Chapter 55: A Trip to the Stone Gate
Speaking of Peach Blossom Stream, Gu Qingyan woke up early the next morning, and after cleaning up, he was going to Shimen for a walk, and asked Su Xin Su about the situation of Tanxue when he went out, and he heard that he only slept in the middle of the night yesterday, and he didn't get up yet.
Gu Qingyan chuckled, picked up the brocade box in front of the makeup mirror, put it in his sleeve, and was about to go out, when he came to the courtyard and saw Han Yan just walking in.
"You're just in time, let's go." Gu Qingyan said softly, grabbed Han Yan's arm and walked out, not giving people much time to come in and sit.
Han Yan was dragged out with a puzzled face, for fear that Gu Qingyan's magnitude would increase and he would pull the wound that was finally growing: "You slow down, don't shout pain after a while." ”
Gu Qingyan obediently slowed down, walking side by side with Han Yan, Han Yan saw that she was nervous, and asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”
Gu Qingyan said: "What do you think of my third brother and Tanxue?" ”
Han Yan was stunned for a moment, not knowing what this little girl was thinking, but he followed her words and made up the scene of Baili Mo and Su Tanxue standing together, but how did he think about it, he felt a little mismatched, so he shook his head.
Gu Qingyan also said: "I think so." ”
"Then you ask me." Hanyan was puzzled.
Gu Qingyan smiled: "No, I saw that the lights in the snow exploration room were on all the time last night, so I wanted to go over and take a look, for fear that she would be uncomfortable." Later, after chatting a few words and mentioning the third brother, Tanxue's ears turned red instantly. ”
Gu Qingyan picked up the key points and said to Han Yan, this Han Yan was speechless for a while, it stands to reason that Su Tanxue doesn't seem to be able to like someone like Bailimo, but...
A thought flashed through Han Yan's mind, it was fleeting, and when Gu Qingyan asked him again, he couldn't remember anything.
"You want to match the two of them?" Han Yan asked.
Gu Qingyan shook her head: "That's not true, it's just to remind you, the little girl has a mind, do you have to pay attention to it." ”
Han Yan said "um" for a moment and said, "Not long before I came, my father and mother also mentioned the matter of finding relatives for Tanxue. ”
The two of them chatted about this topic all the way like a matchmaker's heart, and when they came to the front of the formation in front of the stone gate, Gu Qingyan took the lead in holding Han Yan and made him stop: "Wait." ”
Han Yan looked at Gu Qingyan, he had heard that there was a formation in front of the stone gate, and ordinary people were not allowed to enter without permission, and the first thing that people who wanted to enter the stone gate was to take this formation.
"It's okay, it's good to have someone bring it in." Gu Qingyan comforted Han Yan and said, "But..."
Gu Qingyan looked at herself, she had to move her upper body here, so that the chance of her injury re-opening was a little greater, and she was about to discuss with Han Yan what to do, when she suddenly felt that her feet were in the air and she was picked up by Han Yan.
"Hey, you, what are you doing?" Gu Qingyan had to be shy, and his hand reflexively pounded Han Yan.
Han Yan glanced at the person in his arms who was not very peaceful, and said, "What, you want to go over by yourself?" Can you? ”
Obviously, Gu Qingyan couldn't, because she let Hanyan follow, so she didn't plan to let Beiming send someone out to pick her up.
"Then it's good for you to carry it, why hold it." Gu Qingyan at this time, the little girl's strength is enough.
Han Yan said: "It's okay to carry it on my back, if I take a wrong step, you will block me behind my back?" ”
Gu Qingyan thought about it, too, she was so protective because of an injury on her back, if Han Yan carried her, wouldn't her back be exposed again. After thinking about it, I didn't say anything.
Until Han Yan asked, "Gu Qingyan, are you ready?" ”
Gu Qingyan just came back to his senses, and he didn't care what Han Yan said, he said "um", and didn't say the rest of the words.
Han Yan smiled helplessly: "Then you tell me how to go!" ”
At this moment, Gu Qingyan's face couldn't be hung up, and he wanted to open his mouth to bite Hanyan, but found that the position was not quite right, so he simply freed his hand and secretly pinched Hanyan's neck, and when he heard Hanyan's pain, Gu Qingyan began to prepare and guide proudly.
