Kaifeng Monster

Chapter 102 The Imperial City Nightmare (6)
Her voice was extremely low, maybe she was complaining, maybe she was only talking to herself, but there was silence everywhere, and Zhan Zhao's internal strength was excellent, every word and every word could be heard clearly, which was extremely ear-piercing.Knowing that he should never get angry at this moment, the anger in his heart could not be suppressed no matter what.

"Sacrifice your life to eliminate demons..." Zhan Zhao's voice was very stiff, "I heard from Yin Zhu that you drank the talisman water mixed with gold flakes, and you said that you locked yourself in the house to fend for yourself, but you have a way to destroy demons. ?”

Duanmu Cui hummed, and said sullenly: "It's just that all previous efforts have been wasted, and I have to find another way."

All previous efforts for naught?

Zhan Zhao suddenly clenched his fingers violently, and said with a sneer, "It seems that I have too many things to do, which made your previous efforts go to waste."

Duanmucui turned to look at him strangely: "Zhan Zhao, do you want to speak in such a weird way?"

Zhan Zhao smiled instead of anger: "Isn't it? I heard from Yin Zhu that Miss Duanmu was very decisive, and she made up her mind in a moment. I really admire it."

"Hey," Duanmucui's face darkened, "Zhan Zhao, what exactly do you want to say?"

Zhan Zhao's chest heaved violently, and when he was about to speak, he suddenly saw the scars on her back, his heart softened, he slowly closed his eyes, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said lightly, "It's nothing."

"Nothing?" Duanmu Cui has always been a man who can't rub his eyes, so there is no room for his words to be ambiguous, "Zhan Zhao, if you have any displeasure in your heart, you might as well say it to your face. What's the matter if you talk in secret and cover up your mother-in-law?"

Zhan Zhao shocked her, and finally couldn't care less about it: "This matter is so important and urgent that you are going to die? If... If I don't come back tonight, will I have to wait for your body to be collected?" ?”

After speaking, the blood in the chest was rolling, and it was almost impossible to speak.

"Then...you weren't there..." Duanmucui opened his mouth to argue.

"Yes, I'm not here." Zhan Zhao interrupted her, "Is there really no better way? Yinzhu said that the imperial physician did it, and you couldn't bear the pain, so you didn't let the imperial physician continue...so you died You are not afraid of death, but you are afraid of pain? If the worm was on the arm, wouldn’t you cut off the arm? If the worm was on the waist, even if you just gouged out an extra piece of flesh, I don’t believe that you can’t get the worm out. What kind of method? Even if it can save your life, you are so stupid that you will go to death instead of taking the lightest?"

Duanmucui had never let Zhan Zhao scold him so sternly, his scalp went numb for a moment, his whole body was numb, and he whispered: "Then... I didn't think so much..."

"Of course you can't think of so much." Zhan Zhao sneered, "Because you have lived long enough, you regard your own life as cattail grass, and die as soon as you want, regardless of whether there are still people who care about you, whether there are still people who value your life !"

Duanmucui's tears rolled down his face like broken beads: "I'm thinking of Zhan Zhao, I entrust Yinzhu..."

"Is it a sachet?" Zhan Zhao gritted his teeth, took out the sachet that Yinzhu had given him from his bosom, and threw it back at Duanmucui, "Shangxian's kindness, Zhan can't accept it."

After speaking, he turned around and left.

Duanmucui clutched the sachet in her hand and cried bitterly.

Zhan Zhao opened the door and was about to step out, when he suddenly heard Duanmucui crying, his figure swayed, and he froze involuntarily.

Hearing her cry miserably, I felt as uncomfortable as thousands of needles piercing my heart, my eyes gradually blurred, and I smiled miserably, because I thought: She was injured, and she finally escaped this catastrophe, why should I bother with her?

Thinking about it this way, the anger that was generated earlier disappeared without a trace in an instant, and the whole person seemed to be crushed severely and lost all strength.Zhan Zhao slowly walked back to the bed, slowly sat on the edge of the bed, bent down and hugged Duanmucui who was still crying bitterly from behind his shoulder.Duanmucui froze for a moment, her crying became much quieter, but she still couldn't stop her sobbing.

Zhan Zhao's forehead lightly leaned against her disheveled long hair, buried his head in her neck, and pressed his chin against her smooth and bare shoulder skin.Duanmucui's body trembled, but she didn't speak.Zhan Zhao didn't speak either, a hot tear slid down his cheek and fell on Duanmu Cui's hair.

