treacherous world

The sudden appearance of the strange soul-absorbing array aroused Bai Yutang's vigilance.If Tang Shitou hadn't followed him and jumped headlong into the river just now, he might have been tricked by Bai Yutang!

Such things as soul-absorbing array and ecstasy can only be used once to sneak attack on a master like Bai Yutang!And it must be used when he is completely unprepared. Once he is prepared, it will be very difficult for him to be attacked again... So, if someone is deliberately waiting for the opportunity to kill Bai Yutang this time, then Tang Shitou really helped Very busy.

In Bai Yutang's life, he hated to owe favors without reciprocating his teacher's kindness. He looked at Tang Shitou, who got up on the ground, took off his coat and wrung the water, and frowned slightly—it was still this kid!

Tang Shitou shook his wet hair, looked up at Bai Yutang, his face turned pale.After a while, he said despondently, "Thanks to you, you saved my life. You knew that I was going to fight with you to save my brother, but you still saved me. I blamed you. You are a good person... I won't make you hate me in the future." Ghost."

Bai Yutang felt amused in his heart, the so-called not knowing whether to laugh or cry may be this feeling, in fact, it was Tang Shitou who saved his life... Of course, Bai Yutang would never say such a thing.

"Why are you here?" Bai Yutang asked him.

"I'll follow you." Tang Shitou blurted out, and felt ashamed after speaking, so he scratched his head.

"Why are you following me?" Bai Yutang was puzzled.

Tang Shitou wrinkled his nose, "I want to learn sword skills from you, but I guess you won't teach me. I just asked, and it seems that you don't accept apprentices. So I decided to follow you and learn secretly."

Bai Yutang laughed, this person is quite honest.

"You want to learn swords from me?" Bai Yutang said calmly, "You want to learn from me if you want to learn swords from me."

Tang Shitou frowned, and asked in a low voice, "I worship you as my teacher?"

Bai Yutang nodded.

"Apprentice...you have to listen to the master's words? You can't talk back?" Tang Shitou hesitated, "Can't you grab the lover from the master?"

"Whatever I ask you to do, you will do it." Bai Yutang said slowly, "You have to be filial and obedient. I don't have a saying of expulsion from the teacher here. If you disobey the teacher's order, I will kill you."

Tang Shitou's eyelids twitched, he stroked his chin and began to ponder, and asked in a low voice, "If you teach me, can I be admitted to the top prize?"

Bai Yutang sneered, "You want to be an official?"

"That's right!" Tang Shitou nodded honestly, "I want to be a high-ranking official like Brother Zhan."

Bai Yutang smiled, "Being an official is to help others?"

"That's right!" Tang Shitou patted his chest, "I, Tang Shitou, have determined to be like Big Brother Zhan since I was a child! If I learn from you, can I be as good as you?"

"What I taught is naturally the next best knife in the world." Seeing Tang Shitou happy, Bai Yutang waved his hand lightly, "Don't be too happy, I haven't agreed to accept you yet."

"Hey, why are you so grumpy?" Tang Shitou bulged his cheeks dissatisfiedly, "What else do you want? Why don't you just listen to you from now on?"

"Then what if I let you kill Zhan Zhao?" Bai Yutang changed the subject and stared at Tang Shitou.

"Then how?!" Tang Shitou jumped up and glared at Bai Yutang, "I don't!"

Bai Yutang smiled and nodded, "Then don't kill Zhan Zhao, what about killing someone else?"

"That won't work either!" Tang Shitou shook his head resolutely, "Do you think I'm stupid? Listening to the master's words and being manipulated by others are two different things. I, Tang Shitou, am very principled!"

"Okay." Bai Yutang nodded, "From today onwards, you are my Bai Yutang's apprentice."

"Really?" Tang Shitou was startled, but he came to his senses, "Oh! You just tried me!"

"You're not stupid." Bai Yutang put his hands behind his back, "Let's go."

"Hmm!" Tang Shitou chased after him, "Master, let's go back and change clothes first? It's wet."

