Xiaomi was scared when she saw the old woman lying on the bed, and she immediately hid behind me.
If Xie Qirong hadn't pulled me away on a cart, I would have arrived.
After all, it was a step too late.
"My deepest condolences, Master Wu," I said.
"I'm not sad," Mr. Wu said calmly: "Alan won't have to suffer anymore. She has no friends but me, and I only have her. We have made an agreement a long time ago, not to be sad, not afraid, not to cry, but before and after Just feet.”
He looked at me and said: "She saw that there was something wrong with you last time you came here. After you left, Alan said that by next spring, there is a 50% chance that something will happen to you, and a 50% chance that nothing will happen to you. She tells you to be careful of the bugs around you.”
As he spoke, Master Wu looked at Xiaomi, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
Xiaomi was hiding behind me, perhaps because she was afraid of Granny Alan, who was already dead on the bed, and didn't dare to show her face.
Thinking of the big dumplings, I said: "Xiaomi, please go outside and wait for me. I will talk to Master Wu alone."
After Xiaomi went out and closed the door, Master Wu took out a bottle of liquor and two small glasses and said, "Let's drink some. I want to chat with you."
The old lady Alan who was on the bed had passed away, so Mr. Wu and I sat beside the bed and sat on the floor.
The wine was ordinary low-quality loose wine and very spicy. Mr. Wu poured two glasses and drank them all in one gulp.
He said to me like he was telling stories to his elders: "Young man, I was just like you when I was young. I was bold and greedy for money. I visited all the imperial tombs in Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi. I didn't have enough to eat at that time. We dug them out." A bronze tripod and a bronze vessel can only be exchanged for two or three yuan to buy a bag of rice."
"When I was 30 years old, I made a mistake once and was notified of my arrest by the whole province. I really couldn't survive, so I took a train to Guangxi with others." Speaking of this, Mr. Wu glanced at the grandma on the bed and said with a smile: "That's right. That’s where I met Alan.”
"Come, young man, touch one."
I raised my small glass and bumped it with Mr. Wu.
The low-quality wine was poured into the throat. It had no fragrance and only made me feel burning.
Mr. Wu continued: "As for Alan, he couldn't even speak Mandarin at that time. He was selling cloth shoes with an old Miao girl. She was wearing big earrings at the time. She was so beautiful..."
I listened to a lot, and at the same time I also learned from Master Wu what Gu is, what Gu Po is, and what Zhi Po is.
I was young at the time, and my peers were still in school, but Master Wu’s words overturned my understanding.
The word "Gu" means worm at the top and pan at the bottom. Pan refers to the container. The separate meaning of this word is "worms are in the container." This container has two meanings, one is bottles and jars, and the other is containers. .
This kind of thing really exists. I have no doubt about this until now. Many people will dismiss it and sneer at it. I can't say anything about it. You don't have to believe it. Just listen to my story.
The plague of witchcraft has existed since ancient times. It began to take shape in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and reached its peak in the Western Han Dynasty. In the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, there were many records and all of them were formally written into laws.
It is clearly written in the "Han Code", "Tang Code", "Ming Code" and "Qing Code". Once a person who makes and raises voodoo is discovered, he will be sentenced for murder, and those who do not report the knowledge will also be exiled. Chao Yuanfang, a famous doctor in the Yuan Dynasty, said in his book: "The voodoo person, with the aura of confusion, takes many insects and snakes, hides them in utensils, eats them for a hundred days, and gets one thing, the so-called voodoo, with the soup and wine If you obey, the disaster will be endless."
Chao Yuanfang said "hide it with a vessel." This vessel, Mr. Wu told me, is a special container jar of the Miao people. This jar has a big belly and a small mouth, and the mouth is smaller than the ancient plum vase.
If you fill the jar with water and turn it over, because the mouth is too small, the water will not spray down, but will flow down drop by drop. Some people who collect antiques in Guangxi and Hunan have received this. They call this kind of jar, "A jar of drips, a jar of worms."
This kind of jars, like the gold jars containing bones from secondary burials, exist in small numbers in a certain area. They are so rare that no one in the city has ever seen them.
