Chapter Thirty-Eight: Searching

  Old Clock nodded slowly and said, "Years ago, I was a soldier in the Yunnan border, and she was the most beautiful girl in the Miao village. We knew each other and fell in love for three years. Later, when I had to return to Beijing, I told her to wait for me, and after I settled down, I would go back to get her. Who knew that soon after my return, the ten-year turmoil broke out, and our family was labeled as rightists and thrown into a cowshed? When the turmoil ended, I went back to find her, but people in the village told me that she had been drowned in a pig cage because she was pregnant out of wedlock and refused to reveal who the father was or have an abortion. So after I returned, I vowed not to marry again, for my heart could no longer hold anyone else. She's still alive...I never thought she'd still be alive!"

  "What...not married?" Xiao Yu stood up and exclaimed. He then pointed at Zhong Jianguo and Zhong Tao with his hand: "What about them?"

  "I am the adopted son of Father..." Zhong Jianguo said.

  Xiao Yu sat down in his seat, thinking to himself, what a deep and meaningful couple! It was just his own imagination, fortunately, it didn't lead to any big mistakes.

  Old Master Zhuo looked at Xiao Yu's appearance and chuckled: "Hehe... since you entered the house, you have been calm and composed, as if nothing could change your expression. I didn't expect that you would also lose your composure!"

  "You're making fun of me!" Xiao Yu smiled self-deprecatingly.

  Suddenly, Xiao Yu was stunned, looking at Zhong Lao and said: "Based on the activity intensity and frequency of the Gu, another mother Gu should be within a hundred miles of the General Hospital!"

  "What?" Zhong Lao suddenly stood up and exclaimed.

  "Jian Guo, Zhong Tao, you two go and send someone to find her, she must be found!" Old Zhong's voice was trembling.

  "Dad, don't worry, we'll definitely find it......" Zhong Jianguo hastily comforted him when he saw the excited and inexplicable look on his father's face.

  Zhong Jianguo and Zhong Tao both went to the hospital to make a phone call and mobilize forces to search.

  As time passed by, one hour... two hours... three hours... those who went out to search for him called back one after another, all saying that he was nowhere to be found.

  "Xiao Xiao, are you mistaken? They've searched every place within a hundred miles and couldn't find anything!" Zhong Lao asked with a look of urgency and anticipation.

  "It will never be wrong..." Xiao Yu slowly shook his head.

  "Uh......"

  Suddenly, Bell's hand covered his heart, his face turned pale, and his forehead was instantly filled with dense sweat beads. His hand trembled slightly as he leaned back in his chair.

  "Dad (grandpa), what's wrong? General Zhuo, my dad's heartache has relapsed, what should we do?" Zhong Jianguo and Zhong Tao said anxiously as they supported the old man.

  Mr. Zhuo went into the inner room, took out an acupuncture package and was about to give Mr. Zhong an acupuncture treatment. Xiao Yu walked over and blocked Mr. Zhuo, saying "I'll do it!" and then took the acupuncture package from Mr. Zhuo's hand.

  Xiao Yu opened the acupuncture package, his fingers gliding over the needles, and a golden needle appeared between his two fingers. With one swift motion, the needle entered Zhong Lao's heart meridian without any flourish. Xiao Yu's movements were as smooth as flowing clouds, very fast, and he quickly inserted nine golden needles into the nine vital points surrounding Zhong Lao's heart chamber.

  Mr. Zhuo watched from behind as Xiao Yu inserted the needles, all of which were aimed at the heart's vital points of life and death. However, he inserted the needles without any hesitation, not a single thread of doubt or uncertainty. To insert needles in such acupoints, one must either be completely ignorant of acupuncture or have absolute confidence in oneself. Xiao Yu clearly belonged to the latter category. Mr. Zhuo nodded his head in approval as he watched from behind, feeling quite impressed and enlightened by what he saw.

