Chapter 159： Blood relatives (one more)

Chapter 159 Blood relatives (one more)

In those days in his previous life, Gu Yanfei hardly stayed at home, so he didn't know much about some things in the capital.

She only knew that first the eldest grandson of the Marquis of Anding's mansion died suddenly, with blood from his nose and mouth, followed by the young son of the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, and then the two girls from the Shaoqing family of Taichang Temple...

First children, and later even adults were infected, and more and more people died, including noble courtiers and ordinary people.

In the beginning, only three or four people died a day. Later, hundreds of people died almost every day. The government announced that it was a plague, so everyone should try not to go out, so as not to infect each other.

During that time, the capital was shrouded in fear of death, fearing that it would be his turn next.

At that time, the government drove all those infected with the plague out of the city, encircled a village and guarded it by officers and soldiers, and left them to fend for themselves. It was Princess Kang, Gu Yuncong, who went to the Plague Village to eat and live with those sick people regardless of her safety, and turned the tide to quell the plague that could kill tens of thousands of people.

Countless people in the capital were grateful for the kindness of Princess Kang, and they all spontaneously ran to the gate of King Kang's mansion to kowtow to her. There was a sea of ​​people, and many people even offered her the tablet of longevity.

These things are all things Gu Yanfei heard and pieced together from the chats of the maids and old ladies in the Hou Mansion in his previous life.

Turn the tide? Gu Yanfei's lips curled into a faint smile, and his eyes fell on the dense snowflakes outside the window.

There is almost no spiritual energy in this small world, and it is impossible for Old Madam Murong to be refined.

When a mortal dies, he is dead. When the corpse is corrupted, corpse poison will be produced. The longer the time is, the more poisonous the corpse poison will be in the body.

And Mrs. Murong was different from ordinary dead people, her corpse poison was even stronger.

It was summer, and there were many flies and mosquitoes.

Children are weak and are most likely to be infected by corpse poison, and the poison is also the fastest, so it is the children who die at the beginning. The reaction of adults after being poisoned by corpse poison will be one or two days slower than that of children. After three or four days, those who have been poisoned by the corpse will die one after another...

"Huh?" Gu Yanfei paused while stroking his chin, and blinked.

There are countless light spots in the dense snowflakes outside, like a dazzling galaxy pouring down from the night sky, and like a fairy in the cloud spilling a treasure...

Thousands of light spots came towards her from all directions, reflecting the radiance in the courtyard.

is merit.

Gu Yanfei's eyes suddenly brightened like stars, like a cat stealing fish, proud and contented.

She avoided a catastrophe that would kill thousands of people, which is the merit given back to her by Heaven.

Well.

The way of heaven in this small world is not very pleasing, but it is quite generous.

Thousands of firefly-like light spots quickly gathered around Gu Yanfei and submerged in her body, moisturizing the internal organs and dredging the meridians of the whole body, making her feel refreshed.

Gu Yanfei blinked and immediately felt the gain this time.

Her eyes were clearer, and she could even clearly see every petal of a red plum in the snow.

The merits of this thing really work better than any magic medicine!

"What?" Gu Yuan looked out the window suspiciously, thinking that there was something going on in the courtyard, "What are you looking at?"

Gu Yanfei was still savoring the changes in his body, but he came back to his senses after a beat, and said with a smile, "I'm looking at the cat."

Gu Yuan didn't see any cats in the courtyard at all.

"Meow!"

The next moment, I heard a familiar cat meow from the other side of the blue brick wall.

A ball of fur jumped up the wall, light and steady, and the Sanhua cat who had been out for a long time was finally willing to come back.

It looked more energetic than before going out, and the long hair on its whole body was more fluffy and shiny, as if it had suddenly grown a circle.

This time she got merit, and so did the cat.

However, the cat didn't seem to be in a good mood. He lowered his head and sniffed the long hair on his body. The round cat's face was wrinkled, showing an expression of disgust and disgust.

The cat subconsciously sticks out his tongue to lick his fur, and then pauses as if thinking of something, the pink tongue is half exposed.

It...it's dirty and smelly!

A layer of snow had accumulated on the top of the wall and on the ground, and the cat jumped into the snowdrift, rolled and covered with snow.

Gu Yanfei looked at the "icing cat", couldn't help but hooked his lips and smiled happily.

Gu Yuan saw that Gu Yanfei was very happy to see the cat, so he also laughed, his eyes soft.

Having such a kitten can make my sister smile, too!

Gu Yuan jokingly said, "Sister, your cat is genuine leather."

Although Gu Yanfei also thinks her cat is very skinny, but today she feels that Qingguang is so innocent.

Murong's house really stinks!

Thinking about it, Gu Yanfei sighed, "How pitiful!"

"The dead are forced to stay in the world, and what is lost is the soul... and the merits of the past."

Old Madam Murong's soul has been damaged, and she will be reborn in the animal realm in the next life. It will take at least a few reincarnations to replenish her soul little by little and be reborn as a human being.

Everything in this world has a price.

The same is true for the Murong family and Shangqing people.

Gu Yuan could vaguely hear Gu Yanfei saying that Old Madam Murong was pitiful, and was noncommittal.

