Chapter 159: The Gu Master Who Cultivated the Young Hero
"You will see it. Even if you can't, I will stay with you."
Lin Zhi's fingers gently stroked Qi He's hair and said what he wanted to hear.
The water in the wooden barrel shook because of the boy's movements, and the waves hit Qi He's shoulders.
He felt Lin Zhi's right hand wrapped around his shoulders and gave him a brief hug.
The heat of the body enveloped him as it approached, and moved away from him.
"Don't worry, since you call me Master, I won't abandon you."
Lin Zhi patted Qi He's shoulder and raised her hand to flick some water droplets on his face.
A little bit of heat rolled down Qi He's cheek, bringing a slightly itchy feeling.
On a slightly chilly spring night, emotions piled up like cotton wool in Qi He's heart, engraving it all.
Qi He raised his hand to wipe away the water droplets on his face, then smiled and nodded at Lin Zhi.
This was the first smile he had shown since he and Lin Zhi met, which made his childish eyes look less sad and more pure.
Lin Zhi's lips also curved, and then he said with some regret: "If only my ghost uncle was still alive, he would definitely be able to cure your eyesight."
"Uncle Ghost?"
Qi He's face showed some curiosity that was in line with his age, and he was curious about the strange things that Lin Zhi mentioned.
Even though he had read many books and heard many stories, Qi He was still young after all and had never traveled far on his own. He had only a vague understanding of the world and was also very interested in the mysterious Gu cult that he did not understand in the Central Plains.
Lin Zhi picked the topics to talk to him carefully to prevent his mind from being filled with hatred.
"Ghost Doctor Yan Sangeng was a well-known figure in the martial arts world until more than a decade ago. Of course, he was not a good person to the famous and upright sects because he saved people based on his mood. He didn't charge any money, and sometimes he would leave some painful sequelae as the consultation fee after curing the patient. Of course, if I were to come forward, he would definitely not do this, but unfortunately, he died when I was a child."
Qi He asked in confusion: "Why does he charge such a consultation fee?"
In Qi He's understanding, doctors will try their best to make the patients recover, so why would there be such a strange doctor.
"I don't know either. It may be related to his past, but no one knows and no one is curious. After all, we are not righteous people, so nothing we do is strange."
Lin Zhi said this jokingly, and picked out some stories from the martial arts world that he remembered to tell Qi He.
Qi He listened attentively, and it was not until Lin Zhi called him that he hid behind the screen to put on his clothes with a little regret.
Lin Zhi used his inner strength to dry Qi He's hair, brought the child to the bed, let him sleep in it, and lit the light before going to bed.
Before going to bed, Lin Zhi took Qi He's pulse and found that Qi He's meridians were unobstructed, making him an excellent martial arts talent.
Qi He asked anxiously, "Master, I have already practiced the Hengduan internal energy to the second level. Will it have any impact?"
You can't learn too many martial arts, this is common sense for martial artists. Different skills have different moves, and some skills are naturally incompatible with each other. It is easy to get confused if you learn too many skills. At the very least, your qi and blood will flow backwards, and at the worst, your meridians will be damaged. Qi He doesn't know what Lin Zhi wants him to learn, but he is worried that the skills will conflict.
"It's nothing serious. Your meridians are stronger and wider than those of ordinary people. There's no damage."
Qi He responded in a low voice, not looking excited.
Lin Zhi looked at the child's head at night and asked casually, "Are you unhappy?"
"I'm happy. Grandpa told me before that he would teach me all his life's skills. Now..."
Qi He had his back to Lin Zhi and spoke with a slightly nasal tone.
Lin Zhi patted his arm gently, silently comforting him.
The reason why the Qi family was exterminated is a mystery, and the same is true for him.
This was not mentioned in the information provided by 01, so he needed to explore it himself.
Qi He was still a child after all, and no matter how much he considered, there would be omissions. If Qi He knew nothing about the reasons for the misfortune in his family, he would definitely try his best to find out. However, whether it was when they met in the courtyard or when he dug him out of the coffin until now, Qi He never asked a single question, and even deliberately avoided talking about it.
