treacherous world

Dong Xiaodie only told Zhan Zhao one thing - based on their many years of living experience at sea, it can be seen that the recent sea water situation is very wrong.Just in case... He said that if the demon city suddenly sank into the water, the result might be a big tsunami.At that time, not to mention the empty island, the river gang, and even the entire Songjiang mansion may become a vast ocean.

These words sound a bit sensational, but Dong Xiaodie said with a focused expression, "Master Zhan, you might as well pay attention, recently the beasts on the island have started to migrate, especially the rats, which have not been seen for a long time."

Zhan Zhao frowned.

After Dong Xiaodie left this sentence, she lightly patted Zhan Zhao's shoulder, "I hope it's just me worrying too much." After speaking, she left.

Zhan Zhao stood there blankly. He had personally experienced a severe tsunami when he was in the South China Sea.After a big wave like a hill, not a single blade of grass can grow... That kind of power cannot be stopped by manpower.Songjiang Mansion is densely populated, if a catastrophe strikes, there will be heavy casualties, what should be done?

"brother?"

Zhan Zhao was in a daze, feeling someone patting him, turned around, and saw Jiang Ping standing beside him, "What did that fox Dong Xiaodie tell you?"

"Fox?" Zhan Zhao was slightly taken aback.

Jiang Ping gently shook his fan, looked Zhan Zhao up and down, and laughed twice, "If you can't figure something out, why don't you discuss it with Yutang."

"You mean...you can find a solution by looking for Brother Bai?"

"It's not that Lao Wu can solve it, but you and Lao Wu together, probably can solve everything!" Jiang Ping laughed, "You two have very different personalities, the key is to fit together, and you will be invincible after learning from each other. "After finishing speaking, I didn't delve into it, and left.

Zhan Zhao stood still and watched Jiang Ping walk away, then turned around and went into the house to find Bai Yutang.

Jiang Ping strolled to the beach and looked at the dark island in the distance.

Just at this time, Gongsun had already treated most of the wounded, and he was walking by the seaside with his fourth son in his arms.

Jiang Ping suddenly smiled, "The prince's other courtyard in Songjiang Mansion seems to be the highest place in Songjiang."

Gongsun nodded lightly, "Yes."

Jiang Ping looked at Gongsun, "Do you have any worries, sir?"

Like him, Gongsun looked at the island in the distance and sighed softly, "I hope it's just worrying too much."

……

When Zhan Zhao entered the courtyard, he saw Bai Yutang sitting in the courtyard, holding his head down and holding a teacup as if he was in deep thought. Knowing that he must have asked something, he sat down next to him.

"Back?" Bai Yutang looked up at him.

"What's wrong?" Zhan Zhao poured himself a cup of tea.

"Aunt Mei didn't appear here by accident." Bai Yutang looked solemn, "Someone let her out from a dark room and told her to come here. I am his son. Just now, someone let her out, so that Everyone sees..."

"What's the purpose?" Zhan Zhao also heard that Aunt Mei might be a very important pawn.

"I don't know, I just know that it was a ghost-masked man who let her go." Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, "I really want to catch that ghost-masked man. If I catch him, maybe all the secrets can be explained."

Zhan Zhao also nodded, and suddenly asked Bai Yutang, "What do you think of Dong Xiaodie?"

Bai Yutang was taken aback for a moment, Zhan Zhao's topic went too far, he thought for a while, and replied, "Pretending to be crazy."

"he?"

Bai Yutang nodded, "He looks a little like Lei Qinglang to me."

"Two completely different people, right?" Zhan Zhao couldn't figure it out, "One looks shrewd and capable, while the other is weak and cowardly."

"It's not about appearance." Bai Yutang shrugged slightly, "When I saw Zhao Pu for the first time, I thought he was heroic, like he was inferior to me. When I first saw Gongsun, I thought he was extremely wise... …I have recognized people and dealt with things only by first sight since I was a child. At least so far, I haven’t missed people. Cao Xin gave me the feeling that there is something hidden, and most people in the world are greedy. This Lei Qinglang And Dong Xiaodie, I can only say that I'm pretending to be crazy!"

