Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Secret of the Heart (I)

We saw that Wu Jian was sitting on the edge of the pool, and we didn't know when he had climbed up from under the pool, and we didn't even notice it. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info But since Wu Jian can pick up the words of the third uncle, then it is certain that he has at least heard all the things that the third uncle said later, so the time for him to get on the platform will never be short.

The third uncle glanced at Wu Jian in surprise, with a look of great interest, and then praised: "Yes, yes, among these people, only you have the most thoughtful thoughts, and you have broken through the thoughts in my heart at once." ”

Wu Jian shook his head expressionlessly, and he said silently: "What I said is the truth, not speculation, if you want to say that it is not simple, it should be you, because your guess is close to the truth of the matter." ”

The third uncle didn't expect Wu Jian to say this, so he was stunned for a moment, and then asked strangely, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Wu Jian said lightly: "I've made it clear enough, don't you understand what I mean for someone as smart as you?" ”

The third uncle reacted suddenly, and he asked in disbelief, "You mean, all my guesses just now were correct?" Can...... But why do you say that? Do you know the ins and outs of everything? ”

As soon as the third uncle's words were asked, all of us had shocked expressions, and we couldn't help but turn our heads to look at Wu Jian, at that moment, I believed in my instincts more and more, this cold young man in front of me must have a shocking secret hidden in his body.

Wu Jian directly ignored the surprised expression on our faces, his mood seemed to be a little heavy, and he took a heavy breath, and then said, "If you want to know the truth, this matter must start with my clan. The origin of our clan can be traced back to the time of the Yellow Emperor, or even more ago, and the matter of Xingtian is inseparable from my clan, and we even respect him as one of the oldest ancestors. Of course, before Xingtian, there were even more ancient ancestors in our tribe, and everyone was very familiar with this person. ”

Wu Jian's home is deep in a mountain in Xiangxi, Hunan, where there is an ethnic minority, which we call it Miao according to our unified name today, and his father is the leader of this Miao tribe. The Miao people mentioned here do not refer to all the Miao compatriots in China, but specifically to the Miao team led by Wu Jian's father.

For as long as he can remember, Wu Jian knew that there was a forbidden place in the clan, it was a back mountain in their village, the mountain was not high, but there was not a single grass or tree on it, you may think it was strange, but the reason was very simple, it was a real stone mountain.

There is a clear record in the Miao clan rules that no one is allowed to enter that forbidden place except for the patriarch of the clan, and violators will be punished with three major tortures: cutting out their tongues, gouging out their eyes, and cutting off their hands. As for why there is such a strange family rule, and what kind of secret is hidden in that stone mountain, the patriarchs of the past generations are reluctant to talk about it, and only tell the clansmen that this is a rule set by the ancestors a long time ago.

Because they live in the depths of the mountains, there are many fierce birds and beasts, in order to better survive in this harsh environment, so the clan does not distinguish between men and women, and begins to practice bows and arrows and fists and feet since childhood, not only that, but also have a certain understanding of various Chinese herbal medicines, because there is only one witch doctor in the clan, and his healing ability is very limited.

Wu Jian is the son of the patriarch, and according to the rules of the clan, he will inherit his father's position as the patriarch in the future, and because of this, his father is very strict with him in all aspects. At the age of fourteen, under the supervision of his father and the witch doctor, Wu Jian became the best boy in the clan in terms of skills and medical science, but in that year, an extremely terrifying thing happened in the clan.

That year, there was a lot of rain in the south, and by the summer solstice, floods occurred in many places, and the place where Wu Jian lived was not spared. But no one could have imagined that after the flood, not only would most of the tribe's houses have collapsed, but many would have contracted a plague that they had never seen before.

The plague was very strange, and the infected person only felt weak at first, accompanied by a state of trance, but as time passed, the patient became more and more afraid of the sun and liked to eat blood. The strangest thing was that a black spot began to appear on their hearts, which was not very dark.

The black spot started out as big as a fingernail, but after just a month, it would become the size of an egg, and the weirdest thing was that it would begin to fork like the rhizome of a tree, and a dozen tiny black lines would extend from it.

Although the black lines separated from the black spots are only as thin as rice noodles, they grow every day, and in about ten days, they will spread to the entire heart of the patient, and at this time, the patient will definitely die.

Due to the long absence of sunlight and the consumption of raw blood, by the time of death, the patient was left with a skinny body, his eyes turned blood-red, and his pupils were gone. From the inexplicable plague to the strange death in the end, the period was only a short three months, but in just three months, a third of the people in Wu Jian's clan died.

However, this is only the beginning, and the worst is yet to come.

We all know that the most terrible thing about the plague is that it spreads, and it spreads very quickly, very quickly. In order to effectively curb the spread of the plague, people in ancient times mostly burned the bodies of the dead, and only those of extremely high status were put to grave. Of course, when the burial is carried out, it is natural to do a lot of treatment measures to prevent the plague from spreading.

Wu Jian's tribe also disposed of the corpses with the plague by incineration, but there was a small difference, which came from their funeral system that had been handed down since ancient times.

The burial method of the Miao people is very messy, the Miao people in some areas take the Han funeral ceremony, that is, the burial, and the Miao people in some places adopt the same funeral method as the Yi people, adopting the rock burial system, but the most orthodox funeral method of the Miao people is cave burial.

Wu Jian's tribe adopted the method of cave burial, although the people in the clan were infected with the plague and died, but the ashes left after the body was burned still had to be sent to the cave for burial.

However, in those days, hundreds of people in the tribe died every day, and if the corpse was disposed of alone, it would require too many people, and the clansmen in charge of this work were very vulnerable to the plague, so in order to make it easier, Wu Jian's father thought of a simple solution. (To be continued.) )