True and False Daughters Joined Forces [Metaphysics]

Hui Xin: "The miasma surrounds the entire basin. The poor monk went to inspect it and found that no matter where the miasma is the same, there is no place where the miasma is the most concentrated, and the source of the miasma has not been found."

This is really bad news.

Today, the green miasma covered more than half of the top of the basin and close to two-thirds of the area. As long as you entered the semi-finals of Gu Zhuang, you would breathe poisonous miasma.

If they don't find the source of the miasma, they have to keep running their vitality, and if they don't find the source to solve the problem until the vitality is exhausted, they will inhale the miasma into the body and cause poisoning.

It would be a fool's errand to ask them to turn around when they encountered a problem just after reaching the Gu village.

Hui Xin: "The people of Gu Zhuang are only able to survive in this poisonous miasma because the Gu worms planted in their bodies are poisonous, and the human body has developed a certain degree of resistance to toxicity over the years. The reason why you have to use Gu, otherwise you will not die under Gu, but also under the poison of miasma."

If you don't get Gu, you will die, and if you get Gu, there is a high possibility of dying. The people of Gu Village are completely betting on the chance of survival.

Xiao Cheng couldn't figure it out: "Why didn't they leave here?"

According to normal people's thinking, since a place is poisonous, it is necessary to stay with such extreme and extremely high mortality means, why not leave this place and live in a safer place?

This is also a question that others have.

Hui Xin: "The poor monk wants them to leave this poisonous area, but they have lived here for too long, and it is difficult to leave their homeland. It will be difficult to convince them to leave."

Many people have had a similar experience: if you live in a place for a long time, and you are familiar and satisfied with everything around you, the place will become your comfort zone and you will not want to leave.

When your comfort zone is your hometown, it's even harder to leave.

Furthermore, there are so many liars in today's society, and the people of Gu Zhuang may not necessarily believe in Hui Xin, and maybe they will treat him as a bad guy who cheats people out to work and then pushes them into the sea.

It's definitely not enough for them to just stand here and listen to Hui Xin's story about Gu Zhuang. They must go in and get more information from the villagers.

If they can successfully persuade them to leave their hometown and live in a safer place outside, maybe they will win the semifinals?

Of course, that is, just thinking about it in my heart, thinking with my toes and knowing that the semi-finals of the Xuanmen Grand Competition cannot be won so easily.

Uphill is difficult, downhill is easy.

Everyone brought their luggage and followed behind Hui Xin, heading towards the place shrouded in green miasma.

When they reached the ground, Su Yunshao looked up subconsciously, and was surprised to find the difference.

When you look down from the top of the mountain, you will feel that the entire basin is surrounded by a green curtain, but when you come in and look up from the bottom, you will find that the sky is still blue and the clouds are still white, as if there is nothing on it, only The surrounding air was filled with a pale green miasma.

Su Yunshao was walking in the middle, when she suddenly stopped looking up at the sky, and also made the people behind her glance at the sky, and she couldn't walk anymore.

The people in front noticed something was wrong, and after a look, everyone stopped in place.

Hui Xin frowned: "The poor monk didn't go to the mountain when he came last time. I don't know that the scene seen from top to bottom and from bottom to top are different."

Will it be an enchantment? Everyone began to show their magic.

Xiao Cheng's yin and yang eyes couldn't see anything, he touched his chin and fell into contemplation.

Dong Jianbai took out a talisman, and Qu Wuhua was still the fan. The two of them tried one to the ground and the other to the sky, trying to see if the attack would cause the barrier to rebound.

It's a pity that neither the fire talisman thrown to the ground nor the astral wind blowing into the sky caused the enchantment to rebound.

Luo Xunlu took out a formation plate, pinched his hands, read the formula, and shook his head: "There is no enchantment."

If Gu Zhuang had an enchantment, Hui Xin should have found it when he came in and out last time. He didn't find it, Su Yunshao didn't find it, and no one else tried it, so there should be no enchantment.

