Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Nine-Tailed Tanuki
When Father Gu heard that there was hope, he immediately perked up and said to the two doctors, "Can you two pick needles?" "The two doctors are both famous doctors invited by the Gu family, but if you look at me and I look at you, I don't know how to answer. The eldest talent for a long time was ashamed and said, "We haven't heard of any stitch picking methods at all. ”
Qi Lao Chao asked at the dead face, "Mr. Zhong, I don't know what is special about this needle picking method?" ”
The dead man said expressionlessly: "The corpse miasma enters the body, and over time it will form a corpse poisonous vein in the body, to deal with this kind of disease, we must use excellent eyesight and extremely fast techniques to pick off its poisonous veins step by step, and the hand has passed through the needle, and the needle must not be left, otherwise the corpse poison will enter the heart, and you will definitely die." This is only possible unless you have a deep understanding of the human body's veins and have worked hard for many years. ”
Hearing the words of the dead man's face, there was silence in the tent. The two doctors kept shaking their heads and sighing, and Qi Lao and the others were also at a loss. And my heart is pounding at this time, although I have never heard of this needle picking method, but my family has a unique craft.
Since he was eight years old, I have followed my third uncle to help him. Generally speaking, I am mainly responsible for the makeup of corpses, which is simply to dress up the corpses as well as possible. However, sometimes the victim's body cannot be kept in excellent condition due to various reasons, such as the weather or the parking time is too long, which may cause the corpse to collapse.
Such corpses are often very terrifying, and they can't help but smell foul, and their bodies are swollen, and in severe cases, they can even leak poisonous corpse pus. Such a corpse, no matter how exquisite your makeup skills are, it is impossible to look good. So since I was a child, I have practiced a family handicraft to find the ulcer points in the meridians around the corpse and break them one by one.
As long as it is done well, the corpse will be reversed, allowing the corpse to return to its original appearance. I've been practicing this craft over and over again since I was eight years old, and I don't know how many corpses I've needled. It wasn't until two years ago that I was able to easily pick out all the punctuation points on the corpse with just one needle, and it didn't hurt the rest of the veins in the slightest.
I saw Gu Sihan standing there, his eyes were red, his whole body was trembling, and he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable, and asked in the face of the dead: "Do you want to go forward or retrograde to pick the poisonous vein?" ”
Retrograde is actually a kind of jargon, that is, starting from the head to the feet, but starting from the feet to the head.
The dead man looked at me and said, "Retrograde." ”
I said "yes," stepped forward, and said, "I'll try." ”
As soon as the words came out, they immediately attracted countless stunned eyes. Father Gu looked at me hesitantly: "You ......" Gu Sihan was also stunned, and grabbed my arm: "Lu Jing, how do you try?" ”
I stretched out my hands and said to the two doctors, "Lend me a silver needle." The two doctors hesitated for a moment, and then saw Gu's father nodding, and the older man immediately took out a silver needle from his bag and handed it over.
"Isn't that nonsense?" The melon skin hat is behind the head of the yin and yang. At this time, the dead face spoke: "Let him try." ”
The second uncle of the Gu family and the beautiful aunt stopped talking, and they were extremely uneasy to think about, but with a dead face, they couldn't say anything. Father Gu's eyes sharpened, and he said, "Just let Xiaojing try!" ”
I walked to the bedside of the little girl of the Gu family, sat down and breathed for a moment, allowing myself to hold my breath and concentrate and eliminate distracting thoughts. Then he stood up and took off all the little girl's clothes. The degree of corpse decomposition on the body is very severe, and the whole body is covered with corpse spots, which is shocking, and there is hardly any intact skin.
The strong smell of corpses came to my nose, but I was used to it, carefully observing the distribution of corpse spots, silently remembering them in my heart, and then taking out two triangular needles, one short and one long. When I used to handle corpses, I usually used a single needle. But this time, out of an abundance of caution, I used a double needle.
Exhaled lightly, and as soon as his hand swept over, a needle suddenly went down to the left ankle, breaking one of the poisonous veins. This craft is under the supervision of my third uncle, and I don't know how many corpses I have honed, and my heart is full of needles, and there is no stagnation.
Where the needle passed, a black bead of blood oozed from the little girl's skin, like an evil black pearl, hanging on the skin, condensing but not dissipating.
I held my breath and concentrated, my mind did not dare to stop at all, and the two needles went together, and soon it was already to the top of my head, and finally the two needles were parallel, from Tanzhong to Parkway. After the needle was finished, the three hundred and sixty-three corpse poisonous veins hidden in the veins around the body were all broken.
I let out a sigh of relief, covered her with clothes, and climbed out of bed. Just after taking a few steps, I was dizzy, my feet were weak, and I almost fell. At most, there were only a hundred or so collapse points on ordinary corpses, which was far less numerous than the number of corpse poison veins. And after all, I am facing a living person at this time, and the pressure is extremely high, and the two needles are connected, and the spirit does not dare to relax at all, and the mind is extremely depleted.
