Chapter 121 Heart-Eating Gu
At this point, the Hades River and the Hades Water finally had to face a fact.
They arrived at the same place as twelve years ago and fell into the hands of the same group of people.
After so many years, I still find it scary when I see this female bandit again.
What was even more terrifying was that another person walked out from behind the female bandit.
He has a handsome face, as beautiful as a zhi orchid.
Bai Xun said to Hao Ren, "Village Chief Hao, everyone is here, and there's nothing serious going on."
Hao Ren nodded: "Are the children okay?"
Bai Xun: "I stretched my muscles a bit, but I wasn't hurt."
Minghe's eyes opened wide, and he looked at the person in front of him in disbelief.
"You, you are not dead..." Pei Lingyun was not dead and was living well in this bandit's nest.
Not only did he survive, he also turned this bandit's den into a prosperous village.
It turns out that he is the village chief of Liangmin Village.
Hao Ren glared at the Styx water coldly:
"You are from Chang'an."
None of the six people answered. Not only did they not speak, they also wanted to commit suicide by biting the poison stuck in their back teeth.
Some assassins in the underworld would hide poison in their back teeth. Once they realized they had no chance of survival, they would bite the poison and commit suicide.
In this way, you can avoid subsequent torture and give yourself a clean end.
They are people who live on the edge of a knife, ready to die at any time.
But the tongue of the Styx moved around the back teeth and did not find the hidden poison.
The four killers under their command also had a dull expression.
The poison is gone?
Wu Yingniang seemed to see through their thoughts:
"Don't waste your energy. Whatever you hid in your mouth or on your body is gone."
Before the six of them were thrown into the Cave of Inquiry, they had already been searched by the villagers.
Minghe Mingshui's face was frighteningly pale at this moment.
The other four also looked grim and fearful.
What they feared at this time was not the bandits, but the tragic death they would suffer.
They have served He Tingfang for these years and never betrayed him. In addition to money, a big part of the reason was that He Tingfang had someone plant a Gu in them.
There is a very rare heart-eating poison in Miaojiang that can be used to control dead soldiers.
Once a soldier betrays his master, his whole body will be bitten by thousands of insects, every inch of his skin and flesh will be pricked and torn by needles, and he will die suddenly within half an hour.
He Tingfang had spent a lot of effort to find someone from Miaojiang who raised the heart-eating poison. After planting the poison in his death squad, he killed the person who raised the poison.
From then on, there was no possibility of removing the poison.
Now they have fallen into the hands of bandits. Even if the bandits don't kill them, they will die if they cannot return to report on time.
"They won't confess easily," Wu Yingniang turned her head and winked, "Hua Erniang."
Hua Erniang walked over, pinched Minghe Mingshui's mouth, and stuffed two pills into it:
"After a stick of incense, they will spit out everything."
It was still the Drunkenness and Dream of Death developed by Hua Erniang, but the effect was stronger than the one this morning.
After taking the medicine, Minghe Mingshui felt light all over and his eyes were vague and out of focus.
The ropes on his body disappeared.
The cave, the bandits, the light and the darkness were gone.
It felt like I was in an endless wasteland with no end in sight.
There was a metallic sound of chains colliding, and monsters appeared with a group of ghosts.
Just as Minghe Mingshui was about to see clearly, a magnified black face suddenly appeared before his eyes and shouted fiercely:
"Lord of the Netherworld, the Ten Kings of Hell are here! You evil creatures, why don't you kneel down? If you continue to be stubborn and refuse to change your ways, you will be immediately escorted to the Wheel of Reincarnation and be reborn as an animal for nine lifetimes!"
As soon as the words fell, the Styx and the Water of the Underworld felt as if a thousand-pound weight was placed on their shoulders, sinking so deep that their knees were forced to kneel down.
A vortex of interlaced black and red appeared beside him. From within it came the roaring and wailing of beasts. Several wandering ghosts were thrown into the vortex by the demons and monsters, and were instantly surrounded and bitten by countless maggots...
A foul-smelling blood mist rushed towards him.
The water of the Styx was trembling with fear and covered in cold sweat.
The majestic voice fell again:
"Who is behind the evil deeds you commit in this world? What are you trying to accomplish?"
The Styx opened its dry mouth:
"It's... it's He Tingfang, the current imperial secretary."
"Everything you have done, good and evil from your past lives, will be brought back upon you!"
In the semi-dark cave.
