In the Yamen of Kaifeng Mansion, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were sitting in the courtyard waiting.

After a while, Mr. Bao and the Grand Master came over.

The conversation with the two princes took longer than expected. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang waited for a while, quite curious about what was said.

Grand Master and Master Bao sat down at the table. Seeing Zhan Zhao watching eagerly, they laughed and said, "These two are very dishonest. It seems that you have to take action."

"Very dishonest?" Bai Yutang felt quite surprised. If those two old men really came to the Yamen to seek refuge, wouldn't the wisest choice be to honestly tell Mr. Bao what happened to them?

"There must be something that cannot be said." The Grand Master smiled coldly.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other silently - when the Grand Master is in a bad mood, he feels serious and sinister...

While they were chatting here, Mahan of the Dynasty ran in and said to Mr. Bao, "Sir, the Eighth Prince is here."

Master Bao was stunned for a moment. The Grand Master thought for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Have you discovered that the Emperor has stayed away from home?"

Mr. Bao estimates that this is possible...

Everyone looked towards the entrance of the courtyard.

After a while, the Eighth Prince, dressed in white robes, walked in with ease, as elegant as ever.

Everyone observed the expression of the wise king, not only did he not look angry, but he seemed to be in a good mood... They were a little confused, could it be because the emperor stayed away from home at night?

The prince walked to the table and sat down, followed by Doro, whom he hadn't seen for a while.

Everyone gave him a greeting, and the prince crossed his arms and chatted with a few people for a few words, then looked around, as if he was looking for something.

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at Mr. Bao.

The Grand Master also asked the Eighth Prince, "What is the prince looking for?"

The Eighth Prince asked in a low voice, "Have Jingrui and the others come to the Yamen?"

Master Bao nodded, and everyone was a little surprised. How did the Eighth Prince learn about this?

The Eighth Prince laughed, "I just heard that they were causing trouble at the dock and asked Qiao Guang to clean it up, so I asked Doro to send some people to keep an eye on them, and I saw something interesting!"

While talking, the Eight Kings gestured to Doro, asking him to elaborate.

Doro told everyone, "Just now I sent some shadow guards to secretly follow the two princes, and I witnessed the whole process of them being chased by ghosts."

"Chased by a ghost?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were both surprised, and the focus of their attention was, "Have the guards seen the ghost chasing them?"

Dorothy was happy, "Of course I didn't see it. If I saw it, it wouldn't be a ghost!"

Afterwards, Doro told everyone a completely different version of the story from the one told by Qing Rui and others.

The shadow guards of the Eighth Prince's Mansion were stationed near the other courtyard. In the evening, the two old men came out alone, without even accompanying their entourage. And they came out from the side door, looking very low-key... They didn't look like they were going out for shopping.

The two brothers walked hand in hand towards the east of the city, as if they were going somewhere to do business.

Halfway through, a strange sight of a lotus pond suddenly appeared in the sky. Almost all passers-by stopped to watch and were surprised, but Jinggong and Ruigong behaved abnormally. After looking up, they didn't seem surprised.

Instead, he looked anxious and quickened his pace towards the east of the city.

After the two left the east side of the city, they arrived near a resting station. They lowered their heads and searched in the open space for a while, and finally found an abandoned boundary monument. They moved a stone from the side of the boundary monument and dug underground for a while.

, and quickly dug out something. I couldn’t tell what it was specifically. It was not big, and it was wrapped in oil paper. It was about the same size as a shoe, like a paper roll. Jinggong took out a cloth bag and put the paper roll in it.

After putting it in and stuffing it into their arms, the two of them hurried back to Kaifeng.

As a result, when they reached the vicinity of Kaifeng Mansion, the vision in the sky had almost dissipated. The two of them suddenly seemed to be frightened by something. They avoided the crowd and went into a secluded alley. The two of them fell down several times along the way.

He looked extremely embarrassed.

The shadow guards who followed us all felt weird and wondered if the two old men were tired from walking too much.

Only when his legs were weak would he fall flat on the ground, but there was not a single pit in the alley.

And then something bizarre happened.

When the two princes walked to the back door of the fish ball shop, suddenly two swill buckets as tall as one person flew up from the wall and hit them directly on the forehead, drenching their hearts. The scene was disgusting.

The shadow guards were shocked when they saw it.

After that, the two princes rolled around and fled in the direction of Kaifeng Mansion like bereaved dogs.

…

The Eighth Prince couldn't help but be curious, so he came to take a look.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both frowned. They also thought that it was not the slop buckets that the two old men knocked over but that they were attacked by someone. However, they never expected that the full version of the story would have so many flaws.

"Didn't the shadow guards see who attacked them?" Bai Yutang felt a little strange. The shadow guards of the Eighth Prince's Palace and Zhao Pu's shadow guards were trained together, and their abilities were similar. They were all masters. To defeat them,

To attack two princes without being noticed at all, how much internal strength does the attacker need? Or, will the other party be able to palm them from afar?

Doro said, "All the shadow guards said they didn't see it. Only one said he seemed to see a shadow in the dark of the alley, but it was later confirmed that there was no one there."

