Half River Autumn Moon and River Spring [Rat and Cat]

Before Gongsun had time to say a word, the kid in red tugged at his sleeve with terrifying force. The two of them were standing on a slope that was neither high nor low, and Gongsun was pulled down in one fell swoop.

Min Wuxue, who happened to see this scene, screamed in fright: "Ah! Not good! The red boy is attached to Mr. Gongsun! And... was sucked away by him..."

Just as Min Wuxue was halfway through her words, she saw a blue figure jumping down in the direction of Gongsun at an astonishingly fast speed.

Li Huan paused, and suddenly heard someone chuckle not far away. Li Huan turned his head, and saw Bai Yutang on the other side with his mouth curled up, his eyes fixed on the direction where Gongsun was being dragged away, with such a determined look on his face, as if He had already expected something... Li Huan felt ashamed, and thought to himself, the cat and the mouse must have sensed that someone had mischievous intentions towards Gongsun, so they deliberately pretended to be indifferent to chatting, and then lured the snake out of the hole, right?

Bai Jinyang, whose body had been stiff all this time, finally came to his senses at this moment. Seeing Bai Yutang standing with his hands behind his back, he suddenly asked nervously, "Fifth Bai...this?"

Bai Yutang was too lazy to cast a sideways glance at Bai Jinyang, and the people beside him gasped for an instant. Those lazy but charming eyes were so beautiful that it was shocking!

Seeing the eyes of several people staring at him without hesitation, Bai Yutang was a little unhappy, frowned slightly, and then jumped down the slope, chasing after Lan Ying.

Li Huan hurriedly followed, but when he looked down, no one was there. He turned his head anxiously: "They're gone!"

Bai Jinyang leaned over to take a look, and as expected, several people had disappeared.

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Not long after Zhan Zhao chased him, he saw several children in red clothes dragging Gongsun away, which looked very strange in this dark night.Zhan Zhao didn't think much about it, he bent down to pick up a few stones on the ground, and shot them at the calves of a few children with some ingenuity. The children let out an "ah" and fell down on the spot one after another. Seeing the momentum, Zhan Zhao hurriedly He pulled out Gongsun Ce and stood aside.

Gongsun Ce, who was dragged for a while, breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the children in red and said speechlessly: "I just said it casually, you don't have to appear so appropriate for the occasion, do you?"

Zhan Zhao laughed, seeing a few children hugging his calves and looking at him with aggrieved expressions, he asked, "Why did you arrest him?"

"Because he's too smart!"

"Smart, smart..."

"That's right, too smart, smart people are scary!"

Several children actually started talking as if no one else was there.

Gongsun turned his head to look at Zhan Zhao, with a helpless expression on his face, as if asking: Is this a reason?

Before Zhan Zhao could speak, he saw a white dress descending in front of him.

"Who ordered you to do this?"

Several children glanced at each other: "This brother in white is so fierce!"

"But he's very good-looking...hehe!"

"I like the brother in the blue dress, he's not fierce at all, he looks good!"

"Me too, me too...hehehehe."

Zhan Zhao is very helpless, whose child is this?When are you still thinking about these messy things in your head?The laughter is still so weird, I really thought it was haunted when I heard it in the middle of the night!

Bai Yutang looked around, pondered for a moment, his face became a little colder, and he said slowly: "Since no one comes out to take care of it, let me take care of these little brats!"

After the words fell, he pretended to make a gesture to hit someone, and the children were so frightened that they burst into tears immediately, but before Bai Yutang's hand fell, everyone heard a familiar voice: "Please be merciful!"

Bai Yutang withdrew his hand, took a step back slightly: "Not yet."

Gongsun patted Zhan Zhao on the shoulder: "Your little white mouse likes to scare people."

Zhan Zhao nodded with a smile, thinking that Bai Yutang's inhumane appearance was really suitable for bluffing people, but he couldn't help twitching as he nodded at the corners of his mouth. After a while, Zhan Zhao turned his head to look at Gongsun with a blank expression ...

...What is "your little white mouse"?

Gongsun smiled very deeply.

At this time, the owner of the voice finally appeared, Zhan Zhao shaved his chin with one hand, and began to look at the person in front of him with interest.

