treacherous world

Four assassins attacked Zhan Zhao. Originally, Zhan Zhao was empty-handed and had to take care of his fourth son. He might be timid, and the four of them really didn't expect that a clawed fox would kill all the poisonous insects and snakes used to assassinate Zhan Zhao. up.However, if one wanted to rely solely on martial arts to sneak attack Zhan Zhao who was holding a giant que, it would be too difficult.

It was too late for the four of them to run away, Zhan Zhao played tricks on them, tapped the acupuncture points, tied them up in a circle, and pulled off the mask to have a look.

The fourth son also came over to take a look, and saw that a few people were vicious, and they were not good at first glance. Ordinary assassins didn't seem to look like this.

Shaking the black mask, Zhan Zhao smiled, "Oh? Are you that Kunlun Mountain Sisha? You're a wanted criminal. I've seen your pictures."

The faces of the four of them changed color, their acupoints were tapped and they were tied up with ropes. They gritted their teeth and refused to speak.

Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, "Look up and look at the dungeon on the first floor.

There were basically no people on the two basement floors of the dungeon, and there were some recidivists on the upper floor. It was estimated that someone would find out soon, and he had to hurry up and force them to speak.

Zhan Zhao looked around and saw that there was no one who could scare people, so he had to try to persuade people first, "I have no grievances or enmity with you, and you have spent so much time to kill me, who is responsible for it?"

A few people pretended to be dumb, asked a question and didn't know, but they didn't speak.

Zhan Zhao frowned. In the past, the job of extorting confessions was handed over to the shadow guards. The Kaifeng Mansion didn't have much use for it, and they didn't have much experience.

When he was in trouble, he saw the fourth son running over and put something on the shoulder of one of the four.

The four of them didn't quite understand, they turned their faces to look, and gasped.

I saw Xiaosi put a big, black, plump and furry black spider on their shoulders, and there was a white pattern resembling a skull right above the spider's fat belly, and there was an inverted spider on its furry legs. prick.

Not to mention that the faces of the four of them turned pale with fright, Zhan Zhao felt goose bumps all over his body when he looked at the spider.

"Little Si!" Zhan Zhao quickly waved his hand when he saw that the little Si was still holding onto the spider, "Is this biting?"

The fourth son nodded, "This is the ghost-faced giant spider, the most poisonous, it will be so painful for seven to forty-nine days after being bitten, the whole body will fester and die!"

The four of them were covered with cold sweat, thinking how this little baby looks like a porcelain doll, so cruel and merciless.

Zhan Zhao doesn't care what he has, anyway, the fourth son was raised by his grandson, so he should be familiar with this kind of poisonous insects and snakes.

"Who sent you here?" Zhan Zhao walked closer and stared at the four of them, "This is the prison of Dali Temple, not the Kaifeng Mansion, and it will fall into Qiu Shaobai's hands in a short while, you should know better than me what will happen to you." .”

The dead people looked at each other, and the eldest brother of the Kunlun Mountain Sisha looked up at Zhan Zhao, "We are also hired by others.

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows slightly, "Who?"

"I don't know." The boss shook his head, "That man is wearing a mask and his voice is hoarse, so he can't tell the difference, but his martial arts are extremely strong, and..."

"And what?"

"He seems to know the art of insanity. We made him lose his mind after just a few glances, and then we had to do what he told me to do. Sometimes we would think—why do we do it?"

Zhan Zhao was surprised to hear that—is he so capable?

At this time, footsteps came from outside, and seeing Qiu Shaobai rushing in with someone, Zhan Zhao quickly hid Ju Que under the quilt.

Qiu Shaobai walked outside the prison door with a serious face, and was relieved to see that Zhan Zhao was fine.The four assassins were all tied up, Qiu Shaobai waved his hand and told his subordinates to stay there, and sent someone to repair the damaged cell.

"Are you okay?" Qiu Shaobai came to Zhan Zhao's side, and saw that the fourth son was holding a big black spider in his hand, he was stunned and nervous, "My lord, this..."

Zhan Zhao also remembered the spider in the fourth son's hand, "Hurry up, let the stone eat it."

Zhan Zhao wanted to greet Shitou, but when he turned around, he saw Shishi was full, lying on his back on the edge of the bed licking wool, with a round belly, he was in a good mood at first glance, as if he was going to sleep soon.

