Seeing that the old lady was all right, we went our separate ways to let her rest. The black dog stayed by her bedside, refusing to go a single step.

In front of their house, the old village chief said to the old man, "Why don't you rest at my house tonight, and then go to collect medicine tomorrow."

He shook his head: "No, this medicine must be taken at night, I have to leave immediately, otherwise I will miss the hour."

With that, he walked to the mountain on his own. I'm very curious, you said that you don't talk about carrying a bamboo basket when collecting medicine, so you want to get something, right? But no, he went away with his bare hands as he had come.

However, we outsiders were not easy to ask, so we said goodbye to the old village chief and went home.

On the way, I talked to Mr. Ouyang about how he used living things to cure the disease just now, and Mr. Ouyang said, "Maybe if you eat it, it's a Gu worm."

"Gu worms?"

"Yes, I've been here for many years, and I've heard of some wizards, Gu masters, or witch masters in both areas, the medical level in these places is relatively backward, and some people can help them see some diseases."

"Is this thing so effective for treating strokes?" It's the first time I've heard of such a thing as a wizard outside of a book. But in a way, aren't the Madao people also a kind of wizard? It's just that we don't call it that way in Chinese anymore. The southwest region has been culturally different from other places since ancient times, just as the ancient Dian Kingdom and the Han Dynasty were different from each other, and these things such as witches and Gu should have preserved their own regional characteristics.

"There are thousands of ways to cure diseases in the world, and disease is a disease, so as long as the effect after treatment is about the same, then there is no problem. Take stroke as an example, entering the hospital may be the rescue treatment of Western medicine or modern medicine, then in the past, Chinese medicine could only pour you Chinese medicine soup, like them, who can use Gu, they will stuff Gu worms in your mouth, the purpose is to resolve cerebral infarction, and the methods are different. Of course this is all my guess, and I don't know much about medicine. ”

I nodded, "Then I really don't want to get sick here, I don't want to have worms in my mouth."

"Don't worry, you don't know when you get there haha."

With that, we went back to the station, put the guy back where he was, and went back to the house.

When I went back, I didn't expect that these boys hadn't even slept, they were sitting around and didn't know what they were doing, and when they saw the door being opened, they looked back and found that it was me, so they beckoned me over.

I don't know what's going on, so can't I help identify some treasures? I walked over and the sound of a notebook came into my ears, and I realized that they were not around an artifact at all, but a book of some kind to read.

I said, "Okay, you guys, don't sleep in the middle of the night and look around looking at things that are not suitable for children?" Come and let me check the check. ”

"How is it possible, do you have a picture of that thing, let's look at the comic strip."

"What's the painting?"

"Raiders of the Lost Ark, have you seen it?"

I shook my head.

"Hurry up, come quickly."

So I moved a stool and huddled with them.

"Look at this old man, his name is Ann, and he is also a goldsmith...... "One of the juniors began to give me a synopsis.

"Isn't this the western cowboy in a foreigner's painting?" I looked at him in a suit and a standard cowboy hat and asked.

"The painting of the Chinese people, the earliest one was made in the seventies and eighties of the last century, and denim seemed to be quite popular at that time. He's a professor in the academy, but he can play very well, and I'll lend you the first few parts to see when you have time. ”

I nodded, and looked at the painting with them. Gradually, I found the book really interesting. What crystal skulls, Mayan pyramids, supernatural powers, really fascinate me.

In the words of the picture book, it is "occult", and there is a title of occultist in addition to the identity of the Anakin stone scientist. But those are all foreign occults, don't we also have our own occults? In fact, what I have experienced over the years, including what I saw tonight, cannot be called the realm of the occult. The civilization bred by 5,000 years of history is many times richer than that of Lao Mi.

After reading the picture book, everyone washed up and went to sleep, but I was lying on the bed and couldn't sleep. Sometimes it's as simple as a poem, a song, an article, or a picture book.

Now that I think about it, although my journey was full of dangers, and even sometimes death, it was also a magical encounter that ordinary people may not encounter in their lifetime. If it is drawn into a script, it should not be inferior to Lao Mi's this.

Maybe that's what I like? I couldn't help but start to doubt myself. Just as in my last years in the academy, the books that fascinated me were all related to our own ancient "occultism", not to the academic sense of gold. It was only through the industry that I was exposed to these occult things.

I'm not an academic material, and gold and stone excavation is just a means of making a living, and I won't do it if I don't put life aside. What really excites me is to find the sleeping place of the legendary hero, to follow the six masters to fight wits and courage with the ancients in the royal tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and to meet the dragons in myths and legends underwater. If it weren't for the work ethic of Jinshi, I might have ......

Thinking about this, I seemed to suddenly open up and fell asleep.

