Chapter 16 Chapter Forty-two

Xue Rui and I came to Chi Lihua's door. This is a somewhat old building on stilts. It is different from the layout of the village where pigs and cattle are raised on the first floor and people live on the second floor. The first floor of the sorceress' house is empty, with nothing but supporting pillars and firewood. .The weather in Southeast Asia is humid and hot, and the roofs covered with bark are covered with dark green moss.We stood in front of the half-hidden door and knocked on the door for a long time before we heard the sound of slow footsteps, tap, tap... Then, the door opened, and I saw a small snail on the top of Sparse's head. Chi Lihua, Grandma Chi, looked at me suspiciously.

After a while, she nodded and let us in. I followed this thin and short little old lady, step by step, into a room with transparent surroundings.She made us a pot of rare clear tea, the kind of tea we usually drink, and the tea is very good, it seems to be Enshi Yulu, not the common oil tea in Miao Village; even the tea set has a complete set of purple sand pots and mug.It can be seen that in terms of food and clothing, this witch is very different from the residents of ordinary Miao villages. No matter what others say, in my eyes, she is a mysterious person, especially that night, the huge aura emanating from the stockade was dominated by her.People with this kind of ability, to some extent, are not easy to be with.

After taking a seat, Xue Rui spoke and explained my purpose of coming. Xue Rui is a likable girl, and it can be seen that she and Chi Lihua have formed a certain friendship during the past few days of getting along, and they speak casually.Chi Lihua listened quietly, with a peaceful smile on her old face covered with crevices and wrinkles.However, what caught my attention was that she looked a little older than what I saw two days ago, and her eyes were covered with a layer of light gum, which looked very cloudy. After Xue Rui finished speaking, Chi Lihua looked at me and asked why she was here?

I said I had nowhere to go, so I made a divination, so I went back here and asked the leader of Ligong, and he asked me to come to you again, so I came here, that's it.Chi Lihua asked me what hexagrams I learned, and I said that the divination hexagrams was a family tradition, but it was also a part of the essence of the divine hexagrams of King Wen.Chi Lihua began to laugh and said, "It's fate, it's fate."After laughing, she asked me, do you know why I helped you before? This question silenced me. Why help me?There is no hatred or love for no reason in the world. For us, Zhaili Miao Village offended the Gelang Sect (let’s call it this name for now), and aroused the contradictions that were not obvious at once. Why?Seeing that I was silent for a long time and couldn't answer, Chi Lihua smiled. Her hand as rough as bark waved in front of me, then grabbed my left hand and clasped my wrist. With three fingers arched, she pressed down on me obliquely. In his hand, there was a hit and no hit, like a dragonfly on the water.

She smiled at me, grinned with few teeth and said, "Is the natal golden silkworm Gu in your body related to a woman named Long Laolan?" Her words completely shocked me. It's not because she knew the existence of Golden Silkworm Gu with a single touch, but because she mentioned Long Laolan, my grandmother. How can I not be surprised that the sorceress who has never walked out of that small place in Jinping in her life is said by another sorceress thousands of miles away? Then, from Chi Lihua's mouth, I heard such a thing: Chi Lihua has a sister named Chi Limei, who is a legendary woman.When she was young, she once walked out of this jungle, went north, out of Shan State, passed Ruili, walked through the Yunnan Pack Horse Road, and then traveled all the way to the Miaojiang area.Her goal is not to return to the roots of the fallen leaves and return to Baihe, but to meet the descendants of the thirty-six caves of the Miao family who are legendary for a thousand years.After such a long history of smoke and turmoil, it must be difficult to find these descendants now, but at that time, there were still some connections between the various Gu seedlings.So Chi Limei challenged all the way, and even defeated twelve companies in a row, from Dianchi to Hunan and Guizhou, and there was no one who could match her.

For a woman to have such a record, that's great! At that time, the situation was turbulent and the road was difficult, and Chi Limei had traveled this way for more than a year.Then, her impressive record of constant victories and invincibility finally came to an end in front of the Miao Gu lineage in Liudun Village, Qingshui River, Miaojiang.At that time, she had only one opponent, and that was Han Gu King Luo Shiba.It took only one round for Luo Shiba to decipher Chi Limei's refined spiritual Gu. At the end, he told this woman from a foreign country that in fact his level is more than that. Gu's prescription, if there is time, after a hundred years, it will be ridiculously proud of the thirty-six caves, and no one can match it.

