after the villain

20.

Ji Wuming and Yan Jingyu split up and quickly looked inside and outside Yangjia Village, but they really didn't find a single person.

Ji Wuming frowned, his expression became more condensed, and his voice sank, "I don't see people alive, but I don't see dead bodies, even if Chi Luochan's injuries are so severe that they need the blood of the entire population of Yang Family Village, it shouldn't be like this now. "

I saw the houses rising and falling, and the furnishings in the house were clearly occupied by people, but no one was heard, only the wind was blowing, and the ghostly atmosphere was overwhelming.

Ji Wuming never believed in ghosts and gods.

"Dig three feet into the ground, keep looking!" He said in a deep voice.

The two of them searched carefully this time, and within a short time they actually found something in the Yang family's ancestral hall, but it had nothing to do with Chi Luochan.

Ji Wuming looked at the portrait hanging in the center of the ancestral hall. In the portrait was a middle-aged man, dressed in a purple official uniform, with vicissitudes of brows and eyes, a peaceful smile and a compassionate smile.

This portrait is one foot and two feet long, and it is painted on white deer paper—that is the paper used by the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Ji Wuming didn't recognize the person in the painting, but when he saw the small script inscription under Emperor Xuan's seal, he suddenly raised his eyes and glanced at the painting again, "So this is the legendary Yangjia Village."

Yan Jingyu didn't know why he suddenly said nonsense, and looked at him blankly.

Ji Wuming twitched the corners of his mouth, suppressed the itch in his palms, but asked an irrelevant question, "Do you still remember the dialogue Nangong Cheng said earlier?"

At that time Nangong Sheng said: "The book is made up, as long as it is interesting, let alone whether it is true or not? Besides, "Endless Cliff" is not bad. There was a Tianjia's book compiled before, and that is the real nonsense. .”

Because of these words, Lin Yuezhi scolded behind his back several times, and rolled his eyes when he saw this suave and suave son, and was extremely dissatisfied with him.If it wasn't for the fact that there was still work to be done to investigate and punish Luo Chan, she would most likely lead someone to beat Nangong Cheng with a sack, and vent her anger.

Yan Jingyu shook his head resolutely: He didn't even remember Nangong Cheng's appearance, so how could he remember what he said.

Ji Wuming saw the meaning behind his expressionless face at a glance, and smiled shortly, reminding him, "At that time, there was a customer complaining about the suspension of the book "Siege of Endless Cliff" in Huaiyang City Water... "

Speaking of this, Yan Jingyu remembered, nodded, and suddenly interjected dryly: "I have the same thoughts as Lin——Guardian Zuo."

He paused, but didn't think of Lin Yuezhi's name.

Facing the serious and focused eyes of the young man in Tsing Yi, Ji Wuming couldn't help laughing again, and finally stretched out his hand obediently, Yan Jingyu even took the initiative to bow his head and put his head in his palm.

Yan Jingyu's appearance is very difficult to match, but his hair is black and shiny, and his tentacles seem to be touching the fur of an animal, making people want to touch it a second time.

Ji Wuming quickly retracted restrainedly, Yan Jingyu pursed his lips, the disappointment in his eyes flashed away, and soon returned to normal.

He's not stupid, he just doesn't care much about things that have nothing to do with him.

Now that Ji Wuming mentioned it, he understood, "Is it related to Yangjiacun to organize Tianjia?"

"Yes." Ji Wuming nodded.

Yangjia Village is the smallest village in Surabaya, and even the entire Yanzhou territory, with a population of less than a hundred households, but a thousand hectares of fertile land.

A capable man named Yang Tianxue was buried in the tomb of Gai Yin's ancestors, and he was called the first eunuch of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In the later years of Emperor Qi, Yang Tian, ​​a young man, entered the palace. He served as the chief eunuch for six years and served two emperors successively.Emperor Qi died of a heart attack during his southern tour. Yang Tianxue supported Emperor Qi's youngest son as Emperor Xuan in the name of his will.Emperor Xuan was in power in his twelfth year, and Yang Tianxue was poisoned by an assassin in order to protect the young master. He was only in his early forties when he died.

It is widely rumored that Yang Tianxue was Zhao Gao and his ilk in the Qin Dynasty. He was strong in martial arts and had foreign blood. He wanted to coerce the young master to command the princes of the world, so he was secretly bestowed to death by the grown-up Emperor Xuan. That's all.

After the funeral of Emperor Xuan, the story of Yang Tianxue was suddenly compiled into a storybook and widely circulated in the market.

It wasn't until today that a group of people were severely punished, and the rumors stopped. The villagers of Yangjia Village who were pushed to the top kept secrets, and even closed the village for a long time, and no outsiders were allowed to enter or leave.

No one has confirmed whether the rumors are true or not, and no one has thought that Yangjia Village, where Yang Tianxue, who was once so popular, is located in Yanzhou, such an inconspicuous place.

Yan Jingyu was silent for a moment, "Is this Yang Tianxue?"

Ji Wuming looked at the painting under the private seal of the king, and wrote a seven-character poem with two incomplete lines in lower case—Ten years of wind and rain in Luoyang City, the glory of the lonely tomb returned to his hometown.

The tenth year of Emperor Xuan happened to be the year when Yang Tianxue died.

He was noncommittal, "Whether it is true or not, only the painting itself knows. But since this painting is hung here, it must be related to Yang Tianxue."

Yan Jingyu subconsciously touched the phalanx of her index finger.

A ghostly howl was blown in by the dark wind, and a wisp of blue smoke floated not far from the window.

"Someone!"

