Chapter 27: Symbols
At that time, Xia Bashan was a bell doctor who traveled around Sichuan and Hubei, and he heard that it was easier for Huguang to make money, so he crossed the river and came to Miaojiang in Xiangxi. When treating a Miao family, he still had the old habit of talking too much, and even when he found that the patient was already a pulse with a leaky pulse and stomach, he still gave him Huanghe Dan. The next day, when he wanted to slip away, he happened to encounter a flash flood and was blocked on the shore of Youshui. Unexpectedly, the Miao family knew how to release Gu, and they had already put earthworm Gu in the food of Xiaba Mountain, the purpose was that if he couldn't cure the patient, he wouldn't be able to live.
When Xia Bashan was worrying about how to cross the river on the bank of Youshui, the worm Gu attacked, and there seemed to be countless earthworms wriggling in the abdomen, some of which were excruciating pain in the stomach, and some of which were itchy and unbearable near the anus. He almost wanted to jump into the river, but finally swallowed several pills of Yellow Crane Pill, trying to intercept the worm in his abdomen, and then found the Black Witch Liao all the way, and almost climbed into the thatched hut of the Black Wizard Nioh.
Although Nioh cured Shaba, she fell in love with him. In Miaojiang, even though the Gu releaser is hated by people, the black witch is awe-inspiring and fearful, so the ugly nuns are in their thirties, and no one dares to marry. Xia Bashan didn't know what Ni Oh was thinking, but she was too ugly, but because of her life-saving grace, she was still committed to living with her for more than a month, and then found a gap to slip away.
"Were you very handsome then?" asked Mo Yan.
"Needless to say, most of the mountain Miao people were black, thin and short, and the old man was dignified, the big man had fair and delicate skin, and of course there was no goatee at that time. Shabashan recalls what it looked like back then, and he is still excited.
"You still have delicate skin?" Mo Ji chuckled.
"You kid. Shabashan also felt that he was overexaggerating.
"Mr. Xia, do you really want to stay?"
"Alas, the old man is tired of wandering the world all his life, and if he can stay here for the end, it may not be a good thing. Mo Remnant, you are now wanted by the two prefectures of Xiangyang in Yichang and chased by the Wushan Gang, it is better to stay here for a few years, learn some skills from Ni Oh, and then return to the rivers and lakes to have a skill, at least you can have no worries about food and clothing. ”
"What can Nioh teach me?"
"Mo Yan, don't underestimate her, Ni Oh is the most famous dark wizard in Miao Jiang, who can solve all kinds of Gu poisons, but this is not for you to learn, her biggest ability is those eyes, she can see things that ordinary people can't see. ”
"What is it?" Mo asked.
"It's some unclean evil things, if she is willing to teach you, after returning to the Central Plains in the future, you won't have to worry about it for the rest of your life. Xia Bashan told Mo Yan that Miaojiang witchcraft originated from ancient times, when there was no distinction between medicine and witchcraft, and later Zhu Youke developed in the Central Plains and formed the original Chinese medicine. Witchcraft has been passed down in these remote areas of Miaojiang, and Ni Oh is the leader among them, thanks to her pair of soul eyes, nothing unclean can escape her sight.
No wonder Nioh's eyes look scary, don't think about it.
The next morning, Mo Yan was woken up by a commotion outside the house, so he rubbed his eyes and walked out of the door.
In front of the door of Ni Oh, a group of mountain Miao people gathered, men in green cloth clothes and trousers, women with hair in a conical bun with round necks and embroidered short clothes, were chattering non-stop.
Mo Yan stepped forward and saw a middle-aged man with a ** upper body lying on the ground, the boss with a bulging belly, his back was full of purple-black carbuncles, and his muscles twitched slightly as if he was in pain.
"This is wool boils," Xia Bashan stood behind him at some point, "this boil is red and light for the tender, purple and black for the old, the diet and soup medicine will vomit in the mouth, if not treated in time, it will die." ”
"Then how should we heal it?" Mo Yan had seen this kind of patient for the first time.
"You can use a small sewing needle with white silk thread, tie the end of the thread into a double thread, pass it under the black dot, and gently lift the thread with both hands, you can see the wool-like snow-white filament, and then cut it with scissors. However, you must look carefully, and where there are black spots in the pores of sweat, you must follow the above selection methods to leave no one. This is the method of taking the Fang Ling doctor, and you can see how Ni Oh treats it, which is enough to open your eyes. Shabashan said.
Nioh turned his wheelchair and came out of the hut, and everyone immediately fell silent.
"Tie him to the grandson tree. Nioh commanded.
In Miaojiang, Ni Oh said what to do, and the patient's family members all obeyed, and immediately several men dragged the middle-aged man up, put his back against the trunk of a huge Gongsun tree, and then tied him firmly with ropes.
Shabashan pointed to the towering tree: "This tree is 1,000 years old, and I saw Ni Oh use it to heal diseases thirty years ago, it is very magical." ”
At this time, Nio took a broom made of weeds from the hut and ordered it to be struck on the patient's chest, while reciting a witch spell from his mouth. At the same time, the branches and leaves on the canopy seemed to tremble slightly, and the seedlings fell to their knees one after another.
"Alright, let him down. Nioh said after reciting the mantra.
Everyone untied the ropes, and the man moved his muscles and bones and turned around, and the skin on his back was smooth and normal, as if he had never had a carbuncle before.
