Chapter 41: The Cultivation Festival
Growing so big, I've never seen this formation, and I don't know what to say in a panic.
Seeing me like this, my grandmother laughed dryly, approached me and said, "You don't have to panic, you will be the master here in the future, and you will have the power of life and death." ”
Still a little overwhelmed, I shrugged my shoulders and staggered to my place.
After breakfast, grandma announced to everyone that today and tomorrow are the "Gu Cultivation Festival" of Jade Girl Village.
Because I heard Xiaoqing and Xiaobi mention it before, I also roughly guessed what was going on, so I didn't ask grandma.
"Xiao Zhen! You have been following Xiaobi for the past two days, I may be busy and have no time to accompany you. ”
Grandma said to me while putting on a black veil.
"No need! Grandmother. Xiaobi followed me, but I felt inconvenient...... Besides, I now know that you are my grandmother, who is still bad for me! ”
After speaking, I gently pulled my grandmother's arm, which was a pleading.
Grandma laughed a few times dryly, and replied, "Now I'm not afraid that others will hurt you, but I'm worried that you'll disturb our newly cultivated Gu worms!" You must know that you have a spirit snake in your body, he is the king of ten thousand Gus! ”
At the mention of snakes, I retched a few times.
I didn't quite understand what Mom meant, but I listened to her.
The process of me and my grandmother's recognition was heard by Xiaobi completely, so she was even more respectful to me, really like an ancient envoy to serve the master.
"Let's go and see the cultivation of Gu worms!" I whispered to Bi.
Xiaobi folded her hands to her chest and gently echoed "yes".
"Xiaobi, what's wrong with you? I'm just a cousin, but I'm still me! ”
Xiaobi saluted again and said slowly: "Master, you used to be my Xiaobi's master, but now you are the owner of the entire Jade Girl Village, and everything will be ...... to you like this."
"Why!"
I preemptively interrupted Bi's words.
"This is the rule of our village for hundreds of years! Mom is already kind to us, and I've heard that the other moms are very ......."
At the end of her words, she may have some scruples and did not say everything.
"Can't it be changed? My grandmother said that a lot of village rules have changed over the years! ”
I was a little anxious, because I was really not used to everyone seeing me as if they were seeing a ghost.
"The only person who has the power to change the rules of the village is Mom - now you have the power to ...... too"
Xiaobi said slowly.
I could sense a flash of surprise on her face.
We came to the open space in the middle of several small hills, where a platform of several hundred square meters was erected.
On the table are many wooden shelves with rows of dustpans on them.
As soon as I saw it, I knew that there were all kinds of Gu worms in these dustpans, maybe when I was chatting with Xiaobi, someone moved out all the Gu worms in my grandmother's house and in that ancient temple, and I saw that there were still many of them in other places.
Everyone, led by Grandma, stood on the west side of the platform facing east, staring motionlessly at the slowly rising sun, as if waiting for a certain time.
After a long while, Grandma waved her right arm and shouted "Urumlu", only to see a dozen women who looked to be forty or fifty years old stand behind her, ascend to the stage, put all the dustpans on the ground, and then poured all the Gu worms in one dustpan into another dustpan.
I probably understood what I was doing, and I instantly understood what Xiaoqing said before, "Hundreds of thousands of Gu worms, there will be only a few thousand left in two days."
Insects, like beasts, have the concept of "territory", and with my extraordinary hearing, I can hear the sound of Gu worms biting each other.
About an hour later, Grandma waved her hand again, and the dozen or so women came to the stage again and poured one dustpan Gu worm into another.
I was shocked in my heart: This is just a simple action, but in an hour, the hundreds of thousands of Gu worms are reduced by half, which is too cruel.
For more than an hour, another burst of heart-pounding screams......
This time Grandma still waved her hand, I thought that these dozen middle-aged and elderly women would repeat the previous actions, and pour a dustpan Gu worm into another dustpan after going on stage, but this time it was Xiaoqing and their dozen girls who picked stamens.
Xiaoqing and the others each held a flower basket on their arms, and they walked to a dustpan and gently poured all the stamens in the flower basket into it. It dawned on me that this was a "recuperation"!
Sure enough, the morning's "Gu cultivation" activity ended like this.
After lunch, everyone gathered in front of the platform again and continued the morning process.
It wasn't until the evening of the next day that the grandmother walked to the stage on crutches with the support of two middle-aged women.
She looked at the remaining Gu worms in the dustpan very carefully, and seemed to be very satisfied, and asked people to carry the dustpans to the black house.
"Disperse, all of you! Xiao Zhen, come with me!"
From the voice, I could tell that my grandmother was very tired, so I ran over to help her in a few steps.
