treacherous world

Bai Yutang, Pang Yu, and Gongsun arrived at Wu Ming's study, which had been abandoned for a long time and was tightly locked to prevent anyone from entering.Bai Yutang glanced at the door lock when he pried it open, and found that the door lock was different... It was a self-made lock with exquisite craftsmanship, and the mechanisms in the lock alone showed that the maker was not an ordinary person.

"Is Wu Ming proficient in organs?" Bai Yutang turned around and asked Pang Yu.

"Hmm... When I was young, I often made little things to make my sister happy." Pang Yu rubbed his chin, "It should be good at it."

Open the door, you can smell a faint, stale smell, and the long-lasting fragrance of fine sandalwood.

"It took a lot of thought to collect the books." Gongsun walked to the bookcase, "This bookshelf is made of good wood, so the books are preserved so well."

Pang Yu followed Bai Yutang into the room, saw the picture of beauties visiting the garden on the wall at a glance, and clicked his tongue twice, "Wu Ming is a fool, he loves my sister's tigress to death, he is really stubborn, but it's different." Find someone to try. He is also considered a great talent, if my sister hadn't taken a liking to the emperor, my father would have wanted to recruit him as his son-in-law, what a pity."

Bai Yutang and Gongsun looked at him speechlessly, and even called their sister a tigress.

The fourth son also followed in, looked around the room with his face up, reached out and grabbed Bai Yutang's clothes, "Bai Bai, look at the roof."

The advantage of bringing a small child into the house is that he will pay attention to the ground and overhead that adults rarely pay attention to.

Bai Yutang raised his face, and saw many straw figures hanging on the roof of the study, these straw figures were weird, some were stained with blood, some had their limbs torn off, they were very evil.

"Why hang a straw man?" Bai Yutang frowned.

"That kid Wu Ming wouldn't curse people indiscriminately, would he?" Pang Yu rubbed his neck.

"These straw people are not for harming people, they are for saving people." Gongsun seemed to know something about this, so he asked Bai Yutang to pick one off.

"Isn't this the kind of doll used for cursing?" Pang Yu was curious.

Bai Yutang jumped onto the roof, untied the rope from the hanging beam and lowered a straw man. At the same time...he noticed that there was a small wooden box hidden in the inner layer of the hanging beam, against the wall.

What would be hidden here must be something important, he reached out and took it off, landing on the ground.

"Can this straw man save people?" Pang Yu looked at it, and saw some days and hours written on it.

"Are these birth date horoscopes?" Bai Yutang looked at the string of ghost-like characters.

"Don't break it off!" Gongsun hurriedly stopped Pang Yu from pulling the birth date on the back of the straw man with multiple hands, "This is for blocking evil spirits." He said, handing the straw man to Bai Yutang, "hang it up again."

Bai Yutang nodded and hung up.

Pang Yu held his chin and wondered, "Why are you so familiar with the birth date?"

"How does the straw man block the evil?" Bai Yutang asked Gongsun as he put the wooden box on the table.

"This is only for people who know how to deduce and calculate." Gongsun said, "First use the other party's birth date to calculate good or bad luck, then make a straw man, paste the birth date on it as a substitute for that person. Then write down the day when the misfortune happened, and then Pray... until that day, this straw man will accept misfortune instead of the original living person, such as the plague of blood and light."

"It's no wonder that the few before were either deformed by water or burned by fire." Pang Yu looked at it, then slapped his head suddenly, "Look at my memory, it's my sister's birthday!"

"So...it's Wu Ming who is making the grass man to help Concubine Pang block the evil?" Gongsun looked up and looked at them one by one, "No wonder Concubine Pang has been able to turn evil into good fortune for so many years. Everyone thinks her fate is good. It turns out that someone secretly blesses you."

Bai Yutang used a silver needle to pry open the copper lock on the small box, opened the box and took a look... only to find a key inside the box.

Picking up the key and looking around, "It's very old."

"What kind of key?" Gongsun felt that the shape of the key was strange, and he couldn't understand it.

The two of them were studying the key. On the other side, Pang Yu was standing on the table with the fourth child on his shoulders. "See?" See, see. "The fourth son is helping Pang Yu to check the time when the straw man is on, in case there is anything that will be unfavorable to Concubine Pang in the near future.

