Chapter 56 Chapter 2 East of Bamboo Forest, Snake Gu Appears

We didn't understand what happened, but when we saw the little butt running into the bamboo forest, we were afraid that something might go wrong, so we all followed. There were four people in the forest, two little boys about ten years old, one sitting and the other standing, an old man carrying a bamboo basket, and an upright young girl.The three of them were talking about something around the little boy who had fallen to the ground and was crying. The little butts ran to the little boy with their heads sullen, and shouted loudly: "Gao Gao, Gao Gao, what's wrong with you? Xiaohu, what's the matter? "

The standing boy, Xiaohu, also burst into tears, saying that sister Meimei, brother Gao Ang was bitten by a small green snake—the little snake jumped out from there, and then bit Gao Gao's thigh , Don’t let go, I was terrified, when I called Grandpa Meng and Sister Yanzi from the side of the road, Gao Ang had already become like this, what should I do? When we got closer, we saw the child sitting on the bamboo leaf with his face covered with bruises and not speaking, his eyes were staring blankly, his pupils dilated and drifted downwards.That Grandpa Meng and Yanzi had obviously arrived here just now, and they discussed it in the local dialect and planned to send the child to the village.When they started to lift the child named Gao Gao, my heart moved, and I stretched out my hand to stop it, saying wait a minute.

Everyone looked at me in unison and asked what's wrong? I knelt down and rolled up the child's trousers, and saw that there were no obvious bite marks on the skin separated by two layers of long johns. I pressed the position Xiaohu pointed out to me, and touched it lightly, like an idiot. The ordinary Gao Gao began to yell, and the snot and saliva flowed down together.I stood up solemnly, and the old man who was called by the child as Grandpa Meng leaned over and asked, "Xiaoshengzi, do you know medicine?" I said, "I understand a little bit. Is there anyone in your village who usually lives in seclusion, doesn't socialize with others, and lives in a single family. Go to the house and see that the beams, roofs, and corners are all clean?"

Old man Meng tightened the pannier on his shoulders, stared at me for a while, and said, "Xiaoshengzi, do you want to ask us if anyone raises Gu?" I was taken aback, the old man was a sensible person, and he was not confused at all, so he didn't hide anything, nodded, and said yes.According to my observation, the child's leg has no obvious injury, invisible like an insect sting, with yin energy eroding inside, and wandering all over his body, he must have been bitten by a snake Gu raised by someone's family.Moreover, this snake Gu has become a climate, so he cannot be moved by others at this time, if the poison of the Gu is allowed to flow up along with the blood, after a few days, the Gu will transform into a form, either as a snake or as a turtle, and spread everywhere in the body Bite randomly, if there is no solution, you can't live for seven days.

The old man Meng cupped his fists and bowed to me, and said: "Brother has a pair of powerful moves. Yes, Badong was established as a county in the Han Dynasty, and this village has always had this technique handed down. It is from the Jingwu lineage. There are very few people, and many people don't know about it, even my generation, if they don't have a source, they don't know about it. This matter is too big, and we need to discuss it with the old people in the village." I nodded, this village should have been a place where witchcraft was prevalent, otherwise it would be impossible for such a strange person as Wan Sanye to come out.

The old man Meng asked the Yanzi girl next to him to go back to the village to inform the old man of the Wan family, asking him to take care of it, and he asked Xiaohu to go back and inform Gao Gao's parents so that they would know.The two went away, and he chatted with us.Only then did we know that the old man of the Wan family is the eldest brother of the third master of Wan family, and he is also the person in charge of the Wan family of the Wang family in this village, and he is the son-in-law of the Wan family, so he knows some inside details. After learning about our purpose of coming, old man Meng told us that Wan Sanye had gone into the mountains with the boss of the Wan family, and he didn't know when he would come back.

Put your tall body flat, raise your head a little higher, and the little butt will help take care of it, while the old man Meng is holding a dry pipe and telling us the reason.It turned out that there was a ditch ten miles ahead of the mountain behind the village, named Heizhugou. The mountain was majestic, with deep forests and dense grass. The gate of hell, even hunters dare not enter, if they enter, they will die. Why do you say that? Old man Meng said that in the early days of liberation, Hu Zongnan’s remnant company had more than 30 people who entered without a trace; three PLA scouts entered Heizhugou from the direction of Qingtaiping, and only one platoon leader survived; The army sent two soldiers to buy food at Jiangan Mountain in Heizhugou, but they disappeared through Heizhugou. Later, only their weapons were found. Searching, only to find three fleshless skeletons after three months...

