laughing soul

Everything has its pros and cons. At this moment, Qiu Sheng is very pleased to see that Chu Yu has grasped the essence of the old hooligan's flirting methods. At that time, he will be very angry at this person's characteristics of learning and knowing.

The most typical example is making up nonsense, which was something Chu Yu never knew before, but who would have thought that after spending so long with the high-ranking officials who are full of nonsense, he would learn it without a teacher? He talked nonsense without changing his face.

It just happened that although Qiu Sheng figured out that Chu Yu probably had a high position in Cuiwei Pavilion, he was not familiar with that ghostly place. He could guess the details of what Chu Yu said, but he was really confused about the backbone and flesh and blood. People didn't understand it, and he couldn't make it out by insinuating, but he didn't see that Chu Yu's brotherly love rhetoric was completely made up from the beginning to the end.

Who sent troops for him?He's dead, but Chu Quan hasn't. Cui Wei Pavilion is full of scapegoats. Without him, there will be tens of thousands of unlucky people flying in the wind. Who has the time to take care of him?

When he came to the gate of the Wugu village, Chu Yu stood quietly for a while, and suddenly his palms became wet.

I was actually scared.

He secretly thought it was funny, he had been told by innumerable doctors before that he would die soon, and he had never felt such a pain in his heart, he just felt that he was alone, but he died, he came from innocence and died peacefully, who will be involved pester him?

But now it is very different, because suddenly there is something worthy of nostalgia in the world, and she becomes unspeakably afraid of death, wishing to live to be two hundred years old with a sigh of relief.

Wugu Village and Cuiwei Pavilion are both known as the two great weapons of Dayue. Although they are well aware of each other's existence, they have never had any intersection for a hundred years, so that Chu Yu was welcomed to the village by a crowd of villagers. Before the door of the main dormitory, he didn't even know whether this person was a man or a woman.

He reported the name of the owner of the Cuiwei Pavilion, and only then saw the door of the palace slowly opened, and a thin woman stood inside the door, with a pale face, she bowed to Chu Yu: "The owner of the pavilion is here!" , the younger generation failed to welcome you far away, please forgive me."

Except for occasionally being busy with official business, Chu Yu spent the rest of his time studying medical books, and he was personally instructed by several respected old imperial doctors from the imperial hospital. Take office.He only looked up at her, and felt that the woman seemed to have a lingering life, her face was pale, she didn't look like a living person at all, he frowned and said: "The village master, is your body sick? The complexion is really not good. "

The woman smiled slightly when she heard the words, showing her pointed canine teeth, but her gums were obviously blue and black, and her voice was hoarse: "How is the pavilion master different from me?"

Chu Yu bit his lip, and after thinking for a while, he thought that there was really no need to tell this person about his family and life, so he didn't deny it: "The village master is different from me, it's just a disease of Qi and blood deficiency, but it's still a disease. It can be saved. Feeding Gu with the body for a long time is too dangerous, there will naturally be symptoms in the long run, it is better to treat it as soon as possible."

"So what about healing? Pavilion Master, do you really think there is no cure for you?" The woman raised her chapped lips and smiled, her brows and eyes were full of lifelessness, "For you and me, living two more days is just a It’s just two more days of pain and sin. Life is a journey against the road. This journey is too tiring for me. The witches in the village brought me only pain, but it is all of this life. What does it mean to be alive?"

Chu Yu didn't intend to persuade her, and he really couldn't answer this sentence, so he could only listen silently with an open-minded expression.

"The pavilion master came here this time, and I don't know why?"

She took a few steps forward, carefully put the bamboo cage on the small table aside, then took out a celadon teapot that had been covered with floating dust, and washed it twice with spring water: "Your junior doesn't often drink tea here. , wronged Pavilion Master to try this wet storehouse Pu'er."

Chu Yu also drank tea a lot on weekdays, but most of the time he followed Zhou Yong's wishes, or Qiu Sheng specially cooked some tea for him to nourish his body and nourish his energy, just to drink in a fun style. All kinds of tea have no good opinion.In his mouth, there is actually a big difference between the loose tea leaves that cost a tael of silver in the ordinary market, and the fine teas that have been watered by the scenery and rain in Longjing Township of West Lake.

Before he could think about explaining, a cup of warm tea was placed in front of him, he took a sip, and felt that it was roughly similar to the famous old tributes that he drank with Qiu Sheng in the imperial city, and immediately praised: "Where is the village master?" , clearly a pot of good tea..." The tip of his tongue was slightly scalded, he licked the corner of his mouth, and coughed lightly, "To tell you the truth, I'm here for some business."

