Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Miao Family, Eighteen Layers of Hell.
Jiang Miaozi also entered the temple for half a pillar of incense, and there was no movement.
Suddenly, in the distance, several fast horses galloped towards the temple gate. If you take a closer look, it is also a few yamen catching fast.
"Wang Zhutou, there are people in the villages near the Chenghuang Temple who have a strange disease. The state government asked you to gather the brothers to look around and quarantine them. Later, the Chongqing garrison will also come to hand over and cooperate. "For the first capture, quickly dismount and take the lead at the temple gate, and the official said.
"What? There are people in the village who have this strange disease, and I don't have enough people here, so how can I send them out again?" said the leading official in shock.
Wu You and the others were also shocked when they heard it, it turned out that these homeless people were not the only ones who were sick.
"The epidemic is urgent, and I ask Wang to do the same, so as not to blame him. ”
The leading officials left three or five people at the gate of the temple, and after a while of informing them of the arrangement, they hurriedly left the City God Temple with a few visitors.
Wu You and the others were more like ants on a hot pot, pacing back and forth at the door, anxiously waiting.
After another cup of tea, Jiang Miaozi followed Uncle Disaster from the temple and slowly walked to the door. Seeing this, Wu You and the three could only meet them from afar.
"Sister Miaozi, what's the situation in the temple?" Wu You asked anxiously.
"Brother Wu You, this disease seems to be like a plague, but it is not, everyone here has been poisoned by the Miao family. Brother Wu You, you should go to the nearby village quickly, bury all the surrounding water sources, and don't let the nearby people drink it anymore, I am looking for a cure. Jiang Miaozi shouted loudly.
"Okay, I'll wait for this to go, sister, you have to take care. ”
"Brother, don't worry. When you find a water source, you see that the surrounding aquatic plants are dead and it is poisonous water, or try it with a silver needle. Don't get a drop of Gu poison water, otherwise you will be infected. Jiang Miaozi continued to shout.
Wu You, Ziyu and Fifth Lan bid farewell to Jiang Miaozi. The three of them galloped towards the surrounding villages. Seeing the guards of each village, the three of them informed them one by one. Sure enough, it was found that the well water and spring water in the nearby villages were poisonous. So he was very careful to bury the wellhead and spring water in the vicinity with his servants.
Two hours later, they returned to the temple gate one after another.
"Miao Zi girl, is she good?" Wu You shouted at the door.
Jiang Miaozi slowly walked out of the temple gate again.
Sure enough, the girl said that the nearby spring water and well water were poisonous. Many people in the vicinity also contracted the disease. Wu You said.
"Brother Wu You, this kind of Gu poison was first obtained by drinking Gu poison, and then it was transmitted through the skin, saliva, and breath qi. Generally, it can invade the blood veins of the whole body in half an hour. People with good physique can resist for three days, and weak people can't live for half a day. As long as I kept a distance of one foot from the person who was sick, it was fine, and I was also infected at the time of diagnosis. Jiang Miaozi shouted with difficulty.
"How should this be?" Wu You asked and stomped his feet anxiously.
"Brother, don't worry. In his early years, I heard the master talk about this Gu poison. Miao people are good at medicine and poison, this Gu poison is prepared by the Miao sorcerer Sang Linkun in the early years, and it is a collection of eighteen kinds of highly toxic poisons in Miao Village, named "Eighteen Layers of Hell". The poisoned person first became hot and rashed, and then his thoughts were confused and he spoke incoherently......
In the end, he vomited poisonous blood and died. ”
"The red-billed bat could have been detoxified, but it's too late. I can only temporarily find a few bear bile and a few herbs in Chongqing, boil them into a decoction, let everyone suppress the poison, and then think about it. Jiang Miaozi said slowly.
"Is there an antidote to this Gu poison?" Wu You asked.
"There is an antidote to all the poisons in the world. As long as you find the person who poisoned you, you can get the antidote. Miao Zi replied.
"Ziyu, the fifth sister. The two of you quickly followed the recipe of the Miao Zi girl and looked for some bear bile and herbs. I went around looking for the poisoner. Wu You said.
The two should be. Jiang Miaozi shouted out a few herbs at the door again, and Huang Ziyu and Fifth Lan remembered it firmly. Then he and Wu You hurriedly separated.
Wu You summoned the sky and the wind to explain. The two cranes and he searched for suspicious people around. Hours passed, and there was still no sign of it. Wu You returned to the temple gate depressedly, but he didn't see Ziyu and Fifth Lan come back for a long time.
