treacherous world

Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang suddenly sleepwalked and almost got lost, making everyone sweat.

After the two woke up, Gongsun grabbed one of them and dared not let go, making the fourth son and Xiao Liang very depressed.

On this day, the Chengdu Mansion also exploded, because the children disappeared a lot.Everyone said before that He Zheng ordered the kidnapping, but this time it is Bao Zheng who is in charge of the Chengdu mansion. Bao Qingtian will not let his subordinates kidnap innocent children, right?

So where did the children go, the whole city started looking, and the streets were a mess.

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang felt a little regretful, it would have been fine if they hadn't woken Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang just now, they could follow them to see what was going on.

Gongsun was still holding on to Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang, fearing that one of them would be caught if he didn't pay close attention, so he asked, "Do you two know where you are going?"

The fourth son was so sleepy that he yawned, and felt uncomfortable because he didn't sleep last night. Xiao Liang remembered a little bit, after all, he was older than the fourth son, "West...it seems that someone is calling."

"Where is the west side?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Xiao Liang shook his head.

Zhao Pu frowned, and the shadow guards led people to look for it to the west, not to miss any corner.

Fortunately, there are officers and soldiers guarding the city outside the city, and they all said that they have never seen any children leaving the city, which means that the children are still in the city.

The shadow guards led a large number of people to search the whole city, digging three feet to take pictures of everyone.

"Why are only children able to hear it?" Bai Yutang wondered, he had done some research on rhythm, and had never heard of such a strange thing.

"Will it be related to the child's physical condition?" Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang, "Do you still remember that time, when investigating the horse belly case, there was a strange sound at night, only me and the fourth son could hear it?"

"Then you didn't hear it this time?" Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao, "Or is the effect different from the first time?"

"Hmm..." Zhan Zhao was also confused, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Zhao Pu folded his arms and frowning, standing aside in a daze.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao glanced at each other, both of them looked at him, Zhao Pu turned his head, and the two looked at each other, Zhao Pu gave a "tsk" and said, "I just can't figure it out, He Zheng's remnants have been arrested, and the Tubo people It's caught, whoever came up with such a weird way to deceive children, so what if they cheated away?"

"unless……"

When everyone couldn't figure it out, they heard Pang Yu ask, "Could it be a human voice?"

Gongsun covered the ears of the fourth son and asked him, "Is it the story of ghosts and gods again?"

"No." Pang Yu waved his hand, "Is it said that the smell of wine is not afraid of deep alleys? Could it be something special that can attract children? It may not be the sound, smell, feeling or something like that?"

Everyone thought it was possible, but there was still no clue.

At noon, Doudou came to see Wuming.

Seeing him coming, everyone hurriedly asked him what he was doing last night and whether he was dreaming.

Doudou looked bewildered, "I slept pretty well, I didn't dream."

"Didn't go out for a walk?"

Doudou scratched her head, "Where are you going?"

"It seems that it is only useful for some children, but not for most of them." Bao Zheng walked in, "Not all the children in the city were lost last night, many of them were asleep, and nothing happened at all."

Now, everyone turned their heads to look at Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang, what is the difference between them and Doudou?

Gongsun stood up, took the three children into the room, checked them carefully, and shook his head when he came out, "It's all right, it's just that the fourth son is fatter, Doudou is thinner, and Liangzi is stronger."

But at this time, Bai Yutang didn't say a word, and was in a daze all the time, as if thinking about something.

"Yutang." Zhan Zhao gently tugged at him, "What's wrong?"

"No..." Bai Yutang came back to his senses and said, "Someone summoned me to go, I seem to have had this kind of dream when I was young."

Zhan Zhao opened his eyes wide.

Bai Yutang frowned, "Is this not a special dream?"

"What happened later?" Zhan Zhao asked, "When did it happen? When you were with Fifth Aunt?"

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, the cat was quite sensitive, and it was because he had some relationship with Fifth Aunt that he cared about it.Sighing, "I don't remember very clearly, but it seems that I didn't run out in the middle of the night."

"Wait a minute." Zhao Pu interrupted everyone suddenly, "The past few days have been peaceful, why last night? Did something different happen last night?"

"If you have to say it, the golden coffin scared people last night." After Zhan Zhao said a word, everyone looked in the direction of the warehouse at the same time—could it have something to do with the golden coffin?

