Chapter 14 Chapter 14 and Ayu Binding Love Gu
In her grief, she vaguely felt that there was something strange about her late husband's body. When she looked closely at the man's face, she was surprised to find that there seemed to be a layer of glue with slightly curled edges behind his ears. The glue was not human skin, but more like a layer of fake skin.
A terrible thought suddenly flashed through Hanyu's mind: Isn't this the original appearance of the corpse?
She recalled hearing from the elders in her tribe that one of the secret arts of the Central Plains was the art of disguise, which could transform a person's face into another person's. So, could this body not be Ah Jiang's? Was Yin Jinglong lying to her?
She gently lifted the curled face behind the corpse's ear and found that it was indeed a mask. After completely tearing off the mask on the corpse's face, she found a completely unfamiliar face underneath. After carefully observing the corpse's appearance, she also found a faint tattoo of black words behind the corpse's ear.
It was exactly the same as the "dragon" tattoo on the faces of the guards she saw in the palace. Sure enough, the male corpse was not Ajiang, but someone from the palace!
Just as she was realizing what was going on, a crisp applause suddenly rang out from behind her. Yin Jinglong walked leisurely to the ice coffin and praised her, "Sister-in-law is truly very clever. You actually saw through such a flawless disguise?"
At this moment, Hanyu took advantage of his unpreparedness and quickly pulled out the other half of the broken jade hairpin from the brocade pouch that accompanied the corpse. Pointing at him, she demanded, "What was your treacherous plan to deceive me by disguising a male corpse as A Jiang? Where is the real A Jiang?"
Yin Jinglong was not at all afraid of the broken jade hairpin in her hand. Instead, he put his hands behind his back, straightened his waist, and faced her directly. He responded: "If I say I did this to save him, would you believe it?"
Rescue someone? Why would they kidnap and hide a living person to save someone? Han Yu thought this was ridiculous!
"Now that things have come to this, I'd like to hear how you saved people. I want to see what lies you can come up with!"
She continued to point the tip of the lily flower at him, listening to him recall what had happened during the days when Yin Jingheng was missing.
The Yin family is a royal family. The brothers' father, Prince Xian, is the younger brother of the late emperor. After the late emperor ascended the throne, his father was conferred the title of prince.
Prince Xian had many wives and concubines in his life, but few children. Now, the only two healthy adults are brothers Yin Jinglong and Yin Jingheng.
His elder brother Yin Jingheng was the general defending the Great Yin and should have sworn allegiance to the emperor until death. However, for some reason he committed treason during the war with the enemy, which led to the defeat of the Great Yin and countless casualties.
In order to avoid the death penalty imposed by the emperor, he secretly fled the Central Plains and his whereabouts have been unknown for several years. The emperor has sent people to search for him over the years but to no avail.
His brother's treasonous act implicated Prince Xian's family, and even Yin Jinglong, who served as regent, was frequently impeached by court officials.
Later, it was his aunt Princess Chaoyang who spoke on his behalf in front of the emperor, thus saving the lives of Prince Xian and his family.
She told Yin Jinglong that if he wanted to be pardoned by the emperor, he would either have to hand over his brother's head to the emperor personally, or do something to make amends for his crime.
Princess Chaoyang heard that there was a mysterious statue located on the Yulong Snow Mountain, a thousand miles away from the Central Plains. The statue of the Snow Mountain Goddess had a soul-stirring power. The current emperor ascended the throne at a young age and his foundation in the court was unstable. If the power of the statue could be used to build a brave army for the emperor, the imperial power would be consolidated.
So Yin Jinglong led his troops to the snow-capped mountains to seize the statue, but unexpectedly met Yin Jingheng who had been missing for many years on the way up the mountain.
"You don't know, but I thought my brother hadn't returned for years, perhaps already dead in a foreign land. I never imagined we'd be reunited. However, the evidence of my brother's treason was irrefutable, and he was doomed. But out of brotherly love, I couldn't bear to personally take his head and claim credit for it from His Majesty. So, I devised this scheme to deceive His Majesty and save his life."
He lowered his eyes with a sad and helpless expression, and sometimes revealed a hint of resentment, as if blaming Hanyu for blaming him indiscriminately.
"Since he is not dead, then where did you hide him? I beg you to let me see him~"
Recalling the memories of his past life up to this point, Han Yu, who was poisoned by the Gu, could not bear the heart-wrenching pain of the poison and fainted.
After she fainted, the poisonous insects in her body gradually died down. Yin Jinglong, who was feeling uncomfortable and uneasy because of the restlessness of the queen insect in his body, also gradually calmed down.
Doctor Xia had removed the broken arrow for him, and the wound stopped bleeding after being applied with gold medicine to stop the bleeding. He packed up his medicine box and was about to leave when Yin Jinglong stopped him.
"Doctor Xia, wait a minute! Since you know about the Southern Xinjiang Gu poison, please help take a look at her as well."
"Your Highness... this... I've only heard of it. Today is the first time I've seen this kind of poison. I have no idea how to treat it! Your Highness, please seek help from someone else. I have to return to the palace to check Concubine Liu's pulse. Please excuse me."
Doctor Xia didn't wait for him to ask any more questions. He picked up the medicine box and left quickly. Yin Jinglong looked at Hanyu who fell to the ground and frowned. "I haven't had enough fun yet. I don't want you to die like this!"
A suggestive sneer appeared on his stern face, and he turned around and sent a pigeon to tell the person who gave him the poisonous insect.
It was late at night. Yin Jinglong sent away the guards beside him and walked into Hanyu's room with a mysterious woman.
