Chapter 44: Descendants of Yi Gu
Kazekiko dodged away, and I punched him in the shoulder, and I didn't know if I hurt him. Xiao Hua on the ground grabbed his neck and sucked in a mouthful of air, but he also sucked part of the black powder into it.
Seeing Xiaohua's confused eyes, I squatted down and picked her up, and ran to the woods behind, wanting to get out of here as soon as possible. Yu Guang caught a glimpse of Mr. Qiu finally fighting with Feng Qingzi, and the two sides quickly punched and fought. I didn't expect Mr. Qiu to be so young, and he also had deep internal strength, so he shook Feng Qingzi away with a few punches, and took the time to look at me.
This fairy fights, I'd better run a little farther. A few steps flashed into the woods, holding Xiao Hua and exerting internal force to run back and forth. After running for a few minutes, I saw a large group of camouflage uniforms coming in front of me, looked left and right, and then flashed into the dense forest and ran in a different direction.
After running for more than ten minutes, he came to the side of the road and put Xiaohua down. It's so heavy, I'm so tired that I'm sweating profusely and panting. She coughed on the ground, and her face turned a little pale.
She sat up on the ground, looked at me and asked strangely, "Why are you here?" ”
I said, "Jiang Ming called me over, he was afraid that you were in danger, but fortunately I arrived in time." ”
Xiaohua's face turned red all of a sudden, I thought she was shy when she heard Jiang Ming's name. As a result, he made a "wow" and spit out a mouthful of blood on the ground, and there were many small black bugs moving in the pool of blood.
I was shocked, what the hell is this? Why did you vomit blood? She said stay away from me, I may have fallen for the Gu. Poison? Although I have been walking the rivers and lakes for a few years, I am embarrassed that I have always been chased by others and played a small role. For this Gu, what is it?
Gu is a harmful and poisonous insect artificially cultivated by the Gu Master in the Southwest. Mystical witchcraft that originated in ancient times. According to the "Theory of the Origin and Syndrome of Diseases. Gu Poisonous Roar" records: "Take more insects and snakes, store them in utensils, and let them eat each other, only one thing is alone, that is, it is called Gu, and it can become confused, chase wine and food, and cause trouble for others." ”
There are also "Zhou Yi", "Zuo Chuan", "Yellow Emperor's Neijing. Su Wen", "Zhengzhi Hui Supplement", "Chishui Xuanzhu" and other ancient books are recorded. Among them, Liu Xian's "Theory of Eliminating Confusion" records that: "It confuses people's minds and asks for rent and taxes indiscriminately, spends property, and bewitches scholars and women." ”
In fact, Gu was developed from a kind of witchcraft used to cure diseases and save people in ancient times, but it was found that harming people was faster than saving people to make money, so they broke away alone. Therefore, Gu can cure diseases and save people, and it can also be used to harm people, depending on how well the human heart technique is used.
Many people in the south will put wormwood and calamus on the door or window during the Dragon Boat Festival, and these two traditional Chinese medicines have the effect of preventing poisonous insects and repelling evil spirits. Because the Southwest Gu Master also chose to make Gu poison during the Dragon Boat Festival, the yang energy was extremely strong on this day, and it was easy to succeed in making Gu.
And there are many types of Gu, such as: Snake Gu, Golden Silkworm Gu, Slice Gu, Stone Gu, Loach Gu, Medium Harm Gu, Change Gu, Swollen Gu, Mad Gu, Yin Snake Gu, and so on. And most of the Gu makers are ethnic minorities in the southwest mountains.
In the past, ethnic minorities used Gu to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, and later they were suppressed many times by successive dynasties in the long river of history, thus hiding in the mountains. But now there are still many Gu masters in the deep mountains who have Gu poison in their hands.
There is basically a grass ghost woman in the villages of ethnic minorities, the so-called grass ghost is Gu, and the grass ghost woman is a woman who raises Gu. And Anlong County is located in the Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in southwest Guizhou, judging from Xiaohua's vomiting blood, it should be the cowhide Gu of the Miao people.