The woman looked up at him: "Are you here for Emperor Dayue, Qiu Zizhan?"

It seems that Qiu Sheng revealed his name when he came here before, and the so-called excuse of the name of Shaoqing of Dali Temple probably couldn't deceive her.

Chu Yu nodded: "That's right. It's about Wujin Gu. I don't know why the village master keeps procrastinating?"

The woman seemed to hear something extremely funny, the corners of her eyes twitched slightly, her lips parted to the sides, revealing a circle of blue and black gums again, like a ghost with green face and fangs in the underworld, squeezed from the end of her throat Letting out a sneer or two made people shudder.

Chu Yu subconsciously buckled his finger on the handle of the knife at his waist, and asked in a deep voice, "Why is the village master smiling?"

He didn't deliberately hide the movement of drawing the knife, the woman glanced at his wrist coldly, and then laughed endlessly: "The old emperor came to inquire about this matter, I just treat it as if he It is the ignorant who is not guilty, so he prescribes a prescription casually for him to take back, which can be considered as a temporary solution to his knot in his heart. And you, the owner of the Cuiwei Pavilion who knows everything, unexpectedly you will also be Is Qiu Sheng confused enough to ask me this kind of question?"

Chu Yu guessed what she meant and turned his head slightly.

"Your Excellency, what do you think is the Wujin Gu in my witchcraft village? But you can solve it as soon as you want? Not to mention what the original ancestors used in the Wujin Gu as the base, it is these hundreds of years of changes and differences." Sublimation is no longer something that can be solved by me alone. Pavilion Master Chu, let this junior take the liberty to ask, "The woman moved closer, "Your three-step seven-child flower in the Kunlun Mountains is in your throat, can you have another one? Can it be solved? Isn’t it impossible to recover from the poisonous blood in your body?”

Chu Yu's voice was cold: "Not bad."

"Since the Cuiwei Pavilion and the Wugu Village have the same name, the Pavilion Master should have thought earlier, if Wujin can be detoxified, I will use this flesh and blood body to painstakingly cultivate it, and I will get a bunch of waste!"

Her face was distorted in an instant, and the muscles on her whole face kept trembling. It was not known where it was misplaced, but it woke up a dozen or so small insects that were sleeping in her body. They followed her veins and skin texture Slowly crawling at the neck artery, three or two jumped up to the corner of her mouth, forcibly pulling out a weird and paradoxical smile for the owner.

This scene didn't frighten Chu Yu, he just sighed with regret: "Then what's the use of the prescription prescribed by the village master and the medicine cited to Zizhan?"

"There are two types of Gu poison in Wugu Village that are the most deadly. A hundred years ago, Emperor Dayue came to ask for one of them, Wujin Gu. This kind of Gu poison has a cycle before it dies. Life is better than death. Quite a few of the voodoo sufferers choose to kill themselves after the first attack. Presumably the pavilion master has some understanding of voodoo. If he wants to cure a certain kind of vicious and abnormal poison, he must use another kind of temperament to deal with it. Contradictory and far more poisonous Gu is suppressed, and the two poisonous insects kill each other in the body, and the latter naturally prevails in the end, this is the so-called, drinking poison to quench thirst."

Chu Yu: "Yaoyin is another kind?"

The woman smiled again: "That's right, I mixed the unformed golden silkworm Gu seedlings into the medicine guide, and this thing will gradually grow into shape after entering the body, devouring the original remaining Wujin Gu insects, these two kinds of Gu insects One yin and one yang, I prescribed a warming and tonifying prescription for yin and yin, in order to kill the latter Gu worms and achieve the goal of eradicating weeds and roots. I just made up nonsense to coax him."

She took a sip of tea to moisten her lips, and the Gu worms wandering around her mouth seemed to be frightened by the sudden high temperature, and they ran away in a hurry: "The Wujin Gu has several attack cycles, but the Golden Silkworm Gu does not. After all, that is a person who is about to die and cannot be saved. During this period, there is no need to suffer any pain, and the voodoo victim will not notice any abnormalities."

As soon as she finished speaking, Chu Yu didn't reply for a while, but just when the woman thought he was about to fight to the death with her angrily, the man said softly, "How long?"

"People who have been infected by the Gu, how long do they have to live?"

The woman swept him up and down in amazement: "It varies from person to person, as short as one year, as long as two or three years."

Chu Yu fell silent again. He stared at the woman coldly for a moment, and finally bowed his head as if accepting his fate, drank the cold tea in the cup in one gulp, and bowed straight to the woman: "Thank you for the hospitality, Mr. Chu Farewell."

