Chapter 35: The Medicine Boy and Traitor of the Cangshu Clan
The four eyes met, and before Su Yu could react, Li Xu had already closed the window of the carriage, and the carriage drove slowly.
"Ahh
Ah Yue bit one of the two guards left and right, and struggled to chase the carriage in front, Su Yu quickly gave her a hand knife, and Ah Yue's pupils rolled up and fainted.
Su Yu held Ah Yue's back: "Help her into the carriage." ”
The guards on the side hurriedly picked up Ah Yue and sent her to the carriage.
Xue Ya rubbed her arm and returned to Su Yu's side with a face full of grievances: "Princess, is she crazy?" ”
Su Yu didn't answer, turned around and got into the carriage.
The carriage returned all the way back to the Jin Palace, and Su Yuping retreated left and right, leaving Dong Wen alone.
"There's one thing I want you to do."
Dong Min shook his hand and said, "The princess just commands." ”
"I want you to help me find someone, a Miao Jiang person who can speak Chinese, or a Han person who can speak Miao Jiang language, be fast and low-key."
"Don't worry, the princess, your subordinates will do it."
Su Yu had to say that the people around Jiang Ci were Ma Li, but in two days, Dong Wen brought people to her.
is a Hu businessman, who travels all over the place, and has a lot of words in various places, and has lived in Miaojiang for a period of time.
After summoning Ah Yue, Dong Min dismissed all the maids and guards.
"Princess." Dong Wen saluted Su Yu and explained, "The subordinates didn't mean to snoop, but they just needed to ensure the safety of the princess. ”
"I didn't want to avoid you, just stay."
Dong Min bowed his head and retreated behind Su Yu.
"Don't be nervous, please come, it's for you to help spread the word, nothing else, you just need to translate my words and this little girl's words word for word."
Hu Shang had never dealt with a powerful person at this level, and when he heard Su Yu say this, he nodded, but he was still nervous.
"Ah Yue." Su Yu smiled softly, and Ah Yue took a few steps towards Su Yu when she heard the voice.
"Ask her, who is the woman she grabbed on the street the day before yesterday?"
Hu Shang followed the explanation and passed the words to Ah Yue word for word.
Ah Yue was stunned for a moment when she heard the language of her hometown, and then looked at Su Yu, who nodded slightly.
"It's a traitor, it's our enemy, we must get her back."
Hu Shang followed Ah Yue's excited tone and translated it as it was.
"Traitor?" It seems that the maid beside Li Xu is indeed from the Cangshu clan.
"Why a traitor?"
Ah Yue was so hateful that she almost crushed her back molars.
"She stole the treasure and killed the first Daqi, she should be thrown into the poison pool and bitten to death by ten thousand poisonous insects!"
"What treasure?"
Hu Shang translated, and Ah Yue lowered his head in silence.
Also, of course, his own treasure is a secret that cannot be passed on, Su Yu skimmed over the topic and continued to ask: "What do you mean by you?" ”
"We were ordered to chase the traitors, and I was the only one who chased them here."
"But lost?"
Ah Yue's body trembled suddenly, and her eyes were stained with fear carved into the bone marrow, and Hu Shang paused for a moment when he heard what she said before continuing to translate.
"I didn't chase after me, after I entered the city, I was knocked unconscious by a sneak attack, and I was taken to a very dark place to tie my hands and feet, where I would be beaten every day, a few days ago they put me in a cage, and then it didn't take long for me to be taken away by people in black clothes, and he kept beating me until I met you, you saved me, and took me to Yunluo, you are the goddess of Lanfeng Mountain."
Su Yu was originally frowning, and smiled slightly embarrassedly when she heard the word goddess, and then frowned tightly, it seems that Ah Yue has met the tooth of the trafficker.
Selling people to others as slaves should be punished by hanging according to the laws of Daheng, but it is a pity that most of the slaves bought and sold come from the ghost market, and the personnel are miscellaneous, most of them have no household registration, and the mobility is too high, so there is no way to find out.
"It's hateful."
Su Yu forcibly suppressed her anger, and she probably understood the grievances of Cangshu.
"The name of the traitor you said is Yun Luo?"
She pondered for a moment and some doubts sprung up: "Your boss is actually the patriarch, what does he think?" Send you a little kid out to catch a traitor? ”
After hearing this, Hu Shang did not translate, and plucked up his courage and said: "Wang... Princess, she's not a child, the villain was... Was.."
"It's good if you say it boldly, you don't have to be so nervous, what do you mean she's not a child?"
Hu Shang took a few deep breaths, pointed at Ah Yue and continued: "The princess can check to see if she has the symbol of a blue phoenix butterfly tattooed on the back of her neck. ”
Su Yu will be suspicious and get up and pick up Ah Yue's hair, there is indeed a butterfly pattern.
"What do you mean?"
"The Atractylodes clan, every ten years, will select ten medicine children among the newborns, raised by the eldest child, and begin to soak in special medicinal springs at the age of five, which will delay aging, control body size, and only grow to the age of twelve or thirteen at most."
Su Yu looked at Ah Yue, and her tightly knit eyebrows became deeper and deeper.
"These medicine boys have to soak in the medicine spring every day, eat the poisonous herbs on Lanfeng Mountain, those who can survive will be regarded as glory, the medicinal fragrance on their bodies can attract all kinds of beasts, especially poisonous insects, there are many beasts on Lanfeng Mountain, there are medicine boys, the clansmen do not need to go to the mountain to catch poisonous insects, you can reduce unnecessary casualties, the medicine boy has an exclusive residence, as long as you go to the medicine boy's residence every day to get poisonous insects."
