Before leaving, I went to the supermarket to buy a few large bags of frozen food and pastries and drinks for Han Bao and them, and replaced a large-size LCD TV, and gave Han Bao 10,000 yuan, telling them to go out as little as possible.

Han Bao heard that I was going out for a while, and asked if I could take him with me, and I thought that Tang Wanli was going to accompany me, how dare I take him, so I covered it up: I didn't dare to take them out until I sent them a few fake ID cards made by them.

After a long day of trekking, we finally arrived in Guizhou Kaili Qiandongnan Miao Buyi Autonomous Prefecture, and followed the guidance of the navigation to Kaili College.

Although there is a peak in Wu Feng's name, he is actually very short, a little more than one meter six. When she saw Tang Wanli get out of the car, her eyes were stuck, her mouth couldn't be closed, and then she scolded:

"Dog, it turns out that your kid hid such a charming bride and ambushed Lao Tzu. ”

Wu Feng's shouting is not unreasonable, in order to give me a long face, and in order to show off in front of my classmates, Tang Wanli deliberately permed a fashionable Korean hair, painted a costume, and pasted eyelashes before leaving.

"Where? Carey is a nest of beauties, you just don't think you've seen it. This is also true, as far as Guizhou is concerned, southeast Guizhou is indeed a place for beautiful women.

"That's not as good as Chongqing's beauty, so I won't introduce it. "Wu Feng talked to me, but his eyes were fixed on Tang Wanli. Although Tang Wanli was a little embarrassed, the look on her face was very happy.

"Tang Wanli, a tour guide in Chongqing. I briefly introduced, and Tang Wanli took the initiative to stretch out her hand to Wu Feng.

"No, I have to hold one and ambush you in order to punish you. Wu Feng made an unreasonable request.

"You have to get a big red envelope when you hug one!" The customs of ethnic areas are more bold, and I don't mind too much, but Tang Wanli is a little embarrassed.

Wu Feng greeted him with a big grin, hugged Tang Wanli gently, and then said: "Today in the National Customs Garden, we will catch the wind for the two of you and eat fresh river fish." ”

At the same table, Wu Feng's colleague Lu Yanxing and several university alumni took out two bottles of colorful Guizhou wine after introducing everyone to me, saying that it was rare to get together today, and I wanted to get drunk and rest. Although I didn't have much alcohol, I couldn't get in the way, so I had to accept it, but I didn't expect Tang Wanli to be massive, and most of the wine to toast me was accepted by her.

In the end, two more bottles were added, and Wu Feng broke the bill today, but everyone had a good time.

The next day, as agreed, we drove to Yuanenzhai in Basha Township, accompanied by Wu Feng and his colleague Lu Yanxing. Because we drank too much last night and set off a little late, we had lunch in Basha Town and then headed for Yuanenzhai.

After a short stretch of asphalt road, entering the potholed bumpy road similar to a machine farming road, Lu Yanxing told us that the village we are going to today is the only one of the few villages in the whole region that does not have a hardened road, and the road surface is worse and more dangerous after passing through a few Miao villages.

In the smoke and rain, the wooden buildings are scattered on the hillside, the valley is the terraced fields layer upon layer, the late rice has just pulled out the seedlings, I really dare not imagine, between the lofty mountains and mountains, in the barren natural environment, the Miao compatriots have paid the hardships for survival.

More than 20 kilometers of mountain road, I walked for an hour and a half.

Lu Yanxing's father was waiting for us on the side of the road at the entrance of the village, parked the car, and walked towards the depths of the village.

This gives us a sense of gratification because the tradition of mutual aid and friendship in the countryside is still there, and secondly, the new houses they are going to build are still traditional Miao family wooden houses, which have not ruined the overall style of the village. You must know that many ethnic villages are now invaded by reinforced concrete, which is extremely inconsistent with the surrounding houses and environment, and murders a lot of harmony, which is really helpless.

I thought about seeing the goddess as soon as possible, and asked the old branch secretary if I could not go to drink and eat, but the old branch secretary said that the Miao family's enthusiasm was inconvenient to refuse, otherwise it would be to look down on people. I had to follow him into the house and drink a few sips of local wine to get out.

