Chapter 51
Soon You Yang, Song Yanting and his group set out on the road to the border town.
No one from the palace came to see him off. Only Song Yunlan stood on the city wall and watched the carriage leave from afar.
You Yang was swaying in the carriage. For some reason, she felt very sleepy and could hardly open her eyes. After a while, she fell asleep leaning against the wall of the carriage.
Song Yan sighed helplessly and pulled You Yang over.
The warm body in his arms automatically moved around his waist and found a comfortable position to continue sleeping.
On the first night, Canglin Cangxu waited early in the nearest inn outside the city.
The carriage stopped, and Song Yan was reluctant to wake You Yang.
He carefully picked Youyang up horizontally.
As she stepped out of the carriage, Qingyun took out his cloak and covered her with it to block the sunlight.
Cang Lin and Cang Xu ran out of the inn to greet him: "Master."
Instead, Song Yanting glared at him.
Cang Xu was confused and looked at Song Yanting stupidly as he saw the "heavy object" in his arms.
"Master, let me help..."
“Uhh—”
Before he could finish his words, Cang Lin elbowed him and took him away with his mouth covered.
Song Yanting sent You Yang to the upper room of the inn, and gently put her down on the bed. He noticed the large dark spots under her eyes and felt strange.
Last night he was in the study planning with Wei Lian and Song Jingmo and did not come back the whole night. How could he become like this after not seeing her for just one night?
Song Yan touched her cheek with heartache, then left the room.
Youyang slept until dark and showed no signs of waking up.
Song Yan was worried that she was not feeling well at first, but after taking her pulse and confirming that there was nothing wrong, he lay down beside her and hugged her to sleep.
late at night.
You Yang, who was lying on the inside of the bed, suddenly opened his eyes.
The blood-red pupils indicated that she was abnormal at the moment.
She turned her head mechanically and fixed her gaze on the face of Song Yanting who was sleeping soundly.
Then there was the sound of a dagger being unsheathed.
There was a constant ringing in her ears.
"Kill Song Yanting."
"Break up, kill him, and come back to me..."
She held the dagger high, and the blade looked particularly sharp under the cold moonlight.
He swung the knife with all his might, the tip of the knife pointing straight at Song Yanting's throat.
Once inserted, death is certain.
At the critical moment, You Yang's hand holding the knife was blocked by an old crutch.
The blade and the wooden cane made a sharp sound when they collided.
What was strange was that the inn was surrounded by people who practiced martial arts, but no one noticed such a big commotion.
"Girl, you can't stick this knife in."
Yiming was dressed in white, holding a cane in one hand to hold back Youyang's short knife.
Youyang raised her eyes woodenly, without any intention of fighting back against Yiming's obstruction. Instead, she obediently retracted the blade she had secretly used and climbed out of the bed.
Yi Ming tapped You Yang's brow with two fingers, and the latter immediately woke up. The color of his pupils disappeared at the same time, leaving only black.
"The Golden Cicada is a rare insect, and it's quite troublesome that it chose you as its host."
"Old man?!" Youyang just woke up and saw Yiming in front of her. For a moment she thought she was dreaming.
"What insect? What are you talking about?"
"Have you felt that your energy has been getting worse recently, often feeling sleepy during the day or even unconscious?"
You Yang nodded, "A little bit indeed." She had always thought that it was because Song Yan didn't understand restraint that made her sleepy.
"Could it be that I'm like this because I've been poisoned by a Gu insect?!"
Yiming stroked his beard and nodded, "That's what it looks like at the moment."
"Is there a solution? Who is the mother Gu that controls this insect?"
You Yang once heard from her senior sister who was a Gu cultivator that no matter how powerful a Gu worm is, there is always a mother Gu. Generally speaking, getting rid of the mother Gu is the first way to break free from the control of the Gu worm.
Yiming shook his head. "This Gu worm, girl, is different from other Gu worms. It's the king of Gu worms. Even if you find the mother Gu, it's useless. The only way to break it is death."
"But if you die now, you'll never be able to get out."
Even if Yiming had all kinds of magical powers, he couldn't do anything about this poisonous insect.
He wrote the setting of this poisonous insect himself, and it can only be broken by death.
So even if he took action, the poison could only be automatically removed after the person died.
"Then what should I do? This insect controls me and I don't even know what I'm doing." You Yang sat cross-legged on the ground in depression.
Yiming squatted down in front of her and said, "Although I cannot remove this poison, I can help you suppress it."
"The process is quite painful, though. Once it's completed, if you're controlled again, you can use your willpower to fight the Gu for control of your body."
"It seems that this is the only way."
It would be much better to be able to gain temporary control than to be completely unaware.
"Sit cross-legged."
Yiming staggered, put away his crutches, and sat behind Youyang to transmit the message.
When the first signs appeared, You Yang's face turned pale and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
A painful whimper escaped from between her teeth, biting through her bloodless lips, and her two beautiful eyebrows were tightly twisted together.
This formation lasted for a full hour.
It ended with Youyang spitting out a large pool of black blood.
It took Yiming a lot of effort to fight for this chance for Youyang, and his white shirt was soaked.
