treacherous world

The fourth son discovered the symbol, which surprised Zhao Pu and Gongsun. It seemed that there was some kind of relationship between the two cases. "Well... I am getting more and more curious about the hidden palace." If the print was reversed, what Zhao Pu saw from the top was Gongsun's hair, which was jet black...

When Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang entered the courtyard with their heads downcast, this was what they saw, a picture of the two cuddling each other and being very affectionate.The fourth son and Xiao Liang are playing around, and the stone and scissors are playing beside them, and the children and grandchildren are full of children and grandchildren?

The two immediately shook their heads, inexplicably replacing Gongsun and Zhao Pu with their own images in their minds... Immediately felt a chill... That scene was terrible.

"Have you two eaten yet? We found something here." Gongsun and Zhao Pu finally recovered from their sweetness, and looked back at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang.

The fourth son and Xiao Liang didn't run away either, they came over to cling to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, and made friends with them.

Zhan Bai and the two also put away the embarrassment, walked to the table and sat down, "What clue?"

Gongsun told them about the discovery just now, and Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also told about their encounter with Hong Niang today. Everyone felt that it was expected but unexpected—is there really a relationship between the two cases?

"We did see this lotus platform in Hong Niang's hands!" Bai Yutang took the blueprint and pointed it at the light, thinking it was right. "She also said that it is a key wheel, which is necessary to open the door of the hidden palace."

"There is a pattern in the abbreviated symbol of the theater troupe...what does it have to do with it?" Zhan Zhao frowned, the key is that he doesn't know what it has to do with the elder brother.

"Go into the hidden palace and have a look?" Zhao Pu is curious, and has long wanted to enter the hidden palace, to see what kind of treasure it is!

"We still don't want to enter the hidden palace rashly!" Gongsun seemed to have some disagreement, "It's not good for that rich man to be exposed, maybe it will be another bloodbath."

Did people die for money? Everyone nodded. It is best for this kind of treasure to be buried underground forever.

At this time, Ziying sent a new letter from Bao Zheng, saying that Zhao Zhen knew about the hidden treasure in the hidden palace and was a little worried.After a secret discussion, Renzong decided to move the land, find the things hidden in the palace, and take them back to the state.If you can't find it, simply burn the blueprint, so that the treasure house will never see the light of day.Bao Zheng and Pang Ji are on their way here, let everyone control the situation in the past few days no matter what, and don't expand it.

Everyone thought it was reasonable. If ordinary people or more Jianghu people knew about hidden palace treasures in the hidden mountains, then more people would come, and it would be inevitable to fight openly and secretly.

"Actually, Li Gang and the others said last time that there are still many skeletons where the stone statue was found. There may be some clues there." Zhan Zhao raised the topic, and Bai Yutang nodded slightly, knowing that Zhan Zhao was not interested in the hidden palace. I'm interested in his brother's whereabouts.

"That's right." Bai Yutang suddenly felt hungry and asked, "Is there anything to eat?"

"Oh!" Gongsun shrugged, "We all bought it from the shadow guards. We've already finished eating. How about buying?"

"No need." Zhan Zhao stood up, "I'll go to the kitchen to have a look." After he finished speaking and ran away, Bai Yutang was a little puzzled, and followed, and the fourth son and Xiao Liang also followed to watch the fun.

Zhan Zhao saw that there were eggs and rice left in the pot in the kitchen, and sausages hanging by the window, so he pointed to Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang, "Xiao Liangzi, Xiao Sizi, go to the field in the yard to pick two Here come the vegetables!"

When the two children heard about picking vegetables, they became more energetic, and ran to pick a few and came back.

Zhan Zhao pointed to the well at the entrance to Bai Yutang, "Wash the vegetables with great water!"

Bai Yutang looked at him for a while, Xiao Liang had already fetched water from the door, Bai Yutang picked up a vegetable, dipped it in the water, picked it up, and got a contemptuous look from the fourth son and Xiao Liang.

