The Dark and Foolish King: The Fierce and Crazy Concubine Has Infinite Strength

After leaving the city, you can see endless mountains as far as the eye can see.

The dark green mountains, stacked one on top of the other, like the waves of the sea, stretch endlessly to the distant end of the sky and disappear into the misty depths.

The group walked on the winding mountain road for two hours before they saw the shadow of Bai Miao Village in the distance.

You can see that Bai Miao Village is surrounded by mountains on all sides, with one peak upon another. A Baishui River runs through the village, dividing the village into two.

Due to the limitation of arable land resources, the Miao people living here make full use of the local terrain features and build unique stilt houses halfway up the mountain.

Thousands of stilt houses are lined up along the undulating terrain, majestic and magnificent, forming the most unique Miao village scenery.

It is magnificent and beautiful, and it will seduce the eyes and the soul. If you have finished your work, you must have a good time here if you have the chance.

Xia Younan walked and thought, looking around.

Suddenly, she saw several figures moving in the forest not far away. They were crouching with their hands stretched out, their eyes fixed on a certain place, and their steps were light and slow, as if they were concentrating on catching something.

"What are those people doing?" Xia Younan pointed at those people and asked the question in his mind. Lu Xiuyuan and others also looked over and shook their heads in confusion.

"I'll go ask." Bai Yiyao became curious and ran towards the figures, lifting her skirt.

She ran over and talked to those people, then ran back and said to everyone, "Those are the apprentices of our village chief. They said that the village chief is developing a medicinal Gu that can cure terminal illnesses, and they need kissing bugs as the medicine. They are catching those bugs."

"Kissing bug?" Lu Xiuyuan couldn't help but frowned when he heard the name.

According to him, kissing bugs are one of the most poisonous insects in the world. They not only suck human blood, but also excrete highly toxic excrement into wounds. If not treated in time, the poisoned person will die.

Such a poisonous insect can actually cure terminal illnesses?

Finally, several people entered the village sweating profusely, and then Bai Yiyao led them straight to her home.

When we arrived at a very distinctive stilted building, we saw Bai Yiyao holding her hands to her mouth like a trumpet and shouting excitedly into the building: "Dad, Mom, I'm back!"

As soon as she finished speaking, a middle-aged couple poked their heads out of the building.

The couple was also wearing traditional Miao costumes. The man wore a royal blue long gown with left-side lapel, and a silk jacket of the same color on the outside. It was a loose-fitting, collarless, straight-fronted mid-length gown.

Women wore a light-colored right-fronted top with flowers and birds embroidered along the shoulders, cuffs and right edge of the front. They wore a silver apron and a black flowered pleated skirt. They wore a high bun on their heads and earrings.

"Yao'er, you still remember to come back?"

The couple laughed and cursed, but still couldn't wait to go downstairs and greet their baby daughter happily.

Bai Yiyao hugged his parents and exchanged greetings for a while, then introduced Lu Xiuyuan and others to them and explained the purpose of their visit.

The Miao people are naturally hospitable. When they heard that they were distinguished guests from the capital and friends of Bai Yiyao, they immediately invited them in with a smile on their faces, and Bai's father went to prepare food for them.

Lu Xiuyuan declined their kindness and asked Bai's father for information about insect poison at the border.

Father Bai thought about it and shook his head as expected, "I don't know either. From what you described, that kind of witchcraft is insidious, vicious and inhumane, and is despised by all of us Bai Miao people."

"Uncle, does anyone know who might know about this Gu? Please give me some advice." Lu Xiuyuan said dejectedly.

Father Bai said without hesitation: "No one in our Bai Miao Village knows about that method of harming people, but the village chief is knowledgeable and may have heard of it. Why don't you go ask him?"

Lu Xiuyuan agreed immediately, and Bai Yiyao acted as a tour guide without saying a word. Regardless of his parents' enthusiastic attempts to keep them, he happily took them to find the village chief.

Having nothing to do along the way, Lu Xiuyuan asked Bai Yiyao what kind of person their village leader was and whether he was good at witchcraft.

