The next morning, as soon as it was dawn, Zhanzhao heard a loud "bang" outside the house in his sleep, and the Zhan guards jumped up directly from the bed. Novel wWw. Lwxs520.cＯm

On the opposite bed, Bai Yutang was also startled, sat up, turned his face, and saw Zhan Zhao get up and hit the top of the bed, fell back, and was rolling on the bed with his head covered.

The fifth master hurriedly got out of bed, broke his hand and took a look, but fortunately his cat had a hard head, so he bumped into a red mark.

Zhanzhao also knocked himself awake and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Bai Yutang shrugged his shoulders, and it sounded like something had exploded.

The two hurriedly got out of bed and ran to open the door...... Look into the yard. At this time, the courtyard gate on the opposite side also opened, Zhao Pu probed out, and on the other side, Lin Yehuo rubbed his eyes and opened the window, and the shadow guards were all squatting on the roof and looking down.

Zhan Zhao and others noticed that a huge pit appeared in the middle of the courtyard in front of the originally flat Meow Meow Tower.

Everyone subconsciously raised their faces to look at the sky, and what did they say in their hearts that something fell and smashed such a big pit?

Go out and walk into the yard and stand on the edge of the pit and look in...... There was nothing in the pit, just a depression about half a man deep.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other - what's the situation?!

Zhao Pu scratched his head, "What kind of vole is this?" ”

Bai Yutang glanced at Zhao Pu.

Zhao Pu stretched his hands at him, what it meant - otherwise why would there be such a big pit for no reason.

"There's no mud around!" Lin Yehuo squatted on the edge of the pit and looked at it, "It seems to have sunk into a piece, not a big mouse." ”

"It just fell suddenly." The black shadow said that he and the white shadow were near the roof, and nothing had fallen at all, and a large hole suddenly appeared in the ground.

Zhan Zhao thought about it and was about to jump into the pit.

Bai Yutang hurriedly grabbed him, "Why are you?!" ”

"Let's go down and have a look." Zhan Zhao pointed down, "Maybe there is a big mouse." ”

Bai Yutang was speechless, raised his hand and threw a piece of black jade flying locust stone down.

Then he saw that the stone, after making a few circles at the bottom of the pit, stopped, and landed in the middle of the pit.

Gongsun tilted his head, "It's not very deep, and there are no holes underneath." ”

Bai Yutang turned his head, but saw that Zhanzhao was not looking at the bottom of the pit, but looking at him seriously.

The fifth master saw Zhan Zhao looking at himself at a glance, puzzled, and reached out to pat his still red head.

Zhan Zhao rubbed his head and looked up and asked Bai Yutang, "You are wearing a shirt, where is the Moyu Flying Locust Stone hidden?" Isn't it possible to sleep at night with it in your pocket, and you won't panic? ”

Bai Yutang pinched his chin and turned his way to let him look at the bottom of the pit, and said in his heart that there is such a big pit in front of him for no reason, you still have the heart to care about where the stone is hidden.

"Could it be caused by internal forces?" Zou Liang asked.

Lin Yehuo hugged his arms, "Could it be that the great monk let out a fart...... Ah. ”

As soon as Huo Feng finished speaking, he called someone to slap him on the head, thinking that Master Wusha was back, so he was so frightened that he quickly turned around.

It's just that there is no master Wusha behind Lin Yehuo, and when he looked down, he saw Xiao Liangzi with his waist crossed and his face white.

Lin Yehuo reached out and lifted him up.

Xiao Liangzi looked at the big pit.

At this time, the little fourth son also came out, grabbed Gongsun's legs, and looked at the hole curiously.

"If it weren't for Kaifeng Mansion, I thought it was a sand whirlpool." Xiao Liangzi said.

