After Rebirth, I returned to Miaojiang to inherit my family business - Chapter 19

Not to mention Lucky Qi, the ghost Qi was strong enough to almost get condensed into substance!

Bai Gu knew about the evil Miao people who had sneaked into the Miao Cave and also Wu Rong was very strong. But he’d have never thought that these people were all dead and had become Wu Rong’s ghost servants. What happened in the Old Miao Cave? 

Bai Gu, who had always been very confident in his ability, was in a trance.

Am I really qualified to be his subordinate?

With the Zhong Gu, the Gu array abandoned for many years in the stronghold finally had a core that can be started, at least for a year and a half under the siege of the evil Miao. A few days later, the evil Miao people led by Ge Lang came to the stronghold again, but this time he did not come to attack and provoke but signed a new duel with the stronghold to a year later, even yielding to many conditions.

“For the sake of his own little life, Ge Lang will also do his best to make this happen.” 

Bai Gu calmly analyzed: “He lost his Ten Ghost Gu, and so many dead subordinates, if things are exposed, his fortress’ young master position is not guaranteed. The delay is also to give himself a respite for a comeback.”

Wu Rong has just recovered the Zhong Gu and it has not hatched yet. He still had not grown it. The duel time gave him enough time to grow up after one year. It is unknown what will happen then.

Bai Gu had a good idea and advised: “You have memorized the “Gu King Song” that Grandma Wu passed on to you, and it is most important to improve your own strength. Many precious medicines that nourish Zhong Gu in the early stage also need to be re-brewed, so there is no hurry.”

“Why do you always look behind me.”

Wu Rong suddenly said, “You know me.”

“Hmm? Of course I know……”

Wu Rong looked at him quietly, his gaze dark and heavy, and repeated, “You know me.”

Not from entering the fortress, but from much longer ago, or another timeline. Ghost Boy, Bai Gu, people with problems, he has met two so far, and both have treated him in an extraordinary manner. 

Wu Rong wanted to find out what was going on here. He didn’t like the feeling that things were out of control.

Under his gaze, Bai Gu’s expression changed slightly, the smile on his face faded and pondered for a moment before deliberately saying, “I looked behind you because you are followed by dozens of evil Miao ghost servants.”

“No one does not know you.”

He spared a deep thought and said emphatically, “You are very famous.” 

This sentence into any context was not wrong, but Wu Rong’s intuition told him that Bai Gu’s words had a deeper meaning.

“You……”

Boom!

Bai Gu’s voice was suddenly interrupted by a clear thunder. The thunder was extremely loud and deafening, as if someone had put a kick in their ear. All the dogs in the stronghold started barking. Wu Rong vaguely felt some palpitations. He looked at Bai Gu, but he was also uncertain, and his face showed an almost untraceable fear. Noting Wu Rong’s eyes, Bai Gu forced a smile and tentatively said: 

“I……”

Rumble!

“How can it thunder on a clear day oh, is there another big ghost out there……”

The people in the distant fortress also perceived the difference and murmured in doubt. And after the second thunder boom, Bai Gu’s face was white, completely abnormal, white like a piece of paper. Suddenly he spit out a mouthful of blood, blood red with black, containing many blood clots, shocking, like pieces of internal organs, charred black edges, emitting an abnormal breath. 

Its wasn’t just the smell of blood, there was something like half burnt, half still raw, that mixed with the smell of blood and meat in a disgusting breath. Bai Gu with shaking hands took out a wide leaf grass woven little man from his arms.

The little man wore a long tie, wearing a piece of black cloth clothing. But it was now scorched half-black, like being struck by lightning. When Bai Gu touched it, it rustled and fell into ashes.

Wu Rong’s pupils suddenly shrank, and he felt that the ice-cold feeling behind him had disappeared a lot, as if it had borne the thunder for him.

This was the invisible warning. 

Some words are forbidden, cannot mention even half.

