treacherous world

Under Bai Yutang's prompt, Zhan Zhao successfully started to think wildly, "If it's not a human hand, could it be a bear's paw? It's so fat, it's possible!"

Bai Yutang looked at him with admiration, "Cat, are there any bears in Dali?"

"Isn't there?" Zhan Zhao wondered, "There are bamboo bears in Sichuan!"

"Bamboo bears are not bears!" Bai Yutang Wang Tian said, "Bears are either black or white!"

"Do you look down on bears with black and white flowers?" Zhan Zhao was very dissatisfied, "Don't treat panda bears as bears!"

Bai Yutang was speechless, and stretched out his hand to slap Zhan Zhao with a cat's paw, "How can a bear's paw be so thin?"

"What is that?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "Monkey? Monkeys have very long fingers!"

Bai Yutang was speechless, "I said it wasn't a human hand, but I didn't say it must be an animal's hand."

Zhan Zhao blinked and looked at Bai Yutang, "What is that? You said it."

Bai Yutang thought for a while, then smiled, "We'll talk about it tomorrow morning." After speaking, he rolled over and fell asleep.

"Hello?" Zhan Zhaozheng was ready to listen to the answer in high spirits, when he saw Bai Yutang suddenly fell asleep, and then turned off the lights...the surroundings were quiet.

After a while, a "bang" was heard.

"Hmm..." Bai Yutang hit the pillow sullenly, and managed to break free to catch his breath. Zhan Zhao pinched his neck, "Finish your words! It's your fault that I can't fall asleep!"

As a result of Zhan Zhao's violent toss, Bai Yutang got up and put on his clothes.

"Where are you going?" Zhan Zhao tugged at his sleeve, "In the middle of the night."

Bai Yutang stuffed him with the clothes, "You come too, let's find a hand!"

Zhan Zhao blinked in confusion—looking for hands?

After changing their clothes, the two of them went out, and happened to meet Xiao Liang passing by the door with the fourth son. It seemed that the fourth son was going to the latrine in the middle of the night, and Xiao Liang took him there.

After bumping into each other, the fourth son yawned, "Meow meow for nothing, are you still asleep?"

Bai Yutang shook his head and waved to Xiao Liang, "Xiao Liangzi, help me run an errand."

Xiao Liang nodded, "What are you going to do?"

"Go to Baoyan's place and ask me if he has a map of this area, preferably one that shows how many temples there are."

"Oh." Xiao Liang nodded, and ran to look for Bao Yan.

The fourth son tilted his head and asked the two, "Are you going to the temple at night?"

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang puzzled.

Bai Yutang shrugged, "Well, I'm going to find a Bodhisattva."

The fourth son thought for a while, and whistled with his finger in his mouth.

After a while, I saw Rock-Scissors rushing in from the yard gate, Stone knelt down and yawned, and the scissors rubbed the fat head against Si Zi.

The fourth son rubbed the heads of the two, "Xiao Liangzi and I will go too!"

Zhan Zhao looked at him, "It doesn't matter if you don't go back to your room to sleep? Don't make your father anxious with us tomorrow."

"It doesn't matter." The fourth son waved his hands generously, "Daddy and Jiujiu are not free."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, speechless—these two were really in a good mood.

After waiting for a while, Xiao Liang ran back with a scroll, "Brother Bai, the little mantou has marked out the temple."

Bai Yutang spread out the blueprint and looked at it, pointing to the street where Zhan Zhao and Dong Fang had a dispute just now, "Is it here?"

Zhan Zhao nodded.

Bai Yutang looked around, and finally clicked on a nearby Guandi Temple, "That's it."

"Guandi Temple?" Zhan Zhao didn't understand, "Go to Guandi Temple in the middle of the night and find a hand?"

Bai Yutang smiled, and asked the fourth son, "Have you seen "Passing the Five Passes"?"

"I've seen it." The fourth son nodded.

"How did Second Master Guan smooth his beard?" Bai Yutang asked him with a smile.

The fourth son blinked, stretched his palms, and pretended to support the three long beards and pushed them out, "Jiangzi."

Zhan Zhao was taken aback for a moment, squatted down and stared at the fourth son's turned palms for a while, "Oh... like! Fingers turned."

Bai Yutang pointed to the annotation on the map, "You see, this temple was built in the Zhenguan period. Erye Guan's mud tire is probably quite fat, so his hands are wide."

