As Qin Bukong left, there was no light in the tunnel. I couldn't see anything in the darkness, but I could vaguely hear the faint sound of a car passing above my head. In this way, if my current location is directly facing the ground, it should be a nearby road or a place very close to the road. After so many years of ups and downs, this place has never been discovered. I don't know if it is God's will or a coincidence.
I left angrily the same way I came. Before I left, I deliberately returned to the doorway where the wound door was. I reached out and wrapped the half-cut tail that had fallen on the ground with my clothes. The blood at the break had solidified, and the snake was slippery. The scales have also become dry. I didn't think about what I was going to do when I picked it up. Maybe I wanted to find a place to bury it, but I didn't think that much at the time. I just didn't want Ganmu's tail here.
After returning to the ground, Ganmu had climbed onto his wooden frame, and he kept licking his severed tail with the snake tongue. Although I couldn't detect the joy, anger, sorrow, and joy from the snake's expression, I knew that it was at this moment. The pain is beyond what I can imagine. Fortunately, it does not possess human emotions or desires. Otherwise, if its master treats me so cold-bloodedly, I am afraid that I will be sad for a long time.
But when I walked to the hall where Master and I were sleeping, I saw Master standing by the bed in a daze, while the door leading to the outdoors was wide open. After the master saw me, he asked me with some confusion, did you have another conflict with Qin Bukong just now? I snorted and said, "What's wrong, Master? That old guy is still complaining to you?" Master asked if that was the case. Just now I saw him angrily opening the door and leaving. I called him several times but he ignored me and looked very unhappy. So I guessed that you were down there and there was probably a quarrel. One plane.
So I sat by the bed and drank a glass of water, and then told Master everything that had just happened in as much detail as possible. After saying that, I put half of the snake tail wrapped in clothes next to the bed and showed it to Master. Master also frowned, but he naturally knew that from his and my perspective, we shouldn't express any opinions on this matter. Especially Master, whether he said it or not, it seemed awkward.
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 the Miao people are good at catching snakes? Miao Jiang's chicken-fixing and snake-fixing techniques have always been quite miraculous.
The master shook his head and smiled bitterly, as if what I just said was very childish and funny. So our master and apprentice started chatting while Qin Bukong was not at home.
Master told me that I was right. China’s ethnic minority areas do still retain many mysterious and thought-provoking secrets. As a huge ethnic group of ethnic minorities in China, the Miao people have countless capable people and strangers. . For example, since ancient times, there has been the Southern Five Immortals Sect, which is mainly based on the local black seedlings. It is good at poisoning and is proficient in using voodoo. Do you know what voodoo is?
I nodded and said, I know a little but not much. It is probably the poisonous insect poison that is nourished. After tempering, it can kill people without being visible. The master nodded. It seemed that my reading of the book was not in vain. The master said that this Gu technique is profound and profound. It can harm people or save people. It depends on the temperament of the Gu master who masters this skill. Gus can also be divided into spiritual and non-spiritual ones. In principle, all things in the world must be in harmony with each other. Whether it is trees, flowers, grass, birds or animals, they can all be poisoned. For example, the rooster itself is harmless, but the poison tempered by the rooster can kill people fatally. The poison of centipedes can kill people, but the poison tempered by roosters can offset each other. This is the principle of mutual growth and restraint of all things.
I know all this, do you mean to say that this Qin Bukong is also a person proficient in Gu? The master said that although he did not admit it himself and we did not ask further questions, 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 voodoo.
The master then said, do you still remember that when he controlled the invisible snake, he must have a bell tied to his thumb, right? I said yes, I've seen it myself several times. The master said that the bell is called "Gu Bell". And you also know that if there is nothing inside the bell, no matter how you shake it, the bell will not make that kind of clanking sound. This means that the Gu bell is filled with a relatively hard object. Only when something collides with the inner wall of the bell can it make a sound.
The master said that the thing contained there should be part of the snake's body, so he could control the big snake through the snake poison. The master went on to say, a long time ago when I just met Qin Bukong, I once asked him how he tamed a big snake like Ganmu. It stands to reason that even if this kind of snake is in the wild in Miao territory, it has such a size. It is also extremely rare. Snakes are cold-blooded and indifferent in nature, making it even more difficult to tame them. But what do you think Qin Bukong answered me?
