Cypress Boat Floating

"I didn't expect that Du Rou's mother is actually from the Miao village." Lu Ci Qiu couldn't help but sigh after listening to Ye Jianqing's story.

Everyone knows that spirit girls in the Miao village cannot get married, but no one expected that Du Guangyao would marry a spirit girl and give birth to Du Rou.

"Is this the point?" Ye Jianqing rolled his eyes at him. Is this the point? Shouldn't the point be that the elders in the Miao village who selected the spirit girls planted poisonous insects in them when they were very young? This is a disregard for their lives, using them to achieve their own goals.

Lu Ci Qiu touched his nose awkwardly. He really hadn't thought of this for a moment. "But why did the elders plant poisonous insects on the spirit girl? As far as I know, the role of this spirit girl is to pray to the gods for people and communicate with the gods. What's the point of planting poison on them?"

"One possibility that cannot be ruled out is whether this poisonous insect has some effect on them, or whether this poisonous insect can control these spirit girls. What do the elders use these poisonous insects for?" These are the points that Ye Jianqing wants to figure out the most.

Various signs indicate that the shrine is inseparable from the Miao village. If it is really related to the Miao village, then the shrine's so-called ability to fulfill anyone's wish may also be related to these so-called poisonous insects.

Could it be that the sacred house that appeared more than 20 years ago was created by the Miao village?

"It's hard to say." Ye Jianqing didn't quite agree with Lu Ci Qiu's statement. Du Rou's mother was involved with the God's House, but that didn't mean the God's House was created by the Miao village. It could only be said that the God's House took advantage of the Miao village, or took advantage of the spirit girl, and took advantage of Du Rou's mother's urgent desire to escape from the Miao village.

"At present, all the clues we have found are related to the poisonous insects. Why does the God's House dare to make such a bold statement, saying that it can fulfill everyone's wishes? Are the poisonous insects really that powerful?" As a modern man, Ye Jianqing has never seen the so-called poisonous insects, nor does he know the harm of the poisonous insects here. He only thinks that the current situation is that everyone is related to this poisonous insect. Is this poisonous insect really that powerful?

“It is said that raising Gu is very troublesome. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the Dragon Boat Festival, the person who raises Gu will catch the most fierce and poisonous reptiles, put them all in a sealed vat and let them kill each other. After a year, the vat will be opened and the one that survives will be the most powerful Gu King.

Of course, this is still the most common one. Some people want to raise more powerful poisonous insects, or poisonous insects with various functions, and they need to use different poisonous insects. This is why Du Rou said that her mother could not defeat the God House.

The poisonous insects of the people in the God House are more powerful than those of Du Rou's mother. They have surpassed her in terms of race, so they can naturally suppress her." Lu Ci Qiu told Ye Jianqing all the little knowledge he knew about poisonous insects.

Although Da'an has not issued an explicit ban on the spread of poisonous insects, and will not arrest and jail anyone for using them, in the hearts of ordinary people, there is always a certain fear of these things. Everyone is afraid of dying inexplicably, and everyone is afraid of being poisoned remotely if they accidentally offend someone.

Although these people who raise witchcraft may not necessarily do bad things, what they possess is terrifying, which is why the previous dynasty wanted to eradicate these witchcraft practices.

Ye Jianqing frowned as she listened. She remembered an anime she had seen before. The girl in the anime was also raised with a Gu from a young age. She was the only one who survived out of 49 children. Growing up in the Gu worm, she didn't even have the right to touch others.

Although it is just an anime, and reality may not be as exaggerated as the anime, but are the people in the Miao village using children as an excuse to treat them as spirit girls and use their bodies to practice Gu, any different from the people in this anime?

Perhaps the only difference is that the poisonous insects on the spirit girl's body do not prevent them from even touching people.

Ye Jianqing didn't know how to use human bodies to practice Gu, nor did she know what those Gu worms were, or whether it was beneficial or harmful to them. What she disagreed with was the act of using humans to practice Gu, which had nothing to do with anything else, no matter who it was, the important person.

People are not objects, nor are they something that can be purchased or priced at will. People are people, and they have their own dignity. The bodies of spirit girls belong to them. They knew nothing when they were young, but they were taken away to become spirit girls and forced to have poisonous insects planted in their bodies. Did they agree to this process?

Do the people in the Miao village respect them?

Ye Jianqing was very angry, very angry.

"If it is really related to the Miao village, this matter will be difficult to handle." Lu Ci Qiu sighed. He originally thought that this was just a small matter, but who would have thought that the more he investigated, the more serious it became, and it even involved the Miao village.

"Why?" In fact, Ye Jianqing didn't understand. This Miao village was obviously a part of Da'an, belonged to Da'an's territory, and obeyed the imperial decree of the Emperor of Da'an. Why did everyone seem to be afraid of the Miao village?

This Miao village is not big, but not small either. It is close to the southwest of Da'an, where there are many mountains, canyons, and dense forests, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. Over the years, the Miao people have occupied several villages there, and the villages were brought together for unified management and renamed Miao Village.