Lin Yehuo also nodded and asked, "Is there such a loud sound when the sand whirlpool is generated?" ”

Xiao Liangzi thought for a moment, "Sometimes there is." ”

"What is a sand whirlpool?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

"It's more common in the desert and the Gobi." Ouyang Shaozheng said, "It's just that a piece of the ground suddenly collapsed, so that the sand and soil on the top have sunken. ”

"But it's only in the desert, or in places where there's a lot of hollowness underground." Zou Liang shook his head, "This kind of thing shouldn't happen in Kaifeng, unless ......"

"Unless what?" And all the people looked at him.

Zou Liang looked at Bai Yutang.

Everyone looked back at Bai Yutang in confusion - what kind of dumb riddle are you two playing?

Bai Yutang understood why Zou Liang was looking at himself, so he said, "If someone is digging a tunnel somewhere else and accidentally digging up an underground water vein, it may lead to a collapse on this side." ”

Zhanzhao thought for a moment, "I see......

Bai Yutang said, "My second brother sometimes accidentally digs the wrong road, and also leads the ground to collapse and the like. ”

Zhan Zhao looked puzzled, "Could it be that someone is digging a tunnel nearby?" ”

"It doesn't have to be nearby." Bai Yutang shook his head, "Sometimes you dig tunnels across a few streets, but the collapse is another place that is not boundary, but in addition to earthquakes, like the situation under Kaifeng City, only digging tunnels indiscriminately will cause the ground to collapse." ”

Zhanzhao frowned, "There are a lot of tunnels under Kaifeng City, all of which have drawings, and you need approval from the palace to dig indiscriminately, right?" ”

"Naturally." Zhao Pu also nodded, "After all, it's an imperial city, what if someone digs into the palace and assassinates?" ”

Ouyang was helpless, "I'll ask Nangong to find someone to go down to the underground waterway to have a look." ”

Everyone looked up and looked, the sky was almost bright, and there was no sleep, there was a pit at the gate, how awkward it was.

When it was brighter again, everyone gathered for breakfast, and Bai Xia and Bai Mutian all gathered around the pit to visit.

Lord Bao also got up, and Zhan Zhao wanted to enter the palace today to inquire about the Xia Mansion and the haunting, so he planned to enter the palace with Lord Bao.

Bai Xia readily agreed to Gongsun's request to go to Taixue to give a spice class, and Xiao Sizi and a group of children also wanted to go, and Bai Mutian also wanted to visit. Bai Yutang sent Bai Xia over for a while, and then waited for Zhanzhao in Taixue, and Zhanzhao came to fight him when he left the palace.

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Not to mention Bai Xia who went to Taixue to "scourge" the students, but also said that Zhanzhao who followed Master Bao into the palace.

Before going to the court, hundreds of civil and military officials would gather in the palace of King Qin to chat for a while.

Zhanzhao rarely followed Master Bao to visit, and a group of old men were happy to see him blossom and chatted with him. Although most of the officials in the court are not martial artists, many people know about the recent incident of Bian Sheng, the owner of Gaohe Village, washing his hands in a golden basin, so they asked one after another, and heard that there was a murder.

Zhan Zhao chatted with those officials for a while, and when he saw an opportunity, he found Taishi Pang and the Eighth Prince, and asked them if they knew the Xia Mansion in Yaojia Village.

The Eight Kings and the Taishi both shook their heads.

Taishi touched his beard, "Is there a Xia Mansion in Yaojia Village?" I haven't heard of it. ”

The eighth prince asked Zhan Zhao why he asked this, and Zhan Zhao told him what happened to several Shaolin monks.

The eighth king was taken aback, "You guys should be careful when you go to the rivers and lakes to be chivalrous and righteous, how panicked you are!" ”

Taishi also shook his head, "In these years, even Shaolin monks have been fascinated by ghosts......"

While chatting, a eunuch came to summon and let the civil and military officials go to court.

Master Bao walked in from outside, followed by Gonggong Liu, and beckoned to Zhanzhao.

Exhibit the past.

Master Bao said, "I asked Gonggong Liu to find some old people in the palace who may be familiar with Yaojia Village, you go and ask." ”

Zhan Zhao nodded.

Master Bao went to the court, and Zhanzhao and Gonggong Liu went out of the Qinwang Palace together and walked in the direction of the Imperial Garden.