"Don't make a trick, hug it well, don't fall for a while!" After Han Yan finished speaking, he didn't see Gu Qingyan sticking out his tongue mischievously in his arms, so he told Han Yan how to take the first step.
Han Yan hugged Gu Qingyan and passed the first step steadily, and then Gu Qingyan also slowly focused, and has been guiding how to go in Han Yan's arms, not to mention the tacit understanding between the two, it is logical that they finally came to the gate of Shimen, and the secret guards on the door wall have just seen the two of them as soon as they entered the boundary of Shimen, and now they have opened the door to welcome the two of them in.
As soon as Gu Qingyan saw that there was someone else, he struggled to get out of Han Yan's arms, Han Yan didn't let go, and asked rhetorically: "If I don't come today, why do you come over?" ”
Gu Qingyan thought to herself, the good guy is waiting for her here, and he won't let you be wishful when he is born, but after thinking about it, the hero doesn't suffer the loss in front of him, so he softened his tone and said, "You have a reason not to come?" ”
Han Yan smiled, this girl, when did she learn to flirt, it's okay, seeing that someone else is coming, after all, she is the boss, and she can't let her lose face, even if Gu Qingyan passes, she let go of her hand and let go of Gu Qingyan.
Just as Gu Qingyan stood firm, Beiming brought Holly, Dongxin and a few of them over, and a group of people came over like this, and Han Yan, who was not strange on weekdays, couldn't help but take two steps back to make room for them.
"Master." Although it was thirteen people, the voices were on one side.
Gu Qingyan hurriedly stretched out his hand before they knelt down: "No need to salute, they are all injured." ”
Gu Qingyan spoke, this atmosphere was relaxed, and when these thirteen people saw that Gu Qingyan was improving, the worry and guilt in their hearts became steady.
"Are you all back?" Gu Qingyan knew that Nan Ke had not come over, and looking at their appearance on the surface, they were all okay.
"Thanks to the master, these small injuries are nothing." It was Beiming who spoke, and among all of them, he was the one who was beaten the most, and Gu Qingyan couldn't help but look at him twice in distress.
"It's okay, it's all about learning a lesson this time, and next time let me know that there are others in Shimen, then it's not so simple." Gu Qingyan said, the matter has passed, but she is afraid of it in hindsight.
Dongsheng is young and noisy, they are all injured these days, and the atmosphere is a little less, as soon as he heard Gu Qingyan say this, he looked at Han Yan who was staring at them not far away, and he couldn't help but make fun of the two.
"Master, is that Han Shaozhuang owner considered someone else to be mixed in." This sentence reminded everyone that there was another person on one side.
Gu Qingyan raised his hand and knocked it on Dong Sheng's head: "I see that you are not painful enough, I knew that I would let Beiming give you a few whips." ”
After saying this, Han Yan had already returned to Gu Qingyan's side: "Thank you for sharing the burden for the four girls." ”
He knew that these people in front of him valued love and righteousness, and they were even more loyal to Gu Qingyan, and Xu Shaolin also knew this, so on the surface, he let Shimen retreat and cultivate for nearly a month, but in fact, he directly gave them a vacation.
As soon as they heard Han Yan's words, these individuals looked at Gu Qingyan with happy expressions, and said busily: "Master Han Shaozhuang is not polite. "I thought that maybe one day I would be able to change my mind directly.
Gu Qingyan is easy to mingle with them when he is fine, so he doesn't care about their little eyes: "Okay, okay, it's okay for you to be idle anyway, take the young owner of the Han village around, and practice your hands if you still have the strength to spare." ”
Han Yan rarely made a move, and Gu Qingyan didn't see Han Yan fight a few times in her impression, so in fact, she really wanted to see Han Yan's competition.
Dong Sheng comprehended, nodded at Gu Qingyan, said that he understood, and a few others took Hanyan to start today's trip to Shimen.
Gu Qingyan came to Shimen to find Beiming in addition to seeing how their injuries were, but also had other things to do, so he left Beiming and Dongqing and Dongxin.
"Is the old ghost there?" Gu Qingyan asked Beiming.
Beiming said: "It's here." So the four of them went first to the old ghost's stone house.
"See Master." The old ghost stepped forward and saluted.
