"Why is it so quiet?" Old Peng frowned. "Gu God!" Suddenly, a low voice came from behind him. Old Peng was startled, and his fingers flicked on the hilt of the knife, and the voice was clearly the leader of the witch people. And Lao Peng didn't even notice when this person was behind him. Lao Peng turned around and saw that the leader's slightly raised eyes were looking at him fixedly, and he lowered his voice as if he was afraid of being heard by someone.

"Gu God Festival, don't go out if you have nothing to do. If the Gu God goes up, the God can't save you. Wang Lie hurriedly pulled Lao Peng and saluted to the leader: "Thank you, thank you." Old Peng was startled, and his fingers flicked on the hilt of the knife, and the voice was clearly the leader of the witch people. And Lao Peng didn't even notice when this person was behind him. Lao Peng turned around and saw that the leader's slightly bulging eyes were looking at him fixedly, and he lowered his voice as if he was afraid of being heard by someone: "Gu God Festival, don't go out if it's okay." If the Gu God goes up, the God can't save you. ”

Wang Lie hurriedly pulled Lao Peng and saluted to the leader: "Thank you, thank you." A few of the witch people who led the way came to help the men lead the horses to the nearby hut and tie them up, and the leader of the witch people made a gesture to signal the horse gang to go with him. A group of more than 20 people followed him across the trembling footbridge to the door of the largest big house in Heishuipu. The door was hidden, and the people inside were the same witch men who had led the way, and the bride and the girl who were dowry were gone.

A few torches dotted around the surroundings could not illuminate the wooden house with stacked courtyards. Qianjun's eyes widened in surprise, as if he couldn't believe that such a huge structure could be built out of trees alone, compared to the other houses in the village, this Hessian mansion was undoubtedly palace-like, and when he looked up, the roof of the central main house seemed to be connected to the sky. The witch people seemed to be extremely afraid of the fire, and did not light the lamp, but only held the torch and beckoned the caravan into the house.

Stepping on the creaking floor, everyone looked curiously, but they couldn't see the surrounding furnishings clearly, and they only felt that following the witch man in, the house was like a deep labyrinth. "Wang Bangtou, why is this place so evil?" Goudan whispered, "I just saw a few Bai Sensen on that row, like skeletons. "Don't talk nonsense!" Wang Lie lowered his voice, but he was vicious, "I said that this place is evil, don't be wordy about things that have nothing to do with you!" That's the house where the witches worship their ancestors, be careful that you can't keep your head! The dog didn't dare to squeak anymore, and quietly shrank his head back.

The group quietly followed the leader of the witch for a short time before they came to a large house. The leader of the witches lowered the straw curtain at the door, and then lightly lit a few pine lights on the wall. The whole room suddenly lit up, and everyone's hearts were light. "This is my house, and you will live here for the time being, and you will not receive any money or goods. Tomorrow, I will tell the head of the house, it is the Gu God Festival, and ordinary people don't open the door to entertain guests, so don't run around. The Gu God will return to his throne in three days, and when the time comes, I will find someone to send you into the Snake King Mountain," the leader saluted Lao Peng, and turned around to withdraw. "Tashi Leza," said Peng in return.

But Wang Lie went up to block the leader. He and the leader seemed to be familiar with each other, and they were no longer so reserved, and they leaned on a face: "The weather in the rainy season is too wet, can we light the fire pit, let's bake our clothes, and sleep comfortably?" The leader hesitated slightly, then nodded, turned around and returned to the middle of the room with Wang Lie. Only then did people realize that there was a brick stove in the middle of the house, with some ash on the surface, and some wooden branches piled up around it. Wang Lie piled up the firewood, the leader touched his side, and suddenly shook his head: "There is no fire sickle, don't light it, the Gu God will come to the place where there is light." Wang Lie laughed with him: "The guys are too wet ......"

The leader was helpless, so he had to nod: "Then you can order it yourself, but don't take the fire out of the house." "Thank you, thank you," Wang Lie nodded and sent him out. "Mom's fan, the fire is not allowed to be lit, soaked in the water tank?" As soon as Wang Lie turned around, he changed his face with a scolding face. "Ignition!" The men breathed a sigh of relief, and they didn't seem to be able to scream with joy, but the whole room was full of joy.

