Dragon Pattern Roll Set

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang followed Lin Yehuo, Zou Liang and Xiao Liang to Dongjiazhuang.

Lin Yehuo said he was looking for something, but he didn't say what he was looking for in detail, so everyone was puzzled.But after asking him, he was also a little embarrassed and said that he didn't know very well, and he would only find out when he arrived, so... everyone had to go with him.

As soon as I arrived at Dongjiazhuang, I saw Dynasty Ma Han, Zhang Long, and Zhao Hu leading dozens of soldiers and generals moving things together with the people of Dongjiazhuang.

The housekeeper of the Dong family took the account and counted the salvaged property.

Seeing Zhan Zhao and the others coming, the steward stepped forward and said, "Master Zhan, you are here."

"How about the loss?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"It's okay, okay." The housekeeper laughed happily, "Fortunately, the fire was extinguished quickly."

Lin Yehuo looked at the various salvaged belongings piled up on the side, and asked, "Do you have any family heirlooms, the owner of your estate?"

The butler was stunned, scratched his head, and said, "Yes, the owner of my family has inherited a lot of family property, and the master was in the jade business back then."

"Can I take a look?" Lin Yehuo asked.

The butler didn't quite understand it, but he probably had something to do with the arson case, so he attracted everyone.

"The owner keeps the jade wares for business, his own collection, and family heirlooms separately. The heirlooms are stored in a hidden compartment in his study room, carefully stored. However, the study room has collapsed, and the ruins need to be removed to open it. Underground dark space."

Everyone nodded.

"The secret compartment is hidden under the floor?" Zhan Zhao asked.

The butler nodded without concealing it, "This is the rule left by the master, saying that all buildings must be fireproof, especially the warehouses that store family treasures."

Everyone looked at each other—as expected, they had already taken precautions.

Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and others helped move the ruins away. Sure enough, the butler found a secret door and opened it.There is a dark room inside, the tunnel is very narrow, just enough for a person to enter and exit.

So Lin Yehuo jumped down first.

Because the dark room can only accommodate one person, everyone had to wait on it.

Bai Yutang asked Zou Liang in confusion, "What is he looking for?"

Zou Liang shrugged and signaled—who knows.

Zhan Zhao looked at Zou Liang curiously, "Didn't he tell you?"

Zou Liang's eyelids twitched, and he seemed to mutter in dissatisfaction, "Is he like you? If he doesn't tell you, he won't tell me."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other - Zou Liang's tone was weird.

Xiao Liang squatted aside with his chin in his hand, looking into the dark basement.

After a while, Lin Yehuo came up, holding a brocade box in his hand.

He jumped to the ground.

Zhan Zhao asked him, "Have you found it?"

Lin Yehuo nodded, handed the brocade box to Xiao Liang, and said, "Send it to Master Bao."

Xiao Liang held the brocade box puzzled, "I'm going?"

"Yeah, I'm not going yet!" Lin Yehuo raised his eyebrows.

Xiao Liang flattened his mouth, and he could order people around when he said it!But he didn't do anything else, obediently took the brocade box and ran to Kaifeng Mansion.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other—asked Xiao Liangzi to deliver the things alone?

After Lin Yehuo gave Xiao Liang an order, he turned around and walked away, while turning his head and winking at the three of them, which meant—follow!

The three of them knew what he probably had in mind, so they followed him.

Three detours and two detours, for some reason, they detoured around the edge of the villa, Lin Yehuo went over the wall and entered a forest, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang followed, and visually checked - this is the forest next to the road down the mountain in Dongjiazhuang .

Zou Liang also followed - it seems that they took a shortcut and ran in front of Xiao Liangzi.

Sure enough, everyone saw Xiao Liangzi bouncing down the mountain, running quite fast.

At this moment, Bai Yutang suddenly frowned and looked at the forest in front of the road, and said in a low voice, "Where is someone?"

Zhan Zhao also found out, "Are you ambush Xiao Liangzi?"

