Zhan Zhao and the others were in great distress, they got up from the ground and patted the snow on their bodies, and checked each other, and no one was injured.

Zhao Pu pulled out the cloud knife from the mountain rock, and the blade was not injured at all, but the column on the wall continued from the top of the mountain, and he couldn't help but admire, "Good knife!" ”

Bai Yutang took the knife and put it back into the scabbard, and looked around.

"Someone should come down soon to save us, right?" Gongsun asked.

"It will take a while to get the rope down." Zhao Pu touched his body, and he didn't bring the ringing arrow for communication, and everyone touched it separately, but he didn't bring it.

Gongsun picked up the little fourth son and touched it, and there was a bag of pine nut candy in his purse.

The crowd looked at each other.

"It's a bit difficult to get up the mountain." Zhan Zhao raised his face and looked up, he couldn't see the top at all, and there were cliffs outside, and there were many places where the sky was cold and frozen, and strings of ice cubes hung out of the air, looking a little crazy.

"No one will come to our rescue." Zhao Pu said suddenly.

Everyone looked at each other......

"If that man really wants us dead." Zhan Zhao said coldly, "It may blow up the entire mountain......"

"The place where we were standing just now was a hill protruding from the outside, and if it was blown up, it would not be clear where we could tell. Even if those officials went to call people, the terrain in this circle was steep and not so easy to find. ”

"Actually, that's not the point."

Gongsun suddenly spoke, and everyone looked back at him.

Gongsun pointed to the dark sky and said, "It's going to snow heavily!" ”

Everyone raised their faces together, and if it snowed so heavily, it would be strange if they didn't cover it and not be buried alive.

"Whew......"

Just when everyone was at a loss, Xiao Wu suddenly screamed.

When they looked at it, they saw that it was already standing on the edge of the woods, and they turned back and hooked its tail at them.

Xiao Sizi stretched out his hand and pointed, "Follow Xiao Wu, maybe it will recognize the way!" ”

"Are you sure?" Gongsun asked the little fourth son.

The little fourth son looked at everyone around, what does that mean-do you know the way? Do you know who the king of beasts is?

Everyone also thinks that Xiao Wu is more likely to know the road than all of them.

So, stepping on the soft snow, followed Xiao Wu into the forest.

After entering the forest, I saw that Xiao Wu was walking quite leisurely, turning east and west for a while.

"It seems to know the way." Zhao Pu asked.

Zhan Zhao also nodded, "It seems that I am quite sure to walk." ”

Subsequently, Zhao Pu hugged the fourth son, held the grandson with one hand, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked behind, followed Xiao Wu, kept walking, kept walking......

I don't know how long I walked on the road, and there were large snowflakes falling.

Zhan Zhao and the others followed Xiao Wu into a vast pine forest.

Songhai is different from other forests, after the pine needles are frozen by ice and snow, they are like ice flowers, and I don't know if it is a problem with the variety of pine trees, this large area of ice pine forest looks like it is between cyan and purple, plus fluttering snowflakes, the scene is extraordinarily beautiful.

The little fourth son was already dozing off, but now he woke up from sleep, grew his mouth, looked around, and reached out to catch the snowflakes that were falling down.

Zhan Xiaowu seemed to be in a very good mood, walked a few steps, stretched out his paws to pick up the pine flowers, and dropped a large handful of snow, it shook its head, leaving a large string of plum blossom prints on the ground.

Zhao Pu and Gongsun were behind, and they saw Zhanzhao and Bai Yutang, one red and one white, a black tiger, walking between the snow and the cedars.

Gongsun glanced at Zhao Pu.

Zhao Pu smiled and said nothing, like a painting......

After walking for a while, suddenly the peak turned around...... There was a rift in front of him, and Xiao Wu stepped on the steps and went down...... Yes, there are steps! On both sides of the stairs, there are even railings.

Everyone looked at each other.

The little fourth son pointed ahead and said, "Daddy, look, icefall!" ”

Looking in the direction of Xiao Sizi's finger, he saw almost a whole waterfall on the cliff in front of him, and the beauty of the water flow instantly solidified was ingenious.

At the bottom of the icefall is a courtyard full of plum blossoms...... The red plum blossoms are in full bloom, with black branches and red flowers dotted with snow-white, and in the depths of the plum grove, there is a hut.

It was a stone house, with a thatched roof and a thick layer of snow, which was very simple, but it was built very steadily.

Xiao Wu jumped briskly down, through Merlin, and towards the house.

Zhan Zhao was about to follow up, but was stopped by Bai Yutang, "You can't go like this." ”

Everyone was stunned and looked at him.

"Merlin is a trap, someone has set up a trap here." Bai Yutang reminded.

