Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

a pit.

A huge hole.

Not even a candle could illuminate the pit opposite.

Ji Wuyan squatted on the ground, holding the candle in front of him. He looked at the pit in front of him, which was large enough, and his heart was pounding with fear. Numerous bones were piled randomly in the pit. The walls of the pit illuminated by candlelight were different shades of brown. It's the color left after the blood dries up. It's darker, probably the effect of covering it layer by layer...

This is actually a mass grave!
Li Yuqi built a mass grave under his study!

What...what does he want to do?Judging from the number of bones in front of him...how many people did he kill...and what did he use to kill these people?Ji Wuyan squatted on the edge of the mass grave, looking at the tragic scene at his feet, and felt cold all over his body.She once thought that Li Yuqi was just too ambitious. Who among the heirs of the royal family didn't have ambitions?Who has not coveted that high position?From Li Yuqi's point of view, this is actually understandable...

But it wasn't until this moment that she realized she was wrong.

Wrong.

In the almost dead space, any movement will be infinitely amplified. Just now, I was too shocked and stunned to pay attention, but now I finally heard what seemed to be rustling sounds around me, resounding from all directions.Ji Wuyan looked around. The candlelight range was limited, so she saw nothing, so she got up and walked along the edge of the pit.

After walking a few steps, I saw the wall. At the corner of the wall were several half-person-high jars, sealed with black satin. There was a strange charm on the black cloth, and the sound came from there.

A rustling sound that makes one's scalp tingle.

"Plop, plop"...

His heart was beating violently, but his breathing was suppressed. The cold feeling ran from the soles of his feet straight up his spine, and then straight to his forehead.Ji Wuyan gritted his teeth and stared at the big jars, as if he had spent his whole life.

She didn't even notice it herself. She didn't know when she raised her hand and pressed her chest tightly... There was the bracelet she just picked up. Even if she didn't want to confirm it, she subconsciously believed that it was Shangguan. Kite smashed the bracelet she passed.She pressed that spot, and the drum-like heartbeat she felt seemed to come from another person.

The Ji family comes from Mobei. A centuries-old family, there are always some old, dark, and decayed things that are unknown and may not be suitable for exposure to the sun.

My grandmother once said that if she had not wanted to get rid of these filthy and rotten things that were tightly controlled by the elders of the clan, she would not have gone to great lengths to move the Ji family to the south of the Yangtze River. She wanted to give the Ji family a new future, but A family that has been established for hundreds of years has too deep roots. If those old customs that have been believed in for generations or are just habits are destroyed in one go, it will be tantamount to a disaster for the entire Ji family.

The Ji family's secret technique is the poison that has penetrated into the bone marrow of the Ji family.Grandma said that the others could still figure it out, but this poison could not be removed without scraping the bones and treating the poison.

Ji Wuyan was born and grew up in Jiangnan. The Ji family she recognized was the villa in Yunzhou, the harmonious family, the high sky and the free earth, where even breathing was gentle and beautiful.The ancient, decayed Ji family that her grandmother spoke of seemed particularly unreal to her because it was too far away.But the Ji family's secret skills... She also inquired about some of them out of curiosity.

It was a secret technique of using people to raise poison, which was even crazier and more cruel than that group of lunatics from the Chen family who used people to test medicine.

They would make people into human pigs, place them in porcelain bottles half as tall as a person, and feed them with medicine every day. There were no physical records of those medicines, but they were passed down orally from generation to generation of elders. None of the successive family heads were qualified to know. secrets.After feeding like this for 49 days, it will be considered a success if the person can avoid death and shrink his bones.After such "success", they would put the eggs into the jar together, seal the hole with mud mixed with black dog blood, tie it with black cloth and put a spell on it to suppress it.

When the larvae hatch, gnaw on the bones and blood to grow, and then kill each other due to hunger, what is left in the end... is the "useful" Gu in the true sense.

"Suppression..." When Ji Wuyan heard this, he thought it was ridiculous, "Even they knew they had to suppress it. It shows that these elders also knew that these were evil things, but they still inherited them from generation to generation... …It’s really ridiculous.”

At that time, my grandmother lowered her eyebrows and smiled, as if she was relieved, but also breathed a sigh of relief. After a long while, she murmured, "In the future... there will be no more. In this way, I can safely leave this big Ji family to my little one." Ning'er."

Ji Wuyan didn't know how many Gu the Ji family had cultivated, let alone how many lives these Gu had cost. Even her grandmother probably didn't know the real answers to these questions.My grandmother was originally a saint of the Ji family, but she eventually became the head of the Ji family. She never mentioned the twists and turns and difficulties, only saying that since she took office, the Ji family has no elders.

Naturally, there is no such cruel and vicious method of raising voodoo.

"What about those elders, are they dead?" she asked her grandmother.

"After all, it's the elders who watched me grow up. It's not their fault that they stick to those old and decadent family rules... I just found a place to escape from the world and let them live there. In this way, the method of refining Gu Naturally, they won’t leak out. Now...many of them have passed away..."

just now...

Ji Wuyan looked at the several half-human jars in front of him, and the rustling sounds of insects in his ears. The sounds came from different directions. There must be many such things in the darkness that was not illuminated by candles. jars, and what was thrown under the mass grave was probably a failure.

She suddenly shuddered... Is this the Ji family's poison-raising technique?How did those prescriptions passed down by word of mouth from the elders who could not leave the Ji family or even leave the house for the rest of their lives to keep the secrets spread to Yanjing City thousands of miles away and into the East Palace?
The man in black robe... Lin Yi?
Or maybe my grandmother was kind-hearted and didn't want to kill them all, but in the end she let one of them slip out and come all the way to Yanjing City, where she met Li Yuqi, or Lin Yi... No matter what the case was, this matter and the Ji family They are all inseparable and must be stopped as soon as possible.

There are too many mysteries that need to be solved urgently. There will be no other gains if you stay here any longer. It is better to leave early and write a letter later to ask your grandmother.Ji Wuyan looked back at the jars again, held the candle and turned to leave. However, he was shocked to find at the top of the stairs that the hole that was open just now... was closed.

She raised her hand and pushed it, but it didn't move at all.