Grandpa also said that the mouth of the cylinder should be as flat as the soil. Wait until the fifth day of the fifth month of the summer calendar, that is, the auspicious day for the monks to draw the talismans, go to the field and catch twelve kinds of reptiles at random, put them in the jar, and then cover the lid.

These reptiles are usually poisonous snakes, eels, centipedes, frogs, scorpions, earthworms, large green "hairy" insects, praying mantises...... In short, there are no flying creatures, and no four-legged running creatures, just some poisonous reptiles. After these twelve reptiles are placed in the tank, they pray once every night after falling asleep, and once a day before they get up. Pray for a year, not for a day. Moreover, when cultivating Gu and praying, it must not be known to outsiders. If you let outsiders know, the Gu you raised will become invalid, and even your own life will be threatened. This is just like grandpa will be subject to a certain backlash when he catches ghosts. Even if he escapes the catastrophe, after becoming a Gu, the Gu worm will harm the master.

During the year, those reptiles devour each other in the tank, the poisonous ones eat the less poisonous ones, the strong ones eat the weak ones, and finally there is only one left, and after this reptile eats the other eleven, it also changes its form and color. According to legend, there are many types of Gu worms. There are two main ones: one is called "Dragon Gu", which is similar in form to dragons, and is about the result of long reptiles such as poisonous snakes and centipedes. One is called "Qilin Gu", which is similar in shape to Qilin, and is about the result of short-bodied reptiles such as frogs and lizards. After a year after the Gu had been cultivated, the master dug out the jar and hid it in a secret room with no air and no light.

It is said that the things that Gu likes to eat are scrambled eggs with lard, rice and the like, after three or four years of raising, the Gu is about a zhang long, and the owner chooses an auspicious day to open the cylinder head and let the Gu fly out by itself. After Gu leaves home, he can sometimes turn into a ball of fire, hovering in the woods in the mountains, and sometimes he can turn into a black shadow and go back and forth between the houses in the village. The time when Gu's magic power is at its most is dusk. Every time Gu goes home, he still lives in the tank. On the day when the Gu worm hurts a person, the owner doesn't have to feed it.

It is said that the benefit of raising Gu is not that Gu directly steals treasures outside like thieves and comes back for the owner's use, but to borrow the aura of the Gu to make everything that the Gu raiser do smoothly. If the master wants to do business, with the aura of Gu, he can make a million profits. If the master wants to be promoted, with the help of Gu's aura, he can go straight to the clouds.

On the other hand, if you are not careful, the owner of the Gu worm will have a "sexual" life. In addition to serving devotedly every day, the Gu cultivators have to make a grand sacrifice to the Gu on the 24th day of June in the summer calendar every year. This ritual lasts for three days, that is, on the 24th, 25th, and 26th, during which the master must cook a fresh pig, a chicken, and a sheep every day, and then move the pigs, sheep and chickens into the secret room where the Gu is raised and pray, and after the prayer is completed, the pigs, sheep and chickens are chopped up and thrown into the tank. It is said that Gu eats a lot of food and has a high magic power. During the festival, outsiders are not allowed to participate, and the news must not be leaked, otherwise there is a danger of "life" of the family.

In addition to the method of polyinsect biting each other, various special poisonous Gu have special manufacturing methods. Crazy Gu: Most of them are done by people in the mountains, taking snakes into the soil and taking fungi to poison people. Cuo Gu: also known as "putting eggs", more tune of "barren", "bees", people in the two Guangdong, good for this, the method is the Dragon Boat Festival, take centipedes and small snakes, ants, cicadas, roundworms, hair, etc. into powder, placed in front of the statue of the five plagues engraved in the room or box, worship for a long time, it becomes a poisonous "medicine". Loach Gu: Soak it in water with bamboo leaves and Gu "medicine", that is, it will become a poisonous loach. Toad Gu: A Tang Dynasty physician said: "The face is white and green, and the abdomen is full, like a shrimp toad; If the adult worm spits out like an oyworm, it is a toad Gu, and "the characteristic of a toad Gu is that the toad becomes a monster." Stone Gu: It is made by applying Gu "medicine" with stones. Scorn Gu Piece: After applying Gu "medicine" to the bamboo slices, it will be completed. "Lingnan Health Prescription": The method of making Gu is to seal the hundred Gu placers and make them kill each other, and after a few years, they can be harmed by Gu if they are regarded as their only existence. Lizard Gu and Mantis Gu: Lizard Gu is lizard Gu, which may refer to the lizard that survives only after a hundred insects eat each other, and it is said that Lizard Gu patients have symptoms such as yellow complexion, heavy waist and back, and swollen tongue; The mantis Gu has a lot of green "color", and it is poisonous and spits out like a mantis. ”

Li's love Gu just now is also one of the special manufacturing methods.

Li's love Gu just now is what many men dream of, because this kind of "medicine" can make "wishful thinking" easily turn into "two lovers". But among all the Gu species, the Golden Silkworm Gu was the most vicious. It is said that the golden silkworm is an invisible insect spirit, it can do things for people, and it is the most diligent in hygiene, so the homes of people who raise golden silkworms are generally very clean. The golden silkworm has a spiritual "nature", which can make the breeder rich, but the owner of the rich family must also inform the golden silkworm how much it owes, otherwise the golden silkworm will ask to spend money to buy people to eat it, otherwise it will be troublesome. If the family does not want to raise it anymore, they can pass it on, and the name is "marrying the golden silkworm", which is to wrap some valuables in a cloth bag, as well as pollen and incense ash (on behalf of the golden silkworm), and put it on the road, and the greedy will naturally pick it up. The golden silkworm can cause death to the enemy, usually by abdominal swelling and bleeding from the seven orifices.

After all, no one had seen Li just release Gu with their own eyes, so no one knew if he would release other vicious Gu to harm people, such as the Golden Silkworm Gu. Since my mother helped my grandfather find Granny Yue's grandson, it means that she is no longer so opposed to my grandfather's participation in this matter. But after my mother came back, she suddenly changed her opinion, maybe she was worried that her grandfather would be hurt by Gu.

However, when she heard that her grandfather had such a detailed understanding of Gu worms, her mother secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Later, my mother told me that at that time, I heard that Li Gang was such a powerful Gu master, and she could no longer associate him with the man in Yao Xiaojuan's dream.

Not only my mother, but if it were me, I would think the same way. The man in Yao Xiaojuan's dream is a loving little white face no matter what, even if he is a love thief who "climbs on the wall and waits for red apricots". If the words of the villagers are true, then this chestnut is completely different just now, he is a prodigal son who is a prodigal son who messes with flowers and grass, and he is a heinous flower destroyer.

In this way, he is the same as the male vixen who met his grandfather before who specializes in seducing girls from good families, and he is no different from the demon Taoist priest who imprisoned three beautiful women on top of a big tree.

In order to find out the truth of the facts, grandpa decided to meet Li Gang in person, of course, without telling Yao Xiaojuan.