treacherous world

The appearance of Wu Lin's grandson undoubtedly added a great advantage to Bao Zheng's trip, which can be said to be a good start.Wu Lin described He Zheng's actions over the years in detail, which was really shocking.In addition, he was well-founded and familiar with the terrain in central Sichuan, so Bao Zheng and others decided to have a good chat with him.

Wu Lin's youngest grandson is named Wu Doudou, and his character is different from that of his fourth son, who is dumb.

The fourth son soon became good friends with him, the fourth son said it, Wu Doudou said a bunch of beans, and the fourth son said it again, and the way he chatted was funny.

"Little Douzi, Wuming is so cute, and my stone and scissors are also very good." The fourth son was rubbing the stone on Bai Yutang's calf.

Zhan Zhao crouched next to the stone and poked it, "Stone, you are not allowed to rub it anymore, you are not allowed to rub it!"

The stone turned around and ran to rub against Zhan Zhao, but Bai Yutang grabbed it and pushed it to the scissors.The scissors hold down the rock that is still going to have fun, preventing it from jumping on it again.

Gongsun asked Wu Lin, "Mr. Wu, why do you have this ledger?"

Wu Lin sighed, "It has something to do with my son, Doudou's father."

As he said that, he looked at Doudou who was playing with the fourth son.

Zhan Zhao was more considerate, and stood up, "Doudou, little four, how about we go out and sit?"

As he said that, he took all the children out, Bai Yutang hit the nail on the head, anyway, he doesn't care about anything now, as long as he sticks to Zhan Zhao!

After leaving the house, Xiao Liang took the fourth son and Wu Doudou to play.

Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and pulled Zhan Zhao, "What's going on?"

Zhan Zhao looked back at him, "You didn't listen to the case when you came?"

Bai Yutang shrugged, "As soon as I arrived in Kaifeng, I heard that you were coming to Sichuan, so I hurried over. Halfway through, I saw the grandpa and grandson following you, so I arrested you."

Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes slightly, "You didn't hear Mr. Bao's case just now?"

Bai Yutang smiled, "Did you just look at you?"

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand to pinch Bai Yutang's chin and pressed it twice, "Ha, it's even sweeter after not seeing you for a few days!"

"That's right." Bai Yutang smiled, "I came here after eating half a catty of candied dates. Do you want to try it?"

Zhan Zhao smiled until his eyes narrowed into a line, "Taste!"

Bai Yutang smiled and leaned over.

Guard Zhan was in a good mood, as soon as he pouted, he heard the little boy yell, "Meow, there are a lot of people outside!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang raised their faces instinctively, looking at the fourth son in embarrassment.

The fourth son realized that he seemed to be interrupting the kiss, and scratched his head in embarrassment.

At this moment, Wu Doudou also ran in, "Grandpa, County Magistrate Liu is here again, and he brought a group of people with him. He must have heard that Wu Ming appeared!"

"This dog official is really haunted." Wu Lin frowned and shook his head.

Zhan Zhao asked him, "Who is that Magistrate Liu?"

"Oh...Your Excellency doesn't know something." Wu Lintan replied, "The current officials in this prefecture's prefecture and county are all He Zheng's subordinates. Jincoffin Town belongs to Yao County. The magistrate of this county is not easy to come, so he must know that Wuming has appeared. , so I was afraid that our grandparents were not dead yet, so we brought thugs to check.

"What is County Magistrate Liu's full name?" Bao Zheng asked.

"It's Liu Xigui." Wu Lin replied, "He Zheng's minion, a heinous dog official."

Bai Yutang listened, and sneered, "That's a good name, Liu Xigui, do you think your life won't last?"

Wang Cheng came over and asked Bao Zheng, "My lord, they will definitely come in and search in a while, not because they are afraid of him, but because they are afraid that they will scare the snake when it happens."

Everyone also thought it was a matter. It seemed that He Zheng was really careful.According to the shadow guard, the people outside are about to enter the alley, and everyone is still at a loss.At this time, Pang Yu suddenly raised his hand, "Master Bao, I have a plan!"

Everyone was speechless, and he knew that his idea was a ghost's idea.

Bao Zheng smiled, and said in his heart that he brought you here because you had an idea, "Young Master, please tell me."

"Shall we scare them?" Pang Yu rubbed his hands, looked at the little black cat squatting on the stone table and licking its paws, "Is this cat obedient?"

Doudou nodded, "Five lives are the most obedient!"

Bao Yan urged Pang Yu from the side, "What can you do? Tell me quickly, people are coming soon."

Pang Yu twitched his lips and smirked, "I need a few shadow guards to help, and everyone else hides in the room, close the door and don't come out.

