Before she finished her sentence, Miao Nu suddenly vomited blood and fainted.

Zhao Hangyu shook his head, remade the blood rune, and pasted it on Miao Nu's forehead.

After a long time, the Miao woman woke up slowly, saw that she was still alive, and couldn't help but ask why the other party wanted to save her life.

Zhao Hangyu said lightly: "If you are allowed to die like this, how can I know what you want to do." ”

Miao Nu sighed and only said, "Come with me." ”

After speaking, he waved his hand to Zhao Hangyu, returned to the slope, and did not walk towards the flat mountain roads on both sides, but turned into a sheep intestine trail in the northeast.

Zhao Hangyu couldn't help but be amazed when he followed behind, if it weren't for her to lead the way, it would really not be easy to find that there was still a way to go here, although the trail was very bumpy, but in the trees on both sides, it would not slide into the ravine, and it felt quite safe to walk.

Along the way, the jungle is shady, the environment is beautiful, there is a winding path and quiet scenery, and I feel very peaceful for a while.

Miaojiang is everywhere in the mountains, everywhere, it seems that it is indeed not a lie. From time to time, you will encounter a mountain spring flowing down from the mountain wall, and along a small stream winding deep into the mountain stream, making a sound of rushing water, adding a beautiful music to the silent mountain forest.

After walking for nearly two hours, out of the mountains and forests, and when she came to the edge of a cliff, Miao Nu stopped, pointed to a village in the green shade under the cliff and said that she was almost home.

Zhao Hangyu looked down at the place where she pointed out, it was a Miao village, and you could vaguely see the figure of the Miao people in costumes, walking among them. Although it looks very close, it is a long way to go down from the cliff and make a detour.

However, it seems impossible for Zhao Hangyu to honestly walk around the mountain road, he hugged Miao Nu's shoulder with one hand, glided down like a big bird, and slowly landed in the square in front of the village, only to see a thick yellow cypress tree in the middle of the square.

Miao Nu asked Zhao Hangyu to stay outside for a while, and walked in by herself, and after a while, she led an old man in a gray robe, with a head wrapped around his head, a yellow complexion, and eagle-nosed falcon eyes.

Zhao Hangyu only glanced at him, and knew that this person must be a powerful character, and he couldn't help waking up at the moment, and he didn't dare to be careless.

The old man took a meaningful breath and asked the Miao girl beside him, "Ziwei, you said that this young man is the one who can solve the Peach Blossom Gu?"

Seeing that Miao Nu nodded, she bowed her hand: "In the Lower Miao Frontier, the Yin Wizard Maha, welcome to visit!"

You must know that since ancient times, the status of wizards in Miao Jiang has been extremely high, and they are divided into two types: yin and non-yin. The sorcerer who walks in the yin not only sacrifices ghosts, but also is good at healing human and animal diseases, and can be said to be the most learned person in Miao Village. Zhao Hangyu didn't dare to hold it up in a foreign land, and he also returned the courtesy.

Ma Ha said with a smile: "If you enter Miao Village, you are a distant guest, tomorrow is Jiazi Day to kill the pig of the Drum Society, it is the ancestor worship ceremony of my Miao Village Drum Society, how about I ask Panyuan to give up tonight?"

"This ............"

Zhao Hangyu knew that in Miao Village, Gu poison was everywhere, and Ziwei had already made himself unguarded by the peach blossom Gu he had played on himself before, but now how could he enter the tiger's den lightly.

Ziwei saw through his thoughts at a glance, and explained with a smile: "Your Excellency is too worried, the wizard of Miao Jiang will never play Gu in his own home, please relax your mind." ”

Zhao Hangyu's face turned red, and he followed them into the gate.

But seeing that the stilted building where Maha lives is unusually clean, there is no dust in the house. Zhao Hangyu knew that this was the characteristic of Gu cultivators, because all Gu insects loved to be clean, and some small insects such as spiders and mosquitoes had long been scared away. The master's house must also be cleaned every day, so that the Gu worms are willing to live in the house.

After the guests and hosts were seated, Ma Ha handed over the Miao family's self-brewed bud grain soju. Zhao Hangyu knew that this was a Miao custom, so he didn't shirk, took the wine bowl and drank it all. I only felt that the wine was strong and spicy, and it was like fire in the stomach, and after three bowls of belly, the whole person seemed to be a little fluttering.

"Good!"

Ma Ha laughed heartily: "My Miao family's soju can dissolve, can burn, freeze three feet without Ling, and the cellar is still fragrant for ten years." You can drink three bowls in a row at such a young age without falling to the ground, and I really like a boy like you!"

Zhao Hangyu waved his hand: "I just want her to tell me at the moment, why do you want to play tricks on me?"

Ziwei's cheeks were slightly red, and she said shyly: "Can't people take a fancy to you?" I want you to be my husband, but I'm afraid that you won't agree, so I have to ............ I had to make this decision. ”

"How can this be justified! Emotional matters should be your willing, how can you use this way to obtain marriage?"