"Let's talk." Zhan Zhao felt a little weird, "Could it be that Guan Erye appeared and slapped Dong Fang?"

The fourth son and Xiao Liang opened their mouths wide, thinking, this is more evil than a female ghost.

"Go and see." Bai Yutang smiled lightly, as if he already knew what he knew.

Zhan Zhao was puzzled, but followed him anyway.

Everyone walked towards the temple, the fourth son sat on the back of the stone, looked at Zhan Zhao, and thought of something.So he smiled and whispered to Zhan Zhao, "Meow, I want to ask you something."

"What's the matter?" Zhan Zhao sat on Scissors' back by the way, feeling quite comfortable.The scissors are more "fat" than jujubes, and I don't care if I sit alone, and walk next to the stone in a leisurely manner.

Zhan Zhao touched the soft back hair of the scissors and the fat body, and felt that sitting was much better than Zao Duoduo, if Duo Duo was a stool, it would be a soft couch.

The fourth son looked at him with enjoyment and shook his head, "Meow, is your monthly salary much?"

Zhan Zhao raised his face and calculated, "Well... it's okay."

The fourth son squinted his eyes, "Daddy settled the score that day, saying that you haven't paid your salary for a long time."

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, "It seems so, I will get it when I get back."

"Then why don't you get paid for your work?"

Zhan Zhao smiled and waved his hands, "Forgot, I'm not short of money."

"So, it's all for nothing, right?" the fourth son asked, crossing his arms.

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, it seems that...he hasn't spent much money since he was with Bai Yutang, no matter what he does, it seems to be Bai Yutang's habit to throw money at the checkout.

Zhan Zhao glanced at Bai Yutang who was choosing a route with Xiao Liang on the map, and smiled, "It seems so."

"Alas..." The fourth son sighed inexplicably, and didn't say anything more.

Zhan Zhao was a little puzzled, and asked him, "Little Si, what's the matter?"

The fourth son blinked and looked at him, "Meow meow, I found that every time I investigate a case, I have to put in half of my effort for nothing, sometimes a little more than half!"

Zhan Zhao then blinked and looked up, as if that was the case.

"Look, he's the one who inquired about information for you, he's the one who went to the rivers and lakes to ask friends for information, he owns the boats and cars that go in and out, and he pays for the food and drink, and fights him. Sometimes He also needs to be injured, and he needs to dismantle all the traps, and even guess a riddle and memorize a book, but he doesn't receive a salary!" The fourth son took out a piece of rice dumpling candy from his small purse, While chewing and gurgling, pouring beans out generally speaking.

As Zhan Zhao said, he pinched his chin and thought - what did Bai Yutang do when he was doing these things?Occasionally play tricks when quarreling?It seems that he is the guard of Kaifeng Mansion.

It's just that he hasn't figured it out yet, and the fourth son added, "The most poisonous sentence in every quarrel is still thought of for nothing."

"Really?" Zhan Zhao felt his back itch, and stretched out his hands to scratch.

The fourth son moved his butt again, simply climbed onto the back of the scissors, and continued to ask Zhan Zhao, "Meow meow."

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao was inexplicably nervous.

The fourth son looked up at him, "I'll cook noodles for you in vain!"

Zhan Zhao scratched his head and scratched his head for a long time, "I also cooked for him! And obviously my cooking is delicious."

"But if you have money for nothing, you can hire a cook, and he even decorated the Kaifeng mansion, and everyone even used his money." The fourth son counted with his fingers, "Oh, that day, Daddy made a calculation and said that you are the best in the world. Your dear lover, the sum of money spent in vain and movable and real property is at least a million taels!"

Zhan Zhao opened his mouth wide, "There are so many?"

"That's right, it's not counting the millions of taels he donated for helping Xiaowei!" The fourth son took another zongzi candy to eat, and stuffed one into Zhan Zhao's mouth by the way, but at this time But Zhan Zhao couldn't taste the sweetness of the zongzi candy, and it was a little sour.

Zhan Zhao was silent for a while, then asked the fourth son, "What is your father doing with this?"

"Oh, did Daddy make a bet with Jiujiu that day?" The fourth son suddenly covered his mouth as he said something, as if he had slipped up on something, he quickly swallowed the second half of the sentence, and climbed up the back of the stone.