"Isn't this..."Su Yu was dumbfounded, she couldn't tell for a moment whether it was right or wrong to sacrifice the lives of innocent children to protect the safety of all clansmen.
Hu Shang raised his eyes to look at Ah Yue, and lowered his head again: "This Ah Yue girl, villain... When the villain lived in Miaojiang more than ten years ago, he had seen it, his appearance had not changed at all, the medicine boy would not live to be forty years old, the villain dared to guess that she... No matter what, she is past thirty years old, and I am afraid that because the medicinal fragrance of her body is fading, she was sent out with ordinary people. ”
"Thirty?" Su Yu was really shocked, the person in front of him, whether it was his face or body, was the appearance of a child, if what Hu Shang said was true, then there should be a lot of fantastic things in this world.
Moreover, if it is true, wouldn't Ah Yue have a few years to live?
"And when he asked, if half a word of what was said in this room today was spread, thou shalt know the consequences."
Hu Shang knelt down on his knees: "The villain knows that the villain knows, these words will rot in the stomach, and he will never say anything in his dreams." ”
"That's good." Su Yu turned his head slightly, "Dong Wen, take him to receive the reward and send him out of the house, and also, send Ah Yue back." ”
"Yes, Princess."
"The villain thanked the princess for her reward."
"Wait, Winterwen."
Su Yu stopped Dong Wen but didn't speak, Dong Wen's eyes turned and said, "Don't worry, princess, your subordinates will check immediately." ”
"Hmm." Su Yu held his forehead and waved his hand, "Go ahead." ”
She looked at Ah Yue's back, and still had doubts about Hu Shang's words, not only to investigate this matter, but also to teach Ah Yue to learn Chinese as soon as possible.
After another two days, Su Yu's headache improved a lot, and he almost no longer got sick, but he injured his muscles and bones for a hundred days, and the injury on his arm did not improve at all, and he felt a faint pain from time to time.
The body is limited, Su Yu is too lazy to move, and he is getting bored day by day in the house, eating, sleeping, and sleeping, and has nothing to do.
After dinner that day, I finally picked up a book to read, and I had just finished reading a cup of tea when I was interrupted by a quick knock on the door.
"What?" Su Yu, who was disturbed, was very unhappy, knowing that she had never studied so seriously in the academy before.
"Princess! Princess! Something is wrong! Check it out! ”
Xue Ya's voice sounded very anxious, and Su Yu got up and put down the book and walked out.
"What's going on?"
"Big deal! You have to come and see it for yourself, I can't explain it clearly! Xue Ya made a gesture of asking for help in her hand, and she was in a hurry.
"What the hell is going on?" Su Yu couldn't ask, so she had to keep up with Xue Ya.
The two of them walked all the way to Yuqiu Lake.
"Princess, look at the lake."
Su Yu walked to the lake and looked around, but saw nothing.
"What the hell is going on? There's nothing here, huh? She turned around, and there was no one behind her.
"Snow buds? Snow buds? ”
Bang!
Su Yu was taken aback.
A fireball rises in the center of the lake, bursts open in an instant, sparks scattered on the surface of the lake, like fireworks, but more gorgeous than fireworks, the whole lake is illuminated by Mars, and the light blue light at the bottom of the lake is in sharp contrast, a cold and a warm contrast, the beauty is shocking, indescribable.
Suddenly, thousands of sparks gathered together rapidly, as if absorbing the light of the strange stones at the bottom of the lake, and gradually formed a silver-blue flame, the flames rose into the air, and in an instant, a bird with half green feathers and half red feathers soared upwards and swooped down to the surface of the lake.
Su Yu looked at it in amazement, completely speechless.
If you look closely, it is not one bird but two, each with only one foot, one wing, and one eye, and they are joined together to fly.
Brutal? Winged birds? Isn't that something that only exists in legends?
Su Yu could just think, the two birds on the lake suddenly fluttered their wings and flew straight towards her, and the surroundings seemed to be full of stars falling, she had never seen this scene before, and for a while the soles of her feet seemed to be nailed to the ground.
The two birds were close at hand, Su Yu closed her eyes tightly and staggered back, one hand caught off guard on her waist.
"Who!" She hurriedly turned her head, and her gaze crashed into the pair of bewitching eyes.
A tiger roar pulled Su Yu's gaze back to the lake, and the white tiger half the size of the lake scurried around in mid-air, and then pounced towards the shore.
Su Yu clenched his sleeves and buried his head in Jiang Ci's chest, obviously really frightened.
"Don't be afraid, it's fake." Jiang Ci hugged Su Yu with one hand and stroked her head with the other to comfort her.
"Yu'er, don't you want to see illusions, I invited the illusionists you said to the house, these are illusion performances."
Su Yu relieved himself and slowly raised his head to look back at the lake, where the white tiger was gone, replaced by a silver butterfly in the sky.
The silver butterfly flew on the surface of the lake and in the air, very gorgeous, Su Yu let go of Jiang Ci, took a smile towards the lake, a silver butterfly flew towards her, she stretched out her hand and the silver butterfly landed on her fingertips, and instantly turned into a spark and dispersed.
Suddenly, the silver butterflies gathered in the sky, and suddenly turned into petals and spread out, covering the entire Yuqiu Lake.
Su Yu raised her head and laughed unconsciously, she turned her head to look at Jiang Ci, and there was a little light in her smiling peach blossom eyes.