There are some county chronicles in Xiangxi, who are very naughty, and there are many merchants here, so there are a lot of rumors in various places, and they are all recorded in the county chronicles. It's fun to read.

In a certain village group in the Xijiang River on the border with Myanmar, there is a village called Shikong, which hides a kind of herb, called the grass corpse, which has two types: horizontal root and vertical root, and can change the sex of the baby at will during the three months of pregnancy.

Shikong is a very mysterious village, almost does not intermarry with outsiders, and the marriage of close relatives is very serious, and in the early years, it almost depended on the sale of this herb to make a living. It is relatively rare to change the grass corpse, and it can only be collected by going deep into the mountains, and it is prepared by a special pharmacist, and the ratio of the local male and female population is almost one to one, which seems to confirm its efficacy.

This frighteningly accurate sex ratio was later said to have come from a terrible "scam", which was like a local conventional scam, in fact, when the ratio of male to female populations was out of balance, in order to maintain the myth of the miracle medicine of changing grass corpses, the locals would drown babies with alcohol at night to re-establish the gender balance.

The reason for seeing through this scam is that an official has inquired about the "lost two years". The official found that the age structure of the children was 3 to 4 years old apart in a family, and that most of the locals did not use contraception, so it was reasonable that the children should be closer in age.

But this is not the case, there are many children here who are three or four years apart, and some are five or six years apart, and the official thinks that between the eldest son and the younger son of these families, there is one child missing, and there are even some families where two children are missing.

Where did the missing children go? The officials later investigated that he was drowned directly by the ghost master in the village with soju, and it was on the spot where the child was born.

It is said that people who drown with soju will not be so painful.

It is also said that the balance between men and women in the village is the effect of changing grass corpses, because a single grass corpse is useless and requires a variety of herbs to mix. The formula of this medicine is so mysterious that almost only a few people in the world know about it. When asked about the people in the village, the women said they were convinced of the drug's effects.

The key to the effect of changing the grass corpse is that it must be able to make the sex of this child the opposite of the first child, and local couples generally only give birth to two children, a boy and a girl, and then no longer give birth.

Whether it is the cruel and bad habit of infantile drowning or the miracle medicine has not been conclusively concluded until now.

On the other hand, the evidence of the body of the drowned baby has never been found, and according to rumors, the child's body will be taken to the deep mountains and handed over to the care of the mountain lady.

In another story of the county chronicle, it is recorded that in the deep mountains outside the eighty-two villages, there is a bandit, after killing people, they will throw people into a sinkhole, and the corpses accumulate together. Later, once they were chased by the bandits, and they also fled into the sinkhole, and saw that all the corpses they had left before had been dragged into the soil, and the flesh and blood had been sucked clean, and they knew that this had become the lair of the soil girl.

And among the corpses, there was a dying baby girl, who smelled of alcohol, and was rescued by them. At first, they thought that this baby girl was the hatchling of the soil girl, and when she grew up, she was going to eat people, so she wanted to go to the city to sell it for money when she grew up, but she didn't expect that the more she raised a girl, the cuter she became, and finally raised a feeling.

When the girl became an adult, she was extremely beautiful, became a famous local flower bandit, inherited the skills of her adoptive fathers, was extremely cruel, murderous, and innocent.

Later, those bandits analyzed that this girl should have been thrown into the corpse of the baby girl in the mountains, it may be that someone from the ten holes lived here, selling the corpse for grass, and brought this bad habit over, the little girl was active since she was a child, and her lung capacity was large, and the soju did not drown her, but made her a good amount of alcohol after that.

When the girl grew up, she naturally wanted to find her biological parents, so she took the thirteen members of the gang to the Shikong Village, and for some reason, killed all the people in the Shikong, and finally burned the whole village.

The legend of changing the grass corpse later evolved into various versions, and the names of the herbs were also varied, and they were spread in Yunnan-Guichuan. But it is still unknown whether there is really such an herb or if it is a folk hoax. I don't know what truth that girl knew in the ten holes and did such an extreme thing.

After that, the girl went to Xiangxi, started as a gang of thirteen people, and played the eighty-two villages, which is the origin of the eighty-two villages. This happened more than 600 years ago.

The gang of thirteen people was the thirteen Tusi at the beginning of the eighty-two villages, and later, the descendants merged and fell, and the structure changed many times. That girl has no descendants, and the remaining twelve people have all been handed down later, and the supreme leader of this generation is the last of the twelve descendants.

Because the eighty-two villages are relatively stable in Xiangxi, this story is still completely recorded. In addition to this story, there are several legends that have to do with the whole thing. First, where there are soil girls, there will be grass corpses growing. The second is that the supreme leader of the eighty-two villages, passed down from generation to generation, worships something in the mountains. This mysterious thing is only qualified to be known by the supreme leader of the eighty-two villages.

After listening to this, my first reaction was to sigh in my heart, I had a hunch that Zhang Qishan's entry into the mountain was related to that mysterious thing, and this mysterious thing was also related to the unknown baby girl six hundred years ago.