Chapter 160 Cold Tail Scorpion
A letter was stuffed into Yu Rubai's hand.
Although he had doubts in his heart, seeing that the elders had spoken, he thought that this matter must be important.
On the other hand, he also wanted to meet Hua Qianjiao and ask her the doubts in person.
Early the next morning, Su Zhizhi and others, who had stayed in the Divine Doctor Valley for a night, got up full of energy.
Su Zhizhi and Xue Che each got a small bag of snacks, which included rice candy, rice cakes, persimmon cakes, etc.
Qiu Jinyu felt radiant when she woke up this morning.
Yesterday, the doctor mixed a bowl of mud-like substance and covered her face with it. She closed her eyes and took a nap. When she woke up, her skin was moisturized.
Qin Xiao said that his legs seemed to be more flexible, and Wei Dashuan had eye medicine in his arms.
Song Yu's waist didn't hurt anymore today, and he stood straight.
They blindfolded themselves and followed Doctor Yu out of the Valley of Miraculous Doctors along the same route.
Su Zhizhi once again experienced the "blind man's arrest" experience. She tightly grasped Doctor Yu in front of her and kept talking:
"Doctor Yu, do we have to go through the cave blindfolded when we go to the Five Poison Valley?"
"Need not."
Doctor Yu changed his tone.
“But you need to walk carefully.”
It was sunny for several days in a row, without a cloud overhead.
The snow on the road has melted.
After two days of traveling by carriage and on foot, they entered a desert area.
The Five Poison Valley is surrounded by desert, so to enter the Five Poison Valley, you must pass through the desert.
The first half of the desert they passed through was dotted with small sand dunes.
I don’t know whether these sand dunes are natural or man-made. When walking among them, I found that no matter how I walked, the shapes of the surrounding sand dunes seemed to be the same.
Like a maze.
Wei Dashuan rubbed his eyes again and again, suspecting that his eyes and brain were blurry:
"How come you've been walking for so long and are still in the same place?"
Doctor Yu, who was riding in front, looked ahead:
"We are not standing still. We are indeed moving forward. The sand dunes here are just a trick. Don't be fooled by them."
When the people behind him heard what Doctor Yu said, they simply stopped looking around and just followed him.
When the sun was at its highest point, they emerged from the maze of sand dunes.
Su Zhizhi was bored in the carriage and wanted to go out for a horse ride.
"Zhizhi, you ride. I'm going to take a rest." Qin Xiao gave up the horse to Su Zhizhi.
Su Zhizhi climbed onto the horse's back and rode happily.
The road ahead is smooth and vast.
Su Zhizhi seemed to hear the sound of blowing sand.
But there was clearly no wind.
Su Zhizhi looked down at the ground and saw that the sand was moving like waves.
The bright sunlight shone there, and bright and dark shadows covered the ground under my feet.
"How can these sands move by themselves? It seems like the sands have grown legs." If Su Zhizhi wasn't in a hurry, she would have wanted to get off the horse and play with the sand.
When Xue Che heard Su Zhizhi say this, he stuck his head out of the carriage and saw that the sand on the ground was indeed moving.
They move forward in rows, like moving ravines.
Suddenly, a thorny tail rose from the sand.
Sand slid down both sides of the tail.
Then the insect's spine, head... and finally two pincers were revealed.
Qiu Jinyu reminded: "It's a scorpion!"
Everyone's eyes had now moved to the ground.
Scorpions kept popping up from under the sand, one, two, three... They were densely packed in a large area.
Song Yu swallowed his saliva and said, "It's winter now, how could there be scorpions?"
Doctor Yu explained calmly:
"These aren't ordinary scorpions. They're cold-tailed scorpions, raised by the people of the Five Poison Valley using cold poison. The scorpion's pincers are highly venomous. If you're pinched, you could suffer swelling and ulceration in your limbs at best, or even death at worst."
"Our horses and carriages have been dusted with scorpion repellent powder. Don't move them, they will avoid us."
As if to prove that what Doctor Yu said was true, the scorpions on the ground poked their bodies out from the sand and moved to the sides when the horses' hooves stepped over, making way for the group.