No wonder the voice felt familiar, it turned out to be the sloppy old man I met in the tavern, the old man Zhou who recited poems with wine on credit!

He really has something to do with this Qiongshan...

The old man didn't recognize his birth, so he made a bow when he came up: "Thank you, Shaoxia, for your mercy, didn't you ask the young hero's name?"

"Bai Yutang."

The old man Zhou widened his eyes and said in great surprise: "Bai Yutang, the famous Chinchilla Baiyutang, the five island masters of the empty island, Baiyutang, one of the five righteousnesses?"

Gongsun Ce bumped Zhan Zhao with his elbow, and said in a low voice, "Look, I only gave three words, and they insisted on filling them all up for him, tsk tsk!"

The corner of Zhan Zhao's mouth twitched: "Sir, don't you envy that Yutang's title is longer than yours?"

Gongsun Ce thought for a while, and replied seriously: "It's really not as long as him."

Zhan Zhao suddenly felt powerless.

"The two are..."

Zhan Zhao turned his head and said politely, "My lord, Zhan Zhao, this is Gongsun Ce, Mr. Gongsun."

The old man was taken aback: "Has everyone from Kaifeng mansion come?"

Gongsun Ce sighed, and patted Zhan Zhao on the shoulder: "Look, the two of us combined are not as tall as your little white mouse, and they sent us both away with a word from Kaifeng Mansion."

Zhan Zhao: "..." How many times has Gongsun emphasized "your little white mouse"?

The old man laughed and said, "I've heard that Mr. Gongsun, the master of the Kaifeng Mansion, is the reincarnation of Kongming, extremely intelligent, cunning and arrogant. When I saw it today, it was as expected. I found the way to Qiongshan so easily."

Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Sir, you should be satisfied this time, right? It's longer than Yutang's."

Gongsun glanced at Zhan Zhao, and said thoughtfully, "Guard Zhan's 'Yutang' sounded more and more smoothly..."

Zhan Zhao choked.

The old man became interested, and stared at Zhan Zhao again: "Nan Xia Zhan Zhao?"

Zhan Zhao pouted, thinking it's really unfair, why is mine the shortest, only four characters, two of which are his own name...

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao pouted, and couldn't help but want to go up and pinch him, how could this cat be so cute?

"Grandpa, that white-clothed brother attacked us just now, he's a bad guy!" Several red-clothed children saw Old Man Zhou coming, and ran to his side one after another, shaking Old Man Zhou's trouser legs, with aggrieved faces.

Old man Zhou smiled and touched the heads of several children, and said, "Good boy, it's okay, big brother is teasing you!"

Several children raised their heads: "Really?"

Old man Zhou nodded with a smile, and the children turned their heads to look at Bai Yutang cautiously. Seeing that Bai Yutang still had a cold expression on his face, he pursed his lips and shrank his body to stand behind Old Man Zhou.

"Ah! Aren't you... that crazy old man in front of the tavern?"

"Why are you here?"

When Gongsun Ce turned his head, he saw Bai Jinyang and the others chasing after him, staring at the suddenly appearing old man Zhou with a look of fuss.Gongsun stroked his chin, and turned to look at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang at the side. Bai Yutang frowned slightly, and Zhan Zhao looked at them with interest.

"Tell me, why on earth do you want these children to play tricks? What's the purpose?" Ji Lengyan grabbed old man Zhou by the collar and asked loudly.

The children shrank their heads in fright when they saw a few vicious people coming again. Seeing this, the old man waved his hands and explained: "I have offended a few of you, and we have absolutely no malicious intentions..."

"No malice? No malice to let a few little fur boys pretend to be red boys to scare people?"

Old man Zhou froze for a moment, then asked, "Chitongzi? What is that?"

As soon as the words fell, Gongsun Ce coughed lightly from the side: "Old Zhou, may I ask, what is your relationship with this Qiongshan Luoxi Mansion?"

Old man Zhou looked at Gongsun Ce, then at Ji Lengyan who was still angrily tugging at his collar.Bai Jinyang on the side lightly slapped Ji Lengyan's hand: "Leng Yan, if you still don't let go, how do you treat the old man?"

Ji Lengyan snorted coldly, and finally let go.

