treacherous world

After the meal, under the "instructions" of the youngest son, Xiao Liang actually went to ask the waiter for a big bucket. Bai Yutang couldn't laugh or cry, and hurriedly asked the shopkeeper to exchange for two small ones, the single ones.

The clerk looked suspiciously at Bai Yutang and then at Zhan Zhao, and smiled meaningfully, "Hehe, this kind of bucket is a mandarin duck bucket used by husband and wife..."

Before he finished speaking, seeing Bai Yutang's face turned ugly, the man ran away quickly.

Zhan Zhao knows that Bai Yutang has a thin skin, and others blush when they feel embarrassed, but Bai Yutang's emotional changes are relatively simple, whether it's embarrassment, unhappy, or unwilling, in short, he always turns his face.

The fourth son was rather dissatisfied, sitting on the back of the stone with his arms folded and pouting.

Zhan Zhao was next to him, and poked him, "Little Si, what are you thinking?"

"No..." Little Four coughed and said, "I'm going to bed."

Xiao Liang came over and asked, "Jin'er, did you sleep right after eating?"

"Well." The fourth son nodded, and pulled Xiao Liang to lie down together, "Little Liangzi is sleeping too."

Xiao Liang always listened to the fourth son in everything, so he made it clear that the fourth son refused to help Zhan Zhao take a bath and wanted Bai Yutang to come.

Between Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, when they were in Kaifeng Mansion, there were always some people who said good things, and there were some girls who cried out excitedly when they saw the two walking together.

At first, the two really didn't feel anything, but gradually, especially after Zhao Pu and Gongsun got married, every time they encountered such a situation, they would feel extremely embarrassed.

Zhan Zhao was very worried at the beginning, because Bai Yutang is quite weird, and he would be very upset about this kind of misunderstanding... Maybe he deliberately avoided suspicion and did not associate with him.It's not worth it if you lose such a worthy friend because of this kind of thing.

But contrary to Zhan Zhao's expectations, Bai Yutang was uncharacteristically indifferent to these things, and often went to Kaifeng Mansion, which is indeed very strange.Ke Zhanzhao only attributed this to the prejudice against Bai Yutang, but in fact he was easy to get along with.

It was even more difficult for Bai Yutang to understand why he tolerated Zhan Zhao more than everyone else.He usually has some problems, he doesn't like people to come within three steps of him, except for a few elder brothers, he hardly gets close to anyone, let alone Zhan Zhao who hooks up with him whenever he has nothing to do.

The clerk brought someone to fetch hot water, Zhan Zhao sat by the bed, and said to Bai Yutang, "You wash it first."

"Wait until the water is cold after I finish washing, you go first." Bai Yutang said, suddenly smiled, "I've finished washing for you, and I'm full of water just for me to wash again."

Zhan Zhao's eyelids twitched.

The fourth son is face to face with Xiao Liang under the blanket, happy - it's done!

"No need." Zhan Zhao shook his head resolutely, "I won't wash it anymore."

Bai Yutang didn't force it, "All right, I'll wash it first."

After finishing speaking, he walked over, blocked the screen between the two bathtubs, took off his clothes and went into the water, the hot water was quite comfortable.

The fourth son felt a little guilty, poked his head out and asked Zhan Zhao, "Meow, don't you wash?"

Zhan Zhao rested his chin with one hand, "Oh... no friends."

The fourth son immediately felt uneasy, he got out of bed and pulled Zhan Zhao and said, "Then I will wash it for you, don't be angry."

Zhan Zhao smiled slightly, and reached out to touch Xiao Si's head - the little idiot is really easy to lie.

Bai Yutang was soaking in the bathtub on the other side of the screen, thinking about the many strange things in this incident, especially the monster that he saw in the pool in the backyard of the horse belly ancestral hall last night, what exactly was it? ?

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard the sound of water "splashing" from the other end. It seemed that Zhan Zhao had also started to wash.

Bai Yutang raised his eyes, but found that the screen wasn't properly blocked... half of Zhan Zhao's body could be seen, but everything below his shoulders was in the water.

