treacherous world

After Zhao Pu and his boat left the silent demon city, the water surface gradually calmed down. Suddenly...the muddy sea water broke with a "crash", and a person rushed up suddenly, floating on the water and panting.

After a long time, he stretched out his hand to remove the ghost mask covering his face, and let out a sigh of relief.Throwing away the mask, he tore off the human skin mask used for camouflage.Reaching into his bosom, he took out a crystal clear, palm-sized aquamarine gemstone.

Holding the gemstone in mid-air, facing the sun, the brilliance will shine instantly...

He laughed a few times "hehe".

At this time, a small boat flew over from a distance, and there was a man standing on the bow, dressed in a green shirt, with a handsome appearance.

"Master." He handed over the gem with some graciousness, "I got it."

The people on the boat took the gem and pulled him onto the boat, smiling lightly, "Thanks for your hard work."

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When Zhao Pu and his boat returned to Sunken Island, the group of Jianghu people didn't even get a copper coin except for helping to fight a battle, so they couldn't help but feel a little frustrated.

However, they didn't dare to do anything wrong with Zhao Pu's army, but... as for the one hundred thousand army, even if they successfully entered the demon city, they wouldn't get any benefit, so they all dispersed.

Songjiang Mansion once again returned to tranquility, and people in the streets and alleys finally showed joy.The demon city in the distance that has been worrying for several months is finally gone, and I can sleep peacefully.

That night, everyone rested all day long, without saying anything, and went to bed early.

Bai Yutang's internal injuries hadn't fully healed yet, so Min Xiuxiu prescribed him tranquilizing medicine and forced him to eat and sleep, but Bai Yutang woke up again when he saw the crowd dispersed, and wanted to get up, but saw another person not far away. Zhan Zhao is lying on a bed.

Min Xiuxiu's sedative medicine was quite strong, and Bai Yutang felt top-heavy and was about to get out of bed when Zhan Zhao turned over and muttered, "Sister-in-law said, if you dare to get out of bed, your legs will be broken."

Bai Yutang smiled wryly.

"Gongsun just said that Aunt Mei is not dead, she is still resting after being cured, at least she won't wake up until tomorrow." Zhan Zhao hugged the stone that came to rub the bed, buried his face in the soft white fluff, and rubbed it comfortably , "Go to sleep, we will talk about it tomorrow morning."

After hearing Zhan Zhao's words, Bai Yutang also lay down, and soon fell asleep.

I don't know how long I slept this time, I just felt that the quilt was so warm and comfortable, I was really lazy to move, I just wanted to lie on it.

The sky outside was getting brighter and brighter, and Bai Yutang's medicine gradually woke up. He only felt that something was moving around him, and it was quite soft to move around.Turning his face and opening his eyes, he saw Zhan Zhao leaning against the head of the bed, teasing a little white cat lying on the bed with his little brother lying at the end of the bed. The tail of the little white cat.

Under the bed, rock-paper-scissors are all there, licking their fur.

The door was ajar, and Gongsun Min Xiuxiu's soft voice could be heard at the door, and Xu Qing's voice could be heard as if he was chatting with someone outside the courtyard.There was also the unique bird chirping of the empty island, maybe it was meal time, and the scent wafted in, making Bai Yutang feel hungry.

"Yo." Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and poked his cheek, "You've woken up, I'm still treating you like a sister-in-law, and what I gave you was either tranquilizing medicine or perspiration medicine."

Bai Yutang opened his eyes, came to his senses completely, looked at Zhan Zhao, and smiled slightly, "Mao'er, you're really yelling like a sister-in-law."

Zhan Zhao blushed, narrowed his eyes and glanced at Bai Yutang.

"in vain."

The fourth son has been very worried since Bai Yutang was taken away, everyone was busy when he came back, and he didn't bother to talk, this time he saw that he had seized the opportunity, so he jumped over and hugged him.

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and patted the little four, "Little four, tell him what he was talking about in his sleep when he fell asleep in the morning!"

Bai Yutang was taken aback.

The fourth son looked at Bai Yutang with a smirk, and returned to Zhan Zhao's arms without saying a word.

Bai Yutang was even more embarrassed, he wouldn't say anything strange, would he?

The three people in the room were looking at each other, the door opened, Zhao Pu walked in, followed by Ziying Zheying holding food, and Gongsun carrying a medicine box.

"Are you awake?" Seeing that Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were both in good spirits, Zhao Pu reached out and hugged the fourth son, and handed it to Xiao Liang, while Ziying and Zheying set the meal on the table.

