treacherous world

Naturally, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang didn't have a fit because of something, but came up with some clues!

Everyone was puzzled as to what it had to do with "watermelon". In fact, it was Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang. At the same time, they thought of the melon-growing monk Jiechen, who was the old Cen that Fifth Aunt had mentioned to Bai Yutang.His surname is also Cen, and he has a good relationship with Fifth Aunt, and he has been looking for someone for many years.When Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang asked him before, he cleverly avoided talking about it, but now that he thinks about it... Maybe he really has something to do with this matter.

Bai Yutang asked Cen Jing, "Aside from you and Dead Ye, is there anyone else with the surname Cen?"

Cen Jing wanted to laugh, "There are not many people with the surname Cen in the world, but there are also many who say less, right?"

Bai Yutang frowned, and didn't ask any more questions...

"Actually, even if there are any elders of the same clan, I don't remember." Cen Jing said in a low voice.

"But...even if the surname is Cen, it may not be suspicious." Zhao Pu looked at the two of them, "Is there any other reason?"

"Yes." Zhan Zhao pointed to himself, "About hallucinations."

"Halt?" Gongsun didn't understand.

"It's like dreaming. Does anyone dream of someone they've never met?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"A person I've never seen before..." Gongsun shook his head, "It's unlikely, the so-called day and night dreams, most of the dreams are people I met during the day, or fabricated based on certain clues, For example, I saw a stone statue during the day and dreamed about the resurrection of the stone statue at night."

Zhan Zhao nodded, and then asked Cen Jing, "Can you make me hallucinate and see people I've never seen before?" Cen Jing shook his head, "Of course it's impossible."

"The problem is, I've never met Fifth Aunt!" Zhan Zhao said seriously, pointing to everyone, "Except for Yutang and Tianzun, who has seen Fifth Aunt here?"

Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads, expressing that they hadn't seen each other.

"The person I saw in Taibaiju the other day, the reason why I thought she was Fifth Aunt was because her appearance was similar to Fifth Aunt, and the key point was that she had two tear moles. It was precisely because of this that Yutang became suspicious... ..." Zhan Zhao seemed to be analyzing or just talking to himself, "Yutang couldn't see it at the time, only I saw it, and I had a hallucination. In other words, who knows if what I saw was Fifth Aunt, but at least The other party wants me to describe a Fifth Aunt!"

"That is to say, that person met Fifth Aunt after I met Fifth Aunt, so he knew about the tear mole." Bai Yutang said, "My colleagues have met Fifth Aunt and me, and also seen our brothers play tricks on Fifth Aunt. So far, Lao Cen is the only one who draws moles."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang are planning to go to the melon shed immediately to find Jie Chen.

"Stop anger?" Yin Hou seemed a little interested, "I'll go too."

"I'll go too." Tianzun hurried over.

"I'll go too..." The fourth son had already been picked up by Gongsun before he had time to cling to him, "Go back to my room and sleep!"

……

After leaving Kaifeng Mansion, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang took Yinhou and Tianzun, who kept yawning, to the melon shed.

Zhao Pu and Gongsun are making other preparations. If everyone's speculation is correct, then this fog building is nothing at all, and the deadliest crisis can be resolved in an instant.But if the guess is wrong, then Zhao Pu also feels that he can't sit still.

Gongsun thought of some clues, pulled Zhao Pu over, and whispered a few words in his ear, Zhao Pu's eyes lit up, and he led someone to do business.

Near the melon shed, there were no lights, and the temple was quiet.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked through the bare melon fields until they reached the gate of the small courtyard where Jie An lived.

"Stop being angry?" Zhan Zhao asked, but no one responded.

Tianzun looked around, "There is no one here."

"Where did you go this night?" Zhan Zhao pushed open the door of the yard.

Yin Hou patted him lightly on the shoulder behind him, "There is someone."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang felt a slight movement in their hearts, they didn't feel any breath... Someone, how good would that be?

"It's still a dead man." Tianzun came up and said between Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "I've just died for a while."

Both eyes widened.

Tianzun and Yinhou looked at each other and smiled, and pointed their fingers in the direction of the back door together.

The two looked in the direction of their fingers, and saw that the back door was open, and it was pitch black...