And the old bark of that thousand-year-old tree is covered with purple-black wool boils!
Mo Yan couldn't help but be stunned, Ni Oh actually transferred all the lesions on the patient's body to a tree, this kind of miraculous treatment was simply unheard of.
"This old tree has absorbed the poison of many individuals, and it can be absorbed in a day and night, and the bark will be restored to its original appearance. Shabashan explained.
When Mo Yan walked to the tree, he could clearly see that those wool boils and white hair-like filaments had been deeply rooted in the trunk, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he really couldn't believe it.
"What do you want, girl?" the middle-aged man asked respectfully.
Ni Oh beckoned: "Mo Yan, what do you want to order?"
"Me?"
"The Miao people do not pay for the consultation but give some food to see a doctor, and they know the temper of Ni Oh, and they will ask her what she needs afterwards before someone can send it. Shabashan explained in a whisper.
Mo Yan thought for a while and said, "I want to order rapeseed and chicks." ”
The Miao people all laughed, so they agreed.
Mo Yan opened a vegetable field in the open space behind the thatched hut, sprinkled more than ten kinds of rapeseeds, and picked up mountain spring water to water it, but after a few years, green shoots grew, which were learned from his mother since childhood. He was very diligent, not only pulling out and cleaning the weeds around the hut, but also cooking and cooking. More than a dozen chicks grow up slowly, the hens are kept to lay eggs, and the roosters can be slaughtered at any time to improve the diet, just like a family in the past.
Shabashan mentioned several times about teaching the Dementor Eye, but Nioh flatly refused.
During this period, people often went up to the mountain to ask Ni Oh to solve the Gu, what loach Gu, toad Gu, snake Gu, chancre Gu, as well as the harm god, golden silkworm Gu, etc., Mo Yan was watching from the sidelines, which opened his eyes, and at the same time, he also had a general understanding of the witchcraft that has been passed down for thousands of years.
Gu is actually a kind of artificially cultivated poisonous insects, which need to be made on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, when the yang energy is the most prosperous in the year, most of them are caught such as snakes, centipedes, worms, toads, scorpions, leeches and lice and other poisonous insects into the altar to seal, so that they devour each other, and open it a year later, and the remaining one is a Gu worm. Gu is also called "grass ghost", and it is generally only attached to women, so the woman who cares about Gu in Miao Jiang is called "grass ghost woman". A year ago, on the first day of the first lunar month, two killers from the Central Plains came to the Black Witch Liao to stab her, and were poisoned by the nuns, but her waist cone was also abolished, causing her legs to be paralyzed and unable to walk.
Wu Lingshan also recorded in "The Essentials of the Absolute Pulse" that if he could find the right medicine, he might be able to cure her. Mo Yan took the time to make a hard bow and dozens of arrows, which were the skills of everyone in the Mojiayi Orion family, and they were ready to go into the mountains to collect medicine.
As soon as she said, Ni Oh asked Mo to clean her thatched hut and found a jar of cinnabar and a few knives of yellow mounted paper, so they each asked for some, and prepared to draw a few talismans in their spare time to try whether Jin Danzi's "Shrinking Tire and Dispersing Qigong" could inject qi into the talisman.
"Miss Nioh, what is something unclean?" Mo asked in passing.
"All thousand-year-old trees, old wells, old houses and old antiques are easy to attach some yin qi, and they will gather and form after a long time, of course, ordinary people can't see it. ”
"What shape do you form into?"
"Then it depends on the length of time, a hundred years can gather in the form of a beast, and a thousand years can gather in the form of a human, but it still needs to be attached to the human body, and it is difficult to distinguish between the mixed markets. ”
"Attached to people," Mo Yan thought about it was scary, "who are they willing to attach themselves to?"
"Naturally, there are people who lack yang energy, weak bodies, and dead bodies. ”
"Are they bad, will they hurt people?" asked Mo Yan curiously.
"There are good and bad, there are those who want to live like people, and there are those who specialize in absorbing the essence of men or women's yin qi to increase their strength, these are naturally harmful. Nioh explained.
"How do they feed it?"
Nioh smiled faintly and did not answer.
Mo Yan slaughtered a rooster, returned to his house with half a bowl of blood, mixed cinnabar with chicken blood, and drew a forbidden talisman with his fingers without a talisman. At the time of drawing the talisman, I concentrated my mind and fingers, although it was crooked and not very neat, but there was nothing wrong with checking it, where to test it?
He took the forbidden talisman and walked around the front and back of the house aimlessly, and finally found an anthill under the cliff, and countless red ants were very busy in and out, so he placed the talisman next to the anthill, and pressed a stone to prevent it from being blown away by the wind.
After an hour, he ran over to see the effect, and saw a swarm of red ants gathered in a radius of one zhang from the anthill, and hesitated to move towards the entrance of the anthill, and some stepped into the range and immediately retreated. Mo Yan tried to withdraw the forbidden charm, and the red ants scrambled up and burrowed into the anthill.
Succeeded, Mo Yan secretly rejoiced in his heart, although the power of the forbidden talisman is not great at present, but after all, it is a good start, with the enhancement of his own skills, the power of the drawn talisman will gradually increase. At least one thing is certain, Jin Danzi's "tire shrinking and dispersing qigong" does work.