"Which boundary monument are they going to in the east of the city?

"It should be the old boundary monument. The shadow guards checked it after they left. The boundary monument has been smoothed away, and only the word 'ri' is left on it."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were a little concerned. Just now Jiuniang said that the secret text on the map they drew was about the horse stone next to the boundary monument thirty miles east of the city... The official road outside Kaifeng City has been repaired, and the previous boundary monuments and so on are all

Moved the position...Didn't these two old men go get that thing?

The Fifth Master felt that as long as the things were on both of them, it wouldn't matter, and he could just ask Samehaso to get them later.

"Those two people do seem to be avoiding something." The Grand Master also noticed some clues, "They are staying in Kaifeng Mansion overnight... there must be something bad threatening them."

The Eighth Prince nodded, "The Duke of the Seven Kingdoms seemed to have encountered some evil spirits back then. There were many rumors at that time."

"Have you offended someone?" the Grand Master asked, "You are doing well in the local area, but why do you feel like you have hit an evil spirit as soon as you enter the imperial city?"

"Then we have to ask them." Mr. Bao said that the Duke of the Seven Kingdoms was slightly dissatisfied. "He has been doing nothing all day long. He has accepted so many people from the world and swaggered to the imperial city. He has caused so many troubles and is still hiding it."

The Eighth Prince also nodded, "Fortunately, the Emperor is becoming more and more stable now, otherwise, the titles of these people would have to be reduced..."

Everyone looked at the Eighth Prince silently - steady?

When the Eighth Prince said this, he nodded happily, "After returning from the trip to Jiangnan this time, Your Majesty feels a lot calmer, haha... He doesn't always make noises about leaving the palace like before."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both looked at Master Bao and Grand Master subconsciously. The two adults nodded, indicating that the Lord was indeed calm. In short, they were working together to make the prince happy.

…

At this time, the "calm" Emperor of the Song Dynasty was sitting in someone else's ancestral hall telling stories. While talking, he reached out and touched his ear, and he always felt that his left ear was a little hot.

"Did the Pig King Clan appear again?" Everyone urged Zhao Zhen to continue.

"Yes." Zhao Zhen nodded, "From the royal archive records left over from the Five Dynasties, the Pig King Clan organization appeared again, and their mission is to find the Yuanbao Qishu. Have you found the problem?"

After hearing Zhao Zhen's question, everyone nodded.

"Weren't bad people from the official organization looking for the Zhuwang Sect to get the Ingot Book?" Gongsun asked, "Why did the Pig King Sect look for the Ingot Book? Didn't they find out that the ingot that stole the book didn't belong to the Pig King Sect?

?”

"Not only that, but there are two points that have never appeared before in the records." Zhao Zhen continued, "For the first time, a specific character like the Pig King appears. There are even portraits. I have seen them.

In the portrait, this person has a nose pointed upward, big ears and a wide mouth, and looks very much like a pig."

Everyone frowned

, is this a fight with a pig?

Zhao Pu frowned, "This is a bit strange."

Yin Hou also nodded.

"From the beginning to the end, the only one who looked like a pig was Liu Yu, but Liu Yu's intention in establishing the Pig King Clan was to catch ghosts. There is no rule saying that people from the Pig King Clan must look like pigs." Zhao Pu thought about it.

I thought, "The only thing that has anything to do with looks seems to be those people who looked like pigs who were innocently arrested for the Yuanbao case during the Tang Dynasty..."

"What happened to those people later?" Gongsun asked, "Were they released home after being found to be no suspects? Or were they all locked up? It feels so unfair."

"Then what is the other point that did not appear?" Tianzun asked Zhao Zhen.

"The whereabouts of the Yuanbao Qishu appeared." Zhao Zhen said, "The person who masters the black stone witchcraft is the person who owns this book."

"Black stone witchcraft?!" Everyone subconsciously looked at the urn.

"The Pig King Clan has been tracking wizards who can use this kind of witchcraft." Zhao Zhen said, paused, "The war ended, the Song Dynasty was established... Until the previous dynasty, this organization was still in action, until the Duke of the Seven Kingdoms

Leaving the imperial city... everything suddenly stopped."

Everyone was surprised - stopped?

"Uh-huh." Zhao Zhen nodded, "From now on, all records have stopped, and I can't find any relevant information."

After saying that, Zhao Zhen curled his lips and shook his legs, "Do you know this feeling?! I'm halfway through reading a book, and there's a big hole in front of me. I'm about to solve the puzzle, but I'm stuck at the end.

Crucial place!"

Everyone looked at Zhao Zhen speechlessly - no wonder he was so enthusiastic, the co-author was blocked...

Gongsun and Xiaosizi seemed to feel the same way and said - they couldn't bear it!

Yin Hou looked at You Lian - it seemed that two stories were connected, the one who hid the books next to you and the one who took refuge in your military camp, and the escaped Shi Hao, who was probably the Black Stone Wizard. And the caught spy

It's from the Pig King Clan...
To be continued...