The old monk in front of him is like a piece of dead wood that has been pulled out of the ashes of the fire and has grown new green, which is really terrifying to look at.

But more than 40 years ago, Song Zhe was a handsome and elegant young man, and when he first went to Nanzhao as an attaché, he won the favor of many important ministers of the royal family who admired the culture of the Central Plains only by virtue of his words and deeds. In addition, he made sufficient preparations in advance, memorized the pharmacology of the medical codei, and his novel and open ideas also successfully won the appreciation of the lord of the country.

Unlike the Central Plains, who were often a little arrogant and wary, Song Zhe, who was humble and interested in the science of Nanzhao Gu poison, quickly integrated into the local area. On several missions, the officials appointed by Mang Teng often took him deep into the villages of Nanzhao.

Song Zhe said that as a native of the Central Plains, although he was not familiar with Gu poison, he was very interested in the history and various legends of Nanzhao, so he returned to the Central Plains several times and brought back a lot of rubbings and golden sedges. The rubbing is from Nanzhao's unique mountain cliff painting, and the golden sedge paper is a kind of local golden sedge self-made paper products when Nanzhao did not introduce the Central Plains technique in ancient times, and it mostly records the written records of the ancestors of Nanzhao like paintings.

What embarrassed the officials of Nanzhao was that many of the ancestors' words and drawings could not understand what they meant.

Nanzhao, where the inheritance of writing is relatively weak, is not only official in the Central Plains, but also many private collectors will retain more historical materials of Nanzhao. Song Zhe promised Nanzhao that after returning to the Central Plains, he would visit all over the country, collect and sort out the scattered Nanzhao old things, and "return" them to Nanzhao.

On his fourth visit to Nanzhao as an envoy, he took out a copy of "Nanzhao's Strange Stories" and humbly said that it was only a draft work compiled based on the information that could be interpreted. I hope to get the guidance of the lord and ministers of Nanzhao.

Through the book handed into the palace of Nanzhao by a familiar nobleman, Mang Teng was immediately pleasantly surprised. The delicate engraving color print will be reproduced in detail on the cliff paintings carved on the rock wall of the high mountain, and the text underneath is not very rigorous, although it seems to him that it is not very rigorous for the production of drugs. But it successfully aroused his desire to concoct a new Gu poison according to the ancient method.

After trying out three or four poisons according to the records in the book, Mang Teng set his sights on a description of a book that looks inconspicuous at first glance, and the text is written on several ancient pictures on the cliff of Dayuan Mountain, which is known as the Nanzhao Divine Mountain.

"In ancient times, there was a divine snake, viviparous xenomorph, whose food collected all the poisons in the world, and could eventually give birth to wings and turn into a dragon...... Mortals can break through the void and reverse life and death......"

For thousands of years. Nine out of ten people who hold authority hope that they can live forever, and the longer they do in a high position, the better, not to mention that Mangteng himself is a person who likes to study, and when he saw Hunting Xinxi, he quickly put himself into it and began to ponder.

At first, the lord of the kingdom was only looking for a special species of viviparous snake, but later in his interpretation, someone suggested that if the snake that lays eggs cannot be viviparous, whether it can be bred by a human snake to breed a snake species. Reckless thinks it's feasible. According to his understanding, in Nanzhao, a wide range of girls began to be recruited in the country to start pregnant snakes, first as sin slaves, and then as civilian women...... Until Zuihou moved his own children and grandchildren. ”

Xu Ne's eyes were secretly burning with flames, and he said. While tightly wrapping Xu Yu's trembling shoulders with both hands.

The reckless Teng who was obsessed with making drugs was simply crazy, and in the years of his life, he firmly believed that it was because of the impure blood of the pregnant snake that affected the result. It was even proposed that the Mang royal family should marry each other in order to maintain the purity of the bloodline. The more his children and grandchildren attracted the excellent potential of the Star Gu, the more they became victims under his orders.

Xu Yu, whose mother is the daughter of the She family, was deliberately protected by the She family after she was born, and missed the Gu seed. Instead, he escaped. And Xu Yu's other siblings all died in various drug tests.

And now Man Yun's life Gu silver was raised on Xu Yu's half-sister at the beginning. Xu Ne deliberately skipped this point and didn't mention it at all.

But Zhou Manyun, who had been listening quietly, knew that his chest ached for a while, and the silver curled up there seemed to be struggling in pain.

"I'll kill you!" , Xu Yu was about to bounce up, but was stopped by a dark red needle piercing his shoulder.

"Xu Yu, if you kill him now, it will be cheaper for him. The pain of Yancao Bisi is good, let him suffer. Xu Ne looked at the old monk who was waiting to die with his eyes closed, and said with an indifferent smile: "I also told you, after reading the Spring and Autumn Unrighteous War and the National War, they just stood on their side. Recklessly, believing in false words, self-destruction of the country is the main reason. ”

If you don't dream of recovering the country of the nobles of Wang and Sun, the old people of Zaijian just want to verify what the legend of ruining a country is about. Song Zhezhi's text description just now has no source for the classics at all, but he deduced it according to the pictures, and it is enough to hear such an explanation that can be understood by the deceased.

"As early as more than thirty years ago, in order to seek the truth, the Nanzhao Holy Star Temple sent people to the Central Plains to verify, but unfortunately they didn't ask for results. Then, when I heard that Song Zhe was dead, Nanzhao had frequent civil strife, so I didn't pursue it further. Xu Ne looked at the old monk who was sitting like a bell with his eyes closed, and sighed desolately, if he had known that he was not dead, maybe there would have been fewer people in the Nanzhao National Rebellion.