Su Zhizhi's eyes were as big as summer apricots.
She was surprised to see so many scorpions, and even more surprised to see them give way. Then she asked a question that made everyone stare:
"Aunt Qiu, can scorpions be fried?"
Qiu Jinyu suppressed her laughter and pretended to be serious: "There's nothing that can't be fried, but the scorpion's venom is hard to remove. Only Hua Erniang can eat it, but anyone else who eats it will die."
Su Zhizhi: "The people in the Five Poison Valley are so clever. They don't use people to guard their doorsteps, they send scorpions to do it. If our village also had poisonous scorpions guarding the door, the uncles and uncles who patrol at night would have an easier time."
Hao Ren, who was resting with his eyes closed in the carriage, frowned slightly, as if he had heard what was said.
When the few people walked out of the group of cold-tailed scorpions, they saw the scene suddenly changed.
An oasis lake appeared, and there were several snow-covered mountains not far away.
A stone tablet appeared: Five Poison Valley.
Yu Rubai: "This is already the territory of the Five Poison Valley, but it's still more than ten miles to the settlement inside the valley. We can get there before dark."
Su Zhizhi turned to Xue Che and said, "I don't know what Sister Hua is doing now."
Xue Che: "I heard that Sister Hua hasn't been home for a long time. She should be having a great time with her family now."
…
"You've been gone for so many years, and you haven't come back once?"
"You took poison and were tortured out of the valley, but you are still a member of our Hua family."
"It's fine if you don't want your father, but your sister is still at home missing you. Please try to send a letter back..."
In the south-facing room, the window lattices were carved with rich flowers and birds. The light and shadow cast on Hua Qianjiao's face, as if a dark bird was perched there.
Hua Qianjiao pursed her lips and remained silent, looking completely different from her usual unruly and talkative self.
The woman in front of him who was crying and beating her chest looked a few years older than Hua Qianjiao. The lower half of their faces were very similar, without any edges or corners, and were gentle and round.
The woman was the eldest daughter of the Lord of Hua Valley, Madam Hua Qianhuan, who was three years older than Hua Qianjiao.
Hua Qianhuan rolled onto the carved mahogany couch. The jade hairpin on her head was tilted, and several peony-patterned gold bracelets on her hands were piled up together. Tears welled up in her eyes.
"In the valley, you have food and clothing, and no worries about gold and silver. Why do you run out to suffer so much?"
Hua Qianhuan was not lying when she said this.
Although their Five Poison Valley is located in a remote area, their food and drink expenses are no worse than those of the wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River.
It is said that the ancestor of the Hua family who founded the Five Poison Valley was very wealthy and left behind an inexhaustible mountain of gold and silver for his descendants, so that his descendants did not have to worry about their livelihoods and could concentrate on developing poisons.
While the Divine Doctor Valley was still struggling to build houses, the tall buildings and pavilions in the Five Poison Valley were no longer a surprise.
The Five Poison Valley is the most poisonous sect in the martial arts world. People from other sects often come to ask for poison, or people who have been poisoned by strange poisons in the martial arts world come to ask for antidotes.
When people in the martial arts world suffer from strange diseases or are seriously injured, they will think of the Valley of Divine Doctors, but when they are poisoned, the first thing they think of is the Valley of Five Poisons.
After all, if we ask the miracle doctors to detoxify us, they may need time to develop an antidote.
The Five Poison Valley probably has a ready-made antidote, and maybe the medicine first flowed out of the Five Poison Valley.
Those who come to ask for help have to go through many difficulties to reach the Five Poison Valley, and they have to pay a large sum of money as soon as they arrive.
The money in the Five Poison Valley can never be spent, and it can never be spent from generation to generation.
"Why don't you speak?"
Hua Qianhuan cried on the couch for a while, and her slender waist suddenly straightened up again.
She walked back and took Hua Qianjiao's shoulders:
"Qian Jiao, tell your sister, you didn't leave the Divine Doctor Valley just for that dead fish-faced guy, did you?"
Hua Qianjiao, who was sitting on the stool, looked up at her sister and said firmly and slowly:
"I'm doing this for myself."
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