Seeing Zhao Pu's serious face, Zhan Zhao asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"Tsk..." Zhao Pu shook his head, "Don't mention it."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao glanced at each other, looking at him puzzled.

Gongsun took Bai Yutang's pulse to see how he was doing, and said, "It's all evil, the big turtle-shaped rock to the west of Xiaoyao Island is gone."

"Huh?" Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were startled, thinking that this is really evil. The stone is tall and shaped like a big turtle crawling and protruding its neck to look at the sea. It is a scene on Xiaoyao Island. Why? Will it be gone?

It fell into the sea, it's impossible... Could it be that it was stolen?But this stone is huge, weighing at least a thousand catties, how could it be taken away.

"The tortoise is gone?" The fourth son liked the stone very much, and asked Xiao Liang in surprise.

Xiao Liang also nodded, "I just lost it yesterday!"

"Rolled into the sea or something?" Zhan Zhao wondered.

"It looks like someone chopped it up, and I guess it was thrown into the sea in the end." Zhe Ying shook his head, "I guess they went to destroy it while there was no one on the island."

"There is no one on the island. If you want to cause damage, you can set fire to demolish the house. Why do you want to chop a big useless rock?" Bai Yutang couldn't figure it out.

Gongsun frowned and said, "I've done some research on that stone before, it's not natural, it's more like man-made... I thought it was done by the boatmen on the island, but when I found out it wasn't, I thought it was a stone. The thing is placed like that, but I didn’t expect it to be destroyed by someone.”

"Is this stone related to the ghost-masked man coming to the island before?" Zhan Zhao said, pondering for a while, "Don't mention it, it's quite similar to the turtle mountain on the back of the demon city."

"Yes." Gongsun also nodded

"Never mind him." Zhao Pu shook his head, "Anyway, everything on the island has been investigated, and there is no one. Soon the waterways will be safe, and it will be difficult for outsiders to get on the island, so you can take whatever you want.”

Both Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao nodded and lowered their heads to eat.

Gongsun prescribed some more medicine for Bai Yutang, saying that he would be fine after resting for a few days, Zhan Zhao asked, "Where's Aunt Mei?"

"It's fine for now." Gongsun replied in a low voice.

Both Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao had a bad feeling, "For now?"

Gongsun looked at Zhao Pu, Zhao Pu took the fourth son and Xiao Liang out to play, and the shadow guard closed the door, leaving only Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang and Gongsun in the room.

"Aunt Mei may not live long." Gongsun's face darkened, and he said to the two seriously, "She had a physical problem, but now she is seriously injured and has lost a lot of blood. I found that she can hardly recover by herself, so Very weak. The high fever has not subsided until now, and I can't eat anything..."

"Can't we save it?" Zhan Zhao frowned, feeling sorry.

"Yeah." Gongsun nodded helplessly, and said regretfully, "I want to save her too, but it's a pity that she has a physical problem and cannot be saved."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang felt uncomfortable and sat at the table without speaking.

In the afternoon, Min Xiuxiu came to tell Bai Yutang that Aunt Mei woke up and wanted to see them.

Zhan Zhao had a lot of doubts about this case, so he went with Bai Yutang. When he got outside, he saw Gongsun administering needles to Aunt Mei's bedside, and the fourth son was also beside him, holding a A small incense burner, I don't know what kind of medicine is put in it, and there is a faint mint fragrance.

Aunt Mei was leaning on the bed, dying, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other and walked in.

Seeing the two of them, Aunt Mei smiled. Seeing Bai Yutang approaching, without speaking, she first reached out to touch her collar, and pulled out a red rope from inside. At the end of the rope was tied a tiger carved from a peach pit head.

Bai Yutang took a look and was slightly taken aback, "You are..."

Zhan Zhao saw that the peach-pit carving looked familiar, and suddenly remembered that Bai Yutang had a peach-pit mouse with similar craftsmanship, which he said was left to him by his godmother. Could it be that Aunt Mei had something to do with the Fifth Madam back then?

"There are three sisters in my family, and they are all only one year apart. I am a tiger, so I have a tiger head, and my eldest sister has a mouse head." Aunt Mei said in a low voice.

"Ah!" Xu Qing and the others who came to join in the fun at the door listened. Originally they had some complaints about Aunt Mei. Although it was pitiful, they almost killed Bai Yutang after all.But now that I heard it, Ganqing is not an outsider.

"Oh, San Ganniang!" Xu Qinghu ran in, and Han Zhang grabbed him at the door, "What are you yelling at, take it easy!"