"Here!" Xiaosi suddenly pointed to one of the paper figurines with a knife stuck in his chest, "Today's!"

Gongsun glanced at it, and remembered that if the maid hadn't fallen just now, Concubine Pang might have been in danger, and that maid had indeed helped Concubine Pang block the evil... Could it be that this is really a spirit?

Bai Yutang couldn't help frowning, "There's another person here!" The fourth son pointed to the one behind the straw figure, "There's nothing up there, the time is today."

Pang Yu was stunned for a while, "Today too?"

"Yes." The fourth son nodded.

Bai Yutang and Gongsun looked at each other, feeling a little uneasy.

Pang Yu threw the fourth son to Bai Yutang, got off the table and went to Concubine Pang's residence in the backyard.

Bai Yutang put away the keys, but he wasn't too worried because there were a lot of shadow guards near Concubine Pang's residence.Putting Xiao Sizi on the ground, Bai Yutang saw that the legs of a table diagonally below seemed to be a little shorter, and there was a sheepskin folded into a square under it...was it used to pad the table legs?

He reached out and pulled out the sheepskin, opened it, and saw words on it.

Bai Yutang handed the sheepskin to Gongsun.

Gongsun opened it and looked at it, his brows were frowned, "It's incredible."

"What?" Bai Yutang was puzzled.

"This was written by Wu Ming back then. It mainly contains some things he investigated. It can be said to be his suicide note..."

"Has he calculated when he will die?"

"Yes, he only found half of what he investigated before." Gongsun quickly read the letter, "He speculated that there would be a major disaster, but he didn't speculate on the time."

"Conjecture?" Bai Yutang asked, "What kind of disaster? Natural disaster or man-made disaster?"

"He only wrote about the catastrophe of extinction." Gongsun handed the sheepskin to Bai Yutang with a serious face, "The catastrophe is-dreams and eyes."

"Dream eyes? Could it have something to do with the nightmare?" Bai Yutang looked at the sheepskin, with disbelief in his eyes, "Is this kind of calculation really accurate?"

Gongsun smiled slightly, "It's a matter of opinion."

"There's something on the back!" Little Si stood between the two of them. He was short, and when he looked up, he saw the back of the sheepskin.

Gongsun and Bai Yutang turned the sheepskin over and looked at it...there was a pattern there.The structure of this picture is complicated, but there is a four-leaf clover in the middle, which still caught the attention of Bai Yutang and Gongsun.

"Could it have something to do with the Four Leaf Sect?"

"Look carefully at the side of the four-leaf clover." Gongsun told Bai Yutang to look carefully, "Does it look like there are eight eyes around it?"

Bai Yutang frowned, and stretched out his hand to touch the center of his brows, "Is the legendary Eight Eyes in troubled times? The so-called catastrophe, do Mengheyan refer to Nightmare and Eight Eyes?"

Gongsun's complexion is also not very good - eight eyes in troubled times, I don't know if it has something to do with Zhao Pu.

The two of them couldn't figure it out. Suddenly, they heard a commotion in the yard, and someone shouted, "There are assassins!"

Bai Yutang immediately ran out, Gongsun hugged the fourth son, and the fourth son saw a string of blood beads on the left chest of the straw man who had nothing.

"Ah!" The fourth son exclaimed in surprise, Gongsun looked back and was also surprised.

At this time, Bai Yutang had already gone up to the roof, and found that the accident happened in the backyard.When he arrived, the shadow guards were besieging a man in black.

Seeing that he should not be able to run away, Bai Yutang hurried to the inner room, only to see Concubine Pang crying and lying beside Xiangxiang's little bed.Bai Yutang's heart skipped a beat, and he went over to see that Xiangxiang was lying there with her eyes closed, and a big gash had melted in the front of her chest.

He took a breath and stretched out his hand to feel it, and found that the pulse was stable, and then looked... Xiangxiang was still smacking her lips, she clenched her small hand into a fist and turned over. There was something shining inside her clothes.

Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and twitched... and saw a breast shield with a hole cut out.

"Xiangxiang is fine." Bai Yutang helped Concubine Pang up, and there was someone sitting under Concubine Pang's buttocks, it was Pang Yu.

