Gu Yanfei stopped them and said, "Wait, let's go at night. I will go with you."
Fan Beiran witnessed two miracles in just one hour. He was completely convinced of Gu Yanfei and wanted to worship her as his ancestor.
Fan Beiran asked with a smile: "Sister, how do you say it?"
He smiled as flatteringly as he could.
"This love Gu is divided into son Gu and mother Gu." Gu Yanfei leisurely sat back on the chair by the window and spoke slowly, "The person who is infected with the son Gu will unconditionally fall in love with the person who is pregnant with the mother Gu, and will be infatuated with him until death."
"Right now, I have only taken out the sub-gu from your sister's body."
As he spoke, Fan Beiran subconsciously looked towards the calico cat on the ground. The calico cat, which looked as pretty as a cat in a New Year picture, didn't even glance at him, but was playing with the poisonous insect with its claws repeatedly and with great interest.
The poor poisonous insect had been tortured by the cat to the point of being on the verge of death, with only the tip of its thin tail still trembling occasionally.
Gu Yanfei was afraid that the cat would kill the insect, so he picked it up with a silver needle, put it into a small porcelain bottle, sealed the bottle, and threw it into a wooden box.
She took the towel that Juanbi handed over and slowly wiped her fingers. She looked inexplicably carefree and said with a smile, "It's getting late now anyway, let's wait a little longer."
We waited until dark.
The night fell completely, and when the sound of the night watchman's bell was heard in the distance, an ordinary green-covered carriage drove out of the west corner gate of the Gu Mansion and headed towards the west of the city.
We arrived at an old house in the back streets of the west city.
The house was no more than two rooms wide, with mottled walls, broken tiles and rotten windows. There was no light inside and it was pitch black.
The curtain of the carriage was lifted by a bare hand, revealing a pair of large eyes with distinct black and white. The owner of the eyes took a look at the old house, then lowered the curtain and mouthed to Fan Mushuang silently, "Go. I'll follow you."
Fan Mushuang nodded, lifted the curtain of the carriage, and jumped off the carriage nimbly without anyone's help. She walked towards the dark old house. Gu Yanfei was only three or four steps behind her.
When she was about to reach the front door, there was a "creak" and the tightly closed door was opened from the inside, and a faint smell of mold and damp hit her in the face.
Behind the door was a man of medium height, wearing a blue robe and a silk scarf of the same color. He was in his early twenties, with an ordinary appearance, a square face, a big nose, thick lips, and cheeks covered with dense acne pits.
"Shuangshuang." The scholar looked eagerly at Fan Mushuang outside the door, grinning with a mouthful of yellow teeth, a smile that was both surprised and contented.
He was obviously getting impatient, and he stepped out of the door impatiently to greet her, holding a dim glass oil lamp in his hand.
The light from the oil lamp illuminated an area of four or five feet in front and behind, making the surrounding atmosphere seem a little eerie.
"Mu..." He immediately noticed that there was someone behind Fan Mushuang. He was startled at first, but then he found that it was a beautiful girl of the same age as Fan Mushuang, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
The scholar's astonished eyes swept back and forth across Gu Yanfei's face and body, secretly guessing her identity.
This girl is pretty, but she dresses plainly, and besides a jade hairpin, she doesn't even have a piece of jewelry to show off, so it's obvious that she comes from a very ordinary family. It's said that those wealthy families would keep a beautiful maid next to the girl, to be her companion in the future...
Thinking of this, the scholar felt a surge of heat in his heart and his eyes lit up with excitement.
Fan Mushuang narrowed his eyes and stared at the scholar's face for a long time, racking his brains to recall the past.
Gradually, the face in her confused memory, which was as blurry as a portrait soaked in water, finally became clear and overlapped with the face in front of her.
"Xue Lang?" In order to avoid accidental injury, Fan Mushuang called out tentatively.
"Shuangshuang, you're here." Xue Shusheng took a step closer to Fan Mushuang with a smile on his face. Under the dim oil lamp, his triangular eyes, which were neither big nor small, appeared unusually bright, and there seemed to be some heavy shadow hidden in them.
In response to this, Fan Mushuang's reaction was——
He kicked the other person hard in the abdomen.
"Ah!" Xue Shusheng screamed and staggered back two steps. The oil lamp in his hand fell to the ground in the room, and the glass lampshade shattered into pieces.
Gu Yuan and Fan Beiran, who were not far behind, walked out from the shadows with complicated expressions.
They were planning to wait for an opportunity to act, but they didn't expect Fan Mushuang to kick Xue Shusheng unexpectedly.
