treacherous world

In the afternoon, the empty island suddenly became dark clouds and the wind was strong.

The little maids were busy collecting clothes, and while sweeping towards the other courtyard, they saw Bai Yunfan standing under the big roof of the old house, wagging his tail leisurely, as if waiting for the downpour of rain.

"Where is Fifth Master looking for?"

"I don't know, I turned around all night after I came back yesterday."

"Master Zhan didn't come back with him."

"Fifth Master must have been in a hurry to find something to leave. You see, Bai Yunfan hasn't returned to the stable yet."

Several little maids collected their clothes and gathered curiously at the gate of the courtyard to look around.

This courtyard is the old courtyard on the empty island. It was refurbished once before, but it is no longer used. It is used to store the things of Bai Yutang.Don't look at Bai Yutang as a noble and lazy person, but in fact he has a lot of things.For example, when I go there, I like to buy some useless decorations, especially bottles, jars, boxes, and the like, preferably with traps, a big room, full of piles.

Adding up all the things from childhood to adulthood, the whole yard is full of three rooms, and now what clues are there to find... Bai Yutang has suffered a lot.

"Oh, what are you doing?"

As soon as the little maids turned their heads, they saw the third master Xu Qing and the fourth master Jiang Ping behind them, and hurriedly said that the fifth master didn't know what to look for, and the house was about to be demolished.

Xu Qing was also puzzled, "I said, why does the fifth child rummage through boxes and cabinets if he doesn't even eat?"

Jiang Ping touched his chin and felt strange, so he and Xu Qing slipped outside the door to watch.

Looking in through the gaping door...

Jiang Ping and Xu Qing looked at it for a long time, looked at each other silently, and smiled at the door.

Bai Yutang was flipping through several volumes of blueprints when he heard someone laughing at the door, and looked back, it was Jiang Ping and Xu Qing.

Bai Yutang took the blueprint and walked to the door, "Third brother and fourth brother?"

"Pfft...hahaha!"

Jiang Ping and Xu Qing looked up at Bai Yutang, and laughed even louder.

Bai Yutang looked at the two of them speechlessly, not understanding what they were laughing at, but he didn't have time to pay attention to these, and turned back to continue searching.

Jiang Ping and Xu Qing laughed enough, and walked into the room, "I said Yutang, you should change your name."

Bai Yutang was puzzled, "Huh?"

"Don't call yourself Chinchilla, but Squirrel!" Xu Qing looked at him with a smile.

Bai Yutang looked down at himself, it turned out that after a night of rummaging through boxes and cabinets, his white clothes had turned gray, and he didn't even notice the dust all over his body.

Bai Yutang frowned and went out to collect ashes.

Jiang Ping squinted his eyes and leaned closer, "Old Wu, what are you looking for? The token of love Zhan Xiaomao gave you is gone?"

"No." Bai Yutang threw the file down the corridor, "I don't know what I'm looking for either."

"Wow..." Xu Qing shook his head, "Did you quarrel with Kitten Zhan? Why are you so distracted?"

"Of course not." Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and patted Bai Yunfan's back, thoughtfully, "Maybe it's because I've been with that cat for too long, and I'm used to chatting with him when I don't have any clues. Now, I can’t think of any clues.”

Jiang Ping and Xu Qing glanced at each other, and made faces at each other—Zhan Zhao is really good, who has Bai Yutang hooked up with?I've only been away for a few days, and my heart and eyes are all about him, and I don't even have a clue to find something.

Jiang Ping reached out to touch Bai Yutang's forehead, "Fifth brother, are you too tired? Go to sleep and ask sister-in-law to prescribe you some supplements."

Bai Yutang looked up at the sky, sighed and continued to go into the house to look for things.

At this time, a few little girls who had been watching curiously at the door couldn't help but ran in.

These maidservants were all born and raised on Xingkong Island, and they all know each other well. Seeing Bai Yutang's disgraced face made her feel uncomfortable. How can the young master look for things?

"Fifth Master, what are you looking for? Shall we find it for you?"

Looking back, several little girls were holding feather dusters and rags, and one or two were smoothing their arms and sleeves.

Bai Yutang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I don't know what I'm looking for, you guys should rest when you're done."

All the maids looked at each other in blank dismay - don't know what they are looking for?

"Why don't you explain it more clearly?" Jiang Ping had a quick mind after all, and rubbed his arm against Bai Yutang, "Speak more, and fourth brother will give you advice."

Bai Yutang thought for a while, then came, "I was wondering if Fifth Aunt would have left me something back then, and I never noticed it."

Everyone blinked.

"what is this?"

"Probably..." Bai Yutang thought for a while. Since it's called a music score, it's probably something like a scroll or album. "Paper or cloth or bamboo slips..."

