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The cellar was dark and damp, and the soft straw under the feet was covered with mildew, giving off a stinking stench, like a composted septic tank.

The patients lay in disorder on the ground, silently, not knowing whether they were dead or alive. There was only a jar of stinky cold water next to them, and there was nothing to eat.

Bai Chan glanced at the trembling foreman, bent down to pick up the two unconscious men, and jumped out of the cellar.

The guards outside picked them up and helped them to lie down on the mattress that had just been turned out just now, and they would be transported back to the city together later.

After saving the last person, they searched the narrow cellar with torches to make sure that no living things were missed, and then they all went up to the ground.

The foreman was the last one. He was about to climb out of the cellar while holding on to the gun, but his fingers were stepped on.

Fu Wan stepped on him with one foot, leaned over and smiled slightly: "My lord, it's quite warm under there, why don't you stay a little longer?"

The foreman was taken aback for a moment, then realized what she meant, and widened his eyes in fear: "No...no! Your Highness, you, you can't..."

Fu Wan raised her eyebrows and kicked his hand away.Seeing the foreman fall back heavily, the chief guard beside him flipped down the wooden plank knowingly, completely cutting off the other party's struggling and shouting.

The lock had been chopped off earlier, so the chief guard took a broom handle and inserted it into the door.There was a banging sound first, then yelling, and finally a feeble begging for mercy.

Fu Wan ordered lightly: "Let him make trouble. Lock him up for two days first, and then escort him back to Bai Yujing for trial."

Several guards agreed, but no one interceded for him—these martial arts practitioners who licked blood at the edge of their swords valued friendship the most, and thought that the foreman was so vicious to his subordinates, and they all felt contemptuous.

It was already late at night when the arrangements were made to return to the city. As soon as Fuwan entered the city gate, he realized that something was wrong—in Bai Yujing, which was always silent at night, tonight there were many officers and soldiers running with open flames in a hurry, and many disturbed people The residents put on their clothes and got up and looked out the windows, but no one dared to come up to the street.

The chief guard signaled Fu Wan and the others to stay away temporarily, while he found a person in charge to question him.

After this questioning, I found out that the city lord had surrounded the Xu family's mansion overnight on the charge of dereliction of duty.

The Xu family?Fu Wan's thoughts turned quickly.As soon as she took over the Xu family's mines outside the city, Mrs. Baidie surrounded his mansion inside the city... It seemed that she had been prepared for a long time.

Fu Wan guessed the cause and effect in an instant - Bai Die, as the city lord, thought it was inconvenient to do some things by herself, so she deliberately left out some information to her, so that she, a foreigner, could break the balance.She released the news in advance that she was not in the city, probably to relax the Xu family's vigilance.All kinds of causes and effects added up to kill everyone tonight.

A good trick is "the mantis catches the cicada and the oriole is behind".

So Happiness Wan is not completely unrewarded, if he can listen to Mr. Xu's personal confession that the person who conspired with him in Beijing is Prince Xian, it will definitely make the family of Prince Xian lose their power completely, and Song Ge will lose his greatest support. It can't be a big climate.

Her thoughts diverged far away, and she didn't come back until she heard Bai Chan calling her.

"Wan'er... Wan'er?"

The two of them were galloping towards Xu's mansion on the same horse. There was only one street away, and they could see Lady Baidie in military uniform surrounded by the imperial army in the distance.

Fu Wan shook her head: "It's okay, I—" Before she finished speaking, she suddenly opened her eyes wide, and saw Mrs. Baidie gently waved down with one hand, and in an instant, countless arrows burning with sparks shot out from the string. There seemed to be a rain of fire in the air, and there were countless screams.

This wave of arrow attacks sounded like a horn, and the besieging sergeants showed no mercy, and directly stormed into the courtyard, bleeding with swords.

Fu Wan frowned, and wanted to ask Mrs. Baidie to keep her life alive, but just as she opened her mouth, she felt dizzy and fell to the side as if her bones had been taken out.

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Bai Chan stopped the horse and pulled the man back into her arms.

"Wan..." Her voice changed suddenly, "Are you injured?"

Fu Wan didn't have the energy to answer her, the wound from the insect bite in the mine just now hadn't healed, the blood soaked through the underwear, and the wound was bursting with sharp pain.

She barely breathed a sigh of relief, and her consciousness fell into darkness for an instant.

***

When Fu Wan woke up again, it was already daylight.

She opened her eyes and saw the strange ceiling, but she didn't react for several seconds.

A woman next to her chuckled, "Are you awake?"

Fu Wan tried her best to tilt her head, and saw the exaggerated goldfish tail pattern painted on the other party's face: "...Madame Baidie."

Baidie closed the book and smiled lightly.

Light golden curtains hang from the bedposts, the jade ceiling is smooth and shiny, and the surrounding marble walls are engraved with intricate carvings in gold.Fu Wan finally realized that she was not in the hotel, but was brought to the tower.

She scanned the surroundings and said hoarsely, "Bai, where's Bai Chan?"

"I guessed that you would make a fuss to find her when you woke up, and she went out."

Fu Wan pursed her lips and looked at her.

"Why did I lie to you? She went to find medicine for you."

"Medicine? What medicine?"

Madam Baidie pushed back the fan and covered her lips with a light smile as if she had heard something funny: "Your Highness, you have been bitten by the Jade Gu insect several times, and you still think you are fine?"

Fu Wan: "..."

"When the Jade Gu insect bites a living thing, it will inject the eggs into the opponent's body. The symptoms are high fever, coma, and babbling. The strange diseases of the jade pickers and the residents of the city are caused by the parasitism of this larva. Of course, The crux of the problem has been found, and the solution is very simple, just—"

"Wait," Fu Wan poked her forehead with her backhand, and said with a frown, "I don't have a fever." She struggled to get up, "Don't lie to me, Bai Chan, I want to see her!"