Glancing at each other, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang ran over quickly, and saw a person lying in the corner of the door.The two raised their hearts, only to find that it wasn't Jiechen at all, but a man in black with half of his face scalded, just like the assassins who assassinated before.

"It's this group of people again." Bai Yutang frowned.

"It's the throat-locking skill." Zhan Zhao looked up at Bai Yutang, "Restrain those who hate and kill."

"Hey." Yin Hou slightly raised his eyebrows, "This great monk has a bad temper, and if he kills with one move, it's called ruthless!"

"Jie Chen promised the abbot not to kill anyone." Zhan Zhao frowned, "I believe he is a person who keeps promises, so he probably won't..."

"Cat!"

Just as Zhan Zhao couldn't figure it out, Bai Yutang suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed forward.

Everyone raised their heads - they saw that the temple was less than a hundred feet away from the melon field, and suddenly the flames shot up into the sky.

"That's where the monks live!" Zhan Zhao stood up abruptly.

The four rushed to rescue them.

At this time, the sound of gongs was heard everywhere, and many young monks ran out, some splashed water with washbasins, and some ran to report to the officials for help.

Zhan Zhao grabbed the little monk who was about to rush in and meditated.

"Master Zhan!" The little monk pointed to the location of the Great Hall, "That monk is crazy, my master is still inside!"

Before the little monk finished speaking, a white shadow flickered behind him, and Bai Yutang and Tianzun entered the main hall. At this time, the curtains and curtains around the hall were blazing with flames.There are many fragrant waxes in the hall, and the smell is smoky.The clay statue of Buddha sits on fire, which is indescribably tragic.

Under a statue of Amitabha, Master Abbot stuck a dagger in his chest, with blood on the corner of his mouth, leaning there dying.

"Master." Bai Yutang stretched out his hand to help the great monk up, looked around, trying to find Jiechen.

Tianzun gave him a hand, "There is no one else!"

"Are you sure?" Bai Yutang frowned, could it be that he really quit anger, killed people and set fire?

Tianzun nodded, "It's about to collapse, the beam of the house was shattered with internal force!"

Bai Yutang raised his face, and sure enough, he saw that the beams and surrounding columns were full of cracks.Tianzun led him out of the gate, and at the same time heard a loud bang, the roof of the entire Daxiong Hall collapsed, and the young monks who were fighting the fire at the gate were dumbfounded for a moment, and stared blankly with washbasins.

"Yutang!" Seeing the house collapse suddenly, Zhan Zhao was also startled into a sweat. Fortunately, Bai Yutang and Tianzun came out in time with the abbot.

Putting the abbot on the ground, Bai Yutang frowned... The master was seriously injured, a dagger in his chest pierced his heart.

"I'll go find Gongsun." Zhan Zhao wanted to go back and ask for help, but Bai Yutang held him down and shook his head helplessly.

Yinhou and Tianzun looked at each other, and shook their heads secretly—it was hopeless, even if Gongsun came to save this situation, the monk had only one breath left.

Maybe it was the flashback, or maybe the abbot still had his last words to say, so he reached out and grabbed Zhan Zhao, and opened his mouth.

Zhan Zhao lowered his head and put his ear close to his mouth, "Master, what do you want to say?"

"Blood and eyes are indispensable..." The old monk's voice was weak, but his articulate words were still clear. Zhan Zhao could hear clearly, but he was just wondering—what about blood and eyes?

"The eyes are already there, you can't...you can't give him blood..."

Before the words fell, the old monk was exhausted and died.At the moment of dying, a pair of eyes opened wide looking at Zhan Zhao, full of worry and sadness... There seemed to be something in those eyes that he couldn't let go of.

Zhan Zhao couldn't bear to look any further, so he reached out and gently closed his eyes, repeating the monk's last words in his heart, what about blood and eyes, why you have eyes, you can't get blood... What is the mystery behind this?

The great monk passed away, and all the young monks cried together. In addition, the fire in the hall was so bright that almost half of the people in Kaifeng woke up and ran out to watch.The abbot master is usually virtuous and respected, he is kind and charitable, he is an unobtainable expert, and the people in the city are deeply saddened when they heard the sad news.

The firefighting teams from Kaifeng Mansion and Imperial City arrived and started to put out the fire. Zhan Zhao asked Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and others to lead a large number of yamen servants to find Jie Chen's whereabouts.