I shook my head and said I didn’t know, and reminded Master with my eyes not to be too close-minded and to speak quickly. Master said that Qin Bukong told him at that time that it was because there was a flood in the Miao village in the summer thirty years ago. , after the water receded, snakes of all sizes were everywhere. The Miao people were good at driving away snakes, and they caught and killed them immediately, but many of them escaped and fled back to the mountains. Ganmu was the biggest one among them. After a period of time, those snakes that escaped rarely appeared around the village again.
But one day, a Miao man from the village went up to the mountain to collect medicine. It was already winter, and it started to snow in the mountains. According to the habits of snakes, snakes basically sleep in their holes during this season and never come out. However, the Miao man was bitten by a snake and was poisoned, but it was not fatal immediately. Planting poison, but when I returned to the village and told everyone about it, the entire bitten leg had swollen to twice its size.
In the social environment at that time, which was already in the midst of a war, there was a risk of being killed by a stray bullet just outside the door, let alone going into the city for treatment. There was no time at all. The Miao people all know that once the snake venom spreads above the chest, the person will definitely die. The only way to save him at the moment is to completely cut off the bitten leg to ensure that the snake venom will not spread along the blood throughout the body. , and there is no guarantee whether the person will die due to severe pain or excessive blood loss.
Fortunately, everyone in the village knew that there was a weirdo. This weirdo knew a lot of witchcraft. The ancestors of his family had been priests in the village for generations. If you ask him, there might be a glimmer of hope. That weirdo is Qin Bukong. At that moment, Qin Bukong patted his chest and said that he would do his best to help with this matter. After saying that, he took the bamboo basket up the mountain that day.
A few hours later, a burst of black smoke rose from the mountain. The people in the village thought it was a wildfire, but the black smoke dissipated quickly. When it got dark, Qin Bukong returned with a bamboo basket on his back. When they arrived at the village, the man who was bitten by the snake had begun to sweat and talk nonsense. If he didn't deal with it, he might not be able to save himself even if Hua Tuo was alive.
Qin Bukong squatted in front of the man and placed the bamboo basket on the ground. Then he slowly opened the lid of the bamboo basket, and crawled out a snake with red and black spots. Such snakes are often highly venomous. The bitten person was unconscious. People around him were frightened and backed away after seeing the snake. Qin Bukong said, the snake that bit this Miao citizen today was the one in front of me, and I have found it. After saying that, he whistled a few times at the bamboo-backed basket, and the red-black poisonous snake climbed into the bamboo-backed basket again, but quickly climbed out again, and when it climbed out this time, there was something in the snake's mouth. Holding a plant horizontally in its mouth, it slowly crawled to the side of the injured person, gently placed the plant in its mouth on the ground, and then crawled to Qin Bukong, coiling it into coils like mosquito coils.
Although Master also heard what Qin Bukong said himself, when he relayed it to me, I was still stunned with surprise. If I hadn't seen Qin Bukong's ability to command snakes, I might have listened to it as a fairy tale.
The master went on to say that Qin Bukong picked up the plant from the ground at that time, and then told the surrounding villagers that this herb was the antidote that the snake had picked up 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 herbal medicine to the Miao people's wounds, then bandaged it. Then he took out the machete and cut off the head of the red and black venomous snake.
The master said that he heard that the moment he cut off the snake's head, the villager vomited and vomited a lot of black vomit. Black blood continued to pour out of the severed snake's neck, but the venomous snake did not struggle at all, as if it was confessing to the crime. It did not slowly let go until the snake's blood dried up. At this moment, Qin Bukong actually took out a handful of coarse salt and sprinkled it evenly on the snake's body.
I asked, what was he doing? Did he want to pickle snake meat and eat it? But Master glared at me, and I didn’t think the joke was funny, so I stopped talking. The master said that Qin Bukong told the villagers that when the poisonous snake turns into a pool of blood tomorrow morning, leaving only its skin and bones, the person who was bitten will get better.
Everyone originally had no choice but to find Qin Bukong. When they heard that they had to wait another night, they were afraid that the man would be dead long ago, so everyone didn't take it seriously, and some even started to discuss how to arrange the funeral arrangements. At this moment, Qin Bukong issued a few more commands toward his bamboo-backed basket, and a big white and yellow snake slowly crawled out of the bamboo-backed basket.
No need to ask, it is Ganmu.
