treacherous world

Gongsun and Zhao Pu went to Li's house to see the scene of the murder, and were shocked by the bloody scene as soon as they entered the door.

Gongsun looked at Zhao Pu, grabbed his sleeve and said in a low voice, "If a thief calls out to catch a thief, he can kill his own people like this, isn't it too ridiculous?"

Zhao Pu frowned and shook his head... so to speak.

Just at this moment, I heard a yamen servant say, "Many relatives of the Li family have come, and relatives of the servant Jia Ding who helped in the yard have also rushed over after hearing the news. There was a loud cry outside for a while. Everyone in Xinghua knew that something serious had happened.

Zhao Pu looked at Gongsun and pointed to his ear.

Gongsun was also helpless, "Why did the news spread so quickly, I think there is something wrong!"

Liu Xie hurriedly asked the yamen servants to go out to appease the family members first, and then asked their names and addresses a few times, and then asked the master to check how many people died, so that they could arrange for the family to identify the corpses.

It was finally quiet outside, and Gongsun was about to step on the bloodstains to enter. Zhao Pu looked at Gongsun Xuebai's boots and there were bloodstains all over the place, so he stretched out his hand to hug him up.

"Why!" Feeling embarrassed, Gongsun stretched out his hand to pat him, "Let people see the joke!"

"Who dares to laugh? We've been married before!" Zhao Pu rolled his eyes, walked in with Gongsun in his arms, stepped on the bloody water, squatted down, and let Gongsun look at the corpse on the ground.

While looking at it, Zhao Pu frowned, "What are you doing here to see this pickled thing, why don't you ask someone to carry it back and look at it again?"

"Am I going to draw the distribution of the corpses at the scene? These are very important." So, Gongsun took the pen and let Zhao Pu hold it leisurely, and began to draw the distribution of the corpses at the scene.

"It doesn't feel like it was done by one person." Gongsun couldn't help frowning as he looked at the messy corpse.

"My lord." Zhe Ying and Zi Ying also looked around, and they both reported to Zhao Pu, "Several young women have had their faces cut off."

Zhao Pu frowned, "Sick."

Gongsun also nodded, "Yes, those who commit such evil deeds are indeed sick."

"The Hidden Mountain Monster is eating people again!"

At this time, some small voices came from outside, Zhao Pu and Gongsun looked at each other, looked outside, and saw outside the gate of the mansion, the family members and the people who got up to watch in the middle of the night were excited.Old sorrows and new hatreds were all added together and released, and they all expressed that if the evildoers were not eliminated for a day, Xinghua would never have peace.

"Who spread the news?" Gongsun was a little puzzled.

The shadow guards looked at the yard, but there was no one else there. Liu Xie was busy comforting his family members outside. He was a steady man, and he wouldn't talk nonsense, let alone the yamen servants. How could those onlookers know? The one who killed was the Hidden Mountain Monster?

Gongsun frowned and said nothing, looking at Zhao Pu - it's not easy!

Zhao Pu sneered, indeed!

……

Putting aside Zhao Pu and Gongsun's inspection of the bloody scene and not mentioning that in the yamen, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were going to make an unannounced visit.

Bai Yutang was dressed in white as usual, and Zhan Zhao was dressed in black night clothes. The two of them stood in the courtyard, as if black and white were impermanent.

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang, pointed to the black night clothes on the table, Bai Yutang firmly shook his head.

Zhan Zhao was powerless, "Brother Bai, there is something I wanted to ask you a long time ago."

"Huh?" Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, as if asking him to ask if he had anything to say.

"Why don't you wear any color other than white?" Zhan Zhao asked seriously, "Also, I heard from my sister-in-law that you have some strange habits. You don't like being touched by others, and you never touch other people's hands. One mile away you turn around...is it true?"

Bai Yutang's eyelids twitched slightly, why does the sister-in-law tell people about such things.

"Isn't it?" Zhan Zhao reached out to touch Bai Yutang's hand while speaking.

Bai Yutang was taken aback, and stared at Zhan Zhao.

"You didn't respond either."

"Familiar people... no." Bai Yutang shook his head.

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao smiled, "I'll just say, we both slept on the same couch before, and I didn't see how uncomfortable you were."

"With you, I don't feel too uncomfortable taking a bath in one basin." Bai Yutang blurted out.

"Yeah?!" Zhan Zhao was happy, and reached out to pat Bai Yutang's shoulder, "Then let's go together next time."

Bai Yutang was looking for a chance to prove his "innocence", so he immediately asked seriously, "When?"

……

The corner of Zhan Zhao's mouth twitched, is there an appointment for this?

"Running against the sun is worse than hitting the sun, just come back today." Bai Yutang said, "I'll ask someone to prepare a big pot..."

"Ah!" Zhan Zhao hurriedly stopped him, feeling embarrassed, what Bai Yutang was doing, and quickly said, "Well... I just washed it, it will take two days."

