Grandma's inquiry made Tang Jiuer's heart skip a beat, and her eyelashes trembled: "Eleven pairs."

  Her grandmother hummed discontentedly and stared at her, "Although my poison skills are not as good as yours, I'm not standing outside the door."

  Tang Jiuer felt a little guilty and hesitated for a moment: "Eighteen pairs."

  Grandma suddenly stood up with a "whoosh" sound, her excited voice trembling: "Really?"

  "It's true! Her innate talent is extremely pure. Among the fifty types of medicinal herbs, there are only twenty-one pairs of mutually restraining toxic substances, and she can intuitively grasp them all. I'm afraid she has already entered the top five among the Tang family's generations of innate talents."

  "Great! Too good!" Grandma Tang excitedly grabbed Tang Jiuer's hand, excited to the point of incoherence: "Teach her! You must teach her well! I finally can... 'Wu Jian Du Gong', right? It's 'Wu Jian Du Gong' that I want you to teach her..."

  "No way!" Tang Jiuer's face turned red with anger: "She only has talent but no foundation, can't be impatient for success!"

  "I'm not asking you to rush, but you can kill two birds with one stone!"

  Tang Jiuer was about to retort when her grandmother squeezed her hand tightly.

  "There are traitors among us, it's like a poisonous house that's being suppressed, I'm just afraid we can't keep it stable for too long."

  Tang Jiuer's eyebrows furrowed together: "You're in a hurry now?"

  Grandma gritted her teeth and nodded: "Right! I was in a hurry! So you have to do it this way!"

  Tang Jiuer looked down at her hand being tightly grasped and remained silent for a moment before forcefully pulling it back, "I know what I should do."

  ……

  Hua Rou finished sweeping the floor, feeling tired and lay down on the bed for a short nap. When she opened her eyes again, it was already dark outside, and she had missed the time when her master wanted her to go over. She quickly got up and rushed towards the main hall.

  She called out softly at the door, but no one answered. Cautiously, she pushed open the door and entered, only to see Tang Jiuer holding the small red box from that morning, lost in thought, completely unaware of her presence.

  "Master?"

  "Master?"

  Two loud shouts finally brought Tang Jiuer back to her senses, she closed the box but her eyes were slightly red.

  "Are you here?"

  "Hmm, I called out for you several times at the door but you didn't respond, so I had no choice but to come in and call out for you."

  Tang Jiuer raised her eyes and sized up Hua Rou, silently staring at her until Hua Rou felt a chill in her heart for no reason, not knowing what she was going to do.

  After a long time, Tang Jiuer finally spoke again: "What do you think is poison?"

  Hua Rou blinked her eyes and answered seriously: "Uh, something that harms people."

  Tang Jiuer's lips pursed slightly: "How much do you know about poison?"

  Hua Rou furrowed her brow and said, "Poison, it can kill people."

  "Then have you seen a dead person?"

  Hua Rong was stunned, and for a moment, the bodies of her parents, relatives, pillars, black-clad assassins, officials, and villagers all appeared before her eyes.

  In an instant, Hua Rou's face turned pale, her breathing became uncontrollably rapid - these scenes were the thorns in her heart, and also the wounds in her heart, they hurt, hurting her so much that her internal organs felt twisted together, as if she was being tortured.

  "Speak! Have you seen him?" Tang Jiuer asked sternly, without getting a response.

  Hua Rou shook her head softly: "No! I've never seen it before."

  Tang Jiuer heard this and a hint of disappointment flashed in her eyes. She stared at Hua Rou for a few seconds before lowering her eyebrows: "You can go back now."

  "Yes."

  Hua Rou quickly turned around and left, Tang Jiu'er looked at her hastily retreating back, her face displeased and her eyebrows furrowed even more.

  "How could you have never seen a dead person?" She whispered softly in her mouth: "The seal in your body won't open by itself..."

  Tang Jiuer's hand touched the red box again, and she slowly opened it.

  Inside the box was a belt, and in the middle of the embroidered flowers on the belt were two white mandara flowers nestled together, entwined with wisteria.

  ……

  Night, quiet, with only the howling of the wind under the cold wind.

  Hua Rou lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.

  Tang Jiuer's strange question left her heart aching and full of confusion.

  Why did Master ask if I had seen a dead person before?

  My relatives and the belt of the Soul Snatcher are the same, it seems that my family's relatives are related to the Tang Gate and the Soul Snatcher... But if so, why did they want to harm Mu Da Ge? And what really happened that day? Why did my mother tell me to stay away from Shu land and away from the Tang Gate?

  One question after another emerged, and Hua Rou was tossing and turning on the bed, burning with anxiety, while Mu Junwu also couldn't sleep. He sat on the edge of the bed, holding a porcelain bottle filled with medicinal pills, looking puzzled.

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