The fourth son took a handkerchief and rubbed Zhan Zhao's back while brushing his hair to the front.

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows slightly, resting his chin with one hand to look at it.

Zhan Zhao's hair became darker after it was soaked, and it fell from behind his ears to his chest. The black hair matched his honey-colored shoulders, looking really pleasing to the eye.

In addition, Zhan Zhao is quite thin.

The fourth son was giving Zhan Zhao a bath. He looked up and found that Bai Yutang could see this side, and hurriedly said, "Meow, lean back."

Zhan Zhao didn't doubt that he was there, so he sat up straighter and leaned back.

Immediately, the upper body submerged in the water was also exposed, and water droplets rolled down the shoulders and necks... The body of the martial arts practitioner is flexible and firm, and in addition to being thin, the outline is clear and just right.

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows - he has a good figure.

The fourth son continued, "Meow, arm."

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hands and placed them on the wall of the tub, the waterline went down a bit... the chest was also faintly visible.

Bai Yutang lowered his head and lowered his eyes, stretched out his hand and rubbed the center of his brows... He felt that it was better not to look at it, he couldn't tell, so he reached out to take out his clothes, dried himself, put on the clothes and came out.

Seeing him leaving, the fourth son sighed helplessly... Even if there are ninety-nine half of the hooligans in vain, this matter will be done!

While in a daze, Zhan Zhao asked him with a half-smile, "Little Si, are you done rubbing? It's been a long time today, and the skin is going to peel off."

Little Si's face flushed, he rushed to Zhan Zhao, and wiped him with a handkerchief.

Zhan Zhao put on his clothes and came out, Bai Yutang was sitting on the window sill looking out, his hair was half dry, the breeze was blowing from the window, white clothes and black hair, coupled with his already handsome appearance.

The fourth son just feels it's a pity, Miaomiao can't see it, it's so beautiful in vain!

Xiao Liang went downstairs to get some snacks for the fourth son, but when he came back he yelled, "Amazing!"

"What's wrong?" Zhan Zhao asked, "He died again?"

"No, the most wanted criminals in the county, the city is full of bulletins."

"What prisoner?" Zhan Zhao wondered, "Have you caught the murderer this time?"

"No, it is said that the murderer not only killed people, but also killed the horse belly fairy. The two men, one in white and one in blue, are very handsome."

……

After Xiao Liang finished speaking, both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were stunned.

long silence.

"Uh..." Zhan Zhao was about to speak when Bai Yutang, who was sitting by the window, said, "The thief catcher is here."

As soon as the voice fell, I heard the sound of messy footsteps coming from the stairwell, and the voice of the waiter, "Oh, officer, you made a mistake, the uncle upstairs just came here not long ago, how could he be a murderer?!"

Bai Yutang came over with a knife, and said to Xiao Liang, "Take little four inside."

"Yeah." Xiao Liang pulled the fourth son to the window, Shi Shi came over to block the two of them, lay on the ground and licked his paws, looking at the door curiously.

Sure enough, a "boom" was heard, and the door of the room was kicked open.

Liang Bao rushed in with a group of yamen servants himself, "Arresting criminals..."

Before he finished speaking, he swallowed it all back.

How should I put it, there are a total of four people in the room and an animal whose name cannot be named.

Two big and two small, all four of them are very good-looking.

The half-dry haired man in white was sitting at the table drinking tea, looking extremely elegant.

The one in the blue dress also had half-dry hair sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze, gentle and handsome.

The two children, one tall and one short, are both very cute. They opened their eyes and looked at the door curiously...

No matter how you look at it, it has nothing to do with the word "human offender".

"Uh..." Liang Bao said to the servant beside him, "Bring it up!"

Not long after, a middle-aged man with a bruised nose and swollen face was escorted up.

Bai Yutang was slightly taken aback, this is the fourth son of the boatman who rowed their boat last night, why was he beaten.

"Are they?" the man asked the fourth child.

The fourth child gritted his teeth and shook his head, "No."

"Call the informer!" Liang Bao didn't believe him, so he called another person. Bai Yutang had also met that person, and he was also sitting in the tea shed drinking tea last night. He was a thin middle-aged man.