"Where's Aunt Mei?" Zhan Zhao was curious.

Bai Yutang hesitated for a moment, "It's very strange, just like the fourth son."

"Ah?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled, "How could these two be the same?"

"They give me the feeling that they will not and have never hurt anyone." Bai Yutang put down his glass, "So I believe what she said."

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao thought for a while, then pointed to his nose, "What about me?"

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, did not speak, and poured tea for himself.

"What's wrong with me?" Zhan Zhao leaned over and stared into his eyes, "Didn't you hate me the first time you saw me? Don't you hate the government the most?"

Bai Yutang raised the corner of his mouth, "You really want to hear it?"

"En!" Zhan Zhao nodded seriously.

"you guess."

"Hmm... chivalrous and courageous?"

Bai Yutang laughed, and looked away.

"Isn't it?" Zhan Zhao thought about it again, "A whole body of righteousness?"

Bai Yutang continued to look elsewhere.

"Neither of them?" Zhan Zhaoxin said that the mouse wouldn't have a bad impression of him at the first sight, right...

"So...nosy?" Zhan Zhao asked again tentatively.

"You mean Zao Duoduo, right?" Bai Yutang shook his head.

Zhan Zhao was discouraged, and asked him resignedly, "Okay, tell me, I can handle anything."

Bai Yutang turned back and stared at him for a long time.

"Hey, tell me." Zhan Zhao scratched his neck, anyway, stretching out his head and retracting his head was also a stab.

Bai Yutang's expression softened slightly, he closed his eyes slightly, and said in a low voice, "One of a kind."

Zhan Zhao felt a sudden "boom" in his heart, as if he had been knocked down, he opened his eyes wide and looked at him...

Xiao Liang, who just ran to the gate of the courtyard, was hugged by the fourth son and dragged back...hid in the gate of the courtyard and looked in quietly.

There were white plum trees in the courtyard, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were sitting at the stone table, looking at each other, they were very close... very close.

The fourth son suddenly chewed his mouth, anxiously, "Quick chirp!"

Xiao Liang was puzzled, "Jin'er, what are you doing?"

The fourth son "shh" to him, clenched his fists to give Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang a hard time!

However, after waiting for a long time, until a gust of wind blew down the white plum tree, the two of them were only awakened by the falling white petals, and turned their eyes away at the same time.

"Oh!" The fourth son stomped his feet anxiously, "I hate it!"

Xiao Liang was afraid that his feet would hurt, so he quickly comforted him, "Jin'er, why are you so angry?"

"Stupid!" The fourth son was dissatisfied.

The movement of these two people was naturally heard by Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang in the courtyard.

Zhan Zhao looked back, "What are you two doing?"

"Oh." Xiao Liang raised his head and said, "Brother Zhan, sir told Master that just now the yamen servants of Songjiang Mansion sent a letter saying that they found the body of Qinglong King, and sir is going to have an autopsy, and asked if you can go."

It was only when Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang remembered the time when they saw the corpse that they almost forgot.

Looking at each other, before Zhan Zhao could speak, Bai Yutang shook his head, "Go first, we still have some things to deal with."

"Oh." Xiao Liang nodded, pulled the fourth son away, and the fourth son kept turning his head and staring at the two before going out.

Zhan Zhao wondered, "What happened to the little guy?"

Bai Yutang just smiled faintly, "I'm probably annoyed at others for staying."

"Is he still mad at others?" Zhan Zhao found it interesting.

Bai Yutang shook his head helplessly, "That's right... Some smart people are as dumb as the dumbest kind of idiots."

Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes and looked at him, "Who are you referring to?"

Bai Yutang put down his cup, smiled lightly under the plum tree, "Me."

Zhan Zhao only remembered Bai Yutang's pretty smiling face, but he seemed very helpless.

"What do you want to do next." Bai Yutang changed the topic and the atmosphere slightly.

Zhan Zhao sighed, "I want to find the ghost-masked man, but I don't have a clue; I want to go to the Demon City, but I don't have a map; I want to find Yue, but I can't find it... I want to do something, but I can't do anything."