Chi Limei didn't believe it, but after the defeat, she didn't have the face to refute, and returned with a lack of enthusiasm. Twenty years later, Chi Limei studied hard and returned to Miaojiang, only to learn that Luo Shiba had already died at the bottom of Dongting Lake, and his seven disciples separated and disappeared without a trace.She only saw an alternate generation descendant of Luo Shiba, a young girl who was in her prime.That girl is my grandmother, Long Laolan.She didn't make things difficult for Long Laolan at that time, but just explained her intentions.The girl told Chi Limei that she was already cultivating the natal golden silkworm Gu, and if she could be given time, the No. 1 person in the Thirty-six Cave would still be her Qingshuijiang Liudun Village Miao Gu.

Chi Limei just smiled at that time, then bowed to Luo Shiba's tablet on the shrine, and returned to Myanmar, never setting foot in China again. I took it as a story, and after hearing such a long period of history, my first thought was not to care about what happened to my grandma, but to think about Chi Limei's age.As a person of the same generation as my Tai Shigong, if he lived to this day, wouldn't he be more than a hundred years old?Even though Gu raisers generally look old when they get old, the old lady in front of me will definitely not be older than my grandmother. Chi Limei is Chi Lihua's older sister?This is really an astonishing thing, but if you count it, this old lady's seniority is frighteningly high.

To be honest, after listening to it, I felt a little dizzy, while Xue Rui, who was beside me, was completely confused. I asked Chi Lihua, why did you tell me these things? Chi Lihua said: "The method of raising golden silkworm Gu is not unique to your family. As for the supremacy of the Gu, it is just nonsense and exaggeration. However, these words come from the mouth of the Han Gu King, but it is a certainty. She is very curious about what kind of existence the golden silkworm Gu will look like when it grows up. Therefore, she will not let you die. The reason why I tell you these old things is to let you understand that everything has a cause and effect... One more thing, she woke up and wants to see you!"

"Her?" I looked at the little old lady in front of me questioningly, but she grinned and said with a smile, "Yes, she woke up and wants to see you. All my abilities are not as good as hers. , if you want to ask anything, you’d better go ask her in person.” After she finished speaking, she stood up and led me towards the slope in the middle, Xuerui followed, she didn’t stop her, and walked slowly Walk. We left the house of the sorceress, and next door was the ancestral hall of the Miao village. When we walked in, she tremblingly kowtowed three times and kowtowed nine times to the ground.Then we sat down on the three futons in the side hall, while she read silently.Under our surprised gaze, the futons suddenly swayed for a while, and then sank, and we actually started to fall, and there was darkness.

But fortunately, this time was not too long. After a few seconds, it suddenly became bright, and we came to a soil cave full of candles on the walls. This cave is very large, at least two hundred square meters, divided into several entrances and exits.Chi Lihua stood up and led us forward.Before I took two steps, Xue Rui grabbed my sleeve tightly.She pointed to the west direction nervously, screamed, and said, there are centipedes, very long centipedes.I looked in the direction she pointed, and saw red, black, and transparent centipedes all over the entire wall on the west side. I couldn't count them in detail, but I felt about a thousand of them.This kind of worm-like arthropod, the head of the five poisons, grows very slowly, only three or four centimeters a year, and the ones I have seen are generally twenty or thirty centimeters long, so it can be seen that they are all old ones. With so many centipedes gathered together, not to mention Xue Rui who has trypophobia, even I turned pale. Chi Lihua looked at me a little funny, and said, Gu people are still afraid of these little bugs? I shook my head and said that I was not afraid, but seeing so many densely packed insects made me feel a little hard and uncomfortable.Chi Lihua said that a large part of the abilities of our Gu masters come from these bugs, so an orthodox Gu breeder must be happy when he sees the bugs, it is the excitement and excitement from the heart.There are a lot of bugs in each area of ​​this underground secret room - wasps, lizards, spiders, crickets, golden scorpions, toads, millipedes, mulberry beetles, spotted beetles, silkworms, black-headed snakes, money snakes, leeches, nine-color spiders... ...Ordinary people look at the wild rainforest, where there are all the treasures that Gu breeders can only dream of. This is the main reason why they live here. Every time Chi Limei mentioned a kind of bug and poison, Xue Rui's face turned pale, and by the time she finished speaking, Xue Rui had transformed into the legendary Snow White. At this time, we have already walked through three doors and arrived at the innermost room. This room is completely a pool. We stood at the door and looked in. It was dark, and there were many spider webs densely covering the room.The liquid in the pool was rippling, showing a rich green color, with purple and red floating in it.The smell is quite pleasant, with a lot of spices mixed with cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and sandalwood.However, when it rolled over occasionally, there were many dead snakes and poisonous insects in the water. I looked at Chi Lihua in surprise, could it be that her sister is in this pool? Just as I was amazed, a large white cocoon suddenly floated out from the dark place, came slowly, and stopped at the edge of the pool, with the slightly pointed end facing upwards.I turned around and looked, and saw a beautiful face with eyes tightly closed at the opening of the cocoon's chrysalis.