Give me a hint!" Zhan Zhao was shaking him there, and the two of them were shaking happily, when suddenly, they heard the scream of the fourth son from a distance...

"Ah ah!"

"Jin'er?" Xiao Liang was pulling the fourth son back to Zhao Pu's room through the long corridor, when suddenly the fourth son put his arms around his waist and shouted, "Little Liangzi, ghost!"

Xiao Liang's expression changed, he protected the fourth son and looked around, and at a glance he saw a person standing under the paulownia tree not far away.

The man was dressed in a gray robe and looked like a scholar. He was half-hanging in the air, his fluttering skirts were shaking with the night wind, and he couldn't see his feet.A face was pale and blue, and a pair of eyes were dark and dull, staring at them lifelessly.

"Who is it!" Xiao Liang shouted loudly.

The man didn't reply, just stared at the two of them.

"Xiao Liangzi, he's that fellow from Miaomiao!" The fourth son took a look from a distance, that person looked like Qiu Langxing, why did he come here?And suddenly turned into a dead person.

"who!"

At this time, the Shadow Guard who heard the noise came over, and the first ones were Black Shadow and White Shadow.

As soon as he landed in the yard, he saw the ghost suddenly float into the well beside him.

"Little Four!" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also arrived, seeing someone jumping into the water.

Seeing that he folded his waist up when he entered the well, the fourth son put his arms around Xiao Liang and said, "Damn it."

Soi Ying was also startled, and he and Bai Ying chased to the well.

The noise here attracted several other shadow guards and the guards of Kaifeng Mansion. They lit lanterns and torches and shone into the well. There was nothing in the well except water. Where did the ghost come from.

The only ones who saw the scholar just now were Xiao Liang, Xiao Si Zi and Hei Ying Bai Ying. The four of them were puzzled - if it was a hallucination, not everyone would have seen it, but if it wasn't a hallucination, who would it be?

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang saw that they were all the same, and felt that it was outrageous.

Kaifeng Mansion is haunted by ghosts after zombies.

Bao Zheng stared at the Avalokitesvara statue on the wall in his study, and thought to himself, the door is broken, he has always kept ghosts away from Kaifeng mansion, and Bao Zheng's righteousness can show the sun and the moon, why is he haunted by evil spirits?

A group of yamen servants turned the Kaifeng mansion upside down, and there were no ghosts anywhere.

The fourth son's good mood was also disturbed by the ghost, and he only said that Qiu Langxing, a fellow villager who looked like Zhan Zhao, seemed quite frightened.

……

In the early morning of the next day, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang yawned and went to the yard, and saw clouds above their heads, which looked like it was going to rain.

"I haven't seen Shen Xiang Qi Four Blades these days, where did he go?" Bai Yutang stretched his muscles and bones in the yard and asked Zhan Zhao.

"I didn't see it either. This person is haunted and suspicious." Zhan Zhao sat on the stone table in a daze, and shook his head after a long time, "I was wondering if the ghost last night was us in the ruined temple. That water ghost you saw? Why does it look like Qiu Langxing?"

"Come up from the well, it can only be a water ghost." Bai Yutang also sighed, "whether he is a ghost or not, why does he always follow us?"

"Hello." At this time, Tang Shitouxing hurried in from outside the courtyard, "Brother Zhan, you idiot!"

Zhan Zhao looked back at him, and Bai Yutang looked at the sky.

"Pang Yu said to watch the list secretly, do you want to go?" Tang Shitou asked, "Bao Yan is still asleep." Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang thought it was good, since they were idle anyway, they went out together .

On the street, today Kaifeng is a little more lively than the previous few days. Although the chaos of zombies has not subsided, after all, it is the final exam.

When they arrived at the gate of the palace, a large golden list had already been erected, and many scholars surrounded the list, all looking up at the names on the golden list.

"I'm a little nervous." Zhan Zhao suddenly touched his chest and looked at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang smiled, and stretched out his hand to lightly touch Zhan Zhao's ear.

Zhan Zhao shrank his neck, looked at Bai Yutang in horror, covered his ears, and said to himself, "What are you doing in broad daylight?"

Pang Yu carried out the yawning little fourth son.The fourth son was frightened by a ghost last night, and was sleepy because he didn't sleep, but when he saw Bai Yutang touching Zhan Zhao's ears, his eyes lit up immediately, and he woke up, squinting his eyes and staring at the two of them.