Bai Yutang was silent for a while, "Not necessarily."

"Huh?" Seeing that he had an idea, Zhan Zhao immediately perked up, "Do you have a clue?"

"Someone may know something." Bai Yutang stood up with a knife, "Let's go to Songjiang Mansion to find someone."

"Who?" Zhan Zhao was curious.

Bai Yutang looked at him, "A confidante."

……

The two arrived at Songjiang Mansion by boat, this time they did not go to the market town, but went to the north of the city.

There are many, many low-rise old houses in the northern city of Songjiang Prefecture.Every city has a few places where dragons and snakes mingle... Beicheng is where the homeless, beggars, and brothels of Songjiang Mansion gather.

Bai Yutang led Zhan Zhao into an old street called Jinyufang.

Zhan Zhao looked around, there were theater troupes and gambling houses, and some idlers all over the street looked like petty thieves and robbers.Although he knew that being a person from the Jianghu had never been to this kind of place, it was still difficult for Zhan Zhao to connect the image of Mr. Pian Pianjia of Bai Yutang with such a small street.

The two walked to the well in the side street, turned left...and entered an alley.

There is a house at the end of the alley. You can see a two-story building inside the house. There is no plaque on the upper floor, only a wooden door outside the courtyard. There is the sound of silk and bamboo in the building, as if someone is playing.

Zhan Zhao didn't know who it was, but he had heard of Bai Yutang's reputation as a romantic man, so he probably knew quite a few people.

He knocked lightly on the door, and Bai Yutang stood by the door and waited.

After a while, someone opened the wooden door, and saw a little maid sticking her head out to look out, "Ah! Fifth Lord!"

Bai Yutang nodded slightly, and asked her, "Is Shen Yan there?"

"I'm here!" The little maid hurriedly led in, "Miss misses you every day."

Zhan Zhao felt that his eyelids were twitching, it was real or not, and he kept chanting every day...

But Shen Yan Zhanzhao had heard a little about it.Shen Yan is not a commoner girl, but a complete quack, and the only descendant of the old man Wu Jizi.The so-called old man Shenji is a mechanism expert in the world. It is said that when he was alive, the marquis, generals and even the royal family asked him to design the mechanisms in the tomb.Shen Yan is also a good trick, but she has a weird temper and doesn't like to get into the dirty underground place, she would rather play the piano and sing.

Zhan Zhao understood that Bai Yutang must have come to find Shen Yan to inquire about the treasure house of the Demon City.

The two of them had just walked into the courtyard when they heard Jiaochen from upstairs, "Why are you bringing someone here? You won't come alone!"

Both Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were taken aback for a moment, looked up, and saw a woman leaning against the fence on the second floor.

Zhan Zhao looked up, he couldn't see the girl's face clearly with the light behind her back... But judging by her silhouette and long hair, she should be a beauty, right?

Bai Yutang also looked up at her, and asked in a low voice, "Is it convenient for you?"

"That's right." Shen Yan shook her head while resting her cheeks, "It's inconvenient!"

Bai Yutang turned his head and said to Zhan Zhao, "Then we will come back another day."

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao also nodded, and the two of them were just about to turn around when a teacup fell from above.

It was Zhan Zhao who smashed it, but luckily he moved quickly, dodged sideways to catch the cup, and looked up puzzled...a teapot came down again.

Zhan Zhaoxin said that this girl is so hot-tempered?With a light hook on the toes, he caught the teapot, and continued to look curiously with his face up.His eyes were slightly golden under the sunlight, and the corners of his mouth were naturally slightly turned up, with a kind of indescribable gentleness.

"Yo..." Shen Yan seemed to be a little interested, and asked Bai Yutang, "Where did you find such a spiritual person?"

Bai Yutang pointed to Zhan Zhao, "He is Zhan Zhao."

"Huh?!" Shen Yan couldn't believe it, "Why are you so thin, so young and so handsome? It's unreasonable!"

Zhan Zhao couldn't make a sound when he heard this, and thought to himself, is it only natural for him to be fat, old and ugly?

