The mountain road they took when they went down the mountain was not the one they took when they went up the mountain, because under the premise that they didn't know before, Xu Yan and the others went to find the people in the mountains first, and asked about the mountain road from afar, so they naturally took a lot of unjust roads, but now with the help of people in the village, they also chose the nearest mountain road.

It only took more than an hour to walk all the way from Qixiang to the foot of the mountain, and Xu Yan watched him return to the trail he had walked before, feeling that he had gone around in a circle for a while, and now he was back to the original point.

Xu Yan was silent all the way, and it wasn't until he came to this bamboo forest again that he smiled at Gu Xueqing and said, "It turns out that there are so many people on the way from here to Ji Township. ”

Gu Xueqing could sense the emotions in Xu Yan's heart to some extent, but she didn't know what to say, so she replied softly: "Well, it's a pity that we didn't know before, so we took a lot of wrongful paths." ”

After Xu Yan heard this, he said with a smile: "That's something that can't be done, but fortunately, everything has already been settled." ”

Gu Xueqing followed behind him as always, but did not answer again.

Half an hour later, the two of them came to the bamboo forest that was blocked by Zhong Yun before, but it can be clearly seen that after the previous battle by them, this bamboo forest that was lush and lush was not a small loss, because before, at least hundreds of green bamboos suffered from it, so that around the disaster site, a large open space appeared, which looked like a person with strong hair, and suddenly someone removed a large poke of hair on the top of his head.

At this moment, in the bamboo forest, there is a man and a woman cleaning up the bamboos that have been broken by Xu Yan and Zhong Yun, and they don't have to think about it to know that they should be the owners of this bamboo forest, and at the same time, on their faces, they can see that each other's expressions are a little ugly.

Seeing Xu Yan, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, and then looked at the two people in the market who should be husband and wife, Gu Xueqing couldn't help but sigh faintly. She whispered to Xu Yan: "Most of the people in the market rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and now these hundreds of green bamboos have suffered for no reason, it should be a huge loss for them." ”

After Xu Yan heard this, he didn't answer with an expressionless face, but just bent down and secretly placed something in the bamboo basket used by the couple to hold food boxes on the side of the road, and then continued to hurry to the north.

And just after Xu Yan and the others disappeared completely, the middle-aged man in the bamboo forest said to the woman: "I didn't expect to see two scholars rushing from here in this kind of deep mountain and old forest, it's really strange." ”

When the woman heard this, she replied, "I guess it's someone from a nearby town, otherwise who would have come to a place like ours." After a moment's pause, the woman suddenly said to her husband, "Oh no!"

When the middle-aged man saw her screaming, he couldn't help frowning and said, "What's wrong with your mother-in-law?"

The woman asked the man suspiciously, "Did those two scholars stay on the side of the road for a while?"

The middle-aged man didn't understand why she said this, but he still nodded and replied: "Yes, but what's wrong with this, aren't people allowed to stay here?" This bamboo forest is yours Yes, but this mountain road is not your family, is your mother-in-law also a little overbearing." ”

When the woman saw that he had misunderstood herself, she immediately said angrily: "You old ghost, what are you talking nonsense, I'm afraid that the two scholars will take away our food boxes, no, I have to hurry over and take a look, if you don't have lunch, see what strength you have to work in the afternoon." ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, he immediately replied with a black line: "You mother-in-law is also careful, people are scholars who read sage books, can you do that kind of obscene work of stealing chickens and touching dogs?"

After a while.

The woman came to the bamboo basket containing her food box, and then saw that on the top of the bamboo basket, the cloth strand that she used to block reptiles and light was more tightly covered.

So, the woman squatted down and lifted the strand of cloth on the bamboo basket, trying to check it out, but when she really saw the truth, her face couldn't help but stagnate, and then there was a burst of irrepressible ecstasy on her face.

Needless to say, her food box was originally placed in the bamboo basket, and was not taken away by the two scholars, in addition, she also found that on top of her food box, there was one more thing she had ever dreamed of. She immediately held this thing tightly in the palm of her hand, and then staggered to her husband like a thief, and when she was completely close to the other party, she couldn't hold back her excitement and whispered: "The ...... of the house, the head of the house"

When the middle-aged man saw her trotting all the way over and looking sneaky, he suddenly said angrily: "What's wrong with you, you can't stabilize the point?"

The woman did not care about her husband's ridicule, but whispered to him mysteriously, "Come, come, I will show you something." ”

The middle-aged man said impatiently: "What the hell can make you happy like this, what are you ......?"

The woman did not answer, but when she came to him, she spread out her palm, revealing the contents of it, and she said with joy, "Look, surprise?"

The middle-aged man saw that what she was holding in her hand was a silver ingot, which was as much as ten taels, and he couldn't help but look shocked, you must know that in the market, ten taels of silver is a huge amount of money, especially in the mountains like them, he asked incoherently: "Is this ...... Where did you find these silver taels?"

