treacherous world

When Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang came to Wuzuo's room together, Gongsun and Zhao Pu had already opened the coffin, and the mermaid skeleton lying inside made them speechless, "It's really a sea mermaid!"

"Is it natural, or was it stitched together?" Bai Yutang made a slight noise with his sleeves as he walked, and Zhan Zhao heard the sound to identify his position, and he went to the side of the coffin and asked a question.

"Got it." Gongsun replied casually, "How could someone have a tail...but there are some suspicious things." Then, Gongsun pointed to the finger skull of the female corpse and asked, "Do you think it's strange?" ?”

"Her hands are so big!"

The fourth son was being carried by Zhao Pu to look into the coffin. He had already felt something was wrong before, why the girl's hands were so big.

"Do you use your strength often or... use it for paddling all year round?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Everyone stopped talking. This explanation is reasonable, and there are really not many answers that can be explained rationally.

Bai Yutang asked Gongsun, "Could it really be a sea mermaid? I have indeed seen that fish with a human body and a fish tail. It lives and swims very fast."

"Many of these are fake." Gongsun sighed softly, shaking his head and said, "There are many swindlers along the coast, who arrest girls, wrap their legs with the tails of big fish, sew them up, and let them grow tightly At the same time, some children have lived in the water since they were young... Gradually..."

"Ah!" The fourth son covered his ears, "It's so pitiful!"

Everyone couldn't listen anymore.

Gongsun sighed softly, and also felt that it was uncomfortable to say this, so he shook his head, "Don't talk about that, have you seen the appearance of that mermaid?"

Bai Yutang thought for a while, and said, "Gongsun...she might be as old as two of us."

"what?!"

Zhan Zhao was also surprised.

Zhao Pu looked Bai Yutang up and down, and said to Gongsun, "Two... that girl is too big."

"Could it be that there really are sea mermaids?" Gongsun paced back and forth.

"Then what about this one, Daddy?" Xiao Sizi pointed to the skeleton of the ordinary human-shaped sea mermaid in the coffin and asked, "She still has a doll in her stomach."

"The doll was put in. The sea mermaid wasn't pregnant at all. Just look at her pelvis. And to be honest, the person who put the baby in was an amateur. The baby's hands and feet are all formed and even his eyes are almost open. At least Six months. When a six-month-old child is in the womb, his head is pushed down. How can it be like sitting? In addition, the position of the child is not so high, and it should be lowered a lot. This is absolutely Someone with ulterior motives used two human bones and one fish tail to create the illusion of a pregnant mermaid."

After Gongsun finished speaking, Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang, and Zhao Pu all asked in unison, "How tired are you from throwing your head down?"

Gongsun stared at the three of them helplessly, "You three were all born in mother's womb, forget about it!"

All three lowered their heads in embarrassment and coughed. Gongsun took the fourth son from Zhao Pu's hand and patted it. "I delivered the fourth son myself! I have treated many pregnant women, and the baby was in the mother's belly." When I was in the hospital, I often changed the position, and the position was absolutely different at different times, this is called the fetal position! If the fetal position is not correct, it will cause dystocia."

Everyone was stupefied, the fourth son smiled and hugged Gongsun.

"Why do you make such a fake pregnant mermaid?" Xiao Liang asked Gongsun, "Can you tell that the tail is connected?"

Gongsun nodded, "It's definitely fake."

Everyone waited humbly for his explanation. After all, he was more credible in this respect.

Gongsun said, "What shape is the backbone of the fish you have seen?"

Bai Yutang thought for a while, "Straight."

"What about the man's spine?

Zhan Zhao replied, "The shape of a bow."

"Well." Gongsun continued, "All the creatures with backbones in this world have the same backbone shape. If the backbone of a fish is not straight, it cannot swim. If the backbone of a human is not bow-shaped, it cannot stand up. If a mermaid has half a human backbone and half a fish backbone, let alone swimming, her waist will be broken when she swings her tail."

Everyone was stunned.

"Break?" Zhao Pu wondered.

Gongsun laughed, "Which fish have you seen with a waist?!"