Bao Zheng and the others looked at each other, but they knew that it might be too late to talk carefully at this moment, so they all retreated into the room, leaving Pang Yu to pick someone.

Pang Yu left behind eight shadow guards and the fourth son.

The fourth son hugged his fifth life, raised his face and asked Pang Yu, "Small belly, what the hell idea?"

Pang Yu asked Wang Cheng to prepare a table and came out, picked up the fourth son, let him sit on the table with Wu Ming in his arms, and then asked someone to bring white powder and incense ash to make up the shadow guards.

The clerk brought out eight rolls of kang mats, and the eight shadow guards lay down after changing into ragged clothes, looking up at Pang Yu, a little puzzled.

Pang Yu smeared everyone's faces with incense ash, and then asked for a bowl of chicken blood to smear the paintings, making Baer Yingwei look like a living ghost.He also let the scary man produce a white sheet to cover them, pretending to be a dead person.

All the shadow guards looked at Pang Yu, and Ziying squinted her eyes, "Oh, the incense ash has gone into the eyes."

Zhe Ying hurriedly blew it, Pang Yu was afraid of being beaten, "Here, I didn't mean it..."

Zhe Ying shook his head with a smile. He is also a ghost, and knowing Pang Yu's intentions, everyone lay down and pretended to be dead.

At this time, it was almost evening, and the sky was getting dark. I don't know if the weather was beautiful, but the clouds were overcast, as if it was going to rain.

Bai Yutang took a rough look, "Pang Yu wants the shadow guards to move the dead to scare the magistrate?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "I don't know, but he always has evil ideas."

Bai Yutang listened to Zhan Zhao's words, leaned over and whispered, "Hungry."

When Zhan Zhao heard Bai Yutang's words, he felt a bit like being coquettish with him, surprised and distressed, "You didn't eat?!"

Bai Yutang shrugged, "I'm on my way, I haven't eaten all day today."

Zhan Zhao glared immediately, and dragged Bai Yutang to the kitchen at the back, where he made fried noodles for him.

Bao Zheng stood helplessly by the window, looked at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang who were still in a sweet state, and shook his head—did he tell them to come back too early?

Gongsun comforted Bao Zheng with a smile, "My lord, their state is probably normal, just get used to it."

Zhao Pu gloated at his misfortune, "Bao Xiang, Zhan Zhao has been abducted."

Bao Zheng also looked up at the sky helplessly, but... he was actually quite happy in his heart.Zhan Zhao is a person who likes to laugh. From the age of sixteen or seventeen, he followed him to solve the case, and now he is an adult. It can be said that he is as close as a nephew.Although he loves to laugh, Bao Zheng has never seen the smile on his face now.It was the first time Bao Zheng saw the indescribable happiness and joy that appeared on Zhan Zhao's face.Not to mention Bai Yutang, if he is an iceberg to others, he is like a pot of boiling water to Zhan Zhao, it makes people happy to watch.

After a while, Pang Yu and the others were ready, Zhan Zhao also made fried noodles, hid in the kitchen, and watched the scene ahead while eating noodles with Bai Yutang.

It's strange to say that Bai Yutang has a very tricky mouth, and he is not used to ordinary delicacies from mountains and seas. He likes three things most, fried noodles made by Zhan Zhao, egg fried rice made by Zhan Zhao, and egg soup made by Zhan Zhao.

Pang Yu gave the last instructions to everyone, and there were noisy voices coming from the door, and someone could vaguely hear saying, "It's inside! It's here! Those people went in with the five-life cat."

The fourth son looked out puzzled with five lives in his arms, Pang Yu had already changed his clothes.When they came earlier, everyone found it strange that Pang Yu brought a suitcase of clothes with him.Opening it up, it turned out that it was a box of costumes borrowed from a theater troupe owner he was acquainted with, and it was very convenient.

Pang Yu changed into a Taoist uniform, with three beards glued on, holding a whisk in his hand, and gestured to Bai Yutang in the distance.

Bai Yutang was eating noodles, when he saw Pang Yu's gesture of high-five and slapping someone, he guessed that he was asking him to use the palm of his hand to scare someone who came, so he nodded and signaled—— Understood.

Zhan Zhao stuffed a chopstick dish into his mouth, "Don't just eat, eat food obediently."

Bai Yutang wrinkled his nose, curled his lips at the plate of fish in front of him, and continued to concentrate on eating dry fried noodles. Zhan Zhao carefully picked out the fish and stuffed it into his mouth. If he didn't eat it, he squeezed his chin and stuffed it.

Zhao Pu looked envious, Gongsun pinched his ears and told him to look ahead, distracted!

