Grandma Deng Liqian held the book in her hand, looked at me with a pair of cloudy old eyes, and asked again.
"Sir, you must keep your promise."
"Don't worry, I am an upright practitioner."
"You swore to Sanqing Daozu!"
Well……
This old woman is quite cautious.
But I really didn’t think about going back on my promise. Since I said it was a deal, it was a deal!
So without any mental burden, I simply bent my thumb and little finger, raised the middle three fingers, and swore a serious oath to Sanqing Daozu.
Although Master said that the things in our lineage are relatively complex and difficult to define clearly.
But the ability of [Spell] is indeed an orthodox Taoist magic.
Deng Liqian and her grandmother watched me play talisman and lit the talisman fire, which naturally made me swear to the Sanqing Daozu.
Because once the oath is broken, some mysterious power will deprive the person of the oath of all the magic and energy related to Taoism!
Very mysterious.
But it is real.
After watching me swear, the old woman seemed to finally breathe a sigh of relief and put the black book into my hands.
Suddenly, I felt a cool and smooth feeling on my palm.
It was like touching the shiny shell of some kind of crustacean insect... very weird.
At the same time, a mysterious and unpredictable aura emanated from the book.
My heart skipped a beat.
"This book is definitely a good treasure! It's obviously some kind of cultivation book on voodoo magic."
But on the surface, he was still looking through it casually.
There are four complicated characters on the cover of the Gu book, which look like some kind of writing - it should be the name of this Gu book, but I don't recognize it.
"Old man, what do the four words on the cover mean?"
I asked.
The old woman shook her head.
"Little sir, I don't know him either."
oh?
I was a little confused: "Isn't this Miao culture?"
The old woman nodded, then shook her head.
"Yes and no."
She didn't hide it, and told me the origins of herself and this ancient Gu book in accordance with the "deal agreement" with me...
The Miao people are divided into mature seedlings and raw seedlings.
What is mature seedling?
The village is relatively close to towns and areas where Han people live. Most of the people in the village have become Chinese and can speak Chinese and understand Chinese characters.
As for the seedlings, of course they are the Miao people in a completely primitive state.
Most of the people in this Miao Village barely speak Chinese and don't know much about Chinese characters.
There are generally two situations. Either the Miao village itself is too remote, deep in the mountains, and it is inconvenient to communicate with the outside world. Or they just stick to the old ways and deliberately don’t want to communicate more with Han people.
The mysterious and strange Gu magic of the Miao people mainly exists in the "Shengmiao" village!
Of course, in modern society, seedlings are very, very rare. Most existed before the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Deng Liqian's grandmother was born in a large Miao village called "Leidong Miao Village".
This Miao village has a history of more than a thousand years!
In the old society, it was very famous and powerful throughout the southwestern Guizhou region. It is said that a lot of wealth has been accumulated since ancient times...
So in the late Republic of China, a local warlord in Guizhou ordered his men to forcibly attack the Leidong Miao Village.
Although there are brave Miao warriors and many Gu masters who can use Gu techniques in Leidong Miao Village, they were very powerful in ancient society - they did not hesitate to face the attacks of imperial troops from different dynasties or the strangulation of bandits. fear.
Complex terrain, combined with unpredictable Gu magic, can often repel invaders.
But in the face of industrialized thermal weapons such as firearms, howitzers, and explosives, no matter how brave you are, whether you are a brave young warrior or a powerful Gu Master, you will be as useless in front of the guns and cannons.
What a complete defeat!
As a result, the entire Leidong Miao Village was destroyed by the vicious warlord.
Not only the gold and silver accumulated for thousands of years were wiped out, but also everyone in the village was going to be killed!
At that time, Deng Liqian's grandmother was only ten years old, a little girl.
It just so happened that her sister was a Gu girl from the Leidong Miao Village.
When the warlord's team besieged the holy land of the village, she took advantage of the "Gu Saint" in the village to temporarily resist the intruders at the entrance, and quickly took out the book on the cultivation of voodoo that had been passed down from generation to generation in the clan. Give it to grandma Deng Liqian.
He told her to keep this Gu book, and then sent her out from a secret passage in the Holy Land.
It's a pity that the secret passage is too small and can only allow a child in his teens to escape...