Zhao Pu went over and opened the door of the storeroom. This time there was nothing terrible, and the corpse did not sit up. After careful observation, there was no change at all.

Bai Yutang had the urge to tear down the golden coffin.

Zhan Zhao found that he had been staring at the golden coffin since last night, like a child who found something interesting, so he patted him on the shoulder, "Take it apart!"

Bai Yutang looked at Bao Zheng.

Bao Zheng asked first, "It's been dismantled, but can it be put back?"

Bai Yutang smiled and nodded, "It should be possible."

"Then take it apart and see what's inside." Bao Zheng nodded in agreement.Bai Yutang brought a lot of tools, and like a child, he began to study the coffin, preparing to dismantle it.

Zhan Zhao rested his chin on a stool and stared at him with a concentrated expression... It is rare to see Bai Yutang look serious like a child.

At first, everyone thought that such a big golden coffin had a hard shell and no seams, so how could it be dismantled?

But Bai Yutang took a file and looked left and right, and pried it somewhere, only heard a "click", and a seam was split open.

Zhan Zhao watched in amazement as Bai Yutang dismantled the side of the coffin familiarly, and took out different parts from the inside, one by one, as if he knew the location.

Even the fourth son felt miraculous, "Bai Bai is so proficient!"

Zhao Pu leaned against the door and asked, "Didn't you dismantle it before?"

Bai Yutang looked back at the crowd, and replied lightly, "It was indeed demolished."

Zhan Zhao was surprised, "Where was it dismantled?"

Bai Yutang put down the drill bit and said, "Fifth Aunt built a big Qiqiaolinglong Pavilion, and I was trapped in it for three days and three nights, and there are such traps everywhere."

"Your fifth aunt did this?"

Bai Yutang shook his head, "I don't know if it's me, but the craftsmanship is almost the same, which is the most strange."

After Bai Yutang took apart the last point, he pulled out and said to Zhan Zhao, "Cat, come and help me."

Zhan Zhao ran over, and saw Bai Yutang pulled out a box from the innermost side, helped him pick it up, and saw that inside the big golden coffin, there was also a small golden coffin.

"There's something hidden inside!" Gongsun had to admire this ingenious skill.

Bai Yutang asked everyone to back off, and began to disassemble the eight-fold golden lock on the golden coffin. Zhan Zhao's neck hurt from seeing it, and he couldn't help admiring it. His white mouse is really smart, and he can remember such delicate things. Generally, men with good-looking faces usually have embroidered pillows, but his mice are beautiful and intelligent!

When Zhan Zhao thought of this, Bai Yutang, who had been concentrating on it before, felt a cold air coming from the ground.

Following the sound of "Gada Gada", Bai Yutang stepped back a little, and saw the lid of the small golden coffin loosen slightly, and a hole was cracked.He stretched out his hand and gently lifted the lid of the coffin... There was something inside.

There was no corpse in the small golden coffin, but a round jade plate.A handle protrudes from the jade plate, and there are scales and directions around it. It looks like a Sinan, and it looks like a sundial.

"It's ice jade." Pang Yu is quite good at jade, and he came over to touch it, and praised, "A high-quality jade, this thing must be an ancient artifact, and it's priceless."

"What is it used for?" Zhan Zhao wondered.

Bai Yutang shook his head, he had never seen this kind of thing before, but it must be something extraordinary to go to such great pains to hide it.

When everyone was watching the jade together, Ziying and Zheying ran back, "Marshal, we found it!"

Bao Zheng hurriedly asked, "Have you found those children?"

"Well, I found them all. They were all crying when they were gathered together. They all ran away by themselves." Ziying said, with a puzzled expression on her face, "But you'd better go and have a look, there are other things .” As he spoke, he looked at Zhan Zhao, “You might be interested.”

……

The crowd followed the shadow guards to the west of the city and left a hill not far from the city gate.There was a big cave there, and the children fell into a big pit in the cave.The pit was filled with straw, so soft, it looked like a trap specially designed to catch them.

When Zhan Zhao arrived, the children had already been rescued and comforted, waiting for the adults to pick them up.

Zhe Ying jumped over the big pit, pointed to the depths of the cave, "It's inside."

Bai Yutang pinched his nose and frowned, "What smell?!"

Zhao Pu also frowned, "Well, there is a smell that is not fragrant or stinky."