The next day, I was helping out in Xiao Fang's expedition, and the old village chief came to us with the old lady we saved last night. The old lady recovered as before, without any sequelae of a stroke.

The old village chief told me, "She came to me in the morning and asked me what happened last night, and I told her. She has to thank you and invite you to her house for dinner at noon. ”

The old lady smiled and told me a lot, I didn't understand a word, but I guess it was all thanks or something. The black dog had been following her, wagging its tail at us, and I couldn't help but go over and rub its head.

When they went to find Teacher Ouyang again, I told Xiao Fang what happened last night. When she heard this, she also thought that this dog was quite spiritual. I asked her if she wanted to come with me at noon, and she shook her head: "I'm still used to eating our food." ”

I followed Teacher Ouyang into the old lady's house and began to eat, and I realized what she meant.

Their bacon is not too much to say that the smoke smells ten times bigger than what I have ever eaten, and I almost swallowed it when I choked on it in one bite. Then there's the sour fish, which is a bizarre acid, bizarre like refined vinegar. To be honest, the old lady's cooking skills are not too high, and the dishes are mixed with a smell of earthy fish. However, the old lady, the old village chief, the witch master, and the black dog, the four of them all ate with relish. Teacher Ouyang and I still ate very cooperatively for the sake of face, but the amount of food must be added when we go back.

But for us, the biggest problem is not eating, but drinking. This is the wine that the old village chief himself brought from home, and the first sip I took a sip, I wondered if it was brewed or alcohol mixed with water, and my sour and choked throat just now was coughed out directly.

The old village chief and the witch master laughed, and the two of them poured down the bowl, only to say "ah" with satisfaction, and then put down the bowl very calmly.

During the dinner, the old lady began to say some polite words to us, and the old village chief helped us translate. But if you talk too much, it's not interesting, so getting to know each other later becomes the focus of the conversation.

I drank the wine just now, and I was already drunk for 30%, so I asked the witch master, "I see that you look like an out-and-out local, why do you speak Chinese so well?" ”

"When I was young, I spent several years in the army, and I naturally spoke Chinese well."

"That's not the real reason," the old village chief interjected, "He used to know a Han girl. ”

"It's all in the past, so I won't mention it." The sorcerer interrupted him, smiling and shaking his head.

"By the way, I haven't asked your surname yet?" Teacher Ouyang asked.

"My Han surname is Dragon, which is the dragon of the zodiac." Hearing this, my scalp was numb, and I was really bitten by a snake once, and I was afraid of the well rope for ten years.

He continued: "I heard the old village chief say that you are here to Jinshi? Here's what's there to test. ”

"Yes, this was the ancient Dian Kingdom more than 2,000 years ago, and we are the ones who tested it." Teacher Ouyang didn't know that his brain was also dizzy, what did he call testing them......

The old dragon nodded: "Dian Kingdom... I've heard about it. But what's the use of studying this, it's all about the dead in the past, is it important? ”

"This..."Teacher Ouyang seems to be really overwhelmed, and he can talk endlessly when he talks about Jin Shi, but he is a little unable to organize his words.

I said, "If you are interested, why don't you visit our Jinshi site in the afternoon?" We'll tell you. It's not interesting to look at it and listen to it. ”

Unexpectedly, the old dragon gladly accepted, and the old lady filled us with wine on the side. While politely blocking my own bowl, I helped Teacher Ouyang to block it: "We can't drink, we can't work in the afternoon when we are drunk." ”

The old lady still had to fall, and in the end, it was the old village chief who said that he gave us a little less.

The more I drank the wine, the more I talked, and I asked Lao Long: "Did you use Gu to save her yesterday?" ”

He smiled and nodded: "Yes, do you want to learn?" ”

"I'll learn if you teach me." After that, everyone laughed, and I continued: "This thing is really amazing, alas, I have seen the old man in my neighbor's family have a stroke before, and he has been tossing in the hospital for a long time and has sequelae, you are amazing." ”

The old village chief replied: "If the nearby villagers all look for him, he will know a lot." If you really learn from him, you will be able to eat in the future. ”

I can't help but think of another incident last night: "What herbs did you pick last night?" Do you still need to pay attention to the hour? ”

He nodded: "This is just like what you Han Chinese medicine said, different organs at different times and changes in the five elements of yin and yang, good medicinal materials will be useless after a while." ”

I saw that he seemed to know a lot about our ancient culture, or the "occult," so I chatted with him. Unexpectedly, the astrology can be di, Qimen Zhouyi and he have been involved, which can't help but make me have some admiration for this old dragon.

On the way back to the station, Mr. Ouyang said to me, "I don't see it, you know a lot of things." ”