After listening to Brother Pan tell these two stories, I couldn't help but stand up a little hair. Although the weirdness and horror of the insect Gu had been heard for a long time, it was still extremely shocking to hear it directly from Miao Min's mouth. What shocked me even more at the time was that when Brother Pan finished speaking, I clearly saw a huge spider web on the trunk of a tree not far away, which suddenly made me wonder if the spider web could be woven by the colorful spider.

In addition to hearing the story about Gu art from Brother Pan's mouth, he also heard some other strange things from Sister Li, such as a long time ago, someone in Miao Village saw that there were goblins in the surrounding mountains, and they would change into people to trick Miao people, and Miao people had seen the divine bird Phoenix in the depths of the mountains and so on.

To be honest, when I first heard these legends, I naturally thought they were just made up, but I didn't expect that I would actually encounter such a thing later, which is really bizarre and unique. This starts with knowing Uncle Teng.

In my casual conversation with Brother Pan, I learned that there is a respectable and simple old man near Da Miao Village, who is not only deeply loved by all Miao people, but also has the most authoritative understanding of Miao history and local culture. This old man surnamed Teng was the old man of Miao Village before liberation, and it is said that he was also a wizard at that time, and later hid in the mountains because of the four old and anti-feudal, until many years later, he returned to live in seclusion near Da Miao Village.

Brother Pan said that this Uncle Teng is the only person he knows who can still be associated with the identity of a wizard, the old man has always been approachable, warm-hearted, if I want to know more about the history and secrets of the Miao people, he can take me to meet Uncle Teng, but this Uncle Teng is more than 90 years old, and he has been ill recently, I am afraid that he may not really have the opportunity to chat with the old man.

I prepared some gifts, and Brother Pan took me to visit Uncle Teng. Uncle Teng's wooden building is built in a bamboo forest in the southwest of Damiao Village for more than ten miles, there is no other person around, in this bamboo forest, it is a single family in this bamboo forest, it looks particularly quiet from a distance, it is quite a bit of the artistic conception of the bamboo forest fairy dwelling, the wooden building is surrounded by a small stream, and there is a small wooden bridge on the stream. Before any of us approached, a man had already stepped out of the wooden building.

Early in the morning, we were greeted by a seventeen or eighteen-year-old Miao young man, who looked clear and handsome, wearing a black Miao plain clothes. Brother Pan told me that this is the adopted son of Uncle Teng, an orphan who was picked up, and Uncle Teng has always been alone all his life, but this righteous son is still accompanying him before and after serving, and his relationship is better than that of his own son.

This young man's name is Yin An, and he knows Brother Pan, and when he saw that Brother Pan brought me here, he couldn't help but look at me as an outsider twice. After walking up and talking with Yin An, I realized that Uncle Teng had been unwell recently, and we could meet Uncle Teng, but it was best not to take too long and let Uncle Teng rest more.

After explaining the intention, knowing that I am a student who is very interested in Miao culture, I hope to dig out some ancient Miao history through Teng Lao Bo, Teng Lao Bo, who has white eyebrows and hangs down to his sideburns, is obviously a little surprised, only to see him say to me with a smile on his face: "Now even our young people in the Miao nationality rarely care about these old histories, I didn't expect you to be a young woman of Han nationality is still so concerned about these, it is really rare." ”

The old man welcomed my visit, and although he was in his old age, he still talked with me for a long time. We talked about the genealogical structure of the Miao people from the ancient migration history of the local Miao people, and talked about the differences in habits between different Miao people from the customs, wedding and funeral customs, but I found that whenever I tried to learn about the content of the Miao witchcraft culture, the old man cleverly diverted the topic and talked about it elsewhere.

Despite this, we still had a good conversation, and from Uncle Teng, I learned many Miao allusions that I had never heard of, and also re-examined the description of Chiyou in the ancient historical records of the Miao people from the perspective of dialectics.

