As Qin Bukong left, there was no light in the tunnel. In the darkness, the eyes could not see anything, but they could faintly hear the faint sound of cars passing overhead. In this way, if I am currently on the ground, it should be a nearby road or a place close to it. After so many years of ups and downs, this place has never been discovered, I don't know if it is providence or coincidence.

Before leaving, I deliberately returned to the opening of the door, and reached out to wrap the half-severed tail that had fallen on the ground and wrapped it in clothes, the blood in the broken place had coagulated, and the originally slippery snake scales had become dry. I didn't think about what I was going to do when I picked it up, maybe I was looking for a place to bury it, but I didn't think much about it at the time, I just didn't want Ganmu's tail to be here.

When I got back to the ground, Ganmu had climbed onto his wooden shelf, and he kept licking his severed tail with the snake hyacinth, and although I couldn't detect the joy and sorrow from the snake's expression, I knew that the pain it felt at the moment was beyond my imagination, and fortunately it didn't have the seven emotions and six desires of a human being, otherwise its owner would have been sad for a long time if he treated himself so coldly.

But when I walked to the foyer where Master and I were sleeping, I saw Master standing a little stunned by the side of the bed, and the door to the outside was wide open. After the master saw me, he asked me with some confusion, did you have a conflict with Qin Bukong just now? I snorted and said, What's the matter, Master, is that old guy still suing you? The master said that there was no such thing, but just now I saw him open the door and leave in a huff, I called him a few times, but he ignored him, looking very unhappy, so I guessed that it was probably you below, and it was probably a quarrel.

So I sat on the edge of my bed, drank a glass of water, and then told Master what had just happened in as much detail as possible. After saying that, I put the half of the snake's tail wrapped in clothes next to the bed and let the master see it. Master also frowned, but he naturally knew that from my point of view and that from the perspective of me and him, he should naturally not express any opinion on this matter, especially Master, whether he said it or not, it was embarrassing.

After being silent for a long time, the master suddenly sighed and said to me, Shan'er, do you know why many of Qin Bukong's crafts are related to snakes? I said, isn't it because they are good at catching snakes? Miao Jiang's chicken and snake techniques have always been more magical.

Master shook his head, accompanied by a wry smile, as if what I had just said was very childish and funny. So our master and apprentice chatted while Qin Bukong was not at home.

Master told me that I was right, that there are indeed many incomprehensible and intriguing mystical techniques still preserved in the ethnic minority areas of China, and that the Miao people, as a huge ethnic group of ethnic minorities in China, have countless capable people among them. For example, since ancient times, there has been the Southern Sect of the Five Immortals, whose roots are mainly local black seedlings, good at poisoning, proficient in Gu, do you know what Gu is?

I nodded and said, I know a little, I don't know much. It is probably to raise poisonous insects and poisons, and after tempering, it can kill people invisibly. Master nodded, it seems that my book is not in vain, Master said, this Gu technique is broad and profound, it can harm and save people, it depends on the heart of the Gu master who has mastered this skill. And Gu is also divided into spiritual and non-spiritual, in principle, all things in heaven and earth pay attention to mutual growth and restraint, whether it is trees, flowers and plants, or birds and beasts, they can all enter the Gu. For example, the rooster itself is harmless, but the Gu refined by the rooster can kill people deadly. The poison of centipedes can harm people's lives, but the Gu tempered by the rooster can cancel each other out, which is the principle that all things are born and restrain each other.

I know all of this when I say this, do you mean that this Qin Bukong is actually a person who is proficient in Gu arts? Master said that although he didn't admit it himself, and we didn't ask about it, from some of the situations he mentioned to me before, and the way he controlled the big snake, it was obvious that he was a master of Gu magic.

Master went on to say, "Do you remember that when he controlled the invisible serpent, he must have had a bell tied to his thumb?" I said yes, I've seen it myself several times. Master said that the bell was called the "Gu Bell". And you also know that if there is nothing in the bell, no matter how it is shaken, the bell will not make the sound of hitting the jingle bell, which means that the Gu bell is filled with something with a relatively high hardness, so that it can collide with it on the inner wall of the bell and make a sound.

Master said that what was contained in it should be a part of the snake's body, so he was able to control the big snake through the snake Gu. Master went on to say, I had just met Qin Bukong a long time ago, and I once asked him how to domesticate a big snake like Ganmu, it stands to reason that this kind of snake is extremely rare even in the wild of Miaojiang, and the snake is cold-blooded and emotionally indifferent, so it is even more difficult to domesticate. But guess what Qin Bukong answered me?

