Chapter Ninety-Four: Gu
The black giant snake slowly poked its head out, spit out a fishy letter, and stared at Jiang Lili tightly with its two vertical eyes. When I opened my mouth slightly, I felt a fishy and unusual smell.
Grandma's, or a poisonous snake?
After watching this giant snake poke its head out, Nibao was obviously frightened, and she almost fell directly in front of the black giant snake, and muttered in her mouth: "Mountain God, Mountain God!"
Cheng Ruye's mental quality was indeed much better, he stabilized his breathing and then glanced at Nibao, grabbed the little boy's arm with both hands, and quietly hid in the shade.
Jiang Lili squinted his eyes and looked at the giant snake carefully, and sighed, "Come on, come on, if you have any ability, if Lao Tzu takes a step back, Lao Tzu's name will be written backwards!"
The black snake may be psychic, and after hearing Jiang Lili's words, it suddenly hissed, and saw that the trees in front of it shook violently for a moment, and a huge black tail picked up from the jungle and smashed down towards Jiang Lili's head with a sassy wind!
Jiang Lili grinned, the Tiger Spirit Knife picked a knife flower in the air, and with one step, the whole person actually rushed towards the snake tail!
Just when this snake tail was about to smash on Jiang Lili's body, Jiang Lili's figure slammed down, and a huge knife qi was thrown out of the Tiger Spirit Knife, and the snake tail of the black snake was cut in half cleanly!
The black serpent screamed in pain, and its body wriggled wildly in the jungle, cutting off all the vegetation and trees, leaving only the stumps and leaves and devastation. The venom that erupted from its mouth stained the leaves and corroded a giant tree into dead branches in an instant, Jiang Lili was slightly shocked, and said in his heart that this poisonous snake was really a sperm, and the venom actually had this kind of power!
I only felt that the poisonous snake's roar was a little annoying, and when Jiang Lili was about to step forward and kill it, the poisonous snake's body shook violently and gradually stiffened.
Jiang Lili was wondering, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a bloody hole under the belly of this poisonous snake and knew the whole story, turned his head to look at the Yin Envoy, and the Yin Envoy replied: "It's too noisy to hear it barking all the time!"
Seeing that the poisonous snake died very simply, Cheng Ru jumped out of the grass, trotted in front of the poisonous snake, looked at it carefully, and said with a smile: "We can eat snake soup today, but I don't know if this snake soup is poisonous or not!"
At this time, Nibao looked shocked, she stretched out her hand and pointed to the corpse of the poisonous snake, her mouth was already incoherent, "You... You guys... The god of the mountain... Oh my God, you guys ... ”
Mountain God?Jiang Lili sneered, and turned around with the Tiger Spirit Knife, "What's the matter? Could it be that this snake can't be killed?"
Jiang Lili's face still had a lot of blood stains of poisonous snakes, and the tip of the tiger sword was slowly dripping with blood, looking extremely fierce and vicious. Nibao was startled and tightened her neck, "It's not that you can't kill it... ”
"Is it better to kill or not to kill?" Cheng Ru was a little anxious.
Jiang Lili avoided the blood stains spurted out by the poisonous snake, stepped forward by himself, cut the scale armor of the black long snake, and saw that the flesh was white and tender, and his heart said that he would have food in the future!
He cut the black long snake into several pieces, and was about to put it into the hidden bag when Jiang Lili was stunned, turned his head and asked the Yin envoy: "Now you can put this thing in!"
The Yin Envoy nodded, "It's all dead, what are you still asking about?"
Seeing Jiang Lili and Cheng Ru handling the snake meat with great interest, Nibao hesitated for a long time, cautiously walked out from behind the grass, and asked tentatively, "Can I use a little of this poisonous snake's venom?"
Jiang Lili was stunned, jumped on the head of the poisonous snake, looked at Nibao condescendingly, frowned and asked, "What do you want this venom for?"
"No, no, no!" Ni Bao hurriedly explained, "It's too late for me to be happy that the adults killed the mountain gods, where will I harm the adults!"
Jiang Lili sneered, "Are you still happy to kill your mountain god?"
Nibao shook her head again and again, and explained the whole story!
