129 [Ghost Flag](1/2)
Lord Bao came to the city gate and roared, breaking the original stalemate and giving Fang Ba a step down, so as not to anger Zhao Pu and really make a dead soul under the knife.
On the city tower, Xiao Baofu grabbed Bao Yan's sleeve, "Young master, Master, you are so domineering!"
Bao Yan nodded, and then subconsciously touched the face - it's good to be black! It's so domineering that it's black. If his father's face is as white as his, no one will be afraid of him.
Bao Yan was in a very low mood and suddenly clenched his fist and said dissatisfiedly, "I'm so angry!"
Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang were holding hands and preparing to walk down the city tower. When they heard Bao Yan's words, they looked back at him.
"Hate!" Bao Yan kicked the city wall hard, "Why can't I tan the sun!"
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Bai Yutang and others who were walking in front heard it and looked back with complicated expressions...
At this time, Bao Yan was jumping around with his feet in his arms, "It hurts so much! It hurts so much!"
The Eight King smiled and shook his head. Bao Zheng’s son was so funny!
Although Bao Yan hadn't seen Bao Zheng for a long time, he knew that there was something serious about it now, so he didn't interrupt and followed Bai Yutang and the others and followed Bao Zheng into the palace.
To everyone's expectations, there were no civil and military officials gathering in the court, and even Zhao Zhen was not there. Just a young father-in-law came out to ask. When he heard that Lord Bao was back, he said he would go in and report to the emperor. After a while, Eunuch Chen ran out and said to Bao Zheng, saying that the emperor had no time to spare, and he would talk about it later.
Bao Zheng knew it in his heart - the emperor was in a bad mood.
Gongsun led the little four son to walk beside Zhao Pu. Zhao Pu suddenly pulled him and asked, "What do you want to eat?"
Gongsun wondered, "What to eat?"
"We have been on the road for a few days and haven't eaten for a day today. Are you not hungry? I'll get it to the imperial kitchen for you."
Gongsun was amused and crying, "You still have the heart to eat... Let's talk about how to eat when you enter the palace and the saint?"
Zhao Pu laughed, "Let's wait."
"What are you waiting for?" Gongsun was puzzled.
Zhao Pu raised his eyebrows at him, "Believe it or not, Zhao Zhen asked these people to wait for at least two hours!"
Gongsun opened his eyes wide, "No... a matter of urgent matter..."
"Ha." Zhao Pu smiled faintly, "Let's wait and see."
Sure enough, it turned out that no one knew Zhao Zhen better than Zhao Pu... Everyone was waiting in the court for more than two hours, from dawn to dark.
Zhao Pu was foresighted. The chef of the imperial kitchen prepared a banquet for the Ninth Prince and the others. Zhao Pu brought Gongsun, the Shadow Guards, Xiao Sizi, Xiao Liang and others who arrived one after another to worship Wudian Temple.
Bai Yutang left with the "boring" and "hungry" Yin Hou and Tianzun.
When I walked out of the palace, I met Zhan Zhao and Pang Yu who came from Dali Temple, and also brought Fang Jun's body.
When Zhan Zhao saw Bai Yutang bringing Tianzun and Yin Hou, he guessed that Zhao Zhen wanted them to wait. He had to be with Lord Bao, so he patted Bai Yutang on the shoulder and asked him to help take care of Yin Hou.
Before Bai Yutang left, Zhan Zhao leaned into his ear and whispered, "It's rare to be so idle, why not make good use of it."
Bai Yutang saw Zhan Zhao laughing like the eyes of two crescent moons, probably guessed... Zhan Zhao asked him to have dinner while Tianzun and Yin Hou were idle.
Bai Yutang happily agreed and took Tianzun Yin Hou to Taibaiju for dinner first.
After ordering the food, Bai Yutang went out after Tianzun and Yin Hou had eaten... Where to go? If not, he went back and gave Zhan Zhao some food to prevent the cat from damaging his belly.
But when Bai Yutang arrived, he saw Eunuch Chen bringing a food box to Zhan Zhao. It can be seen that Zhao Zhen was angry and did not generalize. Zhan Zhao was considered to be a disaster, so he treated it differently.