As a result, the Leidong Miao Village, which had been passed down for thousands of years, was finally destroyed, leaving only a ten-year-old child.
At the very beginning, Grandma Teng Liqian was still thinking of finding a way to take revenge!
It's a pity that she didn't have the talent to become a "Gu Master" in the first place...
Girls in the Miao Village of "Sheng Miao" will be tested by contemporary Gu Saints when they are three years old to see if they have the talent to practice Gu.
If you have talent, you will become a voodoo girl. Start training from a young age and learn the techniques of refining and controlling Gu insects.
The most important thing is to learn Gu Wen!
That's right, Miao Gu Masters have their own special words in order to distinguish themselves from ordinary people.
This kind of writing is very complicated and only Gu masters can read it. You need to devote time to learning starting from the age of three.
Of course, boys can also become Gu Masters.
But I don’t know why, from ancient times to the present, the most powerful Gu masters have all been women - men seem to be much worse and at a disadvantage when it comes to practicing Gu.
Gu girls are not allowed to marry outside, they can only recruit men from other villages to marry into the village.
If you don't have the talent for Gu magic, you can just be an ordinary childbearing woman for the rest of your life...
Grandma Deng Liqian has no talent for voodoo.
Moreover, she was only ten years old when the Leidong Miao Village was destroyed. She was extremely lucky to be able to survive on her own in that chaotic world, and it required all her efforts.
Where is the way to take revenge?
In addition, within a few years, the troubled times ended and New China was established.
The whole world gradually became peaceful, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. At this time, if you think about murder and revenge, it is also a crime in itself, and you will be arrested by the sundancers.
Of course, the main reason is that grandma Deng Liqian has no ability to take revenge - she was only ten years old at the time, and she didn't even know who her enemy was!
Therefore, in the following years, she could only work hard to integrate into society. Learn Chinese, do some hard work and earn some money to support yourself...
When she was in her twenties, she moved to Sichuan and Chongqing and met a Han man who was nice to her. Not long after, the two got married.
Although according to the rules, Shengmiao cannot intermarry with Han people.
But the Leidong Miao village was destroyed, and she had already learned Chinese and Chinese characters, so who would care about her?
What's more, her husband is very good to her and takes great care of her.
The two soon gave birth to a son. Although the family of three was poor, their life was pretty good.
Grandma Deng Liqian also seems to have forgotten that she was born in Shengmiao, and lives like an ordinary woman.
Little did she know that her fate was really rough.
In the late 1970s, her husband passed away due to illness, and she could only depend on her son.
Fortunately, the son was hardworking and married a wife a few years later.
A few years later, the couple gave birth to a daughter, Teresa Teng.
But what she didn't expect was that her son was also a short-lived poor man... Shortly after Deng Liqian was born, she also died due to an accident. The daughter-in-law felt that life was difficult, so she also left her daughter and ran away.
She could only raise Deng Liqian alone, and finally settled in Lianghe Town.
Perhaps because of the hard life, she usually has a bad temper. Although I loved Teresa Teng very much, she often scolded and scolded her. She also kept saying that her family was poor and it was not easy to make money. If she wasted money, she would be scolded.
As a result, Teresa Teng has a low self-esteem, cowardice and extreme character...
In the end, he committed the horrific act of poisoning Yao Nan with poison!
"Little sir, my granddaughter and I both know we were wrong."
The old woman kept apologizing, looking pitiful.
I didn't answer, just asked in a calm tone.
"So, the words in this book are all written in the Gu inscriptions of Gu masters?"
"Yes."
"But if you don't know Gu Wen, how did you refine the wasp-like Gu just now? And your granddaughter Deng Liqian, she even learned to cultivate some kind of Gu that can make people mute by reading this book. .”
The old woman answered with a wry smile and pointed at the book in my hand.
"Young sir, you will know the specific content after reading it. There is a small part of the content with Chinese annotations. I don't know Guwen, but I later learned Chinese. But because of this, I was able to read part of the cultivation method of Gu. .”
oh?
I was a little surprised and carefully looked through the contents of this thick and weird ancient Gu book.
Actually, about one-fifth of it actually has Chinese annotations!
Just below the Gu text, there are small regular scripts, and the handwriting is very delicate.