There was an arrow stuck in Pang Yu's buttocks, which caused blood to protrude from the prick. He groaned and asked his sister if she was okay.Are his nieces and future nephews okay?

Gongsun came in to check on Pang Yu's injuries, and only his buttocks were injured, but the thick flesh was only a minor injury, and Concubine Pang and Xiangxiang were fine.

The fourth son came to comfort the frightened Concubine Pang.

The queen mother was at the side, and she said to the shadow guards outside with a dark face, "Don't let him run away, Aijia wants to see who wants my daughter-in-law's life again and again!"

Gongsun sprinkled medicine on Pang Yu and asked him what happened.

It was really dangerous just now.

Pang Yu felt unlucky when he saw the straw man, so he ran to Concubine Pang.Concubine Pang had just coaxed Xiangxiang to sleep and put her in the small bed, when there was a "swish" sound from outside, and a sharp arrow shot straight in.To put it insidiously, the arrow shot at Concubine Pang's stomach!

Before Concubine Pang could understand, Pang Yu stood in front of her and let the arrow hit her ass.

He staggered and fell, and someone broke in through the window in an instant. This person's lightness skills were strange, and none of the shadow guards caught him and let him break in.

A man in black raised his knife and slashed at Xiangxiang in the cradle.

Concubine Pang pushed him hard, and the knife was skewed, hitting Xiangxiang's breastplate.

Concubine Pang saw that the knife had been slashed on her daughter, and she screamed and wanted to fight him desperately.The man in black kicked her in the stomach, at this moment several shadow guards bumped into her and kicked her out of the yard, and started beating her.

Concubine Pang's feet were unsteady and she sat on Pang Yu's buttocks, checked Xiangxiang, and found that she was fine, so she burst into tears in fear.

Bai Yutang turned his head and saw that the shadow guards were still entangled with the man in black, he frowned slightly - why is this man's qinggong so strange?

After thinking about it, he rushed out, and the shadow guards immediately thought for a moment when they saw him coming out.

The man in black was also taken aback, and saw a white shadow rushing towards him like a ghost, but disappeared in an instant.

His heart tightened, and someone hit his shoulder and neck from behind, causing him to snort in pain, and he wanted to run away when he stood up.But Bai Yutang didn't let him run away, so he grabbed the back of his clothes by the collar, swung it round and threw it on the ground, with a "slap", it made his eyes full of gold stars.

The shadow guards stepped forward and tied him up.

The Queen Mother came out angrily and ordered his mask to be taken off.

When it was pulled off, everyone frowned.

"Ouch!" The queen mother took a step back, and the female guards beside her hurriedly helped her into the room, so as not to be shocked.

Bai Yutang was also puzzled... This man's entire face was completely ruined, as if it had been rolled over with hot pig iron, completely unrecognizable.

"Who are you?" Bai Yutang asked.

The man stared at Bai Yutang with resentful eyes, and then a strange smile appeared on the corner of his cracked mouth.

Everyone looked at and frowned.Especially when his grimace is seen together with Bai Yutang's handsome face, the contrast is too strong.

Seeing that the fourth son wanted to poke his head in, Gongsun quickly covered his eyes and forced him back into the room—to save him from having nightmares at night.

"Ask you!" Soi Ying kicked him, "Speak!"

The man just sneered, and then his eyes popped slightly.

Gongsun yelled, "He wants to kill himself!"

But before everyone could organize, the man was already bleeding from all seven orifices and fell on his back.

Bai Ying pried open his mouth, and found that the tongue was burned off inside the mouth, which showed that there was a very strong poison hidden in it.

"He died so simply." Gongsun stepped forward to examine his body, "This man is about 30 years old, his face was scalded by a hot iron, it should have happened not long ago, that's why there is a bad smell."

Bai Yutang frowned, "Why did he do that?"

"Isn't this supposed to be painful?" Fei Ying didn't quite understand, "Can you still come to assassinate?"

"You can see that his eyes are bursting. Although the skin on his face is bruised, the dark circles under his eyes are still obvious, especially his eyes are blood red." Gongsun shook his head, "The condition is too bad, he looks like he was locked up Woke up as if tortured or hadn't slept in days."