How could Zhan Zhao let him go? He grabbed him and brought him back, "What are they betting on?"

"What's the matter..." Little Four flattened his lips.

Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes, "Say!"

The fourth son felt that a good man would not suffer from immediate losses, so he immediately confessed honestly, "That day, Jiujiu said that he would admit everything for you for nothing, even admitting to eating soft food, it is really unreasonable. So dad said, in fact, Meow Miao is the one who eats soft For dinner, I also settled the account by the way. Jiujiu said..."

"What are you talking about?" Zhan Zhao's ears are red now, and the blood is rushing upwards.

"Let's just say... a few million taels, enough to fight a battle. Bai Yutang is not only a man who doesn't eat soft food, but also a love saint who loves beauty and doesn't love country, and is willing to be eaten soft by Miaomiao..." The fourth son talked more and more, his momentum became weaker, because Zhan Zhao's expression gradually became "ferocious", so he hurriedly climbed onto the back of the stone.

Zhan Zhao rubbed his face, sat on the back of the scissors and became dazed. In front of him, Bai Yutang found the right way, and he heard that the fourth son and Zhan Zhao were chatting behind him and didn't know what to talk about, and didn't pay much attention.After walking for a while, Bai Yutang heard the silence behind him, looked back, and saw the fourth son napping on the back of the stone, Xiao Liang was sitting beside him, Zhan Zhao was staring at the front.

Bai Yutang startled Zhan Zhao's eyes, he had a premonition that the cat was thinking wildly again, so pay attention!

Sure enough, Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and hooked his finger at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang went to his side and looked at him.

Zhan Zhao patted Scissors on the back, which means, you come up and sit down too.

Bai Yutang frowned and looked at the fluffy scissors, who shook his head, meaning—sit casually.

Bai Yutang wasn't tired either, and he liked to be clean, so he always felt that sitting on a hairy ass was worse, so he waved his hand.Unexpectedly, Zhan Zhao grabbed his arm and pulled him onto the scissors' back, frowning, "Sit if you are told!"

Bai Yutang was a little dazed when he got on the back of the scissors, why did Zhan Zhao suddenly become a little rude, who offended him?Thinking of this, he took advantage of the opportunity to look at the little four on the back of the stone.I saw the little guy peeking with one eye open, but when he saw me staring at him, he immediately closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep.

Bai Yutang couldn't laugh or cry, what did the fourth son say to stimulate Zhan Zhao?

At this time, the moon was dark and the wind was high. Fortunately, Guandi Temple was not too far away, and it was only a short walk away.

Zhan Zhao jumped and jumped off the back of the scissors, wanting to enter the temple.Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and gently pulled him...to indicate, wait!

Zhan Zhao looked at him, Xiao Liang was a little nervous pulling the fourth son, there was no danger, right?

Bai Yutang took out the fire folder, and took a picture of the position of the threshold.Everyone leaned over to take a look, and saw a wire with such thin hair, it was a mechanism!

Zhan Zhao felt that it didn't make sense, and felt that there was no breath in the surrounding area, so he looked at Bai Yutang—what is the agency doing under the Guandi Temple?

Bai Yutang shrugged, he didn't know, but he knew about this kind of spider silk mechanism, this temple is definitely weird, and there are at least hundreds of mechanisms in the temple.

The fourth son crouched behind the two of them and looked in. With the light of Huo Zhezi, he suddenly felt as if he saw an old man meditating in the temple.At first, he thought it was probably an Arhat with mud tires, but after a closer look...it seemed to be a living person, because mud tires would never make his hair flutter...

"Ah!" The fourth son couldn't help but yelled, stretched out his hand and pointed, "Human!"

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were taken aback, they didn't look into the temple at first, they thought there was no breath, so they presumed that there was no one alive, and they were all focused on the mechanism.But being reminded by Xiaosi, the two of them froze when they raised their heads.

On a futon in the middle of the temple, there is really a person.

It was a shriveled old man with gray hair, his chin was resting on one hand, his eyes were still open, and he was looking outside.He tilted his head and looked at everyone curiously, and the two sides looked at each other like this...

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang watched for a long time, then suddenly stood up - why is this man breathless?

Zhan Zhao pulled Bai Yutang, could it be his hallucinations reappearing?Bai Yutang shook his head, he saw it too!

