Chapter 3 Gu

After Cen Wenhan stayed with Uncle Qiao for a few days, Uncle Qiao took him up the mountain to hunt, Cen Wenhan learned these very quickly, and soon he was able to go up the mountain to hunt by himself, so he settled down with Uncle Qiao. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Uncle Qiao's place is a few wooden houses built in the middle of the mountainside, surrounded by a wall made of earth, surrounded by tall trees, and it is particularly cool when you arrive. The walls are covered with the skins of the prey that Uncle Qiao catches on weekdays, and there are a lot of wild boars and hares pickled in the house...... The meat of this animal, not far from the house, there is a small plot of land, where vegetables and other seasonal things are grown, in short, this place is a paradise.

That night, Cen Wenhan was awakened by the howl of wolves on the mountain, he got up and came out to see the situation, but he didn't see Uncle Qiao in the room, he went out of the room and saw that there was a light on in the firewood room on the side, Cen Wenhan curiously slipped under the windowsill, at this time he saw Uncle Qiao burning a fire in the house and reading something in his mouth, and there was a snake hanging upside down next to him, and the venom kept dripping down from the snake's mouth. Cen Wenhan curiously leaned up to the window, Uncle Qiao suddenly stopped chattering, he turned around and rushed out of the house and grabbed Cen Wenhan.

Cen Wenhan was carried into the house by Qiao as if he was catching a chicken, and only then did Cen Wenhan see the situation in the house clearly. In the middle of the room was a fire burning, surrounded by wooden planks of strange patterns, and on a wooden shelf beside it hung several poisonous snakes upside down, and under the poisonous snake was placed a bowl into which the venom dripped in.

"How did you get here?" Uncle Qiao's tone was obviously angry.

"I woke up with a wolf howl and didn't see my uncle, so I came out to take a look at the situation and it turned out to be ......"

Hearing Cen Wenhan say this, Uncle Qiao was no longer angry, he glanced at the child in front of him and asked, "Do you know what Uncle is doing?" ”

"I don't know!"

Uncle Qiao stood in the room and thought for a while and said, "Since you saw it today, I think you promised me one thing." ”

"What's the matter?"

"What I told you today that you can't mention it to anyone, no matter how important this person is to you, today's events can only be known to the two of us and only the two of us in the future."

Cen Wenhan glanced around, he knew that the matter he broke today was very serious, he couldn't help but nodded, but Uncle Qiao didn't seem to be satisfied, "You have to swear!" ”

"I swear I will never mention what Uncle Qiao told me about today."

"I'm refining Gu."

Cen Wenhan was taken aback when he heard this, "I heard that Gu worms are only available in Miao Jiang, how can I uncle, it can't be ......."

Uncle Qiao shook his head and said, "Who said that only Miao Jiang has Gu, Gu is available in many places, but the methods are different in different places." ”

"But I heard that Gu is used to harm people, how can my uncle do this?"

Uncle Qiao sighed before saying: "Some things are not what you want to do, for example, you are now, you can be a little scholar in Master Cen's house, but now you are here, so people often live in helplessness, you have to accept your fate." ”

Cen Wenhan didn't say anything more, Uncle Qiao was reasonable, and he didn't want to refute it, Uncle Qiao asked him to go back to sleep by himself when he saw this, and Cen Wenhan didn't close his eyes all night that night.

At dawn, the big black dog ran to Cen Wenhan's house, it was very strange why Wen Han was still asleep at this time today, usually Wen Han got up very early. The black dog jumped onto Cen Wenhan's bed and kept licking his face with his tongue, Cen Wenhan was only then woken up by the big black dog, he rubbed his eyes, and the events of last night appeared in front of his eyes again.

Uncle Qiao got up early in the morning, he saw that Cen Wenhan hadn't gotten up yet, and knew that he had insomnia because of what happened last night, so he didn't say anything, and put the big black dog into the house to wake him up, and he went down to the kitchen to cook. When it was time to eat, Cen Wenhan sat aside to eat without saying a word, and Uncle Qiao saw him like this and said, "Cen San still can't think about what happened last night?" ”

Cen Wenhan glanced at Uncle Qiao and didn't speak, and Uncle Qiao said again: "How do you know that Gu is used to harm people?" ”

"I saw it in the book in the young master's study."