It turned out that this black long snake was originally an ordinary black-bellied viper in the mountains, more than a hundred years ago, I don't know what treasures it found in the mountains to eat, and the body grew like mushrooms after the rain.
This black snake has finally stopped its momentum after growing to its current length, but it seems to have been enlightened, and it can understand some simple human words, and some people have seen this black snake swallowing the essence of the sun and the moon on the top of the mountain at night!
But this black snake actually found their village seventy or eighty years ago, swallowed dozens of people in one fell swoop, and turned the entire village into a ruin. In the end, an old wizard in the village used a psychic to make a deal with the black snake. After that, the people in the village all respectfully called this black snake the mountain god, and built an ancestral hall in the mountain, every year on March 3, June 6, September 9 to put incense offerings, every three years to offer a Yuan Yin woman into the cave of the black snake, and lewd with it, only called the mountain god sacrifice.
For decades, this black snake has really harmed the village!
The Yin envoy laughed, "I didn't expect us to do a good thing to eliminate harm for the people!"
"This dog's day thing is really a scourge, I have long seen that it is not pleasing to the eye, and it is really happy to eradicate it today!" Cheng Ru spat at the head of the black snake after hearing these words, and then turned his head and asked: "Count it this year as the triennial gift, right! Who is this year?"
Nibao's face turned red and replied, "It's me this year." ”
"What, you're a child!" Cheng Ru was startled.
Nibao explained: "Because no one came out alive after the gift, the village leader fortunately asked the seven or eight-year-old girl to be the wife of the mountain god. ”
The Yin envoy smiled again: "No wonder it's too late for her to be happy, it turns out that there is such a reason." ”
Cheng Ru looked at Ni Bao with great distress and smiled reluctantly, "Okay, now that this black snake has been killed by us, you don't have to make that kind of sacrifice!" Oh, by the way, you just said you want venom?"
Nibao nodded hurriedly, glanced at Cheng Ru with hopeful eyes, and then turned her head to look at Jiang Lili pleadingly, "A little bit is good." ”
Cheng Ru also persuaded on the side: "Just give it to her, anyway, we don't have to do anything with this venom!"
Jiang Lili snorted coldly with her nose, "Take it yourself, if you don't know that you have been poisoned, I won't have time to collect your body!"
Nibao smiled, her eyes narrowing into crescents. I saw her cautiously walk up to the head of the black serpent, crouch down, and take out a round box from her arms.
Cheng Ru leaned over and stared at the round box, "What's going on here?"
Nibao smiled, and just after the box was opened, a blue flying insect flew out of it, scaring Cheng Ru!
"What kind of thing is this! How good is it for you little girl to raise some cats and dogs, what are you doing with these things? Don't you feel panicked?"
I saw the blue flying insect hovering rapidly in the air, buzzing and trembling twice, and then suddenly lying on the fangs of the poisonous snake, and in a short time, black poisonous juice covered the blue flying insect. The little blue insect suddenly shook violently, and fell directly to the ground, and when others thought that the insect could not stand the poison of the black snake and was poisoned to death, the insect slowly shook again, stretched out its wings, and flew into the box in Nibao's hand with great satisfaction after a few circles in the air.
Jiang Lili had been staring at Nibao's movements, and then stared at the insect carefully a few times, squinting her eyes, her face was not good-looking, "You use poison to raise insects?
Nibao nodded in amazement.
Jiang Lili jumped off the head of the poisonous snake, stood in front of Nibao and asked coldly, "Do you know the silkworm?"
Jiang Lili's tone made Ni Bao frightened, and involuntarily took two steps back, and replied in a trembling voice: "I only heard what the elders in the village said." ”
Jiang Lili was about to ask again, when she suddenly heard a loud shout from her side, "You dog officer want to 。。。。。 my sister ”
When I turned around, I saw the little boy.
I don't know when the little boy has woken up, and after seeing Jiang Lili forcing Nibao to ask Nibao, the little boy took out an inferior knife from his waist and rushed out, and he was stunned before he finished speaking, or he was frightened by the huge black snake head in front of him.
"This... Mountain gods?"