Bai Yutang looked at him, "You have internal strength, it's fine if you don't do it."

"How do you do it?" Tang Shitou asked stupidly.

Bai Yutang sighed, he didn't know who taught him kung fu before, he was so confused that he didn't even explain to him how to use the internal energy, so he passed a few words of heart to Tang Shitou.

Don't look at Tang Shitou as a straight-minded person, he is really a martial arts genius. After pondering for a while, he waved his dry sleeves to show Bai Yutang, and said cheerfully, "It's done! It's done now. Next time, clothes and shower can be washed together!"

Bai Yutang looked up at the sky and was speechless, wondering if he should set the rules of the house again, his land in Bai Yutang should be clean!

Tang Shitou asked a lot of questions, and Bai Yutang answered them one by one. Tang Shitou felt that he had made more progress than he had learned in a year, so he respected Bai Yutang sincerely.

Seeing that Tang Shitou is also a material that can be made, Bai Yutang also nodded, and let him repay his life-saving jump just now.In addition, Bai Yutang thought that if he accepted him as an apprentice, he would be a generation lower than himself, in other words, he would be a generation lower than Zhan Zhao.So... peach blossoms or something, killing one is one!

The two headed towards Kaifeng Mansion, Bai Yutang was still thinking about the soul-stirring technique just now,

"Master, why did I see that kind of thing just now?" Tang Shitou felt that the so-called soul-absorbing technique was very profound, so he asked Bai Yutang humbly.

"There are many types of martial arts, and illusion is one of them." Bai Yutang briefly explained to Tang Shitou, "Illusion is usually a deception, and it is carried out through tricks, but there are also people with strong martial arts and deep internal strength. Harmony is used to control people's minds, and to make people hallucinate when the other party is unsuspecting. The person who has just performed the illusion has used formations, the fog in the lake and internal strength. He is a master of the inner family. "

Tang Shitou was at a loss when he heard it. He never knew that kung fu could be so advanced, so he was once again convinced that his master was right.

Back in Kaifeng Mansion, Zhan Zhao and others were still in the palace.

Bai Yutang walked into the backyard, and saw Xiao Liang was practicing darts in the yard, and the fourth son was holding Shi Shi by its tail and combing it.

"Baibai!" Seeing Bai Yutang came back, the fourth son raised his face and waved to Tang Shitou who was behind Bai Yutang, "Tang Tang, come quickly, this is Miss Shitou!"

Tang Shitou stared at the fat stone on the ground for a while, then squatted down, "Oh! Isn't it cute!"

Shitou flicked his tail and heard Tang Shitou, this person seems to be a friend of the fourth son, please be friendly.

Scissors wandered up to Bai Yutang, rubbed against him, and wagged his tail.Compared with the mischievousness of the stone, the scissors have always been well-behaved and capable.

Bai Yutang found a stone stool and sat down, reached out and gently rubbed its head, sitting there in a daze.

"Little Four." Bai Yutang suddenly turned around and asked, "Have you seen the gods these few days?"

"Huh?" Little Four blinked, "I see."

"Did you see it today?" Bai Yutang asked.

"I saw it every morning when I got up to play Tai Chi with my dad. He seems to be very busy these days. After meeting him in the morning, he disappeared! The little monkey has been following him, and they seem to know each other!" Xiao Sizi Answered, turning the stone over, lying on its stomach and continuing to comb its fur.

Bai Yutang was thoughtful, "Monkey, are you sitting on his shoulder?"

"Yes!" Little Four nodded, "When Shi Shi was young, he also liked to lie on other people's shoulders, didn't he? Shi Shi?"

Shi Shi rubbed against the fourth son and wagged his tail, the two got together, but Bai Yutang frowned and thought - why?Is it the four blades that the phantom sees?

……

At this time, the atmosphere in the imperial garden in the palace was very good.

