Kaifeng Monster

Chapter 44
Originally, he would have laughed longer, if the other party's eyes hadn't suddenly turned sharp and impolite.

So the helper returned back very wisely.

Almost at the same time, Duanmucui realized that he had said something that shouldn't be said, at least, in the Song Dynasty where the etiquette was so strict, he shouldn't have said such things.

"That..." Duanmucui peeked at Zhan Zhao's face, "I was wrong, I promise there will be no next time...Really, I swear..."

The tone and expression are sincere enough.

Zhan Zhao interrupted her with a sullen face: "I'm not afraid of what people will say."

"That's right," Duanmucui said in a typical way to shine brightly when given some sunshine, "It's not something shameful..."

What responded to her was Zhan Zhao's heavy eye.

Duanmucui immediately lowered her head.

At the same time, he complained: It's really difficult to serve...

Fortunately, at this time, the sudden situation distracted Zhan Zhao's attention.

In a house facing the street, there was a sudden burst of crying and mourning.

Zhan Zhao and Duanmucui looked at each other, and they both went to the crying house.Before he got close, a tired-looking person walked out of the dark doorway, but it was Gongsun Ce.

Zhan Zhao was taken aback for a moment, and immediately realized: "Sir, could it be Brother He's father..."

Gongsun Ce nodded, sighing more and more stagnantly: "It will be too late when we arrive, the old man left too quickly... all the relatives who can arrive now are here, Xuanping's custom is to cry at dusk..."

Zhan Zhao's heart sank, and a look of concern appeared on his face.Duanmucui was puzzled, looked at Zhan Zhao and then at Gongsun Ce, hesitantly asked, "Is it... the plague again?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head: "It's a stroke."

Duanmucui let out a low voice, and said after a long time: "Birth, old age, sickness and death are all hurdles in fate, since you can't avoid it, it's better to look away."

Gongsun Ce's heart was shocked, he only felt that Duanmucui's words seemed casual, but when he touched them carefully, they did not have a penetrating air of being out of the world.Old age, sickness, and death are inevitable calamities, but it is not often heard that "life" is also a calamity.Thinking about what I have seen in my life, the countless injustice cases handled by the Kaifeng Mansion, the suffering masters who lived with scars, and the people in Xuanping who are trembling and have no peace for a day, can't help but feel sad: alive, is it not a difficult responsibility to work hard and overcome obstacles? , at some point, it may be more difficult than death.

Seeing Gongsun Ce's gloomy expression, Zhan Zhao knew that he was sad, so he wanted to relieve him, thought for a while and said, "Mr. Gongsun, Duanmu has already eliminated the plague in the city, and I think the plague will not spread again. As for the people who have fallen ill , more doctors to take care of the diagnosis and treatment, it will be great."

Gongsun Ce said happily: "Really?" Erqing seemed to have thought of something, then smiled wryly and shook his head: "Grand Master Pang set up a barricade outside Xuanping City, and the twelve imperial physicians who accompanied him were all placed outside the city... Their medical skills are superb. If we get their help, why worry about Xuanping's epidemic? But... Even if Xuanping's epidemic is gone, according to Taishi Pang's temperament, he will willingly withdraw from the siege of Xuanping? Now that the New Year is just over, ordinary people still have enough food and clothing , after a while, but where will I find food to fill my stomach?"

"Grand Master Pang?" Duanmu Cuixiu raised his eyebrows, "The shackles and barricades he set up? Let me tell you, when I entered the city that day, a group of people chased me and beat me up. It turned out to be his fault. He didn't listen to the emperor's words. Listen? Let the emperor tell him to withdraw his troops."

Zhan Zhao smiled wryly, and Gongsun Ce sighed, "Miss Duanmu, she was the one who ordered him to besiege the city today."

"This emperor's brains are comparable to his father's." Duanmucui said angrily, "His father created Jinyang, and he followed up with Xuanping. The father and son tried different ways to toss me, thinking that I Very idle, isn’t it? The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.”

Zhan Zhao was dumbfounded, and Gongsun Ce made a black line.

The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. One sentence has poured blood on the few number one people in Tianzi in the past few decades.

It's just that the instigator didn't seem to have any intention of introspection, and after thinking about it, he started to come up with a bad idea: "Let the emperor's father tell your emperor, don't make things difficult for Xuan Ping."

Gongsun Ce cleared his throat and kindly reminded Duanmu Cui: "Miss Duanmu, the late emperor has passed away."

Zhan Zhao was afraid that Duanmucui would do something about the late emperor's ghost appearing to scold Jinshang for tricks, so he followed up with the last sentence: "Jinshang's body is not very good, and he can't stand being frightened."

Duanmucui swallowed the second half of the sentence in time - she was indeed planning to let the souls of Renzong's ancestors revisit the hometown.

The reason why she didn't say it out wasn't because she was stumped by Zhan Zhao's sentence "I'm not in good health today", anyway, in her opinion, it's only natural that I am not in good health.She just suddenly thought that the emperor's father or the soul of his father's father should have been reincarnated long ago, even if he turned the hell upside down, he might not be able to find it.

"Then..." Frowning and thinking for a while, Ai Ai said, "Then let it be a dream, Mr. Gongsun, draw me a picture of the emperor's father, and I will make this fake father entrust your emperor with a fake father." Dream, what do you think?"

Fake father?Gongsun Ce wants to cry but has no tears.

In the Song Dynasty, who would dare to use a fake father to fool the Holy One?That is a real crime of deceiving the emperor.

Only Duanmucui could come up with this idea.