Hanyu, who was poisoned and passed out, suddenly had a nightmare at night. Her peach blossom eyes were as big as copper bells, and her lifeless eyes were full of fear. Her whole body was trembling, and her forehead was covered with spider-like beads of sweat. She kept shouting "Ajiang" from time to time.
As soon as Yin Jinglong entered the Golden Gate, he heard her calling that man's name, and he suddenly clenched his fists under his sleeves.
"Is she still awake?"
Si Lan, the maid hiding aside and wiping his body, nodded. The moment she looked up, she saw a graceful woman in purple clothes and veil following behind the prince.
Although Si Lan had doubts, he didn't dare to look at the woman any longer and wisely left the room.
Yin Jinglong looked at Min Hanyu lying on the bed. Her icy skin was tinged with lava-like red gold. Her ten fingers were scratching the edge of the bed unconsciously, and a golden thread was faintly visible under the skin of her neck.
He questioned the woman, "Zhu, didn't you say that those poisoned by this Gu wouldn't be in danger of death? Why is she unconscious?"
The purple-clothed woman named "Na Zhu" is a Gu woman from southern Xinjiang.
A month ago, Yin Jinglong, who was half-believing and half-doubting the rumors about the statue, was afraid that the Snow Mountain plan would change. So before entering the Yulong Snow Mountain, he sent people to southern Xinjiang to look for people who were good at using poison, in an attempt to use the poison to control others. Only then did he find Na Zhu, the most skilled poison girl in southern Xinjiang.
The spider finger stretched out, and several white spider silks suddenly came out from her sleeves and wrapped around Han Yu's wrist. She carefully felt his pulse.
"Strange? Her pulse may appear chaotic, but there's order within the chaos. Those Gu worms, though scattered throughout her body, are deliberately avoiding her heart meridian, as if being controlled by someone. However, the mother Gu is in your body. Without the mother Gu controlling it, how could you control the offspring?"
Before the spider finished speaking, it immediately extended its silk thread and wrapped it around Yin Jinglong's wrist and fingers: "No wonder, the mother Gu is already asleep, no wonder the child Gu is not under her control."
She then stood outside the window and blew a whistle with one hand, and summoned a gray bird from somewhere. The bird landed obediently in her palm, lowered its head and let her play with it.
"I didn't know you not only raise poisonous insects, but also birds?"
The spider raised her eyebrows and smiled, her purple eyeshadow outlining her charming and attractive eyes.
"Your Highness, don't underestimate this bird. It's called 'Que Gu'. The Gu in you and this girl's bodies are spider worms that parasitized Que Gu in their infancy. Without it, there would be no spider Gu. In short, Que Gu is the vessel in which I raise Gu. If Your Highness wishes to learn how to control Gu, he must first learn how to manipulate Que Gu to awaken the mother Gu."
Yin Jinglong frowned slightly, a hint of impatience in his eyes. "Why is it so complicated? If I have to raise the Gu myself, then what do I need you to do? From now on, you will stay by my side and be responsible for controlling the Gu worms. You have to do whatever I ask you to do. Why do I need to do it myself?"
"That spider is naturally a servant of the prince, but the heart-eating Gu you and this girl are infected with is a type of love Gu. What is a love Gu? It is born out of love and dies without love. Love drives the Gu to move, and when the mother Gu moves, the child Gu follows. Now that the mother Gu has entered your body, only your love can move it. However, the key to awakening it lies in the sparrow bone, so you must first learn to control the sparrow bone."
"My king's love?"
Yin Jinglong glanced sideways at the frail figure sleeping on the bed, his heart inexplicably tugged. He wondered when he'd developed such compassion for this woman. Could it be that he felt guilty about a past life, causing him to feel this way in this life?
The spider muttered a few words in southern Xinjiang dialect in Quegu's ear, and the bird actually flew obediently to Yin Jinglong's injured shoulder, and leaned over to his clothes where the injury was, sniffing the slight smell of blood seeping out from under the clothes.
"What is it doing?" Yin Jinglong tried to reach out and drive away the ungrateful bird.
"Your Highness, don't move! The bird bone is awakening the mother Gu."
Although he didn't know what this palm-sized bird was capable of, when it smelled the blood, Yin Jinglong felt an inexplicable warm current stirring in his dantian, and then he felt the warm current pouring out from his dantian.
"Why do I feel my body getting hot? There seems to be an indescribable power within me."
"That's the mother insect waking up. After a long sleep, the mother insect needs to eat."
"Eat? What does it need to eat inside my body?"
"The most masculine and yang essence and blood."
"What did you say?"
As soon as Yin Jinglong finished speaking, he felt that the warm current in his body suddenly changed its direction and flowed towards somewhere under his body. It seemed as if thousands of spiders were crawling in his lower body, but at this time the spider suddenly walked out of the door and closed it.
Her calm voice echoed from outside the door: "Your Highness, your mother Gu has awakened. Once the love Gu attacks, only the union of two Gu can alleviate the pain. I will not disturb you now."
"You...you come back to me!"
Yin Jinglong's voice was hoarse, and his legs were weak as he fell beside Hanyu's bed. The back of his hand accidentally touched the delicate snow-white skin on her neck, and the mother insect in his body became more and more manic.
He clenched his fists, trying hard to control his emotions, and bloody sweat unknowingly seeped out of his palms.
Suddenly, Hanyu, who was sleeping soundly on the bed, suddenly opened her eyes. She looked at the person in front of her, suddenly stood up and put her arms around his neck: "Ajiang, is that you?"
"Hmm? Why aren't you answering? Why are you looking at me like that?"
Yin Jinglong could no longer bear the excitement brought by the mother Gu. He caressed the tender face of the girl, greedily fondling the blush on her cheeks.
At this moment, his eyes were full of affection, and he called her tenderly and lovingly:
"Ayu~"
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