Bao Yan, Shi Tianjie and Shen Bo'e entered the palace to face the saint.Zhao Zhen was also in a good mood. He read almost all the papers, and Bao Yan's one left a deep impression on him.

In order not to be preconceived, Zhao Zhen asked people to seal the names of all papers.Then he looked at them one by one, picked out the best one, opened it to see the name, and was very pleasantly surprised - it turned out to be Bao Yan!

All the undergraduates have read these papers, and the rankings of other candidates are different, but Bao Yan's No.1 paper has no objection.

In the end, even the queen mother was amazed when she saw it.Although Bao Yan is young, he has a broad mind and a broad mind. He sees things from a high perspective and is very wise. He is quite like Bao Zheng.In addition, he has a straightforward personality but does not lose any opportunity to change, and his words are very funny.The handwriting is the essence of Bao Zheng's calligraphy. The more Zhao Zhen looks at it, the more he loves it, and seeing how young he is, he is really happy.It seems that even if Bao Zheng returns to the field decades later, there will be someone who will succeed Bao Qingtian.

The names of Shi Tianjie and Shen Bo'e also caught Zhao Zhen's attention.

For Shi Tianjie, Zhao Zhen naturally has an impression, a majestic county king, why did he come to test for the champion?

In addition, when he inquired about Shen Bo'e's affairs, he also frowned. Although Tianlong Villa escaped punishment skillfully, it was inseparably related to the riots in the previous autumn examination.

However, even though Zhao Zhen was skeptical, he did not invalidate the results of the two of them because of this. He decided to use his tricks to see what the two of them had in mind before making a decision.

The queen mother was very happy today, she let Bao Yan sit on the left, Pang Yu sat on the right, holding a smiling Xiangxiang in her arms.

Concubine Pang sat beside Zhao Zhen, and she was very pleased to see that Pang Yu had grown up and became good friends with such outstanding people in Kaifeng Mansion.

Shi Tianjie and Shen Bo'e looked at each other calmly, the people of Kaifeng Mansion were really loved by the royal family.Bao Yan is young and has a bright future.

Quite a few courtiers came, including the Eighth Prince and Grand Master, because there will be a formal court reward tomorrow morning, so this time it was just a private banquet set up by Zhao Zhen, and everyone was not so nervous.

Zhan Zhao sat at the banquet, drinking next to Gongsun.

"Where's Zhao Pu?" Zhan Zhao saw that Zhao Pu wasn't there, so he asked in a low voice.

"Oh, just now Nangong said that he had some clues about the zombie case, so he went there." Gongsun whispered, "It is said that some spell was found under the pillow in the maid's room."

"A spell..." Zhan Zhao said to himself.

At this moment, Chen Banban hurried over and whispered something in Zhao Zhen's ear.

"Oh?" Zhao Zhen smiled, "Xiaoyuan wants to see the champion? Let her come and tell her that the savior she has been thinking about is also here! I am afraid that seeing the champion of the new department is false, but seeing the benefactor is true." ?" As he said that, Zhao Zhen took a special look at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao's face darkened immediately, and he thought to himself - it's over!

Gongsun's ears were sharp, seeing that the atmosphere was a bit weird, he asked Zhan Zhao in a low voice, "Who is Xiaoyuan?"

Zhan Zhao smiled dryly... Xiaoyuan's name is Zhao Yuan, and she is the adopted daughter of the Empress Dowager.When the Empress Dowager was living among the people, she depended on this girl to take care of her and be filial.Zhao Zhen raised her in the palace like his own sister, and made her a princess, and the queen mother loved her very much.

When Bao Zheng uncovered the case of replacing the civet cat with the crown prince, Zhan Zhao saved Zhao Yuan's life, and that girl had something for him.Zhan Zhao pretended not to know, avoided seeing him for a while and then fooled it.Zhao Yuan went to the south of the Yangtze River three years ago. She likes embroidery and went to the folks to learn various embroidery methods. Zhao Zhen was also used to her, so he let her go.Zhao Yuan was not in the palace these few years, and Zhan Zhao didn't have such a headache, so he didn't expect to come back.