"Duanmu, life is precious, unless it is absolutely necessary, never die lightly."

"Ah."

Zhan Zhao was silent for a long time before he whispered: "When you were sleeping, I kept thinking about going back to the palace tonight. At that time, the adults also said that if you are not busy at this time, you don't have to rush back to the palace tonight. In the courtyard When I met Mr. Gongsun, he said that the lord had just given him the tribute tea from the emperor, and asked me if I would like to taste it. Later, when I was out of the mansion, I met Zhang Long and Zhao Hu, who were not on duty, and wanted to drag me to drink two cups Wine... Duanmu, I kept thinking about these things, and I was thinking, if I was late, drunk or didn't come back tonight, would I never see you again?"

His body trembled, and his arms hugged him tighter.

"It's only a little bit less, will things be completely different? Duanmu, don't go to death lightly, even if you pay other expensive prices - no matter what happens, even if you are blind, deaf, lame, Dumb, as long as you are still alive, as long as you have breath, you are my cherished person. Zhan Zhao still treats you like a jewel, but if you die..."

Zhan Zhao suddenly became dazed.

He whispered: "If you die...what am I left with?"

Duanmucui was silent.

After a long time, she stretched out her hand to take Zhan Zhao's hand, and slowly pressed it against her face.

The tears on her face were still wet, and her long eyelashes brushed against Zhan Zhao's palm.

Zhan Zhao sighed, and asked her in a low voice, "Is the gold flakes you drank okay?"

Duanmucui shook his head.

The stone in Zhan Zhao's heart fell to the ground, and he asked her again: "Are you tired?"

She didn't speak, and slowly closed her eyes.

Zhan Zhao suddenly felt distressed, and regretted that he had spoken too harshly just now, and wanted to comfort her, but seeing that she was listless and lacking energy, he didn't want to disturb her with words, and when he was about to get up slowly, Duanmucui suddenly moved , whispered: "Zhan Zhao, hug me."

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment, he was afraid of touching her wound, so he just hugged her from behind his shoulders, he really couldn't do anything if he really wanted to hug her.

I had no choice but to discuss with her: "Duanmu, you have an injury on your body, can you give me a hug after the injury is healed?"

Duanmucui raised her eyes to look at him, her eye circles turned red, she bit her lip and said, "Not good."

Wronged like a stubborn child.

Zhan Zhao was unreasonably soft-hearted, and his eyes fell on the blood stains on her clothes, so conflicted: "Duanmu..."

She heard his hesitation, and sat up suddenly.

Zhan Zhao was anxious: "Who told you to get up!"

Her tears were about to fall, and she looked at him fiercely: "You try to scold me again?"

Zhan Zhao opened his mouth, but couldn't speak, and finally opened his back and sat down next to the bed, holding Duanmucui's shoulders and slowly letting her lean into his arms.

When I looked at her back, there were indeed several wounds that had burst open again. Knowing that she would not like it again, I had to take the silk cloth beside her and carefully wipe off the overflowing blood.

Duanmucui didn't feel it at all, she shrank into Zhan Zhao's arms, and said softly: "Zhan Zhao, did your mother ever hit you when you were young?"

Zhan Zhao lowered his head and rubbed her top hair, and said with a smile, "I've done it."

"Is it hard?"

"My skin is thicker, and my mother is gentle, but it doesn't hurt."

Duanmucui let out a low voice, then said after a pause: "When my mother hits me, she always strikes hard."

"Oh?" Zhan Zhao laughed, and reached out to tie her hair behind her ears, "Why did you get beaten? Wasn't Duanmu a good boy?"

"Who knows." She said sullenly, "I don't know why I went against my mother's wishes. I always say that I don't do well, and I don't look like the person who should be in charge of the tribe."

She looked up at Zhan Zhao: "I was only a little old at that time, so I already knew what is in charge of a tribe."

Zhan Zhao lowered his head and kissed her forehead, and said with a smile, "And then?"

"Then my mother started crying and wanted to come and hug me." She lowered her head again, "Where do I let her hug me, she ran far away, crying so loudly that the whole tribe could hear it."

Thinking of such a scene, Zhan Zhao couldn't help smiling.

"At that time, I thought, if only I had a father. If my mother beats me, I will hide by my father's side, and my father will definitely protect me." A smile appeared on the corner of her lips, "Zhan Zhao, at that time I'm only so small..."

She stretched out her hand to show him her stature at that time.

"If Dad hugs me, no one can hurt me."

"Yes," Zhan Zhao nodded, "curled up, so small, like a bunny."

