treacherous world

Zhan Zhao saw a hall of demons in a daze. At this moment, whether it was an illusion or reality, Zhan Daxia couldn't tell. He only knew that he was connected with Zhan Hao. After a long time, his elder brother was still involved. What kind of ghost? where?Why is it that Zhan Hao is the winner?

When everyone returned to the other courtyard, Bai Yutang saw that Zhan Zhao was preoccupied, so he didn't bother him.

Seeing that everyone had returned, Pang Yu and Bao Yan stepped forward and asked, "How are you doing?"

The fourth son, who hadn't seen Pang Yu before, asked, "Little Fatty, where did you and Little Mantou go?"

"Nowhere." Pang Yu pouted, "I just woke up!"

"Staying up so late?" The fourth son was surprised.

"Little four, we didn't stay in bed, we only fell asleep at dawn." Bao Yan came out with a bunch of scrolls, "I asked Pang Yu to help me find information for my reading, and it took me a whole night. Dali is indeed a country not as small as the city and county of Dezhou. , There are a lot of things to see.

"I'm starving, do you want to go out to eat?" Pang Yu beckoned people to go out to eat.

The fourth son and others agreed, but Zhan Zhao said that he had a headache and wanted to go back and squat for a while.

Bai Yutang felt that he might want to be alone, so he let him rest in the room.Everyone went out, but Bai Yutang didn't follow.

Zhan Zhao sat quietly in the room, leaning on the window sill and thinking.

Ghost Hall?Why do you feel that the mountain gate is familiar, has it been seen before, or is it a dream or a hallucination?

Just as I was thinking about it, I smelled a scent coming from outside, the breathtaking aroma of shrimp.

After sniffing, Zhan Zhao felt a little hungry. He opened the window and saw a tray coming in and putting it on the window sill.

Zhan Zhao looked up, Bai Yutang was lying by the window and asked him with a smile, "Guest officer, do you want to eat noodles?"

Zhan Zhao felt that it didn't smell like egg noodles, so he leaned forward to take a look, "Yo, changed to fried noodles? It's delicious in color and fragrance!"

Bai Yutang smiled, "You can't always eat egg noodles, just improve it once in a while."

Zhan Zhao started to eat the fried noodles with a smile on his face, and gave Bai Yutang a thumbs up, "I've made progress! Master Wu is indeed a genius, he can learn by himself without a teacher."

Bai Yutang smiled smugly, and ate noodles with him.Not far away, Bai Fu curled his lips, thinking that this is obviously bought, the best fried noodle restaurant in Dali, a bowl of noodles costs several taels of silver, his fifth master is dishonest, but he is good at coaxing cats!

Zhan Zhao beamed after eating the most expensive and famous fried noodles in Dali, especially because he thought that the fried noodles were made by Bai Yutang, so he was in a better mood and forgot about the ghost hall.

Bai Yutang climbed into the room through the window and sat beside him, "They've all gone to eat, what should we do?"

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, "How about going out for a walk?"

"Okay, where are you going?"

"Well, there are so many temples in Dali, why don't we go and have a look around the temples?" Zhan Zhao suggested.

Bai Yutang got up and signaled - go out!

When I went to the street, I realized that Dali is lively. The climate here is also good, and the flowers are blooming in warm weather.Pedestrians on the road also dressed similarly to those in the Central Plains, and business was booming.It's been a long time since Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang strolled the streets together at such a leisurely pace, especially Zhan Zhao didn't have to patrol the streets.

The two really saw many temples of different sizes along the way. At first they were still in the mood to go in to worship, but they made mistakes twice. After the aunt and old lady watched, they fled out shamelessly.

"Cat, are you looking for something?" Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao who was looking around all the way, and went in to have a look at the temple when he saw it. He couldn't help it, so he asked him.

"I want to find the mountain gate." Zhan Zhao replied, "The mountain gate of the Ghost Hall."

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, "Is it okay to just ask?"