The stone took the scythe and velvet out of the package, and ran to the edge of the fire pit to light the fire. After trekking in the rainforest for so many days, people seem to be immersed in water, and it is difficult to stay, so you must bake your clothes and sleep peacefully. The other guys didn't bother to grab the small bed, and just lay on the ground and stretched their bodies, some chatting, some cursing, and some complaining, and the room was full of gossip, as if they were in an inferior inn in Wanzhou.

"Wang Bangtou, how about coming over and talking?" Lao Peng's voice came from the side of the fire pit. Wang Lie looked over, and unfolded a piece of leather paper on the thatched ground, and Lao Peng was looking at the map. "It's not too far from the Snake King's Mountain. Find a suitable road, but it's only three days away," Wang Lie went over and sat down, filling a bag of cigarettes for himself, "But it's the Gu God Festival, and the witch people probably don't want to go out." "Have you walked the road to the Snake King's Mountain?" "Walking is walking, not almost six years ago, and now, I really can't remember it."

"Damn, what broken wood, wet!" The stone shouted indignantly over there. "Be quiet," Lao Peng frowned and shouted, "I'm talking about business." "Long worm crossway, it's not a good sign, Peng Bangtou, you must wait for the bad luck to pass before you go on the road!" Lao Lu came over when he heard this, looking a little panicked. The shadow left by the devouring python encountered on the road does not seem to have dissipated. He is also an old man who walks in the clouds, and the most serious omen of good luck.

Lao Peng waved his hand: "Don't say it." It's unlucky to encounter a snake on the road, and this hellish Gu God Festival is not a good sign, so get out of here quickly. Old Lu retreated, Wang Lie turned his head, and saw the thousands of troops standing silently by the window. He was not tall, but when he stood silently in front of the window with the black knife, he had a kind of majesty and faintly pressed over. It was only a few steps away from the men of the caravan, but it seemed to stand far away in the sky, completely isolated from the noisy crowd behind them.

"What? Got a crush on that Niko? Wang Lie slipped behind him silently. Qian Jun glanced back at him, and didn't seem surprised, just smiled and shook his head noncommittally. "Your brother is unlucky, they are all married women, so they don't have to play. If it is one step earlier, with your appearance, it is not a trivial matter to kiss Fangze? The woman of the witch people doesn't care about this, but she just can't use her heart, and if she cares hard, she is looking for death by herself," Wang Lie said without a word.

"Oh?" Qianjun seemed to be interested. "I'm lucky, otherwise that little woman from the Snake King might have sent me into the ghost gate. I had a young man back then, and he was born to be handsome. If I'm like this, I'll be worthy of shining his shoes," Wang Lie laughed dryly, "I know this self-knowingly." At that time, I really couldn't find a witch to lead the way, so we had to live for half a month after walking a stop, and we got acquainted with each other, and there were more women who fell in love with him. As a result, he really liked one in Yingshiyu on the side of Yinhu Mountain, and the two of them were dry and hot, and they couldn't separate, so they stayed there.

Later, a year later, when I passed Yingshiyu again, the boy liked the new and hated the old, and got entangled with another woman. It turned out that the little woman was still crying and pestering him, but the boy only cared about having fun with the new little girl, and refused to turn back. Wang Lie had a somewhat sympathetic expression: "Actually, Wumin is also a human being. The boy took the new little woman in his arms and did it in the house, and the old one was crying in the rain outside. In fact, there was no sound at all, she just stood there and stood still for a day, but everyone thought she was crying......"

"The result?" "Dead," Wang Lie sighed, "Then one day, that kid suddenly couldn't find anyone, for half a month, until the smell of corpses came from a cellar, which alarmed the head of our caravan." Everyone broke down the door and rushed in, only to see that the kid was only half of his body left, and a half-foot-long blue-tailed scorpion was lying there eating his rotting corpse. I can't believe when I kill it when I haven't seen it, a small scorpion can eat so fast if it eats people. Later, the little woman who had been entangled with him was also found, and she stuck a knife in her heart, and the blood all over her body was drained. When the witch man pulled out the knife, I saw a green-tailed scorpion stuck in the tip of the knife. ”

"The blue-tailed scorpion in my heart?" "It's Gu. The witch people's little woman had already laid Gu on that kid. That Gu was refined by her own blood, and it was called 'Two Hearts with the One'. "Two hearts?" "It's a Gu that lives and dies together. Take two scorpions, one male and one female, seal them in a cage, and two people who are good with each other draw blood to feed. Wait until the two bugs have seeds, and then separate them. One is kept in a transparent cage and exposed to the sun, and the other is placed in an opaque cage and rests next to it. The one that sees the light will be sunburned alive in less than a day, and then the opaque one will also die.