Heiying and the others took off the man's clothes to check, only to see a large tattoo on his back.

Bai Yutang and Gongsun took a closer look, both a little puzzled...it was an eye.The tattoos are very large and lifelike.On the man's back was a big eye that took up most of the back, but it was not looking at the front, but the side, and I didn't know which direction it was facing, it always felt very strange.

"What kind of tattoo is this?" Gongsun felt familiar, thought for a while, and suddenly took out the human skin for comparison.

Bai Yutang also leaned over to look, and saw the eight human eyes surrounding the four-leaf clover in the middle of the human skin, also in different directions, generally speaking, they were all looking at the four-leaf clover in the middle.

"Same." Gongsun found one of the eyes and showed it to Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang frowned—what does it matter?This person doesn't seem to want to kill Concubine Pang, but Zhao Zhen's child. Why?

The Empress Dowager put on a dark face, ordered the shadow guards to put on strict defense, and went in to accompany Concubine Pang.

The fourth son helped Zhao Pu treat the wound. Seeing Bai Yutang leaning against the tree in a daze, Gongsun walked over, "Bored? Zhe Ying came just now and said that the banquet at the palace was over, and Zhan Zhao should have returned to Kaifeng mansion. "

Bai Yutang nodded slightly.

"The shadow guards are here, and the emperor has also sent more people. Zhao Pu may come back in a while. There should be nothing wrong tonight. Do you want to go back first?" Gongsun knew that Bai Yutang still had a lot of clues to investigate, especially this time. About Wu Ming, you can ask Taishi Pang.

Bai Yutang took the sheepskin.

Gongsun wanted to wait for Zhao Pu to come and go to the barracks with him, so he asked Bai Yutang to take the fourth son back with him.

Bai Yutang rode a horse and took his youngest son back to Kaifeng, without talking all the way, and soon arrived at the gate of Kaifeng Mansion, where he saw several tall horses and a carriage parked outside the gate.

Bai Yutang glanced at the wolf totem on the carriage, and frowned slightly—a Liao people's carriage?Why is it in Kaifeng Prefecture?

It turned out that at the end of the banquet just now, Zhao Zhen received a secret report from the shadow guard, and heard that Concubine Pang was almost killed, and someone seemed determined to get rid of his heir.Zhao Zhen was so angry that his complexion also changed, and he called Bao Zheng and Zhao Pu into the study room to discuss, and the others dispersed.

Zhan Zhao stayed behind to wait for Bao Zheng, but Yeluqi refused to leave, and stood and chatted with Zhan Zhao, and finally said that he would go back to Kaifeng Mansion with him to see and see.

Zhan Zhao and Xiao Liang looked at each other - if Yeluqi stayed in Kaifeng mansion, he could be monitored closely, at least he couldn't do anything wrong, the trouble is...

Zhan Zhao looked at Yeluqi's smiling face, Bai Yutang probably wanted to beat him up, right?So, when Bao Zheng and Zhao Pu went out, Yeluqi followed him back to Kaifeng Mansion.

Zhao Pu didn't stop him either, because everyone could see that Yeluqi seemed to have something to say this time.

Now that the Liao Kingdom is fighting for the throne, and there is no war with the Song Dynasty, the two families can live in peace. It is also possible for Yeluqi to curry favor with Zhao Pu or the Song royal family for help in fighting for the throne.At this time, instead of rejecting him thousands of miles away, it is better to negotiate terms with him, which will also be beneficial in the future.

Bai Yutang turned over and got off the horse, leading the fourth son by the hand, and walked in, when he saw a figure shaking in the yard.

Only a voice came from, "Brother Zhan, why don't you just fall asleep tonight?"

Bai Yutang froze for a moment, then his eyelids twitched.

The fourth son covered his mouth - oh!Meow Meow was molested!

Zhan Zhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and bowed his hands to Yeluqi, "Three Wolf Lords, there is a guest room in Kaifeng Mansion."

“Aren’t you used to the guest room!”

"Then why don't you go to the Jinting Pavilion? There are delicious food, good drinks and good hospitality. Kaifeng Mansion is originally Qingshui Yamen."

"Okay! Well said!" Yeluqi smiled heartily, "This king just likes Zhanwei's quick-talking personality..."