"Wait." Zhan Zhao grabbed Bai Yutang, who just grabbed a random passer-by and wanted to ask if he knew where the "Ghost Hall" was, "Be careful to scare the snake!"

Bai Yutang laughed, "It's better to scare the snake out of the grass."

So, the two asked a lot of people along the way, no matter old or young, businessmen or farmers, monks, monks and nuns, no one has heard of ghost halls, let alone such a thing as a mountain gate. There are many chained bridges, but they don't know which one Zhan Zhao is talking about.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao got nothing out of the questioning, but they were so exhausted that they returned to the haunted house when it was dark.

At the gate, Zhan Zhao folded his arms and looked at the door frame again.

Bai Yutang yawned, "Is that female ghost still there?"

"That's right, isn't it still hanging on the beams?" Zhan Zhao pointed helplessly at the roof.

"I probably know what that woman looks like." Bai Yutang entered the yamen together with Zhan Zhao, "I saw it in the mirror of the Reform Movement that day."

Entering the compound, I saw the fourth son twisting around with rock-scissors.

"Little Si, what are you doing?" Zhan Zhao looked at it funny.

"Xiashi." The fourth son pointed to the inside, "Daddy and the others want to ask questions, so they won't let me in."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, and hurried into the room, only to find that... Zhao Pu and the others had finished interrogating, and it was the eunuch Chen Eunuch who was being interrogated.

According to Gongsun, Eunuch Chen was Dong Jialuo's subordinate and was assigned to be in charge of the house arrest of Duan Sulong.

"Is it really under house arrest?" Zhan Zhao frowned.

"He also said that Duan Sulong was not feeling well recently, and he was woken up by nightmares for a long time at night, so he invited the great monk to cast a spell for protection."

"The power struggle between Dong Jialuo and Gao Zhisheng has begun to surface. The Erhai Palace and the Cangshan faction are the beginning. It is said that the better the two sects will end tomorrow, there is a possibility that something will happen."

Zhao Pu was not without worries, "Besides, Duan Sulong was forced to give the throne to his nephew Duan Suzhen a few days later, but Duan Suzhen is still very young, so he might be a puppet emperor. In this dispute, the winner of Dong Jialuo and Gao Zhisheng Either side will become the real master of Dali." Both Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao nodded, but...

"What does all this have to do with that female ghost, withered leaves, angry demon, and the curse of Cui Mansion, including the young master, Zhan Hao..." Bai Yutang felt that they seemed to be missing a thread, In other words, under the surface, there is a dark line hidden underground, and this is the real clue they are looking for.

"There's also the Ghost Hall." Zhan Zhao reminded Bao Yan that he suddenly raised his head, "The Ghost Hall?"

Seeing that Bao Yan seemed to know something, Zhan Zhao hurriedly asked, "Do you know the Ghost Hall?"

"I read it last night!" Bao Yan said, and found a lot of scrolls, opened one of them, "Look, here is a manuscript of a person named Bai Shusheng's travel notes. This Bai Shusheng It is said that he traveled all over the country in search of wonders. Because he was greedy for the majestic and dangerous scenery of black water, he climbed up a tall tree, but accidentally fell, rolled into the water and was rushed far away, and was finally rescued by a rock. He climbed up the rock and At a sharp turn of the black water, there are clouds and mist, and a long iron cable bridge spans it. Under the bridge, there seems to be a fairy ship moving slowly in the mist, and there is a huge mountain gate on the other side. Specifically He didn't see the scene clearly, but he only remembered that there were three words 'Ghost Gate' above the mountain gate."

"Ghost Gate?" Zhan Zhao felt that all the previous descriptions were very similar, but this last point was the only one, "What I saw was the Ghost Hall!"

"Are you sure it's the Ghost Hall?" Bai Yutang asked.

"En!" Zhan Zhao nodded firmly.

"That's weird." After Bao Yan fell over, there was still a pattern drawn by the scholar from his memory. It was indeed a mountain gate, and the plaque on the gate read "Ghost Gate."