In the end, the two children broke off the vegetable leaves, washed them one by one, and handed them to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao cut off a section of sausage, cut it into cubes, first fried sausage and green vegetables in a pan, then made egg fried rice, and egg flower and vegetable soup, filled two large bowls and two small bowls, and placed them in the courtyard above the stone table.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao curiously, "Do you know how to cook?"

Zhan Zhao smiled, "I know how to make simple ones, don't blame me if they don't taste good!"

"Delicious!" Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liangzi, who had already eaten with small bowls, nodded in praise. They were already full, and they ate along with their greedy mouths. They divided rock and scissors in half.

Bai Yutang held up the bowl of fried rice with eggs, and Zhan Zhao picked up vegetables for him, the green vegetables, the sausages that were also shiny red, and the fried rice with yellow eggs, the color was beautiful and the smell was inexplicable.

Bai Yutang took a bite, bowed his head without speaking, and started to pick up the rice.

Zhan Zhao had only seen Bai Yutang drinking and eating food, and it was the first time he saw him eating so honestly, and found it amusing.In addition, seeing Bai Yutang, a Pianpianjia in white clothes, eating fried rice with eggs in a large blue bowl, no matter how you look at it, it's fun.

The meal was quickly finished, even the soup, and Bai Yutang went to "wash the dishes"...Of course he was still despised by Xiaosi and Xiaoliangzi.Xiao Liang quickly helped to wash, and everyone wandered back to the yard.

Gongsun found a bunch of books and went to study the hidden palace. Zhao Pu accompanied him, and Xiao Liang took the fourth son to take a nap.

Bai Yutang just saw the momentum and came over to rub his leg, bent down to touch it twice, turned around - Zhan Zhao disappeared.

Bai Yutang shook his head helplessly—Zhan Zhao must have been looking for clues, and now that he found Hong Niang, he must have sniffed out some traces of his brother, did he act alone?

Bai Yutang pushed the stone to the jealous Scissors, and ran out, looking for Zhan Zhao, but in the corridor, he ran into Hong Lie who was feeding the eagle.

Bai Yutang looked at him, then suddenly remembered something, walked over to Hong Lie and sat down.

Hong Lie was still a little nervous. Bai Yutang easily captured him that day, and almost killed his eagle. This man is very powerful!

"Hong Lie, you said your master has a white ape?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Yeah." Hong Lie nodded, "It's Lao Bai."

Bai Yutang wondered if there was a fate, both surnamed Bai, and then asked, "Have you heard of the hidden palace before? Did your master mention it?"

Hong Lie shook his head and frowned slightly, "Hero Bai, my master is very strange. He has been with me for so many years, but he didn't say a few words to me. Most of the time, he would throw me a steamed stuffed bun after eating, and throw it away when he was sleeping." Give me a quilt. Once I know how to hunt, he will leave me alone. He will show me how to practice and beat me once.

"So you know Yinshan very well?"

"Of course! It's okay to go shopping all day." Hong Lie nodded, "But that shouldn't be the hidden mountain. The hidden mountain is a fairy mountain. You can only see it if you have a destiny. There is nothing on the outside. When you go inside, I only recognize a road. , Master said, you can only take that road to enter the mountain, if you go for a fork, you will never be able to get out in this life, that road is easy to recognize, and there are poplar and pagoda trees on both sides."

Bai Yutang panicked. Zhan Zhao is usually a steady person, but he likes to settle some things by himself, so don't go into the mountains alone to find clues!Wouldn't it be bad if you got lost? !

Just as he was about to stand up and chase him out, he saw a man in blue leaning on the porch, looking at him with his arms folded. His face was a bit narrowed like that.

Bai Yutang breathed a sigh of relief, it's Zhan Zhao, he's still here!Probably he also wanted to ask Honglie about the situation, but Honglie was walking through the corridor, not in the backyard.

Zhan Zhao came over and asked some related questions, and Hong Lie answered them one by one.Zhan Zhao really wanted to go into the mountains, but Hong Lie couldn't leave the government office, so he couldn't lead the way, but... there was something that could follow and knew the way.

