Old Zhou kept his eyes down and his mind focused, then silently took two steps forward.

A-Zheng ignored them and instead looked up at Su Hua, "Little Hua'er, would you be willing to help me out?"

Su Hua assumed that she needed help, so she readily agreed.

Ah Zheng grabbed Qin Yucheng's right wrist, took out the small knife from before, and gently made a cut on the side of his wrist. "Little Hua'er, there is a similarity between curing and curing, and most of them start from the wrist."

Then, he opened the five small ceramic bottles he had just taken out and sprinkled them on the edge of his wrist one by one. "Centipedes, earthworms, calamus, realgar, and silkworms are usually what Gu worms like, but for the Nine Yin Puppet Gu, in addition to these five ingredients, the key ingredient is also the spotted claw. Since we don't have spotted claw now, we will use Xiao Hua'er's wine instead."

Su Hua was stunned. Was A Zheng teaching her how to break free from the curse?

As she finished speaking, she dipped her fingertip in two or three drops of alcohol and placed them on the powder on her wrist. Suddenly, the small bump above Qin Yucheng's elbow twitched.

On the bed, Qin Yucheng, who had been silent until now, suddenly frowned and let out a soft moan.

"Brother—" Qin Yingxian's tears fell in a stream, but he could only cover his mouth tightly, afraid of disturbing the Gu worms.

The magistrate standing next to him had his hands clenched into fists under his wide sleeves, the veins on his fists bulging.

Everyone held their breath, and after a few breaths, they finally saw the Gu worm that had been moving upwards suddenly change direction.

It slowly turned back along the direction of the wrist wound, but if you looked closely, you could see that it was traveling in a straight line.

Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, at the end of a quiet courtyard at the eastern end of Tangshan City, a person shrouded in a black robe suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.