Bai Yiyao's face was full of pride when he mentioned his village chief. He kept telling them how superb the village chief's witchcraft was, how upright his character was, and how loved he was by the people living down the mountain.

Lu Xiuyuan nodded as he listened, thinking that things would be much easier this way.

"I'm so tired." After walking for a long time and still not reaching the destination, Xia Younan couldn't stand it anymore and rubbed his legs pitifully.

Hearing this, Lu Xiuyuan carried her on his back without saying a word, and comforted her with kind words, "Be good, it's my fault. I should have carried the lady on my back earlier."

Xia Younan lay limply on his back, turned his head and asked Bai Yiyao, "Xiaobai, where is the village master's home?"

"It's just ahead, we're almost there." Bai Yiyao replied with a smile on his face, but a hint of loneliness in his eyes.

The attentive Xia Younan noticed her loneliness and asked, "What's wrong with you? Are you worried?"

Bai Yiyao shook her head and sighed in disappointment: "I really envy you for being able to be with the person you love."

Xia Younan blinked, leaned over and gossiped, "Why, do you have someone you love but can't have?"

Bai Yiyao's eyes were red, she pursed her lips, lowered her head and said nothing, obviously what Xia Younan had said hit the nail on the head.

She said nothing, and Xia Younan didn't ask any more questions. She patted her shoulder and lay on her husband's back to rest comfortably.

After walking for a while, they finally arrived in front of an ancient and magnificent stilt house.

"Chief! Are you home?" Bai Yiyao shouted inside at the top of his voice.

After shouting for a while, no one responded. Just when they thought the village chief was not at home and were about to leave, they turned around and saw an old man with white beard and white hair walking towards them.

The old man was about sixty years old, with a square face, sharp eyebrows, hooked nose, and thick lips. Although he was a little thin, he was in good spirits.

He wore a gray-blue double-breasted short jacket, black trousers, a large printed belt, and a long green scarf on his head, a typical outfit of a Miao elder.

"Yao girl, you're back?" The old man asked with a smile as he walked towards Bai Yiyao, his face full of kindness.

"Chief, where have you been?" Bai Yiyao greeted him and walked over to support his arm.

The village chief Bai Ziweng said casually: "Nothing, just went around the village. They are..."

He looked at Lu Xiuyuan and others with a questioning look on his face.

Bai Yiyao hurriedly introduced everyone to him. Everyone greeted him, and then couldn't wait to tell him the purpose of their visit and asked him about the news of the poisonous insects at the border.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Bai Ziweng did not say he didn't know as everyone expected, but thought about it seriously and asked everyone to go into the house to talk.

Lu Xiuyuan was overjoyed and quickly thanked Bai Ziweng. He and his friends followed Bai Ziweng into the building.

Most of the interior furniture is made of bamboo, which is simple but unique.

Bai Ziweng asked everyone to sit down, asked the servant to pour them a cup of tea, then he took out his pipe, lit it, put it to his lips and started smoking.

His brows were furrowed and his expression was serious, as if what they asked had touched something in his heart.

"Master Bai?" Lu Xiuyuan called out anxiously.

Bai Ziweng exhaled a puff of white smoke and sighed, "Human skin Gu, I didn't expect him to use such a cruel Gu technique to harm living beings. It's really unfortunate for our sect!"

"Human skin Gu?"

Lu Xiuyuan and others exclaimed almost at the same time.

Hearing Bai Ziweng say this, it was clear that he not only knew the name of the Gu technique, but also knew who used it. In this way, they had great hope of finding a way to cure it!

"Village Master, human life is of vital importance to the fate of the country. Please tell us the origin and solution of the witchcraft as soon as possible. We will be grateful!"

Lu Xiuyuan said expectantly, and everyone else stared at Bai Ziweng closely, afraid of missing every punctuation mark he said next.

Bai Ziweng tapped the pipe in his hand, flicked the ash onto the ground, and said slowly: "It's useless even if I know the origin of that witchcraft. It was the method used by the Black Miao village leader. No one except him knows how to break it."

When they heard this, they felt as if a bucket of cold water was poured over them. But at least they had some news, which was better than being like a headless fly before.