Chapter 320: Gu Punishment
I saw seven huge stone tablets standing on the wall facing the door, each about two and a half meters high and one and a half meters wide, and the whole was black, guessing that it was made of basalt.
Looking from afar, I can see the stele or carved or painted, full of horizontal roads, and then I recognized it at a second glance, the text symbols engraved on this stele are similar to the narrative paintings we saw on the underground cracks and stone walls of the Yellow River, and they are also comic patterns with pictures and words.
At this moment, the doubts in my heart simply reached the peak, they took us into the stilted building that had not been opened for thirty years, could it be that we saw these stone tablets?
I couldn't understand the words on the stele, so I had to focus on the mural, which was carved very clearly, and at first glance it was the work of a sharp blade.
The picture on the stele that I noticed seemed to tell an event, and because I had the experience of reading a narrative painting, I started to "read" from the upper left corner.
The first picture depicts a group of people huddled around a person, looking like they were hurrying away.
The next few pictures are a little weird! There are not only people in the picture, snakes, scorpions, centipedes and other poisonous insects, but also dozens of "chaotic" people, because the picture is too simple, and it is impossible to see what these people and insects are tinkering with.
In all the paintings, except for the person who is surrounded in the middle, everything else is a stick figure, only the outline of the person, and there are no specific facial features.
But the portrayal is very expressive.
The person in the middle is portrayed very carefully, his facial features are clear, and even his expression and demeanor are in place.
Strangely, this man gave me a sense of déjà vu, he circled all kinds of poisonous insects, and the next painting made me even more stunned.
The man lay down on a big rock, and many poisonous insects crawled on him, and some of them entered him through his nostrils and mouth.
What is puzzling is that the expression on this person's face, I don't know if it is because of the mural, I always feel that it is a smiling face full of joy from the heart.
Isn't it nice that bugs crawl into it?
"I still don't understand, what are you bringing me here for?"
At this point, I could no longer restrain the anger in my heart and almost yelled.
The middle-aged man pointed to the "male protagonist" on the stone wall: "Master, isn't this you?" ”
It was like a lightning bolt in my head—no wonder I had a sense of déjà vu, and if I guessed correctly, the man on the mural was the same person I had seen in the temple before.
Do they think that this person is me?
"These seven pieces are the prophecy tablets of our village, predicting the major events that will happen in the future in the village, this is the last piece, describing the last prophecy of Lao Miao Village."
"Does this have anything to do with me?" The more angry I became.
The middle-aged man bowed deeply to me: "According to the content of the seventh stone tablet, the new owner of Miao Village will appear in the ancestral temple. ”
I was tempted to ask what I had to do with this, but when the words came to my lips, I seemed to understand what he meant.
How could there be such a coincidence in the world?
Hi! It's come to this point, it's a coincidence, and it doesn't matter so much, so let's quickly find Han Jianli and make sure that he is really fine.
I cough softly? Pretending to be calm: "Where is the person I'm trying to find?" ”
The middle-aged man bowed deeply again: "He is our guest of honor in this wedding month, and he is a guest at my mother's house!" ”
Mother?
I quickly analyzed who this grandmother is, and judging from the name, it should be a woman.
"I want to meet him!"
I deliberately said this with a sense of righteousness, which is also in line with the tone of the master's speech.
"I'll take the master to see my mother right away!"
"Where is Grandma now?"
"At the execution house, people who trespassed on our stockade territory are being punished."
I was shocked: "Oh? Oh, why punish them? ”
The words have been spoken, and I know that I am asking nonsense.
"Except for the triennial wedding month, no foreigner can set foot in the valley at any other time."
As I spoke, several people went downstairs, and at my request, the two girls who "kidnapped" me stopped being aggressive.
The middle-aged man told us about an incident that happened in the village.
It was a few decades ago — at least thirty or forty years ago, I don't remember the exact time.
There used to be a very beautiful girl in the village, and many people loved her, but no one could get the girl's favor.
This girl drinks a lot of wine, and the pure glutinous rice wine she brews in the village, it doesn't matter if she drinks one or two catties alone.
Her archery skills are very good, and she often follows her father to hunt in the mountains.