Looking at the eagle squatting on a branch watching the crowd, Zhan Zhao gently raised his hand and asked Hong Lie, "If we get lost on the mountain, can it bring us out?"

"Yes!" Hong Lie nodded, "But...you remember, the outer part of the hidden mountain is loess, and the inner part is black soil. There is a very clear dividing line in the middle. Don't step into the black soil area. The blackness is soft and miasma will occur. Fog, it's easy to get lost!"

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang made a note, took Falcon to bid farewell to Hong Lie, turned around and left.

The two of them bypassed the yard all the way and went out through the corner gate, for fear that Zhao Pu and the others would see them and follow them to take risks.

Zhan Zhao is very righteous, and he doesn't like to cause trouble for others. He wants to find his elder brother, so there is no reason for others to accompany him in the danger. The child has to be taken care of.

Bai Yutang made a correction, just to accompany Zhan Zhao, not for anything else!

"Are you going with me too?" The two of them had nothing to say all the way, but walked side by side to the gate of the city, Zhan Zhao finally couldn't help asking, as if he wanted to stop Bai Yutang - not let him go. "Well, if you don't let me follow, then don't go either!" Bai Yutang replied crisply.

"Why?" Zhan Zhao frowned, and Bai Yutang's temper turned up again, extremely domineering!

"You're so smart, why can't you figure this out?" Bai Yutang turned against Zhan Zhao's army, guess for yourself!

Zhan Zhao took the initiative and became passive. Afraid of embarrassing questions, he stopped talking.After walking for a while, Zhan Zhao stopped to look at Bai Yutang when he saw the mountain.

Bai Yutang actually smiled, "Why do you keep looking at me?"

"Don't go." Zhan Zhao said seriously, "I'll go in and look for clues to my elder brother, and if I don't, I'll go back."

Bai Yutang sighed softly, and pointed to the eagle on Zhan Zhao's shoulder, "Am I not as good as him?"

Zhan Zhao was stunned.

"You let it follow, why don't you let me follow?"

Zhan Zhao knew that he was messing around, "It's an eagle, but you are a human, I'm afraid you're in danger!"

Bai Yutang was amused when he heard this, "That's right, it's an eagle. I'm human and you are human. If you're afraid of me being in danger, don't I be afraid of you being in danger?"

When it comes to bickering, Zhan Zhao always has the upper hand on weekdays, his mind changes quickly, and Bai Yutang doesn't like talking very much, so Zhan Zhao chokes most of the time.But at critical moments, especially when the two have disagreements, Zhan Zhao never speaks against Bai Yutang, because Bai Yutang speaks cruelly!

Zhan Zhao had no choice but to turn around and continue walking. Bai Yutang followed up one more step, and suddenly said, "If I were you, would you follow me?"

This time Zhan Zhao has nothing to say, he will compare his heart with his heart, even if Bai Yutang doesn't let him go, he will definitely follow him secretly!If you don't go, if something happens, you will regret it for the rest of your life.

Don't worry about those heavy issues like unnecessary responsibilities... Both of them relaxed.

Zhan Zhao suddenly felt annoyed, "I knew I was so tired, I just bought something to eat on the way."

"It's okay." Bai Yutang raised the corner of his lips slightly, "We're really hungry and we ate this eagle."

Zhan Zhao stared at him with wide eyes in shock, and quickly reached out to protect Falcon, only to find that Bai Yutang had a smile on his face—it was because he was too heavy, so he was teasing him.

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "You let the little four lead you into trouble!"

"I was led astray by you." Bai Yutang retorted without showing weakness, "You are the only one in this world who has the ability to lead me astray..."

The words were spoken, but the two of them remained silent. Words without intentions sound like those with intentions, and they have a special feeling in their hearts.

"Ahem." Zhan Zhao pointed to the mountain road ahead, "I asked Li Gang and they found out where the stone statue was found, and drew a picture. The stone pile is the entrance."