"That little five......" Zhanzhao didn't finish speaking, and saw that Xiao Wu had already run to the front of the thatched hut and looked back.

Everyone squinted at Bai Yutang - are you sure there is a mechanism?

Bai Yutang raised his hand and flew into the forest with a piece of black jade flying locust stone, and suddenly heard a "click", and more than a dozen arrows shot out, filling the surroundings of the black jade flying locust stone.

Everyone glanced at Bai Yutang again, and Xiao Sizi blinked, "Xiao Wu knows how to break the mechanism!" ”

Zhan Zhao thought for a while and asked him, "Which little five do you say?" ”

After a moment of silence, everyone "poofed" again.

Zhan Zhao squinted his eyes and looked at Bai Yutang, which could be regarded as avenging the revenge of the "fat swallow" just now.

"How do you know that Lu Dao is a formation, you know?" Gongsun asked Bai Yutang curiously.

"It's a very ordinary formation." Bai Yutang replied, "Anti-thief." ”

Zhao Pu looked at the circle of arrows, "This thief is also a little miserable...... Besides, where did the thief come from in the deep mountains and old forests? ”

"Whew."

Xiao Wu screamed again, as if urging them to hurry up.

Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang, "Then how do you go?" ”

"Just follow Xiao Wu's footprints." Bai Yutang said, took the lead down the steps and walked into the forest.

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand and hugged the little fourth son in Zhao Pu's hand, Zhao Pu pulled his grandson, and each of them took care of one, so that if something happened, Zhao Pu couldn't take care of two alone.

However, following Xiao Wu's footprints, everyone smoothly passed through the plum blossom forest and came to the front of the hut.

"Anyone?" Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang......

Bai Yutang knocked on the door, but no one answered. In fact, there is no need to knock on the door, several of them have deep internal skills, and they can't feel the breath of other people here at all.

Bai Yutang gently pushed open the door and looked inside.

Zhan Zhao also looked at it and was surprised, "Huh? ”

"What do you see?" Zhao Pu and Gongsun hurried over.

The room was tidy, with lots of mahogany on the walls, lots of charms on the table, and bookshelves full of books.

Bai Yutang pushed open the door and walked in.

There was a thick layer of dust in the room, and it seemed that no one had lived in it for a long time, but there were a few footprints on the floor, and the things on the table seemed to have been turned over.

"Look." Zhan Zhao picked up a piece of peach wood token and showed it to Bai Yutang.

Everyone frowned - it was something that the dead little Taoist priest had brought with him, and when the Heavenly Mother appeared a few times before, the thing fell to the ground.

Look at Xiao Wu who entered the house again - could it be that this is where the little Taoist priest and Xiao Wu lived before?

"Not like that." Gongsun shook his head, "That little Taoist priest should be a southerner." ”

"Southerner ......" Zhan Zhao touched his chin.

"By the way, there's one more thing." Gongsun seemed to remember something, "When I examined the body of that Taoist priest, I found that the black tiger tattoo on his chest was painted. ”

Everyone was stunned, "Painted on it?" ”

"That's right!" Gongsun nodded, "Also, he has a lot of silver tickets on him, from different state cities and money houses in various places. ”

"Could he be a Taoist priest who goes around doing things for people to make money? Exorcism everywhere, so the money comes from different banks. Zhan Zhao asked, "Painting a black tiger on his body, is it pretending to be the Maoshan faction?" ”

Bai Yutang frowned and thought for a while, "Then why is Xiao Wu with him?" ”

"People are dead, and there is no way to ask, but there should be a high-ranking person living here." Gongsun said as he pulled out a few books from the bookshelf and opened them for everyone to see, "It's all Sanskrit, and most of them talk about the five elements and the six reincarnations." ”

Zhao Pu flipped through it and asked Gongsun, "Can you understand?" “

Gongsun nodded, "It's all fragments that you don't usually see." ”

"Maybe only Xiao Wu knows what's going on...... What about Little Five? As soon as Zhanzhao turned around, Xiao Wu was gone, and when he looked for it, he saw that in the yard, Xiao Wu was digging a pit.

"Digging a pit again, wouldn't there be thunder here?" Zhao Pu leaned over curiously and saw that Xiao Wu was digging out something.

Zhao Pu picked up a shovel by the fence wall in the corner of the courtyard and helped Xiao Wu dig it up, and after a while, he dug out a jar.

Zhao Pu brought the jar up, opened it, and saw several small jars inside.

"Huh?" Zhao Pu opened the mud seal of one of the jars, and a smell of wine came to his face.

"Wow, it smells so good!" Zhao Pu sniffed.