Gu Sihan hurriedly came up to support me, and the others immediately went in to check, and after a while, there was a joyful exclamation. Gu Sihan kept stretching his neck to look into his sister's tent while holding me, looking impatient. I patted him and laughed and said, "Okay, I'm fine, you can go and have a look." ”
Gu Sihan hesitated for a moment, but he still couldn't resist the eagerness to see his sister, and rushed into the tent.
I sat on the floor, panting slowly. With a "meow", the big cat came running with a limp and rubbed the cat's head against my arm. I slapped it on the head: "Second goods!" ”
The big cat screamed, and I forgot that its ears were still folded.
In fact, in hindsight, I am still a little afraid, what if I missed. I don't know why I became so impulsive at that time, and then I thought that maybe it was because of Gu Sihan, I was called a freak since I was a child, and I didn't have a playmate, he was the first friend I made, so I cherished it extraordinarily.
The dead face was the first to come out of the tent and look at me.
"It's not bad, I'll go first." With that, he walked past me and left the tent.
After a while, Father Gu and others also came out, and everyone was happy. As soon as the two doctors came, they gathered around me and chattered about how to pick up stitches, so that I could not hesitate to give me advice. I was busy saying that I didn't know how to pick up needles at all, and that this was my family craft and could not be passed on.
Qi Lao looked relieved: "Don't worry, now that the corpse poison veins in Miss's body have been removed, as long as you take care of yourself, you will definitely be able to recover as before." ”
The Gu family is also very happy. Gu's father asked me why I didn't see Mr. Zhong, and I said that he went back first. Seeing that it was not early, I regained some strength and got up to take my leave.
Gu's father and his family tried their best to keep me, let me sit for a while, and prepare a heavy gift to thank Mr. Zhong in person. To put it mildly, I escaped from the tent, and Gu Sihan accompanied me to climb the rocky slope. I said I really want to leave, you should go back quickly.
Gu Sihan left me a note, with his contact information on it, and told me to go to him in the future. I took the note and told him to hurry back, don't mother-in-law.
He nodded and went downhill. I rested on the top for a while before climbing all the way down again. When I returned to the station, the third uncle had already returned, and was talking to the dead face about something, and when I arrived, the whole team started and turned around.
I asked the third uncle what was going on. The third uncle's face was tired, and he said, "Damn, there was a big landslide in front of me, and a bunch of dead heads fell out!" ”
I was taken aback: "Dead head? Is it only a head, not a body? ”
The third uncle scolded: "Just a bare head, it's still that kind of fleshy dried corpse, it's a fucking ghost pit!" ”
I said, "What's that?" Why chop off a bunch of heads and bury them together? ”
The third uncle sneered: "This is called a human head sacrifice." Underneath those heads, there should be a pool of shades. Hehe, this place is really evil! ”
I listened with chills. The so-called Yin Pool is the name of our industry, which actually refers to a special kind of terrain space. Juyin Pond is also called pure yin land, in this terrain, yin energy continues to pour in, and the corpses buried in it can be immortal for thousands of years. And in this kind of pure yin land, some incredible and strange things are often prone to happen.
When the team reached a stream, they saw ancient trees on both sides towering and green as a cover. The team took water on the spot to rest, the third uncle went to the back to see the two coffins, I took a few sips of the stream water, and saw the dead face standing on the bank looking at the depths of the mountain, so I went over and asked a question that I had not thought about.
"How did you tell that tanuki was blocking the funeral air?"
The dead face kept looking in that direction, and after a long while, he said, "That's a nine-tailed civet cat." ”
I was taken aback: "How is that a nine-tailed civet cat?" Shouldn't a nine-tailed tanuki have nine tails? How can there be such a strange thing in the world? ”
The dead man's face sneered: "Do you remember that I told you that there are many things that you think are incredible, but you don't understand them, it doesn't mean that things don't exist." You can't see the other eight tails, just because you can't see them, that's all. ”
Damn, this is on the hook! I was so angry that I didn't bother to pay attention to him, so I turned around and went back to sit down and munched on a piece of dried beef to pass the time. Carefully recall the appearance of the two-tailed big cat, except for the second one, it seems to be no different from an ordinary civet cat, how can it be a nine-tailed civet cat?
Later, the third uncle returned, and the team continued to march towards the mountain. The old woman of the Liu family was also very stubborn, and she finally couldn't walk when she came to this point, but she had to follow, saying that she must watch the bones of the be crushed and scattered. Liu Wenchong and Liu Zi'an, father and son, had no choice but to ask people to prepare a rattan chair and carry the old woman away.
The further you go in, the steeper the mountain becomes, the more rugged and dangerous the mountain road becomes, and sometimes there is not even a serious mountain road, only a winding yellow mud path, which is about to be stepped out by the mountain people who have been in and out for a long time.
The man who went to the outpost came back and said that he could already see the village ahead. Everyone couldn't help but be in good spirits, thinking that they would have a hot meal to eat soon, and they said hello, ready to rush to their destination in one breath before dark.