Minghe Mingshui explained what he had done over the years with his eyes wide open.
Hao Ren took the account book and pen, and wrote down every item like a judge in charge of a book of life and death.
…
Chang'an.
The He Mansion has been very quiet recently.
He Tingfang sat alone in the study, with the doors and windows closed, and no one disturbed him.
Even the birds in the yard were driven away by the servants, and the whole yard was silent.
The patterns of the carved wooden windows were reflected on He Tingfang's face like a layer of floating clouds.
Since Sanlang was not at home, no one dared to quarrel with He Tingfang.
But He Tingfang's complexion has been getting worse in recent days.
He had already asked for leave from the Ministry of Rites on Sanlang's behalf, and told others that He Yanqing was visiting his maternal grandparents, but if it took too long, someone would become suspicious.
There is still no news about Sanlang at the moment, and it is unknown whether he is alive or dead.
And the group of people he sent to Lingnan have not yet sent back any news.
The uneasiness that He Tingfang had felt before became more and more intense. He never believed in supernatural things, but he felt that his luck was dissipating recently.
The bookshelf behind him was filled with books, and in an inconspicuous corner at the bottom was an inkstone.
He Tingfang squatted down and twisted the inkstone.
squeak--
The bookshelf and the wall behind it flipped over, revealing a dark room.
He Tingfang walked in and lit the candle in the dark room.
There wasn't much in the darkroom, just a few large boxes piled up on the east side.
He Tingfang opened one of the boxes, which contained pottery jars of various sizes, each with a different mark on it.
He Tingfang took out a clay jar in the dim light and opened the lid.
Inside were two black poisonous insects with slender and soft bodies, which made a rustling sound as they rubbed against the wall of the pottery.
"Still alive."
He Tingfang squinted his eyes and looked at the poisonous insect in the pottery jar to confirm that the two brothers Minghe and Mingshui were still alive.
Heart-eating Gu, the mother Gu and the child Gu live and die together. If the carrier of the child Gu dies, the mother Gu will also die.
vice versa.
He picked up another clay pot, lifted the lid and looked at the five poisonous insects inside.
Four of them were still moving, but one was not moving.
He Tingfang put the pottery jar back into the box and fell into deep thought.
One was lost.
It seems that the Styx has run into some trouble in Lingnan.
Although the He Mansion is not as large as the royal palace, it is still very large.
While He Tingfang's study was silent, crying and cursing were heard from the yard on the other side of the He Mansion.
Yanjinyuan was the courtyard where He Yan lived before she got married.
After she got married, Mrs. He always had her daughter's yard kept in its original state.
When He Yan occasionally returned to the He Mansion to visit and spend the night, she would stay in the original courtyard.
At this moment, the door of the main house of Yanjinyuan was closed.
Mrs. He sat beside the couch, frowning as she held her daughter in her arms.
He Yan cried unwillingly and sadly, her hair was disheveled and there was a slap mark on her cheek.
"He actually dared to hit me... Mom, he actually dared to hit me." He Yan burst into tears and trembled with anger.
It’s Qingming Festival again soon.
As per the annual custom, Murong Xun chose a rainy day and locked himself in Tingyuxuan and refused to come out.
He Yan didn't intend to care about it at first, so she let Murong Xun deal with it on his own.
But it happened that Murong Xun had a new beauty taken in to the Qunfang Garden who did not know the rules and gossiped behind his back, saying things like "The prince is still thinking about the late princess and can't even see the person in front of him."
He Yan was already angry, and after hearing the servant's report, she punished the new beauty with a stick.
The beauty's leg was broken and she was given a mute potion.
Unexpectedly, after waking up, the beauty felt that there was no hope for the rest of her life, so she hit her head against the wall and died.
After Murong Xun came out of Tingyuxuan, he went to Qunfangyuan and happened to see the beauty's body lying on the ground, blood was flowing around her head.
Murong Xun was suddenly irritated and went to He Yan to question her in anger.
When He Yan saw Murong Xun getting furious with her for a toy, she also became furious and the couple had a big fight.
Murong Xun angrily scolded He Yan: "How could I, Murong Xun, marry a vicious woman like you? Being your wife is something I truly detest and I hate you with all my heart!"
He Yan's eyes were filled with tears, and her heart was cut by Murong Xun's sharp words:
"If you didn't want to marry me, why didn't you dare disobey my order back then? You can't protect anyone you marry!"
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