Madam Baidie poked her back on the bed with a fluttering finger.

"After hearing what I said, your situation is even more complicated. You have a more powerful Gu on your body, and the jade Gu larva didn't survive for half an hour at all."

insanity?Fu Wan was completely dumbfounded.How could she have Gu?No, when did she fall into a gu, why didn't she know?

Madam Baidie raised her eyebrows: "Have you heard of 'Seven Nights Gu'?"

A soft female voice flashed in Fu Wan's mind—a rare flower in southern Xinjiang, which only blooms once in a lifetime, and only blooms for seven days in a season... The girl's flower has already bloomed, so it's better to prepare early.

The little girl in the hotel always looked scared when she saw her, and thinking about it now, maybe it was because she saw through the evil parasite on her body.

Fu Wan withdrew her thoughts and said in a hoarse voice, "What will happen to this Gu?"

"'Seven Nights Gu' is a kind of 'Love Gu'. It is divided into child Gu and mother Gu. After the Gu has no symptoms or reactions, it just waits until..." Mrs. Baidie paused, and said meaningfully, "Only Wait for the first time to wake up when having intercourse with someone. If the object of affection is not the person who has a Gu, or there is no mother Gu, then the poison will break out after seven days of intercourse, and after another seven days, the person who has been infected will die die."

"No, it's impossible." Fu Wan only felt that it was ridiculous, "Someone cheated on me? Why?"

"I'm going to ask Your Highness about it." Madam Baidie tapped her fan bone on her palm for a while, "I've seen this Gu before, it should have been planted a month or two ago, don't you think of anyone?"

a month?Was that when you were still in the capital?Fu Wan frowned, no matter what, she couldn't think of who did it.

"Of course, although the 'Seven Nights Gu' is fierce, it is not unsolvable. Your friend is going to find the antidote for you. Before she leaves, please send you back to the imperial capital."

"No!" Fu Wan rebuffed straight away, "She hasn't come back yet, so I don't want to leave."

"This concubine is not discussing with you," Mrs. Baidie said lightly, "There are still three and a half days before the poisonous hair, if you can't make it back to the capital and mother Gu's side within this time, the consequences will be quite serious. serious."

Fu Wan didn't speak.

Mrs. Baidie said coldly: "She will save you even if she risked her life. If you don't want to spare your life, you can just wipe your neck and hang yourself, so that you don't have to burden others to run around for you. The Xu family's confession has been obtained last night, including his accomplice Xian The prince conspired to embezzle disaster relief funds in order to raise troops to force the palace. Everything is ready, I just ask you, when do you plan to leave for Beijing?"

Fu Wan closed her eyes, and after a long while, said tiredly: "...I understand."

Fu Wan left the city that afternoon, and her physical condition was not suitable for riding a horse, so Madam Baidie sent her in a light carriage, escorted by the scar-faced female guard.

From the mouth of the guard, Fu Wan heard some follow-ups.

Mr. Xu was captured after his failure. Mrs. Baidie sent someone to thoroughly clean up the remaining jade Gu worms in the mine, and finally found the female worm in the depths of the cave. After a while, the condition of the patients improved.Wang Jinfa and others have also woken up and reunited with their wives and children.

The wells polluted by the Gu worms were temporarily blocked, and the residents in the city were a little short of water, but at least they did not endanger their lives.

Besides, old man Xu, he has been pampered and pampered for many years, how could he stand the punishment, so he vomited up the matter that night.

In the past two years, he has made a lot of money by bluffing and defrauding the Jade Gu worm, but he has always been dissatisfied with being subservient to the city lord, eager to try to snatch Bai Yujing's power.A few years ago, he suddenly heard that some workers in the mine were parasitized by Jade Gu and got sick. He was worried about causing trouble, so he immediately closed several mines to prevent people from spreading the news.

The news was concealed, but in this way, the jade business might not be easy to do again, so he thought of a desperate idea.

He first colluded with Prince Xian to embezzle disaster relief funds in southern Xinjiang, and then went to the market to search for jade.In doing so, one is to exchange the official silver into better-circulating jade articles, and the other is to gamble—if something like that happens in the mine, the output of jade will be greatly reduced in the short term, and the market will be in short supply, so the price will definitely increase .He planned to sell the backlog of jade at a high price at that time, not only to fill the hole of corruption, but also to make a lot of money.

At that time, he will use the money to recruit troops and help Prince Xian force the palace to rebel.Prince Xian promised that after ascending the throne, he would make his Xu family the city lord of Baiyujing.

This idea is interlocking and thoughtful, and it can even be called seamless, but it's a pity that it kicked the iron plate at the end.

The chief guard snorted contemptuously when he said this, and said that Lord Baidie had sent a secret letter of cause and effect to Beijing, and the result would be obtained in a short time, ordering all these villains to cut off their heads.

Fu Wan nodded thoughtfully, but didn't answer.She guessed that the weather in Beijing was about to change, she had already prepared for it, so she didn't panic, there was only one other thing that weighed heavily on her heart, and that was the Gu on her body.

She had no memory of the circumstances under which she was bewitched, nor could she guess any possible suspects.She knew that many people in Beijing hated her, hated her so much that she wanted to kill her with a knife, but no one wanted to give her a love gu.

The effect of Seven Nights Gu is very special.If you want to use it as a threat, you should tell her clearly on the day when you cast the Gu; if you want to harm someone, this Gu can't guarantee that she will die without a doubt.

After all the calculations, no matter how you look at it, the gain outweighs the loss.Fu Wan even felt that, rather than tormenting her, what this Gu tortured...was more like a white cicada.

She looked up at the smoky blue sky, not knowing where her lover was running.