The goddess lived high behind the stockade and had to climb a steep slope. Tang Wanli was a little struggling because she was wearing high heels, so I ridiculed her for not being a Kuicheng person, and she couldn't even climb the mountain, but I unexpectedly annoyed her, and ordered me to go back to the Zhaikou car to bring her travel shoes, I really regret not folding them.

The goddess is 81 years old, very thin, but still tough, with a homespun headscarf on her head, and is having dinner with a little girl.

I saw that the soup in the pot was dark green, exuding a strange taste, so I asked what the soup was called, but the goddess and the old branch secretary did not answer, Lu Yanxing smiled, and said that this soup is called "sheep and turtle soup", and ordinary people can't eat it.

But the goddess brought out a few bowls and asked us to taste them, and I tried to drink them, but there was a strange bitter taste, and I did not dare to eat them again.

Tang Wanli took a sip and spit it out directly. I asked Xiao Lu what this soup was made of, but Xiao Lu still smiled and didn't answer.

After explaining the intention, the goddess was a little hesitant, saying that they were all superstitions, there was nothing to understand, and it was not because of the old branch secretary who almost died in those years, and now no one dares to talk about these things.

I told him that now that the policy is open, the state is very concerned about the mysterious culture of the ethnic people.

The goddess looked at the old branch secretary's eyes, and after the old branch secretary nodded in approval, the goddess began to introduce the content about Gu:

"The Miao family has a saying about raising Gu and releasing Gu since ancient times, and most people think it is superstition, but in fact, there is such a thing. ”

The Guizhou dialect of the goddess is good, and we can fully understand it.

"The so-called Gu is actually a parasite on the animal, according to the type of animal, there are snake Gu, turtle Gu, turtle Gu, chicken Gu, duck Gu, dog Gu, sheep Gu and so on. The goddess spoke slowly, lest we not understand, but I listened quietly, pretending to take notes.

"These insects are taken from the animals, fed with special medicines and grass leaves, and become vigorous and humane, this is Gu raising. "Although the goddess is old, her language is very logical.

"And what's the matter with the Gu release?" I asked impatiently.

"Releasing Gu is to wait for Gu worms to be cultivated, and while others are not paying attention, the Gu worms are mixed into soup or tea and wine to make people drink it, and it becomes Gu release. The goddess continued to talk.

"And how did the Gu worms endanger the victims?" I continued to ask.

"In the long-term feeding process, the feeder and the Gu worm can communicate through spells, which is what you call telepathy. "I didn't expect that the goddess was still a learned person, and it is no wonder that in the marginal villages, the people who are often engaged in the activities of gods and witches are intellectuals in the village.

"What are the symptoms of people who suffer from Gu?" I want to confirm whether there is Gu poison in my body.

"In the early stage of the Gu poison attack, there are only symptoms such as itching, dizziness, and drowsiness, and in the later stage, there are symptoms such as amnesia, insomnia, body aches, and unbearable itching, and in severe cases, the limbs will be weak, and the physical strength will fail. When the goddess finished speaking, her eyes lingered on me for a moment.

"There are two main categories of Gu poison by type, one is called love Gu, and the other is called hate Gu. The goddess brought a cigarette stick and loaded it with tobacco leaves, and I hurriedly lit it for her, and when she lit the cigarette, the goddess glanced at me again.

"A love Gu is generally a Gu cast by a woman in order to confuse and tie a man. The goddess took the cigarette holder and spit out a puff of cigarette.

"I want to learn to cultivate love Gu. Tang Wanli immediately interjected.

"You are so beautiful and well-behaved, you don't need to raise Gu to tie up a man. The goddess said lightly, and glanced at me again, everyone smiled, and Tang Wanli also showed a smug look.

"What about Hate Gu?" I quickly asked.

"Hate Gu is to cast it on the person you hate, so that he can't survive and die. The goddess exhaled another long puff of smoke.

"And what if the person who cast the Gu died?" I continued.

"If the person who gave the Gu died, the Gu worm would still parasitize in the body of the person being given, and if there was no medicine to feed it, it would suck the nutrients in the human blood, and the itching would be unbearable. ”

"Is there a way to get rid of the Gu poison?" I got anxious.

But the goddess said no more, but smoked, and looked at the other four. The old branch secretary immediately stood up and beckoned Wu Feng, Tang Wanli, and Xiao Lu to take a walk outside the courtyard, and everyone understood that the goddess seemed unwilling to talk about more secret content.