"The next thing is ours!"
Grandma said softly.
"Isn't this already the completion of Gu cultivation? I don't understand either! ”
I whispered back.
"Done? This is just picking out the most ferocious Gu worms, and the real Gu cultivation hasn't started yet! ”
"Ahh Why did they all go to your house? Could it be ......"
By the end of my sentence, my voice was so low that I couldn't even hear myself.
"Hahaha! My eldest grandson, you don't have to do this! Everyone here is your servant, and they will be faithful to you. ”
After a few more dry laughs, Grandma continued: "Actually! This is not a secret, the most powerful Gu cultivation method is only passed down by the mothers of the past generations, which is why the people in the whole village are so afraid of me. ”
"They're also afraid of Gu?" I wondered.
"Afraid! And they are more scared than outsiders, because they really understand the power of Gu. ”
I helped my grandmother back to her dark house.
The shelves in the room were already lined with dustpans with Gu, but there were many fewer of them than before.
Grandma first took out two thick black candles from the cabinet on one side and asked me to light them, and then took out a silver basin from the cabinet.
"Xiao Zhen, there is a bottle full of water under my chair, you bring it!"
"Oh," I replied, and went over and found a large bottle full of light green liquid from under my grandmother's big chair.
With this bending, I realized why my grandmother was sitting on such a big chair, because there could be a mess underneath.
My grandmother told me to pour the liquid into a silver basin, and then took out three or four small bottles from the cupboard, all of which contained powdery objects of various colors.
Grandma muttered something in her mouth, and took out a little powder from each small bottle and sprinkled it into the silver basin.
In the end, Grandma took out a silver short knife and slashed it lightly in the palm of her hand, and the blood fell into the basin one by one.
"Come too!" Grandma called out to me and asked me to reach out, and she also scratched my palm, causing my blood to flow into the basin.
After doing this, my grandmother seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, slowly straightened her waist, and let me help her sit back on the black chair.
"Xiao Zhen! You take this wooden stick and sprinkle the liquid from this silver basin evenly into these dustpans. ”
I agreed and took the half-meter-long jet-black stick.
Then I smelled a faint fishy smell, and after a few moments, I realized that it was wafting from the two burning black candles.
I said to myself: No wonder it's not dark yet, grandma asked me to light these two candles! It didn't turn out to be for the lighting.
According to my grandmother's instructions, I took a small silver basin and sprinkled the liquid that was said to be green or not green and yellow to several dustpans, one circle, two circles, eight circles, and eighteen circles......
While sprinkling, I looked at the strange insects in the dustpan, it seemed that the surviving ones were all strangely shaped, some looked like scorpions, but they had the body of centipedes, and some looked like bean worms, but they had four legs, and in general, they were actually some deformities.
Grandma just watched quietly until I had spilled all the liquid, and then she said slowly, "Okay! By dawn tomorrow, my strongest children will be nurtured! ”
"Grandma, I'll stay with you tonight! Xiao Zhen has a lot to say to you! ”
I put down the silver basin and sat down gently beside my grandmother.
"Not tonight! I have to stay here and recite the Miao mantra, the Miao mantra will confuse people's minds, not only can you not stay, but don't even come near this house until dawn. ”
Grandma said sharply.
At this point, I deeply realized that no wonder Gu insects are so powerful, they are originally a lot of poisonous insects that bite each other, and the surviving victor is very toxic, plus grandma is so "cultivated", and she also recited such a scary seedling mantra all night, and finally the strength of Gu insects can be imagined!
After saying goodbye to my grandmother, I went out.
After walking a few steps, I saw Xiaobi standing in front of me from a distance.
"Xiaobi? What are you doing here? I asked.
"Master, Xiaobi is waiting for you, I don't dare to approach my mother's house, so I have to ...... I'm just standing here waiting for you. ”
Xiaobi replied quietly.
"It's getting late, let's go eat! My grandma shouldn't be going to dinner tonight!"
Xiaobi agreed, and the two of them walked towards the hall.
When I walked into the hall, there were already a number of people sitting inside, and when they saw me enter, they immediately stood up respectfully, looking down at my feet.
"Just sit down! Eat as much as you want!"
I was nervous and casually grinned.
Hearing me say this, everyone sat down in unison.
After dinner, Xiaobi accompanied me back to Langfang.
"Or tonight, you go back to sleep, right? I'm afraid you won't be able to rest here!"
As soon as I spoke, I saw Xiaobi's face turn stool, as if she was about to cry.
As soon as I saw this, I immediately changed my mind and said, "Of course I'm glad if you're willing to stay!" ”
Hearing me say that, she burst into tears and laughed again.