Zhan Zhao looked at the sky, "Then Lord Three Wolves, please, I'm going to rest."

"Hey, let's talk again!" Yeluqi was angry and refused to leave, "By the way, are there any hot springs near Kaifeng Mansion? I always heard that there were many hot springs in the Great Song Dynasty when I was in Daliao. Alas, I have been here for many years. Living in a windy and sandy place in the Western Regions, I just like water, how about going to a hot spring together?"

Zhan Zhaoxin said to fuck your head!

But before he could answer, he heard a cool voice coming from the door, "Go out and turn right, open a door and there is a pit, jump down and soak for a while."

Zhan Zhao's mind flashed... Turn right at the far door, there is a hole behind the door—isn't that a toilet?

He couldn't help but let out a "poof", and at the same time was excited, the sound - the white mouse is back!

When Yeluqi heard it, he was overjoyed, "Oh, so there is a hot spring in Kaifeng Mansion? Brother Zhan!" He said, he reached out and grabbed Zhan Zhao's wrist, "Let's go soak for a while!"

Zhan Zhao saw a white shadow flashing at the door, and two people, one big and one small, walked in.

Walking in front was Bai Yutang with a livid face, followed by the little fourth son who was watching curiously with wide eyes.

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang's eyes again, he was squinting slightly, staring closely at Yeluqi's hand that was holding onto his wrist, and quickly pulled it back, "No need, if Lord Three Wolves is interested, why don't you go soak yourself up?" .”

Zhan Zhao put his hands behind his back, looked at Bai Yutang with a smile, "Yutang, you're back."

Bai Yutang was in a very bad mood at first, thinking that a wolf pig came out of nowhere and was messing with his cat.But when he heard Zhan Zhao's very friendly "Yutang", Bai Yutang's mood turned cloudy in an instant.

Yeluqi saw Bai Yutang at a glance, and was taken aback, "...Could it be that Your Excellency is the famous Chinchilla Bai Yutang?"

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows slightly, looked him up and down, and looked at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao helped to introduce, "This is Yeluqi."

Bai Yutang had known for a long time that he was coming, but he didn't quite understand why the Liao people lived in Kaifeng Mansion and pestered Zhan Zhao.

"Speaking of Brother Bai, I remembered something." Yeluqi crossed his arms suddenly and asked with great interest, "I heard that Brother Bai is proficient in mechanism, isn't it?"

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao didn't understand what he meant, so they waited patiently for him to speak.

"Oh... I have something in my hand. I have studied it with skilled craftsmen from all over the world, and many of them told me that this mechanism may only be unlocked by Bai Yutang." Yeluqi smiled slightly, "I don't know, Brother Bai has it. Not interested in taking a look?"

Bai Yutang said indifferently, "Not interested."

After speaking, he stretched out his hand to hold Zhan Zhao, "Have you had enough to eat tonight?"

"Yeah." Zhan Zhao pondered for a while, just now he was patronizing to watch Xiao Liang's martial arts competition, and he seemed to have only eaten crabs, so he replied, "It's still close..."

"I'm not full either." Bai Yutang rolled up his sleeves after being busy all night, "Shall I cook noodles for you?"

Zhan Zhao smiled——Bai Yutang would show off by cooking noodles whenever he had a chance recently!

The fourth son leaned over, "I want to eat too."

"Little Four, Xiao Liangzi brought you a lot of delicious food." Zhan Zhao knelt down and said to him, "Today Xiao Liangzi is showing off."

"Really?" The fourth son joyfully took the stone and went to find Xiao Liang, wanting to quickly ask his little Liang son what happened to him.

Zhan Zhao wanted to bid farewell to Yeluqi and let him go to bed early, but Yeluqi smiled slightly and stopped the two people who came to the door, "I don't know, have you two heard of the troubled times with Bamu?"

……

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang paused.

"Hehe." Yeluqi laughed knowingly, and walked over, "How about it, would you like to treat me to a meal of noodles?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, and said to him in unison, "Go to the hot spring first, we'll talk when we're full!" After speaking, the two went straight out.

Yeluqi smiled smugly, turned right out of the yard, opened the door and took a look... Holding his nose and looking at the sky, are Chinchilla and Yumao?interesting!