dhibooks Chapter 17 Star Youcan
Chapter 17 Star Youcan
Below the mountainside, Miao villages gradually become dense.On the flat ground, a single building on stilts stands on both sides of the Qingjiang River. Candlelight reflects the water through the windows. Looking at the river by the river, it seems to go straight to the Milky Way.
There were two people standing under the willow on the bank, and Bai Yutang said joyfully, "Cat, isn't it beautiful? You don't see the blue waves in the daytime. When will you stop being an official, how about you and I take a boat on the river and enjoy the moon?"
Turning around and seeing two stars in his eyes, Zhan Zhao smiled without saying a word.It is necessary to leave the longing for the last, so as to persevere.Right now, he said, "Brother Bai, lead the way. We'll come back early."
Bai Yutang smiled knowingly, and took his hand.Going to the head of the river, I rise and fall lightly, flying like a kite.Facing the wind, he asked him: "I tell you where to go, do you like it?"
Zhan Zhao took a deep breath and said with a smile, "Talk too much. Hurry up."
The cat must be embarrassed, and scolded the master again.Bai Yutang glanced sideways, couldn't distinguish his face at night, only felt that Zhan Zhao's smile was as gentle as the edge of the moon.The moon is full and the moon shines forever. No matter how hard it is to be separated from love, how can it be hard to live without him.His chest was heaving, and he still kept teasing: "Hurry up, hurry up, can you keep up? It's just a sick cat, so what's the point of trying to be brave. I won't hate you."
Just a word can make the rat chatter.Zhan Zhao had no choice but to shut up, wondering if he still remembered the mission of this trip.Looking at the dazzling white clothes around him again, he couldn't help laughing again, shook his head and said, "I know that Brother Bai doesn't dislike it. When I get to the altar later, please stay with Brother Bai."
Bai Yutang rolled his eyes: "If you are a patient, you should obey the instructions honestly. Leave as you say, leave as you say, or leave if you don't leave. You don't have a place to intervene."
"Bai Yutang, you are the one who is right and wrong, and you are so overbearing."
"A stinky cat like you is so overbearing that you dare to babble. If the master is not overbearing, you will not be overthrown."
"you……"
"Hmph, have you run out of rationale? A stupid cat is a stupid cat. After all these years, I still haven't learned how to behave well."
"The rats don't understand human reason. I don't want to argue with you."
"Little Zhan, who are you calling a moron?" Bai Yutang fainted from the anger before him, grabbed the cat's clothes and stared wide-eyed.
Zhan Zhao gently fended him off, pointed to a tall wooden building in front of him with a smile and said, "Here we are." Lian Rong said again, "Brother Bai's words are sharp, and Zhan has been taught. Sure enough, his energy channels are much smoother."
I know that I will repay my kindness and revenge.Bai Yutang cursed secretly, and his anger quickly dissipated.Either way, cats who know good and bad are always unforgiving.Putting on a dignified face, Bai Yutang nodded: "Be careful before you and behind me." After speaking, he flew up to a branch, and a light smoke flew across the night sky.
Before going down the mountain, the two discussed that the Miao army had lost its commander, and the attack was weak, or they might use the method of priests to cast heavy Gu.Dive into the altar at night, according to Bai Yutang's intention, simply smash into the nest, or set it on fire to avoid future troubles.Zhan Zhao said it was impossible, after all the Miao people had their own living rules, he regarded the altar as his heaven, if it was completely destroyed overnight, the consequences would be unforeseen.The other country is good-neighborly, and the mountains and rivers are interdependent, and the disputes will end in the extinction of the clan.If there is another Xixia trying to use it, you should be more cautious, you and I just need to take away the utensils secretly so that they can't do it.
Bai Yutang laughed at "the kindness of women is nothing more than this", but he also agreed that cats have their own reasons, so he stopped the evil idea of arson.He also knew that the location of the altar was a wooden building at the front and at the back, so he chose the one with the ingenious design and ran backwards first.
