Chapter IV

87_87272As Su Yan said, Mrs. Xiong Lai lives alone in a dilapidated wooden house in the south of the city, where no one lives except her.

Su Yan was about to knock on the door, but was stopped by Su Jiming. He stepped forward in person and shouted, "Grandma, are you there?" ”

A moment later, an old voice came from inside the room: "Who's outside?" ”

Su Jiming said: "Grandma, I am a traveler passing by, I beg Grandma for help, can you come out and see it." ”

Moments later, the door opened, and a woman in a long black dress stepped out. She was about seventy or eighty years old, wrinkled, unkind, like a black spider. However, Su Jiming is not afraid, he knows a lot about the customs and customs of the Miao people, the Miao people have a strong temperament, love and hate, although they are familiar with witchcraft, but they will not harm people casually. It was only after the Bu Tian rebellion a year ago that the local Han people were prejudiced against the Miao people, and Xiong Lai himself was withdrawn by nature, that there were such terrible rumors.

Although Su Jiming was not afraid, Su Yan was staring nervously from the side, once he found that Xiong Lai had a move that was unfavorable to Gongzi, he would immediately rush up to protect Gongzi.

Xiong Lai asked unkindly, "What are you looking for me to do?" ”

Su Jiming said: "The juniors heard that the seniors were proficient in Gu arts, so they came to ask for help. The junior was tricked by someone not long ago, and I want to ask the senior to solve the Gu for me. ”

Xiong Lai frowned: "What Gu?" ”

Su Jiming lowered his eyelids, secretly clenched his fists, and slowly spit out two words: "...... Love Gu. ”

Su Yan felt as if someone had smashed a hammer, his body shook, and he stared at his son-in-law incredulously. He also thought that those barbarians had put some kind of body-corrosive Gu worms on Gongzi to abuse Gongzi, although he didn't know what Gu was, but he could guess a few points by listening to the name. The son is merry by nature, and his appearance is like a crown of jade, and he is hearty and clear, and there are few wild bees and butterflies to put out the fire at him, could it be that he has caused some peach blossom debts in the year he has been in Hainan, so he was imprisoned as a son-in-law?

Xiong Lai sneered: "Love Gu? It turned out to be a negative person! I never solve Gu for the negative person, you can go! "As he spoke, he was about to close the door.

Su Jiming hurriedly pressed the door and defended: "I'm not a negative person, this Gu was forcibly placed on me by the person who gave it to me, I didn't want it!" ”

Xiong Lai's gloomy gaze was simply terrifying: "I hate the most disadvantaged people in my life, and the people with a biased heart are full of lies." Love Gu thing, if you are not voluntary, the Gu worm will not be able to enter your body at all, only if the two are happy, can you plant a love Gu. ”

The blood on Su Jiming's face receded in an instant!

Two Feelings...... Joy ......

A few months ago, he escaped from the village of the barbarians and hid in the mountains of the island, he could not go to sea alone, he did not understand the nature of the water and there were no boats, and the people outside were looking for him, so he could only hide first, wanting to wait for the barbarians to leave and go to the Han people on the island. However, he did not know all the plants in the mountains, and accidentally ate a poisonous fruit, and his body temperature plummeted so much that he fell into an ice cave and almost froze to death. Just when he was dying, Xiwu found him, took him back to the Wu Barbarians, helped him heal, held him all the time, and used his body temperature to expel the cold poison for him.

Su Jiming was trapped in the Wu Barbarian Clan not for one day or two days, not even one month and two months, but for a whole year and two months! In the past year or so, he has tried to escape, but he has also given up and become discouraged. For such a long time, no one came to look for him, no one came to save him, and the officials in the court seemed to have forgotten that there was still such a person as him in the world. Su Jiming is not a god, he is also a human, for nearly four hundred days and nights, he will also have times when he is weak-willed, he once thought that he would not be able to leave the desert island for the rest of his life, and he also thought that he would spend the rest of his life with Xiwu......

One afternoon shortly after he was rescued by Xi Wu, he was reading a book in his room, and Xi Wu walked in with a silver bowl.

Xiwu sat down beside him and placed the silver bowl on the table. Su Jiming was fascinated by the book, and didn't pay attention to what was in the bowl. His poison had not been cleaned up, and he was still a little cold at the moment, so he put his hand in his sleeve and pushed Xiwu with his elbow, Xiwu tacitly turned the page of the book for him, and Su Jiming continued to look down.