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "The font is not the same, but the scenery is really the same!"

"The only difference is that there is one character difference, and then the font is different?" Tianzun asked.

"En!" Zhan Zhao nodded.

"Could it be that the scholar read it wrong?" Pang Yu asked, "At that time, he should have been scared to death, and it was also written here, such as clouds and mist."

"It's possible." Bao Yan also felt that this was the only possibility.

"Didn't he go along the chain bridge?" Bai Yutang took the scroll and looked back. Unfortunately... there is no more detailed description.

"I just saw this section, and there are some scattered ones in the back, which are from the fisherman's ballad." Bao Yan read it quite miscellaneously, so he dug out some local ballads and showed them to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang.

There is a passage in it sung by a fisherman, "Ghosts fall into Heishui Bay and build an immortal city on earth. Before the gate of the demon, you survive the lock, and after the gate of the ghost, there is no body."

"Looking around, it seems that it is indeed the Demon Gate." Yin Hou asked Zhan Zhao, "Zhao Zhao, did you remember wrongly?"

Zhan Zhao also wondered, it's impossible to get it wrong, or it's a hallucination...

At this time, Bai Fu hurried in from outside, "Fifth Master, it's amazing..."

Before he finished speaking, there was a loud roar in the distance, "Zhan, come out to grandma!"

Everyone's scalp went numb.

Zhan Zhao was also startled, wondering whose surname is Zhan?Messed up a fierce woman into the house? !

Bai Yutang looked out, and Bai Fu was rushing in, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, "It's fierce, the fierce woman said that she wants to find Mr. Zhan!"

At this moment, the fourth son is also in the yard. He finished his food and played with rock-paper-scissors for a while. Xiao Liang was practicing beside him. The black-haired girl strode in with her skirt in hand, "Zhan Zhao!"

Everyone turned their heads to look at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao's face was blank, and when he looked outside, his arrogance dissipated immediately, and he muttered, "Okay, the enemy came to the door, who told her I'm here!"

After he finished speaking, he wanted to run away, but the girl at the door saw him and yelled, "Zhan Zhao, you are responsible to my old lady!"

In a word, everyone's eyes widened in shock, and they thought in their minds... Could it be that Zhan Zhao has a lover here?

Zhao Pu clicked his tongue twice, and chewed his tongue with Gongsun, "Sure enough, a real person can't be judged by his appearance. I always thought that it was Bai Yutang who wanted to mess with women. I didn't expect Zhan Zhao, an upright and honest man, to have such twists and turns?"

Gongsun reached out and pinched his cheek, "You are the marshal after all, so stop gossiping!"

Zhan Zhao wanted to run away, but he didn't. Bai Yutang grabbed him by the collar and looked at him, "Zhan Zhao, who is that?"

Everyone took a deep breath after hearing this, and Gongsun hurriedly pulled Zhao Pu, "Apu, amazing! Bai Yutang actually called him Zhan Zhao not a cat! Are you mad?"

Zhao Pu's eyelids twitched when he heard the phrase "A Pu".

Tianzun poked Yin Hou, "What's the matter with your grandson?"

Yin Hou looked upright, "Then what...it shouldn't be so, that girl is not as good-looking as Bai Yutang."

Yin Hou's voice was not low, and everyone subconsciously scrutinized the girl who rushed in, her round face squinted, she looked quite festive, but in terms of beauty, Bai Yutang threw her a few blocks away, so she also Wondering—is there a problem with Zhan Zhao's aesthetics?

At this moment, Zhan Zhao was complaining, the girl in black came in, rolled up her arms and sleeves, "Zhan Zhao, I'll fight with you!" After speaking, she pulled out a weapon from behind.

As soon as the weapon was revealed, everyone took a step back subconsciously. The girl was not big at all, and ordinary girls were considered short, but the weapon she held was a Fangtian painted halberd that was as long as one person. .Raising the halberd and chopping towards Zhan Zhao, he really has the strength to lift mountains and rivers, Ganqing is a master with extraordinary talent and boundless strength.