"It's them, Guan Ye!" The man hurriedly said to Liang Bao, "They asked the fourth child to take him across the river late last night! Also, he gave the fourth child a lot of money."

Liang Bao nodded and ordered his subordinates, "Catch it!"

A few yamen servants were about to come over, but Zhan Zhao said coldly, "Wait a minute."

Liang Bao frowned, thinking that this man was quite bold, so he asked, "What do you have to say?"

Zhan Zhao asked him, "What's your surname? What position do you hold?"

"I am the Chief Detective Liang Bao. I work in the Yamen of the prefect of Luozhou. I am in charge of investigating the murders that have occurred in Lushan County in the past few days. You are the suspects. Come with me!"

Zhan Zhao smiled faintly, "Do you have the official document from the government to arrest people?"

"Uh...you are just suspects, take them back for questioning!" Liang Baoxin said that everyone seemed to have some background, and they knew that they wanted official documents.

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "Why do you say we are suspects? You saw us kill someone?"

"This...he can testify that you crossed the river to the south bank in the middle of the night last night, and found the body of the Great Immortal Groomman floating on the lake this morning, so you are naturally suspicious!"

Zhan Zhao was taken aback. Could it be that the knife killed that strange fish last night?There is no reason, that fish is so big, at most I scratched it.

"It's a joke." Xiao Liang said seriously, "You just based on one person's words to convict, and you beat up the testimony like this, isn't this a trick of torture?!"

Liang Bao opened his mouth, this yamen has always handled cases like this, not everything respects the law, these few people seem to understand some official articles.

Seeing that the fourth brother was seriously injured, the fourth son asked, "Daddy said that there will be unjust cases if torture is done! Meow Meow, take them back and ask Xiao Baozi to beat them up!"

Zhan Zhao laughed, but Liang Bao was puzzled, what kind of little bun?Still hitting the board?

"Ahem." Zhan Zhao coughed at Bai Yutang.

Bai Yutang took out the badge that Zhan Zhao gave him earlier from his pocket, and threw it at Liang Bao.

Liang Bao stretched out his hands to take a look, only to see the three characters on the front of the waist card - Kaifeng Mansion.Behind it are two big characters "御奖", and a row of small characters, the year, month and day, the emperor's gift, and the seal of Kaifeng Mansion are all clear.

Liang Bao took a deep breath, quickly stopped a few small policemen who were going forward, and asked Bai Yutang, "Your Excellency is from Kaifeng Mansion? Dare I ask your surname?"

Before Bai Yutang opened his mouth to speak, he heard Zhan Zhao say, "Ahem."

Helpless, Bai Yutang sighed, "The surname is Zhan."

"Heh..." Liang Bao opened his mouth wide in surprise, "Could it be, Mr. Zhan Zhaozhan?"

Bai Yutang nodded reluctantly, "Yes."

"Oh, misunderstanding, misunderstanding..." Liang Bao hurriedly dismissed the servants, "I'm confused... The main reason is that the people in Eryue Palace said that if the horse's belly died, there would be a natural disaster, so everyone was in a hurry."

Zhan Zhao frowned - Er Yue Palace?

Bai Yutang stood up and walked over to untie the fourth child, apologizing for hurting the innocent.

When Lao Siyi heard that he was a Southern knight from Kaifeng Mansion, he had long forgotten the pain on his body. He was a strong man, and he didn't take his flesh wounds to heart.

Bai Yutang gave him some silver taels again, and Liang Bao felt embarrassed, so he quickly asked two yamen servants to take the fourth child to see a doctor, and the yamen would pay for all the medical expenses before sending him home.And the informer was also kicked out by the suppressors.

Zhan Zhao asked, "Master Liang, what did you just say that the horse's belly died? The people in Eryue Palace said that there will be a natural disaster?"

"Oh, yes." Liang Bao turned around and asked Zhan Zhao, "Who is this lord?"

Zhan Zhao smiled, "My name is Dynasty."

"Oh!" Liang Bao quickly nodded, and said to himself, I've heard of it, there is such a Kaifeng mansion's arrester!