Nibao hurriedly shouted: "Don't be rude, your lord is our benefactor!"
Jiang Lili sneered, "This black snake dares to make a move on me, I naturally won't spare it, but it's not your benefactor!"
Cheng Ru is not as tough as Jiang Lili, and he said with a haha: "Although I am not your benefactor, I have also done your village a great favor, and now it seems that we are not enemies, right?"
The little boy looked at Nibao's eyes suspiciously before he was willing to put away the knife, and he knelt on the ground with a thud and kowtowed to Jiang Lili, "Thank you, Biaobao!"
Cheng Ru was frightened by the little boy's actions, and stepped forward to help the little boy.
The Yin envoy smiled: "It's also a master who has a clear distinction between right and wrong, not bad." ”
Jiang Lili didn't give the little boy a good look, "Kowtow? Only because the land here is soft is willing to kowtow to me?
Cheng Ru glared at Jiang Lili very complainingly, and then Jiang Lili waved his hand angrily, "Get up, Lao Tzu doesn't have time to waste time with you here." Saying that, Jiang Lili turned his head to look at Nibao, "It's still the same question at the beginning, where is your village? Bring me over, otherwise you don't think that I don't dare to kill, I guess it doesn't take much effort to kill this snake!"
Nibao opened a pair of big eyes, "The lord is the benefactor of our village, and he will definitely invite the lord as a guest." ”
"This bird doesn't and still invites me to be a guest?" Jiang Lili threw the last piece of snake meat into the hiding bag and strode forward, "Hurry up, that little brat, give me the horse, I can't lead your hand!"
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The village of these two sisters and brothers is not far from here, and the small talk on the road only realized that the little boy who was Biaobao had sneaked out to hunt with the young adults in the village, but he didn't expect to meet Jiang Lili and a group of outsiders, and thought they were officers and soldiers, so he made a sneak attack with the temperament of a heroic young man.
Nibao knew Biao Bao's temperament, and was afraid that Biao Bao would encounter some trouble in the mountains, so she hurriedly came out to look for it. Coincidentally, not long after he came out, he saw the scene of Jiang Lili comparing the knife to Biaobao's neck.
Since the horses could not walk fast in the mountains and forests, it took them about half an hour to see the curling smoke in the woods in front of them, but in fact, those who were familiar with the mountains and forests would only need a quarter of an hour to arrive.
With a kick that smashed an ancient tree blocking the road, Jiang Lili had just walked into the rare flat land in front of him, and only heard a few rustling winds, which were poisonous arrows.
He drew his tiger sword and cut off these poisonous arrows at will, and then heard a thick but high-pitched horn sound from inside the village, and a moment later, dozens of men in strange costumes with spears in hand strode forward. After a while, a mother-in-law, armed with a cane and an old feather crown on her head, staggered forward.
A man whispered a few words in the mother-in-law's ear, and when the mother-in-law glared fiercely, because of the age spots and dense folds on her face, the mother-in-law looked extremely penetrating.
"Outsiders! Our Miao family is not easy to mess with! I advise you to go out from wherever you come from, and don't give it to yourself
Get in trouble!"
Jiang Lili licked her lips, "Come on, come on, I'll see how much trouble you guys can cause me?!"
As soon as the words fell, Nibao ran out from behind Jiang Lili and the others.
The old woman was visibly relieved when she saw Nibao, and put on a straight face again, scolding Nibao crookedly.
I saw that Nibao's face was first depressed, and then she said something to the old woman with an anxious face, and then she chatted a few words happily.
Not long after, the little boy named Biao Bao behind him clumsily chained the horse to a tree and ran forward, stretching out his hands and gesturing, and saying some small words in his mouth.
Cheng Ru plucked out his ears and asked, "What are they talking about?"
"You still can't understand after reading so many books?" Jiang Lili asked rhetorically.
Cheng Ru had a bitter face, "I was just bored and read some books when I was a monk in that Shaobao Temple, but where do I understand their local dialect?"
"You can't understand it, so you still ask Lao Tzu?" Jiang Lili scolded.
Cheng Ru was speechless.