Zhan Zhao secretly prayed to the heavens, hoping that this girl has already found someone, and that she will get married and recruit a son-in-law as soon as possible!Otherwise, it will be troublesome for that jealous mouse to come across it!Thinking of the god saying that he had a peach blossom calamity before, Zhan Zhao rubbed his forehead, hoping that it was only Tang Shitou and that there would be no more trouble.

After a while, there was the sound of ring pendants ding-dong, and a curvaceous girl appeared at the gate of the imperial garden, saluting Zhao Zhen and the queen mother, while all the officials got up and saluted her, calling them princesses.

When Zhao Yuan was polite to the ministers, she caught Zhan Zhao who was not far away.

Zhan Zhao hurriedly looked up at the sky...

Gongsun was sitting beside him, holding a cup, seeing Zhao Yuan's eyes—oh?interesting!

"The Queen Mother." Zhao Yuan ran to sit next to the Queen Mother, hugged Xiangxiang and kissed her. She was also familiar with Pang Yu, and after a few polite words with Bao Yan, she became acquainted too.

Zhan Zhao finally understood why Bao Zheng said that Zhao Zhen had ordered him to enter the palace to have dinner together, so there was such a thing.

Looking at Zhao Zhen again, I saw him slightly twitching the corners of his mouth, drinking with a half-smile, while glancing at Zhan Zhao, feeling quite gloating.

Zhan Zhao wondered, what does Zhao Zhen mean by this?As everyone knows, a few days ago, Concubine Pang was gossiping with Zhao Zhen, saying that she heard court ladies and eunuchs saying that Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang kissed raw rice and cooked rice, and the news was accurate.Zhao Zhen got the idea of ​​playing a prank, so he simply asked Zhao Yuan and Zhan Zhao to meet.He also had some thoughts. Zhao Yuan was getting older day by day, and her eyes were full of Zhan Zhao. If she didn't let her stop thinking about it, the girl might look down on others.In case of delay, it is a lifelong event, don't be unable to marry in the future.

"Xiaoyuan hasn't returned to the palace for a long time, right?" Zhao Zhen smiled, "Kaifeng has changed a lot in the past few years."

"I've heard that too." Zhao Yuan nodded, a little shyly, "I just wanted to go for a walk."

"Oh?" Zhao Zhen pretended to be serious, "How can I do that, it's dangerous to go there!"

Zhao Yuan's face turned even redder, and she glanced at the queen mother beside her.

Knowing daughter Mo Ruomu, the queen mother certainly understood, and said, "Kaifeng is in chaos recently, I have to find someone who is very skilled to accompany me, so that the Ai family can rest assured."

Zhao Yuan glanced at Zhan Zhao, and Zhan Zhao lowered his head to eat a crab. This river crab is very fresh!

Gongsun shook his head at the side, it's a pity that Zhao Pu was not there, otherwise he would have happily intervened.

"Nangong and the others have something to do, right?" Concubine Pang is so good at coming, she hurriedly helped to speak, "Besides, they don't know the way out of the palace."

Afterwards, everyone looked at Zhan Zhao, and Zhan Zhao continued to poke the crab.

"Cough cough." The Grand Master coughed and looked at Bao Zheng—hey, Heizi, don't play dumb!

Bao Zheng was embarrassed, and thought to himself, why did he leave all the offending things to himself?He looked at Zhan Zhao and said, "Why don't Zhan guard protect the princess and visit Kaifeng?"

"Uh..." Zhan Zhao looked at Bao Zheng with a grin—my lord, you betrayed me!

Bao Zheng wiped his sweat—be patient!

"That's really guarded by Lao Zhan." The queen mother hurriedly answered, patted Zhao Yuan, "I don't want to change my clothes yet."

"Yeah." Zhao Yuan happily ran to change clothes, and Zhan Zhao secretly wrung his fingers—what are the chances of bumping into Bai Yutang while shopping?