Everyone thought about it and thought it was true, the fish has no waist!

"Don't you think that humans and monkeys are somewhat similar?" Gongsun continued to ask. "Creatures that need to walk straight need bones like ours. Similarly, the bones that run on all fours like cats and dogs are similar in shape, so fish may have different shapes from fish to fish, but the bones that support the body must be Same. Because they don’t need to grow into the shape of a human body and fish tail! This kind of existence is unreasonable, what do you think?”

Zhan Zhao stroked his chin and nodded, "Yes...Gongsun, your idea is indeed interesting. In this way, many deceptive things in the world will be exposed! What kind of human head and snake body, if it has a snake body, There is no need to grow a human head, because it is not easy to use!"

"Correct!" Gongsun nodded, and looked at Bai Yutang with satisfaction, Bai Yutang also understood, Gongsun finally looked at Zhao Pu.

Zhao Pu shrugged, "Then, how do those two mermaids who are as big as Bai Yutang explain... oops." Before he finished speaking, Gongsun pinched him, because even Gongsun couldn't explain it!Maybe, that girl is really taller?Gongsun himself felt that he lacked confidence.

"If she's not a sea mermaid, with such big hands, does it mean that she is one of those girls who are used to pretend to be a sea mermaid?" Xiao Liang asked suddenly.

The fourth son looked at the coffin, sighed, "It's really pitiful."

Gongsun touched the heads of the two children.

"Oh, otherwise, find a place to eat first, and then test the dead rats after eating, or you will definitely lose your appetite." Zhao Pu saw a lot of dead people on the battlefield, and he also saw a lot of poor people. He didn't like the atmosphere very much, and pulled Gongsun said, "Let's go, let's take a shower before eating!"

"Why take a bath?" Gongsun wanted to say that I was starving to death.

But Zhao Pu stretched out his hand to hold him, hugged the fourth son in one hand, and rushed to the backyard, "Eat immediately after taking a shower, Xiao Liangzi, follow up!"

"Oh." Xiao Liang didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly took Shitou with him, and then heard Zhao Pu shouting to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang from afar, "You two go eat first."

Bai Yutang twitched the corners of his mouth slightly, Zhan Zhao also wanted to laugh, Zhao Pu was... rough but subtle.

"Let's go, I want to eat meat, not fish." Zhan Zhao suggested.

"I think so too." Bai Yutang still waved his sleeves to bring out the wind as he walked, as a guide.To be honest, if Zhan Zhao's eyes were fine, and Bai Yutang didn't pull his wrist, Zhan Zhao might run up to put his shoulder on his own.But now, Bai Yutang is careful not to help him as much as possible.Because he knows that Zhan Zhao actually doesn't care about anything, except for the arrogance in his bones, he doesn't like to accept help from others, taking care of him too much is more uncomfortable than ignoring him at all.

The two left the Yamen side by side and went to the restaurant.

……

"Jiujiu, I don't want to take a bath, I'm so hungry." The fourth son pulled Zhao Pu.

Hiding behind the courtyard wall, Zhao Pu saw Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang leaving, and guessed, "Okay, let's eat right away."

"Then let's go after Miaomiao and them." The fourth son was about to run out, and Zhao Pu slipped back with his neck in his hands, "You little idiot, won't it be a waste of help?"

The fourth son looked at him puzzled, "What?"

"Couldn't you be trying to match up Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang along the way?"

The fourth son twisted the corner of his clothes, "Hmm..."

"Ha." Zhao Pu shook his head, and stretched out his hand to poke the fourth son's stomach, "How can you use the trick of matching me and your father against Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang?"

The fourth son raised his face and asked, "Why not?"

"I'm a hooligan. The combination of Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao is twice as big, and they're not half as hooligan as I am."

The fourth son blinked and began to count with his fingers.

Gongsun stood by the well washing his hands, which amused Zhao Pu, "You really know yourself."

Zhao Pu smiled cheekily, knelt down and said to the fourth son, "Your fourth son, if you really want to match these two, you have to change your strategy!"

"What strategy?" The fourth son asked seriously.

"Retreat to advance!"

