Ling Suwan pulled the corners of her mouth with difficulty, and smiled reluctantly, "A little timid is naturally not as heroic as an adult." ”

Catching up with Lu Yuan's somewhat meaningful gaze, she secretly wiped the sweat from her palms, and pretended to be relaxed: "My lord, that little novice is going this way, let's hurry up and follow." ”

Walking through the dense forest, the view ahead suddenly opens up. They followed in the footsteps of the little novice, walked through an overgrown path, and stopped.

"This is ......," Ling Suwan covered her mouth and exclaimed.

What appeared in front of them was a huge sea of flowers that were as red as fire!

The stems are half a person high, the leaves are very sparse, and the petals are overlapping and extraordinarily exuberant, which is amazing and breathtaking.

"My lord, this is the flower!" Ling Suwan said to Lu Yuan excitedly: "There is a smell in that balm that I have never seen before, it is the smell of this flower!" ”

"Really?"

Ling Suwan was very sure of her memory, and nodded at him without hesitation.

Lu Yuan's face gradually became heavy.

Ling Suwan didn't pay attention, turned to look ahead, and muttered, "What kind of flower is this, it blooms so fiercely?" ”

While speaking, she couldn't help but approach the sea of flowers, squatting down and reaching out to touch it.

"Don't touch it!" Behind him, Lu Yuan pulled away Ling Suwan's outstretched hand.

"My lord, what's wrong?" Ling Suwan was dragged up by him forcefully, staggered under his feet, and hurriedly stabilized his body so that he would not pounce on Lu Yuan's body.

"The name of this flower is 'Po Sa', which originates from the Western Regions, which is quite weird, so it's better not to touch it."

"This is the strange flowers of the Western Regions?" Ling Suwan's eyes widened curiously.

She had seen Mr. mentioned in the travelogue of the Lianxi monk before, "The wind is in the cave and endless, and the grace is beautiful", which was used to describe a certain strange flower that he had seen during his travels in the Western Regions.

It turns out that this flower is like this, and it is really beautiful enough to suffocate people, no wonder Mr. has never forgotten this flower.

"My lord, have you also been to the Western Regions?" Ling Suwan said strangely.

As soon as he turned around, he found that his hand was still held by Lu Yuan.

Following Ling Suwan's line of sight, Lu Yuan also realized that he had grabbed her hand and didn't let go.

As if he had been scalded by a soldering iron, he hurriedly shook off Ling Suwan's hand, resolved the inexplicable embarrassment with two dry coughs, and said: "That kind of place in the Western Regions, I naturally haven't been there, it's my second brother who traveled to the Western Regions back then, and when he came back, he painted the appearance of this flower, saying how beautiful and strange this flower is, showing it off to me, hum, when I haven't seen the world." ”

"But this flower is really beautiful." Ling Suwan sighed.

"So what, my second brother said, this flower is beautiful, but it is actually poisonous."

In fact, that day, Lu Yuan's second brother Lu Che took his freshly drawn picture of the Po Si Hua and said it to him in such a serious manner.

"Ah Yuan, look at this flower, the color is fierce, the face is prosperous, there is no flower in the world that can stand out from it, but its beauty is beautiful, but it is actually poisonous, it is one of the most difficult recipes for the Western Regions to solve a kind of Gu poison 'Heart Devouring Gu'. Just like in this world, the more beautiful the woman, the more dangerous it is, you have to keep it in mind. ”

He remembered that at that time, he scoffed at the second brother's words, only thinking that he was alarmist.

Heart Devouring Gu, what is that, I'm afraid it's used to bluff people!

But I didn't expect that this Western Regions flower actually appeared in the capital, and what is even more suspicious is that it is still planted in the forbidden land of Jiyun Temple.

Ling Suwan chuckled in her heart, "What do you mean, this flower is poisonous?" ”

Lu Yuan just wanted to speak, but suddenly became alert, made a silent gesture towards Ling Suwan, and took her to carry the light skill, and suddenly jumped into the bushes at the edge of the flower field.