These two insects were ground into powder and drunk, and both of them were hit by Gu. The insect also has affection, and the one who dies later looks at the first death in front of him, and has resentment, and it hates. This resentment can live for a long time in people's hearts, and the worm powder will also give birth to a new corpse worm inside, but it is half-dead. But when one of them dies, the other one comes back to life, bites a hole in a man's heart, and eats him. The two people in this Gu can be regarded as living and dying together. "That shrine maiden...... Kill the worm in your heart yourself? ”

"Yes," Wang Lie smoked his cigarette pouch, "It's also miserable to think about, killing the worm in his heart, and killing himself even for revenge." That woman also has resentment in her heart, which is the same as a Gu worm. "Really?" Qianjun said in a low voice. He suddenly lost his mind, and involuntarily pulled the corners of his mouth, as if he wanted to smile at Wang Lie, but a rare tiredness quickly overpowered the smile. The smile half-froze on his face, then slowly faded.

"I just suddenly remembered a friend from before," Qianjun said softly after a long silence, "she looks a little like her." "Old flames?" "Yes and no," Qianjun smiled, but he didn't deny it, and there was a slight bleak look between his eyebrows. After a pause, he added, "I was very sorry for her before. Now I'm actually afraid to think of her, but I can't forget it. When I was a child, my father said that people have a lifetime, right for a time, wrong for a lifetime, and always don't understand, but now I know that a big mistake is really unforgettable. ”

Wang Lie put away the hippie smile, went up and patted him on the shoulder: "Look at you, brother, you know that you are a seed who understands romance and knows how to love the old." Our brothers, these rough people, even if they have played with it, the women of the past, let alone never forget it, it is difficult to remember what they look like. But the man's husband, there are a few women who do ordinary things, and if you are sorry, I am sorry to talk about my mother-in-law, if you still remember others, it is serious to go back and send a pen to the past. Qianjun turned his head to look at him, his eyes full of surprise. After a long time, he smiled and shook his head: "She's dead......"

"Dot, dot, dot!" The stones on the other side cheered as the pit lit the fire. A group of men hurriedly stripped off their calf nose pants and gathered their wet clothes around the fire. The naked bodies gathered together, like a group of big monkeys, and the faces that had forgotten their worries. Wang Lie smiled, and Qianjun also smiled. After laughing, he exhaled softly, silently out the window. A flash of lightning in the dark clouds illuminated the serpentine ridge in the distance, and the heavy rain fell silently without hearing the thunder. "I said brother," Wang Liexi turned over in a trembling manner, and leaned over to talk to Qianjun, "You said you have been to Leizhou, is it really fake?" ”

It was late at night, and the guys were busy all day, and soon they were sleeping all over the ground around them. Wang Lie and Qianjun slept side by side near the fire pit, surrounded by snoring. Qianjun didn't fall asleep either, looking up at the roof of the big house with his long knife on his pillow, as if thinking about something. At this time, he smiled silently: "It's true, I saw the Phantom City with my own eyes, far away on the cliff, as if you can climb it and walk into that city." But when the sun rose, there was nothing. Every year, there is only that day and that time, as if the clouds have opened a hole so that you can see the city. ”

"Is there really a city?" "I don't know, it really looks like a city from a distance. The witch said it was the Heavenly City, but maybe it was an illusion, maybe it was just that the stone mountain looked like a city," Qianjun sighed softly, "But if it's a real city, how good." "! What a broken firewood! Wet! Dogan scolded. He hadn't slept yet, and he was trying to dry his clothes by the fire pit. Wang Lie sat up and saw Goudan hurriedly holding a bamboo tube to blow air on the fire pit, trying to blow the dying flame again.

"The voice is quieter," Wang Lie wrapped a piece of clothing around his waist, "what's wrong?" "This fire pit is too wet, it wastes my strength for a long time when I light it, and it will be extinguished after not burning for a while, it's really annoying," the dog scolded.