On the night I was discharged from the hospital, my sister and I talked a lot.

It's still a question of going with me, and this time I didn't refuse.

One is because there is no danger in this matter, and the other is that before I find that veteran with high Gu art attainments, I need someone to tie me up with a rope before the time of the child.

This matter is inconvenient for Yu Bingqing to do, and the senior sister is just right.

That night, I was tied to the bed with a rope the thickness of my thumb.

My sister was still not at ease, so she made a bunk next to my bed and connected me with her hand with a thin rope.

The purpose is to be afraid that the worms in my body will control my body and jump off the building.

Fortunately, after a few days of recovery, all the swelling on my body has been eliminated, and I have regained the appearance of a sunny and handsome big boy.

The Gu art veteran that Master's friend gave me was not in Guangzhou, but on the side of Jishou in Xiangxi near Zhangjiajie.

It stands to reason that these Gu cultivators are generally in the southwest region, and there are more in Guizhou, Guangxi and Sichuan.

Originally, the senior sister still planned to drive over, but the road was too far away, and the place was very remote.

Master's friend only gave me an approximate location, because he said that he had no direct contact with that Gu master.

I only occasionally heard some Taoist old-timers in China mention it, and I heard that this Gu master lives in a simple place, and he has been avoiding people, and his whereabouts are also erratic.

However, he has an old mansion, in a deep mountain called Xianglong Mountain.

Xianglong Mountain is located in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.

We first flew from Baiyun Airport to Hehua Airport in Zhangjiajie, and the distance from Hehua Airport to Xianglong Mountain was more than 160 kilometers.

We spent 500 yuan locally to charter a taxi and go directly to Xianglong Mountain.

The nearest village to Xianglong Mountain is called Shuipai Village.

We got off the bus in this place, and there were not many families in Shuipai Village.

This is a village with beautiful mountains and rivers, although it is poor, but the village is peaceful.

Like most rural Hunan, young adults have gone out to work.

Those who were left behind were some old people and children, who looked a little lonely, but they were also happy.

When we arrived at this village, it was already dusk and sunset, and we were not familiar with Xianglong Mountain.

So we didn't rush into the mountains, but found a kind family to settle down first.

There was only an elderly woman and a girl of thirteen or fourteen.

This old woman is over 80 years old, and she is the mother of the little girl's grandmother, which we call mother-in-law over there.

I heard the little girl say that because his father died in an accident when he was young, because he was working abroad, her mother remarried within two years.

Leaving the family with no one to take care of.

This little girl had only been in junior high school for a year, and then dropped out because her family could not afford to pay the tuition.

She said that her name was Wang Siqi, that "Wang" was a Han surname, and that Miao's surname was "仡卡, 仡佧", which sounded complicated.

The children of the poor are in charge of the house at an early age, and this little girl, who is only 14 years old, takes care of all the household chores at an early age.

The family raised two pigs, a dozen chickens, and some rice and vegetables, all of which were taken care of by this little girl.

Her mother-in-law is old, and her eyes and ears are inconvenient.

Therefore, in addition to taking care of all the farm work and housework, Wang Siqi also has to take care of her mother-in-law's daily life and diet.

When we entered her house, Wang Siqi was very enthusiastic.

She doesn't speak standard Mandarin, but she's not shy about communicating.

Even though she was born in such a poor family, she has a very cheerful personality, and her sister said that Wang Siqi was very similar to her when she was a child.

Wang Siqi's mother-in-law's surname is Tian.

"Tian" is also a Han surname, and Tian's Miao surname is more complex than Wang's surname, called "Lai Lai, Lie Lie, Guolu".

These are all transliterated, and the strange thing is that Wang Siqi calls her mother-in-law not directly by her mother-in-law, but directly by her surname.

An unintelligible word was added to the end.

We asked him what he meant, and she said that if it was in Chinese, it would probably be what Master Tian meant.

We didn't ask much, maybe that's what their custom is called, but we are not the Miao family, so we are directly called Granny Tian.

Although Granny Tian's eyes and ears are inconvenient, her spirit is very good, and there seems to be a kind of vitality between her eyebrows.

