chivalrous cat and righteous mouse

After coming out, the group of people around there immediately stood up straight in a jerk. After realizing who said the sentence just now, everyone turned pale, and the cold sweat couldn't stop dripping—— My lord and Mr. Zhan bumped into them on the spot for negligence of duty, so they are dead!

Zhan Yitian saw Zhan Zhao and the others coming out through the gap between people, and just as he was about to jump over happily, he heard Zhan Zhao's scolding, and then he looked at the other people around him who straightened their backs, and turned pale with fright. Opening his face, he blinked his eyes, as if he understood something, so he broke through the crowd and got out, trotted to Zhan Zhao's legs, and tugged at the hem of his clothes.

"Father, don't be upset." Zhan Zhao looked down at the villain who was dragging him, and saw his little meaty finger pointing at the guards behind him, and said, "Uncles see that Mr. Bao is working hard on the case every day, and they also want to contribute a piece of paper." force."

When the guards behind heard this, they showed no expression on their faces, but they muttered in their hearts, my little ancestor!If you don't speak up, maybe the adults can be punished less, at most you will pass with a few boards. Now you tell the adults that we want to contribute but let the adults see that we have neglected our duties. Isn't this slapping yourself in the face!

The servants were in a hurry one by one, but Xiaotian was not in a hurry at all, he continued to say to Zhan Zhao, "I just smelled a strong musty smell on an uncle, so I asked him if he went to the forest He wondered how I knew about it, but he still answered me like this, and I told him that there should be a cave in the area where he was just now, and asked him to go back and dig it, but he really found it.”

Gongsun Ce felt a little strange when he heard it, so he raised his head and asked those people, "Is there such a thing?"

Sure enough, a servant came out of the crowd, bowed his body and rubbed his hands, and replied, "Yes, yes."

Gongsun turned his head and glanced at Bao Zheng, then took a step forward and asked the guard, "Where is the cave now? What was found in the cave?"

The guard scratched his head, and replied with some embarrassment, "Uh, that one is said to be a hole, but it looks like a pit, and it's not far over there. Seeing that the soil is darker and looser, the villain guessed that it might be a hole." What was there, I dug it open and found that there were only some used charcoal ashes and some burnt paper scraps inside. After thinking about it, I thought that someone burned paper for sacrifices in this place, so I didn't take it seriously. , and filled it with soil.”

Gongsun Ce's eyes darkened, a little disappointed.I thought to myself that since a grave was found in this forest, it would not be surprising if someone burned paper.It seems that it is just like what the yamen servant said, it is a hole dug by burning paper and mourning, it is not a useful clue, it is my own overthinking.He thought for a moment, then looked up at Bao Zheng, as if waiting for his instructions on how to deal with it.

Bao Zheng looked at Xiaotian, then at the group of people in front of him, suddenly smiled, he bent down slightly, and asked Xiaotian, "Since that's the case, what were you doing just now?"

Zhan Yitian scratched his head and looked at him - what did we do just now?He tilted his head and recalled for a long time before he remembered what he asked. Xiaotian twitched the corner of his mouth quickly, "It's like this, I told them that I saw several strange graves in this forest. They were buried together, one in the east and one in the west, so strange."

Gongsun Ce and Zhan Zhao looked at each other, never heard that this place is a cemetery, why are there so many graves?

"My lord, why don't we go take a look at the discovered tomb first, let Xiaotian help the officials find out the other ones, and we'll look at them later." Gongsun suggested to Bao Zheng.

Bao Zheng readily agreed, he asked Ma Han to lead the way, and asked Chao Chao to follow Xiao Tian to protect his safety.

"Guard Zhan." Bao Zheng thought for a moment, then turned around and called out.

"My lord." Zhan Zhao heard Bao Zheng calling him, and quickly responded.

"I wonder if Young Master Bai's private affairs are finished?"

"This..." Zhan Zhao scratched his head, thinking that it was a private matter, how could he know.But he wanted to return home, but he couldn't tell Bao Zheng like this.

Looking at his appearance, Bao Zheng knew it already, he smiled and said, "Guard Zhan might as well go and see if Young Master Bai has finished his private affairs, can he come here to help you?"

"Your Excellency wants to..." Zhan Zhao opened his mouth, stopped in the middle of the sentence, paused, and replied, "This subordinate obeys." After saying that, the red shadow flashed and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Bao Zheng waited for Zhan Zhao to leave, turned sideways, stroked his beard and said to Gongsun Ce, "Mr. Gongsun, let's go too."

The grave found by Ma Han's guards is not far from the cave they just went to, only about fifty steps away.Mahan had already visited the grave once before they entered the cave, and to be honest, he also found it strange.Why do you say that?Because there is no word on the sign standing in front of the grave, it is a lonely tomb without words.