Gonggong Liu's kung fu is very good, he has always followed the Queen Mother, and he is also familiar with Zhanzhao, and asked him in detail about the Shaolin monk hitting the ghost that night.

Zhan Zhao asked, "Is it credible?" ”

"Believe what?" Gonggong Liu asked Zhan Zhao with a smile, "Is it difficult for Lord Zhan to believe that several masters are fascinated by ghosts?" ”

Zhan Zhao shook his head.

Liu Gong said fairly, "There are only two possibilities for this situation, one is that those masters have been drugged." On the other hand, I met a master with extremely high internal strength and mastery of the art of soul dementoring. ”

"Father-in-law is familiar with spiritualism?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Gonggong Liu smiled and waved his hand, "What is my little ability, isn't it your grandfather who has the most powerful soul dementorship in the world." ”

Zhan Zhao smiled, his grandfather was indeed the master of the inner power of the Mental Law Sect, but he rarely used soul dementorship.

"Master Zhiyun is not an ordinary master." Liu Gong said fairly, "If even he can control zhì lightly, then he is not an ordinary person, so ...... The old slave felt that poisoning was more likely. ”

Zhan Zhao also agreed, Gongsun had checked several masters before, and he had not found anything wrong for the time being, and he had to check further.

Gonggong Liu took Zhanzhao to ask several elderly palace maids from Yaojia Village, but no one had heard of Xiafu. There is a man in the imperial dining room, who grew up near the mountains and forests of Yaojia Village since he was a child, and said that there is no Xia Mansion in the mountains of Yaojia Village.

Zhan Zhao found nothing, and felt even more puzzled - without Xia Mansion, what was the matter with the dilapidated mansion on the mountain?

When I went out of the palace with Gonggong Liu, I happened to pass by the flower room.

Zhan Zhao pointed to the flower room in the distance and asked Grandpa Liu if he could go in and have a look.

The father-in-law found someone to open the door and took Zhanzhao in.

There are many exotic flowers and plants in the flower room in the palace, and Zhanzhao really found a kapok, so he stood in front of the tree and looked up.

"Lord Zhan, this flower is the same color as your official robe." Father-in-law Liu also walked over and grabbed a milky white kitten, which was the peanut that slipped in while they opened the door.

Zhan Zhao took the peanut rice bag in his hand, stared at the kapok and said to himself, "It's not the same, it may not be a variety." ”

Gonggong Liu was puzzled, "What is not a variety?" ”

"Oh......" Zhanzhao said that there was a kapok petal on the dirt where the old woman was.

Gonggong Liu frowned slightly and said, "This kapok was sent from Zhangzhou, and it is different from the local species, and the petals are larger. ”

Zhan Zhao looked at Father-in-law Liu and asked, "Does Father-in-law know anything?" ”

Gonggong Liu was stunned for a moment and looked at Zhanzhao.

Zhan Zhao said, "After you heard the kapok petals appear in the forest, you looked a little uncomfortable. ”

Gonggong Liu smiled and nodded, "Lord Zhan is really good at observation. ”

Zhan Zhao kindled a little hope of finding a clue, "What does my father-in-law know?" But it doesn't hurt to say that. ”

After Gonggong Liu softly "tsk", he pulled Zhanzhao to a place where there was no one in the flower room, and whispered, "Lord Zhan, when you talk about kapok, the old slave suddenly remembered a legend that he heard when he was a child. ”

Zhan Zhao's squint - clue or legend?

Gonggong Liu continued, "Master Zhan, have you ever heard of such a thing as a tree spirit? ”

Zhan Zhao frowned, "Tree age? Does it mean how big the tree is? ”

Gonggong Liu made Zhan Zhao laugh angrily, and the tense anger just now eased a little.

