A pair of cloud shoes stopped in front of the crying girl, and there were naughty children in the village who cursed in Miao language, and a few older ones threw cow dung and mud straight over, and the girl just cried, letting the cow dung and mud fall on her body.

A group of urchins caught a glimpse of a person standing behind the girl, seeing that her dress looked like a Han person, and immediately dispersed in a hurry amid shouting, and I don't know if I went to find my own adult.

Yin Suqing moved a step, and the figure covered the girl, and the girl stopped crying in surprise, and turned her head to look at Yin Suqing with a dirty little face.

Yin Suqing glanced at the girl, then looked at the old woman wrapped in a quilt beside the girl, and asked, "Why was you driven out of the village?" ”

The girl is silent.

Yin Suqing thought that the girl didn't understand, and asked, "Do you have a name?" ”

"Stay on the card."

"Brother Liu?" Yin Suqing frowned, but thought in her heart that this girl may not know Chinese at a young age, and this 'Liu Geka' may not be her name.

Unexpectedly, the girl said in broken Chinese: "In Chinese, my name is Ma Butterfly." ”

"Hemp butterflies? Good name...... Do you speak Chinese? ”

The girl nodded and said, "Ji ...... Abba is a merchant outside the mountain, and I know some Chinese. ”

This place is located in Xiangxi, the Han, Tu, Miao three ethnic groups live together, although the Tu, Miao two ethnic groups rarely intermarry with foreign people, but it is not completely absent.

In particular, the Tusi system is practiced here, and Peng Danian is the daughter of the Han family, and most of the wives and concubines in the family are married from the Han family. The upward and downward effects, the rich and powerful marry the daughters of the Han family, and the rich and powerful people marry the Han family.

Yin Suqing nodded, seeing that the old woman was trembling all over, and she had more breath and less air intake, so she leaned down and reached out and touched the old woman's right hand.

Seeing this, the little girl didn't know where the strength came from, so she opened Yin Suqing's hand and shouted, "Don't touch Ga Po!" ”

Yin Suqing said patiently: "You...... Ga Po is sick, and Poor Dao happens to have some medical skills, why don't you let Poor Dao take a look at it for you? ”

Ma Butterfly looked up and said, "My Ga Po is a grass ghost woman, aren't you afraid?" ”

Miao Jiang called the Gu girl a grass ghost woman, good at witchcraft and the king of Xinpan. The people in the village are more afraid of the grass ghost than respectful. Guy is a grass ghost woman who raises Gu in her body, and every year or every two or three years old, she must release Gu to harm people, otherwise she will be eaten by Gu worms.

Yin Suqing rushed here, originally wanted to explore the Meishan Sect, but now he ran into Gu Miao! It is rumored that Miao Jiang Gu Miao is extremely vicious, and it is impossible to prevent it, Yin Suqing likes to hunt for curiosity by nature, where will he easily let it go if he bumps into it like this?

But seeing that his apricot eyes were clear, and he had a smile on his face without self-examination, his right hand slowly reached out, and he said with relief: "Little butterfly, don't worry, the poor Dao has some ability, and I am confident that I can't cure your Ga Po, and I can also prescribe a medicine to relieve it." ”

Yin Suqing is seventeen years old, her face is becoming more and more dignified, her voice seems to have magical power, and her words make Ma Butterfly not self-examining convinced. Without waiting for his reaction, Yin Suqing had already touched his Ga Po's right hand to kill the door.

As soon as her hand was touched, Yin Suqing felt that the old woman's pulse was extremely strange, sometimes faint and undetectable, and sometimes violently and chaotically.

"Eh, sister, let go, my Ga Po is scattering Gu, don't hurt you!"

Ma Butterfly hurriedly grabbed Yin Suqing's hand, and at this time, Yin Suqing noticed that something was wrong, and an extremely vicious aura rushed to the meridians along the fingers that touched the old woman's life.

Yin Suqing suddenly changed color, flipped out two feet with his head, sat on the ground and pointed at the acupoint of his right arm with his left hand, and then silently used the mixed yuan gong to urge him to enter the body Gu poison.

After a while, a little black blood came out from the tip of the middle finger, and after landing on the ground, the stars suddenly dispersed, but if you looked closely, there were countless tiny Gu worms!