Bai Yutang reached out and took the food box from Eunuch Chen's hand, changed into his own stuffed food into Zhan Zhao's hand, and stuffed all the delicacies given by the emperor to Xiaowu who came to join in the fun. Bai Yutang turned around and left swaggeringly, which made Eunuch Chen sweat. Zhan Zhao glanced at the roast duck made in the imperial kitchen that Xiaowu was gnawing, and then glanced at the fried lobster of lychees, iced oysters and fresh orange-stuffed crab roe that Bai Yutang bought for him... raised his eyebrows - indeed Bai Yutang knew his preferences best.
When he returned to Taibaiju, Bai Yutang held a wine glass and thought about it while drinking.
"What are you thinking?" Tianzun held an oyster and scolded Bai Yutang while eating. "You can eat well at least, and you don't know how you grew up drinking all day."
Bai Yutang suddenly stared at Tianzun's hair, then he reached out and grabbed some gently, leaned in front of him and looked carefully, frowned, and looked at Tianzun in confusion.
"What are you doing?" The Heavenly Lord glanced at him.
"Did you change color?" Bai Yutang looked at the sun outside, not like an illusion. He remembered that the Tianzun's hair was white before, but he hadn't seen it suddenly turned silver after a few days.
The Tianzun raised the corner of his mouth slightly and leaned over and asked, "Is it beautiful? It's more beautiful than white!"
Bai Yutang looked at Tianzun speechlessly, "No matter whether it looks good or not... doesn't matter? Let Gongsun show it?"
"Haha." Mr. Yin laughed twice and said to Bai Yutang, "You heard that he was so proud that it was too white and not good-looking, so Gongsun opened some orchids for him and washed them for a few days, and then it turned silver."
Bai Yutang was relieved now. Not to mention, silver is indeed better than white, and it looks younger.
"You two have never heard of the legend of ghost generals?" Bai Yutang asked Yin Hou while holding a handkerchief.
Mr. Yin touched his chin, "Ghost General... Ghost General has never heard of it, but I have heard of the Ghost Banner."
"Ghost Flag?" Bai Yutang felt that it seemed to be unrelated.
"The Ghost Flag is a little like the ghost general you talk about." After wiping his mouth, Tianzun asked his friend for two portions of mochi with soybean noodles and sesame stuffing, and chatted with Bai Yutang.
"Where does it look like?" Bai Yutang became interested.
"The Ghost Flag is the Ghost Flag. What I heard was that there was a general in the previous dynasty who was besieged in a valley by rebel soldiers, and his entire army was about to be wiped out." The Marquis of Yin told Bai Yutang with great enthusiasm, "The general left his troops and fled alone."
Bai Yutang twitched, "It's useless?"
Mr. Yin raised his eyebrows, "This is not the point. The cowardly general escaped in a panic and fell into a ravine... but found a large area of white bones in the ravine, including horse bones and people's bones... He got up and looked around. The long ravine was invisible to the end, covered with white bones!"
Bai Yutang frowned slightly, "Is that a burial pit?"
"This place is an ancient battlefield." said Yin Hou. "In the past, there was an invincible general who was ambushed by powerful officials of his own country and trapped here. The general committed suicide with 100,000 troops and horses, and died in the ditch."
Bai Yutang twitched, "Am there 100,000 people, are you stupid or not... It's better to beat him out instead of committing suicide."
"Oh!" Mr. Yin waved his hand gently, "It's a big difference here!"
“What’s the difference?”
The Marquis Yin snatched Tianzun a mochi to eat, and signaled him to continue saying, "Stay for a while."
The Heavenly Lord continued, "I committed suicide in the valley with resentment, and my soul cannot be released!"
Bai Yutang looked at the sky, obviously not believing it.
"Everyone said it was a legend." Tianzun continued, "The general had some research on witchcraft. He asked every soldier to cut his fingers and drip a drop of blood in the jar. After collecting all the soldiers' blood, he soaked his own flag in the blood, then sealed the mouth of the altar, pasted the soul-locking spell written in his own blood, and buried it deep into the ground. Then everyone committed suicide, so that the blood water soaked the valley... In this way, the resentful souls of the 100,000 army could not ascend to heaven, reincarnate, and could not be saved, and turned into lonely ghosts and wandered around in the valley."
Bai Yutang frowned, "What is his purpose in doing this?"
"Because you are unwilling to give up!" Yin Hou blew with a teacup and said slowly, "He didn't let his troops go even if he died. As long as someone opened the jar one day, his resentful soul would attach to the man's body. At the same time, he could wake up the 100,000 ghost soldiers! At that time, the 100,000 skeleton soldiers would be the most powerful soldiers, because they were not afraid of swords and guns!"
