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Chapter 21: Chapter 21

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    Zhan Zhao and the others couldn't help being shocked when they heard the old woman's malicious curses, realizing that the old case that was hidden back then must be shocking.

    "In the Yishui River, there are hundreds of wronged souls?" Bai Yutang was puzzled, "What do you mean?"

    "This incident happened thirty years ago." The old woman began to slowly narrate some of the past, "At that time, Qushan County was very poor, and the magistrate of the county is now the prefect of Luozhou at the next level, Mr. Liang."

    "What? The prefect of Luozhou used to be the magistrate of Huoshan County?" Everyone was taken aback, "Then there is a little problem."

    "Liang Bao is actually not an outsider. She is a relative of Mr. Liang Wenxing, probably a nephew." The old woman sighed softly, "Otherwise, if you say that he is a foreign official, why is he so familiar with local customs?"

    Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay¡ªis there really something wrong with Liang Bao!

    "Can you explain more clearly?"

    After thinking about it, the old woman took out a brocade handkerchief from her sleeve pocket and put it on the table.

    Everyone opened the brocade handkerchief, and saw a roll of torn sheepskin inside, with many crooked pictures painted on it.

    "What is this?" Zhao Pu was puzzled.

    "Oh!" Bai Yutang remembered, "I saw it in the horse belly ancestral hall that day, and I drew it." As he said, he took out a drawing from his sleeve, and the sheepskin drawing  Comparing the patterns on the top, it feels similar.

    "Yes, I almost forgot." Zhan Zhao also remembered, "I want Gongsun to see it a long time ago."

    Gongsun took the blueprint and compared it with the sheepskin, and it seemed strangely familiar to him.

    "I know it!" At this moment, from the roof, Ziying suddenly jumped down.

    "Do you recognize him?" Everyone looked at him inexplicably.

    "This is a picture drawn by a juggling troupe practicing tricks!" Ziying said with a smile, "I love that one, and I know a lot of juggling troupe masters. Didn't the battalion invite several juggling troupes to perform last time to entertain the soldiers?  I got to know them well, and they drew some similar pictures for us to see, saying that this is a common code used by jugglers all over the world."

    "Code?" Zhao Pu didn't understand, thinking that even juggling needs to use codes?

    "Well I've heard of it too." Gongsun nodded, "juggling originated from folk tricks. There was a national funeral in the previous dynasty, and the emperor ordered the world not to play jokes for a year. Juggling classes make their living by amusing people.  In this way, they lost their way of life! So a large number of juggling troupes moved to unknown places in the mountains, and secretly communicated with each other. The correspondence used this kind of weird graphics instead of words, so as not to be caught. Although the ban was lifted later, but  This kind of writing is very convenient, and it has been used ever since.¡±

    "Sir, you have a lot of knowledge." The old woman smiled and nodded to everyone, "That's right, this is the text that people in the juggling class use to communicate with each other."

    "Did those little beggars die because of reading these words?" Zhan Zhao guessed.

    "How the little beggar died, my old lady, I don't know, but I can tell you At that time, there was a juggling troupe passing through Queshan County, performing here, and the finale performance was called the Merman Dance."

    "Mermaid?" Gongsun frowned, "Mermaid?"

    "Several wealthy households in Qushan County saw with the county magistrate that the merman was beautiful and moving, with a lifelike fish tail, so they asked the head of the juggling class how it came about.

    The class leader told him an old method, how to make a mermaid.

    Everyone couldn't help taking a breath of cool air when they heard this They remembered what Gongsun said that day, the kind of sea mermaid made by mutilating young children.

    "As I said just now, Qushan County was very poor back then, and all the daughters and children were abandoned because they couldn't afford it. So Liang County Magistrate came up with a vicious trick." The old woman's face changed slightly when she said this.  , "They circled a water area by the Yishui River, made the girls into fake mermaids, and raised them in the water. Because they were afraid of being discovered by the people along the coast, they added fuel and vinegar to the legend of the horse's belly in ancient times to scare the locals.  Common people, what is the difference between the north and the south, and the death of bullying the weak are all lies."

