Chapter 42: Mountain Ghost Festival (1)
The doctor got the medicine king and the nine injections of Fuxi, so it was naturally difficult to suppress the excitement in his heart, and he couldn't wait to find a quiet place to study it carefully.
At this moment, the courtyard door was pushed open, and two middle-aged people from my uncle and uncle hurriedly walked in, shouting as they walked into the hall: "Fourth, fourth, it's all ready over there, is my mother-in-law ready?" ”
The two of them walked all the way into the hall and saw a crowd of people crowded into the room, their expressions were a little surprised, and when they saw me, their faces showed surprise.
I hurriedly greeted them, and then I saw my grandmother stand up, glanced at the two uncles, and said lightly: "Let's go!" ”
The two uncles wanted to catch up with me, but when they saw my grandmother's posture, they didn't dare to delay, and told me to wait until the matter was over, and then hurriedly prepared to leave.
I hurriedly asked, "Uncle, what's so urgent, is there something big going on in the village?" ”
"No, no, isn't this the Mountain Ghost Festival about to begin......
When I heard them talk about the Mountain Ghost Festival, I immediately understood what was going on, and my heart relaxed.
When grandma left, she called the fourth uncle away, Sister Bailing also had something to do, and she also went out after grandma left, and the Taoist priest planned to follow, but unfortunately Sister Bailing ruthlessly refused, so she could only stay at home depressed and be with us.
As soon as the grandmother left on the front foot, the doctor found a place under an old acacia plant in the yard, and eagerly studied the volume of the medicine king book. I was curious about this, but I knew that I should not disturb the doctor at this time, otherwise he would most likely turn against me.
Speaking of books, I immediately thought that I also had them, which was the pile of codex of my grandfather Zhang Tianxing. Considering that it would take a long time to go back to our hometown, we brought back all the important stuff, and the codex was among them.
When I thought about the Codex, I suddenly realized that I had one very important thing left to do.
Gu poison, the black-robed old man of the Heavenly Witch Sect put Gu poison on me and Officer Zhou, at that time, I only felt that kind of Gu worm was a little familiar, and it seemed that I had seen it in the master's codex.
At that time, I was thinking that I would wait until I returned to the rented room and looked through the codex to find a way to solve the Gu, but no one expected that so many things would happen later.
According to the Taoist priest, on the night of the incident, when they broke through the formation and rushed into the laboratory building, they ran into an old man in black robes who escaped in embarrassment. That old guy is also a fortune teller, he is the only one of the three black-robed people who saved his life, of course, the price he paid is also very great, when the Taoist priest and the doctor bumped into him, one of his hands was missing, his breath was sluggish, and he was covered in blood.
Due to the extremely complicated situation at that time, my life was hanging by a thread, and they didn't know the identity of the black-robed old man, so they let him escape, so that the Gu on our bodies could only figure out their own way.
I found the codex, moved it to the courtyard, beckoned the Taoist priest to come over, told me about the Gu worm, and asked him to help find it together.
The Taoist priest couldn't go out with Sister Bailing, he was in a panic, and he had been coveting my codex for a long time, and as soon as he heard my words, he immediately came over.
The original codex is one by one, and the pages are extremely wide, inconvenient to carry, it is not easy to turn over, since the ancient town back, I will cut the original pages small, in order to bind into a book, just in case, I also specially bound the six volumes of the codex all scanned into electronic manuscripts, encrypted and stored in the computer.
In this way, even if the original manuscript of the Codex is damaged or lost, I can make countless copies of it.
There are a total of six volumes of the rebound Codex, and each volume is as thick as a Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and there is no catalog index, so it is really not easy to find a way to solve the Gu.
We each grabbed a copy and started rummaging through it. At first, I paid a little attention to the contents of the codex, and although it was a superficial view, I still had some impressions of what was probably written.
As time went on, I started to have headaches and my eyes became more sore, and I was only halfway through the manuscript in my hand.
It's not that it's hard to read, it's that some of the contents are so complicated that it's okay to just look at it, but if you think about it a little, you will be dizzy and can't support it at all.
I knew that I might really vomit if I continued like this, so I hurriedly stopped, intending to slow down and talk about it first. At this time, I saw that the Taoist priest's face was similar to mine, and it was obvious that he was in the same situation as me, except that he was almost finished with the manuscript in his hand.