If he didn't say it, Lin Zhi naturally wouldn't ask.
For Yu Linzhi, it is better for Qi He to know than not to know.
In the middle of the night, Lin Zhi felt that the child next to him was shivering.
Lin Zhi heard Qi He's confused cry of pain, turned on the light and saw Qi He's slightly purple face, knowing that this was a side effect of taking the fake death Gu pill.
He needed to take Qi He back to Miaojiang to clear it up. He fed Qi He a detoxification pill to temporarily relieve his pain, and sealed the acupoints at his heart meridian to prevent the remaining poison from flowing. He hugged Qi He, who was so cold that his teeth were chattering, and let him sleep close to him.
Qi He dreamed that he was unable to move in the pitch black. The cold wind penetrated his body and turned into fine needles that pierced his body. He didn't know where he was. He might be in a mechanism that his mother had hastily stuffed him into, or he might be in a coffin where no sound could be heard. He couldn't move at all.
He suddenly felt a source of heat and pressed closer.
Lin Zhi did not sleep well. In the second half of the night, Qi He seemed to be possessed by a ghost. He shivered and whispered "Dad", "Mom" and "Grandpa". He did not cry, but just shed tears silently, and the moisture soaked Lin Zhi's clothes.
Lin Zhi had no experience in coaxing children, so she could only hold Qi He tighter and transfer some of her internal energy into him to make him feel more comfortable.
The next day, Qi He woke up from his sleep feeling a little drowsy.
After he lost his sight, he got used to using his sense of touch to perceive his surroundings, groping around subconsciously.
Qi He was startled when he touched the soft cheek. Realizing that the person lying next to him was his master, he hastily withdrew his hand, not daring to touch anything else.
He remembered that he clearly slept with his back to his master last night, so how come he woke up in his master's arms.
Qi He felt a little embarrassed. Due to his limited vision, he didn't dare to move. He could only wait quietly for his master to wake up.
It was at this time that Qi He smelled a faint sweet fragrance. It was hard to describe this aroma with body temperature, it just smelled very good.
Lin Zhi woke up when Qi He touched her face. After looking at the quiet child for a while, Lin Zhi got up, dressed, and asked the waiter to fetch some water.
After washing up, Lin Zhi called Qi He, who was pretending to be asleep, to get up.
Qi He could dress himself, but it was a little difficult for him to tie his hair. Lin Zhi helped him to do it, took him to wash and dress, and took him to sit at the table to eat the breakfast brought in by the waiter.
Qi He had been lying in bed for a few days after taking the Gu Pill and could only eat light meals. Lin Zhi asked the waiter to buy chicken soup wontons from a nearby store, as well as a basket of shrimp dumplings, a bowl of porridge, and a bowl of soy milk, and let Qi He choose what he liked.
Qi He held the bowl of porridge with a spoon and ate whatever Lin Zhi picked up for him.
"I also tried the wontons, but the porridge is nothing good."
Lin Zhi took the bowl of porridge from Qi He's hand, scooped wontons into another small bowl and gave it to Qi He.
Lin Zhi would never share food like this before. Even when his family was in poverty, he was still required to take etiquette lessons. In addition, he did not like being so intimate with others. He did not change these habits when he first started the mission. It was only later that he gradually changed in front of his lover and became a little more intimate.
Xie Qing was most enthusiastic about sharing food in this way. Even if he did not need to eat, Xie Qing would still buy food for him. He seemed to think that what he had was tastier, so he would always exchange it with him, saying that this way he could taste more delicious food.
Lin Zhi didn't know what Qi He liked, so she wanted him to try more.
He didn't ask Qi He what he liked to eat or what he avoided. According to Qi He's personality, he would definitely just say that he was not picky about food and would not ask for too much.
Qi He held the bowl and ate obediently. He couldn't see, and he was small, so his movements were slow.