Since the winner is king, the loser is Kou. Chi You was a generation of heroes in the Jiuli tribe at that time, not only unifying the many lineages of the ancient Miao tribe that were originally operated separately, and seizing land to dominate one side, but also creating a certain civilization and technology (including tools, spells, calendars, etc.). Under the leadership of Chi You, the Jiuli tribe went on an expedition to the south and the north, almost completely changing the historical inheritance of the entire Central Plains, but unfortunately it was finally defeated by the northern people, the descendants of Yan and Huang.

In the ancient legends of the Jiuli tribe, Chi You was a beautiful young man, handsome and extraordinary, with an outstanding temperament, after the defeat of the Jiuli tribe in the wilderness, in order to protect the smooth retreat of the people and continue to reproduce, Chi You blocked the Yanhuang army with the strength of one person, and fought to the end, although the body was divided by the other party's five horses, but it was also regarded as preserving the rest of the same clan.

Since then, in order to commemorate the majesty of Chiyou, the descendants of the Miao people have expressed their remembrance of this predecessor hero with various sacrifices and ceremonies, but because of the long time, many Miao people in later generations have gradually forgotten this history.

Along with this dusty history, there is also a long-standing legend: although Chiyou's body was dismembered by the emperor and sent to the four poles of the world, if one day someone can reassemble these dismembered corpses and soak them in the blood of the Jiuli tribe, Chiyou will be able to resurrect. Even if you can't make up all of Chiyou's corpses, as long as you find a part, you can inherit Chiyou's powerful abilities, so that you have the strength to reach the sky.

It's a pity that it is said that the emperor not only hid Chiyou's corpse in the world, but also set up layers of prohibitions, so no one has ever found the remains of Chiyou's corpse, and all this can only be left in legends, as for the actual situation at that time, no one knows.

Seeing Uncle Teng's sharp cough, he knew that it was time for the old man to recuperate and rest, so he said goodbye to Uncle Teng, but inadvertently, he found a strange thing: it turned out that with Uncle Teng's cough, many gourds placed under his bamboo couch suddenly shook together, looking like that, as if there was some living creature making noise inside. Seeing this phenomenon, I couldn't help but be surprised, and I quickly reacted that there must be something big about these gourds.

But I could only pretend that I didn't notice the movement of a pile of gourds deep under the bed. Of course, if I hadn't been able to increase my six senses because of meditation, Brother Pan, who was an ordinary person, would not have noticed these small actions happening under the bed, to be specific, if I look at it normally, those gourds are only shaking with a very small amplitude, but in my eyes, the movement brought by this shaking is enough to attract my attention.

"Uncle Teng, can I still come and ask you for advice when I go back" I asked Uncle Teng with a smile, and hurriedly picked up a thermos from the ground to pour water for him.

"Hehe, okay, don't be so polite, I only have one request, that is, I can't bring any more gifts, otherwise I won't welcome you. Uncle Teng said while drinking warm water.

As long as Uncle Teng promised me to come again, I thought to myself. For some reason, I suddenly had the feeling that the ancient sorcery had not been annihilated, but had been preserved in a more secretive way, perhaps in the gourd under those beds.

With all kinds of speculation, I followed Brother Pan out of the bamboo forest building where Uncle Teng was, and on the way back, I sensitively noticed that there seemed to be a few flying insects not far behind me.

At first, I thought I was overly sensitive, but it wasn't until I rushed back to Brother Pan's house that I found that the three little ladybug-like insects behind me were still following behind, which made me sure that these three little insects must not have followed here for no reason.

