General's Gown

Yan Changqing looked at the woman in red: "Miss, do you recognize this person?"

The woman in red said while sobbing, "This person... this person is my cousin."

The woman in red explained while crying.It turned out that this crazy woman who was tied into rice dumplings was the daughter of a jade merchant family in Yaocheng, named Xue Rubi.And Baiya Village is a bandit village on Baiya Mountain near Yao City.In the past two years, the bandits in the village have been harassing Yaocheng continuously, and it has intensified.Relying on the height of the sky, the emperor is far away, they are located at the border, not to mention monopolizing the jade business, these lecherous people also set an unwritten rule, that is, on the day when all the girls in Yaocheng are going to get married, they must be escorted by the groom , Carried the sedan chair to Baiyazhai for a night.The euphemistic name is to send the blessings of Baiya Mountain God to the newlyweds.But everyone knows that the thoughts of these bandits are all on the bride's first night.

In the past two years, it is not that no one has sued the government.However, the county government has long been bribed by the bandits, and the officials and bandits are colluding. When they see the report to the official, they will be served with a board, and then dragged to the prison until they are honest.It's not that no one wants to go to Baiyazhai to vent their anger by copying the guy, but the ordinary people have never beaten the fierce bandits, and they were thrown home by the bandits half dead, and the bandits even wanted to extort money from the people.

After a long time, no one dared to resist.It's just that the girls in Yaocheng's boudoir were all frightened and at a loss when they heard that they were going to go to the bandit's den on their wedding night.If you are more courageous, you will elope with your sweetheart in private, or marry secretly.The timid ones vowed to stay out of the boudoir all their lives and be an old girl.And the girl Xue Rubi in front of her is the timid one.

"Then since she decided to be an old girl, why was she still sent to Baiya Village?" Helian Rongchuan asked.

"Hey, there are policies on the top, and countermeasures on the bottom!" Before the woman in red could answer, the proprietress took the lead and said: "Those bandits, seeing that the girls in Yaocheng are afraid to marry, they thought of another The trick is that whoever is willing to take the initiative to send a girl who has not left the pavilion to spend the night will give a stone vein for mining jade."

There are tens of thousands of stone veins around Yaocheng, all of which originally belonged to Yaocheng people, but now they have been snatched away by Baiyazhai.If he wanted to redeem it, he had to exchange his daughter's innocence.

In the beginning, no one was willing to exchange their daughters for stone veins.However, as time passed, the family who had been cut off from their source of income gradually had other thoughts.The water thrown by the married daughter, but a stone vein is an important livelihood for the whole family.One after another, some people changed their minds, gave away their daughters, and took back the stone veins.And those who didn't send their daughters, seeing the money flowing into other people's pockets in vain, their eyes turned red.

So although this Xue Rubi was not married, but because his parents were obsessed with money for a while, he was bound hand and foot, forced into a wedding sedan chair, and sent to the bandit den.

However, night after night, Xue Rubi was not sent back.Only those who occasionally went up the mountain to do small labor for the bandits came back and said that they had seen Xue Rubi and the girls who were sent there before from afar, all dressed in gold and silver, and they made the bandits laugh out loud.So everyone in Yaocheng said that Xue Rubi was greedy for the glory and wealth of Baiyazhai, and refused to come back.

There are seven or eight girls who were sent away by their parents but never came back.

"Where are their parents? Just don't worry at all? Don't want someone?" Yan Changqing asked.

The proprietress looked at Yan Changqing with an inconceivable look: "Why bother to ask for it? The old girl who couldn't get married and ate and died at home now has a home and redeemed the stone veins. It's the best of both worlds!"

"..."

The people around were silent for a while, but a few people nodded in agreement with the proprietress.Only the woman in red cried even more fiercely when she heard the words. While crying, she carefully wiped away the blood on Xue Rubi's face who was bound into rice dumplings with her sleeve.

Looking at it now, Yan Changqing noticed that this Xue Rubi actually looks pitiful and beautiful, but it's a pity that now his eyes are dull and his behavior is abnormal.

Yan Changqing suddenly thought of something, turned to Helian Rongchuan and asked, "How did you lure Xue Rubi over just now? You saw something strange?"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Yan Changqing regretted it.Helian Rongchuan seized the opportunity, raised his bloody right hand that was still bleeding, and said, "I just think of me now, what a coincidence, if it's a little later, my wound will heal by itself."

Yan Changqing couldn't help feeling ashamed.After all, Helian Rongchuan was the prince of Dongyun, and he was injured in order to help him, but he ignored it, indeed neglected.He hurriedly fetched the medicine box from the room, tore off a piece of white silk, and carefully wrapped it up for Helian Rongchuan.

He was rarely so close to Helian Rongchuan.The long eyelashes drooped down, making Yan Changqing's side face change from the indifference of the past, showing a little gentleness.Helian Rongchuan looked at his side face, and suddenly felt that somewhere in his heart was gently pressed against by a furry, cat-like soft palm.

He Lian Rongchuan said: "You must have noticed, what does this woman's movements look like?"