Everything was ready, Pang Yu shook the bell with one hand, and shook the whisk with the other, muttering like he was doing it.

The fourth son looked at Pang Yu with his five lives in his arms and really wanted to be happy, but according to what Pang Yu said, he wanted to pretend to be a Bodhisattva and couldn't move.

The sound of the door being slammed outside came, and Wang Cheng ran to open the door. As soon as the door was opened, County Magistrate Liu came in fiercely with a man, pulling the duck by the neck and shouting, "I heard that there are monsters hidden here... oh."

Before he finished speaking, he felt a pain on his cheek... five finger prints appeared.

"Who...who hit me?" As soon as the words fell, another slap came.After slapping, Bai Yutang slapped him thirteen times, until Liu Xigui's head swelled up, and he took a step back with his face in his hands, so he stopped being slapped.

He covered his head and his voice changed when he spoke, and asked Wang Cheng in horror, "What... what is this for?!"

A few locals had sharp eyes and saw the little Sizi on the tribute table at a glance, and pointed to the Wuming in his arms, "Look! It's there!"

Liu Xigui was also a little puzzled, thinking what the hell are these people doing?Take another look, okay...the ground is full of dead people, "Meow." Wuming yelled.

This is what Doudou taught Xiao Si, as long as Wu Ming's stomach is touched, it will bark, it seems to be very ticklish.

Pang Yu just told the fourth son to touch Wu Ming when the other party was talking, and let him scream.

The attendants and commoners behind County Magistrate Liu were naturally afraid of Wu Ming, so they took two steps back.County Magistrate Liu didn't understand either, he held his face in his hands, who hit him just now?I didn't see anyone, could it be that I've seen a ghost?

Pang Yu murmured "the heavens are spirited and the earth is spirited", with a certain appearance.He flicked the whisk, and Bai Yutang, Zhan Zhao, Zhao Pu, etc. behind Nei Jin slapped him, and then a gust of wind swept over, and the crowd screamed.

Magistrate Liu frowned and asked Wang Cheng, "Shopkeeper Wang, what's the matter with you?"

Wang Cheng said, "My lord, that person I specially invited from Tianshan Mountain, Zhang Tianshi, a master of Taoism, has the power to penetrate the heavens and the earth, and said that this black cat is an ominous thing."

"That's right." County Magistrate Liu curled his lips, "Many masters once said that this cat is possessed by an evil spirit and is a monster who came to take his life."

Wang Cheng was very clever. According to what Pang Yu taught him in advance, he answered calmly, "Indeed, this cat is possessed by an evil spirit, but it is the evil spirit that does the evil, not the cat itself!"

Everyone was slightly taken aback, some didn't quite understand.

"Zhang Tianshi said that this cat will show up in Jincoffin Town again, which means that it has seen through the Golden Coffin scam. It is very angry now and will seize every opportunity to take revenge. You see, it can't reach me. One day, so many scary people have died!"

As soon as Wang Cheng's words came out, the people who were curious to see the excitement at the door were shocked, and they died again!

The order given by County Magistrate Liu was to guard all the people in the city, especially the people in Jinguan Town, and not allow them to leave the town.But as for the specific reason, his official rank is too low, and there is no way to inquire about it.Now listening to Wang Cheng's few words made people panic, fearing that the people would disperse and go outside to talk nonsense. At that time, his official position would not be guaranteed, maybe He Zheng would have his head cut off!

"Hey, nonsense! It's just nonsense!" County magistrate Liu waved his hand, "Where did the evil way come from to confuse the crowd, come on, catch me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several yamen servants rushed forward to drive Pang Yu away, and Zhan Zhao hurriedly took the fried noodle bowl in Bai Yutang's hand.

Bai Yutang used his internal energy to wave his sleeves.

On the other side, a few yamen servants felt a gloomy wind, and then flew out along the wall... The wind came from an unknown source, and the yamen servants almost peed their pants in fright when they landed heavily. They knelt down and begged for mercy. Grandpa, please forgive me.

Even Liu Xigui, the county magistrate, felt the difference. Looking around, he felt a chill rise from the soles of his feet and hit his forehead—not to mention pretending to be a ghost, a ghost really came out.

At this moment, Pang Yu suddenly muttered a few words, "Evil spirits dispel..." and other incomprehensible scriptures, and then pointed to the corpses of the shadow guards, "Evil spirits upper body!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the shadow guards lying on the ground covered with white cloth suddenly trembled violently.

All of a sudden, the yamen servants screamed in fright, and the common people screamed again and again, Liu Xigui felt that his forehead was sweating, and his calf muscles could not move.