Mr. Wu said that there are two types of Miao and Miao villages. One is where Miao and Han live together. This kind of village has radios, sewing machines, and even rice cookers for cooking. This kind of village has no Miao rules and is just an ordinary village. .
There is also a kind of Miao village hidden in the mountains. It is very isolated and remote, and you can't find it if you get lost. The people in the village have their own clothes and their own language. They are very poor and have no electricity. The Miao girls here wear large earrings, and the piercings are particularly large, which have been enlarged over many years.
Miao girls sing folk songs and are hospitable. This is the first kind of village.
The second type is not like this. They are exclusive and have never been out of the mountains in their lives. In this kind of village, there are Gu women who can cast poison, also called grass ghost women.
In northern Hunan and deep southern Guangxi, anyone who is unlucky enough to enter a village like this in the mountains is extremely unlucky. Even if he can escape and return to the city, he will not survive for more than a year.
Because he may have eaten something, and a year later he had fluid in his abdomen and liver, and he died with a big belly. After his death, his intestines and feces were full of worms.
Granny Alan was from there back then, and her mother was the Gu Granny from Lao Miao Village.
Later, Alan made a lifelong arrangement with Master Wu, a tomb robber, and eloped away from Miao Village.
There are three types of Gu Pos. Female Gu Pos account for 90% of the total. Female Poison Poisons are called Gui Cao Pos. Those who remove Poisons are called Paper Poses. Men are called Chicken Possessions. Why are male Poison Poisons called Chicken Possessions? , there is a saying that he is good at extracting poisonous insects from chicken manure, and there is another saying that it is a joke, saying that because he is a man, he has an extra thing on his body, so he is a chicken woman.
If you want to undo the poison, you must first know what kind of poison it is.
Distinguishing the poison and using medicine means looking at the feces of the poisonous person.
Shit, you can't just pull it on the ground and grab it with your hands. It's too disgusting, so you have to put a piece of paper on it.
Use paper to block it, and if you look carefully you can identify the poison, so it is better to call it "paper lady". Otherwise, would it be called "kanshi lady"?
Modern ascariasis, schistosomiasis, ashes, etc. were considered to be poisonous bugs in ancient times. Many treatments at the hospital required a stool test. The same is true for Zhi Po. The difference is that one uses machines and the other uses human eyes and experience.
Mother-in-law Liu Lan meant that there might be worms in my body and symptoms would appear next spring. She said that if I don’t feel well with the cold in spring, I should go see a Miao doctor.
I was really scared at the time. Who wouldn’t be scared when they heard there were bugs in their body? (Except Xie Qirong?)
Now that Liu Lan has passed away, what should I do? Even if I take the paper to the toilet, she can't look at the paper when I come out. How can she save me if she can't look at the paper.
The fake wine made Mr. Wu a little drunk. She blushed and said: "Nian... young people, don't panic. If you are really poisoned, there will be worms in your body. You will be fine in a short time, because worms also need time." To grow, give it some time.”
I said, Master Wu, please stop talking, you want to scare me to death.
Mr. Wu shook his head, stood up and walked to his deceased wife.
"Alan knows there is nothing she can do to help you. If I want to make sure you are okay now, she told me a way before she left. It has a 30% success rate."
I immediately sat up and asked, "What can I do?"
"Eat egg yolk." Mr. Wu said.
"Eating egg yolks? Is it that simple?"
"Simple?"
Master Wu shook his head and said it was not easy. Alan said that you have to eat at least three kilograms of dried egg yolk at one time. You cannot chew it and you have to swallow it whole from your throat.
I said that's not possible. When I was a child, I would vomit after taking medicine, and I had to dip my mouth in sugar. Moreover, the egg yolk was so big and soft that it broke as soon as I put it in my mouth. How could I swallow it whole?
"I'm not asking you to swallow it directly," Mr. Wu waved his hand and said, "You have to use something to swallow it, so it won't break."
"Carrying something? What do you use? A plastic bag?"
At this time, Master Wu hesitated and whispered:
"There's something good you could use."
