Mist filled the forest and fields.
Li Jing pushed aside the branches blocking the way and turned around again to ask uncertainly.
"Is this really the way to Miao territory?"
The surrounding fog was so dense that Li Jing always felt like he was spinning in circles.
Hou Qing was stunned and nodded seriously.
“This was indeed the path we took a few years ago.”
Li Jing frowned a little, and pushed aside the crooked tree branches in front of her as she walked forward.
"You must have been a little far behind these past few years..."
"Well, ten years."
Li Jing was speechless, not knowing what to say for a moment.
The three of them each held their horses and walked slowly in the forest. There was heavy fog around them, and the sound of crawling insects and snakes could be heard at their feet.
Although these soft little animals did not pose any threat to a few people, Li Jing had to take care of Xiaobai not to be bitten by poisonous snakes while walking.
I actually have to climb over a mountain first, which gives me a headache...
Li Jing was complaining secretly when Hou Qing's voice came from behind.
"I remember well, it should be here soon."
Li Jing was stunned for a moment. The fog in front of his eyes suddenly gradually dissipated, and a neat gravel path appeared in front of him.
In front of the path, there are bamboo buildings on stilts standing in an orderly manner. A Miao girl wearing a silver crown poked her head out of the bamboo building and looked curiously at Li Jing, who was squinting and looking slightly astonished by the roadside.
Hou Qing walked around Li Jing and beat the bone flute on his hand up and down.
"I haven't been here for a few years, but the scenery is pretty good."
Streams, waterfalls, birds singing and flowers fragrant, the scenery is really pleasant.
Li Jing secretly praised her, turned around and looked at the empress with raised eyebrows.
"Your brother has to run over here, maybe he has fallen in love with the girl here..."
The empress sneered and walked past him towards the Miao villages and towns ahead.
Hou Qing tapped his chin with his bone flute, "Teacher, does he have a big opinion against you?"
Li Jing smiled and said nothing, leading Xiaobai, the black horse, to follow the empress.
Hou Qing thought carefully, shook his head and followed.
Before entering this Miao village, many Miao people had already gathered together, pointing at the three of them and whispering.
"If you want to enter the Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons, you have to go to Guishizi to find something."
"Poison repellent beads?"
Hou Qing frowned and looked at Li Jing, "You know everything?"
Li Jing shook his head: "I just happened to hear about it. Entering the Ten Thousand Poison Cave is just one of them, not our purpose."
The empress pursed her lips and thought carefully. She rarely communicated with Li Jing and Hou Qing all the way here, but just followed Li Jing to the Miao border.
Hou Qing wanted to ask again, but Li Jing snorted and raised his chin.
"Someone is coming."
Hou Qing turned around and looked over, only to see an old Miao man holding a wooden stick leading a group of young adults around him.
A smile appeared on Li Jing's face. He took off the reins and was about to go up to pay a visit when he was stopped by a cold snort.
"People from the Central Plains?"
Although Li Jing was surprised, she still said in a good voice: "Old man, the three of us are indeed from the Central Plains..."
The wooden stick hit the ground for a moment. The old man from Miaojiang interrupted Li Jing's words and narrowed his eyes: "What good can you Central Plains people do by coming to Miaojiang? People from the Central Plains have poisonous hearts. Get out of here!"
this……
Li Jing was confused. When watching anime before, she never saw Miao Jiang being so hostile to the Central Plains...
"We are very busy, don't stop us."
The old man Miao Jiang looked at the light-blond man next to Li Jing in surprise.
"Young man, this is a Miao village, not a place for you Central Plains people to act recklessly!"
As the old man finished speaking, the young and middle-aged Miao men next to him raised all kinds of weapons in their hands and looked at Li Jing and the others angrily.
Li Jing raised his eyebrows in surprise.
It has to be the Corpse Ancestor.
Hou Qing looked at the bone flute in his hand without even raising his eyebrows.
"We are going to Ten Thousand Poison Cave, if you dare, stop us."