"Qingguang, you're back, I've been looking for you for a long time!" Juan Bi trotted over from a certain direction, happily picked up the cat in the snow, and exclaimed, "Why do you stink? ?"

"Qingguang, let me wash it for you. After you wash it, use a smoker to dry your hair, and you'll be fragrant again!"

Kuanbi hugged the cat tenderly and kept talking to please, but he couldn't get a little response from the cat.

The word "stinky" she just said has already made the cat autistic.

Sanhua cat closed its eyes and lay like a corpse in Juanbi's arms.

The man and the cat quickly left, leaving only the large and small footprints left by the man and the cat in the snow.

The courtyard became empty again, only the wind and snow remained.

Gu Yanfei looked in the direction of Murong Mansion for a while, then turned to look in the direction of the ancestral hall, and said, "Once the soul is damaged, it has to be nourished for a long time."

After a pause, Gu Yanfei's calm tone was stained with a hint of sentimentality: "So is our grandmother."

"As a stand-in, she should have lost her soul, but now she was lucky enough to save a little of her soul."

"But only a trace."

Stand-in...

Even though Gu Yuan already had some guesses in his heart, hearing Gu Yanfei say this at this moment was a bit unbelievable.

Their grandmother turned out to be Mrs. Gu's stand-in!

The events of the past few years since his father's death flashed across his mind in an instant, and Gu Yuan's eyes were like a stormy wave.

He took a deep breath, clenched the armrest of the armchair with one hand, and regained his composure. Then he asked clearly, "Sister, what is a 'substitute'?"

The few words that Gu Yanfei said when he was in the ancestral hall were mostly for Mrs. Gu Tai, the client.

Gu Yuan barely guessed four or five points.

"Substitutes and Chongxi are both Taoist means of borrowing luck." Gu Yanfei's indifferent voice could not hear happiness or anger, "If someone has many disasters and difficulties, they can find blood relatives who are compatible with each other, and replace them with one life for another. ."

"Our biological grandmother is Mrs. Tai's stand-in and her blood relative."

Hearing this, Gu Yuan's eyes became deeper and deeper, gradually calmed down, and speculated: "Sister, is our grandmother's surname also Qi?"

Gu Yanfei nodded affirmatively, and gently fiddled with the compass she put on the desk.

The room was silent for a moment, and large flakes of snowflakes were blown in by the bleak cold wind from the window.

Gu Yanfei looked down at the little snowflakes on the desk and turned into crystal water droplets, remembering the stories about her grandfather that Gu Yunzhen told her in the ancestral hall last night: After her father was born, her grandfather became seriously ill. After that, he and Mrs. Tai relationship is not good.

Come to think of it, the grandmother of her and her brother died at that time.

What happened thirty years ago? !

Gu Yanfei's heart tightened slightly, and ripples swayed in the lake in his heart, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Obviously, she has been in the Yaoling World for two hundred years, and she has seen enough grudges and hatreds, joys and sorrows, no matter how tragic, bizarre, and horrifying stories, she has experienced them all, but in the face of her own life-related stories. Still can't keep calm.

After being silent for a while, Gu Yanfei's mood returned to calm, and then he continued: "The 'substitute talisman' is drawn with the blood of the substitute, logically speaking, it should not be able to leave the master, but now it is placed in the grandfather's tablet, To be worshipped by the incense of the descendants of the Gu family."

"This is probably what my grandfather did."

More than 30 years have passed, the personnel are completely different, the dead are dead, and the many details are probably known only by Mrs. Tai.

However, the events of that year are not without a little clue.

"I will always know." Gu Yuan raised his hand and rubbed the top of Gu Yanfei's soft hair, hooked his lips into a smile, and the gentle smile melted the frost between his eyebrows, "There is me!"

His voice beyond words is, you are a sister, what are you worrying about!

Gu Yanfei also smiled, with a bit of pride in his smile, and nodded solemnly:

"Well, there is a brother!"

She is not alone, she has a brother.

The two brothers and sisters looked at each other and smiled, with the same warm smile.

Gu Yuan did not comfort Gu Yanfei casually, he did have some clues in his heart.

After all, he knows much more about the Gu family's past than Gu Yanfei. His great-grandfather and grandfather should have been in Xizhou 37 or 8 years ago, and his grandfather was also married in Xizhou, so if he wants more clues, he must send People go to Xizhou.

There is also the Qi family. If their grandmother is really the blood relative of Mrs. Tai, is there really no one in the Qi family who knows her existence?

Not necessarily.

Since a person has existed, how can it be easily erased!

Gu Yanfei tilted his head with a smile, and said, "It's better for grandmother's soul to be warmed up in the ancestral hall first, and then when there is a chance..."

Halfway through his words, he stopped abruptly, Gu Yanfei's pupils shrank, and his eyes slightly widened.

Her deep eyes were fixed on Gu Yuan's heart.

"..." Gu Yuan raised his eyebrows.

"Brother, are you injured?" Gu Yanfei pointed at Gu Yuan's left chest.

Gu Yuan thought about it, and said casually: "I was just swept away by the whisk of the Shangqing, like a cat scratching, it's fine."

Gu Yanfei's eyes narrowed slightly.

This should be... a mark.

(end of this chapter)