The woman he looked at with ambiguous eyes felt panicked for a while, so he could only pretend to be calm in return, but his back was so stiff that it ached.

She watched Chu Yu wandering out of the gate with his thin body from a distance, but the feeling of panic was still not suppressed. She just felt that she secretly placed a poisonous insect under his teacup just now seemed to be overwhelmed. The other party looked at it thoroughly.

And that little thing had already fallen into Chu Yu's hands.

I had expected it before entering the door. I have heard that people in southern Xinjiang would be uneasy and kind if they entertained you with food and drink for no reason. Therefore, they first put a layer of waxed human skin on their hands, and borrowed a large coat. The cover of the sleeve, but the other party did not see any clues.In addition, this person has a guilty conscience and dare not look in the direction of the teacup, which saves a lot of trouble.

He walked briskly out of the Wugu village, leading the steed all the way, and burst out laughing out of nowhere.

The woman was clearly lying.

How can it be unsolvable?

There must be no records of this kind of Gu poison in the imperial city, Chu Yu carefully packed the writhing bug in a porcelain bottle, and decided not to return to the capital for the time being, but to go to Tianyuan Temple first.

At this time, Qiu Sheng, who was in the capital, had no idea that Chu Yu decided to hang him out for a while. He interrogated Wang Jiusi so much that he wanted to touch the pillar and die. He had never seen such a hard mouth in more than 20 years of life.

While he was interrogating Wang Jiusi, Zhong Han was also interrogating He Shinian in the prison, and finally found that the latter was really just a porter who ran errands, and when the job was done, gold and silver would come rolling in.This person is just greedy for petty gains. He keeps saying that there are seniors and juniors, and he is married to six or seven concubines. His daily salary can't support the whole family at all. This small treasury is his immediate boss. can not refuse.

This kid was so afraid of pain that he was going to die. As soon as Zhong Han took out the whip, chili water, and plywood tiger stool, before he touched a single hair, he screamed like a pig, and all the fart jokes he made on weekdays Shake it out, it really doesn't look like you can hide it.

There is no real evidence in hand, even though Qiu Sheng has all kinds of tricks to make Wang Jiusi tell the truth, but in the end he still takes into account his status as a fourth-rank official. He does not want to be impeached to death.

After a lot of effort, the two made no progress, so they had to get together to discuss countermeasures.

"He Shinian can be thrown away, but this person is useless. I have searched through those people in the Ministry of Punishment, and they are all in the same situation. The breakthrough is on Wang Jiusi." Zhong Han said, "Your Majesty, will you come or should I?"

Qiu Sheng choked for a moment: "What are you here for? Execution?" Seeing Zhong Han nodding his head, he shook his head helplessly, and sighed: "There is no basis, just relying on the sleep talk I listened to at that time, I can get rid of it." The imperial court ordered the officials to obey? Besides, we don’t know the reason for his actions now. If this person is really old and cunning, he will probably make up a set of lies to fool people, and he will inevitably be led by the nose by this old fox .”

Zhong Han: "Then what should I do? Is it okay to just let him go?"

Qiu Sheng glanced at him, thought for a while in silence, and suddenly smacked his lips and praised, "Tsk, good idea."

Zhong Han: "Huh???"

"Of course it's not true release, it's to make him think he is free. Only in this way can the fox's tail be exposed. The old background of the Ministry of punishment has been copied, and He Shinian has also been exposed. He should understand that the court is no longer a safe place for him. , if conditions permit, he will run away regardless of the consequences."

Zhong Han: "Before the New Year's Eve, the capital city and the surrounding states and counties are still strictly prohibited. If the Holy Majesty did not personally write an edict not to leave the city, if he wants to escape as soon as possible, he will leave the capital by any means. But don't they have forged jade seals?" ?”

Qiu Sheng: "It doesn't matter. Waiting to send the Imperial Forest Army out to guard for a few days, he will not take the risk of taking the Yangguan Avenue... In short, no matter what, force him into the tunnel."

"Then let's send someone to wait in the tunnel to catch the turtle, shall we?"

Qiu Sheng raised his eyebrows and glanced at him: "He's a good bait, it's a pity not to take the opportunity to catch big fish with a long line, I just want to research to find out who is behind this person, Beili, Nanman or other ghosts , How dare you think about Master's territory like this."

Zhong Han: "..."

Because Qiu Sheng is the commanding officer, he often visits Jinyiwei Town Fusi on weekdays, but in the past, he always came to Liancheng to practice kung fu and then left. This is the first time that Zhong Han has worked alone with Qiu Sheng , but found that this person had such a style-a stomach full of bad water under his sloppy appearance-suddenly he couldn't laugh or cry.

