There is a book record: "Take more insects and snakes, store them in utensils, and let them eat each other. Only one thing exists alone, that is, it is called a voodoo, and it can be confused, followed by wine and food, causing disasters for others. "
The Miao people are good at raising Gu, which is called "grass ghost" in Miao language, and the breeders are all female, also known as "grass ghost woman".
Gu art is not a Taoist art, it originated from the Nuo culture, and it is somewhat similar to Maoshan art. According to the Miao people's practice, there must be a grass ghost in every village, but so far, there are very few descendants.
With a radius of hundreds of miles, there is only one person like Baiqingzhai.
The Grass Hag has a special status in the ethnic group. She is usually looked down upon by the clansmen and rejected in various ways, but when necessary, she has to ask her for help.
Therefore, most of them live alone, have a withdrawn temperament, and if there are surly people, if they are slightly disrespectful to them, they will put Gu on you.
But what Xiao Zhai saw was a very beautiful woman with long hair tied up and eyes like water, standing by the stream and looking towards the wooden building. The reason why she is said to be strange is because she has a weak and sick feeling all over her body, as if being swallowed by something on her body.
Long Tang obviously didn't like it, leaned out the window and shouted: "They are my guests, you go elsewhere!"
"..."
The woman was happy to see her poking her head, but when she heard this, her complexion darkened, and she turned and left silently.
"She is my elder sister. When I was five years old, she was taken away by the grass hag, and she became like this when she came back. In short, don't get close."
Long Tang's tone was also very complicated, he gave some instructions and went downstairs.
After she left, Xiao Zhai looked out of the window again, and suddenly said with a smile, "Brother Yu, what do you think?"
puff!
Gu Yu was sweating profusely, and said, "Don't make trouble!"
"I'm not making trouble! The mountains are beautiful and the Miao girls are passionate. You might as well stay here and get married. I will go to the West to learn scriptures by myself. When I come back, maybe you will give birth to a little monk."
whispering sound!
He didn't bother to reply, he just slammed into the bathroom with his bag, and said in a muffled voice, "I'm taking a shower!"
Boring!
Xiao Zhai shrugged his shoulders and leaned against the window sill, stretching his long legs to his heart's content. Xiaoqing also slid out and walked happily on the floor, seeming to like the environment here very much.
While teasing the pet, she looked around boredly.
…
Before I knew it, it was getting late.
They went to Longtang's house for dinner, and then returned to the inn. The night in Miao Village was very boring, and there were basically no entertainment activities. The two chatted for a while, and then went to bed.
The room was quiet, the moonlight was cold, and the half-burned tranquilizing incense wafted faint blue smoke.
"Sizzling!"
Suddenly, Xiaoqing, who was coiled into a ball, straightened up, as if attracted by something, and unconsciously swam to the window sill. When the tail was entangled with the handle and pulled, a small slit was opened, and it got out with a whoosh.
It walked along the wooden building, reached the ground, crossed the stream, and finally disappeared into the woods.
And deep in the woods, on a flat open space, the grass hag was burning a copper tripod, with a round body, a small mouth and a big belly, and a fire pile underneath.
She held a handful of green powder and kept adding it, wisps of white mist drifted out from the mouth of the tripod. At the same time, the forest was rustling, and a large number of black shadows squirmed under the moonlight, scrambling to climb into the copper tripod.
There are spiders, scorpions, snakes, and centipedes, all of which are hideous and terrifying poisonous insects.
Seeing that the copper tripod was about to be filled, the woman couldn't help showing joy, and immediately, this joy turned into severe pain.
"ah!"
"Ah... ah!"
She saw her eyes closed tightly, her whole body twitching in pain, a wavy bump formed under her snow-white face, as if there were living creatures crawling around in it.
"Panwang is above, bless me, bless me..."
The woman gritted her teeth, the corners of her mouth were blood red, and she reluctantly pointed at the cauldron.
boom!
It was as if the fire was intensified in an instant, and the cauldron began to bubbling and bubbling, mixed with the crazy hissing of poisonous insects, which was creepy.
After a while, the screaming gradually subsided, and the woman's complexion also slightly improved. She pointed again, and a phantom that could not be distinguished by the naked eye flashed, and seemed to retract into the body.
"Hoo... hoo..."
She panted heavily, as if she had escaped from death.
"Sizzling!"
Just at this time, there was another sound coming from the front, she was startled, but saw a small emerald green snake protruding its head. These two guys came following the smell, but when they arrived at the scene, they found that they had called it a day.
Ya shook her head, looking quite upset.
The woman's eyes lit up, this kind of spirit snake is extremely rare, if it can be captured and fed, it will be placed in a Gu urn on the Dragon Boat Festival next year. With the aptitude of this spirit snake, he will definitely be the winner, that is an excellent Yin snake Gu.
Yin Snake Gu, when the Gu enters, it takes shape, either as a snake or as a soft-shelled turtle, biting everywhere in the body. It's even worse at night; there are Yin snakes that enter the pores with the wind to bite, attacking internally and externally, there is no cure.
"Sizzling!"
Xiaoqing was used to following her master, not knowing the danger, so she saw the woman standing up and smiled at herself.
In the next second, it felt like it was floating up, that's right, it was floating up in the air, and moved over there quickly. Xiaoqing exploded immediately, twisting her body desperately, but unfortunately she couldn't break free.