From that day on, Bai Gu was not able to recover from illness, and he was still ill in bed until Wu Rong was about to leave. The old man of the village came out to give him a present and said regretfully, “I wanted Bai Gu to go with you. He is good at raising Gu and witchcraft. It would be easy to solve problems if you had him with you.”

“Humph, who knew what he saw that should not be seen, he has a mouth but no gate.”

Grandma Wu snorted coldly: “If it were not for the substitute grass man, he would’ve tuned into ashes long ago. The fact that he didn’t die is a blessing from the ancestors, and it’s a lesson.” 

Compared to when they first met, Grandma Wu was a lot more energetic. She doesn’t need anyone to help her send Wu Rong to the outside of the stronghold.

“Remember, the Gu is a living thing, but also a spirit. Since you want to tame it, you have to feed it well, pay attention to it.”

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The original body of the green Gu was the bamboo leaf green Gu. All things pay attention to each other. The black rock tarantula is the most aggressive and has the highest toxicity. It can knock the double hooked golden scorpion as a snack. But it only fear the green bamboo leaves snake.

Shortly after the spider recognized him as the owner, it was not skilled in communicating with Wu Rong. Wu Rong heard most of its heart sounds like sucking noodles, and sobbing when frightened by the green snake. From time to time, amid the sound of noodles and sobs, there was also the humble voice of Zhong Gu, who carefully said, ‘Hungry, I’m hungry’ and ‘Afraid, Mommy, I’m afraid’. Now there is the happy hiss of the little green snake.

It was like he was carrying a symphony orchestra all by himself.

“Is it still uncomfortable?” 

Noticing his small movements, the old man smiled and said, “The companions are born with a spirit, but not everyone can hear it. This is the innate talent of the Wu people, and in the future they will all become your most loyal companions.”

“People can cheat, but Gu are forever loyal.”

“It’s time.”

Grandma Wu interrupted their exchange and bellowed in a deep voice: “Ai Qiao, Aredo.” 

The sisters who had gone to the reception that day to pick up Wu Rong stood in front of Grandma Wu with a maple wood tray, and the old man used his wooden staff to pick open the batik cloth covering the tray. Only to see Ai Qiao holding a small arm-length, all-black narrow knife. The sheath of the knife was not decorated with anything but a pair of gold and silver rings adorning the end.

“Every Miao man should have a knife of his own.”

Grandma Wu looked solemn and handed the knife over to Wu Rong: “Unfortunately, the mountain where the iron was buried when you were born was taken over by the evil Miao and they used it to kill and raise parasites. The iron is dyed with fierce evil and cannot be used.”

“This is the ancient Miaodao handed down by the ancestors of the Wu tribe, Wu Rao once used it to slaughter the three strongholds of the evil Miao and cut down the evil white snake in the water pool. The sharpness is unparalleled and now it’s handed over to you. You must be careful when using it.” 

In Aredo’s tray, however, there was a silver needle. Grandma Wu held the needle and roasted it on the fire. She pierced a hole in Wu Rong’s left ear and put on the straw.

“When the Zhong Gu hatches, it will inhabit here.”

At the time of departure, Grandma Wu’s voice was still cold and indifferent, and she was not a bit enthusiastic: “If you haven’t hatched the Zhong Gu in a year, you can’t come back. To fight, it’s also a way to kill yourself.”

“Good boy, go ahead. Your police car is waiting for you at the end of the stronghold.” 

As if he wanted to finish Grandma Wu’s words with Wu Rong, the old man kept on saying, “It’s good to eat public meals. Now young people want to be civil servants, and we, A-Rong, must be no worse than others. I don’t know if we’d like to raise spiders and butterflies…”

As he went down the mountain, the old man’s words of concern still echoed in his ears. The green shade blocked the upper stronghold, but Wu Rong didn’t have to look back to know that the old man and grandma must still be at the gate.

Originally, the old man wanted Ai Qiao to ride a motorcycle to send him down, but Wu Rong took the initiative to ask him to leave. It was said that he had to communicate with Gu alone and adapt to the feeling of Gu on his body. In fact, Wu Rong had to deal with the evil spirits that were following behind him.