"After two days is the day after tomorrow? When is the day after tomorrow?" Bai Yutang asked, Zhan Zhao laughed and jumped onto the roof, "Let's go, let's go to serious business." "Cat, I'm asking you seriously. "Bai Yutang followed behind, "When will we take a bath together? Or go to the empty island, where the pool is big, so we can go to the hot springs together?"

The trouble made Zhan Zhao very tangled, he really didn't know that Bai Yutang wanted to take a bath with him so much.

Both of them left, and Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang were left in the yard.

Xiao Liang was practicing kung fu in the yard, and the fourth son was sitting on the left side of the stone, feeding peanuts to the stone and the scissors, while shaking his legs and asking, "Xiao Liangzi, is it easy to learn kung fu in vain?"

Xiao Liang practiced the set of palm techniques that Bai Yutang taught him just now, pondered over the formula, and said helplessly, "Oh...Jin'er, don't mention it, Master and Big Brother Bai are not for teaching people."

"Huh?" The fourth son didn't understand.

"They are all geniuses themselves. They think that I can learn how to learn. They only play kung fu once each time, and then teach me a formula, let me figure it out by myself, and try me in three days. If they don't play well, I guess Big Brother Bai You can't beat my ass like a master, but you can definitely ignore me."

"That's too much." The fourth son pouted, feeling sorry for Xiao Liang.

"Brother Zhan is the most careful in teaching people. I don't understand some formulas. If I ask him, he will explain them carefully. Boxing is also done one by one." Xiao Liang put away his tricks, "Oh, speaking of it, Brother Zhan has a temper so good."

"Yes." The fourth son also nodded with some emotion, "...But Baibai is actually very good, but he can't express it, I have already discovered it!" While talking, someone walked into the yard.

The fourth son looked up, and it was a girl... I seem to have seen it before, it was Wei, who assisted Liu Xie in handling the case with her brother, and lived in the next room.

"Young four, right?" It was Wei Yue'e who came.

"Well, hello, sister." The fourth son greeted Wei Yue'e politely. The shadow guard in the room took a look at Wei Yue'e, so he didn't come down, but just watched him a little bit more closely.

"You guys are the only ones here?" Wei Yue'e looked around, put a food box on the table with a smile, and said, "Brother is out too, I'm the only one in the yard, by the way, come and try the snacks I made? "

The fourth son looked into the box, and saw that it was bunny bean paste buns, all of them were chubby and cute.

After receiving the little buns handed over by Wei Yue'e, Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang thanked her, and they ate it.

"By the way, little four, are you very familiar with Big Brother Bai?" Wei Yuee asked after chatting.

Little Si gnawed on the steamed stuffed bun, blinked, "Well, it's cooked."

"I heard that both of them have a sweetheart, don't they?" Wei Yue'e smiled and gave the fourth son another bun.

The fourth son took the steamed stuffed bun to look at her, and guessed a little bit in his heart—oh, this elder sister wanted to ask herself about Bai Bai and Miaomiao's sweetheart, did she have a crush on someone among them? !

The fourth son looked at Xiao Liang, Xiao Liang shrugged slightly - be careful, Jin'er, this elder sister seems to like someone.

The fourth son nodded. Wei Yuee thought he knew the sweetheart of the two, and An Nai couldn't help being curious, so she asked him, "I don't know, what does Big Brother Bai's sweetheart look like... isn't it beautiful?"

The fourth son looked at her, and immediately understood that Sister Wei was interested in Baibai. Hearing her asking himself this way, he nodded, "Well, Baibai's sweetheart is beautiful and has a good temper. Everyone likes him."

"Ah... Ah Choo."

As soon as he arrived in front of the squire's house to be monitored, Zhan Zhao sneezed loudly and quickly covered his mouth.

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, "Has the typhoid fever not healed yet?"

"No..." Zhan Zhao rubbed his nose and whispered, "It's a little itchy."

"Go in," Bai Yutang pointed to the pitch-black courtyard wall, jumped onto the roof together with Zhan Zhao, looked down... and saw the gloomy courtyard, without even a single light.

Both felt that something was wrong, how could it be so dark? !

This is the home of Wang Yougui, who trades in rice grains. Logically speaking, this kind of big family does not turn off the lights in the middle of the night, and there is always a waiter watching the night, not to mention that there are so many nursing homes.

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang listened attentively, the whole courtyard was silent - this is an empty courtyard, there is no one there!

"No one?!" Zhan Zhao frowned, and Bai Yutang also felt that something was wrong. He stretched out his hand to hold Zhan Zhao who was about to go in, and pointed to the not far away, "That's Chen Chong's house, not far away, let's go first Look over there! Don't startle the snake."

Zhan Zhao thought it made sense and nodded, but when the two arrived at the Qian family's mansion, they found that there was no one there... After going back and forth like this, the two of them almost ran all over the homes of the squires, but they still couldn't find anyone!

"It's gone wrong!" Zhan Zhao wondered, "Where did he go?!"