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Ma Ha hurriedly played a round: "Distinguished guests, please calm your anger, this child is not intentional, it's just the custom of my Miao family, it has always been like this." Yes, after tossing for most of the day, presumably the guests haven't eaten yet, why don't you try the craftsmanship of our Miao family?"

Zhao Hangyu nodded, and after a while, someone brought a meal, which was two large bowls of stewed snake meat and a large pot of stewed dog meat. In addition, it is also served with bacon glutinous rice and Miaoling sour soup, which smells so fragrant that people can't help but salivate out.

After eating a hearty meal, Zhao Hangyu lay down in the guest room, thinking that he didn't know where Lin Zixi and Long Qiuling were.

The next day, the square of Miao Village was very lively, full of drum music and laughter, and the quadrennial Killing Drum Society Pig Ceremony in Miao Village finally opened.

I saw a large number of Miao people gathered in the square, blowing, blowing, singing and dancing, so lively. Under the tall yellow cypress tree stood two drums, and then the fire was lit, and the firewood burned and gave off a faint fragrance.

The Drum Society Festival is the most solemn ancestor worship celebration in Miao Xinjiang, and the Miao people believe that the wooden drum is the residence of the ancestors of the dead, and it is the bond and symbol of a blood family. The Drum Society is a sacrificial organization with wooden drums as the core, so it is called the Drum Society Festival. The first day starts, the second day worships the ancestors and the thunder god, the third day is the most solemn, it is the sacrifice to the god of grains, and the last day is to send the ancestors.

At this time, a man from the Miao family walked over with a plate in his hand, and in it were several cups full of wine.

"Guests from afar, please drink a glass of barricade wine, today is the day of the Miao family's killing of the drum pig ceremony. The man said, and held up the wine plate aloft.

Zhao Hangyu picked up the wine glass, drank three glasses in a row, thanked the Miao family, and went to watch the wonderful performance of the Miao people climbing the knife ladder and crossing the sea of fire. After a while, an old man dressed as a wizard came to the middle of the square and recited an incomprehensible eulogy to a wooden drum. Zhao Hangyu couldn't help but ask Ziwei what this wizard was doing.

Ziwei explained that the old man was the great priest of Miao Jiang, and the Miao language called "Lao Si", that is, Apu Lao Si, the dark wizard of Da Miao Mountain, is usually hereditary.

Legend has it that thousands of years ago, the ancestor of Da Miao Mountain, Chi You Apu (the meaning of Miao father-in-law), once led troops to fight against the Han people in the Central Plains by the Yangtze River, until the corpses were all over the field, and the blood flowed like a river, and finally the defeat was to retreat to Da Miao Mountain.

When the soldiers carried the wounded soldiers away, Apu said to the military advisors around him, "We can't leave the brothers who died here alone, you can use some magic to get these good brothers back to their hometowns."

Apu's military advisor said okay, everyone changed their costumes, Apu took the yin gong to lead the way in front, and the military advisor supervised in the back. So the military advisor disguised himself as Apu stood among the corpses of the brothers who had died in battle, and after reciting mantras and praying to the gods, he cried out to the corpses.

"Brothers who have died, this is not the place where you will die. It is really sad to die in vain, and the parents in their hometown are looking forward to it. The wife and young son are looking forward to returning to their hometown, and Erluer's soul does not need to hesitate. Hurry like a law, get up ............" Then I saw that the corpses that were lying on the ground all stood up at once, and followed Apu's yin gong and walked south in an orderly manner.

At this time, the enemy's pursuers came, and Apu and the military division joined forces again, causing a heavy fog and trapping the enemy in the fog. Because it is the "division" of the Apu military division, it means to implement, and it is their spells that let everyone get out of danger, and since then the Miao family has called them "Lao Si".

The last technique used by Apu Laosi to resist the enemy was actually the "fog technique", but there were too many "fog" strokes that were difficult to write, so it was rewritten into a "witch" character instead.

The upper horizontal represents the sky or fog, the lower horizontal represents the earth, and the middle vertical represents the symbols. There is a person standing on each side of the vertical, the one on the right represents Apu, and the one on the left represents Apu. It means that two people must unite to do witchcraft to drive out corpses, which is also the earliest origin of corpse exorcism.

From the ancient Tuojiang River to the upper reaches of the Yuan River, the place is barren, and the poor people mostly work as hawkers, or collect medicine or hunt for a living.

Those places are mostly steep mountains, the miasma in the mountains is very heavy, falciparum malaria is often prevalent, and the living environment is extremely bad, except for the local Miao people, outsiders rarely go.

None of the Han people who died in those places were rich. Traditionally, the Han people have a deep concept of transporting corpses back to their hometowns for burial, but on the rugged mountain roads of thousands or hundreds of miles, even if they have money, it is difficult to carry them in vehicles or stretchers, so some people use the relatively cheap method of driving corpses back to their hometowns in Damiao Mountain.

After listening to Ziwei's description, Zhao Hangyu couldn't help but glance at the old man a few more times, and faintly felt that something seemed to be wrong with the other party, so he decided to investigate secretly.