Although Feng Qingzi is a Taoist priest, he also learns Buddhism, and he can stand in the southwest where ethnic minorities live, and it is impossible not to learn some Gu arts.
And I, as a junior of the rivers and lakes, don't know about these. I haven't touched this thing, and I panicked for a while, ran out of ideas, and was so anxious that I was sweating profusely.
That's right, Jiang Ming! I took out my mobile phone and called Jiang Ming, and Jiang Ming answered in seconds. I said something happened, Xiao Hua may have been hit by Gu, just now she vomited a mouthful of blood, and there were a lot of black bugs in it. Jiang Ming was also anxious over there, saying that I had just finished my side of the matter, so I would go over immediately, and then hung up the phone.
I stayed by Xiaohua's side, and through this time, I realized that my shortcomings were very insufficient. Whether it is combat experience or the skills mastered, Jiang Ming is far superior to me. Even the fat man has more skills than me. And without Jiang Ming and the fat man, I can only play the role of a chest crushing boulder.
Alas, it doesn't work without a master. Looking left and right, a bus came in the distance, I helped Xiaohua up, and took the bus to Anlong County. I found a nearby hotel to stay in, and then sent a text message to Jiang Ming, telling him that we were in the hotel.
The next morning, Jiang Ming came over. looked at Xiao Hua, whose face was pale, and his eyes were full of worry.
Jiang Ming is here, I am finally relieved, the heirs of this Pavilion Soap Sect are not casually talking, this ancient medical knowledge is a basket after a basket, and it is wholesale as if it does not need money. He gave Xiaohua a pulse, and then burned a rune paper for her to soak in water and drink.
It is said that this is an ordinary insect Gu, called a cowhide Gu, which is made of raw cowhide and rotted in water, and the maggots that come out are dried and ground into powder, and then asked the plague god to sacrifice for 14 days. Entering from the mouth and nose and entering the whole body through the mucosa of the digestive tract, it will cause abdominal distention, abdominal pain, diarrhea and blood, affect the hematopoietic system, and make people die of blood collapse.
When Xiaohua heard this, his face turned pale with fright, trembled, and cried and said I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die so badly. Jiang Ming said Isn't there me? I'm here, and you can't die. After some comfort, Xiao Hua calmed down.
Jiang Ming said that he was using the Qing Shen Rune to temporarily calm down, but if he wanted to be completely cured, he had to find a grass ghost woman. He asked Xiaohua: "How do you feel about your body now?" Xiaohua looked at him embarrassedly and said: "At first, my whole body was itchy, as if there were insects crawling, but after drinking the talisman water, it didn't itch, it was dizzy." ”
Jiang Ming asked me to go to the pharmacy to buy a box of glucose injection, saying that Xiaohua eats less and will be dizzy with low blood sugar. Xiaohua drank glucose, and he was really much better, and he was able to get out of bed and walk.
I asked him if he knew the grass ghost woman? He said he didn't know, but his master did. By the way, Jiang Ming's master is the head of a faction, with high qualifications in the rivers and lakes, and he knows many people. Jiang Ming called his master and asked for the address of the grass ghost woman, so that he could take Xiaohua to seek medical treatment.
After Jiang Ming answered the phone, he copied a recipe with paper, saying that he could excrete most of the Gu toxins from his body. But if you want to cut off the roots, you have to find a grass ghost woman. I took a look at the recipe and it was:
Wormwood 4 coins, calamus 3 coins, realgar 2 coins, rhubarb 1 coin, rhubarb fried separately.
I asked Jiang Ming if this rhubarb was poured down, right? He nodded. Then I went to the pharmacy to buy a decoction. Seeing me coming over again, the person from the pharmacy took the prescription and said with an indifferent expression, "Zhong Gu, right?" I looked at her in surprise, it seemed that this local was quite familiar with this.