Zhou Xun came to pick him up. He could not bring those ghosts into the city. 

The little green snake’s head, which was lazily coiled on his shoulder, twisted back. It was disgusted, flicking its tongue and opened his mouth to swallow some Qi. That day, Bai Gu said that there were fifty evil Miao ghost servants behind him, but when he resisted the thunder, some of them were destroyed. Up to now, there were only six or seven, all of them were wrapped up by small green snake. The Qingling Gu can kill all kinds of ghosts, but it can also store and nourish ghosts.

It has a special shape, which can’t be detected by others. Wu Rong didn’t let it digest the ghosts of those evil Miao people directly, just to find out why they spontaneously became his own ghost servants.

Ghost Boy and Bai Gu should have reborn when ‘I’ had died and became a very powerful ghost king.

Wu Rong speculated in his mind: ‘If the ‘I’ in this life had not returned to Miaojiang, I would’ve not have encountered the great ghost under the cliff and wouldn’t have become a Gu master. As an ordinary person, it is easy to die in this world.’ 

Wu Rong just didn’t understand how he happened to meet these two”returnees”.

“Hey, Wu Rong, this way!”

At the foot of the mountain ahead, Zhou Xun, who had been waiting for half a day, leaned against an SUV in his uniform and waved vigorously when he saw Wu Rong coming down the mountain.

“Come on!” 

“A-Rong has been picked up, Grandma Wu, you should also be relieved.”

The old man who stood at the entrance of the fortress and watched Wu Rong go away hammered his waist and said with a smile, “There is an inheritance of the Zhong Gu, and the Wu family has a successor, which is a great thing.”

“Humph.”

“Alas, it’s obviously your grandson’s pain. Even the Qingling Gu didn’t say a word, but it always has a black face. It’s hard not to get close to people…” 

“I see that you are bold, dare to say anything.”

“I dare not.”

The old man of the stronghold was smoking and his eyes were far away, and he fell into memory: “A-Rong is such a nice boy. I think of Cuicui when I look at his eyebrows and eyes. The two women look like each other. His eyes are just like those of the Wu Matriarch when you were young.”

Grandmother Wu was noncommittal, her gaze still looking in the direction of Wu Rong’s departure, not moving away for a long time. 

“Ge Lang won’t rest easy.”

She suddenly said, tiredly pressing the corner of her forehead.

“It depends on his fate.”

A hundred miles away in the ghostly domain, inside the evil Miao fortress, Ge Lang angrily walked out of the main fortress, all the way back to his residence with a gloomy face. The guards and attendants patrolling the road did not dare to say anything, afraid to touch his inverse scale. 

“I’m so angry, I’m so angry!”

After going back, Ge Lang was burning with anger and kicked away the serving companion. His kick was so heavy that it broke the man’s breath and spilled blood all over the floor. The other attendants were silent, their heads bowed, fearing that they would be the next to suffer.

“Damn Wu Rong, damn Grandma Wu, damn Bai Gu!”

Thinking of just being reprimanded by his father in front of his brothers and losing all his face, Ge Lang’s face was blue and red, and his originally handsome face was twisted with viciousness and malice. Suddenly, he slapped the table heavily. 

“Call the cat slave to me!”

He rose haughtily, back hand in the room around, his face changed expression, fierce carnal smile: “A year later duel? After eating your Zhong Gu, I will see how you duel.”

“So what if you have a Qingling Gu to protect your body, my cat Gu is specialized in overcoming all the Gu in the world!”

“Young master!” 

A big, tall, bare-chested strong man entered with great strides and kneeled down in front of Ge Lang with a poof, and the room shook.

“Get up.”

Ge Lang, who had just tortured Wu Rong hard in his heart, finally calmed down. He sat back on the chair with his legs cocked. His long narrow eyes were gloomy. Thinking of Cat Gu, he looked a little better at the Cat servant.

“How is that little beast.” 

The cat servant behind the emergence of fine cold sweat, hesitantly said.

