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About ten years ago, that is, after Qiao Qiaoniang and Qiao Qiao's father eloped, the Gu worms in the village began to degenerate, and they were no longer as beautiful as they used to be. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Dawu was anxious, while sending people to find Qiaoqiao's mother, while looking for capable people everywhere to revitalize the cottage, and let the wind go, as long as there are capable people, the village is not sparing a lot of money. The news spread, and soon many so-called capable people who recommended themselves came to the village, but after the investigation of the great witch, these people did not have the ability to make the village regain the scenery of the past, so they were all sent away.

One summer, many people in the village suddenly fell ill with a strange disease, their bellies were as big as a drum, they were delirious, they could not eat anything but water, and they wailed day and night, disturbing the people in the village. Dawu and a few Miao doctors exhausted their methods, and these people still showed no signs of improvement, and the whole village was shrouded in a gloomy fog during that time. Dawu frowned every day, and there was nothing he could do. The big witch is the soul of the cottage, and the people in the village have been accustomed to worshipping the big witch like a god, but when such a big thing happened in the village, the big witch was helpless, and the dissatisfaction was slowly breeding, which made the big witch fidgety like an ant on a hot pot.

Just when Dawu felt that there was no hope, a thin and small old man came, saying that he was a descendant of the Maoshan faction, named Xu Chang, who was proficient in various Taoist spells and was willing to help Dawu.

At the beginning, Da Wu didn't believe this old man who didn't look amazing, and he had seen too many charlatans in the past few years. But the old man didn't care about the witch's skeptical attitude, and he asked the witch to allow him to heal the people in the village, and if he was cured, he would stay behind to assist him, and if he couldn't be cured, he would leave on his own, or accept any punishment from the witch.

The Great Witch agreed, and took him to the house of the earliest and most seriously ill person. The daughter of the family who got sick, the girl who was originally clear-eyed and beautiful, has now been tormented by a strange disease and is not human. The huge belly is like a mother who is about to give birth, but the whole body is skinny and skinny, lying on the ground, with her mouth open and open, and she can't howl anymore. Her family members stayed by her side, all looking gloomy and worried. Seeing that the Great Witch was coming, the whole family respectfully stood up to greet him. The witch waved his hand, signaling that they didn't need to be polite, and took the old man to the girl's side.

The old man checked his sister's pulse, opened his eyelids and looked at it, and confidently told Dawu that he could treat this disease, and then told his sister's family to go to the mountains to collect a large number of black bone vines, come back and boil water in a big pot, and put my sister in it to soak after cooling.

Black vine is a very common plant in the mountains, generally used to invigorate blood, reduce inflammation and reduce rheumatism, used to treat this strange disease, okay? The sister's family looked at the old man suspiciously, and then at the big witch. Dawu also thinks it's not very reliable, but there is no other way, grit his teeth, and become a dead horse doctor! So he nodded and told them to do as the old man said.

Seeing Da Wu nodding, the sister's family immediately took the basket and went up the mountain to collect medicine. In the evening, everyone came back with a basket full of black vines. When I came back, I immediately put it on the shelf and boiled it.

At night, the moon had already risen, and the black vine water was almost cold. Under the old man's command, he put the girl's kimono in a bathtub filled with black vine water, leaving only her head above the water. Seeing that the girl was lying in the bathtub, the old man took out another vial and poured some black powder into the water, and suddenly the water in the bathtub became as black as ink, and the sister also let out a painful moan.

The sister's family members all looked nervously, and turned their heads from time to time to look at Da Wu as if asking for help, but Da Wu sat expressionlessly on the side and did not make any response. When he had done this, the old man looked up again at the position of the moon, and then took out a few incense sticks of peculiar shape, and lit them on the top of the girl's head, and the cigarette curled and gave off a strange disgusting smell. The people around them held their breath and tried not to let themselves vomit. A few children couldn't help it anymore and ran outside to vomit all the dinner in their stomachs. The old man, untouched, lit the incense and sat cross-legged in front of the tub, and began to recite incantations in his mouth that no one else understood. With the sound of his incantation, the black water in the tub began to fluctuate a little, and the girl's moans gradually increased.

After a while, the old man's incantation became faster and louder, and the black water in the basin began to churn. The people around him, including the Great Witch, tensed up, forgetting the disgusting scent for a moment.

Suddenly, the girl in the bathtub screamed, and from her mouth, a small snake the size of an earthworm crawled out, and the whole body of this snake shone with a strange silver light, giving people a creepy horror against the background of the moonlight. After the little snake crawled out, it crawled along the girl's face until it reached her forehead, and then coiled its body, stood up, and looked coldly at the people around it. The cold eyes pierced everyone's hearts like ice blades, and everyone who was swept by its eyes shivered from their hearts.

The Miao family has lived in the mountains since ancient times, and it can almost be said that they have been accompanied by snakes since childhood. For the Miao people, snakes are a very common thing in their lives, and snakes are often infested in the house, so even children don't think snakes are so scary. But this snake was something that no one present had ever seen before, even a well-informed witch.

Just when everyone was uneasy about the snake, the old man took out a thick black bag from his body that he didn't know what it was made of, and opened the mouth of the bag in the direction of the snake. As he did this, the incantation in his mouth never stopped. Slowly, the snake leaned down and crawled towards the bag, and in a blink of an eye, it was gone. Seeing the snake in the pocket, the old man suddenly stopped the spell and tied the mouth of the bag as fast as he could, then slowly stood up, stuffed a pill into the girl's mouth, and at the same time ordered her family to carry her out of the bathtub and send her back to the room. Then he told them that in the next seven days, he would soak his sister in a stick of incense with black vine water every day, take a pill of the medicine he left behind every night, eat more nutritious things for three meals a day, and he would be cured after seven days.

Everyone was still a little skeptical in their hearts, but at present, this old man was the only hope that could save his sister, so they all agreed in unison to do what the old man told them.