"It's a Gu, Cowhide Gu!" I replied.
"This recipe can only be solved for a while, if you want to completely solve the Gu, you have to find the grass ghost woman." The clerk said.
"Can the eldest sister point a clear path?" I said with a careful smile.
"Our boss is from the Yi nationality, and there is a grass ghost woman in his village, and he is also the boss's cousin, but the boss has to accompany him, and the price is not low." The clerk glanced at me.
"Money is not a problem, please introduce the eldest sister. Much appreciated. "I'm finally a little happier.
The clerk said eight thousand, the village is less than thirty kilometers from here, if you want to go, come to the door of the store at eight o'clock in the evening and wait. I said ...... medicine. She pushed the prescription and said that there was a grass ghost woman, and this medicine was useless. I quickly thanked him, took the prescription and went back to the hotel.
I told Jiang Ming the news, and he was overjoyed, saying that this is good, the person his master knows is not in this state, and there are still hundreds of kilometers. Then it is best to find someone to see the patient nearby, save yourself from running around, and Xiaohua will not have to suffer.
At eight o'clock in the evening, we went downstairs to the pharmacy opposite, and a van was parked in front of the pharmacy. I went to the driver's seat and knocked on the glass window, which came down, and a middle-aged man in his fifties looked over.
I said boss, hello, I'm the one who bought medicine in the morning. The owner was very welcoming, said to come? How many people? Is the money ready? Then get in the car.
Sitting in the van, Xiao Hua snuggled on Jiang Ming's shoulder, looking very tired. The boss said while driving, he said that more than 20 kilometers out of the city, it is his hometown, the village does not accept people, day and night do not accept, but there are people from the village at night, you can go in.
Halfway through a lake, the boss said that this is Luhaizi Lake, which supplies water to the county. Then the van started to go up the mountain, and at that time there was no village to village, it was all dirt roads, and the van went around on the mountain road.
Jiang Ming asked the boss in the back, isn't this the Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture? How can there still be a Yi people? The boss said that there are few Yi people, but it doesn't mean that there are none, and there are other ethnic minorities, but there are not many.
Are there many grass ghosts now? Jiang Ming asked again. The boss said, less, his aunt is near the county seat. After stopping for a while, the boss said that if you go into the mountains, where you can't even pass by motorcycles, there are a few seedling villages in the village, which are more hostile to outsiders.
The van followed the mountain road to the mouth of a stockade and saw a few wooden sticks on the ground, and the headlights illuminated the front. The boss got out of the car and called a few times, and two Yi men came out of the darkness. The boss immediately handed out cigarettes, said a few polite words to each other, and then came over and said, "It's time to go to the village, and everyone walks in."
We got out of the car and felt a little chilly at night and the owner took us to the village. It was only nine o'clock in the evening, but the village was already dark, and the villagers were sleeping. When we arrived at the yard of his aunt's house, the boss told us to wait, so he knocked on the door and went in.
After a while, the boss came out and said to let Xiaohua go in alone, and we were all waiting outside, soon. Jiang Ming was more worried about Xiaohua, but people didn't let him follow up, so he had to wait outside.
After waiting for half an hour, Xiaohua came out and looked at his face for the better. Jiang Ming walked over and asked how was it? Xiaohua nodded and said that it was all right, but it was just ........ Then he lowered his head and did not speak. Jiang Ming asked nervously, just what?
The boss next to me said it was time to give money, so I took out 8,000 yuan, and the boss took it and sent it in. After coming out, he looked at Xiaohua suspiciously.
Jiang Ming took Xiaohua's hand and looked at her anxiously. Xiaohua blushed and said that the master asked her to come back in two years. Master? What master?
Xiaohua said that she apprenticed and came to study art when she graduated. Yes? I was even more surprised than Jiang Ming next to me, this one has a master, but I am alone, boring.