"Hey, let's take a break!" I said to the Taoist priest with a wry smile, he closed the book, rubbed his eyes, and sighed: "Alas, Immeasurable Tianzun, your master is really not simple, the things in it, from astronomy, down to geography, customs and personnel, and metaphysics are almost all involved, and they have all touched the depths, which is simply beyond human reach!" ”
I said, "Eh, Taoist priest, since my grandfather is such a bull, he must have been quite famous back then, your master is well-informed, has he ever told you about my grandfather?" ”
Hearing me mention his master, the Taoist priest sighed, and said a little depressedly: "Let me tell you the truth, the Taoist master often stayed with that old guy when he was a child, and after the age of sixteen, we rarely saw each other, almost only two or three times a year, and every time he suddenly appeared after the Taoist master caused trouble with the unevenness." In his words, this is to let me practice my heart so that I can go further in the future. ”
After listening to the words of the Taoist priest, I also felt speechless for a while, no wonder the Taoist priest looked like a prodigal son in the rivers and lakes, and his feelings were sharpened by his master.
We didn't continue the question, and after a short break, we continued to rummage. This time, we took a long memory, only looked at the parts related to witch Gu, and skipped the rest, so that our efficiency was greatly improved, and later Yang Mengqing also joined in, and after rummaging through four volumes, we finally found a Gu worm record with a similar description.
"Hey, hey, reporter, come and see, isn't this it, this description is very similar to what you said!"
The Taoist priest's cry attracted me, and when I looked at it, I saw that on the page that the Taoist priest had turned to, there was a black-shelled beetle similar to a ladybug, with two hoops and six legs, and a pair of very sharp mouthparts at the place of the mouth.
The name and description of this beetle are marked below the pattern: marrow sucking Gu, six-legged double crow, the size of an adult rice grain, the mouthparts contain paralyzing venom, the bitten person does not know the pain, and the self-wound mouth sneaks into the human body......
As soon as I saw this description, I immediately clapped my hands in surprise: "That's right, that's it, that's it, come on, let's see how to solve the Gu ......" 361 reading
In addition to the marrow sucking Gu, Officer Zhou was also fed the Broken Intestine Silkworm Gu, and I myself was also this Gu. Since I still have some impressions of the Broken Intestine Silkworm Gu, I found the source casually.
The two methods of removing the Gu worms have been found, and they are not too difficult, so I immediately dialed the phone number of one of the police officers who handled the case at the time, told him the method of solving the Gu, and explained the matters that need attention, and asked him to try the method I said first, and if it doesn't work, call me again.
After solving this matter, my mood relaxed a lot, just as I was about to detoxify myself according to the method of detoxifying the Gu of the Broken Intestine Silkworm Gu, Sister Bailing came back, and there were many people who moved furniture with her, it seems that she went to buy the furniture that was destroyed last night.
Seeing us gathered together, Sister Bailing was a little strange, and casually asked what we were doing?
I thought about it, just in time to let Sister Bailing see if the Gu solution method recorded in the codex was useful, so I told her about my Gu trick.
Sister Bailing frowned slightly, took the codex and looked at it, nodded and said to me This is indeed the solution to the Broken Intestine Silkworm Gu, but few people know this solution.
After getting Sister Bailing's affirmative answer, I was even more relieved, but Sister Bailing was a little uneasy, so I had to check it out for myself. I didn't take it seriously, but when Sister Bailing checked it, the results made us all a little dumbfounded.
There is no doubt that I am indeed a Broken Intestine Silkworm Gu, but that fat silkworm has long since died in my body, and is being absorbed by a strange black silk.
When I first heard Sister Bailing's diagnosis, I didn't believe it at all, because the vitality of the Broken Intestine Silkworm Gu was extremely strong, and it could lurk in the main body of the host for at least several decades, how could it die so easily? And it is also absorbed by what black-silk, which is also too bizarre.
But Sister Bailing's expression was very serious, not like she was joking, and my face became ugly.