……

"Ah Choo..." Bai Yutang sneezed suddenly and rubbed his nose.

It took the fourth son an hour, and finally combed the hair of the stone and the scissors smoothly and beautifully. After Xiao Liang finished playing darts, he drank a cup of tea with the fourth son, and was dragged away by Yingweimen to practice internal strength.Coincidentally, Tang Shitou couldn't properly grasp the inner strength, so Bai Yutang kicked him to the shadow guards, asking them to teach him too.

After everyone left, only the fourth son and Bai Yutang were left in the yard.

"Baibai!" The fourth son stretched out his hand and tugged at Bai Yutang's sleeve, "Going out to play?"

Bai Yutang was also very bored, he hesitated to wait for Zhan Zhao to come back to talk about the Soul Conjuring Technique.

"Father and the others, if they come back, they will happen to be on South Street." The fourth son tugged at Bai Yutang's sleeve and twisted it, "Maybe we will meet!"

Bai Yutang looked at him, it was possible.

"Several new shops have opened on that street!" The fourth son continued his efforts, "Xiao Xiaopang said there are many interesting shops there."

Bai Yutang got the fourth son talking, stood up, stretched out his hand, "Let's go."

The fourth son joyfully jumped down from the stool, took Bai Yutang's hand, and followed him out.Hand in hand, one big and one small walked from south to north along the bustling sky street from Kaifeng Mansion to the Imperial Palace.

……

At this time, Zhan Zhao stood helplessly at the gate of the palace.

Zhao Yuan changed into a long lotus-colored dress and ran out.Zhan Zhao looked at her, and said to himself, Zhao Yuan was just a girl with wild heads and wild brains before, but she has grown beautifully in the past few years.

Thinking of this, Zhan Zhao once again lamented, it would be better if he walked with a crazy girl with wild head and brains, such a lady from a big family brought with him, in case he ran into Bai Yutang...

No no no!Zhan Zhao shook his head vigorously, the mouse should be in the Kaifeng mansion, maybe in the Bai mansion!Must not touch!

"Brother Zhan?" Zhao Yuan saw Zhan Zhao shaking his head vigorously with one hand on the wall, puzzled, "What's wrong with you?"

"Ah?" Zhan Zhao came back to his senses and shook his head, "It's all right."

"Where shall we go for a stroll?" Zhao Yuan was in a good mood, walking forward with her hands behind her back, "Why don't you go to a theater? Or go to a teahouse and listen to music... By the way, I haven't been to Taibaiju for a long time. I really want to eat the tamales there.”

"No!" Zhan Zhao shook his head resolutely, "You must not go to Taibai Residence!"

Zhao Yuan was taken aback, then looked at him, "Why?"

"Uh...that..." Zhan Zhaoxin said, Bai Yutang went to Taibaiju for a drink if he had nothing to do, it was risky to pass by there!In addition, A, B, C, D, [-], [-], [-], [-] of Taibaiju all know Bai Yutang whether they are the host or guest, even the cats and dogs inside. If someone tells him behind his back that Zhan Zhao brought a beautiful girl to dinner alone... he will die !

"Brother Zhan?"

Seeing that Zhan Zhao was suddenly supporting the tree and stomping his feet, Zhao Yuan was a little worried, "Are you... not feeling well?"

"No..." Zhan Zhao laughed dryly, "Then what, the pillars of Taibai Residence were broken a few days ago, and they are being repaired these days! I can't go there."

"Oh, that's it." Zhao Yuan smiled, "Why don't we go to Kaifeng Mansion? I haven't..."

"Not good!" Zhan Zhao quickly shook his head, thinking to himself, Miss, please forgive me, isn't it self-inflicted to go to Kaifeng Mansion? !

"Then..." Zhao Yuan asked helplessly, "Where are you going?"

"Why don't you go to the west side of the street?" Zhan Zhao suggested, thinking, the farther away from Kaifeng mansion the better!The area to the west is the most boring, it is a place where scholars gather, Bai Yutang will definitely not go there!