Zhan Zhao was speechless, thinking that the civet civet is really a magical animal.

"what!"

At this moment, Qiu Shaobai yelled, and the usually calm and ruthless Qiu Shaobai yelled out a little bit of shock, which really surprised Zhan Zhao.

Looking back, I saw that the fourth son was gnawing on the spider, biting off two claws in one bite.

Zhan Zhao opened his mouth wide, and the fourth son grabbed a spider leg and asked Zhan Zhao, "Meow, do you want to eat?"

Zhan Zhao took a step back, Qiu Shaobai was also startled, looking at Zhan Zhao, he seemed to be asking——Could it be that this son of the prince's family is a master who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger?

"Little Sizi, didn't you say that spiders are poisonous?" Zhan Zhao came back to his senses, and found that the spider was too honest, and he still didn't move even after being gnawed by Xiao Sizi.

The fourth son blinked, "Huh? This is a sesame candy cake made of caramel."

Both Zhan Zhao and Qiu Shaobai were taken aback.Qiu Shaobai took a look at the spider leg handed over by the fourth son, took it to his nose and smelled it, and it really smelled of caramel and sesame.Can't help frowning, who is so wicked to make a candy cake into such a virtue.

Zhan Zhao knelt down to look at the spider in the hands of the fourth son, "You did a really good job."

"Well, Aunt Jiang is selling dim sum in Kaifeng Mansion these days. Recently, there are a lot of sugar and sesame seeds, so she said she would make some cute caramel cakes for sale." The fourth son showed Zhan Zhao the spider. , "Cute, isn't it? Daddy designed it."

Both Zhan Zhao and Qiu Shaobai couldn't help it, and swallowed... cute? !

The fourth son took another bite, "It tastes good too. The other day, Xiao Liangzi covered Jiu Jiu's eyes and let him eat half of it. Jiu Jiu said it was delicious, but when he opened his eyes, he ran to throw up."

Qiu Shaobai and Zhan Zhao looked at each other, expressing deep sympathy for Zhao Pu.

The fourth son pouted, "It's so strange, it's so delicious, but it can't be sold..."

The corners of Zhan Zhao and Qiu Shaobai's mouths twitched, and they thought it would be strange if they sold.

Thinking of this, Zhan Zhao suddenly smiled, knelt down and asked the fourth son, "Sir, is there any more?"

"Yes, I made quite a few of them, but they couldn't be sold. Just my father and I ate them, and Xiao Liangzi said that he would not eat sweets because he was afraid of getting fat." As he spoke, he opened the pouch with snacks in his waist, and took out one for him. Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao held it in his hand, looked at it, pursed his lips and smiled, and used it to scare Bai Yutang for a while!That white mouse might run away.

……

Seeing Zhan Zhao's smirk, Qiu Shaobai was a little worried for Bai Yutang.

"Brother Zhan is fine, I'll take my leave." After finishing speaking, Qiu Shaobai led the people away without asking any questions, and didn't even lock the door of the cell for him.

Zhan Zhao shook his head, carried the fourth son back to the cell, and rubbed Shi Shi's stomach to prevent it from being supported.

Just after arresting the assassin, Gongsun came to sit with Zhan Zhao.Zhan Zhao told Gongsun the clues he had investigated from the civet.

"This is the first time I've heard specific clues related to the Eight Eyes." Gongsun raised his chin, "Eyes, a stem can grow fruit..."

Zhan Zhao sent Gongsun down to see a doctor for the civet.Gongsun said that the civet civet lived underground for a long time, and his lungs were already in a bad condition. If he didn't go up and live like a normal person, the old man might not have many years to live.

Zhan Zhao simply asked the two shadow guards to tap the old man's acupuncture points, and forced him back to Kaifeng Mansion, and also built him a basement to let him recover from his illness.

Gongsun went to Zangshu Pavilion, carefully checked some files, looking for something that might be the magic eye.

……

Zhan Zhao waited and waited, guessing that it was already dark, so he stood in front of the cell door, leaning against a pillar in a daze.

The fourth son was lying on the bed, asleep with his belly pillowed on a stone... the cell was quiet.In the silence, Zhan Zhao heard some voices.With the lesson just now, Zhan Zhao heightened his vigilance to avoid another sneak attack.