After Lin Zhi finished eating, she didn't urge him and went to pack up first.
As a Gu Master, Lin Zhi has a lot of stuff on him.
He opened the porcelain bottle, and a scarlet poisonous insect crawled out listlessly.
As a king Gu, it needs more essence and blood. Lin Zhi has not fed it well in the past few days, but today is different.
Lin Zhi made a very small but deep cut on her wrist and watched the poisonous insect crawl in. After the king of poisonous insects was satisfied, it quickly crawled out. The shell of the poisonous insect, which was originally a bit dull in color, was now bright red and a little restless.
Lin Zhi put it back into the bottle and sprinkled some medicine powder on the wound.
"Master, are you hurt?"
Qi He smelled blood and walked towards Lin Zhi nervously, holding on to the table.
"No, let's go after we're full."
Lin Zhi had already prepared the car. When going downstairs, she carried Qi He on her back and went to find the shopkeeper to get the remaining room fee.
The shopkeeper even asked with special concern: "What happened to your brother?"
Lin Zhi smiled and explained: "It's okay, the child was playing around and hurt his leg."
Qi He lay on Lin Zhi's back, pretending to be suffocated so that others could not see his face.
After taking a bath together last night, Qi He no longer felt embarrassed. He lay on his master's not-so-broad shoulders with a relaxed look on his face.
My parents and the others all said that the evil cult called Gu Cult was so inhumane, but I guess that’s not entirely true. Although I don’t know if the reason why Master helped him was just a spur of the moment decision, he was very gentle to him.
"Boys are always naughty. Doctor Liu from Renchuntang, a street away, has good medical skills. You can take your brother to see him."
"Thank you very much."
Lin Zhi thanked him and left. He was used to doing things in a foolproof manner. Even if someone came to inquire, it would only be a brother with a brother with an injured foot, and it had nothing to do with the blind and dead Young Master Qi.
When he brought Qi He out that day, he had already prepared a corpse with a similar body shape to Qi He, which was poisoned and dressed in Qi He's clothes.
When the carriage left the city, Lin Zhi informed Qi He.
Qi He looked back in the carriage, lowered his head, and clenched his fists tightly.
Dad and Mom, I will definitely come back.
In February, new buds sprout on the willow branches.
Wucheng is not particularly far from Chunyi, and the carriage can arrive there in half a day.
Lin Zhi had already rented a small courtyard here and took Qi He into the house.
Qi He stumbled as he tried to familiarize himself with the layout, and Lin Zhi took him to sit inside the house.
"We'll only be here for a while and we'll be leaving soon. You sit in the house and wait for me. If you're thirsty, there's water. If you're hungry, there's cake. I'm going out for a while, so wait for me when I come back."
Qi He nodded and asked nothing.
He had good hearing and heard the sound of Lin Zhi closing the door of the room and then the gate to the yard.
There were pastries at hand, but Qi He had no appetite, so he lay on the table waiting for his master to come back.
The sky was getting darker and Qi He could not feel the change in light. He just felt that Lin Zhi had been out for a while.
He heard the sound of the courtyard door opening and stood up from his chair.
However, there was more than one footsteps, and Qi He stood there without moving.
The footsteps were heard in the yard, and Qi He breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Lin Zhi's voice.
"Tell me the whereabouts of the mind-controlling Gu."
Lin Zhi looked at the woman in front of him who was dressed like an ordinary woman and playing with the silver bell in her hand.
He had someone lead the woman into the alley, and the prepared poison powder paralyzed the woman's body for a while. The woman did not dare to reveal her identity as a Gu master, and she did not carry much with her. Under the pressure of Wang Gu, her insects did not dare to appear. After Wang Gu drilled into her body, she could only follow.
The woman, who had turned pale the moment she saw Lin Zhi, didn't say a word. She looked at the small bell in Lin Zhi's hand with some fear, then knelt down and begged.