Ji Wuming and Yan Jingyu looked at each other, reacted quickly, and left the ancestral hall one after the other. The two were about to go to the green smoke, and they both paused again, raised their heads, and looked out of the ancestral hall with sharp eyes. pierced the roof.

The boning knife squeaked, and an afterimage hovered in the air!

"Get off me!"

As soon as Ji Wuming snorted coldly, he heard two tooth-piercing collision sounds, and a hidden black shadow rolled from the roof to the outside of the wall.

Yan Jingyu was like an afterimage, in just a short while, he had climbed up the high wall in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, Ji Wuming followed closely, and saw Yan Jingyu chasing a man in black and disappearing into the complex on the village road.

Ji Wuming inexplicably felt that the figure of the man in black was familiar. He jumped off the courtyard wall, tipped his toes, and returned the boning knife to his hand, but saw blood stains on the handle of the knife.

Looking at the black and red blood, Ji Wuming frowned, he turned his eyes and found a spot of blood dripping from the man in black on the ground.

He knelt down and stared at the black blood for a while.Suddenly cut open the palm with a knife, sealed the inside to stop the bleeding, and pressed two fingers together on the blue veins of the wrist, pressed with internal force, sure enough, the veins bulged and swelled, as if something was moving inside, and it became more and more Fast, more and more.

The Gu worms in the body that were suppressed by him with internal force became active because he forcibly sealed them inside and forced them with internal force.

After Ji Wuming cultivated for many months, his already rosy face turned pale in an instant.

When Yan Jingyu returned in vain, he saw this scene, his pupils shrank, his footsteps were heavy, and he ran quickly, and he was in front of Ji Wuming in an instant.

He was quite flustered, reaching out to grab Ji Wuming's hand, "You—"

The feeling of being bitten by Gu worms in the veins was very uncomfortable, but Ji Wuming's voice was calm, instantly suppressing Yan Jingyu's overwhelmed emotions.

"Take the dagger, point it at my palm, and obey my orders."

"..." Yan Jingyu silently pulled out the dagger from his boot.

"Get ready." Ji Wuming reminded, without even raising his eyelids from the beginning to the end.

I saw him press two fingers hard on a bulge, violently mobilizing the internal force in the body, breaking away the sealed acupuncture points one by one, suppressing the other Gu insects again, although the fingers moved, they pressed the only one. One slammed into the palm of his hand.

The wound on the pale palm glared red belatedly.

"Right now!"

As soon as Ji Wuming finished speaking, Yan Jingyu stabbed the dagger straight down with sharp eyes, the cold light flashed past like an afterimage, and the fingernail-sized blood just fell on the tip of his knife, as if there was something real It lingers on the tip of the knife, and you can faintly see it still seems to be moving as if it is alive.

Yan Jingyu's attention was not on this weird scene, Ji Wuming's acupuncture points all over his body rushed out, and blood rushed out from the wound on his palm.

With a sound of "stab", Yan Jingyu directly tore off a corner of his clothes, held the dagger firmly in one hand, and pressed the cloth strip into Ji Wuming's palm with the other, then quickly touched two acupuncture points on him to stop bleeding, and then stretched out his hand in his arms When he touched it, he stopped, with a look of annoyance on his face.

On the day he left the valley, he had a short fight with Chi Luochan, was trapped in the Qimen Dunjia, and the medicine he carried with him was used up, so he left the valley in a hurry, and he did not fight seriously. A person with both abilities, and he was short of money, so he didn't buy any more medicines.

Yan Jingyu pursed her lips tightly, and her drooping eyelashes covered her fierce and red eyes.

Ji Wuming was so unresponsive to his actions in one go, seeing him speak so comfortingly, "The wound is not deep, and it will scab over soon."

"...Hmm." Yan Jingyu looked at the reddish white cloth with a dull and gloomy voice.

Ji Wuming stood up pressing the wound, shrank his hands into his sleeves, not letting him see, stepped back two steps, "You put it on the black blood."

Yan Jingyu did as he said, and saw that the ball that was still active on the tip of the knife, once it entered the black blood, it was as if it was dead, and there was no movement at all.

"Sure enough." Ji Wuming was not surprised, and said, "This is the Miao village blood Gu, which is extremely sensitive to blood. In the blood environment, it almost commands the existence of other Gu insects, but it is extremely disgusting to the blood Gu of non-fosters. , if it falls into this environment, it will choose to play dead."

The art of raising Gu in Southern Xinjiang was originally inherited from the Nanman Miao people, but the Nanman Miao people prefer to raise poisonous insects than raising Gu, and their art of healing Gu is originally for saving people.

At the beginning, Ji Wuming attracted many Gu insects into his body. These Gu insects fought in his body and almost raised a Gu king. In the end, he paid a lot of money to invite Bai Weiyu to come out of the mountain. Somehow, he got a pair of Gu insects. Blood Gu was introduced into the body by him, supplemented by his internal force to suppress the rioting Gu insects in the body.

All kinds of strange secret arts of the Miao people are derived from Gu, even the corpse-controlling art of the Miao Village in Xiangcheng is no exception.

"The man in black robe just now should be the Nether Slave." The Nether Slave is a humanoid puppet slave that Chi Luochan refined with the Blood Demon Technique.

When Yan Jingyu heard this, her brows and eyes darkened, "I didn't catch up."

The man in black was very familiar with the road here, and he quickly disappeared after going left and right.

Ji Wuming shook his head and said, "Since the Nether Slave showed up, it proves that the man who manipulated him is also nearby."

There must be a secret passage here that is hard to find!