It's just that the footsteps gradually sounded this time, and the person who came didn't seem to know martial arts!

After a while, a figure appeared at the door.

Zhan Zhao looked up, slightly surprised, "Eighth Prince?"

The Eighth Prince looked dull at this moment, raised his head, stared blankly at Zhan Zhao, "Guard Zhan."

The voices here woke up the fourth son, he sat up and asked in a daze, "Meow, did you come to pick us up for nothing?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "The Eighth Prince is here?"

"I'll come to see you." Bawang looked at Zhan Zhao, his eyes seemed to be a little straight.Zhan Zhao always felt that he was very emaciated recently, his cheeks were sunken in his originally handsome face.

"I need the prince to worry." Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and took a small jar handed over by the Eighth Prince, feeling a little puzzled.

"Ginger silk wine." The eight kings said word by word, "to dispel the cold and avoid the earth's qi."

"Oh...thank you." Zhan Zhao was puzzled, why did the Eighth King speak like this.

"Little Bazi." Little Sizi also got off the bed, ran to the door of the cell, saw that the Eighth Prince didn't look at him, but stared straight at Zhan Zhao, and said, "Take a sip."

"Oh, I'll drink it later." Zhan Zhao nodded, but seeing the Eighth Prince stubbornly staring at the wine jar in his hand, he said gloomyly, "Take a sip."

Zhan Zhao only felt a chill down his back, what happened to the Eighth Prince?

The fourth son also felt that something was wrong, so he stretched out his hand and shook it in front of the Eighth Prince, "Little Bazi."

But the Eighth Prince didn't seem to be able to see the fourth son, his eyes were fixed on Zhan Zhao, the wine, and he just said, "Take a sip."

Zhan Zhao opened the jar and took a look inside. It was ordinary ginger rice wine, still a little warm, as if it had been heated before coming here.He thought about it, calculated that the distance from the Eight Princes' Mansion to the vicinity of Dali Temple is not too far, the wine should not cool down so quickly.

Zhan Zhao and the fourth son looked at each other, the Eighth Prince's behavior was so weird.

"Eight Princes, are you okay?" Zhan Zhao put the wine jar on the ground, and the fourth son took out a needle bag from his arms, opened it and took out a silver needle to test it, and saw that the silver needle was black and purple ...the wine is highly poisonous.

The fourth son looked at Zhan Zhao with his mouth wide open, and Zhan Zhao looked up at the Eighth Prince.

The Eight Kings also squatted down, reached out to hold Zhan Zhao's wrist, with a smile on his face, "Guard Zhan, take a sip."

Zhan Zhao wanted to pull his hand out, but found that the Eighth Prince's hand was very hard.His knuckles turned white... Zhan Zhao couldn't help frowning, it was impossible for a person who didn't know martial arts to exert such great strength!But the Eighth Prince is a genuine Eighth Prince, and it is unlikely that someone else pretended to be him.

Zhan Zhao could already feel the pain from his wrist, and the Eighth Prince's fingers made a "cracking" sound. If this continues, the bones of his fingers may be broken.

Zhan Zhao didn't dare to use his internal strength, so he stared at the Eighth Prince's eyes, only to see that under the dim light of the dungeon, there seemed to be some green powdery objects in the Eighth Prince's eyes, or was he dazzled?

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, reached out, picked up the sealed wine jar, and pretended to take a sip, "It's delicious."

The Eighth Prince stared at him, finally smiled, let go of his hand, and stood up.

Zhan Zhao also stood up with him, and the fourth son hid behind Zhan Zhao and poked his head, only thinking that the eighth son was possessed by a ghost.

"Eight Kings, who gave you the wine, it's so delicious?" Zhan Zhao asked tentatively.

"Who..." The Eighth Prince thought about it seriously, then reached into his cuff to take out something.

Zhan Zhao and the fourth son watched attentively, and saw the faint light flicker, and the Eighth Prince pulled out a gleaming dagger from his sleeve.Both Zhan Zhao and the fourth son were shocked.

"My lord?" Zhan Zhao waved to the fourth son with his hands behind his back, as if asking him for something.

The fourth son didn't know what he wanted, did he want to go back and get the giant que?

