The murmuring water, the sound strings are tactful, and the natural notes are beautiful and pleasing to the heart.

Along the way, the faces on the train are still unfamiliar, just like the scenery that has never been seen outside the window, the ancient town, the city, and the countryside.

"Get out of the car, we're here." Zhu Beichen collected the scroll and picked up the simple backpack.

The journey was long, and it was tiring to maintain a long reading posture, and the roar of the mechanical wheels made it difficult for him to sleep. Stretching his body tiredly, he followed Han Qingxin listlessly off the train.

It's a small town right next to the river, the station was not built on a large scale, and the mountains in the distance give it a sense of naturalness, and the platform is sparsely populated, with travelers dragging large and small bags.

The river near the town is a branch of the Nu River system, called Jiuqu. From west to east, it flows along the perimeter of the town. The ancestors here attracted the water source of the Jiuqu River and dug an artificial river that runs through the entire ancient town.

The trickling water shows the distance of this ancient town.

What Zhu Beichen only knows is that this is located in southern Yunnan, and he rarely communicates with Han Qingxin along the way, and all the arrangements are handed over to this woman, and this ancient town brings him a different atmosphere, so familiar and peaceful that he is willing to approach.

"You don't ask where this is?"

"This is the hinterland of southern Yunnan, and this town is Jiuqu Town along with this river." Han Qingxin's question is more like asking and answering herself. Zhu Beichen was a little cute and didn't answer.

This town has a lot of historical charm, and the territory it occupies is not large, only more than two or three miles from north to south.

The road for people to walk is not wide, there are no cars here, and the roads are paved with green bricks, which are covered with a layer of green moss.

There are many men and women wearing Miao costumes in the ancient town, women are mostly wearing batik pleated skirts, wide-legged trousers, placket, cuffs, trouser legs, etc. embroidered trim, hair buns and combs are complicated, and silver ornaments are inlaid during the period. Men wear shirts or long shirts, trousers, large belts, and green cloth turbans.

With a strong exotic atmosphere, the two of them who have been in the bustling city for a long time can't help but love it.

On both sides of the ancient road more than ten meters wide are vendors with stalls, Miao characteristic clothing and silver ornaments, orchestral musical instruments such as reed sheng, and Miao unique knives and other knives.

"How do you sell this knife?"

This is a crescent-shaped scimitar, the back of the knife is curved with the blade, the whole knife is about 50 centimeters long, the handle is wooden, the cold light between the blades protrudes, and the sharpness is abnormal.

The old man with the stall didn't seem to understand Chinese very well, and grinned at Han Qingxin with a blank look.

Han Qingxin changed his tone and forced a few syllables out of his throat, which turned out to be the Miaojiang language full of Yunnan soil rhyme. The old man finally understood, and replied with a gesture.

It's interesting, you can actually speak Miao language, I don't know how many you have. Zhu Beichen muttered to herself, the more she knew, the more mysterious it became, and the more dangerous she felt that the person in front of her became.

"What do you buy knives for?"

"This is the last stop, and then you have to go up the Jiuqu River, the more remote the mountains, the Miao people there are not as docile as the people here, don't bring two knives to defend yourself, I'm afraid you won't be able to get out of the mountains."

"Your iron hands, you can shoot people apart with a casual slap, what kind of knife do you use?"

"And then." A scimitar was thrown directly towards Zhu Beichen, and the heavy blade was extremely heavy, and the edge of the blade inside could be felt under the wooden scabbard.

"The situation in the border areas is very complicated, especially the places where we are going, where the black seedlings are not simple."

Han Qingxin took out a black leather bag from his backpack, counted dozens of brand-new paper money and handed it to the old man on the stall.

"The production process of these two knives is unique, and the pure Miao people are hand-smelted, which is a rare treasure and worth the price."

Seeing Zhu Beichen staring at the money he counted out in surprise, he immediately added an explanation.

The Miao people in southern Yunnan are divided into "white seedlings", "black seedlings" and "flower seedlings". It is easy to distinguish from the clothing, Bai Miao's clothing is white, symbolizing purity and nobility; The costumes of the flower seedlings are the most gorgeous, made of five color combinations; However, the most mysterious is the black seedling, and the color of the clothing is mainly black. When it comes to the degree of intimacy with Hermes-Epitek, it is divided into raw seedlings and mature seedlings, while the black seedlings are the most secret branch of seedlings.

The witchcraft culture of Yunnan permeates all aspects of the lives of the residents of Miaojiang, and the ancient witchcraft is more or less inherited in the hidden villages, and the most mysterious witchcraft is the Gu art of Hei Miao. This branch of the Miao people, which has the least contact with Han culture, is also the most taboo tribe of the Miao people in Yunnan, because of their most terrifying black witchcraft.

"Let's go, rest for the night, I need to find a guide. The further you go to the other side of the mountain, you will enter the tropical rainforest at the bottom of the valley in southern Yunnan, and the closer you will be to the habitat of the black seedlings. ”

The apparent tranquility and harmony of the ancient town may not be peaceful, and it is easy to get intoxicated and lose your guard.

"This is already the scope of the seedling land, you should pay attention to your words and deeds, don't touch things that have nothing to do with you, don't drink the water handed to you by strangers, and don't eat the food you are given."

There are more than 1,000 methods of witch Gu poisoning, which are often difficult to prevent, and all that can be prevented is to prevent Gu from entering the mouth. Han Qingxin seems to know the people and customs of Yunnan very well.

Crossing two streets, this is a brick compound with a wooden gate. The dilapidated courtyard gate can imagine the age of the building. The inhabitants of the ancient town are mainly flower seedlings, and the degree of sinicization is also the deepest, and the architectural style of the town is biased towards the Han-style brick and earth structure, rather than the stilted buildings of Miao Feng.

A little boy about 10 years old poked out from behind the door, with a head wrapped in a green cloth turban, and a white and immature face.

Han Qingxin was so familiar with the boy that he spoke authentic Miao Chinese, and after a while, he took out a few banknotes and handed them over.

The courtyard door was open, and the two followed the little boy inside.

In one corner of the courtyard were neatly stacked nine jars resembling wine jars, the mouths of which were sealed with oilcloth, and the oilcloth was filled with dense characters.

"That's the cultivation vessel for rotting insect Gu, and the ones raised are all some worms used to make Gu, and most of them are soaked and raised with special medicinal herbs. But in the black seedlings, the cultivation of Gu worms uses human blood, so don't be curious to touch them. I don't dare to provoke either. ”

Zhu Beichen recalled the witch Gu chapter in the Yin Fu Sutra that he had memorized in the past few days.

The method of witch Gu chapter to resist insects, take the pupae of highly poisonous Gu insects in the mountains and forests, brew them with secret elixirs, break the insects out, and feed them with the blood of the Gu people, and the insects will agglomerate, block the veins and stasis and cause swelling and accumulation.

In the Gu Poison chapter, there are hundreds of methods for raising Gu and practicing Gu control and controlling Gu, during which the deduction and changes can reach tens of thousands of methods, the mechanism of action is complex, and the methods of solving Gu are even more numerous. And there are even more unsolvable death Gus, and the description in this article is also the most terrifying. Therefore, Zhu Beichen was suddenly afraid of these jars.

Fantasizing about the picture of countless moths breaking out of the chrysalis, with the mysterious Gu color of Miao Jiang Gu Technique.

He deliberately distanced himself from the jars and followed the boy into the house.