There are still many such legends in the local area, so people in the vicinity dare not approach it, calling Heizhugou the Bermuda of Shennongjia, the Valley of Death. It's such a dangerous place, the villagers don't even talk about it, let alone talk about it. However, the calf Wan Chaoan didn't believe in this evil. He said yesterday that he had driven the goats in. His old mother was so anxious that his father was helping the state in the city. What kind of ideas can a woman have? I asked in the dark His uncle then begged to go to Wan Sanye, and the two of them entered the mountain after nine o'clock in the morning...

This relationship is a bit complicated. I listened to it for a long time before I figured it out: Mr. Wan, the eldest brother of Mr. Wan, has two sons. It was the "uncle" who came to look for Wan Sanye early in the morning. The two went into the mountains to look for Wan Chao'an, but they haven't returned yet. It was only then that I realized that this was really a matter of rushing things, and in the end we turned out to be in vain again. When Father Meng mentioned Heizhugou, I noticed that Zhao Zhonghua's face was a little dignified. After Father Meng finished explaining the reason, I asked him what's the matter?Zhao Zhonghua told us that he had heard his master talk about Heizhugou. There was a war there in ancient times, and countless people died, but that was a long time ago.Hundreds of thousands of years have passed, although later generations don't know it, but it has become a fierce place.Someone once dug out the bones there, and the white bones were stacked one on top of the other, full of hostility.

Hearing this, our hearts began to feel heavy.Although I don't know Sanye Wan before, I respect him more or less after hearing about his deeds; and if the old man never comes back, then our trip will be considered a waste of time.After a while, a group of people came running from the entrance of the village. The front one was a middle-aged woman in plain clothes, crying loudly, "My son, my son", and came straight over. This woman is Gao Gao's mother. She rushed over and wanted to pick up the child on the ground. We all stopped and explained the pros and cons. After she heard about it, she sat down on the ground, clapped her hands on the ground, and cried loudly: "Why is my baby like this? What's wrong? He is the only heir of the third generation of our Lao Gao's family. He is going to die. Me and I How can my man live?" I saw a skinny old man with a goatee beard walking by, with white hair and a childlike face. He leaned on a dragon-subduing wooden walking stick, and lightly touched the crying woman on the ground, dissatisfied. Said: "Don't cry..."

The woman seemed to have her throat pinched, and no longer made a sound. When the little butt saw the old man, he immediately shouted happily: "Old lady, old lady... Only then did I realize that this person is Mr. Wan, the eldest brother of Mr. Wan.The little butt is a child, so I can't explain it clearly. The old man next to me came up to meet him and explained the situation clearly. When he said that I could tell that the symptom was snake poison at a glance, and he would not let people touch the child, The old man stared at me for a while, then bowed his hands in salute, and said that he thanked me on behalf of this woman on the ground. I waved my hand and said it was a matter of little effort. Zhao Zhonghua came forward and greeted Mr. Wan.He is the apprentice of Wan Sanye, so this old man Wan is naturally his uncle. Mr. Wan had never met Zhao Zhonghua before, but he knew that his third younger brother had such an apprentice. After matching up, he exchanged a few pleasantries and felt a little kind.After finishing talking, Mr. Wan turned his head and looked at the child lying on the ground.He didn't know anything about witchcraft, but he knew everything about these ten miles and eight villages, so he didn't check, and he turned around and asked a dark-faced middle-aged man, asking if Wang Mazi from the west of the village was ever at home? The middle-aged man thought for a while and said, "It should be there. Yesterday, Wang Mazi's old lady was still chatting with people under the big locust tree at the head of the village, saying that his son has been nesting at home all day since he came back from work, and he is not alone. Doing things, I don’t know what to do? Why, it’s that guy?” Mr. Wan raised his eyebrows and said: "All these people in the village listen to my old man's greetings. If something like this happens to the folks in the village, they will naturally come out to solve it. But this guy, all day long If you don’t learn well, it’s normal to think about how to get rich overnight and earn a lot of money. It’s also normal to secretly raise Gu. If you find him, you will naturally know.” At this point, Gao Ang, who had been lying on the muddy floor, suddenly sat up in a daze, and then looked at us. Gao Ang's mother was naturally so happy that she rushed over to hug her child, wailed loudly, and said, "My child, you are awake." It was a false alarm. Gao Ang's mother was about to return home with her baby on her back, and I reached out to stop her. His mother Gao Ang was surprised and asked why she was stopped? I said: "Your child has been poisoned by a voodoo. Don't look at it and it's all right now. In the middle of the night, the venom will turn into snakes, insects, rats and ants, running around in pain. If you can't get rid of it, you will die within seven days." , do you still dare to leave?" She looked suspiciously at Mr. Wan next to him, who nodded and said, "Yes, what Brother Lu said is true, let's go to Wang Mazi's house." I don't know if my golden silkworm Gu can absorb this poison, but even if it can, I have to wait until I catch up with the murderer, so I followed the crowd and walked along the village road to the west of the village.