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Chapter 113 Gambling, the legend of Cang Ni

With the clue of the Hanu mastiff, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang visited the large and small pork shops in Kaifeng Prefecture, looking for clues from the butchers.

"Pig lungs?" the butchers told Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "Generally people buy less, and if they want to buy, they mostly cut them up and buy them in small pieces. If they are whole, they are usually bought by restaurants.

"In terms of restaurants, they should be bought by acquaintances, right?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"That's right." The store owner nodded quickly, "There are only a few restaurants, and they are all old acquaintances."

"Then have any outsiders bought it?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Outsider?" The butcher thought for a while, and helped Zhan Zhao gather all the butchers in Kaifeng. After everyone checked, there was indeed a butcher who said that someone came to him a while ago and bought ten pig lungs , I went to another house to ask for it for him.

"That's when you asked for pig lungs last time?" Several other butchers seemed to know about it.

"What does that person look like?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Uh...looks young." The guy thought for a while, and said, "Less than thirty, mustache, and skinny, but he should be a martial arts practitioner. I think he is a pig lung. and left.

"Have you talked to him?" Zhan Zhao asked, "How about more details? Where does he live? What are his characteristics? The more detailed the better!"

"Oh." The butcher thought for a while, and said, "I knew he had an accent from the southwestern region, does it feel like... he should be running around a lot, he is quite tanned... what else, he is going north face to go."

"Any more?" Zhan Zhao felt that there were still too few clues.

"Hmm..." Butcher shook his head and said, "Master Zhan, I really don't remember."

"What kind of clothes is he wearing? How is his hair combed, what kind of shoes are he wearing, is there any mud on his feet, and is he carrying any weapons?" Bai Yutang continued to ask.

"Oh... wearing navy blue clothes, I feel... Uh, like a dart walker, my hair is just tied up casually, I didn't see the shoes... I don't know about the mud." The man replied.

"A dart runner?" Bai Yutang patted Zhan Zhao, "Mao'er, did any escorts come to Kaifeng recently?"

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, patted his head, and said, "Yes! Recently, a group of people said that they came to Kaifeng Mansion and went to the north of the city..."

"Oh, we also saw that day, there are quite a few people." Several butchers also nodded.

"Yeah, it's rare to see such a big dart team!"

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao, raised his eyebrows, "How about it, cat?"

"Yeah." Zhan Zhao nodded and said, "Let's go and have a look!"

Afterwards, the two left past the butchers and rushed to the north of the city.

"No brigade has left the city recently!" Bai Yutang said, "So those people should still be in Kaifeng Mansion.

"If they break up and pretend to be ordinary pedestrians and leave in twos and threes, then we won't have any clues." Zhan Zhao was a little worried.

"There's no need to worry." Bai Yutang waved his hands and said with a smile, "They seem to come and go together, otherwise...wouldn't it be more suspicious, and they should still have things on them, such as belongings! "

"That makes sense!" Zhan Zhao nodded, and left the street with Bai Yutang, heading north, inquiring about the whereabouts of the bodyguard team along the way.

There are so many people in the bodyguard team, and the mighty passing by will naturally attract the attention of many people. Many people said they saw it and went to Beicheng. The northernmost part of Beicheng is a mountain. There are no people there. What do you do when you enter there? Woolen cloth?

As soon as Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had a clue, they immediately sent someone back to report to Lord Bao, while they went straight up the mountain to find the escort team.

The two walked up the mountain, Bai Yutang asked, "Cat."

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao drove the grass on both sides with a branch as he walked, and slapped the ground to drive away any snakes that might appear.

"I suddenly remembered something." Bai Yutang said.

"What's the matter?" Zhan Zhao asked him.

"Hmm... I heard from my sister-in-law before that it was a myth passed down from Tianzhu." Bai Yutang thought for a while and said, "It is said that there is a kind of giant black dog in the west. They carry two big bags on their backs. There is a lot of wealth in it. This kind of dog has a name called Cang Ni, which is a kind of mythical beast in charge of wealth. If people want to get wealth, they have to gamble with Cang Ni. Cang Ni likes to eat people, and people have to use their own lives Bet against it as a chip. If people win, they can get a lot of wealth, if Cang Ni wins, then people will be eaten."

"Oh..." Zhan Zhao stroked his chin and pondered for a while, "It's very similar to that legend."

"That's not true." Bai Yutang sighed, "I didn't remember it at first, but I suddenly remembered it. I said that Cang Ni sounded familiar."

"Is there any follow-up to the story just now?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Hmm..." Bai Yutang looked up to the sky and thought for a while, then said, "I was still very young at that time, so I almost don't remember it."

"Mr. Gongsun may have heard of this story." Zhan Zhao said, "Ask him after you go back, maybe you will get some clues."

"That's true." Bai Yutang nodded, "Those genius doctors and the like just like to read weird books."

Afterwards, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang wandered around the mountain. The two of them went straight from noon until it was so dark that they couldn't see their fingers. They didn't find any clues. The bodyguard team seemed to have disappeared.

"Go back?" Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang, who couldn't take it anymore, patting the grass leaves on his body.

"Okay." Bai Yutang nodded quickly, "I'm going to take a shower."

"Come out to eat after taking a bath." Zhan Zhao said weakly, "I'm so hungry."

"Let's go, cat." Bai Yutang pulled Zhan Zhao and walked back.

