treacherous world

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang accompanied Aunt Mei back to the living room, and Min Xiuxiu sent someone to send Aunt Mei back to another hospital to rest.Lu Fang arranged for the servants of Sunken Island to guard it all day long, and Zhao Pu also sent a few shadow guards to watch over it.There must be a big clue in this Aunt Mei, and she must not be allowed to escape or be harmed.

After tossing around, it might be dawn. Lu Fang told everyone to go back to rest first. If there is anything to talk about tomorrow morning, this night was too messy.

Everyone went back to their respective rooms, wondering where they could sleep, wondering about what happened tonight.

Bai Yutang sat in the yard, looking up at the night sky after the rain. The clouds and mists in the sky had dispersed, but the stars were still quite bright.

After sitting for a while, he felt someone tugging at the corner of his clothes, bowed his head... and saw Xiaosi standing beside him with a pillow in his arms.

Bai Yutang looked at him, "What's wrong?"

The fourth son whispered, "Jiujiu and Xiao Liangzi said they couldn't sleep anymore, and went to practice."

Bai Yutang smiled, "Xiao Liangzi is so diligent?"

"Yes." The fourth son nodded, and continued, "Daddy said that the research on medicine with Aunt Lu is about Aunt Mei."

Bai Yutang nodded again, probably to study Aunt Mei's strange condition.

"And then?" Bai Yutang saw the fourth son hugging a pillow, "Don't dare to sleep alone?"

The fourth son has been listening to ghosts and ghosts for the past few days, and he saw many charred corpses just now, and he felt the cool wind whizzing when he was lying on the bed alone, even if rocks and scissors were beside him, it didn't work.

While the two were talking, the door of Zhan Zhao's room opened, and he came out wearing night clothes and holding a sword.When they met Bai Yutang face to face, both of them were taken aback.

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, "Cat, where do you want to go?"

Zhan Zhao was also a little embarrassed, he thought Bai Yutang was asleep, "I want to check for clues, but I can't sleep."

Bai Yutang thought for a moment, "Where do you want to go?"

Zhan Zhao didn't speak.

"To the River Gang?" Bai Yutang still asked.

Zhan Zhao hesitated, "Just walk around."

Bai Yutang knew... Zhan Zhao's expression didn't want him to know, so he didn't bother to ask, nodded, and told him, "Be careful."

The fourth son originally saw that Zhan Zhao was going out to spy, and thought that Bai Yutang would definitely follow him. It seemed that he could only sleep next to the rock tonight, because everyone was so busy.

But seeing Zhan Zhao leave, Bai Yutang didn't stop him either, so the fourth son wondered, "Bai Bai, why don't you follow?"

Bai Yutang shrugged and shook his head.

The fourth son was worried, "Did you quarrel with Miaomiao?"

Bai Yutang thought for a while, put his chin in one hand to look at the fourth son, and asked, "Your fourth son, do you think Aunt Mei is a human or a ghost?"

The fourth son blinked, "Well... I thought it was a ghost at first, but Dad said she was a human, so it must be a human."

"Aside from not breathing and not looking old, what else is more like a ghost?" Bai Yutang didn't have a clue, so he started talking with the fourth son. He was a little naive, and what he saw was different from an adult.There are usually some illusions that can deceive adults, but may not necessarily deceive children.

"She doesn't take a breath, so she can stay in the water for so long." The fourth son raised his face and thought for a while, "She can still float."

"Is it flying like Qinggong?"

"Yeah." Little Four nodded, put the pillow on the stool, climbed up to sit on it, and looked at Bai Yutang, "Then Bai Bai, is Aunt Mei your mother?"

Bai Yutang shook his head, "Of course not."

The fourth son tilted his head, puzzled, "Then why did she admit the wrong person?"

"It's been too long." Bai Yutang said calmly.

"No way." The fourth son shook his head in disbelief, "There's no reason for a mother to admit a wrong child."

Bai Yutang frowned slightly after listening to the fourth son's words, as if thinking of something, "Mother mistakenly admits the child... Is it possible for this to happen? Besides, the age and appearance should be different, but why did the mistake happen? And me?"

"I know, Baibai looks good!" The fourth son felt that a woman of a certain age would want a son like Zhan Zhao or Bai Yutang, "That's right, why don't you meow?"

Bai Yutang was taken aback when he heard this, if he mistakenly recognized him as her son, that would be the best reason for her to appear on the Skyfall Island and stay here!yes……

Thinking of this, Bai Yutang felt that some clue seemed to be coming out of his head, and he felt a little headache thinking about it.

He stood up, "Little Si, if you are afraid, you can share a room with me."

The fourth son was stunned, and asked with concern, "You really don't want to chase after Miaomiao?"

Bai Yutang smiled, "If he wanted me to go, he would have called me first, and since he didn't want me to go with him, he must have his reasons."