  Nine golden needles were inserted into Zhong Lao's heart, above the Xin Shu acupoint. It was unclear whether it was intentional or not. The nine golden needles formed a small circle on Zhong Lao's heart. Xiao Yu's hand moved quickly over the needles, causing them to vibrate lightly at the same time. A small bulge slowly rose from the center of the needles, and something the size of a sesame seed was moving rapidly inside.

  "Hiss......" Everyone in the house took a cold breath, their faces shocked, and even Old Master Zhuo was no exception. It's unclear whether it was due to Xiao Yu's acupuncture skills or the sight of one of the wasps in the small package.

  "Little Xiao, is that the Gu?" asked Old Master Zhuo, looking at the small thing dashing about.

  "Hmm!" Xiao Yu nodded.

  Zhuo Hongxing, Zhuo Guangrong, and Zhuo Sihuan had all studied acupuncture before. When they saw Xiao Yu's needle insertion position, they were shocked and their hearts skipped a beat. The points Xiao Yu inserted the needles into were all major acupoints, and if one was off by even a fraction of an inch, it could be fatal. However, Xiao Yu inserted the needles without hesitation, and the effects afterwards were nothing short of miraculous. If Zhuo Hongxing and Zhuo Guangrong had previously considered themselves experts in their field, they now felt a sense of reverence for Xiao Yu, at least when it came to acupuncture.

  This is the old clock's pain has slowly subsided, opened his eyes, saw himself in the chest position, in the small package of drumming up and down the little thing, the old clock a face horror, immediately thought of something to ask Xiang Liu urgently: "This... will it have an impact on her? If so, please withdraw the needle first!"

  Xiao Yu saw Zhong Lao like this, and nodded secretly: "Don't worry, I just cut off the connection between your heart and this Gu, soon we'll still need to rely on this Gu to find Miao Nü!"

  "What? Really found it?" Zhong Lao grabbed Xiao Yu's hand and asked with a hopeful face.

  Xiao Yu slowly nodded his head.

  Xiao Yu let everyone get on the bus and put Zhong Laoping in his seat. In a small package that was swollen due to acupuncture, a sesame-sized gu worm continuously bumped towards the east.

  Xiao Yu looked at the locust and said to Lao Zhong, "Now that Miao girl is in the east, but I can't pinpoint her exact location. However, judging from its activity level, it shouldn't be more than 50 kilometers away. You can have your son and grandson withdraw the people from other places now, so as not to waste our ordinary people's money!"

  When saying this, Xiao Yu deliberately glanced at Zhong Jianguo and Zhong Tao. Zhong Tao was still looking at the cicada and didn't notice Xiao Yu's tone, but Zhong Jianguo did, and his old face couldn't help but turn red.

  Because he had never seen anything like this before, Old Master Zhuo got on the carriage and followed them.

  "Go straight east!" Xiao Yu ordered.

  The car drove out of Yuquan Mountain and headed east, after driving for a while, Xiao Ye looked at Lao Zhong's chest, the horn was still hitting the east, ordered the car to continue east, the car gradually entered the city, passed the third ring and continued to drive east.

  "It's changed, it's changed!" Zhong Tao suddenly shouted.

  Everyone on the bus cast their eyes on Zhong Lao's chest, and indeed, the Gu that had been attacking eastward was now attacking northward.

  "Head north!" Xiao Yu instructed the driver.

  The car drove north for about five or six kilometers, then suddenly turned west, and after driving west for about two kilometers, it became south. After driving south for about two or three kilometers, it started heading east, and after driving east for a while, it headed north again. Xiao Yu suddenly felt that something was wrong, how did it seem like they were going in circles?

  Xiao Yu looked at several high-rise buildings nestled among the green trees.

  "What place is this?" Xiao Yu pointed with his hand in the direction of those high-rise buildings.

  "Here? This seems to be Jingcheng Hospital!" Zhuo Si said, looking around.

  "It should be right then, it's here!" Xiao Yu said lightly.

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