Zhan Zhao bent his fingers again and made a circle. At this moment, he just wanted some small stones so that he could hit the Eighth Prince's acupuncture points through the cell door, so as to prevent him from messing around.

The fourth son reached out and took out a few jelly beans and put them in Zhan Zhao's hands.

Zhan Zhao pinched the jelly beans and watched the Eighth Prince's actions.At this time, the Eighth Prince was holding the knife, groping for the sharp point with his fingers, blood dripped down, "Who is it..."

"My lord!" Zhan Zhao was startled.

But he saw that the Eighth Prince suddenly raised his head, raised his hand and raised the knife, and slashed towards his neck.

"Yeah!" At the same time as the fourth son yelled, two jelly beans in Zhan Zhao's hand flew out and hit two acupoints of the Eighth Prince. Looking at the front with both eyes fixedly, the bones of the whole body also heard the sound of "clack".

"Oh no, he's using his strength!" Zhan Zhao pulled out the chain, opened the cell door and came out, and hit the eighth prince's big acupoints all over his body, immobilizing him.

The fourth son wanted to run outside, "Meow meow, I'll call someone."

"Wait." Zhan Zhao grabbed the fourth son.

The fourth son turned around.

Zhan Zhao said in a deep voice, "It is impossible for the Eight Kings to enter Dali Temple alone without anyone noticing, and it is impossible for Qiu Shaobai to let him enter the dungeon alone like this."

The fourth son opened his mouth, not quite understanding what Zhan Zhao meant.

"There should be someone with him to help him come in like this." Zhan Zhao helped Ba Wang to the bed in the cell and lay down, then turned back and walked out of the cell door, standing at the end of the long corridor, watching Looking at the entrance of the black hole ahead.

He held his breath and focused his attention, eliminating the breath of the fourth son, the eighth prince, and the stone... In the quiet darkness ahead, there was another person's breath!

"Who?" Zhan Zhao secretly wondered, this person's kung fu should be extremely high, otherwise his aura wouldn't be hidden so well.

He asked again, and gradually...in the darkness, a pair of green bright spots appeared.

Zhan Zhao's heart tightened—couldn't it be the person who was suspected to be Fifth Aunt that he saw in Taibaiju that day?Because he stood far away, Zhan Zhao was not very good at judging his distance.Those two green light spots stared at Zhan Zhao for a long, long time... Finally, there was a burst of laughter in the darkness.

This laughter was terrifying, similar to the old owl that would appear in the forest at night.Zhan Zhao could hear the internal force in the voice, and immediately covered the ears of the fourth son.

The fourth son stretched out his hand to help the Eighth Prince cover his ears... Zhan Zhao was worried that he would be hurt by his internal strength, and wanted to help him, but his laughter stopped instantly.

Looking back to the front, the two green light spots were slowly approaching him.

Zhan Zhao could already vaguely discern a human figure, the outline of a man.When he saw it for the first time, Zhan Zhao was a little dazed—had he seen this person somewhere?a little familiar.

Just when Zhan Zhao wanted to take a step forward to see the man's face clearly, a fog suddenly appeared in front of him.The figure and the aisle began to fluctuate like a shattered flower in a mirror or the moon in water, and finally disappeared.

"Meow meow!"

Zhan Zhao heard someone calling.

"Meow!"

The collar was shaken twice, Zhan Zhao suddenly opened his eyes, and what he saw was the big hole that was blocked on the top of the cell.Dazed, he turned his face away, and saw the fourth son sitting on the edge of the bed looking at him puzzled, "Meow, it's getting dark, it's so quiet, why don't you go to sleep!"

Zhan Zhao sat up and looked around, he was lying on the bed, there was a dozing stone on the floor, and the fourth son was sitting on the head of the bed, the surroundings were quiet.

"Where's the Eighth Prince?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

Little Sizi blinked, "Huh? Little Bazi?"

Zhan Zhao reached out and touched his head, "I just..."

"You've been asleep for an hour." The fourth son poked Zhan Zhao's face, "Did you feel sleepy, Meow? After Daddy left, you said to lie down for a while, and then fell asleep."

Zhan Zhao immediately remembered, so to speak, what happened just now was just a dream.But it's too real, right?He had grown up and had so many dreams, and it was the first time he had such a feeling that it was hard to distinguish between real and fake.

