Chapter 5 Corpse and the Distance
Xu Buling felt that he had dug the coffin, so he stopped and used a hoe to turn the soil all over, revealing the coffin with black paint below.
Zhu Manzhi took a crowbar from the side of the horse, and Xu Buling stood next to the coffin and used the crowbar to force the coffin to pry open it.
Click—
Just as I pried open a gap, black mist floated out of the coffin.
Xu Buling's face suddenly changed, held his breath and suddenly rose up and fell outside the grave. He picked up Zhu Manzhi and ran out, jumped into the middle of the night, and stopped until he had to stop dozens of feet away.
Zhu Manzhi thought he was a ghost, and threw away the torches. He hugged Xu Buling's neck and screamed "a ya ~" and buried his little face in Xu Buling's arms.
"It's indeed the Dragon Locking Gu..."
Xu Buling hugged Zhu Manzhi with one hand, and stroked her back twice, as if he was hugging his daughter.
The black fog that emerged from the coffin made Xu Buling look familiar.
Last year, he had a high fever and was bedridden in the carriage. When more than a hundred assassins came over, he happened to come over. He was insane with his instinct and fought with swords. He was smashed by the thief at his feet. The black fog was filled with this kind of black fog.
Thinking of the severe pain that eroded all limbs, Xu Buling still felt distressed when he recalled it. If it weren't for the strong and tenacious desire to survive, he would have been relieved at that time.
The person in the coffin has been dead for ten years, and the poison still exists, which shows the domineering nature of this Dragon Locking Gu.
Xu Buling was thinking, suddenly heard a quiet mutter:
"The Buddha and Taoist ancestors bless you, the little woman has no intention of offending ghosts and gods. If you want to find him, please find Prince Xu. It was the grave he dug..."
Xu Buling immediately came back to his senses, turned his head and glanced at him, Zhu Manzhi sat on his arm with his face buried, and shirking responsibility incoherently.
Xu Buling's face was covered in darkness and patted her ass: "My Sword God, are you just a guard?"
Zhu Manzhi shook all over, quickly shut up, opened her eyes carefully and glanced. After confirming that there was no goose-faced and fanged on Friday, he realized that he jumped out of Xu Buling's arms with a "ah-" sound, and lowered his head and smiled embarrassedly.
Xu Buling shook his head, but he didn't have the same knowledge as her. He took the wine gourd from his waist and took a sip. He tore a piece of cloth from his clothes, soaked it with strong wine, and covered his face. Zhu Manzhi's black scarf was also done in the same way.
Waiting outside for half a quarter of an hour, until the black fog in the coffin dissipated, the two of them walked up carefully.
Xu Buling jumped out of the pit and opened the coffin completely. The fire light shone, revealing the corpse inside.
The corpse had long been turned into skeletons, but not white bones. It was black from head to toe, and most of them were broken.
Xu Buling held a piece of leg bone with a handkerchief and picked it up to check it out, but he just squeezed it lightly with his hands and broke it, which was extremely fragile.
Zhu Manzhi looked at him in fear and whispered: "Is this caused by the Dragon Locking Gu?"
Xu Buling looked at the traces on the bones: "The poisonous hair eroded all limbs and bones, and the bones were all broken. It must be the Dragon Locking Gu."
Xu Buling jumped into the dirt pit, placed his leg bone on the snow, and then cut his fingers with a knife and dripped them on the leg bone.
A drop of blood quickly turned into a black color, but there was no reaction.
Xu Buling frowned, and first glanced in surprise, then a little depression.
Zhu Manzhi was far away and said in confusion: "What is this to do?"
Xu Buling was silent for a moment and spoke, "The so-called 'Gu' is mostly about putting hundreds of insects in a weapon to seal them, so that they can fight and kill and eat. A few years later, the one who is still alive is the 'Gu'. The secret method of making dragon lock Gu has long been lost, but it is called 'Gu'. The method should be similar. If the toxicity produced by two 'Gu's is strong, the weak will be suppressed and cannot coexist."
Zhu Manzhi seemed to understand: "Then now?"
"The dragon locking Gu on my body and the dragon locking Gu on this corpse were produced by the same worm."
After Xu Buling Pingtan finished speaking, he put his leg bones into the coffin, put the coffin in the soil, and said nothing more.
Zhu Manzhi saw Xu Buling's face cold and fierce look, so she didn't dare to speak...
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In the middle of the night, a torch flickered on the snow field.
Xu Buling rode his horse on his way home, his face was not very good-looking, and he looked at Chang'an City, which was filled with tides of lights.
Zhu Manzhi sat honestly behind her back, and the horse walked very slowly. She no longer hugged Xu Buling's waist with shamelessness. She just grabbed Xu Buling's clothes with her hands, brewing for a long time before she laughed:
"Mr. Xu, don't worry, there will be a way before the car reaches the mountain. At least now, if you have determined who the poison was, you will know who to ask for the antidote if you know who the poison was. Mr. Xu is so skilled in martial arts and smart, there must be a way..."
Xu Buling came back to his senses, suppressed his complex emotions for the time being, and smiled with a smile:
"When this matter is finished, I will take you back to Xiliang and arrange a position as the chief guest of the royal palace for you. We can do whatever we want."
Zhu Manzhi was stunned, her big eyes blinked, her face turned red without realizing it, her boots swaying on the side of the horse, and she thought for a while:
"Mr. Xu, I often hear the story of the storyteller telling the heroes. Anyone who says 'When this matter is done' seems to have no good ending..."
“…”
Xu Buling was speechless for a moment, and the atmosphere that had finally brewed was gone. He spread his hands and said helplessly:
"It's okay if you don't want to. I'll invite Ning Qingye to Xiliang as a guest, she will definitely be happy."
Zhu Manzhi suddenly became anxious, raised her face and said nervously:
"I'm happy. Anyway, my parents ran away from home, so I can go wherever I want... But I still want to find my parents..."
"Okay, I'll be with you to wander around the world."
"whee……"
Zhu Manzhi leaned forward a little, a little curious: "My mother likes flowers, and I also like it. Is Prince Su's Mansion beautiful?"
Xu Buling nodded: "The Su Palace is very big. When I was a child, I lived alone outside the city. There was a big sea of flowers outside. Every spring, the sea of flowers is endless. There is a small house in the middle, with a very large bed inside. There is no crowd of people sleeping in ten people..."
Zhu Manzhi blinked her big eyes, feeling a little puzzled: "What is it to do to make such a big bed? How troublesome is it to get up?"
Xu Buling laughed twice and said seriously:
"I was naughty when I was a child. I jumped and jumped when I was sleeping. I accidentally rolled under the bed. The royal palace had no choice but to make a very large bed with swings, horses, etc. inside, which was so fun."
"Wow~ I really want to go and see... Such a big bed, it will definitely be very comfortable to roll on it..."
"Just rolling around?"
“…what else?”
“…”
Chapter completed!