Bai Yutang nodded, and entered the forest with Zhan Zhao. Hong Lie lent Zhan Zhao a thick deerskin cushion and put it on his shoulders, just in time for the falcon to stand firm.

Walking inside, there are dense forests on both sides, and the umbrella canopy of the trees covers all the light, and it dims instantly, like the feeling of sunset.As Bai Yutang walked, he tapped the grass with a long stick to disperse the snakes and insects.

"By the way." Zhan Zhao suddenly asked, "Old man with a white ape, have you ever heard of such a master? If he can teach Yuan Lie, he must be quite capable!"

"No." Bai Yutang shook his head resolutely, "I've never heard of it!"

"Hmm..." Zhan Zhao also felt strange.

After walking a few more steps, Bai Yutang suddenly squatted down, and Zhan Zhao asked, "What's wrong?"

Gently pushing aside the loess on the ground, Bai Yutang dug the flat ground with his fingers, and saw regular grid-shaped patterns, which seemed to be bricks lined up...

"This is an ancient way of warfare." Bai Yutang looked forward along the path, frowning, "If Zhao Pu came to take a look, it might be more certain, I just heard!"

"Ancient warfare?" Zhan Zhao also squatted down, knocked on the ground that was stronger than bluestone slabs, and asked, "What do you mean?"

"I heard from my second brother that when he was digging a tunnel, he was most afraid of encountering such an ancient battle path, and he would always hit his head and bleed.

"Really? So tight?" Zhan Zhao asked humbly.

"When the first emperor was fighting against the Xiongnu in the north, he wanted to send troops to the north, but the road was rough and the grain carts could not be transported. The first emperor was furious, so he ordered people to build a battle road, which should be strong and flat, and it was specially used for traveling by horses and horses."

"..." Zhan Zhao understood, and waited for Bai Yutang to continue.

"It's just that the construction method of this road is very special. First, people are ordered to dig up the soil from the ground, and fill it with fragments of tile vats, clay, bricks, clay, sleepers, clay, and a layer of bricks... Finally, the original soil Build up the capital, and then send hundreds of thousands of troops to trample on it day and night until the ground is as smooth as before!"

Zhan Zhao opened his mouth, "No wonder it's so hard." Then he knocked twice, "It's really hard!"

Bai Yutang stood in a daze, "How could there be ancient warfare in such a place?"

"But this road is very narrow." Zhan Zhao walked two steps forward, and saw that the trees in this area are very strange. There are two rows of poplar trees and a locust tree on the side of the road, "Hong Lie said This should be the way."

"Cat." Bai Yutang suddenly passed through two rows of tall trees, opened the bushes behind the trees, and squatted down, "Come and see!"

Zhan Zhao walked over to have a look, and saw several large wooden stakes, smashed into the ground.

"Pile? These are the piles for building a house!" Zhan Zhao was also horrified, "There was a house here before?"

"Maybe there were people living here before." Bai Yutang looked forward and was about to go inside.

"Slow down!" Zhan Zhao quickly grabbed him and walked with him. If the mountains were separated, he would have an eagle on his shoulder, but Bai Yutang would not.

Seeing that he was nervous, Bai Yutang smiled, and went forward with him, pushed through the grass and searched carefully, there were indeed many ruined buildings, but they were too old, and most of them were civil buildings, so they were all covered by dust. open to find.

The two walked a little further, and Zhan Zhao found a broken knife in a bush...it looked like an ancient knife.

Bai Yutang leaned over to look, "There is a gap..."

"Is it a saber?" Weighed the broken knife, "At that time, there were not many swords, and there were more bans on knives."

"I think..." Bai Yutang asked Zhan Zhao suddenly after walking around, "There are still so many dead bones in the huge statue. Could it be that a village here was slaughtered in ancient times?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a soft "rustling" sound coming from a distance.

The two looked at each other, and immediately found a thick bush to hide - someone is coming!