Everyone also thought it was true, Aunt Mei was so weak that she only had a few bones left, so don't yell at Xu Qing to break them apart.

After Gongsun gave Aunt Mei the injection, he brought the fourth son over and told Bai Yutang to sit down and have a good talk with Aunt Mei.

Aunt Mei seemed to know that Zhan Zhao and the others wanted to know the ins and outs of the matter, so she explained everything in the past clearly without asking anyone.

Back then, Aunt Mei and her three sisters were born in Demon City.

In the demon city, there is a group of strange tribes living on the sea for generations, called the Moon Demon Clan.

The Moon Monster Clan has been eating fish and herbs from the sea since they were young. There is dragon grass in this medicine. At the beginning, their eyes were red.

People of the Moon Demon Clan have two characteristics. The first one is that their body is close to that of a fish, they cannot drown in the sea, and their water quality is special.The second is the pair of golden pupils, which have eyesight beyond that of ordinary people.Probably because the ancestors have taken medicine for generations, so gradually, this kind of ability has appeared in the blood.Most of the children of the Moon Monster Clan who were born later had golden eyes, and they were naturally good at water.

The Moon Yaozu are proficient in organ construction, they are very smart, but also fierce.

Most of the women of the Moon Yao clan live at home, and all their thoughts are devoted to raising children and building institutions.The men of the Moon Monster Clan go out to make a living... What they like to do is attack merchant ships or loot islands, similar to pirates, but more ferocious than pirates.

They often pretend to be shipwrecked merchant ships and go to a small island or other merchant ships to pretend to be in distress and seek asylum.After staying there, they poured the unique poison of the Moon Monster Clan into the local well, killed and robbed overnight, wiped out the merchant ships on the island, and returned to the Monster City.

That kind of poison is very special. It is made from the blood of the Moon Demon tribe. After taking it, the blood that flows out is brown-black. Under the moonlight, it will turn blood red.

In order to deceive the public, most of the Moon Monsters splashed their blood on merchant ships or islands after massacring the city, creating a strange scene.And spread exaggerated rumors that the Moon Yaozu is a Yaozu, etc., in order to frighten the world.

In order to avoid seeking revenge, the Moon Monster Clan built the treasure house of the Monster City and hid all the treasures in it.

About a hundred years ago, the Moon Monster Clan reached prosperity. There were several leaders who took the Moon Monster Clan tribe across the sea in a boat, and that ship was later moored in the inner port of the Monster City. The leader of the Yaozu has taken care of it.

This ship is the ghost ship that everyone saw before.Because it has been soaked in the blood of the moon demon clan for many years, the ghost ship has a strange color. Some cats, dogs, birds and beasts approached. Once they licked the blood on the ship, some died, and some had red eyes.

It's just that there was an unexpected situation. Once, the Moon Monster Clan attacked an island that shouldn't be attacked.

The island is located in a remote place, and the people on the island are basically good at martial arts, with strange clothes and strange customs, which seems to be the boundary of a certain sect.

That night, the Moon Monster Clan's operation failed, and they escaped by boat overnight, taking away the most precious treasure of that sect, a piece of blue gemstone.

The gem seemed to have some kind of magical power, attracting everyone. Even though they knew that taking it might cause trouble, the leader of the Moon Monster Clan still stole the gem.

In the first year when the gem was stolen back, the Moon Monster Clan prospered, and the wealth they got in this year was too much to count. Everyone thought that the gem was a sacred object, so they specially built a big golden Buddha and embedded the gem in it.

A few years later, the team leaders of the Moon Monster Clan passed away one after another. The new members of the Moon Monster Clan stopped living the life of burning, killing and looting, and began to fish more heavily and forge mechanisms to make a living.

But the good times didn't last long. Three years later, that mysterious sect found the Moon Monster Clan and wanted to take back that gem.

At the same time, the martial arts people in the Jianghu also knew the existence of the Yaozu, many people came to seek revenge, more people came to hunt for treasures, and of course some people wanted the magical golden eyes, so the Moon Yaozu was slaughtered.

Before his death, the chief renter put down the mechanism built by the Moon Yaozu over the years. The Yaozu tribe jumped into the sea and fled. Most of them died, and only a few lucky ones were rescued.

Among them were the fifth wife and Aunt Mei.

The three sisters were all married back then, and each had a son.

When fleeing, the second child and her son were lost first, and finally the fifth wife and son were separated, and the fifth wife was also lost. Only Aunt Mei and her son were left and drifted to a fishing village by the sea.