"Does it smell?" Gongsun wondered.

Bai Yutang and Zhao Pu looked at him together, "Can't you smell it?"

Gongsun touched his nose, and several people behind him nodded to indicate that they had smelled it, while others shook their heads and said they didn't smell it at all.

Zhan Zhao frowned.

Bai Yutang looked at him, "Cat, did you smell it?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "It smells like something, but it's not fragrant or stinky."

"What's that smell?" Everyone wondered.

Zhan Zhao raised his face and thought for a while, "How can I describe it... It tastes like unripe fruit, raw and crunchy, and feels a little sour."

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, unable to imagine how to "smell" this smell.

"Go in and have a look and you'll understand." Zhe Ying led the way.

Everyone lit a torch and walked into the depths of the dark cave.I don't know how long I walked, and finally saw the end.In the dark cave, there was a piece of dead wood lying horizontally.There are several bowl-sized safflowers blooming on the dead wood, which is similar to the feeling of red cotton.

And near those red flowers, a few fruits grew.This kind of fruit has a strange shape, like a fear, but it is familiar to Zhan Zhao and the others!The blood demon gall also had this appearance, and the shape of the dead tree made everyone think of the holy tree depicted in the picture of weeping blood in Lingshan.

The shapes are really similar, the only difference is that the holy tree has fruits of different colors growing on it, but this tree only grows fruits of one color, or because it is not yet ripe, the color does not appear.Those fruits are white and slightly green.Not to mention, looking at the appearance of this fruit, it really looks like what Zhan Zhao described - crunchy, not yet ripe, it should be sour at first glance, right?Of course, everyone knows the power of this fruit, and no one dares to take a bite.

"There is actually a sacred tree here!" Gongsunzheng sighed, seeing that Zhao Pu and Bai Yutang were holding their noses and seemed to be dying.Bai Yutang waved his hand, he wanted to go out and find a place to vomit, the mix of all kinds of smells made people want to vomit.Zhao Pu didn't feel as bad as him, but he also felt bad smell, so he ran away quickly.Only Gongsun was fine, Zhan Zhao stared at the fruits with faint doubts in his eyes.

When everyone came out of the cave, they saw that the children at the door had calmed down and were sitting there looking at the adults curiously.

Zhan Zhao pulled the bolder ones over, knelt down and looked down carefully.The children thought this big brother was very good-looking, and they all looked up at Zhan Zhao curiously. Many children pointed to his eyes and said, "Ah! You called us!"

Zhan Zhao was taken aback for a moment, and looked at them puzzled, "Me?"

All the children nodded, "We are following you."

"I didn't..." Zhan Zhao frowned, "What does the person who brought you here look like?"

The children looked at each other, and only said that they remembered that the man had a pair of golden eyes, and he looked good when he smiled, but they didn't remember anything else.

As soon as Zhan Zhao heard the golden eyes, he naturally thought of Zhan Hao again—subconsciously looked back at the weird fruit tree, so these children were attracted by this tree?Why can only part of it be attracted, but the other part has no response at all?

After sending the children back, everyone began to observe the tree.

"If you let it stay here, will it keep attracting children?" Gongsun pointed to one of the flowers that had just bloomed, "Could it be that the children become abnormal because of the flowers?"

Everyone thought it was possible, but looking at the big pit, it was completely set up for the safety of capturing children.Zhan Zhao was puzzled, what did Zhan Hao do with the children?

Bao Zheng ordered people to drag the tree out of the dark cave, and before it could be boxed, it was unknown if it was because of the sun, the tree withered instantly.

"Eh?" Everyone was caught off guard, and then there was a "crash", the tree turned black and withered in an instant, and a gust of mountain wind passed by, and it immediately disappeared like ashes and smoke.

Bao Zheng stomped his feet anxiously, regretting that he was too anxious.

No one knew that the holy wood was afraid of the sun. Of course, Bao Zheng could not be blamed. It was a hot potato to keep. No one knew what to do with it, so if it was gone, it would be gone.

After returning to Chengdu Mansion and dealing with official business for a few days, Tubo sent all the kidnapped children back safely.

Bao Zheng asked his family to pick them up one by one, and asked about the circumstances of the children being taken away.