"Since you think Gu is harmful, do you want to learn to solve Gu?"

"Unraveling Gu?"

"Yes, if someone falls into the Gu, generally only the person who released the Gu will solve it, but after knowing the method of solving the Gu, you can also solve the Gu released by others, so that if others harm others, you can save people."

"Learn!" At this time, Cen Wenhan's eyes lit up.

"Since you want to learn, you have to keep this secret just like last night, and you can't let others know that you can solve the Gu."

"Why is that?"

"Because everyone in the world knows that only those who release Gu will solve Gu, if you let others know that you can solve Gu, they will definitely misunderstand that you are the one who releases Gu, and then you will not be able to tell even if you have a hundred mouths, so even if you want to save people and solve Gu, you have to act secretly, and you can't let others know."

"Okay, I got it." Cen Wenhan agreed.

Uncle Qiao smiled at this time: "Let's eat first." But he laughed secretly in his heart, "You stupid boy, if you don't know how to release Gu, how can you solve Gu, if you want to solve Gu, you have to learn to release Gu first, now I have a smart apprentice." ”

After eating, Uncle Qiao took Cen Wenhan to a secluded place, Cen Wenhan took a look here, it was a small hill, there was not a single tree around it, and there was no place to hide here. Uncle Qiao saw Cen Wenhan's question, and he said: "There is no place to hide around here, so I am not afraid of someone eavesdropping around, you must know that everything I told you today has been taught by mouth from generation to generation." ”

Cen Wenhan understood what Uncle Qiao meant this time, and Uncle Qiao continued: "Gu is said to come from Miao Jiang, but what the world doesn't know is that Gu is found in many places, but the witch Gu mainly from the south was the most prosperous in the Han Dynasty, and it is because of its mystery that everyone is afraid, in fact, Gu can be divided into herbal Gu, insect Gu, snake Gu, ......."

"Uncle Qiao, how did you teach me to release Gu!" Cen Wenhan said in surprise.

"If you don't know how others release Gu, how can you guard against others, if you don't know how others release Gu, how do you know what kind of Gu others are releasing Gu, and how can you explain Gu to others!"

Uncle Qiao's words left Cen Wenhan speechless, and he calmed down and listened to everything Uncle Qiao taught.

At dusk, Uncle Qiao stopped, "Okay, that's all for today, have you remembered everything?" ”

"I've written it down."

"Did you write it all down?" There was obviously surprise in Uncle Qiao's tone.

Cen Wenhan recited what he heard today, Uncle Qiao looked at him in surprise and didn't know what to say, Cen Wenhan saw this and hurriedly said: "In the past, he didn't finish the books in Young Master Cen's study, so I memorized them all, so my memory is very good, and what Uncle taught me today is easy to memorize." ”

Uncle Qiao was simply overjoyed, he didn't expect Cen Wenhan to be so smart, today's one-day teaching made him feel that it was not in vain, "You can go back and think about what you wrote down today, I will test you in a few days, let's go back." ”

After going back, Cen Wenhan sat in the courtyard and thought about everything Uncle Qiao told him today, the big black dog squatted beside him and never left, seeing this scene, Uncle Qiao was also drunk at this time, and Cen Wenhan seemed so calm in the courtyard at dusk.

It was dawn, Uncle Qiao smelled the smell of food wafting from the kitchen, he put on his clothes and walked to the yard, at this time he felt that he had stepped on something, he looked down and saw that it was a branch, he raised his foot, but he didn't expect something to fly up from under the branch, Uncle Qiao quickly turned around and let go of the thing flying towards him, but when he turned around, his feet were empty, and a rope flew over and wrapped around his foot, which was in trouble.

Uncle Qiao was screaming in the yard constantly, Cen Wenhan was busy cooking in the house, and he didn't have time to take care of his Uncle Qiao, it took a while for Uncle Qiao to enter the house from the yard, he glanced at Cen Wenhan who was busy and asked, "San'er, what kind of formation are you laying in the yard?" After saying that, he sat down at the table, but his huge body jumped up quickly, and reached out to touch his buttocks, and soon Uncle Qiao pulled out two bloody toothpicks from behind his buttocks.

