Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 172: Dark Hanging Grass

As expected, something happened, and Pei Nai walked over quickly.

Even though they were far apart, Gu Jinheng heard her footsteps, turned around to look at her, then rolled up his sleeves and strode over to meet her.

"Have all the wounds been bandaged?" Gu Jinheng took Pei Nai's hand worriedly.

Pei Nai nodded, "It's been dealt with. What happened to you just now? I heard a lot of bad things about the victimized girls on the way, saying that the poison was caused by them. Why do they say that?"

Gu Jinheng seemed a little surprised too, and frowned slightly, but he figured it out in an instant, "When you were picking the Tail Dai Flower in the 21st Region, did you see a strange grass that was gray-black with blue leaves?"

"Yes, this grass grows in harmony with the tail-flowering flower," Pei Nai recalled. "I remember my mother-in-law told me that the plant was called the hanging grass."

Gu Jinheng nodded and slowly explained to her: "In order to save those girls, the Valley Country provided the Wu tribe with a large amount of supplies, including Mingxuan grass, which is one of the important ingredients for making Gu poison."

Pei Nai was surprised when he heard this, and his eyes widened subconsciously. No wonder this news dealt a heavy blow to the people of the Valley Kingdom.

"Did they know about the Valley Country themselves?" Pei Nai asked, because neither Zhang Sheng nor Grandma Axun had deliberately mentioned the Mingxuan Grass before.

Gu Jinheng pinched her fingers, and the Yuan Qi flowed through her arms, activating her blood circulation and removing blood stasis, relieving the pain in her skin.

He continued to answer, "When Zhong Lin and Shao Liran picked the Tail Dai Flowers, they were very fast, and some of the Ming Xuan Grass was mixed in with them and taken out together. I found it when I checked just now. If Ming Xuan Grass is taken alone, it is not toxic, but if it is combined with several other ingredients of the Gu poison, it will produce a very toxic substance that causes human body mutations. It is the main ingredient of the Gu poison."

"Didn't Lei Lai Weng develop this poison at the meteorite site in the western border?" Pei Nai asked puzzledly, "Why would the main raw material come from the twenty-one regions of the Valley Country?"

Gu Jinheng replied, "I think there is also dark grass inside the meteorite in the western region, but the quantity is rare. Yue Cang may have been to the Twenty-One Region before and knows that there is a large amount of dark grass here, or maybe he doesn't know and is just using the girls' matter to test the Valley Country."

"Then the Valley Kingdom didn't know the function of the Mingxuan Grass, and was anxious to rescue the princess and other girls, so they agreed to the exchange and let the Wu tribe confirm that there was a large amount of Mingxuan Grass in the Twenty-One Region, thus letting the wolf in?" Pei Nai inferred.

Gu Jinheng nodded, "Well, Naier is very smart."

Pei Nai had no time to respond to his compliment. She was so shocked by the truth that she couldn't recover for a long time.

What kind of cycle is this?
Because Yue Cang loved girls, the Wu people and the countries in the western border collected young girls and presented them to him.

The Wu tribe kidnapped the young Princess Miyun from the Mountain Valley Kingdom and sent her to the Wu tribe's shrine.

The power of the Valley Kingdom is limited, and like other small countries, it cannot confront the Wu tribe head-on. So in order to rescue Princess Miyun and other girls, the Valley Kingdom is willing to exchange materials.

The Wu tribe took advantage of this to set a trap for them and confirmed that the Valley Kingdom had enough of the raw material for the poison - Mingxuan Grass.

After obtaining a large amount of Mingxuan grass, the Wu tribe produced batches of poison.

Later, with the help of poison, he broke through the Valley Kingdom's impregnable defenses, destroyed most of their troops, killed millions of people, and brought the entire country to its knees.

Therefore, the Wu tribe attacked the Valley Kingdom, and the tree pieces and mineral resources were one of the reasons.

Another reason is that only by conquering the country in the valley can they obtain the Mingxuan grass continuously, and then invade eastwards to annex Tianyao, Qilu and other eastern countries. Their ambition is obvious.

If the Valley Kingdom did not compromise with evil, it would have joined Tianyao in a direct war with the Wu tribe from the beginning.