Duanmucui also smiled, but the smile gradually faded: "My father died very early, I have never seen him, and I have never been hugged by him."

Zhan Zhao didn't say a word, but his arms around her shoulders tightened.

"So when I was beaten by my mother, I could only run out and cry. I was taken home by the elders when I was about to cry. Then I had Father Shang..." She sighed, "Zhan Zhao, Father Shang never hugged me. .”

Zhan Zhao said softly, "Father Shang and you are not biological father and daughter after all."

She hummed, "Zhan Zhao, the elder brother hugged me too."

"Yang Jian?"

"Well, elder brother loves me very much. In my heart, he is more like a family member than Shangfu. It's just that every time elder brother hugs me, it's like coaxing an ignorant child. He has no choice but to ignore it. Every time he coaxes me well, he Like unloading a burden, I can run faster than anyone else without me."

Zhan Zhao couldn't help laughing out loud, and suddenly remembered the Yang Jian he saw in Shen Yuan, with his cloak fluttering and his brows frowning, it must not be an easy job for him to calm down and coax Duanmucui. No wonder he ran away after coaxing.

"There's also Zhuchang..." When talking about Zhuchang, she paused and glanced at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao coughed.

"The hub..."

Zhan Zhao coughed lightly again.

Duanmucui laughed out loud: "Zhan Zhao, is your throat uncomfortable?"

"About General Zhuchang..." Zhan Zhao said slowly, "It doesn't need to be said."

Duanmu Cui hummed, buried her head in Jinzhao's arms, imitating Zhan Zhao's tone and said slowly: "The person who is hugging me now is my favorite."

Zhan Zhao was taken aback.

It was just a short sentence, and he digested it for a long time, read and thought about it word by word, and then synthesized this sentence.

The corner of Zhan Zhao's mouth slowly raised a smile. He felt that none of the words he had heard in his life was as sweet as this one.

"What did you say?"

Sure enough, she would not obediently say it a second time, and raised her eyes and rolled his eyes.

Zhan Zhao laughed out loud.

He clung to her ear and said seriously: "The person I'm hugging now is also my favorite."

Gongsun Ce was forced to get up early because Zhao Hu slammed his door loudly: "Mr. Gongsun, wake up, my sister Duanmu is here!"

Gongsun Ce turned over and pretended it was a nightmare.

But Zhao Hu was very energetic: "Mr. Gongsun, get up, Brother Zhan and Sister Duanmu are looking for you!"

The magic sound pierced his ears, and Mr. Gongsun sighed and opened the door with his clothes on. When he looked up at the sky, a few stars in the sky were blinking.

"Brother Zhan and Sister Duanmu asked me to come and find Mr. in Brother Zhan's room." Zhao Hu was very responsible.

Gongsun Ce had no choice but to walk towards Zhan Zhao's residence, slandering: Didn't he enter the palace, why did he come back again?The palace is not a vegetable market where you can run in and out.

When I entered the door, hey...

Zhan Zhao was fine, sitting on a stool next to the table and drinking water from a teacup, seeing Mr. Gongsun coming in, he put down his teacup, got up and greeted him with a smile.

As for Duanmucui, she lay carelessly on Zhan Zhao's bed, with a quilt pillow under her elbows, and when she saw Mr. Gongsun, she greeted Mr. Gongsun leisurely: "Sir."

Gongsun Ce's eyes widened.

What kind of hospitality is this?Lie on the bed?Could it be that this is a new method popular in the palace?
Zhan Zhao explained at the right time: "Sir, Duanmu has an injury on his back."

"Is there an injury?" Gongsun Ce's previous weird thoughts were immediately thrown out of the blue sky, "How could you be injured? What happened? Is it because of Yao Meiren's case?"

The topic finally turned back to Yao Meiren's case.

Duanmucui first talked about the old lady she met in Yao Meiren's dormitory, talked about Gu worms, and talked about Zhan Zhao's rescue.

Gongsun Ce frowned: "How did the Gu worms land on you?"

"I remember..." Duanmucui tilted her head, "I seem to have been poked with a needle."

"Poke it with a needle, it's not a bug bite." Gongsun Ce disagreed.

"If the tip of the needle is hollow, there may be insect eggs inside. If you poke it, it is equivalent to sending the eggs in."

Zhan Zhao nodded: "At the beginning there was nothing wrong with it, and it was only in the middle of the night that there were insects. It can be seen that what was sent in at that time should be insect eggs."