Everyone was at a loss, but they still rummaged through boxes and cabinets to help find them. After a while, several rooms were turned upside down. The group of girls deftly piled up the things in the room into several rows, and asked Bai Yutang to choose slowly. .

Bai Yutang looked through them one by one, but found nothing special. Seeing that another day would pass, he considered that he should stop looking and go to Saibei to have a round with Zhan Zhao.

But I was going to go, but it rained suddenly at night.

Bai Yutang couldn't sleep either, so he washed up and changed into clean clothes, then sat under the eaves of the gate in a daze, preparing to get up and go on the road as soon as the rain stopped.

That kid Bai Fu left with the old men Lu Tianhan and Lu Dongdi. There were many things that Bai Yutang hadn't had time to ask clearly. This group of people were mysterious and they didn't know why they went there.

While he was bored, Bai Yutang heard footsteps, very soft and slow, looked outside, and saw an old woman walking in with a basket.

This is another courtyard, Bai Yutang seldom comes here.

The old lady suddenly raised her eyes, and saw a man in white sitting under the dark porch, she was startled.

"Yo, mom!"

Bai Yutang was funny and called him "Third Aunt."

The old woman saw clearly and stomped her feet, "Oh, Yutang, you want to scare my aunt to death!"

Bai Yutang looked into her basket and saw a basket of tea leaves, he probably just came back.These three aunts are Min Xiuxiu's aunts. All the relatives in the empty island are called along with their seniority, and there are so many relatives that they can't recognize them.

"What are you doing here alone?" The third aunt put the basket aside, went to Bai Yutang's side, and looked into the room first, "Didn't Xiao Zhao come back with you?"

Bai Yutang shook his head, "I'll leave when the rain stops."

"Have you had dinner yet?" Auntie tilted her head to look at Bai Yutang, "Why don't you gain weight?"

Bai Yutang laughed, seeing his aunt helping to pack things, he suddenly remembered that she used to go up to the mountain to pick tea leaves with Fifth Aunt, and when they came back, they fried together.

"You miss your fifth aunt?"

The third aunt seemed to see what was on Bai Yutang's mind, and said with a smile, "Oh, you guys are also filial, you can think of her often, it's not in vain that she thinks of you all the time."

Bai Yutang felt a little melancholy when he heard this.

"What's the matter?" Auntie looked at him curiously, "I'm listless."

Bai Yutang thought for a while, then asked her, "Auntie, if Fifth Aunt wanted to leave something for me, where would she hide it?"

"Silly boy, why does she hide something if she wants to leave something for you?"

Bai Yutang guessed that this aunt was too old to understand, so he stood up and patted the hem of his clothes, but his heart skipped a beat again——Auntie was indeed right, what did Fifth Aunt want to keep for himself? Why hide?

Thinking of this, Bai Yutang disappeared as soon as he turned around.

The aunt had just picked up the basket and turned her head, and said "Oh my god" again in fright, and Bai Yutang had disappeared.

Sighing, the aunt shook her head and walked back, "The younger generation, one or two are so anxious..."

Bai Yutang quickly returned to his study room, which was the room that Fifth Aunt visited most often in the past.

The room is cleaned frequently so it is very clean.Bai Yutang stood in the center of the room and looked around, and finally his eyes fell on a porcelain cat by the flower table in the corner.

This cat was given to him by his fifth aunt a long time ago, and he still felt it was baffled when he gave it to him, but this porcelain cat is really cute, and it looks more and more like Zhan Zhao later on, so he keeps putting it on. where it can be seen.

Bai Yutang walked over, reached out to pick up the cat to have a look, and then shook it again... He raised his eyebrows slightly, turned the cat upside down, looked at the tail, stretched out his hand and knocked twice, as if there was a cat The place is hollow.Bai Yutang smiled slightly, pinched the white porcelain cat's tail, and gently snapped it...

With a sound of "click", the porcelain cat's tail was snapped open, not broken... Bai Yutang was overjoyed, it turned out that the porcelain cat was a jar with a lid.

Looking into the hole, Bai Yutang pulled out something... It was a small bamboo tube, somewhat like a firefoil.Open the bamboo tube, there is a roll of black cloth inside.

Bai Yutang shook the black cloth, feeling a little puzzled... The black cloth is pure black, with a smooth and soft surface, with no discernible texture, more like silk.But there is no writing on it.

Bai Yutang held a black cloth and held it up to the candlelight, but the writing was not transparent, and after wetting it in water, it was not leaking, which is strange.

Shaking the porcelain cat again, shaking hands and feet and ears...

At this moment, Han Zhang pushed the door open and came in, "Old Wu, you're still awake..."

Bai Yutang turned his head and looked at his second brother.

