The path Zhou Xiaoze and his grandfather are taking now cannot be considered a road at all. To be precise, there is no road here. Weeds are waist deep, and branches and vines are intertwined.
He and Ji Zhantian were burrowing forward in this deep mountain and dense forest. They couldn't walk for long, and their clothes were almost torn into pieces by thorns.
Zhou Xiaoze could feel that if he were abandoned here alone, he would not be able to distinguish between east, west and north at all and would definitely not be able to find his way back.
Ji Zhantian told him along the way that he had been to Yinmiao twice when he first married his grandma in his early years. Based on his memory, he should not go wrong.
Zhou Xiaoze asked Grandpa again why Yinmiao people don't like to interact with outsiders.
Ji Zhantian said that in the eyes of the Yinmiao people, people outside are treacherous and cunning, and dealing with them is like dealing with the devil.
It is said that very early on, they suffered great losses from outsiders, and the entire Yinmiao was almost wiped out. Therefore, the ancestors passed down the rules not to interact with outsiders.
Yinmiao people are upright and upright, and they never mince words when dealing with others. They are good at bewitching, and they only target people from the outside world, never bewitching their own people.
It can be said that the art of Gu is the body-imitation technique of the Yinmiao people, and it is also a skill for them to make a living.
Zhou Xiaoze couldn't help but asked his grandfather curiously: "Then you are not from Yinmiao, how come you married my grandma who was born and raised in Yinmiao?"
Cough cough cough... Unexpectedly, when Zhou Xiaoze asked Ji Zhantian such a question, Ji Zhantian's face turned red and he kept coughing.
He kept saying: "I can't talk about this, I can't talk about this, it's too embarrassing, it's embarrassing to say it!"
Looking at his grandfather's embarrassed look, Zhou Xiaoze smiled and said: "There are no outsiders here. You are the only precious grandson. Is there anything you can't say?"
"Does grandpa still treat me as an outsider?"
"This...I said, you can't tell anyone else!" Ji Zhantian said solemnly.
Zhou Xiaoze pretended to be angry and said: "Grandpa, how can I tell anyone about your secret? You still don't regard your grandson as one of your own!"
"Yes, yes, grandpa said something wrong!"
Ji Zhantian reached out and touched his old face, and glanced at Zhou Xiaoze: "Do you really want grandpa to tell you?"
Zhou Xiaoze nodded and said, "Of course!"
Ji Zhantian scratched his head and said helplessly, "Actually, it was a complete accident that I was able to marry your grandma."
Next, Ji Zhantian told his grandson the following story:
One year, an important official from the Sakura Kingdom came to Kyoto for a visit. He didn't know who he offended, but he was bewitched by someone using sorcery. However, he couldn't find a way to break it, so someone mentioned Hidden Miao.
Because it was related to the national system, Kyoto sent people to find Yin Miao. The person in charge of Yin Miao knew the general situation and made an exception by sending grandma to Kyoto.
At that time, grandma was still young and extremely beautiful. She showed her skills for the first time. Not only did she break the bewitching spell on the Sakura Kingdom official, but she also caught the person who cast the bewitching spell.
It turns out that the person who cast the poison turned out to be a member of the Sakura Kingdom. He wanted to trap me, the Chinese, and deliberately secretly cast a vicious poison on the official, making the outside world mistakenly think that it was me, the Chinese, who did it.
Since then, grandma has become famous in Kyoto. At that time, Dongfang Ming's grandfather in Kyoto took a fancy to grandma and pursued her wildly.
Although the Yinmiao people have not interacted with outsiders for generations, they are not monolithic. Because Yinmiao has had more boys and girls throughout the ages, the yin and yang ratio is too imbalanced. If a man from the outside takes a fancy to a woman in Yinmiao, and Yinmiao's
The woman also falls in love with this man, and they can get married and live together.
However, there is a harsh condition: you must accept the poison planted by the woman, and you must stay with the woman to stay in the hidden seedling.
If this man betrays a woman in the future, the woman can take the man's life at any time. This is Yin Miao's rule passed down from her ancestors, and no one is allowed to break it.
At that time, Ji Zhantian happened to go down the mountain to Kyoto for business. When he saw his grandma, he was immediately fascinated by her and thought that if he could not marry her as his wife in this life, his life would be in vain.
Dongfang Ming's grandfather and Ji Zhantian both conveyed their love to their grandmother and expressed their willingness to accept the poison she planted. They also swore that they would be willing to be her horses or oxen for the rest of their lives, and could do whatever they wanted.
Grandma was also moved by the two men's eternal alliance, but she couldn't choose these two men at the same time.
So Ji Zhantian fought with Dongfang Ming's grandfather for three days and three nights on the outskirts of Kyoto. In the end, Dongfang Ming's grandfather vomited blood and retreated in defeat.
But grandma didn't know that Ji Zhantian was the 185th generation descendant of the Sutu Sect of Taoism, and his Taoism had reached the state of perfection. On their wedding night, the poison that grandma had just planted for him, the next morning,
, and was secretly destroyed by him.
By the time grandma found out that she had fallen in love with Ji Zhantian, it was already too late to regret it. At this time, she was already pregnant with Zhou Xiaoze's father.
According to Yinmiao's rules, Ji Zhantian deceived grandma in this way, which violated Yinmiao's biggest taboo, and he would be punished. However, because of the child in her belly, grandma not only did not dare to publicize the matter, but also
The Miao village that followed him left...
When Ji Zhantian said this, his old face couldn't help but blush again: "Son, tell me, my grandfather is an upright man, is this too unethical?"
Zhou Xiaoze never thought that grandpa used this method to get grandma.
After listening to his words, Zhou Xiaoze looked like an old god, nodded, and said sincerely: "Grandpa, you are indeed not authentic enough. You have made grandma feel wronged!"
When Ji Zhantian heard what his grandson said, his face turned green with anxiety: "Child, you have to know that grandpa is a protector holding a gold medal. How can he waste his whole life by your grandma's side?"
Zhou Xiaoze said in a very serious tone: "Since you know your identity, why do you still have to chase Miao Yin's grandma?"
"My child, you don't know that the purpose of my doing this is entirely out of compassion and to protect your grandma."
Ji Zhantian immediately spoke sternly: "Think about it, Dongfang Ming's grandfather is nothing but a bad person. If your grandma falls into his hands, she will be like a flower stuck in cow dung.
"
"That will make me die with my eyes open!"
Well, Zhou Xiaoze had to admit that his grandfather's sophistry had some truth to it.
Ordinarily, given Grandpa Dongfang Ming's prominent status, he would definitely not be willing to spend his whole life with his grandma in the deep mountains and old forests, and he might resort to more cunning methods.
"Alas! I can only say that my grandma is too naive. She was deceived by two smooth-talking men when she first arrived in Kyoto. The hidden beauty who can use poison is no match for the treacherous people outside!" Zhou Xiaoze couldn't help but think.
He said this with great emotion.
Hearing this, Ji Zhantian was so anxious that his eyes turned green: "Son, I seriously doubt whether you are my grandson. Why did you knock your grandfather to the ground with a stick?"
"I sympathize with grandma, okay?" Zhou Xiaoze retorted.
Along the way, Zhou Xiaoze and his grandfather talked to each other like this. Unknowingly, they had walked a long way, and it was already dark.
Coming to a canyon, Zhou Xiaoze asked: "Grandpa, how far is it from Yinmiao?"