Gu Yuan switched the scabbard from his left hand to his right hand, curled his lips slightly, and said jokingly to Fan Beiran, who was dressed like a lantern: "Didn't you say that your fifth sister is well-behaved and cute?"
He thought that the wild girl in her childhood had been trained by Mrs. Fan into a lady from a noble family.
Fan Beiran: “…”
Before Fan Beiran could say anything, he saw movement ahead again.
Gu Yan grabbed Xue Shusheng's upper arm as fast as lightning and kicked him hard on the shin. He pulled and kicked again. With just two or three simple and light moves, Xue Shusheng, a big man, flew backwards and fell on his back.
Gu Yanfei stepped on his right shoulder with just a little force, and Xue Shusheng, who fell to the ground, let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered, which was particularly creepy in this dark and silent alley.
Fan Beiran raised his eyebrows, smiled like a fox, patted Gu Yuan on the shoulder, and said with a half-smile: "Didn't you say that your sister is well-behaved and cute?"
The two men stared at each other quietly, one sneered, the other sneered, and sparks flew where their eyes met.
The two of them turned their gazes away almost at the same time and looked at the two little girls in front of them, with the same emotion written in their eyes.
My sister is still the cutest!
Gu Yuan held the sword in his arms and stood aside, waiting.
"You... who are you?" Xue Shusheng's voice was a little hoarse from the pain, and he asked Gu Yanfei who was stepping on his calf, "Why are you hitting me for no reason?!"
"Isn't your last name Xue?" Gu Yanfei smiled brightly, "Then I didn't hit the wrong person. It was fate and reason."
Xue Shusheng's face twisted for a moment.
"Shuangshuang, how can you just sit there and watch this woman treat me like this?" His affectionate gaze fell on Fan Mushuang's delicate little face, and a shadow seemed to flash in his dark eyes.
"You and I are truly in love with each other. This is a marriage that will last for three lifetimes. We are destined to be together."
His voice was so sincere and lingering.
Fan Mushuang looked down at Xue Shusheng who was lying on the ground.
The two were only three or four feet apart. She could see that the man's square face was full of pits and there was a finger-sized mole on his chin. He also had a faint sour smell coming from his body.
Fan Mushuang recalled how she had been trying to commit suicide these days, how she had been obsessed with Xue Lang embroidering a wedding dress, and how she had vowed to express her infatuation with him. A feeling of nausea surged up in her heart, and goose bumps appeared all over her body, and her hair stood on end.
So disgusting!
Fan Mushuang grabbed Gu Yanfei's arm, wanting to cover her eyes but also wanting to wash them away. She asked silently with her eyes, "Can she kill someone to silence him?" No hurry! Gu Yanfei slightly increased the strength of his footsteps.
The extremely beautiful girl was as slender as a piece of paper, but when she stepped on him, Xue Shusheng felt like a mountain was pressing down on him.
"Ah——" Xue Shusheng let out another heart-wrenching scream that almost broke through the roof. Cold sweat streamed down his forehead and he was in so much pain that he felt exhausted all over.
With a "click".
His right shoulder was dislocated by the girl.
The girl's cold and lazy voice slowly rang out: "The mother Gu is here."
Gu Yanfei pointed at Xue Shusheng's forehead with a determined expression.
When Xue Shusheng heard the word "mother Gu", he was struck by lightning. Sweat poured down like rain and his whole body was wet. He seemed like a fish pulled out of the water. He could only gasp weakly with his mouth open.
They know?!
They actually knew?!
This thought echoed in his mind repeatedly, stirring up extremely strong emotions: shock, despair, pain, and more importantly, fear, fear of the future.
Xue Shusheng opened and closed his mouth, but no sound came out for a long time.
Gu Yanfei took out a small porcelain bottle from his sleeve pocket with his other hand and opened the stopper.
The next moment, a long worm as thin as a silver thread poked its head out from the mouth of the bottle, swaying and trembling, and spitting out red silk as thin as silk from its mouth and wrapped around its body.
With the appearance of this poisonous insect, a dot suddenly appeared on Xue Shusheng's forehead. The dot quickly turned into a line, twisting and squirming under the skin... propping up his skin.
The love Gu in the small porcelain bottle extended another half an inch outward, as if there was some invisible attraction between it and the "line" under Xue Shusheng's skin. The "line" moved even more violently under his skin, as if it was about to break through the skin.
The moment he saw Zi Gu, Xue Shusheng's face became even uglier and as pale as paper.
He naturally understood what it meant when the sub-Gu was taken out.