Old man Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, and said slowly: "Presumably, since everyone has come here, they must have heard the name of Luoxi Mansion, right?"

Seeing that everyone nodded, old man Zhou went on to say: "This Luoxi mansion was built by the master craftsman Tantai for his first wife Luoxi. In order to prevent future generations from disturbing his and his wife's long sleep, many traps have been set up. The ancestor of my master was originally the apprentice of Senior Tantai, and he has lived in this Qiongshan Luoxi Mansion for generations since the death of Senior Tantai... The old man is the housekeeper of the Qiongshan Luoxi Mansion, these children were abandoned by their biological parents when they were babies, and brought back by my master to raise them, and they have been by the old man's side all the time."

Several people remained silent, waiting to hear what Old Man Zhou had to say.

"Because of this, these children have been very filial since they were young. As long as it is about my master's affairs, they will be more nervous than their own affairs. Maybe... it is precisely because of this that they offended the few people on the mountain. , I also hope that the adults will have a lot, and don't be as knowledgeable as children."

Li Huan paused, and suddenly asked: "What is the meaning of this? Could it be that so many people died on this Qiongshan, and they were all caused by these little devils? Old man, it is not your master who ordered them to mislead Those who went up the mountain, why are so many people lost and trapped on the mountain and unable to get out?"

Old man Zhou's face turned pale, and he shook his head quickly: "It's nothing, this hero said so, but it's going to kill me, old man!"

"What the hell is going on then?"

Old man Zhou sighed: "Those who got lost did die because they couldn't find a way out, but it was not because of these children, but because of the mysterious eight gates set up on Qiongshan Mountain."

"Xuantian Eight Gates?"

The old man Zhou smiled: "That's right, didn't I say before, senior Tantai is full of traps on the whole mountain, and this Xuantian Bamen is one of them, he evolved according to "Book of Changes", Those who do not know the mystical arts will never get out of this door of life and death, but those who know it, like Mr. Gongsun, can't trap him at all. Most of the people who go to Qiongshan these days are because they can't get out of this door. Eight gates and was trapped to death in it..."

"Hey, old man, if you say that, you should be very clear about how to get out of these various schools, right?" Li Huan asked suddenly with his arms inserted.

Old man Zhou nodded and replied, "It's really clear."

As soon as the words fell, Li Huan roared angrily: "Since you know, why don't you guide those people to the right path, and watch so many people die on this mountain because they can't get out of this broken door? It's not like you What difference does it make if you kill them with your own hands?"

Old man Zhou was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed: "Why should I save them? Since they covet my master's treasure, they must pay the price... Besides, if I really tell them the way to crack it, I'm afraid they will die the next moment." Is the old man here right?"

"you!"

"Me? What's wrong with me? I don't think there is anything wrong with me. The law of the jungle and natural selection are the laws of survival. If you die here, you can only blame yourself for your incompetence. Mr. Gongsun can go To get the mountain, it depends on your own true talents, you? It’s just a ride on the wind.”

Li Huan gritted his teeth in anger at the old man Zhou, but he couldn't refute.Gongsun Ce found the way up the mountain with only a simple poem, and it's not like I haven't heard of this poem before. If I really have Gongsun Ce's tricks and talents, naturally I don't need to be so useless!

Gongsun thought about Old Man Zhou's words for a while, and suddenly asked, "But why did these children attack me? Besides, what are you saying about smart people being scary?"

Several children poked their heads out to look at Gongsun, Gongsun smiled faintly at them, the old man touched the children's heads, and said helplessly: "That's because, a year ago, there was also a very smart person who easily After seeing through the eight gates of Xuantian, he went directly to our Luoxi mansion. The master originally treated him like a guest, but he turned out to have a purpose. He wanted to steal the treasure of the town house in our mansion. Fortunately, the treasure was well hidden. It's better, he didn't find out, my master fought with him, and both of them were seriously injured. Before he left, he said he would come again... So, these children are very afraid of smart people going up the mountain..."

Gongsun nodded: "No wonder..."

Min Wuxue at the side suddenly asked: "Master, the treasure of the town house you mentioned, shouldn't it be the peerless demon sword?"

Old man Zhou frowned slightly, and nodded after a while: "Exactly, the demon knife weeps blood."