Later, she and her father went out of the village to sell skins, and when they came back, they were a little abnormal, often distracted, and often drank alone and went up the mountain alone.
Her father thought that there was something in the girl's heart, and it was not easy to ask, so he went with her, thinking that it would be fine in a few days anyway.
In this way, the days are still as usual, the girl still follows Daddy up the mountain, and laughs with her companions, but the corners of her eyes and eyebrows are always a little melancholy.
The days are still like this - in fact, the days of Miao Village are very simple, how to live a day, and live like this for a year.
But the girl's changes are amazing.
The girl stopped going up the mountain with her father, but she secretly went out of the village several times, her face became worse and worse each time, she drank more and more wine each time, and even got drunk.
Later, everyone saw it, because they couldn't hide it. The girl's belly is big.
Gu worm Miao Village implements the "family law", the so-called law, and no one takes it seriously in the village.
An unmarried girl is pregnant, and that is an earth-shattering thing.
But the Miao people are simple, and they only ask the girl to say the name of the man, which village he belongs to, and they will not dispose of him.
Instead, he sent her to the stockade. But the girl didn't say a word.
The girl's belly is getting bigger and bigger day by day, and the patience of the people in the village is getting less and less day by day, and they will never tolerate a "wild seed" being born in their land, and they begin to discuss the use of family law.
The girl's father pleaded for the girl at first, but the girl never said the origin of the child, and she could only wait for death.
This turning point is that the mother in the village looked at the girl. Reed bamboo forest
As soon as she saw it, she said that it was not right, that things were not so simple. Then he asked the girl's father in a very sharp voice, what happened in the bazaar?
Who did you meet?
The girl's father only smoked dry cigarettes in the bar, until a bag of cigarettes was about to be smoked, and the father said that they met the people of Heimiao, there were three of them, and we talked for a while, and the girl and them drank together, and then we went back to the village.
But I don't think there's anything wrong, we all have tattoos, and the clothes show that we are seedlings, and they won't dare to provoke them.
The grandmother in the village glanced at the girl and said angrily, hum! The Gu Miao people have capsized in the gutter!!
At this time, I probably guessed that the so-called grandmother should be the Miao woman in the mouth of outsiders, and there are also witches, but they are not "the same dish" as witches in the traditional sense.
The witches of Miao Village do not understand the evil art of yin and yang, and they do not know how to exorcise ghosts and catch evil spirits, but their methods are definitely no worse than witches in the traditional sense.
Because they have mastered the advanced art of witchcraft.
Grandma said with certainty that the girl was "Peach Blossom Gu"! And within two months, he fell into the "Heart Gu" on his own!
It's stupid!
There was no one who was not surprised, how could the girl, as a Gu Miao win people, be so careless to be deceived?
Besides, if the Gu Faller was the man of the Black Miao, where did they learn about the Peach Blossom Gu's falling method and the Peach Blossom Gu's Gu worms?
Peach Blossom Gu is a secret that is not passed on in the insect dish Miao Village.
Everyone was puzzled, and then my mother said, you send a few strong men to follow me to Heimiao's village, the girl don't move first, the matter is clear, what to do.
After the mother and the others came back, they said some words to the girl's father, and the father's face turned white, and he drooped his head and said nothing.
At this time, the girl came out, and she asked her mother, the child's father, what was wrong.
Grandma looked at her and asked the girl, he got off the peach blossom Gu, do you know?
The girl said that at first, I didn't know, I just felt that someone was always calling me, always dreaming of a person, telling me, go to him.
Grandma asked again, then why, do you want to fall into the heart Gu? Have you figured out what happened to him? Have you asked him what he wants?
The girl was very light, but very stubborn, and said that as long as he could be with me, he would not be afraid of death!
Mother glanced at her, turned her head and said to Daddy, girl, she is a person from the village, but the wild seed cannot stay in the village. That black seedling man, too, must be disposed of!
At this time, the girl screamed like crazy, no, you can't get rid of my child! He won't want him! He knows that I have fallen into the Gu! He won't joke with his life!!
Mother glanced at the girl with a very pitiful eye, and said At this time, are you still deceiving yourself? Don't you have pain in your chest? Doesn't your nose bleed? Is your mind clear at every moment? Didn't your Gu worm give you any information?