There was a low cry from the crowd in front, and several young people immediately began to look curiously at Hou Qing, who had a calm expression.
The old man Miao Jiang's pupils shrank and his face sank.
"Why do you, a Central Plains man, enter the Ten Thousand Poison Cave?"
As if he had been prepared for a long time, Hou Qing's eyes lit up when he heard the old man's words, and he immediately put the bone flute to his mouth.
Li Jing was stunned, leaned slightly towards the empress, and whispered: "Is he ready to learn now?"
The empress shook her head, "I don't know either."
The old man raised his wooden staff, took a step back with the crowd, and looked at Hou Qing warily.
Hou Qing gently closed his eyes, and the bone flute in Hou Qing's hand began to sound.
There was a dry, out-of-tune flute sound.
Li Jing frowned and glanced at Hou Qing uncertainly.
Is this possible...
The crowd laughed lowly, "What the hell are you talking about..."
Only the old man narrowed his eyes nervously and looked at Hou Qing, who was immersed in the sound of his flute.
"My worm!"
The next moment, there was an exclamation from the Miao people on the opposite side, followed by a second and third one.
"What's going on? Why did you wake up!"
"Out of control...!"
I saw the small bamboo baskets worn by the Miao youths began to shake violently, and the buzzing of insects began to sound restlessly.
The old man's pupils tightened and he shouted: "Stop!"
But the next moment, countless flying insects suddenly rose into the sky and densely surrounded everyone. Several young people screamed and collapsed to the ground howling like ghosts and wolves.
"Grandpa, my Gu insect has gone crazy!"
I go……
Li Jing looked at Hou Qing in surprise. He didn't expect that such a bad flute could control the poison.
The old man Miao Jiang dropped the wooden stick in his hand on the ground and made a sound with regret in his voice.
"Lord Gu Master, it's because I don't have eyesight. Please let go of these children's Gu. They have worked so hard to cultivate them!"
The sound of the flute stopped instantly, and the bone flute turned beautifully in his hand. Hou Qing looked at the empress.
"Teacher, how's your performance?"
The empress frowned: "It's still quite unpleasant."
Hou Qing nodded solemnly and looked seriously at the bone flute in his hand.
"It seems like you have to work harder."
teacher! ?
The old man Miao Jiang looked at the Empress. He never expected that this handsome man would be the teacher of the blond Gu Master. How powerful he must be...
Li Jing laughed and gave Hou Qing a thumbs up.
"Zombie Ancestor, that's great!"
Hou Qing was stunned, as if he didn't understand what "like enough" meant.
Seeing that the restless Gu insects had calmed down, the old man Miao Jiang looked at the young people with hatred and bowed his hands towards Hou Qing.
"Lord Gu Master, we didn't mean to stop you, it just happened for a reason..."
Hou Qing nodded and looked at Li Jing.
"No wonder, I smell dead people."
Li Jing frowned, took a step forward, and looked at old Miao Jiang.
"Have other Central Plains people been here before us?"
The old man Miao Jiang sighed and asked someone to help the young men who had just been injured by his poison back, and then led them into the village with cloudy eyes.
"More than ten days ago, a man from the Central Plains came to our village, and with him was a man from the Miao border."
"After these two people came to the village, they actually bought the bodies of the dead people in the village from us. But we Miao people have always been burying people in the ground. How could we be willing to do such a thing? After I refused, the two people left at that time .”
It was only then that the old Miao Jiang man's eyes opened wider.
"I never thought that several people in the village would disappear that night. When we found out later, these people were already several dead bodies..."
Li Jing frowned, "Then how can you conclude that it was the two of them who did it?"
The old man from Miao Jiang shook his head: "We are all members of the same clan in our village, how could we do such a thing of killing each other? Besides..."
"Besides, I know who that Miaojiangdi person is!"
Li Jing looked up in horror and saw a purple-red figure.
And that fluent Shu dialect.
