I and the second master smoked, waiting for the meal, a flash of lightning suddenly appeared outside, followed by a muffled thunder, not much effort, listening to the window was smashed by the raindrops, it seems that the rain is not small, sure enough, in the blink of an eye, the whole room was smashed by the heavy rain booming noise, two people stretched their necks and couldn't hear each other's voices clearly, I got up and came to the door, only to see the outside like a heavenly river pouring down, heavy rain poured down, I saw a black shadow from a distance quickly floated over, it turned out to be the shopkeeper's wife, She carried vegetables and bacon from nowhere, and swooped past me into the house.

Seeing me at the door, I bowed my head shyly, wiped the rain off my face with my sleeves, and walked quickly into the back kitchen, as a restaurant proprietor, it is very rare to be afraid of life, and it may also be related to local customs.

Shaking his head and smiling, he returned to his seat, and the second master looked at me and asked, "What's wrong?" What are you laughing at? ”

I hurriedly said, "It's okay, uh... It's raining heavily. ”

He agreed with a puzzled face, and then the shopkeeper came out with a stack of pickled cabbage with a smile on his face, picked up a small jar of wine from the counter, put it on the table and said, "The two of you will taste the pickles first, and the rest will come."

The second master smiled and said, "You must get Bashiha." ”

"If you want it, you want it," the shopkeeper should run into the back kitchen.

The wine should be home-brewed multigrain wine, the entrance is smooth and soft, but the stamina is great, just take two sips of pickled cabbage, and feel hot all over, accompanied by a slight dizziness, the limbs gradually stretch out, the fatigue on the body is instantly relieved a lot, the shopkeeper serves a plate of pickled pepper fried bacon, although I don't know the price, but this dish is really real, full of a large plate of bacon, embellished with these bright red pickled peppers, I haven't seen meat for a long time, I can't help but put green light in my eyes, but the second master stared at the dish with chopsticks, frowning slightly.

I laughed and said, "What's wrong?" I'm afraid of spicy, come, I'll help you taste it first" said and picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth, deliberately tapped it to him, he pulled it in the dish with chopsticks, gently picked up a piece, put it in his mouth, and ate it slowly with a frown.

The last thing on the table is a large casserole, which is cabbage, tofu stewed pork belly, the shopkeeper lifted the lid of the casserole, and suddenly the aroma filled the house, and the rising steam forced the moisture of the rain out of the house, and the shopkeeper said: "Two bosses, eat some casserole, warm up." ”

The second master suddenly asked coldly, "Is there any pepper?" ”

"Yes, yes, wait a minute", as soon as the shopkeeper turned around, the second master took out the gun, pressed it under the table and said, "Shopkeeper, I still want to add a dish." ”

"Okay, what's that?" The shopkeeper asked back with his trademark smile.

"Chicken stew with mushrooms!" ”

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, and then stretched his hand into his clothes, and the second master stood up, kicked on the table, raised his hand and held the gun, but didn't aim, only heard the sound of "bang", and directly opened a finger-thick hole in the shopkeeper's head, and the dead body fell to the ground in response.

I felt out a handful of flowers in the arms of the dead corpse, and raised it towards the second master, he nodded, and the two of them went straight to the back kitchen, but they didn't get to the door of the back kitchen, only to hear the sound of "poof" in the back of the head, and then a pain in the neck, reached out and touched, touched a plush thing, pulled it off and looked, it turned out to be a tuft of feathers, there was a thin silver needle at the front of the feather, this silver needle was far and near, from one to two, three, one, five, the second master fired a few more shots beside me, the gunfire from near and far, slowly became the sound of the sky, In the midst of the staggering, his eyes turned black, and he fell to the ground and fainted.

In the dark, there was a burst of chanting voices, the sound became louder and louder, at first it was a person, and gradually became a group of people, as if thousands of flies were surrounding the ears, and the buzzing sound was constantly going in and out of the brain, and the noisy people had a headache, and at the same time, a pungent and unpleasant smell went straight to the nasal cavity, and the smell was extremely fishy, as if a pile of dead fish had rotted, and I choked on it for a while.

I wanted to open my eyes, but my eyelids weighed a thousand pounds, completely uncontrollable, struggled for a long time, and finally gave up, not only my eyes, but also my brain, other parts seemed to be lost, and I didn't feel my existence at all, and I seemed to have returned to the state of coma in the Yin Array Canyon.

In the darkness, there was a firelight in the distance, this fire appeared and disappeared, I seemed to be pushed, and slowly drifted towards the firelight, and then the sound of chanting stopped, and was replaced by the sound of drums from the firelight, and some people accompanied by the sound of drums, shouting neat trumpets, saying that they were trumpets, but from time to time they were mixed with one or two shouts.