Gongsun also took it and sniffed it, and then took out a silver needle to measure, "It's not poisonous, it's probably the old wine buried by this master." ”

Bai Yutang has studied wine more, smelled it, and said, "Rice wine." ”

"Seems good." Zhao Pu took a sip of a small jar, smacked his lips, and nodded to everyone, "Good wine!" I've never drunk anything so good! ”

And they all took a jar to drink, and it was indeed ...... The mellow aroma is rich, the aftertaste is endless, and the wine is not very strong, very delicious.

"Good wine." Bai Yutang also admired.

Xiao Wu wagged his tail to see that everyone had drunk, and then dug the pit.

Zhan Zhao was curious, "Is there still wine?" ”

Sure enough, Xiao Wu dug out another jar, which was a white porcelain jar, and everyone was slightly stunned - the ash jar!

Zhao Pu pouted, "Oh, bad luck, why is the wine jar buried on the top of the ashes jar?" ”

"What does it matter if they are not buried together." Gongsun turned out to open the jar and looked at it, and there was indeed a jar of ashes inside.

Xiao Wu then dug the pit.

Zhan Zhao smiled, "Little Wu, what's down there?" ”

After a while, Xiao Wu dug out a box, held it, and gave it to Zhanzhao.

Zhan Zhao stretched out his hand to take the box, and saw that it was a peachwood box, and the workmanship was very exquisite. It's cold all year round and it's frozen everywhere, so the box isn't moth-eaten.

When I opened the box, there was a white silk with words written on it.

Gongsun opened it and looked at it, and read the words above to everyone.

Silk is a letter, the person who wrote the letter, claiming to be Zhong Lin, is a descendant of the Taoist priest of Maoshan Mountain, subduing demons and catching monsters. When I arrived in the area of Pozhou Mansion, I heard that there were snow demons in the mountains, so I went into the mountains to look for them. Unexpectedly, he fell off the cliff, and the black tiger left by his master fell to his death, leaving only a little tiger that had just been born for a short time.

When everyone saw this, they subconsciously looked at Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu continued to rub Zhanzhao, Zhanzhao felt that this tiger's personality was more sticky than a cat, while others only felt that Xiao Wu liked Zhanzhao in his heart, the kind of like ......

Gongsun continued to read.

After Zhong Lin fell off the cliff, he accidentally found a plum blossom forest in the icefall, and a lonely woman lived in the forest.

This woman's name is Lu Yao, she was born with white hair and is a white child. In the year she was born, there was a plague in the capital of Bazhou, and a Taoist priest said that she was a demon and wanted to burn her. In order to protect her, Lu Yao's mother fled to the mountains with her and lived in seclusion all the time. Later, Lu Yao's mother died, and she had never seen anyone other than her mother in her life, so she didn't dare to leave the mountain. When it snows heavily, there is nothing to eat nearby, she will quietly run into the forest to find food, and sometimes when she meets Orion, she is dressed in white, so scared that Orion Gate thinks that she has bumped into a snow demon.

Everyone knows...... It turns out that the Snow Demon is like this.

Zhong Lin was injured and stayed in the house for a while.

Lu Yao is kind-hearted and timid, and takes good care of him. It was a cold winter, and she ran out of the snow to find food for him, and she would rather be hungry. Zhong Lin and her have been together for a long time, and the two gradually developed feelings, for the sake of Lu Yao, Zhong Lin settled here, and the two lived peacefully together.

Zhong Lin acted carefully, he found that there were actually a lot of herbs in the mountains, so he often picked some herbs, or hunted some prey, went to the Baizhou Mansion to exchange money, and bought some things back.

During this period, Lu Yao and Xiaohu lived together and also had a companion. This period of common life is the happiest day for Lu Yao and Zhong Lin. Zhong Lin said that Lu Yao is very simple and very easy to satisfy, and if she buys a cheap head flower for her, she can be happy for several days and be very lively.

But one day, Zhong Lin was sick and seemed to be suffering from the cold, Lu Yao left the black tiger to take care of Zhong Lin, and went to the mountains alone to pick herbs for him, and he didn't come back after that.

After Zhong Lin woke up, he took the black tiger out of the body to look for it, and in the depths of the mountain forest, he found Lu Yao's body, and Lu Yao was bitten to death.

At that time, Zhong Lin thought that Lu Yao was bitten to death by a wild beast, but there were no wild beasts in this mountain at all, and later he found that the wound on Lu Yao's neck was strange, and there were bloody human footprints all around.

Zhong Lin was grief-stricken, and after cremating Lu Yao's body and burying it in the courtyard, he began to look for Lu Yao's murderer.

At the same time, he heard about the legend of the Heavenly Mother......

Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, "Does Zhong Lin think that the Heavenly Mother bit Lu Yao to death?" ”

Gongsun nodded, "At that time, there were many deceased, the situation was similar to Lu Yao, the wounds were strange, Zhong Lin tried his best to catch the Heavenly Mother, but he couldn't. ”

"Why can't you do it?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

"Zhong Lin was seriously ill because of excessive sadness, coupled with the fact that there was no cure for overwork and typhoid fever." Gongsun said, "This letter should have been written by him half a year ago, and he may have just passed away not long ago." He said that he felt that he was gradually getting worse, but there was progress in investigating the Heavenly Mother, and he found that the Heavenly Mother was just a front and had another secret! And this Pozhou Mansion turns out to be hiding a big secret! All the clues he had written down in a dossier, hidden in a drawer at the base of the shrine under the table. ”

Gongsun said, sighing, "He wrote the most, he will die in a cave in the back mountain, the black tiger is extremely humane and well-behaved, and he should bring someone destined to find his buried wine and Lu Yao's ashes and this letter." This wine was originally drunk when he was preparing to marry Lu Yao, but unfortunately he didn't have a chance, please drink it with someone who is destined. In addition, he had a last wish, hoping that his body would also be cremated, and then buried with Lu Yao's ashes in a beautiful place outside the forest, preferably a lively place. Lu Yao has never been out of the forest in her life, and her biggest wish is to go to the market.

After Gongsun finished reading the letter, the fourth son snorted and felt that these two people were really pitiful.

Zhan Zhao took the letter and the box, looked at Xiao Wu, patted him on the head, and asked, "Should you follow that little Taoist priest just to let the little Taoist priest be a destined person and help your master fulfill his wish?" ”

Everyone was helpless, the little Taoist priest may not understand what Xiao Wu meant, Xiao Wu can't speak after all.

Xiao Wu shook his tail, which meant that he wanted to take everyone to the back mountain.

"Wait a minute." Bai Yutang suddenly ran into the room, found the shrine under the table, and opened the drawer...... but it was empty.

Bai Yutang walked out quickly, "The things have been taken away." ”

Zhanzhao frowned.

"Zhong Lin said that Tianmu has another secret, and there is a big secret in the Baizhou Mansion." Zhao Pu frowned, "If that little Taoist priest entered by accident, or for some other reason, it is likely that some kind of coincidence found the file that recorded the clues, and it was precisely because of that file that he was killed?" ”

Gongsun thought about it for a moment, "I have carefully checked the Taoist priest's belongings, and there is no dossier. ”

Everyone frowned—they were the first to go.

……

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang followed Xiao Wu to the back mountain first, and sure enough, there was a cave next to the icefall, the cave was very cold, and there was a corpse lying on a long straw mat, because it was frozen, so it did not rot. It's a guy in a cyan outfit, in his thirties, and he looks good.

Zhan Zhao rolled up the corpse with a bamboo mat, and together with Bai Yutang, carried the corpse back to the hut.

Gongsun and Xiao Sizi packed up some books, and Zhao Pu built a table in the courtyard with firewood found in the kitchen.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang put the corpse on the table, and Zhao Pu also found some oil in the kitchen and set the table on fire.

Xiao Wu lay quietly on the side, watching Zhong Lin's body being cremated, and in the eyes of the tiger, there was a kind of calm......

After all, the tiger is a tiger, it is not a cat, it is not sticky as a cat, it is not a dog, it is not a dog, it is the king of all beasts. Xiao Wu's expression seemed to be saying goodbye to a deceased friend, and his golden tiger eyes seemed to be able to see through everything.

Zhan Zhao gently touched Xiao Wu's head to show comfort, and Xiao Wu rubbed him with his big head.

"Lord Wang!"

At this time, Zou Liang's voice came from a distance.

Zhao Pu was taken aback, "Can this be found?" ”

"There!" The voice of Ochre was also heard.

After a while, he saw a large group of people coming, Zou Liang and Ochre Ying with a number of shadow guards and soldiers, Zhao Pu quickly reminded them not to step into Merlin and be tied into a honeycomb.

"Lord Wang, fortunately, you know how to use wolf smoke as a signal!"

Bao Zheng, who was going to follow him, saw that everyone had nothing to do, and sighed. When he heard that everyone had fallen off the cliff just now, his head was so shocked that his head "buzzed", and Master Pang couldn't breathe at that time.

When Zhao Pu heard Bao Zheng's words, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he looked at the pyre that was burning the dead...... yes, why don't you remember to use wolf smoke as a signal without an arrow, tsk!

Zhan Zhao showed the letter to Bao Zheng.

Bao Zheng also frowned after reading it - it seems that there is a case within a case.

"The one who wants a few of us to die." Bai Yutang said in a low voice, "Maybe it's just someone who doesn't want us to find out what kind of secret it is." ”