The group carried Junzi's daughter-in-law into the house. But as soon as he entered the door, Baozi felt a yin wind blowing on his face, and he subconsciously blocked it with his hand, but he didn't see any ghosts and demons, and everything was as usual in the house.

"What does this house smell like," cabbage flowers hurriedly covered their noses, "Your family still pickles sauerkraut in summer!" ”

Junko scratched her head embarrassedly, "I don't know, it suddenly appeared in the past two days." Shunzi's family is a wealthy family in the countryside, in response to the call to get rich first, with the support of his father, who is the village head, he took a shortcut and contracted 30 acres of fertile land at a low price, built the first batch of tiled houses, and also made advanced deeds reports. This tiled house is cleaner than the earthen house, and the daughter-in-law of Shunzi loves to clean it every day, and it is well organized, much cleaner than ordinary farmers. But it does smell good to the nose.

Junko also wondered, "It's getting more and more stinky in the past two days, it must be caused by the neighbor's pigs." ”

Everyone didn't care so much, settled Shunzi's daughter-in-law, everyone sat down, Shunzi was busy pouring tea and serving water, and then opened the conversation box and couldn't wait to talk about what had happened recently.

It turned out that Shunzi's daughter-in-law was an educated youth from the countryside in the provincial capital, named Luo Pei, who was classified as a type of person who stood aside because of family reasons, and was excluded everywhere in the production team. But this child's outstanding appearance caused the old and young masters in the village to drool, and he became the object of everyone's obscenity in the bed, and naturally he was also photographed by Shunzi's father, who was the village head, and Shunzi's mother, who was once a petty official in the sports committee. Although the era is over, many towns and rural grassroots management systems in Northeast China still use the old personnel structure, and as long as they do not commit serious crimes during the 10-year movement, they often continue to stay in office. Both of them stayed.

For the sake of the ugly son's marriage, Shunzi's parents took the cadres to run to the Zhiqing point every day, and coerced and lured Luo Pei to grind hard bubbles, and promised that she could return to the city in advance, but it was really impossible to arrange to be a full-time worker in a machinery factory or agriculture, as long as she married Shunzi. If she doesn't marry, she will talk about her identity, not only will she not be allowed to return to the city, but she will also have to marry a poor middle peasant to receive reeducation, and give Wu Laohan, who broke his leg in the war, as a renewal house. At that time, when he went to the countryside, he knew that he was a half-grown child with little social experience, and as soon as he was frightened by the village cadres, Luo Pei agreed, which was in 1975.

Not long after they got married, the movement came to an end. The educated youth can return to the city without going through the relationship, and the students are immersed in studying hard to review the college entrance examination, ready to make up for the lost precious youth. Luo Pei couldn't sit still, and this top student from the high school attached to the National Normal University was also eager to try. Junko knows that she naturally doesn't do it, what should she do if her daughter-in-law is admitted to college and doesn't come back? Therefore, as long as I saw my daughter-in-law reading and reviewing, she scolded lightly, and when she was heavy, she started to beat people, and for a while, the chickens flew and the dogs jumped, and Luo Pei's wailing made the neighbors unable to sleep every day. This toss is four or five years, until a few days ago, Luo Pei still insisted on taking the college entrance examination, and the noise was happier than before.

The most free time of the day is at night, because he can go into the water to take a shower and wash his clothes. After all, she is a child from the city, she loves cleanliness very much, the summer in the Northeast is short, and in the face of this rare happy time, Luo Pei almost does not waste it every day. But since the other day, things have not been right.

Whenever Luo Pei came back from a bath, he lay straight on the kang without taking off his clothes, without talking to anyone or turning over. But the next day it was still the same, and I didn't move all day. But at half past seven in the evening, she suddenly got up, picked up the tub and went out. When he came back from taking a bath, he lay straight on the kang, and his face became whiter day by day. Urban children are originally whiter than rural people, but this kind of white is not a white white, it is a miserable white.