Generally speaking, there are two types of tombs without characters. One is that the tomb is a wild tomb, and no one knows the identity of the person buried in it, so no words are written on the inscription. The other is that the person buried in the tomb is It is inconvenient to state your identity clearly, otherwise it may cause some trouble to the person who erected the monument, and at this time, the inscription in front of the grave will be empty.

At first Ma Han thought that this tomb should belong to the latter, but he just heard that there are several tombs in this forest. If those tombs are also without characters, then they may be some unattended wild tombs.But how to explain the big pit with signs of burning paper?Was it someone passing by here, afraid of disturbing the dead souls underground, so they burned paper money for them?It sounds a bit far-fetched.

After walking dozens of steps, the strange lonely grave was in front of them.Bao Zheng walked around the grave, and found that the surrounding area was clean, no weeds and no paper money.A small hill was piled up with soil for the solitary tomb, and a sign made of broken wood was erected in front of the tomb, and there was indeed nothing written on it.

"My lord, this..." Gongsun Ce turned to look at Bao Zheng.

Bao Zheng squatted down, picked up the soil on the ground and twirled it, "The soil is still new, and there are traces of cleaning around it." As he spoke, he went around to the grave again, looked at the broken wooden sign, "Although this sign is It is broken but it will not be moth-eaten or rotten, which means that people often come here to sacrifice." He straightened up, lowered his eyes to think, and muttered in his mouth, "If you send someone to watch secretly here, maybe you can know it is Whoever comes to clean up often, maybe through this person, the identity of the buried person can be found out. It's just..." Will this have anything to do with this case?

"My lord." Bao Zheng raised his head from his own thoughts, and followed the voice to look at Gongsun Ce, and saw that his eyes were focused, with some kind of fiery light in his eyes. Grave, but said in his mouth, "The student has a bold guess about this tomb."

poison?Antidote?

Zhan Zhao came out of the dense forest, without hesitation, he ran directly to the inn where he was staying.When he reached the door of Tianzi No. [-] room, he stretched out his hand and knocked on the door, and the door was opened after a while.

It was Bai Fu who opened the door. He opened the door and saw Zhan Zhao standing outside. He was not surprised, but wondered why his fifth master hadn't come back yet.

Bai Fu leaned over and let Zhan Zhao into the room, and then raised the pot to pour water for him, but he stopped by raising his hand.Zhan Zhao looked around and saw that Bai Yutang was nowhere to be seen, so he asked Bai Fu, "Bai Yutang hasn't come back yet?"

Bai Fu put down the kettle, shook his head, and responded, "It's strange, Fifth Master has never stayed in the shop for such a long time."

After hearing this, Zhan Zhao frowned, "Tell me the name of that shop, and I'll go find him."

Bai Fu nodded in agreement, "It's called Youjian Teahouse." Zhan Zhao rolled his eyes, thinking that this was the name given by that ignorant person, and then Bai Fu scratched the back of his head with an embarrassed expression on his face, "Hehe, this It's the name given by the fifth master."

Zhan Zhao held his forehead weakly, thinking that only that white mouse could come up with such an excellent name in the whole world, let him go and see what kind of magic power this teahouse has, and what it can do to what it has always been. Bai Wuye, who was not even interested, was firmly attracted.

Zhan Zhao bid farewell to Bai Fu, went out from the inn, and asked the shopkeeper how to get to a teahouse at the counter. With a pure black sword, he knew that he was not an ordinary person, so he told him clearly the route to the teahouse.When he finished speaking, he wanted to tell him that the guest officer was good to go, but he disappeared.The shopkeeper rubbed his eyes—dizzy?

***

Zhan Zhao followed the directions pointed out by the shopkeeper, turned left and right and walked all the way. Sure enough, he saw a teahouse at the end of a street. Bai Yutang's pen, he rubbed his chin and thought to himself, what is the difference between Bai Wuye's teahouse and other teahouses?

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly caught a glimpse of someone coming out of the teahouse. He jumped onto the roof instinctively, and then stood still on the roof. Only then did he realize why he was hiding in such a guilty conscience. Bai Yutang didn't have a secret tryst with him.

However, he didn't struggle for too long, because he saw that the person coming out of it was Bai Yutang, and behind him was a young man in a water-blue satin blouse. Weapons, behavior and style are quite Jianghu people's breath.Zhan Zhao rubbed his chin and sat down on the roof, looked up and down the young man, saw that he had red lips, white teeth, and a face as fair as jade, and he looked good, but how could such a person appear here, and he looked like Bai Yutang is still very familiar, could it be his friend?But isn't it rumored in the Jianghu that Bai Wuye rarely gets close to people?

Zhan Zhao rested his chin and looked at the two people below. Bai Yutang obviously sent that person out.