In Tianhong Academy, two students discussed the missing Zhanjun while walking.

"It's also a good thing that Zhanjun is missing, without him, the entire academy is a lot cleaner." One said.

"yes, it's good if a guy like that dies. He has always been self-righteous and never takes others seriously, and I don't know how many people in the academy look at him unpleasantly. ”

Another student nodded in agreement.

Not far from the two of them stood a little monk, who was Zhanjun's younger brother Zhanzhao.

After he heard the news of his brother's disappearance, he hurried from Xiangguo Temple to Tianhong Academy, and just met the dean of the academy, but unfortunately he couldn't get any useful news from the dean, only knowing that his brother was inexplicably missing and his whereabouts are unknown.

He was grieving himself when he heard the two students insulting his brother behind his back. Suddenly, his eyebrows straightened, and he rushed to the front of the two, dancing with a wooden stick in his hand, making a gesture to fight, and said angrily:

"You two shrunken turtles, you dare to slander my eldest brother, be careful that I am not polite to you."

Seeing the wooden stick in Zhanzhao's hand waving with a whining sound and a powerful appearance, the two students were a little worried in their hearts, and they were so frightened that they took a few steps back, looked at Zhanzhao, and warned inwardly:

"Little monk, do you still want to hurt people?"

"That's right, this is a academy, not a place where you can be presumptuous, if you dare to do it, be careful that we will report to the official to arrest you." Another student followed suit.

Zhanzhao didn't really mean to do anything, just to scare the two.

He stared at the two of them with suspicion, snorted coldly, and asked, "You two seem to be a little contradictory to my eldest brother, and you are still so happy when he disappears." Say, "Did you get him somewhere?" ”

The two students did not want to be charged with the suspect, and hurriedly argued:

"Don't slander good people at will, none of the students in the entire academy are compatible with your eldest brother, and there are not just two of us. I think if you want to find your eldest brother, you should go to Gongsun Ce. He's the last person to see your big brother. ”

"Yes, I think it's likely that when Gongsun Ce and Zhanjun were theorizing that night, there was a conflict, and maybe they killed people and hid their bodies."

Saying that, they told Gongsun Ce and Zhanjun about the conflict because of the juju, and they once fought with each other, and swore that Gongsun Ce was extremely suspicious in order to clear himself.

Zhan Zhao didn't think that there was such an inside story, and hurriedly asked: "Where is this Gongsun Ce now?" ”

The two students were just about to answer, when they saw a group of people walking not far away, they immediately stretched out their hands and pointed at a handsome student with a white face in the crowd and said, "Hey, that white-faced scholar is Gongsun Ce." ”

When Zhan Zhao heard this, he immediately rushed to those people like the wind, stretched out the short stick in his hand, and put it on Gongsun Ce's chest with a snort, and asked, "Say, did you kill my eldest brother?" ”

"Who are you? Why do you say I kill someone? ”

Gongsun Ce asked rhetorically with an ugly face.

Bao Zheng was worried that they would have a conflict, so he hurriedly stepped forward, pressed down the wooden stick in Zhanzhao's hand with his hand, and asked gently, "This little brother, is your eldest brother Zhanjun?" ”

"That's right, I'm Zhan Jun's younger brother, Zhan Zhao."

Zhan Zhao nodded, his eyes were still staring at the suspect Gongsun Ce, and said:

"I've heard about it, and the people in the academy suspect that you killed my eldest brother, what else do you have to say?"

Since Zhan Jun's disappearance, Gongsun Ce has been suspicious, making him irritable and in a terrible mood. At this moment, in the face of Zhanzhao's questioning, he was neither angry nor wronged, and said with a strong temper:

"I just said a few words to your eldest brother that night, and I left after that, I really don't know where he went."

Zhan Zhao naturally didn't easily believe his defense, and still asked: "You had a conflict that day, and there was a fight. You must have a grudge against me to assassinate my eldest brother, didn't you? ”

Gongsun Ce couldn't help but be angry, his face became more and more pale, and he said angrily: "You little monk, why can't you make sense." ”

Bao Zheng also persuaded softly on the side: "Little brother, listen to me, I understand Gongsun Ce's personality, and he will definitely not kill your eldest brother." We have to pay attention to evidence in what we do, and we can't just wronged good people, right?

Besides, your eldest brother is just missing at the moment, and it's not certain that he's dead. The most important thing we need now is to find his whereabouts first, isn't it? ”

As he spoke, he pointed at Jiang Yi and the others: "We are all about to find the whereabouts of your eldest brother, why don't you join us?" ”

Zhan Zhao listened to Bao Zheng's persuasion, and also felt reasonable, so he didn't act rashly, just glared at Gongsun Ce, and said fiercely in a childish voice: "If I find out that you are a murderer, I will definitely kill you to take revenge." ”

Gongsun Ce saw that he was still a child, and he didn't want to worry about him, so he snorted and didn't speak.

Seeing that the conflict subsided, Bao Zheng took Jiang Yi and a few people to gather many students in the academy, and then led the crowd to the bamboo forest at the edge of the academy, hoping to find clues to Zhanjun's disappearance.

After searching around and finding nothing, Bao Zheng asked Gongsun Ce to recount the situation that night in detail.

Gongsun Ce took Bao Zheng and a few people to the edge of a few cyan long bamboos, pointed to the position where the two had stood, and said: "At that time, Zhanjun and I were standing here talking, and I went home after finishing speaking. ”

Bao Zheng looked around the surrounding environment and asked, "Do you remember where Zhanjun went at that time?" ”

"I didn't pay attention, it's not in the same direction as me anyway." Gongsun Ce frowned and said.

Bao Zheng's eyes froze, and he muttered: "No, if he wants to go back to the academy, he should be on the same road as you." It's so late, if he doesn't go back to the academy to sleep, where will he go? ”

Gongsun Ce looked at the left and right directions, there were dense bamboo forests on both sides, and it should be impossible for Zhanjun to go on both sides.

He looked at the direction of the back mountain again, and speculated: "Could it be that Zhanjun went to the back mountain?" ”

When Lun Nikkei and several other students heard him talk about the back mountain, their bodies trembled, and a look of fear appeared in their eyes, and they said in a trembling voice: "Isn't the back mountain haunted, how could Zhan Jun go to that kind of place?" ”

Then he became suspicious again: "Could it be that he was hooked by the ghosts in the back mountain?" ”

Bao Zheng never believed in any ghosts and gods, waved his hand resolutely, and said, "Let's go, let's go to the back mountain to have a look." ”

"This, don't want it, what if you encounter a ghost at that time? I don't want to die yet. ”

His legs trembled and he shook his head again and again.

Several other students also retreated: "Yes, I heard that the ghosts in the back mountain are very fierce, so don't go." Moreover, those officials also went to the back mountain to search, but they also found no trace of Zhanjun, right? Let's not waste our efforts. ”

Gongsun Ce glanced at them and said disdainfully: "In broad daylight, how can you meet a ghost, Bao Zheng will let us go." ”

Zhan Zhao was anxious to find the missing eldest brother, and he took the lead and ran towards the back mountain.

Bao Zheng continued to persuade the scared classmates: "Don't worry, how can there be any ghosts and gods in this world?" Let's go to the back mountain to have a look. ”

After some persuasion, the people of Wheel Nikkei were finally moved, and cautiously followed Bao Zheng to the back mountain.