Thinking about it again, it seems that there is still some...feasibility.

However, as a member of the civil servants of the Song Dynasty government, Gongsun Ce couldn't help feeling awkward: This is a typical violation of the law.

Looking at Zhan Zhao as if asking for help: "Guard Zhan?"

Zhan Zhao's eyes did not touch Gongsun Ce's as much as possible: "According to Zhan... it's a plan."

Gongsun Ce took a deep breath, bitterness filled his heart: Zhan Huwei was such a good child in the past, if he resisted the decree, he would regret himself and ask for a guillotine. Dad acquiesced in such disrespectful behavior...

"Sir." As if seeing Gongsun Ce's hesitation, Zhan Zhao spoke earnestly, "The people are the world, and it's all for the peace of the people. Even if the adults know it, they will understand it."

"Also," turned his gaze to Duanmucui, and smiled leisurely, "This matter is Miss Duanmu's envoy. Miss Duanmu has such supernatural powers. Even if we try to stop it, we will be powerless, so we can only sigh in vain..."

These words were more or less true, which comforted Gongsun Ce a little.

Duanmucui, who had reacted, was furious: "Zhan Zhao, you are cunning!"

"You just know." Zhan Zhao's smile suddenly became a little more smug, and he leaned closer to Duanmu Cui's ear and said, "Before Zhan entered the public school, he walked on the rivers and lakes for a long time. Could it be that you thought all those years were for nothing?" Before he finished speaking, he caught a glimpse of the meaningful smile on Gongsun Ce's face out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly realized that this act was a bit intimate, and he was slightly embarrassed and imperceptible. avoided some.

Duanmucui didn't realize it, and said bitterly: "Your emperor has misread it, you are not a cat, you are clearly a fox. When dreaming, let the emperor change your title, and change your name to Yuhu, Jade-faced Fox, The jade-faced fox..."

This time, even Gongsun Ce couldn't help laughing out loud, he waved his hands again and again and said: "Miss Duanmu, our guards can be anything, but we must not be flower foxes..."

"Why not?" Duanmu Cui stared at Zhan Zhao, and suddenly thought of Xiao Cui, "Don't Xiao Cui like flowers, Zhan Zhao, she holds flowers, puts on flower clothes, and leads you, a flower fox... Really... Discomfort..."

The first words were malicious, but the last sentence suddenly turned into sobs, and his face immediately became sad, he grabbed Zhan Zhao's arm and lowered his head.Before Zhan Zhao could react, he heard footsteps behind him, followed by He Sangui's voice: "Mr. Gongsun, there are so many troubles today, I can't send you off..."

It turned out that when the three of them were talking just now, Zhan Zhao and Gongsun Ce had their backs to the doorway, and only Duanmucui could see into the room. When he was talking and laughing at Yan Yan, he caught a glimpse of someone wearing filial piety walking this way, so he immediately saved himself from joking around here. Sure, it's also disrespectful to the deceased, so he changed his face hastily.

Zhan Zhao and Gongsun Ce also reacted, feeling uneasy, and hurriedly turned around to return the gift to He Sangui.He Sangui is a sensible person, even though Gongsun Ce was too late to rescue him today, he thanked him very much, so he turned and left.

After only two steps, Duanmucui sternly said: "Stop!"

He Sangui was quite frightened at this moment, when he looked back, Duanmucui stretched out his hand and pointed at him: "What about you two, get out!"

Both of us?

He Sangui looked at himself blankly: Although his body is not thin, he won't give people the illusion of "two"...

Just being inexplicable, I saw Duanmucui's eyes slowly move back from him, and finally focused on a place more than ten feet in front of him.Looking at that expression, it seems to be looking at someone.

But in front of her, there was obviously nothing!

He Sangui was confused.

Zhan Zhao, on the other hand, smiled slightly and signaled him to leave with his eyes.

He Sangui was very convinced by Zhan Zhao, although he was full of doubts, he nodded and left.

Duan Mucui sneered and said, "You two have worked so hard recently, are you busy in front of the house, in the back of the house, in the streets and alleys?"

Zhan Zhao was puzzled, but Gongsun Ce's heart moved: Miss Duanmu said during the day, "Black and White Wuchang is very diligent", could it be that the person standing in front of her is Black and White Wuchang?
It makes sense when you think about it, He Sangui's father is newly mourned, and counting the time, it's not uncommon for Black and White to enter Luohun at this time.

I don't know what Black and White Wuchang replied, Duanmucui said angrily: "Nonsense, so many people died in Xuan Ping, you didn't take away the dead souls, who else?"

After a pause, he seemed even more impatient, and said, "Bring me the Book of Life and Death."

While speaking, he snatched something like a thick book, held it in one hand, flipped through a few pages, his brows became more and more wrinkled, and he threw back the thing in his hand vigorously, saying in his mouth: "It's really ridiculous, everyone in the world Under the circumstances, besides Yan Luo Palace, is there a second place for dead souls to go?"

I don't know what the person on the other side answered, but Duanmucui's face suddenly became strange, and said: "Go on."

After a while, Duanmucui's breathing became rapid, his brows and eyes were full of anxiety, he hesitated to speak a few times, his hands were entangled unconsciously.

In the end, Zhan Zhao heard Duanmucui's extremely low voice: "Then...there is only the way of the underworld?"

This is the second time Zhan Zhao has heard of the dark way in the world, this day and night.

Those dead souls that Xuan Ping did not see must be in the underworld.

Then Wen Gu Weiyu, probably... is also there.

(End of this chapter)