When I left Xuantang that day, it was almost dusk, so I took the train directly to Changsha, chartered a van, and went straight to Xiangxi.

Xiangxi is the "northwest gateway" of Hunan Province, bordering Hubei, Guizhou and Chongqing, and is known as the "throat of Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing and Guizhou". The mountains are steep, among which the Wuling Mountains meander from west to east, which is the northeast of the Wuling Mountains on the eastern edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, riding the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the west, adjacent to the western Hubei Mountains in the north, and taking the Xuefeng Mountain as the screen in the southeast.

Before the liberation, Xiangxi was a relatively chaotic territory, because it was a gathering place belonging to the Miao people, and it was often not under the control of the central government. In order to rule the Miao District of Xiangxi, it is said that from the time of feudal society, all dynasties have frequently used troops against Xiangxi, only 1381 (Hongwu 14 years) to 1615 (Wanli 43 years), large-scale Miao suppression action has 30 times, but almost every suppression has been met with stubborn resistance by the Miao people, so all dynasties and dynasties Xiangxi is not peaceful.

It is said that the people of Xiangxi were farmers who cultivated the land during the day, and gathered in the mountains at night to become bandits in the Wuthering Mountains and forests, robbing passers-by. Even now, there are still stories about the bandits in Xiangxi in the TV series.

However, now that it is the 90s of reform and opening up, there will naturally be no more bandits who block the road and rob the road.

The phone address that Yang Qing helped me find out was from a town in Fenghuang County, and I came to Fenghuang County about the next morning.

In the nineties, Fenghuang County was not like now, when there was no main tourism, so the business was not developed, and many towns below were not yet connected to the road, and if you wanted to go to the countryside, you had to walk. Moreover, all the towns and villages in Fenghuang County are located in the mountains, and they are all mountain roads, which are very difficult to walk.

When I arrived in Fenghuang County, I learned that the town I was going to didn't have a road, and the locals told me that if I wanted to go, I had to find a guide, otherwise I would get lost.

However, I asked several locals in Fenghuang County, and when they heard about the township I was going to, they all shook their heads and refused to take me there. It's not that the money is too small, even if I say I can add money, they are not willing to go, which makes me very confused, I don't know why they are here?

It wasn't until later that I found a Han man and gave me enough benefits that he nodded and was willing to take me.

The guide told me that the township I was going to was not a seedling area, but a seedling area, so most people would not want to take me there, because the seedling area was very xenophobic, and if I saw someone bringing outsiders in, the people in the seedling area would hold a grudge against him.

Xiangxi Miao District is divided into raw seedlings and mature seedlings, but I have heard of this. The so-called raw seedlings are isolated Miao people, while mature seedlings are sinicized, and they are no different from normal Han people, and they can't speak Miao dialect. Sheng Miao generally lived in the Miao village in the mountains all his life, did not have much contact with the outside world, and could not speak Chinese, it is said that in the past time, the authority of the patriarch was greater than the sky. And the only thing the patriarch is afraid of is Gu Po.

In the past, the Miao people were not regulated by the government, and the Miao people had their own Miao king. Although the current seedling area is under the control of the government, it is also divided into raw seedlings and mature seedlings, and the seedlings are very xenophobic, and they do not want outsiders to disturb their tranquility. At the same time, the seedlings are divided into five kinds of seedlings, red, white, flower, black, and green seedlings. Here in Xiangxi is the green seedlings, because the clothes are all cyan, in Yunnan there are white seedlings, in Guizhou there are five kinds of seedlings, it is divided into five surnames, Wu, Long, Shi, Ma, Liao these five, in history these five surnames are Miao, but in real life there are many different surnames will also speak Miao, ancestral home is also Miao, but in history said that they are not Miao, but in the past, their ancestors and Miao people lived together, and over time also became Miao people, then this kind of Miao is called mature Miao, it can also be said to be a false Miao. These are raw and ripe seedlings.

The guide said to me, "I can take you to that place, but I won't take you in, and if something happens to you there, don't blame me." ”

I said, "What can happen if you go to Miao Village?" Even if the seedlings are xenophobic, they won't hurt people casually, right? ”

The guide said disapprehantly: "I can't say for sure, if you don't like it, the people in the seedlings will give you Gu." ”

"Xiagu?" Hearing this, I was a little worried, this Gu art is a mysterious witchcraft that is terrifying in Xiangxi. In this place of Xiangxi, especially in the seedling area, there are many people who know Gu arts, most of them are women, because Gu is yin, and women are also yin, so it is the most suitable for raising Gu, and the general public will respect Gu Po and stay away.

Because I am a person in the yin and yang industry, I still have some understanding of Gu, so I said: "Although Gu is scary, as long as I am careful, even if I meet Gu Po, it will not be easy to harm me." ”

The guide smiled, and smiled weirdly, and I asked him what he was laughing at? He asked me rhetorically, "Do you think that as long as you don't offend them, they won't play tricks on you?" ”

I nodded and said, "Isn't it?" ”

Yes, in my opinion, although Shengmiao is a little xenophobic and unwilling to let outsiders come to woo them, but Shengmiao is also a human being, and all human beings are human, where will they hurt people's lives for no reason.