"Oh?" The fourth son sounds very reliable, Jiujiu has used all the tactics of war!

"Remember." Zhao Pu whispered in his ear, "You have to do everything possible to leave them alone."

The fourth son rubbed his chin, he did let the two of them be alone, "I also asked them to take a bath together, but they refused."

"Tsk, I'm too anxious!" Zhao Pu said, "At this stage, let them eat alone, walk alone, and sleep alone."

The fourth son tilted his head, although he didn't understand what it meant, but after thinking about it, he nodded, "Yeah! Jiujiu, I'll listen to you!"

"That's good." Zhao Pule stood up, but saw Gongsun staring at him, and sneered, "What did you teach your son?"

"Ahem..." Zhao Pu coughed, and picked up the two children, "Run!"

Gongsun hurriedly chased after him, thinking it was really unreliable, he had to teach Zhao Pu a lesson!

Putting aside the fact that the big two and the young ones on the other side made a big mess as soon as they came, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had already ordered food and sat in the private seats on the second floor to eat.

Bai Yutang inadvertently put some dishes for Zhan Zhao, they were all easy to eat, egg custard and the like could be drunk with a spoon, and Bai Yutang asked the waiter to check the toothpicks on all the meat dishes, Zhan Zhao just stretched out his hand to eat can get it.

Bai Wuye was only careful. Zhan Zhao finally saw it today, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Thinking about Bai Yutang's coldness on weekdays, if he was really gentle with others, who would not be tempted? No wonder he is said to be romantic.

Thinking of this, Zhan Zhao suddenly asked, "Brother Bai, how many confidante friends?"

"Ahem..." Bai Yutang almost swallowed the toothpick, quickly took it out, and looked at Zhan Zhao in surprise, "Why do you ask this?"

"Oh... curious." Zhan Zhao replied.

"How do you know I have a confidante?" Bai Yutang smiled faintly.

"It's said that you are a romantic woman, but on the terms of your Fifth Master Bai, there's no reason why you don't have a confidante."

"Your qualifications are not bad, Mr. Zhan. How many confidante do you have?"

"I don't have one." Zhan Zhao shrugged, "I'm busy all day long."

"You mean I'm free all day?"

Zhan Zhao reached out and took a toothpick and stuffed it into his mouth, and found that it was a duck tongue, so he chewed it, thought for a while, and asked, "Didn't it mean that you and the famous prostitute in the south of the Yangtze River, the Yaoqin girl who is known as the number one beauty? Is it good? You are the only one in the whole world who can enter her Yaoqin Pavilion to listen to the piano."

Bai Yutang nodded, "Yes, did I save her life?"

"So this is a confidante?"

Bai Yutang laughed, "You would also say that you just listened to the piano."

"Oh." Zhan Zhao nodded.

"What about Ji Xiaoyan, the poisonous lady?" Zhan Zhao asked again.

Bai Yutang asked with a smile, "Where did you hear all this?"

"The fourth son told me." Zhan Zhao replied, "On the way we came to Qushan County, he said this in my ear every day, and asked me if it was true. It seems that he asked Zhe Ying to inquire about it. .”

Bai Yutang opened his mouth, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, this little idiot really cares.Zhe Ying is a secret agent, and he can inquire about important military affairs. This kind of rumors in the world will not trouble him, but even the girl's family background is clear, that is to say, there is no need to explain everything.Then I thought again, why did I have to explain clearly?So what about a confidante, Bai Yutang has never been afraid of being misunderstood.

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao asked him.

Bai Yutang turned his face sideways, and originally wanted to say something casually, but when he caught sight of Zhan Zhao's eyes... the words on his lips changed involuntarily.

Bai Yutang only remembered that he seemed to say it very seriously, "Those are just friends. I do have a confidant, but it's a pity that it's not a confidante."

Zhan Zhao was stunned when he heard this, and really wanted to ask who his confidant was, but he still didn't have the courage to ask again, his ears were a little hot, so he stretched out his hand and pinched the toothpick again, and stuffed it into his mouth... a mouthful of lotus root in honey sauce, very sweet.