When the woman saw him like this, she smiled and said, "Of course it's in our basket." ”

When the middle-aged man got to this answer, he couldn't help but be a little worried and said: "In this way, it should be those two scholars who left us behind?" But I don't look at their outfits, they don't look like they are from a wealthy family, how can they be so generous, and they will be ten taels of silver when they are given away. Eh, mother-in-law, you say this...... Could this money come from the wrong way?"

When the woman saw that her man was in a useless state of worry at such a time, she immediately gave him a blank look, and said angrily: "Nonsense! I see that this silver is very clean, where can it be dirty silver, besides, didn't you just say that the other party is reading the book of the sages, and a person who reads the books of the sages is not the robbers and robbers in the mountains, where does the dirty silver come from?"

After hearing this, the middle-aged man scratched his head and replied, "That's what I said, but it's not ...... Is it too much, and besides, why should they give them money?"

The woman replied dissatisfiedly: "You care so much about the ins and outs, anyway, the money is now in my hands, it is mine, no one wants to get it back." ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, he suddenly said in an angry tone, "You fool...... Really...... It's really an eye-opener!"

When the woman heard this, she directly replied, "If you have a fortune, I will be so ecstatic to see ten taels of silver, but do you?"

......

Xu Yan, who had completely walked out of the bamboo forest and came to the stream, didn't know about this little episode of bickering after the couple got the silver, but if he had known in advance that his casual actions would have made them almost not quarrel in the end, it is estimated that he would not give ten taels of silver directly, but would have given some broken silver.

However, speaking of these silver coins, it was actually the cardinal who secretly put them in the storage bag and stuffed them into him, which Xu Yan didn't even notice at first, because the cardinal wrapped them in oiled paper like dry food and threw them directly into the dry food pile. After Xu Yan found out, he naturally counted them carefully, and found that there were a full one hundred taels in it, that is, ten ingots, which couldn't help but make him cry and laugh, of course, before they set off, Elder Sun of the Mission Pavilion also distributed five taels of silver to each of them, as a subsidy for this northward trip.

Xu Yan didn't know where Cardinal got so much money from in the market, but I have to say that along the way, he found that there were quite a lot of places to spend money, which also made him and Gu Xueqing always frugal when they first arrived in Jingning Town, but when he found out that he had a huge amount of money, in the subsequent journey, he was no longer as desperate as he was at the beginning.

After a few days of clear weather, the water level of the stream in front of me gradually returned to its original flow, and the steps in the stream were completely exposed.

After Xu Yan and the others came to the stream, they did not cross the stream immediately, but squatted down by the stream to wash their hands, wiped their faces by the way, and then began to enjoy lunch.

The lunch was eaten in the morning, and Xiao Man specially prepared it for them, so when Xu Yan ate these familiar tastes, he naturally couldn't help but think of her in his mind, and he suddenly asked Gu Xueqing on the side: "I wonder if Senior Sister Gu can tell me how Senior Yingu relieved you of Gu poison, and why did you tell me to go directly after going downstairs?"

When Gu Xueqing heard the other party ask about this, she didn't intend to hide it from him, she hesitated for a moment and then replied: "Senior Yingu, she ...... In order to relieve me of the Heart Devouring Gu in my body, she consumed almost half of her own cultivation, and after that, she passed on the rest of her cultivation to Xiaoman Girl, but when I went downstairs, her old man was still transferring her cultivation to Xiaoman Girl, but in fact, when I first went upstairs, she greeted me in advance, and asked me to go down the mountain after solving the matter, and I didn't have to say goodbye to them anymore. ”

When Xu Yan heard Gu Xueqing say this, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and said with some suspicion: "In order to dissolve the Gu worms in your body, she actually lost most of her cultivation?"

Gu Xueqing nodded and explained: "Well, according to what she said, this Heart-devouring Gu is the most difficult poisonous insect to remove in their hometown witchcraft, and it is also one of the love Gu, although it is not harmful at first, only urging ......" Gu Xueqing said this, she seemed to feel a little embarrassed, so she paused, but then she saw that Xu Yan was just frowning and full of curiosity, so she mustered up her courage again, and continued: " It only has an aphrodisiac effect, but if it takes a long time, when this Gu worm grows completely, it can devour the heart of the person who is in the Gu Worm. ”

After Xu Yan heard this, his brows couldn't help but furrow deeper, and he even had some desire to sneer in his heart, after all, this kind of method just sounded very vicious, and it was really unacceptable.

Seeing him like this, Gu Xueqing had already roughly guessed his thoughts, so she continued to explain: "Actually...... They have their own problems, too. ”

Xu Yan said unhappily: "No matter how hard you are, you can't use this method, if you go out to do evil, it's simply unguardable." ”

Gu Xueqing replied with a wry smile: "This is not true, little junior brother, you don't know, in the ancient village of Qixiang, the person who is qualified to practice witchcraft and swordsmanship is only the patriarch, and witchcraft needs to be passed down from generation to generation by the patriarchs of previous generations. This is passed down alone, so in addition to the patriarch, no one else can learn it, and the most important thing is that the difficulty of cultivating Gu worms is much more difficult than practicing witchcraft, the patriarch of each generation of them, except for a pair of Yin and Yang Gu, can only raise a few more Gu worms in their lifetime, so if they use the art of planting Gu to harm people, it is actually an act that outweighs the loss. ”

When Xu Yan heard this explanation, he picked a suspicious point and asked, "What is Yin Yang Gu?"