"Why did you two come to Qushan County?" Liang Bao wondered, "Could it be that this case of murder in the belly of a horse has alarmed Mr. Bao of Kaifeng Mansion?"

Zhan Zhao coughed again, Bai Yutang looked up at the sky, and said, "Just passing by, I feel something strange and want to check."

"Oh...that's it." Liang Bao breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Would it be convenient for the two of you to come with me, let's go to the river and see the dead body in the horse's belly?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded happily, and everyone went to the Yishui River together, Xiaosi and Xiao Liang also followed to watch the fun.

Soon when we reached the river, we saw a crowd of people, many old people and women bowed and kowtowed.

Bai Yutang saw from afar that the people of Eryue Palace were standing by the Yishui River.Behind them, a white cloth covered a huge fish.As soon as he saw the tail, Bai Yutang recognized it, it was the big fish that Zhan Zhao chopped down last night.

"Master Liang." Zhan Zhao said to Liang Bao, "Don't reveal our identities for now, there are still important things to do."

"Oh, I understand!" Liang Bao nodded repeatedly.

Leaving the crowd, Liang Bao led Zhan Zhao and the others to the shore.The Young Palace Master stood beside Big Yu and asked, "Why, Mr. Liang? The murderer brought it?"

When the onlookers heard that it was the murderer, they all stared at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang. Liang Bao hurriedly waved his hands and shouted, "Oh, it was a misunderstanding. Everyone, let me clarify. These two are not the murderer at all!"

The crowd was talking.

Bai Yutang didn't care about these things, he stretched out his hand and lifted the white cloth... He frowned upon seeing it.

It's not that this fish is so scary, it's just a bigger fish. Bai Yutang lives on the island, so he has never seen any big fish.The head of this fish is as big as a car, with sharp teeth and yellowish black spots all over its body. At first glance, it is indeed tiger stripes. Its abdomen is snow white, and the extremely long knife edge on it was cut by Zhan Zhao yesterday.

What really caught Bai Yutang's attention was that this was not the only scar on the fish's body... This wound was not fatal either.

On the body of the fish, there are numerous large and small scars criss-crossing all over the fish... as if it had been hacked by random knives.

Zhan Zhao couldn't see, but he didn't want to ask directly, so he stood there anxiously.

After reading it, Bai Yutang said to Liang Bao, "I was hacked by random knives. The number of knives is different. It was done by a group of people. The knives are not sharp, and they can only hurt the flesh. It is not a fatal injury. It may be after death." It was chopped off. You might as well cut open its belly to see if it ate any poison. There were many poisonous dead rats on the river yesterday."

Zhan Zhao heard it clearly, and Bai Yutang also explained to him the cause of the fish's death...was it hacked?

Liang Bao was about to order the fish belly to be cut open for inspection, but he heard the young palace master of Eryue Palace yell, "Just cut it open, disrespecting the evil god, we are doomed."

As soon as the words were finished, the whispers among the crowd became louder, and everyone was worried that they would be punished by heaven.

Zhan Zhao shook his head, this is a rumor to confuse the crowd!He said, "It's just a fish, not a horse belly."

The Young Palace Master was very dissatisfied when he lost to Zhan Zhao before, so he sneered, "How do you know it's a fish? You can see it..."

Before he finished speaking, he felt a kick on his calf, with little force, so he looked down.

I saw the fourth son looking up at him fiercely, he was the one who kicked that kick just now.

The young palace master was stunned, Xiao Liang pulled the fourth son behind him, "Jin'er, don't be as knowledgeable as this person."

Although Zhan Zhao was upset, he didn't say anything. Just as he was about to reach out to touch the corpse of the dead fish, he heard a commotion among the crowd, and then someone shouted in horror, "Young Palace Master! Palace Master!"

Zhan Zhao was taken aback for a moment, and felt that the fourth son hugged his leg and said, "Meow, this man is dead too."

Xiao Liang nodded, "Well, it's the same as that Master Liu!"

Bai Yutang hurried forward to check, and saw that the young palace master was staring blankly at the blue sky above his head, lying on the ground and stiffened, bleeding to death from his seven orifices.