"Who are you?" Xiao Liang couldn't help asking, "Why don't you breathe?"

The old man blinked, stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers lightly, and there was a "stab" sound, and an oil lamp on the candlestick beside him lit up.The scene in the temple can only be described as weird... This Guandi Temple is obviously very dilapidated, and there are spider webs all around, but if you look closely, it seems that it is not a spider web, but something like copper wire and iron wire.

And the old man was sitting inside, and he didn't know how he got in. There was an incense burner and a candlestick in his hand, and he seemed to be looking at it.

At this time, the completely lifeless old man suddenly reached out to grab the incense burner, and Bai Yutang suddenly said, "Don't touch it!"

The old man heard it and looked up.

"There are agencies." Bai Yutang reminded him.

The old man squinted his eyes and stared outside, thinking that this combination was a bit interesting.Two handsome young men, a boy who will be handsome in the future, a cute fat baby, and two bears...

The old man held his chin and asked, "Oh... is there a mechanism?"

The tone of his speech was slow, but his voice seemed very old, and when he opened his mouth, his breath leaked a little.Only then did Bai Yutang understand why the old man suppressed his breath, because he was worried that the mechanism inside would be activated.It can be seen that... this person is a master of masters in deciphering mechanisms!

"Young man, how old are you?" The old man suddenly raised his head and asked the door, but he didn't know who to ask.

If the lad...

The fourth son stretched out his hand, "Seven years old!"

The corner of the old man's mouth twitched, "Ask you two." He said, pointing to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "Is it true that you are only in your early twenties, or is your inner strength deep and old?"

Zhan Zhao heard the meaning of some words, and asked tentatively, "Do you know any old people who are not dead?"

"Haha..." The old man laughed, "Well, there are many old men in the Jianghu, but there are only a few evildoers who look very young when they are old. Why don't you two..." Speaking of this, he went on Shaking his head, "Well, no, the martial arts should be much higher, and the internal strength should not be so weak. So, are you really only in your twenties?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other—it was the first time I heard people say that they were not good at martial arts and weak in internal energy, it was so fresh.

However, the two nodded tacitly, saying that they were right, in their early twenties.

"Oh..." The old man nodded, and asked Bai Yutang puzzled, "You are only in your 20s, why would you be able to discern such a lost mechanism?"

Bai Yutang stared at him for a long time before asking instead, "How old are you?"

The old man stroked his beard and chuckled, "Boy, you look a bit like a person, don't you have any relationship with him?"

Zhan Zhao lightly tugged Bai Yutang, what does that mean—this person is just saying something!Don't let him lead you by the nose.

Bai Yutang naturally understood.

"It's a tacit understanding. It reminds me of two people." The old man rested his chin in both hands, "It's a pity that two girls are not two boys. It's funny to quarrel all the time, but when they scold together, it's called a tacit understanding." .Sure enough, there will always be this kind of people from generation to generation in the rivers and lakes, and they will always be so interesting."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were slightly moved, could it be that they were talking about...

"Eh?" The old man snapped his fingers again, and the two lanterns at the door also lit up. At this time...the surroundings were lit up, and he could see more clearly at once.

"You two faces seem familiar!" The old man rubbed his chin and pondered, "Huh? Could it have something to do with those two girls?"

Zhan Zhao frowned, "What's your name, senior?"

The old man thought for a while, then tilted his head, "Tsk, you said that I have been trapped in the mountains for a long time and finally came out, and I can't remember the past."

"Trapped in the mountains?" Bai Yutang noticed that the old man's clothes and trousers were in tatters, especially the shoes. The cloth shoes were worn into shoe holders. How long have you been in the mountains?

"Let me figure it out... It must have been 20 years since that crazy girl trapped me in the mountains." The old man sneered and shook his head, "So, don't offend women. A woman's heart is sharper than a needle." Still young!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang frowned, who is this old man?How crazy.

"I thought I wouldn't run into any traps after leaving the mountain. Why is there one here?" The old man said, raising his face and looking around, "Tsk tsk, isn't that woman still dead? There's no reason, I slapped her, no matter how powerful she is, she would never have survived to this day, it’s so strange! Could it be that there are other descendants? I obviously knocked her off the cliff, so she should have fallen into the sea to feed the fish.”