    "Horse belly is just the big tiger-striped fish that you have seen before and died on the shore. It occasionally hurts people, but if you say it is a god or something, it is a lie." The old woman became more and more excited.

    Everyone has long been stunned, it is really hard to imagine that someone can be so cruel.

    "What do they want to do with raising sea mermaids?" Zhan Zhao asked after a long time.

    "What else can I do?! Take it and sell it to high officials, nobles, celebrities and dignitaries!" The old woman shook her head and sighed, "Sea mermaids are not easy to raise. If you want to live in water, how many girls can bear it?Do you want to deal with Xiaohong?  Zhan Zhao woke up suddenly, "Do you want to poison Xiaohong to death?"  "

    "Yes, but Xiaohong's life is fatal. The little monkey and I rescued her and kept her in the water tank until the poison dissipated. This roll of sheepskin was given to me by Xiaohong. She said it was behind the horse belly ancestral hall.  Found it in the pool."

    Bai Yutang knew in his heart that what she saw in the pool behind the horse belly ancestral hall that day was probably Xiaohong, and the full moon that day¡ªcould it be related to the glazed mirror mentioned by the old woman just now?

    The old woman thought about it again, "That's about it. You came here after that. Last evening, the river embankment also collapsed. Xiaohong is in the underground palace. She should be fine."

    After listening to the old woman's words, everyone remained silent. There are still many doubts in this matter, which need to be sorted out one by one.

    "But" Zhan Zhao always felt that something was wrong, "The little monkey seems to believe in the horse belly fairy?"

    "Xiaohong told him." The old woman said earnestly, "I don't know why Xiaohong's voice is healed. She can talk, but it's very dumb and inconvenient. She said that there are really gods in Yishui.  The gods will protect her!"

    "Then why do all the dead people have dead rats in their throats?" Bai Yutang didn't say that the dead rats were fake, and looked at Gongsun and Zhao Pu.

    Both of them understood in their hearts and listened in silence.

    The old woman shook her head, "I don't know, I've already said what I know."

    Everyone nodded, and at this time, Zhe Ying came to Zhao Pu, "My lord, Liang Bao is here again, and he brought an official."

    "Officer?"

    "Wearing a blue suit, the grade of the sixth grade, a little old."

    "It's the prefect of Liang!" The old woman blurted out, her face also showing fear.

    Zhao Pu laughed, and said, "Oh, what are you afraid of, the old man, he is only a sixth-rank official, let's show the fourth-rank adult!"

    Everyone looked at him weakly - you seem to be a first-class product!

    Zhao Pu thought for a while, waved to Zhe Ying, and whispered a few words in his ear, Zhe Ying nodded and left with Zi Ying.

    Zhan Zhao listened carefully to his instructions to the two, and asked Zhao Pu, "Do you want to"

    "This man even dared to kill his subordinates in order to protect himself. Maybe this time he saw that the matter was about to be exposed, so he came to remedy it?" Zhao Pu smiled, "just to see his real body, is it a human or a painted skin?"  have to."

    Zhan Zhao sighed softly, "For the first time, I feel that killing a person is even cheaper for him."

    Bai Yutang suddenly stood up.

    "Brother Bai?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled when he heard the sound.

    "I suddenly thought of an interesting idea." Bai Yutang said, beckoning to Gongsun lightly, "Gongsun, do me a favor."

    Gongsun's eyes rolled, "Oh Could it be that Fifth Master Bai wants to repay him with the same way?"

    Bai Yutang twitched his lips, "As the cat said, letting them die is too cheap for them!" After saying that, he took Gongsun to the backyard, and Zhao Pu let the old woman enter the house to meet the little monkey, the fourth son, and the others.  Avoid together.

    Zhan Zhao rested his chin on one hand and pondered, when did Bai Yutang start chewing his own cat?  Wasn't he still brother Zhan yesterday?

    Soon, footsteps were heard at the gate of the courtyard, and Liang Bao walked in with Liang Zhifu.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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