It's a pity that it's not poison that is poisonous in the world, but people. When a good woman who is good at poison meets a ruthless person with a firm will, not only can't ask why, but she loses her wife and soldiers.

"Minxing!" , The white-haired Zhou Xian cautiously glanced at Xu Ne, then at Song Zhe, and asked hesitantly, "Your mother should be Mang Daizhu, right?" ”

"Yes! My mother married into She's, and my father was She Yan. Xu Ne responded loudly, very neatly.

What do you mean? Zhou Manyun's brain was a pot of paste, and before she could mix it up, Xu Ne had already pulled her and Xu Yu out of the hut one by one, seemingly dashing, but it always made Manyun feel a little panicked.

Only the two old men sat opposite each other, and there was silence.

After a long time, the old monk sitting on the meditation bed slowly put his hands together to Zhou Xian and solemnly bowed.

"Brother Shirong! Originally, I didn't know that you helped me with this cause and effect, and I wrote a letter to call you, originally for the realization of the stone room next door. The old monk of Haode sat cross-legged, with a peaceful and quiet face.

"Wuyuan?" , Zhou Xian twisted his eyebrows and poured softly.

"Hmmm! In the fifteenth year of Yongde, a man named Zhou Gu came to the temple with this child in his arms, saying that he was entrusted by Mrs. Meng. ”

Zhou Xianhuo stood up suddenly......

"Silver! Silver...... If it weren't for the difficulty of walking at night and the scruples of himself and Grandpa, Master would probably take his senior brother and leave immediately, right? Sitting in the darkness, Man Yun rested his head on his folded arms, touched the silver snake letter with the tip of his nose, and asked softly.

After nearly two hours of precipitation, with the experience of accumulating two lifetimes, Man Yun vaguely understood the vague conversations just now.

"I feel so sad, Silver! Family, country, rivers and mountains, is it true that in the face of righteousness, women are the ones who must be sacrificed? I understand how my grandmother poisoned him...... It's only because I understand that I'm more sad! Man Yun said to himself, tears the size of beans flowing down his cheeks like ripples.

She can love herself and be self-reliant, but she can't be cold, and there are many things and people in the world that can make her cry.

The silver loosened the coiled body, and the raised snake letter licked Man Yun's face.

"Silver ......", Zhou Manyun cried even more fiercely, and said vaguely: "Maybe it's you...... It was you who took me through this life again. ”

Master Xu Ne once said with a smile that if the silver didn't follow Man Yun, he might probably be able to live for another seven or eight years, and then in order not to destroy the heavens, he would take the silver for alchemy. According to the innate medicinal properties of silver, it is enough to drive away cold poison, of course, because Zhenri has some feelings, of course, it will not be used easily. only waited for Xu Ne to live alone, and then he would look at the situation and give it to someone who was destined.

At that time, Man Yun was secretly suspicious, and when he heard those words today, he couldn't help but think more.

"Break the void, go against life and death...... Maybe the stories that are deduced by looking at the pictures are exactly what they intended...... Perhaps, silver...... I really ate you in my previous life. ”

Muttering to herself, Man Yun sat at the table and closed her eyes gently, and the slender snake body of silver slowly descended down her neck and returned to her body with a long sigh that lasted for eternity.

In the lonely empty stone house, the gray-clothed old monk sat quietly on the meditation bed, cross-kneeled.

Previously, he called Wuyuan and took Zhou Xian to rest. How should the old friend and the little apprentice talk about the relationship between the old friend and the grandson, the old monk felt that he was no longer able to interfere.

Life is immeasurable, the cycle of cause and effect, and all laws are always round.

"Why do you live?" , a young genius and an old monk, can't help but ask himself in the depths of his heart.

Many years ago, Song Zhe's ideals were lofty and persistent, and the world was a chess player, and he thought that he was a well-deserved player with his intelligence and intelligence. Even the Nan Summoner who can kill people at any time, when he chokes his throat, he also has the ability to escape from death and turn defeat into victory.

Until one day, the woman who was not looked at by him at all began a long escape in his countercalculation.

The sudden appearance of scars of different sizes on his body for no apparent reason made him miserable, followed by the embarrassment of not being able to move even a finger...... At that time, Song Zhe was full of hatred for that vicious woman. For the next four or five years after his sudden recovery, all he could do was find the woman and kill her!

But the body was in resentment, and suddenly it was like spontaneous combustion, and the pain was endless all night.

She died, and died at the burning of the Lord of the Southern Summoning Kingdom. After he narrowly escaped his life but ruined his description, he finally received definite news. Then, when the spring flowers bloomed, a little green appeared on his skin.

In the midst of the unbearable repeated torture, he began to truly feel the emotions left behind by a deceased person. When did the place where her bones were buried break new green, and how did the tiny gnats gnaw at her remaining embers......

The barbarian woman who had never really been looked up to by him when he was alive made him begin to face it after his death.

All beings in the world, who is the dog?

The dawn sky revealed a touch of fish belly white, and Wu Yuan, who came to the deserted courtyard to take care of the ancestor according to the custom, pushed open the wooden door with red eyes.

Not long after, the mournful voice of the little monk sounded in Guangshan Temple, "The ancestor passed away...... It's gone! (To be continued......)

PS: Today's second shift of convulsions, there is another chapter in front of it.