There are layers of miasma guarding the Miao village. Without the guidance of the Miao people, outsiders can never get in. They stay here and are self-sufficient.

During the previous dynasty, there were rumors among the people that the Miao people were good at witchcraft and could kill people without knowing it. The emperor of the previous dynasty was a timid and irritable man. When he heard the news, he immediately ordered the army to go to the Miao village to encircle and suppress it.

Although no one in the army was able to break into the miasma forest, they used many methods to destroy more than half of the miasma forest.

The elders of the Miao village finally couldn't stand it anymore and ordered everyone in the village to fight back.

It is said that the entire army disappeared within one day, without a trace, and the emperor of the previous dynasty did not know what happened. He fell seriously ill the day after the army disappeared. Then the emperor issued an order that no one was allowed to come into contact with witchcraft, and anyone discovered would be killed without mercy.

"This emperor is such a tyrant. He has to provoke good people and restrict others from using witchcraft." Ye Jianqing snorted. He really didn't have a single good word to say about the emperor of the previous dynasty. He was a tyrant, too much of a tyrant.

"Who says it's not? This is also one of the reasons for our ancestors' uprising. The emperor of the previous dynasty was a tyrant. He didn't care about the people. He only thought about his throne and how to enjoy himself all day long, completely disregarding the people's livelihood." Although Lu Ci Qiu was not born in that era, he heard a lot about the previous dynasty when he was in school, and he felt that the behavior of the emperor of the previous dynasty was truly despicable.

Lu Ci Qiu went on to say, "An army inexplicably disappeared in a powerless village. This is terrifying no matter how you think about it. After our ancestor conquered the country, he did not think of attacking the Miao village or anything like that. Instead, he negotiated with the elders of the Miao village as soon as possible. He felt that the Miao village had its own mysteries, so it was best for everyone to maintain a balance. The Miao people can have their own abilities but don't do evil. The Lu family has not invaded the Miao village for generations and has lived in harmony with the Miao village."

"No wonder you are so polite to the spiritual girls in the Miao village." Ye Jianqing nodded in understanding. This matter would indeed be much better handled in this way. It was much better than the way the tyrant of the previous dynasty handled it. When you know that the other party may have a power that you cannot contend with, you still want to use force to attack. If you don't suffer, who will?

"By the way, second brother is back today. From the looks of it, he should have grasped some clues. Let's wait until he comes to us tomorrow and ask him." Lu Ci Qiu suddenly remembered that Lu Zhixing had returned, and mentioned it to Ye Jianqing.

"Okay." Ye Jianqing nodded, then thought of what Du Rou had proposed to investigate together, so he asked, "Then, what about Du Rou's matter?"

"I have to ask my second brother. After all, the Dali Temple has never brought outsiders to investigate cases." Lu Ci Qiu was still quite conflicted. The Shenwu case was ultimately handled by Lu Zhixing, and the main person in charge was still Lu Zhixing. Moreover, the Dali Temple indeed never had the habit of bringing outsiders to investigate cases. Du Rou had a close relationship with the Shenwu, and if he really wanted to bring her along for the investigation, he didn't know what would happen later.

No one knows whether Du Rou really has no connection with Shenwu. If Shenwu threatens her mother, it is hard to say whether she will switch sides.

Ye Jianqing also knew that it was not easy for Lu Ciqiu, he was just worried about Du Rou: "No problem, you ask first and then I will reply to her. I am just worried that she will do something reckless on her own. Her martial arts skills are not good enough. If she is really trapped in the God's House, I am afraid she will never come back."

Lu Ci Qiu comforted him, "I'll be able to give you an answer tomorrow after I talk to my second brother. She shouldn't do anything rash in this short time."

After talking about Du Rou, Lu Ci Qiu suddenly thought of another important person: "How is Jiang Wanyin doing recently?"

Speaking of Jiang Wanyin, Ye Jianqing couldn't help but frowned. She always felt that Jiang Wanyin was weird. She wasn't the kind of weird that modern people can't blend into the ancient world after traveling to ancient times, but her whole person. But she couldn't explain why, so she could only respond to Lu Ciqiu: "It's the same as always, dancing a dance every day. I've followed her for so many days, and I've seen her just stay in Chunmanlou every day, and she hasn't gone out of other places. But I don't know why my sixth sense tells me that I have to be on guard."

Lu Ci Qiu agreed with Ye Jianqing's words very much. At this moment, he treated Ye Jianqing like an ally and responded to her actively: "I said that this person has problems. She is definitely not as simple as she seems. We are very busy these days and probably don't have time to keep an eye on her. We don't know if she will do anything."

Ye Jianqing sighed: "Let's wait and see. Whether this person is good or bad still needs time to judge. I can't easily draw a conclusion now. Besides, she really didn't do anything, so I can't just say she's bad."

Lu Ci Qiu knew her character and knew that she relied on evidence to speak, so he didn't intend to say anything more. Seeing that it was getting dark, he pulled her towards the dining hall.

No matter how much you have to do, eating comes first.