It is not far from Nanchang to Wuyuan, because we walked early, at ten o'clock in the morning, we were already standing outside the Qingyue Gate.

I took my second uncle and Bao Weng in to take a look, and it was the same as before, this Qingyue Temple is now nothing. But when I found the hut along the way I had last visited, the old woman was gone.

"Judging by the dust on the table, no one has lived here for at least a month." Bao Weng looked at the dust on the table in the house: "There is another point, I can conclude that this old woman Xiao Rui said is a grass ghost woman who has raised Gu in the house. ”

"Raising Gu? Does Zhu Yuke have anything to do with Gu raising? I asked.

"There is no specific relationship." Bao Weng said with a smile: "Zhu Youke is originally a secret method that is difficult to master, if you want to learn Zhu Youke, you must have a very high talent." It's the same with raising Gu, not every Miao girl can become a grass ghost woman, not only needs a suitable Gu body, but also needs super endurance and talent......"

Speaking of this, Bao Weng suddenly stopped, the smile on his face disappeared in an instant, and he looked at me with a frown: "Wait, do you mean to say that this old woman, as well as that Xiu'er senior, are all masters of Zhu Youke?!" ”

I didn't know what this person thought, so I nodded and said, "That's right, Qingyue Taoist of Qingyue Temple, personally told me that Xiu'er's predecessor was a master of Zhu Youke, as for the old woman, I fell down the hillside last time I came and fractured my lower leg, and she personally healed me." ”

"That method ......" The second uncle said to Bao Weng briefly how to heal the old woman: "This method can also be regarded as Zhu Youke!" ”

Bao Weng nodded: "Then, if you say so, I really know who this Xiu'er senior in your mouth is." ”

"Who?!"

As soon as my second uncle and I heard this, we asked in unison.

"Alas!" Bao Weng sighed: "To be honest, I haven't seen this senior either, but before you just told me that Xiu'er's predecessor was a Miao Village girl, more than a hundred years old, and let me see her portrait, I haven't seen it, so naturally I can't recognize it." But now that I know that she is a master of Zhu Youke, and her apprentice can also raise Gu, I know who it is, and in the entire Miao Village, only one person can meet these conditions. ”

Boy, you say! I glanced at my second uncle, and hurriedly turned my gaze to Bao Weng.

"I only remember that at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there was such a Miao Village girl who came back." Bao Weng frowned and recalled, it is estimated that it is difficult for him to find a single word in his memory after being separated by several generations from Xiu'er's predecessors: "But she was injured at that time, and she didn't know a few people in the village, but a few elders in the village knew about her existence, so they left her in the village to recuperate." A few days later, she left, because I also heard from the elders, and the elders didn't know what her name was. ”

"And what about later? Just go back once? I asked.

"No, it seems that after almost a year or two, that girl returned to Miao Village again." Bao Weng said and shook his head: "But when I went back that time, I took a baby with me, you must know that as a grass ghost woman, she is generally infertile, and it is very harmful to her body and strength, and the remaining children are generally unhealthy, not to mention ......"

"Uncle Bao Weng, this is not right!" I objected: "I remember when the old woman told me about Xiu'er's seniors, saying that when Xiu'er's seniors were about to give birth, they drank a bowl of soup and medicine for themselves, and then gave birth to a dead baby, how could they bring it back to Miao Village?!" ”

"Dead baby? Decoction? Bao Weng's brows furrowed even deeper: "That baby is indeed Xiu'er's child, and it was alive at the time, the decoction you said is estimated to be for the baby's illness, otherwise, with the skills of Xiu'er's predecessors at that time, the child born will either not survive, or will be disabled." ”

In that case, Xiu'er's seniors have children!

"Is this kid still alive?" I am a little happy, I feel that Xiu'er's predecessors have suffered such a tragedy, although the child is not born to the person he likes, but after all, he is a dear and beloved person.

"I don't know." Bao Weng shook his head and said, "This kind of baby generally doesn't live long. Back at that time, when the people in the village saw that the girl had brought back the baby, they immediately disliked her, and within a few days, they drove the mother and son away. A few years later, in the midst of a war, she came back again to help us fight, but then she was outnumbered and she suggested that we leave the stockade. That's a Miao village where we have lived for hundreds of years, how could we be willing to leave, but there are still a few families who have left with her......"

The second uncle laughed: "Bao Weng, the Miao Village in the Lotus Mountain you are talking about, are they the people brought out by Xiu'er's predecessors back then?" ”

"That's right! These people have lived here for decades and almost a hundred years, and they have never been in contact with our Miao Village in southern Yunnan, and this time I want to go and see it. ”

"That's it!" I clapped my hands: "If I can find these people, won't I be able to ask about the whereabouts of Xiu'er's predecessors!" ”

"I hope so......" Bao Weng looked around again, and saw that there was nothing in the house, so he got up and led us into Lotus Mountain.

As Bao Weng himself said, he has never been to the Miao Village in the Lotus Mountain, I don't know where the legendary Miao Village is, we are like headless flies for a long time, and finally saw the first living person.

"Hello, big brother!" Bao Weng was already running sweaty, and when he saw the middle-aged man carrying a burden to collect firewood, he hurriedly ran over and asked, "Do you know any ethnic minority villages around here?" ”

"Ethnic minority villages? Have you ever heard, what are you here for? The middle-aged man frowned, but there was an innocent smile on his face that was unique to mountain people.

"Touristy!" Bao Weng said nonsense and did not change his face: "We originally reported the tour group, but their time was too short, we stayed by ourselves to play, I remember that the travel agency's advertisement said that there is a national village here, we searched for a long time, but did not find it!" ”

"Advertisements are all deceptive!" The middle-aged man looked disdainful when he talked about the advertisement: "There are no ethnic minority villages on this Lotus Mountain, they are all ...... Hey, don't say it, I really remember a place, that village is in a ravine, it's not easy to find miles! Anyway, I didn't pay much attention to the fact that there was a stockade there, but looking at it, in addition to the place where I lived, the others were similar to our Han people, I don't know if it was the village you were looking for! ”

As soon as the three of us heard this, we knew that it was right, and Bao Weng asked eagerly, "It should be!" Big brother, tell me where that place is? ”

"Look!" The middle-aged man turned around and pointed out a path with his finger, it was really hard to find, first we had to climb over two mountains, and then go around the halfway of the third peak, and we could see a ravine, and the small stockade was in it.

After thanking the middle-aged man, Bao Weng sat on the ground: "No, no, no, I'm tired, I haven't eaten lunch yet, it's more than one o'clock in the afternoon, I'll rest and leave!" ”

After the last few actions, I have developed the habit of carrying food with me, taking out water, bread, ham sausages and the like from my bag and handing them to my second uncle and Bao Weng, and I also sat down under a big tree and ate it.

"We need to hurry!" The second uncle said while eating: "According to the direction that the man said just now, far from it, the road is not easy to walk, even if we pass from the middle of the mountain, it will take several hours, before sunset, we had better be able to rush to the village." ”

I nodded to Bao Weng, and suddenly there was a sound of footsteps in the woods on the side!

The second uncle was stunned, grabbed a stone from the ground and threw it into the woods! With a "snap", the stone hit the trunk of a poplar tree, and the footsteps stopped abruptly.

Bao Weng slowly stood up, glanced at the second uncle, shook his body, and rushed directly into the woods!

I was immediately shocked, thinking that it would be difficult to fight here, so I hurriedly stood up and looked, but the moment I saw Bao Weng rushing into the woods, a black shadow flashed twice from the woods, and disappeared in an instant......