When I was in a dilemma, the goddess spoke: "This teacher can stay, and I will talk to him alone." ”

When I was the only one left in the room, the goddess's eyes suddenly became grim.

"Now you can tell me the real purpose. The goddess's eyes fixed on me and she tossed the cigarette stick aside.

"I suspect I've been poisoned. I replied frankly.

"Stick your tongue out and see. The goddess commanded.

I immediately stuck out my tongue vigorously, and the goddess looked at it, scraped my tongue with her pointed nails, and leaned close to my nose to smell it, and her brow was furrowed, and she was half silent.

"What's wrong?" I became nervous.

"The Gu in you is not Miao Jiang's. The goddess affirmed.

"It's true that I didn't get it in the Miao area. I answered her honestly.

"Can you tell me?" the goddess looked a little confused.

"It was contracted in a Tujia village. I panicked again.

"Have you failed some girl in the stockade?" asked the goddess.

"Even if it is, but it's not what you think. "I'm trying to explain.

"It doesn't matter if that's the case or not, the key is whether people let you go. The goddess's eyes were even more severe.

"The person who cast the Gu is dead. I told her helplessly.

"Wronged!" muttered the goddess, her brows furrowed.

"Is there any way to save it? at any cost. "I knelt on my knees before the goddess.

The goddess ignored me, her eyes still full of doubt, and let me kneel.

After a while, the goddess took out a silver hairpin from a bamboo tube and said to me, "Lend you some blood." Then he pressed my head down, pulled my collar down, exposed my shoulder blades, stabbed the silver hairpin into it, stayed for about ten seconds, pulled it out, put the blood on the silver hairpin on the nails, and sniffed it close to my nose, and was silent for a while.

Watching this series of movements of the goddess, I was nervous and excited, and I was at a loss.

"You have probably fallen for the snake Gu, but this kind of snake is not something we have in the Miao area, and there is no Gu worm that can restrain it. "The goddess finally said a word, but I was disappointed.

"It's like a big snake with amazing energy. When the goddess said this, I remembered the python in the tiger's cave.

"Is there no way to heal?" I asked disappointedly.

"There is no way. The goddess replied in the affirmative. "But ......," the goddess looked hesitant.

"Please think about it. I kowtowed sincerely.

"Don't, don't do this, Nian relatives. "The goddess also calls me a relative, and I can't help but think of the priest.

"I also have a Gu that has been raised for many years here, although it can't restrain the Gu poison in your body, but it can be alleviated a little, if you want to be completely cured, you have to find the mother Gu of this snake Gu and lift the spell of casting Gu. ”

When she had finished speaking, she motioned for me to stand up, and then went to the back room, and after a while, she brought out a jar, and ordered me to turn around, and groped for a while, and then told me to turn around, and brought out a bowl of tea, and told me to drink it. Then he instructed me: "In the future, you must exercise proper restraint**, practice more exercises, and the Gu poison may be more relaxed." ”

Seeing that I drank the tea with the Gu plant, the goddess immediately sat cross-legged, her eyes slightly closed, and silently chanted, probably a spell or something, after a long time, she opened her eyes and scratched between my eyebrows a few times with her fingertips. Then he said to me, "In the future, if you have the chance to find the mother Gu and lift the spell, you have to come to me again, and you must take out the Gu to avoid future troubles." ”

After drinking tea and listening to the teachings of the goddess, I took out a stack of money from my backpack and put it on the goddess's table, but the goddess stopped by the scream, and said: "Relatives, don't take money to solve everything, if the old branch secretary didn't bring you today, I observed that you are still kind in your heart, how can I tell you so much, okay, put the money away, go back." After the goddess finished speaking, she made a posture of sending off the guests.

I embarrassedly exited the house and came out of the courtyard to join the others.

The others looked at me with a panicked expression, and they didn't know why, so Wu Feng warned me not to take the things of the mysterious culture too seriously, and cut too deep, so as not to go mad, but I didn't know that I had actually gone mad.

On the bumpy road back to Kaili, Tang Wanli was already very familiar with Wu Feng and Lu Yanxing, and they had nothing to talk about.

And my mind kept swirling with the words of the goddess, so it seemed that it was impossible to find a home remedies for the gods and witches outside the valley to cure the Gu poison, and I would have to return to the valley again and fight against the powerful priests......