Cultivation recipes

Chapter 25 The Truth
"Curse?" The gleaming Buddhist beads in the old lady's hand were spinning rapidly. "Do you think Huaying was cursed because she was jealous because of her marriage?"

Jingqiu frowned: "My cousin has no scars on her body, and no poison. She fell asleep inexplicably before getting married. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that only the power of the curse can cause it?" She paused, "It's not impossible that the curse can backfire."

Mrs. Qiu's face darkened.

"Hua Ying's fiancé is a disciple of the Wu family. Although he is only a side branch, Wu Rugui is a talented person and has a rich family. He is already promising a golden elixir at a young age. He is highly valued by the direct descendants of the Wu family."

Jingqiu smiled and said, "Brother-in-law is born with good looks."

Old Man Qiu glanced at her: "But he's not as good-looking as the boy you brought home."

Jie Qiu blushed: "Grandma~~~"

Mrs. Qiu smiled: "Okay, I probably know what's going on. You can go back to your room and rest."

Jiqiu was slightly startled: Is there really something fishy about my cousin's marriage?It shouldn’t be.

After her granddaughter left, Mrs. Qiu's face was terrifyingly gloomy.

Qiu Huaying's husband was decided by his parents when he was young. He once had a well-matched fiancée named Xu Jiujiao.Jiujiao also has extraordinary knowledge and is a rare cultivation talent among small families.Unexpectedly, when she was 15 years old, she had an accident while building the foundation and became a disabled person!Afterwards, he could not bear the blow and committed suicide.

Two years later, Wu Rugui got engaged to Hua Ying.

Huaying and Jiujiao have been close friends since childhood!
Afterwards, the old lady also inquired about the reason for the failure of Jiujiao's foundation building. It seemed that there was something wrong with the pill she was taking at that time.However, the Xu family could not find out the truth about the elixir, and in the end the matter was settled.

The rotating beads in Mrs. Qiu's hand suddenly stopped: "Where is Minjun? Let her come to see me!"

Song Minjun is the legal wife of Qiu Junfeng, the eldest son of Qiu.She entered the room with red eyes, and before she could salute, Mrs. Qiu scolded her: "What a good thing you two have done!"

Song Minjun's legs went weak: "Mom?!"

Jie Qiu returned to Qiu Huaying's courtyard and saw Zhaohui talking to Yuwei, the girl who was waiting for Huaying.

Yuwei looked haggard: "Are you asking about Miss Xu? She was engaged to Mr. Wu before. When Miss Xu is gone, our eldest lady will be sad!"

Zhaohui followed suit and asked: "Why is Miss Xu missing?"

Yuwei lamented: "Miss Xu used the wrong medicine to build the foundation, and her sea of ​​consciousness dried up and she became a useless person. She couldn't accept it, so... she cut her wrists and committed suicide."

Zhaohui was silent for a moment: "Then your young lady must be very sad."

"Isn't that true? When my young lady was paying homage to Miss Xu, she cried until she was unconscious. The young lady also swore a curse in front of Miss Xu's soul: If she knew who harmed her, she would definitely make that person's life worse than death!"

Lin Jiqiu and Gu Zhaohui's hearts palpitated instantly!
With Qiu Huaying's current appearance, isn't life worse than death?
Yuwei seemed to have remembered something: "When the young lady finished saying this, the candle in front of Miss Xu's body was lit and extinguished several times. Everyone said that the young lady touched Miss Xu's spirit in heaven!"

Gu Zhaohui's face was as dark as water.

Yuwei seemed to be lost in memories: "When the two young ladies were young, they always loved to play together under the big tree in the yard. They would play on the swing, play Cuju, and compete in spiritual power together. Unexpectedly, alas, fate has its way with people!"

Zhaohui asked again: "I see that the flower tree is a little burnt. What's going on?"

Yuwei thought for a while and said, "Oh! It was probably the summer of the year when the young lady and the Wu family got engaged, and the tree was struck by lightning."