Zhen Qi ran Xiao Zhoutian, Yin Suqing looked inward to confirm that there were no more Gu worms missing, and then he breathed a sigh of relief. After getting up, not only was he not afraid, but he became more and more curious about what this Gu worm was and how it could penetrate into his body along the skin.

Over there, the hemp butterfly squatted down, carefully folded the quilt for Ga Po, turned his head to look, and was surprised that Yin Suqing was unharmed, looked down at the scattered black blood before saying: "This is Ga Po's Drill Heart Gu, after being hit by the Gu, it can make people want to die." My sister is not afraid of Gu worms, are you a Meishan water master? ”

Yin Suqing stepped forward and said gently: "Poor Dao is not a Meishan water master, but a Taoist priest. ”

"What is a Taoist priest?"

"Those who worship the Tao, read the Taoist scriptures, and refine their bodies in order to live forever can be called Taoists."

Ma Butterfly pondered: "Abba said that there is a Han man named Zhang Sanfeng outside the mountain, who has lived for more than 200 years and is an immortal comparable to the king of Pan. Is my sister like Zhang Sanfeng? ”

Yin Suqing said with a smile: "Borrow your auspicious words, I don't dare to compare it to Zhang Zhenren." After a pause, he asked again: "Little Butterfly, why did the village drive you out with Ga Po?" ”

Ma Butterfly lowered her head and said sadly: "Ga Po is old, and he can't suppress the Gu worms in his body, and the clan elders and the head of the clan all said that Ga Po wants to scatter Gu, and they are afraid that the Gu worms that will be scattered will harm people, so they drove me and Ga Po out." ”

The grass ghost woman feeds the Gu worms with her own essence and blood, and the ordinary use of the Gu worms can not only harm people, but also cure diseases. When he is old and weak, his own essence and blood are not enough to feed the Gu worms, and the Gu worms will naturally rebel. This kind of behavior is called scattering.

The grass ghost woman was extremely miserable when she scattered the Gu, and the more Gu worms she fed in her early years, the more she was tortured before she died. When the Gu worms are dispersed, there are very few people who can get the whole corpse of the grass ghost woman, and most of the grass ghost women will be eaten into white bones by the Gu worms when they scatter the Gu.

Yin Suqing has learned a few medical skills, but has never treated such a situation, frowned and pondered at the moment, and finally took two steps forward, with his fingers to send true qi, and pointed at a few acupoints of Ga Po. These acupuncture points can temporarily relieve pain. Sure enough, after the acupoint, Naga Po's tense complexion suddenly eased a little.

It's a pity that it has long been killed by Gu insects, but it has never woken up at the moment.

Yin Suqing sighed and said, "Little butterfly, you can't be saved. ”

The hemp butterfly was a person who knew what was wrong, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and said, "My sister is kind-hearted and helped Ga Po relieve her pain." Ask my sister to do good things to the end, and bury me on the mountainside after my Ga Po scatters Gu. ”

"Okay." Yin Suqing took a bite to take it.

At this time, the village was noisy, and a group of men rushed to the gate of the village around the old man, and across the gate of the village, the old man of the clan spoke a Miao language, and saw that Yin Suqing could not understand, so he said in a broken Chinese dialect: "Wu Na foreigner, don't be nosy." ”

Yin Suqing said: "Supreme Heavenly Venerable, the poor way is just to help the dying, why meddle in things?" ”

The old man of the clan listened to his recitation of the 'Supreme Heavenly Venerable', and his face suddenly changed: "It turned out to be a high-footed Dao Gate outside the mountain...... This Taoist chief didn't know that the old woman and the girl were both grass ghosts in the village, and they would harm people every year. The people in the village have suffered for a long time, if it weren't for the early years for the people in the village to pull out the poison of snakes and Gu, I would not be able to suppress it.

Now I have discussed with the old men of each house, and then I drove him out of the village. ”

There is probably a main surname in the Miao village, and then it is divided into several houses. For example, the Chinese translation of the dragon surname of the Qi Mi, its branches have 22 branches, such as Dai Mi, Dai Yuan, Dai Long, Dai Yuan, Dai Rang, Dai Zhao, Dai Gui, Dai Liu, Dai Yan, Dai Zao, etc.