Pang Yu muttered a few more words, and saw three shadow guards pretending to be dead jumped up, standing upright in the yard like zombies, and then followed Pang Yu's movement of waving the whisk, circled around Xiaosi The tribute table where the son was sitting turned and jumped up.Don't mention how weird this scene is.

Bai Yutang almost choked, Zhan Zhao hurriedly stroked his chest, and poured tea for him while pinching his nose.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao helplessly, knowing that he was up to no good, but no matter how he looked at him, he was pleasing to the eye!So pleasing to the eye!

"Mother!"

The people in Jin Coffin Town yelled, Liu Xigui couldn't take it anymore, he was overly frightened, where did the zombies come from, so he followed the frightened people around and ran away.

After running for half a mile, Liu Xigui came to his senses and wondered why he was running?He hurriedly took people back to the door of the medicine shop in Wangcheng, and wiped off his sweat.At this time, I saw the three "zombies" still circling around the fourth son, the fourth son couldn't recognize it with a smile, he reached out and poked Wu Ming's belly, Wu Ming was happy to turn it over, meow straight call out.

Liu Xigui asked Wang Cheng suspiciously, "I said shopkeeper Wang, what are you bothering about? What is the master doing that day?"

Wang Cheng smiled, "Returning to the master, the celestial master said that the cat wasn't that evil at first, but there were too many undeads on it, no, those undeads were unjust souls who died accidentally, and haunted the cat, so it became even more evil. "

Liu Xigui was a little guilty, thinking that what Wang Cheng said was right, this was just an ordinary cat, they wanted to deal with Wu Lin, so they deliberately charged it with murder.If it is said that those who died in vain in the plan to frame Wu Lin came to avenge, wouldn't it be best to achieve it by possessing the cat? !

Seeing that the heat was not too bad, Liu Xigui really believed it, so he went on to say, "The celestial master said to draw all the evil spirits out of the black cat and let them attach to the dead body, so that after 49 days of jumping, the evil spirits will dissipate." , from now on, Five Lives will never harm anyone again."

Liu Xigui felt that it was not bad to hear it. If you do too many bad things, you will be afraid of revenge. It would be a good thing if you can make those souls die and not trouble you again.He asked, "Is the Celestial Master sure?"

"Yes, but be very careful." Wang Cheng said, "This zombie must not be touched or approached now. Once it gets angry and collides, it will trick the corpse into biting people. Once the corpse's aura is exposed, the entire Golden Coffin Town may be destroyed." will be destroyed."

"Is there such a thing?" Liu Xigui felt a little timid as he touched his face that had just been severely beaten.

At this time, the yamen servants who flew out just now came to tell Liu Xigui in a low voice, "My lord! It's really windy, we all felt as if we were beaten by ghosts just now."

Liu Xigui nodded.

In the kitchen, Bai Yutang sneered, "You were the one who hit you."

Zhan Zhao wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, "Are you full?"

Bai Yutang nodded, looking at Zhan Zhao felt relieved.Seeing Liu Xigui and others still dawdling in the distance, he simply raised his hand...

With a sound of "click", Liu Xigui was stunned at the bottom of the porch when he saw a piece of tile just fell from the courtyard wall... Then, the tile fell down with a crackling sound, almost hitting him.

The people watching at the gate were all terrified and retreated one after another.

Liu Xigui yelled at Wang Cheng, "You... isn't your house haunted by ghosts?"

Wang Cheng smiled grimly, "Don't be afraid, I was born in Tianshan Zhenqing Temple, I am used to seeing evil spirits since I was a child, and I have opened my eyes, don't be afraid, I am not surprised to see some evil spirits."

"Can you see dirty things?" Liu Xigui asked.

"No, there is a middle-aged man following behind my lord." Wang Cheng poked Liu Xigui's empty shoulder, "It's a woman, lying on your back."

"Ah!" Liu Xigui yelled and jumped up.

Wang Cheng handed over a piece of amulet, "My lord stays by my side, so it can't see you."

"Oh, thank you very much!" Liu Xigui quickly picked it up, looking around nervously.

"My lord." Wang Cheng interrupted him and continued, "Recently, people in Jincoffin Town should close their doors and stay safe, and must not walk around, so as not to bump into this wraith."

Liu Xigui was originally afraid that someone would go out and cause trouble for him, but when he heard Wang Cheng's words, it hit his heart!Since no one was going to leave, he didn't worry about putting on the black hat anymore, so he nodded and told the residents of Jincoffin Town behind him to keep their heads down so as not to bump into dead bodies.

The house was windy, and Liu Xigui didn't want to stay longer, so he took his subordinates away, and he had to go to Yihong Courtyard to drink flowers and wine at night, so he didn't have time to take care of this matter.