He gasped, "It's done."
You Yang was weak and supported himself on the ground with his hands to steady himself and not collapse.
Seeing Yiming was about to leave again, she called him.
"Wait... Old man, did you arrest me because I'm originally from this book?"
Youyang already had some guesses about his own life experience, and asking Yiming was just to confirm the truth.
"Since you've already made a guess, I'm sure you've recalled some memories." Yiming said meaningfully, "Well, since I'm here today, I'll do my best to help you. I'll help you get through this and give you some pointers."
After saying that, Yiming put his hand on the top of Youyang's head.
A warmth spread from the top of her head to her whole body.
A flash of inspiration came to me, and all the lost memories came flooding back.
She was sent to a farm in the countryside since she was born and grew up there. The nanny in the farm was from Liu Mei's side. She always treated her harshly and prevented her mother's people from sending things to her.
When she was four years old, her nanny hadn't given her food for four or five days. She was so hungry that Qingyun stuffed four cents he found in the beast forest into her hands, and lured the nanny away, allowing her to escape.
Along the way, she was really hungry, so she thought of picking some wild fruits to fill her stomach.
It was at that time that he met Song Yanting who appeared under the tree.
That was the first time she saw someone dressed in worse rags than herself.
Feeling sorry for him, he took the initiative to give him one of the two wild fruits he had picked.
Unexpectedly, he was very disgusted and didn't want to eat. Seeing him holding his stomach and enduring hunger, Youyang couldn't bear it, so she had to take him to the tea stall at the foot of the mountain.
The tea stall clerk said a serving of wontons would cost four cents, and she only had four cents on her, so she could only buy one serving of wontons.
Youyang's own stomach was also empty, and she was hesitating whether to leave him alone to eat.
I accidentally discovered that he was covered with wounds, which were obviously the scars of abuse.
He is a poor person like me.
After hesitating for a long time, You Yang took out the four cents and asked the waiter for two bowls.
The two shared a bowl of wontons and a friendship was formed.
From then on, he would come to see her at this time every year, and Youyang gradually realized that he was not an ordinary person.
Later I learned from him that the reason why he appeared alone in the forest where wild beasts roamed that day was because his stepmother didn't want him to return alive and deliberately made him get lost.
Until she was ten years old, her world was turned upside down for unknown reasons. When she woke up again, she was in a different place. She was then picked up by her master and brought back to the sect.
Youyang gasped for breath and struggled to break free from her memories, but Yiming was nowhere to be seen.
She dragged her tired and weak body back to the bed.
Her delicate hands stroked Song Yanting's deep and high brow bones.
"So you recognized me a long time ago."
Remembering that she was carrying an incurable poison, You Yang knew that she could not recognize him.
You will die eventually.
He thought that if Yiming had not appeared to stop him, he would have died in his hands.
It seemed that she had to find an opportunity to leave him, so as not to lose control of her body again.
......
In the next half month, the group headed south, and Youyang's condition was much better than when they first set out.
Two months later, they arrived at the border town.
The border town was incessantly rainy and flooded, leaving many people homeless. The roadsides where the carriage passed were filled with people who were starving to the point of being left with only bones, begging with broken bowls.
"Didn't the imperial court distribute disaster relief food? Why is it still such a tragic situation?" You Yang frowned.
"How could Song Fuyu be so kind? He would rather use all the food and grass to feed his private soldiers in his fiefdom. He wouldn't care about the lives of the people."
The situation here is worse than Song Yanting had imagined.
Sure enough, as he expected, the people, hungry and oppressed, rushed towards Song Yanting when they saw the arrival of the imperial carriage.
There were even people in the crowd who took advantage of the situation to add fuel to the fire.
"Look! Those officials live comfortably, not caring about the lives of the people. They watch them starve to death or freeze to death. There must be food in that carriage!"
The people became more and more crazy, even stepping on those who fell down due to exhaustion.
You Yang wanted to defend himself but was stopped by Song Yanting.
He raised his chin towards the distance, motioning Youyang to look over there.
It turned out that when that group of people were fanning the flames, his Xuanyou Guards followed the sound and captured the thieves in one fell swoop.
Those innocent people who were affected, exploited, and almost died at their hands were also rescued one by one by the rest of the Xuanyou Guards.
Mu Lin, with the elite soldiers brought by Xuan Yang, arrived at the appointed time and took control of the overall situation.
"My lord, I have lived up to your expectations and have dealt with the assassins not far from the city."
Song Yan jumped off the carriage as he was told, and You Yang followed him out of the carriage.
He took the oil-paper umbrella from Qingyun's hand, opened it, stretched out his hand towards Youyang in the carriage, and helped her get off the carriage steadily, preventing her from getting wet by a single drop of wind and rain.
Mu Lin saw her head hang even lower: "Madam."
Canglin Cangxu wore a black hat and a pitch-black nightgown. He appeared from behind Youyang, holding swords on both sides, protecting him.
Hundreds of elite soldiers surrounded the place so tightly that not even a mosquito could escape.
They displayed countless swords and used their absolute strength to make the people regain their sanity.
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