Chapter Twenty-Seven: Gu Eggs
[The book continues from the above, the last book said that Liu Yang was self-righteous, thinking that there were only seven bronze mirrors with coffin lids made by Gu witches in the Dian Kingdom, and he was complacent because they had all been destroyed by his own hands. Unexpectedly, Mu Qingming did find the eighth bronze mirror, and the destruction plan of the Immortal Dao did not succeed. And after Mu Qingming returned home and punished his disciple Zhang Xiaosheng who couldn't control his hands and stole it, he explained to his curious wife Mo Han why there were eight mirrors, which did not match the record. The disciples who were brought out accompanied by Zhang Xiaosheng in front of the main house knelt down in the morning. Mu Qingming finally decided to give Zhang Xiaosheng a chance to mend his ways. Zhang Xiaosheng also promised that he would not steal the ancient tomb in the future. A few days later, the red jade that had been moved to Shala Alley to make Gu had finally made the Soul Eater Gu. 】
The moonlight is like frost, and the heavens and the earth are covered with a bright and soft light. The fragrant grass in the shade of the trees in the small courtyard of the wooden family shines in the moonlight.
Mu Qingming shook the teacup gently, and then drank the last tea in it, and after drinking, he didn't store any more water.
"This place is indeed full of yin energy, and Hongyu, the painted skin ghost, lives near here, and even saves money on incense." After thinking about it for a while, Mo Han bowed his head slightly and said, "And in this way, it will not be easy for the Immortal Dao to find their group of ghosts, maybe they really think that the plan has succeeded." ”。
As she spoke, her eyes were filled with admiration; admired her husband Mu Qingming inadvertently.
"That's what I thought, that's why I planned it." Mu Qingming turned the teacup in his hand a few times and put it down, and said to Mo Han: "And now, you have to go to sleep quickly, now you'd better not stay up late." ”。
After saying that, he stood up and helped Mo Han into the bedroom, brushing his sleeves and blowing out all the lights in the room.
The room was filled with watery silver-white moonlight.
After settling his wife, Mu Qingming stood up. Stepping on the moonlight that penetrated into the house, he walked slowly to the windowsill, raised his eyes to look at the window paper and carvings scattered with the shadows of the trees, and was stunned.
Although he couldn't see anything through the window paper, Mu Qingming could sense that his disciples were kneeling in front of the door of the main house not far from the window.
It was Zhang Xiaosheng who was punished, but the other disciples were sharing weal and woe with this disdainful man. After thinking about it, Mu Qing felt that this was not bad. At the very least, other disciples can also have a longer memory and know what to do and what not to do.
He turned back, walked to the bed, stripped off his trousers, lay down on the bed, lay down beside his wife, who had fallen asleep after yawning, and soon fell asleep.
Outside, the night breeze was flickering, but the temperature plummeted. There was a chill in the air.
The moon had set in the west, and Zhang Xiaosheng, who was kneeling on the ground, reflected for a long time in the coolness and silence, and still felt that what Master Mu Qingming said was right.
In the past, although his life was drunk, he would be worried at any time. In addition to the mechanism in the tomb that makes him nervous, the same is true when selling stolen goods. Tomb robbery, a high-risk thing that also damages yin morality, Zhang Xiaosheng plans to kill him in the future, and he will not do it. Unless it's the same as this time, Mu Qingming wants him to steal something important; Even so, in the future, he doesn't plan to 'take the sheep' from the tomb like this time.
Although it is also dangerous to live with Mu Qingming, there is no lack of virtue. The feeling of being a good person is something that Zhang Xiaosheng has never experienced in his previous days, at least he doesn't have to worry about creating evil. He just didn't want to lose this life, so he figured it out.
Now his fear is no longer that Mu Qingming will have a more severe punishment, nor that he is not determined to change his ways, but that he is afraid of losing the opportunity to say goodbye to his unbearable past. The key is that if he doesn't follow Mu Qingming, he won't be able to avenge his uncle at all.
After weighing it again and again, Zhang Xiaosheng finally figured it out.
After thinking about this, Zhang Xiaosheng suddenly felt remorseful, looking at the ten fingers of his hands on his knees, he really wanted to cut off those unconscious fingers one by one.
Mu Qingming's original intention was just to let him not change his thief in the future, but he didn't expect this apprentice to think quite far.
"Senior brother, senior sister and junior sister, you better go back and rest first." Seeing that the sky had turned blue, and the moonlight had long since faded with the moon's westset, Zhang Xiaosheng said to the others around him: "You have helped me a lot, and I will bear my own fault." Why don't you be embarrassed to let you follow me to be punished? ”。
After that, Zhang Xiaosheng's cheekiness actually lowered his head embarrassedly.
"What do you say? Doesn't Master always let us help each other? Ah Hong smiled disappretently, and said casually: "Of course, this kind of thing is punished." ”。
Jiaoyun and Long Gu raised the corners of their mouths and smiled together, but they didn't get up, obviously willing to kneel here with Zhang Xiaosheng, waiting for Mu Qingming to forgive Zhang Xiaosheng.
The milky white morning mist drifted in and diffused in the small courtyard of the Mu family. The heavens and the earth gradually lit up.
Several disciples knelt in front of the main house like this, until the sky was completely bright, the door of the main house opened, and Mu Qingming, who woke up, walked out, looked directly at Zhang Xiaosheng and asked, "Will you still steal chickens and dogs in the future?" ”。
Zhang Xiaosheng slowly shook his head a few times, lowered his head and said, "No, I will never do it in the future." ”。
Mu Qingming rubbed his sleepy eyes, walked straight to the well, and said while fetching water: "A man stands up to the sky, and he will do what he says." I'm not going to pursue the past anymore, as long as you don't do it again in the future, the dragon lockers will still accept it. ”。
The tone was softened, much better than when he angrily scolded Zhang Xiaosheng last night.