After a moment, Xi Wu pulled his hand out of his sleeve and held it in his own. Su Jiming thought that he was going to help him warm his hands, but he didn't care, and continued to read, but suddenly his hand hurt, and it was Xiwu who slashed his palm with a knife, dripping his blood into the silver bowl.

Su Jiming was shocked and painful, and only then did he realize that the silver bowl actually contained a Gu worm, and the blood he shed was sucked clean by the Gu worm in a moment.

Su Jiming didn't know much about the art of witchcraft, he didn't know how the Gu was played, but he knew that Xiwu was going to play Gu.

He had seen Xi Wu use Gu before. The barbarian clan has strict rules, and the loyalty to emotions is extremely important, regardless of men and women, they are not allowed to change their love in their lives. There was once a man in the clan who was in love with another woman and poisoned his wife, after being discovered by Xiwu. According to the rules of the Wu barbarian clan, this person must commit suicide to apologize to his wife, but he did not want to die, so Xi Wu gave him a Gu. Su Jiming watched with his own eyes that the man who was struggling strongly one moment became a puppet the next moment, and obediently killed himself in front of his wife's grave.

Gu worms are a very terrible thing, it can erode people's will, can harm people's lives, and make people's intestines rot. At that time, Su Jiming was frightened when he saw the insects in the silver bowl, and he asked Xiwu: "What is this?" ”

Xi Wu's gaze looked at his eyes gently: "Love Gu." ”

Xiwu is a man of few words, and no matter what he has to do, he rarely explains it to anyone. Just like at this moment, before he got into the Gu, he didn't say anything, and he didn't ask Su Jiming if he agreed or not, Su Jiming asked, and he answered, not feeling that there was anything wrong with it at all. Probably for the people of their barbarian clan, this is a very common thing, as a high priest, he can control the love and hatred of others at will, especially Su Jiming is a foreign race, and it is only natural for him to be accused by them.

However, at that moment, Su Jiming was completely chilled. Before that, he had really been touched by the true feelings of the Barbarian people, and after that, he finally understood that he was not the same person as the Barbarians after all. He is a noble son, he has the ability and talent, he has ambitions, he will eventually leave this overseas desert island and return to his own place to show his strength, instead of being trapped here begging for pleasure under a man and being manipulated into his body at will. He had to leave, this wasn't his place, and it wasn't the life he wanted!

Recalling those things, Su Jiming's breathing began to be short.

Su Yan looked at his son-in-law in a daze. Childe was voluntarily tricked? He didn't believe it! Gongzi was born in a noble background, and he had a sense of arrogance, and he refused to bow to others, and it was precisely because of his temperament that he was impeached by those imperial historians and relegated to the extreme south. If someone wants to play tricks on Childe, even if Childe truly loves that person, he will definitely be furious, because he hates being manipulated.

Xiong Lai was ready to drive people away, Su Jiming's face turned pale, and he said word by word: "I, not voluntary!" After successfully escaping, he no longer wants to recall the warmth of that day. Affectionate for Xiwu? No, how could he be tempted by a barbarian priest! He just couldn't wait for rescue for a long time, so he lost hope for a short time, absolutely, definitely not willingly!

Xiong Lai threatened gloomily: "Shameless boy, if you don't leave, I will give you even more poisonous Gu and make your intestines rotten!" ”

Su Yan was anxious and wanted to persuade Su Jiming to leave: "Childe ......"

Su Jiming did not flinch, lowered his posture and begged: "Grandma, I know that you Miao women are the most affectionate. I'm not the treacherous person you think, I was shipwrecked that day, and I didn't do anything to be sorry for him...... It's just that we are not all the way people after all, I am a Han person, he is a barbarian tribe, many things lie between us, he can't turn his back on his people for me, and I, I also have relatives and clansmen, my grandmother is also as old as my grandmother, she looks forward to me going back in the capital every day, and there are tears on the letter paper I sent, how can I leave them behind? Even if my grandmother can't solve the Gu for me, at least please tell me about the danger of the Gu worm, how can I keep it from attacking, I don't want my grandmother to want me to go home. ”

Su Jiming's words moved Xiong Lai, and she no longer forcibly closed the door. The reason why Su Jiming moved out of his grandmother was that he calculated that Xiong Lai should have children and grandchildren at his age, and he could understand him to some extent. Sure enough, after a while, Xiong Lai said coldly: "You come in, I'll help you take a look." ”

Su Jiming sighed and hurriedly followed Xiong Lai into the house.