Bai Yutang subconsciously stretched out his hand to grab the halberd, looked at the painted halberd and then at the girl, suddenly realized, "Are you Cang Momo?"

"That's my old lady, dodge..." Cang Momo originally wanted to pull back the painting halberd and throw Bai Yutang away, but she looked up and saw it, and was stunned.

After a while, she put away her painting halberd with a flushed face, stood aside with her mouth flattened, squinting her eyes at Zhan Zhao, as if she meant some kind of deep hatred.

Zhan Zhao rubbed his nose and laughed dryly, "Miss Cang, long time no see."

Cang Momo raised his eyebrows, "Why are you guilty? You used to call him Momo!"

One sentence, and the words made everyone gasp, the fourth son looked at Zhan Zhao with his face in his hands, "Miao Miao is having an affair!"

Gongsun dragged him over, "Don't learn some nonsense words!"

"Affair?" Zhan Zhao was stunned, and it took him a while to understand. He turned to look at Bai Yutang, and seeing his face was so dark, he quickly waved his hands.Zhan Zhao couldn't argue, "No, no, that's not the case!"

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows and looked at him with his arms folded. What does that mean—I want to hear your explanation.

Zhan Zhao didn't know what to do, and looked at Cang Momo, "You made it clear."

"What did I say clearly? You have done everything, and now the raw rice is cooked, what else can I do?" Cang Momo folded his arms, rolled his eyes and scolded Zhan Zhao, making everyone's mouths open.

Yinhou grabbed Tianzun and said, "Look at your apprentice, I think he is going to faint."

Zhan Zhao's face was flushed with anxiety, and he pointed to Cang silently, "You speak clearly, I have nothing to do with you at all, I just cooked rice and nothing else!"

"puff."

Zhan Zhao was so anxious that he babbled nonsense, and with one sentence, Cang Momo sputtered, Bai Yutang looked at him with a frown, and Zhan Zhao stared back at him, what does that mean—what are you looking at?It's just your pot of rice!

"Whoever told you to come to Dali won't come to see me!" Cang Momo pursed his lips in dissatisfaction, "I'll teach you a long lesson! How dare you snatch the girl of my dreams, you don't show loyalty!"

Everyone was taken aback, dream lover?

Zhan Zhao stood next to the girl, pointed to her and said, "This girl is the owner of Cangjiu Villa, Cang Momo, and this is my sister." Then, pointing to Marquis Yin, he said to Cang Momo, "Where is Grandpa?" .”

Cang Momo put away the painting halberd, and hurriedly stepped forward to bow to Yin Hou, "Cang Momo has seen senior."

Seeing that she was very polite, Yin Hou nodded blankly, looked at Zhan Zhao, "Your sister?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, leaned into Tianzun's ear and whispered, "It's the niece of the third uncle who has been lost for many years, and the younger sister of the third uncle was born. The third uncle and their sister were separated back then, and the younger sister died long ago, leaving behind such a girl!"

Yin Hou was taken aback, and pulled up the girl to look carefully, "Like! It looks like the three brothers of the Chong family! Good girl, call me Grandpa!"

Cang Momo immediately called grandpa happily, and clapped his hands outside, and a group of his subordinates came in with large and small boxes of gifts to give to everyone.

Bai Yutang has been standing by the side without saying a word. He is relieved that this girl has nothing to do with Zhan Zhao, but just now he said that Zhan Zhao stole her sweetheart... Her sweetheart should be a man, right? Isn't the problem more serious?Or does this girl like girls?No matter what she likes, another one pops up, and the problem is still not solved!

Seeing that Bai Yutang was still stern, Zhan Zhao moved to his side, "You're dumbfounded!"

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows and looked at him.

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, then pulled him aside, "You look up and smile at that damn girl!"

Bai Yutang was puzzled, "What?"

"Laugh if you tell me to laugh!" Zhan Zhao lowered his voice.