"I don't want you to go with me, so you go too." The fourth son muttered in a low voice, "The more Daddy says he won't let me follow, the more Jiujiu wants to follow."

"Our relationship is different." Bai Yutang said casually, and the expression of the fourth son immediately became faint, "What's the difference..."

Bai Yutang was helpless.

The fourth son hugged the pillow, jumped off the stool, and walked out while talking to himself, "Maybe, Miaomiao will meet people when he goes out. If he meets people, they are either bad people or good people! Bad people will hurt you." Miaomiao, a good person Miaomiao might like it, so don’t follow me like this, stupid.”

After the fourth son finished speaking, he felt at ease and left. Bai Yutang stood there feeling worried, thinking about it, but he didn't feel sleepy at all...After much deliberation, he decided to go out to find Zhan Zhao.It's just that he vaguely feels that Zhan Zhao is not going to the River Gang.Is there anything I can't follow when I go to the River Gang?But where would he go elsewhere, and what to check?

Bai Yutang arrived at the ferry with something on his mind, and asked if he had left the boat. The ferryman shook his head, "Fifth Lord, where is the boat so early?"

"Hasn't Zhan Zhao been here?"

The fisherman shook his head, "No."

Bai Yutang was even more puzzled... This cat can't swim, where can he go without a boat?After thinking about it, he wandered around on the empty island without any goal, and walked along the road to the back kitchen, where he saw Bai Fu who was making tea.

"Yo, fifth master, it's so early?" Bai Fu greeted Bai Yutang with a smile.

"You make tea so early?" Bai Yutang seldom came to the back kitchen, so he didn't understand these things.

"That's right, many people on the island stay up late to watch, and tea is indispensable to refresh themselves." Bai Fu replied with a smile.

"Oh..." Bai Yutang thought for a while, moved a stool to sit beside Bai Fu, and asked, "Bai Fu, how many years have you been on the island?"

"Almost 30 years." Bai Fu replied with a smile, "Did you forget, Fifth Master? I have been serving you for more than 20 years."

"Is there any secret on the empty island that I don't know?" Bai Yutang asked, making Bai Fu laugh out loud, "Fifth Lord, the empty island is only so big, where did the secret come from?"

Bai Yutang sighed softly, that's also... In other words, Aunt Mei's sudden appearance on the island was not because of something on the island.

"But..." Bai Fu seemed to think of something, and suddenly said, "Fifth Master, there are some things you may have never heard of."

"What's the matter?" Bai Yutang asked casually, but he didn't expect to have a clue.

"We have another name for the coast of the back mountain." Bai Fu said with a smile, "It's called a cornucopia!"

"Cornucopia?" Bai Yutang heard of it for the first time.

"It's quite far away from us. There is a piece of sea where accidents and shipwrecks often occur. The most interesting thing is that all good things will wash up on the back shore of our island. Isn't it a cornucopia... Besides, every March and April, When the undercurrent in the sea is particularly strong, even sunken ships from the bottom of the water can be washed up.”

"Really?" Bai Yutang was curious, "I've never heard of it."

"Yeah, because it disappeared later! Didn't the Hailong gang build a big sluice after it was built?" Bai Fu said, "I heard from some old people on the water that that kind of big sluice can completely cut off the undercurrent. So in recent years, the undercurrents at the bottom of the water have disappeared, and sunken ships and treasures buried in the sea have also been unable to come up.”

Bai Yutang rested his chin on one hand, lost in thought, "The burned Hailong Gang? What a coincidence..."

"That's not it!" Bai Fu smiled, "Someone was joking with me this morning, saying that a big fire burned the Sea Dragon Gang to nothing, and the cornucopia of the empty island was burned back."

Bai Yutang laughed hoarsely, "How is that possible?"

"Just joking." When Bai Fu saw that the tea was ready, he left Bai Yutang first, carried the tea mug with a few servants, and went to deliver tea to the guardian of the island, leaving Bai Yutang standing there in a daze.

After a long time, Bai Yutang got up... Instead of going to the ferry, he went to the Xikuanyuan of Xingkong Island.There is a seven-story pagoda in the Xikua courtyard, which was built in the early years and is used to enshrine the spirits of the brothers of the empty island.This tower is built on the highest point of the hollow island, from where you can overlook the entire island.Bai Yutang jumped halfway up the mountain and looked at the top of the pagoda—as expected, Zhan Zhao was sitting there.At this time, he was looking at the back of the island intently, and he should be looking at the coast where Aunt Mei was washed ashore, which is the "cornucopia" that Bai Fu said

Zhan Zhaozheng was fascinated when he heard the wind around him, he turned his head vigilantly... and saw that it was Bai Yutang.The expression on Zhan Zhao's face was slightly embarrassed, "You..."

"Well, me." Bai Yutang stood beside him, "Didn't you go to the River Gang?"

Zhan Zhao touched his head, looking very embarrassed, "Uh..."