The building is three stories high, and the lights are always on.Zhan Zhao then also jumped up the treetops, and some thick branches flew to the eaves of the top building.Slowly move the giant que, look over the guardrail, and see the four pillars in the window leading up from the ground, forming a courtyard.There are two circles of corridors open on the second and third floors, with various clay puppet masks hanging on the walls.He spun around from top to bottom, picked up the rope and broke it, and the hanging objects fell into the baggage one by one.Looking back, the wall was empty, Zhan Zhao lightly jumped back to the ground.
The altar is set behind the central axis of the house, with two trombones next to it.At this time, the lamp was removed from the case, and there was still a pair of wooden pestles and bells, and the mask of the Nuo in the center was painted blood red, facing him with angry eyes and bulging fangs.Zhan Zhao took a look and understood why Bai Yutang advocated setting fire.With so many instruments used for sacrifice, how can the burden be accommodated.After pondering for a moment, he went to the firepit and kicked away the firewood, pried over two floor tiles, and buried all the sundries inside the burden.After recovering the ground completely, he picked up the mask before going back to the table, when he heard the sound of approaching footsteps outside the courtyard door, immediately a kite turned over and plunged into the upper corridor obliquely, lying low in the shadow of the pillars.
Not long after, the wooden door opened with a creak, and five Hmong people came in one after another with their heads tied and bare feet. The one in the middle was a petite girl in her teens.The girl was held by one wrist by the man walking forward, almost dragging her along.At this moment, she folded her hands, and occasionally let out a low murmur or two, as if she was in unbearable pain.The man turned his head and spoke Miao language. From the perspective of the upstairs, his face was neither happy nor angry, and his tone was flat and without fluctuations.Among the three people following behind, one of them said something briefly, as if to comfort her, and taught the girl not to be frightened.Having reached the altar while speaking, the four held the girl down and knelt down, chanted for a while, and then dug up bricks and soil on the spot.
Zhan Zhao looked puzzled, and when he saw a pottery vat dug out of the ground, he realized that these people didn't bury things like himself.Thinking of this, my heart trembled, and I wondered, should I bury someone?He hurriedly looked again, the mouth of the tank was open, the Miao man groped inside for a while, and found three reptiles, he picked up the girl's sleeves and put them on the forearm.
Zhan Zhao was taken aback.From afar, he saw that the worm was huge, dark in color, and its ferocious long legs covered with fluff were lying on the girl's body, which made him gritty.The girl didn't know whether it was pain or fear, her eyes were tightly closed, and she was trembling all over.A layer of sweat broke out in Zhan Zhao's palm, he clenched it tightly and then let go.I can't decide what kind of battle this is, if I try to stop it at this moment, the result will be beneficial or harmful.While hesitating, the first man raised his wrist and swiped towards the girl with a bright knife light.
The few people on the ground who were engrossed in it suddenly heard a few soft bangs, and when the lights went out, the arm of the knife holder went numb, and the dagger fell to the ground with a clang.The others didn't distinguish between east, west, north and south, but they felt a gust of wind cutting their faces, so they hurriedly covered their heads and closed their eyes.When I opened it again, the girl was gone.A small arrow stuck in the ground, still trembling from the clank; Mingrui's arrow body nailed three reptiles into a string of corpses.
Zhan Zhao escaped from the top floor with the girl on his back, passed several big trees one after another, and came to the backyard.When he landed and looked up, Bai Yutang jumped down from the window with the burden on his shoulders, and when he saw him, he scolded: "The stinky cat came up with a good idea! Let me be a porter, but you... what are you carrying?!" Seeing the exhibition A pair of big black eyes of a living person were exposed behind Zhao's shoulders, and Bai Yutang's jaw almost dropped from shock.
Zhan Zhao whispered, "Brother Bai whispered. Get out of here first."
Running to the river in one breath, Bai Yutang threw off his burden and stretched it out against the wind, before dumping it all into the water.Before Zhan Zhao could speak, he glared, "You didn't set fire and you didn't kill anyone, what else do you have to say?"
Seeing that his clothes are disheveled and his bun is a little messy.Zhan Zhao said: "I just want to ask if Brother Bai is safe or not. The back building..." There are many traps in the back building, even if he didn't say a word, he can figure it out.
Bai Yutang tapped his chest with his fingers, and raised his chin: "It's not worse than you. Where did this girl come from?"