Lin Yehuo nodded, "Remember to catch alive later, it will be useful."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang nodded.

Zou Liang also understood what medicine Lin Yehuo was selling in the gourd, and asked, "What is in the brocade box? Can it attract people to snatch it?"

Lin Yehuo glanced at him, "Of course it's a good thing!"

Zou Liang looked at him with dissatisfaction, this man had a better attitude towards Zhan Zhao Bai Yutang, but he looked like a hedgehog towards himself.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were more concerned about catching Xiao Liang's ambush, and there should be clues, so they ignored Zou Liang and Lin Yehuo who were pinching each other, and they split up to outflank and follow Xiao Liang secretly.

Xiao Liang felt bored while running, everyone was very busy, so he just ran errands in his free time.For a while, he felt that Lin Yehuo was acting weird today, and for a while he thought about the fourth son, and for a while, it would be great if he could sneak into the palace to play with the fourth son.

Just as he was thinking about it, Xiao Liang felt that there was an aura around him, and there seemed to be someone hiding in the forest in front of him.

Xiao Liang is not a defenseless little dough like Xiao Sizi, he has fangs, and he can understand it as soon as he rolls his eyes, heh!Lin Turkey used him as bait to catch big fish.

After thinking about it, Xiao Liang simply stopped, stretched out his hand to take out the brocade box from his bosom, and said to himself, "Oh, let me see, what kind of treasure does Lin Turkey want me to give to Master Bao? It's so mysterious." of!"

With that said, he gestured to open the brocade box.

Just as he was about to open the brocade box, with a "whoosh", a dart shot out in front of him.

Zou Liang turned his head to dodge, then turned left and right to dodge several darts.

When he jumped into the air, suddenly, a man in black jumped out of the woods in front of him.

Obviously, the other party had already aimed at this opportunity, preparing to make a surprise attack on Xiao Liang... Although Xiao Liang is good at it, he can't do anything in mid-air, but Xiao Liangzi is not in a hurry.

Sure enough, before the man in black came in front of him, a white shadow jumped out from the slant and kicked the man in black away.

The man in black fell to the ground and looked up at Bai Yutang who was blocking Xiao Liang's eyes, stood up and ran, but just as he ran into the woods, he was kicked out by Zhan Zhao who had been ambushing there for a long time.

The man in black rolled twice and fell in front of Bai Yutang, Xiao Liang raised his foot and stepped on it, "Dare to sneak attack young master!"

Bai Yutang looked at Xiao Liangzi, who was as big as a little ghost, and he really had a different style from the fourth son. If he changed to the fourth son now, he would probably have hugged his legs and hid behind him.

Zhan Zhao also came out from the forest and asked Xiao Liang, "What is hidden in the brocade box?"

Xiao Liang stuck out his tongue and opened the box to show him.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at it, both a little speechless, and saw that the brocade box was empty and contained nothing.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, the man in black probably knew he had been tricked.

Zhan Zhao tapped his acupuncture points, and at this moment, Lin Yehuo and Zou Liang also came out.

Zhan Zhao shook the brocade box in his hand, and asked Lin Yehuo what he meant - can you explain?

Lin Yehuo patted the pocket of his clothes on his chest, "The things are here, I just try my luck, I didn't expect it to go so smoothly, go back and explain in detail!"

Everyone expressed no objection, so Zou Liang mentioned the man in black whose acupuncture points had been tapped, and everyone rushed back to Kaifeng Mansion together.

……

At this time, in the palace.

Everyone outside was nervous about investigating the case, but the palace was full of joy.

This is Zhao Zhen's first time as a father, so naturally he feels super good this time!

Zhao Zhen lay beside the crib, staring at the little princess in swaddling clothes for almost an hour.

Zhao Pu was squatting on the other side, holding his fourth son in his arms and looking at his nephew and granddaughter. Zhao Pu sighed, this is becoming a grandfather... terribly!

