The girl who had been silent at the dinner table also spoke at this time, "The new emperor is a wise king, and General Yuan is back. He will be fine in the future."
One sentence frightened the waiter so much that he looked at the girl twice.
This little girl is so courageous that she dares to call the current "new emperor"!
Not respectful enough!
But he won't expose her because the little girl also mentioned General Yuan.
Although he doesn't seem to know how to speak, he does say good things.
"Yes, the emperor is a wise king, especially General Yuan is back! You don't know how happy the people of our city were after the news came that General Yuan was named the General Protector of the Country. The excitement at that time could not be matched by the New Year. The barbarians from outside the country who come to stir up trouble from time to time are also much more at ease. The Yuan family army's reputation back then, even after so many years, can still suppress those barbarians! Hahaha!" The waiter said that he was happy at first, with an inconspicuous face. The eyes are very bright, full of longing and expectation for a stable life in the future.
When the young man and the girl saw this, their expressions became more real.
"Little brother, apart from the barbarians who always want to stir up trouble, there are other tribes living outside the customs, right? Have you ever heard of the Qiang tribe?" the young man asked again.
"Hiss! Why are you asking about the Qiang tribe? Seeing that you are young and ignorant, take my advice and stop asking about that tribe!"
"Why?"
"People who inquire about the Qiang people will get rotten stomachs! This is not an alarmist statement. Many years ago, there were strangers in the city who came to inquire about the Qiang people, and the next day they were gone! The intestines were rotten and there were small bugs crawling all over the body. It was scary!"
Just then, a gust of cold wind blew up, lifting a corner of the curtain at the door. The cold wind whipped up the snow foam and whizzed in. The whining wind sound was like the howling of birds and crows, which was strange and scary.
Xiao Erxu thought of the scary scene he had seen, his face turned pale, and he was immersed in adding charcoal to the fire cage, unwilling to say any more.
Bai Yu and Tianbao looked at each other and didn't ask any more questions. Just mentioning his name scared the waiter so much that he couldn't get anything out of him.
After dinner, he returned to the guest room upstairs. Bai Yu helped Tianbao light the candles in the room and checked the doors and windows again. "The information my father investigated included a map of the country. It's not difficult to find the location of the Qiang people. The hard part is how to get in." Let's stay here for two days. I'll be walking around the city to see if I can learn more about the Qiang people. Tianbao, don't worry."
"I'm not in a hurry. You're more anxious than me." Tianbao sat at the table and looked at the busy figure. He hesitated but couldn't help but hit him, "Bai Yu, you don't need to check the doors and windows repeatedly. If you dare to come, They are all destined to die.”
Bai Yu turned back expressionlessly, his thin lips moving slightly, "Oh, have you forgotten how you got infected by the worm?"
"...I didn't know much at first."
"There are so many things you haven't seen before. Be sure to close the doors and windows when you sleep!"
The young man said the last sentence through gritted teeth.
Tian Bao lost his face and said, "I know."
Before leaving, Bai Yu asked for the ninety-ninth time, "Are you really not feeling uncomfortable today?"
The girl kicked him out directly.
I closed the door, turned off the lights, and lay on the bed without feeling sleepy.
The cold wind howled outside the window, and I didn't know who had left the door or window closed properly, and the wind made a loud banging sound. It was a clear and scary sound in the quiet night.
Tianbao stared at the dark top of the mosquito net with his eyes open, his mind empty.
It has been several months since the last attack, and there has been nothing unusual since then, which makes her unable to figure out the pattern of attacks.
What on earth is a Gu insect?
As the night progressed, the wind became more violent, howling like ghosts and wolves outside the window, vowing to sweep everything away.
A very subtle strange sound is mixed in, and it can easily be ignored.
The girl who had just closed her eyes on the bed suddenly opened her eyes, turned over and jumped out of the window, running towards the source of the sound as fast as an afterimage.
It's the sound of a flute.
She had heard it several times and it was very familiar to her.
Yanxiaguan was deserted during the New Year, and the people went to bed early, but just after Haishi, every household had turned off the lights.
The snow was still falling non-stop, and the entire border city was dim and gray-white. Everywhere you looked you could see the reflection of the white snow.
Tianbao climbed over the wall, and when he finally stopped, he was surrounded by a forest with bare branches.
Rocks overlap and broken snow weighs on branches.
There is no one else.
After a moment, there was a slight crunch of the soles of shoes hitting the snow behind him. Tianbao turned around and met the eyes of the person who had just landed.
Bai Yu gasped slightly, his eyes darkened, "He ran away."
"Well, I didn't catch it." Tianbao didn't feel regretful, "It doesn't matter, it will show up again."
"How are you?"
"Go back and talk."
After a few simple conversations, the two of them left the dead forest together.
After they had walked for a while, a shadowy figure flashed past deep in the dry forest. It was as fast as a young girl who had reached the peak of her Qinggong.
Return to the inn and light the candles in the room again.
The dim light illuminated Bai Yu's face clearly. His whole face was tense and his brows were pressed down. When he wasn't smiling, the aura that he could usually restrain was released.
Sharp, powerful, and extremely oppressive.
"The other party must be here to test me." Tianbao sat down at the table with a calm expression, "I guess the blood-threaded worms can not only cause people to spontaneously hallucinate, but also rely on the sound of the flute to trigger seizures."
"So the other party showed up just to test with the sound of the flute to see if you have been poisoned by the poison, or to what extent you have been poisoned." Bai Yu said.
In other words, the other party was not sure whether Tianbao was poisoned or not.
This time the sweet horse was tested and chased away, and there was nothing strange about it in the eyes of the other party.
Then the traps targeting Tianbao will begin to intensify and emerge in endlessly.
Thinking of this, Bai Yu's face turned even more ugly, "We just arrived here today, and the other party came in the evening, and there were people watching us along the way."
After a pause, Bai Yu suddenly looked at the girl, "You said that Gu insects can be activated by the sound of the flute. Did you have another hallucination when you heard the sound of the flute just now?"
"Within the range that can be suppressed."
The girl's calm look made Bai Yu so angry that he couldn't speak.
She didn't care half as much about her life as he did.
"No wait, we will set off for the Qiang tribe tomorrow!"
"..."
Tianbao rubbed the tip of his eyebrows and looked at it.
He was really more anxious than she was.
"Su Tianbao!"
"Yes, I'll go tomorrow, I'm very anxious too."
"..."
This time it was someone's turn to lose their temper again.
I was so choked that I didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
On the other side, in a small farmyard somewhere on the outskirts of the city, the house is dimly lit.
A figure knelt and stood at the door of the main room, "Master, I couldn't find out this time."
"She chased her out?"
"yes."
"Su Jiuni can't take it lightly, and the kid who came with her can't take it lightly either."
"yes."
"Can you tell what her condition is like? Is she infected by a poison?"
"Master, give me another chance. I need to explore again!"