Gu Qingyan was exempted, feeling that the temperature in the stone house was much warmer than a few days ago, thinking that he was preparing for taking poison as soon as possible: "How is it?" ”
The old ghost took two small bottles and handed them to Gu Qingyan: "Master, please take a look." ”
Each bottle contained more or less liquid, and it seemed that it had been removed, although the amount was not much, but it could feed her Gu worm for a while.
Gu Qingyan thought about it, so he took out the brocade box from his sleeve and handed it to the old ghost: "Now I put it in the room to raise, I have to toss it with poisonous insect venom or something, it is really laborious, I think it will be more convenient for you to put it aside." ”
The old ghost did not doubt him, took the brocade box and opened the brocade box at Gu Qingyan's signal, and the moment he saw the Gu worm, the old ghost was obviously stunned.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? Gu Qingyan thought something was wrong, so she stepped forward to take a look, but when she saw that the little insect was alive and well, she looked at the old ghost in confusion.
The old ghost said in a surprised tone and asked Gu Qingyan: "Where did this worm come from, master?" ”
Gu Qingyan and Bei Ming glanced at each other and said, "From a little girl." It was still eggs. ”
"The master has been feeding?" The old ghost saw that the Gu worm had already taken shape, and there was a smell of blood in the brocade box.
Gu Qingyan nodded, and the more she looked at the old ghost's expression, the more wrong it became: "Do you know this?" ”
After all, there is still a difference between Gu and poison, not to mention Gu Qingyan, even Gu Ning, there are only a handful of Gu worms he has seen so far, and he has never raised them.
Who knew that the old ghost didn't answer for a while, but he knelt down for Gu Qingyan with a plop: "Please forgive the master!" ”
"Say!" Looking at the old ghost's expression, Gu Qingyan suddenly felt that something was wrong.
"This Gu worm old slave recognizes that it is the blood Gu in the method of practicing Gu in the Fu Tu Yan." Gu Qingyan knew what the old ghost said, "This kind of Gu worm will have a different effect in the end according to the cultivation method of the Gu cultivator." ”
No one had mentioned this to Gu Qingyan, but Gu Qingyan felt that she needed to know: "Go on." ”
Through the detailed introduction of the old ghost, Gu Qingyan only learned at this time today that the original form of this Gu worm was the blood Gu she knew, which could kill people invisibly, but in addition to that, there was another form, that is, Heart Gu, through the medicine induction, first let the human body have a smell exclusive to this Gu worm, and then wait for the time to be ripe, the person who raised the Gu could go down the Gu, and then the Gu keeper could control people's hearts through the Gu worm.
"Is it really that amazing?" Beiming asked, and Gu Qingyan didn't believe it.
The old ghost said: "One of the Gu techniques has always been mysterious, and the royal family of the former dynasty was also because they tasted the sweetness somewhere, so they learned this method, but the heart Gu is not easy to practice, first, you need to find the most suitable person to control, and secondly, the person who raises Gu also needs to spend more effort, and it takes a long time, so it is generally rare." ”
The old ghost became more and more detailed, Gu Qingyan heard that his scalp was numb, and he naturally thought of the smell that appeared inexplicably on Su Tanxue's body, and asked the old ghost: "Let me ask you, what is the introduction you are talking about?" ”
The old ghost said: "This is not easy to define, some are in the food, some can also be in the taste, and the taste of each primer is different." ”
At this time, Gu Qingyan guessed in his heart that he had seven or eight points: "What about the one I have?" What is it now? ”
"It can only be a blood Gu." The old ghost said truthfully.
"You have a way to get the most out of it, right?" Gu Qingyan had never asked about the old ghost's background before, and since she could remember, the old ghost was in this stone house.
Gu Qingyan has already asked this, and the old ghost has already said this, and there is nothing to hide: "If the master trusts, the old slave is willing to raise this Gu worm on behalf of the master, although it can no longer be a heart Gu, but it must be done to the master." ”
"Trust? Who are you? Gu Qingyan asked.
The old ghost said truthfully: "The old slave was originally a person in the floating field, and he had been raising Gu worms for them all the time. ”
Gu Qingyan was startled, and unconsciously took a step back, Beiming and Dongqing Dongxin had already stood sideways half a step in front of Gu Qingyan.