On the other side, Gongsun took the pulse of Concubine Pang, and found it very interesting to see the two little princesses who were sleeping soundly on the bed staring at each other endlessly.

"Does her chin look like mine?" Zhao Zhen asked happily.

"Yeah." Little Four nodded, "The chin and nose are like yellow, and the eyes and forehead are like Auntie Fat."

"Will you be pretty when you grow up?" Zhao Zhen continued to ask.

The fourth son nodded and nodded, "The facial features are so obvious, she will definitely be a beautiful woman when she grows up."

Zhao Zhen is even more beautiful, thinking that it would be nice to be as good-looking as her mother, but after thinking about it again, he shook his head, "Oh, what kind of son-in-law will we recruit in the future?"

Zhao Pu looked at the sky, thinking about recruiting a son-in-law before he even started breastfeeding?After further calculations, this girl conservatively estimated that she would definitely be a mother in 25 years, so... in her early fifties, she would be able to be the generation of the grandfather!

Concubine Pang looked at Zhao Zhen with a smile, and Gongsun took her pulse, and explained some details that should be paid attention to during confinement with the maid serving her.

"By the way." Zhao Zhen raised his head suddenly and asked Zhao Pu, "What did the Empress Dowager say about the real dragon descending into the world?"

Zhao Pu didn't hide it from Zhao Zhen, and gave a rough overview of the matter.

Zhao Zhen frowned, "Burn the whole village?"

Zhao Pu nodded.

"How unreasonable!" Zhao Zhen raised his eyebrows, and the little princess on the bed suddenly frowned and hummed twice.

The fourth son immediately raised his finger and said to Zhao Zhen, "Hush!"

Zhao Zhen hurriedly covered his mouth, and asked Zhao Pu in a low voice, "Is the castle of that fiery dragon and phoenix old demon the legendary golden ancient city?"

"Golden Ancient City?" Zhao Pu was curious, "What?"

"Oh, I heard this from an expert from the Western Regions before." Zhao Zhen recalled, and said, "A Living Buddha from the Western Regions who lectured on scriptures."

The corner of Zhao Pu's mouth twitched, "Living Buddha?"

"Well, he is very knowledgeable and well-informed, so the Taifu asked him to come and tell me something about the Western Regions and the principles of Buddhism." Zhao Zhen said, pointing to Zhao Pu, "At that time I was still the prince. Yes, and you're here."

Zhao Pu was surprised, "Why don't I remember?"

"Because you've been sleeping!" Zhao Zhen was powerless.

Zhao Pu scratched his head, and received a contemptuous look from Gongsun. He lowered his head, and the fourth son also raised his face to look at him, which means—oh?Jiujiu dozed off when he was studying when he was a child!

Zhao Pu was embarrassed and urged Zhao Zhen, "Go on, what is the ancient golden city?"

"The living Buddha told me a story that contains many truths, and according to him it is a true story." Zhao Zhen said, poking the little princess's stomach, smiling, "Father also told you a story ah."

Zhao Pu looks at the sky - this man is a fool for being a father.

The fourth son suddenly held his face and asked Zhao Zhen, "What's the baby's name?"

"Well, I haven't gotten up yet." Zhao Zhen also seemed to be in a dilemma, "Be careful! It's auspicious if it sounds good. Let's study it together when Bao Qing is free..."

"Then why don't you give me a nickname first!" said the fourth son, "It's not easy to keep calling me Little Princess, Little Princess."

Zhao Zhen's eyes lit up, "Oh? Nickname... um..." As he spoke, he looked at Concubine Pang, "Does Concubine Ai have any ideas?"

Concubine Pang smiled, "The emperor decides everything."

Zhao Zhen nodded.

Gongsun nodded while writing confinement recipes to Concubine Pang—as expected, to be a concubine is to depend on others, the emperor decides everything, tsk tsk.