Seeing Zhan Zhao's shock, Bai Yutang laughed, "The cat is nervous, just touch its ears."

Zhan Zhao stared at him, then reached out to touch his ear, but Bai Yutang took a step back to avoid it, but felt he stepped on something.

Looked down... and there was a pecan on the ground.

After staring at the walnuts for a while, Bai Yutang felt puzzled and found that there were quite a few walnuts beside him.Could it be that the walnut seller also came to see the help, and overturned the basket, so the walnuts in this place were sprinkled?

But he didn't care too much, Tang Shitou had already squeezed into the crowd, walking towards the top of the list.

Zhan Zhao saw the huge crowd, so he jumped onto the top of the crowd, and glanced at the number one position on the list, rejoicing!Leaning back and falling down, he told everyone, "Bao Yan's name is first!"

"Really?" Everyone was overjoyed, "Old man Qi Silen is very reliable this time, and Bao Yan really won the first prize."

"Little Mantou is here!" Little Four pointed to the back.Not far away, Bao Yan hurried over with Bao Fu.

Pang Yu stuffed the fourth son into Zhan Zhao's hand, rushed over to grab Bao Yan, "Little Mantou, champion!"

Bao Yan opened his mouth wide, "Really?"

"Yeah!" Pang Yu nodded nervously, pulled Bao Yan forward, and saw Shen Yuan, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, standing next to the gold list with a few senior scholars from Longtu Pavilion, so he waved, "Old man Shen!"

Shen Yuan and several academicians saw Bao Yan at first glance, and they all came over to salute, saying congratulations to the number one scholar, what kind of tiger father has no dogs, Bao Yan returned the salute with a blushing face.

"Your Excellency must be very happy!" Zhan Zhao was also satisfied, and asked Bai Yutang next to him while hugging his fourth son.

But he saw Bai Yutang standing in front of the gold list, looking up at the name, his expression was not very good.

"Hello!" Zhan Zhao patted him, "What's the matter?"

Bai Yutang pointed to the list, "Cat, who is behind Bao Yan's name?"

Zhan Zhao looked up and saw the second place, whose name was Shi Tianjie.

"Shi Tianjie?" Zhan Zhao was surprised.

"Look at the third one!" Bai Yutang reminded Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao continued to look, only to see that No.3 Tan Hua was—Shen Bo'e.

"The young owner of Tianlong Villa?" Zhan Zhao frowned deeply, "Are they both there for the exam that day?"

Bai Yutang sneered, "I don't know how talented these two are, but their skill should be comparable. Why did the riots in the examination room almost kill people, but they remained indifferent?"

Zhan Zhao hugged his fourth son in a daze, "Indeed!"

"Could it be..." Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao in a low voice, "There was a riot in the exam room that day, if someone cheated, wouldn't it be the best opportunity?"

Zhan Zhao frowned, "You mean, someone took advantage of the chaos to cheat?"

Bai Yutang shrugged, "I just think there's something strange about these two."

"Let's not talk about Shi Tianjie for now, that Shen Bo'e..." Zhan Zhao shook his head worriedly when he remembered that he was still suspected of organizing people to buy and sell people.

"Bao Yan is still young, and with Master Bao's character, it is impossible for him to become an official right now." Bai Yutang said to Zhan Zhao, "That means that this time the No. [-] and Tanhua can get some important positions."

Zhan Zhao also felt worried, what kind of officials should they be asked to do, they are all troublesome people.

"Meow meow."

At this time, the fourth son said to Zhan Zhao, "Shen Bo'e, I've seen this name before, and that Shi Tianjie has it too!"

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at the fourth son, "Where did you see it?"

"They are participating in tomorrow's martial arts competition." The fourth son replied, "Little Liangzi has a match list for the martial arts competition arena. He got it yesterday and said he wanted to watch it with me. Jiujiu also said to let him go." Two days off, let him seriously watch other people's martial arts competitions and learn something."

"You mean." Bai Yutang frowned, "These two also participated in the martial arts test?"

"Yeah, I remember these two names." Xiao Si nodded, "The old god has also seen this watch, he helped Xiao Liangzi draw a few names, and said that they must watch their games, so there is this Two, I remember."

"If you take part in both civil and military examinations, and get good grades in both, wouldn't you be both civil and military? Then there's no reason why you shouldn't be given an important position, maybe in the army." Bai Yutang shook his head, "Speaking of which, if it wasn't Bao Yan came out on the way, then Shi Tianjie is the No. [-] pick, and Shen Bo'e is also No. [-]!"

