The footsteps stopped in front of the door, listening to the light steps like a woman, Mo Yan put on jade nails, and there was a cup of tea on the table in front of him, first put his fingers into the water to release the aura, and then took a sip and said: "Who is outside the door, please come in." ”

The door opened, and an old woman in a cardigan, a black dress, a bun on her head, and a cigarette pouch and pot in her hand walked in.

"You're the one who can solve the 'wild fox snot?'" asked the old woman's hoarse voice.

"Then you are the one who went to Gu. Mo Yan said lightly.

"Yes, it's the old woman. The old woman looked at Mo Yan carefully, and then walked over directly and sat on the opposite side with a big grin.

The two looked at each other for a moment, and neither spoke.

The old woman took out a pinch of tobacco from the embroidered purse around her waist and stuffed it into the copper cigarette pouch pot, then leaned on the oil lamp and lit it and took two puffs, two wisps of green smoke came out of her nose, and she said slowly: "The old woman is called 'Wailing Worm Woman', who are you?"

"Miao Jiang Ling Doctor Li Suizhi. Mo replied.

The mourning insect girl nodded and said, "No wonder, it turned out to be from Miao Jiang." But the old woman still didn't understand, how can these herbs relieve the 'wild fox snot?'" She put the prescription on the table.

"You first explain what the 'wild fox snot' is, and then the juniors should tell you the method of solving the Gu. ”

The mourning insect concubine nodded: "This is also fair, the old woman is known as the 'insect concubine', and she is naturally good at refining all kinds of poisonous insects." The praying mantis copulation in the summer, the essence is strange and poisonous, also known as 'wild fox snot', but the dandelion is solvable. Did you know that female praying mantis eats away the male mantis' head during copulation? This is to stimulate the male mantis to empty its seminal vesicles. The old woman walked all over Ailao Mountain and found a hundred-year-old female surnamed 'Ailao Heavenly Mantis', which devoured countless male mantis that had intercourse with it in her life, and her whole body was highly poisonous, and she was the most evil Gu worm in Ailao Mountain. Soak it in the 'Bantian River' water at the head of a bamboo hedge or an empty tree hole, and after three years, it will be viscous and snotty. ”

"You dripped the 'wild fox snot' into Lord Liu's tea?"

"Just put it in the water tank, and when they boil the water to make tea, they will be hit by the Gu, and then replace the water in the water tank. Now it's time to listen to how you solved the Gu, the old woman knows that those so-called herbs are all hidden from people's ears. ”

Mo Yan said: "Yes, the herbs on the recipe are indeed deceitful, in fact, the solution to the Gu is very simple, as long as you find out the natural enemy who can restrain the Gu worms." The natural enemy of the praying mantis is the tarantula, and I just secretly put the venom of the tarantula into the medicinal soup. ”

The Wailing Worm shook her head: "Impossible, the method you said may be able to solve the snot of ordinary wild foxes, but the Gu poison of the hundred-year-old 'Wailing Heavenly Mantis' is definitely not good." ”

"What if it's centuries-old human-faced tarantula venom?"

The mourning worm was stunned for a moment: "You have a human-faced tarantula that is hundreds of years old?"

Mo Yan smiled slightly: "Why not." ”

The mourning worm filled another pot of tobacco with a muffled mit.

"Senior, who instructed you to give Master Liu a trick?" Mo Yan asked.

"Do you think the old woman will tell you?" said the mourning insect woman contemptuously as she spewed out a puff of green smoke at Mo Yan.

"Actually, who is behind the scenes has nothing to do with me, don't say it, what the younger generation wants to know is that your 'wild fox snot' has been cracked by me, and it is said that Lord Liu is about to wake up, how to stop me tonight?"

"The young offspring is really smart and alert, and the old woman will naturally not keep you until tomorrow. The mourning worm said, and the horizontal flesh on her face trembled twice.