Yan Changqing was taken aback.The movement of the woman getting up from the ground appeared in his mind.Such a stiff, joint-by-joint movement of reflexively climbing up is simply not something a normal person can do.

It's just like...

"The living dead?!"

The moment Yan Changqing blurted out, he suddenly thought of what he had seen and heard a long time ago when he was fighting against the Nanyao Kingdom.

He was only in his teens at that time, and he had just completed the famous battle of chasing down Hu Hun for seven hundred miles in the desert.In order to chase the main force of the enemy, he went deep into the deep mountains and old forests on the border of Nanyao. The deep forests of Heixo Suo are not like deserts, swamps are everywhere, and there are countless poisonous insects, rats and ants.But the enemy army that was going to chase disappeared after a while.When running left and right and unable to find a way out, for some reason, countless ragged and unkempt "living dead" suddenly emerged from the ground. Most of their muscles and bones were rotten, and their white bones were exposed, but they could still open their teeth and claws. Pounce on them.

Whether it was slashing or hand-to-hand combat, the group of living dead had no intuition at all, like fearless dead soldiers.Surrounded layer upon layer, Yan Changqing and his men ran out of ammunition and food, and were riddled with scars.At the moment when he was about to lose consciousness, a raging fire suddenly ignited from nowhere, and the golden-red fire wave swept across, and Yan Changqing lost consciousness.When they woke up again, they still stayed in place, but there was no trace of the living dead around them.Everything seems to be just a dream, there are too many places that cannot be explained.In Nanyao's deep forest, rumors of hallucinations and insanity often appeared. Yan Changqing had always wondered whether these "living dead" really existed, or were they hallucinations caused by being lost in the deep forest.

Yan Changqing still remembered how those living dead got back up after being knocked down.How similar the twisting movements of each joint are to this Xue Rubi!

No wonder he felt familiar the moment he saw this action.

Helian Rongchuan looked at Yan Changqing's pensive and silent expression, and said, "You must have guessed it. This girl's movements are quite weird, but she has no self-awareness, just like a living dead."

"How can such a good-looking person be restrained?" Someone in the crowd couldn't help asking.

"Use Gu."

Helian Rongchuan's words caused the crowd to explode.

"Using Gu? Isn't this just a rumor?"

"This kind of thing really exists in the world? It's too scary!"

Helian Rongchuan said: "I have heard that insects are thirsty for blood, just now I lured them with blood, and it really worked. It must be insects."

Yan Changqing fell into deep thought.There are people in Nanyao who are good at voodoo, who can turn beans into soldiers and use bones as generals. It's not that he has never heard of and doubted it.

Helian Rongchuan said: "Dare to ask everyone, the people from Baiyazhai came to attack Nanyao?"

The onlookers looked at each other in blank dismay, but dared not answer.There was only a seven or eight-year-old boy who pretended to be brave and said: "I haven't heard of any male Yao and female Yao, but one time I met people in the village who came out for a stroll, and I heard them say that they should bring all the money back. What, what?" All the way."

Yan Changqing's heart skipped a beat.Landu is the capital of Nanyao Kingdom.

Helian Rongchuan said: "Everyone knows that Nanyao Kingdom believes in ghosts and gods, but they don't know that Nanyao also has a lot of voodoo skills. It's just a legend. In fact, although there are very few Gu masters, they do exist in Nanyao. When the voodoo suffers from an attack, they will lose their self-awareness, their limbs will be stiff, and they will only listen to the voodoo master's call."

The onlookers took a few steps back after hearing the words, panicked.The proprietress broke out in a sweat: "Gu master? You mean the person who played the Gu, could it be that he is here?"

"That's not necessarily the case." Yan Changqing said: "If someone is really playing tricks here, there is absolutely no point in keeping alive."

The proprietress rubbed her chest with lingering fear, and asked, "Since no one is controlling, why is Miss Xue so crazy?"

While thinking about it, Yan Changqing said: "It must be that the poison, like other poisons, takes place at a certain time. Maybe this girl Xue couldn't bear the torture of the poison and tried to escape, but she didn't expect it to break out halfway. As for Why did I meet this man..."

The proprietress patted her thigh, and suddenly realized: "Hey! Miss Xue must have fallen ill on the way to escape, and was picked up by this man! No wonder I saw this woman behaved a little bit when she was brought into the inn by this man today. Weird. But the man's expression is full of impatience. This kind of dog... I have seen a lot of men and women, and I am too lazy to ask. Hey, who would have thought that there is such a low-level Gu technique. Never heard of it, really..."

Yan Changqing looked at the man who was lying unconscious, covered in blood but not seriously injured.It's clear in my heart.If Xue Rubi was really controlled by Nanyao people's Gu technique, he must be the same as the undead he met in the deep forest, with stiff limbs, unafraid of cold and pain, like a marionette on a string.Even like a marionette, afraid of fire.So, no wonder Xue Rubi wanted to hurt people with candlesticks.The man must have brought the candlestick himself, but he didn't expect that the glaring candlelight on it was what Xue Rubi feared the most, so he hurt someone because of this.

As for why Xue Rubi's Gu poison became unrestrained...