At this time, a woman dressed in black came out and bowed respectfully to Su Wu. Then she stood up and said cautiously: "My husband's surname is Zhao, and he is the owner of this caravan.
My concubine’s surname is Wang, and her name is ‘Shoujie’…
If I have offended my benefactor in any way, please forgive me."
In the corner, Zhou Bo watched the proprietor's wife walking out and announcing her home to Su Wu. His eyebrows tightened. From time to time, his mind flashed back to the various scenes that occurred in his mind when he approached the proprietor's wife's carriage.
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He seemed to 'see' Mrs. Wang in the carriage at that time.
The 'Mrs. Wang' at that time made him feel cold, numb, and not like a living person.
But now that Mrs. Wang appeared alive in front of him, he was unsure about paying attention - his previous intuition seemed to be wrong now...
Mrs. Wang was standing here calmly. He was now suspected by other caravan brothers as someone with ulterior motives, but he could not stand up and express the extremely real feeling he had before. He could only suppress such doubts in his heart and stand silently.
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Su Wu looked at the caravan proprietor's wife who was dressed in black, shook her head and said, "It doesn't matter.
I came here today to settle one of my karma, and I just did it casually to save people. But you don’t have to take this matter to heart, you can just go your separate ways from now on."
When Mrs. Wang heard this, she stood where she was, not knowing what to say for a moment.
"Although the strong man did it casually, he actually saved our lives.
Please pay homage to Zhou!" Zhou Bo observed the situation on the field, took advantage of the moment to speak out, and saluted Su Wu again.
Su Wu looked at him with a slight smile on his face.
He nodded and said nothing.
Although he did not speak, his attitude towards Zhou Bo was slightly different from that towards Mrs. Wang. In the eyes of the caravan members who were accustomed to watching every move, Su Wu's attitude towards Zhou Bo was obviously different from that towards Mrs. Wang.
Madam should be more kind.
Everyone didn't know that all the experiences they had experienced before were "all seen" by Su Wu.
When Su Wu purchased weapons from the caravan merchant 'Chen Bing', he left a spell on Chen Bing's body so that he could keep an eye on the movements of this Han Chinese caravan.
Therefore, he was naturally aware of all the disputes and internal strife that occurred in this caravan.
Although Mrs. Wang is the nominal owner of the entire caravan, Su Wu is not pleased with her various actions in the caravan - he has experienced countless deaths and disasters, and it is almost "seeking good luck and avoiding evil".
It was his instinctive reaction.
By refusing to have contact with people like Mrs. Wang, Su Wu was 'avoiding evil'.
Su Wu admired Zhou Bo's various responses during the incident.
Apart from following the wrong owner and being restricted from all kinds of actions by Mrs. Wang, the other party's actions were remarkable and could be called brave and resourceful.
Zhou Bo raised his head slightly and saw a smile on Su Wu's face. He relaxed a little and was about to say a few more words to get closer to Su Wu when the woman in black standing silently on the spot - Mrs. Wang suddenly said:
: "My benefactor may not know that in the past when my husband was still alive, Zhou Bo and Zhou Guotou were already the Ma Guotou in the caravan.
He has traveled a lot between Sichuan, Sichuan, and Yunnan and Tibet, and he is also familiar with the Tibetan areas.
Now, if something happened to my husband on the way and his whereabouts are unknown, Zhou Guotou and my husband would join forces and pass through the secret area without any problems. Zhou Guotou learned the "Ghost Carrying Technique" from an immortal. That method
When applied, it can also scare away the evil spirits..."
Wang Shoujie had many kind words for Zhou Bo.
But when Zhou Boyen heard what he said, his heart sank.
The proprietor's wife actually had a metaphor behind her words, and what she said cannot be thought deeply.
For example, it is said that Zhou Bo and his husband join forces and can travel unimpeded in the secret realm.
However, after her husband disappeared, Zhou Bo led the entire caravan by himself, which suddenly caused many dangers. Is this because of Zhou Bo's incompetence? Or did Zhou Bo have ulterior motives and deliberately lead the caravan into dangerous areas?
"If I don't know anything, I can ask Zhou Bo in person.
You don't need to say anything more." Su Wu glanced at Wang Shouchie. The more he listened to his words, the more he felt that Mrs. Wang had ulterior motives. He directly interrupted Mrs. Wang's words and stopped the other party from continuing.
Wang Shoujie froze on the spot.
Previously, she only noticed that Su Wu seemed unwilling to contact her, but Su Wu's attitude now showed her that the other party was not unwilling to contact her, but simply disliked her!
She stayed where she was, panicked for a moment.
"I observe that there are traces of serious contamination on your body, and the traces on your body may be deep or shallow.
When your caravan stopped at a certain place to sell goods, I had some contact with a friend in your caravan. He said that the 'grass of life and death' can cure the 'buried in loess' syndrome.
Is this disease of being buried in loess related to the traces of serious contamination on your body?" Su Wu turned to Zhou Bo and asked Zhou Bo bluntly.
At this time, the crowd in the crowd kept looking towards Su Wu as Su Wu said these words. Chen Bing, who wanted to recognize Su Wu but was hesitant, finally showed excitement and couldn't help it. He opened his mouth and said: "Exactly, exactly!