In the fishing village, Aunt Mei carried her young son on her back, unable to live, and the son fell seriously ill again.She took her child to seek medical treatment, but she couldn't afford the consultation fee at all. In the end, she was ruthless and left her son in front of a rich family's house, and hid herself, hoping that the family of the rich family could save him. Life.

Sure enough, a girl came out of the rich family and took the child to see the doctor.

Aunt Mei left in tears, fainted on the side of the road, and was rescued by a fisherman.In order to survive, Aunt Mei married the fisherman who was later killed by King Qinglong.

In fact, the fisherman was very kind to Aunt Mei, and because she was gentle and virtuous, and she was very beautiful, he just felt that a fairy fell from the sky for him.

But the beauty is unlucky, and when she was fishing well, she ran into a Qinglong King who came to snatch her marriage.Although she is regarded as the apple of her eye after being snatched away, Aunt Mei is indeed depressed and unhappy all day long.At first, she felt sorry for the fishermen, but at the same time, she always missed her son in her heart, blamed herself, and felt that the crime was serious.

Aunt Mei has been looking for her son since her life improved.

It was later learned that his son was placed in front of the house of the navy general He Deguang.He Deguang and his wife thought they liked him, so they adopted him as their adopted son and named him He Lei.

Naturally, He Lei quickly discovered Aunt Mei. He had long remembered that his mother had left him cruelly. At that time, all kinds of despair and resentment filled his heart, so he hated Aunt Mei extremely.

Aunt Mei wanted to get to know each other, but He Lei refused, and only scolded her for being heartless, for abandoning herself and having a son with others for the sake of prosperity and wealth. If she wanted to forgive him by herself, she would put aside everything now and go to take care of him.

Aunt Mei had already given birth to Cao Xin at that time, so she pretended to throw herself into the sea and left Cao Xin to Qinglong King. She became a dead person and took care of He Lei secretly.

He Lei is very capable. When he was a teenager, he followed He Deguang to the front line and made great achievements. He Deguang highly regarded him.At that time, in order to restrain the empty island, he wanted to send people to sneak into the river gang.It happened that He Lei was about the same age as the real Lei Qinglang, and the River Gang had to wait for Lei Qinglang to grow up before picking him up, so he kidnapped and killed the real Lei Qinglang, and made He Lei pretend to be the young master of the River Gang. It's just a fish's eye.

After He Deguang's defeat, on the one hand, Lei Qinglang was the young master of the He Gang, and on the other hand, he got entangled with those old subordinates who had fled, wanting the treasure of the demon city.

He knew that Aunt Mei was the key person, and he learned from her the secrets about the demon city and the mechanism that was opened.

At that time, the ghost-masked man was also related to He Deguang on the face of it, and there were a few people from the rivers and lakes he introduced, that is, Shen Yan and others... A group of people cooperated to get what they needed, the ghost-masked man wanted the legendary gem, Lei Qinglang wanted Want gold, silver and jewelry.

Aunt Mei felt that her son was going to take a detour, but she was worried that she had already done him one wrong, and could not do her a second time, so knowing that He Lei was using her, she still helped him catch Bai Yutang.

The reason why Aunt Mei knew about Bai Yutang was because he had met the Fifth Madam back then, and many things were personal conversations between the two sisters, including the matter of teaching Bai Yutang all the secrets.Fifth Madam loves this godson very much, and has believed since childhood that he will become a great weapon in the future.She knew that the treasures of the Yaozu were a catastrophe, and sooner or later someone would cause chaos in the world because of these treasures, so she wanted to leave Bai Yutang as a way out, maybe she could solve the disaster in the future, and it was really expected by her arrive.

The real murderers are He Lei and the ghost-masked man, in order to kill people, divert attention, and gradually make everyone hooked and pay attention to the demon city.

Qinglong King is a person who values ​​love and righteousness, and loves Aunt Mei. He never forgets her and never gives up looking for her.Huang Tian paid off, and finally let him find Aunt Mei, but also shattered He Lei's plan.The Azure Dragon King strongly opposed it, and the other Dragon Kings of the Hai Long Gang learned about it.Those dragon kings were greedy and wanted a piece of the pie, but when they saw the Azure Dragon King getting in the way, they killed him.

Several sea dragon kings threatened Lei Qinglang to break the matter. As long as Lei Qinglang let them join, that's why... the Sea Dragon Gang was created, causing countless casualties, in order to send Aunt Mei to the empty island.