When Zhan Zhao turned his head, the girl's eyes were shining, and she was staring at him without blinking.He said casually: "Zhan doesn't understand Miao language, so he doesn't know how to ask her. Brother Bai..."
Bai Yutang kept his mouth shut and bowed his head, he didn't understand either.The girl looked around at the two of them, waited a while and said timidly, "What do you want to ask?"
Asked clearly that the high priest feeds the poisonous insects with the girl's blood to raise Gu, Bai Yutang thought about it quickly, pulled Zhan Zhao back two steps, and whispered: "Now that the poisonous insects are dead, wouldn't she become the most poisonous one? Kill them together?" Seeing Zhan Zhao slowly shaking his head, he sighed secretly and asked the girl, "What's your name?"
The girl answered bluntly, "Jumang."
"Jumang?" Bai Yutang laughed, "Jumang is just Jumang. How can you speak Chinese?"
Gou Mang said: "There are many people in my family. There are Han people." He bowed his head and added: "My father is the leader."
Pressing the button in surprise, Bai Yutang asked again: "The big poisonous insect eats the small poisonous insect, and it becomes extremely poisonous; others die after being bitten, how do you live so well?"
Gou Mang raised his head and said, "I used to take medicine when I was young. Father gave it to me."
"Where is your father? Where are the family members?"
"do not know."
"The high priest feeds you to poisonous insects, does Father agree?"
"do not know."
"...Your blood is poisonous, will it poison people to death? How is it poisonous?"
"do not know."
Bai Yutang stopped with a headache and looked at Zhan Zhao.If you don't want to cut grass and roots, what other ideas do you have?
When looking at each other, Jumang blinked, and two tears fell down: "I want to go home."
The leader's house was built on the upper reaches of the river.Seeing the lights, Gou Mang refused to leave, held Zhan Zhao tightly with one hand, and looked up at him helplessly.
Bai Yutang couldn't help being anxious: "Why don't you go in? Is it the wrong place?"
Zhan Zhao waved his hand to stop, thought for a while and said softly, "Gumang, who lives in the house?"
Goumang opened his eyes wide in fear: "I don't know. One day I woke up and my parents were gone. There were many people I didn't know. I couldn't understand what they were saying. The high priest was with them and brought me go, and don't let me go home..."
The two adults looked at each other, Zhan Zhao nodded and said, "I'll go in. Brother Bai, look at Gou Mang, don't let anyone hurt her."
Bai Yutang secretly rolled his eyes, afraid that I would kill her, why didn't you watch.With a muttering of "long-winded", he pulled the girl closer to protect him, and threatened, "I'll only come out in half an hour, and I won't wait too long. I don't care who gets hurt or not."
Zhan Zhao smiled silently, raised his sword and walked away.
Bai Yutang picked a tree and sat down, the girl obediently followed and leaned aside, grabbing half of his sleeve.The nearby river flows continuously, and the sound of the night and the wind is lonely and long.After listening quietly for a while, Bai Yutang turned his head and said, "If Mom and Dad don't come back, what will you do?"
Gou Mang trembled when he heard the words, and buried his head deeply.After a while, he whispered, "The high priest said that they can't come back. Let me follow him in the future, and I will go wherever he goes."
Bai Yutang smiled: "The high priest of the Miao village must love poison the most; once the poisonous insect dies, you are a big treasure. What a fortune."
Ju Mang tightened his grip, and suddenly asked, "Do you like it, baby?"
Bai Yutang laughed and said vigilantly, "Miao people's treasure, I don't dare to compliment you."
Ju Mang didn't understand, and continued to ask: "Does he like it?"
Bai Yutang flicked his sleeves angrily: "Stop thinking about him. You don't want to follow the high priest, do you? Just follow the master."
It was too late to regret it, Ju Mang already understood.He nodded again and again and said, "Yes. The high priest wants me to prick blood, but I won't give it to him. I'll give it to you."
Bai Yutang's scalp tingled for a while, and he pushed her hand away with a forced smile: "Don't give it to me, do you hear me? I'm not your high priest."
Gou Mang still nodded: "Well. Then you don't want blood, what do you want? I'll give it to you too."
Bai Yutang rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "If you want your life, you will give it?"