Bai Yutang was puzzled, looked up, and sure enough, he saw Cang Momo looking at this side with a blushing face, Bai Yutang slightly raised the corner of his mouth, and smiled unnaturally, who knew that Cang Momo passed out with a "gudong".

"Ah! The head of the house!"

A few of Cang Momo's subordinates who came along with the gift hurriedly helped him up.

In a daze, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, Cang Momo put his arms around the stone that came over to watch the excitement, and rubbed it back and forth, "I will die without regret!"

The stone squeaked as it struggled—he was going to die, his nosebleeds wiped his body!

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao in surprise, "What's wrong with her?"

"Lovesickness!" Zhan Zhao said angrily, "Let me ask you, five years ago, did you kill Cangnan Fourteen Ghosts all at once?"

Bai Yutang thought for a while, "It seems that there is such a thing."

"Momo was separated from her uncle and mother when she was young, and was adopted by a mountain king, which is the predecessor of Cangjiu Villa. The family of the mountain king loved her very much, but later the village was slaughtered by Cangnan Fourteen Ghosts. After that, the ten The four bandits left Dali without a trace, and they have been chasing and killing them since they grew up silently. Didn’t the fourteen ghosts ambush you in the grove that time, and you took care of them all at once? Do you remember the scene at that time? ?”

Bai Yutang frowned and thought for a long time... finally remembered.

Back then in the grove, the Cangnan Fourteen Ghosts ambushed him, demanding that he hand over one of the martial arts secret books of Tianzun. He was about to send them on their way, but a girl in plain clothes rushed out with a long knife. Said that these fourteen ghosts killed her whole family and wanted revenge.

The fourteen ghosts looked like they deserved a beating at the time, and they laughed at the girl, Bai Yutang thought it was convenient, so he killed all fourteen of them.Seeing that the girl didn't seem to be good at kung fu, so I threw my Tianzun's secret book to her, and gave her some silver. It seems that Bai Yutang really couldn't figure it out. Anyway, he likes to do something along the way. Who remembers? Live so many.

Looking at him, Zhan Zhao deserved to be beaten even more, "You are the one who attracts others, so I will tell you not to do such things!"

Bai Yutang didn't know whether to laugh or cry as he looked at Zhan Zhao, "You are a hero, who told me to do more good things and less cause trouble all day long?"

Zhan Zhao curled his lips, stretched out his hand and pointed at Cang Momo who was still rubbing his arms around the stone, "You know, most cottages have loot sharing halls, and the plaques in the halls are the rules of the cottage."

Bai Yutang was speechless, "It's not my first day in the rivers and lakes, of course I know."

"Do you know what is written on the plaque in the Juyi Hall of Cangjiu Villa?" Zhan Zhao was indignant, which is why he tried his best not to bring Baiyutang to Cangjiu Villa, and even mentioned Cang Momo.

"What do you write?" Bai Yutang was puzzled, the Loot Sharing Hall basically wrote "righteousness", "courage" and the like.

"The plaque on his house reads, 'If you want to marry, marry Bai Yutang'!" Zhan Zhao tugged at Bai Yutang's collar, "You don't worry, you rat!"

"puff……"

Zhao Pu, who came over to eavesdrop, choked on the tea, and hurried back to share this interesting gossip with his family Gongsun.

Bai Yutang was embarrassed, and dared to toss about for a long time, that girl hated Zhan Zhao for stealing her "sweetheart"...

After a while, Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and patted Zhan Zhao's shoulder, "Good job!"

Zhan Zhao was too angry to answer.

Bai Yutang's mood improved, and he walked over slowly, and helped Cang Momo, who had just stood up, and said with a smile, "From now on, you can just follow Zhan Zhao and call me brother."

Cang Momo was dumbfounded, then swayed...

"The head of the house fainted again!"

Bai Yutang stood up with a smile, and smiled at the furious Zhan Zhao, "It's quite fun."

Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes, "Try playing again!"