Brother Su—Gong Su, I didn’t expect it was really you!
We meet again so soon!"
While Chen Bing was talking, he moved his position, squeezed through the crowd, and walked to Su Wu.
Su Wu looked at him and nodded with a smile.
He turned to Zhou Bo and said, "This brother Chen Bing is the one who sold me two knives at half price before."
Zhou Bo looked at Chen Bing behind him who nodded repeatedly, then looked at Su Wu, with a smile on his face, and replied: "My benefactor, do you still need swords, herbs, or cloth? If necessary, our caravan can supply them. And you won’t take any money from it!”
He brought Chen Bing to him, patted Chen Bing's shoulder hard, and said nothing.
After learning about the relationship between Su Wu and his caravan, Zhou Bo also realized - if it weren't for Chen Bing's friendship with selling knives at half price, I'm afraid Su Wu wouldn't have come to rescue him today!
Chen Bing exchanged the lives of all the caravan brothers for the price of a knife!
This transaction has been well worth it so far!
What's more, the deal is not over yet - Chen Bing's actions gave the caravan the opportunity to continue to contact Su Wu, who could easily suppress such a vicious and treacherous figure!
"There is no need for it for the time being." Su Wu smiled and shook his head, then said, "On the other hand, if you are trapped in this stone temple all the time and cannot find the 'grass of life and death', you will be infected by the strange things. I’m afraid it will continue to get worse.”
As soon as Su Wu said these words, it was like a bucket of cold water poured on the atmosphere that was gradually getting warmer.
When the caravan members heard his words, their hearts suddenly became heavy.
Some people looked up at the silent golden Buddha sitting on the lotus platform in the temple, and realized what kind of situation they were in.
"It's exactly what my benefactor said.
Only the 'Herb of Life and Death' can temporarily relieve the serious and evil infection in our bodies.
Such a serious infectious disease is prevalent in the famine-stricken areas of Sichuan and Sichuan, and is called 'Guanyin soil disease', also known as 'loess soil disease'." Zhou Bo nodded heavily and took off his shoes on the spot as he spoke.
socks, exposing the soles of his feet.
——Dried yellow mud shells completely covered Zhou Bo’s skin from his ankles to the soles of his feet.
The yellow mud shell was covered with cracks, and blood was constantly seeping out of the cracks.
"For people infected with this disease, their feet will first be buried in such loess, and the skin will gradually turn into a yellow mud shell. After that, the symptoms will continue to progress, and the loess will be buried from the ankles to the knees and thighs - until the whole person is covered with yellow mud.
When the loess is buried in soil, it will turn into mud on the spot and die!" Chen Bing then spoke to Su Wu. He also took off his shoes and socks to show Su Wu the progress of his "Guanyin Earth Disease", which was similar to Zhou Boxiang.
Su Wu observed the yellow mud shell on their feet and frowned slightly.
In fact, he had never seen any signs of serious contamination on the members of the caravan. As Zhou Bo said before, it was just because he had used the talisman hidden on Chen Bing's body to get a glimpse of the caravan's situation.
Now he saw with his own eyes the symptoms of the "Guanyin Earthly Disease" on the two of them, and he never sensed the presence of any weirdness at all!
But if it weren't for the invasion of severe evil spirits, why would a person's skin and flesh be turned into a loess shell layer by layer?!
"This disease is called 'Guanyin soil disease'. Could it be that during the famine years, the victims ate the layer of Guanyin soil on the statues of gods and Buddhas in the temples and contracted this disease?" Su Wu asked.
Zhou Bo, Chen Bing, and some other caravan members gathered around them all shook their heads when they heard this.
"Isn't that the case?" Su Wu looked up at the crowd and said with some surprise.
"Mr. Lang doesn't know something... We have never eaten that Guanyin soil, but we still contracted this strange disease..."
"It is said that this disease came from a village called 'Guanyinyan'. That village used to believe in Buddhism for generations, but then something unexpected happened and all the Buddha statues were pushed into the river near the village!"
"Since then, the river outside their village has gradually dried up, and the river connected to the river outside their village has also dried up!"
"After that there was a famine!"
"Some people may have contracted this 'Guanyin disease' because they ate the mud shells from the mud bodies in the temple. Some people just passed through disaster areas and contracted this strange disease!"
"We got infected out of nowhere..."
The members of the horse gang started talking about it.
Su Wu looked at Zhou Bo and nodded slightly to him: "Please elaborate."
Zhou Bo responded: "It is true that our caravan just passed through that disaster area and contracted this strange disease when we came out - but contracting this strange disease is not inexplicable and has no symptoms.
But I still remember that I was walking in that disaster-ridden area and passed through a path in the dense forest.
On that trail, our caravan got lost on the trail, which was less than five miles long.
At that time, the proprietor and his wife led a group of brothers to go into the dense forest. I couldn't persuade him no matter how hard I tried to persuade him. When I finally led the people out of the dense forest road, the carriage of the proprietor's wife and the proprietor led them.
Many brothers in the dense forest have already appeared outside the dense forest road.
Only the proprietor was missing.
Since then, these brothers have been infected with the "Guanyin Disease". Their disease progressed very quickly. They only lasted five or seven days before they began to die in large numbers...
Among those people, only the proprietor’s wife is still alive..."