After clearing up his mood, Zhan Zhao found a few monks who had witnessed the incident and asked him what happened.

The little monk cried and said that the abbot master was meditating just now, and suddenly asked them all to go out and stay away.After a while, Jie An rushed into the room with a knife and closed the door behind him.

Across the yard, we heard Jie Chen talking loudly, as if he was arguing with the abbot, and then we saw the figure of Jie Chen raising his knife, and when we wanted to run over, we heard a loud noise. Noise, the ground shook.Later, Jiechen had already escaped from the rear window, and then a big fire broke out. It burned up and flew into the air, and it couldn't be extinguished at all.

"Isn't the fire burning too fast?" Bai Yutang felt a little strange, "This fire is strange!"

"That shock should have been the internal force shaking the short beams and columns." Tianzun touched his chin lightly, "The internal force is very deep."

"Did you see anyone else?" Yin Hou felt that this process was a bit bizarre, as if something was missing.

The young monks all shook their heads, they were still young, teenage children, took the abbot as their father, now that the old monk is dead, they have no time to cry, so they can't care about anything else.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked aside, relatively speechless...how could this be so.

When he returned to Kaifeng Mansion, he saw that Bao Zheng had returned, as if nothing happened, obviously Zhao Zhen didn't make things difficult for him.

"My lord..." Zhan Zhao came to his side and heaved a sigh of relief.

Bao Zheng nodded, "The Eighth Prince has almost remembered that Zhao Cong has disappeared, and the emperor sent troops to surround the Wulou, just waiting for us to destroy the mechanism."

After Bao Zheng died, Gongsun came over, and in his arms was the little fourth son who was sleepy in a daze.Apparently, Gongsun had already told Bao Zheng what had happened, because of everyone's speculation, Bao Zheng was not as worried as before.

"Let's go to Wulou at dawn." Bai Yutang said, when Gongsun suddenly smiled and asked everyone, "I just thought of one more thing."

Everyone looked at him.

"The so-called Three Caves of the Cunning Rabbit, could there be more than one Fog Tower?"

As soon as Gongsun's words came out, everyone was stunned.

"The location of this fog building is obvious, and you can spot it at a glance." Bai Yutang also frowned, "If it only has two floors...about the height of an ordinary house, no one will find it at all!"

Bao Zheng also became anxious, "Wouldn't it be impossible to guard against..."

"Send someone to investigate, my lord, we'll go right away..." Zhan Zhao wanted to go out.

Bai Yutang stopped, "Wait a minute, cat, it's useless if the Wulou is too short, there must be prerequisites!"

"What conditions?"

"Chimneys! At least two or three big chimneys." Bai Yutang said.

"There aren't many places like this..." Bao Zheng pondered, where are there big chimneys and brick kilns?

Gongsun smiled clearly, and carefully reminded, "Do you still remember the first person who was involved in the case for no reason and was hunted down as a killer?"

Everyone was stunned, and said in unison, "Jiang Hongyue!"

"I just said that Jiang Hongyue was involved with a cook." Zhan Zhao suddenly understood, "She seems to have mentioned that there is an old stove from her family near Kaifeng. Smoke from the chimney of this kind of large dim sum workshop will definitely not cause trouble. Doubt!"

"It's a really good trick." Bai Yutang shook his head with a smile, "If they had caught Jiang Hongyue at that time, the matter would not have been revealed, but who would have thought that such a coincidence would have happened to a cat that suddenly became ill."

Zhan Zhao also felt that his illness was not in vain.

"Zhao Pu has already sent people there in advance, maybe... there will be unexpected results!" Gongsun smiled mysteriously.

It was getting late at this time, Bao Zheng asked Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang to take a rest first, especially Bai Yutang, who had important things to do tomorrow, so he had to be energetic.

It's just that in this case, no one can fall asleep.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao finally calmed down, and sat in the room in a daze.

"Jie Chen killed the abbot..." Zhan Zhao said to himself, "I still can't believe it."

"The little monk just saw a silhouette, which may not be real." Bai Yutang sat next to Zhan Zhao, "I always feel that besides the Wulou, there seems to be some conspiracy."

Zhan Zhao lay on his back on the bed, picked up the little tiger on the pillow and rubbed it twice, "Blood and eyes... what do you mean?"