Junko always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't say it. When I woke up last night, I saw Luo Pei staring at him with a cloak, his face was pale, the corners of his mouth were cyanosis, and the lower part of his neck was constantly agitating, as if he had a big neck disease, and he was so frightened that he jumped up. Luo Pei didn't answer, picked up the comb and combed his hair slowly, and his eyes didn't leave Junzi, who was so frightened that he shrank in the corner of the wall, and he didn't dare to breathe. Since getting up in the morning, Junko has been avoiding Luo Pei, and when she sees her daughter-in-law, she feels a cold sweat on her back. Baozi listened to the interruption and tentatively reminded "Don't blink, don't bend, don't speak, and don't turn your head." ”

"Yes!" Junko exclaimed, "I'll just say there's something wrong with her!" It's just like a ghost. ”

The eyes of several people glanced at Junzi's daughter-in-law lying on the kang at the same time. It doesn't matter if you look at it again, the face is as white as paper, and the eyes are as stiff as corpses, where is this a living person, that is clearly a living dead with open eyes! Baozi stepped forward and probed his snort with his fingers, and Shunzi's daughter-in-law was angry. Shunzi was sad from his heart, "Is there any salvation for this choking water?" ”

"She's succumbed," Baozi concluded lightly, "I didn't choke on a mouthful of water."

Gu poison is commonly known as "grass ghost", generally carried by snakes, scorpions, lizards, frogs and poisonous insects, and it is said that it is most willing to attach itself to women, and after cultivation, it commands the host to harm others. People who have fallen into Gu are generally subject to Gu poison, they have no consciousness of their own, what Gu lets do, she will do what, the north is called "grass ghost woman", the south is called "Gu woman", the Han Dynasty has a record of the use of Gu, Gu art used to spread all over the north and south of the river, but now it is suppressed, and it only exists in the Huguang ethnic minority gathering area. The Miao people even believe that some chronic diseases that are difficult to treat such as long-term cough, hemoptysis, blue complexion and emaciation, as well as symptoms such as visceral discomfort, bowel sound, abdominal distention, and loss of appetite, are all caused by Gu.

Baozi had been in contact with Gu science at the shaman's grandmother's house, but he had never seen the real thing, just to see that the patient's appearance was in line with the symptoms of Zhong Gu, he carefully checked Shunzi's daughter-in-law with his heavenly eyes, and saw that she was full of filth, and the blood in her abdomen was black, guessing that it was Gu poison. But what is Gu Yuan? I couldn't see it for a while.

Baozi remembered that the shaman's grandmother said that there are five prescriptions for detoxification, the simplest is realgar, calamus, and garlic crushed in the same proportion, and rice wine is taken together, which is suitable for those who have just been hit by Gu, according to the calculation of Shunzi, Shunzi's daughter-in-law should have just been hit by Gu. At present, it has just passed the middle of summer, the season is still appropriate, although the north is not as good as the south, but there are still realgar and mugwort, and it is not difficult to find these raw materials. Baozi hurriedly instructed Junzi to find these three objects immediately, the sooner the better. Junko answered and left.

At present, the expedient solution is to use licorice water to lavage the stomach to delay the time of poisoning, and then he ordered someone to find licorice to boil water. When the village chief's Shunzi father stood aside and watched coldly for a long time, he was very disdainful when he saw Junzi's obedience to the two and a half children. grabbed the bun and shouted, "This has just drowned, why do you still have to fill the water, what kind of heart do you have for this child?" ”

Baozi was calm and composed, "She is breathless underwater, she is not drowning at all, presumably this witch Gu is also a water-based thing." If you have a good idea, you can do what you want, and I'm glad I don't care. ”

Father Shunzi was stunned, this kid has a good mouth! Think about it again, at the moment, being sent to the hospital is treated as drowning, and more importantly, it will cost a lot of money. If the boy has brought his daughter-in-law to life, it is enough to give him two good words; If he dies, he can just let his parents compensate. Thinking of this, the old man stopped talking. It can be regarded as acquiescing to the request of the bun.

After a while, a basin of licorice water came, and everyone stretched out their arms and legs to pinch their faces, and broke open their daughter-in-law's mouth to feed it. Baozi thought about this series of things and how they were related to each other. Since there is a Gu, where does the Gu source come from, and what does it have to do with the monsters under the pond. As I was pondering, another smell came to my face, and just now I was just listening to Junko's story, and no one paid attention to the source of the smell.

The smell was stronger, like the smell of corpses.