It didn't take long for the old woman to take two steps forward with a cane, looked at Jiang Lili and the others and asked with a little suspicion, "You killed the mountain god?"
Jiang Lili pursed his lips, took out the huge head of the black snake from the hiding bag, and smashed it on the ground with a muffled sound!
Everyone was startled at first, and then cheered loudly, and the old woman had tears in her eyes, if it weren't for Nibao's support, she might have knelt down directly in front of Jiang Lili and others.
"Haha, believe us now!" Cheng Ru laughed, then turned his head to Jiang Lili and whispered, "When did you put this snake head in it?"
"Originally, I didn't want to pretend, but then I thought about it, maybe I could exchange it for some good things in this village!
Cheng Ru secretly gave a thumbs up.
At this time, the old woman wiped her tears, trembling and stepped forward to hold Jiang Lili's hand, "You are the great benefactors in our village, please stay in our village for a little longer!"
"No need!" Jiang Lili didn't directly shake off the old woman's hand this time, he was a little afraid that the old woman would be planted directly on the ground, so he only said: "We came to your village to look for the antidote pill, I don't know if you have it here?"
"What poison?" asked the old woman.
"Miasma!"
The old woman was stunned, "It's true that the miasma erupts in this forest these days, but this miasma will only last for ten days before it will dissipate, and it doesn't matter if you leave at that time!"
Jiang Lili said bluntly: "What we are going to is the black water pool!"
The old woman showed a hint of shock on her face, and muttered, "No wonder, you have to go to that black water pool, that place is not a good place." Outsiders call it a black pool, but we call it the water of the River Styx... ”
The Yin Envoy was stunned, and suddenly asked, "Why is it called such a name?"
"Because no one can come out alive after entering that place, and legend has it that it is full of dead people's spirits, so we call it Styx. ”
The old woman's remarks were indeed flawless, and there was something wrong with the Yin Envoy's heart, but she couldn't find any horses, so she just regarded it as a coincidence.
Jiang Lili said: "Since you know that place, I won't explain it, do you have a way to avoid miasma, or is there an antidote that can cure the poison of miasma?"
"Yes, yes, but you have to wait a little longer. ”
"Why?"
The old woman explained, "We do have a way to avoid the miasma, so we can refine a Gu and plant it on your body, so that you will not be poisoned by the miasma for a day. ”
"Gu?" Jiang Lili frowned, he really didn't have much of a good impression of this kind of thing.
The old woman nodded, "That's right, but this kind of Gu was refined more than a hundred years ago, and now we have figured out the law of miasma, and when the miasma trend comes, we don't have to go far, so we don't have to make this kind of thing! ”
Without waiting for Jiang Lili to speak, the old woman said again: "But Le, we are still refining it now, and it is not difficult." It just takes some time!"
"How long?"
"It will take half a month to refine it well, and there are only seven or eight people in our village who can refine this kind of Gu, I don't know how long you will stay in the water of the Styx?"
Jiang Lili was silent for a moment, then turned his head to look at the Yin Envoy.
The Yin Envoy was not easy to answer, because of the ghost body, if it was him, it would only take a day to enter the underworld, how could he know how long Jiang Lili and Cheng Ru would be delayed in that black water pool?
The old woman smiled and said, "In that case, then let's refine more, and the adults will live in our village for a month, do you want to get it?"
"A month?" Jiang Lili felt that there was a lot of time.
"If you practice too much, don't worry about it, if it's missing, it's going to be messy!"
What the old woman said made some sense, so Jiang Lili nodded and recognized it, and only told her to try as fast as possible.
"Then thank you mother-in-law!" Cheng Ru thanked Jiang Lili for her.
"It should be dropped!" the old woman replied, turned her head and raised her cane at the people in the village, and said in a loud voice something that Jiang Lili and the others could not understand, and saw everyone raising their hands and cheering loudly.
"What is this for?" Jiang Lili felt that it was not a good thing.
"My lord, my mother-in-law said that in order to thank you, I will hold a bonfire party tonight!" Nibao ran back and reminded.
"Then when will my Gu be refined?!"
Nibao stuck out her tongue and didn't reply, only her eyes turned into crescent smiling.