"Uncle taught me to combine the Stacked Worm Array, the Running Beast Array, and the Hundred Grass Array." Cen Wenhan said proudly.

"You put three different formations together, how did you do that?" Uncle Qiao was obviously very surprised, but while he was surprised, he was so happy from the bottom of his heart that he even forgot the pain in his body.

"Actually, it's very simple, these three formations lack different positions, such as the stacked insect formation lacks the dry position and the exchange position, and the running beast array lacks the shock position and the Xun position, the hundred grass array is much lacking, Kan, Li, Kun, and Gen positions are all missing, I think these missing directions must be the position where Shi Gu people stand, so I will combine these several formations together and let them fill each other, so that a combination array will come out." Cen Wenhan said it right.

Uncle Qiao was in ecstasy at this time, but he pretended to be okay and asked again, "How do you know that the direction of these formations is the position where the Gu Releaser is standing?" ”

"These formations are secretly in line with the innate gossip, but I have never figured out what is always missing, and then I thought that Uncle Qiao has been teaching me the method of Gu and I understand, the death formation cannot trap people, only people are used to control the formation, so I understand that the missing place is reserved for releasing Gu people."

Uncle Qiao was very happy at this time, he didn't expect this pit boy to be so capable, today's pain was not in vain, "How many days did it take you to study these formations?" ”

"Ten days."

"You figured out these formations in ten days, and it took me three years to figure them out, boy, you're really capable." Uncle Qiao was taken aback, and his voice was also very loud.

"There is an explanation in the formation that Uncle showed me!" Cen Wenhan was a little surprised why Uncle Qiao was so loud.

"That's the ancient tadpole script, do you know those words?"

"Yes, I do."

"How did you know Tadpole Wen?"

"My young master's study is all-encompassing, and when I accompany the young master to study, I read these when I have nothing to do, and there is "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" in his book, and the words I don't know rely on the words I don't know."

"It's good to be literate! Have you memorized all the Gu methods I taught you? ”

"I've given it to my uncle, doesn't my uncle know?"

Hearing Cen Wenhan say this, Uncle Qiao jumped up from the stool in surprise, "When did you give me Gu?" ”

"Uncle, don't worry, I just gave my uncle some charcoal, and my uncle touched his lips to see if they were black." Cen Wenhan said proudly.

Uncle Qiao touched his lips, and sure enough, they were black, and he smiled happily at this time: "Okay! It's only been a few days, and you've learned all this bit of uncle's skills. ”

"There's still a lot I have to learn from my uncle, and now I'm only scratching the surface."

Uncle Qiao said with a smile: "It won't take long for you to learn this little thing of mine, I will not only teach you to solve Gu in the future, but also teach you how to survive in the rivers and lakes." ”

"Is it hard to survive in the rivers and lakes?"

"Yes, especially when you meet a woman who wants your life."

"Women are so terrible?"

"Especially beautiful women are more terrifying."

After the two of them finished eating, they came to the courtyard, the sky was cloudless, the big black dog shook his head and sat next to Cen Wenhan, and Uncle Qiao also sat beside him, looking at the clear sky, he said: "Little San, let me tell you about this snake Gu!" ”

"Hmmm! I'm listening! "Cen Wenhan is not very interested in Gu.

"Once upon a time, there was a couple, the man was a captive, but after the war, he was favored by the woman's family and recruited into the family as a son-in-law, so after ten years, the family was also relieved of the man, because the children were several, this day the man said that he missed his hometown and wanted to go back to see, and the woman had no reason to object, how long did it take for the man to go home, the man said about half a year, and she made a bowl of noodles for the man before leaving."

"That woman has fallen into the face of Gu?" Cen Wenhan asked casually.

"Yes, the woman calculated the amount of medicine for half a year and gave it to the man and then let the man go, and after half a year, the man did not come back, and the woman estimated that the man died of poison, so she remarried someone else."

"This is also normal, no one can control if my father dies and my mother gets married."

Uncle Qiao laughed when he heard Cen Wenhan say this, "Why are there so many evil words for your kid!" ”

Cen Wenhan realized that he had lost his words, he also laughed, Uncle Qiao glanced at him and continued: "I didn't expect that the man came back a year later, and the woman's family was shocked at that time, and they also knew that the woman had tricked him, but they didn't know why he didn't die. ”

"Will he unravel Gu?" At this time, Cen Wenhan became interested in Uncle Qiao's story.

