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

"To show someone, you must do what you say."

Bai Yutang raised his head, and found that Zhan Zhao's eyes were completely serious and stubborn. The cat had never looked at him with such eyes, and Bai Yutang knew that Zhan Zhao was really angry.

Bai Yutang laughed at himself, and straightened Zhan Zhao's clothes: "I almost stained Mr. Zhan's body, I'm really sorry."

After saying that, he turned over and got out of bed, without turning his head, he said with a smile: "Bai Yutang is just a commoner, indeed he is not as high as that real dragon emperor, it's hard for Master Zhan to be willing to get acquainted with someone like me..."

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment, and saw that Bai Yutang was about to leave. He frowned and struggled to sit up: "Bai Yutang, you know that's not what I meant!"

Bai Yutang stood at the door without turning his head: "Then, what does Master Zhan mean by this?"

Zhan Zhao pursed his lower lip, looked at Bai Yutang's back and didn't speak.

Bai Yutang shook his head with a smile, and was about to go out when he heard Zhan Zhao calmly say, "Have you ever thought about what will happen if the two of us... stay together with that kind of relationship?"

"Bai Yutang never regrets what he has done. Zhan Zhao, as long as you agree, even if you will become an enemy of the world in the next moment, even if you want me to kill gods and Buddhas immediately, Bai Yutang is willing to carry it for you alone."

There was silence all around.

Bai Yutang turned his head, looked at Zhan Zhao on the bed, and smiled faintly: "Cat, I just want a word from you."

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang and was silent for a long, long time.

Bai Yutang waited for a long, long time, and finally, gently let go of the hand holding the door bier, turned around, and walked out: "Oh, I understand, Mao'er, I'm just pretending to be affectionate, so I leave."

Zhan Zhao was so decadent that he fell on the bed, unable to lift his strength.

In the end, due to being too tired and sleepy, Zhan Zhao still fell asleep. When he woke up, it was already afternoon. Zhan Zhao got up and shook his head. Not seeing Bai Yutang's shadow, Zhan Zhao's mood fell to the extreme.

After sleeping for nearly a whole day, I finally recovered some strength, but I was still extremely tired.

But when he thought of Bai Yutang's eyes and the words "farewell" before he left, Zhan Zhao couldn't help but feel a twinge in his heart, as if he was about to suffocate.It's not that he doesn't understand, it's not that he doesn't want to, it's not that he can't, it's just that he has his own concerns. He can't be as free and easy as Bai Yutang, who looks down on everything in the world. What is needed is time, but Bai Yutang suddenly broke all the relationships in the past and forced to come over, disrupting all the steps, so that Zhan Zhao didn't know how to respond at all...

Anyway, find him first, the rat is dangerous now.

After dragging his body to wash up, he was about to go out when he saw Gongsun Ce standing at the door, about to knock on it. Zhan Zhao was taken aback, and said, "Sir?"

Seeing that it was Zhan Zhaolai who opened the door, Gongsun Ce blinked and looked into the room: "Why did you open the door, where is Bai Yutang?"

As soon as he heard this name, the nerve in Zhan Zhao's mind twitched subconsciously: "I lost my temper and ran away."

"En?" Seeing Zhan Zhao's expression, Gongsun raised his eyebrows, "Have you had a fight?"

Zhan Zhao waved his hands: "...No, by the way, sir, have you found out about that puppet stand-in?"

Gongsun said: "I'm here to tell you about this, let's go in and talk about it, your physical strength has not fully recovered yet, you need to rest more."

Zhan Zhao nodded, and looked at the door again. Gongsun entered the room. Seeing that Zhan Zhao hadn't come in, he asked, "What's the matter? Are you waiting for Bai Yutang to come back?"

Zhan Zhao turned his head, shook his head, and said, "Don't wait for him, just tell me."

Gongsun's heart skipped a beat. If the two of them were usually inseparable, it's a bit uncomfortable to see the other one's absence now. Could it be that Bai Yutang got angry because of Zhan Zhao's stay in the palace yesterday?But this matter is really difficult to deal with. I mentioned it to Mr. Bao in the morning. I think he can handle the part in the palace. As for Bai Yutang, Zhan Zhao can only rely on it...

Gathering his mind, Gongsun said: "I have found some content, which is the ancient script of the Western Regions, but it is only a broken chapter, I can only roughly tell you the meaning of the text inside, and I am not sure. Is it still the same after all these years?"

Zhan Zhao said: "It's okay, please tell me, sir."

Gongsun Dao: "To turn that doll into a stand-in puppet, the blood of the person the owner hates and the person he cares about needs to be spotted on the eyes of the doll, and after that, the souls of 49 people need to be gathered into the doll's body... ...This part is a bit messy, I don't really understand how he wants to detain the souls of 49 people, I only know that after this step is completed, the stand-in puppet is almost completed, and the owner will already be under the control of the spell caster."

Zhan Zhao thought for a while and asked, "Then if it is controlled by the spell caster, is there still a way to break it?"

Gongsun said: "I don't know, there is no explanation in the book, but there should be a way to crack it. I always feel that the willpower of the subject should be very important."

Zhan Zhao pondered for a while, then frowned again: "When I met Jia Ye last night, I remembered that he said that the puppet is not yet a stand-in puppet, but it will be soon, that is to say, he Recently, I will definitely do something to achieve my goal. After all, among the recent murders, only the death of Lin You, the son of Lin Guangjun, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, is the most suspicious... Sir, do the so-called "disgust" and "care" have a specific degree? ?”