"The mind-controlling Gu has already been planted, and I don't know who it was planted on. This matter will definitely not involve the village. I can also exchange other valuable items with my fellow tribesmen. I only ask you to let me go."
"You should know what happens when you become a traitor."
Lin Zhi naturally knew that the mind-controlling Gu was difficult to recover, but he wanted to know valuable information.
Of course the woman knew that the fate of a traitor would be to become the lowest level of Gu tester, who could not even be considered a human being, but merely an instrument for testing Gu, and could only die in agony after his flesh and blood were eaten.
She didn't expect that she would be found again. It was obvious that the mind-controlling Gu had been infected with the King Gu, so her whereabouts could not be searched.
"Who told you to steal it, and who did you give it to?"
The woman refused to answer and just begged for mercy.
Lin Zhi shook the bell in his hand, and the woman immediately felt a pain in her stomach, and her fingers left marks on the ground.
Lin Zhi began to report the names of the gangsters who had been at Qi's house a few days ago. The woman suddenly looked up and looked at the handsome young man in front of her with some fear.
The boy had a pair of gentle eyes and lips that were naturally upturned even when he wasn't smiling, making him look like he was always smiling, even when he was torturing people.
The pain of the poisonous insect gnawing at her flesh was so severe that the woman could not make a sound. She knelt on the ground with her hair disheveled, listening to the names being called one by one, and shaking her head continuously.
Lin Zhi didn't get the answer, but from the woman's attitude she could guess that it was among these people.
Lin Zhi didn't have much time to waste on the traitor. In order to prevent the child from hearing bad content, he leaned over and lowered his voice.
Inside the door, Qi He, who had been standing still, had internal strength and excellent hearing, so he heard Lin Zhi's threatening words in a light tone.
"It would be a waste of time to take you back to Miaojiang. Why not let you starve for a few days, then cut off your fingers one by one and feed them to your mouth. If you don't have enough fingers, I'll use your palms. If you don't have any limbs, I'll cut them off from your body. Tell me, will you eat yourself first, or will the worms in your stomach eat you up first? Do you want to give it a try?"
Even when he said this, his voice was so gentle, just like when he was asked to eat the bowl of wontons in the morning.
Qi He pressed his churning stomach and his face turned slightly pale.
Only at this moment did he clearly feel what the evil cult was.
The words his parents had said in the past about the evil cult came to his mind again. The evil leaders killed people without blinking an eye, ate raw human flesh and drank human blood, and they especially liked the flesh of children.
Qi He lay stiffly on the table, from worrying that he would be abandoned to worrying that he would be killed.
No, the master promised him.
He wants to live well, grow up, and avenge his parents.
In the small courtyard, the woman who was enduring the pain shrank back and said, "I'll tell you, I'll tell you."
Lin Zhi held down the silver bell and waited for the woman to speak. However, when he saw the look in the woman's eyes the next moment, he suddenly felt something was wrong. Before he could reach out to remove the woman's jaw, the woman had already swallowed the poison hidden in her teeth. After a while, she fell to the ground, dead.
The look in Lin Zhi's eyes was gloomy and unclear. He gently shook the bell, allowing the poisonous insect to crawl out of the woman's nasal cavity.
"He betrayed his clan and stole treasure for others, and now he has committed suicide to keep the secret. He is truly loyal."
There was sarcasm in Lin Zhi's voice. He had been prepared for this and didn't care too much about the result. He just had to say this to the children in the house to prevent Qi He from thinking that he had killed someone and that he was too cruel.
Lin Zhi poured the corpse-dissolving water on the traitor's body and watched the corpse corrode.
He straightened his clothes and walked into the house.
Qi He, who seemed to have just woken up from lying on the table, stood up dazedly and asked with unfocused eyes, "Is the master back? Are you done with your work?"
Lin Zhi raised her hand and rubbed his head, looking at the red mark on his cheek, and said, "We're done, it's time for dinner, what do you want to eat?"
Qi He held the boy's soft, slender hand with distinct joints in her little hand and said obediently, "Master, it's up to you to decide."
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