"You suspect that there is some ulterior secret in the empty island, don't you?" Bai Yutang asked pretending to be serious.

"I didn't mean that..." Zhan Zhao opened his mouth. He just suspected that there might be some secrets in the empty island that attracted other people's covetousness. Seeing how ugly his face is.

Bai Yutang kept a stern face, seeing Zhan Zhao scratching his ears and scratching his cheek awkwardly trying to explain, he suddenly laughed.

Zhan Zhao was stunned, and immediately knew that he had been tricked, and he was a little helpless, "It's fine if you don't get angry."

"Why am I angry?" Bai Yutang asked back, "The only thing I can be angry about is that you treat me like an outsider."

Zhan Zhao blinked, "When did the two of us become married?"

……

The two looked at each other, and were at a loss for words for a while.

"Cough." Bai Yutang coughed, interrupting the ambiguous and awkward atmosphere, and told Zhan Zhao what Bai Fu said about the cornucopia just now.

"Oh?!" Zhan Zhao was also surprised when he heard it.

The two were blowing cold wind on the top of the tower, thinking about their thoughts.At this moment, the sound of cock crowing came, and I looked at the distant sky... It seemed that it was about to turn white.

"oops."

Zhan Zhao suddenly stamped his foot, breaking half of the tile.

"Hey, cat!" Bai Yutang hurriedly stopped him, "Be gentle, the people below are all my ancestors in the empty island."

"No!" Zhan Zhao grabbed Bai Yutang.

"No?" Bai Yutang confused him.

"Too bad, someone wants to frame Sky Island!" Zhan Zhao said, pulled him off the tower quickly, and rushed to the backyard to find Jiang Ping.

Everyone in the empty island was still asleep. Seeing Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang barging in, Jiang Ping laughed, "What are you doing? Fourth brother's small arms and legs can't stand your scares."

"Fourth brother!" Zhan Zhao told him and Bai Yutang about the cornucopia. Jiang Ping was stunned, and then clapped his hands, "Oh no!"

Bai Yutang Netcom, "What's wrong?"

"It's also thanks to Cao Xin that he didn't recognize Aunt Mei just now. If he said that Aunt Mei was the female ghost who set the fire, guess what will happen?!" Jiang Pingliang snorted coldly, "The Hailong Gang didn't Fighting with us? "Yeah... She is from the empty island, and she said it was my mother, and set fire to the Hailong Gang. After the Hailong gang burned down, the cornucopia came alive. No matter how you look at it, the empty island is the largest beneficiaries. " Bai Yutang nodded again and again, it is indeed very dangerous.

"Once this rumor spreads, it will be a troublesome thing!" Zhan Zhao said to Jiang Ping, "Fourth Master, we have to stop the spread of this matter first, lest people with ulterior motives sow discord!"

"I know it, I know it!" Jiang Ping nodded again and again, stood up and put on his clothes, "I'll talk to my elder brother, you go to bed first." After speaking, he hurried to find Lu Fang.

When Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang returned to the courtyard, they saw Gongsun sitting there, holding a black object in his hand.

When they got closer, they both frowned—they saw that it was the black cat with red eyes.

"Meow~" The black cat suddenly called out when it saw Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang approaching.

Gongsun raised his head, "Are you back? I thought you were asleep."

"Gongsun, why are you holding it?" Zhan Zhao approached. He liked cats very much, but this black cat was indescribably suspicious, so he never got close to it.

"This cat is weird." Gongsun held the cat and looked left and right, "These red eyes may not be red because of eating herbs, they may be poisoned."

"Gu?" Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang heard it strangely, "Can cats be infected by Gu?"

"Every living thing in the world can be infected by Gu." When Gongsun spoke, the sky had already begun to dawn, and Zhao Pu came back with Xiao Liang, who was sweating profusely.

Gongsun called a servant and brought two things, one was a piece of burnt wood, and the other was a bowl of braised fish.

Put the two things on the ground... After a while, I saw the cat squatting next to the burnt short log.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other, Zhao Pu also felt strange, and walked over to lure the cat with braised fish, but the cat seemed to like the burnt rotten wood more.

Gongsun sent someone to go to the morgue again, and found a piece of charred corpse that was burned that day when the Hailong gang caught fire, and put it further away.Immediately, the cat ran to the corpse and squatted down.

"Heh..." Zhao Pu teased with a smile, "Gongsun, did you raise this cat?"

Gongsun kicked him, Zhao Pu stopped talking nonsense, and looked at the cat with folded arms, "I've seen this kind of thing in the desert too."

"What?" Everyone was surprised.

"It's not a rare thing." Zhao Pu smiled indifferently, "The wolves, wild dogs, and crows on the battlefield... all have blood-red eyes like this."

Everyone looked at each other—it seems that if you start with this cat, you might get some unexpected clues, after all... people can lie, but cats can't.