Chapter 147: The Connoisseur (4K5, Chapter Pink)
Zhou Chengzong's eyelids jumped, but they didn't open.
At the door of the flower hall where he was lying, there were two mothers-in-law sitting opposite each other.
They also heard the conversation between Old Man Zhou and Steward Zhou outside, and they looked at each other, both a little worried.
After a while, Steward Zhou opened the curtain and let Old Man Zhou walk in.
The two mothers-in-law hurriedly got up and curtsied: "Master." ”
Old Man Zhou nodded and asked, "How is the situation of the uncle?" ”
The mother-in-law on the left hurriedly replied: "Back to the master, the uncle slept very smoothly, just now the grandmother fed the uncle medicine, and the uncle fell asleep again." ”
Old Man Zhou walked to the edge of the couch where Zhou Chengzong was lying and looked at it, put his hands behind his back, frowned, and said, "It's okay to live here all the time, can you move back to his yard to live?" ”
Another mother-in-law said: "Sheng Guogong said that when the uncle wakes up, he can move away." However, it is best not to move until you wake up. ”
Old Man Zhou was silent for a long time and said, "What if you can't wake up tomorrow?" Go and ask Sheng Guogong if he can be removed if he doesn't wake up. ”
The two mothers-in-law nodded hurriedly.
Old Man Zhou looked around and asked, "What about your grandmother?" ”
"Grandma went to see Grandma and Master Bao." The mothers-in-law hurriedly replied.
"Well, you watch carefully. Two people are not enough, let them send two more people over, and the number of people on night duty outside will be doubled. Old Man Zhou shook his head and said to Zhou Da Steward, "You bother more." ”
"Don't worry, sir. I've got it all set up over there. Steward Zhou hurriedly bowed down and went out of the house with Old Man Zhou.
The two stood under the cloister at the door, looking at the courtyard in front of them.
It was dusk. The bloody remnant sun crumbled in the sky. Sprinkle the afterglow all over the earth.
“…… Got a clue? Old Man Zhou asked indifferently. Who put the mountain wind in? ”
Steward Zhou said helplessly: "Master, this time is different from the past. As we all know, we are rebuilding the inner courtyard of the mansion like a god. There are 1,200 craftsmen who come in and out every day, and although the defense is very tight according to the military establishment, these people are not real sergeants, they are temporarily recruited from the craftsmen's bureaus in various places, and there is always a time when they are secret. I've found it today. Of the 1,200 craftsmen, eight were lost last night, only three were found alive, four died accidentally, and one was missing. ”
"Who is the missing person?"
"A craftsman in charge of Shangliang was recruited from the Jiangnan Craftsman Bureau, and it is said that he presided over Shangliang in the palace in Jiangnan back then, and he was definitely one of the best in Daxia." The steward of Zhou was quite capable, with 1,200 craftsmen. In the blink of an eye, I inquired clearly.
Old Man Zhou narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "It's probably him." It doesn't matter where he goes. Check his family, his relatives and friends, all the people who are related to him, check it. - Until he showed up. ”
Steward Zhou shuddered, hurriedly bowed down, and hurriedly went down to arrange.
Old Man Zhou stood at the door for a while before going back to the courtyard where he lived and meditating in the chess room.
……
Feng came to the courtyard where Sheng Siyan and Zhou Huaixuan lived, and said with palpitations: "Are you all right?" Do you want to take Po to me? When I heard about it, I was so scared that my soul was gone. As he spoke, his eyes turned red.
Po is now her lifeline, and she can't let him make a mistake.
Sheng Siyan smiled: "Mother, we're fine." I'll catch the snake, and the snake won't help me. As he spoke, he winked at Po in Feng's arms.
Po giggled and turned around and hugged Feng's neck.
Zhou Huaixuan said: "I'm waiting here today, but I want to see who dares to come." ”
Feng nodded, put Ah Bao into Sheng Siyan's arms, and said, "In short, you have to be careful. After thinking about it, he said to Sheng Siyan again: "This matter must be known to the Great Elders, I have already sent Mother Fan to the land of the fallen people." ”
Sheng Siyan and Zhou Huaixuan nodded together, "I want to inform them." ”
For ordinary degenerates, the sun and the mountain breeze are their nemesis.
But for the upper-class figures such as the Great Elder and the Eight Surnames of the Fallen Elite, they are not afraid of the sun, and the only nemesis is the mountain wind.
Sheng Siyan said apologetically: "I don't know this, otherwise I would have warned you a long time ago." ”
A few years ago, she was in the small courtyard of Wangjia Village on the outskirts of the capital, and was attacked by a mountain wind.
At that time, of course, she didn't dare to tell the truth, Sheng Qiye and the Wang family didn't believe that anyone could really escape the poisoning of the mountain wind, so they all thought that it was a mountain wind that was about to die of old age and the venom was about to run out.
Last night, this mountain wind was not taken to eat again, but was taken away by Zhou Xianbai and made into a specimen.