Jing Qiu Si: Could it be that the flowers and trees became spirits and were robbed?

Yuwei's face showed sadness: "There was an accident that night. The tree was fine, but one of the young lady's maids, Yan Hui, was killed."

Zhaohui raised his thick eyebrows slightly: "Yan Hui?"

"Yes. She is a rough maid that the young lady bought after her engagement. But Yan Hui is smart and smart, and does everything to suit the young lady's wishes, so the young lady promoted her to the second-class maid."

Zhaohui was silent for a moment, suddenly raised his sleeves, and when he turned around, he saw Jingqiu: "Senior sister."

Jie Qiu couldn't help but say: "Junior brother."

"Since senior sister has heard this, she should know that there is something weird in this matter, right?"

Ji Qiu nodded.It's just that she is not sure now whether Xu Jiujiao's death has anything to do with her cousin?

Zhaohui took out the Zhang Lei Ling Talisman, walked to the flower tree with a frosty face, looked up at the hidden flower branches, and said coldly: "Tree spirits cannot leave places other than the root system. How did you know that Miss Qiu was at Miss Xu's funeral?" Have you sworn a curse?"

The flowers and leaves sway, and sadness permeates the air.

Zhaohui smiled: "Of course someone told you. Who was it?"

Jiqiu was surprised: "Zhaohui? What do you suspect?"

Zhaohui said in a concentrated voice: "Mr. Dryad, is Xu Jiujiao really dead?"

The tree trunk shook violently for an instant!
After a while, the tree spirit transformed into a human form again, with surprise in his elegant brows: "You are very smart."

Zhaohui shook his head: "Xu Jiujiao was unwilling to be killed. I think she already had suspicions at that time, so she faked her death and investigated secretly. I don't know what clues she found. But two years later, Miss Qiu got engaged to her former fiancé. I I think she probably understood everything at that time.”

The dryad closed his eyes, and the breath of sadness filled the sky.

Zhaohui continued: "Of course she wanted revenge. But at that time, she no longer had any power to compete with Miss Qiu. So, she thought of a way!"

The tree spirit asked softly: "What can we do?"

Zhaohui said in a deep voice: "In the year when Miss Qiu and Wu Ru were engaged, she sneaked into Qiu's house with a thunder charm."

The tree spirit looked back at the scorched blackness on the tree trunk that had not yet faded, and smiled bitterly: "You have observed it so clearly."

"There was thunder and lightning that night. She used the remaining spiritual power in her body to activate the thunder talisman and successfully attracted the thunder. I think her original plan was to lure you to fight against the thunder. If your spiritual power were to detonate, it would be enough to destroy this Small buildings were razed to the ground, and no one survived." Jing Qiu was confused: "But there was no spiritual explosion!"

"I have to ask Mr. Dryad." Zhaohui asked in a deep voice, "What happened that night?"

It was clearly broad daylight, but the sky suddenly darkened, and the small courtyard was gradually shrouded in darkness.

When Zhaohui and Jieqiu were surprised, heavy rain poured down, thunder rolled in the sky, and fierce blue-purple lightning flashed.

The rain fell on my body, but my clothes never got wet.Zhaohui suddenly realized: Fantasy!

In the fantasy, a girl dressed as a maid walked out of the small building and came under the big tree holding an umbrella.

"You have recognized me a long time ago, right?" The girl gently rubbed the trunk of the Suo tree, with a sad and strange smile on her face. "Do you really want to know my purpose of changing my appearance and sneaking into my enemy's family?"

The branches swayed slightly, and the tree spirit took shape.

"...They said you were dead."

"If I don't die, how can I reassure the person who harmed me?" The girl murmured to herself, "Who would have thought that the good sisters I grew up with would actually set up a trap to harm me in order to steal my fiancé?"

The tree spirit apologized and said nothing, but looked at her guiltily.

Thunder and lightning are getting closer and closer, and the wind and rain are coming fast.