It turned out that the little novice had come out of it.

The monk's boots on his feet were stained with some mud, and the hems of his trousers were wet, and it seemed that the little novice was watering the flowering field.

Watching Xiao Shami gradually walk away, Lu Yuan said to Ling Suwan, "You wait here." ”

I saw him fly to the edge of the flower field, take out a white handkerchief from his sleeve pocket, pick a flower casually, wrap it in a handkerchief, put it in his arms, and left quietly with Ling Suwan.

Since the last time he saw the strong martial arts of Grandpa Lu, now for his equally outstanding light skills, Ling Suwan has calmed down a lot, and let him take him to fly around in Jiyun Temple, as if he had entered a no-man's land.

It was getting late, so in order to avoid suspicion, the two decided to go down the mountain first and explore another day.

When I returned to Dali Temple, I happened to meet Shen Yan and Wang Zhong and his entourage. The two went to Zhou Zhengnian's place together to report the results of their respective investigations.

Ling Suwan, Wang Zhong and others waited outside the door.

Zhou Zhengnian saw Lu Yuan and Shen Yan's dusty appearance, and said again and again, "The two adults are hard, hard," and he was busy watching the tea, and he was busy for a while.

Shen Yan investigated the origins, experiences, daily contacts, and interpersonal relationships of the three deceased.

"Among the three deceased, the simplest one is Ding Baozhu, the daughter of the boudoir, who has never left the capital. Hai was born in a merchant and has a strong personality, because his father is a cloth merchant, Hai had appeared to do business for his father before marrying into the Zhu Mansion. The most complicated experience is Huancui, before entering the Lanfang Pavilion, she was a dancing girl, and she was sold to several powerful families, the details are no longer available, only found out that her hometown is in Qinghai County, and her mother is from the Western Regions......"

"People from the Western Regions?" Lu Yuan was a little surprised. Unexpectedly, the seemingly weak willow and charming and graceful Huancui actually has the blood of the Western Regions.

"But this is really strange," he took out the bright red petals wrapped in a handkerchief from his bosom and spread them out on the table, "This flower is named Po Suo, it is native to the Western Regions, and the flower liquid is poisonous, it is one of the main formulas of the Western Regions Strange Poison Heart Devouring Gu, and it is also one of the formulas of the same balm used by the three deceased people in this case. ”

Heart Devouring Gu, it doesn't sound like a good kind.

"What is a Heart Devouring Gu?" Zhou Zhengnian asked.

"In the early years, in order to consolidate his position, a great wizard from a certain country in the Western Regions studied all his life and worked hard to develop a Gu poison that could be used to control people's minds. This poison eats people's minds at the lightest, makes people lose their spirit and become stupid, and at worst, they directly obey the orders of the Gu people, and are used by them to become puppets and tools. ”

Lu Yuan remembered that he had read a book of "Journey to the West" written by his second brother Lu Che before, and there was a place in it that was dedicated to introducing Po Si Hua and Heart Devouring Gu.

"Could it be that this flower is planted in Jiyun Temple?" Shen Yan's thousand-year-old poker face also showed a heavy expression.

"Yes," Lu Yuan nodded, "Planted in the forbidden land of the back mountain, there are five acres of land, and there are special people to serve it on weekdays, the flowers and branches are luxuriant, and the growth is gratifying." ”

"Cui, Balm, Jiyun Temple, Western Regions, Po Sahua, Heart Devouring Gu ......" Shen Yan connected the clues in the case one after another, but he always felt as if one of the links was missing, and there were some faults.

"There are more than 10,000 people who go to Jiyun Temple to offer incense, why are they Ding Baozhu and Hai's family?" He took out the notebook he had with him and whispered as he flipped through it, "What are the conditions for the murderer to choose the victim?" Is the balm only given to the victims of his choosing, or is it distributed widely and unselectively? ”