No wonder Fan Mushuang's attitude towards him has completely changed...
Gu Yanfei asked lightly, "Who gave you this pair of love insects?"
Few people in the Central Plains knew about witchcraft. Judging from the accent of this scholar, he was from the capital. He did not have any signs of a person who raised witchcraft. He had neither any other witchcraft nor the smell of poisonous or medicinal herbs. His hands were white and unharmed, and as delicate as a woman's.
"..." Xue Shusheng's eyes widened even more, and his bloodshot eyeballs moved around unsteadily.
He told himself in his heart that he must not confess. If he confessed, the Fan family would not let him go.
He just refused to admit it! "Who?" Gu Yanfei stepped down again, continued to exert force, and asked again.
From the changes in the scholar's expression, Gu Yanfei could tell that this pair of love insects were indeed not raised by him.
Xue Shusheng felt that his right shoulder blade was almost crushed. He screamed again, his lips trembling like a sieve, and he almost fainted from the pain.
Gu Yanfei suddenly loosened his feet and pulled Fan Mushuang back two steps.
"..." Xue Shusheng quickly covered his right shoulder, rolled over in pain, and curled up like a shrimp, looking miserable.
He thought he had escaped, but the next moment his vision darkened and a tall figure appeared at the door.
A handsome face with a terrifying smile came into his sight.
"With you, you still want to be my brother-in-law?" Fan Beiran looked down at Xue Shusheng with a friendly smile, and kicked him between the legs. The kick was as fast as the wind, without any mercy.
“Ah——”
A scream from the depths of the soul resounded throughout the house, and the coachman of the Fan family who was guarding outside shuddered when he heard it.
Gu Yuan's eyes twitched and he quickly walked over, blocking his sister's sight unnoticeably and glared at Fan Beiran.
There are girls here too!
However, Fan Beiran was just starting to get angry and didn't pay any attention to Gu Yuan. He kicked again and again, each kick harder than the last, with an attitude that showed he wanted to cripple or kill the man, full of violence.
Gu Yanfei watched coldly, neither his face nor his heart was moved in the slightest.
If the love poison had not been removed, Fan Mushuang's fate would have been the same as in her previous life, ending up in a brothel, with her beauty fading early, and her life ruined! Xue Shusheng's screams continued one after another.
After a while, his face and nose were swollen and swollen after being kicked by Fan Beiran. He looked like a bloody pig's head, with bruises, purples and reds all over, and his facial features were unrecognizable.
The raised "line" on his forehead was still wriggling, crawling around and around on his bumpy face, as if it was avoiding something, or chasing something, making Xue Shusheng's face even more hideous and weird.
Fan Mushuang still felt unsatisfied. He rubbed the goose bumps on his wrists and turned to Fan Beiran and shouted, "Second brother, keep fighting!"
"If you kill him, it's my fault. It's a waste of money to keep him alive!"
If it wasn't disgusting, Fan Mushuang would have done it herself.
Gu Yuan silently looked at Fan Mushuang who had an indignant expression, and then recalled her affectionate look when she was in Gu's house before. She was like a completely different person.
Gu Yuan took two more steps towards Gu Yanfei and whispered, "Can the love poison really make a person fall in love with the person who cast it for the rest of their lives? Can it make a person completely lose their mind and go against their true will?"
This is not just momentary confusion, but it will make people confused for a lifetime and make them isolated from their friends and relatives. That is too scary.
Killing is not the right thing to do. This is even more cruel than killing this person! Gu Yanfei nodded: "If it is a top-grade love Gu, once you are infected, it can never be cured. The Gu will kill you and the relationship will not end until you die. At the moment when the Gu is injected, the infected person is like a puppet without a soul."
"To be alive is to be dead."
"As for the love poison that Miss Fan Wu was infected with, it is just an ordinary one."
"Even a cat can make Fan Mushuang change his mind, that's all."
When Fan Mushuang was bewitched by Qingguang, Gu Yanfei was convinced that the other party's love poison could be cured.
Gu Yanfei said it lightly, but Gu Yuan still had some lingering fear: if there was no sister, the Fan family would not even know what happened to Fan Mushuang, and could only watch their good girl being ruined...
Just like when he found out that his sister was switched...
Gu Yuan's eyes were as dark as the night. He clenched the scabbard tightly in his hand, and his knuckles protruded slightly from the force.
After a long silence, he suddenly said sarcastically: "It seems that Prince Kang and Fang Mingfeng are also poisoned by love."
"They are so obsessed with love that they are ready to die."