"The senior's body is thin and old, why do you think you can control the junior?" Mo Yan took another sip of tea.

"The old woman has always disdained that you men rely on brute force to fight at every turn, that is the most stupid, have you ever heard of 'shrimp toad smoke'?"

"Of course I know that there is a 'Six-Fingered Gu Woman' in Miao Jiang who is good at this 'Shrimp Toad Gu Smoke'. ”

"Oh, what is her Gu Yan poisonous surname? If this person is still in Miaojiang, the old woman would like to visit her. "The Mourning Worm seems interested.

"You can't see her anymore. ”

"Why is that?"

"The 'Six-Fingered Gu Woman' has been killed by the juniors. Mo Yan said lightly.

The mourning insect concubine was stunned when she heard this, her eyes re-examined Mo Yan, and a sigh came out of her mouth: "Alas, you are quite virtuous, but unfortunately you are about to die in the hands of the old woman." ”

"Not necessarily. ”

"You have already fallen for the old woman's 'shrimp and toad Gu smoke', and at most you will have half a pillar of incense. ”

Mo Yan drank all the tea in the cup, and then his mind entered a state of fetal breath, holding the spider armor talisman in his hand, secretly injecting true qi to protect his whole body first, then got up and pretended to be dizzy and staggered for two steps, and then fell to the ground.

The mourning worm stepped forward and bent down to find that he was no longer breathing, and laughed strangely.

At this moment, a man dressed up walked in outside the door, holding a handkerchief stained with antidote on his mouth and nose, and a sharp blade hidden in his sleeve, his eyes glanced at Mo Yan and asked, "Is he dead?"

"How can you still have a life if you have fallen into the old woman's 'shrimp toad Gu smoke'?" said disdainfully as she looked at Mo Yan on the ground.

The man in the power suit stood behind her, and with a flick of his wrist, he silently inserted the dagger into the back of the mourning worm's heart

The old woman turned around in pain, stared at each other in surprise, and muttered, "You, why are you?"

"I'm sorry, this is Lord Mao's order. The man drew his dagger sharply, and a stream of blood splattered out, and the mourning worm's body slowly withered to the ground, and her eyes were wide open with a puzzled look.

The man then broke the oil lamp and sprinkled it on the futon, watched the flames rise, threw tables, chairs, benches and other flammable objects on it, and then withdrew from the house and hid behind a big tree not far away, and waited until the roof burned down before leaving.

At this moment, Mo Yan had already turned out of the back window and hid in the camellia bushes, and secretly said in his heart, it turned out that the black hand behind the scenes was Mao Gongluo, I heard Li Yuantong say that this person was the personal staff of Li Shuyao, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, so it was all explained, even the assassination on Ankang Road was also instigated by Li Shiyao, and all this was arranged and implemented by Mao Gongluo, the officialdom was dark, and its risk was no less than that of the rivers and lakes.

At this moment, the entire national post house sounded the sound of a hurried fire-fighting gong, and the noisy footsteps and shouts were endless. Mo Yan quietly made a detour and slipped into the small courtyard of "Tianzi No. 1", pushed open the door of the room, and at this time Li Yuantong had already woken up and was standing in the hall with a long sword in his hand.

"What's going on out there?" he asked quickly when he saw Mo Yan.

"It turns out that the mastermind behind the Gu is Mao Gongluo. Mo Yan briefly explained the situation.

"Where did Mao Gongluo come from to be so bold, it must have been instigated by Li Shiyao. Li Yuantong said.

"Brother Li, when the morning dawns they will find charred corpses, they may think that I am dead, so it is inconvenient to show up in the near future, it is better to protect Lord Liu in secret. Now I'll solve the Gu for the two of them first, and you go outside to control the wind. ”

Li Yuantong nodded and went out with his sword.

Mo Yan got a glass of water, and then poked his jade nails into the inner room after the aura was released, and poured it into Liu Yong.

