She closed her eyes and craned her neck, but perhaps influenced by the "emotional influence" of the music, Yuwen Sheng did not finish her off cleanly. Instead, he used his crazy and eerie red eyes to scan her face for a moment.
Then he grabbed her hair, causing her so much pain she almost cursed. The moment she opened her eyes, he bit her shoulder until blood was drawn.
Zheng Quchi's face was contorted with pain. Panic had gripped her heart. She thought she should just keep singing. Being torn apart and eaten piece by piece like this was just too inhumane. She didn't want to die in agony.
Before she could even utter a cry, Yuwen Sheng had already released her and raised his head. His lips were stained with her blood, a vivid and striking red. Now that she was closer, Zheng Quchi noticed that his hair and clothes were covered in blood, and there were even some unidentified pieces of flesh. The blood made her nauseous, and then she couldn't hold back any longer and vomited.
After vomiting, she realized the seriousness of the situation.
She shakily raised her eyes, looking at Yuwen Sheng's petrified and stunned expression. At that moment, only one sentence kept repeating in her mind: It's all over, it's all over, it's all over...
Yuwen Sheng's brows furrowed into a deep frown, as if his very spirit was under an invisible attack, and his pupils contracted.
He rubbed his temples, as if trying to relieve some unbearable pain. Just as Zheng Quchi was holding her breath and waiting to die, he slowly raised his eyelashes and looked at her with a split, gloomy expression.
Zheng Quchi straightened her neck and stared at him with wide eyes, but when he flicked his sleeve, her vision blurred for a moment, and when she blinked again, he had disappeared.
Gone...wait, really gone?!
Zheng Quchi stood there for a long time, completely baffled... She looked bewildered and exasperated, thinking to herself, "It was driven away by the smell of my filth."
"Master..."
"lady……"
Help! Help! Someone's here! Help!
Cough, I can't shout.
Zheng Quchi looked at the group of acquaintances who had rushed back to save her, and tears welled up in her eyes. She waved to them to indicate that she was there, but then she thought again that Yuwen Sheng had just left and might not have gone far. Wouldn't it be troublesome if he heard their shouts?
She quickly waved her hand, looking anxious.
Gan Xin and Wang Zebang saw her standing on the hilltop from afar, waving her arms and jumping around excitedly. They were immediately puzzled. "(Master's) wife is so excited so early in the morning, did she find gold?"
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Afterwards, Wang Zebang told Zheng Quchi that they had basically achieved their main objectives for coming to Fengdu Ferry.
He led his troops to destroy the Yazi Tower built by the barbarians at Fengdukou. The secret guard's honey trap caused the Xidi tribe and the Kezhu tribe to turn against each other, and they were captured in one fell swoop. Most importantly, the leader of the Kezhu tribe was also captured successfully this time.
Only then did Zheng Quchi realize that Yuwen Sheng's visit to Wubao was not merely to suppress bandits and eliminate enemies, but also to remove the curse.
After extensive research, they learned that "Phoenix Tears" originated from the Kezhu tribe and spread to the Central Plains. It was originally used by a powerful Gu master of the Kezhu tribe for revenge. It is said that he was a genius in the tribe, but because of his extraordinary talent, he aroused the jealousy of the chief and was framed and driven out of the tribe.
Later, in order to seek revenge, he created a vicious blood curse called "Phoenix Tears." Why is it considered vicious? Because in order to control the blood curse from taking effect, it is necessary to irrigate it with the blood of one's relatives, and the amount must be larger each time. In order to survive, one would undoubtedly have to slaughter all one's blood relatives.
After killing all his closest relatives, he slowly descended into a state of madness and misery, becoming a killing machine, and finally died in agony.
Upon hearing this, Zheng Quchi's face turned pale: "You want the blood of a relative? Then what about Yuwen Sheng...?"
Seeing that she seemed to have misunderstood, Wang Zebang quickly explained, "Madam, the general did not do that. Every time the poison flares up, he relies on his strong willpower and profound inner strength to suppress it. But doing so will have a very bad effect, which will seriously affect his temperament day after day, making him more and more likely to lose control each time."
Recently, it is clear that the general is nearing his end, which is why he is so eager to find the leader of the Kezhu tribe, because only the secret Gu technique passed down through generations by the leader can offer a solution.
It turns out that Yuwen Sheng hadn't returned for so many years because he was worried about losing control. That's why he had been fighting abroad for so long until these problems were completely resolved.
There's no need to go into details; if Zheng Quchi were to think about what kind of person Yuwen Sheng was in the past, he would understand the meaning behind Wang Zebang's words.
He wasn't born cruel and cold-blooded, nor was he born a ruthless killer, much less a cruel and heartless person...
"Who is it? Who planted the Phoenix Tear on him?" Zheng Quchi asked.
Currently, Zheng Quchi has three suspects. One is the Prince of Ye, who is unaware of Yuwen Sheng's true identity and believes he is a member of the Yuwen family. Therefore, he used a curse on him to make him kill the entire Yuwen clan and cut off the Yuwen family's lineage.
Or perhaps it was Sheng's mother who hated the Prince of Ye and also loathed Yuwen Sheng, so she poisoned him with a curse so that he would avenge her when he grew up.
Finally, there's... General Yuwen.
"It's General Yuwen."
Wang Zebang revealed the answer directly.
When Zheng Quchi heard Wang Zebang say it was General Yuwen, it was as if he had expected it. He was filled with emotion and sighed helplessly, "...He didn't dare to take revenge himself until his death. Should we call him cowardly or blindly loyal?"
I never expected the lady to make such a comment.
Wang Zebang paused for a moment, then said, "You know everything, Madam?"
Zheng Quchi nodded: "Yuwen Sheng told me some things, but he didn't mention the Phoenix Tears. Back when my sister was poisoned by Gu, he knew it at a glance and even knew to use the Divine Wood Dream to counteract it. This shows that he had investigated this matter before. So why hasn't he removed the Gu himself all these years?"
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