Gu Yanfei couldn't help but be stunned.
She was distracted and didn't pay attention to the small porcelain bottle in her hand. The little Gu crawled out of the bottle and jumped to the ground...
Gu Yanfei half-closed his eyes, fluttered his eyelashes, and silently chanted in his heart: Love Gu.
They do look alike.
Still as devoted as ever.
Like a moth to a flame.
Just as selfless and forgetful of home.
To put it nicely, they are deeply in love and will never change even if it means death.
But if you think about it from another angle, it might be like being poisoned by a love poison.
"Sister." Seeing that she was absent-minded, Gu Yuan called her softly.
Gu Yanfei then realized that the small porcelain bottle in his hand was empty. The escaped insect fell to the ground, wriggling its slender body and crawling slowly, its body twisted into a wavy line.
After Fan Beiran gave Xue Shusheng another heavy kick, he walked towards the brother and sister, curled his lips in disdain and said, "He confessed."
"He said that he stole this love poison from an old Taoist priest in Wuliang Temple. The old Taoist priest's name is 'Yunqiu', and he is a short and fat old Taoist priest in his sixties."
Fan Beiran stood with his arms folded, and glanced with contempt at Xue Shusheng, who was dying on the ground.
This scholar was really a scoundrel. He said that Fan Mushuang praised his calligraphy because she appreciated his talent, so he fell in love with Fan Mushuang at first sight and went to the main hall to seek fate. An old Taoist saw his infatuation and said he could help him. So he gave him a pair of love poison and made his wish come true.
Bah! This kind of nonsense, do you really think that Mr. Fan is a fool? !
Fan Beiran beat the man up again, and the scholar finally told the truth.
"Ah." Fan Mushuang seemed to have thought of something, and he clapped his hands with his eyes slightly open, "Last November, I accompanied my mother to the Wuliang Temple and donated some incense money. The Taoist priests at the Wuliang Temple also gave my mother a handwritten copy of the Tao Te Ching."
"I've only been there that once...ah!"
Halfway through her words, Fan Mushuang screamed in shock, her voice breaking, and she was about to jump up and down.
"It, it, it... why is it crawling towards me?" Fan Mushuang pointed at the squirming sub-Gu on the ground. The sub-Gu was crawling slowly towards Fan Mushuang, getting closer and closer.
The little girl's right hand was trembling, and her voice was trembling, and her harmless round face made her look like a pitiful little white rabbit.
She was not afraid of anything, including snakes, insects, rats and ants, except for this one. She was really scared of it! Fan Beiran wanted his sister to hide with him, but before he could say anything, he saw Fan Mushuang had already impatiently hidden behind Gu Yanfei, looking like a little bird, very charming and touching.
Fan Beiran: “…”
Gu Yuan silently turned his head and sneered softly.
Gu Yanfei took out a talisman from his sleeve, held it between his index and middle fingers, and shook it gently. A corner of the talisman ignited without fire.
A cluster of bright flames illuminated Gu Yanfei's small face. Her fair skin looked like glowing pearls in the dim old house, giving her a solemn and dignified look.
The insect on the ground seemed to be burned by fire, and its slender body bounced back in fright. Almost at the same time, the "line" under Xue Shusheng's forehead also bounced up, causing Xue Shusheng to scream in pain again.
"Step back." Gu Yanfei said lightly.
Gu Yuan and Fan Beiran took a few steps back as they were told, while Fan Mushuang still clung to Gu Yanfei, holding her arm and taking two steps back, almost becoming her pendant.
Zi Gu fled in panic and turned around, crawling towards Xue Shusheng like a turtle, stretching and shrinking, twisting and moving.
The closer Zi Gu crawled, the more painful Xue Shusheng felt on his forehead. His head ached like a splitting headache, and it felt like something was rolling around in his brain, frightening him to the point of almost losing his soul.
He wanted to escape, but his right shoulder was dislocated and several bones in his body were broken, so he could not move his body at all.
He couldn't get up, and could only keep rubbing his back against the ground and struggling to move backwards, sweating profusely, and shouting, "Please spare me! I know I was wrong!"
"Isn't Miss Fan Wu all right?!"
"Help……"
Amid Xue Shusheng's miserable screams, the insect finally slowly crawled onto his body, and slowly entered his nostrils, its slender body gradually disappearing...
Finally, there was nothing to see.
Seeing this scene, Fan Mushuang got goose bumps all over his body. The hairs on his neck and arms stood up. He leaned towards Gu Yanfei and asked in a low voice, "He...what will happen to him?"
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