Gu Xueqing replied: "Yin and Yang Gu is a love Gu, this is a Gu worm that the patriarchs of all generations must establish with their husbands after they get married, and the Gu worm is one male and one female, the reason is to prevent the man from betraying the Xiang Township with any different intentions over time after entering the Township. ”

When Xu Yan heard this, his face turned dark, because he directly remembered that Aunt Yin's grandmother had asked him to stay in Qi Township to marry Xiaoman as his wife, according to this, if he agreed at that time, wouldn't he have to be planted with this yin and yang Gu afterwards?

He said in a cold tone: "But Shen Zhu didn't have the slightest idea of betraying Ji Xiang until he died, how can this be explained, do the people who enter Ji Xiang have to give their lives for them in vain, what kind of truth is this?"

After Gu Xueqing listened, she couldn't help but sigh and replied: "Actually, Zhong Yun can't be blamed for Shen Zhu's death, if it weren't for the insistence of Yingu's predecessor and asking her to plant a golden silkworm Gu on Shen Zhu, Shen Zhu would have been fine, under normal circumstances, Yin Yang Gu, as long as the man does not take the initiative to betray Ji Xiang, it is to let him live until he dies of old age without a seizure, and this matter Yingu's predecessor did not hide from me." ”

When Xu Yan heard that Shen Zhu's death was actually due to Aunt Yin's hand, he couldn't help but ask, "Why did she do this?"

Gu Xueqing knew that Xu Yan was asking about Aunt Yin's grandmother, so she couldn't help but sigh again, and then replied faintly: "Because the husband of Yingu's predecessor not only betrayed her and left the village alone, but also took away the only child born between them, so let her feel that men in the world are unreliable." ”

When Xu Yan heard this, he couldn't help but think of a person in his mind, if he expected it to be true, Aunt Yin's husband should be the old village chief in Zhangjia Village, the reason is very simple, as a martial cultivator who has at least reached the realm of the fifth grade, ordinary poisons cannot poison him at all, and no matter what kind of poison in the world, it cannot always stay in the body of a cultivator. Either they succeed in poisoning people on the spot, or with the passage of time, the toxins remaining in their bodies will be cleared up little by little sooner or later, but only Gu worms such as Heart Devouring Gu, which are originally living creatures, cannot be cured by outsiders at all, except for the poisoner himself.

Xu Yan took a deep breath to ease his anger a little, but still said in a cold tone: "I really lived for almost a lifetime, but in the end I still lived to a dog." ”

When Gu Xueqing heard him, she finally said such vicious words, and she didn't know how to answer for a while.

As a woman, she knows that she should be like a woman in the world, and know the truth from the beginning to the end, but if she does everything for her husband, but in the end she gets a ruthless end of being abandoned by the other party, so what? Therefore, she will more or less be able to understand the feelings of Aunt Yin's grandmother over the years more or less than Xu Yan, but she doesn't want to argue with Xu Yan about anything here.

Emotional matters will flow like the water flowing in the stream in front of us, and will flow to the unfathomable sea.

I can't tell, and I can't tell.

......

After Xu Yan and the others finished lunch, it was almost four minutes, and then, they finally crossed the anchorage set up in the stream. And after they successfully crossed this stream, the land under their feet was no longer the boundary of Qiulu Township, and at the same time, it was no longer the boundary of Jingning Town, because after more than a month of travel, they successfully entered the boundary of Yanxi Township, Wuyang Town.

After Xu Yan crossed the stream, he just glanced back at the bamboo forest behind him, and then stopped and continued to walk north, while Gu Xueqing, who was following him, didn't even look back, because for her, the boundary under her feet at this moment was the land she really wanted to set foot on.

But what Xu Yan and the others didn't know was that at this moment, in the village that belonged to Ji Township alone, the young woman who was chosen as the heir of the new patriarch finally woke up slowly.

After Xiao Man got up and came downstairs, he successfully met Aunt Yin, and her sister Zhong Yun, but compared to them in the past, Xiao Man could clearly feel that there seemed to be some changes in them, but they were not on the surface.

For example, Aunt Yin, Xiao Man can no longer feel a mysterious feeling from her, and her sister, she feels that the latter has also become a lot more ordinary.

When Aunt Yin saw that Xiaoman had come downstairs, she beckoned to her with a smile and asked again, "Girl, how did you sleep this night, did you feel anything uncomfortable on your body after waking up?"

Xiaoman replied: "No, no, I slept soundly, but I seemed to have had a very strange and long dream." ”

When Aunt Yin heard this, she replied with a smile: "Just sleep well, people, you will always have some bizarre dreams, it doesn't matter, it's just that girl, in the future, this village will be guarded by you." ”

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