Feng Shi smiled and said, "It's not your fault. I remembered these things not long ago. You're not like us, how can you know these things? After a pause, Feng Shi whispered again: "The fact that the mountain wind is the nemesis of the fallen people is only known to the upper echelons of the fallen people, and the ordinary fallen people don't know about it, and the ordinary people of Daxia don't know it. I'm a little puzzled, who is this person who has raised mountain winds? What does that mean? ”
Mother Fan, who was standing behind Sheng Siyan, moved in her heart and said in a low voice: "There is a kind of person in Daxia who knows, and the killer weapon in their hands is a poisonous needle stained with the venom of the mountain wind. At the beginning, our elite with eight surnames of the fallen people almost fell into their hands because of this killer feature......"
“…… Guardians? Zhou Huaixuan frowned slightly, "Could it be that the guardian has raised a mountain wind?" ”
Mother Fan spread her hands and shook her head, "I don't think it's possible." The poison needles used by the guardians are ancestral poison needles, and because of their age, their toxicity has been greatly reduced, so although they have severely damaged our fallen elites, they have not put us to death. If they really had this kind of mountain wind, they would have taken fresh venom and wiped us out. ”
Sheng Siyan nodded again and again.
She understood what Fan's mother meant, that is, she thought that it could not be a mountain breeze raised by the guardian. Because they have only used poison needles that are about to expire, and they have not taken fresh venom from the mouths of the domestic mountain winds. Make zuò new poison needles.
Of course. Sheng Siyan also thought of a possibility. It is this mountain wind that has only appeared in recent years......
She looked up at Zhou Huaixuan's face, and subconsciously couldn't help but say nothing, but comforted Fan's mother and said, "Fan's mother, don't take the mountain wind so badly." Since it is poisonous, it naturally has an antidote. It is said in the medical books that wherever poison haunts, there must be something that resides with it within seven steps. That is, the antidote can be found. ”
"Of course I do." Mother Fan smiled bitterly, "It's just that you don't know that the toxicity of this thing attacks so quickly that you don't even have time to take the antidote." ”
"So powerful?" Sheng Siyan's eyes widened, he thought about it, and said, "This thing is so powerful, it shouldn't be easy to raise, right?" Saying that, he looked at Zhou Huaixuan and said, "I forgot to ask Wang Xiang, is this mountain wind good to feed ......?"
"Do you still want to keep one at home?" Feng couldn't help but nod Sheng Siyan's forehead, "Okay, don't think nonsense." You were amazing yesterday. I hope I don't have to be so powerful today. It's better not to come back to this thing. ”
"The front and back of this house and the roof are sprinkled with realgar, and ordinary snakes, insects, rats and ants dare not come." Sheng Siyan said with a smile. Sent Feng out.
This night, Sheng Siyan and Zhou Huaixuan carried Ah Bao to their bed and slept between the two.
Ah Bao was born, and he never slept with his father.
The first time I slept between my father and mother, I was really happy, holding a small pillow and wrapping a small quilt, like a small animal, rolling to Sheng Siyan first, and then rolling down from her, all the way to Zhou Huaixuan.
Before Zhou Huaixuan got angry, he rolled down again and returned to the middle ground where he slept.
Then when Sheng Siyan just closed his eyes, he quietly rolled over to Sheng Siyan......
It wasn't until Zhou Huaixuan's forehead jumped straight and stretched out his arm to pull him off Sheng Siyan's body, and fixed him firmly with his arm, that he stopped rolling and stopped rolling, but began to look at the top of the tent and blow bubbles......
After this night, the Divine General's Mansion was safe and sound, and no special circumstances occurred.
Sheng Siyan woke up the next day and said with a smile: "It should be that the realgar is sprinkled too much, and the mountain wind doesn't dare to come." ”
Zhou Huaixuan got up and said: "There is no rumor in our house, and the other party is also wondering, let's wait a few days and then see." ”
Sheng Siyan nodded, "It should be." put a mountain wind, and there was not even a shadow, and the other party must have been distressed to death. ”
At noon, Wang Yixing came again, this time, he brought his father, saying that he wanted to see the once-in-a-lifetime mountain wind.
Sheng Siyan knew that Wang Yixing's father was a really powerful snake catcher, so he hurriedly said, "Daddy Wang, please come here." ”
Old Man Wang looked at Sheng Siyan and smiled honestly: "Is it Xiao Siyan?" It's grown so big. ”
Sheng Siyan's face turned red all of a sudden.
Not only did she grow up, but she even gave birth to a son, but in Daddy Wang's mouth, just like she was still the little blind girl in Wangjia Village, she felt very warm and warm.
When people meet each other, the most happy thing is that their hearts remain the same.
Old Man Wang followed them to the house where the mountain wind specimen had been placed, and at a glance he saw the extremely rare long snake.
Sheng Siyan knows that this kind of snake is called "king cobra" in later generations, but in this world without glasses, people here call this snake "mountain wind", which has always been a legend stored in ancient books.