"Little four, pinch me." Zhan Zhao hurriedly pointed his head over.

The fourth son wondered, "Pinch you?"

"Put harder!" Zhan Zhao urged him.

So the fourth son simply stretched out his hand and pinched Zhan Zhao's cheek hard.

"Hiss!" Zhan Zhao sat up and rubbed his face in pain, "I just had a really real dream."

"Are you dreaming again?" The fourth son took out a bag from his pocket, and took out a sour plum candy for Zhan Zhao, "Eat this, it's very sour and refreshing."

"Oh, thank you..." Zhan Zhao took the candy and wanted to thank the fourth son.It's just that when the candy was in his hand, he couldn't help frowning - this candy was the one he used to hit the Eighth Prince's acupoint in his dream just now.

Zhan Zhao looked in the direction of the prison door in a blink of an eye, and was slightly taken aback.He hurriedly got out of bed and walked quickly, and saw an empty wine jar on the ground.It was the wine jar containing poisoned wine that the Eighth Prince handed over to him just now.

"Little Sizi?" Zhan Zhao turned to ask the little Sizi, "No one came here just now?"

The fourth son tilted his head and shook his head puzzled, "No, I haven't fallen asleep, I've been waiting for Bai Bai to come."

"Strange." Zhan Zhao stood at the door, why did he feel that there was a little less time when he woke up.Was that just a dream, or real?

……

In the courtyard of the Jinting post house, Xiao Liang counted the number of guards, and strictly guarded the safety of the Liao people's hotel according to the requirements of Bai Yutang and Zhao Pu, and didn't even bother to eat dinner.

Scissors followed behind him, wagging his little tail, and rubbed his head against him, as if urging him—to find Shishi and Xiao Sizi quickly.

Seeing that the night was getting darker, Xiao Liang took the scissors and began to patrol around. He rubbed the ears of the scissors, "Don't worry, I also miss Xiaosi and Shitou, but it's important to be serious."

Scissors wagged his tail lazily, arched Xiaoliang twice, let him sit on his back, and led him around the posthouse.

Just when he turned to the north side of the post house, which was the most remote side, Scissors stopped walking and looked back left and right, as if he had found something.

Xiao Liang's hearing was already good, and he could tell that someone was following behind silently, hiding their footsteps and breath.

This kind of internal force should not be Bai Yutang or Zhao Pu, who will follow him?

Xiao Liang listened vigilantly to the sound behind him, and patted Scissors on the head, signaling it to continue walking.

After walking for a while, Xiao Liang heard a gust of wind above his head when he came to the first alley behind the courtyard, knowing that there was a sneak attack, he raised his hand and raised his knife and threw it behind his back.

Xiao Liang's saber is huge, blocking the stabbing sword.

After blocking the weapon and raising his head, Xiao Liang was slightly taken aback.It was none other than Longge who attacked him unexpectedly.

"Hey! Longge!" Xiao Liang frowned, "What's wrong with you?"

Longge landed on the side of the road without a sound, staring straight at Xiao Liang, "Take your life!"

Xiao Liang was angry, "Are you crazy?"

"Everyone says I'm not as good as you, today I'll hold your head and let them see who's not as good as who is!" After speaking, Longge came over aggressively, and Xiao Liang had no choice but to resist with a knife.

Longge is quite a bit older than Xiao Liang in terms of age. Although he lost in the martial arts competition, Xiao Liang felt that he was convinced that he lost that day, and his evaluation of him was also good at that time. Will do this behind the scenes.Thinking of this, Xiao Liang slashed out of the circle, "Could it be that you killed Bayan?"

Long Ge sneered, "He is looking for death, do you know what he said?"

Xiao Liang frowned.

"That old man actually persuaded the wolf lord to return to Song Dynasty!" Longge said angrily, "I thought Zhao Pu was going to retreat, but now that you have appeared again, I am afraid that there is no hope of attacking Song Dynasty! Does he think I am a dead person? If you humiliate me in my face, I will prove to you today that I am stronger than you!"

Xiao Liang held up the knife to fend off Longge's attack repeatedly, "Are you crazy?! Just because of your master's words, you actually deceived your master and killed him?"