The Taoist priest patted me on the shoulder at this time and comforted: "Hey, don't worry, don't press down if you have too many problems, your body has so many problems, isn't it okay?" Besides, your sister Bailing also said that the Gu worm is dead, which is a good thing! ”
Sister Bailing also said: "There is some truth in what he said, do you still remember, when you were in Toast Tai before, the corpse Gu in you also disappeared mysteriously, I suspect that your body is affected by the curse, and the Gu poison cannot survive in your body, if this is the case, it is indeed a great thing." ”
I was stunned for a moment, but I soon understood, and my heart said yes, if the Gu worm can't survive in my body, doesn't this mean that I will no longer be afraid of Gu poison in the future, it is really an extra talisman out of thin air.
The gloom in my mind was suddenly cleared, and at the same time I thought of another question.
Before that, my body gained the ability to heal itself due to the curse of Doom, and now I have discovered the trait of not being afraid of Gu poison, does this mean that there are other changes in my body that I haven't noticed yet?
The Gu worm itself died, so there was no need to try the method of solving the Gu recorded in the Codex, we were dizzy from reading the information just now, and we also stopped thinking about continuing to study the Codex.
Sister Bailing Zhang Luo's new furniture was placed, Yang Mengqing became good friends with Lin Qiaoer after the incident in Fengyang, and now Lin Qiaoer is unconscious, so she took on the job of taking care of Lin Qiaoer, so she also returned to the room.
All of a sudden there were only three of us left in the courtyard.
When we came back with me last time, he also heard about our local custom of believing in mountain ghosts, but he didn't know about the mountain ghost festival.
I told him that the Mountain Ghost Festival is the largest and most solemn festival in our local area, which is held every year, and with the development of the tourism economy in recent years, this festival has a tendency to go out of the mountains and into the local city.
The mountain ghost, which I have already described in the previous article, is redundant, so I will not repeat it here, and the so-called mountain ghost festival, if you only look at its name, you will inevitably think that it is an activity to worship the mountain ghost, if you really think so, you are very wrong.
The mountain ghost festival is actually a beautiful mountain god abstracted by people. In the local legends, the mountain ghost is the goddess of the mountain, she pursues love, protects the mountain people, is admired by people, and is also a symbol of the local landscape culture.
Holding the mountain ghost festival is not only a sacrifice to the mountain ghosts, but also a kind of inheritance and development of the local landscape culture.
According to the usual practice, this year's mountain ghost festival should have been held as early as the last time we went back to our hometown, but due to the accident, the people of Dingyan Village were panicked for a period of time after that, let alone holding such a grand event, even when they went out of their homes to work in the fields.
Not long ago, the relevant parties jointly entered the mountain to search, and the fish that slipped through the net of the Heavenly Witch Sect were basically eliminated, and the tense atmosphere in the village eased a little, and the mountain ghost sacrifice was put back on the agenda.
In the morning, the two uncles came to invite grandma, for this matter, because grandma is the whole Dingyan Village, no, it should be said that it is the most prestigious person in the nearby villages, so the grandmother of the mountain ghost festival every year is the main sacrifice, even if the place where the mountain ghost festival is held is not the village, they will invite the grandmother to preside over the sacrifice thousands of miles away.
Before the official festival begins, a lot of preparations need to be made, and the construction of the festival site is a very important part, including both an altar and a place where all those involved in the festival can pray and live at the same time, because the mountain ghost festival lasts for a total of three days.
During these three days, the eating, drinking and sleeping of the participants in the sacrifice will be completed in the venue near the altar, and the sacrifice must not leave until it is completed, otherwise the coming year will be full of disasters.
According to the experience of holding the mountain ghost festival in previous years, at least one representative of each household will participate in the festival, and this year is the most solemn one, with a total of eight villages jointly organizing, so that the number of people participating in the festival this time is definitely not less than two or three thousand.
In this way, the venue is a big problem.
In the past, the festival was built with wooden stakes more than two meters high, and a tarpaulin was pulled between the stakes, and when it rained, the tarpaulin was torn up, because a bonfire was lit in the center of the festival every night during the festival, and everyone involved in the festival gathered around the bonfire to sing and dance, which is another aspect of the mountain ghost festival so attractive.
All of the above only takes into account the locals, because the name of the mountain ghost festival has spread in recent years, and this year is the most grand, so it has attracted a lot of tourists.
This time the postponement of the event, although the tourists who came to the village earlier, but the new group heard the wind and came to the village as early as a week ago, and we met a lot when we came back yesterday, so this time the pressure on the venue was even greater.