Old man Wang circled around the specimen of the mountain wind a few times, and praised him: "I have opened my eyes, I can't imagine that I, Wang Lao'er, can still see a real mountain wind!" ”
After reading it, Old Man Wang asked Sheng Siyan carefully: "How did you catch it?" I have heard that the mountain wind moves very fast and walks like the wind, so I call it 'the mountain wind', even if it is a martial arts master, it can't run faster than them. ”
Sheng Siyan was dumbfounded for a long time, looked up at the beam of the house in a hurry, remembered the situation that night, and said busily: "That's the case, it hung upside down from the beam at that time, but it didn't take advantage of it, I ...... I...... I was bent on Ah Bao at the time, and I didn't want to think about it, so I used the technique you and Second Brother Wang taught me at the beginning, pounced on it, clamped its seven inches, and it ...... I strangled him to death. ”
Zhou Huaixuan and Ah Bao looked at Sheng Siyan together, and the two pairs of identical eyes made Sheng Siyan lower his head.
Wang Yixing coughed and added: "...... The seven inches of this mountain wind were trampled flat, and they should have been stepped on after death, right? ”
Sheng Siyan nodded hurriedly. "Yes, yes, yes. It was I who was angry. Stomp it flat. ”
Old Man Wang let out an "oh" and said, "So that's the case." I said that if you crawl from the ground, you can't get out of it. But hanging upside down from the beams of the house is really bad for it. ”
Finally passed, Sheng Siyan couldn't help but want to wipe a handful of sweat.
It's not easy to lie in front of professionals......
Zhou Huaixuan invited Mr. Wang and Wang Yixing to sit in his study, wanting to learn more about domestic snakes from them.
……
After a few more days, the Divine General's Mansion was still unharmed.
In addition, Zhou Huaixuan learned from Wang Yixing and his father. Raising snakes is not easy.
The more venomous the snake, the less likely it is to be domesticated.
It takes a long time to hatch and grow from the snake eggs, and then it has to be trained, so it is not easy to raise one or two, and it is impossible to raise a group like raising chickens and ducks.
Besides, even if it can be raised on such a large scale, it is no longer a real mountain wind, and there is no such violent toxicity.
So the other party has to "raise more". and "recuperate".
“…… In this way, the other party raised the mountain wind. Actually, there aren't many. Sheng Siyan nodded again and again after hearing this, thinking that this made sense.
If such a powerful poison could be raised all over the mountains, then the entire Great Xia would have changed hands long ago.
"To maintain the toxicity of poisons, they cannot be kept together in captivity. If the other party really values the toxicity of the mountain wind, then there should be no more than five mature mountain winds in their hands. In my opinion, the other party has a maximum of four in his hand. One of them is a female snake, and in order to keep the eggs to lay, it is impossible to take them out and do evil. In other words, there are only three mountain winds they can use. At the beginning, the one in Wangjia Village should have been raised by the same group of people, and I had already killed it, and I killed another one a few days ago, and the other party only has one available now, so I am extremely cautious. Sheng Siyan carefully analyzed.
Zhou Huaixuan nodded, "Old Man Wang said that it will take several years from the successful hatching of snake eggs to the cultivation of adult worms, and it is not something that can be done in a while. And looking at this size, it is still much smaller than the size mentioned in the ancient books, so it can be judged that they also hatched a mountain wind because of an occasional opportunity. But compared with the real ancient species, it is still a lot worse. ”
"I'm just wondering if these people have anything to do with the Guardians." Sheng Siyan looked at Zhou Huaixuan and said, "If they don't release the rest of the mountain wind, but only use it to obtain venom, then it will be even more trouble for us." ”
Zhou Huaixuan lowered his eyes and said, "Whether it has anything to do with it or not, they must have been taking venom." ”
"Then why do they take such trouble to let the mountain breeze in? Instead of just putting their poison needles? Sheng Siyan was puzzled, "The poison needle is small, and it is not easy to prevent, right?" ”
Zhou Huaixuan smiled and said: "I have heard that it is not easy to extract poison from the mountain wind, and it is even more difficult to make poison. I think they are so ineffective that they have to go out in person. ”
Fan's mother said that the killer features of the guardians are all handed down from their ancestors, and they are not hand-made.
It can be seen that this technology should have been lost.
But now, it's clear that someone is groping again.
Sheng Siyan calmed down and said with a smile: "If you have a chance, I really want to meet this great expert in drug production for a while." ”
"There should be a chance." Zhou Huaixuan said leisurely.
……
The next day, it was pouring rain, mixed with lightning and thunder.
Sheng Siyan hugged the sleeping Bao, leaned on Zhou Huaixuan's arms, and said with a smile: "It should be okay today." ”
When it thunders and rains, all kinds of poisonous insects and beasts are not used to coming out.
Zhou Huaixuan hummed, hugged the two people in his arms and fell asleep.
……
The rain stopped in the middle of the night, and the roaring rain washed away the yellow powder in front of and behind the house of the gods.
On the dark ridge of the roof, a thicker and darker mountain wind quietly meandered forward under the cover of night, wandering on the ridge like flat ground, and soon came to the roof beam of the flower hall where Zhou Chengzong lived.
Zhou Chengzong, who had been unconscious, opened his eyes suddenly and heard unusual movements on the roof beams!
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I went to the hospital for a follow-up visit today, re-medicated, and was so tired that I couldn't speak. I'll try to make two more. There are no guarantees. Forgive me...... (To be continued......)