"Eye, do you mean the devil's eye?" Bai Yutang lay down beside him, "Eight eyes in troubled times... There seems to be no blood here, is it a blood demon?"

"The blood demon doesn't seem to have anything to do with this matter." Zhan Zhao leaned over, resting his chin on Bai Yutang's chest, "Think again."

"Blood... blood tofu? Duck blood soup?" Bai Yutang said while poking Zhan Zhao's cheek with his finger, "Mao Xue Wang?"

Zhan Zhao asked him to hook up the glutton, leaned over, "Hungry!"

"Shall I cook noodles for you?" Bai Yutang immediately sat up, another chance to show off!

Zhan Zhao raised the corner of his mouth and nodded, "Yeah!"

The two came to the kitchen, Bai Yutang rolled noodles and cut vegetables, Zhan Zhao sat on the stool and watched.

"By the way, Yutang, you said earlier, how did Fifth Aunt make you unaffected by Eight Eyes?"

"She gave me something to eat." Bai Yutang said, frowning, as if feeling sick to his stomach.

Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes and leaned forward, "What are you eating?"

"Don't mention it." Bai Yutang shook his head.

"Tell me." Zhan Zhao was even more curious.

"Huh..." Bai Yutang put the noodles into the pot, and told Zhan Zhao helplessly, "It's disgusting to say, at first she gave me a small fruit that looked like fish eyes, and lied to me that it was lantern fruit. No, I have asthma and cough easily, and she said folk remedies can be cured."

Zhan Zhao had an unbelievable expression on his face, "You will eat it?!"

"Of course I don't want to eat, but my sister-in-law is so tight, my mother still presses me down and stuffs me down." Bai Yutang said Wang Tian.

Unconsciously, Zhan Zhao imagined that the little Bai Yutang was being held down by Lu Xueer and Min Xiuxiu to feed the fruit, and he quickly shook his head.

"After eating for half a month, my cough was really good, and I didn't wheeze anymore. After eating for another month, my health also improved." Bai Yutang said, lowering his voice a little, "Later, I found out that the size of the fruit start to change."

"Size?" Zhan Zhao wondered.

"Sometimes it's only the size of a sesame mung bean, sometimes it's the size of an egg... and it smells fishy." Bai Yutang said, shaking his head and lifting the lid of the pot to lift the noodles.

"Then in the end, what exactly did she feed you?" Zhan Zhao was curious.

"At first it was lantern fruit or a kind of fruit for treating asthma." After Bai Yutang finished speaking, his expression changed, "Later, it turned into real eyes."

"Ah?!" Zhan Zhao was so startled that he almost let go of the bowl in his hand, and looked at Bai Yutang in disbelief, "Let you eat your eyes? What eyes?"

"All kinds of rare birds and beasts!" Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and rubbed the center of his brows, "The ones jumping in the haystacks flying in the sky, such as three-legged toads, thousand-year-old tortoises, king fish in the Yellow River, yaks in snow-capped mountains, and white apes in the mountains... ...I found out later, and vomited for three days and three nights."

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang sympathetically, "Why is she giving you these?"

"Uh..." When Bai Yutang said this, he seemed to have thought of something suddenly, and sat down in a daze.

Zhan Zhao snorted while eating the noodles, and couldn't help but click his tongue twice, his Yutang noodles are getting better and better!

"Yutang?" Zhan Zhao poked Bai Yutang to remind him to regain his senses.

"Uh, cat, what did the old monk tell you just now?"

"Well, what do you mean you already have eyes, and you can't get blood."

"Blood..." Bai Yutang looked surprised, "Fifth Aunt told me the same way back then."

"What?" Zhan Zhao was also surprised.

"She said that there is only one eye, and there is only one blood. Only when the blood eye is united can one become a demon." Bai Yutang said to himself, "She also said that she has committed a lot of sins, and she may not live long, nor can she find her. I have found a better way to redeem my sins, I hope I can leave something for me, maybe it will be useful in the future, and it is not in vain to share the love with my mother and child."

After hearing this, Zhan Zhao also felt emotional, some things are indeed destined to be unclear, and Bai Yutang's magical ability has indeed helped a lot now.Aunt Wu said atonement, so what does it have to do with her in today's troubled times?

Just as he was thinking, Bai Fudian ran over from outside, "Lord Zhan, Fifth Lord, the prince is back, guess who he caught?!"