"A few rest assured, the old slave has always had no intention of harming. After the incident of the Fu Tu Gu worm in the palace that year, I was captured by Gu Erye and imprisoned for me to study the method of solving the Gu. ”
The disaster started by the old ghost, and in the end it was not solved because of his method, the old ghost was young and vigorous, and he was reluctant to return to obedience, so he never gave a way to solve the Gu until later, the Gu worm devoured Fu Tu itself, Gu Ning took the old ghost to see the scene when Fu Tu was greatly injured by the Gu worm, and he died, and the living had to flee from the imperial capital, and the old ghost wanted to rescue, but was stopped by Gu Ning, and they wanted him to experience a powerlessness.
Since then, the old ghost was taken back to Shimen by Gu Ning, locked in the stone house, did not fight, did not interrogate, did not speak, just consumed, after a long time, the old ghost understood something, and began to ask himself to do something, and even settled down inexplicably in Shimen, and then Gu Qingyan came, and the old ghost remembered that he was a child less than a year older than Gu Qingyan, and he treated Gu Qingyan a little softer, but Gu Qingyan's request was responsive.
At first, Gu Ning and the others also guarded against the old ghost, but later they really saw that the old ghost was not a threat, so they were relieved.
"The old slave's martial arts have all been abolished by Gu Erye, and the only ones that can be used are these bottles and jars, jars, and boxes of poison, but the master is here, and he knows these things better than me, and you are by your side all the year round, how can I have the opportunity to do it."
The old ghost's words reminded Gu Qingyan of the time she came to get something, the old ghost lit a wisp of fragrance, and immediately Gu Qingyan smelled something wrong, and said to the old ghost: "I don't know my own stone house, some things can't be used indiscriminately, don't hurt your body." ”
There is no suspicion in employing people, no need to suspect people, over the years, the old ghost has seen Gu Qingyan treat everyone around him with such a criterion, and slowly, his heart has changed over time.
"Why didn't you mention it before?" Gu Qingyan eased her nerves and calmed down.
The old ghost shook his head: "Don't dare to mention it, I'm ashamed to mention it." ”
"Then why didn't my dad tell me?"
"Maybe I forgot." Old ghost road.
Gu Qingyan sighed, staying in the house for too long, he was so bored that he didn't know what to say, and said, "Let's get up first." I left the brocade box. ”
After saying that, Gu Qingyan walked out of the house, and for a while she had to digest today's matter, and she had to take precautions, but she didn't expect that there had been a floating person in Shimen for more than ten years, and she felt that the trial was ridiculous when she thought about it.
"Master, do you really want to put that Gu worm there?" Beiming asked.
Gu Qingyan said: "Let's put it first, if he really has different intentions, it's useless for me to ask for that thing." ”
After a pause, Gu Qingyan rubbed his head, and before his back was good, he encountered this headache: "Send someone to my father to confirm the old ghost's words." Forget it, Beiming, it's better for you to go in person. ”
"Yes." Beiming took his order.
Gu Qingyan shook his head, let's do this first, turned his head and asked Holly: "What about the two of them?" ”
Holly knew that Gu Qingyan was referring to the two left in the City of No Return, so she said, "Hold in the torture room." ”
"Did you ask something?"
Holly said: "One has opened his mouth one after another in the past two days, and the other..."
Not to mention that those who don't return to the city are all dead soldiers, even if there is no poison in their mouths and they can't kill themselves, but they don't let go, let the secret guards work hard, and they survived for two days, Beiming ordered them to stop for a day to recuperate, so that they could be entertained for a day, and then continued, both soft and hard, and so on, one person couldn't stand it and began to loosen his mouth, but the other person was still insisting.
Gu Qingyan was not in a hurry: "It's okay, take it slowly, and have time to play with them." ”
What is the weakest thing about people, not a knife to give a pleasure, but to slowly wear out that will, just like an old ghost, the life of the stone house is a person and a bunch of bottles and cans as a companion, there is no so-called happiness and sorrow, and there is no other appeal to life, I want to die, it is not so easy in the stone gate, before the head hits the wall, there is a secret guard to stop it, even if you take the poison, you can get it back from the hands of Hades.
The rest is only left to survive the rest of his life. If it weren't for Gu Qingyan who always came here to look for toxins later, the life of the old ghost would really be gone.
Maybe it was Gu Qingyan's inadvertent intrusion that made the old ghost what he is now.