Zhao Pu also raised his face and thought, oh, it’s not bad for a daughter-in-law to be so obedient, especially after staying with a hedgehog like Gongsun for too long, if this bookworm can say someday, "Everything is up to the prince..."

Thinking of this, Zhao Pu shook his head quickly - he thought, I'm going to die, is my brain flooded?Why do you think about your future wife and that nerd?

The fourth son turned his face to look at Zhao Pu who kept shaking his head, "Jiujiu, what are you doing?"

What a coincidence, Gongsun also saw it and shook his head, Zhao Zhen is a few years younger than Zhao Pu and has become a father, only Zhao Pu, did not slip away!He's only handsome when he's fighting...

Thinking of this, Gongsun surprised himself, thinking that Zhao Pu was so handsome...Gongsun also quickly shook his head.

The fourth son was puzzled, why did Daddy shake his head after Jiujiu shook his head?

"Yes!" Zhao Zhen clapped his hands, "How about calling Xiangxiang?"

The fourth son blinked, "It sounds good."

Zhao Zhen went to see Concubine Pang again, Concubine Pang also nodded, it sounds good!

"Xiangxiang~" Zhao Zhen lay on the edge of the bed and called her daughter's nickname. Not to mention, Xiangxiang seemed to pursed her lips and smiled.

The fourth son held his face helplessly, looked at Zhao Zhen, who was infatuated with his daughter, and Gongsun and Zhao Pu, who shook their heads and thought about their thoughts. Reluctantly, the fourth son stretched out his fingers, pinched Zhao Zhen's sleeve and gently tugged , "Huanghuang, you haven't finished telling the story of the Golden Ancient City."

"Oh, that's right." Zhao Zhen remembered, and continued, "In the Western Regions, there is a legend about an ancient city of gold and an ancient city of silver. Among them, the ancient city of gold was built with gold, and the ancient city of Baiyin was built with silver. In the ancient city, there are two monsters. In the ancient city, there are the most valuable treasures in the world, and there is a flame that can burn everything. In the ancient silver city, there are two immortals. In the city, there are the most precious books in the world. There are also medicines that can bring the dead back to life."

The fourth son opened his mouth wide - oh!

The corner of Zhao Pu's mouth twitched, thinking that it's no wonder he dozed off, isn't this a lie to a child?

"What next?" The fourth son tilted his head.

"Many travelers in the Western Regions want to find these two castles. Some people are very poor and want to get rich, so they want to find the ancient gold city. Some people have seriously ill family members who are anxiously waiting for a savior, so they want to find the silver castle. The ancient city. At that time, tens of thousands of people, many horse teams, tomb robbers, horse thieves, bandits, and even the army, all went to the mysterious desert in the Western Regions, trying to find these two cities, but they failed." Zhao Zhen said , "Really, someone has seen these two castles."

"It really exists?!" The fourth son couldn't believe it.

"Yes." Zhao Zhen nodded, "The living Buddha said that many travelers are almost desperate in the desert, but just when they are about to give up, a golden or silver-white castle appears in the distance , Those travelers were excited by this, and rushed to the destination at a faster speed, but they couldn't reach it no matter how hard they ran, the castle was always in a place they could see but couldn't reach." Zhao Zhen said.

"Ah!" The fourth son clapped his hands, "I know this. Dad said that deserts, seas, and mountain tops will all appear. They are mirages."

Zhao Zhen raised his eyebrows, and poked the fourth son's cheek, "Do you know a lot!"

The fourth son was naturally happy.

"Most of the travelers who went into the desert never returned, but among these people, one came back alive." Zhao Zhen said.

Zhao Pu also raised some interest and asked, "Who is it?"

"That was a mysterious Persian." Zhao Zhen said, "He found the Silver City, entered it, and saw two gods, but he didn't take anything because he didn't need anything."

The corner of Zhao Pu's mouth twitched, "Even if you draw a quick silver brick to make a souvenir."