Unless this enchantment is already beyond their abilities.

Fang Youde and Feng Cheng sent their own ghost messengers respectively, and the ghost messengers wandered around and found that they were not affected.

That is to say, the miasma surrounding the Gu village only affects the living beings, because do the living beings have vitality?

Since the ghost envoys were not affected, Fang Youde and Feng Chengcheng sent them out with confidence.

Everyone followed behind Hui Xin and continued to Gu Zhuang.

Gu Zhuang sits from the north to the south, and their party came from the side, that is, from the west. This is a large piece of reclaimed land, where many sweet potatoes, cabbage, radishes, lettuce, spinach, etc. are grown, and there are golden continuous rice fields in the distance. with river ponds.

These things planted in Zhuangzi are enough for the villagers to be self-sufficient and not to communicate with the outside world.

Su Yunshao bent over and tore a small cabbage leaf by the field, and raised his hand to put it in his mouth, but was stopped by Yun Xiao and Yun Ting, who suddenly jumped out of the way.

Yunxiao: "I'm coming!"

Yun Ting: "Leave it to me! It's not a good thing, don't eat it! What if you get poisoned?"

The two brothers came out too fast, Taoyao didn't have time to cover them with the illusion, and the two of them were naturally exposed to everyone's eyes.

Luo Xunlu: "Sister Yunshao, who are you?"

Now that he was discovered, Su Yunshao didn't intend to continue to hide it, and said generously: "Two little snakes and monsters I encountered by chance."

She didn't ask if she could bring goblins to the competition, what else could she do if she brought in all the goblins? The mobile phone has been taken away, can the organizer let her take the goblin out now?

Su Yunshao looked at Yunxiao Yunting who had eaten vegetable leaves: "How is it?"

Yunxiao: "There is a little toxin."

Yun Ting: "Yunyun, the things here may be poisonous, don't eat or touch them casually."

"Okay." Su Yunshao touched the heads of the two little ones, and the two of them no longer changed back to the appearance of bracelets, but turned into two little snakes, one silver, white and one gold, wrapped around her arms from left to right.

She carried three goblin cubs with her, and now only Taoyao, who was coiled in her hair, did not show a trace.

Knowing that she has a great responsibility, Taoyao calmly stood in front of a hairpin in her hair and did not dare to make a sound.

Suddenly, Su Yunshao noticed that a fiery gaze fell on her arm. To be precise, it fell on Yun Xiao and Yun Ting. Looking in the direction of the gaze, it was Dong Jianbai.

Dong Jianbai stared at Yun Xiao and Yun Ting, and said word by word, "You have a snake."

Su Yunshao: ?

"If the host is afraid of snakes, I can stay away from you." Then he stepped back.

"No." Dong Jianbai shook his head violently, took a big step forward, and narrowed the distance between the two. The man who was too cold to talk to anyone before suddenly revealed his own feelings. true nature.

"I also keep snakes, we are snake friends."

Snake friend Su Yunshao: ? ? ?

"Friend Dongdao, I think the snake friend you know may not be the same as me."

Ordinary people keep some pet snakes when they keep snakes. If they are not afraid of dying, they keep poisonous snakes, but what she keeps is a snake demon who can talk and become a human after cultivation.

"It's the same." Dong Jianbai opened his mouth, a tall man of about 1.9 meters tall, scratching his head in confusion, as if he didn't know what to say.

This kind of silly action suddenly pulled him down from the throne of the handsome guy with a cold and paralyzed face, becoming very close to the people and down-to-earth.

From it, Su Yunshao interprets the characteristics of this person's stupid mouth, which is completely different from the cool and handsome black-skinned guy in appearance, and the contrast is too cute.

Dong Jianbai finally thought of what to say: "They are all snakes. Most people fear snakes because of their appearance and characteristics. You don't, you are a snake friend."

Su Yunshao: "..." OK.