Han Zhang stared at the "ravaged" porcelain cat in Bai Yutang's hand for a while, and the corner of his mouth twitched, "Then what... go to bed early, the second brother won't bother you." After finishing speaking, he ran away quickly.

Bai Yutang sighed, put the porcelain cat to his hand, and sat down at the table with the black cloth in a daze—why did Aunt Wu take so much trouble to hide a roll of black cloth with nothing in the porcelain cat?

……

Zhan Zhao gnawed on the steamed buns, and looked dissatisfiedly at the geniuses who interrupted his meal.

Feng Shouli originally wanted to help, but after seeing the hands, he found that Zhan Zhao's kung fu was much better than everyone else in Tiandu, so he didn't bother to care about it. Anyway, he had heard that Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang and Zhao Pu were good brothers. Kung fu is about the same.Those who can make Zhao Pu look like a good brother are definitely not far behind.

Han Changzai waved his hand lightly, making those masters of Tiandu step back, and looked at Zhan Zhao, "Sure enough, Mr. Zhan didn't go to the fortress of Black Wind City, why did he bring the little prince all the way here? This bird doesn't shit the inn?"

Zhan Zhao sat back, mixed the noodles with chopsticks, and asked slowly, "Han Dutong also didn't want to pass on the name, he was not busy with official business in Tubo, and he brought the little princess all the way to this inn that doesn't shit, why? ?”

Han Changzai's eyes darkened a bit, "Master Zhan, you have good eyesight."

Zhan Zhao wanted to say something else, he opened his mouth, and the fourth son stuffed a chopstick of food into his mouth just in time.

Zhan Zhao had no choice but to chew his food with puffed cheeks, while reminding the fourth son, "Eating at this time is very embarrassing."

The fourth son wiped the soup from his lips with a smile, and said, "Miao Miao, several people here have been poisoned."

The fourth son lightly said that he was not in a hurry, and there was another "crash", and everyone put down their bowls and chopsticks, calmed down and turned their heads to look at the fourth son.

Zhan Zhao rested his forehead, shook his head and sighed—this little idiot really has the demeanor of a grandson, and he doesn't know whether he has a white belly or a flowery belly, he just knows that his little face is deceiving!

"What poisoning?" Feng Shouli looked at the fourth son in bewilderment.

The fourth son took out the purse that Gongsun gave him before leaving the house, opened it and took out a few prescriptions, "Daddy speculates about several diseases, probably this one." Then he took out one of the prescriptions and handed it to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao took it over and took a look, and saw the cause of disease and the method of detoxification written on the prescription - black corpse disease.

"Black corpse disease?" Zhan Zhao asked the fourth son in confusion, "What kind of disease is this?"

"Black corpse disease is caused by corpse poison. Generally speaking, people who rob graves or people who have been in contact with corpses all year round will get it. The symptoms are black air coming out of the body, and then the lips turn purple, the body gradually becomes weak, and the mouth feels dry and tired. In the end, when they die, they will turn into black mummies. Sometimes some villages will explode, so the village is full of mummies, and it will be said to be a zombie village or something."

Zhan Zhao nodded lightly, "This process is slow, right?"

The fourth son nodded, "But if you take the liver of a person who died from the black corpse disease and dry it and grind it into powder, and add a few flavors of Cui Su's poison, it will become black corpse powder, which is highly poisonous. When it comes, it will cause people to be poisoned and die in a short time, turning them into zombies."

Zhan Zhao stroked his chin, "So that's what happened."

Han Changzai could hear clearly, he had also heard that the little prince's father was a genius doctor, and the black corpse disease he described was indeed close to his prince's death method.

"Then how do you say that several people here have been poisoned?" Feng Shouli asked the fourth son.

"Heishi powder is very poisonous!" said the fourth son, "Usually, you have to be very careful when poisoning, otherwise you will get sick too." As he said, he pointed to a few people in the distance who were eating sullenly, dressed as gangsters. Foreigners, "Those people have black foreheads, black teeth, dry hair, and symptoms of black corpse disease!"

Everyone swiped and turned to look at the past, and the gangsters subconsciously reached out to hold the knife.

Han Chang squinted his eyes, "So it was you who poisoned me!"

As soon as the words fell, several gangsters jumped up, as if they were about to break out of the window.

But before they reached the window, Han Changzai was already in front of them.

Feng Shouli raised his eyebrows, and winked at Zhan Zhao——Han Changzai is serious and decent.

Zhan Zhao looked at Han Chang making moves to stop the gangsters over there, the corners of his mouth twitched for some reason, and he stretched out his hand to gently pinch the cheeks of Xiao Sizi, "It's really capable."

The fourth son smiled and picked up some food for Zhan Zhao, Zhan Zhao pursed his lips while eating, thinking about it—there is always a cold, there is a problem.