Gongsun said: "It is not mentioned in the book, but if there is no limit to the degree... I remember that you did have conflicts with that Lin You before? If so, the reason why Lin You was killed was because of Jia Ye. Think Lin You is someone Bai Yutang hates..."

Zhan Zhao was silent for a while: "It seems that Jia Ye also had a purpose for appearing there last night."

Gongsun stared at Zhan Zhao, and suddenly remembered the injury on Zhan Zhao's back: "Oops, your injury...but why Bai Yutang?"

As for the people Bai Yutang cares about, Zhan Zhao must be the first to bear the brunt. Could it be that Jia Ye saw through this point and deliberately came to find fault with Zhan Zhao?Gongsun frowned, not understanding why Jia Ye was so persistent in wanting to be Bai Yutang's puppet stand-in.

Zhan Zhao calmly said, "It's because of that demon sword."

"You mean the Weeping Snow Blade?"

Zhan Zhao nodded: "When he was fighting with us, he was very afraid of Yutang's knives. The ordinary silver thread weapon in his hand couldn't stop cutting. Even my Juque couldn't do anything with those weird silver threads, but Yutang's But the knife can easily cut off those silver threads. I am on par with Yutang in martial arts. There is no reason why I can cut things that he can cut. And every time Jia Ye paired up with Yutang's knife, I think it must be That knife has the effect of restraining him."

Gongsun said: "You mean, the reason why he wants to control Bai Yutang is because as long as he controls Bai Yutang, he doesn't need to worry about the Weeping Snow Blade in his hand?"

Zhan Zhao said: "Actually, I still have a lot of things I don't understand. That Jia Ye's movement is very strange. I can't feel any internal force in him. Logically, if I can't feel the other party's internal force, unless his martial arts are higher than mine. Too much, or he doesn't know martial arts at all. But neither of these two conditions is true. If his martial arts are so much higher than ours, we won't even have a chance to fight, but if he doesn't have martial arts, it's impossible to use those The silver thread hurts..."

"Also, I always feel that he didn't kill me on purpose, but I can't figure out why."

Gongsun remained silent.

Zhan Zhao stood up: "But these are not important, the most important thing right now is to find the mouse first, and then stop it before Jia Ye gathers the souls of 49 people..." Just halfway through, Zhan Zhao suddenly burst into tears. Dizzy, he sat down all of a sudden, Gongsun saw Zhan Zhao's tottering appearance and hurriedly got up to help him, "Your poison has just been cleared, you must rest for the past two days, you were exhausting your mental analysis just now, and you were in a hurry to find Bai Yutang. , the body will not be able to bear it, don’t torment yourself, just rest, and let Pang Tong do those things.”

Zhan Zhao shook his head, "It's okay, I'll go to Fourth Brother to find out the whereabouts of that mouse." After saying that, he was about to get up and go out, Gongsun held Zhan Zhao down, and said angrily, "Don't think you're a weakling! Well, you can spoil your body at will, let me tell you, if you don’t take a good rest during this period, you will easily fall into the root of the disease in the future!”

Zhan Zhao said: "Injury is a trivial matter. I know that rat well. This time I provoked him. If I hadn't gone to find him personally, even if the Jade Emperor wanted him to come back, he would have ignored him."

Gongsun sighed: "I didn't expect Bai Yutang to be so petty. You just stayed in the palace all night. It's necessary..."

Zhan Zhao shook his head: "No, sir, that's not what he's angry about..."

Gongsun was puzzled: "Then?"

Zhan Zhao said with a smile, "I owed him the debt, and I failed him, so he should be annoyed at me."

"Then you must go?"

Zhan Zhao let out a "hmm".

Gongsun sighed: "Okay, but you must not force yourself too much. If you can't bear it, you will come back immediately, you know?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, took the giant que and went out.Gongsun looked at Zhan Zhao's back, still worried, thought about it, and went to find a few helpers first.

Zhan Zhao first went to Jiang Fourth Master, saying that he accidentally offended Bai Yutang, and now he ran away in anger, and wanted to make amends and apologize. Jiang Ping has always liked Zhan Zhao, and felt that the two children were having a temper tantrum It's normal, I was there to help Zhan Zhao to come up with ideas about where Bai Yutang would go, and Zhan Zhao wrote them down one by one. In fact, Zhan Zhao also thought of most of the places, but he was afraid that Bai Yutang would hide from him. I deliberately didn't go to places I knew, and I wanted to ask Jiang Ping for the sake of completeness.

After inquiring about the location, Zhan Zhao thanked him and hurried out to find someone.

As for Bai Yutang, in fact he couldn't bear to leave Zhan Zhao at all, especially when Zhan Zhao was ill, so Bai Yutang didn't leave Kaifeng mansion too far when he just left. The person was walking aimlessly on the still empty street, but he was still thinking about the cat in his heart. He thought that Zhan Zhao would chase it out, but it turned out that he didn't. Some people can't bear it, don't go back, and don't worry about that cat...

In the end, the arm couldn't twist the thigh, and when he was about to turn back, he suddenly saw a figure flashing past at the end of the alley.

It's Kaye!

Without even thinking about it, Bai Yutang chased after him, but this chase resulted in something that he regretted for the rest of his life.