It is said that only a small number of these children were kidnapped as hostages because their parents were against He Zheng, and most of the others were dreaming at night and ran to the trap by themselves.They didn't suffer any harm. On the contrary, during this period of time, they ate, drank, had fun and were taught to read and write, and they all gained a lot of weight.

Zhan Zhao approached a few children and asked if they had seen someone who looked like Zhan Hao, and the children said they saw it, and he just looked into everyone's eyes, and he was very kind.

"Eyes..." Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, and brought Xiao Sizi, Xiao Liang and Doudou.Finally... Zhan Zhao saw the difference between them.

The fourth son's eyes are also kitten's eyes, very light in color, and the eyeballs are a bit amber like Bai Yutang.Xiao Liang is of a foreign race, not of mixed race, and does not have Zhao Pu's yin and yang eyes, but the color of his eyes is similar to Zhao Pu's gray eyes, and they are not pure black anyway.And Xiaodoudou has a pair of black eyes, like obsidian.Afterwards, everyone observed all the kidnapped children, and found that their eyes were all pale.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang remembered that the Ye Wang Tuo Hezheng had been courting many teenagers before, and they were also looking for colored eyes—what color did Zhan Hao want to look for?

Now that the children were all returned, Zhao Pu was also a man of his word, so he returned Dabin to Tubo and asked his followers to send him back.

Next, everyone began to discuss how to go next, whether to go back to Kaifeng Mansion, or try to go to Tubo to find the legendary City of Ten Thousand Demons and the whereabouts of Zhan Hao.

After discussing for two days, I think it's better to go back to Kaifeng Mansion first.

But before they left, there was a commotion in the west, and the border customs sent urgent documents, and He Yihang sent someone to tell Zhao Pu that something had happened.It turns out that Tianda did not return to Tubo, but disappeared on the way.His entourage went back to report that Da and was tied back by several masked masters. It might be that Zhao Pu had backtracked, so Zanpu couldn't swallow this breath, and assembled troops and horses to unite with Xixia and Liao Kingdom, preparing to go to war with Song Dynasty.

Zhao Pu froze after receiving the letter, and asked Zhe Ying, "Did Da not go back?"

Zhe Ying also frowned, "When we accompanied the sent troops to the border, he was fine. After being handed over to the generals of Tubo, our people turned back. Dabin was still alive at that time, but he disappeared later."

Zhao Pu frowned, "Tsk...he was put together."

Bao Zheng also nodded, "It may be that someone is obstructing it, trying to stir up conflicts between us and Tubo."

Zhao Pu nodded, "Mistake, just send someone to send him off."

"Then what's next?" Gongsun was a little worried.

"Afraid of what he will do." Zhao Pu raised his eyebrows, "Come and beat me up."

"Oh, my lord." Bao Zheng hurriedly stopped him, "There's no need to fight! It's someone else's trick."

"That's right." Gongsun also nodded, "It's serious to find Da Bing, and if you want to hit him, hit the troublemaker!"

Bao Zheng also nodded, "Mr. Gongsun is right. This is a typical case of framing. Moreover, if you want to see people die, you must see corpses. Da Bing will never disappear in thin air. He has a high position and authority, and the other party may not be able to kill him. Possibly still alive."

Zhan Zhao patted Zhao Pu, "Don't rush to fight, let's find the murderer!"

Zhao Pu frowned, "I don't care, but Zanpu may not be willing to wait."

"Give me a time limit." Gongsun said, "Just say how much time is needed to solve the case, and give Zanpu a step down. I really don't believe he dares to challenge you. It's just that he can't get off the stage. His face is swollen and he's fat. "

Zhao Pu raised his eyebrows slightly, and thought it was good, so he wrote a letter to Zanpu, saying that he had already been released and went back. If he lost it halfway, someone might cause trouble. In half a month, he tried to find someone and find someone. If not, I would like to fight again when the time comes.

A letter was delivered, and Zanpu replied within a few days, saying that he was willing to wait, but after all, no one in the west would take the initiative to provoke Zhao Pu.And anyone who is familiar with him knows that this kind of sneaky thing is not Zhao Pu's usual style.

Afterwards, everyone parted ways, and Zhao Pu took Gongsun, Bao Zheng and Pang Ji's troops and set off for the barracks to deal with the battle.

And Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang took Ziying Zheying and set foot on the route taken when Da and returned to investigate this kidnapping case and find out who was behind it.