Just as Gou Mang was about to nod, Bai Yutang picked her up with his long arms, and like a ghost, he turned half a circle and raised his hand to knock out the white stone.There were a few groans in the bushes, and the figure fell out with a plop, rolling to the ground and screaming in pain.
The wind is wrong.Bai Yutang rushed back to the tree in two steps, saw the poisonous insect nailed to death by the sleeve arrow on the ground, and immediately became furious: "Smelly cats are troublesome! Can't I deal with a few reptiles?"
Zhan Zhao in the building pushed open the window in a hurry, and said while typing: "Zhan wants to say, let's go out for one. Brother Bai please follow."
Bai Yutang was getting angry, he cut off half of the head of the figure who jumped out of the door with his sword, and laughed angrily: "What kind of waste, just throw it into the river. Does the stinky cat keep Yin skills? I'm not afraid!"
After Zhan Zhao cleaned up, he jumped out of the window, took a closer look, shook his head and said, "Brother Bai killed the high priest, not trash."
Gou Mang also pointed to the ground and shouted: "It's him! He's dead!" Looking up at Zhan Zhao eagerly, he asked, "Where are my parents? Have you seen them?"
Zhan Zhao stroked the top of her head and remained silent.
As he expected, Gou Mang's home has become the residence of Xi Xia's head here.When Zhan Zhao entered the room, he first saw the chief priest's tablet in the servant's room. After asking, he found out that the high priest had a close relationship with the Xixia people, and wanted to occupy the territory of the Great Song Dynasty outside the mountain.The big leader refused to cooperate, and even his husband and wife were killed.Gou Mang was spotted by the high priest and kidnapped to refine poisons, so that he could show his favor to Xixia and give him the right to make a gift.Poisonous insects died on the altar tonight, and after leaving Jumang, the high priest hurriedly came to discuss countermeasures.The Xixia people now have access to the Miao Village, they don’t avoid people when they talk, and the servants who serve them have not changed. They are still the same group as the former big leader’s family, so they have explained the ins and outs of the future very clearly (ask me how Miao Hanxia communicates. Qi Zaizhao, generalist also).
"Brother Bai, what do you think?" Shu Ba Zhan Zhao asked.
Bai Yutang glanced at Jumang who was a few steps away, and said, "I don't understand. The high priest is trying to monopolize the power in the village and use the power of Xixia to expand outward; Xixia is greedy for Miaogu and exotic herbs all over the mountain. Said A three-year-old would not believe it if he had no ambition to invade the territory of the Great Song Dynasty."
Zhan Zhao nodded, but didn't speak.
Bai Yutang patted him on the shoulder vigorously: "Isn't it better now? The high priest is dead, and Jumang, a gift to please the Xia Kingdom, is in your hands again. The cat just cleared the enemy camp. Get out all night. You have made great contributions, why don't you see a smile?"
Zhan Zhao shook his head and said, "The Miao Village has no leader now, so people must be in turmoil. If you are from Xixia, do you want to take advantage of the opportunity to enter, or leave on your own initiative."
Bai Yutang patted the side of his neck lightly, crushing a mosquito to death, and said disdainfully: "Whatever, I don't have time to wait for him to elect a leader. Do you have any brothers or uncles?" The last sentence was to ask the girl.Seeing Gou Mang, he nodded, scratched his neck and said to Zhan Zhao, "How? The position of leader is inherited by blood relatives, why bother you and me outsiders to intervene."
"Even so, we have to wait..." Before Zhan Zhao finished speaking, seeing Bai Yutang's body leaning, he quickly supported him and asked, "What's wrong?"
Bai Yutang closed his eyes to drive away the dizziness, and casually said, "The busy cat is tired. Lack of food and sleep, what else can I do?"
Gou Mang followed at the side, turned around and ran into the house after listening.Not long after, he came out with rice cakes in a bamboo tube, and distributed them to the two of them, saying, "Are you hungry? Eat quickly."
Bai Yutang patted her on the head and took it over, and said with a smile, "The girl is so clever. Anyway, if you don't want to stay here, you can go with me tomorrow." Seeing that Zhan Zhao didn't move, he threw out a sentence, "Picky eater cat, fainted from hunger." Let's see if you eat or not." He picked up the rice cake in his hand and opened his mouth to bite.