The existence of Yun Xiao and Yun Ting suddenly pulled Dong Jianbai's favorability from zero to full, which was something Su Yunshao didn't expect.

Yunxiao Yunting is even more stunned. How could the brothers think that there are people in this world who like snakes so much that they have a good impression on the owner of the snake?

Although Su Yunshao does not admit that he is the master of their brothers, but in the eyes of others, isn't that the identity of the two of them?

"Fellow Daoist Su, where did you meet the snake monster?" Dong Jianbai's eyes shone brightly, and it seemed that as soon as Su Yunshao said the location, he was about to run to the snake monster.

Su Yunshao didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "It's really luck. I've never met one in the deep mountains and old forests where no one goes. Daoist Huixin has also been to the deep mountains and old forests many times, but he has never met them."

So it's really all luck, you don't always think about encountering snake monsters.

Hui Xin nodded and confirmed, "No."

However, he did encounter a lemon essence that was so sour that he cried.

Dong Jianbai looked a little regretful, "I'll try it."

Su Yunshao thought that he had already met so many fairies. Maybe Dong Jianbai could really meet his favorite snake demon, so he stopped persuading him.

Because of this, Dong Jianbai consciously walked to Su Yunshao's side, as if planning to protect her, as if he wanted to get closer to Yun Xiao and Yun Ting.

This behavior of his accidentally and naturally pushed Luo Xunlu out of Su Yunshao's side, making her wonder for a while whether Dong Jianbai did it on purpose.

Luo Xunlu, who was squeezed out, had no complaints. She was still a little afraid of snakes.

The group didn't go far before they met the people from Gu Zhuang.

Men and women were all holding scythes and hoes, wearing straw hats, and carrying sacks on their backs, as if they were going to work in the fields, with little ones behind them.

"Master Huixin, why are you here again so soon?" A young man ran over barefoot, "Didn't you say there is something urgent to do?"

Hui Xin also knew him: "Tie Shu, what are you going to do?"

"I..." Just as he was about to answer, Tieshu caught a glimpse of Qu Wuhua, who was exquisite in appearance, and Guo Wanqing, who was dressed in cool clothes. His whole face was flushed, and he quickly lowered his head and didn't dare to look any more, and stuttered when he spoke.

"Cut the rice."

"Brother is stupid!" A little girl who looked like four or five years old ran over, grimacing at Tieshu and sticking out her tongue, "It's cutting rice, not cutting rice."

Being pierced by his sister in front of so many outsiders, Tieshu shrank his neck and was so ashamed that his ears were almost bleeding.

In the outside world, I have seen a lot of scumbags who casually flirt with casual appointments. How can Guo Wanqing and Qu Wuhua ever see such a pure man? He burst out laughing.

Iron Tree: ! !

He was so embarrassed that his hands and feet curled up. If there was a hole in the ground, he would jump in without hesitation and bury himself.

Hui Xin kindly helped out the siege: "The poor monk brought his friends here, I don't know that the donor's house can't live with so many people?"

Tieshu looked up and counted, there were nine in total.

"There are at most four in our family, and the others may go to other places to stay overnight."

Huixin folded her hands together and said, "Then I will trouble the donor."

Because of the poisonous miasma wafting everywhere, Gu Zhuang has not been here for a long time. Huixin, who came here not long ago, has something to do. The villagers thought he would never come back. After all, who wants to go to a poisonous place?

Unexpectedly, he came back and brought other people as guests.

The villagers were not busy going out to work, and they all wanted to bring people to their homes, and the hospitality was also surprising to them.

In the end, Huixin stayed at Tieshu's house, and the others were divided into four families around Tieshu's house.

In this way, if there is something, the nine people who live close together can also take care of each other.

There were four women and five men in their party. Except for Huixin, the others were all one woman and one man living in one family.

Guo Wanqing and Fang Youde are in a group, Qu Wuhua and Dong Jianbai are in a group, Su Yunshao and Xiao Cheng are in a group, Luo Xunlu and Feng Cheng are in a group.