Zhan Zhao touched his chin with his hand, and Bai Yutang's words gave him some inspiration, "Speaking of...the few scholars who were very competitive before, all died unexpectedly!"

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, "Cat, you want to say that Shi Tianjie and Shen Bo'e are the beneficiaries of the turmoil between the pen fairy and the beast niche, right?"

"It's not that I feel it." Zhan Zhao suddenly looked behind, "It's obvious."

Bai Yutang turned his head and looked along where Zhan Zhaowang was.In the distance, Shi Tianjie led the recovered Shi Tianqiong towards the gold list.Walking with them, by such a coincidence, is Shen Bo'e.

The two chatted happily and seemed to have a good relationship.

Bai Yutang winked at Zhan Zhao, and the two turned around and hid themselves in the crowd, not meeting them face to face.

Shi Tianqiong ran ahead, looked up at the list, pointed to the list and said to Shi Tianjie, "Brother, we have it!"

Shi Tianjie and Shen Bo'e walked to the front of the list and looked up.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang paid attention to their expressions.

When the two looked up, they were full of confidence, but when they saw their rankings, they seemed very surprised.The two of them frowned tightly, looking very unhappy.Bai Yutang shook his head, it was unreasonable, a top three person should not have such an expression.

Zhan Zhao had an idea, seeing Bao Yanzheng and Pang Yu coming back, he put the fourth son on the ground and said, "Fourth son, go and congratulate Bao Yan, brother Bai invites everyone to Taibaiju for dinner to celebrate."

Bai Yutang rubbed the center of his eyebrows, Zhan Zhao never hesitated when making decisions for himself.

"Yeah!" The fourth son trotted over to catch Bao Yan, "Little Mantou, congratulations, you won the champion! I will call you the champion mantou from now on."

Bao Yan was also happy, and hugged the fourth son, "Son, I'm lucky this time."

The fourth son patted Bao Yan's shoulder, "Baibai said please go to Taibaiju for dinner!"

Pang Yu nodded cheerfully, "It's time to celebrate.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang watched Shi Tianjie and Shen Bo'e attentively.

Zhan Zhao let the fourth son go there on purpose, Bao Yan was standing beside Shi Tianjie and the others at this time, the fourth son's voice was crisp and crisp, there was no reason why he couldn't hear it.

Sure enough, Shi Tianjie and Shen Bo'e were attracted by the little fourth son's voice, "No. [-] Scholar", and turned their faces away.Judging by Bao Yan's expression, it's not kind.

Zhan Zhao frowned secretly, was he overthinking?

Tang Shitou asked Bao Yan stupidly, "Little Mantou, will you become a high official after winning the number one prize?"

Bao Yan rubbed his head, "How is it possible? My father won't let me do it. I still want to learn more in Kaifeng."

Bao Yan's words were clearly heard by Shi Tianjie and Shen Bo'e.Shi Tianjie took a step forward and cupped his hands to Bao Yan, "Is this Mr. Bao? Nice to meet you."

Bao Yanjian was a gentle and gentle young man, and he looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was, so he hurriedly replied, "Who is this brother?"

"I'm Shi Tianjie." Shi Tianjie smiled, "Congratulations to Young Master Bao's high school champion."

"Shi Tianjie?" Pang Yu turned to look at him, "Ah! Aren't you the county king, Shi Tianjie? Are you here for the exam after becoming a prince?"

"Hehe." Shi Tianjie smiled, "I just came here to have a try."

"Oh?" Pang Yu nodded, "That's the same as this nerdy steamed bun! I found that in all exams, the less you want to pass the exam, the better! It's like gambling, some people spend a lot of effort until the end But there is nothing to return, and some people plant willows inadvertently so that the willow trees will become shades."

"Yeah." Tang Shitou also nodded aside, "The old man said, it's called planning and making things happen."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang watched from behind, secretly thinking that these two are really good at it.Of course, they both knew that Pang Yu and Tang Shitou were short-sighted, and their words were definitely not aimed at anyone, but looking at the expressions of Shi Tianjie and Shen Bo'e behind them, it was wonderful.

Bai Yutang said to Zhan Zhao in a low voice, "I feel unwilling to make wedding clothes for others."

Zhan Zhao smiled, nodded in agreement, "There is definitely a problem! Try to try them again."