Zhan Zhao stared at the clear scratch marks on his neck, feeling increasingly uneasy.When he was about to speak, Bai Yutang was already choked up, and he bent over and clenched his hands in front of his chest, it was very hard.
Seeing this, Gou Mang hurriedly picked up the bamboo tube containing water and brought it to his mouth.Bai Yutang wanted to answer but didn't answer, so he stretched out his hand and pushed away, and spat it out forcefully.
When the bamboo tube fell to the ground, Zhan Zhao grabbed him and sat down, calling in a low voice, "Brother Bai, how are you?"
As soon as Bai Yutang opened his eyes, he immediately frowned and leaned forward.Zhan Zhao subconsciously raised his hand to pick it up, staring blankly at the blood gushing out of his mouth, splashing on his palm continuously.
Bai Yutang was so dizzy that he had no strength at all, his consciousness was like water on a hill, scattered irretrievably, and kept falling.Trying to take a few breaths, he said with a smile: "Mao'er, I suddenly feel that if I leave like this, it will be very good."
He actually knew he was not good.Zhan Zhao's heart sank, he raised his sleeve to wipe away the blood on his mouth, and said decisively: "Don't talk nonsense. How dare you go without my nodding."
Bai Yutang was really tired of bickering, so he closed his eyes and leaned into his arms and said, "You don't need to guess, I already figured it out. I killed that priest just now, and his blood was splashed on his neck, and the mosquito bit and scratched his skin. The old man must also be poisonous in the blood, if it seeps in, he will harm the father even if he dies. Then..." Before he finished speaking, he turned his head and vomited blood, gasping for breath.
Zhan Zhao hurriedly pressed his chest to give him air, calling his name: "Bai Yutang, don't sleep. Hold on, you're fine." Turning around, he called the girl again: "Jumang, come help me."
Jumang stumbled over and stopped in front of them.Touching Bai Yutang's long drooping eyelashes with the back of his hand, he looked up at Zhan Zhao: "He said he would take me away."
Zhan Zhao's face facing the moonlight was pale.He took two deep breaths and said, "He will." He supported Bai Yutang and leaned on his shoulder, pinching the carotid artery with his fingers: "He has been poisoned by the high priest. Jumang, think about it seriously, tell me how to untie it." .”
Gou Mang also took a breath, thinking to speak out slowly according to his words: "He can solve the high priest's Gu by himself. He is dead, use my blood."
When she said that, the girl bit her wrist and squeezed her chin to make Bai Yutang open her mouth, and leaned closer to drip blood into it.Zhan Zhao let her do it, and couldn't say a word to stop her.Jumang glanced at him, then turned back and said, "Are you hot? You're sweating so much."
Hearing the girl's steady voice, Zhan Zhao heaved a sigh of relief, and asked, "Gumang, are you okay?" Hypocritical, he scolded himself at the same time.Fingernails dig into palm lightly.
Gou Mang shook his head, retracted his hand to caress his wrist and said, "Enough. If there is more, he will be poisoned."
Zhan Zhao remained silent, lowered his head and tore off a piece of his clothes to wrap around her hands, and said solemnly, "Thank you."
Gou Mang smiled and rolled his eyes: "It's not good yet. The high priest put the medicine on the altar, and he has to take it for him to eat."
Looking down, Bai Yutang frowned slightly, closing his eyes, not sure if he was fainting or sleeping.Zhan Zhao carried him into the room and placed him on the couch.Turning around to go, I pulled my wrist, only to realize that he was holding it in his palm.Like holding the heaviest oath in this life, even if you are unconscious, you never thought of letting go.
He held on so tightly.Zhan Zhao took a twitch but couldn't pull it out, staring blankly at the person on the bed whose life or death was uncertain.Bai Yutang seemed to be conscious, he gave a low unease, and folded his other hand up.
The stagnant emotions in my heart, like the sky falling and the earth falling, all choose to surge at this moment.Such sudden violence made Zhan Zhao suddenly curl up.She covered her heart with trembling hands, unable to breathe due to the pain.