The various reasons are quite complicated. Lei Qinglang did it for money and ambition, but as for the ghost-faced man, Shen Yan and the others, it is unknown.

Naturally, Zhakong Island also sent people to watch Shen Yan and Tang Qingsong, but when they came back, they pretended to be seriously injured, tricked the guarding Xiaoxiao, and slipped away in the chaos.Aunt Mei was not very clear about their relationship, she only knew that they were listening to a mysterious person, but she didn't know who it was.

Aunt Mei's life on Sunken Island is also difficult, the better Bai Yutang treats her, the more guilty she will be.Looking at him, I thought of my sister and her lost child, and felt sorry for Lei Qinglang. Later, I saw that Cao Xin was also suffering from the loss of her father. As a mother, I hardly did my duty as a mother. Too much failure, no meaning to live in this world at all.

Lei Qinglang had no respect for her at all, always shouting and shouting.Especially when Bai Yutang made an appointment with Aunt Mei, Lei Qinglang became angrier and beat and scolded Aunt Mei from time to time. Aunt Mei lived in pain every day and only wanted to die. In the end, she wanted to save Bai Yutang.

Aunt Mei is weak by nature, and she has always been taken by her elder sister since she was a child, and she has no opinions.She didn't want to harm Bai Yutang, but she couldn't refuse her son, she blamed him blindly and only wanted to make up for him.But for Bai Yutang's harm, she blamed herself even more, her conscience couldn't bear it, and she finally sacrificed her life to save him.But in the end, Lei Qinglang still died in front of her. He was so disheartened that he didn't understand, was it her fault... If she hadn't left this child behind, nothing would have happened.

After Cao Xin heard what happened back then, she also came to recognize Aunt Mei in tears.

That day, Hailong gang set fire to it, and the person who set it on fire was indeed Aunt Mei, and Cao Xin also saw it.

It may be that mother and child are connected, Cao Xin never told the truth, and she actually recognized him when she met him later. However, seeing him crazy and stupid, she couldn't bear to expose him for fear of her being hurt, but she didn't expect this to end like this.

After saying this, Aunt Mei was already short of breath, and there was nothing else to say. Gongsun was afraid that she would be tired, so he gave her medicine and let her sleep. He only told everyone that Aunt Mei was in a bad situation and might not last long.

The next day, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang asked Aunt Mei about the stone turtle and the ghost-masked man on Xiaoyao Island.

Aunt Mei didn't know about this, Lei Qinglang has been hiding it from her, and everyone stopped asking.

About half a month later, Aunt Mei passed away accompanied by Cao Xin, and was buried next to the tomb of Mrs. Fifth on Xingkong Island, leaving behind a pale jade tablet.

Cao Xin did not sink into decadence, but reorganized the Hailong Gang, renamed it the Qinglong Gang, and rebuilt the island with the help of Zhakong Island.

Dong Xiaodie was appointed as the new head of the River Gang. Lei Qinglang's identity had already aroused his suspicion.

In this way, the islands along the coast of Songjiang Prefecture finally recovered their tranquility, and everything started again.

Zhao Pu took Gongsun and the fourth son back to Xiaoyao Island, and Zhan Zhao asked the leaders of Xingkong Island to be entangled with soup and not allowed to leave, and stayed for a while.

Seeing that it has been almost half a year since going out, Zhan Zhao felt that Master Bao might not know him if he didn't go back, so he left the crowd and went back to Kaifeng.

On the day of departure, Zhan Zhao looked around the yard, but he didn't see Bai Yutang to see him off.Ever since Aunt Mei's death, Bai Yutang would occasionally be in a daze and not in a very good mood.As long as Zhan Zhao was with him, he would be happier. This time he was leaving, and Zhan Zhao would not stay away from him. He always felt that there was a piece of emptiness in his heart.

After the boat left the ferry, Zhan Zhao stood on the deck, but he couldn't find the white shadow in the distance, so he was a little depressed, and muttered, "Dead mouse."

Just as he finished speaking, he heard someone in the cabin ask him, "Did the mouse provoke you?"

Zhan Zhao was startled, and ran into the cabin to take a look, only to see Bai Yutang sitting on a chair, playing with a Nine Links in his hand.

"Why do you..." Zhan Zhao was startled

"Ahem." Bai Yutang coughed softly, "I'll go to Kaifeng to collect the bills for elder brother, and I'll go with you along the way."

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao smiled knowingly, "By the way." After speaking, he came over to snatch Bai Yutang's drink "by the way."

Volume [-]: Ghost Village of Five Graves