It may be that Uncle Teng made the insects secretly observe my movements, and thought that I was unaware, thinking of this, I smiled secretly in my heart, and suddenly had a kind of pleasure of anti-reconnaissance, I said in my heart, I must peel off your mysterious coat Uncle Teng. (To quote the Martian language on the Internet, it is: "Sensitive girls can't afford to hurt, they can't afford to hurt, sister's sixth sense has a wood, there is a wood!"-what does it mean, you know.) ）

As soon as I entered the courtyard of Brother Pan's house, I saw a person with a small bag standing under the osmanthus tree in the small courtyard talking to Sister Li, how did it look a little familiar, and after two more looks, the person had turned around, and I was a little surprised that this person was the old man "Uncle Lei" who invited me to drink tea in Qingyan Ancient Town.

"Oops! Lin Beauty, it's really you, I didn't expect to run into it again, how can it be so coincidental!" Uncle Lei looked at me with a little light, and I continued to focus on the few insects that had flown in from the wall, and while paying attention to the insects, I responded to Uncle Lei and said, "Yes, why did you come here too?" It turned out that this old Lei had also found Brother Pan's inn to shoot and had opened another wooden building next to me.

"Hey, when I went to Huangguoshu, I heard from the locals that the environment here is good, if you are lucky, you can also find more than 500 years old He Shou Wu from the nearby mountains, anyway, I am fine, so I want to run here to try my luck." Uncle Lei's eyes seemed to be brighter when he talked about He Shou Wu.

It seems that it is really unprofitable and cannot afford to be early, I have heard Pan Ge say before, there has been a humanoid He Shou Wu in the nearby mountains for more than hundreds of years, it is said that if you can really find this kind of mountain treasure and take it, it is no less than eating a pill that can make people live for ten more years.

"I said uncle, do you really think that you can find the hundred-year-old He Shou Wu, isn't this all a nonsense, you really, you think that the mountains are full of He Shou Wu" I suddenly felt that Uncle Lei was a little too funny, and I said to him angrily.

"Sister Lin, don't say it, brother, I'm just lucky, I went into the mountains as soon as I came today, but I didn't expect it, look, this is a He Shou Wu I just dug up, look at it, how many years it is. "This Uncle Lei, Tian shamelessly calls himself his brother, but when he saw him proudly take out a ball of things wrapped in newspaper from his small bag, he opened it and looked at it, he was very obedient, it was really a humanoid He Shou Wu!

Seeing such a rare thing, let alone me, even Brother Pan and his daughter-in-law on the side were dumbfounded, and hurriedly surrounded Uncle Lei and stared at He Shouwu in his hand.

"This big brother, you, you are!" Brother Pan looked at Lao Lei with an alien-like look and said, "You He Shou Wu really found it from the mountains near our village?"

"Yes, you see, it was found in the ditch between the two mountains over there. Lao Lei proudly pointed to a dense forest between the two mountains on the side and said.

"This, how is this possible, our Miao family ancestors have been collecting medicine and hunting nearby, and we have also gone into that ditch countless times, how come we have never found this rare thing, my God, it seems that we really have this kind of treasure here!" Brother Pan himself did not believe that the legend of what Shou Wu here was true.

"Hehe, it seems that my fate is good, but I found this treasure under a rock. He Shou Wu, He Shou Wu, see that you have hundreds of years if not thousands of years, this will be able to sell for a big price. "This old thunder seems to have seen a stack of RMB, and he is already a little fluttering.

This guy, it's a little too surprising, the Miao people haven't found a plant of He Shou Wu in the mountains for so many years, why did you find one as soon as you came, not to mention that this looks completely like a child's eyebrows with the humanoid He Shou Wu, especially the little cock, are vividly hanging between the legs of the fat child, your luck is too much to make others red.

Looking at the humanoid He Shou Wu in Lao Lei's hand, Brother Pan couldn't help but praise him, and even said that this must be a centuries-old He Shou Wu. I heard that He Shou Wu, which can grow into a human form, must have at least two hundred years of cultivation time, and if there is one that can be purple throughout the body, it will take more than five hundred years, just like the child-shaped and purple plant in front of me, I am afraid that it is really a few hundred years away. According to the legend, such He Shou Wu can become an elf in a few hundred years.