"There is a saying that flowers and plants have spirituality." Liu Gong said fairly, "When the old slave was young, he walked the rivers and lakes, and some old people often told me not to kill people by the side of a tree that can bloom blood-colored flowers, this kind of tree is the most spiritual and the most easy to attract resentful spirits. ”

Zhanzhao's eyes widened with a pair of cats, "Trees attract resentful spirits? ”

Gonggong Liu looked at Zhanzhao who was holding peanuts, one person and one cat all looked cats, it was really funny to look like this.

Holding back his laughter, the old husband told Sù Zhanzhao in detail, "The legend that the old slave heard when he was a child was that a gang of bandits ransacked a village, killed all the villagers, and then left. There are many kapok trees planted in this village, and it is said that after the sack, the village was full of blood, and the kapok bloomed beautifully that year. The following year, the bandits, along with their families, all died, and died horribly. And where they had an accident, they all found kapok petals...... But there are no ceiba trees nearby. ”

"It shouldn't be the essence of the kapok tree." Zhan Zhao frowned, "Is there someone who takes revenge, so he is suspicious?" Survivors of the village or something? ”

"But it doesn't happen once or twice." Gonggong Liu shook his head, "But many times!" There is an old saying that kapok becomes a grudge. ”

Zhan Zhao listened with novelty, "But aren't most flowers in the world red?" ”

Gonggong Liu smiled, "Lord Zhan, I don't mean to believe this statement, but it's still the same sentence, Kapok is mostly in the south, and people in the Central Plains and northerners have usually never heard of this statement, so it's ......."

"So if someone uses this method to pretend to be a ghost, that person is from the south, where there is a lot of kapok?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Gonggong Liu nodded, "Or, leaving that kapok petal is not for you and me to show people who don't understand, but for ...... Someone who understands! ”

"For example, people who grow a lot of kapok in their yards?" Zhan Zhao asked casually.

Gonggong Liu raised his eyebrows slightly, "It's very likely." ”

Zhan Zhao sighed, and after talking for a long time, he still got involved with Gao Hezhai.

"That's right." Gonggong Liu said again, "The old slave heard this morning that Lord Nangong and General Ouyang were looking for someone to inspect the tunnel, saying that a piece of land in Kaifeng Mansion collapsed last night?" ”

Zhan Zhao nodded and asked, "Does my father-in-law have any clues?" ”

Gonggong Liu smiled, "If Yaojia Village originally didn't have a Xia Mansion, then the ruins of the Xia Mansion were forged recently!" How do you transport such a large amount of wood waste bricks so that they don't get discovered? ”

Zhan Zhao clapped his hands lightly, "Authentic?!" We can go up to the neighborhood to see if there is a tunnel, and we will know if this deserted house is a forgery. ”

Gonggong Liu nodded, don't go to Zhanzhao, and go back to the Queen Mother.

Zhan Zhao looked at the back of his husband and sighed - sure enough, Jiang is old and spicy, and this old man's kung fu is also fine.

Thinking of this, Zhanzhao suddenly ran up, "Father-in-law stays." ”

Gonggong Liu stopped and looked back at Zhanzhao.

Zhan Zhao asked, "Father-in-law, do you think anyone will kill someone because of an invitation?" ”

Gonggong Liu was stunned for a moment, "Invitation? ”

Zhan Zhao nodded, and told him about the case that happened in the inn that day, wanting to hear what unique views this shrewd old man had.

Gonggong Liu thought for a while and asked Zhanzhao, "Lord Zhan, is that invitation for you?" ”

Zhan Zhao nodded.

"And that dead Bian Qing has the corner of an invitation in his hand?"

Zhanzhao nodded.

"So what if he wants to get the invitation back from that person? Or did the man want to grab the invitation from him? ”

The old man asked in one sentence, Zhanzhao was stunned, and then pondered carefully, "Yes...... There's a difference here! ”

When the old man saw that Zhanzhao had opened his mind, he left without him.

Zhanzhao stood in the Imperial Garden and nodded in a circle, "Yes...... Did the murderer rob Bian Qing of the invitation, or did Bian Qing rob the invitation of the murderer? This question may seem unimportant, but when you think about it, it is quite crucial! ”