Xiong Lai's house was very dim, there were no oil lamps, and it was difficult for light from outside to penetrate. She walked to the corner of the wall, Su Jiming stretched his neck and looked at it for a long time, and finally saw a large ceramic jar in the corner. Xiong Lai opened the jar, grabbed something from it, threw it in the silver bowl, and walked back to the table.

At this time, Su Jiming saw clearly, and there was a blood-red Gu worm in the silver bowl.

Su Yan was very nervous, he wanted to pull Su Jiming away, but Su Jiming refused to leave. He secretly pressed his hand on the dagger hidden in his waist, if this Gu worm made any moves, he would stab the Gu worm to death with one sword.

Xiong Lai said: "You bleed in." ”

Su Jiming said vigilantly: "What am I going to do when I bleed in?" Didn't Grandma solve the Gu for me? Let the Gu worm drink my blood, isn't it to be a Gu? ”

Xiong Lai lifted his eyelids and looked at him: "Who told you that letting the Gu worm drink your blood was going to give you Gu?" ”

Su Jiming was very confused. Gu art is a secret technique of the Miao people, and it is not spread outside, although he has read many books, but there is no book that has carefully said how Gu is played, but all kinds of speculation and rumors are very mysterious, some say that as long as you are looked at by Miao Nu, you will be hit by Gu, and some say that Miao Nu is blowing on you is playing Gu on you, Su Jiming took it for granted that feeding Gu worms and drinking blood is also a way to play Gu.

Xiong Lai said: "When the Gu worm enters your body, it can be regarded as a Gu against you." You bleed to feed Gu, and the blood left your body, what effect can it have on you? This is a Gu King, I just want it to smell your blood and see what Gu you have fallen into. ”

Su Jiming was skeptical. However, he had no choice but to take a risk, so he bit his finger and dripped a drop of blood into the silver bowl.

The Gu King in the silver bowl didn't react at all.

Xiong Lai looked at it for a while, frowned, shook his head, and said, "I have no way to give you an explanation." ”

"What?!" Su Jiming's heart sank. He had heard that some Gu could only be solved by the owner of the Gu, and even some Gu had no solution at all, could it be that the same was true of love Gu?

"Because." Xiong Lai said, "You didn't have a Gu at all. ”

“……”

Su Jiming and Su Yan looked at each other, stunned and didn't know how to react.

"No Zhong Gu?" Su Jiming said hurriedly, "Grandma, could you be mistaken?" The person who gave me Gu is not a Miao girl, but a ...... of the Wu Barbarian Clan."

Xiong Lai interrupted coldly: "Gu art is a secret technique of the Miao people, and there are also people of other races who learn it, but whether it is the Han people, the Li people or the Wu barbarians, they are all teachers who steal from the Miao women. A hundred years ago, a Miao girl intermarried with a priest of the Wu Barbarian tribe, and Gu art was introduced to the Wu Barbarian tribe, and their Gu was the Gu of the Miao people, and there was no difference. ”

Su Jiming lost his voice. He didn't get into the Gu? How is that possible? Could it be that Xiwu deceived him? Although Xiwu is silent and doesn't like to explain, he never lies! He struggled: "But he said it himself, it's a love Gu ......"

Xiong Lai asked, "How did the woman of the Wu Barbarian Clan give you a Gu?" ”

Su Jiming pierced his palm with his fingernails: "He...... Just like this, put the Gu worms in a silver bowl and feed the Gu worms with my blood. ”

Xiong Lai said, "Did she let the Gu worm get into your body?" ”

Su Jiming hesitated for a moment and shook his head. Since then, he has been very careful, and he has repeatedly checked everything he eats and drinks, for fear of secretly eating something unclean.

"Then she didn't give you a Gu. Feeding Gu with blood may be Gu raising, it may be to let Gu worms recognize their masters, but it is not a way to lay down Gu. You said earlier that he gave you a love Gu...... Xiong Lai thought for a while, "Feeding the love Gu with your blood is making the Gu worm recognize its master." Miao Nu will feed the Gu worms with her own blood before giving her lover a love Gu, and the Gu worms recognize the taste of the master, if the man who falls in love with the Gu betrays the Miao girl and has sex with other women, he will be eroded by the Gu worms, and only by obediently returning to the Miao Nu can he not be tortured. ”

Su Jiming froze.

"Therefore, that woman should not have placed a love Gu on you, but on herself." Xiong Lai frowned and shook his head slightly, "It's really a strange woman of the Wu Barbarian Clan." ”。