Just after the group was divided, Dong Jianbai found Xiao Cheng in front of everyone and asked earnestly, "Friend Xiao, can I change with you?"

Qu Wuhua's face was not very good, she felt that she was disliked, but the reason for being disliked was very speechless: two snakes.

Everyone can see that after Su Yunshao's two little snakes and demons came out, Dong Jianbai's attitude changed drastically. At this time, he wanted to live in the same family with Su Yunshao, naturally only because he wanted to be closer Ground contact with the two little snake demons.

Xiao Cheng didn't really care who he was with, but after thinking about Su Yunshao's ability and the weirdness of Gu Zhuang, he felt that it would be better for him to hug his thighs more.

"Sister Yunshao and I have known each other for a long time. I have something to talk about after a long time, so I'm sorry, my friend."

Dong Jianbai became lost visibly, looking at Yunxiao Yunting with reluctance, as if he was a man who was about to leave his daughter-in-law, so scared that Yunxiao Yunting slipped behind Su Yunshao and hid.

Humans who want to fight and kill when they see a snake are scary, and humans who want to get close to a snake when they see a snake are even more scary!

Qu Wuhua's face became even more stinky.

Even if there was a reason for the incident, she was rejected by two men one after another, and she didn't want to form a group with her, and she lost face.

The candidates for the group will remain unchanged, and the other eight people will go back with the people who want to stay overnight.

The family that Su Yunshao and Xiao Chengcheng arrived at was named Yang Zi, and the hostess was Wei Hong. The couple had elderly parents-in-law on top, and a long string of radish heads on the bottom. There were three men and two women.

There are five children in a family, each of which is not very old, and the oldest looks like only eight or nine years old.

The Yang family's family background seems to be very ordinary. The male host Yang Zi and the hostess Wei Hong are not at home. It is said that they went to work on the mountain after lunch.

The eldest child took out the quilts and mattresses that had not been used for a long time with his younger brothers and sisters to bask in the sun. A few radish heads were also busy pouring water and wiping the table. Su Yunshao and Xiao Cheng wanted to help, but they pushed them away. Say no, come back.

The father-in-law and mother-in-law looked at all this with a smile. When Su Yunshao was driven back, her mother-in-law asked kindly, "What is the girl's name? How old is this year? Have you got a partner? Are you married? Have you given birth to a baby?"

Su Yunshao, who was caught off guard by the forced marriage: "..."

The older generation has such a concept, and she doesn't care about the old man, she replied: "Grandma, my name is Su Yunshao, I am seventeen years old this year, don't worry."

The mother-in-law smiled and grabbed a handful of peanuts from the bamboo basket on the table and stuffed it into Su Yunshao's hand: "Girl eat, the peanuts grown at home, try it now, it's delicious!"

"You old lady, how can you favor one over another just because you like little girls?" Father-in-law grabbed a handful for Xiao Cheng and said with a smile, "What is the boy's name? I think you are very young, so you must be younger than the girl."

Xiao Cheng, who wore a head of slaying pink hair, replied politely, "Grandpa, my name is Xiao Cheng, and I am thirteen years old this year."

The father-in-law sighed: "Huo, that's really small."

The mother-in-law patted the father-in-law's hand: "It's not too young. Did you forget that you saw me when you were thirteen years old?"

Xiao Cheng, who almost felt that his ears were wrong:? ? ?

What does a thirteen-year-old look like? Is it the one he knew?

Hearing her mother-in-law's words, Su Yunshao felt that Gu Zhuang was probably still using some ancient feudal customs.

"Mother-in-law, are you two going to see each other so early?"

"That's right." The mother-in-law looked at Su Yunshao with a bit of pity. "Seventeen years old like you, you haven't looked at each other yet. We don't have anything here. At seventeen, you're a big girl, and you're going to get married and have a baby."

Seventeen-year-old underage girl Su Yunshao: "..."