"Then there are more worms, and worms can give birth to worms?" Gongsun Ce was surprised.

Duanmu Cui nodded seriously.

Zhan Zhao sighed: "Duanmu, don't be a fool anymore, you still need Mr. Yang's help."

"Do you know about Chu Fu?"

"Chu Fu?" Gongsun Ce was puzzled by Monk Zhang Er for a while, "Who is Chu Fu? Clothes?"

"Han Palace Witch Gu, Chu Fu."

"Chu Fu? Witch Chu Fu?" After she reminded her, Gongsun Ce finally remembered.

Zhan Zhao was still unclear, but Gongsun Ce explained: "During the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Empress Chen Ajiao hated Emperor Wu for favoring Wei Zifu, and colluded with the witch Chu Fu to assassinate Wei Zifu with witchcraft. After being reported, Emperor Wu was furious and deposed him. Not to mention later, Miko Chufu and more than [-] accomplices were all executed."

"Chufu, is it related to Gu worms?" Gongsun Ce seemed to have a clue.

"Chufu raised Gu worms. Emperor Wu hated it for being treacherous and deceitful. He ordered people to push it into a dry well, pour all the Gu worms it fed, and then seal the mouth of the well. For three days in a row, Chu Fu cried out in agony. After three days, the seal was unsealed. The bones have been devoured by Gu insects."

"Then what's left in the well?" Gongsun Ce asked.

"It is said that there is nothing left."

"Impossible." Gongsun Ce shook his head, "Miss Duanmu, what is Gu? It is said that hundreds of insects are put in a dish and eaten by each other, and the last remaining insect is Gu. The Gu insects may have eaten Chufu first, but they Then they will kill each other until the last one is left. The ancient witches believed that the last victorious Gu worm had the poison of all the Gu worms in one body, and was particularly cruel. Therefore, there must be the last one left in that well. A Gu insect!"

Duanmucui smiled: "Sure enough, sir, there is indeed the last Gu worm left in the well. Chu Fu originally possessed strange magic, after being devoured by the Gu worm, his resentment remained undiminished, and his soul survived forever."

"What do you mean, could it be that the last remaining Gu worm is Chu Fu?"

Duanmucui shook her head: "Not all."

Gongsun Ce was a bit confused about this "not all", but Zhan Zhao broke through the maze in time: "Could it be that Chu Fu entrusted the human soul in the body of the Gu insect, and merged with the Gu insect?"

"It can be said that Chu Fu was supposed to be devoured by the Gu insects, but she was so talented, and by accident, she actually merged with the Gu insects."

Gongsun Ce was startled: "Chu Fu already possesses evil abilities, plus blending with Gu insects, wouldn't it be more harmful?"

"Mr. guessed wrong again. If Chu Fu was a disaster, the upper realm would not have noticed. In fact, in the past thousand years, Chu Fu has been very cautious and has never caused a big storm."

Gongsun Ce knew that he couldn't guess correctly, so he simply stopped guessing and waited for Duanmucui to break through one by one.

On the contrary, Zhan Zhao smiled: "Could it be that Chu Fu has changed his nature and changed his ways?"

Duanmucui glanced at him: "It's strange."

Zhan Zhao was not annoyed either: "Then tell me."

"My guess is that Chu Fu was afraid of Emperor Wu. There are many people who became ghosts after death, but the strange thing is that what they were afraid of in life was still afraid of something after death-even if they could make waves after death. Chu Fu died of the thunderous anger of Emperor Wu , this fear has not diminished after she merged with the Gu worm, so she is cautious, no matter how powerful she is, she does not dare to make mistakes too much."

"Don't you dare to make mistakes too much?" Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows, and there was a smile in his eyes, "That is to say, if you make a small mistake, you still dare?"

Duan Mucui nodded: "Chu Fu must have killed many people in the past thousands of years, but they did it in secret, so they were unknown. I guess, Yao Meiren should be one of the victims."

Gongsun Ce was thoughtful: "Why did Chu Fu kill people? Could it be for food?"

Duanmucui hesitated for a moment, then slowly shook her head: "I don't know yet."

"Also," Zhan Zhao mused, "If Chu Fu is really cautious, why did he choose to kill people in the palace, and the one who killed was a beauty? Isn't it just a matter of attracting attention?"

"She killed people in the palace because she couldn't go outside the palace. I guess it's because she died in the Han Palace. After death, she was used to it. For thousands of years, she always followed the royal spirit and lived in the emperor's harem. It wasn't because of the change of dynasty. Never relocate."

(End of this chapter)