"What happened later? The escaped general found the altar to hold the order flag?" Bai Yutang asked.
Tianzun nodded, "He originally wanted to find out if he had any money, and he also wanted to dig a hole. If the pursuers come, they can hide under the bones and pretend to be dead."
Bai Yutang was so amused and crying, "How did this man become a general with such a timidity?"
"It's not the point that I said it." The Heavenly Lord waved his hand, "The general dug and found a few pieces of gold and silver."
Bai Yutang nodded, "The decoy left by the dead general deliberately, I want to attract people to continue digging, right?"
The timid general nodded, "No, that timid general thought he had made a fortune. When he dug, he really dug out a jar with a long seal on it and didn't know what was messy. He didn't even think about it and tore the seal."
Bai Yutang smiled bitterly, "So..."
"So the general's resentful soul immediately attached to his body..."
Bai Yutang could probably guess the result, "Will you dominate the world again?"
"Hehe, the so-called plan is about people and things are about heaven, and it is far from that!" Tianzun shook his head and continued with a bit profound expression, "The possessed general was about to take out the flag and summon him... and suddenly his head fell to the ground!"
"What?" Bai Yutang was surprised.
"Because the general's deputy general thought of a better way!" said Tianzun, "his deputy general decided to surrender and save the lives of himself and his soldiers. So when he saw the general escape, he quietly followed him. While he was concentrating on the silence of his attention, he suddenly attacked from behind and chopped his head."
Bai Yutang is funny, it's really a turn of things.
"The general held the general's head and saw that there was gold and silver in the jar. He thought it was the treasure he dug out, so he took it away and prepared to offer it to the enemy."
"What's the result?" Bai Yutang asked.
"The result was that the enemy accepted the surrender of the deputy general, and only took away the head of the cowardly general and buried it on the spot. The 'gold and silver' were rewarded to the deputy general. Everyone withdrew their troops and the war was over." Yin Hou smiled faintly, "Leave the possessed general alone in the valley. The body that was said to have lost his head walked from one end of the valley to the other end all day long, and then from the other end to this end, looking for his head and looking for his ghost flag."
Bai Yutang was stunned for a while after hearing this. The general of ghost was too lucky, so he asked curiously, "Where did that deputy general and ghost flag go later?"
"The deputy general later returned to the military camp and opened the jar and found that there was no treasure. He only had a black broken flag, so he threw it away. It happened that there was a follower beside him. He was originally a Taoist priest who told the fortune and caught ghosts, and he secretly picked it up." Tianzun had eaten and drank enough and told Bai Yutang the result of the story. "There is a legend that he went back and dug up the head of a cowardly general buried outside the mountain. As for what he was going to do, no one knew, and no one mentioned this matter afterwards."
Bai Yutang felt it was incredible after hearing this, and there was also some suspiciousness, so he asked Tianzun and Yin Hou, "According to what you said, the ghost flag has never been used?"
"It's because someone has used it once, otherwise we wouldn't have known this legend!" said Yin Hou, as if he was recalling the past, "When we were young, we fought a battle with the Silver Demon King and met the skeleton soldiers."
Bai Yutang was surprised, "Are you two joking?"
"Really!" Tianzun said, "We were still young at that time. From a distance, we saw skeleton soldiers riding skeleton horses in front of us. The Silver Demon King hid us and told us about the ghost flag."
"I still remember seeing the general in charge riding a white horse and holding a ghost head sword, but he had no head! He was burly."
Tianzun nodded, "I saw it too."
"That's probably not the same thing." Bai Yutang took out the picture of the ghost general before and showed it to Tianzun and Yin Hou.
Tianzun and Yin Hou took a look and suddenly became dumbfounded.
"It's him!" Tianzun patted Yin Hou.
The Queen Yin nodded, "Yes!"
"Don't you two say you have no head!" Bai Yutang was puzzled.
"It's a headless one, but I'm wearing a ghost-head mask and a helmet!" Tianzun and Yin Hou pointed at the ghost-head in the picture with certainty, "Just this mask, it's the same!"
"It's also human body and horse legs?" Bai Yutang asked.
"I didn't see this very clearly." As he said that, the Tianzun asked the Marquis Yin, "Have you seen it clearly?"
To be continued...