"Mother-in-law, there are clear laws in the country now that women can't get married earlier than 20 years old, and men are 22 years old. Is it a little too early for you here?"

"What does that matter?" The mother-in-law laughed, revealing a mouthful of decayed teeth, "We don't need to get that certificate, as long as both parties are willing, we can marry a man and a daughter-in-law."

Su Yunshao: "…"

Xiao Cheng: "…"

Indeed, in the case of Gu Zhuang, there were relatively few in and out, so there should be no chance of getting a marriage certificate and a divorce certificate.

Even if the national law expressly stipulates, many places do not get a marriage certificate. Even if the two parties are married, they will not care about whether they have reached the legal age of marriage.

Su Yunshao changed the subject: "Mother-in-law, I see there are many children in your family."

"That's right," said the mother-in-law. "Girls will also eat more red dates, peanuts, longan, and lotus seeds in the future. If you eat a little more, you will be able to give birth to precious children earlier. The more children, the more blessings, and the abundance of children and grandchildren is a blessing. In our place, Any family without five or six children will be looked down upon."

After Su Yunshao and Xiao Cheng entered the Yang family, their mother-in-law didn't say a few words, and she never left the topic of marriage and childbirth.

For the two of them underage, such a topic is really suffocating.

Coincidentally, several other contestants who were staying overnight also encountered the same problem. Even Hui Xin, who had already escaped into the void, was persuaded by the elders of the Tie family to return to the secular world.

The father-in-law of the Tie family: "Master, you don't know what it's like to have a wife and children on a hot kang head. When you reach my age, you will regret that you didn't marry a wife and have a baby in the past. It's too late to see three generations and four generations living together!"

Mother-in-law of the Tie family: "Yes, Master, I think the four girls who came with you this time are all good-looking. Who do you have the best relationship with?"

wisdom:"……"

The nine contestants all used the excuse of wanting to hang out in the village to escape. When they met outside, they knew that they had encountered a similar situation when they saw the embarrassed face of the other party.

Su Yunshao glanced at Huixin, then glanced at it again, would you? The old lady here can't be so crazy, can it?

It's not that Huixin didn't see it, he just pretended not to. He didn't want to answer the question of whether he was forced to marry or have a baby as a monk.

"Let's check it out."

The fact that the two of them were assigned to a family for the night did not mean that the two would act together.

As soon as Hui Xin's voice fell, the group dispersed, and only Su Yunshao, Hui Xin and Xiao Cheng who wanted to hug their thighs were left behind.

Dong Jianbai had walked a long way. Looking back, Su Yunshao and Yunxiao Yunting were still in place and walked back.

At this time, Su Yunshao was asking Huixin, "Fellow Daoist Huixin, why are there so many feudal customs in Gu Zhuang?"

Seeing each other at the age of thirteen, many children and grandchildren are the blessings that no one can ask for, and the family will have at least six or seven births... If you say it, you can scare people to death.

It's not good for them to stay outside the houses of the villagers and talk about it, so they talk as they go.

Huixin explained: "The mortality rate of children here is too high. Almost every two children are born, one will die. If you don't get married and have children sooner, you won't have many children. There won't be so many people in the village."

With that said, is it good for the Yang family to have five children?

Su Yunshao was not sure if the Yang family was an exception or what, "The family that Xiao Cheng and I borrowed from have five children, are they all biological?"

Hui Xin: "Yang Zi married a wife earlier, gave birth to four children, three did not keep, and later married the current Wei Hong, gave birth to six and kept four, for a total of five children."

The frequency of this pregnancy and childbirth is staggeringly high.

Su Yunshao frowned: "Women consume a lot of body and vitality when they have one child. If they have so many children, won't they break down their bodies? Scientific research shows that the first-born children have the best physical fitness."

The strange thing is that the little radishes of the Yang family don't look like they are in bad health. The Yang family's father-in-law and mother-in-law are quite old, and their bodies are also very tough.

Hui Xin said solemnly, "It's a Gu."