But what I didn't expect was that the guide laughed again when he heard my words, and he said, "You are wrong, anyway, when you get there, don't pick up the food handed to you by others, and don't shake hands with people if you have nothing to do, otherwise you may be tricked." ”

I know this, because many people who are Gu are Gu people who give people Gu in food, or Gu when they touch their bodies. It is said that in the past, some women who had fled the famine, wrapped a blue cloth around their heads, walked to a house, held his hand when they greeted someone, and patted his palm a few times. The next day, the person who had been slapped by her palm suddenly fell to the ground, and initiated a reversal to ask for treatment by traditional Chinese medicine, only to find out after diagnosis that this person had been hit by Gu, and later was treated by a person who specialized in treating Gu, and after taking the medicine, he spit out dozens of paper balls from his mouth, and this kind of paper balls is Gu.

However, for what the guide said, Gu Po will give people Gu at will, but I can't help but be a little worried, you must know that if this is the case, it is really impossible to prevent it.

The guide seemed to see my doubts, and said, "Well, I'll tell you the truth." ”

I nodded, so he told me that he said that once upon a time, there was a mother who raised a natal Gu, and Gu had a crush on her son, and of course the mother didn't want to harm her son. However, Gu bit her very fiercely, and there was no way, so she agreed to let Gu harm her son. When this mother said these words to her Gu, it happened to be heard by her daughter-in-law outside. The daughter-in-law hurried to the edge of the village, and when her husband came back from mowing the grass, she told him about it, and said that the bowl of eggs that his mother had fried for him should not be eaten when he returned. After finishing speaking, the daughter-in-law went home first and boiled a large pot of boiling water. When he came home in a while, his mother brought him the bowl of eggs and told him to eat them. The daughter-in-law said that the eggs were cold, and they would eat them when they were hot. As he spoke, he lifted the lid of the pot, poured the bowl of scrambled eggs into the pot of boiling water, closed the lid and pressed it tightly, only to hear what was struggling and swinging in the pot. After a while, there was no movement, and when I opened the lid of the pot, I saw that it was a big snake that burned to death.

At this point, the guide looked at me and said, "Even her own son can be harmed, can she still have mercy on you as an outsider?" ”

After listening, I found out that the Gu in this Miao District was really more powerful than I imagined, no wonder the Miao District would be so discolored in the past, it turned out to be terrifying!

Then the guide told me that in the seedling area, not only outsiders will play Gu, but they will also often play Gu in their own Miao village. According to folk sayings, Gu Po is not autonomous to take Gu, but just like taking drugs, and when it comes to a certain period of time, she must be Gu on living people or livestock, otherwise the "natal Gu" in Gu Po's own body will devour the host's internal organs, making it painful! Therefore, if Gu Po can't help but want to go down to Gu, it will generally only go down to livestock, but it can only go down to people for a year, but it can only go down to livestock for one or two months, and it is precisely because of this that some Gu women will still put Gu down on living people.

For example, in the seedling area, if the child accidentally has a blood blister in his mouth, the mother will hurriedly find a needle to puncture the blood blister, and scold angrily: "Gu, Gu." I already know who put the Gu by cutting off the skull. If she doesn't take it back quickly, I won't spare her! "If the fish is eaten carelessly and the bones get stuck in the throat, the mother will tell the child to swallow a few large mouthfuls of rice without chewing and swallow the bones in his stomach. Then he asked the child to go to the gate and silently read the name of someone (who is considered to have a Gu), and shouted loudly: "There is a Gu in such and such a family, she put a cup on me, I know, if she doesn't take it back quickly, I won't spare her, one day I will carry the dung on her door, pick up stones and smash the roof of her house, so that everyone knows that there is Gu in her family, there are children who can't marry, and there are women who can't marry!" The shouts were filled with anger and hatred. It is said that through this way of shouting the village, the person who "released the Gu" heard it and was afraid, so he would automatically take the "Gu" back. In short, in the Miao area, it is very common to get a Gu.

Hearing this, I also knew more about the Gu in the Miao area, and I knew that it was really dangerous for outsiders to enter the seedling area, such as entering a dangerous situation.

At the same time, thinking of Chen Xianyi, the reason why they had an accident was probably because they were tricked by the Gu woman in Miao Village.

While saying these words, the guide had already taken me out of Fenghuang County and into the heavy mountains, a small mountain road straight through the deep mountains, surrounded by steep mountains, extremely difficult to walk.

After walking for nearly two hours or so on the mountain road, I climbed several mountains, and then a large Miao village appeared in front of me. I saw that Miao Village is surrounded by mountains on all sides, heavy mountains and mountains, the terraced fields are directly connected to the clouds by the mountain, a small river passes through the village, the Miao Village is divided into two, look at it, the drum towers are densely packed one after another, and they are connected into one piece.

The guide pointed to the small river in front of him and said, "This side of the river is still ripe seedlings, and when you cross the river, you will grow seedlings, and the place you want to go is on the other side of the river." I can only send you here, I dare not go to the other side of the river. ”

It was good that the guide was able to bring me here, and I immediately paid him the benefit fee, and he advised: "In short, you need to be more careful when you cross the river and enter the seedling area!" ”

I nodded, thanked me, and walked towards the Miao village in front of me......