Chapter 10, Poisoning
A few days later is the fiftieth birthday of Nan Yaoyang, and gangs of all sizes on the rivers and lakes, whether they are famous people or nameless people, want to see the style of Nan Zhangjiao, so recently, the heroes of Heifengling have gathered. The heroes of the rivers and lakes stepped one after another, and when the "Hun Tian Sect" was stepping up their work, a group of fast horses came to inform them that something had happened to the Xiao family, and this time the sect Nan Feiyu was stunned and hurriedly rushed to the place of the accident with a few of his subordinates.
Nan Feiyu hurried straight to the town where the accident occurred. As soon as I arrived, I heard that there had been a group of royal soldiers in the town recently, but no one continued to inquire but no one knew what big cases this group of royal troops had done in the town. Then go and look for the person who found the body.
The man was a woodcutter who sold firewood for a living. Due to the fact that the salary of the lewd rain and the firewood has been sold better than in the past recently, the woodcutter wants to take advantage of these days to earn more silver taels, so he goes out to collect firewood even harder. When I passed by the river outside the town that day, I saw a pile of broken firewood scraps floating from the river upstream, which happened to be blocked by the shrubs by the river, so I wanted to pick it up and carry it home to dry. The woodcutter ran to the river to pick up the scraps with a rake, but as soon as he picked up a handful of scraps, he was so frightened that his soul flew away. Beneath the wood scraps revealed a disgusting corpse soaked and deformed. In a panic, he hurriedly ran back to the town and called dozens of brave fellow villagers to go down and fish. This one was unyielding, and several were fished out one after another. The group of people didn't dare to look closely when they saw that the corpse had already been peeled open and fleshed, so they dug a pit not far away and buried it hastily.
When the woodcutter learned that Nan Feiyu had come for those corpses, he felt that he should be the family of those deceased. He immediately promised to lead them to the burial place, and along the way, the woodcutter did not forget to comfort Nan Feiyu: "I hope these dead people can return to their hometown." ”。
Speaking of this, Nan Feiyu's heart was sour, and his eyes were full of tears. Seeing this, the woodcutter hurriedly went up and asked, "Do you want to buy some sacrifices and pay your respects?" After Nan Feiyu thanked him, he gave the woodcutter some silver taels and asked him to go to the town to buy some incense, candles, and paper money. When the woodcutter saw that the silver taels he had given were abundant, he hurried away. However, after a long time, the incense candle paper money was bought, and Nan Feiyu gave some broken silver to reward the woodcutter, and told the woodcutter to avoid it. After the woodcutter walked away, Nan Feiyu lit incense candles and burned paper money, Nan Feiyu looked at the grave blankly, looking extremely sad.
After the Nanfeiyu memorial service, he immediately returned to Heifeng Ridge, and the weather gradually improved along the way. After passing through a field, he saw a village not far ahead, and immediately led his men into the village to beg for a bowl of water. As soon as he entered the village, he was followed by a group of children. It's probably those children who see their mutilated palms and look behind them. Nan Feiyu has been roaming the rivers and lakes all year round, and he has long been accustomed to this kind of thing. Let the children giggle behind them, but the men couldn't stand it, and scolded them as they drove away, but the children always scattered and gathered like flies, always following behind. This Nan Feiyu has been married for many years, but for some reason he has no children under his knees, and he is naturally very happy to see these children follow. Immediately stopped his men.
After Nan Feiyu and his party drank enough water, they rode their horses to the boundary of Shangjiang County, they were about to return to Heifengling on the day of Nan Yaoyang's birthday, so they sped up their foot strength all the way. The horse ran five or six hundred miles a day, and naturally he was too tired to walk, and he missed the date. As soon as he stepped on the boundary of Shangjiang County, Nan Feiyu led his men to the path.
The path is through a bamboo forest, perennial only the hunters who enter the mountain and the officers and soldiers who rush to the road will walk here, but ordinary people will not walk, the "Hun Tian Sect" will send the sect members to clean up the road here every year, but also to open up a fast passage for the urgent things in the gang. Finally, at this moment, this path really came in handy.
The bamboo here is sparse and rustling with the breeze, and among the bamboos are clumps of shrubs, and the sun shines on them. Nan Feiyu and his men kept hurrying, and the sound of horses' hooves echoed through the forest and the chirping of birds in the forest. The crowd had run for about two or three miles, and suddenly saw two figures approaching in front of them, and the men hurriedly beckoned the people in front of them to get out of the way. I saw the two men bow down and retreat into the bushes, and everyone rode their horses and roared past.
Those two were Xiao Yuebai and Huiying. Since they left the village, they have been rushing to Shangjiang County, because Huiying has a strong temperament and speaks straightforwardly, while Xiao Yuebai has been influenced by the words of the sage since she was a child, and she talks around and around, so neither of them treats anyone else. On this day, Xiao Yuebai led Huiying to take this shortcut to Black Wind Ridge. Although Xiao Yuebai rarely goes out, as long as he has been to the places he has been, he knows them by heart. This trail was the only road he knew to lead to Shangjiang County, and it was the only time he had ever been to Heifengling when he was seven years old when his father took him and his brother to run for the funeral of the old master of the "Hun Tian Sect".
The two stood in the bushes to avoid the galloping horses, and when Huiying was about to withdraw from the bushes, she suddenly saw something strange swimming around Xiao Yuebai's calves, and couldn't help shouting: "Xiao Yuebai, don't move." Xiao Yuebai looked at Miss Yang, only to see her looking at her feet with a frightened face. Xiao Yuebai immediately felt a chill on his legs, and when he looked at it, a living creature with a blue flower on a green bottom was wrapped around his little feet and slowly swam away, Xiao Yuebai only felt that his scalp was numb and his heart was beating faster. It was not the first time he had encountered such a thing, and his teaching gentleman had died on it, and he had seen it beaten to pulp alive, and now he shuddered at the thought of his husband's painful expression as he died. He remembered that this thing was called: Cui Bihan, a beautiful but extremely venomous snake, and died nine times after being bitten.
What should I do? Xiao Yuebai looked blankly. But the little snake had been circling for weeks, but he would not let go of his feet. After most of the hour, the little snake was wrapped around his feet and rested motionless. Seeing that Xiao Yuebai's face was pale, Hui Ying knew that Xiao Yuebai would always not be able to support it, so she took out a knife and prepared to kill the snake. She cautiously approached and reminded Xiao Yuebai not to move, Xiao Yuebai had seen her eldest brother Xiao Yunqing grab this kind of thing, and thought to herself, could this girl of the Yang family also have such a skill? Don't be at the mercy of Huiying at the moment. Hui Ying wanted to draw the snake's attention to herself, and the snake immediately noticed that something was approaching, and suddenly opened its mouth, revealing its cautious fangs. Hui Ying's heart trembled and frightened back, and she thought in her heart: This Xiao Yuebai is the descendant of her benefactor after all. So he had the courage to pounce on the snake, but the snake's reaction was very swift, and suddenly it was empty. Hui Ying hurriedly retreated, and looked at the snake to see that it was nowhere to be found. Xiao Yuebai's hanging heart finally fell, and then she hurriedly withdrew from the bushes.