Bai Yutang shook his head, "Could it be because I was scared, so I found a place to hide?!"

Zhan Zhao squatted on the roof and rubbed his chin, thinking, "Where will he go? There are still such a big business during the day, and such a big family, if they move their family or leave the city, they will definitely go to the government... Why is it so silent? Did the land disappear?!"

When Bai Yutang heard this, he raised his eyebrows, "Unless he really went to heaven?!"

"A house of this size may have a cellar, where people can hide!" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, if they dig a hole...

The two got off the roof and rushed back, ready to find rock and scissors to help!But the so-called don't do bad things and don't be afraid of ghosts calling the door, these country gentry hid in the middle of the night, and Li Gang's family was killed in a strange way, I always feel very suspicious!

Back at the yamen, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were about to climb over the wall from the back yard when they heard Xiao Sizi, Xiao Liangzheng and Wei Yue'e talking in the yard.

The two looked at each other inexplicably—how could she be here?

"By the way." Bai Yutang suddenly thought of something, and asked Zhan Zhao, "What do you think of the Wei brothers and sisters?"

Zhan Zhao laughed, "I haven't seen anything wrong yet, but it's strange, if the two brothers and sisters say they are helping to investigate the case, they are not very enthusiastic, they just seem to be on the sidelines."

Bai Yutang nodded secretly, feeling a little suspicious indeed.

"Little four, is Brother Bai's sweetheart so good? But I've never heard of it. What kind of person is he? By the way, what does Brother Bai usually call her?" Wei Yue'e was not jealous, she knew that Bai Yutang had Afterwards, the sweetheart felt that she must be a peerless beauty. I didn't dare to think about it, but I couldn't help being full of curiosity.

The fourth son blinked and said, "Oh, call him a cat for nothing!"

On the roof, both Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao froze for a moment, then stiffened for a moment, Bai Yutang held his forehead—embarrassed.

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang, but said nothing.

"Sister Wei." Xiao Liang felt that the fourth son would reveal his secrets, so he interrupted Wei Yue'e, who was wondering who the cat was, and asked, "You seem to know Xinghua County very well, aren't you from Yangzhou Prefecture?" ?”

"Oh..." Wei Yue'e rested her chin in both hands, and sighed, "Our family used to be in Xinghua, but we moved out 20 years ago. My father always said that Xinghua County was his hometown, and he was very fond of nagging. There are always some friends, so I often listen to it, and I am very familiar with it.”

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were stunned—the Wei family in Yangzhou is well-known, so they are from Xinghua.

"Talk about the hidden mountain monster this time." Wei Yuee lowered her voice and said to the fourth son and the others, "Daddy said that when he was young, he entered the hidden mountain and saw a monster." Wei Yuee recalled, "I just listened to him drinking Too much, I mentioned it once, saying that the whole body is white, looks like a strange ape, and moves very nimbly through the forest."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao exchanged glances - this is the first time I've heard of it!Weird ape? !

"He has wings, can he fly?" the fourth son asked curiously.

Wei Yue'e smiled, "I haven't heard my father mention this, although there have always been legends about this hidden mountain monster in Xinghua, it's the first time that it came out to eat people! By the way, my father also said that the monster The ape is a holy thing, with a kind heart. When he was young, he was poor, lost his way while gathering firewood, and almost starved to death in the mountains. It was the strange ape who brought him out."

"So spiritual?" The fourth son was curious, "Then he shouldn't do such a violent thing!"

"That's why big brother is here to investigate." Wei Yuee said, and asked again, "By the way, little four, what does big brother Zhan's sweetheart look like?"

Wei Yuee asked this question purely out of curiosity, because she always felt that Zhan Zhao was very nice and kind, and the girl who was with him must be very lucky.

The fourth son said seriously, "It's a big, big, big beauty!"

"Really?" Wei Yue'e also laughed, "It turns out that they already have lovers and finally got married!"

But the fourth son and Xiao Liang shook their heads together, "I don't have any dependents yet, I'm too dumb!"

The atmosphere in the yard was harmonious, but Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were embarrassed and embarrassed to go down.

It just so happened that the stone was led to the wall by a flying insect, and Zhan Zhao quietly waved at it.

Shito looked up and saw it, his tail swayed, and seeing Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang calling him, he walked to the wall, easily planed a hole, filled the hole with his hind legs, and came to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's side.

The two sneaked back to Wang Yougui's house together with the stone.

The stone turned around in the yard, and followed Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang from the front yard to the back yard. They never showed any intention of digging the ground. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both understood that the claw civet is very spiritual, and it digs when it sees a hole!It didn't move, that is to say, no ground cracks were found, and there were no pits under the ground.

This is strange, where did people go? !

Walking back again, I saw an ancestral hall in front of me. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were just about to go in to have a look, but they saw Shi Shi suddenly arched his back, wrinkled his nose and showed some fierce looks, glaring at the ancestral hall angrily...

The two looked at each other—there is something in the ancestral hall!