I shook my head and said I didn't know, and reminded Master with my eyes not to sell off, if you have something to say, say it quickly... Master said that Qin Bukong told him at the time that it was because thirty years ago, there was a flood in the Miao village in one summer, and after the water receded, snakes of all sizes were everywhere. The Miao people are good at driving snakes, and they catch and kill at the moment, but there are still many who escaped and fled back to the mountains, and Ganmu is the largest of them. For some time afterwards, the escaped snakes rarely reappeared around the stockade.

But one day, a Miao man in the village went up the mountain to collect medicine, and it was already winter, and it began to snow in the mountains. According to the habits of snakes, snakes basically sleep in the hole this season and will not come out, but the Miao people were bitten by the snake and were poisoned, but it was not the kind of poison that would be fatal immediately, but when I returned to the village to tell everyone about it, the whole leg that was bitten had been swollen to twice the size.

In the social environment at that time, it was already in the stage of war, and it was possible to be killed by stray bullets when you went out, let alone go to the city for treatment, and there was no time at all. The only way to save him at the moment is to cut off the bitten leg to ensure that the snake venom will not spread to the whole body along the blood, and there is no guarantee that the person will die because of severe pain or excessive blood loss.

Fortunately, everyone in the village knows that there is a strange man, this strange man knows a lot of witchcraft, and the ancestors of the family have been priests in the village for generations. That strange person is Qin Bukong. And at that moment, Qin Bukong patted his chest and said that he would definitely help with this matter, and after speaking, he took the bamboo basket up the mountain on the same day.

A few hours later, there was a burst of black smoke on the mountain, and the people in the village thought it was a mountain fire, but the black smoke quickly dissipated, and when it was just dark, Qin Bukong returned to the village with a bamboo basket on his back, and the person who was bitten by the snake had already begun to show symptoms of cold sweat and nonsense.

And Qin Bukong squatted in front of the man and put the bamboo basket on the ground. Then he slowly lifted the lid of the basket, and a snake with red and black spots crawled out of it, which was often highly venomous. The person who was bitten was already unconscious, and the people around him were also frightened when they saw the snake and retreated again and again. Qin Bukong said, the snake that bit this Miao Min today is the one in front of me, and I have found it. After speaking, he whistled a few times at the bamboo back basket, and the red and black poisonous snake crawled into the bamboo back basket again, but soon crawled out again, and this time when it climbed out, the snake's mouth was still holding a plant horizontally, it slowly climbed to the side of the injured person, gently put the plant in its mouth on the ground, and then crawled to Qin Bukong, coiled into a circle of mosquito coils.

Although Master also listened to what Qin Bukong said himself, when he relayed it to me at this moment, I was still stunned. If I hadn't seen Qin Bukong's ability to command snakes a long time ago, I'm afraid I would have really listened to it as a mythical story.

Master went on to say that Qin Bukong picked up the plant from the ground at that time, and then said to the surrounding villagers that this herb was the antidote that the snake had brought by itself. After saying that, he put the herb in his mouth and chewed it for a while, and soon it turned into a puddle of green mud. Qin Bukong applied the herbs to Miao Min's wound, then bandaged it, then took out the machete, and cut off the head of the red and black poisonous snake in one fell swoop.

Master said that he heard that the moment the head of the snake was cut off, the villager was nauseated and vomited a lot of black vomit. The severed neck of the snake also kept gushing out black blood, but the poisonous snake did not struggle at all, as if it had confessed its sins, until the snake's blood dried up, and its body slowly loosened. And Qin Bukong actually took out a handful of coarse salt at this moment and sprinkled it evenly on the snake's corpse.

I asked, what is this for, does he want to eat salted snake jerky? But Master glared at me, and I didn't think the joke was funny, so I stopped talking. Master said that Qin Bukong told the villagers at that time that tomorrow morning, the poisonous snake would turn into a pool of blood, leaving only snake skin and bones, and the person who was bitten would be fine.

Everyone originally found Qin Bukong with no way to do anything, but when they heard that they would have to wait for another night, I was afraid that the person would have died a long time ago, so everyone didn't think so, and some people even began to discuss how to handle the aftermath. And at this time, Qin Bukong issued a few more commands towards his bamboo-backed basket, and a big white and yellow snake slowly crawled out of the bamboo-backed basket.

Don't ask, it's Ganmu.