Wu You felt a little relieved, so he rode a fast horse and ran towards the city. I inquired about the whereabouts of the two people in several pharmacies in the city, but they were nowhere to be found. Wu Youfa felt uneasy, and led his horse to look around aimlessly on the street.
Suddenly, someone behind him shouted, "White-faced ghost, what are you running around?"
Wu You hurriedly turned around, it turned out to be the fifth Lan.
"Fifth sister, where have you been? Wu You hurriedly asked.
Fifth Lan stepped forward and whispered to Wu You: "This is not the place to talk, come with me first." ”
After speaking, he led Wu You towards the barracks. When they were about half a mile from the barracks, Fifth Lan and Wu You quietly dismounted. He tied his horse to the woods by the roadside, and felt his light feet in the darkness outside the barracks door.
At this time, the sky was completely dark, and taking advantage of the light on the barracks gate, Wu You saw Huang Ziyu lying in the dark. The two of them also crept over and attached themselves to the ground.
"What are you two doing here?" Wu You asked softly.
"Childe doesn't know. The two of us went to the city to the pharmacy to buy the bear bile and herbs, but someone else took the lead. This person bought exactly the same as the Miao Zi girl's explanation. The two of us felt suspicious, and after a long search, we finally found this person. ”
This person went through all the large and small pharmacies in Chongqing, and bought all the bear bile and a few herbs. Then he came into the barracks. The two of us followed here all the way, and let the fifth sister go looking for you. Huang Ziyu replied.
"When I returned to the City God Temple, the official said that you had entered the city on a fast horse, so I followed you into the city to find you. I found it on the street. Fifth Lan also said softly.
Hearing this, Wu You also had doubts in his heart.
The three of them were crawling on the ground and wondering what to do. Suddenly, I saw a black shadow flashing from a distance not far away, quietly touched under the gate, and flashed into the barracks while the guards were unprepared.
Seeing this, Wu You said to the two: "You two wait again, I'll follow and take a look." With that, he followed the black shadow into the barracks.
The barracks were full of tents and officers and soldiers patrolling the night. The black shadow dodged left and right, as if looking for something. Wu You didn't dare to slack off and kept following. The shadow finally listened outside a tent for a long time before entering the tent. Seeing this, Wu You found a dark place outside the tent, and dived down to listen to the movements in the tent.
"Who is it?" asked the man in the tent.
"It's me, brother. A young woman replied.
"Senior sister, how did you find this place?" the man asked.
"I came to Chongqing to buy herbal medicines, and I heard that someone had a strange disease. I went to see what was going on, and I found out that it was my brother who did it. I searched around again, and I knew that someone was pulling a military horse to buy medicine, so I thought that you would hide in the barracks, so I found this place. Why is Senior Brother harming people here?" the woman asked sharply.
"Hmph, doesn't my junior sister dislike me for not doing much? Senior brother will do a big thing this time, and he will definitely be able to soar in the future. Will my sister still despise me then?" replied the man coldly.
"If you want to do something big, I won't stop you. But you poison people, and heaven will not tolerate it. Back then, my father regretted concocting the eighteen layers of hell, and you did everything you could to steal it. Aren't you afraid that my father will blame you under the Nine Springs?" the woman continued.
Wu You was shocked when he heard this. It turned out that the two people in the tent were the daughter and disciple of the Miao family wizard Sang Linkun.
"The eighteenth layer of hell is a strange poison in the world, and the master doesn't know how to use it after preparing it. Why did the Miao family live in the mountains? Why did they suffer from the anger of the Han people? Why did the emperor and the princes and nobles of the Great Song Dynasty all be Han Chinese, but there was no Miao family? The senior brother wanted to make the Miao family raise their eyebrows this time. The man said with a heartfelt voice.
"The Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty treats the people of Miao Village all over us like a mountain. The people of Miao Village have never been rebellious, and the Jin people are eyeing the Great Song Dynasty. Isn't it abusive that you're doing such a thing here?" the woman cried.
"It's a matter of time before the Great Song Dynasty will lose the country, think about why the senior brother is in the Great Song barracks? The junior sister should not have illusions about the imperial court, or finish this matter with the senior brother, in exchange for glory and wealth. The two of us stayed together for a long time and shared a family relationship. The man said.
"Don't you think about it. I have sought you tonight to make you restrain you from the precipice. If you insist on going your own way, don't blame Senior Sister for me cleaning the portal. What you are about to do without virtue will not succeed in my eyes. The woman snapped.
"Since the junior sister doesn't miss the teacher's affection, and she doesn't care about my sincerity towards you, don't blame the senior brother for turning his face and not recognizing people. Not to be outdone, the man was not to be outdone.
"What are you going to do?" asked the woman.