It is based on the fact that there are clan elders in the main vein of Miao Village, and each house has an old house, and the clan elders and the old people discuss together; Then three, five or dozens of neighboring Miao Zhai line joint payment system, select a small head; The small head is then combined, and the large head is selected.

After entering the service, Xiangxi and other places carried out the Tusi system, and now this joint payment system exists in name only, and most of the large and small paragraphs are appointed by the Tusi. However, the old man of the clan and the old man of the house have not changed as before.

Listening to what the old man said, Yin Suqing wondered in her heart. Not every Miao village has a grass ghost woman, usually dozens of Miao villages only have a Gu seedling, usually sacrifice to the heavens and rent, practice witch doctors, that is, the people of Miao Village are afraid of their Gu harm, and they will not simply drive it away?

So Yin Suqing asked, "...... this head?"

"Clan Elder!"

"This clan elder, your village is separated from the grass ghost woman, and the people occasionally have headaches and brain fever in the coming days, and are bitten by poisonous insects, how will they be treated?"

The old man of the tribe said: "The Taoist chief doesn't know, there are often Meishan water masters passing by here, and Pengshui has Meishan water masters stationing, only the silver money is used, and even the diseases can be cured." In this way, where is there still a need for such a grass ghost woman who doesn't know when to release Gu and harm people? ”

"I see." Yin Suqing secretly thought, it turned out that it was Meishan Shuishi who replaced the grass ghost woman, and it was Miao Village that dared to drive away the grass ghost woman so decisively.

Another joke, Yin Suqing said: "The poor road has traveled all over the world, and I am just passing by here, and I have no intention of participating in the affairs of the village." It's just that I pity this girl's filial piety and want to bury Ga Po on her behalf...... In this way, the elders of the clan will not be blamed. ”

"The Taoist chief laughed, I won't blame you. It's just that the grass ghost woman doesn't dare to get close when she is scattering Gu, and the Taoist chief is still careful. ”

"Thank you, poor Dao Dao."

Yin Suqing had no intention of entangling with the people in the village, so she turned around and wrapped the old woman with a quilt, carried the sword, and carried the withered old woman on her shoulders with a little force, and then looked at the hemp butterfly and nodded slightly, and then went to the mountain first.

Two figures, one large and one small, walked towards the mountain, and the people in front of the village discussed it, and then dispersed.

The mountains of Xiangxi are continuous, and most of the slightly gentle slopes are developed into terraced fields, and the steep ones are hunting grounds.

The hemp butterfly showed the way, and it took half an hour for Yin Suqing to stop on a hillside. This place is sunny, there is Wujiang River under the mountain, and the feng shui is quite good.

Yin Suqing put down the old woman and suddenly found that a five-foot shallow pit had been dug not far away, and a wooden sign was erected in front of her.

The hemp butterfly whispered a few words to Ga Po, wiped away her tears and went to the forest, and came back with a hoe in a few moments.

"I dug this pit a few days ago, but unfortunately I don't have enough money to buy a coffin."

Yin Suqing said: "Little butterfly, where are your parents?" ”

Ma Butterfly lowered his head and said: "Abba was killed by a bandit when he was selling goods the year before last, Ah Mang was sick for a year, and Ga Po was not saved and died." ”

Yin Suqing sighed secretly, there are people in the world who are like hemp butterflies, and she is moved by compassion at the moment. He asked, "Little Butterfly, where are the coffins sold?" ”

"Lord Tusi governs the place, that is, there is a coffin shop in Pengshui City."

"Okay, you wait here, and Poor Dao will buy a coffin for your Ga Po."

Ma Butterfly knelt down and kowtowed again: "Thank you, sister." ”

Yin Suqing helped him up, didn't say anything more, asked the direction and went straight to Peng Shui. The city of Xuanfu Si is like a remote county in the Han region, except for many people wearing soil and Miao clothes, the rest are no different.

Yin Suqing found a coffin shop, bought a coffin for five taels of silver, and ordered his men to drive a donkey cart to send him up the mountain.

After spending nearly two hours back and forth, when I reached the top of the hillside, I saw the hemp butterfly waving a hoe and continuing to dig the pit.