Although it is still very clear, you can also feel that these Chinese character annotations must be a few years old.
"It was there when you got it?"
The old woman nodded and explained carefully.
"Yeah. But at first I didn't know Guwen or Chinese characters. When I got older and learned Chinese characters, I understood them."
"When I first started, I didn't want to learn the content. After all, I don't have the talent for voodoo. Even if I did, I could only learn some crude and crude methods of cultivating and refining voodoos. There is no way to learn how to truly control voodoos with my mind. Technique. This will only cause trouble."
"But then my husband and son died. I was a lonely old man living with my granddaughter...I was worried that I would be bullied by the gangsters. So I secretly learned a little bit and tried to cultivate some Gu insects."
In this regard, she was right.
The art of voodoo is mainly divided into two parts - the cultivation of voodoo insects and the driving of voodoo insects.
Cultivating Gu insects does not require any special abilities, talents, or power similar to "Qi".
As long as you follow the instructions and have enough patience, ordinary people will have a chance of success if they try the complicated methods recorded in the classics.
But if you want to control and drive the cultivated Gu insects with your thoughts, you need magical power!
It just depends on talent.
Whether you can become a Gu Master or not, the most important thing is this talent. Believe what she said, the original Yitong Miao Village mainly focused on this point when selecting young children.
That's why I said that there is absolutely no way that Teresa Teng has the ability to undo poison!
Without my help, Yao Nan would definitely become mute.
In addition, the old woman looks pitiful now, not because she is really gentle - from the fact that she hit someone when she disagreed with her and wanted to release poisonous insects to attack us, we know that she is not a good person.
Of course, if she was kind, she would not have been able to survive alone in troubled times since she was ten years old, and still successfully live in modern society...
What I have experienced is difficult for ordinary people to imagine.
but!
Even if you are miserable, even if you are miserable, even if you are weak.
This is no reason for you to hurt others - not to mention this person has always regarded you as a good friend and tried his best to help you.
Even more abominable!
So no matter how pitiful this old woman and Teresa Teng are, there is absolutely no way I can be soft-hearted - just act according to the rules of the Taoist world that I agree with.
"You don't have the talent for voodoo. How could you make those voodoos attack me just now?"
"Because the refining of these black bee gu is not pure, and it still retains some of the habits of bees... so I based it on some beekeeping skills I learned from my husband when I was young."
I see!
I nodded slightly.
This old woman is quite smart. The black bee vood she cultivated is not pure, but it becomes an advantage.
She, who has no talent for voodoo, was able to command a group of impure voodoo insects to use as a "secret weapon" to protect herself.
It's a pity that she used it inappropriately.
If there are really local ruffians who deliberately bully and humiliate these lonely old people and weak junior high school girls, then it is natural and understandable to use this kind of poisonous insect to retaliate.
But we are here to demand justice, and she has committed an evil act.
I set it all on fire, which was considered a small punishment.
I put this weird and mysterious black Gu book away and put it in the bag behind my back. Then he looked at the old woman and said.
"I keep my promise. After accepting this book from you, I will never attack you or your granddaughter again."
The old woman suddenly became excited and quickly bowed to me.
"Thank you so much, Mr. Qianqian, please come over and say thank you to Mr. Qianqian..."
I waved my hand and said, "No need to thank me, this is a fair deal. However, I said, punishment is still inevitable."
The expressions of the old woman and Deng Liqian changed slightly.
I turned to look at Yao Nan, who had been silent, with a somewhat apologetic expression.
"I'm so sorry, deskmate, you are the victim and the main sufferer, but I made my own decision."
Yao Nan quickly shook his head and said: "It's okay, classmate Wu Zhong, you are my benefactor."
"But now, you can punish Deng Liqian. I just promise not to use magic to retaliate against her and maim her. But you can give her a good beating or other punishments that are not particularly harmful."
I said looking into her eyes.
At this time, Wang Dachun next to him became excited.
This guy directly picked up a low wooden stool from the side and said excitedly.
"Come on! Hit me with this, this will hurt. This guy who repays kindness with revenge is so irritating."
Yao Nan shook his head and did not take the stool Wang Dachun handed him.
He just turned around and walked slowly to Deng Liqian.
Deng Liqian seemed a little scared, shrank her neck, and subconsciously hid back.