"Damn him!" Longge slashed fiercely without leaving any room, as if he had lost his mind and went crazy, a little bit irrational.Xiao Liang confronted him for a few moves and felt something was wrong. Just as he turned around and drew his sword again, Xiao Liang suddenly caught a glimpse... just now, there seemed to be a light green glow in Longge's eyes!

When Xiao Liang was stunned, Long Ge's knife arrived.

With a sound of "dang", Xiao Liang suddenly raised his head, and saw Bai Ying appearing in front of him together.

Bai Yutang grabbed Longge's sword, Shi Neijin clamped the middle of the sword in his hand, and folded it.

With a sound of "click", the sword broke, and Bai Yutang kicked Longge out with a flying kick, then turned around and said to Xiao Liang, "I'm sorry, little Liangzi, next time you play with him, I'm in a hurry to use him to change the show!" Zhao."

Xiao Liang nodded foolishly, that Zhao Pu had already brought someone to tie up Longge.

Yeluqi was also alarmed, and when he came out, it was indeed Longge who committed the crime.Although I was somewhat mentally prepared, I still felt extremely puzzled.Especially when he saw Longge frantically struggling to kill Xiao Liang, Yeluqi muttered to himself, "He wasn't like this before, why did he go crazy when he came to the Central Plains?"

Xiao Liang heard it clearly, and wanted to talk to Bai Yutang, but Bai Yutang had already left, and took someone to Dali Temple to change Zhan Zhao.

Zhao Pu patted Xiao Liang on the head, "Good job, let's go back tonight with the fourth son."

"Ah!" As soon as Xiao Liang heard about the fourth son, he forgot about the green eyes and red eyes, and followed Bai Yutang on the scissors.

"Although Longge has a violent personality, he doesn't look like a jealous person, does he?" Zhao Pu asked Yeluqi, "Has this kid been stimulated by anything?"

Yeluqi smiled faintly, "It's not so much that he was stimulated by something, but I think he's bewitched by something!"

Zhao Pu looked him up and down with disgust.

Yeluqi sighed, "I know you don't believe in ghosts, but this time, the situation is a bit special."

……

When Zhan Zhao and the fourth son felt a little hungry and it was time for supper, they saw a white shadow flickering in front of them.Zhan Zhao laughed immediately, and the fourth son was taken aback - Bai Bai was dressed in white, but he never made a sound when he walked.

As soon as Bai Yutang opened the cell door, he waved to Zhan Zhao, "Cat, you can go."

Zhan Zhao stood up with a smile, and when he was pulling the fourth son forward, he stepped on something.Looking down, Zhan Zhao was stunned.

"Cat?" Bai Yutang stood at the cell door, "What's wrong?"

Zhan Zhao stared at the ground in a daze, then slowly squatted down, dug up the soil a bit, pushed aside the straw that blocked his sight, and pulled it out...and saw a gleaming dagger buried in the soil.

Bai Yutang saw it clearly, and laughed, "The cell in Dali Temple is too messy."

Zhan Zhao put down the dagger, stood up, and looked up at Bai Yutang.

"Cat?" Seeing Zhan Zhao's strange expression, Bai Yutang couldn't help calling him, "What's wrong?"

Zhan Zhao turned his head slightly, with a confused look on his face, "Hmm... I don't know."

Bai Yutang smiled, reached out and pulled his wrist, "Let's go."

Pulling hands, Zhan Zhao's sleeves fell back, exposing his wrists.On Zhan Zhao's wrist, there were a few clear red finger marks, as if someone had squeezed him hard.

Bai Yutang frowned, "Who did it?"

Zhan Zhao looked at the red mark on his wrist, then suddenly reached out and pinched Bai Yutang's cheek.

"Hiss..." Bai Yutang covered his face and looked at Zhan Zhao in surprise.

Zhan Zhao withdrew his hand and moved his face closer, "You try pinching me too."

Bai Yutang didn't know what was going on, but the fourth son quickly pinched the back of Zhan Zhao's hand. Zhan Zhao shuddered from the pain, and looked down—the dagger was still in his hand.

"What's the matter?" Bai Yutang was confused.

"Hehe." Zhan Zhao laughed, and pointed to his head, "I think, either I'm crazy, or... I just hit a ghost!"