“Young, young fortress master, the cat has been locked up by you for seven days and seven nights.”

“Oh? Has it learned its lesson.”

“It, it ……” 

“Say it quickly.”

Ge Lang impatient: “Dawdle again and I’ll take you to feed the Gu.”

No sooner had he said that than he saw the cat servant’s face pale with despair, “It, it ran after the Wu boy!”

“Useless waste!” 

Ge Lang burst out in anger and smashed the cat slave’s head with a slap. The strong man body fell with a bang, red and white spilled all over the ground, but completely unable to eliminate the anger in Ge Lang’s heart!

“Poorly bred thing, useless waste. Rubbish, rubbish!”

The things in the banging room were all smashed by him, Ge Lang’s eyes were red with rage, as if he was a murderous ghost: “Ah…! Wu Rong, Wu Rong!!!”

“I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you with my own hands!!!” 

“Here, this is good stuff.”

The off-road vehicle drove through the sublime mountains and dense forests. In the driver’s seat, Zhou Xun was in a good moo, humming and nudging the passenger side where Wu Rong was.

“Quickly open it to see!”

He was talking about a black handbag placed in the passenger compartment, and when Wu Rong opened it as he was told, he found a ring-like suede locket inside, with a white card and a certificate in the compartment. 

[Comrade Wu Rong.

In a crisis to come forward, see the righteousness and courage, great love, for our generation model. This certificate is hereby issued to be commended

July 2142]

Inside the suede box was a bronze medal. 

“Remember the mother and son you saved on the train.”

Zhou Xun was happy for him: “Do not worry to take it, this is what you deserve. There is 50,000 in the card, there was an award ceremony, you missed it in your hometown, but the city TV station still wants to do a series of role model ordinary people. If you want to go, I will contact you.”

“But these are small things!”

Zhou Xun lowered his voice in high spirits and said mysteriously, “I tell you that the bureau is going to have an unprecedented special training. The quota is very popular! It was originally for ghost keepers and heavenly masters, there is no door for people like you who haven’t been tested yet. Fortunately, Lao Ma recommended it to me.” 

“The special training and trial can get a lot of good things, and you can raise a ghost with less pressure. Don’t think that if the 50,000 yuan is enough. With only 50,000 yuan, there will be no money to buy some incense ash paper money.”

Indeed, no matter how easy it is to raise evil spirits, it is not as easy as other people think. It is no easier than raising children. The big ghost, it’s good to say that it can be raised by feeding it some blood after the blood contract was made. The key was the Zong Gu.

The successful hatching of Zong Gu needs a lot of resources. Some precious things were unique to the stronghold, but they disappeared long ago due to war and environmental changes. Although the stronghold gave Wu Rong everything it could give, it was only a drop in the bucket. He need the pure rootless water that cleans the blood and Qi of the Zhong Gu. It is hard to find if it is put outside.

It’s time to consider making money. 

Wu Rong listened to Zhou Xun’s chatter while pondering on his own.

Suddenly, his phone shook with a ring and a chat box popped up.

[Witchologist: Finally a newcomer, welcome!

What is this? 

When he opened it, he found that he had been agreed to join the peculiar society, the Witch Society, which was suspected of engaging in a cult of the individual and had entered their small group.

The original only four people small group had one more person. Naturally, it was incomparably conspicuous.

[Witchologist: I didn’t think there would be a newcomer who could pass the perverted test of Red Sleeve, it seems you must be a fellow witch who has studied witchcraft very deeply, I hope we can exchange witchcraft well and live together!]

Live together? 

This person’s speech felt strange.

Wu Rong saw the golden title ‘Ghost King Researcher’ behind the ‘Witchologist’ nickname and thought that it might be a small quirk of the scholar.

The witch scientist was very enthusiastic about him, as if no one usually talked to him, so he caught someone and blared out a series of voices.

[Newcomer, do you have any opinion about the Ghost King Wu Miao!] 

The author has something to say:

Bai Gu: Wuwu, it was a wrong payment after all.