"Ah Luan." The girl raised her face, a hint of apology flashed in her eyes, "I'm sorry!"

The main trunk of the flower tree is impressively pasted with a thunder talisman painted on yellow paper and red!
Ah Luan didn't seem surprised, he just looked up at the sky: "That's it."

The rumbling lightning struck a branch, immediately igniting blue-black smoke.

Ah Luan hugged her arms tightly, feeling unbearable pain.

"A-Luan." The girl smiled with tears in her eyes, "I won't let your death be in vain."

Another burst of lightning flashed across the trees, and smoke billowed from the trees.

Ah Luan fell to the ground, writhing in pain.

"A Luan?!" The girl was a little frightened. "Does it really hurt?"

Ah Luan forced a smile to her: "It's okay, I can bear it."

"A-Luan——" The girl's tears mixed with the rain.She recalled that when she was a child, she and Hua Ying climbed trees and picked flowers, had dinner together under his shade, and took a nap while he whispered and sang slowly. The elegant fragrance mixed with the warm wind, forming the most beautiful memories of her youth. .

"Heaven above, I, Xu Jiujiao, will make a curse with my blood in exchange for my life! Let the oath sworn by the person who harmed me in front of my soul come true on her body!" The girl stood up suddenly and tore off the thunder talisman - "Jiujiao, don't want!"

Amidst Ah Luan's exclamation, lightning struck the thunder talisman!

The girl fell under the flower tree and made no sound.

The movement in the garden finally attracted the servants in the mansion.

Ah Luan hid in the tree and watched the people shouting: "Thunder struck people to death, this tree is on fire, come and put out the fire!"

The thunder is far away and the rain has disappeared, Zhaohui and Jingqiu are like waking up from a dream.

Ah Luan sighed: "Jiujiao is too soft-hearted." If she had been cruel, he and Qiu Huaying would have been destroyed long ago.

Jie Qiu's face turned pale.

Zhaohui sighed: "So Miss Qiu is indeed cursed."

"Jiujiao sacrificed her life to heaven before she died." Ah Luan's voice gradually lowered, "Hua Ying can't resist it."

Jiqiu pursed her lips: "Is there really no other way?"

Ah Luan shook his head and disappeared in front of the two of them.

Zhaohui said quietly: "Senior sister, people are doing it, and God is watching. Miss Qiu is the one to blame."

Jingqiu's heart was in turmoil.However, Huaying is her relative!

In the middle of the night, Zhaohui, who was sleeping, heard a faint banging sound, like chopping and digging, which lasted for nearly a stick of incense.Then his window was illuminated by flashes of lightning.

When he got up the next morning, Zhaohui was informed that Qiu Huaying had recovered from his illness!

In disbelief, he followed his senior sister to visit the small courtyard before entering the garden. He was stunned for a moment: the beautiful flowers and trees in the garden had disappeared!Pull out the roots and leaves cleanly.There is a piece of freshly turned soil on the ground.

Jie Qiu walked straight into the small building as if she hadn't seen him.

Zhaohui was still waiting outside. He dragged his sore legs to the position of the big tree. The chopped roots in the mud seemed to still have traces of red liquid!
why?
He saw Yuwei passing by and hurriedly called her: "Miss Yuwei——"

Yuwei's face was filled with joy: "Mr. Gu." Without waiting for him to ask, she replied, "Mr. Gu, do you want to ask about this tree? The old lady and the owner came over last night and said that it was the tree spirit in this tree that caused the trouble. It hurt the lady. So I cut it off overnight."

Zhaohui swallowed back the nonsense he blurted out.

He thought of the sound of chopping and the thunder and lightning last night, and in his dizziness he recalled that when he and Su Su were looking through the scriptures at Qiankuyan, they had seen a way to break the death curse - using another person with profound knowledge. Altar, in place of the cursed person.

So, has Ah Luan, who can’t leave her enemy’s family, become Miss Qiu’s scapegoat? !
Zhaohui felt cold all over.

(End of this chapter)