"He won't solve the Gu." Uncle Qiao glanced at Cen Wenhan and said: "After the man went home, he said that since his woman had remarried, he would not rob others, he just had to take away his own pair of children, and the woman's family had nothing to say at this time, and they didn't dare to say that their daughter had tricked him, so they had to agree to the man's request." ”

"I think it was the man's trickery, not only didn't want the woman he didn't like, but also used methods to get his children away, but why didn't he fall for the Gu." Cen Wenhan's curiosity was really raised by Uncle Qiao.

"After the man got his own children, one of his friends stopped him before he left and asked him why he didn't fall for the Gu, because many local men were afraid that their wives would plant Gu for themselves, and his friend also wanted to learn some experience from him to guard against his own women. The man saw that there was no one around, so he sneered and opened the cover of his gutter, and then he saw a long snake lying in the gutter, and the man pointed to the long snake and said, 'When my woman cooked for me, I knew that she was not in a good mood, so I took advantage of her lack of attention to pour the bowl of noodles here.' ’”

"Oh! It turned out that the man didn't know how to solve the Gu, he just prevented the woman from taking care of the face with the Gu and poured it down. Cen Wenhan understood at this time.

"Now do you know how powerful the snake Gu is?"

"Got it, what is a worm Gu again?"

"Worm Gu and Snake Gu These refining methods are different, and the usage is not the same, I will teach you slowly in the future, these things are very dangerous, I can't teach them too quickly, lest you hurt yourself I can't help it."

"Can Gu control other people's minds?"

"No, but there are ways to keep others under your control."

"In what way?"

"For example, medicine Gu, this thing can make people lose their ability to judge, so that he will do what you say, but medicine Gu is also the best kind of Gu to solve, let's start learning from here."

"Is the medicine Gu a medicinal herb?"

"Yes, but you also have to use worms, these worms have to be fed with their own medicinal herbs, and then they are used to refine Gu worms."

When it got dark, Uncle Qiao took Cen Wenhan into the firewood room, at this time the black dog also wanted to follow into the house, Uncle Qiao drove it a few times and it didn't leave, Cen Wenhan only said to it, "Go out and guard", the big black dog squatted outside the house and didn't dare to come in, Uncle Qiao saw this scene in his eyes.

After entering the house, Uncle Qiao took out some wooden boards, which were painted with strange patterns, and he pointed to these patterns and said: "These wooden boards I showed you are a kind of formation, don't underestimate these wooden boards, their formation can attract the snakes and insects I want." ”

"What are we going to do with bugs?"

"You stand aside, I'll do it for you." Uncle Qiao began to put the wooden plank after speaking, and then he burned a brazier, and I don't know what to put in it, the fire in the brazier began to emit a dim green light, and for a while the whole room was filled with an indescribable smell, and Uncle Qiao seemed to have entered a state of pleasing God, running and chattering, and dancing in the house. Seeing Uncle Qiao's appearance, Cen Wenhan really wanted to laugh, this was simply dancing a god.

It didn't take long for Cen Wenhan to stop laughing, it turned out that at some point, poisonous snakes and poisonous insects kept coming into this room, and these poisons didn't attack people, they slowly sizzled around the brazier in the direction of Uncle Qiao's finger.

Uncle Qiao collected the poisons into a bucket, and then put them in different bowls, and then he hung the long snakes upside down, and the snakes seemed to be hypnotized, hanging upside down without moving, letting the venom in his mouth drip down, and the venom dripped into the bowl where the poisonous insects were placed.

Uncle Qiao covered these bowls separately, and then took Cen Wenhan out of the house, only then Cen Wenhan found that the big black dog was gone, and when he was startled, the black dog ran out again, Uncle Qiao smiled and said: "This dog thing is very smart, it knows that those poisons are harmful and hides." ”

At this time, Cen Wenhan didn't know what kind of mood he should have, he felt that his heart was very complicated now, what he just did was not what he wanted to learn, but Uncle Qiao said that if you want to solve Gu, you have to learn to release Gu first.

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