Not long after, Liu Yong woke up and opened his eyes to see Mo Remnant, and asked puzzledly, "Mo Remnant, haven't you gone back to Dali to visit your parents?"

"My lord, I have returned from Dali. ”

"Hey, the old man clearly remembers that you only left today?"

Mo Yan told him that when he came back, he found that the three of them had been in a coma for a long time after being poisoned by the Gu poison, and he had just solved the Gu for him.

Liu Yong pondered for a long time, and muttered: "I see, the night you left, Li Shiyao set up a banquet to entertain him, and he must have done something in the meal." ”

"No, they invited an old Gu woman named 'Wailing Worm Girl', and put the 'Wild Fox Snot' poison Gu in the water tank, the three of you were Gu when you were drinking tea in the room, if I come back a few days late, I'm afraid the adults will die." ”

"What about Li Yuantong and the others?"

"Li Yuantong is fine, he is now in the yard, and the scholar will solve the Gu for him later. ”

"Alas, it's a pity that the holy decree has been burned by the Wen family, and it is not appropriate to find out with Li Shiyao at the moment, so I can only secretly investigate and wait for the adults to come over. Liu Yong said with a sigh.

"Mo Yan has something I want to ask my lord. He decided to ask about the Xu family tonight, and if necessary, he would kill him with a true qi wave, leaving no traces, just as if he was too old to bear the Gu poison and died.

"Say it, please. ”

"The people of the world say that you are a clean official, and you never bend the law for bribes to enrich your own pockets, forgive me for daring to ask, is this true?"

Liu Yong looked at Mo Yan in surprise, not knowing what he meant by this, but he still replied: "The old man has indeed been honest all his life, and he has not been greedy for a penny. ”

"There is no corruption, but what about bending the law? ”

Mo Yan's question was already very ugly, it could be said that he was disobedient, but after all, he saved his life three times, so Liu Yong was not angry, he thought about it and said: "The old man has never dared to slack off since the sixteenth year of Qianlong's mid-Jinshi Shou compilation. ”

"What about Dongtai's 'one-pillar building poetry case'. Mo said coldly.

Liu Yong was stunned when he heard this, looked at Mo Yan in surprise, and said puzzledly: "This happened many years ago, have you heard of it?"

Mo Man looked at him silently and didn't say anything.

Liu Yong shook his head and sighed and said: "This is the only thing that the old man has done since he entered the office, and the Xu and Cai families had a dispute over real estate, and the Cai family sued the Xu family for private collection of engravings [***], the old man was a Jiangsu scholar at the time, and he played the emperor without a detailed investigation, but he didn't expect that the Xu family was ruined and died, and many officials were implicated. Alas, there is no way to regret it, this matter has been depressed in my heart for decades, and I have always wanted to find the descendants of the Xu family to help in private, so I also inquired in many ways, but unfortunately some of them have died, and some have escaped without any news. In the end, only a mother with two children was found in the overseas Ryukyu country, and the son was doing well, and some people reported that they were all suppressed by the old man, which can be regarded as a little compensation. ”

"What has been pressed down, can you make it clear?" Mo Yan asked.

"It doesn't matter if I tell you about it, but don't tell it to their detriment. The mother and her two babies were confiscated into slavery, and the master's family was a military commander who took good care of their mother and son, and this person you should recognize is the same general Narahon you met when you were fighting in the Ryukyu Kingdom. An official reported that he took a flag slave as his wife and corrupted the discipline and demanded punishment, and sent his two children back to Xinjiang to fill the army, but the old man remembered that he was the only bloodline of the Xu family, so he forcibly suppressed the matter and warned the reporting official not to mention the matter again. ”

Mo Yan was silent when he heard this.

"Mo Yan, why did you suddenly ask about this?" Liu Yong said puzzled.

"My lord, I'll go and unravel the scholar. Mo Yan then walked out silently, and it was already difficult for him to deal with Liu Yong at this moment. (To be continued.) )