Because my sister and I offered a high cost of accommodation, Wang Siqi said that she would kill a chicken to entertain us.

These chickens were originally intended to be sold for money, and Wang Siqi would not kill chickens or catch chickens.

Originally, we said that we didn't have to kill and just eat something, but Wang Siqi was stubborn, didn't listen to what he said, and wanted to go to the chicken coop to catch chickens.

In the end, I had to stop Wang Siqi and took the initiative to run into the chicken coop to catch it.

The chicken coop is actually a brick house with more than a dozen chickens in captivity.

The environment inside is very humid and the air is extremely bad, but the chickens inside are very strong by Wang Siqi.

It took a lot of effort to catch the smallest one in it.

We can't finish killing the big ones, and we can sell them for more money for Wang Siqi if we keep them.

After catching the chickens out, Wang Siqi did not leave in a hurry, but stood at the door of the chicken coop with a brown crude earthen kiln jar.

"Big brother, you wait for me." Wang Siqi said.

I nodded, holding the chicken in my hand, and watched Wang Siqi open the earthen kiln jar, and said in my mouth:

"I'm sorry to disturb you, but there are distinguished guests at home today, so we need to show our sincerity, and now we will give you more food and ask for your forgiveness."

I shook my head and smiled, this little girl is really serious.

But when she poured the jar into the coop, I realized that the jar contained a slow jar of centipedes.

As soon as the centipedes hit the ground, they scattered and crawled away.

The chickens began to rush up and quickly peck at the centipedes on the ground.

In less than half a minute, all the hundreds of centipedes were eaten by the chickens.

After eating them, the chickens began to cluck, as if thanking Wang Siqi.

"Hehe, big brother, let's go, let's go to the stove house to kill chickens."

Wang Siqi smiled happily and walked in the direction of the kitchen.

And at this moment, my heart was almost broken.

Because after I saw that clump of centipedes, my body became inexplicably hot.

It seems tempting to chase away the chickens and grab the clump of centipedes in their mouths and eat them.

This thought startled me, and I shook my head violently and forcibly looked away from the chickens.

"Siqi, where did you get so many centipedes? Do you still keep centipedes? ”

When I arrived in the kitchen, I took the kitchen knife from Wang Siqi's hand.

Wang Siqi said proudly while lighting a fire and boiling water:

"Our family is poor, there is no money to buy rice to feed the chickens, so we use centipedes instead, these centipedes are my mother-in-law I raised, I heard that my mother-in-law raised centipedes when she was young, I don't know how, she doesn't teach me, but every month on the fifteenth day of the new year will give me a big jar, a jar of centipedes, she told me to feed those chickens every two days to some centipedes, so that they grow fast, in fact, it is also the case, our chickens can grow in three months to other people's chickens can grow to the size of five or six months."

"Oh, your mother-in-law is amazing."

I laughed.

"What's wrong? Who's really good? ”

While we were still working in the kitchen, my sister walked in.

She'd been tidying up the room before, and now that she's done, she's in time to help out in the kitchen.

I smiled and said:

"Granny Tian is amazing, raising centipedes to feed chickens."

"Oh? Siqi, how is the room you gave us gloomy, it stands to reason that the window of that room faces west, and there is nothing blocking outside the window, it should be sunset every day. ”

Senior sister sat down next to Wang Siqi and asked suspiciously.

Wang Siqi smiled and said:

"This is already the driest house in our family, the other two are more humid, my one is slightly better, if the big sister doesn't like that house, I'll change it with you, but my bed is smaller, I'm afraid I can't sleep the big sister and the big brother."

"No, it's okay, I'm just weird."

As she spoke, the senior sister opened a snack bag that she had brought over, and there were all kinds of imported snacks in it:

"Siqi, this is for you, it's delicious."

Wang Siqi generously took the bag and said:

"Thank you, big sister, where are you going, big sister?"

"Go to Xianglong Mountain, we're going to find someone." Senior sister said directly.

"Huh? Xianglong Mountain? Sister, it's better not to go there if there's nothing to do. ”

Wang Siqi put away the smile on her face and said with some trepidation.