After they were successfully dismissed, Wang Cheng hurriedly closed the door, and everyone returned to the study.

Bao Zheng praised Pang Yu for his wit, and everyone sat down, all very curious about Wu Lin's background.

It turned out that Wu Lin's son was a scholar, very capable, and he was looking for a job in the Chengdu government to be in charge of accounts.He carefully discovered that He Zheng and the others were planning something secretly, and the accounts were false.

So, Mr. Wu quietly copied a few books of accounts. Unexpectedly, it became more and more surprising later on. Mr. Wu felt that something was wrong, and he noticed that He Zheng seemed to have suspected him.Guessing that he might be killed, he quietly handed over the ledger to his old father and told him to keep it carefully.

Sure enough, within a few days, Mr. Wu was killed. Wu Lin took his grandson and hid in Tibet with the accounts. He lost five lives. The cat was very clever and saved several of them.The two only hoped that one day they could avenge their son and bring He Zheng to justice.

When Bao Zheng heard what had happened to his grandfather and grandson, he was also very angry. Then He Zheng was thinking hard, as if he was still hiding something... Was it to delay time?Otherwise, why bother so much.

Zhao Pu also laughed, "It seems that we came at the right time. Before he is fully ready, we should pick him upside down first, otherwise it may be too late when his wings are full-fledged!"

After dinner, Gongsun and Zhao Pu went to the courtyard and saw Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang sitting at the table, studying five lives.

The black cat lay on the stone table in front of the two of them, meowed softly, licked its paws and washed its face.

Zhan Zhao squeezed its soft tail and shook it at Bai Yutang, "Bai Yutang looked at him and smiled."

Zhao Pu was shocked, "Mom, Bai Yutang still laughs like this."

Gongsun also touched his neck, "Look at them, they are both tired and crooked."

Zhao Pu stretched out his hand to Gongsun on the first floor, "My dear, we can't lose to them!"

Gongsun glanced at him, "What's the comparison..."

Zhao Pu still walked over with his arms around Gongsun, and sat down with Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang.

At this time, Xiaosi and Doudou were also sitting at the table, Xiao Liang was sitting on the back of the scissors, and was seriously asking Wu Doudou, "There are so many sects and bandits in Sichuan?"

"Hmm!" Wu Doudou told the crowd in an old-fashioned way, "You know, Jincoffin Town is the gate of Sichuan, and every step behind the gate is a crisis!"

Bai Yutang pinched Wu Ming's ear, frowned and thought for a while, "The biggest sect in Sichuan is the Emei sect, but those old Taoist nuns never cared about world affairs, followed by the Tang sect...now it's relatively declining."

"That's right!" Wu Doudou nodded, "The most powerful ones are those bandits!"

"This area is poor and bad. If there are hundreds of people stationed on any mountain and build a cottage, it will be difficult to attack. It will take time and effort." Zhao Pu shook his head. He is used to living in the desert, and he likes plain warfare. Terribly.

"There is a Duan family village at the back of Jincoffin Town. The owner of the village is He Zheng's nephew, Duan Dashan." Doudou introduced to everyone, "That person is so bad that he can't even imagine... Robbing men and women is all kinds of evil."

Zhan Zhao raised his brows, "Why is He Zheng such a relative? Don't let him be restrained!"

"Everyone who enters Shuzhong through Jincoffin Town must pass through the territory of Duanjiazhai." Doudou shook his head, "They are stricter than officers and soldiers, and they will be robbed if they have valuables."

Zhao Pu crossed his arms, "Fortunately, I met you, grandpa and grandson, otherwise it would be really difficult, we are not familiar with the terrain and it is not easy to hire a guide, so it is easy to fall into the trap.

"He Zheng's foundation is solid, so he's not afraid of the master Qingtian. I don't think the emperor cares about him." Doudou curled her lips, "To enter Shuzhong, you have to go through Duan Dashan first, and ah ... Duan Dashan knows a lot of He Zheng's secrets."

"Since we can't hide, it doesn't matter if we go head-to-head." Bai Yutang stroked his chin and thought, "We might as well take his stockade and replace him with ours."

Zhao Pu clapped his hands, "I agree with you!"

"Will it scare the snake?" Gongsun was a little worried.

"Don't be afraid. Officers and soldiers attacking bandits are considered scaring the snake, but bandits fighting bandits are just fighting for territory. He Zheng may not be able to take care of it!" Zhan Zhao smiled slyly, "Let's occupy the mountain as king for once."

As soon as his words came out, everyone became excited-it was the first time to be a bandit and occupy the mountain as king.