Is there any monarch who is less like an emperor?

"Your family, Liancheng, stepped on the other side early, just waiting for the old rabbit to take the bait. You should try it out boldly and boldly. In the past two days, the brothers have withdrawn the strict prevention and control. Don't eat or sleep all day long. Don't be lazy, just follow his buttocks, it's probably Zuihualou... Don't play tricks on girls, you already have Dandou, so don't think about it...I'll go and see Xiao Jingran, let the fox go first, and act People are very shrewd to do likeness.”

Zhong Han: "...Yes." How could Liancheng get along with this kind of person? ?

As the saying goes, things of a kind flock together and people are divided into groups. Qiu Sheng has hardly dealt with such dull-talking peers since she was a child. Seeing that the other party cherishes words like gold, she babbled like a chatterbox for a long time. The next sentence went away: "Cats eat fish and dogs eat meat, but the son of a mouse can make holes... Brother Zhong, Miss Dandou is not a fuel-efficient lamp—"

Zhong Han didn't want to talk to him at all, and fled in a hurry with a flushed face.

Qiu Sheng heard his footsteps fading away, she was not in a hurry to go to the East Palace to see the prince, but slowed down, and even stopped when she reached the gate of the Yizheng Hall, leaning against the corner of the wall where the sun could be seen to relax After a while, he seemed to be waiting for someone.

As the officials headed by Lu Yun said, the East Palace is indeed a major national event, and it cannot be neglected in the slightest. He also devoted almost all his patience to observe Qiu Jingran for half a year, although he never noticed what Jiang Chen, Tao Qinglin and others said. Ignoring the elders, uttering bad words and other evil deeds, but there is always a little inexplicable weird feeling, and I always feel that this child is alienated from me for no reason.

In the past, the coquettish and flattery that went with the flow looked so stiff now. Li Ci once comforted him by saying that it was because the child was growing up and it was normal not to rely on the elders, but he still felt uneasy.

It's like playing a show.

After talking with Jiang Chen many times, Qiu Sheng began to suspect that this child had a bad temper, who didn't know why he didn't speak well, but he actually learned how to speak eloquently in front of his uncle, it's really chilling.

"His Majesty."

He looked up, and saw that Jiang Chen was coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to support him: "It's winter, Mr. Jiang, you have to accompany this junior out to endure the cold, I really bother you."

Jiang Chen always feels that Qiu Sheng has changed a little since he came back from Nan Daying. It can't be said that he has completely changed, but he is also very different from before. If it is down to trivial details, he can't tell how different he is. Young people, finally have the appearance of a king of a country.

"Small things, it doesn't matter." Jiang Chen walked forward slowly with his strength, "Xiao Sheng, when he saw you, he deliberately put on a cute appearance, you must have seen it. With a few cronies, you will definitely be noticed by his right-hand men if you go so rashly without concealment, and this trip will be in vain... Let me make a target for you, you quietly lie on the bottom of the wall and look carefully on."

Qiu Sheng laughed: "It's strange, didn't your old man not let me climb the wall before?"

Jiang Chen: "...Where is so much nonsense."

Turning a few more corners is the East Palace. Qiu Sheng took a few light steps and flew up to the top of the wall. He half curled up and huddled into a ball. He looked back at Jiang Chen who was still pacing slowly, to make sure that the old man would not He would stumble with his left foot and fall with his right foot, so he felt relieved and looked down at the courtyard.

The lonely courtyard was completely different from the bustling scene that Qiu Sheng usually saw.

This time, there is still more than an hour before dusk, which is a good time to bask in the warm winter sun in the garden. After all, it is a rare good thing to encounter a round of warm sun in the twelfth lunar month of winter.

He bowed his body and listened quietly for a while, and seemed to hear an extremely depressing groan in the cold air brought by the north wind.

Following the prestige, Qiu Sheng suddenly felt as if someone had grasped her warm heart, it hurt so much, but she wanted to spit out a mouthful of warm blood.

Far away on the other side of the courtyard, a court lady with only one coat on her body was kneeling in a corner against the cold wind, her face flushed from cold was covered with bloody roads, and the fresh blood flowed down her face. The thin and pointed jaw flowed down, fell to the cold ground, and gradually condensed into a mass of bright red ice.

Her entire upper body was soaked in a shocking red, but there was still a faint snow-white background in the clothes.

Qiu Jingran, his gentle nephew, was sitting in front of her on a big recliner, holding a warm hand stove in his arms, wrapped in his right palm, was a barbed Thick long rattan whip.