Bai Yutang put his arms around his shoulders, "How about I cook the noodles and you cook the rice?"

Zhan Zhao was embarrassed and wanted to quarrel with him, but he saw Xiao Si and Xiao Liang standing next to a big box, and there were many gadgets in it, all sent by Cang Momo for him to play with.

The fourth son was tossing with Xiao Liang, there were so many novel things, they were still children after all, so they were very happy.

Zhan Zhao asked Cang Momo, "How did you know I'm here?"

Cang got up silently, wiped his nose with a piece of fine silk, tried not to look at Bai Yutang's face, and said to Zhan Zhao, "Everyone in Dali knows that you are here! I am so angry that Dali didn't come to look for you when you came. I am definitely afraid that I will settle accounts with you, and I would rather live in this kind of ghost house than live in my cottage."

As soon as Cang Momo finished speaking, everyone was stunned.

Bai Yutang asked her, "Do you know this is a haunted house?"

"Yes, Gonggong!" Cang Momo talked to Zhan Zhao just now like a tigress, which would turn him into a rabbit immediately.

Zhan Zhao laughed, "Your mood swings are so great!"

After wiping his nose silently, Cang looked around, "You don't know it's normal. Boss Pan's people are all around here, so naturally he won't tell you."

"Boss Pan doesn't seem simple." Zhao Pu said to himself, "I don't know who sent the news."

Zhan Zhao wanted to ask something, when Bai Yutang suddenly walked up to the fourth son and took out something from the box.

It was a palm-sized mahogany door, very similar in style and pattern to the one in the house with the shadow of human skin installed.

Looking at the light and shadow, sure enough... there is a figure inside.

Bai Yutang showed Zhan Zhao the wooden door, and Zhan Zhao also felt weird, and asked Cang Momo, "What is this?"

Cang silently glanced at it, "It's evil."

"Protection against evil spirits?" Gongsun felt strange, "How can such a scary thing ward off evil spirits?"

"This is a tradition here in Dali. Usually, ghosts and ghosts enter the house when people are asleep and unsuspecting. With this door, you always feel that someone is guarding the door. Therefore, to ward off evil spirits, rich people will do a It’s a real door, with leather inside. Children, if you bring it with you to ward off evil spirits, you won’t attract some unclean things.”

After hearing this, everyone suddenly realized that customs sometimes really exist against common sense, but yes, mythical beasts such as Pixiu and Qilin also have hideous faces, and they are indeed used to guard houses to ward off evil spirits.

"You all go live on the mountain, don't stay here anymore." Cang said silently, "I think this place will be in chaos tomorrow, so don't be dragged into it."

"Because of the Cangshan faction and the Erhai Palace? The two factions can't make much trouble, right?"

Cang Momo looked at everyone strangely, "You really don't know anything? No wonder, I just got the news on the way"

Everyone was puzzled, Yin Hou asked, "What news?"

"The Cangshan faction and the Erhai Palace have dispersed all their family wealth and set up a hunt and kill order. It is the highest reward in history. We want to find the real culprit!"

"The real murderer?" Zhao Pu wondered, "Does the two of them stop biting dogs?"

"No!" Cang said silently, "It seems that we have found the killer organization that provoked the incident. I have never heard of this name before."

"What killer organization?" Zhan Zhao urged.

"What's it called?" Cang Momo snapped his fingers at his subordinates, "Didn't we release the Zhang Huang Bang when we first came, and just posted it."

"Yes, here is the head of the family." The subordinates took out an imperial list and handed it to Cang Momo.

Zhan Zhao and the others took a look... and saw that it was impressively written on the emperor's list that the one who provoked the incident this time in an attempt to provoke the two factions to meet and splash blood on Dali was a killer organization called "Ghost Hall".And on the imperial list, there is still a portrait of the head of the ghost hall.

When everyone looked at the portrait, they were stunned at that moment—they saw that the one painted on the portrait was none other than someone who hadn't shown up for a long time, Zhan Hao!