The girl still didn't give up, she shook her head desperately, shouting, no, no, no!!
Mother ignored her anymore, walked away by herself, and took a dozen sturdy men with her to Heimiao to ask for someone.
The girl's father looked at the girl very painfully, and sighed incessantly.
Three days later, my mother came back, and there was a man who didn't know anyone in the village, and everyone estimated that this person was the "black seedling man".
Mother put the black Miao man in a hut, and then went to the girl and told her that this man had rescued the people of our clan, and that the man had taught him the Peach Blossom Gu and gave him a Gu worm, but she didn't tell him the consequences of this Gu.
When he returned to his village and learned about the horror of the Heart Gu, he began to look for people everywhere to solve the Gu.
However, how can you find someone to understand the heart Gu.
And he also delayed looking for the girl in the future to fulfill the promise he made, so the Gu worms began to fight back.
At the same time, there was a backlash.
Now, the mother helps the girl get rid of the wild seeds in her stomach, and then asks her to follow the mother, and the mother wants to deal with him with her own hands.
Then I'll do it again, maybe the girl will have a chance to survive.
Otherwise, we will all end up together.
The girl looked at her mother in horror and exclaimed, "No! No, you can't! You can't!! ”
But my mother put her hand into the placket of her chest at this time, and when the girl saw it, she couldn't stop retreating, but how big can a house be, and when it retreats to the end, what should I do, a room of people only dare to stand there, and even when they get angry, they become cautious...
The grandmother took out a scorpion from the placket, grabbed the girl's hand, put the scorpion on it, and then muttered to herself for less than a minute, touched the girl's face, the girl's face turned pale instantly, and the grandmother hurriedly walked over, helped the girl, and sat on the chair.
Then the goddess said, "Sit for a while, and after ten minutes, go into the lawn." Others, come out with me.
A pillar was erected on the lawn, and the pointed end was inserted into the earth, and several fires were kindled, and the body of the goddess was crawling with centipedes and scorpions. Purple complexion.
That black seedling man is already incontinent.
At this time, two people came over, carried a bucket of blood of unknown animals, the goddess took a sip, and then put a small centipede into her mouth After a while, she opened her mouth, and the centipede crawled out, and the goddess held the centipede, walked to the girl, stretched out her hand, and said to feed it to him, let him swallow it.
The girl shook her head desperately and shouted no! Then the goddess said, "Go, if you want to live." Even if you don't go, he'll still die, and he'll die differently than he does now.
The girl simply moved to the man's eyes step by step, and the man actually cried, crying and crying for the girl to let him go, and he no longer had any dissent.
The girl looked back at the goddess, and the goddess said very firmly, Go! I want him to swallow it. Then he nodded to the two people on the left and right of the man.
One of the two men pinched the man's mouth and made him open it, and the other grabbed his hair behind him and made him tilt his head up, and the girl stepped forward, picked up the centipede, and put it on top of the man's open mouth, and the centipede began to spit out a kind of mucus, which dripped into the man's mouth, and the man struggled at first, but gradually, as if he was a little delirious, he began to drool.
At this time, my mother said, quick! Put it in there and let him swallow it!
Later, the black seedling man became delirious, his spirit was sluggish, his face was expressionless, and his mouth kept muttering, "Please, kill me!" Please, kill me! ”
Not only that, but the whole body began to rot, and the flesh on the face and hands was slowly peeled off like a snake.
Later, this person was returned to the Black Miao tribe, and although the person was still alive, it was obviously no longer possible.
Later, I heard about it for seven seven and forty-nine days, and I was breathless.
The only times he regained consciousness in the past seven weeks was when he cried out "Please, kill me!" ”
After the middle-aged man finished speaking, Wu Yuhui and Xiao He's faces changed slightly, and the fear in their hearts at this moment was self-evident.
The story was told very quickly, almost as soon as we were finished, and we came to the door of a large courtyard surrounded by black wood.
Glancing inside, I saw Han Jianjian, dressed in a Tibetan robe-like costume, sitting on a bamboo chair in the courtyard, "enjoying" the wonderful performance.
"What nerves do you kid!"
After confirming that it was him, I couldn't help but roar.