The coffin was unloaded, causing the hemp butterfly to cry again. It's also strange to say, the old woman has never dispersed the Gu, and then she groaned and woke up, looking at the two of them whimpering.

Ma Butterfly screamed in surprise and pounced, whispered to Ga Po in Miao for a long time, and pointed at Yin Suqing and said something.

Ga Po's eyes were cloudy, and she looked at Yin Suqing and said something, Ma Butterfly hesitated slightly, and Ga Po immediately spoke in a fierce tone, causing her to cough. Ma Butterfly cried and said, "Sister, Ga Po said she was going to die, beg ...... Come and take care of me. Ga Po also said that after her death, she would ask King Pan to bless her sister from illness and disaster. ”

Yin Suqing groaned slightly, and then nodded: "Okay, tell you Ga Po, the poor road will not let you have food and clothing." ”

Ga Po heard the Ma Butterfly relay, and suddenly sighed, and pushed the Ma Butterfly away with all her last strength, and finally said something, and then her neck was crooked, and she died of anger.

Ma Butterfly cried a lot, not only did she not dare to approach, but she also pulled Yin Suqing away while crying.

After the two of them stood still, Yin Suqing only glanced at it and felt that her scalp was numb. Centipedes, snakes and other Gu insects popped out of the old woman's mouth and nose, gnawing at the old woman's body unscrupulously. Dense tiny Gu worms poured out of the skin in an instant, and the old woman's corpse spasmed from time to time under the gnawing.

Yin Suqing couldn't bear it in her heart, and raised her hand to try to cover the vision of the hemp butterfly. At this moment, a cloud of black gas suddenly gushed out of the old woman's mouth. The black gas was like smoke, gathering and forming in the sun, looking like a snake, but it gave birth to four legs; Its shape is similar to that of a dragon, and there are no horns on the eccentric.

Ma Butterfly exclaimed, and then changed to Chinese and said, "Dragon Gu!" ”

There are many Gu insects in Miaojiang, Yin Suqing doesn't understand what it means, just looking at its shape, the shape of the black qi is quite similar to the rumored dragon.

At this moment, the dragon Gu seemed to have chosen a direction, and rushed straight towards the hemp butterfly.

Yin Suqing snorted coldly, pushed away the hemp butterfly, and pulled out the flying fire to slash it head-on.

The Flying Fire Sword faintly glowed red, and the Dragon Gu seemed to know that it was powerful, and it turned around in mid-air, bypassing the Flying Fire Sword, and before Yin Suqing could make another move, it had already crashed into Ma Butterfly.

It's strange to say, when the hemp butterfly saw the dragon Gu coming, instead of dodging, she opened her arms and closed her eyes and waited.

The dragon Gu instantly drilled into the body of the hemp butterfly along the seven orifices, and Yin Suqing was no longer good at using the flying fire sword, so he immediately returned the sword into the sheath, stepped forward and grabbed the arm of the hemp butterfly to probe into it with Zhenqi.

In the perception, there was a foreign body in the body of the hemp butterfly, and it avoided it when it met Zhenqi, and when Yin Suqing forced it to the dantian with Zhenqi, the foreign body refused to get away again. Yin Suqing made a long time of Zhenqi, and when she saw that she couldn't help this dragon Gu, she immediately frowned.

Ma Butterfly opened her eyes at this time and whispered, "Sister, the Dragon Gu chose me, and it was the blessing of the Pan King." The Dragon Gu was raised by Ga Po, and it won't harm me. ”

Yin Suqing said: "You also want to scatter Gu like Ga Po?" ”

Ma Butterfly smiled and said: "Sister, even if there is no dragon Gu, I still have a Gu on my body, and I will also scatter Gu in the future." ”

Yin Suqing was silent.

Ma Butterfly said: "Although Ga Po is not allowed, I have long been a grass ghost woman." Abba used to say that it's better to be afraid than to be bullied. ”

Yin Suqing didn't know how to comfort the hemp butterfly, so she only reached out and touched the little head of the hemp butterfly. When he turned his head to look, Ga Po had been eaten by Gu worms and turned into white bones.

Yin Suqing said: "Little Butterfly, why don't I teach you to cultivate, maybe I can suppress the Gu worms on your body." ”