Chapter 331 Waiting for the Rabbit
"Okay." Tong Niang cooperated very well, recalling the past while saying, "The temple master's surname is Jiang, and his given name is Yao. He is from Yuecheng, only 24 years old, and is the last disciple of the previous generation of Miao witches. He is skilled in Gu and poison.
She grew up in Yuecheng and has never left. She came out this time to avenge her master and kill the enemy who murdered her master."
Chu Liuzheng raised his eyes and asked, "Is her enemy called Yin Lanci?"
"Xiao Yu even told you this?" Tong Niang looked surprised. Under Chu Liuzheng's gaze, she nodded, "Yes, the master's enemy is called Yin Lanci."
She said, "Yin Lanci was originally her senior sister. She disappeared after leaving Yuecheng when she came of age. Later, she returned to Yuecheng and seized the Netherworld Gu. She also killed the master who raised her with her own hands. After that..."
She paused, staring at Chu Liuzheng, the corners of her lips slowly raised in a strange arc, and a sinister light shot out of her eyes: "Die!"
One breath, two breaths, three breaths.
Nothing happened.
The joy on Tongniang's face faded and her eyes widened in shock. Why was this woman okay?
"Are you looking at this?" Chu Liuzheng carefully picked up a small insect with a green back shell at his feet with his handkerchief and waved it in front of Tongniang. "I forgot to tell you, there's a genius doctor in our team who knows a thing or two about poisonous insects. I just happened to have some poisonous insect powder sprinkled on me."
Tong Niang: “…”
[Ah, luckily I found out Tongniang could use Gu, so I asked Doctor Feng for some medicine powder to sprinkle on myself, otherwise I would have been in trouble.]
Chu Liuzheng's heart was shaking with fear, but he remained calm as he used the teacup to hold the insect, then looked up at Tong Niang:
"Let me guess. When you were fighting those two guys just now, you didn't use Gu. Was it because the Shadow Moon Gu in Master Jiang was dormant, affecting the sub-Gu in you? You forced the Gu insect to kill me just now, and you suffered a heavy backlash, right?"
"How did you know about Shadow Moon Gu?" Tong Niang's chest was boiling with blood. She slowly swallowed the sweet taste in her throat and said in a hoarse voice, "Don't even mention Ping Yu. That kid doesn't know anything at all."
"I guessed it." Chu Liuzheng smiled, "I've always been pretty good at guessing."
This reason sounded quite perfunctory, so Tongniang naturally wouldn't believe it.
She stared at Chu Liuzheng and looked at him.
Shadow Moon Gu is a secret passed down from generation to generation by the direct descendants of the Jiang family. It is also the foundation of the Jiang family's existence and will not be passed on to outsiders. Could this woman also be a member of the Jiang family?
But she had been with Jiang's family for more than 30 years and had never seen this woman.
Her eyes were full of suspicion, and she asked in a deep voice, "Who are you?"
"Instead of worrying about who I am, you should think about how to save your young lady," Chu Liuzheng said. "Today is a full moon. If I throw Abbey Master Jiang into the forest, guess what will happen?"
"You..." Tong Niang's expression tightened, "What else do you know?"
"Guess." Chu Liuzheng blinked, "Whether to save him or not is up to you."
Tong Niang snorted coldly: "If you really want to kill the young lady, why are you still talking nonsense with me? You are just threatening me with the young lady's life."
"Yes, I'm threatening you." Chu Liuzheng reached out, his slender white fingertips slowly smoothing out the wrinkles on the skirt. His voice was soft and slow, "It's okay if you don't want to tell me. I can wait until Abbey Master Jiang is tortured by the poisonous insects and is in a state of being unable to live or die and ask her properly. I think she will be very willing to tell me then."
Hearing the words "the poisonous insect bites back", Tongniang's heart skipped a beat.
The woman opposite was not trying to deceive her, she really knew the inside story.
Who is this woman?
"I almost forgot. I can also send someone to invite Bao'er to come as a guest." Chu Liuzheng turned and smiled at her. "You haven't seen your son in three years. You must miss him very much, right?"
Miss, Baoer... Tongniang closed her eyes, her shoulders slumped slightly, and finally compromised, "What do you want to know?"
[Oh my goodness! I finally managed to pry this guy's mouth open. I was so tired of pretending.]
Chu Liuzheng secretly exhaled and asked, "Is what you just said true?"
Tong Niang nodded: "If you don't believe it, you can send people to Yuecheng to investigate. The incident of Yin Lanci killing his master caused a big stir, and everyone in Yuecheng knows about it."
With the system in hand, Chu Liuzheng naturally knew that she was not lying.
"Go on, tell me, Yin Lanci seized the Netherworld Gu and killed Master. What happened after that?"
"She escaped." Hatred flashed in Tongniang's eyes. "Young lady has searched almost all of Dasheng for her, but she couldn't find any trace of her."
[Tsk, it's strange she could find him. By the time Junior Sister was looking for him, Yin Lanci had already changed her appearance and married the Fifth Prince, becoming his consort. By the time Junior Sister found the Imperial City, Yin Lanci had fled to Jiangnan. It was a complete miss.]
Chu Liuzheng asked, "Don't you Gu practitioners all have special ways of finding people? It's useless?"
"Of course I used it, but Yin Lanci has the Netherworld Gu," Tong Niang said. "The Netherworld Gu is naturally able to mask the host's aura, preventing other Gu insects from sensing it. The Shadow Moon Gu in Miss's body is an exception, but it can't be used at too far a distance. The only time Miss sensed the aura of the Netherworld Gu was in Longkou Town."
"So Master Jiang built Taoran Temple here and waited for the opportunity?"
Tongniang nodded.
Chu Liuzheng was speechless.
"Why would someone resort to such a stupid method? What if Yin Lanci comes once and never comes again? Wouldn't all this waiting be in vain?"
Seeing her strange look, Tong Niang didn't want her young lady to be treated as a fool, so she quickly added, "There are other reasons why the young lady has stayed in Longkou Town."
Chu Liuzheng asked, "Digging up graves and corpses to feed the Gu worms?"
Tong Niang's eyes flickered slightly: "...This is just one of them."
"Oh." Chu Liuzheng nodded, "What about the others?"
Tongniang subconsciously wanted to tell a lie, but looking at the pair of clear almond eyes opposite her, which clearly had no deterrent power and even revealed a bit of innocence, she inexplicably felt that her lie would be seen through.
Seeing that she was just staring at him without saying anything, Chu Liuzheng raised his hand and waved it in front of her eyes: "Hey, hey! Are you making up some nonsense?"
Tongniang's expression became unnatural for a moment when her thoughts were guessed.
Chu Liuzheng: “…”
[No, I was just asking casually. Are you really making this up?]
She cleared her throat and urged, "Hurry up and tell me. If you dare to lie to me, you will suffer the consequences."
"I didn't lie to you." Tong Niang licked her dry lips and asked tentatively, "Before I say anything, can I see my young lady first?"
"So you can collude with each other, right?" Chu Liuzheng looked at her, "Are you going to tell me or not? If you don't, I will—"
"I say!" Tong Niang, not wanting to hear any more of Chu Liuzheng's threats, interrupted, "The young lady discovered that Yin Lanci's men were in Longkou Town, and she was certain that Yin Lanci would come again, so she stayed here. To lure Yin Lanci here as quickly as possible, she even wrote many scripts about him, hoping to anger him and make him come looking for her."
Chu Liuzheng asked curiously, "Your young lady should just write about Yin Lan Ci, why did she have to include the emperor? Aren't you afraid of attracting officials?"
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