Back in the mansion, the two went straight to the room, got hot water to take a bath, and finally after washing themselves dry and comfortable, the two got dressed and walked out.

Bai Yutang went to the yard to tie up his hair, and saw Zhan Zhao coming out dragging his tired body, grabbing the door frame and saying, "I'm so hungry..."

Bai Yutang laughed, and dragged him out. When he saw Gongsun, he also grabbed him, and said, "Sir, are you going to eat together?"

Gongsun was a little puzzled and asked, "Going to eat?"

"Well, we have something to ask sir." Zhan Zhao also nodded.

It was already very late when we arrived at Taibaiju. Yuxi Zhang personally cooked a table of dishes for everyone. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, who had already fainted from hunger, opened their mouths to eat. Gongsun took a few sips from a wine glass, looking at the The two extremely handsome men were eating in an extremely unrefined manner, a little wanting to laugh.

After eating half full, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang finally felt that they were not panicked, so they took a little breath.

Seeing that the two were eating slowly, Gongsun asked, "What can you tell me?"

"Oh, it's like this." Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang, and Bai Yutang told the legend about Cang Ni Dog.

Gongsun Weiwei thought for a while, nodded, and said, "Well, it is indeed a myth from Tianzhu."

"How is the completeness of this story?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Gongsun took a sip of wine, thought for a while, and said, "Well, to be more specific, Cang Ni is not actually the god of wealth, he is just a dog next to the god of wealth, responsible for helping the master to take care of the property. However, Cang Ni is a greedy and ferocious animal. One day, while his master was not around, he stole the gold and silver treasures from his master, put them in a bag and carried them on his back, and left the world of gods and came to the human world. Cang Ni deceived A large number of human beings came to gamble with him. According to legend, people who gambled with Cang Ni never won, and he relied on those treasures to lure people to gamble with him. After winning, it did not eat people, but devoured them soul, let the body remain."

"What's the use of keeping a human body?" Zhan Zhao was a little puzzled.

"Help him to deceive more people." Gongsun said, "For him to eat, this has been going on for a long time. It was not until there were missing people in Tianzhu Kingdom every three days that it attracted attention. The people worshiped God and prayed for blessings. You can wipe out this evil Cang Ni."

"What about the end?" Bai Yutang asked.

"In the end, it is said that there was a young divine monk who gambled with Cang Ni and won all his money. So Cang Ni had no bargaining chips, and he had nothing to attract people to gamble with him." Gongsun took another sip of the wine and said, "Later, it is said that not long after that Cang Ni had to go back to the God Realm because he had no food, and then he was punished by his master, locked in a cage, and could not come out for life. But later it was said that the God Realm was attacked by the rebel army, the God Palace was destroyed, and the Cang Ni disappeared."

"Is there really such a thing?" Zhan Zhao asked in surprise.

"It's just a legend." Gongsun smiled, took a bite of the phoenix claw with his chopsticks, and said, "Well... By the way, and, it is said that this kind of Cang Ni is good at digging holes and lives in the caves."

"Dig a hole..." Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, and suddenly, "Ah!"

Startled, Gongsun held half a phoenix claw in his mouth and opened his eyes wide to look at the two, "What's wrong!"

"Dig a hole, dig a hole!" Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang, "No wonder we couldn't find it."

"That's right!" Bai Yutang nodded, "In other words, it's hidden underground! It must have been a good job of digging holes, plus finding some caves or something."

"That's right!" Zhan Zhao said, "Let's go! Let's look for it!"

Bai Yutang was about to pay for the meal and leave with Zhan Zhao, but he heard Gongsun say, "How are you two going to look for it now? Why don't you take the yamen servants with you tomorrow morning?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were stunned for a moment, looked at each other, and thought it made sense, so they sat back down again.

By the time Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao returned to the government office and lay down to go to sleep, it was already midnight.

"I'm so tired..." Bai Yutang sighed, stretched his neck on the bed, and said, "Tsk... I haven't climbed a mountain for a long time, and I'm really tired after moving today."

"Hmm." Zhan Zhao replied absent-mindedly.

Bai Yutang turned his face, and saw Zhan Zhao lying on his side, with one hand resting on his head, and with the other hand, gently stroking the soft fur of the fur ball sleeping between him and Bai Yutang.

"Cat, what's the matter?" Bai Yutang also turned sideways, stretched out his finger, and gently poked the fat belly of the hairball.

"Do you think Cang Ni is responsible for this case?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"How is that possible." Bai Yutang laughed, "Someone probably committed the crime according to Cang Ni's legend. Didn't I say that Cang Ni only eats human souls, and those gamblers really died."

"Yeah." Zhan Zhao nodded and asked, "Then... Yutang, those corpse hunters you saw the other day, are they from the Western Regions, the Southwest, or the Han?"

Bai Yutang frowned slightly, thought for a while, and said, "Indeed, they are all Han Chinese."

"That is to say..." Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang.

"Their team is getting bigger and bigger, and it is very likely that they are still recruiting other gamblers along the way." Bai Yutang said, "Is it for you?"

"I think we should check again to see if there have been any lost gamblers in Kaifeng Mansion recently." Zhan Zhao said, "Also...according to what you said, the corpses that were driven out are people. Why do people act so uniformly?"

"Cat... isn't a corpse a person without a soul?" Bai Yutang smiled faintly, "Don't mention it, it really looks like Cang Ni is making trouble."