My Demon Husband Is a Snake

I looked down at Master Yang, this time not helping him up, "Then can you... first tell me how you were poisoned with gu?"

My feelings were complicated at the moment, as I didn't have much of a relationship with Master Yang.

Why would someone use gu on Master Yang to have him kill me?

With Master Yang's status, there was no chance for him to make a move, nor would he have succeeded.

"To tell the truth, I don't know either."

Master Yang spoke weakly, "This afternoon, I was at home whittling bamboo to make strips, using them to weave spider net frames."

Spider net frame?

What is that?

I had lived in the countryside for so long, but I had never heard of it.

The thought flashed through my mind and did not escape my lips.

I didn't need to ask about things unrelated to the gu poisoning.

"Then suddenly my arm began to itch terribly, and in the blink of an eye, it was eaten entirely by my own spiders." Master Yang still seemed horrified by the incident, "I was rolling on the ground in pain, and then I passed out. When I came to, all the people in my house were lying on the ground, and there were spiders everywhere."

"What? The spiders were raised by you?"

I had never imagined that the Spider Gu that Master Yang was poisoned with would be the ones he raised at home, "Why on earth would you raise gu?"

Ever since I realized Master Yang was poisoned with gu, I had assumed he was subjected to severe temptation or coercion by others.

It might have been a punishment to make Master Yang obey, allowing the one who put the gu to have them bite off his arm, but the truth was something I couldn't have guessed in a million years.

"These were supposed to be Heavenly Spiders for silk production, how did they become gu?"

With a pained expression, Master Yang sighed, "Who would have known that these spiders could be so aggressive? Everyone in our village raises them."

Later, Master Yang told me that after he discovered his family members had fallen,

a man wearing a cloak burst into his courtyard and said to Master Yang, "Your entire family has been poisoned with gu. If you want them not to end up like you, devoured by the insects, you will do as I say."

Not only did that man command Master Yang to try to kill me, but he sadistically let a swarm of Spider Gu chase after Master Yang.

And so Master Yang, injured and in despair, ran all the way to Spring Wind Town, to the front door of Chen's Restaurant.

The whole story sounded incredible and sinister.

Master Yang's eyes were grey and filled with defeat as he lamented, "I still don't understand what exactly happened!! Yuanyuan!! Could it be because of an enemy you made, someone who targeted my family because of you?"

"Because of me?" A twinge of guilt and self-doubt crossed my mind, then, dropping my gaze, I calmly asked, "How long has your village been raising this kind of Spider Gu?"

"For over a year, and not just our village, a few nearby ones as well."

Master Yang looked at me pleadingly, "My wife and my children have all been bitten and poisoned. That man in a grey cloak and hat said the poison would take effect after twelve hours."

Did they want Master Yang to kill me within twelve hours in order to spare his children?

This tactic was naive and malicious, completely opposite to the sharp and ruthless approach of using Corpse Gu, it was a distinctly different style.

So, could the person behind Master Yang be from Ten Thousand Poison Hall?

After contemplating deeply, I decided, "Since you think all this started because of me, of course, I have no reason to sit by and do nothing. I will go to your village."

Besides going there to see for myself, there was no other way to uncover the truth. I didn't want to escape, nor would I...

I had always been waiting for the people from Ten Thousand Poison Hall to make their move again.

I didn't expect it to happen so soon.

"Really...? You are willing to go to my village, I..." Master Yang became agitated, and feeling dizzy from losing blood for so long, he could not steady himself even with the support of a table.

I had a snake fetch the Blood Splendor Robe and draped it over Master Yang, "Wear this robe for half an hour. In half an hour, we will set off."