Slowly drifting closer, I saw that the light of the fire came from the roaring fire, this fire was nearly two people high, the flame rose high, straight to the sky, such a tall fire, but there was not the slightest warmth, but even more cold, and around the fire surrounded by a group of people wearing bark masks and thatching, behind them, there was a pillar of two people hugging each other, and the pillar was depicted with colorful grimaces, white teeth, red lips, green faces, indescribable hideousness.

The sound of the trumpet came from the thatched men, who shouted slogans, shouted and danced around the fire, and danced in unison, with the same movements, sometimes jumping in the air, sometimes stepping forward, sometimes gathering, sometimes scattering, the drums that came from nowhere, with their movements, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, pounding in their hearts one by one, making people feel awe.

They were jumping and jumping, and suddenly the drumming stopped, and at the same time, they stopped moving, slowly turned their heads, and faced me in unison, as if there was a dementoring force in the two black holes in the mask, sucking the soul from my eyes.

I told myself in my heart that this was a dream, this was a dream, I had to open my eyes, I had to wake up, but to no avail, I turned back and thought, I had to close my eyes, I had to close my eyes, but it still had no effect, I wanted to run, my limbs were completely unconscious, I could only look at this mask, the mask was full of red or green grimaces, a grimace stared at me motionlessly, there was silence all around, and I couldn't even hear the sound of the flames burning.

I don't know how long they looked at each other, and suddenly burst into cheers on the other side, the voice was high-pitched and sharp, and the people who listened to it had a scalp, and after cheering, people were divided into left and right, and slowly walked out of a person with a long mask from behind, this person's mask was long to the chest, and the thatch on his body was more dense than others, and the strands were woven like the braids on the little girl's head, and it seemed that his status was not low, and he was holding a tree root crutch, and the crutches did not know how long it took to be smooth, smooth and shiny, and the top naturally grew into the shape of a dragon's head.

He slowly walked up to me, glanced at me, without saying a word, picked up the crutches, and smashed it down on the top of my head, I instinctively wanted to hide, but like a dead man, I could only watch the thick crutches fall on my head, this time I smashed my eyes with gold stars, dizzy, stomach turned over the river and the sea, I couldn't help it anymore, a mouth, the river opened like a floodgate and vomited.

Spit and spit, everything in front of me began to blur, I slowly opened my eyes, just opened a slit, a dazzling light made me instinctively closed, slow for a moment, and then open again, only to see along the trouser leg to the feet, full of puddles of black things, look carefully, this black thing seems to have life, in the constant twitching and squirming, followed by a pungent stench, after looking at it for a long time before I realized, this is something in my body, when I think of this, wow and vomit, In the end, even the yellow gastric juice and green bile were vomited dry, and only a burst of retching remained, the mouth was sour and bitter, the face was full of tears, and the stomach was cramped.

I wanted to squat down, but my hands and feet were tied to the chair firmly, and when I raised my head, an old man wearing a black Miao suit and a cloth bun was sitting on the chair, drooping his eyelids, holding a bamboo tube and smoking a hookah.

Looking around, this is a large wooden house, like many houses in the mountains of southern Sichuan, wooden beams and wooden walls, wooden floors, windows are closed, listen to the sound, the rain is still falling, and it seems to be bigger, the whole room only has a table next to the old man and the two stools we are sitting on, there is no extra furniture, there is an oil lamp lit on the table, I recognize at a glance that this oil lamp is the one of the previous inn, from the stairs behind the old man, this should be the second floor of the inn.

The old man took a puff of cigarette, raised his eyelids and looked at me, and shouted a Miao language, after a while, there was a sound of footsteps on the stairs behind him, when I saw Zeng Weiguo's gloomy face, I couldn't help but be secretly happy in my heart, it seems that things are going more smoothly than we imagined, but I don't know how he could know so quickly that I was in the Gu, and I can find the person who solves the Gu in such a short time, unless there are their eyeliners in Baofu Town, and they see me enter the bamboo forest, if this is the case, it will be a little embarrassing, I endured the stench and pretended to be a beggar, thinking that it was seamless, Which Cheng wants to be another farce to entertain himself.

He looked at me with two guards whom he had never seen before, looked at me with an annoyed expression, turned to the old man, and asked, "What is his disease?" ”

"It's not a disease, it's a Gu Guy" After the old man finished hoarsely and slowly, he looked at me and asked, "Have you ever seen Qingwazi?" ”

I shook my head and told the things in the bamboo forest and what Xiao Fei said about Nixiu Mi's Gu, and the old man shook his head after listening to it and said, "Nonsense, Ni Xiu Mi Chang can do Gu, this is what Qingwazi did." ”

"Gu? Is there really such a thing? Zeng Weiguo stared at the puddles of black water on the ground, as if asking to himself.

When the old man heard this, he slapped the fire sickle in his hand on the table, and said angrily: "The magic of witchcraft has been passed down in our Miao family for thousands of years, which one will be fake?" Let's just say that this straw man Gu is simple to say, but it really kills people invisibly and is very vicious. ”