Zhao Zhen smiled, "He also said that he wanted to find the City of Gold, but the two gods persuaded him not to approach that city. That city is the entrance to Purgatory."

Zhao Pu frowned, thought for a while, if it was related to what Dong Xiao said about his great-grandfather's experience before, indeed, it was a purgatory of living fire.

"The god told the traveler that the ancient city of gold and the ancient city of silver and white were born in opposition. If the ancient city of silver and white is good, then the ancient city of gold is evil!" Zhao Zhen recalled what the living Buddha told him back then, "but everything in the world is born and restrained by each other, and silver and white In the ancient city, there is a magic weapon to restrain the sky fire of the golden ancient city, and they gave that magic weapon to the traveler."

"What magic weapon, water?" Zhao Pu was curious.

Zhao Zhen shook his head, "The living Buddha himself doesn't know what magic weapon it is."

Zhao Pu curled his lips, "Don't talk about the point, is the Living Buddha fooling you?"

"Listen to me." Zhao Zhen continued, "The traveler said that since the ancient city of gold is evil, he wants to destroy that city, so please ask the gods of the city of silver to tell him how to find the ancient city of gold."

"What happened later?" Gongsun asked.

"Two gods gave him a tortoise shell made of silver. On the tortoise shell, there was a map to the ancient golden city engraved." Zhao Zhen said, "Finally, that brave traveler really found the ancient golden city. In a decisive battle, the three of them died together. The ancient city of gold fell and sank into the yellow sand, and at the same time... the ancient city of silver also fell."

"Why is the City of Silver also buried?" The fourth son was puzzled.

"Everything in the world is born and restrained by each other." Zhao Zhen smiled, "Good and evil often coexist in the world. Once the evil does not exist, the good will disappear at the same time."

The fourth son seemed to understand but half understood, "Oh..."

"Yeah." Gongsun rubbed his chin, "This living Buddha is interesting. Good and evil coexist. Seeing is not necessarily believing. Don't chase illusions, you can destroy illusions without desire..."

Zhao Pu looked at the sky, this is a topic discussed by nerds, so he asked Zhao Zhen, "Then what happened next?"

"Later?" Zhao Zhen was puzzled, "What's the next after the lecture?"

"What does it have to do with the fire dragon and fire phoenix?" Zhao Pu was at a loss.

Zhao Zhen gently touched Xiangxiang's soft little palm, and said, "The Dragon and Phoenix City you are talking about sounds like the ancient golden city in the legend, don't you think?"

Gongsun and Zhao Pu looked at each other—they really looked alike.

……

"Turtle shell?"

Zhan Zhao and the others were puzzled when they saw what Lin Yehuo took out from his arms.

Xiao Liang watched Lin Yehuo take out a palm-sized half of a tortoise shell from his arms, and couldn't help but jump, "You've been doing it for a long time just to find a bastard?"

Lin Yehuo reached out to give him roasted chestnuts, "Your size, you! You can't tell the difference between a turtle and a soft-shelled turtle!"

Zhan Zhao picked up the tortoise shell and looked at it. It was probably one of the four or five parts of the whole tortoise shell. It was very thick. Is the texture a bit like stone or mud?

Lin Yehuo came over with a fire basin, put it on the table, put the turtle shell into the basin, and then picked up a torch and poked the turtle shell lightly... with a bang.

Everyone was startled, and saw that the tortoise shell was on fire.

"Can this be burned?" Xiao Hao was curious.

Zou Liang frowned, picked up the kettle on the table and poured water into it, the fire continued to burn, and the water wouldn't go out.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay - that mysterious sand!

After a while, the layer of stone and mud-like things on the surface of the tortoise shell burned away, exposing the things inside.

The fire in the basin was completely extinguished after that layer was burned.

Bai Yutang stretched out his hand, took out the contents of the washbasin, and shook off the burnt ashes. When everyone took a closer look, they saw that it was a tortoise shell made of silver, and there seemed to be some patterns engraved on the tortoise shell.