"Yes, Master." Zhang Xiaosheng, who was not far away, hurriedly replied.
"Let's go to the kitchen and get some food, let's all go and rest. Ah Hong, too, I'll go and ask you for leave from where you work. Mu Qingming finally forgave Zhang Xiaosheng.
"Yes." Zhang Xiaosheng and the other disciples replied in unison, sniffed, stood up, and followed the senior brothers and sisters towards the kitchen......
Sala Lane. Near the mouth of the alley, there is an old locust tree with a crooked neck. Next to the old locust tree, there is a dilapidated courtyard.
Like other one-sided Indian style buildings, they are all boxy. But the walls and roofs were overgrown with weeds, and the broken walls were covered with vines, so you knew that this small courtyard had not been inhabited for a long time.
Such yards are not common in Shala Lane in recent years. The reason for this is because of the horror legends here and the reason why there is no shortage of houses in other places in the city of Kunming.
A place where even the homeless don't want to come, naturally there are not many people living in it, and there are more vacant houses, and they are dilapidated little by little in the vicissitudes of the years.
The whole alley was barren, and there was an eerie gloomy wind.
The same is true for the courtyard under the locust tree. The courtyard was full of weeds. The canopy of half a locust tree stretched out over the yard; The dense branches of the trees block most of the sunlight and cast a little shadow.
Now, this small courtyard has an owner, and she is Hongyu.
In order to confuse the Immortal Dao, Hongyu moved that night. Soon, the wonton Shih Tzu (red jade after selling wontons) and the beautiful woman leaning on the fence in the Yunjin Night Market were forgotten. Instead, there is a dilapidated haunted mansion that renders a mystery.
This is what Mu Qingming wants, making the red jade fade from everyone's sight. Then, become a foreign aid in the shadow behind him.
At this time, noon is approaching, and the sky and the earth are a little hot. However, in Hongyu's new house, the cold is scattered and the yin atmosphere is pressing. Ruby stood in the shadows of the main room, staring at the sunlight outside.
It's been eight days since she's moved here, and the new environment still makes her curious.
In particular, the prohibition of those dragon-locking people hidden under the grass and stones is the most able to attract the attention of Hongyu.
They not only play a protective role in the small courtyard and hide the ghosts in it, but also continuously send underground yin qi to this courtyard, so that it will not disperse.
And these magical talismans have never been seen by Hongyu before, so they are always curious.
"Master." A diminutive dwarf male ghost floated behind her, interrupting Ruby's concentration.
"The scorpion seems to be about to give birth." The dwarf said this, and Ruby did not look back; The yin wind came to her face, blowing her long black and shiny hair.
Silently calculating the time, the birth of this scorpion has been advanced by many days. Hongyu thought that this might have something to do with the yin energy in this place.
Yin Qi is strong, and this kind of Gu worm that needs to rely on Yin Qi to assist in childbirth will shorten the oviposition period.
Ruby turned back and returned to the depths of the house.
In the dimness of the corner, there was a half-buried earthen pot. On the mouth of the can on the ground on the road, a copper mirror is buckled.
A few imps crouched around, their faces full of anticipation, their eyes fixed on the earthen pot.
Hongyu walked between them, and after slowly squatting down with her skirt in hand, she opened the bronze mirror that was fastened on the side. Along with the other imps, the probe looked towards the jar.
They saw the egg standing on the ashes in the jar, the white of which had been eaten, and only an empty shell remained. A scorpion, the length of a little thumb, curled up in an eggshell.
This scorpion has a different color from other scorpions. It was covered in green, like a green bamboo. The little ghosts of the red jade also gave it a name, called Little Green.
Simple and straightforward name.
This scorpion is in pain today, one curled up motionless like this, contrary to its irritable and restless in the past, it actually lay quietly in the egg.
And its slightly bulging belly has been squirming from time to time.
Hongyu looked at it, bowed her head slightly, and said, "It's indeed about to lay eggs." ”。
As soon as she finished speaking, the little scorpion finally stretched out, raised its tail and bent it. Then after another wriggling of the little scorpion's abdomen, two Gu eggs the size of rice grains were produced from its body.
Hongyu and her little ghosts, who couldn't take their eyes off it, were overjoyed when they saw the two purple-black Gu eggs being produced, and they couldn't help but smile.
If you look closely, you can see that the purple-black Gu eggs are densely covered with a trace of red markings, like human blood vessels.
After that, there will definitely be a Soul Eater Gu breaking out of the cocoon in these two Gu eggs.
"Yo, it's twins." After the dwarf imp glanced at the Gu eggs a few times, he said happily: "That little girl named Miaoyu, the medicine prepared really works. The scorpion ate it and gave birth to twins. ”。
Hongyu silently stretched out her hand, picked up one of the Gu eggs, handed it to the dwarf ghost, and said, "Send it to the Mu family's courtyard along the secret path, and hand it over to Young Master Mu with your own hands." ”。
The dwarf imp carefully took the Gu egg, held it in the palm of his hand, and left the main house.
Before he left, Ruby gave a look to a little ghost beside him.
The imp suddenly understood, got up and went to the other house. When he turned back, he already had a small porcelain vase in his hand.
After he handed it to Hongyu, Hongyu opened the bottle and poured the stinking blood inside into the eggshell, drowning the remaining Gu eggs in the blood.
What does Mu Qingming want one of these Gu eggs to do? Want to know what's next? Let's listen to the next breakdown.