"Okay." Zhao Yuan didn't care where to go, anyway, she just went with Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao heaved a sigh of relief, and walked with her. When walking, pay attention to keeping a distance of more than one foot. Zhao Yuan wanted to get closer to him, so the two walked forward obliquely in a twisted state.

Most of the people on the street knew Zhan Zhao, and wondered in their hearts—why did Guard Zhan walk sideways today?

Zhao Yuan didn't doubt that he was there, and while walking, she talked to Zhan Zhao, all of which had changed in the past few years, and Zhan Zhao agreed every word.He is gentle by nature, it is impossible for him to completely ignore Zhao Yuan, and there is no need to be too rude, after all, some friendships are friends.But it's too warm, and I'm afraid that people will see it and say everywhere, saying that Zhan Zhao was chatting and laughing with a girl while walking in the street, if Bai Yutang heard about it...

Thinking of this, Zhan Zhao suddenly stopped, looked up at the round and bright sun above his head, and a voice shouted in his heart - Zhan Zhao!What’s wrong with you?Why are you so afraid of Bai Yutang like a thief who was bumped into?Why!He, Bai Yutang, knows all the people in the world, but he is the only one who loves the world. He knows all the courtesans in the world, so who is he afraid of?I just walk around with a girl twice and I feel like a thief... By God? !

Zhao Yuan felt puzzled, what happened to Zhan Zhao today?Stamping your feet for a while, hitting the wall for a while, and now you are still staring at the sun and talking to yourself, aren't you sick?

……

Bai Yutang and Xiao Sizi continued to walk north, getting more and more angry. Three flower taverns, one brothel and three gambling houses opened on this so-called "fun" street!

When Bai Yutang walked past a kiln, there were beauties chasing after him, and several times he almost snatched the fourth son away, secretly cursing Pang Yu, that dude, for being so sensual!

Seeing that the situation was not good, Bai Yutang simply carried his fourth son across the alley and headed west.

"Bai Bai, where are we going?" The fourth son couldn't move anymore, and was hugged by Bai Yutang, eating a red bean paste bun, "To the west is the book market, let's pick some medical books to read?"

"Medical books?" Bai Yutang lacked interest, but he had nothing to do, and there were many nerds in the book market, so he probably had a clue, so he went with the fourth son.

……

When Zhan Zhao saw the book market nearby, he asked Zhao Yuan, "Do you want to buy some books?"

"Okay!" Zhao Yuan became interested, I was about to buy some embroidery books, we... oops. "Before she finished speaking, she stepped on the ground suddenly and almost fell down.

"Be careful!" Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand to support her, and saw that there was a crater under her feet that was pressed by the wheels, and she might have sprained a bit.

"Oh." Zhao Yuan stretched out her hand to hold her calf, "My foot hurts so much."

Zhan Zhao frowned, "Is it twisted? There is a medical center ahead, I'll take you there."

"En." Zhao Yuan supported Zhan Zhao's hand, her face flushed.

Seeing that she couldn't walk by herself, Zhan Zhao wanted to help her move forward, raised her head...

All I could see was a familiar man in white walking out of the alley, holding a fat and cute child in his arms.The man in white and the child turned their heads slowly, their eyes moved over... moved over... locked!

Zhan Zhao immediately felt a "prick" all over his body, as if he had been scalded, stood there sweating, and made up his mind - the worst case scenario!

"Brother Zhan?" Zhao Yuan looked at Zhan Zhao, who was supporting her, and stared straight ahead, with a rich expression on his face.

Zhao Yuan followed his line of sight, and saw a man in white standing not far away, holding a doll in his hand.That doll was so cute, she was holding a bun dangling from her bulging cheeks, staring at her and Zhan Zhao as if dumbfounded.

And the man in white is so beautiful!Zhao Yuan felt in her heart that it was the first time she had seen a man so handsome.However, that person's complexion is so bad!And some... how to describe it?Murderous.