When she got close, the woman stretched out her hand to grab it, when she suddenly felt a sharp sound of breaking wind.
"Snapped!"
A stone hit the back of her hand, Xiaoqing fell to the ground, turned around and fled.
"Sorry, the snake is mine, you can't catch it."
Following a greeting, two people walked out of the forest, they were a man and a woman from the inn. They stood in the field without any malice, only with deep curiosity.
"What did you use just now, is it also Gu?" Gu Yu asked.
"..."
The woman frowned, and her red lips trembled slightly, as if she was muttering something.
Gu Yu's eyes froze suddenly, and with luck in his palm, he grabbed forward with his right hand, paused for a moment, and then grabbed again.
"Good guy!"
He couldn't believe it, and felt a slight tingling pain in his palm, as if he had been stung. But the invisible thing bumped into a wall, and went straight to Xiao Zhai, Xiao Zhai picked it up with his finger, and the bright dagger spun around and swung in front of him.
"Kill!"
The dragon's chant resounded in the void, shaking the night.
The woman's complexion changed drastically, the two of them were able to block their Gu worms, and when they were about to attack with all their strength, they heard someone shouting:
"Long Qiu!"
"Long Qiu!"
Well, the woods are really lively tonight, this is already the third dial. The sound of chaotic footsteps approached quickly, and many people emerged out of nowhere, the leader was Long Tang, followed by two young men, one of whom was carrying a boy on his back.
"Brother Yu, sister Xiaozhai, why do you..."
Seeing this situation, Long Tang couldn't help being taken aback, and said angrily: "Long Qiu, you're hurting someone again!"
"No, I didn't..."
The woman seemed to be very patient with her, her style of painting suddenly changed, and she waved her hands in a panic.
"You still said no, your cauldron is here!"
"It's true that she didn't. We couldn't sleep and went out for a stroll. We met by chance." Gu Yu relieved.
"snort!"
Long Tang gave up now, glanced at the copper tripod in disgust, and said: "Xiao Shan has a stomachache, please show me."
"oh… "
Long Qiu bowed his head forward, let the boy lie flat on the ground, touched his abdomen, and asked, "How long has he been in pain?"
"It was fine at dinner, but I slept until midnight and complained of a stomachache, so we sent it right away." A man replied.
"Maybe I ate something dirty, come with me."
As she spoke, she led the crowd to the depths and stopped in front of a wooden house. No one else dared to approach, she went in for a while, and came out with a raw egg and a red thread.
Long Qiu tied the red thread to the egg, and with a swipe of his finger, a few drops of blood oozed out of his white and tender forearm. She dripped blood onto the egg, and the dark red blood flowed along the eggshell, melting the red thread little by little.
After dripping for a while, she lifted the boy's clothes and rolled the egg around his abdomen.
The expressions on everyone's faces were very strange, filled with fear and anticipation. Gu Yu and Xiao Zhai stared at it without blinking, both felt novel and interesting. This is the energy of another system completely, which is completely different from Taoism.
After about a few minutes, Long Qiu asked, "Does your stomach still hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt anymore." The boy replied with a straight face.
"Oh, remember not to..."
"Oh, it's fine if it doesn't hurt, it's fine if it doesn't hurt. Let's go, let's go back to sleep, thank you this time!"
Before she finished speaking, the man picked up the child and said as if fleeing for his life. Long Tang also came closer and said, "Brother Yu, let's go too, it's fine here."
"..."
The two of them didn't move, she was wondering, but saw Xiao Zhai wiped his body and said with a smile: "Can you give me that egg?"
"Um?"
Long Qiu raised his head, a trace of surprise flashed in his lost eyes, and he passed the egg unconsciously.
"Oh, thank you!"
Xiao Zhai smiled, and then stood up and left.
Not wanting to sleep tonight, they left the woods and returned to the inn, Long Tang couldn't help complaining: "What are you doing with that, it's not clean."
"Why is it unclean?" Gu Yu asked.
"Anyway, anyway... Oh, don't knock!"
Seeing that Xiao Zhai cracked the egg, she hurriedly hid aside, not daring to look at it.
The two of them were baffled, seeing the egg splashing into the teacup, they couldn't help leaning their heads towards it. The egg white is still egg white, but the yolk is weird, not yellow, but a white lump.
"Alas!"
Even they were a little disgusted, it was a bunch of wriggling white bugs.
"Is this Gu?" Xiao Zhai wondered.
"They are not Gu worms, it should be, uh..."
Long Tang thought about the adjective, and said: "It should be the sickness removed by the Gu, um, that's right."
The two of them were stunned, that was amazing, sickness could actually materialize, turning into thin white bugs. Gu Yu blinked and said with a smile: "If you are not in a hurry to go home, you can stay and chat. We are very curious about this."
"Okay, I can't sleep anyway."
Seeing that he was trying to persuade Long Tang to stay, he naturally had nothing to say, and said, "Actually, I don't know much about it. I only know how good Gu is. It can hurt people, but it can also save people. In the past, there must be a grass hag in a village, but no one is there anymore. Learned, Long Qiu may be the last one."
When she talked about Long Qiu, she couldn't help but get a little gloomy, and said in a low voice: "There used to be a grass hag in the village, who was very old. She was afraid that this thing would be lost, so she found Uncle, who asked her to choose among the five villages. , and finally chose Sister... Sister was not like this before..."