"I have something to ask you, is it convenient for you?" Bai Yutang asked in a calm tone.

Zhan Zhao secretly wiped his sweat, thinking that Bai Yutang didn't lie just now, he really stayed well!This girl is obviously because he hasn't come for a long time, and when he came, she brought an irrelevant person with her, so she acted like a baby, Bai Yutang should comfort her a little bit, after all, she has something to ask for, why is she so confused?This has nothing to do with Merry World, it's just Merry's face!

Shen Yan seemed to have gotten used to it, so she sighed helplessly, "Okay, come up, who has ever gone up to my small building except you."

Bai Yutang nodded and led Zhan Zhao in.

"Alas!" Shen Yan waved her hand, pointing at Zhan Zhao, "You are not allowed to enter!"

Zhan Zhao wondered, "Why?"

"My small building only accepts Bai Yutang!" Shen Yan smiled, "No one else is allowed to enter!"

Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes, "Why?"

"You can control it? These are the rules of this girl walking in the rivers and lakes!" Shen Yan thought to herself, is Bai Yutang fooling herself?She always thought that Zhan Zhao was a burly hero, a big man standing tall and tall, with a height of eight feet and a big waist, with the kind of force that could pull mountains and rivers into the world...how could he be a little boy!

Although Zhan Zhao doesn't have the bold appearance that the girl imagined, he still has a hearty personality.Besides, he can't force his way into the girl's embroidered building as a majestic southern knight. It's hard to hear the news, although it's not happy...but wait in the yard.He turned around and sat down at the table, and simply poured tea for himself with the teacup and teapot. Anyway, according to the host's way of hospitality, no one would serve him tea.

Bai Yutang glanced at him, and said to Shen Yan, "This cat is stingy, aren't you afraid that if you get into a lawsuit in the future, he will wear small shoes for you?"

Zhan Zhao opened his mouth, and said to Bai Yutang, you dare to speak ill of me, am I this kind of person?

"Okay! I heard that you got a good brother recently, as good as a person, can't it be enough for me to come down?" Said, turning over.

Zhan Zhao saw that Shen Yan had landed at the table where the robes were flying, and sat down in front of him, and told the servant girl, "Yu'er, go get some wine."

"Yes!" The little maid named Yu'er ran away quickly.

Zhan Zhao didn't know if he was overthinking, but the "Yu'er" sounded a little special.

Bai Yutang also sat down.

Shen Yan asked him, resting her cheek, "What do you want to ask?"

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, and Zhan Zhao said, "Demon City."

Shen Yan frowned, and suddenly looked at Bai Yutang, "Do you have a sweetheart?"

Bai Yutang was taken aback.

"Ahem..." Zhan Zhao choked on the tea, coughed a few times, and held the cup to see how the two of them were doing.

"Say!" Shen Yan stared fiercely at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and rubbed the center of his brows. It was obviously not the first time he encountered such a situation. Zhan Zhao reached out to scoop up a kumquat on the table and ate it. It turned out that the mouse was as popular as the rumors said!It was rumored that there was a woman chasing him from all over the world to marry him.

Seeing that Bai Yutang didn't answer, Shen Yan squinted at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao ate half of a kumquat, but he didn't notice that his teeth were so sore, he frowned and looked back at her.

"Is there any?" Shen Yan asked.

Bai Yutang was also calm, nodded, "Yes."

When Shen Yan heard this, her eyes widened, "You've never said that before!"

Bai Yutang shrugged, "I just got it."

"Are you married?" Shen Yan asked anxiously, "Who?"

Bai Yutang smiled helplessly, "Why are you asking?"

"I'll kill her!" Shen Yan stared, Zhan Zhao was agitated, and said in his heart - isn't it?

Bai Yutang shook his head indifferently, "You can't beat him even if you add up to ten."

Zhan Zhao reached out to scoop the longan.

"You are talking nonsense, a woman with such a kung fu in the world can be your mother." Shen Yan obviously didn't believe it.

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows slightly, "Who said he was a woman?"

"Cough cough..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhan Zhao beat his chest violently—the longan core was swallowed...