Perhaps the war may not be won, but Tianyao and Qilu have always been evenly matched with the Wu tribe. With the addition of the Valley Kingdom, they will be able to capture enough Wu soldiers and capture the Wu cities, and then exchange them for captives and Wu land to rescue the princess and other girls.

It can even be said that if they had informed Tianyao of the scandal that took place in the Wu Clan Temple from the beginning, with the help of a few major victories, they could have rescued the girls from other countries, including Huyan Weizhao's daughter.

Declare war on evil and hegemony instead of compromising and giving in. If they had made a completely different choice, perhaps the girls would have suffered some hardships, but at least millions of lives would not have been sacrificed.

Huyan Weizhao was not in the square at the moment, but I'm sure he would curse as soon as he heard the news: "It's all your fault! This is the retribution for the evil deeds of the Valley Country!"

Pei Nai, accompanied by Gu Jinheng, has already walked near Zhang Sheng and the others.

Many ordinary people gathered in the square to line up for medicine. They were all supported by their family members or soldiers, with people around them pressing their acupuncture points, and stood in line. At the head of more than a dozen lines, people who had been poisoned swallowed the thick black medicine soup in big gulps.

Gu Jinheng had to stay here. If anything unexpected happened, he was the only one who could use Huo Jiangyin Gong to control the situation.

Pei Nai felt the gazes.

They must have known the outcome of the battle on the South Plains, and they all looked at her.

There was a mixture of gratitude, worry, pity, curiosity, blame, resentment and admiration in those eyes.

Some people respect her contribution to the world, while others blame her for not doing enough.

Pei Nai withdrew his gaze from the crowd, looked at the words that Luo Yuanying and the others were recording, and asked Gu Jinheng in confusion: "What are you doing?"

"I asked Zhang Sheng and the others to list all the supplies that had been provided to the Wu clan and be prepared in case of information loss or accidents." Gu Jinheng replied, scanning the papers on the desk.

Pei Nai nodded, understanding the situation.

"Where are Da Xian and Gong Yang Zi Sheng?" Pei Nai looked around but did not see them. Both of them were seriously injured and must be recuperating.

Gu Jinheng gently pinched her fingers again, as if he was dissatisfied with her for thinking about Da Xian, and then pointed to a stone wall in front of them on the left, "In the stone cave room over there, Da Xian's injuries are not serious, and Gong Yang Zisheng is out of danger, but still in a coma."

"Where are Han Ruize and the others? Did they take the troops to District 4?" Pei Nai asked again.

Gu Jinheng nodded, "Yeah."

"Have you not had a rest? You used a lot of divine energy before, are you tired now?" Pei Nai suddenly looked up and asked him.

Gu Jinheng pursed his lips slightly, revealing a look of grievance that only she could see, "You asked them first, and then asked me?"

Pei Nai looked at him steadily, laughed out loud, then raised his arms and hugged him, then let go and said, "Are you calm now?"

Gu Jinheng frowned even more tightly, took her hand again, his face full of concern for her injury.

"Don't move. Your arm will need at least two months of rest before it gets better. You can't practice spear training within these two months."

"Ah?" Pei Nai said in shock, "You are trying to kill me."

Gu Jinheng did not give in on this matter and insisted that she take care of her body.

"Then, don't touch the spear until you get the Zhubei Spear?" Pei Nai tried to argue, "After all, two months is too long."

Gu Jinheng also refused and said, "It depends on the severity of your injuries by then."

Pei Nai's eyes wandered, "I have nothing to do here. I'm going to go see how Da Xi'an and the others are doing and say hello to him."

"Wait a moment, things here are done. Can I accompany you?" Gu Jinheng said.

Pei Nai looked at the people who were taking the medicine and said, "I can't leave you here. I'll go for a walk and come back soon."

Gu Jinheng touched her cheek and said, "Then I'll wait for you here."

Pei Nai walked in the direction he said.

When the soldiers along the road saw her coming, they stopped what they were doing and saluted her.

Pei Nai kept nodding in response until his neck was sore, but fortunately they soon arrived under the rock wall where Daxian and the others were.

(End of this chapter)