"Hmph. Catch the assassins, catch the assassins. ......," suddenly the man shouted.
"Scum, shameless. The woman scolded. Wu You listened to the two as if they were fighting in the tent.
At this time, the officers and soldiers outside the tent also gathered here, looking for the assassins in various tents.
Seeing this, Wu You took out a handkerchief and covered his cheeks. and into the tent. I saw a woman in black, with a beautiful face, a fair complexion, and a light body. He was stabbing at a man with a sword in his hand.
The man was about thirty years old, with a sharp beak and pale face, like a person who had been ill for a long time, and had an evil face. hurriedly parried the woman's stabbing sword.
"Miss Sanglin, leave quickly. Wu You entered the account to help block the frame, and shouted urgently.
"Who are you? The woman asked, stabbing at her.
"Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood. The girl will go out of the barracks with me first. Wu You hurriedly grabbed the woman's arm and flashed out of the tent.
The two of them used light body techniques to dodge back and forth in the barracks, even though there were hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers who did not see the two. The officers and soldiers entered the men's tent, and only the men were left in the tent. I saw that his face was full of anger and he looked out of the tent. His face was filled with fear and incomprehension.
Wu You dragged the woman to the gate and connected with Huang Ziyu. The four of them hurriedly left the barracks in the night, and there was a noise behind them.
The four of them came to a halt in the woods where the horses were bolted. At this time, the woman in black shook off Wu You's hand fiercely and asked, "Who are you, why are you lurking inside and outside the barracks?"
Wu You took off the handkerchief and said to the woman in black: "Miss Sanglin, don't misunderstand, the three of us are also looking for people who are poisonous, so we came to the barracks." The girl and your brother also listened to the conversation below, and asked the girl to help those who were poisoned. ”
The woman in black took advantage of the moonlight to look at the handsome young man in front of her, and thought that this young man was desperate to pull her out of the barracks when she was in crisis, and her face suddenly became hot and her heart was rippling. It's just that Wu You and the three of them didn't find out at all.
"Who are the three of you, and why am I helping you?" asked the woman in black after a pause.
"I can't hide it, I am Wu You, the son of Fu Wangfu. These two are next friends, my father and a group of people are all poisoned by your senior brother's eighteenth layer of hell, and they don't know life and death at this time. The temporary antidote was also bought by your senior brother, and the girl was asked to help, Wu and the people of Chongqing should remember the girl's great kindness. Wu You said sincerely.
"It turned out to be the prince of Fuwangfu. I have heard that Wu Kuo, the king of Xiaofu, has been helping the poor everywhere, and the people of Chongqing have respected him. This is because of my brother, and I will not sit idly by. I don't know where the three come from, so I deliberately refused to do so, and I asked the three to be strange. The woman in black said.
"We understand. Just now I heard that the girl is the daughter of Sang Linkun's predecessors, and I haven't asked the girl's name yet. I don't know who your senior brother is?" Wu Youshili said.
"The little woman is indeed the daughter of Sang Linkun, but she is only an adopted daughter. The father was a wizard in Miao Village all his life, and did not marry a wife and have children, and the little girl was an orphan who was adopted by her father in the early years, and her father named the little girl Sang Linhong. Although I am an adopted daughter, my father has always treated me as his own and loves me very much. ”
"My senior brother is also an orphan adopted by the master, ten years older than me, and his name is Liu Wubai. My father has always felt that his senior brother is not right-hearted, and he is strict with him everywhere, but who knows that now he is really doing these harmful things. Sang Linhong replied.
"I heard that this illness is a poison prepared by the girl for her father in her early years, why is it used by your senior brother today to harm the people of the Great Song Dynasty. Wu You asked.
"The son of the world doesn't know. At that time, Song and Jin exchanged troops everywhere, and the Miao people had no way to serve the country. Miao people are good at medicine and poison, and their father is a Miao village wizard, so they are proficient in everything. At that time, my father spent several years preparing the eighteen layers of hell of the world's strange poisons, and sent them to General Yue Fei and General Han Shizhong, hoping to help the Song Dynasty break the army of the Jin Kingdom. But they were all rejected by General Yue and General Han. ”
"General Yue and General Han felt that the two armies could sacrifice their lives to fight each other, and they could spill their blood on the battlefield. But if this poison is made, it will surely bring disaster to the people on both sides. Later, my father also felt that it was inappropriate and was very ashamed. He hid the strange poison prescription in the secret place, and wanted to destroy it several times, but he was still a little reluctant. A few years ago, my father returned to the West, and my senior brother secretly found a poison prescription, and this time he went to Chongqing to harm the people, and my father was at peace in the heavens!"