Speaking of this, Bai Yutang's breath suddenly became a little gloomy, and Zhan Zhao turned to look at him, only feeling some murderous aura.

Zhan Zhao pulled him, which means—what's wrong?

Bai Yutang stared at the old man, "Who have you been trapped in the mountains? You slapped her?"

"Hmm." The old man thought about it carefully, "What's it called? Heh, I don't remember, but..." The old man said, pointing to his cheek, "There is a crying mole here, this woman, I can't bear it!" My own family is no longer the Kefu’s family, and it’s better to have a short life, so as not to hurt more people..."

Before the old man finished speaking, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang said in unison, "You fart!"

"It's too much!" The fourth son yelled, puffing his cheeks, "Auntie Fat said that a girl with a mole on her face is also a good girl!"

Xiao Liang supported his forehead, and hurriedly hugged the fourth son aside, not letting him get involved, he had a premonition that a fight was going to happen, because Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were too murderous.

Seeing the expressions of the two, the old man suddenly smiled, narrowed his eyes slightly, and his face became very fierce, with a bit of evil spirit, "You two little bastards really have something to do with that bitch, Fifth, she Teach you the skills of the mechanism? So, the music score is also in your hands? Hand it over!"

It was the first time Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had heard of polar music, why did it sound so similar to the kind of thing Zhao Pu studied a few days ago that was not suitable for children?

The knife in Bai Yutang's hand trembled slightly, and Zhan Zhao knew that his killing intent had moved, so it's no wonder... this old man might be the real murderer of Fifth Aunt.Although Aunt Wu said that she died of illness, it may be because she didn't say anything about the past. The real cause of death was related to internal injuries.

Now that he speaks so harshly again, it is understandable for Bai Yutang to be murderous, but this is not the time to be excited, so he should ask again.This old man is not weak in kung fu, and seems to have a plan, so be careful of his tricks.Therefore, Zhan Zhao grabbed Bai Yutang's wrist with one hand, and signaled him—be patient.

It's strange to say that Bai Yutang usually doesn't let people touch him, let alone listen to people's words, but every time Zhan Zhao grabs him, no matter where he is pulled, no matter how angry he is, he can temporarily suppress it, because he Believe it—Zhan Zhao must be helping him, not harming him.

Zhan Zhao was stunned suddenly, the fourth son was wrong, why didn't he contribute at all?Bai Yutang was furious, he was not the only one who could hold him down, as he spoke, he even glanced at the fourth son.

The fourth son smiled, his eyebrows and eyes were curved, Zhan Zhao naturally didn't eat soft food... He and Bai Yutang were eating each other's soft food!

The inexplicable eye contact between Zhan Zhao and the fourth son made the old man a little puzzled, wondering if there was some conspiracy in it?

Seeing that the atmosphere had calmed down, Zhan Zhao looked at the old man, "So you are the old turtle that Fifth Aunt mentioned, the old man was taken aback, "What? "

Zhan Zhao smiled, "Aunt Wu is really good at predicting things, huh?" As he spoke, he bumped his arm lightly against Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang glanced at him in the blink of an eye, followed Zhan Zhao's intentions, and nodded.

Zhan Zhao smiled knowingly, and looked at the old man, "He said, you are a mad dog that has been locked in a cage for 20 years. They can’t even get out! So let’s come here and look for you, one for each.”

From the sideways mouth and dilated nostrils of the old man, it can be seen that he is close to rage at this time.

Bai Yutang obviously calmed down a bit.

"Is that bitch still alive?"

"You don't talk like a bitch, do you have that face?" Zhan Zhao frowned, "Fifth Aunt is fine, mother and child are reunited, and share family relationships."

Bai Yutang was slightly taken aback, looking at Zhan Zhao, is this cat testing?

"Mother and child reunion?" The old man looked at Zhan Zhao in confusion, and frowned, "Impossible...that little bastard is clearly dead."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other. At this time, the two had the same goal. If this old man had been trapped in the mountains for 20 years, he would be dumb if he was not stupid.

On the roof, Tianzun and Yinhou, who were about to make a move, looked at each other and smiled—OK, there is progress!But the two of them really didn't expect that after so many years, that person was still alive, and...they finally figured out some things that they hadn't figured out until now!

It turned out that everything had been arranged long ago, but it was not some unpredictable providence that decided all of this in the dark, but the Fifth Aunt who had been dead for many years.